00:00What, if you can, what are the three best games this season that you can think of
00:03that we've talked about them looking really good?
00:06Minnesota.
00:07Yep.
00:09Florida.
00:10Mm-hmm.
00:11And yesterday.
00:12Right.
00:12And who started all three of those games?
00:15Oh.
00:16Well.
00:17Colton Ellis.
00:17He didn't start Florida, did he?
00:19Yeah.
00:19He started in Florida and got pulled.
00:21That's the game.
00:22Oh, that's the game he got pulled.
00:22I'm thinking he got pulled from Dallas.
00:24No, no.
00:24He got pulled from Florida.
00:25He got pulled from Florida.
00:26Ew.
00:27Okay.
00:28Yeah.
00:28So the three games where he started, they, uh, they've played their best three games
00:31of the year.
00:31Hmm.
00:32Okay.
00:32Now explain that.
00:34I don't, I don't need to, I don't need this to be right, but that would suggest that the
00:40team trusts him and that they can play how they want to play with him back there.
00:46And that maybe they don't entirely feel that way with the other guy that's played most of
00:50the game.
00:50So rather than interpreting it as them playing hard for him, it would be them playing hard
00:57because they can, because they believe in him.
01:00Yes.
01:00You're yes.
01:01I don't think possible opinion.
01:03I don't think that there's ever a situation where you're going to play harder for this
01:07guy.
01:08I want this guy to win bad.
01:09So I'm going to play better because I, I consciously want that.
01:13What can happen is I trust that the guy behind me is going to step, stop a puck and make
01:19a
01:19big save.
01:20And maybe I don't the other time.
01:23And maybe I'm not going to play as free or I'm not going to play with as much speed or
01:29free sort of wheeling mentality on D.
01:33Are play better and work harder synonymous in the way that you're talking about this right
01:38now?
01:38No, because I think you're going to work just as hard either way, but you might play better
01:43in front of one, because one of them instills a level of subconscious confidence in you that
01:50you're not worried about what's going to happen behind you.
01:53And when you're worried about what's going to happen behind you as a, as a defenseman
01:57or a forward, you are going to play conservative and you're going to play nervous.
02:03And when you trust who's behind you, you're not going to do that.
02:07You're going to play however you feel is appropriate.
