Satyar Shah

in the idea of... Carolina is not considered a hockey hotbed, not only.

And number two, it's also not considered a great market for people to live in.

I don't think it's a bad market.

I do think there are nicer parts of Raleigh, Carolina than people do know about.

But it's not considered one of the top destinations.

They have a hard time attracting free agents sometimes.

I know Ehlers signed there and whatnot.

But...

Yeah, so the Carolina model is a bit more replicable in that sense.

Obviously, you still have to hit on your decisions, but what is it about Carolina you think that teams could try to emulate, and perhaps even a team like Vancouver could?

Because data goes beyond just the analytics of the hockey side.

There are more things that you go to evaluate.

And there are other parts of how you do business that you use data to inform your decision-making process and also inform what's successful and what's not successful outside of the simple player production, player evaluations.

And the thing, however...

That to me is chief amongst them is they have a very good idea of what they are, what they want to be.

And they're very strict about players fitting that profile if they go to acquire them.

Now, a lot of it essentially comes down to Corsi Kings.

If you're Corsi King, then they look at it as like a good forward checker or good at keeping the puck in the offensive zone.

There's certain, you know, deficiencies they have because every team does in the salary cap era.

You can't look at a team at being 100% perfect, but they know exactly who they are, what they want to be, and they're very strict in getting players in that fit that mold.