Alison Lukan

Well, of course.

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what the lottery does to us all.

I mean, look at what happened to Vancouver, of course.

So there was a little disappointment there in terms of, I'm sure the fan base, but I think the front office is probably going to be aggressive and go best player available.

Now that being said, and again, as I always say, I'm certainly not sitting in Jason Botrell's office where he's doing all of his decision-making, but you know, you look at this team, they have four first round draft picks over the next two years.

This is a front office that wants to be aggressive in changing their fortune and returning to the playoff conversation.

If this pick isn't going to get them a big enough impact player in their estimation, are we looking at a different kind of approach in terms of what they do with this draft pick this year?

Does it become about getting an existing player back?

Does it become about something else?

Who's to say?

But I think it could be interesting to see if they or any other team start to think a little bit more out of the box.

Oh, a hundred percent.

You know, and I think that, you know, one thing that I am just very impressed by is the talent level that the crack and have internally in terms of evaluating draft talent and, and,

You know, I think it's hard for people who follow the Kraken a little bit more closely.

They know that it's a very forward, heavy prospect group.

And so it's easy to your original question to say, well, does that mean they have to go D?

But I think they're going to be really smart about looking at the talent.