Mark Messier

I think it was when they...

decided to move on from some of the players like Kreider and that last year's team broke apart.

And for whatever reason, I'm not going to speculate.

I think... I don't think they broke the team up.

I think they broke the team up because they...

probably weren't sure that they could get over the top with the players that they had at the time.

And I think that's a different conversation.

Sure.

And that's a philosophical conversation when you get into, you know, management coaches and the decisions that they have to make in order, because their responsibility is to win.

And when they're in that position, they have to make hard decisions.

And,

And I don't envy them having to make those decisions because sometimes you've got to make moves that are unpopular that you think are the best thing for the organization.

And only time will tell what those decisions are.

Yeah, somewhere in the halfway mark right now, yeah.

Well, I think to be comfortably in the playoffs, you're going to have to get yourself 10 or 12 games over 500.

Okay.

And you look at the Eastern Conference, every team in the Eastern Conference has a winning record.

If everybody's winning, who's losing?

And then you look on the West side, I think there's four or five teams that maybe have losing records.

But everybody in the league, 85% of the league has winning records.