Mike Johnson

So stuff like that, lineup decisions, ice time, yeah.

Like that stuff, you can get creative.

You can try some different system stuff, like nuances and tweaks, try to explore different options.

But the one baseline, and listen, I played on crappy teams.

I played on teams that lost a whole bunch of games in a row at the end of the year.

So I've been in that sort of tailspin where you just can't seem to get out of it.

All you see is April 15th, and that's all you want to get to.

But yeah, I mean, if you're Craig Berube, at the very least, you would like this team that you believe in are wired to be competitive people and successful in the NHL.

play with the kind of intensity and emotion and commitment that every team has to play with to be successful and they haven't been able to do that you know again probably that's a lot of that's mentally where the understandings but yeah you'd want that and you'd want to demand it and and not even so much that they do it for you because you know doing it for the coach it's probably something that

It doesn't happen quite so often.

But do it for each other.

Sort of do it for themselves.

Like their own personal pride in who they are as a professional.

Somebody's always watching, right?

Somebody on some team's watching how these guys play down the stretch.

So, yeah, like just a more committed kind of game would be the bare minimum.

But I would also love to see them explore different options, different stuff on the offensive zone, neutral zone stuff.

Like try stuff.

Like who cares at this point?

Try stuff.