Dimitri Filipovich

Oh boy.

The accumulated cap hit of the four conference finalist starters is less than Thatcher Demko's extension, which doesn't kick in until July 1.

Don't pay a Rick Talkett goalie should be like a blanket lesson for NHL general managers.

Like how many people have made that mistake?

Kemper benefited from that.

Auntie Ranta got a bad contract out of that.

Obviously, Demko and Lankanen now.

Dan Vladar, are you up next?

That's true.

Choose between the two if he'll take your money.

All right, number three.

Build through the draft...

is a misused phrase in hockey because great teams aren't built at the draft table.

They're built on the trade market using assets harvested from the draft or from surplus draft capital.

And the examples here include Stankoven and Ehlers, Natchez, Nelson, Kadri, although you can go deeper than that, Taves.

I mean, the entire Avalanche team is traded for.

Newhook, Dock, Bolduc.

And then obviously Marner, Eichel, Anderson, you can keep going down the list.

Vegas doesn't really apply.

No team building rules really apply to Vegas, let's be real, because of the expansion process and how they've designed this.