Satyar Shah

Now, I did see that on social media as well.

And as we were mentioning, the Leafs have met with McKenna,

It was in Whitehorse last week as well.

So it's not one of those things where you should be overly concerned or think, oh, the Toronto Maple Leafs don't want Gavin McKenna.

But it's one of those things we can have some fun with and joke around about.

But Jesse in Whitehorse confirms Gavin McKenna was meeting with the Leafs in Whitehorse last week, which is, of course, where Gavin McKenna is from.

I mean, if anybody does unnecessary drama, it's Toronto, right?

Jamie and Chilliwack.

In the long run, Florida got both Barkov and Seth Jones.

Absolutely.

They did.

They did.

So it worked out for them in that way and they did win another Stanley Cup with Seth Jones in the fold as well.

Now, I want to tie this in because one thing that's been talked about quite a bit is the...

the Vegas model or the Carolina Hurricanes model in terms of how to win the Stanley Cup.

I know on the 32 Thoughts podcast today, Elliot Friedman kind of mentioned, he wonders with the success Vegas is having and Carolina is having, are teams going to emulate these teams?

I don't think there's any way you can earnestly or realistically emulate Vegas because of how the expansion draft unfolded, how they're a destination that people want to go to in Vegas in and of itself.

So unless you are Vegas, unless you were an expansion franchise that had the opportunities they had to build their franchise in the first place, it's not really something you can point to and say, this is replicable.

Especially unless you have like a top five destination, then you can say, well, if you're a top five destination, here's what you can kind of do if you're like Vegas.

But for most teams, the Carolina one would be the one that's probably more attainable