Jason Dickinson

Well, I've got the TwitX machine, Bob, and from what I've gathered from Oil Country, they definitely miss him quite a bit.

It was a buzzsaw.

They brought the physicality.

If they weren't bringing the offense, they were bringing the hitting.

Yeah, it was really frustrating.

Obviously, I came here with one goal in mind and one thing I wanted to achieve.

And to go into the playoffs not feeling my best sucked.

It was hard mentally to wrap your head around it some days when I really was day-to-day.

Like, I would wake up, and if it was swollen or not, I could kind of gauge what I was going to be able to do that day and how much pain I could handle and if at all I could even get on the ice.

So, yeah, it was very frustrating.

We do have one.

I banged my hand on the table there.

Yeah, I've got it easy, man.

In my mind, there was no way I was not playing.

Whatever I had to do, I was going to be out there.

The mindset, you know, I got a taste of it years ago, and, man, is it fun.

It's the best time of the year.

You fight all year for this, and, you know, I was told early on that you got to savor it because you never know if you'll be back.

And I kind of chuckled at it early on because I was like, oh, yeah, you know, I'll be back, I'll be back.

And then five years went by, and I hadn't seen playoffs.