I'm Ryan Lambert from Elite Prospects.

I am Sean McAner from The Athletic.

And folks, it's the week of the draft, which means what it really is is the week where all the crazy shit happens.

It's the off season.

It's about eight days until everyone goes to the cottage to do an entire option.

It might be more like 10 the way things are trending.

You think?

Well, the, not, okay, we're jumping the line a little bit here, but the rumor is that Mitch

Marner is going to like do the thing where he takes meetings on July 1 and then takes a couple days.

Good for him.

Yeah.

Which, you know, if I'm here, okay, here's my thing.

We'll just get this out of the way first.

This is not what's on the outline first.

That's fine.

I have noticed that with, and I wrote about this this week,

that with these trades that are happening this week, for the most part, there's a lot of like, hey, we're doing you a favor

taking on bad salary or salary you need to move. And we're taking nothing back for it.

Mm-hmm. Right? And I'm like, why are all these teams doing this?

And then I realized they're like, oh, we have $20 million in cap space.

This means nothing to us, but it also means nothing to anybody else.

Right.

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