We're trying to continue to push this forward in a couple different areas.
If you have a chance to acquire a number one defenseman, you have to look into it whether it's through free agency or through trade. I say that, (but) that would've been the case a year ago as well. That's just a critical piece of a team. There's not 32 number one defensemen in the league. I was looking at this yesterday, there's probably 10-15, maybe, that really categorize as number one defensemen. It's a very small supply of those and they don't come available too often. If they do, you have to investigate, 'Does it work? Could it work?'. So, that's not really anything different today than it would've been two years ago. We're probably positioned a little bit better today, but at the same time, it's very difficult to acquire top defensemen, so that's no our only focus.
I think we like our depth on defense. If you look at our group now, we've seen some of our young defensemen take steps forward. Adam Boqvist, (Nicolas) Beaudin and (Ian) Mitchell, they all show they're NHL-caliber players. We've added Caleb Jones and Riley Stillman. We have a lot of young defensemen. Even Alec Regula got some time late in the season. I'm feeling pretty good about our depth on defense. I think now what we're trying to do is look up front maybe for some help there.
We do have some new players coming back. When I say new, we didn't have Jonathan Toews or Alex Nylander last year. We have Henrik Borgstrom coming in. So, we have quite a few players, and now we're trying to sift through that to find out what's the best combination and mixture for next year. I wouldn't say we have one glaring weakness or one specific area that we're only trying to address. It's more small improvements throughout our lineup.