T.J. Oshie

It keeps everyone in it, right?

You don't want to get around with 20 games left and have most of the playoffs already figured out.

I think it makes it more competitive.

I always loved games that felt important, right?

Obviously, all games are important, but some games...

When you're trying to fight a team for a playoff spot, especially those teams, when bubble teams play each other, in your mind, in your locker room, you're saying, this is a four-point game.

Like, we take two of their points and gain two.

And, you know, sometimes in those games where we'd play, like back in the day when Ottawa wasn't doing very well, we would...

You know, you get up by a couple of goals and I almost get a little less interested.

I'd still, you know, give it my all and go 100 percent.

That's kind of who I was.

But you get not it just wasn't as interesting when there wasn't a lot on the line.

So I love I think it's great for hockey.

I love it.

I'd like to see my caps a little higher up on the list.

But other than that, I think it is great for hockey.

No, that's been going for a long time.

They just finally snapped the right picture and it got the right amount of press behind it.

I sat next to them at the card table on the planes and it is, yeah, every day.

Every road trip stops, there's a little gas station on the way to Dulles and it has a subway inside the gas station.