Win, grow, innovate, give back: The Ted Leonsis playbook

All right, let's put this ready.

Let's put this thing together.

I'm terrible at following directions.

You have to lead me on it.

Leadership in general like, when you think of leadership and I mean, not just Tez leadership but your leadership and being here like, like what what's the word that comes to mind?

Yeah, so for me, and I'm not just saying this because you're standing right here. He leads this entire organization at a high level. So when he's doing his job, it makes it so much easier for us to do our part.

I mean, you see the entire uh businessman, the entire company out here today.

You can tell that our culture is different from other teams and I think the success on the ice stems from that culture and I think Ted does a good job of creating that from the top and having that trickle down towards us.

They're not here for the photo of.

Yeah, I know.

Okay, I I feel guilty. They watched me out, you know, they say nice things, but being real, providing legit leadership, that's how you make a team a destination.

And then word gets out that we don't allow bad people in the locker room. We don't we don't want we want great players and better human beings.

And then that spiral continues. And that's how you build a a team, a franchise that's built to last.

You know, when you have great people who are really, really good players, and they make for a really, really great team, I think we can make Washington DC the sports capital of the United States. That's kind of the goal.

We want to win. We want to grow, we want to innovate and we want to give back. Those are the pillars for our organization. The community will love this playground. They'll protect it, they'll take care of it.

From these little acorns, these big important trees will grow, and it starts today here. Thank you.

Three, two, one!