Ryan Whitney

I think that they're set up to be really good for a long time.

But like you said, it's just so many guys at the beginning of this, you know, run in the playoffs.

It's so hard off the bat.

I remember my first playoff game.

I've told the story a bunch of times that we were outshot 20 to nothing by Ottawa in game one of Pittsburgh.

And we had Sidney Crosby, we had Evgeny Malkin.

It's just different.

And Edmonton, the other thing about this year, and you guys all know, it's like

It's hard to go to the cup final and come back and you just want to get back to the playoffs and you got to grind.

They did it twice.

And so this regular season, at times it's exhausting.

Like the whole time they figured they knew they'd be in.

It's just like, oh, get me to April 20th.

Get me to when this really matters and we can try this again.

And now they're here.

So the quiet confidence, I agree.

the team it's as high as it's ever been I mean is the pressure high no doubt but that's that's what guys want I think that's what makes this game so fun is having pressure at at the fingertips almost and seeing the way McDavid approaches this and those two guys him and Leon like their numbers in the playoffs I mean they're behind Gretzky and Lemieux in point per game like that is crazy they're the best I've ever seen and then they get better in the playoffs that's not common for a

I just, I think now the goaltending, no doubt.

I'm not going to sit here and say there aren't questions, but I believe in Ingram and I believe that it could end up being more people than one in there as we've seen the last two years.

But it's just the excitement level finally starting again because it's 82 games.