Thomas Drance

then Kulak.

You know, like, so they continually are getting paid while also upgrading their roster.

Like,

There's a bunch of stuff that you can do when you're on the clock.

You get to speculate in fringe NHLers.

You get top waiver priority.

You get to run guys through and give them more opportunity than they'd ever get elsewhere.

You should have more cap space.

You're not on the clock, and that's such a competitive advantage that you should be, whether or not the cap is like...

flat and crushing good teams or not that should be powerful enough that like an efficient organization that's good at evaluating talent in combination with picking at the top of the draft order and getting access to the generational guys that really matter and dictate outcomes in this league like you should be able to rise up the standings in two to three years like you should at least be one of those teams where we know what it looks like

when you get sick again.

We'll have a sense of what it's going to look like, which is like a distinction between San Jose, who's going to miss the playoffs, but we know what it's going to look like when they're nasty, and Detroit, where I still don't think we know.

Anyway, that Chicago model stands out to me, and this is something I've been thinking about a lot.

The Canucks aren't on the clock, and that's their edge if they're willing to use it.

In terms of Chicago, though, you can't be wasting an entire ELC on a guy of that caliber.

You just can't.

It's tough.

I don't think that one is bad.

And the organization, the Canucks themselves don't understand this.

Foligno was bad because he didn't become an asset.