Brad Treliving

I get all that.

But that's the job we signed up for.

And it comes with a lot of great things.

And it comes with some things that we've got to deal with.

So those things are behind us now.

And this is our group.

We anticipate, as you said, there'll be some players that we want to take a look at from the Marlies.

But we've got to go out and we've got to do our jobs correctly.

Well, any player with no trade or any type of trade protection, it's been negotiated and it's been signed off on by the team and by the players.

So it's a negotiated right.

And so I don't fault any player with any trade protection or anything of that like.

Having said that,

As I've told my players, you know, and we'll use Oliver as an example, just I've got a good relationship with Oliver.

He's got trade protection.

He knows it.

I know it.

If there's something that comes up, it doesn't prevent us to go in from him and talking to him about it.

Ultimately, they have a decision to make on that.

But, you know, I was asked today, we didn't have any... We didn't have any...

discussions to have with players in terms of those that had protection but that's their right um when those are handed out when those are when those are signed off on um you know that's the players it's a negotiated right and and uh so i i fully i fully understand that um