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Lightning vs. Wild & Jets + Breaking Down the Western Conference at the Trade Deadline · Backchecking the Bolts

• Jason Linkes: Coming up on back checking the bolts. We're going to talk about the bolts injury situation. We're going to talk about Dominic James, gauge, Consolvas, and maybe Justin has a few more for us. We're also going to take a look ahead at the Minnesota game tonight at nine 30. The bolts travel on Thursday to Winnipeg. We'll take a look at the jets. We're also going to take a look at the Western conference. Who are the buyers? Who are the sellers? And we might have an explanation on why Wayne Newton is behind me. All that and more coming up next here on Backchecking the Bolts. Welcome to back checking the bolts back checking the bolts is your cup of coffee to get you the latest on the Tampa Bay lightning Join hosts Jason link us in the managing editor of raw charge Justin Godfrey as they break down the lightning's most recent games and go beyond the highlights Telling you what the box scores didn't it's time to drop the puck It's March 3rd. It's eight o'clock in the morning and you are on the back checking the bolts podcast. Hi, I'm your host Jason Lincoln. And as always, I'm joined by the managing editor of raw charge. He is Justin Godfrey, Justin, a bad loss against Buffalo, but the bolts hit, hit the road for straight road games. It might not be a bad time for them to sort of regroup and get back on the road. Exactly. ⁓ Coach Cooper loves the phrase turning the page on bad losses. And, ⁓ he was fairly critical of the way the lightning played, ⁓ after the game against Buffalo. So they had a good practice session. sounds like yesterday before they jumped on the plane up to Minnesota, ⁓ they're a veteran team. So they should be able to clear that out of them, get started on maybe another winning streak or at least at the very least get back to kind of playing the way they had been playing during the stretch. Even if they don't win tonight, you know, you just want to see them get back to their. Kind of style start dictating the play a little bit, a little more responsible in the defensive end. And that's what we're looking for tonight against Minnesota is just kind of getting back to playing lightning hockey, which is, which has slipped over the last three games or so. In the last few podcasts, we have talked about how condensed this schedule is after the Olympic break. Justin, you had mentioned a good point to me off the air that when things go awry in this tight of a schedule, it's hard to correct things just because they don't have practice time. Exactly. Like I was just looking at the lightning schedule that they send out. ⁓ they practiced yesterday. ⁓ they're going to have a day off on Friday. Then you're in your back to back Saturday, Sunday. If something goes wrong, if they need to work on something, now you're looking at maybe at the morning skates, you can talk about a little bit, but there was intense, you know, 45 to an hour, minute, hour practices just aren't going to be there. So it's going to be on them not to get into those bad habits, just to play good hockey and keep going forward. Cooke's really good at giving them rest. during the stretches like this in the past. So he's going to be more focused on that kind of like them being ready mentally as opposed to, you know, on the ice grinding out back skates or anything like that. That's not the type of coach he is. So it is going to be interesting to see how he manages any kind of slip ups in their game moving forward. I'm just taking a look at the lightning schedule. The next time they have two days off, it's going to be between the games on Saturday, March 14th against Carolina. And then Tuesday, March 17th at Seattle. So in those two days off, they have to travel six and a half hours across the country. So it's not truly a day off in that sense. Exactly. Exactly. And it's going to be interesting because all of their days off, you know, they have that four game trip up and they're not long road trips. You know, Seattle to Vancouver, isn't bad. Vancouver to Edmonton isn't bad. And, you know, they have the back to back, ⁓ between Edmonton and Calgary. But still, you know, bar traveling, you're packing up, you're getting into the hotel, usually very early in the morning. So it's going to be kind of trying to find that flow when you're out on the road and just powering through. mean, one thing I didn't even think about like this weekend, they have the game Saturday night against Toronto head into Buffalo and yeah, it's just a bus ride away, but it's also daylight savings time. So they're going to lose an hour going into it. So you have a 7pm game Saturday, 6pm. game on Sunday, but you're also losing an hour. It's, know, just little things like that, that kind of trip you up along on a road trip. So it'll be, it'll be interesting to see how they come out Sunday against Buffalo at the end of a long road trip. is my wife's least favorite day of the year, losing that extra hour asleep. But I will say I do like it when we get a little longer daylight, especially in the evening time. And it helps me with my drives as I'm going across the country. But Justin, let's take a look forward. Tonight they play the wild. It's a late start. It's a nine 30 start the games on TNT. The wild are coming off of a pretty bad loss for them. It's a three one loss at the hands of the St. Louis blues. The blues had lost 10 straight road games and I'm going to play Alex Trebek here, Justin. 10 straight road losses is bad. Any idea what the NHL record is for consecutive road losses? Can you give me a decade that it happened in? The nineties. Think expansion. That's a pretty good clue because you only have so many teams, but it was expansion. It was expansion. I'm going to go with the San Jose sharks. don't know. No, I mean, considering how bad they were, it was actually the Ottawa senators. our expansion brethren. Yes. In 1992, 93, they lost. 38 consecutive road games. mean, that's a bad team, but that's having no puck luck whatsoever. entire road season, isn't it? I mean, good Lord. Yeah. I think back then they only played 80 games. So they played 40 total, 40 total road games. were the two bums they lost to on the road in that year, man? I would have to take a look at it, but I want to say they ended the streak in Boston. But I might be wrong on that, but still, mean, I don't think that'll ever be broken because now expansion teams, they're a lot more well, they're well equipped. Like Vegas was like Seattle was, they don't just give these teams a bunch of fourth line players. just the parody in the league these days, it's, you Cooper talks about that a lot too. It's the difference between the last place team in the NHL and the first place team. It's really that big a gap anymore. So. Yeah. For a team to have to struggle through that. mean, that'd be like three coaches fired, you know, the GM fired, everybody fired. I think once you get over like 15 losses in a row, mean, you'd, yeah, there'd be wholesale changes. Yeah. I could just see a, know, the, team's not allowed near the parliament building over in Ottawa. They're forced to, ⁓ they're forced to move over to Gatineau, Quebec across the river. Junior hockey rink at some point, know, banished from their NHL rink. Yeah, I'm trying to think. think their goalie was Peter said dorkowitz back then. Probably. Yeah. mean, it's coming out of the expansion draft. I do remember though, Ottawa won their first game. I they beat Montreal and I've been to a couple Ottawa Montreal games. It's a sea of Canadians fans. And, and, and I get it too, for the longest time that was the team in Ottawa. Cause Ottawa didn't have a team for what? Six decades. So you have a lot of people who are already Canadians fans. And if you win 20 some cups, you're going to get a lot of fans that aren't going to change allegiance. But Hey, let's, let's