I'm Ryan Lambert from the perfect takes newsletter.

I'm Sean Magninu from The Athletic.

And I'm going to say this to my friend Sean right off the hop here.

I apologize for the length of this show.

Oh, no.

I mean, this was the craziest week I can remember where not just like trades and signings, but like surprising trades and signings.

And also expansion news and also free agency is tomorrow.

You know, like it is as busy of a week as I can really remember in the league in the summer.

Yeah.

This is like the NHL loves to cram an entire offseason into like a week and a half.

Yeah.

And then that allows them to on July 5th be like, see you in September.

Goodbye.

See you.

We're going to generate no news for three months and then expect a bunch of

excitement when we come back.

That's right.

Let's dive into it, I guess.

Yeah, I mean, we'll kind of go in chronological order a little bit, but I'll put it this way. Within maybe an hour of a stopping

recording last week, Simone Nemich, and I think Maxim Simplikov also, to Calgary for two conditional

first round picks, a second and a prospect.

And that is the most who cares news of the week, basically.

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