00:00Can we just appreciate this before it turns bad?
00:04Like, I don't know.
00:06I looked at the odds today excitedly.
00:09I tweeted it.
00:10You might have seen it.
00:10I saw it, yeah.
00:11Ottawa is a shorter bet to win the Stanley Cup than the Sabres.
00:16I mean, you're in my head that Ottawa's so good.
00:19Yeah.
00:19But you're not alone.
00:21No, no.
00:22I think that they are, they're a team.
00:25I mean, how do you want to do the odds, right?
00:26I mean, you're going to look at the records,
00:28but I think you're also going to consider, like,
00:30what team's strengths and weaknesses are and look at all the data.
00:34That's such a team that I would bet.
00:36Yeah.
00:37If you replaced the Sabres with, like, the Capitals.
00:40Okay.
00:40I'd be like, oh, Ottawa is the bet.
00:42Yeah.
00:43Because they have had a year where they did almost everything well
00:49except get saves.
00:50And now they're getting more saves.
00:53They're getting more saves, and they've been hot,
00:55and they're, you know, they're the one team here in this group of teams.
01:00No, I shouldn't say it that way.
01:01That's not exactly right.
01:02Montreal's the hottest team in the division, 8-2 in their last 10.
01:06Everybody else is, like, 5-3-2-ish here getting to the wire.
01:10But they're just a team that, to me, should be considered dangerous.
01:14If you consider goaltending volatile, which I think you probably should,
01:19there's every reason to think they'll get saves
01:22and that the rest of it will come together for them.
01:25So I think they're a real threat.
01:27I really want – I mean, now that we're there, we've got two choices,
01:31and go Bruins tonight playing the Devils.
01:33Boy, I put a poll up last night, Boston or Ottawa.
01:39You made a point last week just how the Bruins represent a certain, I guess,
01:47fear based on their reputation or their image or their history
01:51or their history with the Sabres, like, you know, big bad Boston.
01:5689% of people who voted in my poll would rather the Sabres play Boston than Ottawa.
02:03I mean, is this the betting market?
02:05Are we the betting market?
02:06Like, we're just – are we Ottawa freaked here?
02:10Like, Boston, okay, go Bees.
02:13That's tonight against Jersey.
02:14They're a slight favorite against Jersey at home.
02:17Nobody respects them.
02:18This is what 15 years of not having this to talk about will do to a fan base.
02:22There's literally, I'm sure, fans who really watch hockey
02:26who have no idea that the Bruins have been a nuisance to us.
02:30It's just – it's two generations ago.
02:32It's also not completely one-sided.
02:37That's right.
02:3893-99.
02:40I mean, the Sabres have playoff series wins against Boston.
02:4393 is famous to us.
02:452010, I mean, who could expect to be able to handle Miro Chetan in a playoff series?
02:50So we lost.
02:53Well, anybody who wants to jump in, it's a day for celebration.
02:58The playoffs will be here by the weekend, and we'll have that,
03:03and we'll all bite our fingernails down to the quicks.
03:05But for now, raise a glass.
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