get back to the Minnesota game. Minnesota made a move early this season. got Quinn Hughes from Vancouver, Justin. I mean, he's, he's the real deal. How big of a move was that for the wild? I did a huge deal. was one of those things that they had a pretty decent blue line. So it wasn't. You know, they probably weren't number one on a lot of people's minds in the Quinn Hughes sweepstakes. I do think everybody thought it was going to be New Jersey where he ended up, but you know, Bill Guerin went out, he traded a boatload of assets. You basically had, I think roughly four first round picks are the equivalent of it. know, Zeeb Bouyam was their hot young rookie. Marco Rossi is a solid young center. Then they had the first round pick and a fourth piece to it. So he went out and made the big splash. This zone had really been struggling at five on five play. They just weren't scoring. It was something that bothered them last year too. And was probably part of their downfall in the playoffs is they just couldn't score at five on five. You bring in Quint, Quint Hughes is like a one man breakout machine, one man puck transporter. He's dynamic in the offensive zone and he's just really boosted up their, boosted up their play five on five and then he's made their power play even more extraordinary. think since the trade. Minnesota's tied for first in goals overall. They're averaging about 3.7 a game now. So that offense is just outstanding. They've gotten a great goaltending from Philip Gustafson and Jesper Wallstead. So you got the two main elements that you need, which is, you could score in any situation and your goaltender's stopping pucks. They really just shot up the standings ever since they got them and they've been one of the best teams in the West. the Olympic break, they've lost two out of three. But when you look at the standings, they have a huge gap between themselves and the wild card. They're basically playing for positioning right now. Do you think that's hurting Minnesota right now? Just having the motivation. This is going to be sort of the dog days of the schedule. Is this just as much as just, maybe we're asleep at the wheel. A little bit. I also think it's a little bit of Olympic hangover. mean, they had quite a few players. Monk goes and Quinn Hughes's case. It's literally a hangover based on the way he's been partying since the, uh, since the Olympics. But, you know, they had a fair set of representation over in Milan. So I think kind of like the lightning, they're just kind of getting back into their groove a little bit. You know, they probably took the foot off the gas a little bit, but I don't think they want to finish second or third in that division. I think they want to try and cut down, down, uh, Colorado, get to the top there. I mean, you figure if you finish second or third, your opponents are gonna be Colorado. Or Dallas in the first round. You know, that's going to be a gauntlet to run in the West. If in that divisions, I do think they have a goal of winning that division, get that number one seed, make their trip through the playoffs a little bit easier. Yeah. As, well as they played, you know, Dallas is on a nine year winning streak right now. ⁓ Colorado kind of took their foot off the gas a little bit as well. They've come back to the pack. think Dallas is only four points behind them and then Minnesota is right behind Dallas. So, you know, that's kind of tightened up a little bit, but yeah, they have a goal. You know, they're not going to. relax, even though they've basically locked up a playoff spot. So lightning can expect a pretty good effort out of them tomorrow. now, the wild set nine points behind first place Colorado, but they are 14 points ahead of the two wild card teams, Utah and Edmonton. Justin, how do the bolts size up against the wild? If the bolts can get back to playing their system, it should be okay. I do think Hughes is going to. going to give them a lot of problem. They don't face many defensemen like him. You figure Cal McCar is maybe the only similar style, you know, offensive dynamo where who can carry the puck in and create his own offense as opposed to just, you know, having a big shot like someone like Darren Reddish has. So I do think it's going to be kind of tough. mean, you got Krill, Keppers off. He's got 74 points this year. I don't think he's getting talked about enough. You know, he made the big splash with a huge contract extension this summer. But the guys have, he's healthy, he's having a great year. He's got 34 goals. You got Matt Boldy with 35 goals. So that top line is going to be a handful. And if Cooper can't quite get his matchup going, they could kind of run the Lightning defense a little ragged. So that's what you're going have to look out for. The Lightning pride themselves when they're playing well, they're not getting beat on transition. They're not getting beat. know, players aren't getting behind them. So that's what they got to look out for. You don't want Boldy skating in alone. You don't want ⁓ Caprizzal. You know, skating in with speed. So we're to have to keep an eye out for that and just kind of play sound defensively. Don't chase the puck in your own zone and get it out when you get a chance. Justin, who do you think is going to be between the pipes for both teams tonight? I'm pretty sure you're going to have Vasileski out there. Minnesota, it's always a crapshoot. I think they're really going with the, ⁓ one a one B. But it's either going be Goosevson or Wosset. If you look, mean, Philip Goosevson is their number one. just based on number, he started 37 games. But Wollstedt's played 24, he's started 24, he's 14, six and four. He's putting up great numbers. So it's gonna be a handful. It's gonna be, I think, a coin flip as to see who they're gonna get. I wouldn't be surprised if it's Wollstedt. He is kind of like number one trade chip right now and maybe Garen wants to showcase him a little bit to line him up for any kind of big possible deal. But no matter who they're going to get, it's going to be a tough, tough matchup. They're both having extraordinary seasons. Justin, after the game on Tuesday, they travel an hour and a half north of the border via a flight, probably on Delta up to Winnipeg and they face last year's presidents trophy winning Winnipeg jets. Now Winnipeg has had an abysmal season considering what they were coming off of in December. They lost 10 in a row, 13 of 14 that pretty much took them. out of any playoff consideration, but they still have a ton of talent. have Mark Shifely, Kyle Connor, Gabriel Velarde, Josh Morrissey. Tell us a little bit about this Winnipeg team and they haven't been that bad since that huge losing streak in December into early January. Yeah, I think they just kind of caught that losing streak at the wrong time while they're busy losing, you know, Minnesota, Dallas, everybody else is busy winning. So it creates that huge gap. between them and they just couldn't make up the ground. So they're gonna be a tough team to play. know, Connor Hellebuck kind of refound his mojo a little bit in the Olympics. You're gonna go up there. It is still a good team. I don't know if they're a great team like they were last year. They lost a lot of their depth, especially scoring wise. So, but it's still gonna be tough for the Lightning to play. You know, it's one of those buildings Lightning don't play well in, you kind of like Minnesota. They just don't win a lot in these buildings, whether it's... Who knows why, you know, it's just, there's some teams that can't win in certain spots. So you got Hellebuck that you're going to be playing against. There's still some good scoring. Like you say, Kyle Conner out there. It's just not going to be an easy road trip anywhere for the Lightning on this. If you look at all these, these games they got coming up, I think Winnipeg is going to play a big spoiler roll down the stretch here. You know, a lot of teams are going