Landon Ferraro

Yeah.

They could have jump-started this a lot quicker this year, last year even, with the amount of young D that Kevin Dean had to deal with before he came here to deal with more young D that he thought he was kind of getting away from.

And yet whose team is it supposed to be?

And again, that's why, like, again, having Blaschel, knowing how he interacts with players, especially younger guys, like, that is why a coach is make or break.

in a lot of these situations like he is the other than the other players in the dressing room he has the most impact on a young player's career right so the people that you're surrounded with teammates and coaching like those are two things that can't be question marks i guess just really quickly what i want what i want to like

around them, ever.

Kind of forget about them, which is crazy to say about original sex.

from creating positive outcomes and making positive moves to build up your team and improve far more rapidly as we've seen like the rebuilds that work they kind of work on a much more expedited timeline than that well and the other thing you know going through this rebuild and looking at the other end of it like things are very different now than they were even a couple years ago like young guys have power in the league now yeah and in their own careers

It's only going to get, from a team standpoint worse, from a player and awesome for them, just going to get more powerful.

So to your point, Drance, you can't have a long lingering rebuild.

Like, okay, Conor Bedard is up for a contract.

As much as they say, give them anything you want, blah, blah, blah.

Maybe he decides I don't want to go back there.

He's got to decide to do the long-term thing, yeah.

Like, not saying he's doing that, but it's only going to get worse as guys have more control over everything.

So, again, to your point, like, you do need to get through it quicker and not rush through it, but the biggest thing is, like, just show that there is steady improvements year to year, not second-last, second-last, second-last.

Like, that...

I mean, the more you say it, it's inexcusable.

It's not excusable.

It's like, it should be a much bigger, like... Whether Bedard's there or not, you take him out of the lineup for the last three years, that team, if you kept them the same, should be able to get to third last.