John Shannon

If it's written down and they've agreed to it in the CBA or something else, Lou will agree to it.

If it's something that has been said, wow, we do it anyway, nudge, nudge, wink, wink, Lou will turn and say to you, no, John, if it's not written down, I'm not doing it.

And I, you know, that's a characteristic of a general manager that has the best interests of his team involved as opposed to the best interests of,

the other teams in the league involved.

I think anybody that said, no, I saw this and went to Vegas with it, pardon the pun, went to the sports betting books and bid it, this was shocking to me.

Where was the offense that we watched, even in the Minnesota series, Bob?

You know, this was what really jumped out at me in so many ways.

We've always viewed Colorado as a deep team.

And particularly in the forward position, you know, particularly after the trade deadline of the last two years when Chris McFarland was going out there and finding new bodies, whether it be Brock Nelson or Nazem Khadri.

But with the McCarr injury, they ended up looking rather thin on the blue line.

100%.

And, Bob, you need eight or nine quality NHL defensemen.

And this is, by contrast, look at what the Golden Knights have.

I mean, Dylan Coughlin.

Ben Hutton.

I mean, these guys play seven games a year.

Ben Hutton's been there five years as their organizational 7-8 D-man.

And Ben Hutton might get his name on the Stanley Cup twice.

And that's just smart management.

That's smart depth management.