come in looking for points and then, you know, they're going to run into the wall that is Hellebuck and it's going to be a struggle down the down the stretch. Winnipeg has played hard. have to give them credit for that. Since the Olympic break, they've played three consecutive overtime games. They won at Vancouver and then losses at Anaheim and San Jose. So they've been able to pick up the charity point, but at their place in the standings, they need to pick up two points and they can't give the opposition any. When Justin and I were taking a look at statistics, we look at a lot of different stats to see if there's an angle. good or bad for the lightning. The one thing that we looked at and we're going to take some, I think a different view on this, but the lightning right now we're 28th on in face-offs. They are worst in the league in defensive zone draws. Justin, I think this is a major issue that needs to be addressed. And I'm going to take a look at some stats in 2025, the 11 worst face-off teams. Only Minnesota made the playoffs in 2024. The nine worst faceoff teams. None of them won a playoff round in 2023 of the 11 worst only Seattle won a playoff round. They were 31st in the league, but they played Colorado who was 28th this year though. It's going to be a little bit different because four of the five teams who are in the bottom of NHL faceoffs are going to make the playoffs. The ducks at 29, the wild at 31, the Sabres at 32. I think in a short series, when you face a team that has good center men that win draws, they can use this against the lightning. And I think this is a major concern, but I know you're a little bit on the opposite side of this. What are your thoughts? Yeah, I would probably just drop the qualifier of major. ⁓ I think at this point, Yes, you like to be able to win these draws, especially those late game defensive draws and the Lightning in their history have usually had somebody that they could roll out there, whether it's Luke Glendening was a big one for the last couple of years where he could go out and if not win the face off, at least tie it up long enough that it's not a clean play. Lightning fans have seen more than their fair share of clean face off losses that lead directly to goals. The center man pushes it back to the winger, kicks it over to the defense and one times it from the slot. Those are the type of face-offs you don't want to be losing. That being said, it's how much do you invest in somebody who can win face-offs as a result of other things that you're doing very well? Like 90 % of the lightning's game is going really, really well right now. Do you upset that? Do you move somebody who's helping you do that in order to help win face-offs? For me personally, I think you know, the key face-offs that you want to be winning, number one, far and away, the biggest priority is on the power play. When the Lightning Air win in their face-offs on the power play, it gets them set up in the zone. They don't have to reset. They don't have to reenter the zone. And it really helps, you know, the talent they have on the power play. If I recall, they've been doing quite all right in regards to power play face-offs in the zone. think, I think they're about 50%. So it's one of those things is again, Yes, it's important and you do want to have somebody to win those key draws, but at the same time, how much do you upset the apple cart in order to get that person in there? And I think that's kind of Bruce Wallace philosophy right now. He was asked about it during his kind of mid season check in and he's, he did say, Hey, you know, it is something that we're keeping an eye on. Do I trade an Oliver York strand or somebody like that to bring in a faceoff guy who's going to play nine minutes a game and, take five or six key draws. So rally's been getting a little bit better at the draws. I Nick Paul was, was doing really well in the circle. think he was the only lightning centerman, regular centerman who was taking, you know, who was about 50 % taking majority of the draw. So his injury kind of hurts them there a little bit, but they've been steadily better as it, as the season goes along. know they're, they're still ranked down towards the bottom, but yeah, it's something that they're working on. I wouldn't. blow up the roster to get a face off guy, basically. Yes, you want the guys to draw it, but in the end, know, most of the draws are in center ice neutral zones. It's a team effort to win these things. So that's another thing you got to focus on. Yes, your center man is important in it, but it's also the wingers diving into tie people up. And it's a more of a team effort than I think some people let on. So if they can get back to that focus of helping their center man out with the draws, they can kind of muddy their way through the playoffs. You know, even if they're not at above 50%. I agree with the team aspect of it. There is a team aspect to winning face-offs, your wingers, your defensemen. It's, it's a five man effort. But that being said, as the playoffs get further and the games get tighter, the competition gets better. Winning defensive zone draws can be the difference between winning games and losing games, especially when you're trying to protect games. I think it's something they at least have to address. I'm not saying you have to go get events and Trow check who has three more years left at five and a half million. But I think you at least need to have that fourth line guy. Like you had mentioned to Glenn Denning that can win you some draws and depending on the matchup. Yeah. Maybe you don't play that player every single night, but I think you at least have to have that person in your system, sort of like an Adam Hall back in the day that you can throw out there and say, Hey, We're getting killed on draws in this series. We're going to put this guy in there to win a few. And that's, you know, it's kind of surprising. I know there was a rash of people on waivers the other day and Luke Coonan from Florida was one of them. And I was kind of surprised he cleared through, uh, you know, he's not having the greatest offensive season. He's only put up four points, but the guy is winning 52 % of his draws this year. Uh, he's taken a fair, fair share. Almost two, do some quick math, about 270 draws for Florida. Like I said, he was at 52%. So he was one of those guys that I was kind of surprised to see go through clear through waivers because he would be a cheaper pickup. You're not committed to him. He's a free agent at end of the year and he could probably play a decent role on a fourth line. He's got a little bit of grit, which everybody loves at this time of year. But to see him go through, was kind of surprised with, like you mentioned all those teams that are kind of struggling to win draws that are in the playoffs. I know we had talked about Robbie Fabry. It was a waiver claimed by Minnesota during the same stretch where Kuhnen went on waivers. as you mentioned, kind of a cheap way to help with some face-off draws. Fabry hasn't taken ⁓ quite as many this year as he has in the past. These teams are looking for guys that can win those big ones. So I think it is going to be a cheaper solution if the Lightning do to pursue it or their philosophy is going to be just don't spend as much time in the defensive zone. Well, yeah, just, just play offense. That'll solve everything. Just keep the puck in the way from your net, you know? What's so hard about that? Especially in the playoffs. Hey, why not? Yeah, come on man. It's like rocket science. Yeah, just keep the puck and as long as you have the puck, you're always on offense and you don't have to worry about defense at all. Just score more goals than the other guys. What are you doing out there? Let's go. Hey, you're the modern day Herb Brooks. Well, yeah, my chance. Okay. Justin, we talked about the Metro. We talked about the Atlantic teams. Are they buyers? Are they sellers? We're going