Rick Stevens

It could even be to meet off.

How quickly are they going to reach their potential?

How quickly are they going to reach their ceiling?

And do we even know what their ceiling is?

Because he said, look, I watched Lane Hudson.

And because I was watching my son, I saw a whole lot of Lane Hudson.

I knew it was going to be good, but I didn't know he was going to be that good that fast.

So with all of these players that I've seen less than I've seen Lane Hudson, how can I predict how quickly they're going to adapt to the pro game, how quickly they're going to adapt to the NHL game, North American game, how quickly that they are going to...

meld with the group um and and reach their potential and and i don't even know what their potential is in the first place um so i i thought that was and and then uh making sure that um they they keep that flexibility to react uh depending on on how these this future talent works out

Very optimistic.

And I think fans are very optimistic too.

But you want to hear what Hughes said, that it's going to get tougher.

They aren't there yet.

They aren't anywhere close yet.

But it should revel in the success that we have and they need to keep the management needs to keep working.

And these these next few weeks until the Olympic break with these players coming back from from injury and injury.

Kent Hughes was asked about what's going to happen when all these players come back.

And he said, I don't know, but it's a good problem to have if we have to juggle some cap room and that sort of thing.

And he also said this season, just when somebody comes back, somebody else goes out.

So he wasn't going to try to predict anything.