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Stanley Cup Playoffs Round 2 Predictions | Fantasy Hockey Podcast · Banger Management - Fantasy Hockey Podcast

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  Barbara Bound Bound Banger Management Fantasy Hockey
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  podcast. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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  We're already. Probably gonna help myself.
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  What did you say? I was gonna say let's have it go
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  but then I I said the actual effing I stopped myself.
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  Thank God he didn't say go. Yeah.
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  God. Welcome.
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  In one and all at the Bangor management, the Fantasy Hockey
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  podcast with Jake, Josh and Kevin, we are recording the day
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  after that insane victory by the Habs.
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  Josh pointed the haves and seven license plate.
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  I I was astonished. OK, first of all, who are you
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  wearing? Like they ask in the button,
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  like the fashion, you know, red carpets.
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  Who are you wearing today? If my girl, my Zuke, I got the
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  captain, I got the captain, the savior.
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  Have the real best goal scorer in the league if you count real
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  grass fed root to the roots. You know, goals.
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  Not including that empty net BS that McKinnon does.
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  Coal Coffield the goat. Little quiet in series #1 but
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  still to go. Very, very quiet.
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  Biting his time, that's. I'm wearing price and I've had
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  this jersey for a while and I had to get it this size because
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  I used to wear it to like actually play so it was over my
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  chest protector. It fits me way too well.
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  Now I just protect loving this gonna say I put it on.
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  I was like, I was gonna be so big.
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  It's, it's a little like, you know, roomy, but it's not that
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  big a little roomy. I'm sure it's shrunk in the wash
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  so. Yeah, hope so.
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  You're basically saying you can't wear when you're going
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  about to suit up to go stop McDavid penalty shots.
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  You wanna? You wanna?
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  That was the whole thing. I don't even have a jersey, so
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  there's no way that we can ever see that.
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  He'll have to wait until he gets a.
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  Shot yeah, that's true. I mean honestly, they could just
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  give me one of their goalies jerseys and actually play for
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  them and then maybe I'll have a. Chance.
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  That's honestly, Yeah, that's true.
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  We're going to be talking about a bit of the tail end of the
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  first round matchups, but also diving into the round two
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  matchups today. Follow us on Spotify album
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  All the socials are in the podcast subscription and join
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  the Discord community. So yeah, we're going to be
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  diving into all things Round 2 today, speaking about the
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  craziness that was round one. We we are obviously Habs fans,
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  but I don't think obviously isn't saying that that was one
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  of the most insane game sevens ever.
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  I don't. Think I think it might be the
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  best series I've ever seen. This was the best round one
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  series like that I've witnessed in recent memory.
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  Like I just, yeah. Has there ever been another
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  series decided by one goal in every single way to game?
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  All the way to 7 and every and no team won two games in a row
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  is not we'll get into. That, Yeah, I don't know, I
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  guess I'll say it and then you give your profile.
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  Check, Evan Yeah. But yeah, the series was within
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  two or more goals, meaning it was either tied or you saw this
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  dot or within one goal and it was like that was not the case.
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  Meaning two goal lead minimum for a total of 5 minutes the
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  entire series. That's not.
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  That's up to nothing. And was it game four?
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  We ended up losing that game. That was the one game where a
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  team was leading by two for like 5 minutes at the end of the
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  second period and then Gensel scored before the period ended
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  and then never again was there a two goal lead.
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  It's crazy. Madness.
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  We obviously have a lot to say. Yeah, look at it, Kevin.
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  You go for your preface. Before we get into it, I do need
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  to give a slight profile cache to give everybody an update on
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  the Bangor Management Bracket challenge.
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  A lot of people listen had their Stanley Cup picks get eliminated
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  in round one, me included. I had a Oilers versus Canadians
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  finals and that wasn't terribly wrong.
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  Could not have been any words. I mean it could have been worse
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  technically, but my 2 picks could have been eliminated in
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  round one. But they did it leading the
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  challenge as of right now with 89 points.
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  The only person, let me just confirm, the only person in our
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  challenge that had every pick in round one correct?
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  Wow was Brett bracket name is UK Flyers I believe It's Rich from
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  the discord. She's got Colorado winning it
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  all and he had every pick. He predicted every team to win.
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  The only thing though, his final is Colorado, Buffalo and he has
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  Philly beating Carolina in round two.
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  He's a Flyers fan so a little bit of homerism there and he's
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  also got Anaheim beating Vegas. So that's that would be a crazy
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  final If this bracket ends up being accurate.
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  Listen, kudos. That'll be a major win, but
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  still impressive to get every round one pick.
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  I've never. I've been doing the bracket
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  challenge for as long as I can remember and I've never gotten
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  every round one pick right. Well, that's extremely
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  impressive. It is.
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  And also I I find it's so spicy that you have Buffalo beating
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  Philly in the conference. File.
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  Yeah, yeah. If you're a Philly fan, yeah, at
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  that point, just go all the way. You didn't want to go all the
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  way. You can't.
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  You can't be too much of A homework.
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  It's like they're gonna be Carolina, the Buffaloes, where I
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  draw the line. And then we have a couple of
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  other ups. Reader, fifteens, bracket number
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  one. He's got Carolina winning it
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  all. He's in a close second place
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  right now. His final is ABS Carolina and
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  Carolina taking it. So we got a few good brackets in
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  there. Obviously mine is is already
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  done and dusted. So that was really awful.
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  Jake. I don't, I don't, I don't
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  remember your bracket. I I did make a bracket, it's
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  it's fine. Yeah, he went for Tampa.
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  Boo. Boo.
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  Yeah. There is no way I can.
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  Yeah, there's no way. I actually.
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  Story. So yeah, well, I was gonna say
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  there you go. Office pools is the next big
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  banger management. So for everybody, anger
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  management contest. So everybody that joined, we had
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  45 teams joined. Honestly, funny enough, Rich,
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  who has the best bracket, has the worst office pools team.
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  He he had a a couple of miss miss picks in Montebello as one
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  of his goalies in Blackwood. So he's got 0 goalie starts.
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  These playoffs are off. And he was right, but so, so
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  wrong, yet so. Right, leading the charge still.
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  The last update we made, Blake Creamer was still at the top,
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  creaming and dreaming. He's still at the top with 421
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  points. Here you know.
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  There there's a couple of teams that are all like there's I
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  think 10 teams that are all within 380 and he's at 4:20.
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  So it's like it's still close. And for those who have never
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  played office pools before, like round one, obviously you want
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  basically you want most of your team to survive pretty much a
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  lot of points will be made yourself 3 rounds to go.
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  So if you're stacked on some teams that are going to go far,
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  like you still have a lot of chances to to surpass.
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  Like I'm in 11th place right now, but I'm still pretty
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  confident. I got my HAB stack and my
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  Minnesota stack in full force. So if both of these teams so
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  far, it'll be pretty successful. I saw a lot of people have their
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  Tampa stacks just get eliminated and obviously all the Oiler
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  stacks, but that feels like everybody was on the Oilers.
