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00:00really deep down what i want to start with two words game 79 but it has to wait a day
00:06i just want the next thing isn't this like let me seriously ask you is it right now the best
00:18um oh i don't know um
00:24you can't win anything right now right that's the downside of right now
00:29yeah but to have just a couple of weeks sitting with their going yeah i mean that's that's that's
00:38pretty good it is good and there's still so much unknown about the layout who they play what else
00:48happens i mean this is the best this is i think why i think this is my favorite situation in
00:55sports
00:56as a fan yeah is this like the bills have had it we haven't maybe appreciated it as much the
01:03last
01:03few years but for five or six years in a row it's definitely true yeah right yeah we get it's
01:10hard
01:10to i mean it just you know you get used to a certain level of expectation and then it just
01:15you look right
01:16past that to you know what exceeds it and that's just human nature that's the difference
01:22is with this i don't really have any expectations i think i could watch them lose in six in the
01:29first
01:29round and feel good i mean that's the difference the last few that's interesting already the last few
01:36years of the bills you get into like december 10th or whatever three weeks to go and okay well you
01:46could play this team or this team or this team could miss or this team could get home field whatever
01:49and like all right that's interesting but oh it got to be to the point where like the pressure was
01:56the anxiety the what if they lose i mean i don't think the sabers really right now have a what
02:01if
02:01they lose card that i'm concerned with i don't want them to lose do i need to say that but
02:07i think
02:08right now this is the best right here they could play how many different teams could they play game one
02:14seven boy yeah i mean it's it's still a really long list because they do not have a top three
02:21they're very close to having a top three spot clinched i think if they 99 right they get a point
02:26somebody somebody drops a point tonight um okay that's it then they're guaranteed to be out of the
02:34wild card mix but they're still not guaranteed to be out of that as we're talking right now so that
02:39that's still a possibility see you could still be in any one of the five playoff spots that are
02:46available in the atlantic division if you count the two wild cards i mean they they still could be
02:51well no they can't be the second that's right ottawa can't catch them okay so four out of the five
02:56spots are possible and that means that you've got you know at least that many possible opponents and
03:03more because those spots are could be filled by teams that aren't in right now so yeah it is pretty
03:08it
03:08is pretty wild you're you're you're i'm coming around you first said that you know like i don't
03:14know i'm thinking about what my favorite part of the season has been already and that's a different
03:19that's a different sort of thing like the first time they got to first place was amazing like they
03:25just seemed like they couldn't lose and they just keep they just keep going oh my god this team right
03:29i don't know how many times my you know we get different text threads going with different groups of
03:34friends and the words these guys and this team these guys like that kind of you know some goal
03:41happens or something you know the tampa game the time before last night was probably the peak of that
03:46because of how wild that game was back and forth big lead two goal deficit another two goal deficit
03:52anyway this right now where we are is awesome because every conversation we have missed out on
04:00for 15 years is available to us uh who do i want to play home ice the goalie part is
04:09you know looks
04:10probably settled but still it's not you know they've done things a certain way most of the year and now
04:16suddenly have changed not that we didn't expect them to do that anyway there's just a lot to sort of
04:21bring under the umbrella and talk about so it is a pretty it is a and yeah nothing really that
04:27bad
04:28can happen to you right sure i mean you could drop out of first place you know they're not technically
04:33in first place right now whatever they could not win the division but they aren't dropping i think out
04:39of the top three and hopefully maybe not out of the top two although montreal and tampa will have
04:44you know probably a lot to say about that so montreal is probably your likeliest first round opponent
04:50i don't have a chart today sorry is that what you want for me charts you want data are you
04:57talking to the people out there are you talking i don't know i'm looking at you you don't really
05:02want charts you want dad jokes yeah that's yeah right on dad book is this and why are we promoting
05:10it every day on stream all time i don't know somebody at the station write this or can i move
05:15it i don't
05:15know that should matter yeah uh but you know i just i'm an employee i like the guy move the
05:19goalies
05:20over more get the goalies how about something that we want to promote for money anybody thought of
05:26that right here montreal is fifth i mean i don't know the number they're the likeliest opponent
05:33gotta be tampa would be second or boston would be second the others third right and then if you want
05:41to get excited you put the sabers on top tampa plays montreal something happens to carolina and then
05:48you're open to all the other wild card floozies ottawa islanders columbus philadelphia washington
