Jason Strudwick

you got to keep working because you know not everyone's going to make that it was drafted so that's really interesting it was an interesting year i helped coach the team uh you know morally this the higher skill is what i taught them obviously but it was fun you know and anyone who's been through it and just just being around it the energy of the boys or any team is a lot of fun so yeah so i was

Good day for him and for his buddies that also got drafted.

Yeah, so I actually brought that to his attention.

I said, you're now the poster boy of my camps.

It's not you, right?

The problem is he's a forward.

I run D-man camps.

It would be awesome.

Yeah, I played in Calvin, so we used to spank Tri-Cities for fun.

So hopefully it will be a little bit different now.

You know, we had Damon Lankow, a pretty good player.

Terry Ryan was there as well.

He shut him down.

Listen, I respect that Leafs fan being intrigued by coming to the series.

I guess he wanted to get a first-hand look at the two teams that will dominate the Atlantic in the next decade.

Wow.

I mean, I don't blame him.

Oh, I mean, you know, it's been disbelief, I think, in a lot of markets that are tired of the attention that the Leafs get all the time.

And, you know, the juxtaposition of how brutal that news conference was welcomed, I think, in the Toronto market.

And 24 hours later, the excitement for Leaf fans of winning the draft lottery.