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The goal 10 is the biggest thing.
That's always gonna be a huge thing.
You know, you talk about my business.
Like there's not anything I can really point to
and be like, oh, this is now the major, major factor.
I don't want to say that there's
a progression coming.
It's been over half a season.
They're a very good team.
I've watched them a bunch.
Like they are really good.
They're deep.
They get contributions up and down the line up.
Everybody scores.
Everybody plays.
I don't think you can put a value on the fact
that there's not guys at the forward group
that play 24 minutes a night.
There's not guys that play five minutes a night.
They all play between 10 and 20.
Everybody's got a role.
Everybody's valued.
Everybody feels that.
And what that does to a player's psyche.
That's how you build a team.
Okay, that's really interesting and good.
Of course, from Mike Kelly, it would be NHL network.
I thought he was going to squeeze in and everybody eats.
They're just so mixed the teams up anyway.
Let's go.
There's a lot of everybody's there.
Everybody.
Right?
Yeah.
The Sabers could use that.
They.
Well, they don't really need anything right now.
Right.
Everybody eats.
The point is they kind of are that.
Like that's another way.
That's a very short way of saying what he just said,
which is like that everyone's contributing.
And it's not like you're just leaning on stuff on vigs.
It's blinds one through four.
It's four words one through 12 like everyone,
you know, to varying degrees.
Obviously, you know, Beck Malinstein does not score
like Alex Tux scores.
But they have their moments and they play their role
and they are not just playing.
Like he says a few minutes a night.
Like you sometimes used to see with, you know,
tough guys on the fourth line and they, you know,
play a shift a period or whatever.
And like that would be it.
That's another issue that itself is an interesting question
about what the playoffs will look like.
Is does that change?
Yeah.
I know.
Do you get into the third period and just lean on your top two
lines?
I mean, I feel like to backtrack a step.
The first thing he said there, I mean, here's Mike Kelly,
who he's numbers.
He knows a lot.
I only mean this is a compliment.
He says up front, like, well, they're goal-tending.
Man, it's been half a season.
He sort of stops himself from questioning it.
Right.
And then he says, I don't really have any data for this.
I can't tell you what's going to happen with the goalies.
And damn right.
I mean, that's how goalies goes.
I mean, that's, you know, he's right to be humble enough
to not try to, like, some people tell you how it's going to go
with goalies, because nobody knows that answer.
So good for him.
But that's a, goalie is microcosm of the other point, which
is, all right, well, I've gotten here how, with two guys
going back and forth, almost literally exactly for me.
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I work at United Health Care.
So Brian, why do you care?
I care because I don't want to leave anybody behind.
I oversee one of the biggest resource center
in United Health Care.
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Weeks.
And maybe that continues all the way to the end.
Maybe what's tonight?
73?
Whatever ought to even, whatever tonight is.
Whoever plays tonight, maybe doesn't play the last game.
Whatever it lands, guy plays the last game.
The other guy plays game one.
And I kind of want the sabers to keep rolling like that.
But in terms of their forward, their lines,
and just their skaters, they probably
will get into games and rain in certain players, lean on others.
So I don't know, it's one of the goalies themselves,
and then just sort of a team.
That's the whole separate.
Macro, it's one of the more, maybe the most interesting thing
to talk about with them and how this is going to evolve.
There are, I don't have exactly the number of games left
sitting right in front of me.
But if they intend on choosing a guy, maybe they'll announce
that, maybe they won't.
My sense is they probably won't.
We'll be waiting before game two at the game day
to escape for clues as to what's going to happen following game one.
And maybe winner lose, they got lost.
It'd be easier to just stay with the rotation.
If they win, then I think there's a lot more, maybe,
edginess to the whole scene, right?
But if they want to, if they think, if Lindy or the coaching
staff thinks, and I have no idea what they think about this.
But traditional hockey, like we talked with Flutus and Sally yesterday,
he wanted the broons when they had all-marked Swaman to keep going
with the rotation, but they didn't, right?
Traditional hockey is, he's my number one, that's it, you're playing, right?
If they want to do that, they probably should, at some point here,
with 11 games left, try that out with games every other day, right?
Like if you think Luke and in is going to be the guy,
you might want to play him three in a row to see or four in a row to see
what happens and same with Lyon.
And maybe each guy should get a turn.
