What do you think it is about your Finnish background that has helped you be so successful?

I think I'm different than most coaches in the USA that I'm very transparent.

I'm very black and white.

I don't think our players ever question what is their role.

I straight up tell them, like, if you're a fourth line wing, I will tell you you're a fourth line wing and I'm not going there telling you that, well, you would be a first line wing if we had nine players who all of a sudden... got a stomach flu like that's just not who I am I'm telling you this is where you are even and I'm not afraid of the transfer portal I have those transparent conversations before the transfer portal opens up this is where I see you next year are you able to handle it are you gonna be happy here or do you want to go the different route versus sugarcoating things and telling that somebody's gonna play second line and for real they're gonna play fourth line for me that I think that that's the big difference between me and a lot of the US coaches that Especially there is a thing in Minnesota that everybody, it's the Minnesota nice.

People like, and then it's just behind the back there, they're saying something else.

So I think that's what's separating me from other people that I'm not afraid to be transparent.

Maybe give folks the update and how that impacts like the actual hockey that you actually play given the different size of the rink.