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And then the wild look like geniuses moving off of him.

The blues trade away, I think, a top one C in this league who's 26 years old for a goaltender who is average at best, potentially the rest of his career.

There is a chance that's what happens, but on the other side, the pessimistic side of me says it's a Martin Hanzel all over again.

They move off of some pretty good trade assets.

Jesper Wahlstedt goes on to be this franchise altering goaltender who is a rock solid blue.

He's essentially the Jordan Binnington successor.

Calm, cool, collected, but very good in goal.

And then they have this resurgence in the wild.

They're left empty handed with maybe another first round playoff exit.

So it is this back and forth.

And it leaves me with a greater appreciation for Bill Guerin because he's the one that has to make the decision at the end of the day.

I think based, if you were looking at just on the one year, if they were both like one year rentals, I genuinely think they probably both have the same value.

Um, because you look at the points, I think it's one point that separates them.

Both trocheck statistically is a little bit better of a face off taker.

Um, but yeah,

I do think the overall talent that you see out in New York benefits him a little bit more at times.

He's playing with guys like Panarin because of Benajad.

They'll get power play work together.

Whereas on the blues, Robert Thomas is, you know, he's got Jordan Cairo, but also they don't really have, you know, Jake neighbors is, or Jimmy Snugger is like, is that who they're going to,

you know push their chips in on that's not our tiny panarin um i think that you could probably get away for vinnie trocek for the 20 the 20 to 27 first rounder is in no matter what and then you're probably looking at i probably