If you want to do that, if I might suggest that if they don't do that
between here and the end, then maybe that's a sign that the rotation
is going to continue.
Because these guys have not played.
Luke and in one time had two starts in a row.
I'm not sure if Lyon has, he probably did well in a start.
Yeah, well, Luke and in, yeah, I mean, at least once the rotation was going,
that's right, like with one guy was in or out, maybe they played more in a row.
Like Lyon, I think at one point while Luke and in was on the shelf the first time,
not at the Olympic time, probably did.
But I still think you'd want to make sure how they're going to handle it.
How do they look in game three of three in a row versus game one?
Like are they fatigued?
Are there signs of fatigue?
Whatever, I don't think you'd want to just start out of nowhere on April 18th.
Okay, you're going to play the next 30 games.
That's insane, I think.
So if they don't start giving someone a few in a row, maybe that's a clue
that they're going to just stay with the rotation.
No matter what.
Yeah, well, yeah, but that's, again, that's where like I don't know if I got it.
If they're flipping back and forth, it's so it's just so interesting.
It's so hard to know that they win game one with Lyon.
Luke and in goes in game two, they lose no life forever.
I want the opposite.
I want Lyon in game one, they lose.
Luke and in goes in, he wins.
You say with Luke and in that game three, right?
That's almost always be a day off.
Always goes, right?
So that's the out the coach has is almost always there will be a day off.
At least one.
Absolutely.
Yeah, there's no, there are never back-to-back games.
I'm not saying they need like back-to-back nights.
I'm just saying back to that starts.
I know because they haven't done that at all.
But if the coach went a coach, I mean, Lindy,
if a coach went to the same goalie the next night,
because there were back-to-back games, that would be easier to question.
That would be under more scrutiny than if a day off.
And a lot of those days off will be travel days too.
I'm not sure really how much that has to matter,
but very interesting idea to test that now.
And that is somewhat a question of how badly do they want first place?
Yeah.
I mean, first in the conferences in play.
Carolina losers.
Yeah, they're a point out to Montreal.
Hopefully, hopefully you had that bet by the way,
from us yesterday.
Yeah.
Plus money, Montreal, at home against Carolina.
He's a better team.
And Black Hawk's on the money line last night too, by the way.
Let's go.
Who's the better team?
I'd rather play Carolina in round one than Montreal.
I don't know.
I don't know.
I can't play Carolina in round one, I know.
No, yeah, right.
But Montreal is pretty scary.
Montreal is a realistic conference vibe.
Montreal is really scary high-end.
Like, I just, I'm not sure how buttoned up they can be.
Like, I feel like I've seen evidence of the Sabers locking games down plenty of times.
I'm not watching Montreal necessarily do that.
I think that's not saying they're not doing it,
but I'm not, I don't think they're as good at that.
Their goal-tending has been suspect at times.
Yep.
So three guys.
Yeah.
There's, they've Carolina, maybe badly outshot them too.
Yeah.
Last night.
Carolina shoots everybody because they shoot from everywhere.
That's their M.O.
That's right.
They just chuck pucks from the, whatever.
It's getting to the net.
Darlings.
That's their point.
The darlings of the league.
Right, right.
So either numbers always look good and then, you know,
the playoffs get here and they don't win.
At least not, you know, they don't go far.
I'm sure they're around.
Well, I mean, opinions are welcome on this.
Like, how to play it.
Well, if they keep rotating, it's easy.
This is what has worked.
Everybody's used to it.
We trust both guys.
And, you know, okay, give me any playoff scenario from the beginning.
They win the opener three to nothing.
Who plays game two?
The other guy plays game two.
Then he loses.
Then he's gone.
He's dead.
I mean, or just then they win game three with the first guy.
And they go back to the other guy and game.
No, no, not you just don't, right?
That's not going to happen.
Eventually, they're going to break that.
That's the point.
Isn't it?
Eventually, they break the cycle.
Yes.
I think it's a question of when and on whose terms?
It would be way too easy.
Way too much of a joy ride.
For them to get into the playoffs after having not been there for 14 years.
And have it go smoothly enough that they can just keep rotating goals.
He's every other game.
I mean, it just never happens that way.
So I'd be surprised.
But again, like there might be a clue within these last 11 games
about their intentions.
You mentioned how bad do you want first place, right?
