Thomas Drance

Just for showing up.

You've already gotten an A because your team is bad.

Yannick, two of your countrymen were on the winning side.

I believe they're the second and third Danish players respectively to win the Stanley Cup.

What's your reaction to what Ehlers and Anderson were able to accomplish, you know, both from a Danish context, but also just knowing them as you do, I'm sure.

One of the other sort of interesting things about the construction of this Carolina Hurricanes blue line, or sorry, not blue line, team, Yannick, up front,

Right.

Five, eight first line center, six foot, probably generously listed second line center.

You've got a trio of six footer under wingers and Ehlers, Jackson Blake and Seth Jarvis filling out the top six.

This is not now.

I know Jordan Stahl was immense for them and it's Svechnikov is a big power forward.

So it's and their blue line is relatively large, although it also has two sub six footers on it.

But in terms of the heavy skill guys that were sort of winning the battles and winning the games at the pointy end of the season, like this forward group didn't look like what we're used to seeing dominate June hockey.

Yannick, the way that Carolina plays, it feels like they're able to get more out of certain types of players.

Specifically, Keandre Miller, who played number one minutes for them at five on five throughout the playoffs.

Often a guy derided in New York for his hockey IQ.

And all of a sudden, you know, goes to Carolina where they play such a specific brand of hockey.

The man-on-man in the D-Zone, and very rarely are they carrying it up ice or trying to even skate over a single line on the ice with possession of the puck.

It's all punted.

And he looked great.