I think that team ... we were all one. I don't think any one guy deserves more credit than the next. You could probably take any one of those people all the way through from the ownership to Neil Smith, to Mike Keenan to our whole team there and you could take one person out of there and things might have been different. I say that in all honesty. We caught Lightning in a bottle.
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