David Amber

They were up 2-0 in the third period of Game 7 versus Dallas, and then they had the Mikko Rantanen meltdown where Rantanen just went crazy, scores a hat-trick.

So they had an unbelievably dramatic end of their season last year.

They got swept in an unbelievably dramatic fashion this year.

The previous year was also another real letdown for them in the postseason.

something's got to give here, and I'm interested to see what that all means.

And just for Nathan McKinnon, this has been a really tough stretch of massive disappointments between the gold medal defeat at the Olympics and now this.

So I thought of him, I thought of Tortorella, but you're right, there's a lot of other figures that also share the spotlight in all this.

A couple of thoughts on that.

One, I mean, if you're Chris McFarlane, you're saying, well, what else do you want me to do?

I went out, I got Rasmus Andersen, probably the best available defenseman before the trade deadline.

I went out and got Nazem Khaki, arguably the best forward available at the trade deadline.

I mean, he did everything in his power, right?

No one could have foreseen, you know, maybe Carter Hart playing as well as he's played.

And what I mean by that is we always talk about Ottawa.

If they could just get a save, if they could just get a save.

All the metrics as far as expected goals allowed, et cetera, were in Vegas' favor all through the regular season.

I mean, one of the guys I was sitting with at the bar last night was Mike Kelly from SportLogic.

Have you ever had Mike on your show?

Yeah, and we were going through this, and we both agreed.

He's like, yeah, the metrics for Vegas were they should have been one of the top defensive teams, but they were 30th in save percentage all year.