Mike Johnson

Lankanen and Demko, no move.

Evander Kane is literally, or Kiefer Sherwood, the guy who has outperformed his contract by more than anyone else on the team.

The one guy you want to keep on that team is the one guy that you would trade as a veteran to get younger.

Oh, I just don't see it coalescing fast enough for that team.

And I think that's a shame because I was holding on to this season.

Verbatim.

Yes.

Oh.

Bring me in next time because you're making a lot of sense.

You're making a ton of sense.

If he's going anyways, get him out of there now.

Get as much as you can now.

Start the rebuild.

And then trading him might also help you massage some of those other no-move situations.

And maybe those guys realizing, hey, we're not going to win right now.

We're retooling.

Maybe we're better off going other places.

Oh, if he's leaving and you're missing the playoffs anyways...

and now you're announcing you're trading to go younger and sort of recalibrate in the middle of trying to push to be good for him to stay there, it's not going to help him stay there.

And if we're being honest, he's probably going to go anyways.