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have some continuity to bring a guy over.

But it is like an age 29 center who's turning 30 that you've given up a third-round pick for.

That, to me, strikes me as a... Hey, what is actually our...

mode of operation right now?

Are you very much a team that's trying to scale back?

And it's a point we've brought up as well with Frank over and over again.

It's like, hey, they've got a lot of money invested here.

They're paying Philip Forsberg $8.5 million for four more years.

They're paying Stephen Stamkos $8 million for two more years.

Marcia So, now there's been all the talk of getting out of that.

I get it, but he's on the books for three more years, let alone Brady Shea, let alone UC Soros, who's got five years left on his deal.

And to me, I look at this and it's like, okay, you can say you're all rebuilding, but we do always talk about like organizational commitment to your star level players and where they are at.

Roman Yossi's got two years left on his deal.

Do they just say, hey, why don't I just kick it down?

Like, well, we'll just go for it for two more years here while we're paying a franchise legend.

over nine million dollars and maybe we we maximize something for this star level player we've had who's still playing at a really high level yeah to me this looks very much like a have it both ways trade yeah it's it's not a huge cost but it's not the traditional it's like oh that team is rebuilding so they should be savoring third round picks right and so

Yeah, that's the bit.

It's trying to do both things at the same time, right?

It's, hey, if we're good, we'll take it.

What's the mandate?