Jason Bukala

Hey, Boox.

You wrote some interesting stuff about Stenberg.

I've been crushing my draft deep dives.

I've got takes, but let's start with Stenberg.

Let's let's open the floor on Ivar Stenberg because the profile is insane.

We both wrote him up this week.

He's your number one.

I still can't get there over McKenna, but I think this is a very, very special player.

What are you seeing?

We're going to throw some pet theories at you afterwards, so they would only be polite.

I think that's reasonable.

I think the reason I can't... Like, I'm a huge Stenberg fan.

The smoothness that he moves with, which is, I think, what you're alluding to, right, is really impressive.

The difference for me is Stenberg plays through contact expertly.

And whereas McKenna...

plays around it but like kind of through it like he kind of jukes into weird space and then passes out and just moves laterally in a way that I feel like I can't come up with a comparable for and when something to me feels novel I value it I'm like okay I can't even think of a guy I've seen who moves like this

that to me feels special.

So when I combine that with the historic WHL track record versus Stenberg's exceptional, but, you know, we've seen Adrian Kempe and Leo Carlson and those types of guys perform that way at 16 and 17 in the Swedish system.

To me, that's sort of where I just give precedence to the novel, rarer profile of McKenna versus the stupendous profile of Stenberg, even though I rate both extraordinarily highly.

So I would say Bjork, and that's where I want to take this conversation because I...