On Vincent Trocheck and Brady Skjei : They’re great guys off the ice. ![]() So it’s just be ready whenever we start and try to work hard. I talked a lot about when I should do things, when I should go hard and stuff like that. We weren’t sure when or even if we were going to play at all, so I just worked hard and I talked a lot with our strength coach, Bill Burniston, and just worked. I think it was kind of similar when we were waiting on the playoffs. This year, it’s for sure a little different. Normally, when you’re done with your season, you take a few weeks off and you have the somewhat same routine with how you do things. On the uncertainty of an abnormal offseason: For sure, it’s easier when you know exactly when the date is. I feel like I improved my game on those things a lot. You can’t go all offense there, you have to be aware and be able to play defense and shut down those best lines. I felt like the more the season went on, my line played against other team’s best lines. I think I really improved my game in the sense of small details, especially on the defensive side of my game. It’s not always going your way and just stay with it. Even though you have a bad start, you can still have a good season. I felt like that was a good thing to learn. On how he grew the most individually this year: I felt that even though I had a really bad start personally, I battled through it. So I feel like that’s more of a question for Roddy, but for sure I like playing with those two. Sometimes it’s different if you’re the home team or away team if you get the matchups and stuff like that going. But, that’s more of ’s decision, what he feels like we need at the time. I feel like we play pretty well and produce some big goals for us. On if the team is more successful with him, Teuvo Teravainen and Andrei Svechnikov together or split up: I really enjoy playing with those guys. I for sure want to be ready whenever the next season starts. So that’s always my goal going into the offseason, just to be better overall. You just try to work hard and get back an even stronger and better hockey player. On what his offseason and training looks like: I’m actually in Finland right now. It’s a little bit different, for sure, but I would gladly stay there for an extra couple months and play for the Stanley Cup. You hang out with your teammates 24/7, and it’s all the time. Obviously life in the bubble, it’s different. So that’s the number one thing, that everyone’s safe in the bubble. On life in the bubble: Obviously the bubble works, which is good to see that there’s no positive cases in the bubble. We just have to get a little bit better every year, and hopefully next year we can take the next step. We’re still a young team, and I feel like a lot of guys still have more to come, so I’m pretty excited about our team. I think having those experiences from the tough games and tough series is going to make us a better team. Obviously we’re not happy with how things ended this year or even last year, but it’s just a matter of if we learn and go forward. On what the team needs to do to take the next step: There’s a lot of things, but obviously we want to learn from past years and move forward. ![]() The Finnish forward had his end of season media availability on Zoom Friday morning here’s a full breakdown of everything he had to say: ![]() If the team is going to take the next step to being a title contender, Aho will have a key role to play. Hurricanes star Sebastian Aho took another key step forward during the 2019-20 season, setting a career high with 38 goals.
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