Thomas Drance

Anywhere.

I think you don't want to go outside of nine because then you really are leaving an elite tier.

I think provided that you're confident you can get Rudolph, Smiths,

Bjork you know like one of those top nine guys well in Calgary at six I mean you'd still be talking about like potentially Carl's or potentially Verhoff at that spot you know but but I mean I think you can go to all the way down to Rudolph and and feel like there's a real shot that you've drafted the best defenseman in this class I think you can go down to Bjork and feel pretty confident that there's a chance that you've drafted the best defenseman

forward in this class maybe not but he's got a chance it's not the cleanest bet maybe but it's pretty close like it's it's close enough that you're splitting hairs as opposed to dropping down a tier what I what I think you don't want to do is drop below nine where you like really don't get a really clean then you're in like Tyne and Lawrence where there's just like a few more question marks profile wise for me yeah six and seven is probably like Calgary and Seattle they both have the later yeah that's that's the target

That would be cool.

I would love it.

So in honor of Reese Jessup, newly freshly minted Stanley Cup winner.

Reese, when I was working at Canucks Army, and I sort of had started working at the score, so I was out of the day-to-day.

I needed someone to manage the site day-to-day, and that's when we sort of promoted Reese.

And Reese one day wrote an article that was the most read article in the history of the site.

It got like 50,000 page views across the first day.

And the genesis of the article was, what if you compared how every NHL team in the league would have drafted if their general manager was a potato?

And this was obviously a tongue-in-cheek allusion to a model that Reese ended up building and developing in concert with Josh Weisbach and Cam Lawrence, which was ultimately bought by the Florida Panthers.

2014.

But I feel like it was... I think this was a very key article that helped topple Mike Gillis.

So the idea was that what they did was they sort of went backwards and

And looked at how every NHL team would have drafted.

If all they'd known, because their potato general manager hired a intern named Sham Sharon.

Mm-hmm.