00:00Do you think I'm in the majority of Sabres fans who are just, of course, excited for the playoffs,
00:10but not in a crazy rush to get there?
00:15Because I want to appreciate...
00:19You know me, I'm Mr. Regular Season.
00:20Oh yeah, yeah.
00:22I am.
00:23I want regular seasons...
00:25You want to respect the regular seasons and not have it all be about winning in the playoffs.
00:29I want regular seasons in sports all over to matter more than they do.
00:34I want people to have a better appreciation for how hard it is to win over 82 games versus 30
00:43or 20 or 10.
00:44Like, that's baseball.
00:46I mean, that's every sport.
00:47It doesn't work like that.
00:48It works the other way.
00:49Your regular season is about putting you in a slot for the thing we care about.
00:55I don't know.
00:56This season has been so special, and I don't think how they do in the playoffs really changes that so
01:06much.
01:07I mean, I guess the question is if they were to lose right away, what would we do with the
01:13whole thing?
01:13I don't know.
01:14I'd want to still respect it.
01:17I would predict many, many, many people will grossly overreact.
01:23Just because we've got to sort of get used to it's the hockey playoffs.
01:30Like, it's been a long time, and the margins are not that wide.
01:35Like, you know, the Sabres are going to match up with the Bruins.
01:38I think they're a better hockey team than the Bruins.
01:40The standings over 82 games will tell you that story.
01:44If you watch them play one another and even other teams, I would think a lot of people would share
01:50that opinion.
01:51The Sabres are the better team.
01:53But they're not so much better that you just, you know, you're going to knock them out.
01:58Well, what is it?
01:59What's the difference in the standings?
02:01It's like a game a month.
02:02Yeah.
02:02A little bit more than a game a month.
02:03It's going to be hard.
02:05It's going to be tight.
02:07And there's a lot of randomness.
02:09Like, it just isn't, wow, I'm great.
02:13I have to go far.
02:15I don't know.
02:16It's hockey.
02:17Hockey is really tricky that way.
02:20And I think being away from the playoffs emotionally, it may be hard to remember that.
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