Aaron Ward

You know how serious Roddy is.

I guarantee that every single player that played for him wanted that shirt to come off.

Almost as like a final like...

Not only do we just win, but check out our head coach because he is like, yeah, that's who guided us.

yeah they do but they have to a they have to embrace the environment you got to want to be here and and the cool part was like so you see listen these interviews and when guys are most transparent is when they're tired and they let their guard down that's usually after they won and they're pretty like like blatant about expressing how they feel and you look at goss despair in one of his interviews yesterday saying like i came back he knew what they had here and and he had a desire to be here and the amazing part is if you look so we'll take the decor for example

Slavin played all-world last night, but Slavin was not consmithed Slavin through the Stanley Cup playoffs, which is a testimony to the fact that, as I look at that group, Gostisbert and Walker were the two best defensemen through the Montreal series.

I mean, the idea that Gostisbert...

And actually, it was Walker who ran over Dobish, and he's in the offensive zone.

That specific game, he was in the zone, rushing the puck up four separate times.

It's not a motley crew.

I mean, they have names back there, and guys are fully capable.

But the amazing part is...

They're all able to move their feet.

They're all able to play offensive.

They're all able to play physical.

I mean, look at the dish out that Walker gave on Carlson.

I mean, these guys understand what the job is.

They execute it incredibly well, and they're not going to go down, specifically maybe Slavin, yes, clearly for his accolades, but the rest of them,

They're there and they perform a duty without expecting like a major pat on the back or needing headlines.

And they do an amazing job at it.