Mike Johnson

I mean, they may scrap and get in.

They might win the division.

But I don't think they'll be playing at a tremendous Stanley Cup finalist caliber level.

And I guess they find it.

But the disconnect too fast.

When you hear...

Knobloch, and I get coaches speak, and I get players don't really offer candid assessments of their game a lot of the time because they are trying to keep it in-house or they're trying to not get too negative.

But to hear Knobloch talk about how they worked really hard, it was a really good game, that...

kind of rings untrue.

I think against Florida last night, they weren't up to the challenge.

They weren't ready to go and be physically engaged.

And you'd think if there was going to be a team in this situation to motivate Edmonton beyond the points, the team that beat you two years in a row, the team that sort of takes pot shots at your players, dry settled in the Olympics, whatever, that way you stir up a little something, a little sense of urgency, and maybe that's the word I'm looking for.

The whole year, there hasn't been a sense of urgency.

It's just like, we're going to be fine.

We'll get it together.

We'll get there eventually.

They're almost at the finish and they haven't got there yet.

So I guess I'm worried about them.

The only thing they have going for them, the Pacific, because they're going to be in that bracket, which looks like it's going to be pretty weak.

Yeah.