We talked a lot in the last couple of days, a couple of shows anyway,
getting back even the last week.
About Metsa and Stanley.
Like, okay, third pair is stabilized.
This looks good, right?
Paul will tell you with authority.
Metsa is their number five defenseman.
Is he coming out?
Yes, who's coming out tonight, right?
Timins is healthy.
What are they doing here?
My guess is they know what Mets is capable of now.
They know if they get an injury in the top four,
I'm almost guaranteeing he's the guy that goes in.
Any one of those four guys goes out.
He goes in that spot.
Metsa.
Metsa, maybe not Dalline,
but Sam is in power or Byron, I feel like unquestionably,
that's what's going to happen.
So they know what they've got there.
They've tried him out with other guys.
They've tried him against better competition,
so they know what they don't know, right?
If there's an injury, what is Timins?
And what is Timins with Stanley?
So tonight is a little bit of a kind of like what you and Shen played with Stanley.
You could be fearful of what those results would be,
and you were largely correct to be fearful,
because it didn't go well.
We'll see what Timins gives them tonight with Stanley,
and how Stanley reacts to not being with Metsa.
But all they're doing to me is trying to figure out
what they've got to do when and if someone gets hurt.
I'm okay there.
Yeah, I mean, I think it makes sense to want to see it,
but you know, just get to game three of the second round.
They're like, oh, power is missing.
Now, what do we do?
Like, well, let's see.
Nobody in our bench has played in a month.
Right.
Or too much.
So I think that's, and yeah, Timins,
there's been a very, very long time.
I'm okay there.
I mean, I think it's just not, it's still hockey.
It's not Josh Allen.
It's still not consequential enough for it to be a big scene.
And there's also, I think, no reason to question
Ruff on Metsa from how he's talked.
Right.
I don't think he's, he's being punished,
or I mean, I mean, nobody is,
I mean, nobody's capable of obviously the big four are their meal ticket.
But I think they trust that he could step in there.
So let's give him a night off and let's see what,
let's see what Timins does with Stanley.
Maybe another game.
I don't know if this will, you know,
I don't think you want to necessarily sit Metsa for games in a row here.
But at some point,
they will probably do the same thing with Kessler Ring.
They've already done it with Shen.
I think they know what Shen is.
And, you know, it didn't go great.
So hopefully they don't get to the point where they got to worry about using him.
But Kessler Ring and Timins are both, you know,
competent, easily, I mean,
jeez, Kessler Ring is supposed to be a top four guy.
He was basically supposed to replace Samuelson before Samuelson showed up and just
took the season by storm this year.
So let's see what Timins and Stanley can do just in case we need, again,
to get there.
If it happened, it's a long road here.
Anything could happen.
You know, your plans that are off tonight.
I mean, he could need job somebody and then you're stuck.
So they're just trying, I think, to figure out who's who.
And I don't take tonight as a troubling sign at all for Metsa.
In fact, I think it's a compliment.
I don't know Tampa's depth well enough to know if there is a
comp with them.
They've won a lot more.
They've been in the playoffs every year and gone far.
Like, they're not a team where they'd have to sort of like think,
all right, how are we going to react to the playoffs?
And maybe the Sabers shouldn't think that way either.
I feel like probably they shouldn't because games are games.
But, you know, everybody talks like the playoffs are different.
I wonder if Tampa has a little bit of an easier time
navigating the end game than maybe the Sabers would.
But so far, I'm fine with everything.
Like, if they want to mix up a cup, take in a couple of guys,
they're going to play Wednesday Friday Saturday here.
The schedule is still compacted.
Like, you know, you want to try different things out,
like they have been doing.
Okay, I'm not going to complain.
I'm not going to criticize them for it.
Mike Schopen, the Bulldog at Roswell Park.
The ride for Roswell officially opens, launches, starts.
We're not riding today.
Right.
No, but it's the kickoff event.
Three months from Friday is the ride, I think.
Right. Today's the 25th.
27th.
Yeah, so June 27th.
Three months from Friday.
I wouldn't even be to the dentist by then.
No.
Wow.
It's that close.
Yeah.
Meanwhile, I'll have two more haircuts by then.
At least, unless I trade with you for an eye appointment
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I do need an eye appointment.
Eye appointment and a fifth for your haircut.
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