On the Bench, Who's the Loudest Golden Knight? + Leipsic Talks Selanne (vegas)

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On the Bench, Who's the Loudest Golden Knight? + Leipsic Talks Selanne

By Sheng Peng

Dec 30, 2017 • 5:59 pm

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The crowd at practice this morning was a stunner.

Anyway, everybody was accounted for today. Marc-Andre Fleury stayed late to take some shots, so there's some speculation that Subban will start tomorrow afternoon against Toronto. We'll see, but I consider that highly unlikely.

On Thursday night's broadcast, NBC Sports color commentator Jim Fox shared this observation:

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HockeyBuzz: Is the Vegas bench the noisiest you been around, in terms of helping each other with the play?

Jonathan Marchessault: Oh, yeah. On the ice, some times, it's hard to always talk. I'm a guy who talks a lot.

Gerard Gallant: He's probably talking about Ryan McGill yelling all the time. (laughs)

Brendan Leipsic: Yeah, we've got a couple of noisy guys. Sometimes, not the greatest noise. (laughs)

Deryk Engelland: You have that on any team. If you see something they could do a little different or something, everybody's going to help out. It's no different here.

GG: Our players are communicating all the time. They have fun on the bench. It's a serious bench, but they're talking, they're communicating, they're trying to help each other out.

BL: We've got a fun team. Guys are always supporting each other, holding each other accountable.

DE: The excitement on our bench has been great all year. After a long summer, you don't really remember other benches.

HB: What does it mean when you have a vocal bench?

JM: I remember in Tampa, guys weren't talking on the bench. It was dead a little bit.

Every team is different. Tampa is a pretty good team. So that must be good for them. But personally, I like when guys are involved, guys are in it. It's good for our hockey team.

HB: When you're on the ice, can you actually hear the bench? It really helps?

BL: We do. It's a second pair of eyes, right? You can't have enough guys talking to you.

JM: It makes it so much easier. It's good, in the zone, helping out each other. We're trying to do every little thing to get better.

HB: Who's the loudest guy on the bench?

JM: Schmitty and Perry. I talk a lot, I think.

BL: It could be Schmidt. It could be Perron. Perron, I think. Oh, but I sit at the forwards' side.

Cody Eakin: Turk!

BL: Oh yeah, [Gallant] can get loud. But if I had to pick a player, it probably would be Perron.

GG: No, no, I'm pretty quiet. (laughs)

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HockeyBuzz: So can you talk more about the relationship between yourself and Teemu?

Brendan Leipsic: Going back to the Winnipeg days, my mom was really good friends with his wife. Kind of like a family friendship that they've had. They've kept in touch ever since. Just kind of cool for them to be there, had my parents in the stands too. It was a good night.

HB: I understand your No. 13 is in his honor?

BL: Not really. I think they made it out to be that way. It's more of a coincidence than anything. 13 was available. It just happened to be Teemu's number.

It's a cool relationship. Really nothing more than that. Just so happened that we knew each other when I was a young kid.

HB: So how badly did you lose the locker room fantasy football championship to Cody?

BL: I lost pretty bad, just because Todd Gurley had 60 points. I think I lost by 60 points.

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