00:00I mean, let's start with Alexi Lafreniere.
00:02We've seen flashes.
00:03We've seen the 20, what was it, 28-goal season from Lafreniere?
00:06Mm-hmm.
00:07Playoff run he had where he's near a point of age.
00:09That was two years ago.
00:10I was a younger kid.
00:11Yep.
00:11You just hope the consistency's there.
00:13Like, we saw him on the ice, first on the ice, in the morning skate.
00:16Yes.
00:17Yep.
00:18Sometimes optics matter.
00:20Whether or not that's going to change your whole season, even to yourself.
00:23Like, I'm out here early.
00:24I'm getting touches.
00:25Yep.
00:25I feel like he's been playing well since Artemi was sat out for roster management purposes.
00:31I feel like there's a lot less deferral in his game, too, which Mike Sullivan was, I think,
00:39the way that he phrased it was, he kind of knows that he's the guy now.
00:44You know, that he's the guy that people are looking at now.
00:46And that kind of changes your mentality when you've got a guy like Artemi on your line.
00:50But now that it's kind of the onus is on him, he's keeping the puck on his stick a lot
00:56more.
00:56I feel like he's, like, evaluating the play in front of him a lot more, his different options.
01:01Granted, we've seen this before.
01:03It's been fleeting before.
01:05Every other time it's been fleeting.
01:08So, you know, you want to see him do it consistently.
01:11And you want to see him go on a little bit of a run here and take some responsibility.
01:15He has to now become a part of that leadership group.
01:18Whether he's told he is or he isn't, put some responsibility on yourself that you've been here a long time
01:24now.
01:24Six years.
01:25It's not a short time.
01:27Like, time for you to be a leader, too.
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