Jason Strudwick

You can't control if your three best players get injured.

Yes, exactly.

They're out.

But you can control the decisions you make in the offseason and the trade deadline to keep your team competitive.

But there's that $10 million so he can find them more.

So let's say you have a year where you have a team and you have all these injuries and you go to the bottom.

Okay.

But if you're actively trying to tank, it looks like there's a mechanism where he can find up to $10 million, which isn't a lot.

Or take draft picks.

I think you take draft picks away.

That gets the attention.

That gets your attention.

I want to see that player play.

That's why I pay the money to come watch those guys play, right?

Well, it depends if DuPont plays because Landon DuPont didn't play last night.

He's a really good player, fun to watch, and not draft eligible for a little bit yet.

Well, watch last night's game just like everyone else does, and we'll see how that plays out.

It affects us in that if it's a five-game series, our next series, the final, will start on the 2nd of June.

If it's 6 or 7, it starts on the 4th of June.

So you are piecing together the logistics under each scenario, and yet you can't really do much in terms of your prep, your preparation.