Kelly McCrimmon

I think when you use the strategy that we're using, you need to make real good decisions.

Otherwise, your organization is going to go backwards, and you're going to be...

in a position where you're at a deficit with draft picks.

So, you know, I don't have the whole list in front of me of the draft picks we've traded away, but for the most part, you know, pretty much exclusively, we've been able to add good value back.

to the organization so I think in terms of our roster makeup in terms of what we want our team to look like I think we're really you know firm on what we think a championship caliber team needs to look like and we work to we work to try to put that make that available for our coaches so that's

Again, no one expected the franchise to be the way that it was in year one.

Once that happened, it changed the calculus for us.

We've been pretty aggressive ever since and have been able to have a lot of good teams.

Yeah, that's a good question, and it's interesting when you acquire players and you might have it in your head where you think the player is going to work the best, and after a few games you realize there might be a better fit.

I think the easy answer for us right now, Jason, he's played a lot of hockey with Noah Hannafin, so there's some baked-in chemistry there in terms of...

uh you know they played a lot of hard minutes in calgary they played together as partners for the better part of uh four years so we know that works uh and if that's uh if that's how it plays out that's uh that's fine too you know shea theodore and braden mcnabb have been long time uh partners jeremy lozon is playing real well there now in uh braden's absence he's out of our lineup with injury but uh you know that'll be up to uh to bruce and uh john stevens who runs our defense but

I'm pretty comfortable that it could work a few different ways, but likely we'll start out with Noah.

Well, he needs, I've seen it firsthand, he needs Scott Niedermeyer, and you dump the puck in, Scott Niedermeyer goes and gets the puck, and Jason Strudwick finds the first four-checker, and that's the end of the four-check.

I watched it.

And for the benefit of your colleagues there, I'm referring, of course, to we played in the league final.

I think it was 1995 against a very, very good Kamloops team.

We both ended up going to the Memorial Cup.

But if I remember right, that was your partner.

Oh, okay.

I'm sorry.