Mike Johnson

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.

A kind of game that Pittsburgh...

will be better at than Philadelphia.

And if Ladar has any sort of stumble in that game-winning goal with a strange bounce, maybe not really to blame him, but one you hate seeing go in, now all of a sudden, Philly will tell you honestly, Gabe, if we would have told you before the series started, we're going home up 3-2, everyone would have taken it.

And that's true.

But if I would have told you you'd be up 3-0, and now we're turning going home 3-2, it would be a lot less comfortable for those guys to be in that situation, and maybe for the first time in the series...

there's a little pressure on Philly because, you know, it starts creeping your mind.

Well, hang on, if we don't get it done now, we don't want to be a team that blows a 3-0 lead.

Like, that starts to creep in.

So if Pitt gets off to a good start, maybe, and, you know, jumps out in the first period, then I can see it really start to ramp up because the series is not just in the games being won, but in how it's being played is slowly but surely drifting to Pittsburgh's favor.

It's because that, the Lindsey, if you care, and I'm sure the players don't, the verbiage of the Lindsey is, what is it, most outstanding?

It's not most valuable.

It's like best.

and as great as Celebrini was... Johnny, let me just interrupt you.

There are a few recently, actually, right?

Kucherov didn't win both, and McDavid won one and didn't win the other.

It happens occasionally, but generally speaking, it's the same thing.