Satyar Shah

Yeah, I mean, I've... Like, once the dry saddle McDavid contracts came in, like, it was going to get harder, obviously.

And now, when once we see the McDavid contract, it's like, yeah, this is...

Not like a long-term like show of faith of like, hey, I'm here long-term.

It's a two-year window that they had to figure this out.

So I think it's increasingly getting tougher on top of Bouchard's contract also.

But for them, like the phrase I used in the past was like they've bet more on Stuart Skinner than they have to support Conor McDavid.

And that always seems so bizarre to me.

Like you seldom have these opportunities to have this magnitude of a superstar, right?

I think Holloway's shadow might be faster.

Yeah.

Yeah, you don't win a cup.

Like, it's a big failure for them.

And this is kind of the thing that I bring up all the time as far as, like, the tear-it-down rebuild or just any true rebuild.

Like, the reward is supposed to match the pain that you're meant to go through.

It's not good enough to be kind of close.

If you're one of these teams like Dallas, for instance, and we talked about Dallas, it's like, okay, they haven't actually pushed it over the line, but they've had a lot of conference finals.

They've gone to a cup final as well.

And you kind of look at it.

It's like, okay, they kind of did it in the honorable way.

And they got pretty darn close.