Ryan Johnson

I mean, the three of us, along with some other real great team, I mean, we bled together in this arena trying to win a Stanley Cup, and here we are years again willing to do it again.

No, and I think somebody had a question about, like, is it softness?

No, it's the environment.

There's so much intent to the environment that I'll create in the sense of the professionalism, the having a plan to every day.

And this isn't just players.

This is all of us.

I mean, all of us fall into this.

It's so much on focus of the process, the practice.

I always say,

I put so much value on how you walk into the facility at 8 a.m.

as opposed to 7 o'clock at puck drop.

Those are two complete different things, but that falls into, again, that professionalism and how you're approaching the day.

When I say quality teammate, people don't tend to go, okay, what, you just be a bunch of nice guys?

It's actually the opposite.

It's the responsibility to...

uh, to compete and to push each other.

Like we have to, to be a winning team, you have to win practice and that's hard.

Uh, and it's, it's competitive, but, and again, I, I come back to room awareness and, uh, being cognizant of your teammates of how are they doing?

How are they off the ice?

What's their emotion?