Greg Wyshynski

All right, well, I mean, I had a solid 20 on Nick Bukestad, but I guess I'll just, like, trash that.

Yeah, yeah, we can throw that away.

Yeah, yeah, sure, yeah, yeah.

He's a tall guy, a nice dude, too.

So, like, the Panarin situation's interesting, because here's how I think it worked out.

He wanted to go to the Florida Panthers.

The Florida Panthers are, like...

This cap space that we have, it's for this guy Barkov who's going to come back and play for us at some point this season.

So I'm afraid we don't have any more of it for you.

And so then Panarin and his family are like, what's kind of like Miami, but not?

And they're like, Los Angeles.

And so what happened then was the Rangers went to all of these teams that were interested in trading for Panarin.

And they said, look...

You guys all are willing to go like four years, 11 million per, maybe even more than that.

But you're going to have to convince him that your spot is better than Los Angeles, which is a tough gig if your team is in Raleigh.

So at the end of the day, like other teams offered more money and they offered longer term contracts, Washington, Carolina among them.

Seattle apparently got into the mix too, according to Elliott Friedman.

But Panarin's heart was set on Los Angeles.

So it's a one market trade market for the Rangers and GM Chris Drury.

And when that happens and the guy has a no movement clause and the guy is only going to a place where he's going to get a contract extension, you're kind of going to take what you can get.