Darren McCarty

But, like, you see that one through and get two points.

It was just huge.

We were pumped after it.

Yeah, it kind of leads me into the next question we have.

We were talking about coach of the year candidates, and this is one of those years where it feels like you nominate eight to ten guys because of jobs they've done.

You talk about Sturm doing that.

It seems like he's just hitting all the right buttons from the message into training camp

a guy who had a long career that was well respected and just like he's himself there's no bullshit there's no hamming it up he's just himself and like what has he done to this group and was it what has he instilled in order to like kind of get you guys firing the way you have and essentially overachieving yeah i mean he kind of laid his foundation right right at training camp like he said uh and i think the messaging has been great i think you know just the the team

for sure from last year, this year is just, is a closer knit team.

Like there's some more personality in the group.

So obviously that, that has helped us, you know, on the ice, but with Sturmey, he's just been great.

Like his strategy that he brought in of like, like I said, wanting to play fast, play behind teams.

Like, you know, he calls it the long game.

Like,

We're very quick to just transition.

We want to get pucks out.

It's not like Carolina where we want to flip pucks, but we want to get in races.

We want to make it hard and back you off.

You see a lot of teams that are playing like that now.

It's not fun to play against.