Mark Messier

So I love working with him, and I think the show is good because of him.

Boomer, let me tell you, because you're in the business yourself, the biggest fear that I had taking the job was I had to be critical of players.

It goes against everything in my instinct to be critical of players because I was always protective of my players.

But I realized my new team is the audience, and I've got to be actually...

very honest with my assessment, and if someone made a mistake, they made a mistake, and I have to point it out.

It's just the way it is.

It's nothing personal.

It's just someone made a wrong decision.

Amazing.

I saw his goal the other day when he went wide and then he scored again in overtime.

The kid is electrifying.

You talk about bringing in a...

a player to energize a fan base, an organization that had been struggling for some time.

This kid is a legitimate player.

The compete level is off the chain.

He's literally bringing his team into the fight every game.

The consistency that he's played with, and of course, like Scott Stevens used to say, no defenseman...

Up until they played 200 games, really knows nuances of the position, because it's the hardest position in the league to play.

But this kid has just been amazing so far.

Yeah, some... You know, you got to look...