Brian Hayes (host)
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Soros, it's a big contract.
I don't know.
St.
Louis doesn't have it.
No one has it to that extent.
Quinn Hughes is a legit top five or six player in the world.
I'm calling him off the hook and saying, yeah, I'll look at Jake DeBrusque.
I'll look at, you know, different guys like that, good players.
Phillip Hronick, really good players.
But this league turns on its head if Quinn Hughes gets flipped.
Now we're talking.
So, Brian, you're right, but the team that is trying to acquire him, it's going to be picks and prospects.
It can't be live roster players because you're not going to weaken your team unless it's somebody you're trading out.
You need the cap space.
So you need to trade a defenseman that's on your roster already to move for Quinn Hughes to slide in there.
But it's a lot of picks and prospects because if Vancouver is going to go through a scorched earth situation, they don't need a 25-year-old player that's really good.
They need a high drop pick or multiple first-rounders and a 19-year-old that's playing in junior right now.
That's what they need.
Sure, and I'm sure there's – again, we'd have to look through it, but I'm sure there are examples of that.
I think he's one guy, though, that you kind of make the exception because we're talking about the two years noodles where I think you do trade a 22-year-old stud for him because, yes –