Jason Strudwick

With 97, I see a player that's trying to do too much.

You know, there was, I think, three times last night, once on the power play, where he just gets all that speed, comes into his own, and takes on two D-men, tries to split them, then just shoots it from the top of the circle.

You know, he's a really good player, but those are fairly low numbers.

quality chances he's taking there.

He just wants it so bad, and it seems like he's playing really mad right now.

There's a difference between mad and intense.

Mad is you're just raging at everything.

Intense means you're in your flow zone, but you're still on it and playing intense.

So I'd like one of his teammates to pull over and say, hey, buddy, take a deep breath here.

And I think back to when Taze was confronted by Brent Seabrook in the penalty box against the Bruins in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Taze was all over the place.

Brent Sieberg went over and talked to him, and after that, Taze kind of found his game.

I think the same thing needs to be done with Conor.

Like, buddy, we're all here to help you.

And I think sometimes when you're pressing so hard, so hard, you know, he's fumbling pucks.

He doesn't normally fumble.

Missing passes that he doesn't normally do, I think he just wants it too badly.

So I think someone has to get to him, and it could be a dry sidle, a hymen.

And I'm not maybe talking off the ice.

Take him for a walk or anything down in Anaheim.