05:56detroit i mean that's nine teams that are probably all still possible for game one yeah i mean i don't
06:05know how you beat that and and for excitement if you needed it and i think you know we did
06:10just
06:11whatever for our psyches we're not it'd be hard i think to if if the sabers looked flat again last
06:17night like they did on saturday say and tampa just sort of has their way with them you know i'd
06:23be in
06:24here probably selling real hard don't worry they know how to do what needs to be done they're just
06:29not doing it right now but you know that that was only going to get you so far so you
06:34got the comfort
06:35of them not only winning last night but winning it almost felt it almost felt like in that third
06:42period the sabers were like river hockey i got your river hockey why don't you try on a little 2002
06:49prime new jersey devils how do you how do you like that because they just i mean there were like
06:55two
06:55chances to score a goal in that period against tampa ditch hockey down a goal the whole time that's right
07:02it was just like not quite not a river at all right something that doesn't really move nuclear
07:08waste runoff pond hockey sludge hockey it's so bad i mean i loved it it was glorious yeah it was
07:16and it was so cool like i yeah whatever the river hockey thing is fun the sabers are playing proud
07:22mary after the games like i wanted them to i'm very excited about that um and you know we had
07:27our fun
07:27with that but it really felt like the sabers i suspected all along it was the tampa player
07:33from the last visit that coined that phrasing the first time and to see the sabers just smother them
07:41last night was awesome a different kind of awesome than 87 was um because that kind of game is way
07:49more
07:49likely to be a game you need to win you know coming up here in the playoffs than some 87
07:55crazy shootout
07:56with eight fights like that just very rarely happens in the regular season let alone in the
08:01playoffs so let me just push that a little further or try to what did we learn last night i
08:09think we
08:09learned that this team knows how they have to me they found their secret sauce again last night
08:18just more composed with the puck and i think the defensive effort was max and that's what you get
08:26when they are willing to do that and i think you know i've been saying for a few days here
08:32that
08:33it makes sense to me like mentally physically that they were not going to just lean into every game
08:41the way they had the majority of these games since december and they were going to take a breath and
08:46i think
08:47they have and last night i was wondering if they knew how to find the switch to flip and they
08:52absolutely found it i mean i think undeniably i mean it was it was their it was their game um
08:57you know
08:58chance like tampa was only dangerous on the power play really five on five there was nothing going on
09:06you know talk about the third period being a lot the whole game was kind of a lockdown
09:10but just the power play was keeping tampa in it uh you know buffalo never ran away and hit i
09:15think
09:15what we learned is they know what their game is and how to find it that that's what i think
09:21i learned
09:21last night um i i think uh i i also learned that josh norris still knows how to score which
09:29is which
09:30was nice to see it's a benson goal that was really nice that is another benson beauty and it's a
09:35it's
09:36another affirmative on the lucid in choice you know because he didn't have to do a ton but man he
09:44was
09:44just so he was just so dialed in on the game um i love did you notice lindy was asked
09:50about it after
09:51the game too like four minutes to go or so they're up three two there's the that icing call there's
09:58an
09:58icing call and it's the fourth line that's out there i could not tell i don't remember from watching
10:03it live and i looked at replays who the d pair was i think power was one of them but
10:08i'm not sure if
10:09it was a regular pair is this when tampa put the goalie back in well yeah right to say that
10:13the 402
10:14there's the yeah 404 is the draw the draw is one right to lucan and he just puts his hand
10:19right on
10:20the puck change change and tampa then put the goalie back in i thought it was why i there they
10:27were looking
10:27at the fourth line wow you sound so aggressive like you're mad at me uh did i yeah in one
10:32word
10:33why i mean you didn't decide to put the goalie back in i think i didn't mean that the logic
10:38was
10:38uh yeah it's fine i mean you're asking john cooper why um i'm that interested it was you know i've
10:44got
10:44this fourth line trapped on the ice again i don't know what why who both d pair were and that's
10:51it i'm
10:51gonna i'm this is my shot i'm taking my shot now i'm gonna go six on five on a tired
10:56fourth line
10:57i'm sure ruff doesn't want them out there and the draw went right to lucan and he smartly froze it
11:03when lindy was asked about it after the game he did not indicate at all that he like whistled at
11:07lucan or like told i think lucan and just realized you know he's heady enough to look around like
11:12we probably don't have the guys out here we want i think you would just know that and so he
11:17froze it
11:17and then they changed the line and put the goalie back in and that was that i just that was
11:22a heady
11:22little yeah you should just know it but you don't always i mean it's easy to
11:26just sort of keep the play going well he likes to do that oh yeah to lucanen why
11:33what's what's going on here am i too loud uh he likes he's that's one of my favorite features of
11:41his is how he plays the puck yeah like you know i goalies i guess i watch a lot of
