Josh Elliott-Wolfe

Actions speak louder than words.

And all the sweet nothings being whispered into our ears are just that.

Nothing.

Feeling more and more like old times.

I think the thing about...

We can talk about Elias Pettersson and Jake Dabrowski, and it's like, hey, you might want to get ahead of that before those assets lose value.

I feel like Hronik, to your point, is in a different category, where if you hold on to Philip Hronik for this year because you are worried about insulating Zee Booyum and you want the leadership there, you want someone who can play actual top pair minutes to be your veteran leader...

He's still going to have value next season.

Probably the same value he has at this moment.

Yeah.

And that's why I'm not for him.

I get that people want to see like, hey, this is your big asset.

This is the thing you can move.

But the benefit would be, hey, you get the year.

I don't think the value is going away.

And also, I kind of think there's a value to sequencing this.

Like, I think if you get first-round picks next year and the year after, as opposed to trying to get as many this year, that's a better way to go about rebuilding than just being like, hey, we're all in on the 2026 draft class.

To be fair, they do talk a lot about his practice habits and him leading the way in practice.

And hey, maybe you can make the argument that

They finished 32nd.