Yannick Hansen

So you need somebody who can verbalize the systems, what he wants.

You need somebody who can communicate.

We called him the professor at the poker table.

He's got so many things going for him.

He's been there, done that, first round draft pick, been around the league, multiple different teams.

in situations where he's leaned on, relied upon, and also in the other end of the spectrum.

So he's a phenomenal person off the ice, on the ice obviously, but his approach to the game is meticulous.

His attention to details is very, very high to where he demands excellence not only of himself.

We all knew or know how good he was in the face-off circle,

expectation he puts on his winger Rafi and me here in this case to make sure that everybody was dialing every time we lined up for a face-off he told us exactly what was going to happen and what he wanted us to do and most of the time that happened now if we didn't execute and he lost the draw because of us we would get it afterwards because he helped

himself to such a high standard but also his teammates but without being a dick about it like in terms of hey we we got to do this you got to do this um we'll make it better for there and it was face-offs it was four checks it was back checks it was defensive zone coverage it was it was not just that one yeah he was a face-off age ace but but he has so many fingers everywhere in on the line like i know he doesn't play power play but but like

He was still in there because, like, hey, penalty kills, do this and that, and, like, maybe try to move.

So, like, always with an eye for just about everything.

No, like, when we played with him, it was like, who's going to do it?

Manny's going to be a coach right away.

Right.

Like, it was just one of those things.

Some of these players, people just have...

something to them and some some you don't see and they go through where they coach elsewhere for for 10 years and then they pop up but like you could see that he was ready to step into legitimate hockey almost right away as soon as he was done same thing with burr um a great eye for for for detail um for those things which made that transition a lot easier yannick from a player's perspective

I've been on both sides of that one.