Ryan Rishaug

You know, the tea leaves I'm reading are saying that guy's going to be there for puck drop in game one unless somebody steps in and throws up the Heisman and says, no.

You know how much I love your quizzes.

Yes.

I mean, Ekholm wasn't around, so you had Bouchard, you had Wallman was healthy, right, to start?

Yeah, his first game back.

Klingberg, I think, was in the mix, right?

Bouchard.

Who am I missing?

I don't know.

Emerson was in the mix, I think.

I can't remember if he played.

I don't know.

Well, I think that they're, I mean, this will be crazy to say because the dry side of Nickinson, but Chris Knobloch ran down the list of guys they were unsure of heading into those playoffs.

And in the last couple of weeks of the regular season, it was just a litany of injuries.

And they didn't know what they were going to get from a bunch of guys if they were able to play.

So I think they're,

healthier, I would say, especially if Dreisaitl's ready to go here.

And I think they're different, Bob.

Like, they are younger, and I think they are faster, and I think they have more players who are kind of willing to throw the body around and play physically.

I think they've got a different energy to them.