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“People may say I’ve written him off. But not at all.”

We’ll see this summer.

BEST THIS DIDN’T AGE WELL

Sutter at the end of the 2015-16 season:

Sutter was then asked if he thought the Canucks would sign Lucic or Eriksson:

BEST REVELATION

What if you found out “mentoring” doesn’t matter?

What if I told you having a “veteran leadership core” is vastly overrated?

Who am I kidding? You’ve seen the Canucks for the past handful of years, you already know.

But what if there was a team whose success was actually predicated on not having culture carriers who had been with their organization for years?

What if I could show you removing this piece of the puzzle was actually empowering, not limiting, for younger players?

There will be graduate papers produced on the success of the Vegas Golden Knights the season.

A study of their team building alone could get your Masters.

“There was no real veterans, nothing like that,” Leipsic said.

“It was like something you’d never been a part of before.

“It was weird. It was this random group of guys that got together.”

Weird, because normally you show up and there are already institutionalized locker-room cliques.

“There’s usually a hierarchy on every team,” Leipsic said.

“There wasn’t here and that was one of the things that was really cool, especially for a rookie.

“Everyone was new. Everyone was trying to blend in.

“We all had something in common.”

Vegas’s top 10 point producers are all in their 20s.