Jeff Gorton

And, you know, unfortunately able to sign them and keep them around for a while, but

but he's pretty consistent what he does under the radar guy i think too

Yeah, I think it's like you said, it's the Tom Wilson type of player that the teams don't have.

So you have a weapon that this guy's going to go up and down and he's going to come out and the other defenders are like, this guy's coming, he's coming, he's going to keep coming.

It's annoying.

And he plays more, right?

In the playoffs, Marty's going to him all the time.

Sometimes every other shift, he put him up there with Susie's line for a little while.

And it's just, you know, it just keeps coming and coming and coming, and he's never going to stop.

So your 82 games is tough to do that.

But the playoffs, his history of his career in the playoffs has been very, very good.

So he's a weapon, and I think Marty's using him really well right now.

He's a huge part of where we're at.

Yeah, I think it's a good question.

I think the biggest thing for us was to move forward.

And it's, you know, to keep taking first-round picks that maybe aren't going to be there for three or four years and tell our team that we wanted to take another step.

You know, those are hard things to do.

So what we wanted to do was find somebody that Noah's age that was a core-type player that fit in, that could be an impact right away.

So, you know, obviously we're not going to hum, you know, two first-round picks out the window for –

you know something less an older player something like that but but somebody that could fit in and and help us right away and our core could see all right these guys they want to move this thing forward they're not just drafting first round picks for the rest of our lives they want to move this thing forward too so that was a big part of it and i think as we go forward you know we'll always look for those type of things that just keep you know keep adding trying not to get 35 year old players but but people that you know fit in with our core and no one's done that