Bailey Grafcrank

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“Yeah, it does. It’s, you know, I definitely had a lot of help along the way. I think that I might not have thought it was a big one, but I definitely—a lot of people congratulated me and maybe sort of made me notice that it, you know, it’s something that I should be proud of and that you never know what’s going to happen, but it was something I should be proud of. So I think it was cool.”

“No, it still lights a fire for me. It’s just a funny question, because my brother is—they just released the Central Scouting, so he’s out on it now. I don’t know if he’s gonna get picked or not, but I wasn’t on that list, obviously. So, you know, I think that we were having fun looking at my draft year, and obviously there’s a lot of good players, but there’s a lot of players who never even played a professional game. So I think that, I always had confidence in myself as a player, and, you know, just try to put in as much work as I possibly can to get where I want to be. And I’m still gonna have that mentality of, ‘I want to get better, and I want to help the team more and help this team win,’ and just keep that going in the summer.”

“…I also think that, you know, the losing from last year… sucks. Like, that losing’s the worst thing—it’s the worst thing in the world. And, you know, that feeling that you have where you just—obviously, we lost a lot of games. And it sucks, and you don’t want that to happen again. I think that that’s sort of on everyone, just motivated them even more to—us as a team, to win more games.”

“Personally, I think it’s the brain. I think it’s the way he thinks it. He just thinks it—obviously he plays really fast, but I think he plays really fast because he thinks it so fast. And you see what a lot of the, you know, the best players in the league do. Whether it’s McDavid or it’s Kucherov, everyone and Mack, they do it differently, right? They don’t play the same exact way, but I think the common theme is that they all think the game faster than everyone else and use their skills to their advantage and then basically just go out there and produce.”

“Yeah, for sure. I think that, especially when the crowd’s going—whether it’s home or away, but especially at home—you get goosebumps at certain points in the game. That sort of—you’re like, ‘Oh, you know, this is pretty cool.’ Like… I wanna do my best here to help the team, and also help all the people who came and supported us.”

“For sure. I think—I feel like the one game that I keep thinking of at home was that Montreal one. Just ‘cause, I mean there were a lot of goals scored, so it was a pretty entertaining game. I think that it was a little bit back and forth. We had runs, they had runs, and you know, that was just—I mean, looking back on the year, that’s definitely one of the most fun games. Especially at home. I think that the crowd definitely played a big part in us getting that win.”