Anything to add there, Kaufman?

I mean, I think it's a good pivot from the Ovechkin era.

I mean, they are kind of gearing up to move on from that.

You know, with Tuck, Stein, long-term and everything like that, and all the guys that you have.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, the

Penguins had four or five guys out of the lineup, and they started with a third line that arguably maybe would be in the minors or scratched.

teams that did value him, so that's one reason they got so

much.

We heard Montreal.

But, you know...

He was really a heel turn.

I mean, one of the podcasters here in Columbus really said that he was like, I mean, that is one of the great heel turns stories.

He was beloved by the fan base.

Oh, man.

Kaufman, what do you think?

I mean, yeah, there's a lot going on.

I mean, when you look at the Larkin stuff and the things there, there's a lot of, you know, outstanding business going on.

Yeah, that's a whole story of like Canadian.

So I think

Stevens and the Hatchers.

That's why I try to grasp what is going on with hitting in hockey right now.

that I grew up playing in the 90s, and you were encouraged to do that.

I mean, teams are not going to be – Very few teams are going to be unloading just due to sheer contract stuff.

Right.

Well, I was having this conversation today.

I don't know if we want to segue into this or not, but that's why I think that those players that are giving ultimatums to their teams... uh you know what are you doing with the roster like if the roster is not going to improve i want to get moved um that is essentially in effect a trade request because without how many how many of these how many of these teams are going to be able to improve over one summer uh when everyone's locked up you know that's I mean

dude bro

i made it i made listen i drive around for work every day yeah and there is this one time that we lined up in the playoffs we lined up for a face-off to the left of ryan in our defensive zone and i was playing right d and i should have smacked the puck off of the face off into the corner And instead, I don't know what I was thinking, and I backhanded it and lobbed it out to their

Gussy

... she has like, there are like three little, you know, adolescent groundhogs running around the yard.

And it's hysterical, because he chased one down, and like the one that he chased down ran from him, obviously, because he's chasing it.

Okay

...

so yeah.

The Carolina Hurricanes, and I mean, like, man, uh, you wanna do shout-out, I mean, Jordan Stall, like...

And, and listen, and I feel like we could maybe find some common ground here.

Weren ski's gross

...

the point to- yeah, the point totals are there, and the fact that he's doing it on Columbus, I mean, you know, people are taking notice.

And after the Olympics and things like that, I mean, the guy, the guy deserves it.

I think, you know, when you talk about g- moving forward with guys like that, I think he's got, uh, one year left on his contract, which I hate to bring up [laughs] living here in Columbus.

Yeah.

Uh, the fact that Vegas stomped 'em, uh, four to nothing, I don't know, man.

Um, I think, like you saw it early, early on in the first period, like Brind'Amour has them playing away.