AJ Fredrickson

And we hear the people over 500 watching us now on this Thursday afternoon, people that fill out Grand Casino Arena and around the state of Minnesota can sit down on their couch and say, you know what?

They came away a lot better post-trade deadline.

And I'm confident that this team can make a run now, not just past the first round, but can compete and try to make it to the Western Conference Finals in the playoffs.

You need something like that.

I want to think that the only reason his name keeps getting brought up is because he's a former Minnesota wild player.

And so there's that, you know, there's that talk about like, Oh, you know, he's familiar with the, with the landscape and he knows the fan base and all that stuff.

I just, for as much as we just sort of talked about,

what they need he feels like the opposite sure he can win just better than 50 percent of his draws but he also sort of feels like a i mean he's not as big but he feels like a michael mccarron type where he's going to be in your bottom six i mean for as bad as we're talking about the columbus blue jackets right now sure they had a little bit of a resurgence at one point after firing evison but he's their third line center behind adam fantilli and sean monaghan

can you put him on the top line of this team between Zuccarello and Capriza?

He's got 30 assists.

So maybe there's a playmaking ability there, but at the same time, what has changed?

What has changed from the last time?

The last time he was here to now, obviously he found himself a little bit and he found his game similar to like, almost like what Sturm did, I think with his role out in Boston.

Like maybe time away from Minnesota helped him grow.

Maybe he's a completely different player.

But the Charlie Coyle that I know and the one that I watched and the one that I've watched from afar over the past handful of seasons doesn't feel like that final missing piece we're talking about here.

I feel like you have to aspire to a little bit of a higher, higher realm.

And that just I think what they're searching for sits above where Charlie Coyle is.

I would be very disappointed if that's the final move here.

Yeah.