How much does, like, the win-loss play into that?

I, I think not a lot.

I, I think that if, if he's...

I- I mean, like, I, no...

O'Reilly to me is a huge part of the culture of that team, but I, I just think that McFarland does not, uh, really value that stuff nearly as much as, as Barry Trotz did, nearly as much as probably anyone does.

Uh, I think he realizes that, you know, th- Ryan O'Reilly could be a v- very valuable trade piece, and if they're not gonna, if, if they've talked about a contract and they're not really close or, or they're not interested, then, uh, then he's gonna deal him.

So I, I, I would be shocked if Ryan O'Reilly is still on this team, you know, at the, by the season finale, by, by the end of April.

Uh, may- maybe I heard that wrong, but are you saying that M- M- McFarland is basically is cut and dry, just boom, talent, you know, contract, numbers, analytics, period, and not, and, and, and less worried about those intangibles than even other GMs?

How much does, like, the win-loss play into that?

I, I think not a lot.

I, I think that if, if he's...

I mean, like, I know...

O'Reilly to me is a huge part of the culture of that team, but I, I just think that McFarland does not really value that stuff nearly as much as, as Barry Trotz did, nearly as much as probably anyone does.

Uh, I think he realizes that, you know, Ryan O'Reilly could be a v- very valuable trade piece, and if they're not gonna, if, if they've talked about a contract and they're not really close or, or they're not interested, then, uh, then he's gonna deal him.

So I, I, I would be shocked if Ryan O'Reilly is still on this team, you know, at the, by the season finale, by, by the end of April.

Uh, may- maybe I heard that wrong, but are you saying that Mc- Mc- McFarland is basically is cut and dry just boom, talent, you know, contract, numbers, analytics, period, and not, and, and, and less worried about those intangibles than even other GMs?

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If they can knock us out or make it a little more tough for our buyers, I'm sure they'd like to do that.

What, what do you make of that, like kind of how he's structuring the lineup right now? What do you think this means in terms of maybe over the next few months, what this lineup is gonna shake out and look like?

Yeah, it...

Chris McFarland is very clearly, uh, just a very different general manager than Barry Trotz was, right? That's what we know for sure in the first months, uh, of, of him being here.

Um, it seems pretty clear that he has a, a, a very deliberate plan, that he's got, uh... he's not very impulsive.

He's not, he's not operating on, uh, off, you know, off the hip here.

He's, he's got, he's got a...

He's taken a look, he's crunched the numbers, and he's, he's figuring out what he wants to do.

How does that look on the ice? How does that play out?

Hey, what didn't you like about Barry Trotz? And again, I know he's very well respected down there, but what didn't you like about Barry Trotz pre-deadline work?

Well, the problem is...

Barry Trotz came into this deadline, and really this season, with two choices.

He could go a path of selling off as many pieces as he could and set up the team for some success in the future.

And it looked like he was going to do that.

Of course, he sold.

He traded Michael McCarron, Cole Smith.

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