Thomas Drance

I mean, imagine playing, not that Brant Clark's Quinn Hughes, but like,

You know, one thing you got to give a guy like Travis Green credit for is Quinn Hughes came into his squad and he was like, oh, boy.

Yeah, he recognized it immediately.

Let's play this guy like he's our number one defenseman, even though at that point, too, it should be noted Quinn Hughes wasn't defensively what he's become now.

He wasn't constantly keeping it clean and in on guys' hands and getting out of his zone quickly.

There was a lot given up down low to Jacob Markstrom's left as opposed to the right because he had Kristanov helping him out than there was later on by the time Quinn Hughes was executing talk at hockey.

My point is...

so many games you'd see against the Kings and they're trailing narrowly and it takes them too long to sort of break glass and start playing Fiala and by field and, um, Kempe, like they're the top line or playing them together.

Remember that Canucks game that they won in LA where they didn't go to that line until the third period.

And then they immediately took it over and like tied it up.

It was like a three, one Canucks lead.

Kings were just, um,

poorly deploying their lineup.

Finally, they unite this first line.

They just run rough shot over the Canucks for 20 minutes, tie the game and then lose an overtime.

It's just like, what are you doing, man?

What are you doing?

Like Jim Hiller had just so much loose change left in the couch cushion game after game that I saw.

And a lot of Toronto copers are going to point to like the King sparkling underlying numbers during his tenure.

But McClellan did better.