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I think at every single trade discussion that we have, we're at the part and where we're at as a franchise where you can't necessarily say no

to anything right off the hop.

Having said that, there are some players and some draft pick capital that we have that are extremely valuable that

we would be hard-pressed to move on from you know not just the not just the

one player mentioned but a whole group of prospects or

younger players up our roster so you know I think in regards to to rentals I

can't see that happening but with regards to other options I don't think you say no to hop to anything

but those are very important pieces to us for now and in the future.

So if I can put on my Kyle Dubas Dakota ring here, hang on just let me slide this on.

What he's trying to say is we don't want to let go of our first round pick,

we don't want to let go of Matthew Nice, we don't want to let go of Topeise. We don't want to let go of

Tope Nemla, but other than that we're open for business.

Welcome back to the program.

Jamie Rutherford coming up in hour at two was I was able to flat,

Terecinco E.J. erratic from the NHL network as well. Meantimee please, who will see in action this weekend

against the Columbus Blue Jackets

with Kristen Schilton from E-SPN.

Kristen, how are they?

Good to talk to you again. Yeah, absolutely. I'm doing well, Jeff, how are you?

I'm good. So did you have your Dubas Decoder ring on? We're trying to read in between the lines of what Kyle Dubas was trying to tell us because a lot of it

you mean you expect the general manager to to speak the way that we heard Dubas

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