David Amber

It's completely upside down from a year ago.

The bottom four teams in the East are in the playoffs this year.

I mean, that's nuts.

It is wide open.

And you mentioned the goaltending.

Here's the thing.

Like, what's the most assured goaltending in the Eastern Conference?

You know, Stuart Skinner in Philadelphia, Dan Vladar in Philadelphia.

It might be him.

Yeah.

You know, it's just, yeah, Dobish has looked just as good as anyone else, if not better.

So you're absolutely right.

I have, yeah, the East, this is what I think makes the playoffs really compelling this year is there is so many, I don't even know if you call it underdogs.

I guess this is what Gary Bettman was sort of fighting for, right?

Parody in the league, salary cap era.

And on any given, you know, night or series of nights, a team can pull through.

Even Colorado and L.A., and I recognize Colorado's won both games, but those have been dogfights.

I got home last night out of studio, and I caught the third period of L.A.-Colorado and the overtime, and they were three minutes away, L.A., from tying that series.

Not that I don't think Colorado's going to win the series, but we're now staring down two 2-1 games.

That's what it's been so far in those games.