Mike Johnson

Maybe there's, you know, that recency bias in the voters' heads.

Remember that game with a month less when McDavid went for six and Nate got shut out or vice versa?

I think you look at the numbers, you look at their team, you look at their relative success.

If we talk to David Hayes, you're famous, he'll never win another heart.

He's not going to win this year, not with where they are in the standings.

You're going to be vindicated this year because he won't win.

Yeah, I can't wait for that tap dance to celebrate.

But, you know, I think if they are around the same production-wise, and it looks like Kucherov, McDavid, McKinnon are all going to be about the same, then you go to sort of the impacts on their team success.

And you got first in the league, maybe first in the East, and a team barely getting the playoffs.

So I think that matters more than a head-to-head game.

That is just one of 82.

You can't put too much stock in it.

That's a good one.

I will say they're going to be in the final four, 25 minimum.

They'll be better than the Pacific.

I'm going to say probably 45%.

I think Hayes is the only one who passed grade 11 math right now because, yes, the three best teams are there, but only one's getting to the final four.

Doesn't matter how many good teams are there.

That's right.

That's one of the final four teams.