Thomas Drance

The thing about Booyum is I think he reads the game well enough that he doesn't need...

ultimately i don't think he's going to need a one read system i think he needs to not be confused right like the canucks were so confused their defensive habits were so confused i mean i don't know if you know the game better than me so you might not have had this experience but there was times where i'd be trying to break down what happened on a play or a goal and i'd be like oh no one knows what they're doing it's actually hard for me to assign blame i don't i don't know if you know we're on the same page there and um

Yeah, they were so confused about their defensive habits or defensive assignments and their habits were atrocious that I actually found it difficult to parse.

But I think Booyum... I don't think Booyum's going to need...

a one read system to be his best self, just given his sort of on ice awareness.

My, my pick for who'd benefit the most from being airdropped into Carolina among Vancouver's young D would be Volander, especially because I think he's got that mentality to like close hard and defend the way that, you know, your K Andre Miller and Jalen chat fields do.

Like, I think, I think that's in fact instinctive for him.

It's the, it's the reads that I worry about a little bit.

Right.

I think I want him comfortable throwing it off the glass.

Not every time.

Throw it off the glass and skate up.

Use your speed.

Yeah.

Yeah, no, and I mean, I don't think they should necessarily abandon that plan, right?

Because I do think he'd benefit from playing big minutes and getting those power play touches and some of the opportunities that you're starting to get.

Right.

It's the Joel Edmondson rule.

The Joel Edmondson rule is that every year you get a guy like Joel Edmondson acquired by some team for way too much at the trade deadline, and their fans insist that he's exactly the type of player that that team needs.

And invariably facing elimination in a one-goal game, the best scoring chance of the third period in either a tie game or a game that they're trailing by one is going to end up on that defenseman's stick, and you're going to know all day long, unless it's Cody Ceci, that it's not a goal.