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But today, the athletic, who we owe a lot of our programming to, salute, published their annual NHL front office confidence rankings. Now, they put this out every year and they ask NHL fans to vote.

And you can, I participated in this last week.

Yeah.

What you can do is you can either vote for the whole league or just your team specifically.

So they have two different metrics here.

There's the public metric.

And there's the fan base metric. So overall, out of 32

teams, the Blackhawks finished 25th in the front office confidence rankings. Down from 12th.

Down from 12th. So the categories here, we're kind of go category by category and discuss them.

Roster building, cat management, draft and develop, trading for agency, vision, and then a total

score.

So the first category they talk about is roster building.

The public gives it a D.

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