Yeah. Johnny appeared very genuine in his interview and this city should be proud that a star who loves his hometown as much as he does and is as close to his family as he is, speaks so highly of Calgary and wants to stay here long term. Also speaks to the quality of the people on the team and throughout the organization, in my view.
Really enjoyed Markstrom being so critical of himself and not using his injury as an excuse for his poor stint. He's only been here for a year so I imagine he isn't too vocal yet in the room but hopefully he'll feel like he's ready to be a voice in the room because he screams leadership and accountability to me.
When I heard Lindholm saying the team thought it was going to be easy, I think he means that the team was too confident in itself to start the season and Lucic touched on this a bit too when he went through the first 3 games of the year and how good the Flames were. I didn't think it was that bad of a comment to make, but that's just me. I'm hoping that the results of this year humbles those who got over confident after the 3 games and they learn from this.
I touched on Tkachuk earlier, but he talked about not getting icetime because he was asked to speak on the adjustments he had to make and what changed when Sutter was brought in. To me, he answered the question and I honestly didn't see it as that big of a deal. He mentioned a number of times that he needed to be better and was accountable for his play.
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