I'm Ryan Lambert from Elite Prospects I'm Sean Magnew from The Athletic and I get I

get to say a big thank you to the good people in the hockey world for giving us a bunch of news in the last two

days that we can actually talk about something instead of just being like, who are some guys

that have inside contracts yet? Yeah. That's nice. That's really helpful for me personally. But doesn't it kind of feel like,

saying this to Gentile yesterday, like stuff is happening that we would talk about for 30 seconds at any other time a year and

instead it's like let's do an entire show about Quinton Byfields contract. look, I'm going to take what I can get at this time.

A hundred percent.

I'm not going to sit here and say, you know, beggars can be choosers all of a sudden you know what I'm saying we are

begging we're begging hard it's not even obvious yet oh Lord I'm glad we did the entire

off-season in three days. That was great.

Yeah, we could have spread like one of those,

like what are they doing trades

to like early August, something like that.

That would have been fine with me but yeah

simply does not work that way it seems like so that's how it goes but yeah the

Quinton-Byfield contract is five years six and a quarter per, what was your immediate reaction to this?

So my immediate reaction was, this is the new Nathan McKinnon contract. I've seen that take a few times.

Yeah and obviously we should say the previous Nathan McKinnon not not the current highest paid

payer in the league one but the one that for years

that he signed after his third season when he was a 50-ish point player and then for years

it was like this is the best contract in the history of the world and he was like great no

thanks for reminding me of that constantly I love it so my my reaction to that reaction is kind of my reaction also to like when

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