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We got Eric A.J. and Rudo coming to you live to talk a little bit of free agency here.

We still are a month away from real free agency.

So up front, a handful of the guys we're going to talk about might not even make it to free agency.

Yep.

There's a very real possibility that some of these guys just get signed by their teams and that is that.

Yeah.

That's the reality of the free agency conversation every year.

But the other part of it is that we don't know which guys are not getting qualifying offers.

So there will be some RFA guys.

The entire qualifying offer market is not part of this conversation. Correct. Because every year there's like 10 guys that don't get QOs that I'm like, the app should go get that guy for a point. Are you for real with that guy? Like, exactly. Like, so that always changes the market. But if we do the show now, then it means that when the QOs don't come out, or when the QOs do go out and the guys don't get them, we get to talk about them.

So, yep.

I wanted to start, well, actually, first of all, before we get into thing, quick 45 second news, Avs invite uh nils walstrom a swedish

goaltender that is currently playing in the nc w a to their development camp cool neat

sick man yeah he just transferred yeah he played a i c and then transferred for merrimack next year

yeah because merrimack guy went to... Shoot, don't know. Somewhere. Some other college. He went to a bigger, like, bigger name, meaning not, not that Merrimack's not a good hockey school. I'm saying more like a big 10 school or like a bigger school. Yeah. Hockey school. Yeah. Yeah. Or Providence?

I don't know.

Well, it's one of those. Anyway. Is he anything? Maybe, maybe not. I'd say the abs end up signing one of these camp invite guys like once every three years or something. We saw it last year with Weinstein. We'll see. He didn't well. I mean, he did well. Ivan eventually got a deal.

That's true.

So he was a,

he's a little different, but yeah.

I took some time with Ivan,

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