Dimitri Filipovich

I mean...

there are obviously to Brinkett and Kachuk type examples, but also Pierre-Luc Dubois was Canadian and he pulled the same stuff.

So like,

Yeah, I think fundamentally you just can't worry about it.

All you can do is make sure that your facilities are competitive and as appealing as possible.

And for the Canucks, obviously that brings up the practice facility question.

Then you get to the make your team as good as possible, right?

And then you get into all the other stuff, the experience of playing there, the personalities in the room, the media attention, all the other sort of things that do go into shaping whether or not players want to

stay with or come to your organization but fundamentally players want to win players go where they think they can win that is the fundamental always driver and i'd add this the pendulum swings like just like i talked about with the slow movement of players northward out of the state of florida even uh 15 to 20 years ago and the reversal that we've seen across the last 10 years like guess what if the cap

keeps going up and spending power becomes a shaping influence as opposed to efficiency right the efficiency of how you spend your dollar versus raw dollars high revenue teams like those in toronto and vancouver and montreal like should have the hammer again like there there's absolutely a world in 10 years where the canucks are able to buy players from

some of these southern teams that are more budget conscious like that should be a realistic path forward for vancouver yes very seriously yes absolutely you know i think it makes sense to bear that in mind too that like what is the current meta is not necessarily locked in immutable it's going to shift again and in fact i would say like this is part of my sign the mccarran

5.5 million times two-year deal.

Like partly what you want to do is create an environment where there's financial stress on your rivals, right?

So that they have to consider these sorts of things, right?

Like I think you want those teams to be nervous effectively about how they keep their guys.

You want those teams to be stretched.

You want talent to flow again because the thing about talent in the NHL right now is the Canucks don't have it.

Like you want to stimulate talent flows.

Every guy, every coil or schmaltz who stays in place is bad for you because you want talent to be flowing out from good teams and toward ideally you.

But whether or not it's toward you or not, you don't want it to be concentrated.