Simon Hunter

I know they're better and they're talented, but man, are they just tough as hell.

They just beat you up.

So that's why I can't wait to see it.

If this is going to be fought in the middle of the ice, I can't wait to see these two types of styles because there's going to be two teams just grinding it out the entire game.

Chad, you're saying you love playoff hockey.

This is like as good as it gets.

These are two teams that are just so physical.

I can see by game two or three, they're going to absolutely just hate each other.

And we're going to get plenty of good fights, too.

So I really can't wait for this series.

The previous coach, Bruce Cassidy, won a Stanley Cup.

Yeah.

But he's notorious for having a really short shelf life with his players.

His old team in Boston, who he went to a Stanley Cup final with, basically they revolted against him.

Goes to Vegas, they win a Stanley Cup a couple years later, and they sort of revolted and made it pretty clear that they weren't going to be able to

They tuned him out, and then they bring in Tortorella, who's also got a short shelf life, but it doesn't matter when you bring someone in with seven games left in a regular season.

And for all his faults, what Tortorella's really good at is just getting teams to be hard to break down, and he's done it in a pretty quick time.

And Cassidy's the same way, so it's not like he had too much heavy lifting to do.

But, yeah, he's got a lot out of a group of players that –

Now we're starting to hit their potential.