Michael Shapiro

But I think it's sort of like one game at a time.

And in terms of how this first week goes, if they had lost this game, you have a tough one.

Saturday night at Madison Square Garden coming up, it might can spiral.

All of a sudden, they've got an opportunity to be at least 3-1 in the first week, and from there, who knows, right?

Michael, I'll defer to you since you were the guy that asked EMA about potentially starting Reid.

Yeah, I was going to switch gears.

I've got one other topic I wanted to ask you guys about.

There was a quote from Imei yesterday.

I should have mentioned this earlier and got sidetracked because there's so much to discuss coming out of this one.

But did you see the quote from Imei when he was asked about J.D.

Davison or buyout?

Yeah, where he said, yeah, we like J.D., we see him as a part of the future, but there's some guys on the buyout market that are attractive as well.

J.D.

Yeah, and J.D., to be clear, they wouldn't lose him.

It's just he's close to maxing out the days on his two-way contract.

He'd stay in the organization.

They could potentially give him a contract this summer to keep him for future years.

But I'm honestly thinking that...

I don't know the names.

I think some of it's waiting to see exactly who gets bought out because teams have until March 1st to buy out players and for them to be eligible for the playoffs with a new team.