Barrett Jackman

But just the way that he handled himself around, you know, he handled the trainers, the media, you know, the coaching staff, all that.

You know, one of the stories was on the ice with him.

You know, it was probably a couple games in, or I'm sure I, you know, served the pizza for a dash and get back to the bench, and I'm thinking, I need it.

you know, you know, just berated by, uh, by Al McInnes, but he sat down beside me.

He looked at me, he goes, Hey, you know, I think it was in the wrong spot there.

You know, where do you want me to be?

And I just kind of laughed at him.

I go, you're fine.

Like, you know,

I just made the worst play of my life and you're good.

So, but he just made you feel comfortable as such a legend and such a, you know, an aura around him.

But he just, he really just let me kind of relax and play my game and, you know, owe him a ton of my career because, you know, I try to treat people like that too, where, you know, he, you know, the guy's down, you pick him up and you try and figure out a way to get out of it together.

Yeah.

So obviously a very calm guy, if he's telling you, Hey, I need to be in, in a different spot, being a veteran like that.

So he probably was never snapping at all in the locker room then.

Oh, he snapped all the time now.

Okay.

So he had a quick wick.

No, it was, uh, no, he had a, he had a temper on him.

He was, he was nasty to the, uh, you know, his nickname was chopper and he, he was pretty good with a stick, but, uh, yeah, when he, when he got pissed off, uh,