Landon Ferraro

It was everything I wanted to do.

But in saying that, I still had to make a choice.

Is this what I want to do?

Because I'm going to have to give up a lot of hanging out with my friends, just getting to be a normal kid and doing all that.

But you love something, you want to pursue it, you stick that way.

And

I remember my dad always telling me one thing, and it's funny, right?

When you're hearing it as a teenager, you hate it.

And now you're older and you're like, it did make a lot of sense.

But I remember him telling me, you can mess around and have a ton of fun in school and still become a doctor.

You can't mess around and still become an NHL player.

It doesn't work like that.

You have to commit from a young age and go for it.

everything that I thought it would be.

And then the reason on top of the on ice, why, you know, I wanted him to be the next head coach and thought it was the best decision, but it's everything else.

Like, look how we started today.

Right.

Like something as simple as I would never have thought of it.

I don't know what that says about me, but it was saying like, I don't want to start, or I don't want to get to the end and go last, but not least.

And he started with thanking his family.