Amy Johnson

Looking to upgrade the sixth defenseman, that was mentioned by Kent Hughes.

An upgrade on Arbor Jack, an upgrade on Jaden Struble.

They couldn't have made... They couldn't have completed that Connor Murphy deal.

They couldn't have found a defenseman as an upgrade.

Apparently not.

And then the last was...

um, moving some surplus forwards, not having all of these extras, um, uh, extra forwards that, uh, that are sitting on the sidelines, uh, that were very valuable as injury replacements, but, um, not, um, not so valuable now when you have a felt healthy lineup.

So now, and I, and I will say, I mentioned this earlier in the show, um,

Before I get there, let me just finish kind of what you started there saying, that the other category was kind of the off-season and longer-term projects on Kent Hughes' to-do list, and that would be finding a top-four right-shot defenseman.

We saw a couple of those go at the deadline.

And adding a top-six forward in general, adding a winger for the top line.

We see Silvakovsky back up there with Suzuki and Caulfield, longer-term projects.

And that's still on.

I mean, maybe that's where the Robert Thomas would fit in that category, and maybe he was trying to get that done at the trade deadline, and it's still open for him to revisit, as he said, in the summer.

But those three trade deadline...

Items on the list went unmet.

That's right.

And we said, and I said this in the first segment, I'll say it again.

We did say last week that this was a possibility that Kent Hughes might do nothing.

And when we talked about it last week, we said, and that would be okay, too.