to take a real quick look at the Western conference with the trade deadline coming up on the sixth. Where do you want to start? You want to start in the central or the Pacific division? ⁓ you know, I was just kind of taking a look over all in the West. So, you know, I had broken it down when I was doing my research is basically in the buyers and sellers. ⁓ but yeah, if you want to go division by division, I'm good with whatever. Well, want to do buyers and sellers. Let's do buyers and sellers. Do you feel like buying or do you feel like selling first? ⁓ let's go do some selling first. What do you say? Well, I think the team that is going to sell, sell, sell is going to be Vancouver. Vancouver has been awful. They are buried in the standings. This is a bad team. They only have 43 points. They're going to sell who are they? I know they're trying to sell Tyler Myers and there's rumors out there that Myers does not want to go to Detroit, but who else are they looking to sell? mean, I think they'd be happy if they could get somebody to take, ⁓ Amanda Kane off their roster, you know, he's a pending free agent. He's around 5 million right now. ⁓ I think Myers is probably getting to be on their way out. They do have a couple of, ⁓ kind of role players. got Teddy, ⁓ Bluter and David Kempf that are on expiring deals. At this point, think if anyone calls them with an offer for those guys, they'll take a mid round pick. They'll take a late round pick. They'll just kind of clear it up, get some of younger guys playing. The interesting ones are the guys with terms, you like you're Jake DeBrusk or, you know, we've talked about Pedersen a few times and then Brock Besser, you know, they just resigned Besser to the long-term deal. But if they're going full breakdown, full retool, you know, he's somebody who could have some interest for players that have, or for teams that have some cap space moving down the road. But yeah, I think they're listening to just about everybody, I would assume. If you call them for a deal, they're going to work something out with you, I believe. Because like you said, they've just had a horrible season. don't know. They just don't like Adam Foote's system up there or what the deal is. But it's rare that you see a team go as bad as they've gone this year. Two years ago, they won the division. Rick Tocca was the coach. I think he won the Jack Adams award. And in two years, this has just gone completely off the rails. They're going to have to blow this up. And I thought that, you know, the Quinn Hughes deal was, you know, the really solid building blocks for him. get the young defenseman in a book, Booyum, and then they got the young center, you know, uh, Marco Rossi is only 24 years old. You know, he's locked in for three more years. So those are some pretty good building blocks. Yeah. Liam O'grin was usually the fourth piece that we were, we were mentioning earlier. You know, he's a depth for right now. He's not scoring a lot, but that's a good start. I think they kind of set the bar as far as if you're going to pry one of their bigger players away, that's probably going to be kind of a similar deal. And that being said, everybody left has a lot of term. So it'd be interesting to see how they do it. think Philip Peronek is probably one that doesn't move. I know he really wants to stay in Vancouver, so he'll probably stick around. But you know, like I said, everybody else you're probably looking at is on the block. needs the right deal. let's head to the gateway to the arch. St. Louis will have some toasted ravioli and see who the blue should be selling. Justin. Yeah, again, I think anyone who's been paying attention to any trade deadline news has heard the names Robert Thomas and Jordan Kyra quite a bit. Those guys have seen to be drawing a lot of the interest, but again, you're talking about guys with a lot of term on, ⁓ left on their deals and St. Louis are really willing to, to to commit to a full breakdown and rebuild where they're getting rid of guys. Robert Thomas is 26. He's not like he's an older player. So he's somebody you can still build around it, even if you do want to, you know, tear down a little bit. I wouldn't be surprised if they're getting calls on Pius Suter. He has a reputation as a solid defensive center. He's only got one year after this, a reasonable deal. He's 4.1. Guys like that will probably draw a lot of interest. know Justin Falk has drawn some interest from a lot of teams looking for a right shot defenseman. So they, got some pieces they can move. If you're in the market for a gold tender, know, you can pick up Jordan Bennington. I'm sure if you're willing to take his full salary, you're not even going to give up a lot for him. You know, he's 6 million this year and next year. So he could be one of those names that, that we see on the move over the next couple of days. just moved defenseman Connor Murphy for a second round pick. retained 50 % of his salary. Murphy was sent to the Edmonton Oilers. I don't think the Oilers are done. Justin or the Blackhawks? No, still got a couple pieces. I think they've built that big core right now with all their young players. I don't think they're going to be as heavy a sellers as they have been in the past. You know, the last couple of years where they were just stockpiling all these draft picks and flipping all the veterans that they had signed. I mean, you have a couple of names out there like Grislick, Matt Grislick still playing for him on a low end kind of short term deal. Sam Lafferty could be one of those face off guys that moves at the deadline. Ilo Mikhaev has drawn some trade interests as well. One guy I'm wondering how committed they are to is Toivu Teravainen. He's the Finnish winger. He's bounced around a couple of times. is his second stint with Chicago. ⁓ He's having a decent year, reasonable salary at $5.4 million with another season left on it. You're looking at 12 goals, 15 assists on the season. So somebody looking for some third line scoring depth. guy with a little bit speed that can get in on the four check. Tara Vynan is not a bad solution to that problem. If you're well in the part with some, with some prospects. Justin, what do think it would take to get Tara Vynan? Do you think it's a second or a third round pick? Or do you think because he's not a UFA, do you think it might be a little bit less? A little bit less. mean, this could be somebody that you see at a classic, you know, Julian Bruce bought overpay or he sends them to first round picks in a prospect. know how everyone goes crazy. I think you're looking at probably a second round pick and maybe a B level prospect. could, you know, depending on what the bidding war is, there's not a lot of, well, one thing you notice in the issuer's deadline, there's not a lot of scorers out there on the market. It's a lot of these kinds of death guys, grinding guys, guys like Vincent Trotschek are going to get you maybe 20 goals. As far as elite scoring wingers, there's just nobody on the market right now, unless you're willing to take on term. So for a guy like Tara Vining, he could draw a lot of interest and, you know, that could You know, if the black hots pick up another first round pick, they're not going to say no to it. that has also been extremely disappointing is the Calgary flames. I think a lot of people thought Calgary would take the next step up this year. They're definitely going to be sellers and the name you consistently hear Justin is Nazem Kadri the center, but he has a pretty long contract deep into his age. He's 35 right now. I believe he signed till he's 38. His name's come up in. Regards to some lightning rumors, I think it was Dan Driger the other day kind of mentioned his name as someone as the lightning or quote unquote kicking the tires on, which is always a phrase I love this time of year. Probably just means that his name came up in a casual conversation and all of a it's, know, well, the lightning have interest in them. And they had interest in, or Timmy Panarin as well, but he doesn't mean it's going to come through. But yeah, know, Kadri, he kind of checks a lot of boxes for people. He plays hard physical style hockey. He's got a Stanley cup under his belt. He's going to get you some goals. I know his scoring down is down a little bit this year. You know, that age factor does come into place. Like you said, he's 35 and he's making 7 million on the cap. That's not an easy pill for somebody to swallow for a GM. Especially you figure the last two years of the deal. think, you know, this year you're to be okay. Next year he'll probably be okay. But at what point, you know, is he just an aging center who's taking out way too much of your cap? I could see a team making a deal. could see Calgary having to maybe retain a little bit on him to make the, to facilitate the deal. But, uh, I he's been their biggest name that you see out there. Justin, you had mentioned, Hey, everybody has interest in a lot of these guys. When I was 18, I had interest in Heather Locklear, but that didn't happen either. So sometimes, you know, Hey, we all have interest in something. