should at

this point.

Yeah, he's been around for a while, that's for sure.

Riley Duran, we'll start with him.

He's 24.

So he's like right there, age-wise bubble.

When we look at him, though, he's an experienced player.

And

For sure.

Now, it's interesting because last year we had a couple of guys, part of our rookie camp, that we're definitely not seeing this year.

They're already gone.

I was going through the list.

They're either already well into our Providence Bruins system, or they've been traded, or they've aged out of the system and weren't re-signed.

For some, depending on their age, it might be a make or break time.

For most, though, it's just another step in the development of the player.

Is it not beyond the realm of possibility that there may be a random invitation out there to someone who's been lurking about that the organization might want to take a look at?

Okay.

And then you just, you can even use, you've basically don't start right on the equipment, one of the skills that they have to do is they have to go ahead of you because the courses all go and they're not a straight racetrack.

They all go and wrap around upon themselves.

So teaching Ascend... where you just let your dog maybe go around a small chair.

Or we use cones, like a traffic cone.

And you teach your dog how to just go around a cone and then come running back to you, you know, to get a treat.

So you start with simple things like that.

Not even a beer or a donut, you know.

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We were mostly limited by the fact of my residency days.

So, you know, i- in terms of wanting to travel, I think that was where we really spent the bulk of our, our money, and, and, you know, we just couldn't do the things we necessarily may have wanted to do or inflate just because I was still a resident and, and very limited, you know, time-wise, experience-wise by that.

So I truly think that helped.

How did you guys get onto the same page with what you were gonna do with your finances?

Yeah, I mean, it was something that was a shared goal from, like, the very outset once Joe graduated residency.

And essentially once he graduated, he very much said, "I want to pay these loans off as fast as I can." I said, "If, if that's truly what you wanna do, I'm here to support you, no problem." You know, again, it, we traveled, I mean, we went on several, like, international trips, you know, over the past two years, I mean, probably, like, five in total.

And so I don't feel like I've been shorted at all by any means, and I, I really just think, like, it, it, it felt good to accomplish something together, and knowing that, like, we can just move forward without the debt is, is r- really liberating.

on with the, stand up paddleboard.

Yeah.

So my first trip portaging was Cullarney, the bell lake loop.

The, I would say anything that is a good loop to start with is for paddleboarding is that something that's a beginner friendly or a simple canoe route, um, that you want to test that I wouldn't go too heavy to start.

So I think that one of the most was like a 700 and something meter.

Um, For me, I tested a few ways.

Side carry, and that's usually how you would carry it with the center handle and then the board at your side.

winter look like?

Explain the next phase of the change and maybe how is that going to change the landscape of prospects?

So this change is going to affect prospects who are going to enroll in college in fall 2027 or later.

We need to talk about it now, though.

because it changes the way NCAA eligibility is applied.

Up until next year, the way that eligibility worked was you would get four years of playing within a five-year period.

There's all sorts of different rules and regulations in there, but you hear about somebody redshirting.

They might sit out a year to protect a year of eligibility.

So give us his little background and then some things that you've noticed that have changed since he's started with us.

So can somebody be at, let's say, a Bruins camp, Dev camp this year and next year at another team's camp? The people who are invited,

they're usually draft picks and signed prospects.

So in that case, when we look at James Higgins.

Right.

Well, we drafted him.

He's not going to show up at the avalanche next year because we've signed him.

But we have a couple of other invites who, if we are not inviting them, they could be invited by another team for sure.

And they watch them and see, like, are you applying the things that we've suggested and kind of going from there? One of the