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As much as you need Ryan Hartman heading into the playoffs to look like he did last postseason, Eric Sinek is that driving.

It's that baseline of a song.

It's the bass drum.

He just keeps the tempo.

Boom, boom.

So when he's off, I'm not going to say catastrophic, but it's real hard to win hockey games.

You're muted, by the way.

I've been struggling today.

And then between the whistles, he just gets under people's skin by looking at it.

if he's not able to make a snap decision like that in the heat of the moment now against the, I mean, granted he did eventually, but against the Maple Leafs on a Sunday in March, I don't know how confident I am.

He's going to be able to make that decision on a Sunday in April against the Dallas stars.

So if this is when like these freezes are going to, cause it might be like granted recording.

We, like you mentioned alluded to, we had a little,

tech problems maybe in the first half of the show he might be like that connection where he's freezing up and it's like i don't know if he oh boy i don't know if he's built for buffering he's gonna buffer is he gonna buffer he's gonna have that uh the apple rainbow reel or whatever yeah and last night would have been the second period was when i i wouldn't i wouldn't have waited to in between periods i i would have pulled the trigger in the second period

In either way, you know at this point, the Wild are almost assuredly... Unless this is some...

some weird late season tanking for a top wildcard spot, which we know is not.

They can't do it.

No.

It's damn near impossible.

The gap is too big.