Ilya Morozov

So I'm not making plays and I'm not able to.

For whatever reason, I got to be able to be reliable on the penalty kill or in the zone for important draws.

And when that kind of starts to fall in place for me, I can kind of feel like I've had an impact on the game.

Definitely.

I think my skating still has a long way to go and I want to be faster and more explosive and stronger.

But I think even from the beginning of the season until now, I've put in quite a bit of work and kind of seeing my skating kind of improve and that pay off a little bit.

It's nice to know that I'm on the right track to where I want to get to.

Um, yeah, I don't know.

Maybe, um, uh, maybe, uh, the world juniors break.

I kind of went when a lot of our top guys were kind of gone and, um, I got a lot, a lot more, um, opportunity and kind of chance to show, uh,

try and be a first-line center on a team and be a leader.

I kind of felt more confident and trusting my abilities more because if we wanted to win games in that stretch, we needed guys to step up.

So that's probably a part of the season where I realized that I can produce and I was pretty confident in my game.

Yeah, definitely.

I mean,

He didn't play this season, but Alexander Barkov, I really like watching.

Andre Kopitar, I've liked for a long time.

Jonathan Taves, when I was younger, I loved watching him.

But, yeah, there's so many guys.

I mean, a guy like Celebrini, obviously, so elite, but he's praised for how he doesn't cheat the game and how he plays.