Rick Stephens

Like, really, really competitive.

And this week, after one of the practices, Brendan Gallagher talked about how ready the guy, like, they have to flip a switch now.

Like, they had their vacation, and now it's time to get back to work.

ch come up on the the upcoming schedule so let's speaking of the schedule let's talk about the 25 games they're going to have to play in 48 days and what their schedule looks like compared to everybody else

Strength of schedule?

But then they leave on a three-game Western road trip.

And that road trip happens in the midst of that three game road trip out west.

The trade deadline is going to occur.

That's right.

Really like it's just it's like piling everything on all at once.

It's a three game road trip.

It's a three game road trip that's out west.

So you've got time zone, you know, you've got jet lag and all that kind of stuff.

And in the midst of that, you've got the stress of trade deadline.

Boy, that's going to be a tense first part of that trip, I would imagine.

In the month of March, the Canadians are going to play 15 times.

And then in April, we know that the season typically wraps up by mid-April, the latest.

They've got eight games, evenly split, four at home and four on the road in April.

But if that wasn't bad enough, how all of that sounds...

How about five back-to-backs within that time in March and April?