Mike Johnson

He did this in Detroit for a while and played really well there.

If you believe in Alex Lyon,

then you have to like the way their team looks.

If Josh Norris stays healthy, all of a sudden they have more depth and different kind of players.

And if they get the first round, if they come second, they're not going to play Tampa in the first round.

So they're going to get some version of Montreal or Detroit or Boston.

they would go in that series, given what they've done in this second half of the year, as the favorite.

And they deserve to be.

I think in this wide open East, which is painful that the Leafs are so bad, this year when the East looks like this.

Any other year, the Leafs would have waltzed into this thing like, hey, we're the favorite.

We should be.

But yeah, I think to see them get through a round, for sure, maybe two, would not be surprising at all, even though they haven't been there in a decade and a half.

Like at some point, oh, do we have to go Bill Parcells?

Like you are what your record says you are.

You are what the stats say you are.

We keep all waiting.

I put Vegas and Edmonds in the same situation.

I think everyone in hockey is waiting.

They'll figure it out.

They'll turn it on.