Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, I think, you know, when you are seeking, I mean.

At one point in time, it is still a thing, but love and that consistent, slow affirmations and being able to be affirmed from persons in your life was enough, right? And you learned how to adjust to that.

But now, that culture of competing for... attention and affirmation has kind of changed the game and it also changed the psychology of how we think and process um connective uh connectivity right connectivity versus connectiveness you know human beings versus that artificial um bringing it together you know i mean that yeah yeah so i think it's it's It's complicated in some ways, but actually it is very simple in that we have entered a culture of needing that consistent affirmation.

Yeah.

outside of

we don't have to go through every minute detail, but you know, when did you start playing? What other projects have you might've been in? Um,

I started playing saxophone back in my high school band era.

Did you? Yeah.

I have a twin brother who was our drummer in Jackson Rider.

Okay.

And my dad was a music teacher.

He was very hands-off as far as, like, not forcing us to play music.

There are tape

Brett, let's talk a little bit about graduation, some of the guys that you lost and some of the guys that maybe you're going to be bringing in that you hope to fill the void from some of those guys that were impact players for you.

For sure.

Like with any coaching transition and I guess just today's state of college hockey, there's a lot of turnover and a lot of bodies coming and going.

We were fortunate to have an amazing senior class, you know, some that elected to stay during the coaching period.

transition and some that we brought in through the portal and through Long Island coming with me.

So it's always tough to say goodbye to a senior class, especially a big one, one that took a chance on me or us or the program.

But we uh wish them well there's a lot of them that are going off to pro hockey we have several going to europe several that finished in the east coast league one that got a sniff in the american league um and i know that you know all i want to say 15 of those guys will go on to do great things so they'll be missed um and like we talked about the end of the season they've set this next group up to hit the ground running here In terms of the new group, there's obviously a ton of bodies coming in, right around a dozen freshmen from all of the leagues throughout the CHL and the USHL.

What was the – as you've been through this first year, what was, say, the biggest thing that you got as far as – Like when you interacted with people, what was the biggest thing that you, you know, the thing you heard most often from the customers and from the fan base in terms of what was going on?