Remembering Jessi: John Hynes

0:00You found the Minnesota Wild Podcast, presented by Acreshure. Well, I would like to start out obviously with the devastating news of Jesse Pierce and her family. Obviously being a Minnesota and working with all of you that are here and what she's done. She was such a tremendous person, great personality, cared about hockey, cared about people, probably most importantly. I personally had a little, you know, enjoyed a special bond with her being in the white bear modemida area, talking about modemida high school and things like that. You know, she'll be solely missed. She was a great person. She was a great professional. And as I said the other day, I think that, you know, we spend so much time together. I think as a group that even today, she'll be missed. I think by all of you, all of us inside and outside the organization. So hopefully we can all carry on her legacy with, I think, the smile and the passion for the game and the way that she treated people.

1:06And it's tremendous to see the legacy that she left and you see all the outpouring of support and the impact that she had. Not only professing, but probably more importantly, personally. So just pray for her and her family and everyone that's involved. Thank you. Obviously, more trivial or a lot of players out there today. How do you handle this number of groups? I mean, are they all going on the play today? Yeah, we did have a lot of guys. So I'll know more what game eligible players will be there, but we will take the whole group. On the trip and then see where guys are at when they come back to me and do what games they'll play in. But we're anticipating that everyone that's on the trip will be eligible to play at some point. No, this is like, obviously, this is always like the cliche in sports. It's a big problem to have, but it feels like this is going to be really, really hard decisions, especially once all three guys get back for you.

2:10How do you go about that? Yeah, some of it is like I said, I think we have to communicate with the guys about who's going to be in and who's going to be out. It is a good problem to have, but I think what we'll do is once we start to get an idea of when players will be back, then we'll have discussions with certain guys. And like I said, I do think it's important that we played Petri in and then Bogo sat a game. It wasn't because Bogo didn't play well. But we may have to do some of that where we'll have to have to sit down with guys and say that you're going to get a night off. And we're going to play these guys because we want to keep everyone healthy. We don't want to keep everyone fresh and going. And then I think if it comes down to performance, you know, events you will have to make some hard decisions. But the good part of making hard decisions means you have a lot of good players that you have to, you know, determine who's going to be in and out every night. Do you consider pulling all ahead of schedule or is he about tracking? I think he's tracking right on schedule.

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