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But when you're not playing against your peers and you're playing just against the best of the best and you're playing against men, there are a lot of lessons to learn.

And I don't think you can just take on lessons like a fire hose.

You can't just be like, okay,

Just hit me with it.

I'm ready to learn.

It's like, you have to absorb everything the right way or else you're not going to sustain.

So it all kind of worked out as it should.

And, you know, it was a good decision.

I had time to kind of prep myself and

You know, this is really the internal battle first was in the organization.

Like I got to carve out a spot and I got to show them I can play.

Like it wasn't about being like, okay, I did it at this level.

You guys make room for me.

It's like, well, I got to be realistic.

like trying to develop nonstop only a certain amount of rest training six days a week like what was it like leading into to trying to get to where you were I think as a really young kid I we had seasons like my dad would let us play both my brother and I and my brother played in the NHL for a long time and

he would make us play seasonally.

Like, okay, you get like one more spring tournament, then it's summertime.

Like you guys are playing baseball, doing something else.

Like there's four of us in our family, four kids.

And, you know, you can't just be running around for 12 months out of the year when you have four kids.