Stars’ Tyler Seguin discusses series with Kraken, takes up for beard-deficient teammates

Stars heart Tyler Seguin just lately joined the Cling Zone on Sportsradio 96.7 FM/1310 The Ticket [KTCK-AM] to speak Dallas’ continued playoff run and the sequence vs. the Seattle Kraken.

Listed below are a few of the highlights, edited for readability.

Query: After Video games 1 and a pair of, each coaches have made feedback about “taking part in our sport.” Once you hear Pete DeBoer say that, what does he imply by that?

Tyler Seguin: “Oh he simply means, taking part in with staff pace, executing our breakouts. Profitable extra puck battles than them, competing more durable than them. And often scoring extra objectives with them.”

Q: With the Joe Pavelski return, we have been speaking about his redirects and all that, was {that a} Pavelski-like aim that you just scored on Thursday?

Seguin: “Yeah, simply attempting to go to these areas. Was fairly mad at myself, I had a few different alternatives within the sport, missed a rebound and had two suggestions that I ended up hitting my very own foot, my very own leg. These are little particulars that folks won’t see on TV, however I see them, so I used to be fairly ticked off.

However yeah it’s nearly getting open, discovering a lane for the D-man and simply attempting to get a chunk of it. I used to be simply pleased it went in.”

Q: I bear in mind when you instructed us you had this superior recall on like, a hat trick you’d scored three years prior or one thing like that. Do you bear in mind your first playoff aim?

Seguin: “First playoff aim, yeah, it was in opposition to Tampa Bay after I was in Boston. Scored my first aim, however I feel we misplaced. Assume I had an help too, after which my subsequent sport was type of the coming-out occasion. I ended up having two objectives and two assists within the second interval, our line simply went off that night time, taking part in with Michael Ryder and Chris Kelly. Only a sport I’ll always remember.”

Q: Did you ever stay with a teammate just like what Joe Pavelski and Wyatt Johnston have happening?

Seguin: “No, in juniors I lived with a household, however after I received to Boston I lived alone. Most likely ought to’ve lived with someone else, however that’s simply the way it was arrange. I had a roommate on the street, [former Bruins center] Gregory Campbell, older man, he was type of my Joe Pavelski in a approach. We lived collectively just about the entire time I used to be in Boston after we have been on the street. It helped me rather a lot.”

Q: Do you ever discuss to Wyatt Johnston about that? As a result of you’ll be able to actually relate to a 19-year-old being within the NHL playoffs…

Seguin: “Yeah, hundred p.c. I can completely relate to him. I began my first 12 months, I feel I used to be a 12 months youthful than him, and I used to be simply taking all of it in. I feel he’s extra superior than even I used to be again then. It’s spectacular what he does, the consistency he performs with. The truth that nothing bothers him.

“Now we have numerous children like that, whether or not it’s Jake Oettinger when he was coming into the league, or Robertson, nothing fazes them, they hold the identical demeanor on and off the ice. They’re simply nice folks, nice gamers.”

Q; Does it make you are feeling previous, watching Johnston?

Seguin: “One hundred percent, particularly his beard. I talked to him the opposite day, considering again to my beard after I was 18 or 19, simply drawing the comparability, it’s fairly humorous.

Q: May you develop [a playoff beard] your first swim by way of the playoffs?

Seguin: ”Barely. I bear in mind being possibly 23 or 24 and driving down the freeway, trying within the mirror and seeing that my mustache had lastly linked to my chin, then kinda pulling over and celebrating. [Johnston] isn’t there but however he’ll get there.”

Q: He’s additional alongside than Jason Robertson is, that’s a wrestle. I don’t know if there’s something he can take or placed on it, however…

Seguin: “Effectively Robo went and received a haircut and received a bit of mullet going too now. I feel he seems to be unbelievable, it makes up for the beard loss.”

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