Dominic Sramaty

And I imagine a lot of enterprising teams moving forward are going to have to entertain that because as we've talked about, the free agent market is just so barren.

I'd say probably the Carolina one.

It feels a bit more sustainable, certainly.

And, you know, we haven't at this point seen the other shoe drop for Vegas because they somehow keep reinventing themselves and sort of pulling second and third mortgages out to finance all this.

Yes.

So yeah, I

A lot of these deals, they acquire a guy who's probably going to leave their current team and free agency, and then they immediately sign him for six to eight years below market value.

And so if you're one of the markets that's fortunate enough to have that as an option, yeah, it probably is somewhat realistic.

But I think what both these teams have shown is that there's different ways to be successful, but you almost need to have a plan and then really rigidly stick to it because...

You can't sort of like Vegas has had a couple hiccups along the way at the year they acquired Jack Eichel when they missed the playoffs, some first round exits.

And I think it would have been easy for them to sort of pivot and be like, well, we need to maybe take a bit of a step back and think long haul here.

And instead, they just kept plowing ahead with this sort of win now model of trading picks and prospects for ready made stars.

And Carolina, of course, has sometimes frustratingly so been so disciplined.

about sticking with their model.

So I feel like as long as you have a plan and execute upon it, there isn't necessarily one right way to build a Stanley Cup team.

Should we draft jazz bands?

I mean, recency bias, but they're killing it.

Now, are we drafting just purely in terms of who we think is going to win?

Because we're not looking at the market.

No, no, no.