Paul Bissonnette

I don't think anybody expected this, and you made some very ballsy moves in the offseason, and I guess we could start with Dan Muse.

You probably have this pressure on you to get Crosby back to the playoffs with this group, and

Just hiring a coach who's never been a head coach in the NHL.

What was that process like for you?

No way.

So he, he seeked out Bonino and Kloon and that was all his doing?

That's awesome.

I mean, we could keep going down the list.

Like I was talking about it on TNT because we had you yesterday about you should probably be top three nominee for GM management of the year.

Who do you credit like along with you and the rest of your staff?

Because you look, I think Jazz pointed out like 10 or 11 guys have had career years.

You brought in guys like Brazeau, Mantha, Novak having a career year, Chinnikov, who that kid is so fun to watch.

It's like the rebirth of Jake Gensel, especially at the fact that he's got the 59 on the jersey.

The Wotherspoon, the fourth line in general, has been probably the best, most consistent fourth line.

So who helped you this offseason carve out basically this retool on the fly that's allowed this core group to now get another shot at Lord Stanley?

A couple fuck you matches here and there?

Trying to bully him into a contract.

It's almost like he's playing like little media games, like trying to get things stirred up.

Oh, yeah, fluent, fluent.

Yeah, you want to talk back check or Michelle Terrien's calling you in the office, all of a sudden you need Gonchar as an interpreter.