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Brent Gilchrist

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  1. “I think it could be a problem. I would say that Patrick was one that could handle that. Great leader, great guy, great player, and so competitive. You just, you know, just even shooting on Patrick in practice, it was a competition. You didn't come down and just shoot. You really tried to score because you knew he would not want you to score or go and practice. Was that different”

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  2. “Leave your goalie alone a little more than you do other players from their preparation and their work. They have many coaches now. I wasn't so much like that when I played. There was a goalie coach, but he wasn't maybe so as involved. So I think they have a position that they have enough to deal with. And you sort of just let them, it's a big mental game. They have a solitude, like I said before. So I think we leave them alone. And I think to put the captaincy on somebody in that position adds another layer that may, you don't want anything to affect your goalie, preparation and mental ability. You want them thinking about one thing, stop the puck. And if you overlay the leadership of the team,”

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  3. “While we had one instance of it in Vancouver, Roberto Longo is the captain for a couple years. I think it has been not, I think in the past there has been some, and I'm going to mess up my history, but I want to say like George Besnar, something was the captain of that. Very rare, and it hasn't happened other than Roberto for probably 50, 67 years. I'm not too sure I'd have to look that up. But I think from the standpoint that I look at it, and I'm not sure that the rest of the hockey world would think that, but the goalie has this position that's unique. They're not, everybody says they're weird, and sometimes they aren't, and sometimes they're not, but they have a, there's a solitude to their position that's somewhat different than the rest of the players. Not that they're not part of the team, but their position has some solitude to it. And we sort of, as players and coaches and I think management, I think you try to.”

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  4. “There was always a rivalry. If a French player, I think, the way we felt as English players anyway, if a French player was as good as you, he was probably going to get the spot from a media standpoint, not a surge of art or Pat Burns standpoint, but they were always looking for a bias to French Canadian players, which is fine. It never affected us as players.”

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  5. “We voted again and they tied. And so I was like, wow, what's Surge going to do? And he said, he made a very quick decision. He said, okay, we're going to have two captains. That was it. And so one war, I think the C1 game, and I think they just switched on off. I can't remember how we did it. And he made a fast decision, which was interesting, I think. And I think his decision was good because it wouldn't create any controversy. And there was, you know, there's no question amongst the players there was no rivalry between French and English players, but certainly in the Montreal media.”

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  6. “Was for us as young players just working on a different level and somebody we watched as real young kids. So we voted for the captain. Serge Savard was our general manager who was one of the best hockey men and people that I ever worked with. Just so well respected, just a great person. And he came in the locker room, said we're going to vote for the captain. And so we voted and the first round came out. And I think there was only three candidates. There might have been four, but I remember Chris Cellios and Guy Carboneau. And I think Brian Scrudland got a few votes. And there might have been one more, but I'm not too sure. But the fact was, as Guy Carbonot and Criscellio's tied, and so, okay, that was a tie. That's fine. Now we throw everybody out and we say, okay, guys, we're sir. Between these two guys who had the most votes.”

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  7. “Yeah, so it's absolutely, I don't think there's any rules. I've, you know, playing 15 years in the NHL, I voted for my captain once One time that happened, when Bob Gainey retired from the Montreal Canadiens, the next season here we were a great team. We just lost in the finals. And here we were not rudderless, but this was a big hole because Bob Ganey was, you know, this iconic captain of a team that was a dynasty.”

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  8. “You're the leader is you might be the best teammate. You might be such a great team player and care about not just the wins and losses, the goals and assists, but the other players on the team. And I think that's really it. We just missed that a great leader in hockey is a great teammate.”

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  9. “Not just one thing I would say about an NHL captain or a leader in business. We just can't seem to put our finger exactly on what a leaders should do or look like or his characteristics or her. But what I will say is a great leader people follow. Why they do that? Charisma the way they lead by example. I think one thing for me, a leader is believable. Do you believe when people believe a leader, they follow. And that's the best way I can describe it. In hockey, the captain has to be believable. He has to lead by example. He has to do the things that the sacrifice that every player is expected or even to a higher degree. But also they have to be great teammates. And I think we miss that, that being on an NHL hockey team, you're the leader, but the reason”

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  10. “So it's very different part of leadership than I face today as a leader in business and working with other leaders and decision makers. The captain of a hockey team, you know, typically they're your best player. Not always. I think we have a hard time. Society always wants our society leadership and business and sports. We want to talk about leaders. you know, talk about the characteristics they haven't for sure that there's a truth to that. But in hockey, like the captain's not making decisions. So he's not the leader of the team. He may be the emotional leader or the best player leader on the ice in the locker room, but he's beyond the leadership of decision making, which I think as I learn in business, everything about leadership is decision making. And I think two things that I would say about not”

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  11. “In the moment, I did not think one minute about that. It's just what you did. And today I'm just, you know, I'm a big wimp. I don't want to go anywhere near the pain that we used to go through.”

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  12. “Well, I think Steve being the person he is and the friend he is obviously meant a lot for me to say that, but he actually has done the same himself in a couple different playoff seasons. I watched him do it. But it was great of him to say that he's a great person, obviously a great player and a great captain. But yeah, that was great to hear him say that. He said it publicly many times and some of the other players on our team said that because it was very hush hush during the playoffs, obviously. And it was an experience that I look back on and boy, I'm not tough enough anymore to take that sort of pain. But as a player and as the...”

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  13. “Me on a personal standpoint outside the team, there was a lot of risk in moving from Dallas to Detroit, which Dallas we had a real strong team. And then, of course, as the chips would fall, here I am playing against them in the conference final. So we eliminated him, but I was unable to continue. So I didn't play the last four games.”

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  14. “And I also thought Bob was 36 or 37. He was our captain, but I think we all knew that Bob was probably going to retire that year or the next year. I thought to myself, well, you're probably not going to be back here, you know, but I will be. You know, like this seems like we're the best team in the league or close to it. Well, that was a rude awakening that it took me 10 years as a player to get back to the finals with a completely different team. And I had a few stops in between and getting back to the finals with Detroit. It was not bittersweet for me, but I played most of the playoffs. I'm seriously injured. And so the finals was not in my cards. I was not going to be able to play in the finals. I played the last game against Dallas, the team that I had just left, and we beat him in six, which was a great series. They were a great team.”

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  15. “I was fortunate enough to play in two Stanley Cup finals. And fortunate and probably misled a little bit my first year in the NHL I played with the Montreal Canadians and we had a great team. We finished second that year in the standings. And in 1989 we ended up playing the Calgary Flames in the Stanley Cup Final. And we lost in six games, obviously really devastating, but as a 21-year-old kid to play in a Stanley Cup final your first year. And one story I remember after we eliminated Philadelphia in the spectrum in the conference final, I remember sitting next to Bob Ganey on the bus in the bus ride from the spectrum to the airport. And he said to me, you know, when you get here, when you have a kick at the can, you have to win it because you never know when you're going to be back. And as a 21-year-old... Experience, I thought, well.”

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  16. “You look back, and I don't think about the things that were really hard, the injuries, I really don't think back like that. I think of how great it was to live that life and play the game.”

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