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  Just depends how. Hard, yeah, it's kind of cancels
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  out. Everyone just takes McDavid and
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  try side automatically. So it just cancels it.
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  And some people go Hyman and Nugent, Hopkins and Ingram, and
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  then they get effed like. Yeah, so you imagine.
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  Just wanted to give a little update there.
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  So if you guys are still competing in those, good luck.
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  Like I said, reminder, if you guys win the bracket challenge
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  or the office pools challenge, you will get a your first month
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  free for the Bangor management Patreon coming into the next
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  year. So that's pretty exciting.
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  Good luck to everybody that's still a competing there.
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  We'll give future updates on the next episodes without.
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  That's pretty fun. I love it.
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  I was going to say for the bracket one actually for some
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  reason, I don't know if anyone else would dealt with this, but
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  the NHL site just would not let me submit a bracket.
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  It kept asking me to log in and then I would log in and then I
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  would put in a bracket and it would say log in again and I got
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  caught in this whole loop. But I do remember exactly all my
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  pics and both my picks to make the finals are still in.
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  Let's just say I had I had Montreal Colorado in the in the
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  finals and had Montreal winning it all.
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  So feeling pretty good. About to get into Montreal.
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  Montreal like talk, but I feel like we're so good at not being
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  too big of homers. Like I feel like we try to, we
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  give a realistic. Take like for stern on horse.
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  So I never. Was so proud of our team but
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  this year I genuinely believe that we had a good chance like
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  looking at the team like if we could get through Tampa, I feel
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  like we could go all the way like beating Colorado in the
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  finals if it gets to that like will be different challenge.
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  But I mean, I don't think we're homers just cause we picked the
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  Habs to to go far right. Like it was a genuine pick, but.
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  They finished sixth in the league like, and if you pick a
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  6th league team to go all the way, that's not a Homer pick.
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  I, I have 0 credibility because I picked them to go all the way
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  every single time they make the playoffs.
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  So I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna get on my high actually say that
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  I'm super unbiased, but I do keep, I do avoid the homerism
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  when it comes to fantasy and actually helping people out and
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  stuff like that. But right now, no one doesn't
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  affect anyone what I what I say. So I'm gonna have all the way.
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  There it's homerism, a word there's.
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  No way, don't know makes. A lot of sense in the context
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  like you both said it at this point and I'm like all right and
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  it felt. Natural, so it must be real.
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  Yeah. Yeah, God, if it's not, I think
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  I'm the one who said it first. I usually Kevin's the one who
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  comes up with the. Join the club my.
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  Management Isms Yeah, exactly. But yeah, let's dive into it.
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  I mean, we're just dying to talk about it.
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  So let's get into. We're going to talk about how we
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  got to each second round matchup and then get into the second
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  round matchup. So first let's talk about the
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  Atlantic. Your Montreal Canadiens are
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  going to the second round for the first time since 2021 when
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  we made it to the finals and actually the last time that you
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  know, we got eliminated by Tampa at the end of that run.
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  And now we get to be the ones eliminating Tampa.
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  And I will say that, you know, I feel like maybe it's just like
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  be thinking of certain examples and me feeling like it happens
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  all the time. But I feel like when the team
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  like kind of slays that dragon, they often go on all the way.
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  Like I'm thinking like Washington versus Pittsburgh,
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  right? Every single year they would go
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  up against them and they would get eliminated in the playoffs.
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  The one year they finally beat Pittsburgh is the one year they
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  won the Cup. And that's the only example I
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  have off the top of my head, but it happens all the time, I
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  swear. So solar coop.
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  I was stressed the entire game. The entire series, honestly.
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  There wasn't a single moment in any single game where I felt
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  comfortable with what was going on in that.
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  Game Josh always says like he's he's the guy that like once a
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  team wins he's like, oh, they're never losing it once they lose
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  it like they never winning again and the fact that every game
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  alternating between win and loss, I'm still.
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  Like it was literally like the the guy in the in the dictator,
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  right? You know, just like, how about
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  you? Ohgo brilliant.
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  What do you guys feel like watching that game last night?
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  It was nuts. First of all, I want to say that
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  the last two Stanley Cup winners beat Tampa and Round 1, so.
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  And Fortner wrote four first round exits for Tampa in a row
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  like is the era. Finished zero points in seven
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  game sevens and -2 I think I saw that stat.
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  Points in Game 7. Seven game sevens.
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  There's no minus. 20 points. Wow.
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  Did you just make that up? That's crazy to think.
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  About how much they went deep in the rabbit hole.
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  They've had so much success in recent years.
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  That's that's shocking. First of all, Brandon Hagel is
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  insane. Are you gotta give credit where
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  credit is due? That was the best save I've
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  ever. Seen in my life, God.
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  Coming. I was fuming.
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  I was like, there's no way we're not gonna lose Ed Slab just
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  missed empty net. Yeah, but at least they're like,
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  that was an unbelievable play by Hagel, right?
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  Like, I'm not mad at slot for that.
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  But did you see, like, I don't see anyone talking about the
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  play earlier where Suzuki just completely gave up.
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  Like, do you see like he had the empty net and he was the only
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  person there. And then he like he looked like
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  he might curve into the empty net.
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  So he just stopped skating and then he carved out of the net
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  and he didn't get it in. And I was like, how do you do
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  that as the captain? Like it reminds me of that clip
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  from round one of Quinn Hughes rushing back to get to that, to
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  the empty net. Like is they had that the goalie
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  poles and Dallas like shoots it down the ice and it looks like
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  it's gonna miss the net. And then he's like skating
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  quickly. But then when he sees it's gonna
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  miss the net, he slows down and then it curves and goes in and
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  it's just like you don't stop skating.
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  You go all the way, get it in the net and then you could stop
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  skating. And oh man, look, in the end it
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  didn't matter. But I was so mad and so
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  stressed. And Matheson taking a delay of
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  game penalty with like 6 seconds left, 6.3 really cannot, they
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  could not give us a single moment.
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  Like I was not comfortable with the win until the win was fully
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  until 0 seconds hit the clock. Until the refs leave the ice and
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  then we're going to do anything like.
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  Yeah, exactly. Review the goal from like 10
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  minutes earlier. It's yeah.
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  I also like Dobesh. My God.
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  My God, we're we're getting prime goaltending right in front
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  of our eyes and is honestly been insane to watch.
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  Like maybe Vasilevsky had more shots against that game.
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  He would have been able to like show that he was like going toe
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  with Dobesh. Dobesh just was like phenomenal
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  these playoffs. It's either rookie.
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  Don't forget he's a rookie crazy not supposed to be starting.
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  We had him as like the third goal in the rotation at certain
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  points during the season, right. We were like, it'll be Montemor
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  Fowler, like being the guy that always be the backup no matter
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  who the starter is type of thing.
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  This guy man, like he's he's done so, so much good this year.
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  I'm like genuinely excited for like his career next year and
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  like the rest of the. Scenes are blessed.
