November 27, 2024 • 12 mins
Seattle Kraken Head Coach Dan Bylsma joins Dave Softy Mahler to talk about moving from Palm Springs to Seattle, Matty Beniers, Vince Dunn, this team, and Thanksgiving.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jackson.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Can we keep it right here and transfer to some
NHL and Dan Biosma, Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
That worked. The head coach of the Kraken joining us right.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Now on the radio program, getting ready for tonight's game
against the Anaheim Mighty Ducks. Normally you would hear this
at three forty five every Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
We're gonna talk to Dan every.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Single week and kick it off with a little pregame
fun with the head coach of your Seattle Kraken, Dan Bilsma,
joining us right now on ninety three to three KJRFM
ahead of their game tonight against the Ducks.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Coach, how are you.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I'm very good, softy. How are you doing today? Day? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Game day? I love it.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Man, tell me about game day. What is your game
day routine? Do you wake up early because you're all tensing,
you're anxious and you can't wait for face off?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
What is what is game day like for you? Coach?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Game day? Game day ends up being along when I think, uh,
you know, get into the get into the rink at
five thirty and the boys come in. The guys come
in for meetings and three game skate and then there's
a break in the day, I will go for roun.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Me and a couple of the staff members go for
a run on game day, get ready for the game,
and then uh usually three three thirty it's turning attention
to the pote the opposition, and guys will be coming
in at three thirty four o'clock or thirty for the
game and.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Getting ready to go and then so it ends up
being a long one, but a good one.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Well, I'll tell you what, man, I want you to
know that I like you also like to go for
a run on game day, and I'm lying, by the way,
there will be none of that for me at all.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
So I'll like you handle that.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Ain't softy for nothing exactly.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
See, you're learning already for crying out loud.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Well, listen, man, you guys started off in your first
fourteen games five eight and one and your six and
two cents.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Why what's been the difference to last eight?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Well, I think a little more consistency in our play.
And that's not just a game to game but in
game as well. We react to things. How we react
to this the referee, how we react to a mistake,
how we react to you know, something going wrong in
the game, we've been a little more consistent throughout the
sixty minutes, reacting the right way, reacting with the right
(02:14):
mind frame, and just playing the sixty minutes out. Whatever
it takes, whatever it is, whatever comes our way, just
keep playing, keep playing our way. And we've been better
at that through the last seven games.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Well, this is this is the first time we're doing this, coach,
and looking forward to having you on every week, So
we'll kind of get, you know, some of the heavy
stuff out of the way first and then just focus
on the games and the roster and the guys and
all that strategy, you know, getting on you a back
to this and that as the year goes by. But
this is your third stinting out doing this in the NHL,
and I'm just curious the guy that I'm talking to
(02:45):
right now versus the guy that we saw in Pittsburgh,
the guy that we saw in Buffalo. How different are you?
How different is your approach? What have you learned about
yourself since those Buffalo days?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Well, I from beginning, you're talking about a thirty eight
year old guy who got his first chance in the
National Hockey League just fifty two games into my head
coaching career was when I got the opportunity of Pittsburgh,
and I think one that was full of energy and
full of juice and wanted to get in with the guys,
(03:20):
wanted to be a part of it. And I think
over the course of years, the course of the weird
tear of the NHL, I lost a little bit of
that energy, a little that jam, a little that determination
coming to the rink every day with with the guys,
amongst the guys being a part of it. And you know,
(03:41):
whether it's well it was Buffalo, whether it was the
last two years in Coachella Valley, I think you know,
the the guys are seeing a thirty eight year old guy,
not a fifty four year old guy coming to the
rink every day with a ton of energy at shan jam,
just eager for the competition of the game and wanting
the guys to get in get in the same mode.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Well, Dan Bosma, with us and coach you mentioned your
your your stint down there in Coachella, and look, I
think I probably know the answer to this, but I
want to just hear your thoughts on this. Anyway, How
different are these players and I'm not talking about physically
I'm not talking.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
About skill wise.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
We know they're just night and day, I would assume
from what you had down there in Coachella, But just
you know, the egos of the players, how how coachable
are they at this level.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Versus what you were dealing with down there in the desert.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Well, I think, uh, I think the thought might be
to think they're different, But I think only the pressures
of the National Hockey League, the pressures of of you know,
it being a job, you know, having some status in
the game, is the only thing that's different for the players.
