Hot Starts, Bouchard, McKenna, Uncertainty in Detroit, Ovi’s Farewell and Ask Ray & Dregs

All right, let's get into headlines, Ray.

And, you know, we're five or fewer games into the regular season, so our sample size is pretty small.

But there's been some impressive storylines, and we always like to accentuate the positive on the Reindeer Eggs podcast.

So let's do that.

And I want to know from you, You know, which of the early returns, the teams that have caught your eye because of a relatively quick start? And, you know, I'm looking at the New York Rangers, the Oilers because of the world of Mike Babcock, the Winnipeg Jets.

I mean, come on, that has to be a bit of a surprise with all the turmoil and changeover that's gone on there.

So anything among that group or someone else, another team that's caught your eye early?

Well, the ones that you mentioned, I've seen the Rangers twice.

I did two games.

The first game was a bit of a mess.

I think a lot of coaches, either good or bad, throw that first game in the garbage bin anyway because it's just so chaotic.

But they were really good the other night against the Islanders.

I do think their forward depth is going to catch them at some point.

Their top two centers are Zibanejad and Miller.

Yeah.

you know they've got to stay healthy like they they really do but i've been very impressed they've you know they won four straight games last year they didn't win i don't think their fourth home game they didn't win their fourth home game until january um i did i did vegas in uh vancouver they're good again

balanced yeah

man and they're they just they just look like last year even though they made it to the finals remember it was a scuffly year And right now, I was really impressed, really impressed with them.

I had that 9-7 Edmonton-Vancouver game, which was just, it was actually like comedy watching.

it's like any shot had the chance to go in but did the first did shorty have

laryngitis after about the 14th goal i i said to him way to punch those goal calls shorty there were 16 of them

but they're the first half of the game edmonton was really good and then they went to sleep and there was a bunch of goofy goals on levi and but i was like man they're they're they looked really good and they're still missing all those forwards right so yeah

yeah

they were they were impressive uh winnipeg went on the road won a couple of times they you know they beat colorados here here's the thing that i'm watching with winnipeg and dredge you know what more so but the longer skinner plays well and then they put in clay stevenson and he was really good in his game maybe that opens up the teams that or the returns that winnipeg can take if if they get average to slightly above average goaltending do they really need another goalie back i don't think they do yeah right and so now dre's that really pushes them into some other types of players and

and so