Keaton Verhoff

Don't put it on the Americans, all right?

I said it during, when did I go on Merle's The Game Notes?

That was the trade deadline show.

But the thing with Brady, I think he handled it the right way.

He didn't come out and say he wanted to get traded.

It was kind of let it be thought by other people.

Other people brought up the conversations.

I think I didn't like the way that Ottawa treated him after the Olympics when he got back.

Yeah, the fans, the ceremony that they gave them.

You look at some of the other ceremonies that guys got when they come back after the video messages and everything.

I thought the one in Ottawa they did for him and Jake Sanderson was not where it should have been for your captain and your best defenseman that just accomplished a lifetime achievement.

Yeah.

But I also think that Brady handled it all the right way.

He was the captain of that team.

He never came on and said, I need to be out of here or whatever.

It just kind of happened organically.

And at the end of the day, it obviously looks like

Maybe it was set up because his brother's there and stuff.

But I think it was one of those things that Florida knew that he maybe wasn't happy there.

And they went out and tried to get him.