I've been paying close attention to the words that Gaudreau and Tkachuk have been using in their last couple interviews and it's made me more optimistic about these 2 re-signing with the club.
Specific things that I've liked is that they both have mentioned the team is:
- They both mentioned in separate interviews that they're a "a close group"
- Tkachuk was very complimentary to both Lindholm and Backlund
- In a recent Gaudreau interview, he mentioned that he and Tkachuk had chemistry together
- Tkachuk mentioned that "winning cures all"
I know these are little things that don't say a whole lot, but at the very least, I like they seem comfortable and content and like Matthew said, winning cures all. I don't know if that was possibly alluding to the trade demand rumors this summer, but if this team can actually go deep and win rounds this season, then that should build even more closeness between the group.
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