Brad Treliving

I will say this.

For me, the main reason to sit anyone down that might be injured, though, isn't even about losing the games.

I just want them as ready to go September 15th as possible.

Like, these guys have all played playoff games every year.

They've been part of Olympics and Four Nations.

Like, they've played a lot of hockey, too.

Not Panthers level or Golden Knights level of games, but if you can get these guys healthier and have better summers, I mean, next year counts.

And next year is going to be very important around here.

Yeah, but, I mean, Pete's working for a living.

Well, we were hoping to garner, I would tell you, more young assets.

You know, we put a plan in place recently.

probably just leading up into the Olympic break.

And as you do every year, there's lots of communication with the teams, trying to get a sense of what they're doing, making sure they're clear on what your direction is, what your plans are, things that you'd like to accomplish.

So,

Our goal going in was to be as active as we could to regain as many young assets as we possibly could.

And ultimately, you know, you've got to have you got to have, you know, an interest level to to whatever extent possible.

um on your players and uh you know at the end of the day the market dictates you know what play what teams want what they what they need um and ultimately what they're prepared to pay for so tree we were listening to your your press conference there and you were laying it out what the market speaks and what was it saying all of that type of stuff

Well, there's always, Noodles, there's always, at this time of year, there's always expect the unexpected, right?

But we had a pretty good idea coming in.

There's certainly some teams that were going to wait and see how they came out of the break.