What's the mindset going into year two coming back after the first set? Is it, okay, we have to build on that, of course, but as you have those expectations of this is a really good team and you expect to go really far, does that change your mindset on how you prepare for a season?

Yeah, yeah, it does.

It absolutely does.

You know, I think it's important for us, especially coming into a new year, and there's excitement in a new year, right? All the guys get back to town and Guys are happy to see each other, and they're trained, and they're tanned, and they're lean, and they're ready to go.

So there's excitement that you have to build on.

So you've got to build on the good stuff.

We did have 50 wins.

Can you have success and view it as a successful season if that's not the end result?

What's the mindset going into year two coming back after the first stint? Is it, okay, we have to build on that, of course, but as you have those expectations of this is a really good team and you expect to go really far, does that change your mindset on how you prepare for a season?

Yeah, yeah, it does.

It absolutely does.

You know, I think it's important for us, especially coming into a new year, and there's excitement in a new year, right? All the guys get back to town and uh guys are happy to see each other and they're trained and they're you know they're tanned and they're lean and they're they're they're ready to go you know so there's excitement that you have to build on so you got to build on the stuff the good stuff you know we we did have 50 wins uh you know we're third in the nhl so we put ourselves there but When you do a deep dive, which we did, you do a deep dive into basically what top teams or the championship teams look like, there is room for growth for us.

We do have to evolve in those areas.

And that's what we did a dive into this summer.

And we do need some growth, especially in some of the offensive areas of the puck.

Can you have success and view it as a successful season if that's not the end result?

Just from your experience of playing, but now having had the opportunity to coach in the National Hockey League, and I'm sure get lots of feedback on practice from players, what are their expectations from practice?

Yeah, I think there's two main things for your practice.

And this is what I've garnered over the years.

You know, I've worked for some great coaches, like, and it's been great experience.

You know, I've worked for Dave Tippett.

I've worked for Todd McCullen.

I've worked for Ken Hitchcock.

When you go to Dallas and you've got a new set of pieces, Where do you start in terms of the power play and the structure and how you teach it? Like how much does the personnel matter or how much is it versus like, this is just my philosophy, regardless of who the personnel

I know you've been answering variations of this question all day, I would assume, but why would you suggest after four days now of reflection, what went wrong as an overview of why you lost to Minnesota in six games, would you say?

Well, I know everybody's going to go, and everybody has, and I'm not there.

But everybody's going to go to, you know, the five-on-five scoring.

And that's an easy target.

But I'm going to try to probably explain to you my take as I go through it.

And Minnesota did a great job of defending us.

They made it very hard to create offense, which is their job in the playoffs.

But in retrospect, do you wish you altered things, shook up the Johnston-Rantanen partnership earlier or anything like that come to mind? Or how do you feel about that?