Garry Galley

Like, they kind of knew this was a possibility, so they were like, well, we're just going to put the stink on you right now, and we're going to let you know what it's going to be like.

If you want to walk on Tampa Bay, you're going to have to do it, you know, taking us down.

And Montreal's like, well, we're up for that.

So it's that underling versus the star, the team that's been around, the team that I'm sure most people are going to pick in this series will probably be Tampa because of the things you talked about.

But I have seen a bit of a wobble in Tampa down the last month of the schedule.

I have seen a team that has gotten beaten up a little bit.

An older team with some veteran guys that are, you know, they've been through a lot over a lot of years.

So it's going to be, I'm not so sure I would lean towards Tampa as heavily.

I do believe that you'd have to say, look, you've got to give them their due.

But Montreal is on an upswing.

And I look at their series last year against Washington.

They tried to, Washington tried to run them out of the building.

They couldn't do it.

And although Washington did beat them,

Montreal took a good bite out of them, and they had nothing left in the next series.

Montreal, I mean, that was a really good five-game series that I did there, and I was really impressed with how Montreal stood up for themselves.

So I think they've had all that in their back pocket going into this against Tampa, and I think they're ready to take that step.

To me, this is a pick-em series.

I don't have a favorite in this one.

I think this is, you know, you can go either way in this one.