Mike Halford

He specifically targeted JT Miller and brought him in and made him the captain.

And I don't think you can conclude anything else except that decision has been a disaster.

Do you think Panarin would have signed a two-year extension with the Rangers?

I think he would have stayed.

Because I know he got a longer-term offer, or at least it was reported, by the Kraken, and he was like, mm-mm.

But then he signed in L.A.

And I think weren't weren't most of us kind of surprised.

It was like only a two year extension.

We're just like, and this is why this offseason is going to be massive.

I remember last offseason, it was like,

Everyone's got cap space now.

There's freedom to make moves.

And what a lot of us, including the Canucks, didn't expect was like, yeah, with the extra cap space, the teams are just going to keep all their players and there's going to be no trades and no free agents and no players available.

I think so.

And that's what we want.

And that's what we want.

We want some recklessness.

And let's face it, in Vancouver, there's one player that we hope other teams will talk themselves into because they're desperate, and that is Elias Pettersson.

It is.

How many times when we bring up these teams, whether it's Seattle or Detroit, people will text in, can we interest you in a formerly great player who's locked up long-term?