Ryan Whitney

On the flip side, I respect Alex Tuck and his abilities as a player.

There isn't a lot of great free agents.

Do you see him getting in the 11 range?

So what, Kemp, you got 11 or 10?

You got 10-6 or something like that.

But still, if he's looking for a little bit more of a bump, let's just assume the number's 11.

Is that a four or five-year deal?

Is that an eight-year deal?

What does that look like?

And does he feel like he could be part of the solution in Buffalo, which going back to what you said about Kekalainen's comments, like in last pod, I mentioned like, fuck, it's kind of ugly if it continues the way it's been going.

you know, maybe trade off some of these guys.

I'm totally fine with them keeping some of the core that they have there.

I would keep Tuck.

I would keep Darlene, although I want him in Toronto.

Tage Thompson, who's on a ridiculous contract for the next how many ever years.

Doan, like they have, I don't mind that Benson kid.

They probably have about six, seven guys

maybe stretch it to eight pieces that I think are a good solid foundation to create that core and build around.

But we've been sitting here talking about that for a long time.

So at what point is there a type of major change?