David Pagnotta

He's got to agree to it.

And whenever we've seen these, it's because the player agrees a-ho with Montreal and then...

talking to me later with, with Carolina.

Um, but yeah, he'll have to, he'll have to agree.

Now.

I don't know.

I don't know his situation, but if I'm getting offered 11.9 million for X amount of years, um,

going to take it even though overall with taxes and blah blah blah it's going to be a little bit less but then you know being a european russian player they've got other exemptions that they can intertwine tax-wise again in canada um so it may be negligible a little bit but um either way uh if i'm edmonton and that opportunity exists i would absolutely take that because you've got enough you've got the means to do it financially because you have the cap space and also you

Your pool is very shallow in terms of young assets and draft picks and trade.

Perfect opportunity to do so.

I don't know if Sam Bowman and Jeff Jackson are starting to discuss this option, but I would if I were them.

But again, I mean, if I'm another team, I'm also looking at this going.

Yeah, and the Avs have a decision to make.

They will have eventually a decision to make, too.

They were exploring Ross Colton ahead of the trade deadline in the event that they needed to create additional cap space.

So that could be another, perhaps, casualty of their cap situation moving forward, too.

They got to worry about tonight.

There's no McCarr.

I hope so.

It is shaping up.