Jesse Pierce

And oh, by the way, you've got an Olympian and Nico Sturm up the middle as well.

I don't know that they're not good enough right now to make a run.

We know how good that group of defensemen is.

When they're healthy and Brodine's going to be back here before too long, that's as good a group of defensemen as you can get in this league.

I just mentioned the centers.

And again, this is a team that's always got those star-studded wings in Kaprizov and Boldy.

I don't know, man.

I feel like they're pretty damn good right now.

But again, I'm not making the call.

That's up to Billy G and his staff.

Yeah, what a tournament he had, right?

I mean, it was really cool to see the impact he had shift by shift kind of mirror what he brings to the wild because every time he's on the ice playing for Minnesota, it feels like they're on the attack.

They're efficiently leaving the zone, and they are in attack mode.

The fact that he was able to bring that same impact on that stage against all those teams, but specifically Team Canada tells me,

We have an extraordinary player, and I think all of us knew he was good, right?

I mean, he's a household name.

He had won a Norris trophy.

He was playing in Vancouver, man, at 930, 10 o'clock at night.

We didn't get to watch him on a regular basis.

And when you watch this kid up close every day, practice game night,