Matthew Fairburn

A little bit, yeah.

I mean, that first game on Sunday was

you know, that's one of those moments, one of those games that I feel like anybody who was there will remember it, you know, forever just because of how long it had been.

And you get that type of atmosphere and then you get that type of game and that type of finish.

It was, it was pretty special.

So yeah, definitely surreal.

I remember leaving the press box, I think Wednesday last week after game 82 thinking, huh, we're going to cover more of these.

Okay.

Like, let's see how this goes.

But yeah,

It's been fun.

Yeah, it's been pretty wild because I guess all along, when I thought about them ending the playoff drought eventually,

you didn't think they would do it like this, right?

For the last four months, they were basically the best team in the NHL over that stretch, and they went from last place in the conference to first place in the Atlantic Division, which is a pretty heavyweight division.

There was a bunch of teams over 100 points.

So the way they did it, I think, flipped the fan base from,

thinking about the playoffs to thinking about a lot more than that and thinking about going on a deep run and so that was you know that's been interesting over the last few weeks and it's definitely ramped up the uh the anxiety level i think in town you know they lose that that second game last night against boston and um you know there's a lot of a lot of people you know feeling the nerves i guess of these playoff series but people absolutely got swept up in it like

People always wondered how long would it take for the building to fill back up again, and it happened so quick.

It was like the second they showed a sign of life with that 10-game winning streak, people were flooding back, and the building's been insane, and people are soaking it in.

Yeah, it's definitely been a wild swing, right?