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  We were blessed. Like it seems, you know, Carrie
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  Price just retires and now we get our, you know, I mean, it's
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  obviously really early to be saying, you know, our next, but
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  he's been unbelievable. 2 fun stats for you guys from last
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  night. One, that is the fewest shots
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  ever in a playoff win in the history of the NHL ever.
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  I mean, it makes sense. Nine shots to win.
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  To win, hopefully I'll give is pretty nuts.
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  So there was that one. And Dobesh is the 5th rookie
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  goalie in Habs history to ever win a game.
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  Seven in the playoffs. Do you know who the other four
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  are? If I can remember them off top
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  of my head? You guys wanna?
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  Carry price I know your. Door carry price No, not the.
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  Other Ken Dryden. Yeah.
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  Jacques Plant. I think it was, yeah, I think
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  flaunt and. Uh.
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  Rookie gold? I don't remember.
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  No I don't. He just got fired recently.
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  Patrick Wah. Yeah.
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  That's good company, yeah. Yeah, I mean it's.
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  The leader of the elite. Exactly.
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  Anytime you kind of have any sort of record on the Habs,
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  which have been around since 1909, that's pretty impressive.
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  This is amazing all around. What I'm concerned about is I
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  feel like Buffalo had a much easier time with Boston than we
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  did with Tampa. You said this at the beginning
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  around 1, Josh, that your fear is that whoever's going to win
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  this round, yes, they could be the strongest team coming out of
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  the East, but they're going to be so beaten up.
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  And that is my fear. Not necessarily physically
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  beaten up, but just worn down. The fact that you were only able
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  to get 10 shots in Game 7. Is 9 shooting?
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  I mean, yeah. Round out?
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  I don't know, he said. Maybe I'm on an island.
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  I don't see it as that concerning because honestly, I'm
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  glad the path that we had because we could not have been
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  more testing than we were in around the one right.
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  And I think we were already a great team and the fact that we
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  were, I think Tampa was the hardest round one matchup.
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  Like no doubt about it. Like if there was one team you
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  had to choose not to face in round one, it was Tampa.
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  We had them, we beat them. And honestly, like, I don't know
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  if this is gonna be a hot, hot take or what, but I feel we
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  deserve to win like this series, maybe not Game 7, but this
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  series, yeah, the Habs definitely deserved to win.
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  So I'm super proud of the guys. And it kind of feels like, not
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  that we're playing with house money.
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  It feels like we're we were great and we showed we were
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  great and we're moving forward, right?
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  So I feel like we're moving forward from this with more
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  confidence. And if I'm Buffalo, I would be
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  scared because this Habs team that just found a way to win a
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  great, like a gritty series like that against Tampa, where I
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  don't think they were that tested against Boston.
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  I think Boston were frauds the whole year.
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  They've somehow made the playoffs.
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  We were like giving them more credit than they actually
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  deserve. And then the playoffs, they
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  showed their true colours, kind of like they weren't a match for
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  all these other teams that were competing for these playoff
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  spots. So yeah, if I'm Buffalo, I'm a
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  little nervous coming again, I thought.
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  Yeah, teaching this point what I was most worried about was like
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  actual injury. Like I thought it was gonna be a
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  really dirty series. It actually wasn't as dirty as I
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  thought it would be. It.
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  Wasn't I didn't find it to be dirty.
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  I found it was like it was a tough series, you know, like
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  both teams were very physical, but I didn't feel like anyone
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  did anything that I thought was a dirty play.
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  You know, even like some of the big hits.
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  I was like, that was just a good hit like or worst case, it was a
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  penalty, but it wasn't anything crazy that happened that I was
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  like, oh, you're a dirt like like nothing like that.
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  It didn't really seem like anyone was kind of like cheap
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  shotting or trying to injure each other.
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  I thought there was gonna be more of that, to be honest,
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  after seeing the last game of the season that the house played
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  versus Tampa, that game where every single whistle there was a
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  scrum and they, you know, so not to take away from the series, it
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  was super gritty, super physical and awesome.
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  But the fact that, you know, obviously we never know right
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  until the end of the playoffs when they released the list of
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  all the injuries. But it seems like we made out of
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  it pretty unscathed. We actually got Dobson back in
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  Game 7 and he was a huge, he had a really good game.
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  So I'm feeling pretty good about like going into it.
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  And I think I think Buffalo definitely had an easier path.
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  And I think that like, the fact is, I mean, we can talk about
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  Buffalo now like they're how they got there because obviously
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  we talk about the haves all day. But yeah, so they got through
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  Boston, which I agree with Kevin, we kind of none of us
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  believe they were gonna make the playoffs.
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  Nobody believed they would make the playoffs and they probably
• 18:03
  shouldn't. I think it's more testament of,
• 18:06
  well, I mean, they had their top guys showed up and it was a lot
• 18:09
  of their goal was great. Yeah.
• 18:11
  And I think also just a lot of other Eastern teams kind of
• 18:14
  pooped the bed on that one and could, if they put in a better
• 18:17
  effort, they could have passed to Boston there.
• 18:19
  So I don't think they were like, maybe not.
• 18:21
  I wouldn't say they didn't deserve to make the playoffs,
• 18:22
  but they deserve to make it as a wild card team and they deserve
• 18:24
  to get eliminated in round one by a much stronger team.
• 18:27
  So I don't think that Zillow had that much adversity.
• 18:29
  I will say, though, they had to make a goalie change in the
• 18:33
  middle of that series. And look, obviously, I think we
• 18:35
  all agree that Alex Lyon was the guy.
• 18:38
  I know me and Jake do. I don't know where Kevin's been,
• 18:41
  more of a UPL 6K type of guy. But But I think me and you have
• 18:45
  been fully on the Alex Lyon train for a while.
• 18:47
  They were both great. Yeah, for sure.
• 18:49
  Yeah. Not to take away anything from
• 18:51
  UPS, but the fact that they had to resort to already switching a
• 18:53
  goalie in a series that was a relative, you know, easy series
• 18:56
  for them, or should have been. I mean, it makes me feel like
• 18:59
  maybe they're not as strong as a as you know, Tampa, for example.
• 19:04
  Also one other thing and before, because I feel like I've been
• 19:06
  saying a lot. So I'll pass it off to you guys.
• 19:07
  But one thing that in my mind, the entire Tampa series with how
• 19:11
  kind of awful Cofield and Suzuki and Slaf were at 55 and even on
• 19:16
  the power play after game one, right, they were pretty much
• 19:18
  invisible the whole series, right?
• 19:20
  And in my mind, I'm like, if we could survive this series
• 19:23
  without our first line, there's there's no Anthony Cirelli,
• 19:26
  there's no John Cooper on on Buffalo, right?
• 19:29
  Like they don't have the same. You sure they have a meeting
• 19:31
  defenseman. You know, they they're top 4D is
• 19:33
  is unreal. But they don't have the same
• 19:36
  guys who can absolutely shut down a top line like Tampa did.
• 19:38
  And I just don't trust Buffalo or any other team.
