I hope I don't wish everybody happy Valentine's Day this time.

That was good.

Welcome once again to 31 Thoughts to the podcast.

Miracle alongside Friedman and before we get to our special guest and truth be, I've wanted to talk to

Francois Allaire for a long time.

Personally, I'm in the camp of he belongs

in the Hall of Fame, opening doors for a lot of other goal-tending coaches,

profoundly changing the way that position has been played.

And that question does come up during our conversation with

Francois a little bit later on. But Elliot, before we get to Francois-Alaire,

who's now a gold-tending consultant with the Florida Panthers, what's the very

latest? Like I know this is all very fluid and changing and what you say now is not going to be true five minutes from now, but as best you're able to to grab and try to graft some water in your hand and I'll let it slip through your

fingers. Where are we at? I think we're in the grinding stage. They're

grinding away at the protocols. They're grinding away at the schedule. They're grinding away at the schedule they're grinding away at the

set up the divisions the temporary realignment they're grinding away at the

transition rules all of this stuff and you know basically people have been telling me it's endless Zoom calls trying to figure it out and

the players in the league have decided that they're not going to touch their escrow.

They said they weren't doing that but in order to agree to greater

deferments they said we consider certain things. One was not this upcoming

season but next season which is 21-22 an extra $500,000 on the cap and another 500,000 the year later and the

league wasn't willing to go for that.

I know they suggested compliance buyouts but as long as the players didn't have to pay for them and the league wasn't going for that

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