Caleb Malhotra

You know, so I'm just saying, don't count your chickens before they hatch, right?

The Canucks didn't have the first overall pick at any point.

They had the best odds at it.

That egg never hatched.

And now people are just like, wow, and they missed out on the two wingers.

And it's like, they might not have.

And by the way, they might not have, and they still might pass on one.

Right?

Like, there's...

You've got to let this stuff play out, especially when it comes to how individual decision makers evaluate talent in the NHL.

It often shocks us when teams actually have to sort of make their mind up and show the public what they're thinking.

Cormac McCarthy, the author.

You never know what worse luck, your bad luck has saved you from no country for old men.

Yeah, exactly.

No, but we're talking about a funnel, right?

I mean, you have to think about making the NHL as like a funnel, right?

Where you put a lot of kids in and only a very few amount of them are like really great BCHL players, right?

And then you put those kids back in a funnel and only a very small amount of them are difference making players.

at the college level.

And then you do it again at the pro level.