Thomas Drance

And I also think, you know, I think there's a lot of examples where even if it's not a good deal.

Do it.

It might be the right thing for you.

100%.

Like, you know, that's the Suter Parise example is the one I keep coming back to.

Yannick, would you recommend to a team based in Canada, considering drafting an American-based player, say in the top 10, as the Canucks may consider, I guess, this week with Chase Reed, the defenseman out of the OHL, but Michigan-born, would you consider that those teams do some extra homework or in any way factor in sort of the quote-unquote American factor into their draft decisions?

No, best player available.

Best player available.

Yeah, like I guarantee you a player is going to pull this at some point in the next 24 months to Montreal.

Well, it feels like a lock that some player is going to like, I mean, it already happened last year with Dobson, but like we're going to at some point see a guy with contractual control because of an NMC NTC and a contract decision coming up.

And it's going to be like, I really wanted to play in Montreal.

Like, I feel like that's coming at some point in the next two years, simply because you're going to have a chance to win there for a long time.

Yannick,

I want to ask you to imagine that our listeners are like a pro scout, an old buddy of yours, maybe a former teammate who works for, let's just say the St.

Louis blues.

And they call you and they say, yeah, based on what you've seen being in Vancouver, should we roll the dice on an Elias Pettersson bounce back?

What would you counsel them to do as we sort of wade into the silly season of sort of the NHL calendar?

Yannick, before...

Coming in today, I was on St.

Louis radio, St.