Dimitri Filipovich

This is just what's happened.

And I think partly the response to COVID, right?

has had a long tail, right?

The players who played in Canada had to deal with more quarantine times and stricter policies and on and on.

And I think there's, as a result, sort of a long memory for the players that endured that, that's sort of driven themselves.

Taxes is obviously part of the story.

But I think the fundamental story is that the teams in the South have been better.

Lifestyle.

Yeah.

So, yeah, there's a lot of factors that have driven these outcomes.

But I also think we shouldn't lose sight of the primary driver very, very arguably, if not clearly, being...

that those teams have been good.

Those teams have been better than the teams that, you know, than the teams that have been up north.

Like the Canadian teams have been mismanaged.

Well, especially because we have seen Winnipeg retain Kyle Connor and Connor Hellebuck.

We have seen Vancouver retain American players like Connor Garland, Thatcher Demko, JT Miller.

In Demko's case, twice.

In Besser's case, twice.

So, you know, I also think Austin Matthews has yet to leave Toronto.

Cole Caulfield and Lane Hudson went long in Montreal, right?