Jesse Granger

John Tortorella comes in.

He is more of a motivational guy.

He's not as X's and O's as Cassidy.

And I think that that did help them.

I think that maybe they were thinking a little bit too much.

John Tortorella comes in and tells them how good they are.

Telling players they're good is one thing, but a coach with the reputation and the cachet that John Tortorella has, I think he's a little more believable.

He comes in, he tells them, hey, you guys are a good team.

We're going to play.

If we're going to make mistakes, we're going to do it on the front foot.

We're going to make aggressive mistakes.

We're going to.

play on instinct and all these things that I think Cassidy had been setting up and laying the groundwork for I think Tortorella came in and I honestly it sounds weird but I think Bruce Cassidy deserves a lot of credit for the success they've had because I do think he laid the blueprint for this team and they just needed a different voice to come in and snap them out of the what the funk that they were in and John Tortorella did and now we're seeing the best of this team and like you said the experience in the Stanley Cup playoffs the experience of winning a cup a huge group of his players

have been to have won it all.

A few of them, Braden McNabb, William Carlson, Shea Theodore, have been, this is their third Stanley Cup final in the last nine years.

They've got all the confidence in the world right now, regardless of the score on the scoreboard.

Yep, you nailed it.

He's a huge piece to this team.

He is one of the best shutdown centers in all of the NHL, and he's been doing it for years.

I mean, you go back to that 23 Cup run.