Brian Burke

And I know people can come back and say, well, hang on a second here.

The Montreal Canadiens are the highest taxed.

Those players are the highest taxed of anyone in the NHL, and they just beat a team from Florida in the first round.

So there is that ability for people to say, hold on a second here.

It doesn't always equal wins.

However, I think it would be foolish for anyone to think that it's not a competitive advantage because it is.

The only thing about it, too, is I've been preaching forever, like, okay, it's time to get the training wheels off the salary cap here.

We essentially had the same cap going back to 2005.

We're far enough along here that we should maybe start playing with this.

Take the training wheels off and let the baby start to walk a little bit.

And then it's going up again.

Then it's going up again.

It's going to be fascinating.

And, you know, one of the stories that Canadians are talking about too is like the player drain.

I know that Zach's going to cover his years here in case we talk about Austin Matthews, but here's whether it's Quinn Hughes in Vancouver and Brady Kachuk in Ottawa, we wonder about Conor Halibut in Winnipeg, et cetera.

I mean, the common denominator here is a couple of things.

One, gold medal team.

And two, captain's leaving.

Significant player, American player is leaving to go to the United States.

It's basically, it's basically Windsor.