• 19:41
  Maybe the only other team I could trust to do that is maybe
• 19:43
  Carolina. So if it comes to that, we can
• 19:45
  talk about it next round. But I don't trust Buffalo to
• 19:47
  shut down our top line like Tampa did.
• 19:49
  So in my mind, I was like, we're like, if we couldn't make it out
• 19:51
  of this without our top line, they're going to be coming with
• 19:54
  a vengeance for for this next year.
• 19:56
  They're going to have way more space on the ice.
• 19:57
  Maybe not way more, but even just a little more space is all
• 20:00
  they need. Near that elite of a player, I'm
• 20:02
  expecting some big things on the top line and if they can't show
• 20:04
  up then then we have some serious issues to talk about.
• 20:07
  Yeah, I think it's gonna be a way more high scoring series
• 20:11
  than the first one like the. Goalies are, I feel like both of
• 20:14
  them have been on fire. But it's it's like it's still
• 20:17
  gonna be like, I feel like a lot higher percentage chances and
• 20:20
  stuff too. It's just gonna be a more
• 20:22
  offensive game because Buffalo for all intents and purposes,
• 20:26
  has a deeper offensive team than Tampa.
• 20:30
  Not as good. The star power is not nearly as
• 20:32
  strong, obviously, but the way that Josh has put it as accurate
• 20:36
  and that they have really good shutdown forwards, tab of eight.
• 20:39
  Cirelli is like an amazing defensive offensive defenseman,
• 20:43
  no? Defensive, offensive, defensive.
• 20:46
  Offence that, yeah, that that's not, that's not like the
• 20:49
  physical. Defensive forward.
• 20:50
  Shutdown centre. Yeah, yeah.
• 20:52
  So and then like, yeah, but then you got Benson Norris done on
• 20:57
  their third line. That's pretty deep.
• 20:59
  So scared. Yeah.
• 21:02
  Like, I, I mean, yeah, but Quinn's also been sick.
• 21:06
  So to be honest, I think, I think I'm, I'm not scared.
• 21:10
  I think that Montreal is going to beat them, but it's gonna be
• 21:15
  more of like a, a four, two or five, three type of games.
• 21:20
  And we did not see that this series at all.
• 21:22
  So yeah, I'm excited that it's gonna be more entertaining, like
• 21:25
  from a neutral point of view. And I will say, obviously I want
• 21:28
  the Habs to win. But if I'm just like a fan, not
• 21:32
  loyal to any of these teams, like it's pretty hype.
• 21:35
  Buffalo and Montreal were rebuilding.
• 21:37
  Like Buffalo was really like down in the dumps for a decade
• 21:42
  more 2 decades haven't made the. Most people had their finishing
• 21:45
  800 division this year, and now they're in round two of the
• 21:48
  playoffs. Yeah.
• 21:49
  Yeah, exactly. The people.
• 21:52
  All of us, that is all of us. I forgot to just get in some
• 21:56
  quick season stats from this, from this matchup.
• 21:58
  I know we keep talking about it, but Buffalo obviously was the
• 22:01
  top seed in the Atlantic, Montreal, the third in the
• 22:02
  season series, they split it to two.
• 22:04
  So pretty even in terms of top like forwards, in terms of our
• 22:08
  top players, goals, assists, points have had more in all
• 22:11
  those categories. Cofield obviously was the second
• 22:13
  highest goal scorer in the league versus Thompson.
• 22:15
  Suzuki had the had most assists on the team versus Dalene and
• 22:18
  then Suzuki had the most points versus Thompson.
• 22:20
  And then in terms of goaltending, it was pretty,
• 22:22
  pretty close between, you know, Lion and Dobish terms of power
• 22:27
  play. Houses were tenth versus
• 22:29
  Buffalo's 20th. But in terms of penalty kill,
• 22:31
  Buffalo was fourth versus Habs 19th.
• 22:34
  This is one of those split the differences on the special
• 22:37
  teams, in my opinion. Then in terms of injuries, Habs
• 22:39
  are currently clean now that Dobson's back.
• 22:42
  So that's a pretty nice spot to be in Buffalo only minor
• 22:44
  entries. I think Noah Osland and Sam
• 22:46
  Carrick. I think Austin was actually
• 22:47
  playing pretty solid for them. So, so it's a type of player
• 22:50
  that if you're not, if you're, if it's a fan of your, if it's
• 22:52
  your team, right? And it's like a third liner,
• 22:54
  you're like, Oh, this is a huge loss.
• 22:56
  But when you're not like die hard fan of that team and you
• 22:58
  see from the outside, you're like, oh, who really cares,
• 23:00
  right? Yep.
• 23:01
  I mean, my take on this breakdown obviously is that
• 23:04
  Buffalo is, I feel like the wealth is spread more throughout
• 23:07
  the top three lines. I think Montreal has the higher
• 23:10
  end talent, maybe less talent in the depth, but the fact that we
• 23:14
  were able to be Tampa and like the line was like tech a dog was
• 23:18
  able to like provide the way it did is super encouraging.
• 23:21
  Like we're getting production from those guys.
• 23:23
  Feel like it's just a matter of time the top guys start pulling
• 23:26
  their own weight and then that's a dangerous thing right there.
• 23:29
  And also don't forget, Tampa had the third best penalty killing.
• 23:33
  Buffaloes got the 4th best penalty killed.
• 23:35
  But we're playing against these teams that have really good, I
• 23:38
  guess, penalty killer units. And yet I think the Habs power
• 23:41
  play was still dangerous all the times.
• 23:43
  It didn't feel like it was a lot less successful in the last
• 23:46
  games of the series, like the last 2-3 games.
• 23:48
  It was much harder to get to any space there.
• 23:51
  But I'm not like intimidated by that.
• 23:53
  If we could get through Tampa and their penalty, well, I'm
• 23:56
  like this power play has a lot of good assets that I feel like
• 23:59
  can get the job done. 100% agree.
• 24:01
  I think what's going to happen is that not only do they have to
• 24:04
  shut down our players, we have to shut down theirs.
• 24:06
  Yep. And now it's really just gonna
• 24:08
  be like in round one, sick. But my worry around 1 is that we
• 24:14
  weren't getting offence from our, you know, third and fourth
• 24:19
  line and our first and second line in the same game.
• 24:22
  And I think what's going to happen is now you're going to
• 24:24
  need that. I don't know.
• 24:26
  I mean, maybe there was because every give us 32, I'm pretty
• 24:30
  confident in saying this or two one like I don't think there was
• 24:33
  a game where Suzuki got more than like 2, two or more points
• 24:37
  and Anderson, Noel Anderson will went up to the top line.
• 24:40
  So that's not fair to say. I guess our taxi got one point
• 24:43
  or vice versa. You know what I mean?
• 24:44
  Like there was none of that. It's like you would get one or
• 24:47
  the other. I think you're going to need
• 24:49
  both and I think that you can have.
• 24:51
  Both. I mean, it would be great to
• 24:53
  have both, but I don't think you need both.
