"Effort and work ethic and being able to go out and play a hard, physical game and managing the puck well, those are things that these guys had to do on their former teams, otherwise they wouldn't be able to play very much," Schmidt said. "That's something I had to do. Now that you give these guys an opportunity to play a little bit more and they have that background and now that you're adding some offense, it gives a chance to win a lot of games. ... That's the beauty of it."