“I don’t think they do because it is behind the scenes. You don’t want to give out any information or say too much, but even doing Parker Bell’s contract, he was so excited to do Parker’s contract. We were joking by the pool in Penticton, ‘You want me to get this Backlund thing done?’ Those are the way we were going. Even at the very end, you know, he just always wanted to do more. He was always in on everything.”

“The one thing I loved about him was he had a different perspective. He says maybe I get too emotional and fall in love with players. He’s like ‘I just tell you the way I see it, Connie.’ I’m going to miss that, for sure. He was a special, special person.”