Arash

Tones.

Canada and the U.S.

are like the second and fourth largest countries in the world.

It's like, yeah, they're large.

It feels detached a little bit.

Anyways.

Oh, no.

Look, for us, like, at the end of the day when no one's here, yeah.

Yeah.

Well, I mean, it's less cool.

Arash, get out of here.

Yeah, and we were chatting about it with Frank on Monday, and, you know, you wanted to see, because the NHL's had so many of these moments of positive momentum as the league trending in a direction, and lockouts have happened.

And it's not just like, oh, it slows down the momentum a little bit.

A season removed, shortened seasons, COVID impact, that has huge ramifications.

Because if you're trying to get into it, it's like, okay, well, there's another stoppage here.

If you go from 2004 to now, we're talking about three major stoppages between COVID, two shortened seasons, even the delay coming out of the...

North, like the North division here, there's been challenging moments to say, Hey, I want to enjoy like a four year, five year cycle of getting into this sport.

And what are the key inflection points?

We'd say, okay, 2010 Olympics.

That'd be a big one.