The thing is, you envision playing for an OHL championship all year and to realize how close you are, but at the same time how close Erie is. It's why it could be such a good battle. Every game is so important and you kind of have to pinch yourself and stop thinking about the dream of a Memorial Cup right now. You just have to concentrate on the next game against Erie. If we play our game, I don't think there's a team that can compete with us. We just want to go out and have a great team effort.
My line with [Toronto Maple Leafs prospect] Mitch Marner and [Arizona Coyotes prospect] Christian Dvorak kind of clicked in the first week of the season. Marner and Dvorak have played together the past couple of years, and then I came in as the new guy. It took me two or three games to kind of know where I needed to go to make sure I got the puck. But ever since then, it's kind of clicked, and right now it's just fun playing together. We're just having fun and that's why we're having some success.
It's been great to have so much success on the road in the playoffs [London is 6-0]. We're taking the crowd out of it and actually I think we played our best first period of the playoffs [against Erie on Wednesday]. I just think we've been able to pull out games and we've gotten solid goaltending from Tyler Parsons back there. He's been our MVP in the playoffs so far. He's won us games and luckily we gave him a little bit of a cushion [in Game 1].
Personally, I wouldn't say I'm satisfied with my playoff production. I guess there's a little sense of accomplishment that I've been a part of a winning team for the first two playoff series. I feel like I'm trying to chip in as much as possible to help this team. That's the same mentality for every player in our locker room. I just think that I've had a couple more goals in these playoffs; it's more than I would have had the first 11 games of the regular season. The fact our whole team has been more prepared for games is because it's playoff hockey. We all know nothing is better than playoff hockey, and winning it all would be a dream come true.