Ethan Badowski

We've been asking it for some time now.

He took less money.

He's not the highest-paid player in the game.

That's Kirill Kaprizov in Minnesota, who, by the way, needs to show up in this series to keep the Wild alive.

And the bigger question...

Yeah, Edmonton, you see they could fall off a cliff here, even if McDavid stays.

The defense looks older and slower.

The forward group is not great.

Holloway, Broberg are the two examples people use, the two offer sheets.

They had these two guys in their building, and they let them go to St.

Louis, and they look like they're really good players and going to be good for the Blues for years to come.

But the big one is the goaltending, right?

Like, you've identified the problem.

and have so for really three years and um and messier always pushes back on this anytime you want to go in on on stuart skinner say hey he was good enough to get them to game six and game seven of the stanley cup final and that's fair he was he was good enough you know one more goal another goal by somebody else maybe it's different but

You know, you can't win these games in the playoffs 5-4 every night.

Even 4-3, that doesn't work.

You've got to be able to win a 2-1 game once in a while.

Certainly a 3-2 game.

And so, as good as Connor Ingram was, and this is not on him.

You know, he was not supposed to be the number one guy there.