Manny Malhotra

I'll do it, but tell me why I'm doing it.

And I feel again, that communication and letting them know why we do things allows them to play again, a little bit more free, a little bit more on instinct, knowing that they just need to create a certain situation by any means necessary.

Yeah.

Well, for me, it's because I've worn a number of hats throughout the game of hockey and

I feel I have a pretty good perspective.

So when my playing career ended, I started to get the tail end of a different generation and understanding how their minds worked in that time.

And then as an assistant coach, you get to know the guys a little bit better.

And again, there's been an evolution over the last 10, 15 years in the athletes.

But yes, having kids and coaching minor hockey and

gives me the perspective in a lot of sense knowing

Well, obviously I'm incredibly proud of all my kids.

For me, the thing that got me the most was watching the work that he was putting in and the commitment to his craft and understanding what it took to elevate his game and be better and wanting to be better and then seeing those things come to fruition and seeing him

climb the ranks for me.

I'm extremely proud of just watching him evolve as an athlete.

But the thing that, that makes me being the most as a dad is when I hear scouts or somebody say, Hey, he's a really polite young man.

Like he's, he's a good kid.

And for me, that's, that's the most important thing.

The hockey is, is his part of it.

But knowing that we've raised a polite, empathetic,

good young man is the comments that make me the happiest.