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I'm Ryan Lambert from Elite Prospects.

I'm Sean McNew from The Athletic.

And I'll say this right off the bat here. It's like they knew the people in the hockey world knew that we had to record a podcast today.

And they said, we need to get these guys some content. We need to make this happen.

You need to drop some suit boys.

And well, they did it. They came together. They supported us. They lifted us up when we needed it most.

And Brandon Hagel, eight years, 6.5 million per.

Very exciting.

Oh yeah. Oh, when you're like, now, do I think that guy's a first or second liner in Tampa and getting 6.5 million bucks?

That's what it's all about on this podcast.

Sitting here thinking, do I know how Brandon Hagel did last year? And he was really good.

I do know, and the answer is he was good.

What was your initial reaction to this beautiful contract?

My initial reaction was a degree of surprise, but maybe it shouldn't be surprised.

Just the fact that it's an eight year deal again, that this lightning team has very clearly just abandoned any sense of really long term thinking.

And it's just saying we have a championship caliber team.

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