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. And that's, know, that's why I always love you this time of year. If the rumors that you kind of want to double triple check and see what they're actually saying. I think a lot of people learned that with the other Pierre LeBron statement last week about, you know, Stamco's and who you would wave is no trade for. And then it turns out like Stanford, like, dude, I haven't talked to anybody about this. It's just something speculating, you know, just cause you see a name and a tweet or, know, blue sky posts, maybe read a little bit deeper in, see who's reporting it, see what the situation is. As always this time of year, we do want to send out our warning that it is the time of the fake accounts. So make sure, you know, Pierre LeBron is spelled correctly on the tweet. you repost it. It's always a fun time of the year. Justin, let's head to Manitoba, who the bolts will face on Thursday. It's the Winnipeg Jets. Jonathan Taves, they signed him this year. He's been pretty disappointing. He's at the tail end of his career, but they do have a couple pieces I think that might, the league might have some interest in. Yeah. And you know, Taves is an interesting situation. ⁓ I do think if he was willing to move, he could still help a veteran, you know, a team out. You know, he's got that veteran presence. He wins face-off, so that's what people are looking for. But he's made it pretty explicit that he wants to stay in Winnipeg. You know, he came back to sign to play with his hometown team and that's where he wants to be. So I don't think he's going to be on the move. But you still have a guy like Gus Nyquist who's been moved at a deadline or two. your depth forward role. Logan Stanley on defense can be an interesting one. He's probably going to be one of your top defensemen on the free agent market this year. He's not making a lot of money this year. He's a right-handed shot if Winnipeg doesn't think they can resign him, you know He could be on the move and he could probably get them a fairly decent return Luke shins out there, you know, everybody knows what Luke Shen is You know what you're trading for you're probably not gonna give up a lot to get him But you're gonna get some minutes if you need it. So God, I could see a lightning reunion with Luke Shen. I mean, he knows their system. He's played with him a few times now He's not the fastest guy in the world, but he's gonna you know, he's gonna go out there. He's gonna get in the way of things He's gonna block shots Sometimes that's all you need out of a third pairing defenseman, especially if somebody else gets hurt. So I could see kind of Winnipeg standing Pat, like we've mentioned a few times, I think it's kind of a bad luck season for him and you don't want to blow things up just because you've had some injuries and the puck hasn't bounced your way. Sometimes you just need to kind of stand Pat and just chalk it up to a bad year. we're going to talk about some teams that are still in contention. But they're on the outside looking in first is Nashville. Nashville climbed back into the playoff race. There are only four points out of a wild card spot. They have 62 points. The two wild card spots are Utah and Edmonton. Both was 66. You had mentioned the Stamco's rumor, but there's also Ryan O'Reilly, their leading score. There's a lot of talk about him going elsewhere. And he's kind of in a similar situation as Taves is in Winnipeg. He doesn't have a new trade clause in his contract, but it. the management's made it very apparent that they're not going to deal him anywhere he doesn't want to go. Again, he really likes playing in Nashville. He's having a good time there. He doesn't want to uproot his family and move. You know, he's done that on a trade deadline previously, and I think he really wants to stay in Nashville. So it would have to be, a destination he wants to go to, so maybe someplace like Colorado where he's played before, and B, it's got to be quite an offer from Nashville. I was kind of surprised, you know, looking at some of the playoff odds at the Prognosticators came up with, know, evolving hockey has impregnated. And this was before yesterday's game. They hadn't paid it a 29 % chance of making a playoffs, which I thought was kind of low. So I do wonder if the management is looking at that. I don't think Stamkos is going anywhere. I think he's going to stay around. I think O'Reilly, again, like I said, unless it's a home run offer, I don't think he's going anywhere. But you do still have a couple of players who are pending, ⁓ UFAs. You have Michael Bunting. Lightning fans don't care for his antics, you know, after he held notes for Decker in the head a couple of years ago. Uh, but he's a, he's a playoff kind of guy. Uh, Michael McCarran, you know, big physical guy who's winning 52 % of his draws. You know, that could be somebody you pick up. Eric Hollow was, was picked up in a trade this summer and I don't think he's provided quite the offense they were looking for, but he's still a 30 point guy. He's got nine goals on a season. So that could interest somebody looking again down the, down the roster a little bit. want to. bump up their third line scoring, you know, Holland, maybe somebody that could come in and help for a little bit. So they still have some pieces, even if they don't blow it up. had mentioned Nashville, according to the statistics only has a 29 % chance of making the playoffs. Do you think a lot of that is because these computer simulations look at the gold differential? If you look at Nashville's gold differential, it's a minus 30, which is not good. Yeah. This is also a different Nashville team than it was at the beginning of the season. It is, I think you're like a team like Nashville. You have one shot to make in the playoffs and that's through the wild card. They're not catching anybody else in their division. So you kind of gets clumped up with all these other teams, not only in your own division, but also the other Western Conference division where you're just trying to fight. I think, yeah, they, they run those simulations, gold, differentials, big on it, strength of schedules, usually pretty huge on it as well. So all of those factors kind of the play in now, you know, 29 % chance it's, it's not nothing and they still can make the playoffs. But again, if you're Nashville, are you going to go all in just to get stomped by Colorado or Vegas in the first round? mean, let's say you get that second wild card spot. What are your chances of actually advancing out of that against one of the better teams in the West? We're also going to take a look at San Jose. They as well have 62 points, only four points out of the wild card. Justin, as you mentioned, unlike Nashville, who's in the