Justin Williams

Well, 12-1.

It's been just an incredible run.

How do you put that into perspective, Willie?

How well your team has played?

Because it's been borderline perfect hockey all the way up to a cup final.

Yeah, that works.

Yeah, that's understandable with Justin Williams.

And, you know, obviously what we're referencing is the idea that Carolina and the Leafs were talking trade last year and Marner, you know, declined to waive his no move.

But you, you know, being the special assistant to the GM, we were talking about this last hour, Willie, how crazy it turned out last year, like acquiring Rantanen and then flipping him to

And now you look at Stankov and, like, you guys are in a cup final for a lot of reasons, but he's a primary one.

He's been phenomenal for you.

Like, take us back to that trade.

You know, after you're quite ranting and after you kind of sniffed out this isn't going to work, he's not going to sign, and you call up Dallas, and now you're in the position you're in with Stankov and with picks.

You know, like, how kind of bizarre was that situation and how beneficial maybe in the end was it for Carolina?

Exactly.

Exactly.

Well, you know, you've referenced your LA Kings run in 2012 and applied it to Carolina in a way.

Do you see an application to Vegas where Daryl Sutter comes in, changes everything for the Kings?

Do you see John Tortorella playing that role for Vegas?

Something like that, yeah.