Craig Berube | Practice | December 10, 2025

Craig Berube | Practice | December 10, 2025

back on the ice. Where where what’s your sense of where he’s at? Uh he felt good today talking to him after he came off. So, um you know, like I said, it’s probably a week like from when I told you. Yeah. What about Tana? First, I know still in red, but I think first time at full practice here. Where’s Where’s he? Like I said, he’s getting evaluated today. Okay. So, I’ll know more after today. With uh with no McMahon, I see you he moved a couple of lines around. Would you like Willie there? Well, the Tivera’s kneelander cow on line has kind of fallen off for me a bit. Dried up a little bit. So, I made a switch there. Um, just to give him a different look. What’s your sense of William right now? Four games without points is pretty rare for him. Um, you know, I think if I had to look at one thing, I would say he’s got to get involved more, engage more in the game, you know, work his way through it. And, um, you know, that’s what I talked to him today about. Work your way through it. You know, all players go through it at some point, but I think if he just works his way through it, he’ll get out of it quicker. What do you need to see from Nick Robertson tonight? Uh the a little more like I talked to you the other day, I felt his tenacity and his uh getting involved and engaged a little bit. He has to me that’s a big part of his game, you know, um getting in on a for check, disrupting things, being physical, using his speed, um all those types of things. Um, I felt dropped off. So, I think if he just brings that, good things will happen for him. What’s your reaction to the McMahon suspension given you’ve also lost another guy in Mur? I I you know, I don’t to be honest with you, I don’t really know. I mean, I think we lose a guy for probably a month at least. There’s nothing that I’ve heard. Um, I don’t know. It wasn’t much of a I thought it was more of um him getting kind of bumped and his stick kind of you know I get I know you got to be in control of your stick but I don’t think it’s worth a suspension. Bradley serious illness he’ll be fine. Chance Henry through gets in tomorrow poss. Yeah, good chance. Have you learned about him in the in the short time he’s been here? Yeah, I mean not a ton like you know I think more so like we all knew what we were getting when we got him. He’s he’s a good puck mover and uh has offensive abilities. Um you know the one good thing he’s been playing the right side down there. So if he does play tomorrow he’ll be on the right side. Craig, what else do you want to see from the powerful? just I think right now, you know, we we gota we got to have a more simple approach to it all. Um the puck needs to move quicker to resets and look to get it to the net. That’s really right now where it’s at. You know, other good things will happen after you start getting some momentum from that. Good touch. Good touch shot. Good touch. Good touch. You know, we’re um we’re trying to look for the perfect play too much and it’s not there. So, we got to work our way through that, too. I mean, it’s just execution. It’s make the play that’s available, make it make it quickly. And if we can get pucks to the net, then get them to the net. Like, I know at times, and you know, I’ve been over the years, you talk about power play, sometimes you overshoot it. I get that. We’re We’re undershooting it. Did you think it’s become a bit of a mental thing? Sure. Oh, definitely. Yeah, it does for sure. It’s like anything, right? Um, you know, stops working and you know, it it affects your confidence and mentally it affects you and you know, it’s just it’s something you got to work through. Practice time is so rare, especially you got to practice coming off a day off. What did you want to kind of accomplish today? Well, a few things. We’re out there a little longer than normal. Um power play for sure, but just keep working on our our defensive side of things, our Dzone and um you know, coming out of our coming out of our zone with the puck and making some more plays and getting up the ice, which which we worked on today. With Run playing the right side with the Marlies, was that kind of an organizational decision like this is the best path for him or Well, no, not necessarily. It’s just where they’re at too with injuries and everything going on down there. You know, the skating at the end, was that always part of the plan today or was that a reaction to what you saw? No, it’s part of the plan. I think give him a little bump at the end, you know, cuz power play we kind of ran a little longer than normal and you’re a lot of standing around. So, I wanted to give a little push at the end. You say about a month, you think? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Head Coach Craig Berube addresses the media following Wednesday’s practice.

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