Bruce Boudreau

Milwaukee, one of the top four teams in baseball, and they average 20th out of 30 in payroll, those five teams.

So it's kind of hard to make that solid argument that you can't win on a budget because these guys are showing you can.

Well, that's a great question.

Vegas has won seven in a row.

Carolina has won...

11 out of 12.

They both are playing fantastic defensively.

I'm still thinking the West is stronger and Vegas has peaked at the right time and they beat the best team, supposedly.

So I'm going to take Vegas because they've even gotten rest to boot winning the series in four games.

But Carolina...

has looked awful impressive, especially the last three games where they haven't given Montreal a chance at all to win.

And last night was almost a coup de grace.

I mean, Montreal didn't have an answer for anything Carolina was trying to do.

Yeah, they're, you know, Carolinas, the pressure they put on in the neutral zone doesn't give you any opportunity to make a play.

It just doesn't.

They're attacking.

I call it playing above the blue line because they're forcing the play.

They're not letting you dump it in.

They're not sagging.

But the biggest thing, or not the biggest thing, but one of the things, if I was Montreal, I would change every line you had because nothing's working.