‘”I always thought we had super high IQ on that team,” winger Thomas Vanek said in January while in town for Ryan Miller’s jersey retirement. “I remember I was a young kid and Chris Drury would talk to me just like I had played 10 years in the league. Same with Mike Grier, same with Teppo Numminen. I loved talking hockey, I loved talking new faceoff plays, ideas, it was just all about hockey talk. So I’m not surprised that all those guys are in a position they are now.”‘