Rick Stephens

of the fourth period, and they cover the L.A.

Kings extensively, that he says that the Kings spoke with Montreal and there doesn't seem to be a fit, and the Kings have moved on and are looking for other solutions to their issue.

Yes, they did.

Yeah, Andy Scott, Patrick Lina's agent, has been given permission.

And apparently this didn't happen recently.

It's happened some time ago that Andy Scott can talk directly to other teams.

And why would he do that?

Why is that significant?

Well, Andy Scott can talk about what happens after a signing.

After a trade.

After a trade.

Because with Patrick Lina being an unrestricted free agent, some teams may have a question about what his intentions are afterwards, about what his cost would be, about term, all of those kinds of things.

And his agent...

uh, can speak to all of that.

Now, if he's had that permission for some time and the Canadians still haven't been able to, um, put together a trade that doesn't speak well.

Um, and you know, the Canadians have talked about withholding salary.

They've talked about, uh, adding other incentives like, um, picks and whatnot.

Um, this, if, if Montreal, um, and I, I see there's a story out now that, um,

That, you know, it's being suggested that the Canadians would be happy to not trade Patrick Lina at the deadline and just hold him for the rest of the season.

I think maybe that's just...