“There’s just a lot of energy and a lot of different energy around the locker room than there has been in the past few years,” senior forward Josh Melnick said in a press conference. “I think that’s something that’s really exciting for us.”
Head coach Enrico Blasi bangs his stick on the ice after a good chip out of the zone at practice, and he brags to the players, smiling, after he stick-handles a wild puck between drills.