Dave Babich

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.

to teach these guys from their mistakes than it is on, on, on video or any of that stuff, because it's fresh, it's there.

And, and you can, you can kind of apply it the next shift or whenever, whenever it comes again, um, you know, the X's and O's and getting stronger and all that kind of stuff physically and, and skating wise, you can do that in the summertime.

But when it, when it comes to the plays, because, you know, all these guys can skate and they can all play the game.