Amy Johnson

A, what does that mean?

And B, was this an instance of

Kent Hughes being patient and disciplined?

Or did he and the Canadians kind of miss an opportunity here in what's starting to become a very competitive race down the stretch?

So this is the second consecutive year that Kent Hughes stood pat, did nothing at the trade deadline.

And I think it's easy to point to last year's trade deadline and say that Kent Hughes made the right move by not being a seller, by not moving the pending free agents.

And he kept his group together on the request of Nick Suzuki.

That's been told over and over and over again.

Putting in there, trusting that they would be able to pull together and pull through and earn a playoff spot, which they did.

That earned them the opportunity and the opportunity to get some experience, to get some playoff experience.

Mileage, which they did.

And I think all of that was... I think fans understood that and in the end applauded that.

But this is a very different situation this year.

There are some...

There are certainly absolutely higher expectations.

It was a bit of a surprise for the Canadians to squeak into the playoffs on the last day of the regular season last year.

There's expectations that the Canadians will be there.

There's expectations that they might even win a round.

And there's also the full knowledge that there are...

issues with this team.