Jason Strudwick

You have to go in there and just...

compete all over the ice, and just take what happens.

You might get down or you might get up, but it doesn't matter.

I think this is those moments you talk about learning and growing as a team because it's just not the same.

The playoffs are not even close to the same as the regular season.

But you're supposed to get that type of player when you're rebuilding.

That's when you're supposed to add those type of guys to the draft because it's hard to get them.

They're just growing on trees to grow, and they can acquire a true number one center because I think Dylan Larkin is a lower-end, first-line center.

And so that puts him as an amazing second-line center, right?

They're 100% right.

But who is the guy out there?

I don't know, maybe Austin Madden or whatever, but there's not many.

They're not just out there.

You can find a fourth D man a lot easier than number one.

Do you start again?

That's pretty crazy.

I get the better player quote, but that's a lot to ask because that was the job the last seven years.

Yeah, that's right.

Hell of a year.

What about Patterson?