Thomas Drance

but being aligned and working together, that's not one of them, right?

Like that's the one thing that I'm most confident that these guys are going to have ready to go when the season begins or as they move forward here.

You know, it's that, that like, that might be the strength to lean into, but yeah, the sort of short selling, like for me, that's the opportunity of this.

There's a,

And I guess the only thing I'd add is that opportunity would be significantly enhanced if you were going to carry yourself like a big market team during a rebuild.

Like if you were going to spend into the skid, then I think those opportunities would be exponentially greater during an era of cap growth.

I think if you're...

going to batten down the hatches and pull out the old Bill Armstrong, like Coyotes rebuild playbook.

Like it's still possible.

It's still possible to do what the, you know, what the Coyotes laundromat approach and accumulate a ton of talent.

But man, is it going to go a lot faster if you're carrying yourself more like the Montreal Canadians?

Yeah, England as well.

I mean, you know, my...

Grandmother was from Lincoln.

Lincoln, Nebraska?

Oh, yeah.

Cool Huskers.

Lincoln, sure.

And her dad, so my great-grandfather, who I never met, was like a...

very high level player, you know, bat back like a hundred years ago, like for a club team that like might've become Lincoln FC with the weird dwarf.