Rick Stephens

So I think there's

a recognition around the league that we're heading in the right direction.

We understand that we have to keep moving.

We got to keep moving the ball forward to get where we want to be.

Well, I mean, we have, right.

Like we traded a second round pick for Phil to know, um,

If there was another deal that required that type of return that we thought moved the needle for us, we would have done that too.

But I think part of the message to the group is we like these players.

We've got a lot of good hockey players.

We've got good hockey players that aren't playing games right now for our team.

So for us to add to that logjam, we wanted to know that it really was meaningful enough for us to do it.

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