Kelly McCrimmon

When you get a player that's been in one organization for a long period of time, it's an adjustment.

Everything about it is different.

Getting to the rink, where you fit into a locker room with new teammates, new coaches, in Mitch's case, switching conferences, that part's different.

But he's progressively got more and more comfortable.

I think he's played his best hockey in the last month.

uh interestingly he's ended up playing center which uh which wasn't uh in the plan at all but we've just had enough injuries to uh our centerman with william carlson and colton sissons both being out of our lineup with injury brett howden is a guy that can play center for us as well has been out of the lineup with injury so mitch has played center and he's uh he's done real well just finished watching practice here in boston and uh you know i kind of remarked myself how comfortable he looks there so that's where he's at for now and you know he uh

You know, uber talented, the hockey sense is through the roof.

The two-way play, I think, is something that we've really appreciated, and he's fit in real well with teammates, and we're very pleased to have him.

Yeah, it'll come with some emotion.

I think it's impossible to ignore.

He's from there.

He played there a long time.

He's had a great career in Toronto.

He's now a member of a different organization.

I think we got a bit of a...

precursor to it when Toronto was in our building you know 10 days or two weeks ago and that'll likely you know just in terms of playing against your the the guys are your friends for that first time I mean you guys all know that that's that's different so he's got that out of the way you know I don't know how he'll be received it's you know it's interesting in fact the night we played Toronto we recognized Nick Waugh who was with our organization for six or seven years and

And, you know, we did a real nice video tribute.

It gives our fans a chance to show their appreciation.

I think the player really appreciates it.

I know after the game, you know, I went over and shook Nick's hand, wished him well.