Wayne’s my boy. Wayne’s my boy. He’s just always checking in. He loves Canada, he loves our team. I’ve gotten to know Wayne, and he’s an awesome guy. Canadians are just really generous, really good people. After the third time hanging out with him, I said to him, “Wayne, you are like the nicest person I’ve ever met. How the hell were you the best to ever play?” And he goes, “Jesse, when I was on the ice, I was a different person. I had a totally different mindset and personality.” And I’ve used that with our guys. This is the thing about Canadian hockey. The guys are no different than our guys, but they’re built to be fighters, to never back down. This is the DNA of Canada hockey, and so we’re trying to build our own DNA in Canada. We’re trying to also inherit that kind of mentality.
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