Gil, way back I said that. There is a riff between both. I made that very clear. This whole fiasco at the trade deadline was because EK shot off his mouth and pissed off the big headed owner. Therefore, the owner said lets try and move him or make it look like we are moving him at the deadline....aka Gretzky style. This was an excercise by ownership(Billionaire) puffing out his chest to show who is boss and who pays the millionaires salary. Ek and his wife crapped themselves and she ordered him to talk to the agent and get this figured out immediately. I don't know if you recall, but after the deadline passed, when they interviewed EK, did you not hear it in his voice and and see his body language in the interviews. He felt defeated, deflated and more importantly.......humbled. Imagine if you were EK, it would be tough to get over that whole ordeal with ownership, so, he wants to stay, but both sides are going to have to really work at this relationship and fix it.