Kyle Bukauskas

I think I saw Jared Bednar in the postgame.

Someone was asking, you know, how do you explain that one?

He's like, I can't, which is a great answer.

So Colorado out front.

It kind of reminded me, Elliot, like remember Game 1, Battle of Alberta 2022?

That was a wild one that Calgary ended up winning.

Of course, then Edmonton won the next four to win the series.

But that was another one where you're like, I don't even know what I'm watching here.

It was goals aplenty and defense optional in Denver.

Yeah, Hughes, McCarr, McKinnon, Natchez all had three points.

Devontae's four points in this one.

It can't be overstated.

Obviously, not having Joel Eriksson-Eckford game one, but game two as well, that's significant.

I was talking to somebody, we were watching Game 6 of Minnesota-Vegas the other night, and remember he left the game briefly that night, and they just made the point, if you lose him for any extended period, that's almost, you could make the case that it's a bigger loss than

than almost Quinn Hughes.

And I'm not comparing, you know, saying one's better than the other, but it's just from the standpoint of how many areas of the game that Erickson touches for the wild in terms of penalty kill, in terms of how he goes about his business in the face-off dot, in and around the net, you know, defending his own zone, all of those things.

Like they just, they don't have another guy

like him so that's you know in a series that could end up being a shootout where every bit of defensive detail could make the difference that's that's an early hurdle I think for for the wild to to get over down a game already and as they say having to go into a second game on the road without having him as an option that's that's a big one for Minnesota.

Yeah.

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