Thomas Drance

Landon, and then it says in brackets, and Tom, I guess.

Two questions.

Well, I'm only going to read the first, so sorry about this.

Would you trade Tom Volander for Zach Benson?

Really?

Wow.

I thought you knew, Puck.

Before we get into a Tom Valander debate.

If we go for two or three minutes, we'll have gone for more minutes than Tom Valander's had clean zone exits this season.

But Friedman's suggestion was that they don't have a replacement for Rutherford or that they don't have a replacement for any of Rutherford or Alvin?

Rutherford.

Okay.

Specifically.

Right.

Because it's very clear if they wanted to just deploy the Abbotsford succession plan that that's in-house and ready to go.

And the...

anger that accumulates in a season like this yep which is which is the out that you know i've been saying for what 10 days now that i thought rutherford was going to be remaining in place that the indications i was getting from from my sources are that there seems to be growing internal confidence that that's how this is going to play out and yet i've continued to

frame it with that qualifier just because I've been around teams that are really bad and losing causes anger and anger can be unpredictable and and frustration can be unpredictable so you know that's the other that's the other part of this but yeah I mean that makes sense to me

I don't think the way that this organization always needs the answer ready to go is a good look.

I think it's bad process.