Billy Jaffe, hello, sir.

Hello, young man.

Yes, yes, yes.

Can I start asking something about Mark Recky?

Because he got a, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame yesterday, and obviously everyone loves Mark Recky.

But there's a, why was he like the ultimate locker room guy?

You hear everyone refer to him that way and how he was the glue.

And I know during that Stanley Cup run, you had him and you had Sean Thornton,

and that seemed to make a big difference.

Why was he such a good guy to have in the locker room?

You know, every team or every company seems to, if you're lucky, you have a few guys or at least one person, man or woman, that you can kind of go to, and you're comfortable with speaking with about good things, bad things, issues, questions, et cetera.

Recke, especially when he got to the Bruins, and what was it, he came there, he got there from Tampa in the 0-8-09 season. He was 41 years old. I mean, literally he had seen it all in the national hockey league. So he had been through it all. He had been through amazing teams with Pittsburgh when he was young, and then he got traded to Philly. He'd been all over. He had won. He had lost, et cetera. So he was a guy they could rely on. And sometimes you just can explain it. You know, there's this one person that you just, you can trust that you, that you know if you go to with something, they're going to give you an honest, fair answer. Maybe you don't always love hearing it, but you know that they're also going to listen. I think that's a great thing about Mark Reck and have talked to him numerous times is that he listens.

He's genuine, and I think that's why when he came to the team, he had won. He was willing to listen,

but also he was willing at the right times to just push in certain little ways, and I think that helped

the team get over the top. Bergeron's still pretty close with him, right?

They're pretty decent friends, correct? Yes, yeah. I mean, that's from what I'm told. Mark Rack is all those guys, by the way, the guys, you know, a lot of people say, hey, I'm good buddies with Rex. Because Rex is, like Rick Tocke. you know, who's now the head coach in Arizona.

He was in Pitt for a while.

Everybody says, I'm great friends with talk,

because the same type of clock, because Rex is, he's like Rick Tockeet, you know, who's now the head coach in Arizona. He was in Pitt for a while.

Everybody says, I'm great friends with talk because the same type of cloth of a person,

everybody feels good talking with him.

Is he going to be a head coach, do you think?

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