• 24:55
  We just saw we didn't need both in this series, right?
• 24:57
  That's what I'm saying is gonna be a whole different.
• 24:59
  I think it's just going to be a lot more offence from both of
• 25:01
  the teams and. I really see it as like, yeah, I
• 25:04
  see it as the top lines gonna produce more and our bottom
• 25:07
  lines are gonna produce less. I think it's gonna be more
• 25:10
  normal. Like quotes hockey from us
• 25:15
  reason happening Yeah, exactly. It's gonna be the top guys on
• 25:18
  both teams are gonna score more points and then the bottom guy
• 25:21
  is gonna be normal. You know, like what you would
• 25:23
  expect. It was a very.
• 25:24
  Normal. OK, isn't it?
• 25:26
  It did it for our series. It was the first line literally
• 25:30
  did nothing, literally nothing the entire series.
• 25:32
  We had to rely on Tech, a dog bulldog like those guys.
• 25:36
  Gallagher comes in and scores a goal.
• 25:38
  Anderson was a was a big a big part of that.
• 25:41
  I called it out in the the first playoff episode We did that.
• 25:43
  He was going to be an important piece in the series.
• 25:45
  So yeah, I think it's going to be more Yeah, it's gonna be more
• 25:48
  as as expected. I'm quickly get into our
• 25:50
  predictions for this one. I had Montreal and six.
• 25:53
  Kevin had Montreal in six, Jakey add Montreal and six so.
• 25:57
  We did not consult each other before this so.
• 25:59
  No, we did not. So it seems like pretty much
• 26:02
  it's inevitable. Montreal and Six.
• 26:03
  We've never been wrong about anything in our lives.
• 26:05
  So now that we agree it's a, it's inevitable.
• 26:07
  Last thought on this unless you guys want to share more, but I
• 26:10
  feel like it's going to be a battle of goaltending as well.
• 26:13
  I think going to see who can come out on top between Dobesh
• 26:16
  and Alex Lyon. And right now I feel you can't
• 26:19
  you can't beat against Bush in the form that he's in right now.
• 26:21
  And like the mentality that he has.
• 26:23
  Whereas I know Alex Lynn has been on fire and we've seen this
• 26:26
  throughout his career in recent years.
• 26:27
  Like when he's on fire, it's hard to stop him.
• 26:29
  So whichever goal he breaks first, I think is going to give
• 26:33
  a little chink in the armor that other people can take advantage
• 26:35
  of. And also I will say maybe this
• 26:38
  is underrated or or a hot take once again, and maybe it's not a
• 26:41
  hot take at all, but I'm actually happy that we're
• 26:43
  starting the series away. Because I feel like after just
• 26:47
  finishing this series in Tampa and then going to Buffalo with
• 26:50
  two games at home in Buffalo, it feels like if you steal one of
• 26:52
  those games, it kind of feels you're playing with house money
• 26:55
  at that point, right? Whereas if we were in Montreal
• 26:57
  and let's say we know the emotions and then we lose game
• 27:00
  one, I'm gonna be like, OK, all that pressure and in Game 2 to,
• 27:05
  you know, deliver and not go O and two, we can steal the first
• 27:08
  gamer second game in Buffalo. It feels like we can come back
• 27:11
  to Montreal and I'd be confident winning both of those games, you
• 27:13
  know? Yeah.
• 27:15
  I mean, we did a lot better in Tampa than we did in Montreal so
• 27:17
  far. We were one and two in Montreal
• 27:18
  and we were three in one in Tampa.
• 27:20
  So maybe you'll wait. Just suits us better.
• 27:22
  You'll see. One more question on this do you
• 27:25
  think they're going to open the series with Slove, Kofsky,
• 27:27
  Suzuki, Cofield? That's a great question.
• 27:31
  I think they are, I think they're going to go back to it.
• 27:33
  I think they were. They had to adjust to what was
• 27:36
  going on with Tampa. And I think essentially the way
• 27:39
  I see it is if San Luis thinks that Buffalo can put together a
• 27:43
  line that could shut down our top line effectively as Tampa,
• 27:46
  then he'll split them up because that was the reason he split
• 27:48
  them up. He's like, we can't have our
• 27:49
  entire line of top guys all shut down at the same time.
• 27:52
  Make them focus on two of the three and at least laugh can do
• 27:54
  something on line 2. And you did.
• 27:55
  But if you don't, and you did, if you don't think that Buffalo
• 27:58
  has that same level of shutdown capability as Tampa, which I
• 28:02
  personally don't think they do, then I'm happy to just load up
• 28:05
  on the top line and let them do their thing.
• 28:07
  Yeah, and I also expect Demidov to finally be able to like
• 28:11
  execute. He's he was not good to start.
• 28:13
  He was pretty invisible, I thought.
• 28:14
  And then the last two games he really turned it up, especially
• 28:17
  the last game, he's just. Like has to finish.
• 28:19
  Almost there, so close. And yeah, that would be huge for
• 28:23
  us. He's like a wild card that we
• 28:25
  haven't seen like Bloom yet. That is just kind of like extra
• 28:28
  potential for us to get to another level.
• 28:30
  Do you guys think Jackie gets into the lineup given like I saw
• 28:34
  people talking about, you know, he's big, he's physical and you
• 28:36
  know, Buffalo's decor is ginormous, so maybe having that
• 28:41
  presence would be necessary. But I think our decor last game
• 28:44
  look really good. It's gonna be between like him
• 28:46
  and Struble, right? So.
• 28:47
  I think I think he starts the series and Strubel gets taken
• 28:50
  out. I think the way I saw the
• 28:52
  essentially came down to the decision right for game seven.
• 28:54
  They knew Dobson was coming in. It was one of those two guys
• 28:56
  going to go. And at that point in the series,
• 28:59
  I don't think that it was like the series was kind of already
• 29:02
  set like the tone right of how physical it was going to be.
• 29:05
  Like I said, I didn't find it to be quite The Dirty series or
• 29:07
  anything like that. I think they were more focused
• 29:09
  on the skill aspect of it and they didn't need to focus on
• 29:11
  that physical aspect as much because we were holding our own.
• 29:13
  And if not, you know, doing it even better than them.
• 29:16
  So for that reason, I think it was game seven.
• 29:18
  They didn't need Jackie, but I like I think they like him or I
• 29:21
  at least like him in the start of the series to kind of set the
• 29:23
  tone. Be like, you don't mess with us
• 29:24
  or else we're going to have, you know, this physical guy who in
• 29:27
  addition to understand whatever, but like we're going we have
• 29:29
  someone out here who's going to make you pay for that.
• 29:31
  So I like starting out the series with him and then once
• 29:34
  it's kind of settles in, then you can toss in Strubel if you
• 29:36
  if like Jack makes mistakes or you want him to get some reps or
• 29:39
  whatever. But I like starting with Jackie.
• 29:40
  But I guess they will see what they do.
