Ron MacLean

Brad Richards is a dear friend.

Thought the world of Ryan as a player.

Everybody respects him.

He will change the culture.

He will do a great with the Sedins with the help of Henrik and Daniel.

He'll change the culture.

And right now in Edmonton, I think what is, I still go back to what is missing isn't defense.

It is, but you got to the Stanley Cup and should have won it two years ago with, as you said, a team safe percentage of 17th in the NHL.

What you need is more speed.

Speed is the most intimidating aspect.

You've got too much talent in Chris Seidel, McDavid, and Bouchard not to take advantage of their brilliant vision.

You need speed around them, and that's where you fell in the last two years.

Well, they've had one set of them.

And that's, you know, it's been a real roller coaster for them.

They've been great all year at responding when they fall.

Their record is 750 win clip after a loss.

So they're good at that.

Kevin's going to show on the show tonight that they took lots of, you know, the metrics really favored them.

I always like John Cooper's line, use the guy I saw, you can win the game, but not the score.

And I think Montreal had a lot of good offensive metrics.