^ Random interview thoughts.
Listening to Sutter is really calming. No panic or knee jerk stuff this year.
Sutter and Tkachuk both say the same about captaincy. I think we as fans put a lot more stock into it than the team does.
Tkachuk is a very intelligent guy IMO. He knows what to say, that's for sure. He said a couple interesting things about the traditional Flames slow start, his post whistle stuff and having a guy like Coleman on the team.
Gaudreau actually lets slip more about on ice stuff than most - he obviously disliked the RW carousel, and it seems like he recognized his late season surge was a little puffed up. Monahan likes the idea of Mangiapane on RW (I snickered at how he said Mangi plays well on "both sides of the puck").
I wish more people had asked about D pairings. aside from the obvious answer about missing Gio's minutes, there wasn't much.
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