• 29:43
  I do too. I I think they make stay with
• 29:46
  Strubel I think, but I like that idea.
• 29:50
  I hope they do that. I I agree with the jacket.
• 29:53
  I feel like they're they're not gonna bring Jackie back in.
• 29:55
  I think it's kind of like if it ain't broke, don't.
• 29:59
  Fix it type of thing to change the line up after I win for
• 30:01
  sure. Especially with Jackie, he's not
• 30:02
  really like the guy that you're bringing into solidifier decor.
• 30:05
  Like he's there to bring a present.
• 30:06
  So I feel like they're gonna keep the decor as it was, and
• 30:10
  then if they see like the stuff is getting out of hand, then you
• 30:12
  kind of insert him as a response type of thing.
• 30:15
  Yeah, that's what I think. We'll see.
• 30:17
  I feel like just pros and cons of both and it just depends on
• 30:19
  what ends up happening. So yeah, exciting stuff.
• 30:22
  Exciting. Stuff it's very exciting to be
• 30:25
  able to talk about the hands in the second round again, so
• 30:28
  that's great. Let's go on to the next one
• 30:29
  because again, we can talk about this forever.
• 30:31
  So let's get into the next series.
• 30:32
  We have Carolina Hurricanes first in the metro versus
• 30:35
  Philadelphia Flyers third in the metro.
• 30:37
  Let's quickly talk about how they both got here.
• 30:39
  We start with Carolina. They had a pretty easy path
• 30:42
  here, a nice four O sweep versus Ottawa.
• 30:45
  I mean we talked about it when we did our last episode.
• 30:48
  Had they already been swept? Was.
• 30:49
  I feel like they've been. Out of it they had already.
• 30:51
  Element yeah so we've already kind of like talked about it a
• 30:55
  bit, but I feel like they just had a super easy Rd. there
• 30:58
  Ottawa did not put up much of a fight and also not to take away
• 31:01
  from Carolina. They were unbelievable some fun
• 31:03
  stats for you guys from Round 1. Logan Stankovic is tied for the
• 31:07
  league lead in goals from round one with six, which is not the
• 31:11
  guy is just clutch. I love players like that.
• 31:13
  I love players who are not bad because he's a great prospect,
• 31:16
  right, But he's like a second second line guy and during the
• 31:19
  regular season doesn't put up anything special points wise.
• 31:21
  And then just clutch time and this the guy just like pops off.
• 31:24
  And that's what's so fun about the playoffs.
• 31:26
  It's such a small sample size that you have a couple of good
• 31:28
  games in a row and it's very noticeable.
• 31:30
  So I think it's a great storyline.
• 31:32
  Another fun one and this one honestly really took me by
• 31:34
  surprise. I still don't know if I believe
• 31:36
  it, but Freddie Anderson in round 1.9 goals against average
• 31:40
  .961 save percentage. Some of that is due to the
• 31:43
  opponent. I think you have to really, they
• 31:46
  did not do anything to challenge him.
• 31:48
  And I I honestly, I thought Carolina, one of their biggest
• 31:52
  potential weaknesses going into the playoffs is gonna be
• 31:54
  goaltending, especially Freddie. He had an awful regular season,
• 31:57
  the end of the regular season, he was solid and that's when he
• 31:59
  took the net from busy. But he learned during the
• 32:01
  regular season right up until the last two weeks.
• 32:03
  Yeah, exactly of the Carolina. The Carolina.
• 32:08
  The most of the season, anytime he started a game, he was I was
• 32:11
  never streaming him for back-to-back because he was
• 32:13
  always putting up a terrible numbers.
• 32:15
  Carolina let's so few shots against.
• 32:17
  So when he would let in three goals on 17 shots, it would just
• 32:19
  tank your stats. So I'm surprised he did so well
• 32:22
  and I don't think it's going to last, but he did just get a
• 32:24
  shutout in game one versus Philly.
• 32:26
  But again, maybe it's the opponent, don't know.
• 32:30
  I mean, I'm so. Yeah, I, you know, should we say
• 32:35
  our predictions first? Just do it.
• 32:37
  Due to Josh, how about you give the breakdown of like the teams,
• 32:41
  team, though we can give our predictions that we'll talk
• 32:42
  about it, yeah. OK, I was gonna say also, I
• 32:45
  haven't talked about how Philly got here, but OK, quickly Philly
• 32:48
  obviously it was a Game 6 versus Pittsburgh, Battle of
• 32:51
  Pennsylvania. Philly went up 3 nothing series.
• 32:53
  Then Pittsburgh came back two games.
• 32:54
  It looked like they could make it a series.
• 32:56
  But then Philly Dan Vladar the go, that was a nuts game.
• 32:59
  Right foot 10IN overtime and what did he make 42 safe?
• 33:03
  Shut out something. Like that.
• 33:04
  I think this guy was a backup goalie in Calgary a few years
• 33:07
  ago is. Just Calgary, Yeah, not a few
• 33:09
  years ago, I think it was last year.
• 33:10
  I think this was his first year on Philly.
• 33:12
  It's it's nuts. And it's, yeah, it's crazy.
• 33:14
  And Archer Sheilas, you gotta give credit.
• 33:16
  And do you guys think he's the starter going into next season
• 33:19
  or you think it's? I think he's a starter.
• 33:21
  I think also, if the series was like a best of nine, I think
• 33:26
  Pittsburgh could have really came back and won this.
• 33:29
  I think they really started playing better after they went
• 33:31
  down 30. It kind of felt like they
• 33:34
  started waking up and playing hockey.
• 33:37
  If they had to redo it that series, I feel like it can go
• 33:39
  really different, like much different direction.
• 33:41
  Obviously like a classic. Have a classic copy pasta on the
• 33:45
  hockey subreddit. It was from when I wanna say
• 33:49
  Nashville and Chicago faced each other and I forget I think it
• 33:53
  was Nashville like one of one of them was the big favorite.
• 33:56
  And this was in 20 teens. And the the there was a big
• 34:00
  upset, I forget which one versus which.
• 34:02
  And someone posted, you know, being like no disrespect to
• 34:05
  whichever team won, but the NHL should have them redo the series
• 34:09
  9 times out of 10, you know, and just becomes like anytime like
• 34:13
  something like a big upset happens like people post it.
• 34:15
  So that's what you just said. Reminds me, I mean.
• 34:17
  It's pretty pretty pretty much the same thing.
• 34:19
  But I do feel like Pittsburgh was really coming into their own
• 34:21
  at the end, but a little too late.
• 34:22
  That's what happens when you don't show up for game 1-2 or
• 34:24
  three so. Yeah, it's hard to come back.
• 34:27
  There's a reason it only sapped. How many times does it happened?
• 34:29
  Five times in the history? Yeah.
• 34:31
  From three zero, yeah. Yeah, so there's a reason that
• 34:34
  it's so rare, but. Credit to like this is a team
• 34:36
  that, first of all, we did not even talk about being in the
• 34:39
  playoff picture for like weeks leading up to the playoff race
• 34:42
  because they weren't. They weren't.
