Rob Blake

You know, and Jacob Doty's doing it now.

These guys have been around, but it's so important for the kids to understand and see how special the NHL is.

And if that's stories or whatever it is on the road,

You know, but like you said on the development, we continued that here.

Our development staff, it was Sean O'Donnell, Matt Green, Jared Stoll, Mike Donnelly.

And they had a little slogan above says, I wish I knew that when I played.

And that's how they were.

Every day they came in and they said, God, if I knew that when I played, you would tell these kids that.

Right.

And you help them and you help them because you only get so many of them and you work so hard and you want them to do it.

But the development is so important.

but did you understand the impact you had on the kids?

Like, like do the good veterans know that later on?

Yeah, it's been a little different that, that way.

I still follow these guys and talk to these guys every day and understand it.

But, uh,

yeah and like i said involved a little bit with the youth hockey and doing that's kind of keeping my time but hopefully uh as we go on jumping back into somehow so you would like to get back involved i just i enjoy the game too much that's your life that's what we do right yeah you know and we're going to be around it in some form or some fashion we've talked a lot about the game being so unreal right now like it's the speed the skill

You know what I mean?

Maybe a little bit on the rivalry side.

Like, I caught the end the last couple years of Colorado-Detroit.