Caleb Malhotra

Overriding sort of the pedestrian full season scoring stats or the pedestrian 16-year-old season that he had in the BCHL.

I'm open to that argument.

But taking Malhotra and letting Stenberg get airdropped onto Conor Bedard's wing in Chicago makes me sick.

And I do not want to end up in a spot where I'm watching Caleb Malhotra the way that I'm watching Tom Villander, where I'm just like, this was a bad bet on draft day and this is what bad organizations do to stay bad, even if the player is totally fine.

I don't think I'm making moves if I'm the Canucks based off of this idea that Pedersen can be unlocked.

Like, that's on him.

You know, like, for me anyway, it would be more that –

Stenberg scored like William Nylander and folks like you compare him to winger Alexander Barkov.

And it's like, okay, well that sounds good.

I like the idea of a guy who scores like Nylander and plays two-way hockey like Barkov.

Like, let's go.

I'll buy that elite profile every day of the week.

Yeah, I mean, anyway, that's my new nightmare scenario now, Books, is Stenberg Falls and the Canucks aid in that process.

Man, that's my concern with the way that the draft lottery fell on Tuesday night.

It matters to me.

Like, it matters to me because most of the best hockey players on the planet emerge as the best hockey players on the planet and separate significantly from their age group at, like, 11.

You know?

And Malhotra's been... No, they do.

I mean, it's... Go look at the list of brick tournament MVPs and then go look at Hart Trophy winners in the NHL.

Like, by 10 years old, 11 years old, Macklin Celebrini's the MVP of that tournament and Bedard's the MVP of that tournament.