Ben Scrivens

Hey, listen, anytime we can take a shot at strutting while I'm getting dissed is A-OK by me.

I'll drag him down into the depths with me.

But undeniably, right, hockey is a dynamic game.

And when I played...

This exact same conversation could have and ought to have been had comparing the 2010s to the early 2000s, right?

It's like, look how much it's changed.

There's no clutch and grab anymore.

You know, you don't just have, you know, big behemoths on the back end who can't skate that are, you know, picking up, literally picking up sticks with their free hand and holding them and playing traps.

uh, suffocating, uh, uh, systems built for guys built around guys who had limited skating capacity, right?

The game was so much faster when I played then 10 years previous and that, that progression and that, uh, dynamicism, uh, of the game has only, uh, you know, progressed even further.

Everybody can skate, everybody can shoot.

I remember talking anecdotally about the worst player that I've played on, and I'm not going to name a name, because the point is he's the best player that the beer league guy has ever played with.

The fighters are the tough guys, if that's who you want to label as being quote-unquote bad hockey players.

I mean, they would not only skate circles, but stick handle circles around everybody that you know in your personal life, right?

The level is just that different.

And you now have a league and a style of play and an entire development system around –

Combining team play with individual skill sets, right?

You've seen it in the way teams have organized their front office and their coaching staff, individual skill coaches, you know, even the style in which...

coaches coach with.

It used to be a kind of a one size fit all, you know, either you were an old time gruff, you know, matter of fact, or you were a player's coach.