Steve Dangle

Someone who's taken a fair bit of guff on this podcast, who's played 820 games in the NHL, who's a rugged, strong, right shot defenseman, who will play his first playoff game after 13 seasons.

That's crazy.

Against Sidney Crosby.

Ladies and gentlemen, Rasmus Ristolainen is finally going to the playoffs.

When he joined the Buffalo Sabres, it was on the tail of their previous playoff year.

And he's been traded so many times and never traded, except for the one time between Buffalo and Philadelphia.

He's quite the trade.

It was quite the trade.

But this guy has been almost traded a million times.

He he's been an analytics nightmare and then actually kind of a recovery in the last few years, I believe.

And I think it's pretty neat that Rasmus Tristelainen and the Philadelphia Flyers are going to make it.

It's a crazy story.

And it all started or it all happened because Rick Talkett.

put out Tyson Forrester in the shootout, who has not taken one shootout shot this year.

He scores the goal on Brandon Bussey last night against Carolina to put them ahead, and then Dan Vladar stands tall and actually shuts it down on the last shot, and that's it.

He's been really good.

Vladar, Zgris, and Christian Dvorak, according to Kevin Kurz from The Athletic, each had their best respective season of their careers.

And, you know, Zegers had 67 points, 26 of them goals.

That's a career high.

And Dvorak was signed out of Montreal, has a career high 51 points, signed the extension in January, which where people and myself included went, really?