Thomas Drance

You know, and this is sort of the culmination.

I know everyone's going to point their fingers at the U.S.

Olympic team.

But realistically, you know, whether it's Dubois, Debrinket, you know, Kachuk, Kachuk the elder, to give them the English statesman sort of honorific for no reason whatsoever other than I'm sure it would excite them, given that they were at the UFC event.

Yeah, I mean, I think the...

Like, as much as people are going to say that it's about them, it's more the continuation of an overall trend.

And by the way, I don't think it's a continuation of a negative trend.

I think players should be demanding more from organizations.

I think if players are looking around and being like, man...

you know, some of these markets, like some of these teams, Tampa Bay and Florida and Vegas, look how well they're run.

Look how often they have a chance to win.

Yeah.

We want to be part of that.

Like, I think that's fair game.

Sure.

I mean, so to come back to it, though, I think one thing about the Kings, for example, right, is that they arguably, I mean, they very clearly messed up the accelerate out of the accumulation phase of this rebuilding process.

One of the factors for why was man management and the ticking clock on Kopitar and... Dowdy.

Drew Dowdy.

Yeah.

And, you know, I would say that that showed up, too, in some of LA's deployment.