Bruce Kerlock

that's causing some of this, but it's not deployment.

It's just style of play.

Well, I mean, so if we talk about Boakie just for a minute, I think Boakie has always had this capability.

He's a different style of defenseman.

And I think when you talk about having a development group,

support a coaching staff, Boeke is the type of player that I think really benefits from that because he's

he's a little less physical of a player he's uh you know he plays the position uh you know different than a lot of players that very you know uses his four-way skating ability to defend it's a little lighter on the body uses his stick a bunch and some coaches can struggle with that

This staff actually didn't.

I mean, they were running him and Carfagno out there as a first pair for quite some time when they ran some injuries.

And Akey showed all of the things he had going for him prior to the shoulder surgery in junior.

And then he was really on a tear again and took a puck in the mouth and lost nine teeth and that set him back some.

Carfagno

That's the surprise to me.

I watched him a lot at Ohio State.

Good player.

Figured he could defend.

I'm telling you, there's some offense here in his game that...

Really intrigues me.

Like, really intrigues me.

And I, you know, I'm often, when I'm watching the games, no disrespect to Cam Dineen or Alec Regula, you know, I understand they're going to put Atra Lepinen on the first power play.