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00:00Yeah. And one of the big, perhaps the biggest change since we've since we've last connected here has been the hiring of Marco Sturm, who many anticipate to be a defensive minded head coach.
00:08So to that point, you know, what have you noticed about Marco and be it how he runs his camps, the defensive structure, whatever they're trying to build there?
00:16Does it does it feel like it's starting to take shape in terms of defensive identity and how important those players are going to be for this team?
00:23I still think it's a work in progress, to be honest with you, you know, in terms of the defensive structure.
00:29So we started last year saying that if the team, if this team's going to win, they have to be really strong in net and defensively. Right.
00:38And that was just it was not the case from day one last year. They weren't they weren't good defensively.
00:44You had a couple of guys individually struggling. They weren't good in that.
00:47You know, it's just everything just kind of snowballed and it just it was not good.
00:51It led to the firing of Jim Montgomery. You know, they got a little bit better under Joe Sacco early.
00:56And then it kind of reverted back to, you know, the way that it was.
01:00And then some injuries occurred and, you know, it just it just snowballed.
01:03It just rolled downhill and it was it was ugly last year.
01:06So, you know, a lot of optimism coming into this year, but it has to start with the defensive structure.
01:12So he's changed a few things. Marco Sturm has defensively, whether it be in the neutral zone or on the defensive side of things.
01:19It's not as much of a zone, for lack of a better word, that they used to play.
01:27It's a little bit more of a hybrid defensively.
01:30So we haven't seen that in a while and a lot of teams are doing it.
01:33So there's there's some things that still have to kind of gel defensively for me.
01:39Anyhow, I've seen a couple of breakdowns here and there that, you know, guys are kind of in between on when to go, when not to go.
01:45So so they're going to work on that. I think you're going to see pretty much a full lineup today or pretty close.
01:50Anyhow, and, you know, last tune up game before it starts for real on Wednesday.
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