Josiah Slavin

So C2, the lines, you know, take them as a grain of salt is Bradley Nadeau, Charlie Serrata with Felix Ungersorm.

Then it was Josiah Slavin, Skylar Bidmore, Justin Robitaille, Juha Jaska, Ivan Rybkin, Victor Noychev, and then Philip Ekberg, Gleb Chuksov, and Zachary Lanzard.

So those are your four core players.

you know, honestly, when you look at that top six, pretty dang good.

I'm curious to see how all that plays out.

Obviously, Josiah Slavin's coming back for a couple more years.

So that's good to see.

Of course, Phil Beckberg, a guy I'm really keeping an eye on after two great seasons recently with the Ottawa 67s and the Ontario Hockey League.

And then, of course, Robitaille, 850 000 in the nhl 100 000 in the american with at least guaranteed of 125 so it's a lot of great moves for the wolves you're adding a lot of flexibility in terms of the centers you're now you're talking you know rybkin um you know with brendan moore You know, Robodog, then it depends on where you go.

If you go with Charlie Serrato, if you go Josiah Slavin, this, that, and the other.

So there's a lot of guys.

So you're bringing a lot of guys back from last year's team that I feel like could really benefit the Wolves to go and run it back, just like the Canes are, essentially.

They've bet long term on a lot of these guys on seven, eight-year contracts.

And look at just within the last five years alone, all the guys of Svechnikov, Aho, Slavin, Jarvis.

You know, I could go on and on about all of these guys that they've bet on, and it's worked out.

So they've put themselves to be in this position, and now it provides them some flexibility in a era where the cap seems to be going up and going up.

And in fact, now you're bringing back Ronin Seeley, you know, Alexi Heimosalmi and all these other guys.

And you know, I talked to Spiro Nastas a few weeks ago about that.

I know he was really, really excited to get, you know, Josiah Slavin and all them back too.

But yeah, like you said, it's, it's been relatively quiet, but that's kind of a good thing when you have a whole roster that just won a Cup.

At number 36, the title belongs to playoff legend Dave Boland.

Nine players have won 36, starting with Mike Rusinski and most recently, Josiah Slavin.

Fun fact, Matthew Highmore scored three playoff goals wearing number 36 for Chicago, while Alexey Zhomnov scored zero.

Nicknamed the Rat, Boland was the ultimate pest.

So it just, a lot of buzz and intensity around our locker room.

And obviously we're, we're really connected with the Canes, especially our captain is, you know, Josiah Slavin, and he's w- you know, watching Jacob.

And so it was just great, 'cause it was just like hockey in your veins, you know, through that, that two-month run.

Um, in terms of the team specifically, it was just really inspirational to see a team that, you know, faced some adversity through the year from, you know, coaching change to adjusting our style a little bit and our approach on a day-to-day basis, to having a lot of success, uh, you know, with three all-stars, four NHL debuts.

Not only do you get Ronin Seeley back, which I've always been praising Ronin Seeley.

I love, I've loved his game for the last few years.

But you also get Josiah Slavin, your captain, back for two years on a one-way AHL deal, which, hey, you know, nothing wrong with that.

You got the captain back, that's what matters, and you got Ronin Seeley back.