• 34:43
  Yeah, they weren't. They were always like that one
• 34:45
  team that you made the cut off. It was just like all these three
• 34:47
  teams are like the cable that 14 Philly not in the convo.
• 34:50
  Yeah. Exactly.
• 34:52
  Seriously. And then look at them now,
• 34:53
  they're round two of the players around.
• 34:55
  Crazy so. What's the big deal?
• 34:56
  Yeah, honestly. And with no Mattman Michkov so.
• 35:00
  Basically I saw him actually. You got tip it injured that's.
• 35:06
  I know. OK, Yeah.
• 35:07
  So let's get into this. Really.
• 35:08
  Tough for. Them, Yeah.
• 35:10
  Let's get into the breakdown of the stats and then and then you
• 35:12
  could talk about it. So Carolinas Metro one versus
• 35:15
  Philly Metro 3 in the season series, Carolina went three and
• 35:18
  one versus Philly. Carolina's top goal scorer was
• 35:20
  Jarvis with 32. Philly was tipped with 28.
• 35:23
  And then Caroline's most assistant points was Aho.
• 35:26
  And Philly was connect me with 41 and 68 versus a host 53 and
• 35:30
  80. So Carolina has the edge in all
• 35:32
  those stats. Goaltending though, big edge to
• 35:35
  Philly. Dan Feldar way better than
• 35:37
  Anderson in the regular season. Obviously we said Anderson has
• 35:40
  been unreal in round one and towards the end of the season,
• 35:42
  but I still give a big editable bar there.
• 35:44
  And then special teams are just way in Carolinas favor. 4th
• 35:47
  power play in the league versus 30 seconds for Philly.
• 35:49
  So Philly's dead last and then 11th penalty kill versus 21st.
• 35:53
  That's going to be a big story and an even bigger story.
• 35:55
  No injuries for Carolina because apparently Nikishin could just
• 35:58
  get concussed and just bounce back.
• 35:59
  But but Philly has Owen tipped out for at least the first two
• 36:04
  games, possibly more. That is a massive velocity.
• 36:07
  Literally was their top goal scorer in the regular season and
• 36:10
  had a great round one. So with that, our predictions.
• 36:13
  It's already 10 Carolina series as we're recording this and
• 36:17
  we're in the middle of game two last I checked.
• 36:19
  Is it still 2 on? Philly 2 Philly still, yeah.
• 36:21
  OK. So we'll see if they if they can
• 36:23
  tie up the series here. I have Carolina and five, Kevin
• 36:26
  as Caroline and five and JS Carolina in six.
• 36:28
  All right. Now to go back to what you're
• 36:30
  saying. Yeah, it's just it's really bad
• 36:33
  that he's injured and because he's super important player for
• 36:36
  them. I will say the thing with
• 36:38
  looking at the stats is that I mean Philly just got so hot at
• 36:42
  the end and I'm not surprised at all.
• 36:44
  There's a huge discrepancy in Carolinas favor, but I don't
• 36:47
  really think it means like so much, you know what, we're going
• 36:51
  to get into the Colorado, Minnesota one after and that's
• 36:54
  where I think like, OK, you know, this is like good teams
• 36:57
  all season. Obviously the Quinn Hughes
• 36:59
  acquisition was huge, but staying with this one, Vladar to
• 37:03
  me could be the difference maker.
• 37:04
  I'd like to see Philly then, but I will say after seeing as all
• 37:08
  the intro for the game tonight and seeing how hilarious Seth
• 37:11
  Jarvis's friends are, like you know what?
• 37:15
  I wouldn't be mad if there's more of this.
• 37:20
  So I didn't know where he was probably from Winnipeg, Yeah.
• 37:23
  Like, these are the most Canadian guys in the world.
• 37:27
  Just like, they're so funny. They're just like follow him
• 37:30
  around and go to his games. Yeah, it's literally like.
• 37:32
  There's a really cool that's that's really hope they do that.
• 37:36
  But yeah, yeah, look, I do think I, I'm apprehensive to be super
• 37:42
  confident in Carolina here, but I, I just can't not put them
• 37:46
  because I think they're a better team.
• 37:48
  But I, I Philly has something they, they do they I'm not.
• 37:52
  Obviously Carolina is much stronger than Pittsburgh, but
• 37:56
  you know, they were still able to win and Vladar is.
• 38:00
  It's a huge advantage and that's so we'll see.
• 38:04
  Yeah, I mean, listen, I'm rooting for Philly.
• 38:07
  Genuinely. I feel like it would be such a
• 38:08
  good story for them to beat A-Team like Carolina.
• 38:12
  It's just hard to pick against Carolina when this is their
• 38:14
  bread and butter. It feels like there's a reason
• 38:16
  why they always make the Eastern Conference finals with other
• 38:19
  divisions are set and how the playoff format is.
• 38:22
  It feels like round one and Round 2 is almost always a game
• 38:25
  for them because they are an excellent team and their
• 38:28
  matchups just end up being like super lopsided.
• 38:30
  So I'm not saying this is as lopsided as in the past, but
• 38:33
  like on paper, if you were looking like who's the weakest
• 38:35
  team left in the playoffs, it's probably either Philly or
• 38:38
  Anaheim on paper, right? So they they get not another,
• 38:42
  another blessing here. But if they had to pick up the
• 38:45
  crowd, they probably choose Philly.
• 38:46
  And I don't know if Philly has it in them to to take down this
• 38:49
  Carolina team over A7 game series.
• 38:52
  So it's going to be tough. I think they need to keep doing
• 38:55
  what he's doing for the rest of the series and I think Anderson
• 38:59
  can even like falter and they can still win the series.
• 39:02
  So there's just a lot of stuff going in Carolinas direction
• 39:05
  that it would take too much going wrong for them to lose
• 39:07
  this. But listen, I'm rooting for
• 39:09
  Philly. I hope they win.
• 39:10
  I hope they can do it. I'm just going to be excited to
• 39:13
  watch and honestly, hopefully we get a tight series.
• 39:15
  I just hope it's not like a sweep or like 5 games.
• 39:16
  Like I put Carolina in five. I hope it goes 7.
• 39:19
  The one thing I will say in Carolinas favor versus previous
• 39:22
  years, they they have a strong collection of mediocre to good
• 39:29
  players that Rod loves that they did not have last year.
• 39:32
  Yeah. And that that couldn't really go
• 39:34
  a long way. I mean, Euler's Ellers is like
• 39:38
  really good. Stankovic is proven to be really
• 39:40
  good. Taylor Hall when accounts he's
• 39:43
  there, Jackson Blake. This is what he really gets the
• 39:48
  most out of these guys. And there feels like there's
• 39:50
  more of them this year. So there are stronger.
• 39:52
  I I wouldn't be surprised if they if they went all the way.
• 39:55
  They have a good enough team, but yeah, I mean, I do think
• 40:00
  they're gonna win. The Stinkoman won is huge.
