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“I think if you’re doing the right things and you’re playing the right way, that stuff will come,” Neal reasoned. “If your team is not winning and you’re not contributing, then it’s a problem. But when your team is playing really well and you’re winning hockey games, then things are good.

“Obviously, it has been a bit of a tough stretch at the start of the year for me. But that being said, I love the way our team has played. I came here to win, and I’ll do anything to be a part of a winning team.

“So I’m really happy with the way our guys have played and I’ll try to contribute everything I can to that.”

“For me, I’m just going to continue to get better,” said Neal, whose lengthy resume includes 100 playoff appearances and trips to the Stanley Cup final with the Nashville Predators in 2017 and the Golden Knights last spring. “I think we have a great team here. I think you use your experience, you use your presence, you use everything that I have learned throughout my career about what you have to do to be going into playoffs, what you have to do in playoffs.

“I feel better,” he added later. “It’s not easy changing teams. I’ve been learning and getting comfortable with your linemates — all those things go into it — and I think as we go on, you’re going to see a more comfortable player.

“But like I said, as long as our team is winning, I’m all good.”