Brandon Hagel<\/a>\u00a0said. \u201cSo maybe he should start only sleeping three hours a night, every night.<\/p>\n\u201cI don\u2019t know. That\u2019s pretty impressive.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sleep? Who needs sleep?<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, that\u2019s a guy who you want on your team,\u201d Hagel said. \u201cThat\u2019s a guy who\u2019s going to push everyone to that next level. And that\u2019s a guy you want to win for.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cReally, really happy that\u2019s the guy we went with.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hagel was referring to the fact that the Perry acquisition was the only move the Lightning made prior to the deadline.<\/p>\n
For Tampa Bay management, it was a case of quality, not quantity. Keep in mind that Perry\u2019s a familiar asset to general manager Julien BriseBois and coach Jon Cooper, having played for the Lightning from 2021-23 when he had 65 points (31 goals, 34 assists) in 163 regular-season games.<\/p>\n
As such, Perry didn\u2019t have to learn the Lightning\u2019s system. He already knew it. And having grown up about 60 miles away from Toronto in Peterborough, a number of friends and family were able to attend the game. Add it all up, and there was no lack of incentive or adrenaline for him to want to play on this night in Toronto, a place he referred to as the “Mecca of Hockey.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was exciting,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd you\u2019ve just got to put everything aside. Once the puck drops, away you go. And you know, it\u2019s second nature, but there are a lot of things going on in the back of your head.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we came out and played the way this team can play. It\u2019s fast. We were on top of them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Afterward, grinning from ear to ear, there he was, a coveted Hockey Night in Canada towel draped around…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":["post-522087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-toronto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}