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Breaking news about Ron Francis and the Cracken, mutually agreeing to part ways.

Talking about it right now with Daily Face Offs, Jeff Merrick. Jeff, how's it going? Good. How's everyone in Seattle today? A little bit shocked after last night, perhaps? It's very, well, I just have so many follow-ups, and I know I'm not going to get an answer immediately, but I'll try my best. Okay, so my first one, very naturally, Jeff.

Okay, well, hopefully. We'll just go by like a gut feeling. My first one is like, okay, so Ron Francis and the Cracken, mutually agreeing to part ways, a very polite way to tell someone that you're moving on. Does that mean that they're clearing house? Like, what's it mean for Lane Lambert? What's it mean for Jason Baderl, do you think? Nothing for Jason Bottle.

I think Bauderl is fine.

I think Lane Lambert, what's it mean for Jason Bottle, do you think? Nothing for Jason Bottle. I think Bauderil is fine. I think Lain Lembert's fine.

I'll be honest with you. I do have some, what I'm wondering about here is what does this mean for,

you know, people there in key positions that were close with Ron Francis? Like, I do wonder

about Ricky Olcheck. I worry,

I'd not worry, but I wonder about, you know, Robert Cron, these types of people as well.

You know, sometimes, you know, when, when you're, the person you're closest with exits

your organization, sometimes you go along with them, either willingly or unwillingly.

But the initial information that I got last night is Jason Botterwell has been running the show all season long.

That will continue.

You know, the Corey Murphy's will be fine, the Ryan Jankowski's, these types of people in the front office.

So I don't see any other immediate front office changes, and I don't see Lane Lambert's. I don't see Lane Lambert walking the plank either. There's never just one mistake, right? Never just one move or one decision that kind of gets you to this point. It's a combination of things. But if you can point to a couple of things that made you scratch your head while Ron was doing his thing, what would you look at?

Great question, Michael.

You know what?

The one big one for me, I mean, we can go back and relitigate the expansion draft. I always found it a little bit shallow that people would evaluate Seattle's expansion

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