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It is unbelievable, this series so far.

So, yeah, I guess one of my big questions is how much of this is an effect of Team USA winning the Olympics as well so the interest carried through?

There's not many above this one.

So what will prevail here as a series continues?

Because Carolina, these first periods have been very good, but they haven't been able to capitalize.

And then these second periods for Vegas, they're taking advantage.

I'm curious how this kind of plays out the rest of the way.

Which team should feel confident in their process right now?

Yeah, I guess the other, like, the other interesting part for me is, like, Detroit has been going through this rebuild for so many years, and now you get this huge inflection point of...

If you trade Dylan Larkin, are you going to restart the rebuild?

Or are you going to say, we've been out of the playoffs for so long.

Is the style of trade going to be an indication of the direction where the Red Wings go?

Plus, there's talks of Kosa maybe kind of seeing the end of his runway there in Detroit as well, right?

Yeah, that's ending.

Yeah, so there's scenarios where it's like, hey, you might be losing some of your depth as well.

That'd be fascinating, too, obviously for Minnesota, who's desperate for this spot right now as they're trying to push everything forward with Kaprizov.

Is that like a preliminary list, or do you think this will grow out as we trend through the weeks here?

The reason I ask, too, is if there's a delay in Eisman's process and he slows this thing down and wants to play this out over August and September in the training camp, I would say Dylan Larkin's the biggest name that's been kind of confirmed available.

Is that domino going to slow down the whole market?

Any buzz coming out of the combine of what could happen at the top of the draft ahead of Vancouver?