Kyle Bukauskas

I love the game ops.

I love the presentation.

The fans are all into it.

But for a number of years, you'd come and do a playoff game there.

Like that was a crowd that looked at his team and thought,

We're never in trouble.

We're always going to figure it out.

And up until Dominic James scores to tie the game there for the time being in the second period, that was a crowd that was going, oh man, are we headed for another...

First round exit.

Is this another season where we were great and among the best for 82 and it doesn't go beyond the first round?

It felt that way in that building.

You know a difference behind a crowd that's going...

no matter what, we're going to be fine, and one that's nervous.

And they were a little nervous here on Sunday.

Got loud for a while, and then, you know, the Alex Newhook bounce, and suddenly you could feel the tension all over again.

So we'll get to the Tampa side in a little bit, but that was kind of what I felt throughout the night, Elliot, and with Dobish, too.

Whether there's truth to it or it's just manufactured in its own mind, like clearly in his brain,

this year he felt that there was doubt out there of like this guy can't do it this guy can't be the starting goalie for the Canadians this guy can't nobody doubting him anymore no but it's clearly fueled him like that's I think it all plays into like every game is a game seven every game I'm playing for the next start

It's it's worked.

It's very impressive.