Mike Johnson

experience and a resume of what that job will entail other than being a former Toronto Maple Leaf who is hockey smart and passionate and a smart guy, I think I would want one of the other hires to be an experienced person.

Yes.

I thought they would have a great chance to get to the conference final.

They're a very good team if they get goaltending, and they're getting goaltending.

So part Hallmark, that is not part of the conversation.

I think at first you've got to give credit to Carolina.

They are also one of the best defensive teams in the league who had bad goaltending, and they're not getting bad goaltending now.

Some of that's on the shooting of Ottawa, but some of that's on Freddie Anderson, who's been really, really good for three games.

one Dylan Cousins goal aside.

But it would be frustrating because they are depleted on the back end and having injuries the way they've had them does not help them play against Carolina, a team that puts the defense under a ton of pressure to make passes out of their own end, and they're probably missing a body or two that could do that better than the guys they have playing.

But all that means you've still got to generate.

I mean, that's part of the job.

I give Carolina credit.

It's hard.

It's hard to play against them.

I get it.

But you've got to find a way to score goals.

And, like, Tim Stutzel in game two should have scored four.

He got none.

So that feels pretty empty.