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And inform you in the afternoon.

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All right, here are your two developing thoughts on the John Tavares thing and the Julian Edelman thing.

My thing, my great epiphany, which is really just common sense,

and Mazz arrived at it yesterday because he's smart and I'm stupid.

Of course I didn't say it on the air because I'm a jackass.

Because you thought that we were all beyond it because we would have been on the same wavelength as you,

but we're just not. We're mortals.

You went to a mid-tier borderline ivy, and the rest of us are just, you know, be you.

Yeah, you're being nice. The reality is I'm not that smart either.

No, so sometimes it's just the best ideas are the simplest. And this occurred to me with John DeVars. Okay, this occurred to me with John DeVars. I had grown frustrated at hearing a lot of local hockey writers and national guys handicapping John Tavares to the Bruins by saying, well, the Bruins don't have the room. The Bruins have to jump through hoops. The Bruins have to clear money. How do you ditch off David Backus's salary?

How do you clear David Creti's money? How do they find the room to sign John Tavares? It doesn't make sense. They don't have the room. They don't have the room. And I got sick of hearing that because there's a way to create room. You can trade a big contract if you attach a prospect to it. and like for example as Steve Conroy pointed out in the Herald today

St. Louis might want David Backus back, but they want nothing to do with that contract. But if you give him a good young prospect to go along with David Backus, for example, Trent Frederick, who was drafted in the first round by the Bruins two years ago, I think, is from St. Louis. Sort of a big, sturdy center. Played at Wisconsin. He's from St. Louis. He is a former first round picked just two years ago. If the Bruins trade them Trent Frederick and David Backus, will St. Louis take Backus back? We've paid half of Backus's contract, or nearly half of Backuschus' contract. They love David Bacchus there. They missed the playoffs last year. They missed his grit and his leadership in the room. And so could you entice St. Louis to take Bacchus back if you send a prospect along with it? And there's $6 million off your hand. So there's ways to do it. And I'd grown frustrated with this commentary that they can't clear the room. There's too many hoops. They can't figure it out. And then it occurred to me. They've already figured it out. They're meeting with Tavares today in Los Angeles, one of five teams that have been granted a meeting. 20 teams wanted to meet with the guy. 20 teams have wanted to sit with them. He's only allowed five into the room. Six, if you include the Islanders, that he plays for. Would the Bruins get on a plane and pitch John Tavares on what's going to be like a seven-year $80 million contract if they didn't have the room?

No, no shot.

They wouldn't even get on the plane, no.

They wouldn't get on the plane, and Tavares wouldn't let you in the room.

As Jimmy pointed out in his story that we had before,

John Tavares had prepared for him a 77-page booklet from his agents

that contained a deep dive into each of the organizations that he

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