Rick Stephens

And the other name that's been talked about a lot is Nazem Khadri from Calgary, although with three seasons left, his age, $7 million, there's less enthusiasm about him joining the Canadiens.

Canadians need a right-shot defenseman, need a right-shot physical defenseman.

That's a big need.

But that's difficult.

Those players are coveted.

Those players are expensive.

That would be a very difficult trade for Kent Hughes.

And as such, we've seen...

the carousel, uh, for the, the sixth defenseman, uh, first it's Jack, I, then it's Struble and Struble.

Then it's Jack.

I, the ice time is, is, um, is minimal at best.

Um, we, we've seen, um, Caden Gooley playing on his offside, uh, you know, and, and the hopes that David Reinbacher would somehow, uh, join the team this, this, uh, season have, have really faded given, uh, his additional injuries this season.

Um,

Adam Engstrom has proven that he's a left-shot defenseman but can play on the right side, but I don't think he's ready at this point, despite having a terrific season in the AHL.

So I think there's some hope there.

How tenuous it is by Canadians fans that they can go out and get a player like we see at the Olympics at Colton Parako, St.

Louis selling off their assets.

But now we're talking about, you know, hope rather than rather than speculation.

Definitely.

So we didn't go through and evaluate the players, the assets that would be going back the other way, all of those, and whether it would be good for the immediate needs or for the future.