Thomas Drance

When were the times over the last three and a half years, four years, where you heard stories of meddlesome Canucks ownership?

They kind of disappeared during Rutherford's tenure.

They were able to exercise the largest ordinary course buyout.

in the history of the league.

And this is an organization that waived Keith Ballard before exercising a compliance buyout on him, right?

Like, so desperate were they that they went through the charade of putting him on waivers, being like, maybe someone will claim him.

Like, no, you're using a compliance buyout.

Stop it.

So, you know, like, I do think that there's losses.

Administrative heft in Alvin moving on.

And I think a real affinity between

for managing up in an environment where that's proved to be challenging in Rutherford.

And so, you know, budgeting, are we reading too much into Ryan Johnson's claim?

If we go back to your original question, maybe.

I think we need to see more.

But I do think it's fair to wonder about the managing up part of this new front office's

um, like abilities, like what's that going to look like?

Are they going to be that successful?

And are they going to be able to demand and get the resources they need?

Um, you know, in the, in the composition of the front office anyway, I think we still have questions, right.