Jesse Pierce

And from that point on, to me, he's been a completely different player.

And the neat argument right now for all of us as Wild fans, forever, in the last five or six years, every conversation was Kirill Kaprizov is the best player on the Minnesota Wild.

Open and shut, mic drop, it's over.

Now you get Quinn Hughes, and oh, maybe Quinn Hughes is the best player, and you can make the case.

I will tell you right now, if I'm picking the best player, even the MVP so far of this season on the Minnesota Wild, it ain't Kaprizov, it ain't Quinn Hughes, it's Matt Boldy.

He might be their best player, and that really says something to me because I couldn't have said that a year ago.

I think if you're going to make a run at a cup in this league, you can't be a one-man band.

You can't have one line that tries to carry the offense.

Teams are too good with the video work now.

They're prepared.

They can shut down basically one line anywhere.

You've seen it now with the depth that the Panthers certainly have.

Before them, it was the Tampa Bay Lightning.

Even the last two cups, seeing the Oilers survive in the West, when they were able to split up McDavid and Dreisaitl, how tough it was for teams to defend them.

When you get to the PowerPoint different circumstance, you're going to load them up and you're going to have a lot of fun doing that.

But you've got to have multiple lines, multiple players that can take over for stretches of games in those series.

And for Minnesota right now to have not only those three superstars, but you can certainly argue that maybe their most impactful player on a nightly basis is

Because of everything he does as Jewel Erickson, you've got so many different layers of talent on this hockey team.

So I think Bill Guerin is going to sit back.

He's going to let the dust settle and the emotions settle from this incredible run with Team USA.