Ray Ferraro

I remember going out for warm-up, and you don't really want to look at your old teammates, but you kind of do.

And then you see one of your buddies, and somebody fires a puck off your feet.

It's just odd.

It's just odd.

The two teams, though, kind of mirror each other.

They both kind of stumbled around for months for different reasons and for whatever the reason might be.

And now they both seemingly kind of...

Vegas won five in a row, and the Leafs have been on this great run outside the Utah game.

So it kind of feels like they're where they thought they would be, like playing-wise right now.

Matthews.

I don't, I don't really care whatever else has been going on or what's better now.

And the goaltending has been really good.

And, you know, again, a little more play out of the edges of their lineup like that, you know, before Robertson got banged up like that line and given them a little bit of something, all those things matter.

The power play has been better, of course, since they changed the, maybe their approach when, when Savard was let go, but it,

We've talked about this before.

I don't know sometimes if those guys realize how outsized their importance is to their team when they're that good.

But when Matthews was average, the team has no chance.

The other guys can do what they want, but he's a star for a reason.

And he does things other people can't do.

You know, the goalie scored, I guess it was in Colorado, and he drags it into his feet and just rifles it over the goalie, over Miner's shoulder.