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Hey, this is Craig and welcome to this week's episode of the full 60.

I am excited to have a guest who I've been wanting to have on this pod a long time,

and now we have this opportunity, taking advantage of every spare moment

during a very weird time in the hockey calendar in the hockey world.

Mike Futa, who is longtime executive with the Los Angeles Kings, who is now, Mike, what

or would I say, a free agent?

What would be the best way to put this?

UFA.

UFA, unrestricted free agents.

I didn't know how it worked after July 1st or what the ruling was.

Well, you could say unemployed, but UFA sounds a lot more official.

No, unemployed, as long as you want to be unemployed, as far as I'm concerned.

A UFA, an executive UFA, we can get into this a second, because it's a weird time.

There's a few people in this spot.

But yeah, so just for the listener,

so Mike was a huge part of building the powerhouse,

Los Angeles Kings,

was broke into the program,

doing a lot of scouting and draft evaluation,

part of the group that drafted guys like Drew Doudy, Tyler Tofoli, Tanner Pearson,

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