Mike Johnson

It was a really, really bad miss at the most important position at the worst possible time.

To put all that together, that's a tough one.

He's been hurt for a long time, yeah.

I mean, they could be on the downside of their peak.

I don't know if I'm willing to concede all the way into next year that they're going to be 20th in the league.

I still think they'll be a playoff competitive team.

They have a lot of good forwards from Michael Stone, Marner, Hurdle.

They're all still pretty good players.

But I look at their defensemen, and yeah, I understand that they do have some injuries.

But they have Caden Korczak.

I was saying, who's that guy?

He's playing significant minutes, right?

Jeremy Lauzon.

Rasmus Andersen, as you mentioned, made that huge trade.

He has not fit in as well.

He has really, really struggled.

So, you know, McNabb and Theodore, they've been good, but they're way better when they're your second pair or sometimes your third pair than when they are your first pair.

And then you got Noah Hannafin anchoring the second pair.

They're older.

They signed all these guys to long-term contracts.