Barrett Jackman

It's like, you got to feel bad for the guy.

Cause there is a, a, still a pretty massive language barrier.

Like some of these guys who come over from Russia, they're Russian guys, like hardcore Russian, where we're talking, they might have a hundred English words in their, in their vocabulary.

And, and they're, they, they do have a translator, but you also go from being over in Russia where it's just, if you're a highly skilled guy in Russia, you're

They just care if you get points.

If you end up getting 80 points in the KHL and you never even cross your own red line, they don't give a fuck.

I remember when Witt went over there, he said he had one of the best games of his life and he didn't have any points.

And I'll hand it over to you, Witt.

You tell it.

And that's not how you build a culture and that's not how you build a winning team.

But the best part of that story, I don't know, I don't think you ended up finishing it.

Wasn't it the next game you had the fucking worst game of your life?

I think you were minus four and you had two assists and then he came up.

And that's the difference of, like, in Russia, the mentality and maybe growing up in that type of environment where he's okay playing, like, riverboat gambling.

And in the NHL and in really good winning cultures, and I'm sure in Rick Talkett's locker room, the play that Josh Doan makes at center ice, even if they don't go back and score, is just as valuable as him making an unbelievable offensive zone saucer pass backdoor.

And that's because now all of a sudden, instead of playing in your own end, you're playing in the offensive zone and you're investing in the game and wearing the other team down.

And that's eventually how fucking games are won.

So it's, it's this part of the fan base that like, I, I think Mieczkow is going to get there too.

I believe in his skillset, but if you're telling me that that player, the way he skates is

And how good this league is in an Olympic year where everybody knows you're hitting the ground running.