Rick Stephens

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Who would that be?

So, yeah, Kent Hughes, and when we say Kent Hughes, it's Kent Hughes, Jeff Gordon, the whole management team, they have a to-do list.

But they aren't the only ones who can determine the outcome.

There has to be a willing partner on the other side to fulfill their to-do list.

So it's hard to predict who...

What's going to be able to happen?

We've heard Jeff Gorton talk about opportunities and availabilities.

What's going to be available to them?

What's going to fall into their lap?

And those are the things that...

know i think people can can predict but what you can't predict is other gms feeling pressure running into injury situations feeling like they need to make a move because of of what their divisional competitors do so all of those things are going to start to play out over the weekend have an effect on what's available to the montreal canadians

But I think it's safe to say that there are kind of two different categories we can break.

we can look at Kent Hughes' to-do list and we can break it into two different categories.

It's what they're looking to do at the trade deadline.

And there are moves that may not be able to be accomplished just yet, just because of the dynamics of what happens at the trade deadline.

And they may be off-season projects or longer-term projects.