Justin Williams

Obviously not playing the game.

hurts a little bit but he is himself and our owner Tom they've learned so much over the years that they've been here and the good thing with them is they take advice not like no this is the numbers this is what it is it's oh okay well let's see how we can figure this out or you don't think this is right why do you not think this number is right and he's smart enough to he can change his algorithms and his you know the things that he builds right and

And you can be like, all right, well, how about this?

Is this more accurate?

Would this be a good opportunity to shoot?

How many times do you think you'd score from this area?

And he's been really good with obviously the management side of it and then becoming the GM.

He's done a phenomenal job with us.

And you can see by the players that he's been able to bring in and be responsible for.

but you want it to fit within the structure of your own team right you just you just want it to fit okay you want to slot guys and that's kind of what it's getting harder and harder to do now with the cap going so far up but you just want to slot guys okay this guy's here then this guy should be here and then you just kind of trickle it down right and when you say when you sign guys like stankoven and blake to these extensions obviously you're you're taking a risk too but but

players like it because they feel like you believe in them and and you know they're like okay I mean these guys really believe in me and they they want me to um you know the player for a long time they see me as a big part of this team and and it's kind of it's kind of like a loyalty thing you're like all right you believe in me I'm gonna go I'm doing it for you guys and I kind of had that attitude when I was playing too like give me the longer give me the longer term

So I know where I'm playing.

I know I'm going to be part of a team.

I know where my role is as opposed to, you know, maybe trying to just, you know, squeak out a couple more mil and, and, you know, have to potentially move around, maybe go to a coach that you're not quite sure of.

And I don't know, there's a lot of things that, that, that go the other way, but certainly those contracts look great for the team right now, but you know, those guys aren't, they're not, they're not going to be begging for pennies inside of the street either.

d man right at that yeah he was he was he would well it was like eight then maybe it wasn't astronomical and he wasn't the highest paid d in the league but is that is that is that stat still there with the 10 million dollars and no one winning this no because bob bob proved that wrong but he was 10 yeah he was 10 was anything i think ike was too was ikel

No, the salary cap was 39 million.

With 24% rollback.

Yeah.

You remember those days?