Chris Pronger

Well, to that point, Hazy, and that's a thing I think fans have to understand.

It always looks good a year out, like, oh, my God, this guy's going to be available and this guy's going to be available.

very very very rarely is one of these top ufas ever become available and and and god forbid they are available there's 25 teams trying to get them and then they they get they get their choice of where they want to be and where they want to go and where they want to live and who they want to play with you know a lot of it comes down to the fit and who they can play with

where they're going to live, and all they're at.

I mean, we can talk about taxes, but that part of it, in my opinion, is about third down the list.

It's are you going to be with a winning program?

If you're going to move somewhere, you want to win.

You're going to get the money no matter what if you're UFA, and you have all these teams bidding on you.

And then it's about the fit, who you're playing with, do you think you have an opportunity to win, and then you start going down the list of taxes and all the rest of it.

Well, I think it has to be.

First off, it already is a partnership in how the team has been set up and how they cater to the star and how they try to build around that player and put them in a position to succeed and try to win.

And if it's not working, then it becomes a conversation of, are you happy?

Do you want to be here?

Here's what our plan is.

Do you fit into that plan?

Are you going to want to be here two, three, four years down the line when your contract's up?

And, you know, if you still want to be married to that player, or if you want to get off and they want to move too, it's like, okay, we're going to need a short list of teams that you'll accept the trade to.

You can't have one team.

There's got to be, you got to have the ability to move somebody to three or four or five teams to be able to garner enough that makes it worth your while to trade the player and get the right assets back.

then it becomes always understanding these no moves, no trades, whatever.