Ryan Strome

Yeah, you know, and sometimes when they're going in the playoffs, they weren't clicking on all cylinders and sometimes you get a fresh slate and for a young team that's unexperienced, sometimes you just crawl to the finish line and you get that fresh start, right?

And the clock reset to zero and they seem to be buzzing and

think the injuries are a big part of it obviously i mean it's a tale of two tapes a team that was full of swagger and confidence and uh young legs versus a team that uh clearly had played a lot of hockey in the last few years so um yeah you know edmonton will be back there there's no doubt and um you know good for good for the good for the ducks it's been a tough road there for their fans and the organization so it's good to see them uh emerge for some of the dark days yeah well you know

Have you had a chance to see Ryan Strom on the show?

I have.

He thinks the world of you.

You better think the world of him.

I'm going to pass the phone to him in two seconds.

Don't tell him all that.

His head's going to be so big he'll never get through the show tonight.

Well, some of it can't.

he's he's in the meeting we're in our production meeting right now uh in the studio kevin bx is here too so he just mentioned i don't know if you could hear uh troy stetcher he was talking about matt hendricks joffrey loophole ryan some of the guys that he's met through his time that he knew were perfect for tv if they wanted to do it anyway so ryan you want to go right now here's kevin bx right away for a long

There we go.

Bob, one thing that Rob Brown said to you yesterday, and you agreed with, and Ryan brought it up a little bit in the context of the Canadians last night, mixed up their lines, and he felt that they were a little unsettled through the game in Buffalo, and that was a good conversation.

So I'm going to give you a couple of things, and the guys can chime in if they want.

But Rob was all on top of the idea where an average team with high expectations, and he really felt that was, you know, he thought both Dreisaitl and McDavid's remarks.

But my only thing about this whole average team notion

is Bob McKenzie.

So Sean is on the broadcast tonight, his son.

Bob always said, beware of good teams that have bad years.