11:47youth hockey
11:48and anytime the puck gets anywhere near the goalie they almost always just cover it yeah even if it's
11:54like on an icing or something but even for the nhl lucanen i think has really good instincts
12:00um with the puck yeah there was a game last week one of these games where a couple times he
12:06really
12:07stood out to me as somebody that like made the right decision in my opinion anyway with the puck
12:11so yeah i think uh he's strong in that way yeah so i just it was a heady little thing
12:16it wasn't a
12:17great save or anything obviously but every time they needed to be calmed down while they were
12:23protecting that lead like tampa did have you know if they had zone time and you're a little worried
12:29about them and maybe uh like a lot of us you're like stanley and shen are still out there i
12:34hope
12:34they can survive this and like they work it around and here comes the the shot and maybe it's not
12:39a
12:39great scoring chance but you want a stoppage and it's like just snag glove saved like boom whistle
12:46done it's like he was very very poised not that that's a surprise um so that's going well too i
12:53think
12:53like the the decision to back lucanen as their guy i think is it's already paying off it's looking like
13:00a
13:00good choice well we've been asking fans for at least a couple of weeks maybe longer what do you want
13:09from this playoff from the bracket i guess and how much is first place worth and these kind of
13:17questions and they're like maybe they're still they're still relevant maybe right now is the best
13:23time yet to like attack that because there are still so many different ways it could land
13:30and i think it like has been true anybody's reasons for wanting one team versus another or one
13:37matchup or someone else's matchup can be just for different reasons like that can be nostalgic
13:44that can be style of play that can simply be the standings the order i mean just different reasons
13:50for it i think an interesting question within that is do you want a playoff series with tampa bay
13:56because that has gotten this has gotten really good i mean cory perry i probably should owe him money
14:06for how much emotion and effort i'm putting into his existence he's a beauty i just like i mean
14:12he wants to cut the sabers players heads off with his stick if he could get away with it
14:17on the bench i mean just this guy you know he just wants trouble and we'll get away with it
14:24and then
14:24the next time i look next time i saw cory perry after that well after the time he jumped in
14:29on the
14:29pile and the sabers got the extra two he literally left his feet to jump on the glass to jump
14:35in on
14:35the pile and the sabers got the extra two and got scored on next time i saw him after that
14:39he's having
14:40a conversation with the ref like they're talking about east the easter money i mean they're just
14:44having a yucking it up on the on the tampa bench like this guy has got to be stopped so
14:50i mean i'm up in
14:51my chair about cory perry just like when he played for la i'm like please trade for cory perry
14:56yeah i wanted to tampa i wanted he's been here twice since right yes just like oh yeah i don't
15:01know if i want i'm not sure i'm like strong enough for a playoff series against them i don't i
15:07don't
15:07think i don't think i want to sign up for it but how great would that be like that doesn't
15:11have
15:11to be the first round it would be surprising if it would be the first round i i think so
15:15i mean
15:15tampa's in ottawa tonight and in montreal on thursday right i mean they could they could drop out
15:20and montreal could end up there i mean that is still it's part of what you said initially is
15:24how great this all is right now still that it's you know we don't have to just sit here
15:29picking apart not that we wouldn't enjoy doing that like whatever opponent they're going to have
15:35or if it was down to like two choices but instead you've got you know half the conference is still
15:40possible yeah and that makes it pretty interesting um yeah i i'm coming or i've i've wanted home ice the
15:47whole time like once they got like at first it was just like oh well maybe i don't have to
15:52settle
15:52for wild card right i've been different progressions of expectation here which is is fun um like you
15:59know first it's just wow they're good they maybe they'll just get in oh no they don't need to be
16:03a
16:03wild card they're going to get in the top three then it's like oh they're in first place i'm really
16:09settling in on wanting home ice not not that i think it guarantees you anything um and i don't think
16:14it's as big a deal as it used to be but i do still have a team that just does
16:20not have
16:21hardly any playoff experience and i think going into say montreal for a game one
16:29you know hopefully they will adapt and adapt quickly to the same as eventually they're going
16:33to have to go do it um man i just think that first 10 minutes in montreal could really be
16:38tough
16:39for a bunch of guys who just haven't been there and i know i know what you're going to say
16:43it's part
16:43of the reason i'm saying it i'm starting to come around to i would like the comfort of the home
16:49crowd to start this whole thing what am i going to say you're going to say that it doesn't matter
16:54they're pros and i don't want to hear about experience mostly i'm just thinking about rough
17:01don't we love the point about yeah when he became the sabers coach they were always the road team
17:09almost and they always almost again won the first game on the road and just like yeah the difference
