Kyle Okposo Reacts to Debut With Florida Panthers After Trade With Buffalo & Florida’s Cup Chances
Experience um I think it’s pretty easy to see by the way that they play uh how tight they are how much they care about each other um how structured they are how they compete and you can tell that they’re well coach so I mean it’s they
Have all the uh pieces in place um to make a run here and you know at the end of the day that’s that’s what I want to do and that’s what drew me here and and you know obviously I know I know Sam very well and and just speaking with him
Throughout the years about his time here he had nothing but gloring reviews and and I’m excited to to get started and just what does it do your first game you’re here you get to see them put on a performance like that yeah it’s just fantastic it’s a just a template of how
To play I mean I obviously don’t know like all the systems and what they are trying to accomplish on uh each play but I would imagine that that’s a a pretty close uh pretty close to a perfect game so um you know just seemed like they were smothering them out there not
Giving them anything uh opportunistic weren’t being risky with the puck and um you know it was uh fun to watch and you’re still chasing a Stanley Cup what does it mean to join a team now that has a shot and is looks like one of the favorites right now uh it’s interesting
You know obviously very different from my time in Buffalo um just being this year and and being the captain of the team trying to lead a young group and now I’m going to a team where um you know I I’m am gonna just start by just
Being a good guy being a guy in the room and and just try to do whatever I can to to help the team and work hard and and be a spoke in the wheel like I’m not trying to be a disruptor but why would you you’re you’re you’re going to the
Best team in the league right now so um I just want to put my head down and work hard and and fit in and um do whatever can to help the team the playoffs of 2016 feel like a long way a long time ago for around here how about you I mean
Uh you you got to be excited to be joining a playoff team ready to go 100% um it’s been too long since I played in the playoffs and uh I was talking to my son the other day and and we were talking about playoffs and I just said
It’s it’s the most pure form of hockey and um you know I get butterflies thinking about it now and you know I I know I haven’t had a taste of it in 8 years but I can still remember the feeling of of skating out on the ice for
For a playoff game and um you know there’s there’s really nothing like it as a as an athlete there was some reports some talk out of Buffalo that maybe you spoke with Kevin and said hey Florida did you specifically ask if you were going to be traded to to come here
Or how did that work um yeah I mean we had a we had a conversation about it and it was definitely uh you know my preferred spot and um you know for for all the reasons that I stated before you know the way that they play um I know
That they’re hungry you know with everything that happened last year the run that they had and and how close they became how close they came to winning and and you know you can just see it in the way that they they play and and you know playing against them it’s uh it’s
Not fun you know you know what you’re getting every night and it’s going to be a hard game and you’re going to have to uh you’re going to have to have a few ice bags after and um like I said look forward to joining the group how nice is
It to come to the situation you mentioned Sam earlier he’s mentioned you a couple times but also Evan and Brandon just having in Buffalo and another here yeah it’s great you know it’s always I feel like when you’re around for a number of years you’re going to
Know a few few guys and you know with Evan and Brandon and uh Dimitri too kulakov I played with him for a year and and then obviously Sam I’m really close with so it’s nice to have some familiar faces but um you know you also talked to
Guys in the summer like Bennett I’ve been at a few camps with him and um you know just talking to different guys and and you know it was funny I was at the same restaurant as Chucky couple week weeks ago when we were down here and
Just you know shook his hand said Hi and um so you meet you meet different guys around the league but um you know when you’re on the ice against them you’re still competitors so uh it’s nice to have some familiarity walking into the room you a Bills fan I am a Bills fan
Well no no it’s a good place to be Buffalo South and now your room is Buffalo South I mean yeah yeah I I was a converted Bills fan for sure like it’s uh like the house I’m building right now like we’re we might put a a buffalo
Statue for the bills so um yeah definitely real quick how how tough was it I mean you talked yesterday on the SPN about telling the kids and leaving they’re staying behind to go to school I assume yeah um how tough is that to to to leave did you leave you left today
Right yeah I left this morning uh I was up pretty early but you know it’s not easy you know my wife and I had a lot of conversations about about leaving about what that’s going to do and you never really think it’s real until it happens and when it does it’s a
Bit of of a shock it’s a bit of a scramble and then all of a sudden it’s like okay I got eight hours to spend with my kids and then I don’t really know when I’m going to see them next it could be 3 weeks or whatever but my
Older two took it pretty hard uh which is a difficult thing they kind of understand the situation a little bit more and and know that Daddy’s going to be gone for a bit but you know I know that in in my heart I would have regretted not taking a shot at it and
And not trying to um contrib contribute to something special and they understand that and they’re fully supportive of me and and they’re going to be down here as much as I can as much as they can to uh support me in this run dad’s business trip right that’s right thank you thank You Oh
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