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Personal connections feels like it's going to be a big tenant of what this group tries to do.

Just as a player, could you tell the phoniness sometimes if a coach wanted to get invested but it felt half-hearted at times?

How does that impact your approach then when you can see maybe a coach trying to do too much or fake it?

Okay, so when you phrase it like that, like, how does that become, like, the gap that teams fail to bridge of trying to change a player so much?

Obviously, there's some stuff that you want to accentuate, but that ability of, like, because we always talk about, like, okay, guys embrace new roles, and that's positive, but you see, like, the bad version of that as well.

Yeah, I think when we talk about development...

That's not necessarily like a technical thing.

There's elements that you're going to learn as you go through it.

But I think it's more about just like the professional standards because the technical stuff is meant to be your responsibility.

Right.

There are certain things like Manny's like if you're talking to a

40-goal sniper.

Is there going to be a relatability of how to do that?

Or is it an expectation that's like, hey, I don't want to coach these things out of you because that's what you're good at.

But how are there other things that you can apply to understand how to be the best version of yourself every single day?

So I think we get kind of caught up sometimes talking about what is development.

Development is also...

all the things that they've been mentioning here of the off-ice components of how you are approaching your career.

We say that kind of flippantly at times.

It's like, oh, he's had a good career.