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Well, Zach, I know you've played with Rasmus Dalley before, but you had a game with him where you played a lot with him.
What was that like for you?
It's fine. He's a hell of a player.
You just want to give him space so I can make his plays and just be there.
Anyway, you can support him.
How do you get whoever you're paired with?
It seems like you do it with ease.
You can mesh with whoever it is.
Because in a game you almost play with, I'm most everybody.
How are you able to do that?
Mesh with them well and have a good game no matter who it is.
I think there's things that I need to do to do well,
and that's kind of regardless of who I'm out there with.
So those are kind of the main keys, but a lot of times I'm out there with.
I mean, we have an unbelievable decore here, so a lot of the times I kind of want them to be able to make the plays have space.
And let them do what they need to do.
So it's kind of reading, maybe not send back, I would say that would be a wrong way to put.
But I kind of sit back in a way and kind of read off them and just let them do their thing.
We got a lot of great players back here.
What are you talking about?
How you have earned the right to be here.
And it still has to be nice.
You've earned the right to be everywhere, whether it's since you were a kid.
You've earned the right to go to college.
You've earned the right to play with the Amherst.
You've earned the right to be here.
But it still has to be nice to hear the head coach say it.
Yeah, absolutely.
I think just recognition for the work I've put in.
But as quickly as I would say quickly, but you know, since it's come around, it easily can retract.
You know, you can easily lose that.
So that's just part of my process.
Just keep working and keep doing what I need to do.
Like, hopefully not really changed since I've been here a day one.
Just keep keep working trying to get better and see how I can help this team.
Is it with that?
I read a stat the other day that you haven't been on the ice for a goal since October.
That I think you've only been on the ice for two in the national hockey league.
What is it about how you approach things in the way you play that allows you to be able to do that?
Oh, I like to think it'd be nice to say it's all me, but obviously you need great goal.
I think the people that have a stat like that great teammates.
I'd say it's a team effort to like we've been playing the right way like guys are defending harder.
But for me personally, it's just good stick position keeping myself in the right position.
Keeping my feet mobile, not getting stuck in the mud, so to speak.
Just take away time and space.
Make it hard for guys to make the reads I want to and if they do have time, like give them less options.
Like take something away, make it easier for those around me.
Yeah, things have gone well, but it's not all because of me.
Like obviously you need good place around you for that to happen.
I think I've talked to you enough to know you don't take things for granted.
No, no, absolutely not.
Like I said, just as quickly you could go on the stretch and they're just all filling in the net.
That's kind of how it goes.
No matter whether things are going well or things don't poorly,
it tries to take to my process and just keep working.
The last game in the third period, it seemed like you guys were back for maybe two or three games.
Turnovers are starting to get into the game again for you guys.
But I thought that third period, I think it took 11 minutes for Toronto to get a shot in the third period.
And it just seemed like you guys were defending the way you were used to defending.
Did you like the way the team played the third period?
Yeah, I thought we took it to them.
I thought we were attacking like in the D zone, the offensive zone.
We were dictating a lot of the things that were happening even if they had the puck which was nice to see.
And that's when we're at our best, when we're on our toes and playing fast and skating.
So the more we can kind of do that, especially down the stretch, the better it will be.
It's a take to win games on the road.
You guys have been doing it as a team and you've been doing for a lot of this season.
What does it take to be a good road team?
Yeah, keep things simple.
You don't want the kind of their crowd getting in there.
You don't want the ice to start tilting against you, especially early on.
So it's crucial to kind of play fast north, keep things simple early and take advantage of their mistakes.
It's not so much trying to avoid mistakes for us, but just playing the right way, minimizing the risk of them and capitalizing when other teams do.
You want to try, obviously, try to get the first one on the road.
Don't let their crowd get in there and not dig yourself a hole.
That's tough to get out.
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