Zach Phillips

I think, though, there's a fine line, which I am worried about the schedule expanding to 84 games.

Jeff, you know I watch other sports, and I watched the NBA, and I was a big follower of all of that.

The problem that ends up happening is that I'm all for player empowerment.

You don't want the inmates running the asylum because then it just flips on its head.

Yes, you do.

Because the NBA product though, but the problem with the NBA product right now is that people don't care as much about what's going on on the court.

Now, mind you, they're having a really good NBA finals right now.

So that helps the situation.

But the regular season, who cares?

Well, we'll see you in the playoffs.

You don't want that for the NHL.

That's the one thing where it's like, be careful where it's going.

and make the game I know that's what I'm saying it'll never I think we would have a perfect storm if we just cut it by a little bit where it's like hey the players are gonna play every single game we don't have to worry about that we're throwing in worlds we're throwing in drama we've got players leaving we've got players demanding trades we've got coaching chaos

That is the perfect storm, but now you start spreading it out.

You're going to get more money in the players' pockets.

You're going to have more games.

Players are going to sit more games, and they're going to do load management, and then that's when it starts to bother people because that's what happened with the NBA, Jeff.

That's where they went.

I don't want that because the NHL is like hitting –

These guys are hitting doubles and triples and home runs.