Bruce Kerlock

They're going to need to find young guys because the salary cap doesn't allow you to do it any other way.

And if you're now in a situation where you're trading your draft capital at the deadline, you have to somehow manage to find players outside of that draft capital.

And Samansky speaks to, you know, a way to do it, which is unrestricted free agency in Europe, collegiate unrestricted free agency being the other one.

And with Samansky, uh, you know, I had seen the player a little bit, uh,

Even when they signed him, I wondered about his skating.

And, you know, I was talking to somebody else in the scouting community yesterday.

And we were talking about the development of the skating ability of a lot of oiler prospects.

He's just one of them.

But his skating has gone from...

Certainly, I would say NHL below par to NHL average to maybe modestly above average.

And to be able to, in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup playoffs, put him in on the fourth line and likely probably the coach feels very comfortable with him for lots of other reasons.

But to be able to put him in there because he's developed within the space of...

months to where you know, he he won't be a Liability on the ice.

It's that's it's a testament to You know Stan Bowman in his group.

It's a testament to Kelly Larson on the development side It's a testament to the coaching staff and Bakersfield just a whole different mo for how they a Find players but be develop them.

Yeah, you know, the Savoy-McLeod trade is sort of, I think, what I'm speaking to, right?

And I can't remember what McLeod's contract is now.

Well, now it's $5 million.

So that's not a player, like you can't, you know, you can't have that player trade.

Every single time we get to the moment when they sign that contract, you can't have them in Edmonton.