That's right

... really skating, I wasn't really practicing.

And, like, going into it, I'm like, "Man, like, this is...

I don't know how I'm s- supposed to play, blah, blah, 'cause I feel awful." I barely slept that night, was sweating all night, and then I end up having a great game.

So then you take that, and now next time I'm not feeling so good, maybe I didn't have a good pre-game nap, or I didn't have the best sleep, or I'm feeling a little under the weather or whatever, I can look back and say, "Hey, dude, you did it then, you can do it again now." And it's just little things like that build up over time, and I think that's why NHL GMs and teams value goalies with experience so much, is because they can always reach back to that toolbox that you really only can build with your experience playing in the NHL, and then they can use that for games going forward.

So that's something that I really wanna continue to build off of, is just taking one little step and, um, continuing to build that experience.

Uh, what's it like, what's it like coming into a season knowing that, hey, there's, you got a two-year deal, and, and, like, there's a little bit of, of that security? What, what does that feel like? And, and I know that for a guy like you, it's not gonna change the edge or anything like that, but just to, to have that little bit of security, what does that feel like?

Yeah, it's nice.