Mike Johnson

Now we're going to find out what else is there.

Quillen, Bo Gru, whoever you want to bring up for the minors, Cowan, Robertson, whoever it might be.

That's what these last 20 games were for, to see what you have in the NHL.

I mean, there's two parts to that noodles, right?

Like one, you could try tactically something different, whether it's lineup-wise.

I do, you know, the idea of tomorrow's in the wing, that's not terrible.

Because I think, you know, him driving the second line next year, it's centered that they probably should explore what that might look like differently.

Because I don't know if that's going to work as well for them.

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.