Paul Bissonnette
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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.
I'll tell you my first training camp with him.
He showed up.
all brand new gear skates out of the box trainer sharpens them goes on the ice during scrimmage dancing everybody best player on the ice and then once camp really got going um i think that that was like the the year after where he he got all these rookie bonuses so like i obviously wasn't with him the season before and he was on the bike we were next to each other and he got like a million dollar bonus check and frank bonomo went and dropped it off to him and i'm like what's that and he opened it and showed me and i was like a million dollars on a check
He didn't know how to say a word of English, so he just showed me, and he's like, I think he went and bought a new Porsche that week.
But I was going to ask also about Sid.
It's kind of weird, right?
You're close to the same age, and this guy is basically on hockey's Mount Rushmore.
Do you maybe consult with him more than you would a normal player?
When you're about to hire a head coach, do you have to be like, hey, Sid, what's up?
Yeah, it's pretty impressive unless you're doing the just for men's or something.
Okay, so I want to ask a fun one here.
If you had a genie in a bottle, and we could do three, but almost maybe if you want to narrow it down to one, if you could have one redo on a move you've made throughout your NHL career as a GM.