Ethan Podolsky

I don't know how you can look at the forward depth on Florida and you look at the forward depth on Tampa and see a deeper team like Zemgis Gergensens and Luke Glendening and Mitchell Chafee and Darren Radish. Those are the guys that Tampa is running out there up against. They're on the bottom six on a lot of teams in this league. Yeah. They have... Erod...

I don't know how you can look at the forward depth on Florida and you look at the forward depth on Tampa and see a deeper team like Zemgis Gergensens and Luke Glendening and Mitchell Chafee and Darren Radish. Those are the guys that Tampa is running out there up against. They're on the bottom six on a lot of teams in this league. Yeah. They have... Erod...

Started the series on the fourth line, moved up to the second line once Mackie Samaskevich started getting dropped. I don't know how people looked at this series before and said, Tampa's the deeper team. The Panthers were always the deeper team up front and on defense, and then they got better goaltending as well. It was a perfect recipe for a quick series.

Started the series on the fourth line, moved up to the second line once Mackie Samaskevich started getting dropped. I don't know how people looked at this series before and said, Tampa's the deeper team. The Panthers were always the deeper team up front and on defense, and then they got better goaltending as well. It was a perfect recipe for a quick series.

AJ Greer only played in two of these games. We haven't seen Jonah Gajewicz, who I thought was really solid all year for the Panthers. This team is so good and so deep. It's just like last year. They can roll out five lines at you. Hold on. He has something to add. What was that?

AJ Greer only played in two of these games. We haven't seen Jonah Gajewicz, who I thought was really solid all year for the Panthers. This team is so good and so deep. It's just like last year. They can roll out five lines at you. Hold on. He has something to add. What was that?

out he's been lights out he's been excellent yeah phenomenal and the guys that for me deserve shouting out are Nate Schmidt and Uvis Balinskis because they struggled a lot during the season and I was really worried about if those guys have to play in the playoffs big minutes because you know injuries depth whatever and obviously Balinskis was dropped from the lineup then had to move back into the lineup he'll be in the lineup for game one because Zach Bled will be out of it for the next series and

out he's been lights out he's been excellent yeah phenomenal and the guys that for me deserve shouting out are Nate Schmidt and Uvis Balinskis because they struggled a lot during the season and I was really worried about if those guys have to play in the playoffs big minutes because you know injuries depth whatever and obviously Balinskis was dropped from the lineup then had to move back into the lineup he'll be in the lineup for game one because Zach Bled will be out of it for the next series and

I don't feel worried about that anymore. Nate Schmidt, again, more goals than Nikita Kucherov in this series and Braden Point combined. He was awesome. He was the best 88 on the ice in this series, as crazy as that is to say.

I don't feel worried about that anymore. Nate Schmidt, again, more goals than Nikita Kucherov in this series and Braden Point combined. He was awesome. He was the best 88 on the ice in this series, as crazy as that is to say.

I've had the same amount of goals as Nikita Kucherov in his last 16 playoff games.

I've had the same amount of goals as Nikita Kucherov in his last 16 playoff games.

I mean, the Panthers own Nikita Kucherov right now.

I mean, the Panthers own Nikita Kucherov right now.

Gustav Forsling deserves a lot of the credit for this. This guy is unbelievable. He is amazing to watch, and he just keeps him in his pocket. He can't do anything when Gustav Forsling's out there. Nice.

Gustav Forsling deserves a lot of the credit for this. This guy is unbelievable. He is amazing to watch, and he just keeps him in his pocket. He can't do anything when Gustav Forsling's out there. Nice.

It's going to be your favorite guy in the world. Okay. Before we move on, you talked about how you were right, Roy, which take all the victory laps you want. I want to talk about some people that were wrong. A lot of people that were wrong. And I want to specifically talk about these predictions from the Athletic, ESPN, and Sportsnet up in Canada. Look how many people took the lightning.

It's going to be your favorite guy in the world. Okay. Before we move on, you talked about how you were right, Roy, which take all the victory laps you want. I want to talk about some people that were wrong. A lot of people that were wrong. And I want to specifically talk about these predictions from the Athletic, ESPN, and Sportsnet up in Canada. Look how many people took the lightning.

18 of 24 from espn took the lightning uh this looks like a 68 to 32 split on the athletic and i'm not sure about the numbers over here for sports i don't see one that's plenty of lightning i'm pretty sure that's 100 had the panthers other than that everybody else had the right panthers in seven so as much as i'm on to the next series already it is fun to sit around and be like we were right

18 of 24 from espn took the lightning uh this looks like a 68 to 32 split on the athletic and i'm not sure about the numbers over here for sports i don't see one that's plenty of lightning i'm pretty sure that's 100 had the panthers other than that everybody else had the right panthers in seven so as much as i'm on to the next series already it is fun to sit around and be like we were right