Alison Lukan

Because look at how many of these teams,

acquired a lot of their top talent via trade versus now you look at an Anaheim that's saying, no, it's a different way.

So I think there's going to be some lessons to take away from everything once this all settles, but, but it's been for the most part, just a lot of fun hockey for sure.

Exactly.

And that's where you have to look at how they're built.

And you could pose the same question to San Jose, right?

We've said the same thing about

their defense.

And while they're obviously not in the post season, you know, are they going to be able to step it up?

And the flip for Anaheim is, you know, getting in the first time is quote unquote easy.

Cause you don't know what you don't know.

And I think next year will be where they really start to answer that question.

Will they start to tense up?

Will they have a felt burden of, well, now we have to do it again.

And if we don't do it again, we're not as good.

And so can you take this and build and show some championship caliber?

Or is this a step that's going to have a step back and then maybe two steps forward in a couple of years?

Absolutely.

No question.

And it's, you know, this is where we, you know, we talk about jam searches going on, putting these puzzles together is nowhere as easy as we all like to talk about because it's