Rick Tockett

And I think he's really helped that closeness of the team.

It's a very close group.

It's a young group, but it's very close.

And I think he's part of that.

Well, I mean, when I was talking to Danny and Jones, you know, about the job, you know, they really stress that, hey, this is, you know, we're getting close to the end of a rebuild.

You know, we want to start stacking some things together, right?

We don't want to always be sellers at the trade deadline.

I'm not sure this year they expected, you know, to be where we're at.

So I don't think things are going to change.

I think there's still, you know,

want to progress in the same manner.

You know, sometimes the coaches we get answered, we're like, hey man, can we go get this?

Can we get that?

But we, you know, I also understand why I took the job and the task at hand and the plan.

So, you know, I bought into it and I'm all in.

And so, you know, I think I got to be judged on, you know, obviously you get judged on wins and losses, don't get me wrong, but it's, you know, can you get guys to play better?

Can you develop guys at the NHL level?

Things like that.

And I think that's,

something that I've been trying to do this year, trying to put the culture in.