Daniel Briere

Yeah, well, the first question, I wish it was that easy to find a Brandon Bussey.

You know, you just never know.

You know, we were very fortunate of the way it worked out with Vladar.

we trusted our goalie coaching staff to lead the way and they wanted to work with him.

They wanted to work with Dan Vodar and it's kind of the same thing with Joel Wall here.

I hope it turns out the same results, but there's no guarantee.

The goalie

figuring out the goalies is one of the hardest things when you're making trades.

So we'll see what happens.

And as far as, you know, Carolina will be the new fad for a lot of years.

You know, when Vegas was winning, when Florida was winning, it was, you know, the big heavy teams.

Washington was the same way, St.

Louis when they won.

So it was the big heavy teams, and a lot of teams turned to that.

Obviously, Carolina has figured something very special with the speed and the way they forecheck.

I'm sure you're going to see more and more teams trying to go in that route, but it's not easy to find players that complement each other the way Carolina showed in the playoffs.

Well, he's not going anywhere.

You know, it's interesting that they had a sophomore slump, you know, and it wasn't the ideal season, but he still scored 20 goals and had 51 points.

You know, so it wasn't all bad.

There was a lot of good.