Dimitri Filipovich

Not a whole lot.

I'm excited that round one is winding down a little bit.

I feel like the workload is getting more manageable.

Only two games on tonight.

I'm enjoying the fact that we're doing this on a Thursday.

It feels like a Friday just because I'm in here with you.

And also, I feel like just you and I, not only is there more space here in studio.

Yes, not getting interrogated by the two of you.

And I feel like we can talk about whatever we want.

That's right.

We're not going to get like shorn in a random draft.

We're not going to be forced to talk about Rick Talkit necessarily.

We can do whatever we want.

Yeah, I think it was most regular GMs I'd be a little bit worried about this being kind of winning the battle but losing the war in the sense of like talking yourself into, all right, this is a building block here for us next year.

If we make a couple more additions in free agency or via trade, we're going to get even better.

They still might go that route.

I think they're going to go in a probably in a pretty sensible way though, not necessarily sacrificing their future to accomplish that.

They have so many draft picks, particularly in that kind of round two to four range that

over the next three drafts they've accumulated over the past year or so so a lot of options available to them you know they have a couple contractual things to figure out with Malkin's future certainly but also a guy like Anthony Manta who probably is going to get a bigger ticket deal elsewhere as an unrestricted free agent so it's going to be a different looking team

Certainly, I'd expect Crosby and Carlson and even Letang because of his contract to be back.