Eric Francis on the Simon Nemec Trade

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Speaker 20:29

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Pat Steinberg· Host0:32

The actual trade itself, I, I, I was kinda with you. I was like, yeah, sticker shock. I was like, whoa, that's a lot. And then I- y- you think about it for a second, the, the fact that they don't give up any of their own first-round pick was- Mm-hmm ... was maybe the most important part. And I think, I think that is the thing that I continue to fall back on is that, you know, they, they brought in a former second overall selection who we'll see. Like, the... I, I do think there is some risk involved in taking on, uh, Nemec, and, and I do think that, you know, we need to see what he actually turns into with more opportunity and more ice time. But the more I thought about it, the more it kinda felt to me like these are the type of deals that when you build up the type of draft capital Craig Conroy has built up over the last number of years, these are the type of deals or the type of risks that you can take, the type of, uh, bets that you can make if you're an NHL team. It's, it's not, it's not a 28-year-old, it's a 22-year-old,