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The Stars and Wild, we would say, what?

Two top five teams, six teams?

They have the unlucky chance here of playing each other.

But the Pens and Flyers are, like, two amongst the worst playoff teams.

And they get the benefit of going against each other.

And now, you know, it's a great...

job being up 3-0 and they're certainly on course to win the division but I don't know if it speaks so much of like oh wow the Flyers have finally arrived if they get bouncing around too it's like I might pick them to miss the playoffs next year yeah no I don't necessarily disagree I think they're one of those teams where

Sure.

Yeah.

Now, I think with the benefit of hindsight, we have a control and test group here, obviously, with last season and this season.

You know, one of the thoughts was prevailing thoughts was like everything went wrong.

So if you can just remove some of the landmines, you could improve on 90 points.

Now, they changed personnel.

Pocket goes out, obviously.

But when we look back at 24-25, and now knowing what 25-26 happened, do we say, hey, the potential of this group, even if Taka was here this year, was actually probably like an 82-point team?

Or do you look back and say, hey, if Taka stuck around, they could have improved on 90?

Right, but it's not like he had a plus Elias Patterson the season before, though.

Like, he struggled the year before, too.

Yeah, that's the other point.

Well, yeah.