Jeff O'Neill

Two months since the playoffs started.

Well, his whole career is what we've been doing.

Really, between Matthews and Marner, we've talked about those two players more than any other player on this show, and it's not particularly close.

Maybe Nylander, maybe Tavares, McDavid.

That's an interesting list we could compile.

Yeah, and it's even more so since Vegas and the way that he performed throughout the season.

And, you know, in the playoffs, he's just been phenomenal.

What else are you going to say?

Everything's breaking his way.

He's getting a couple of good bounces, which happened the other night.

But I also said it, Johnny, there's this understandable –

I think evaluation of the two teams, Vegas and Toronto.

We had Kelly McCrimmon on our show a couple weeks ago, and Kelly said it outright.

Vegas is just better than any team Toronto played for or any team that he played for in Toronto.

Yet, yes, Brett Howden is on a heater of all heaters.

He's been phenomenal.

But Brett Howden and William Carlson is not on the same level as Austin Matthews and Zach Hyman from a few years ago.

It's not like he's playing with McDavid and Dreisaitl.

Like he's playing with two guys that are good players, not Hall of Fame players, not superstar players.

So you can't even say it's like, well, it's his line mates that are propping him up.