Justin Bourne

It is really hard.

You know, I kind of feel for these guys just a little bit because, first of all, you will take any chance to be in a National Hockey League, put on a National Hockey League jersey under any circumstances, and that includes preseason.

But it's not the most ideal to come in because...

you know, the team sucks and they want to lose and... You could look at it as a bit insulting, right?

It's not ideal that your first NHL game comes because, you know, it's not like...

You know what's ideal?

You crack a lineup and you're in game one in the opening of the regular season.

That's the ideal scenario where you went through a three-week training camp and you beat other guys and you won it on heart and merit and all of that.

That's the most ideal.

Of course.

But...

Now you're watching this team, and, you know, everybody's telling them to lose, and everybody wants to end the season as fast as you can, and now you're going to try to have the best experience of your life, right?

It's not ideal.

Like I said, you'll take it.

It's a weird spot.

It's a weird spot.

Not last night he was.

He was horrible.

Yeah, you got to call a tow truck because he put it in the ditch.

It looked like... Yeah, I mean, that just doesn't look necessarily right.