Frank Seravalli

So.

It's a level up in competition to be sure, but it's not the giant leap to go from McKenna's case, World Juniors, NCAA, then World Men's.

Yeah, so interesting timing, because today my first trade targets board comes out, and I will have Pedersen on there, albeit further down the list.

And I do have Jake Dabrowski on there.

Those are more projections at this point in time, rather than the Canucks having... They're...

they're drinking from a fire hose right now.

Like they haven't engaged in calls around the league yet to gauge exactly what their thought processes are yet and, and where they might be heading.

But look, I don't, I don't think you have to be a super sleuth to cut through the comments that Ryan Johnson and the Sedins both had on Pedersen.

They, they called him out again for not hitting the bare minimum of,

arriving to training camp in shape and being ready to play.

And just my own personal belief that as we've talked about this notion of how the Sedins fit in with Pedersen and what their relationship is like, I think we could all probably conclude that it has not been the best and could be a lot better.

I don't know how they'd look at that situation, look at the evidence that we've seen of late, and be giant believers in Elias Pettersson to be capable of turning it around in Vancouver.

So that's more a hunch and a read between the lines than anything.

And DeBrusque is similar along the lines that, look, you've got to sign up for five more years of this pain.

That, hey, even on...

one of the worst teams that we've seen in the salary cap era still puts up 23 goals, um, still finds a way to compete, obviously has value.

And the cap hit is very reasonable that I would have to think that if the, this, if this management trio is looking to shake things up a bit and also move on from players who I'm not saying he absolutely wants out, but I don't think anyone would be opposed in that situation to go play for a team that's more competitive.

that they could make that happen and bring back some real value.

I have not.

I view him as more of one of the untouchables.