Evan Bouchard

For me, I'm not going to go run around and be the big, heavy, hard defenseman to...

usually play against.

I try to do that with having a good stick, denying blue lines, I think little things like that.

The ways that I'm trying to especially evolve on the defensive side of things.

I think it's a lot of game film.

You watch yourself play and you can

See little things, if it's gapping up a little better at the offensive blue line to make things easier, denying the blue line, little things like that.

Playing with a guy like Eki makes it a lot easier.

If I try to do something, make a mistake, he's usually there to cover up for me, so that helps too to give you confidence in the D zone.

Yeah, I think everyone's very much on the same page out of the disappointing year for

for everyone as a group.

Like I said, I just don't think we were a complete group, everyone on the same page, and I think everyone's aware of that.

I think everyone's really going to push to get back to where we were last season, a couple of seasons ago, to get back to getting the end goal and not getting to the cup finals and winning the cup this time.

Yeah, that definitely doesn't help when you've got four guys that got injured.

But at the same time, it's time for other people to step up.

Unfortunately for myself, I didn't do that.

I think there were other guys that could have stepped up a little more too.

But in the end, we're a team.

When guys are hurt playing through injuries, you really have to find a way to step up.

A few of us didn't do that this series against Anaheim.