I'm Ryan Lambert from Elite Prospects and, well, look, folks, I'm just going to tell it to you straight.

Sean's on vacation this week.

I can't get a hold of this guy.

And because of that and because of some weird scheduling stuff that happened,

I have Rachel Dory later in the show to talk about some trade stuff that you might have heard about in the last little while here since we recorded the last episode.

We'll break down all the,

all the,

you know,

all the teams and that kind of thing.

After the deadline and where we think everything stands.

But right now,

there's just two kind of pieces of news that,

uh,

that I'm going to get to first and give you my thoughts on all that sort of thing.

One is, uh, the Nathan McKinnon, what do you want to call it?

Like, milestone, he reached a thousand points.

I saw the stat where he's the first player from his class to reach a, his draft class,

to reach a thousand points, and the next closest guy is like under 800.

This is a ridiculously good player.

He's so sick.

And I got to tell you, watching that game last night,

half, I'll be honest, half watching that game last night,

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