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I'm curious Kenny, how have you seen these playoff series go up to this far?

Are they going as expected? Are there any surprises to you? Where do we stand?

So to me they're going sort of as expected. I did not, I had a lot of doubts with the game that I'm actually going to bet with the series with the Devils.

I expected the Rangers to do well in this series, not a whole lot of people did.

The Devils were like an online Twitter darling type of a team that because they had these great regular season metrics that that was supposed to somehow translate to playoff success, which it can, but it takes a lot of veteran leadership, which they just they don't have a ton of the Tampa Toronto series.

I expected to be in all out war and it has been largely in all out war.

Also, something that needs to be noted is the officiating in this playoffs. I feel like I say this every year, and I feel like it's over dramatic every time I say it, it feels like the worst officiated playoffs.

I've seen it quite some time, and my team is in it. I have no dog in the fight. The only rooting interest that I have is is for these bets.

And even on games over the weekend that I just saw that I wasn't betting, officiating has been largely the biggest surprise, largely disappointing in the officiating.

Now, what do you mean by that? Do you mean too many things are getting called, like they're calling it too close, not enough things are getting called bogus calls, or all of the above?

It seems like a lot of the above, I feel like I've seen a lot of hits that have gotten called that shouldn't have gotten called.

I just feel like there's an imbalance and it's not.

It doesn't feel like games are being called evenly, and when they are called evenly, I feel like a lot of the calls have just been bad.

I think especially in that Minnesota series, the Minnesota Dallas series, I saw a couple of hits that had no business being penalties.

One was a roughing one or an interference call, I forget which it was, but man, yeah, like you asked me if these series have gone the way I thought, yes, in terms of result, no in terms of the on ice product.

Now, one last thing about officiating before we get to your pick for Monday evening, is it different than the regular season? Is that what's bothering you?

Is it different than the regular season?

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