Yannick Hansen

He could back it up, whether it was...

yeah, dropping the gloves or hitting or like, like the stick work, the cross check, the slash, like, like it was, it was everything.

As soon as you got within, it felt like 10 feet of him that the stick could reach you.

And then you're probably going to get it.

Right in the moment, not so much.

Again, it's one of those things.

It's individual accolades.

Later on, it is nice.

Oh, well, you recognized I did something above and beyond this year.

But right when you're standing there, it's more awkward than it's like, yeah, I'm not excited to skate from the blue line down to take a picture next to this trophy.

But yeah,

in the summer when you get a chance to reflect, you know what, hey, I had a pretty good year.

I did this, that, and so forth, and that brought me success, and I'm going to try to take that along and add to my game and see if we can build around that.

So it's one of those things that comes after the fact.

Yeah, it is.

Because of the fact that now there's no quick turnaround.

Those meager years you're alluding to, you still had Petey, Quinn, JT, Demko, all of these players, Bo Horvat, if you nitpick here which year you're taking.

Right now, the cupboard is so bare.

The excitement, the young players that are coming in, they're about to get here.

Like you alluded to, I got drafted in 2004.