Rod Brind'Amour

It gives you a chance.

It doesn't guarantee anything, obviously.

We still haven't reached that final step, but we got a chance every night to play, and that's all really you can ask.

No, I haven't had to do too much of that because we have good leaders.

But there's times where you got to get on them a little or I haven't had to that much.

That's the thing, the beauty of this group.

We just don't have to do that very often.

So, you know, but yeah, there's times and you get a little emotional back there.

That's more trying to fire the guys up than it is anything else.

You got to kind of know how to do that, get a feel for it.

But again, we have such a good group.

I don't really have to do that very often.

Right.

Well, there's another guy just the same every night, every practice, every day.

What you see, I mean, it's an elite defensive mind.

I think really what it is, is there's certain players that process the game.

And that's probably something we have to start doing better as like when you're scouting people.

Like everyone can kind of see the talent you might have, but how are you processing the game?

He's two steps ahead of everything.

And so that's what makes him great.