Peter Laviolette

I think, I mean, for me, kind of the icing on the cake for the week was getting that number one pick overall, watching the draft lottery.

It was actually really cool to watch it.

I'm down here in Florida, and I'm out of it a little bit.

I'm not in Toronto.

And so to put that on and watch that and how it happened live and for them to get it, that's a huge pull.

I mean, that's a huge pickup because they do have, you know, their last pick was Austin Matthews, right?

Number one pick overall, wasn't it?

Yeah.

And so they have him, and now they go and they get, you know, potentially another star player like him to come in and probably provide immediate help for their team.

So you pick up a young player that could be with you for years

you know, 10, 15, 18 years, whatever it might be.

And so that's just a huge that's a huge pickup on a busy week for Toronto.

I'm sure any coach who was watching that was jumping through the moon because, you know, he's clearly the consensus coming out of it that I that I'm reading and that I'm seeing.

He's the he's the number one coming out of it.

And that's a big that's a big boost for your lineup.

You get a young, big player like that that can produce.

That's good stuff.

Yeah, I mean, a little bit different than the Montreal-Tampa series, I thought.

But you're right, skilled, fast, moving up and down the ice.

I actually don't think it was as bad as what the score says.