Greg Wyshynski

He could be that.

I remember talking to Landis Kog about that, just like the idea of sometimes you walk from the bench, this guy skate, and you're just like, who on earth is stopping this?

Who on earth is getting in front of this?

The other thing about him, too, that's the separator and the point of demarcation between Nathan McKinnon and almost every other athlete I've covered is losing is a poison he needs to expunge from his body.

Like I we've I mean, Sid was the same way.

There's other guys that are the same way.

We always hear coaches and GMs talk about it.

And this has been the case in like places like Columbus, like they don't hate losing enough.

Right.

I mean, there hasn't been a moment where you've talked to Nathan McKinnon in the last decade where after a loss, it just looks like he just he needs to cleanse his soul, right?

He needs the win.

Like someone needs a fix of a narcotic because that's how bad his body feels when he doesn't get it.

It's really like one of the most remarkable things about him and what makes him just the elite of elite tier athletes in professional sports.

If he was a politician, he'd crumple up the talking points and throw them over the stage before he walks on to just talk extemporaneously about how much he hates high taxes.

They didn't execute, though, Merrick.

I watched that clip from the Denver site.

First of all, he said it like twice.

He didn't say it five times.

In his mind, it's five.

It felt like five times to Nate.