Jason Bukala

One and a half in seven years, you have meaningful impact guys currently within the organization that are contributing to the next great Canucks team.

One and a half.

And I'd be like, I think you probably get another guy.

You probably get two, but you probably get another guy from that Kutz, Pettersson, Volander, Milja.

Plus, I feel pretty good about Booyah.

Yeah.

The problem that the organization is going to face with Booyah now, though, is six-foot lefty.

Six-foot lefty non-hitter.

And as we've seen, and as I've discussed ad nauseum with Matt Greslick and Sam Gerrard, if you are six feet tall, non-physical, a defenseman, and you're not a power play one guy, and you're a left shot, and you're a left shot, you have zero path to value, right?

Just none.

Like, none.

You have to pay to get off of a totally reasonable Sam Gerrard contract.

He's like a completely credible top four defenseman, making $5 million for one more year.

They had to pay a second to get off of him.

No one else would take him.

You cannot permit the best prospect in the organization, the highest pedigree guy in this organization, the 20-year-old, to be on a development path in which his absolute ceiling case... Is Sam Gerrard.

...provides no path to value.

Like, that can't be... He must play power play one.

How does he play power play one if you've got Filip Hronik, given the way that Filip Hronik looked...

down the stretch of the, of last season.