There's still there's still young at heart. They're still wanting
(04:52):
to play this game, is still wanting to play the
game at their at their best. They still want to win,
win hockey games at the heart of it, and that's
that That's what a I want to bring in. But
it's been refreshing for me to get with this group
and see what that that that's their mindset. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Well, you mentioned some of these guys being young at heart,
and you've still got some young guys on this team,
including Matti Beneers and Shane Wright. And we saw Shane
have his second goal of the year against the Ducks
on on Monday night.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
But let me ask you about Maddie for a.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Second, because ever since this guy showed up, there's been
these crazy expectations about Matti Benier's and I don't know
what's fair and what's not fair. So let me just
ask you flat out, are you are you getting out
of Maddie what you need from him? And if not,
how much is kind of left in the tank?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
You think?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Well, I think the expectations are high because of how
he came in after his college season the first year
and played the last fifteen I think seventeen games that
he played, you know, immediately came in and had an
impact on the ice with a his work ethic and work,
his skating and his determination of which he plays the game,
and you know, had a great second year, and so
(06:00):
it just built expectations for him on the ice. But
I I, you know, I it can't it can't go
without saying that, you know, he's still a young man.
He's still developing as a person, he's still developing as
a player, and and that sometimes gets lost when you
see a in nineteen year old kid come in and
he's twenty and he's twenty one. He's still he's developed,
(06:24):
still developing his game and rounding his game out, and
he will continue to get better and better and better
and better as the years go. And the great thing
about Mattie is he's there, he's determined in he's determined
to get better all the time. And the conversation doesn't
(06:44):
go by with what he can do more, what he
can do better, how he can do it better. And
you know, we don't get a lot of practice time
in this league, but he's continually working on his game,
working on his game, working on his game, and that's
that's that just means it's going to get better and better.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Well.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
And the other guy, Shane Wright, you know, I just
remember on Draft night when Montreal passed on him, there
was like a gigantic party here in Seattle.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Right, oh man, we're going to get.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Our hands on this guy who you know, at some
point in time folks thought would be the number one
pick in the draft. But give us a take on
what it's been like to work with him and his
progress and really maybe kind of what fans should expect
out of him right now.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Yeah, the same the same applies, I think, you know
should be clearly was a lot of hype round Shane
as a prospect and a player, and getting crack and
being able to get a draft him at the four spot,
I think was a huge bonus. It's just it is,
there's eighteen years old. I don't know, top the fifty four.
(07:45):
I can't remember what I was like when I was
eight years old. But but uh, you know, the with
the high draft pick and with the you know, the
talent and the skill that he obviously has, comes a
ton of expectations, becomes a ton of eyes from every bud,
from management, from coaches, from fans. There's a lot of
eyes and a lot of expectations on that. And you
(08:08):
it's often and it well usually is looked by that
they're eighteen years old. And Shane Wright stepped into Seattle
when he was eighteen years old in a training camp,
and he's a talented and skilled player. But it's amongst men,
and it's amongst grown men, and it's not the easiest
thing to do. And I think, you know, our eyes
are on Shane, but you look at other great and
(08:30):
high path draft picks. You know, Jack Eichel and Sam
Ryan are two guys I coached in Buffalo's you know,
eight years later, we're talking about Jack Eichel being, you know,
one of the best in the game, and Sam urayin
ared it's eight years and nights, nine years later that
he sports forty goals and fifty goals. There was a development,
there was a path, there was a process that he
(08:51):
had to go through eighteen, nineteen, twenty twenty one, twenty
two to get there. That's what Maddi's in and that's
what Shane's in right.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Well, Coach, before you go, first of all, again, really
appreciate you doing this, agreeing to do this every single
week with us on.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
The radio show.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I hope you agree to do it in like a
month from now, after we've been visiting for four or
five weeks, so we'll just check in with you and
see what your.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Thought process looks like.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
But you did tell us off the year, Hey, I'm
not going to tell any any injury updates to any media.
I'm going to just share that and keep it for
you guys on my weekly show. So I really appreciate
you being open and honest with us like that. What's
going on with Vince done? Do you expect him back?
Maybe this weekend?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Coach time frame would be looking towards the weekend. Yeah.
He he went on the road with us to La
and Anaheim so that he could skate with the group
and skate with the team and get in some practices.
