Kevin Woodley

They had 12 high dangers in game two against Ottawa.

We actually sold out one.

Game two against Philly, they had nine and three and a quarter.

We sold out one.

So he's been good, too, behind it.

But overall, I think what you're seeing here is the exception actually to this rule.

Sorry to kind of talk in circles here, but the exception to the rule is Dolbush.

Because Montreal wasn't good defensively throughout the playoff.

They leaned really heavily on goaltending.

So you can still do it, but I would argue it's not a coincidence that we're seeing two of the best defensive teams

going at it in the final here, and they have good goaltending.

The one difference would be Carolina always planned for it to be a good, inexpensive goaltender because they have three of them, whereas Vegas has a really expensive, should-be number one goaltender.

He just hasn't seen a minute in these playoffs.

He's been on the bench, and they're probably going to have to figure out a creative way to get out from under that contract to keep this team intact beyond this season.

I mean, honestly, not just given where the team is at.

I think if you could go back and find...

one of our conversations around this time last year, I made the argument that he maybe should have been the guy then.

And probably better now than then, given the way things have shifted around this team and the runway that he'll have and what they're trying to build here now versus the win for Quinn mentality that they went into last season with.

But I was worried they would lose him last summer as an option.

And so the fact he's still there, you know, and the fact that we've heard a lot about this alignment, there's a lot of wait and see and show me, don't tell me.