Frank Seravalli

It does, and I also think what yesterday was a reminder of, yes, the power play is good.

Yes, Montreal has a knack for the moment, and they've oozed this late-game drama and heroics all season long.

But another reminder for me that the Canadians aren't just Cole Caulfield and Lane Hudson and these polite, high-skilled players.

Josh Anderson was a human meat missile yesterday, and they still have Brendan Gallagher sitting out as a healthy scratch with some sandpaper if he needs to draw in.

They've got some toughness, and that Evans line is no joke to play against.

I think they're going to set up and stack up quite well.

I think their defensemen can also handle the brunt of what teams like the Lightning can throw at them.

So I've had the Montreal Canadiens winning this series from Jump Street.

It didn't make any sense to me that the Tampa Bay Lightning were an implied favorite of 70%.

I'm not saying that they won't win the series.

I'm just saying I think this was not much more than a 52-51 coin flip in either direction.

He's in the prime of his career.

I think so.

And I think they're a force to be reckoned with.

I think they've got something to their...

setup, their makeup, they've got like a mojo to their team that I think means something.

Well, I'll handle the first part first, which is I thought the way that the messaging and how Patrick Alveen was handled on the way out was really distasteful and devoid of leadership.

To sit here and try and present an alternate and distorted reality that Patrick Alveen had run and say of this team is crazy.

And it's just not how things have happened over the last four years.

Jim Rutherford was the president of hockey operations, but any time that the mood seemed to move him, anything that was on Patrick Albine's plate was taken off of it and handled by Jim Rutherford directly.