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Mike Babcock: “We have to find a way to do it right every day with an internal accountability to make each other do it right every day”

When you talk about the team’s identity and how it evolves and develops, does it take a certain number of games every year to really settled in, or is it always an evolving thing?

Babcock: I think for sure it takes a number of games and I think you’ve got to find yourself. When you’re not a battle-tested team… When I look at two teams in our league like Tampa and Nashville, for example — to me, they’ve been through it. They’ve been grinding. They’ve been doing it for a number of years. You get an identity and you can get back to it.