My apologies to announcer extraordinaire Bruce Buffer for appropreiatiing his catch phrase - but yeah it's time. The Dallas Mavericks and Boston Celtics arer set to tee off in the NBA Final. Compelling match-up? You bet! To that end this is an all hoops episode of the Puck & Hoop Podcast, hope you enjoy it. We'll give Puck tehsame treatment with Episode 53 coming up soon.

The Sheldon Keefe Era is over in The 6. So what's next? Oh and apparently all that matters in Toronto is winning the Stanley Cup. Plus Play-off lessons in Puck & Hoop and Keith has Lebron/Bronny jokes. All that and more in Episode 51. Enjoy.

This isn't all about the Leafs... BUT... It's ALL about the Leafs.

Ok, not really, but it's the same old song and dance for us Leafs fans. There's always next... I'm not even going there.

Changes are coming? You bet?

As for the rest of the Puck and Hoop world? We're on to Round Two.

Soooo... I dropped that 10$ word in the title for this episode for a reason:

per·e·gri·na·tion/ˌperəɡrəˈnāSH(ə)n/nounLITERARY•HUMOROUSplural noun: peregrinations

1. a journey, especially a long or meandering one.

Maybe not so long and meandering for the Leafs.

But as always the only thing we Leafs fans have is HOPE.

And that may be about to run.

At any rate Episode 49 is ALL about the Leafs.

Just know this: Jalen Brunson is a BAAAAADDD Man.

Enjoy EP49.

Not a whole lot to say other than... this is what we've been waiting for. Well maybe not EXACTLY if, like me, you are a Leafs Fan. But you get my drift. The podcasts will be coming fast and furious because play-offs right? Enjoy 48, 49 soon come.

Nice season Montreal.

That improvement groove bodes well.

Tough season Raps. Be careful San Antonio is watching.

I say ( write, type, input?) all of the above just to get to this:

It's TIME Leafs!

This regular has been about one thing and one thing only.

So yes, get ready, finalize those lines, get those D-pairings straight and get your minds right. 'Cause from here on out - LITERALLY everything is on the line.

Or at least it soon will be.

#VINSANITYHOF Sho' 'nuff, ya dig!

No this isn't some Doomsday prediction! But yeah, the end is near - of the regular seasons in both Puck & Hoop. So the Raps and Habs are already looking ahead to next season, but for the Leafs? The moment of truth is nigh. And I for one can't wait! So dig in and enjoy Episode 45. Oh by the way, Lebron James is pretty good. Zach Edey. Zach Edey. Zach Edey. 'Nuff said.

...PLAY-OFFS!!

Hands down the BEST time on the sports calendar, because for my money the first rounds of the PUCK & HOOP Play-offs are the most entertaining, intense, awesome - through any adjective you want in there - spectacle in sports. And they are just around the corner.

How great is that?

Enjoy Episode 44.