Are you looking for a Blueshirts' saviour for 2025-26? Look no more; The Maven has found him.

He's from Toronto – who isn't? – stands 6-3, 210, age 22,  plays left wing and is a straight shooter.

I'm talking about Will Cuylle and his merry band of maulers who now go by the name of  "The Spirited Sextet," because I like that handle.

Count 'em off, if you will, Cuylle, Gabe Perreault, Brett Berard, Brennan Othmann, Braden Schneider and Matt (The Romper) Rempe.

"These are the young guys who are gonna return the 'spirit' that was missing from the team last year," promises The Old Scout. "They're not jaded like a Zibanejad nor a fat cat like Alexis Lafrenière. You can tell by the youngsters' plus-minus."

Commodore Cuylle, who does everything right from checking to scoring (20 goals), to fighting, will lead the sextet by example. Willing Will was plus-12 with his 45 points and 42 penalty minutes this past season. (That's a good balance even if you don't have a balance wheel.) 

"The only one of the six that we don't have a good read on is Perreault because he only had an NHL cup of coffee," adds The Old Scout, "but all indications are that he'll be a winner."

Schneider is the only defenseman in the sextet. Trust me, a good 31 other NHL teams would love to have Braden on their blue line to avoid suffering blues in the night.

At that, Schneider went plus-9 last semester and, get this – no snickering in the cheap seats, please – the one and very only Matt Rempe came away with a plus-7 which is roughly equivalent to the Statue of Liberty doing a Cha-Cha-Cha.

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The Old Scout: "Berard is like the Poor Man's Cuylle. He'll hustle like crazy and – like Brad Marchand in Florida who's also 5-9 – size does not matter whether this is a big man's game or not."

Conclusion: Playing their hustling game, this group is capable of establishing the zip-a-dee-doo-dah spirit that was so conspicuously missing last year.

And, please – PLEASE! – don't tell me that at 23 Will Cuylle is "too young" to be the captain.