Ryan O'Reilly

But sooner rather than later, we're going to start looking at John Marcia's show, maybe Stephen Stamkos again.

Ryan O'Reilly is always out there in some capacity, even though he's kind of got an unofficial no-trade squad, just because of his value to the Preds.

But that stuff is percolating, no doubt.

In Seattle, Jason Botterill has been looking for a top-scoring winger forever.

But sooner rather than later, we're going to start looking at John Marcia's show, maybe Stephen Stamkos again.

Ryan O'Reilly is always out there in some capacity, even though he's kind of got an unofficial no-trade squad, just because of his value to the Preds.

But that stuff is percolating, no doubt.

In Seattle, Jason Botterill has been looking for a top-scoring winger forever.

Like, you're gone.

But if we're talking about, like, you know, going to get a passable top six center for the short term, like a Ryan O'Reilly, he's still going to cost you something.

Yes.

Yeah.

Yeah, well, he hasn't played.

I'm just saying in Nashville, he hasn't played center.

It's been Ryan O'Reilly, Bork, Woods.

He's mostly been playing wing, so I don't know if it helps necessarily.

easy for the abs to deal with the Matthew Shane.

Heck the Ryan O'Reilly situation was easy compared to all of this.

It's odd that it's, you know, I call it like the team USA problem, but it's not an American player wanting to leave a Canadian market.

It's an American player wanting to leave his home.

It went into a shootout.

And in that shootout, unfortunately, Ryan O'Reilly was the first to take the first shootout shot and missed it.

And Polymeri and Horvat scored, went on to go ahead and win in that shootout.

So the Islanders came away with a 4-3 victory.

Phillip Sportsberg had a goal.

He had a goal and an assist.

Kerfoot scored as well as Ryan O'Reilly.

And UC Silas had 25 saves for Nashville.

I don't think you need that inside of your locker room.

At least I could understand to a degree what happened with Ryan O'Reilly.

I mean, a lot of people lose their love for hockey when they're in Buffalo.

I get that.

I don't think you need that inside of your locker room.

At least I could understand to a degree what happened with Ryan O'Reilly.

I mean, a lot of people lose their love for hockey when they're in Buffalo.

I get that.

But, you know, listen, I think Chris McFarland has had to take it upon himself to build out the depth on this roster.

You know, I think the guys you mentioned off the top, and I don't think you mentioned Ryan O'Reilly, who also has had an insanely good goal scoring year so far you know those guys are coming through right and the difference in the margins between being a team that's an also ran and being a team that can really push for a wild card in the west and I keep on saying wild card because I continue to believe that the top three in the in the central division is probably spoken for uh whether it's Colorado Minnesota and and uh and Dallas or or you know Utah supplanting one of those teams I mean it's going to take the top guys doing what they're doing now, but then a supporting cast really stepping up and being consistent.

Yeah, and that's the thing, looking at just this team on the top scale of it all, the first line, and kind of going into the second and third lines, the thing I just can't wrap my head around yet is that Jonathan Marcheseau just still hasn't really found his true self in a roundabout way, wearing that Preds gold.

You know, they bring in a guy, and the name just came up, Maverick Bork.