Dave Babich

Like he's such a good skater and he can play, you can, you know, he's got hockey sense, but it just seems that when, when there's a loose puck, he goes a hundred miles an hour when he doesn't have to.

And then I think sometimes once he does that, then he settles down, the play isn't there anymore instead of just, you know, kind of absorbing what's coming to him and making plays like that.

But both of them, I think, have great futures.

I think the other PD, you know, I mean, I think he's, you know, not that Swedes aren't tough.

Bit of a throwback, eh?

He's like an Alfie Samuelsson.

I played with him in Hartford, and Alfie was crazy.

Oh, he'd go after anyone.

He didn't care.

But, you know, good player, too.

Like, he could make plays.

But this kid kind of reminds me of him.

And, you know, he's got an edge to him.

Um, because you know, you know, a lot of Europeans, they just don't have that.

And when you, when you get one like that, that's, that's tough to teach.

So I think there's a, there's a good core there.

Even Mancini, like, you know, they, they got a good core there.

It's, it's more of just, you know, playing the hell out of them.

Let them make their mistakes.

I, I, I, I truly believe, and it's only my opinion that it's easier to coach on the bench.