Mike Johnson

Well, it's not the game I'm about to do in Boston.

Yeah, I guess that's what gets my attention, though, is all these teams.

And there's, what, five spots available in the East.

I'll give Tampa, Buffalo, and Carolina their in.

even Montreal on down, everyone else is very much catchable and has to play well.

And so Boston, who has 12 games left or whatever, eight of the 12 games they have are against playoff teams.

They need to take advantage of the games they play against the bad teams.

Right now, the Toronto Maple Leafs are a bad team.

And so they need to beat those teams when they have the opportunity.

So I'm interested in

That for Boston, you know, can they take advantage of a team that they are supposed to beat?

Ottawa-Detroit matchup, really, really interesting.

Two teams that could have a big swing.

Montreal has one of the most difficult schedules remaining.

We've assumed that they're going to be good and home and cool for a long time.

Could they stumble just a little bit?

I don't quite know.

So I'm interested in those kind of races, the sort of the East where there's so many teams that,

trying to snag those spots.

And there's basically two and maybe even three, if you consider Philadelphia, that are going to be the outside looking in.