If the estimate is $110 million in two seasons, why trade Rantanin? You could sign Mikael Makar. You could sign Rantanin.

Mikael Makar is going to get so much money.

He is, but think about that. You got Nathan McKinnon on a steal of a deal. If Rantanin's number was really 13 or 13 and a half. Are you really seriously telling me you couldn't get to that?

Here's what everyone's losing sight of, though. You can't just light next season on fire.

How would they be lighting next season on fire? Makar is still in her contract. The actual cap this year is 88 million.

Okay, well, Rantin and getting the raise he wants eats up most of that. You're still the abs. Yeah, and the abs have a lot of the same issues that the Lefs do. Really struggle to get depth scoring. The difference is Kal Makar has three times as many goals as the Lefs' entire decor. They've struggled in net, and they've had to make not one but two moves there. But they're looking at themselves going, Gosh, every year we got to plug all these holes because we're really top-heavy. We're going to see if they're right because Nietzsche helps them next season. They can go out and do some big game hunting in the office.

They might even sign Rantan.

Might even. A boat's a boat, but the mystery box could be anything. That's right. Bless Marty Nietzsche, who's a great, great player. People don't appreciate how fucking good Miko Rantan is.

So again, I ask.

I know.