Rod Brind'Amour Interview

Second on the NHL bubble in Toronto where Justin Williams weeded out earlier today.

I guess the Carolina Panthers are in the NHL bubble to maybe an exhibition game for states premises later and it shows a picture where the Carolina Panthers are set to be on the ice at a particular time, which of course they probably met the Carolina hurricanes who are being coached as they have the last year or two by Rod Brind'Amour is now with us. The head coach of the canes joining us from Toronto.

Let's just check on that first very quickly coach you haven't seen Krista McCaffrey or Matt rule up there.

Have you read all the yellow light came there available to play mustard, Russ is an interesting tidbit we can only project in finding no room being were looking for our room and no we were the Carolina Panthers so disrespectful but that's all right we got a learn and obviously this couple months with both Google seat. You're naturally pretty regimented guy, but I imagine just from a safety perspective, every bodies routine has to be broken down pretty specifically doesn't give me a sense just for how exactly things look in Toronto right now everything is going well on the clock in the time and a spot to be here and there, like for example we know all we got a window from this time maybe go out to eat and happy at this restaurant knowing their payment records. They have a room for us is just us that really just try to keep our group together not intermingle with other teams and safety issues in driving the plot that make this work. So matter. Following the guidelines and obviously those other things.

I mean get tested every day.

I just got back my room is a time to get your test of the best time in the dystonic key people separated know that they can give him credit for. No time to do it this way and then they go through everything that we do whether times are practiced against the locker room. The minutes down the is a lot to figure out talking to you realize when you get in my desk. What really has to go on manage 12 teams and their staffs and it's a huge undertaking and yet they all we have to do is show up when they tell us and go do I think so. But, if not shown know everybody's been doing during the pandemic. I realized I've taken so much for granted and I think a lot of people can agree with me went whether it's just trying to get at the gym or get a haircut or go to a restaurant/bar sports especially just having it on.

We taken it for granted.

But I also think even right now after four months of the pandemic we taken for granted the human side of what you guys are trying to do you see NFL players opting out of the season.

Major league baseball players doing the same thing. How difficult was it the last day or two when you're with your family here in North Carolina and ultimately you had to say goodbye for possibly a few months apart any gladly get the job dropped my got my head about other professions about leaving your families item not just never any good, but I think is also part of the job.

You know you guys understand that you'll have a X amount of years to actually play this game and you're playing a game for a living. I miss you, especially if they could take on such a bigger meaning no work playing now the players I say we I don't do anything but them on the bench, but that the players are are the one no short window to do what they do and and actually now providing a lot of joy potentially join in other people.

Some of the care about and bring people together for little bigger meaning so sacrifice every five short short window in the real grand scheme of things might only be working the week in Maine but in the big picture.

I think if we can get through this and I guarantee you it was worth it.

Why not mail the mentality and all looking straight up with some I got one motive you have is the New York Rangers you finish with more points than the regular season before things were halted in New York, but the Rangers they won all three of the regular-season meetings with you guys. What has made them a difficult matchup for you guys. Effect while while the obvious answer is probably most dynamic players in the game and Bennett and chimeric when those guys are clicking on.

They beat everybody so that that's a tough one. When you have that compound their upfront and then the goaltending was off the charts against the people in four times the loss of your time there and then thing will three times what they like that okay right right I did to write so the goaltending was the difference in all the game, so I expect to the losses that we dominated so what goaltending a big deal and they got back to three but they only comply one. It also will see what how it goes with that answer? No, we cannot play as well. We did play pretty well. We just we couldn't get the Foxfire goal is that that'll be interesting to see all that you're sick. So what if we play the way we can we create an apartment's chances that I think will be okay so you play games not to bother Brind'Amour with this year on sports are trying to see it that way because I'm looking forward to getting back in the gym. I hope I hope that things are safe up there where you can get a little bit of a workout in the gym but when you are working out in a gym setting our UI headphones/music guy. Both play. I have a little routine use yellow big. Like I start my workout so spend quite a bit of time every day on that well use the headphones and listen to podcasts of non-know when I get into nothing. Both of the workout and I gotta move over to the headphones and no music, so we were lucky we leave in on this. Another thing, God will detail the dispute and Jim like you mentioned we had to bring our own stuff for Molly putting in a hotel room and get rid of the bed so we got a makeshift little room that we can work out in yeah yeah do we found a way so far so good.

Talking about music though I while working out. I realized recently that a song had snuck into my workout playlist that's from the Disney movie frozen and it turned out not to be a bad song, so I kept it in their because I got a pretty good workout. While the song is playing. What's an embarrassing song you're afraid to admit is in the workout playlist all Lebanon. I'm not embarrassed. I got a lot of old music so you guys know I'm a native guy and I just I never updated my phone and the music. So I really don't have anything past, probably 2000 and the microphone I got out in their correct guys here that I know I'm not shy about it. We always have ruled in the locker room anyway that the first guided him to put the music on your network. Out of no soul. They often hear myself going when you say are you talking about dancing Queen you're listening to dancing working out that you want your son now and I usually get over but I do have it on my thing so anyway I'm not embarrassed. I think they were very good.

What's the most creative means you've gone to get a workout and I think Jordan Martin note for somebody else was telling us that he was lifting like milk jugs in their house full of like water or sand. Have you gone that far yet I golly I probably back in the day right now you can you help for me, but a lot of different parts of routine so you can applicable anywhere in all you know workout of discomfort you really want to get serious about that. I don't have any equipment using my go to push-ups and core stuff.

But you can do without any Jim you can do leg circuits without your body weight in get a decent work I call at executive hotel workout.

If you ever definitely things you can do I buy that book if you put out the book about the executive hotel workout coach. It's just good to hear from you and I wish you the best of luck were all rooting for him for you guys down here in the Carolinas don't want to bring back the couple talk soon. One person a lot of $bigger