Mike Johnson

You can hang out with him all the time.

Life goes on.

Hockey goes on.

If you're going to play, he'll probably play again in Washington.

But I can't see him going anywhere else.

And I honestly...

I know he's still good, but I don't know what the market would be for him around the league.

He's such a unique player now.

No.

I mean, it's one of 82.

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.