Kyle Bukauskas

He's going, I'm just kind of staying out of the way for a lot of this stuff.

It's a dynamic that seems to fit him and where he's at because this is a team that's full of guys that are capable and now just getting the guidance at the right times from someone who's been around forever.

Like, situationally, it's been...

you know, an upper deck home run to this point.

Yeah, and you could tell it was a frustrated night for Nathan McKinnon at certain points.

And you can only assume that's not going to be the way every night, however long this series goes.

But you could tell it was there a couple times.

The body language, even in the postgame, interesting.

So that'll be something to watch going forward.

And I will just say too, Elliot, for everyone out there that was, well, it's Marner against Utah.

It's not going away.

He brought a twig to a tornado fight.

that's very good Elliot nice oh my gosh out of nowhere not bad that was very good um yeah and also I mean you mentioned Dylan Coughlin getting the scoring started for for Vegas I thought his interview with Sean McKenzie afterwards was excellent there's a guy who I don't think you know far from a guarantee that you know was was he going to get a chance to play in the National Hockey League again he'd pretty much spent all year in the American League and and now look at him um

I think I mentioned on the podcast before, I mean, I've, I've got a bit of a personal connection to the family.

I mean, he played hockey and baseball with my younger brother for a few years, so I've known him for a long time.

So I've, I've got a soft spot for, for him till the end of time because of it.

And anyway, like he's just, just been playing well, like he's been, he's been a great, great influence on, on the Vegas blue line.

And the goal is, is just a bonus for them.

All right, so game two of that one goes later tonight from Denver.

Why don't we go on to just some other newsworthy notes here as we work our way through a more abbreviated version of the pod compared to some of the others throughout these playoffs, Elliot.