The NHL Playoffs are underway on May 2 with 16 teams beginning a two month march to the Cup.
Edge, a longtime Toronto Maple Leafs fan, once again believes in his Leafs. Edge believed in the Leafs last season when they entered the playoffs as the top seed in the North and then proceeded to blow a 3-1 lead against the Montreal Canadiens in the first round.
This season, the Maple Leafs square off against the two-time defending Stanley Cup Champion Tampa Bay Lightning. Despite that, and the fact that the Leafs have lost in the first round in four of the past five seasons -- they lost in the qualifying round in 2019-20 -- Edge believes.
"I'm doubling down. I lived through the [Former Leafs owner] (Harold) Ballard years. You live through the Ballard years and you have a team that puts of 115 points and 54 wins, you're going to feel good about it. We're not putting on the paper bags. This is an amazing team. What I will say, Tampa is the last team that I was hoping we would get. If you're looking at this thing, two-time defending Stnaley Cup Champions are going to be the favorites until they are eliminated because they have (Andrei) Vasilevskiy. All that being said, I do think the Leafs roster matches up," Edge said on The FAN Morning Show.
The Leafs and Lightning series gets underway on Monday and will go head-to-head with WWE Raw.
Asked if he'll find a place to stand sideways backstage to watch the game, Edge joked, "I refuse the sideways stand."
He then explained that he'll watch the game on delay.
"I'm going to drive to Greensboro, not look at any kind of social media. I'm going to drive home, sit down, get my Canadian SportsNet feed and I'm going to watch the replay on my iPad in the basement so as to not wake anyone up at 2 in the morning," he said.
Edge lives in Asheville, NC, which is roughly a two-hour and 38-minute drive from Greensboro.
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