Yannick Hansen

That's nice moments.

That's what it is.

You're excited for somebody scoring their first goal, whether they do it in a very important game in the beginning of the season, middle of the season, end of the season.

The same excitement because you know what it means and everybody has been there themselves.

Stepping onto the ice, wanting to get that first goal out of the way.

Feel like you've landed.

You've made a mark, so to speak.

Bluger, that's what you want.

I'm not going to mention culture.

I said it now.

It's one of those things.

We still want it in the team.

We still want it as an identity.

We still want the guys competing, sticking up for each other, protecting each other, because that can't fall apart.

That can't fall apart the next game, and it can't fall apart in the beginning of the season because, again, the young players you're going to bring in, in order for them to develop, they need to play with confidence.

They can't do that if they're running scared.

So they need to know that, hey, we go out there, yeah, we might get hit hard, but at least somebody will stick up for us.

Somebody will send a message that, hey...

to the line and no more otherwise uh we'll we'll come after you kind of thing so so it's good to see that it's still there and that's one of those things where bluger was one of the players we we talked about should they move him should they not like i i'd like to resign him he needs centers he can play down the lineup he can penalty kill um he got some grit to it as well he he

So it's like, it's one of those things where you don't necessarily want to tear it all apart and get rid of everybody.