Whit

Who knows?

If you split one of the first two games, maybe it's a different story.

But to be where they're at with those two guys after 12 years, and I'm looking at Crosby and Malkin and Letang, and their three Stanley Cups, and then, you know, it's Connor McDavid, Leon Dreisaitl, and Evan Bouchard.

You can't tell me that on paper it's that different, right?

No.

in terms of the numbers that mcdavid's put up it letang was never really in the mix for a norris not as much as bouchard no not as much as bouchard and and but you look at the surrounding cast and then you look at the goaltending now the crazy thing with the pittsburgh run is those two matt murray stanley cups like that's kind of out of nowhere and you're hoping for that with ingram and then skinner gets him to the finals but then you look at the other guys and it's it's

When you look at how this roster was built and just the mistakes, it's like the depth, right?

Like, okay, I'll give us Hyman.

I'll give us Nuge, right?

And then you give Pod Colson.

That guy's been phenomenal for a great player.

But it's Kunitz, Kessel, Hagelin, Bonino, Connor Sheery, Rust, and then the D, like that one cup, Trevor Daly, Ian Cole, like –

They just never were built the same way another similar team with two generational superstar talents were, and then they didn't get goaltending.

And now at this point, people say this year it wasn't the goal.

The goaltending wasn't good, but it's not just the goaltending.

At the same time, and I'm all over the place, look at the goalies, man.

Look at the goalies they had.

And that Jari trade, that was a complete disaster.

He was the backup.

And if you kept Skinner, who'd been to two cup finals, now you have Ingram and Skinner who are both UFAs, and you kind of got a clean slate.