Aaron Ward

That sits in your mind, the belief.

But all of a sudden, if you know, hey, there's one bullet in the chamber.

It's there.

We never have to shoot it.

But if you want to play that game, and here's the truth about that Florida series, which happened differently this year.

If someone wanted to beat the Carolina Hurricanes and felt like they could, they would have gone back to the series last year and figured out that Eckblad and Jones basically egregiously picked every single time the puck went in the zone.

They couldn't get there to initiate any level of forecheck or adversity.

And this year,

Carolina had, I mean, when Montreal started to do it, Roddy talked about after game two, oh, we've made one tweak.

We've made a tactical change.

I'm not sure what the tactical change was, but I did notice that offensive zone time increased for Carolina Hurricanes.

They were more adaptive based on what they learned from Florida last year.

As opposed to this year, you went, what is it, 16-3 in the playoffs.

That's ridiculous.

And your two losses came in the final round.

Like, you just trucked through the East.

That says a lot about the reputation, the abilities, and the character of this team and how they got this done.

I got a great story for you.

My introduction is Eric Tulsky.

So I work with Andrew Thomas, Dr. Andrew Thomas.