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And when those frays start happening, does it come apart at the seams or do you kind of reset and say, hey, we're still pulling in the right direction here?

It is.

But this is, like, confirmed available, right?

There's, like, oh, I wonder if you can pry him out there and how motivated are the teams.

This is now, like, confirmed, hey, he's available.

And I also wonder, because he's got a full no trade that relinquishes full no trade, I think, after at the end of next year.

So I wonder if you're Dylan Larkin saying, like, hey, I got to take control of this while I still can.

Can I pick my spot rather than if I eventually say I want to move somewhere?

do I lose some elements of control here?

You know, obviously a lot of people have been texting about Minnesota.

You know, we talked about like Tampa.

How often do we say Tampa just needs a little bit more spark there?

Can they get one more scoring threat, goal-creating threat that alleviates some of the pressure off of Kucherov, off of Point, and maybe Sorelli goes into a more natural spot there as a true shutdown third-line center rather than

the second line center who's still going to do the amazing shutdown work, but you need offense out of your second line.

Does that spot make a lot of sense for a team that kind of needs some freshening up?

They got Gensel, they got pieces, but they would probably love one more crack at having a true cup run and knowing Florida's going to be back next year.

with a healthy Barkov who's lifting trophies overseas, do you say, hey, we kind of need that?

I think this is going to be a very, very interesting market for him.

Is this a good thing or a bad thing for the Elias Pedersen conversation?

Because I wonder if there's a team that's like really far along in the process and loses it and says, you know what?