Mark Caballi

You wonder if they have the GM of the...

of the capitals or the president of the capitals like in their locker room and they've writing whatever they're writing on him after games because that team was left for dead and all of a sudden here they are they're not out of it yet i'm not i mean i'd love to play washington in the playoffs because i don't think they're that good i don't the islanders don't scare me the one team in their conference that scares me is the obvious one is carolina

And that likely would be second round, but that's not a matchup that I would want to see.

The fascinating thing for me out of the East...

It's how does Buffalo handle the expectations and the excitement?

Because while their head coach has seen everything in the NHL, they've got some guys that haven't been through this before.

How are they going to handle the playoff pressure?

And he's done a great job.

Lindy Ruff to have Buffalo in 100 points, I mean, that's impressive given where that franchise has been.

But maybe it's Regency bias.

here instead of recency what he's done with this team incredible and muse he's my choice regardless look at carlson he's gotten malkin to play wing he's gotten a team that at times can be very careless with the puck to play a responsible system and i think of the three teams

Given the age of some of the superstars, they've got the least amount of talent of those three teams.

Overall, top to bottom.

Yes.

And the way he uses that fourth line is...

See, I'm all into – I'd give him a four, and I'd think about a five-year deal.

Because you've got Sid for a couple more years.

But any of those guys that have knocked on the door outside of Kendall who's playing haven't really done anything.

What has Koivunen done?

What has Rutger done?