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We've got a lot of mailbag questions to get to you and only

58 minutes to do so. So Sarah, let's get right to it. Yeah, you're you're ready to go. Let's go.

Let's go. Okay. We got our first one. Remember to become a diehard. Yes, thank you.

All right. This is from Jake B. He says, I know what good years from

Bidar, Nazar, and Knight look like, both from an eye test and statistically, but I'm lost

on judging the young defensemen. What should I be looking at to access the, to assess the

decor? It's a good question. it is tougher to watch and see how

defensemen are playing because you don't have the numbers adding up right on this on the score

sheet necessarily so when i'm watching it's are they getting caught you know are they are they

activating offensively at the right time?

Are they in the right spot when they're supposed to be?

Are they getting confused with teammates?

Are they goals scored into two of them look at each other like, what are we doing here?

It is harder to tell what defensemen.

Those are some of the things I look for is how are they handling the situational decision making

in the course of a game? Yeah, I think the biggest thing is comfort level for young

defensemen. Are they comfortable in their positioning? Are they comfortable playing physical?

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