Louis DeBrusque

It nagged them.

for the end of the year, and it certainly nagged them in that series.

Your top three centering were hurt.

Your fourth centering was out of the lineup, got hurt in game one.

This is just, you know, it was just one of those situations where sometimes it's just not meant to be, and I know that's really hard for people to understand.

It's a hard pill to swallow, but at the same time, this team has played a ton of hockey, and when you looked at it,

It almost happened in round one last year, but they're such a good team.

They found a way to fight back and then fight all the way to the Stanley Cup final again.

This year, it wasn't meant to be.

And I think what that does is it kind of puts everything in perspective.

It makes you understand how hard it is to win in this league every single night, especially in the postseason.

This team has done a remarkable job of doing that.

But this was, in my opinion, the stars did not align this year for that to happen.

Simple as that.

No, I completely agree with you, Stoff.

It was honestly a shock to me that he didn't make the Norris votes.

Absolutely crazy.

I think that the way that he played this season was leaps and bounds better than any year that he's had before.

I think the start of the year where he kind of struggled the first, you know, seven or eight games.

So did the whole team.