Yannick Hansen

Yeah, if it was between him or Gold, they both seemed like the same.

They were both assistant GMs at their respective clubs, both general managers of the minor league team, so why not go with the hometown guys, so to speak, the ones that have been in the organization for a while now and worked his way up through, and

and give him a chance versus a complete unknown, if you will.

So I have no problems with that.

And obviously, the fact that I know him, you're rooting for him as well.

Obviously, I played with him one year, year and a half maybe, a long, long time ago.

But he was one that took care of the young guys.

He put himself or the team in front of himself, if you will.

worked extremely hard, diligent, smart, dedicated to his craft and all of those things.

So the things that you could see that made him successful as a hockey player, because he might not have had a ton of skill and ability in that sense, but then what he had, he honed and he perfected to the point where he became a very valuable player in the league.

There are always certain players that you can see that will probably gravitate towards

some sort of other hockey role.

And you're not quite sure whether that'll be coaching or upper management.

RJ could have very well stepped into coaching as well.

He obviously chose the other path now.

But you could see that he possessed something more than just, hey, I'm a pretty good hockey player and I like playing in the National League.

So for sure, it's no different than when you guys ask about Manny or Burr for that instance.

There's just certain players...

that you can see that this is in them and whether or not they choose to do it, you don't know, but they definitely have it, so to speak.

Well, I don't think there would be anybody who has a better idea of the depth in the club right now or in the team in terms of the players that are potentially ready and the ones that aren't really ready.