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If he helps us get to the playoffs, there's a financial windfall to that.

If he's just good enough that we can flip him because we're not good enough, there's a future benefit to that as well.

I do wonder if from that approach,

okay, you're exercising options because you have a surplus of draft picks.

But on the face of it, is there like, hey, this is a 45 game sample that you're saying, hey, I wonder what happens.

That's kind of like the tone of it.

Now, there's other teams that should be, for instance, like the Rangers, but...

They're in a spot where it's like, hey, they want to go to the playoffs as well.

James Dolan's like, he checking now.

He's like, the Knicks won the championship.

Who's the Jalen Brunson of the NHL?

It's like, hey, Braden Schneider, man.

You got to start putting up some more points here.

Take the puck to the net like Jalen.

Yeah.

He's like, Alex Tuck, are you willing to take 50 million less to come here and be RJ on them, Brunson?

But really, like, yeah, there's that element of, okay, who's actually, like, true rebuilders?

Because the Pens made the playoffs last year.

They just brought Evgeny Malkin back.

And maybe, you know... Now, they can keep kind of doing the same path of finding the Shinnekov deals and maybe that, like, that...