Elliotte Friedman dropped a surprise 32 Thoughts podcast.
Hockey fans already know the name, but this is not the blog. From Sportsnet, 32 Thoughts: The Podcast with NHL Insider Elliotte Friedman & Kyle Bukauskas is a weekly deep dive into the biggest news and interviews from the hockey world.
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Segment starts around 21 minutes
(paraphrasing) 'I do think in the short term, you'll see no real changes. Vinik is going to keep operating control. There will be no changes in the day-to-day operations of the franchise. Although I do think over time, though, Vinik is going to keep a significant ownership share, there is the chance that sometime in the future, that, I don't know if the structure will change, in terms of ownership, but Vinik may end up taking less of a role somewhere down the road. We'll see, but that's kind of where it stands right now.
It's basically the Twitter meme of endless qualifiers.