We've got to get ready for that draft. It's real important. I want to understand what's done. If we have one of the first three picks, we could come away with a very good player.

The good news for St. Louis fans is I understand what we did right in New York with the Rangers, and I also understand what we did wrong. Where we started to go wrong with the Rangers is when we got away from a drafting, developing, being careful about a team chemistry approach with an owner that just wanted us to buy every big name in the business. That doesn't work in hockey. I knew it then, I especially know it now.

I'll have a short window to get ready for the draft, but then I'll have that whole summer to make a team.

Everybody who enters the NFL Draft, it's a roll of the dice. I won't know how ready I am for the next level until I test it. It's a crapshoot. Everybody who leaves early takes a gamble.

The aura of soccer is very different from other sports.

I've known J.D. forever. He's really encouraged us to pursue (the sale) based on the passion for hockey in St. Louis. We have a lot of people who have worked with us and for us at the garden and we've known a lot of people in hockey. But first we're going to evaluate what we have here.