Barrett Jackman

What, like, if you don't mind me asking, what happened to your father?

My parents just, they split up.

I've divorced my dad one way to, uh, to work.

So didn't see him a lot.

And yeah, so my mom, uh,

just kind of ran things and yeah, I had to be, uh, you know, kind of the, uh, the man of the house pretty, uh, at a pretty young age.

So that was part of, uh, you know, what kind of, you know, built the character that, uh, you know, hopefully I have right now.

Yeah.

A couple of guys that I reached out to that, you know, what they said, it was like, you were almost like a father figure and taking care of young guys when like Oshie and those guys came up, but that you got to credit that to, you know, as a kid being the only man in the house, you kind of be in the, being there for your mom and your sisters.

Yeah, it was a huge part of it.

And, you know, just a lot of father figures.

Yeah, I had a guy by the name of Hank Dedmarsh.

It's Adam Dedmarsh's dad that was their GM and really, you know, kind of helped me out when I had those tough questions about whether to go to junior or college.

And so when you have a guy like that, and then, you know, I looked up to Der, Der was a couple of years older, but, you know, I watched him, you know, his career kind of take off and

You know, you got role models like that in a small hometown.

It was pretty special.

Oh, yeah.

Be seen, not heard.

You sit in the corner.

The biggest part about that team, we hung out almost after every game.