Rick Stephens

So they had to make those two moves to become CAP compliant.

Yeah.

As you said, it just happened hours before the trade deadline.

The trade deadline's in effect from midnight December 20th all the way to December 27th.

The roster freeze, not the trade deadline.

Sorry, the Christmas roster freeze.

Sorry.

Um, and, and so they made that, that move.

Um, Pierre Lebrun said, you know, things heated up in, in the last couple of days.

Um, Kent Hughes said that he reached out to Ken Holland in, um,

in Los Angeles and said, listen, I'm hearing these rumors that, uh, Danone might be available if he is, when he is, uh, give me a call.

That happened.

Um, the Canadians made the, the offer, um, you know, the Canadians, uh,

Preferred not to give up a roster player.

They had an extra second round pick.

Now, I think I think I don't think this will be controversial, debatable.

The Canadians overpaid for Phil Deneau, the Phil Deneau that.

that is coming back, not the Phil Deneau that left the organization five years ago, but the Phil Deneau that's arriving this week.

A second-round pick's pretty steep for him.

From the Canadians' perspective, they had an extra one.