I'm Ryan Lambert from Elite Prospect's.

I'm Ryan Lambert from Elite Prospects. I am Sean Magnet from The Athletic.

And I feel like we might have talked about this recently, but it's become even more of a big deal I guess in the last week and a half two weeks is the

log jam at the bottom of the Eastern playoff picture.

Yes. It's it's absolutely fucking crazy right now.

It's fun. Which to be clear is good. Yeah, it's it's fun. I mean it's fun if you're not a fan of those teams. You're probably pretty miserable if

You're if you're like a Flyers fan right now. I mean, there's a lot of reasons to be miserable if you're a Flyers fan right now. I mean there's a lot of reasons to be miserable if you're a

Flyers fan right now but you know the the scoreboard watching is probably the

worst part because you just have no control over it, right?

Like we've all, I think everybody's been there where their team is like hoping for other

results to fall there, to fall their way, and then sometimes they do, sometimes they don't, and it's not even remotely up to you.

But, yeah, so the standings as they are right now.

Islanders 85 points,

penguins 84 points,

Red Wings 84 points and one fewer game than the penguins.

And then Washington and Philly both have 83

points. This is the only thing I'm really watching in the NHL at this point. Like, yeah, okay, I'll, you know, I'll put on that Vegas Vancouver game last night or whatever. But, uh, I'm not getting up for that the way I'm getting up for just a random fucking

Flyers game on a Tuesday, you know?

Absolutely, yeah. I this is fun.

It's, is it a little bit sad

that some team's gonna make the playoffs

with like 88 points?

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