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But, like, yeah, this is essentially the week.

And if it's unnerving, well, look, finishing 32nd, as much as we can talk about, it's beneficial for the long-term health of the franchise.

Finishing 32nd wears on people.

And finishing 32nd is meant to come with ramifications.

Finishing 32nd by a distance in a season when you spent a lot of money

You went into the summer and you committed, as I've mentioned many times, over $300 million of future money.

Not even just this upcoming season.

You committed $300 million of future money.

You don't do that if you're a rebuilding team.

You go look at those Chicago Blackhawks team, the San Jose teams, all the recent bad teams.

All the deals are basically two-year, three-year deals and they're out.

It's just like run these guys down.

We'll build the next core.

They committed to an idea of, this is the group we're going to try to do it with.

And they obviously did it further back, if you want to go back to when they signed Elias Pedersen, signing JT Miller.

Like, this is the group they wanted to do it with, and it did not work.

So, yes, there's a cherry on top, the fact that they get to potentially have the best lottery odds and potentially first overall.

But this is like an unmitigated failure and it starts with all of their decisions.

And so if you're going to make decisions on job security, like this is these next eight days are if you're one of the people in Rogers Arena working there, like

Yeah, it would be a nervous week.