Yeah, I don't disagree.

Welcome back to a newsy edition of 32 Thoughts The Podcast brought to you by the all-new GMC

AT4 lineup, Jeff Merrick and Elliot Friedman along with you and Elliot, we'll start today's

podcast with a game of who said it, quote, it's wearing on all of us.

I would bet that that is Jim Benning.

Correct. That was part of the press conference on Thursday afternoon. We all understand the

pressure that everybody is under. We understand it at every level. We think we all understand

the frustration. We heard the chance. We saw the signs. Both of those things on Wednesday during

a 4-2 loss at the hands of the avalanche. What did you make of the Jim Benning press conference

on Thursday? Well, first of all, I think Jeff on behalf of you, me and Amel and I don't

profess to speak for sports night and everybody else who works there, but I'll say on behalf

of the station, there's a lot of Vancouver connox fans who are going through a really, really

hard time right now with what is happening in that province with the flooding and we just want

to send our best. That's the first thing I think we all want to do. Absolutely. Look, it's been an

awful start to the year for the connox. The interesting thing about this is you and I and David

Amber, we all thought that connox had a chance to be pretty good this year. I thought it was going to

be Vegas, Edmonton, jump all for third, but Vancouver was going to be in that conversation.

The other thing about that is that I had several of who I think are the really good analytic people

around the league. Reach out to me and say, you guys are nuts. That's what they said. They said,

and a couple of different guys reach out to me and say that on the analytic models we really

trust, they didn't like the connox this year. So they were saying to me, score one for the analytics

over the eye test. I was kind of laughing. I was like, okay, I'll give you that one. But that's

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