central. Nashville third place. They'd have to get the Minnesota at 80 points. The Pacific division. First place is 70. Then you have Anaheim at 69, the Kraken at 67, and then the two wild card spots at 66. San Jose is within seven points of five playoff teams. Macklin Celebrini has been a tremendous story in the Olympics. was, he was the flavor of the month. He played really well. He really set the tone. for his career moving forward, but is it just a little too early for San Jose? Yeah, I know there's that pressure. You know, it's been six years since they made the playoffs. San Jose wants to make it to the dance, but it feels like maybe this isn't quite the year to go all in, right? You know, I do think again, you're looking at the, what's your reward for making the playoffs this year? Is he going to run up against Vegas, Colorado, Dallas, or Minnesota? You know, and that's kind of a tough. tough hill to climb. you make the playoffs and then you get, you you're busted out in five games or something like that. What have you given up to get there and how much does that derail your future, you know, your future plans? I think they're going to be cautious sellers. I don't think they're going to blow things up. And, know, again, kind of like Chicago in the sense that, yeah, we've got this nice young core of players. We don't have to fire everybody who's a veteran out the door. ⁓ there were some rumblings that they may flip key for Sherwood who they just picked up, you know, that was kind of their, their big stab at adding to some scoring and hasn't quite worked out. Last time I checked, I don't think even he hasn't recorded a point in the handful of games he's played for him. You know, Ryan Reeves, everybody likes a fighter. He's just coming off the IR and I think he could be a little trade chip. So they could probably stay in patent and be okay. If somebody gives them a nice deal for, for somebody on their roster, they may, they may go for it. Well, we talked about some of the sellers. Let's talk about some of the buyers teams firmly in the playoffs. We're going to start in the central Colorado, Dallas, Minnesota. The statistics say they have a hundred percent chance of making the playoffs. Let's start first with Colorado. There's a lot of rumors out there that it's basically reunion time. They might look at Kadri. They might look at Ryan O'Reilly. Justin, where do you think the avalanche look? Yeah, I think those are kind of your best two bets. They do want to strengthen things up the middle. They're in a kind of a similar problem as the Lightning in the sense that if they do add somebody, somebody has to go out. ⁓ I was kind of pulling some of the Colorado writers that we used to partner with back during the network days. somebody like Ross Colton could be on the training block. He's, you know, fourth line center, maybe a third line winger. If want to, but he's got $4 million cap hit. So if they need to clear up some space, I could see Colton maybe going out, especially if you're going after somebody like. Condrey or Robert Thomas or Ryan O'Reilly. So yeah, I don't think they're done. They made that Brett Kulak deal, which gave them a little bit more calf space. I think their defense could probably use one more player, a depth player. You still have McCarran, Taves, probably one of the top Tandems in the league. But after that, you know, you're looking at Josh Manson and Brett Kulek, and then, you know, you still got Brett Burns at 40 years old, 40 years old, pushing up and down the ice. So think they kind of want to help their defense out a little bit, maybe strengthen down the middle. So they're going be a team to keep an eye on over the next couple of days to see what they do. they could pull off any big deals. Dallas stars are on fire. They've won nine in a row. You don't really want to tinker with something that's working right now, but if Dallas is going to make a move, it's probably going to be. to get a little bit more offense. agree, Justin? Definitely, definitely. One of their drawbacks right now is they're not quite sure what their future cap situation looks like. They have to figure out what they're going to do with Jason Robertson. I mean, he had a slow start to the season, which they probably enjoy it because it drove down its cost. But since I think middle of December, the man's been on fire. He probably should have been on team USA if Bill Guerin wasn't looking for, you know, the mucking up type of players, and Vincent Trotak and others. I could see them order, you know, get landing somebody. made the big splash last year with a Rantman deal. Nill has downplayed expectations quite a bit. saying that that's probably not going to happen this year. Again, they played well all season long. They've had some injuries. You Tyler Sagan's out. He's not coming back. So they do have a little bit of room to move for this year. It's just a matter of how much do you upset again, you know, to use the phrase, how much do you upset the apple cart to, ⁓ to bring in and try and chase these teams down that are ahead of you. We recapped a little bit of what the Minnesota wild are going to look for. So let's move over to the leaders in the Pacific division, the Vegas golden Knights, Justin, they always seem to make the right move. What is the right move for them this year? It's hard to say, you know, maybe they already made it when they picked up Rasmus Anderson, ⁓ from Calgary earlier in the year. But again, they're another cap trap team. Now they do tend to have somebody get miraculously hurt. this time of year so that their cap goes up for the rest of the regular season. That may not happen due to the new playoff rules in regards to salary caps. I think they have one more move in them, maybe in their ⁓ bottom six to add some scoring. So could they be somebody who looks at Eric Hala like we had mentioned? They're going to have an extra goalie once Carter Hart gets healthy. That experiment's still going on. Do they dangle Akira Schmidt out, know, a 25-year-old goaltender who's going to be an RFA so he can have a little control over his future? He could be somebody on the way out. It's not going to save you a ton of cap room, but, um, it could be enticing for a team looking to part with somebody. Carter Hart. That's an interesting story. And for those of who don't know, Carter Hart was out of the league for a couple of years. He was the highly touted Philadelphia flyers prospect. How did the golden Knights view Carter Hart? Do they view him as just another piece or do they view him as a possible building block that just needs repetition? Do they? View anyone other than just another piece. mean, I don't know if I've ever seen a franchise is more than more willing to deal players left and right just to keep things moving forward. They do have him signed through next year. He hasn't been great in his return. Now part of that could be the rest. You know, he was involved in that whole team Canada mask controversy legally that kept him out of the league. So he's still getting back in. Like you said, after two, two years of not playing, he came back, he got hurt, but he wasn't playing well. So I think they'd looked at him as a bit of a flyer. What's his future with the team? That's always hard to say. So if he doesn't perform, they will get rid of him. He's got a salary that you could buy out with no problem at all. I think it's 2 million a year or something like that. It's not a lot of money, but I think they're going to give him another chance once he's healthy again, just to see if he could be returned to that kind of number one goaltender for him and then move on. If he can't, they'll move on from him. If he does, hey, great. They got themselves a cheap goalie. Justin just below the golden Knights are the Anaheim ducks. They're a point behind the golden Knights and they actually have a game in hand. They might be one of the bigger surprises of the league this year. It looks like