Jason Bukala

So trade up straight backs so I can enter in the first overall if it's ever been traded or the fifth.

And now here if I would get the return of 25 and 35 and I give up the fifth, what's that look like historically over a 20 year period of time, whatever I choose.

I ran it three or four times today.

The only team that makes sense at all for the Leafs to make a deal with, and they won't do it because they don't have to, is the San Jose Sharks.

So it doesn't even make sense for the Vancouver Canucks.

It doesn't make sense for Toronto to go from one to three and take three and 33.

If you can imagine this, guys, I put it in the article, three and 33 historically since 2007, because I thought that was pretty good, like 18 years worth of data.

That was a good number.

kind of quant there uh over 18 years 3 and 33 has played about 130 more games but scored about 100 less points those two slots historically compared to the number one overall so what's that tell you that yeah you might get some depth in your lineup you might get more man games if you will but you're not going to get the point production or you're not going to get that superiority out of the one slot so i think that they're going to walk up to the microphone

yeah well it is but i would want to know number one plus a ufa you know or what my second body i would have instead of the other guy you know like if you tie another guy to that does it change things so that's that's great that you introduced that so that's why borny in the process in the war room here the way we did it um al tour our director of pro scouting we would have him on the other side of the room and we'd be bouncing things like okay if we did this

Because you got to stay in your lane, right?

You can only go with what you know, which is the amateur draft.

Like, if I start pretending when I got a pro scouting director in the room that I know more than him that there's a UFA on the horizon or whatever, well, I'm not doing my job.

I'm just clouding judgment at that time.

I'm creating noise, unnecessary noise.

So if you just go by what you know, you present it to your GM, and then he says, okay, but...

If we were to do that, we could draft two players.

I see where they fit in our depth chart, and here's how much cap space and money I have to go out and spend this on radish, on defense, for example.

I'm spitballing here, but for my lane, for my lane, when your general manager asks you the question or your president, I start diving into all kinds of equations, and I tell them, listen, yeah, we get some volume here, but I'm not so sure we hit a home run.

Well, I got to go by my body of work and stay true to my beliefs, and that's Stenberg.