Jason Bukala

He's an absolute monster.

And it just feels like it's a Boston kind of thing to me.

It feels like this is something that they might do.

Sokolovsky, he really had to earn my trust for full transparency in the back half of the season.

Despite the fact that every time I saw Mark Hunter, he was telling me how good this guy was.

I had to allow that to evolve.

um so skating is really much it's solid he's a solid skater anybody in my opinion anybody who says differently about his skating i don't think they watched enough like his small area don't worry about it he's smooth enough and he gets everywhere where he's got to go but in open ice great like no problem on straight lines and he can close uh moving laterally off the raspberry wall and then his length comes into play too right like going around maxim sokolovsky going to the net he's

is trying to skate a puck through a barbed wire fence.

It's hard to do.

He's all over you.

And then his execution with the puck, it wasn't just boards and glass.

Stick to stick.

I liked a lot about his game in the back half.

And by the way, he got in a few tussles as well and started blowing up guys physically.

I like him.

Here I am.

Maybe I'm talking myself into him at 23 right now.

I don't know.

Yeah, so assuming that the Vancouver Canucks ended up with either, I know you're doing a mock here, but I'm assuming they've either ended up with Caleb Maholcha or Viggo Bjork on Friday night.

That's what goes into my strategy thinking here.