Aarif Deen

I still cannot truly, truly in the heart of hearts tell you that it would be the right decision if they did that.

But I think when you get, you know, let's say they get swept or down in five, I think if you lose in that kind of a way, um,

Everything's on the table that's not number 29 and number 8.

And that's just the reality.

But I do think that that might be something that they consider.

I just don't know if there's an alternative.

What are they going to do?

Call Vegas tomorrow and ask for permission for Bruce Cassidy?

There's no... Hey, Kelly, we kind of had a question.

Good series.

But there's no...

If they let go of Jared Bednar, they're going to spend the next five, six years trying to find the next one while Bednar and Connor McDavid become best buds.

There's no other real way to kind of figure this out.

It's one of those things where, to me, you look at Chicago Blackhawks when they were the best team in the league for so many years.

It's like Joel Quinville rode that core until that core had nothing left and kind of fell on the sword with the core.

Mm-hmm.

I kind of feel like that's what the Avalanche are going to do, and it's probably what Tampa's doing with John Cooper.

The difference is, like, Kael McCarr is 29 next season.

Nathan McKinnon's 31.

Like, they're older, but they're not, you know, 34 and 35.