He's been skating now pretty rigorously for ye with ten
days so and again today and then we're looking towards
(09:54):
the weekend. So things have progressed good for him. He's
gotten into some team practices, gotten some contact, and he's
gotten the pace from practice. So hopefully it continues here
the next few days and the weekend would be a
good time. I would get a ticket to a home
game if I was you.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I love it great, new perfect, perfect, perfect timing. Well coach,
before we let you go the ducks again tonight. You
got them on Monday. But let me ask you a question.
Are you are you giving the boys tomorrow? If you're
not making the guys work on Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Are you well? Our schedule dictates that we play the
back to backs on Friday Saturday, and the Friday game
is a twelve thirty kind of early Mattine game in
San Jose, So we will not be practicing tomorrow, but
we will be going. We got to get to San
Jose sometime in the afternoon, but Thanksgiving dinner will be
(10:48):
had in San Jose for the group, for the family.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
What's the one thing on the Thanksgiving table that you
got to have? I mean, you grew up as a Michigander.
I'm just assuming that was a hell of a buffet
on Thanksgiving Day in Michigan growing up as a kid.
But what's the one thing on that table that Dan
Bilsma's got to get in his belly tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Let's see, Well, the Biolesm has had their Thanksgiving last
week just due to our schedule, so it's already been done.
And I would be super disappointed if I mean, it's
gotta have turkey, it's gotta have stuff, it's gotta have
sweet data. But I would be super disappointed and probably
unthankful if the cheesy potatoes, my mom's cheesy potatoes that
(11:33):
she always made, were not on the table. So it's
all in one because it all needs to be there,
but if the cheese potatoes weren't there, I'd be unthankful.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Well, Hey, I tell you, what, when do you get
moms cheesy potatoes and drop off in order and deliver
it to the radio station because that sounds damn good man.
Holy moly, you're making my mouth water. Hey listen, great stuff,
good luck tonight. Gonna be fired up to do this
with you every week. Go get the ducks this evening
and we'll talk now Wednesday, Coach, Thanks.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Man, awesome, Thanks Softie.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
You got Dan.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Bowsman with us on the radio show. What do you
say we get out of here? Make way for Mike
Benton the pregame Cracking Ducks coming next right here on
ninety three three KJRFM. See you happy Thanksgiving everybody. We'll
talk to you Monday from the Emerald. Queen Bye,
Jackson.
Speaker 2 (00:00):
Can we keep it right here and transfer to some
NHL and Dan Biosma, Yeah, let's do it.
Speaker 1 (00:05):
That worked. The head coach of the Kraken joining us right.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Now on the radio program, getting ready for tonight's game
against the Anaheim Mighty Ducks. Normally you would hear this
at three forty five every Wednesday.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
We're gonna talk to Dan every.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Single week and kick it off with a little pregame
fun with the head coach of your Seattle Kraken, Dan Bilsma,
joining us right now on ninety three to three KJRFM
ahead of their game tonight against the Ducks.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Coach, how are you.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
I'm very good, softy. How are you doing today? Day? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (00:36):
Game day? I love it.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Man, tell me about game day. What is your game
day routine? Do you wake up early because you're all tensing,
you're anxious and you can't wait for face off?
Speaker 1 (00:45):
What is what is game day like for you? Coach?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Game day? Game day ends up being along when I think, uh,
you know, get into the get into the rink at
five thirty and the boys come in. The guys come
in for meetings and three game skate and then there's
a break in the day, I will go for roun.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Me and a couple of the staff members go for
a run on game day, get ready for the game,
and then uh usually three three thirty it's turning attention
to the pote the opposition, and guys will be coming
in at three thirty four o'clock or thirty for the
game and.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Getting ready to go and then so it ends up
being a long one, but a good one.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Well, I'll tell you what, man, I want you to
know that I like you also like to go for
a run on game day, and I'm lying, by the way,
there will be none of that for me at all.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
So I'll like you handle that.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Ain't softy for nothing exactly.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
See, you're learning already for crying out loud.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Well, listen, man, you guys started off in your first
fourteen games five eight and one and your six and
two cents.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Why what's been the difference to last eight?
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Well, I think a little more consistency in our play.
