Paul Bissonnette

And I understand it would have been an aggressive move.

But Stevie has to do something come...

deadline or not deadline uh free agency slash draft like something has to change about the dynamic of that roster because if they go in next year and it's kind of like like yan says hoping on these prospects to pop that that could be end up being his demise and i'm going to read you a list now and i want you to tell me and like i don't think i'm being too critical connor mcdavid clearly the

a top first line center.

McKinnon, Dreisaitl, Barkov, Crosby, Eichel, Matthews, Braden Point, Shifley, Suzuki, Hughes, Robert Thomas, Aho, Nico Heischer.

They got Larkin at 15 on that list, but do you have Stutzel ahead of them?

I put them in the same.

Oh, there you go.

Paige Thompson's at 18 on this list.

So depending on who... I might be missing somebody on that list, but as we just read it off, you'd have Larkin now at the 17th best center in the National Hockey League, which, once again, he's a first-line center, but I don't think it would be a bad thing to have help where...

to alleviate that pressure.

You have to essentially have two in the bottom half of that top 32 list in order to make it work.

And Robert Thomas is that.

And he was available.

So why not go get him?

Here's another question for you that I was asked today.

Would you right now, would you trade Mariette Sider for Zach Wierenski with the contract remaining for Wierenski where you would have, I believe, only next year left?

Not knowing that he's going to... He's signed.

I'm what I'm curious about as far as this deadline move in order to get your team over there.

And remember Robert Thomas, wasn't like a slapping lipstick on a pig or a bandaid here.