Experience Points: Darche’s Start

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00:00in the contracts he understands the cap and I think you know you can knock Lou for a lot of

00:04things I think some of it was you know maybe you shouldn't knock Lou for that but one thing Lou

00:07really struggled with and COVID played a part was managing the salary cap and Darch not saying that

00:13he's a better GM we have to see but Darch clearly has more of a grapple a grasp on today's salary

00:19cap and what you have to do to make sure your team is good in the short term but also like he said

00:23you're not cap strapping yourself you're keeping opportunities open for young players like Darch

00:27knows his prospect pool is actually a prospect to be proud of right now and knows that well there's

00:31no point in signing guys to four or five six-year deals if I have a younger prospect who gets league

00:35minimum or ELC that's ready to step in so I think everything Darch has done so far with the you know

00:40the cap space he did have with the assets he did have I think it's been a home run offseason given

00:45what he had to do like there weren't many options available to go get that elite guy you need in the

00:49cap space but I think Darch filled a lot of holes and we'll dive into it but so far so good for Matthew

00:53Darch yeah we're definitely