Thomas Drance

And I still think that would probably be a good move for the composition of this front office.

But I think this was an absolutely necessary move.

higher to make.

And I think it was a necessary item higher to make on an expedited timeline.

Well, and this is one of those things too, like there was a pretty negative reaction out of Seattle to the hiring of Patrick Alveen, given what's happened to the Vancouver Canucks.

You know, and I think there's... I think close observers of the team would have said, you know, while...

Maybe Alvin, not even maybe, well, Alvin probably had the wrong directional view of where this team needed to go, right?

I think this team needed to lean into a rebuild two, three years ago to make it so that it wasn't going to be quite as painful as it's likely to be over the next five years.

I don't know if you knew I thought that.

I only said it every day on this radio station for the last three and a half seasons.

You brought that up?

I was.

You know what?

So did everyone else.

But the truth is, is that during Alvin's tenure, I would say that the Canucks were at least operated.

you know, solidly, right?

Like there were all those times where they captured the maximum amount of their cap.

And like, I still think there was a, or the way that the team interacted with the American League affiliate, I would still say there was a significant improvement when they moved to Patrick Alvina's general manager from, and I know this is a very low bar, from what we saw during the Jim Benning, like we ran out of time, period, in Canucks, you know, operational history.

And likewise, like one thing I'd say about Jim Rutherford,

I think Rutherford did a really good job, mostly, of managing up.