Jannik Hansen

A little more set on the D side at this point in terms of young D, where you probably need a young forward coming in, and whether that's the Swede, McKenna, or Malhotra, I don't know who else it could be, but you'd probably lean towards a forward, and if he's the third best,

um now you have to look at well is manny then not the guy because again i don't think you can overlook the best player available if it's a ford you're looking for um because you're trying to save yourself on the coaching side then maybe you're going in a different direction at that point

Yeah, it is.

Because, again, like...

florida the only reason they are where they are is because of again kachuk and barkov barely participated this year um so it's almost like a cheat of them getting like let's say they they move up to i don't know whatever it is they move up and you get an impact player right away um they one of the the defensemen who theoretically could step in shortly and play in the nhl could could fall to them in that sense and again

it's an embarrassment of riches so to speak but but that's what happens and and sometimes teams get lucky Toronto on the other side obviously I don't know what they hope for today because you know you also don't want to be giving up those two first rounders yeah the following years like that that might be a harder pill to swallow to to be honest so like yeah if you fall just outside and now you give up uh what is it six seven eight ninth overall draft pick or whatever it ended up being

might be better, but that player who's going to come in is potentially a very big impact player here.

So it could end up hurting and then biting a couple of teams where you look and like, you know what, we need to get over the top in this playoff.

And then two years later, oh boy, it looked like a tough trade.

Yeah, I would not be inclined not to look at that again because...

I hope they're back again next year.

So we talk about this again a year from now where we're like, you can get a potential top four pick again.

And then hopefully you can bring them in together.

And again, Chicago did this with Kane and Taves.

so to speak, Anaheim or Pittsburgh did it again back in the 04 when they brought in Fleury and Malkin, Crosby.

No, Crosby and Malkin came a year apart.

But Fleury and Crosby, it's where you're bringing them in together.

I know if you stagger them, the contract situation plays out a little bit differently.

But again...

If you bring in a difference maker right away, maybe this difference maker is going to come in and play on a losing team because he's not going to pull this team into a playoff spot.