Ryan Johnson

Discussed their vision and their plan for this and asked if he wanted to leave this journey.

With Elias, I mean, we've been through this as players, exactly what he's been through.

You're going to have some really good seasons.

You're going to have some tougher seasons.

What we found after a long career, looking back, is that the best seasons we had, we were well prepared to our days point.

That is everything you can control.

It's how hard you work in the summer, mentally ready to go when training camp hits.

So I think that's the one message to him is preparation.

And like I said, we had some bad seasons too.

And those times we maybe didn't prepare the way we should have.

Well, we're not going to talk too much about the past.

There's certain things that needs to be in place for us to be able to win on a consistent basis.

That means your best players needs to be the best leaders.

They got to come in every day and lead the right way.

And that's what we're going to ask for this team moving forward.

That's all we're going to say.

And to be honest, I think the last 15, 20 games last season,

I was extremely excited when I left the rink after games because I saw something special happening with that group.

So I think there's a lot of good people in that room that want to do well for this organization.

So that gave us all hope, I think.