I'm Ryan Lambert from Elite Prospects.

I'm Sean Magnew from The Athletic.

And folks, I feel like right now everybody in the NHL is just playing a waiting game.

They're waiting for somebody else to make the first move, and then they're going to make the move.

You know what I mean?

Mm-hmm.

Doesn't matter.

Doesn't matter if it's a coaching change.

Everybody, a little itchy trigger finger on that one.

It doesn't matter if it's a trade all that kind of stuff

just waiting for that first domino and then yeah you can't be the first one through the door

yeah no that's it right like in in in in the world of you know whether it's business or any any

profession we all know that whoever

goes first is a huge disadvantage. You definitely want to sit back, let everyone else establish,

and then only when it's too late do you move in and make –

Yeah, what – here's the perfect way to do it. You wait for the other team to hire the coach you wanted to hire.

That's it.

And then you go, oh, I wanted to hire that guy.

Yeah.

Oh.

And then you let your friendly media know that you were right in on all these guys who just got traded.

Probably second place on every one of them, which when you think about it.

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