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Slavin on Lady Byng nomination: 'That's who I want to be as a person'
Carolina Hurricanes defenseman Jaccob Slavin talks about his recent nomination for the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy.
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Carolina Hurricanes defenseman Jaccob Slavin talks about his recent nomination for the Lady Byng Memorial Trophy.
the lady being just your thoughts if you didn't know. Yeah, I know Brownie and Sonny told me. Um I mean, yeah, it's exciting obviously. Uh it's always an honor to be named a finalist of any award. But I mean for me that's that's a character award. That that's who I want to be as a person. I'm using my my game of hockey to glorify God and how I carry myself on and off the ice. And so it's definitely an honor. Um Yeah, it's it's cool. What is it about your game that allows you to play 23 a half minutes tonight and not go to the box and play strong defensively all the time. Like why is it that you can do that? What what is it about your, I went to the box more this year than last year. So um but I mean one of the things I like to focus on is just positioning and obviously um skating is huge and so just making sure I'm in a good position to to set myself up. I don't have to take reaching penalties or I'm not a physical player really. And so I don't have to worry too much about roughing penalties, but um yeah, no, just just good positioning, good skating ability and good stickwork, but not like I said, not reaching and not trying to ever chase guys really, but making sure you're in a good position and have your gaps, were you that way as a minor junior college player or did this sort of come to you as you learn the game and got older, you know, I've never been a physical guy, my dad would always get mad at me as a kid because I would I would lunge for pucks and always always be reaching with my stick and so it's definitely something that I've always kind of relied on as my stick work and hopefully obviously got better as it as as I got older, I wasn't lunging as much and uh so it's yeah, it's always been that way Brendon was just here and he said he was drawing a comparison to with the way you play make of that, what you will. Yeah, it's a big, it's a big stretch. Yes, but was that a guy you watch? Yeah, absolutely, it's definitely, yeah, I love this game, obviously he's one of the best defenseman to ever play the game and so always in the right position, always had a great stick and yeah, it was definitely, I always wanted to model my game after, played them like you play now when you were growing up, I remember playing in Chicago and juniors and so obviously the Blackhawks are right there and nick Donaldson remember watching his game and just his stickwork was unbelievable and comfortable making backhand passes, whatever, it was just a solid defenseman and so I loved his game when I was 17 years old at the time and so uh but yeah, no, I think that's probably the biggest one growing up, Jacob for all these ex rangers in your room, what do you think the series means to those guys? Oh it's gonna be huge. I mean they're they're full on Kane's now and we love them and uh and so it's it's definitely a big series for them and it's it's anytime you get in a playoff series is big but when you're playing against a team mate used to play for it, I think it has that much more exciting for them. How much do you enjoy the one on one moments? You know we had one against Marshawn in game seven. I know you have won against at the end of the regular season where you get to go one on one with a guy there trying to dangle around you and you're just keeping them to the other. Yeah, it's always exciting. Obviously you go up against some of the best players in the world and so there's a lot of skill there, a lot of a lot of possibilities that they have and and I mean that's our job as defenseman is taking away their time and space but against these guys like that sometimes it's hard and so I always look look forward to that challenge and this is gonna be super fun, serious areas and everything closed, congrats