Jason Strudwick

I took a long time.

searching it and putting in my votes, I will share that the three guys who got nominated today were among my five guys that I put on my five-man ballot.

But I believe that the Norris was eight players deep this year.

You mentioned Bouchard, definitely Lane Hudson.

Quinn Hughes wasn't nominated today.

Miro Haskinen never gets talked about.

I mean, let's be real, he had another great year.

And Moritz Seider, I think, deserves way more talk than he's gotten for his well-rounded game and what he meant to the Red Wings.

So it was eight deep for me, and it's going to be controversial.

So controversy today because some big names weren't among the three, but wait till all of the voting is revealed, as it will be, once the winner's announced, because there will be people upset about where even the rest of those guys ended up in the rankings.

So Lane Hudson, by the way, we asked him about it today, and

He was really great in the way he described why Dallin deserved to be nominated and what he loves about Dallin's game.

Again, a lot of respect between these two teams and where they are.

Yeah, well, let's start by, I made a few calls today knowing that I was coming on here.

So let's just bring this up to date on where I think the Leafs are under new management.

Number one, my understanding is that new GM John Dunchica is throwing dates back and forth with Austin Matthews and agent John Moldova to get some face-to-face and for him to go down to Arizona and spend time with Austin Matthews and

and get a sense of where things are and obviously from the lease perspective they hope they can

you know, sell their side of things to a point where Austin Matthews is on board with the vision of this offseason and where it's headed.

That's a big if, but that's where that side of the process is.

They want to get together at some point in the near future here.