Peter Baugh

And that's a very valid excuse when you're looking to explain kind of why this happened.

What I keep coming back to that is a little tougher to explain and that they are going to have to sit with and live with is that they had a 1-0 lead midway through the third period in Game 2, and they had a 3-0 lead in the second period of Game 3, and they lost both of those games in regulation.

And that's just a really tough pill to swallow for a team as good and as talented and as deep as Colorado was.

So there are a lot of explanations.

I think a fair amount of it is kind of –

the luck of injury and, and bounces.

But I think there is an element of Vegas stifling their offense.

They weren't able to generate much as games went on in the third period.

They didn't, they often weren't generating.

And it's unquestionably a really disappointing end that, that there's going to be a lot of big decisions ahead for a lot of people within that organization over the coming weeks.

Yeah, and I think I've thought a lot about, like, is it a failure if this core only gets one Stanley Cup?

And I think ultimately the answer is it's so hard to win that it's never a failure if you only get one.

Because, I mean, ask the 2010 San Jose Sharks what they would trade to, like, only have one.

You know, like, it's really hard to win.

And not to... What we didn't know in 2022 is that Landeskog was going to miss...

three seasons with three he had.

And I think that was really impactful and cut into some of the window that they had.

I think there's probably a middle ground between... Because when you're looking at... I mean, the big changes they could make are they could fire the coach and Jared Bednar could be out of a job.

And I think there's going to be a lot of those conversations speculating on that in the coming days.

But I think with the roster itself, you already made your big shakeup with the Mika Rantanen trade.