Gronk (Rob Gronkowski)

It wasn't like his offensive numbers were really jumping out over the course of the season.

Witt did mention he talked to his father over Olympic break and kind of something clicked, but were you kind of shocked at the fact that they even gave him the opportunity and stuck with it going into playoffs?

I never really got a chance to see you play at North Dakota.

I did.

Okay, so this was your second full year in the NHL.

I guess I didn't realize how much – rat's not the word, but you play with a certain intensity.

You ain't backing down.

You could be a big shit disturber.

Did you always play like that, or is that just kind of something you slowly progressed and added to your bag?

Because you kind of have to play with that edge, especially if you want to be successful come tough times like playoffs.

Is that a conversation maybe you had with your dad going in?

Like, do you lean on him for a lot of that advice?

And I'm sure he was huge in your development as a player, just being able to bounce back and forth off of a guy who played in the NHL for as long as he did.

yeah i was at go ahead but sorry i was just i was looking uh because yans brought up development and josh doan uh he played with the chicago steel and fantilly adam fantilly was on that team matt cornado josh doan was on that team ian moore like talk about an unreal place to go in the ushl to develop and like get everything going yeah i mean we've that was a special group they did a unbelievable job with drafting guys there and

Sorry.

You mentioned the high school element.

Were you able to go back and play in that high school tournament in Minnesota as well?

I was going to go to Jordan Stahl.

What a leader.

Whit actually played with him when he first got to the league as well in Pittsburgh.