Jamie McLennan

Yeah, it's tough.

In this market.

Secondly, they don't know how to react because it's like...

what are we doing here?

Where's the direction?

Like you could clearly see from the minute that Matthews and Marner and Nylander were on the scene, they were building up to something.

And then when they arrived, it's like, okay, we're going to kick at the can.

We're going to, you know, we're going all in.

We're doing all this.

Hey, we won the division.

Like you could see all that.

There's so much uncertainty now.

And it,

Now it brings back the vitriol as to like, okay, direction, all of that type of stuff.

But I think, you know, we can do a deer hazy bee.

We can, you know.

Could you feel leading up to it that it was a changing market as far as maybe assets on the market, teams that were more in, for lack of a better word, sell mode, or players that were more available that you didn't expect leading up to it?

So it's been a bit of a weird year for a lot of teams, Tree, and you talked about it in a presser.

You came out of the break 0-4-2.

It's not where you wanted to be.