Brian Burke

Freddie Anderson doesn't have a contract, but like this is a team that could just say, you know what?

Everyone's pretty much locked up here.

We're going to run it back.

And I always, Berkey, I always remember something that Glenn Sather would talk about when his Oilers were the best team in the NHL and winning Stanley Cup after Stanley Cup.

And this guy's going to the Hall of Fame and that guy's going to the Hall of Fame.

Say they would always say, you've got to keep it fresh.

You have to change your team by 10% every year, right?

Just to keep a freshness about it.

You know, there's a lot of rings in the room.

You've got to have some guys that don't have rings.

You've got to have guys that are hungry in there.

If you're the Carolina Hurricanes, even though everyone's all under contract, essentially, how aware are you of we might need to keep things fresh here still?

I think you still have to.

We never repeated, so I can't give a logical or learned answer about this.

We didn't even come close to repeating.

So we're not regarded as one of the great teams ever, even though I think my team could have beat every team that's beaten, that's won a cup since we won the cup, up to at least Washington.

So we could have won at least 10, 12 years in there again, I think, had we been able to.

But we didn't keep it together.

We had Staten and Nehemiah retire, then Tama retire, then came back.

We didn't keep it together.