Spencer Carbery reveals TJ Oshie's true colours

«The great quality from a coach's perspective is TJ Oshie is one of those rare players that does it all,» Carbery said of the retiring right wing. «And he's the example that you continue to use in the film sessions, in the locker room, because he was the guy that has this incredible skill set, ability with the puck, could score a huge goal, could make a play on a two-on-one, could tuck it under the bar if he gets into a scoring situation, but he also did all the little things right. He also was a guy that could penalty kill, that would put his body on the line to break up a play, block a shot. He was the guy that was in the right spot defensively. He was the guy that was laying out to prevent a goal.

«All the things as coaches we love, but very rare that we get this combination of skill and ability and offensive talent and other small details of it. That's going to be his legacy that carries on for years to come. Osh was that type of teammate that he thought about his teammates; he wanted to show up and set a good example. We talked about his work ethic every single day, and how hard he competed every single game, and how much he battled through injuries to stay on the ice. And so the Connor McMichaels of the world, the Aliaksei Protases of the world, the Marty Fehervaries have watched that and learned from him, and that's where Osh's impact as a player, yeah, the 2018 and all the things and playing 1,000 games, but he's going to have young players that are telling his story for years to come about how much they learned from Osh.»