they're finally going to make the playoffs after missing seven straight. Are they in a position right now? Like, Hey, we're just happy to be in the playoffs or are they going to go out there and be buyers and really take a run at this? think somewhere in between the two, are they happy to be there? Yes. Do they, do they want to. make their team a little bit better. I think that's a yes as well. I mean, when you got a bunch of young players on there, it is nice to make the playoffs. Yes, it is a good feeling. teaches them, you know, they're going to match up against one of the best teams. They're going to learn what playoff hockey is like. One nice thing about Anaheim right now is they do have the ability to take on some term. I think they want to make their defense a little bit stronger. You know, somebody we didn't talk about from Calgary would be Mackenzie Weigert. You know, he's got the long-term contract. but he is a solid defenseman. could be a top four guy for them and they have the cash space to take on a contract like that. They could go out and get Robert Thomas if they wanted to help their, you know, their center depth as well. But with all the young kids there, I think it's going to be interesting to see how they play it down the stretch. Pat Rubik is, you know, kind of a mystery as a GM. I don't think he's been in this position yet to where he's going to be a definite buyer as opposed to someone who's looking to. build future assets. So there, think they could be kind of one of these wild card teams in, in the playoffs or sorry, in the trade deadline stretch, moving down the road. Edmonton Oilers have made the last two Stanley cup finals falling to the Florida Panthers in both. Goaltending always seems to be an issue with Edmonton. And once again, the Tristan Jarre Connor Ingram duo has been bad. They have not been good. They're right now in the wild card spot. They could easily make the playoffs. It wouldn't shock me if they missed them. Justin, they just picked up Connor Murphy as we had mentioned for that second round pick. But what's their next move? Is it goaltender or are they going to do a little bit more work on the blue line? think they still have to do some work on the blue line. They needed help before Matias Cianmarc got hurt. Now he's on LTIR. I think he's pretty much done for the season from what I've seen. So Connor Murphy basically just fills that hole. It doesn't make them better. It's kind of a wash at this point. So I wouldn't be surprised if they go after another defender out there. I mean, the entire Conor McDavid stretch, it's been goaltending for them. They kind of pick around these edges and they pick up these goaltenders like Yari or Mike Smith or somebody like that, who they kind of hope get good. I think if they had committed to somebody, spent the resources to bring in a top name, God knows how many Stanley Cups McDavid would have right now. think if you're looking for where... Jordan Bennington might go, is Edmonton the answer there? Can they make that work salary wise? They're going to be tight against the cap as well, so player in, player out. How do they manage that? I know they put Andrew Mangiapane on waivers. He cleared. They'd love to unload that contract. They got him buried in the minors right now. I think they have some room to move. They're going to be another interesting team to see how they kind of maneuver to get back to the Stanley Cup to see if they can finally. reached the pinnacle with McDavid. He got the best player on the planet right now. He hasn't lifted the cup yet. At a certain point, you just got to figure out how to get a reliable goaltender in there. They've had two long seasons coming off of two Stanley Cup finals. Do you think some of this could be, we just don't have enough gas left in the tank? Yeah. They had quite a few players go over to the Olympics as well. know, McDavid was over there playing a lot of games. Leon Dreisaitl was over there. They didn't last as long, still, you know, he's out there playing. So yeah, fatigue is a real thing. think you saw it, you saw it in Florida a little bit this year. ⁓ these long Stanley cup runs and also test your depth. You know, people, role players get picked up by other teams on big contracts and you lose some of that depth. And if you can't replace it, then you're going to falter. I think that's a valid concern as well is that, yeah, they just may be running out of gas at this point. and McDavid and Dreisel just can't carry him as like they have in the past. That being said, they're also one these teams that if they get into playoffs, a short series, know, McDavid goes off, goes nuts. He can carry a team through it. So we'll see what they do over the next couple of days. then, ⁓ hopefully they figured out, know, I'd want to see Edmonton win. know a lot of people seem to not like them for some reason, but, ⁓ I would love to see McDavid lift the cup at some point. think the one thing that helps Edmonton is they're in the Pacific division. There's not one team that's run away with this. If they were in the central. Their only shot would be fighting for a wild card for Edmonton. It's a matter of just getting in in terms of speaking of a team that wants to just get in. It's the Utah mammoth. They are in their second season in Salt Lake city. have a ton of young players. have a lot of assets. This team Justin, I think is poised to really take a shot. think they're kind of in that same boat as Anaheim is right now, but they really want to make the playoffs that they've They were rumored in on the Artemian-Penneran deal. They seem to be going after Dougie Hamilton in New Jersey, which would take on a lot of salary. They have a lot of good assets in there. mean, they have some good young talent that hasn't made the roster yet, but like, know, Tijen Ignella, Daniel Piot, Dimitri Simashev, these are the high-end prospects that may not even have a role in Utah, to tell you the truth, just based on all the young players already in there. It's their second city, the second season in Utah. They want to make a splash. This is one of those teams like even if the jazz aren't good, you're still competing for eyeballs in this town. So they want to show residents of Salt Lake, residents of Utah that they're here to play and a nice deep playoff run would go a long way. They made that circuit show deal, you know, a couple summers ago with the Lightning. You know, that was a big, big move. gave away some, some good talent for it. So I think Ryan Smith is committed to building a winner here. And this could be a year. think they're in the perfect position as opposed to someone like San Jose. Maybe it's a year or two sooner. I think this is a perfect time for Utah to make a big deal and kind of go all in for a playoff run here. let's take a look at two teams. I'd say they're 50, 50 coin flips Seattle. Should they be buyers? Should they be sellers? And then Los Angeles, I don't think they should be buyers, but they are. Let's take first. Let's take a look first at Seattle. Justin. Who were they possibly looking at? Well, that's kind of an interesting, like, before yesterday, I kind of had these guys in a sellers category, but reports are coming out that they're not interested in dealing any of their unrestricted free agents. I know Eli Tolbin has gotten a lot of attention from other teams, but it seems like they want to kind of make a run here. Last year, they made the big deal with the Lightning where they got rid of Gord and Oliver Bjorkstrand, but... Again, that was kind of one of those grandfather or godfather deals where it was hard to turn down. This year, I think they're kind of low key buyers to tell you the truth. think they're looking for the right deal. Another thing, you know, you got to imagine, you know, the NBA is talking about expanding back to Seattle. You know, the crack could have had a nice little run here where they've been the only game in town. Um, if you