Mike Johnson

I think in this wide open East, which is painful that the Leafs are so bad, this year when the East looks like this.

Any other year, the Leafs would have waltzed into this thing like, hey, we're the favorite.

We should be.

But yeah, I think to see them get through a round, for sure, maybe two, would not be surprising at all, even though they haven't been there in a decade and a half.

Like at some point, oh, do we have to go Bill Parcells?

Like you are what your record says you are.

You are what the stats say you are.

We keep all waiting.

I put Vegas and Edmonds in the same situation.

I think everyone in hockey is waiting.

They'll figure it out.

They'll turn it on.

They'll dial it in and they'll be really good because we've seen them do it for multiple years.

But we're 65 games in.

If they were going to dial it in, wouldn't it have been three weeks ago?

A month ago?

Six weeks ago?

Like maybe they can't.

Maybe they don't have the personnel or the mental energy right now or the physical energy to do it.

It's wild that they are hanging on by a thread to even make the playoffs.