Paul Bissonnette

Cause you know, so if you're pointing out, you know, Jack Eichel not stopping and starting then that, you know, usually the last, another guy will say, Oh, he's going to go after that guy.

He's going to, you know, he's going to come after me next.

So it's a little bit of, you know, solidifying what you want in your group.

But how you message, I think is important.

And every year I try to,

take something away from that and be, I guess, kinder and gentler.

But at the end of the day this year, I look back and,

we had a tough March, you know, and, and we were finding ways to lose instead of win.

So it probably should have brought more joy into the locker room and a little more fun than saying, Hey, let's tighten this up.

But that's a little bit kind of my style is take care of details and that can wear on guys for sure.

So, yes, I can see that happening, but you know, then sometimes they'll say, well, he's a short, I mean, I was in Boston six years and coach some, some future hall of famers.

And, you know, we found ways to win and Vegas was almost four.

It was, it was,

You know, so there's a certain part of it that certainly works, I think, Biz, that I don't want to change.

And there's other parts that I got to recognize that, you know, and it's not even players nowadays.

Like, you know, no one wanted to get, you know, sort of have a coach on them all the time.

I don't care what age you were, whether you were, you know, Leanne's and you're playing a long time ago, Biz Witt, you still want...

to be able to communicate well with players and allow them to have fun coming to the rink.

I think we did that.

We just, in March, it got away from us a little bit and I should have reeled it in better and found a way to get the guys to feel better about themselves.