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It's okay, now we're exploring different ideas across the league.

And hopefully it serves as a

Template for teams moving forward.

Exactly.

We have talked about the financial leverage points, but just to detail it again, I know everyone knows it's 11.6 for six more years, but the leverage points here, it's $11 million of actual money this year with no signing bonus.

So maybe that opens up a slight window to say, hey, we don't have to pay out this big signing bonus, but still $11 million is a lot of money.

It's $14 million.

million next season and it's 12.25 the following year and then it's three years of 8.7 and we've talked about it's like hey you might have to go through three years of this and just kind of grit your teeth and go through it then you get the cap over cash equation here of 8.7 for three more years and maybe a team at that stage and I know you're talking about a 30 year old player at that stage but maybe a team talks themselves in a different scenario because you're saving actual real dollars even though it's 11.6 on the cap

But in that scenario, I think it opens up a different reality.

Now, that also means, okay, three more years.

Are you, like, emotionally prepared for three more years?

But it allows the opportunity.

It's like, hey, does he improve over that stretch of time?

Especially like if you go back a couple of years when they were trying to push it forwards to go win.

the Ekman-Larsen buyout made sense as far as how it impacts the dollars and how you can facilitate new money in and get guys in because you need to win.

There's not that pressure right now.

Why do you want to take a loss right now when wins and losses aren't as important?

Just like try to find the moment where you can get a win right now.

And if something happens positively for Elias Pettersson, okay, again, we'll go back to options.

If he's playing better, you have more options.