And that's not just a game to game but in
game as well. We react to things. How we react
to this the referee, how we react to a mistake,
how we react to you know, something going wrong in
the game, we've been a little more consistent throughout the
sixty minutes, reacting the right way, reacting with the right
(02:14):
mind frame, and just playing the sixty minutes out. Whatever
it takes, whatever it is, whatever comes our way, just
keep playing, keep playing our way. And we've been better
at that through the last seven games.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Well, this is this is the first time we're doing this, coach,
and looking forward to having you on every week, So
we'll kind of get, you know, some of the heavy
stuff out of the way first and then just focus
on the games and the roster and the guys and
all that strategy, you know, getting on you a back
to this and that as the year goes by. But
this is your third stinting out doing this in the NHL,
and I'm just curious the guy that I'm talking to
(02:45):
right now versus the guy that we saw in Pittsburgh,
the guy that we saw in Buffalo. How different are you?
How different is your approach? What have you learned about
yourself since those Buffalo days?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Well, I from beginning, you're talking about a thirty eight
year old guy who got his first chance in the
National Hockey League just fifty two games into my head
coaching career was when I got the opportunity of Pittsburgh,
and I think one that was full of energy and
full of juice and wanted to get in with the guys,
(03:20):
wanted to be a part of it. And I think
over the course of years, the course of the weird
tear of the NHL, I lost a little bit of
that energy, a little that jam, a little that determination
coming to the rink every day with with the guys,
amongst the guys being a part of it. And you know,
(03:41):
whether it's well it was Buffalo, whether it was the
last two years in Coachella Valley, I think you know,
the the guys are seeing a thirty eight year old guy,
not a fifty four year old guy coming to the
rink every day with a ton of energy at shan jam,
just eager for the competition of the game and wanting
the guys to get in get in the same mode.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Well, Dan Bosma, with us and coach you mentioned your
your your stint down there in Coachella, and look, I
think I probably know the answer to this, but I
want to just hear your thoughts on this. Anyway, How
different are these players and I'm not talking about physically
I'm not talking.
Speaker 1 (04:14):
About skill wise.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
We know they're just night and day, I would assume
from what you had down there in Coachella, But just
you know, the egos of the players, how how coachable
are they at this level.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Versus what you were dealing with down there in the desert.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
Well, I think, uh, I think the thought might be
to think they're different, But I think only the pressures
of the National Hockey League, the pressures of of you know,
it being a job, you know, having some status in
the game, is the only thing that's different for the players.
There's still there's still young at heart. They're still wanting
(04:52):
to play this game, is still wanting to play the
game at their at their best. They still want to win,
win hockey games at the heart of it, and that's
that That's what a I want to bring in. But
it's been refreshing for me to get with this group
and see what that that that's their mindset. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Well, you mentioned some of these guys being young at heart,
and you've still got some young guys on this team,
including Matti Beneers and Shane Wright. And we saw Shane
have his second goal of the year against the Ducks
on on Monday night.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
But let me ask you about Maddie for a.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
Second, because ever since this guy showed up, there's been
these crazy expectations about Matti Benier's and I don't know
what's fair and what's not fair. So let me just
ask you flat out, are you are you getting out
of Maddie what you need from him? And if not,
how much is kind of left in the tank?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
You think?
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Well, I think the expectations are high because of how
he came in after his college season the first year
and played the last fifteen I think seventeen games that
he played, you know, immediately came in and had an
impact on the ice with a his work ethic and work,
his skating and his determination of which he plays the game,
and you know, had a great second year, and so
(06:00):
it just built expectations for him on the ice. But
I I, you know, I it can't it can't go
without saying that, you know, he's still a young man.
He's still developing as a person, he's still developing as
a player, and and that sometimes gets lost when you
see a in nineteen year old kid come in and
he's twenty and he's twenty one. He's still he's developed,
(06:24):
still developing his game and rounding his game out, and
he will continue to get better and better and better
and better as the years go. And the great thing
about Mattie is he's there, he's determined in he's determined
to get better all the time. And the conversation doesn't
(06:44):
go by with what he can do more, what he
can do better, how he can do it better. And
you know, we don't get a lot of practice time
in this league, but he's continually working on his game,
working on his game, working on his game, and that's
that's that just means it's going to get better and better.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
Well.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
And the other guy, Shane Wright, you know, I just
remember on Draft night when Montreal passed on him, there
was like a gigantic party here in Seattle.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Right, oh man, we're going to get.
Speaker 2 (07:09):
Our hands on this guy who you know, at some
point in time folks thought would be the number one
pick in the draft. But give us a take on
what it's been like to work with him and his
progress and really maybe kind of what fans should expect
out of him right now.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Yeah, the same the same applies, I think, you know
should be clearly was a lot of hype round Shane
as a prospect and a player, and getting crack and
being able to get a draft him at the four spot,
I think was a huge bonus. It's just it is,
there's eighteen years old. I don't know, top the fifty four.
