Brightside Cast 2026

And there's all sorts of things that point to him being back at a point where he's contributing in the top six role.

And let's start there, because I think we talked a lot of, you know, we spent a lot of time on the Doomcast talking about ways in which Tyler would be part of things not going well.

We've got one game sample size jokes aside.

We know they played on Friday, but, you know, one game sample size.

Tell me what you saw or kind of where you're thinking.

Tell me about Tyler Sagan and this team's upside.

Well, I think the upside there is that Tyler did not look out of place within a top six role.

And that's not going to say that his line was all that successful.

Robertson and Hintz, it was probably the weakest line, to tell you the truth.

But Sagan got better as time went on.

And getting your legs back after a full season gone, I think that's an important thing.

And ultimately, I think that line gets dangerous.

Yeah, I mean, if you had to today right now put your money down on Jason Roberts and Rupe Hintz having successful seasons, you'd probably pick success.

And Tyler hanging on that line, it's natural to assume that he would as well.

Yeah, and even moving off that line, Ritzkovian playing with Johnston and Rantanen did not look out of place.

I think we could anticipate that after what we saw last year.

But there is all sorts of stuff out there that would indicate that the Stars' top six, once they...

Once they get their skating legs back and decide not to lay an egg in the opening minute and a half, it's a solid top six.

And then you take it beyond that, the Huru-Bannon-Steele line was fairly dominant.

You take a look, I think their shot share was somewhere on the order of 10 to 1.

Pretty solid.

And Ben looked invigorated.

And for some reason, Ben seems to play better when he's playing with younger guys.

And here I'm speaking specifically about Huru.

But I thought they were fine.