Kevin Woodley

There's also something to be said though,

for having a little faith and trust in what's going on behind you when you're a young team trying to learn how to survive in the NHL.

It's not like you want them to feel like, oh, man, like, ooh, yeah, no problem.

I can make mistakes all over the place because the goalie's going to bail me out.

But you don't want young defensemen out there thinking, man, any mistake and it ends up in the back of my net.

Like, there's a positive for a rebuilding team to having goaltending

that they trust in.

Right.

And, and a little bit of confidence that they can go out there and play a little freer, not play tight.

Still, obviously structure.

We heard Manny talk about structure.

That's, it's funny how that was a bugaboo for the organization right up until last year.

Um, and we didn't, we didn't hear from, from the outgoing, outgoing upper management about structure last year at all.

Um,

You know, so I see it both ways.

Is it ideal to have 13?

I don't think the salary cap, it's not ideal, but I don't think the salary cap really matters to this team right now.

They probably don't mind spending a little extra to help them make sure they get to the floor.

So to me, it's more about the potential to sort of wreck your chances of finishing in the bottom three, but also the caveat that, like,

It's important for building culture, and, like, you can't just go out there and, like, put me in net and lose every game.