The

One of

Three A lot Hey, everybody, how you doing?

Well, that's good. Welcome to P.H.L. Flyers presented by Bet365, where winning is everything. My name is Bill Mats. I'm your director of Funning Games for the evening. Joining me live in the Xfinity Mobile studio. It is Philly's number one hockey beatwriter, Charlie O'Connor.

Happy Stanley Cup playoff Eve, Charlie, for the first time since we brought our game here to

P-H-L-Y.

And for the first time in six years overall, we are covering a playoff team.

And it all starts tomorrow.

How you feeling?

You fly out tonight.

You're headed over to Pittsburgh.

Are you excited?

I am.

I am really excited to watch playoff hockey.

I've been to a couple playoff games since the drought started, but obviously they were not

Flyers games and, I did not cover

them. I went as a fan just enjoying being in a playoff atmosphere. It's going to be really cool to

cover it and to be able to watch as an observer and watch the chaos as opposed to, you know,

being in the crowd, but not really having an invested stake. It's going to be really neat. It's also going to be a great time writing about it, too. And we shall see how the Flyers do. They could win. They could lose. They could get blown out. They could be the team that does the blowing out. You never know. But regardless of how it plays out, I'm going to have fun writing about it.

Hashtag because it's the cup, you never know. You know, Charlie, I'm a little disappointed to find out

you're flying because I thought part of the trip we were giving away yesterday was actually Charlie

pulls up to your house and you ride shotgun with him to Pittsburgh. No, it's you get on the Philly Sports Trips bus. So I guess it's all right. All right, Chuck, we have a lot to get to today. First thing I got to tell everyone about, though, it's our new shirt. That's right. We have Flyers Playoff merch up at all p.hly.com. You got to check it out. Buy the ticket.

...