Jim Hiller

Uh, but it's been exciting.

Well, I don't know that you can establish it on your own.

I think you just understand it and try to help along, try to do things in certain ways with the team or individuals or celebrate different moments or emphasize different moments.

I mean, it really is, it's kind of a nebulous thing, but anybody who's played sports and a team level sports has had the realization at some point that,

how did we get here?

Like, we were a good team, but I didn't realize we were this good.

And there's something that takes over during those years that you get on those types of runs, and I would call it the spirit.

It just, you become bigger than the sum of your parts, and there's a special thing that kind of carries you through.

And so that's really, you know, what I want to try to emphasize and try to work towards building with this team out of the gate.

I would say all of the above.

First of all,

you know, professional athletes get a lot of pride and this team has done, you know, very well over the last seven years since I, I mean, two years, we were three years in the playoffs and two years to game seven, didn't get the result.

So there's been a long string of, I guess, at least regular season success.

And what happened last year, I think, you know, nobody feels good about.

And so there's a, there's a starting point for sure.

There's a lot of players in the room who are well-established, you know, NHL players and,

um you know very elite in some of their positions and you can you can you can you know spread that through the lineup you can talk about a chris tan of who you know would be would be classified as one of those elite shutdown defensemen so it's not just the players you think about who score all the goals there's a lot of players in there with a lot of pride so you know i think that's a starting point for them without me at all but

I watch the league.

I've been gone for a long time.

I've seen the ups and downs of the team.