The Welcome to Michigan Hockey Cast 6.21 where we hope you'll meet us in St. Louis and at the fair. Okay, Alex, last week you promised an opener for this week.

Do you remember what it was?

Umm, vaguely?

Vaguely.

Are you dodging the question?

You can go with it.

Well, last week you wanted to rant about the This week we're going to debate the definiteness,

definitive, certainty of the teams

that are going to make the playoffs in the West. Unless you want to argue right now that the Blues are going to pass Vegas if they win tonight.

If they win tonight. If they win tonight.

Probably not.

They are. They would be tied on points if they did, right? I think they'd be two back. Let me look.

I thought they were too bad. They're four back. Vegas has a game in hand. Yeah. So probably not.

Probably not. It's possible. It would be a tough hill to climb, but. So sorry, Ryan Zook. Anyway, all right, so we have eight teams and my question to you was who is the team that you would want to play the most in the West?

It doesn't really matter who you are, but if you were in the West and you got to select who you would play in the

playoffs because there's pretty much only eight teams that are going to make the playoffs,

unless you're a wild believer.

If we're doing a PWHL style playoff format here I think part of it is what team you are and

I think that plays a role okay and if I'm picking it depends on which team I'm

picking for in the abstract I would probably say

the LA Kings I think might be my weakest of these eight teams I was debating that yeah

But if you're not like a tremendous five-on-five offense team and that's a dangerous matchup because they do that pretty well, they

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