“Just being here, honestly, I love it,” Smith-Schuster said. Smith-Schuster said the “ sky is the limit” for Jones. Smith-Schuster has had nothing but a positive experience thus far and heaped praise on everything about the organization, including quarterback Mac Jones. He respects me.’ Being able to circle back around in Year 7, to be here, kind of shows that he still has that for me.” So, I think back then when he was doing that, I saw it as, ‘OK he respects my game. “One thing I’ve learned playing against Bill, is that if he ever double teams you, obviously you’re a key player in his eyes. I respect his game,” Smith-Schuster said. Bend’s Beatles Band With Pete Ficht: guitar & keyboards Andy Jacobs: lead guitar Dan Larsson: bass Karl Lindgren: drums. “When I was in Pittsburgh for five years, we crossed paths multiple times. Smith-Schuster played against the Patriots three times in his career. Smith-Schuster spent five seasons with the Steelers and a won a Super Bowl ring with the Chiefs last season. “Being at a place where he’s a great head coach, and as far as everything else goes, I just feel like I fit here.” “Honestly, Bill, man,” Smith-Schuster said, via Chris Mason of. The young Canadiens now know what it’s like to play against the likes of Nikita Kucherov and Andrei Vasilevskiy.JuJu Smith-Schuster had options, but he picked the Patriots. There’s no other way to get that kind of experience. For them, you hope there will be another magical spring, next year or the year after, a year when everything comes together and there are enough talented youngsters like Nick Suzuki, Caufield, Jesperi Kotkaniemi and Alexander Romanov around to get them over the hump.Ĭaufield has played 10 regular-season games and 20 playoff games, five of them in the Stanley Cup final. If there’s a hollowing feeling, it’s empathy for players who battled so hard for so long, especially the veterans who know how very difficult it is to get this far: Brendan Gallagher, Shea Weber and Carey Price. They sent the supposedly unbeatable Toronto Maple Leafs to the golf course and helped deliver us from the plague in mind if not in body. The Canadiens run has coincided with the start of summer and what appears to be the beginning of the end of the pandemic. Richardson did a good job, but there were moments when he was tentative, like a teenager driving his father’s new Tesla, when he made decisions that Ducharme might not have made, like failing to use Caufield on a 4-on-3 power play.Īfter 16 months of despair and loss and nervous glances at masked strangers passing a little too close on the street, we’re returning, one vaccination at a time, to normal. For the first two games, Luke Richardson had to fill in as acting interim head coach. Roll out another obstacle and they bulldozed it out of the way.Īs if they hadn’t faced enough adversity, the Habs were missing interim head coach Dominique Ducharme because of COVID-19 protocols at the beginning of this series. Tell them they couldn’t and they showed you they could. It was unforgettable and the memories will last some of the youngsters a lifetime.įrom late May until a Wednesday evening in July, adversity was like oxygen to the Canadiens. It was noble, it was tough, it was great fun. When the smoke has cleared and we’ve gotten used to the fact that the Lightning represented a bridge too far, we can smile and remember what a terrific run it was to within three wins of Lord Stanley’s Cup. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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