Welcome in episode 786 of After the Whistle.

A few things we'll talk about today.

What's next on Yarmal Kekalinen's agenda now that the offseason has started

because I think now teams are able to trade with teams that are not in the playoffs.

Now granted, like there's only four teams still going.

So a lot of potential trade partners there

if he wants to get something done early.

Some contracts he might need to sign.

We don't need to dive too far into them

because we've had a couple really good discussions

and had some really good feedback about the Brian Gianta

conversation and the deep dive into the mindset of an

unrestricted free agent.

So if you haven't heard that and you're just tuning into this episode, I'd go back and

listen to that, just Geo's insight from when he became a UFA and deciding to leave New Jersey

from Montreal, having other offers and finding what was the best fit for him.

So it was a great discussion, great to have him back on.

Obviously, the other playoff series going on, Carolina takes a 2-1 lead last night,

and Las Vegas, 3-0 over Colorado.

So we'll get into those.

But so NHL rumor report, Dave Pagnata tweeted something, I guess, four days ago. Alex Tuck and the Sabres, it's just been a lot of back and forth and nobody's nailed the number. The number is probably going to be anywhere from 10, 5 to 11 million. Think Tuck's agents, uh, feeding information, PD? No, I don't think Tucks because because trust me i've been trying to get fucking information from barlet for months guy gives me nothing someone else uh tweeted something saying that like i i because we came up with um let me find this it was it was during our geo conversation it's almost like people think we can't come up with

these scenarios on our own. Um, here it is. Um, okay. Heard it first on after the whistle pod today.

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