Jason Bukala

If they are convinced, though, that he's their top prospect at three, do you then strategize it this way?

Go to BU for a year, okay?

Go get even bigger, stronger, do the things you got to do at the college level for a year.

And then with the new rule that's coming in, do you come and you go to the American League for a year after that before you're completely ready, depending on where we are with the composition of our group and all that kind of stuff?

and that gives the coach time to settle in with the group.

The new tone is set within the group, et cetera, et cetera.

Now you have a development plan, right?

The plan looks differently that way.

What I'm trying to say right now is that I believe that Cale Malhotra is going to challenge for an NHL job if he decides not to go to school.

I actually believe that.

Coming out of training camp next year, he's going to do what it takes to prepare.

But if they're all on the same page with that other development plan –

including the athlete himself, then maybe that's another discussion.

You have to, you have to go through all the layers, right?

I think I don't, I don't disagree.

I'm just trying to present to you guys a yin to the yang really in the process.

And here's, here's the other thing.

Like, so he's going to go, he would go to development camp no matter what.

So assume he goes to BU and you're right, Jay, he comes out at the end of the year next year.

But what we've avoided is that collision course in Manny Malhotra's very first NHL training camp as a head coach, where the two of them are in the same building at the same time.