Kevin Bieksa

You start it with just tunnel vision because it's every night.

First round's chaos.

There's three, four games at a time.

I'm living in a hotel.

I'm a walk away.

So it's a groundhog day.

So studio, work the games, go back, try not to order late night, you know, DoorDash and bad food for you.

Wake up in the morning, coffee, oatmeal, right to the gym.

And then, you know, you got an hour or two to kill before you're right back at the studio.

So you're immersed in it.

Yeah.

Canadian series are definitely the focus, but we're, we're still doing a lot of us us games like the Utah Vegas last night.

So the Canadians obviously are important, but yet that's the thing.

Like, even if we're not covering a series, you have to be aware of what's going on because there is going to be a winner and potentially they're going to play a Canadian team next round.

So even though you're not, we're like, we haven't worked the Minnesota Dallas series really yet, but you're still kind of aware of what's going on.

For us, first of all, weird.

Weird being here in Toronto and not having the Leafs in the first round.

Like just walking to the studio, walking around the city during the day, you feel the buzz when the Leafs are in the first round, and it's really cool.

So that's been a little bit different, challenging.

I missed the playoffs, I believe, unofficially three times.