Satiar Shah

I was like, hey, just do weird, fun stuff.

So,

If you're relying on Darren Radish to come in, and I know Shaika talked about he's a great two-way defenseman.

I'm like, well, I'm not so sure on the defensive side of the game.

He's not horrible, but he's not like this.

He's more of an offensive player.

But I saw a lot of the discourse about, well, he's not going to have Nikita Kucherov setting him up.

Well, he is going to have Willie Nylander, Austin Matthews, maybe Gavin McKenna.

If they don't trade Matthew Nyes, maybe Matthew Nyes.

Oh, yeah, even John Tavares is pretty good, right?

So, yes, they're not Kucherov on the power play.

Power play is loaded.

So they have a lot of options.

And that right-hand shot, which he has with an absolute cannon of a shot, I think on the power play it's going to work.

And as much as I'm down on him being a two-way player, you look at the age 30, is this also the reality of the National Hockey League that $8.5 million is no longer...

the sticker shock number that it used to be?

Is it now kind of the new six, five and a half for some defensemen?

Well, it's also this idea that the Leafs are going to rebuild as long as Matthews is there is a complete non-starter.

We even heard Keith Pelley before he hired John Shika talk about how they're probably not going to be tearing it down.

There are a lot of comparisons already to the Canucks offseason last year where they re-upped all their guys and to convince Quinn Hughes to stay and bring your friends back.