00:00fits why why do you think they did it players quit on them um i had a player i was writing
00:21about it when they did it you know they did the friday morning news dump as a poor as opposed to
00:27friday afternoon when they announced it and i texted a couple guys who work in the organization
00:33i said what happened and both of them said players players one said players rule the other
00:38guys said players all the way so during the exit interviews which is common every every team does
00:43that general manager jim nill just got the sense they were sick of them and i signs were beginning
00:50to show on this relationship strain back in february you could kind of hear it and at some point
00:57they're like yeah we're done with this guy and you have to do it you don't have any choice it's 25 guys
01:02it's really more like eight or ten in this case that have power and leverage where the general manager
01:07has to go to the owner and say look this is what we got to do and it's hard for the owner because
01:11he's got to eat the rest of that contract if the board doesn't get another job and i would imagine
01:16he will maybe not right away but that's what this was this was a player-led decision all the way
01:22because there's no way jim nill wanted to do this so do you think if the under thing doesn't happen he
01:28still loses his job yeah i do i i mean it's weird i don't i don't know y'all's reaction the next day i
01:36was there when he said it and when i heard it in real time i was like yeah it makes sense and then
01:43afterwards i could hear members of the canadian press were like oh my god i cannot believe he
01:47just said that about jake ottinger yeah and it really didn't phase me that much i'm like okay
01:52yeah he's right i mean he's and you don't have any other button to push in that case you're down
01:58first of all you've had your butt handed to you in games two three four five and now yeah early in
02:04game five you've changed lineups you've changed pairs you've done everything you can but do this
02:10you're down to oh 30 seconds into the game practically like okay let's go i gotta i gotta
02:17use the timeout i gotta do something to wake these guys up what is that well i'll pull my all-star goalie
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