Brad Treliving

in terms of where they would be.

It might not necessarily be in a full sell mode or full buy mode, but they may do a little bit less.

We felt pretty comfortable that there's going to be a lot of players on the market.

At the end of the day, it still comes down to

You know, it still comes down to what their needs are, what they're prepared to pay for.

You know, I was asked one of the questions today.

You know, we were probably the biggest difference, especially in the last couple years.

And there certainly was some instances of this, but there wasn't the need or the requirement for a lot of teams to retain money or to move money.

Obviously, some rule changes with the double retention process has changed.

But there's more money in the system.

And those teams that are acquiring players, there was more cap space available than there normally was.

So those are all the types of things we were looking to try to accomplish.

But short order, I would probably say there was more...

There was more players in the market than, you know, even going back to a year ago or in recent years.

But also always it comes down to fit, right?

You have a certain player that you're looking to move or have an interest in moving.

You know, the team has got to need to have a fit and have a value of that player in order to make a deal.

Well, I spoke to all three players prior to obviously them sitting out with those two.

Bobby and Scott, with those being UFAs and those two games coming up and some of the interest level that was out there.

Teams indicating that they...