Mike Johnson

They had a decent year but in that pillow fight Pacific they didn't win it.

They barely got home ice and they felt

Not like an elite team the entire season.

This might be generous.

10 to 14.

Yeah, but you're right, Noodles.

You're absolutely right.

But I just wonder, the goaltending has been so up and down, and Jari has two more years on his contract for $6 million.

So, I mean, you can start right there and say, okay, well, they've already spent assets to get rid of Skinner and bring in Jari.

They're going to spend more assets to get rid of

Jari and bring in someone else and who that somebody else might be who knows and yeah it's it's a lot to unpack there there's a lot of pressure on everyone involved with the looming McDavid situation like they know they don't have any time and they don't have any grace and margin of error to to sort of figure it out for three quarters of a year like they got to figure it out now for starting of next year if they get knocked out here in the first or second round

Growing quickly.

Because I think it's not that Philly has dropped their game.

They just played so cleanly.

Whether it was their goaltending, decision-making, puck battles, breaks, you name it.

Everything went as you could have dreamt it in the first three games.

And it started to chip away from there.

And now the games are feeling a little bit more like the games that Pittsburgh wants to play.

And all the Pitt players talked about it and their coach after game five.

That there's been more rush play, more neutral zone play, fewer scrums, more pace.