Darren Pang

I mean, what else are you going to do?

You know, you can't play the same way if you don't have your big horses.

So I think that's one thing I'm going to be looking at is what adjustments some of these coaches make when they don't quite have the horses down the stretch, but they need to get points.

And they need to get great goaltending.

That's obviously the bottom line.

You know, I would I would pay attention any time Leon talks.

You know, I think he's a you know, I think he's got that the leadership it takes just to say something nowadays is difficult to find.

I mean, it seems like so many guys are just afraid to say anything.

Maybe they say it in the room and we don't know about it.

But to come out and be angry and be disappointed and challenge guys, I like it, quite frankly.

So I think it goes right on his shoulders right away.

I think he knows and I think he's a great.

great enough teammate to know what Connor's just gone through.

I mean, he's gone through it personally himself the last two Stanley Cup finals, and he knows what it's like waking up the next morning and have that sick feeling in your gut that you have not won.

You didn't accomplish what you needed to accomplish.

And now he's looking at his good friend and teammate and going, boy, it just happened again, you know, with all the...

excitement about the four nations and connor scores the game-winning goal in overtime and austin matthews left his man uh to leave connor mcdavid open and now here's connor coming back on a three on three leaves his man and the the guy that gets the puck and hughes ends up scoring the goal so how does he feel of course he's gonna feel like he got kicked in the in the groin so uh to answer your question i i i i think that connor just has such an engine he turns on the key and he just goes

And so, you know, I'm not saying he's not hurting from this.

I'm not saying he's not disappointed.

But I think when he puts those skates on, you know, you're hard pressed to find this guy float through a game.