Today we have a very special guest.

It is, of course, our favorite ESPN contributor, the host of the Puck Social podcast

and the CTO of Betelitics.

It is Rachel Dory.

Welcome aboard, Rachel.

How are you today?

I'm doing good.

It's, uh, yeah, free agent, not frenzy, I guess, because everyone just re-signed where they were.

Yeah, we had like a two-hour free agent thing planned and it's nothing, there was nothing of interest that really happened.

The Flyers got a couple of guys.

There was a few trades, but overall, it is yet another big buildup to,

you know, secondary players signing for a little more money than you expected.

Yeah, obviously, we haven't had an Ailer signed, but the fact that like, the Warner thing happened

yesterday. And the thing is, is it's not like it was a big surprise because, like, we all knew

it was going to happen.

The Besser thing is a big kind of surprise that he resigned there.

So now it's kind of just Nikolai Ailer is after all of the Panthers came off the board.

Next year, there's actually, like, insanely good players.

Now, I think probably 80% of them are going to resign where they are.

But if even, like, five of those players hit the market next year, it is going to be anarchy.

That's, we are all hoping, especially for the promises Danny Breyer has made the fan base that next year is when he starts spending, well, okay, get me Connor McDavid and we'll be good and happy.

But he hasn't signed yet.

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