Caleb Malhotra

And not locked down by inefficient contracts to guys who become 33.

And it's like, you know, what's Jake DeBrusque is at 35, a...

fourth line player like he's you know like yeah i'm not saying that's gonna happen but that's always a risk when guys especially guys who live at the net front right and rely on speed age into their mid-30s like you diminish your risk you hold asset value in ways that are more productive you turn a room over to the young guys like all of it is in service of this goal of finding two and a half part trophy level guys i don't think the organization's there in part because

you know, there's still like strains of thought in terms of how they view themselves where they're like, we saw down the end of the year, how the old guys worked with the young guys and the locker room was the best it had ever been.

Right.

Like what Jim Rutherford said explicitly to the fan base toward the end of the season.

And those young old guys have like, they've bought into it.

Like that's that you're still viewing this as a hockey team.

It's not, it's a portfolio now.

And so we'll see, like, what do I want to hear from the next GM?

And what do I think is the most important thing?

It's that, it's that shift in organizational thinking to where value is at the forefront of everything you do, as opposed to,

the hockey side of it, at least for a period of two or three years in which you accumulate with discipline.

And like, I don't think the organization's ever going to get there just because I don't think the Canucks view themselves that way or can think at that level.

And I'd like to see evidence to the contrary.

I'm serious.

That was the single worst day of my career from a like exhaustion work management day.

Like I've never been as stressed and tired as I was at the end of that day.

I think the counter argument there, Books, especially when it comes to the Sharks, is it's like the Sharks were 14 wins better than the Canucks.

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