Cara Gardner-Morey

So to me, it's just really exciting.

And once we kind of understand how it's all going to work, then,

you know, I'm kind of just chomping at the bit to get going.

First of all, I'm going to try to retain as many players as possible.

I think that the player roster was great.

I think that the culture that they had in the locker room and the

you know, the fans could see kind of their personalities on the, come through on the ice.

And I think that it was a special group.

So as many as I can retain, we will.

And then honestly, like it sounds, it sounds like a cop-out.

It's not, we have to see who gets lost really through expansion and then replace those pieces.

So overall, I think we ended with a roster that had a ton of skill, a ton of leadership and, and a ton of speed and,

and grit, and I'd like to increase, I think, the physicality a little bit, keep the speed, and keep that leadership and hockey sense.

Again, as much as I can bring the majority of this roster back and certainly like the core of this group, that's going to be my mission.

Yeah, I think, again, we just learned so much from it.

So now we've kind of learned like it's crazy, but like making a couple of phone calls before you show up at the airport makes that check in process so much more smooth.

So we learned we and we also like for our entire staff, we were seeing facilities and buildings for the first time.

And that might not sound like a factor, but, you know, we're just learning so much of where to go now.

that maybe we're missing some pieces so that we can get the players better prepared for performance.

So for me, I think that it's going to feel a lot different because things are going to feel familiar and we're going to know what we're getting into ahead of time.