Fit, numbers way up from where they were last year. Strong, and that doesn’t mean fit; strong mentally and confident. Open, willing to learn and asking questions. It looked like he had good legs last night, a little bit of jump in his stride. Still learning how we want to play and learning some concepts. He’s got a dynamic skillset that we’re starting to see, so a lot of really positive things. He, like the rest of us, the coaching staff and the players, all still have to find our game and polish it up a little bit before the season starts.

[He is a] very important player, very important piece. We talked about apples and oranges yesterday; he’s different than a lot of other players. He can skate, move the puck, he jumps in. There’s some dynamic offensive skills that he has; he scored that goal last night [by] jumping in and having good timing. He brings a lot to the table that way. Would we like him to defend better? Of course we would, but that can be said for Taylor, Jordan and we’ll talk about Connor at some point during the year doing that. We’d like him to improve in that area. The interesting thing for me is that everyone around here talks around here a lot about his strength and his conditioning – his numbers have gone way up – but for me his strength is between his ears. We should be playing towards that a little, positioning himself properly. Nick Lidstrom didn’t go into the corner to kill guys, he went into the corner to contain guys and take the puck away from them and initiate the breakout. I’m not saying Justin is Nick Lidstrom, but they both have different strengths. Gryba’s physical. Schultz, he’s a smart player, he should be using his mind and his positioning as much as his physical tools.