‘”If you’re going to sign a long-term contract with an organization, you kind of want to know who the head coach is,” Botterill said. “So we’ve kept in dialogue with Jeff and certainly made him aware of who we were going to name here as head coach today just as we did with a lot of our leadership group. But yeah, just as it’s important next week for Ralph to touch base with Jack and Sam over at the world championships, it’s going to be very important for him to build a new relationship with Jeff and make sure that he feels comfortable with what our plan is moving forward here both as a team, as an organization but where we see Jeff fitting into the mix.”‘