(07:45):
I can't remember what I was like when I was
eight years old. But but uh, you know, the with
the high draft pick and with the you know, the
talent and the skill that he obviously has, comes a
ton of expectations, becomes a ton of eyes from every bud,
from management, from coaches, from fans. There's a lot of
eyes and a lot of expectations on that. And you
(08:08):
it's often and it well usually is looked by that
they're eighteen years old. And Shane Wright stepped into Seattle
when he was eighteen years old in a training camp,
and he's a talented and skilled player. But it's amongst men,
and it's amongst grown men, and it's not the easiest
thing to do. And I think, you know, our eyes
are on Shane, but you look at other great and
(08:30):
high path draft picks. You know, Jack Eichel and Sam
Ryan are two guys I coached in Buffalo's you know,
eight years later, we're talking about Jack Eichel being, you know,
one of the best in the game, and Sam urayin
ared it's eight years and nights, nine years later that
he sports forty goals and fifty goals. There was a development,
there was a path, there was a process that he
(08:51):
had to go through eighteen, nineteen, twenty twenty one, twenty
two to get there. That's what Maddi's in and that's
what Shane's in right.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Well, Coach, before you go, first of all, again, really
appreciate you doing this, agreeing to do this every single
week with us on.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
The radio show.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
I hope you agree to do it in like a
month from now, after we've been visiting for four or
five weeks, so we'll just check in with you and
see what your.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Thought process looks like.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
But you did tell us off the year, Hey, I'm
not going to tell any any injury updates to any media.
I'm going to just share that and keep it for
you guys on my weekly show. So I really appreciate
you being open and honest with us like that. What's
going on with Vince done? Do you expect him back?
Maybe this weekend?
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Coach time frame would be looking towards the weekend. Yeah.
He he went on the road with us to La
and Anaheim so that he could skate with the group
and skate with the team and get in some practices.
He's been skating now pretty rigorously for ye with ten
days so and again today and then we're looking towards
(09:54):
the weekend. So things have progressed good for him. He's
gotten into some team practices, gotten some contact, and he's
gotten the pace from practice. So hopefully it continues here
the next few days and the weekend would be a
good time. I would get a ticket to a home
game if I was you.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
I love it great, new perfect, perfect, perfect timing. Well coach,
before we let you go the ducks again tonight. You
got them on Monday. But let me ask you a question.
Are you are you giving the boys tomorrow? If you're
not making the guys work on Thanksgiving?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Are you well? Our schedule dictates that we play the
back to backs on Friday Saturday, and the Friday game
is a twelve thirty kind of early Mattine game in
San Jose, So we will not be practicing tomorrow, but
we will be going. We got to get to San
Jose sometime in the afternoon, but Thanksgiving dinner will be
(10:48):
had in San Jose for the group, for the family.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
What's the one thing on the Thanksgiving table that you
got to have? I mean, you grew up as a Michigander.
I'm just assuming that was a hell of a buffet
on Thanksgiving Day in Michigan growing up as a kid.
But what's the one thing on that table that Dan
Bilsma's got to get in his belly tomorrow?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Let's see, Well, the Biolesm has had their Thanksgiving last
week just due to our schedule, so it's already been done.
And I would be super disappointed if I mean, it's
gotta have turkey, it's gotta have stuff, it's gotta have
sweet data. But I would be super disappointed and probably
unthankful if the cheesy potatoes, my mom's cheesy potatoes that
(11:33):
she always made, were not on the table. So it's
all in one because it all needs to be there,
but if the cheese potatoes weren't there, I'd be unthankful.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Well, Hey, I tell you, what, when do you get
moms cheesy potatoes and drop off in order and deliver
it to the radio station because that sounds damn good man.
Holy moly, you're making my mouth water. Hey listen, great stuff,
good luck tonight. Gonna be fired up to do this
with you every week. Go get the ducks this evening
and we'll talk now Wednesday, Coach, Thanks.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Man, awesome, Thanks Softie.
Speaker 1 (12:03):
You got Dan.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Bowsman with us on the radio show. What do you
say we get out of here? Make way for Mike
Benton the pregame Cracking Ducks coming next right here on
ninety three three KJRFM. See you happy Thanksgiving everybody. We'll
talk to you Monday from the Emerald. Queen Bye,
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