00:00to stay there i feel like uh well not i feel like this happened during the uh the postseason or
00:06at
00:06least the run of the postseason paul you were talking a lot about how you know tampa and
00:10florida kind of figured it out that just get into the playoffs don't worry about being up top how
00:14do you balance that when you're the sabers you miss the playoffs a ton of times you finally got
00:19in but you did it at the top of the division but you know you don't need to push that
00:24much but also
00:25you don't want to dig a hole like you have in so many years so how do how do you
00:29balance that like
00:29what's what's the the level of compete that they're looking for to start the season well just to be in
00:35the middle of the conference in the middle of the wild card they still have to be better i mean
00:41they
00:41still have to really dig in because again teams are coming after them so in tampa and florida's case
00:48they were stanley cup champions excuse me i got the hiccups all of a sudden uh they're stanley cup
00:53champions so they figured out that you know what we don't have to make this mad rush to be the
01:00president's trophy winners it basically turned into an 82 game preseason for them just make sure
01:06you get in i mean don't don't totally blow off the season that you don't get in make sure you
01:11get in
01:11figure it out that way and uh if you're in eighth place in the conference who cares we'll be fine
01:17you look at the numbers look at last year how many road teams won hockey games look at
01:23all the sabers games they played much better on the road than they did at home they they the
01:28reason the buffalo sabers were not in the eastern conference finals is because they couldn't win at
01:32home they lost three games to the montreal canadians at home and that yarmulke colinas said forget about
01:38that with that the sabers gave up a goal in overtime in game seven or you know all that he
01:45goes that's not
01:45why they didn't advance they advanced because they lost three games at home to the canadians
01:50and he goes that's the problem and he goes that's what needs to be fixed he goes you've got to
01:55use
01:56your home ice advantage he goes if we just win one we're in the conference finals one of the three
02:02but they couldn't win in any they couldn't win one of the three and uh really he i agree 100
02:09that's
02:10why they lost the series not because they gave up a goal in overtime
02:13you
02:13so you
