But is swagger really contagious?
"That's a good question," Weight said. "I think it is in a team. Everything's contagious on a team. But when it comes to confidence, you need to get yourself going. I believe as a team, we can come back from any deficit. I believe we can score. I believe we can go into every game thinking, 'All right, we can win this game,' and that's great. At the point in the season we're at right now with our team, I feel really confident as a coach as well.
"I don't want people to survive, I want them to thrive. The more people you have thriving with that swagger, the better you're going to be. We've got to try to get it out of these guys."
For the most part, he has, but there have been some challenges; forward Jason Chimera scored his first goal of the season in the 6-5 loss to Ottawa on Friday and forward Brock Nelson has one goal in his past 16 games. Weight is hopeful his bottom two lines will feed off the success his top two lines are having, which is highlighted by captain John Tavares' 16 goals.
"It's the confidence he has about him," defenseman Thomas Hickey said of Weight. "It is contagious. As many guys as you can get to feel like that, the team picks up some swagger. When things are going good, that stuff comes. It's just the tough times you've got to remember to carry a bit with you too. It's been good."
And perhaps some outside the organization forgot things were pretty good here over the final 40 games of last season, which is why Weight shrugs his shoulders whenever he's asked if he expected to have so much success over these first 25 games.
"I don't know what the big surprise is," Weight said. "Those games weren't meaningless last year. We weren't 45 points out of the playoffs. Last time I checked, we missed by one point. It was Sunday evening when we found out [we didn't make it], and the playoffs started Wednesday.
"This was a different team, the team I expected it to be. Yeah, we've got some young guys that have come and contributed, but it's the same team in there that was whatever our record was last year. We're a good team. We're going to continue to get better, we're going to work, we're going to know each other a bit closer as far as structure, as far as how we play, as far as preparation … everything's just going to start hopefully getting better. Do the results keep coming? I hope so, but that's what I expect and I expect us to be a good team this year."