‘“I told him, ‘You have to play a certain way,’ ” said Fohr, who is now in his fourth season as the NTDP’s Under-18 team’s head coach. “‘When you make it to the NHL, you have to play that hard against that guy.’ I remember that moment because Mattias was so frustrated. He was so big and strong. He couldn’t do the things he needed to do, and he felt like he couldn’t do that without getting suspended. “He had to learn that so he could stay within the game. He was a little more careful with how he went at people, and he learned to manage his momentum.”’