Aarif Deen

And Kucherov is one year older and Vasilevsky is one year older.

It's like, you know, this core is kind of on its last legs.

Let's see if we can kind of squeeze one or two more good things out of them in the playoffs, I should say, because of their first round exits.

But the avalanche is just there still is.

in the prime of their, like in, in, in the, the, the, the meat of their core right now and of their prime.

And it's, it would be a tough decision.

Um, I also do know that David Carl, um, you know, he has told media members here on the record, off the record, it's like, he's very, very open about the fact that like, guys, like I'm 36 years old.

Uh, I can, I could stay at DU for another 10 years and.

I'd still probably be the youngest coach in the NHL.

If I jumped up in 10 years, like he's, he's very aware of that.

He also has statistics memorized.

If you ask David Carl right now to take a job in the NHL, he's going to give you all the numbers right away.

Uh, 25 coaches have been fired in the last three years and 13 have been fired in the last six months.

And, and, uh, 31 has been fired in the last five years.

He's hold throw all the numbers at you because he's just completely doesn't agree with the way it's going, uh, with NHL coaching jobs.

I obviously, as we all know, I, I, I,

I think that had something to do with the flat salary cap for three years where you couldn't do anything to the team.

So you did it to the player or so you did it to the coach.

Um, so I, I do think that's another thing you would be avalanche to keep in mind.

Um, it's, they could probably make some changes and keep Jared Bednar, but I, I think David Carl, if things align, um,