Rod Brind'Amour

And, you know, it's not slowing down father time, but it's allowing you to enjoy the time you have a little better.

Yeah.

Well, five years ago, my strength coach, I got the best strength coach in the league, Bill Bernstein, and our medical guy, Doug Bennett, they went into Home Depot.

And they were trying to figure out to finish off your day with the lift.

And they put it on a scale, and it ended up being 35 pounds, this cinder block.

And it just hit them that that was the same weight as the Stanley Cup.

So they sent me a picture of it.

And I'm like, you've got to bring that in.

Bye.

There's Bill Bernstein.

That guy's the best.

literally the goat of strength coach so i you know we said we're gonna that's we're gonna finish every day we're a big detail team too like everything's details everything matters and we prepare for everything and so you know we didn't tell the guys for five years we had this thing sitting there we finished every day we lifted they did they thought it was you know it is represents the blue collar worker hard work you know remember somebody in your life that

you know, has put you here.

That's what you're lifting it for.

And I was kind of holding this back about, it's also preparing you for the day that you raise the Stanley cup.

And so five years, we've had this thing sitting there and I'm like, you know what, Billy, Billy comes to me and he says, you gotta, you gotta tell them the real reason that I was kind of going to wait till after we want, but we hadn't won.

So I'm like, we got to throw the chips in the table here.

And so I told the boys, you know, the real reason that we have this is because we prepare for everything.

And so your day you're lifting that is because when your day comes, you'll know exactly what you're doing with it.

And so that's kind of how that came about.