discount the, you know, the Sounders and, and the MLS, but, you know, once they get an NBA team back here, if Seattle's an NBA town. It's going be hard for them to draw eyeballs when you're going head to head against an NBA team in this town. So I think a nice playoff from making the playoffs is going be important for them. think they got to show well, kind of show everybody that they are moving forward. They've only made the playoffs once in their four seasons, which you pills in comparison to what Vegas did as an expansion team. So I think they're one of these teams that it's kind of important for them to make the playoffs. And I know they were in on Panarin. ⁓ Played Friedman was reporting that he had heard that they had offered him a three year deal at $14 million a season. Panarin just didn't want to play there obviously, or else he probably would have jumped at that money. could they make a kind of a surprise acquisition? I wouldn't put it past them. They could make it work. It's going to be interesting to see what they do. mean, we're down to three days, four days before the deadline. I think they could kind of jump in and skew those numbers up and be a little bit more of a playoff team if they make a big deal. You had mentioned our Temi Panarin, Seattle offered him a lot of money for a guy at that stage of his career. They offered him a lot to try to go up to Seattle. Instead, he wanted to go to Los Angeles. The final team we're going to talk about are the LA Kings and Justin, they probably had the worst luck in terms of an Olympic injury with Kevin Fiala. Where do they go from here? It's so tough. This is a team. If I see any team making a. I don't want to say a panic move, but like ⁓ slightly desperate move. I could see it being LA. Like you said, they went all in on the Panarin deal. They traded out their best prospect in Liam Green Tree. And the thought is, all right, we're going to add Panarin to Kevin Fiala. know, Anze Kopitar is in his last season. They want to make a run. They don't want to miss the playoffs and, you know, perhaps the best player in their history, not named Wayne Gretzky ⁓ in his final season. But now not only does Fiala get hurt, Joel Armia is hurt. Andre Kuzmaco is hurt. Now they're both probably going to come back this season, but are they going to come back in time to make a difference? Ken Holland could be feeling the pressure right now. He's already fired his head coach. I don't know if DJ Smith is exactly the answer in the coaching department, but they had to shake something up. So we're going to see what they do down the stretch. Do they go all in on a Robert Thomas or something like that as a Hail Mary to make the playoffs here? I could see them being a team that just drains every resource makes a deal. And then they still get kicked out in the first round, which then touched them back a year or so. found it odd that the Kings fired Jim Hiller after they got back from the Olympic break. You think that if you were going to make that move, you would have fired them before the Olympic break. At least you have a chance to practice with some of the players that didn't go over to the Olympics. I just wonder if they right now are the poker player playing on tilt. And they're just trying anything to find a way to make the playoffs. That's a great way to put it. They're definitely, I, they do have that feeling of a team that's on tilt right now. And you know, you would think how has been around long enough to know not to do this, but at the same time, you know, he's got to defend his job too. And GME you'd rather get fired, throwing all your cards, you know, pushing all your chips to the table and then sitting back and not making a move and still getting fired anyways, because your team faltered. So. Yeah, they're going to be an interesting team to keep an eye on. think the entire Western division is going to be interesting coming this trade deadline. Like you said, it's not, there's a little bit more room for teams to move than in the East. think the East is starting to be kind of locked in. So we'll see what happens out West with all these fringe teams that are, you know, have a legitimate shot at making the playoffs. If they start going all in, maybe all the talent gets dragged out West. Justin, tell us what's going on over at Raw Charge. ⁓ just some more trade deadline stuff. ⁓ working on a couple articles right now, just to kind of take in a history, a look at the history of the picks that good old Julian Breeceball has dealt away at the deadline, see who they've turned into and kind of prove the point that, you know, draft picks are lottery tickets, man. So if you can use them to help your team now, it's always better than just holding on and praying that the player, you know, pans out for you in the future. So I he's had a pretty good track record with the picks he's dealt. Nobody's. come back to really burn them. So this is an interesting little deep dive. We'll probably have that up either today or tomorrow. And then look at a couple other potential may delve into the Nazim Qadri deal a little bit more just to see why he's not such a great fit for the Lightning. Even though he has a big name and fans love seeing big names traded for even if it's not the right fit. So we'll see what's happening. my own two cents. I don't want to see Qadri. I don't want three additional years at $7 million. You have a cap hit. also have to sign Darren Radish at the end of this season. You can only have so many players. The salary cap prevents that. You can only have so many stars. would rather them free up the money to have Radish as opposed to being invested in Nazem Kadri for the back end of his career. Just my own two thoughts. Yeah. Yeah. You know, you know, kind of. pulls into Vincent Trotek discussion. think Trotek's a slightly better fit for him. But again, how long do you want him for? Who are you moving out to make it work? That's kind of the big thing. The same thing with the Stamkos discussions is to fit this guy in not only salary-wise but role-wise. mean, you bring these guys in. Nazem Kadri's been playing first center minutes for Calgary for the last few years. What's his role going to be on the Lightning? You're not kicking Braden Point off that line. Cooper's not breaking up. Anthony Cirelli and Brandon Hagel. So are you moving Kandri out to the wing? Is he playing the third line center? What do do with Nick Paul in this case, you know, when he comes back healthy? So, you know, there's a lot of factors other than the stats that you have to look at. You got to look at fit, you got to look at roles. So it's, it's, that's what makes these discussions so much fun. What makes this time of year so much fun is, who's out there, who are you talking about and where does he fit and what's it going to cost you? So, you know, that's what these guys get paid the big money for. Well, that is all for back checking the bolts today. We're going to be back on Friday morning. We're going to recap the bolts games against Minnesota and Winnipeg, but we're really going to dig deep into the NHL trade deadline. The deadline expires on March the 6th. think it's at three o'clock Justin. That is right. Three PM Eastern time. It'll be three o'clock. So we're going to tell you who's moved, who's not, who still might be out there. The rumors are going to be flying. It's always one of the busiest days in the NHL. We're going to break it down for you right here on back checking the bolts for the managing editor of raw charge, Justin Godfrey, who you could see at www.rawcharge.com. I'm Jason Lankes. Thanks for listening and go bolts. Thank you for listening to back checking the bolts. We are free and available on all platforms, including Apple, Spotify, I heart radio, Amazon, YouTube, and Deezer. If you enjoyed it, please be sure to subscribe and leave a review. You can follow Justin on blue sky at raw charge.com. 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