Dimitri Filipovic

The, the volume of penalties he's drawing, what he did to the Bruins around one where he was just living in their heads, the entire series and antagonizing them.

Um,

mixing it up constantly with guys twice his size and then kind of just like laughing in their face afterwards and trolling them to the nth degree I mean he's doing all that but then creating the two goals in game one that he did against Montreal so we're seeing a star turn before our very eyes and it's very well deserved and him and Josh Stone have been exactly what I thought they'd be in the postseason it's been really fun to watch

Yeah, I think we've been trending in this direction.

I guess a good test for that, we'll see where Viggo Bjork goes in this year's draft because he pretty clearly should go very high.

But I've seen a lot of lists that have him in the late teens or even falling into the low 20s.

And it's like, this guy clearly based on talent and even what we've seen on international showcases deserves to be higher.

And I get the size knocks, especially if you think he might play down the middle because that probably still is.

I know Stankoven is doing it for Carolina, but that is...

one of the next frontiers we haven't really seen beyond stankovin and rossi um guys at that size really stick down the middle in the nhl but i'm sure it's coming and yeah it's been really nice to see all these guys doing this and benson's leading the charge i mean what a remarkable postseason for him so far i mean dolly has probably been their mvp but you can make a very close argument that he's right there behind him at second place

Yeah.

I mean, it was concerning in round one, for sure.

I know they got through the lightning, just how little they got against them.

Despite not getting the production to show for it, I thought they had more space and more opportunities and more puck touches in general in game one against Buffalo.

And it seems like this will be the series where they probably will get unlocked a little bit.

So I think...

That's encouraging.

I don't want to read too much into game one regardless, just because I think ultimately going from playing seven games against Tampa Bay to then starting on the road, finishing that game seven on Sunday night and then jumping into this series game one on Wednesday, even with the extra day off.

there was going to be some sort of a letdown, I imagine, of course, for a team that, you know, this group really, that was the first playoff series they've won together.

And so it makes sense that we wouldn't have seen their best effort.