Jeff Hathorne

You win that series with all the pressure and the fan noise and the talk.

I'm just excited for playoff hockey again.

Me too.

We all took it for granted, and now it's back.

And you're feeling good about the way this team is playing.

I mean, they're not a perfect team, but, man, what they've done this year and all the adversity they've overcome.

You know, when that eight-game losing streak happened, guys, I thought they were done.

I thought, okay, that was a nice little story early in the year, but –

Now that we're back to reality, and they bounce back.

They go through a really tough March schedule, and they keep bouncing back, which is a credit to everyone in that room, but I really want to give Muse a lot of credit for how he's handled his first year.

And guys, I love watching them on offense with seeing traffic in front of the net.

I mean, for a couple of years, it seemed like it was a no-fly zone.

You couldn't go into that area.

Like the blue paint extended all the way out until center ice.

Like you can't go in the middle.

And we're seeing because of that traffic, I think, is why we're seeing the number of goals that we've seen this year.

As great as some of the years have been, a big reason that we've seen that is because guys are willing to get in front of the net.

Even an 18-year-old who weighs a buck 60 isn't afraid to stand there and take the punishment.

And kudos to Kendall, man.

I thought maybe with his size he was going to be a guy that was just going to play on the outside.