When your playing career ended, what did you lose besides the opportunity to compete?

I mean, you know, people use words like identity and purpose and they talk about structure.

One of the things, you know, sitting here 20 years from when I stopped playing hockey, I think there's like three core things that I lost that are, you know, they're the reason I ended up in a Division I locker room.

And I think they're the reason that anybody ends up achieving their goals and being successful.

The number one thing I lost is I was so clear, Bill, for 24 years of my life on exactly what I wanted and why I wanted it.

I grew up in a house.

My father's a Hall of Fame high school and junior hockey coach in Massachusetts.

Everyone knows it's true.