Elliotte Friedman

It's interesting.

It's interesting.

Yeah, you couldn't help but wonder what was going to come out of Canada.

Detroit's inability to finally end their playoff drought this year because they look to be in such a good position to do so.

You mentioned the trade deadline and adding, you just felt that it was not going to be status quo going forward after their season ended.

But this certainly is...

Is a surprise.

I clearly Larkin has conviction wanting to do this.

His agent, Pat Brisson, a strong willed man.

We know Steve Eisenman is as well.

I just I wonder here as we move forward, Elliot, I mean, will they be able to put the emotions aside and and do whatever they see is best?

And one way or another, they're going to have to work together to

in order to make something happen here.

OK, so we'll pause on the Larkin story for now.

But as if that wasn't enough on Thursday, shortly before your report came out, Elliot, Mark Spector had a piece on Sportsnet.ca.

And man, it sure seems like Darnell Nurse and the Edmonton Oilers are headed for a breakup.

Now, why do you think they would be just looking at someone for a year?

Right.

So you still see a world where however the dust settles here in this final, we go through the summer and into the fall and the Vegas organization is still going, nope, we're not letting you talk to that team or to that team.

And it would be another year for Cassidy under contract, right?