Well said.
For a veteran coach, having veteran players is a big plus.
Nobody wants to deal with headaches when they are 50+.

Iginla/Bouw/Kipper isn't too far off the types that Sakic/Blake/Roy were.
(Well, perhaps Roy was a bit of a special case... but two francs in a place distant from MTL probably had good things to talk about)

Subban/Price is probably all too familar of Kovalchuk/Lehtonen.
An uncoachable primadona and a young cornerstone goalie.

For Hartley, been there, done that.