John Michael Lyles (78:18)
Well, I would say like he's not like, I don't think he's changing his coaching philosophy, right? Like you, you're, you've been in a place for 10 years, right? And you've got some, some guys that like, like Nate, like Nate is, he's super intense and so I think he's got a great relationship with Nate. If you don't have a great relationship with Nate, you're probably not lasting very long. Let's just be honest, right? Like it's, I mean he is, he's the alpha in the room. And like, what I'll say is, first of all, Gabriel Landiscog coming back is a huge, huge ad, right? Like coming back in the playoffs, you're running on full adrenaline now. You're back in the daily grind. But having him in the room on a daily basis just makes it. Everybody else can take a breath, Kale can take a breath, Nate can take a breath. Like they're not the guys that everybody's looking at for the, the, you know, the verbal kind of, hey, this is what we're doing today. But bedsy like camp to me, it was high paced. Like he was pushing guys. He was, I mean they were working on, I think they were trying to figure out like power play units and what might work. They were looking at possibly two more units or sorry, two units so that you kind of have a different look. You know, the hard part is with, with Nate and Kale and those guys and the shape that they're in, like they can push a minute and a half, a minute 40. So if you're on the second unit, you're looking at 15, 20 seconds, which isn't always easy, especially when you're, you know, you're a power play guy, you want the puck on your stick and if you're not getting it regularly, you're not getting more than 20 seconds, like it can be tough to really get in that offensive rhythm. And I look at guys like Brock Nelson scored his second goal of the year last night in Jersey or yesterday in Jersey. And you know, he's kind of been on and off that, that first power play unit. When you're not getting those regular power power play reps, it can be tough. But I mean bedsy, like we've, I've golfed with him a bunch over the, over the years and like he's, he's really, really, he's very well thought out, very well spoken. And so like when you Talk to him after the season's over and whatever you're, you know, golfing and it's like, okay, like, what do you do after the season, like, if you don't have success? And he's like, I, I, he's like, I always make a list of the things that, like, I felt weren't good enough. What we need to work on, how I want to approach that. He's like, I always, I always revisit that through the summer. And then like, I, you know, I'm making notes is okay, how do we, how do we address this come training camp time? How do we improve on it? You know, all these different things. And it's cool to kind of pick his brain in that regard and just, you know, hear how he looks at, you know, they had that success in 2022 and they haven't been back there since. And I mean, listen, there's a lot of factors, right? Like the cap, you know, the cap was a factor. You lose Kadri, you lose Kemper, you know, like your, your depth maybe wasn't quite as good as it was for that cup team, but now looking at this team right now and the depth that they have, you signed Brent Burns, like, that's such a huge signing to me. Like, he's, he's just an animal, right? Like 1500 games, he's so good at what he, like, he just, he's just good at what he does and how he approaches the day to day. It's, it's pretty cool. And what he's brought to the back end and, and then like the little things like that Victor Olufsen signing. Jack Jury's been really, really good as the third center. And I think some people were questioning, you know, whether or not he was a three center because I think he's been a four for so long. I think he's been awesome as a three.
