Barrett Jackman

There's no ease in process to an Olympic year.

You're playing night in, night out.

There's also no practice days for you to get back in shape when you came in out of shape.

So a guy who needed to have a big year for that team,

I don't want to say made a selfish decision, but I'll tell you what, Conor Bedard, they had to tell him to calm down.

Don't train as hard or as much.

I don't necessarily think that was the case with this Mieczkow guy where I think he kind of built his own fuck.

He dug his own grave in a sense.

And also, if you're that good of a player,

If you're even playing 15 minutes in a game and not power play time and not with a top six, you're going to find a way to generate five on five.

If you're that fucking good, and last night you saw that shift against Samuelson where he just gets pushed off the puck below the goal line with ease.

Those are the little things being a smaller guy would not break away speed.

You think Sidney Crosby was too good to work on his down low play?

That's where he makes his fucking bread and butter, boys.

That's where the real skill guys can get it done.

I think the Flyers locker room caught wind of it and didn't realize you were also being sarcastic.

So I had to clarify when I saw him.

Oh, really?

He was 100% fucking around.

Yeah.