Andy Howe

So I don't see how these rumours start, but we know why they start, it's for clicks and stuff like that.

But I didn't read anything into the fact that his position's under threat if anything it's strengthened through the last few months the way he's had to deal with the exodus of the so-called star players and then If we look at how some, we're talking about Dedic, we're talking about Gonzalez, but also Ster, who was an Andy Howe appointment, by the way, of recruits.

So there's been some very, very good recruitment already and they keep building to 2030.

If you give these players an extra two years, and as long as we keep them and don't sell all of them, as has been alluded to every summer, then we could be in a position where we're challenging at the top end of the table on a consistent basis.

This has been a position that's needed to be filled.

Newcastle lost Steve Nixon and, of course, Andy Howe over the summer.

So this was a big hole that needed to be filled.

At 35, he is merely a child and half my age.

I mean, multiple spaces, really, when you think about it.

Steve Nixon stepped away as head of recruitment at the end of the summer.

He moved on to Wrexham and then after staying to kind of help out with the rest of summer recruitment, Andy Howe also left.

And those have been the two driving figures behind Wrexham.

Matt is a good guy and glad to have him writing in here.

But we had some questions in a previous episode from a writer named Andy Howe.

So Matt says, hey, Paul and Dan, as the Baseball by Design hockey correspondent, I will help answer any and all hockey-related questions.

Question, why is the new AHL team in Hamilton called the Hammer? Hamilton, Ontario has the nickname of Steel Town and the steel capital of Canada.