17:15he'd be able to get that across just play he had the best goalie on earth in it for that
17:21and it was
17:23i mean oh five oh six is different they didn't have hashek then not you know 98 99 is like
17:30it's all
17:31like i don't know like there's guys that were new to the playoffs but they already they won in 97
17:37they had been there so like the guts of that team had already had some experience with it and
17:43actually won a series in 97 so like they weren't brand new to it no oh five oh six they
17:48were newer
17:49but that's drury and greer and like guys that like and they were home they as it turns out you
17:56know
17:57yeah that's right against philadelphia right i'm thinking of round two against ottawa by the time
18:00they got to round two they won a series right right um so i i think i just think for
18:06the benefit of the
18:07the kids i i'm i'm first or second is what i really want i to me third is not equal
18:14to one and two
18:14which you know i know a lot of people would say that obviously you'd rather be at home i i
18:21want them
18:22to get one of the top two seats i think right now my number one is to root against carolina
18:30which you might not want to do because if carolina falls and the sabers or the lightning or the
18:38canadians end up as the one in the conference then that brings ottawa into play or any of those
18:45other you know dudes in the 80s look at look at me just looking down on those teams uh so
18:55that's a
18:55choice too is do you want carolina to just have the one in the east and they would get wild
19:02card
19:02too which could be ottawa it probably won't be boston i mean boston is very close to locking up
19:07yeah i think i saw 80 82 percent to being the the wild card one they could move up they
19:14could move down
19:15but money puck had them at 82 point something percent to be wild card one so the second best division
19:22winner
19:23is likely to get boston and that's the spot i i would most like to land oh you're not going
19:30to
19:30root against carolina of the likely possibilities i feel like boston plays carolina boston and buffalo
19:38in round one is for me i think most favorable um it's the team i think i have the least
19:45trouble
19:45dealing with um i i've said it for weeks here ottawa it to me is a big concern montreal i'm
19:54not scared of
19:55but i would rather play boston like of those three teams than a vision and so top spot probably gets
20:02me a date with them because like you just said it they're not going to fall out i i don't
20:07like their
20:07chances of catching montreal they mathematically could or even buffalo um but they're five points
20:14they got a five point buffer on each side of the seed they are right now top wild card five
20:19points
20:20to catch the team in front of them to get out of a wild card spot five points to drop
20:24to wild card
20:24two so they're probably as locked in as anybody in the conference so get me to the top and that's
20:30correct and i get them if that boston pittsburgh that's interesting okay yeah observation right but
20:36that's that's right they're as close to locked in as anybody pittsburgh as metro two right would be
20:43maybe six points clear of third yeah that's right right so i i and i i like that i mean
20:48i and it's
20:49not just convenience that that you know is what you would get there i've thought as soon as we started
20:54talking about this pool of teams i felt like boston was a team i would i would like to see
21:00out of that
21:00group so go go see if you can get it i mean um it's certainly there for them what are
21:08the odds now
21:09after last night very different mood than yesterday at this time what are the odds now on winning that
21:14division though like they're not it's not terrible now that you've won this game last night you have
21:20the tie right you win on ties now regulation wins are tied i guess tampa could win another game they
21:27have an extra game but you have head-to-head whatever it is like you're even with them at ottawa
21:33tonight at montreal at boston are their next three and the sabers do what at the rangers they'll be
21:40favored okay the rangers won two games congrats they'll be favored at the rangers columbus here
21:46at chicago dallas that's it i mean would you take six points
21:59no i'm gonna say i'm gonna answer my own question no why is that too loud i know oh what's
22:05your
22:05problem
22:08you get six points that's 108 and tampa will get to 108 or 109 at ottawa at montreal at boston
22:16though and
22:16then they're home for two who are the last two it's rangers and somebody last two for them and i
22:21have
22:21it here uh their last two are yeah rangers detroit are their last two
22:29i still don't know how badly i want to finish first
22:33there's so much yeah this is the best get back to me in the playoffs when that's better this is
22:42the
22:42best like there's just so many possibilities and you got it you're you're stress-free right
22:46are we i mean that's not good for our getting phone calls stress-free is bad for our business
22:51but isn't that the truth i mean stress-free right now what what's not to love about all this last
22:58night really yes really decreased whatever pressure was building with two out of seven and how bad they
23:07looked on the weekend and all of that it really just like okay everyone's sort of slowly nodding at
23:14the tv yeah okay good they're back i mean um listen everybody and so yeah you can you fell for
23:19that
23:19that's on you you can feel really like urgent about getting the top spot or even second and i i
23:27do
23:28but it's it's not there's not a lot of anxiety there because they're in great shape
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