\u201cFor me, I just want to talk to Steve and I know we\u2019re going to talk, just to talk about our normal conversations at the end of the year about our team and what he thinks, what he thinks about my own game,\u201d Tkachuk said. \u201cFor me, it\u2019s just having those conversations about our team and where we can improve, where I can improve. All that other stuff is just a distraction.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the end of the day, I didn\u2019t play good enough. I tried to do everything in my power to get my game going and make an impact. It\u2019s just felt nothing was going, nothing was going in, nothing was going my way. I have to live with that. That\u2019s what\u2019s tough. As a player I believe I could be that guy, and I always pride myself on that. And when it doesn\u2019t happen, it\u2019s a big shot in the confidence.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n
On Monday, Staios labeled the talk of Tkachuk playing elsewhere next season as \u201cnonsense.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t read it. I don\u2019t bother with it,\u201d Staios said. \u201cWe know what we have internally. We have great communication with our players, so we really don\u2019t focus on it. I mean, this comes up very often. There’s nothing that we have talked about or thought about where that conversation should happen.\u201d<\/p>\n