Pat Brisson

We just want to always prepare our players to make sure if and when they exit.

Because at the college level, sometimes it happens quick on the regionals before they're frozen for.

And within a day or two, I mean, they're signed and gone.

So we didn't know officially till Saturday.

You know, I saw Thursday night at...

Oh, Friday, Thursday night in Vegas after the game, we spoke a little bit and then he flew back and then he met with Matt and then we spoke more furthermore.

So the last month, it was like we really, you know, Tony, we didn't really go too deep into it.

There's always possibilities.

And at that point, we don't want to.

Put too much in the players head unless the players get, you know, 100% leaving or is it a senior year or it's inevitable that it's what's going to happen.

But in this case, we really didn't know till probably till the meeting on Saturday.

100%.

I mean, if you look at how he skates and how his hockey IQ is very high, I think that World Series is actually a good...

a good platform to evaluate players as well versus players.

To your point, Tony, some of them never make it to the NHL.

They were great world junior players.

But the way Michael dominated in certain areas of his game, there's no doubt.

And I'm seeing other players who are now performing in the NHL who were at the world juniors.

And so I'm not concerned at all.

Now, the timing of being in, it all depends where you are in the NHL.