Sunny Mehta

I guess I would say that in part because of the things that I, my path to get to where I am and the things that I've done in my life the last 20 years or whatever, and including the last, well, probably 25 years or whatever, but including the last 15 years even in hockey, I think I'm a little bit probably different than most in terms of

really really trying to focus on the process and really really trying to ignore short-term results if i feel that there's nothing predictive in them um and i think even if you probably talk to some of my colleagues in florida they would they would laugh about you know just my my demeanor when watching games and things like that i mean for example i can remember uh

People constantly ask me how nervous I was during the first time we won the Stanley Cup in that series that went seven games against Edmonton.

And I can honestly recall I really wasn't that nervous.

And part of the reason was because, like, I remember thinking –

Well, prior to the series, we had about a 57% chance to win.

We won game one.

It went up to, I don't know, probably 67.

Game two, we won.

It went up to 77.

We went up to game three.

It probably went up to somewhere around 89, something like that.

And at each step of the way, it was just a continuum where I saw that probability never hitting 100 and never going to zero.

And in fact, the funny thing is, as nerve-wracking as game seven was,

We were never an underdog because they never had the lead in the series, or even in Game 7, Edmonton never had the lead.

So at any point, at every single point in that series, we were above 50% to win.

So I guess my brain just wouldn't let me get, quote-unquote, too nervous or too away from thinking in that way.

And I guess it's just hard for me not to think in that way because it's ingrained in me.

It's not something that I've really spent a ton of time getting hung up on.

no moves and no trades are obviously like, first of all, they're part of the cost of doing business and you know, whether or not we have more or less or whether we should or shouldn't have.