Jason Brough

Those are two very tough...

wildcard matchups for sure Boston or Ottawa very tough especially Boston given that they've got some of the guys still from the old regime that have been to the playoffs and have won and then Ottawa just because they play really good tight defensive hockey it'll be a tough series speaking of teams that we're going to want to keep an eye on in the offseason Chicago because I realized that the it's not a great list of pending unrestricted free agents but

I've been monitoring.

I've got my monitors on that one.

We're monitoring that one.

I want to play the Philly thing before we go to break, but I want to touch on this for a second.

The Conor Bedard thing.

In a hypothetical sense, purely, purely hypothetical,

If he wanted to play in Vancouver, I would be willing to stand down from that stance where you don't want anyone else.

Like, you know, when you're doing a rebuild and you're not trying to target certain players in certain age ranges and you're not trying to get draft picks from other teams, you're trying to get your own and you're not trying to move out draft capital fast track.

I would get rid of all of that theory and logic and all of that, you know, language.

I would make a... I would go ahead...

over the top to try and get bedard if i was the vancouver canucks because i think that that's not it's not that much of a hot take no but it would be it would be counterintuitive to everything that i've said so far everything that i've said so far like being patient and being patient still a young guy though yeah i know but you like you wouldn't get the three years of entry level with him you'd probably have to fast track to a big contract you'd have to pay to get him sure

He fits the window of the rebuild.

If I was to go out there and say, you should go get him, everyone would be like, well, you're the one that's saying, don't go out and try and expedite the process.

No, but it does.

But it doesn't.

You could also do it your own way.

Right.

Because you are going to have to pay a premium to get them.