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It is a responsibility to kind of spread the attention around a little bit.

And when you got two kids who ended up playing AAA hockey and then junior hockey and college hockey, it's like, there's enough there already.

I think we didn't really transition to like full, full time until more in our teenage years, like 14, 15, like for a random time.

Like, I don't know what's like, we had the select, uh, stuff starting at 15.

And then they, what they kind of moved away from that into like more towards the NDTP, uh,

I said that backwards.

Sorry.

Something like that.

When that kind of came on, the select stuff changed a little bit, but that was all before.

I think my age group was the first national team development program age group.

So, yeah.

Yeah, I think around that 15-year-old year was, I think, more serious because we had a lot more summer stuff.

And then the 16-year-old year, I think we had some Colorado stuff for USA Hockey.

And you'd go by your sections and get invited based on how you played in your region.

So as I started getting exposure to that, I think that's when the full-time stuff kicked in.

And being exposed to my cousins who came before me, I can't discount the fact I got to see them.

And they were kind of, I feel like they were kind of like, my cousin Kelly for sure inspired his younger brothers, Kevin and Kip, because he was a year out.

He's a dog in a bone.

He played like almost 1,200 games, I think, in the NHL.

And the funny part about him is he didn't play in the American League until he was coaching and they needed somebody to play when he was coaching in the American League.