Thomas Drance

Louis sports talk radio, where the hosts were asking me about Elias Pettersson.

And one of the hosts really had a fixation.

And you said he was great, right?

No, you know, I walked through the whole story.

Like I was like, man, we've really been through chapters and chapters of story with this franchise and with this player in particular.

And he brought up a comp that I hadn't really thought of, Yannick, but I'm curious to run by you.

And granted, this is blues-colored glasses on this particular host's face, but he brought up the Ryan O'Reilly comp and said, basically, Pedersen's played the game like he...

like, like he looks miserable playing.

And that's similar to the Ryan O'Reilly experience in Buffalo, where obviously ran into legal problems.

He's he's later said that he considered retirement.

And we all know that Ryan O'Reilly as a player has almost no relationship over the course of his 15 year career to the two years that we saw him play in Buffalo.

It's like, it's like a totally different chapter or story or, or part of his career.

I hadn't really considered that and actually thought it was pretty interesting.

I'm curious to get your reaction to that.

With regards to

PD but also the wider context of what this team's looking at across the next week and you know we're only eight days out from July 1st Yannick like we would hope that this team this roster this lineup this team's collection of assets looks very different you know eight days from now than it does right now at the moment but I'm curious to get

what's on the top of your mind in terms of what you'd love to see, like the perfect off season from Yannick Hansen's perspective looks like what?

Yeah, Bluger's also a classic Yannick where it's like,

I don't want to see him playing third line minutes in Vancouver.

I want to see him playing third line minutes.