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But it's just such a great...

message to the rest of the league about, hey, what you're able to accomplish.

And also when you're looking at it from the U.S., especially coming off the Olympics, and now you have a Stanley Cup final that's been as good as anything we've seen over the past decade.

This is such a massive win for the NHL.

Yeah.

hockey yeah and now to have these finals so far it's through four games all the goals it's been spectacular and yeah like another dynamic game last night incredible and you know we always often talk about how important it is for any sport for the best player or the best players are close to the best players getting to the final and being on the biggest stage we see it in the NBA all the time usually the best player in the league

for the most part, finds himself in the final.

You see LeBron James so many different times, right?

And you kind of go through the top teams.

That doesn't always happen in hockey.

But you came off back-to-back years where Conor McDavid was in a cup final.

You went to a Game 7.

You had the Four Nations before.

If the NHL doesn't take a leap between now and the next couple years, I'm not sure there's ever going to be a bigger opportunity for that to happen.

Yeah, but you can always say we haven't lost a playoff series since we lost the Cup Final three years ago.

miss this mcdavid window and the the league doesn't take a step like it's a lot riding on like the celebrini window all of a sudden yeah absolutely and one thing that we haven't seen a lot in hockey and we always bemoan the fact that not enough trades happen and this year we saw one of the biggest trades well in back-to-back years we've seen two massive trades miko ranton and then arguably the best defenseman or second best defenseman in the game

one of the best players to play the position, Quinn Hughes got traded.

And now you have the trade list growing by the day, apparently, with Dylan Larkin.

And based on what's happening now with the Edmonton Oilers and the whole Babcock mess, how long before McDavid asks out?

Or you get to a point where he might get traded.