Barrett Jackman

We used to call Mike Pitchens a little ball of hate.

Was he the same way?

Like you'd be at the rink at seven in the morning and you get like sucker punched in the kidney.

And you turn around, it's Mike Kitchen.

He's like, good morning.

You're like, what?

Dude, it's eight o'clock.

Oh yeah.

No, he always said brought the energy and, uh, uh, always enjoyable.

He, you know, he, he was so passionate about the game and, uh, you know, it was so good at, you know, clipping some, uh, some things.

Jamie Coppon was the, uh, the video coach on the, you know, the VHS and VCRs going back then.

But, uh, yeah, Kitch was, he was awesome.

He was, he was really good to me too.

And,

uh we got brought the energy and brought the kidney punches and you know suckering every once in a while make sure you're awake and and and ready to go i thought that q story was gonna end up like him basically teeing you up next day at practice we got guys being unprofessional showing up hung over get on the fucking line and then bagging like what what just happened mind games 3d chess we had some of the crazy older guys that were doing that anyway so it was it was all good

Al McInnes, just going back to him, like as a veteran and playing with him, like what are the things that he taught you and just being around him?

And I mean, I'm sure you were aware of him and watched plenty growing up to know how big of a legend he was, but just like, what was your experience in getting to be around him?

No, he was so professional.

Best shape guy.

You know, he'd jump on the VO2 bike, and, you know, I think it was about five minutes in, like, okay, yeah, you're going to break this thing.