Dominic Sramaty

I think the East final broke nicely for them, that they didn't have to play a Tampa Bay or even a Buffalo potentially.

And then Montreal, who has played so much hockey leading up to this point.

I think Nick Suzuki, this is going to be his 107th game this season, if you include the Olympics.

You can see they kind of just ran out of gas in that game four, had nothing left to offer.

So it lined up nicely for them, but I think they deserve a lot of credit for making those teams look as sort of limited as they were.

Yeah, two overtime games.

Yeah, unfortunately it's pretty much something you could say for nearly every team in the league, which is another top six center.

Most likely to help kind of take some of the pressure off Nick Suzuki.

I love what Phil Deneau has done, but realistically he should be more of a bottom six guy at this point in his career.

And then probably another top four defenseman.

Now Noah Dobson hurt his hand right before the end of the regular season, has been limited, missed a lot of that round one series against Tampa.

So getting him back fully healthy, playing to his full capabilities is going to help with that.

Those are the two premium positions they need to address.

Now they're going to have cap space because line A's contract is coming off the books the following summer.

Anderson, Deneau, Gallagher all come off the books.

So there's a lot of money opening up for them.

they didn't make any trades at this year's deadline so they have all their draft picks they have a couple prospects people are high about so i think there's avenues for them to acquire those types of players and they've kept their powder dry despite making the conference finals this year but a lot of work still ahead of them and you know you talk about that path and florida potentially coming back that would obviously directly impact them

In the Atlantic, I think we're all high on Buffalo's outlook moving forward.

Detroit will hopefully get better.

We'll see what happens with the Leafs.