Rob Brown

They were in better shape before they got injured than we were after we had a full year, a full summer of training.

So I don't think it'll be very long for Leon.

I really don't.

I think that it might be a shift or two until you see what Leon is capable of doing.

So

Whether Leon plays game one, game three, game five, whenever he plays, I think it'll be two or three shifts, and then you will see the Leon drive so that you expect to see every night.

I don't think there will be long before you see Leon at his best.

This is what off-ice was when I played, and this is not a word of a lie.

My first ever training camp in Pittsburgh, Mario Lemieux was at that point just becoming the best or second best player in the world.

He and Gretzky were the two best.

His first day on skates was the first day of training camp.

We were walking from the, we got dressed in a high school gym, and we walked across this grass to the high school rink, and that's where we had training camp.

So we walked wearing all of our equipment, except for we carried our skates on our stick, and as we're walking to the ice, he had a cigarette in his mouth.

So this is like either 1 or 1A in the world at that point.

So yes, when I say the players nowadays are in better shape,

It is significantly better shape than we were when we played.

Well, some have certainly succeeded in these minutes.

You look at what Doc and Frederick have done.

They've been outstanding.

Now, they've played elevated minutes, and it looked more or less in the last little while they've been a third line.