• 40:02
  Like what we're seeing in these playoffs is almost reminiscent
• 40:05
  of what we saw when, like, Wyatt Johnson broke out in his playoff
• 40:08
  push with Dallas, right? It kind of feels like very
• 40:10
  similar where Stinkoman kind of had like that that, that stank
• 40:15
  on him, you know what I mean? Like, it kind of just felt like
• 40:17
  he was supposed to be a good player, but we never really gave
• 40:19
  him any credit or like any attention in fantasy this season
• 40:22
  either. It kind of just felt like, yeah,
• 40:24
  he was there and he was, he was there, and that was it, right?
• 40:27
  But now I feel we're all gonna have to take him seriously.
• 40:29
  Nobody saw us coming except Blake Creamer apparently.
• 40:31
  So another game to Blake like he was on it and think of it is
• 40:37
  probably the best player to series it feels like.
• 40:40
  For sure, I mean, in terms of like fantasy for next year, I'm
• 40:42
  still not that interested unless he has he can crack power play
• 40:45
  1. And also since it's a raw team,
• 40:48
  even if he's on power, play one in practice lines going into the
• 40:50
  season. Yeah, it's not going to last the
• 40:54
  whole season and I'm not willing to spend draft capital on him.
• 40:57
  One thing that was nice this year was that he was playing
• 40:59
  centre for with winger eligibility.
• 41:00
  So face off win leagues there gives you some more reason to
• 41:02
  hold on to a guy like that. But yeah, in the playoffs at
• 41:05
  least he's been super clutch. And look to all, you know, I've
• 41:09
  I've been meeting a lot of people playing some like hockey
• 41:12
  and stuff around here. Whatever everyone's Flyers fans.
• 41:14
  I'm I'm willing to make the Flyers my my second team because
• 41:17
  now that I live right near here, that makes sense.
• 41:19
  You know, I, I've I have nothing against them.
• 41:21
  I actually like the direction the team is going, like a lot of
• 41:23
  their young guys, so I'm happy to make my second.
• 41:25
  So let me just get this out of the way.
• 41:26
  I'm fully rooting for the Flyers and I want them to win.
• 41:28
  And yes, we all are rooting for the Flyers.
• 41:31
  I I felt like I had to put Carolina.
• 41:33
  The same reason Kevin and Jackie said it just feels the reason
• 41:37
  that so many people had Ottawa as one of their dark horse teams
• 41:41
  was because we had mentioned this.
• 41:42
  I feel like Caroline is just very just not boring, but just
• 41:46
  steady and name name like beach and all that stuff.
• 41:50
  We're just because they don't have any.
• 41:52
  They have star players, but Rod doesn't let them shine.
• 41:55
  Like their top points guy this year was Sebastian Aho with 80
• 41:57
  points. That's as if in a full season,
• 42:00
  that's under a point per game for your best point guy on your
• 42:03
  entire team, right? Their top goal scorer was set
• 42:05
  drivers with 30. Two goals, Yeah, 32 Slowsky got,
• 42:09
  you know, like Sakowski got like 30, two goals this year.
• 42:11
  Not to take away from Slough, but like he's still breaking
• 42:14
  out, becoming a player and he's like the 4th best offence on our
• 42:16
  team, right, points wise, obviously brings a lot us to the
• 42:19
  game. But anyways, all that to say,
• 42:20
  they don't have the flashy names, They don't have the
• 42:22
  flashy team because they've been around for so long.
• 42:25
  They play such suffocating hockey where their goalies get
• 42:28
  terrible stats. Also because they let so few
• 42:30
  shots against that it just leads to people underestimating them.
• 42:34
  But at the end of the day, they won the conference easily.
• 42:37
  Yeah, they easily won the conference.
• 42:40
  They swept the first round. They've been in the conference
• 42:42
  finals for it's three or four straight years at this point
• 42:45
  Yes, they keep losing in the conference finals and
• 42:47
  embarrassing fashion, but they keep losing the Stanley Cup
• 42:49
  champion right. Everyone lost the Florida.
• 42:52
  It's not it doesn't mean you're a bad team because you lost the
• 42:54
  two time Stanley Cup champs twice.
• 42:55
  Edmonton wasn't a bad team last two years.
• 42:57
  So I just think that it's too hard to go against Carolina
• 43:00
  again. I'm hoping for the best upsets
• 43:02
  happen all the time, but it's a we gotta go predict with what we
• 43:06
  think makes the most sense. So even though my heart wants
• 43:08
  Maya, my mind's telling me Carolina.
• 43:11
  Last thing though, I'm on the bandwagon of the Philly mascot.
• 43:15
  I'm seeing all the memes. I didn't do my research.
• 43:18
  I don't know what his name is, but every time I see the
• 43:19
  pictures that make me laugh, I'm like, he's got something going
• 43:22
  there. I'm bored.
• 43:23
  You don't remember this from like 8-9 or no, it was, it's
• 43:27
  like 7-8 years ago when he was like introduced and he was like
• 43:31
  a. Huge eyes man, they get you.
• 43:33
  Yeah, and he owns it. He does like a bunch of crazy
• 43:38
  stuff. He did you see him throw that
• 43:40
  Penguin like in round one off like 30 rows of so he's crazy.
• 43:46
  When I went to the game in Philly, he was after they won,
• 43:49
  they just click the game. They clinched the playoffs and I
• 43:52
  walk out of the out of the the suite or whatever and he's right
• 43:55
  there and he's like banging this drum and just going nuts and
• 43:58
  getting one riled up. Actually got a gritty key chain
• 44:00
  for my keys. I'm pretty yeah.
• 44:02
  He's he's dope. If you guys had to pick like
• 44:05
  what's Phillies win condition to be have a chance of winning this
• 44:08
  series? Called standing.
• 44:09
  In my opinion, it's called ending.
• 44:11
  But I mean, Carolinas got like good goaltending and a good
• 44:14
  defensive system like. I don't trust.
• 44:17
  I know they've been getting good goal.
• 44:18
  Team they they've like I am always of the if a goalie let's
• 44:24
  in two or less goals than you know, you're giving your team a
• 44:28
  chance to win. But the fact is like, I mean,
• 44:32
  I'm sure Freddie has like the. Least you could put Tristan
• 44:34
  Jarry on the Hurricanes and I think he would be.
• 44:37
  He would be solid. Search in the past, we were
• 44:40
  like, Oh my God, he's so sick. And then he went to another team
• 44:42
  and he was like, this guys do do.
• 44:44
  I yeah, that's the opposite of the Oilers.
• 44:47
  Oilers get a goalie even it not that they go and get good
• 44:49
  goalies, but if they did, they still would become a lot worse,
• 44:52
  right? Whereas Carolina can get any
• 44:54
  they not no shade to Brandon Bussey, but who was this guy?
• 44:57
  He was a waiver pickup. All of a sudden he becomes the
• 44:59
  fantasy pickup of the year. And Jake, he's laughing all the
• 45:02
  way to the file. You know, like it's it's they
• 45:04
  they just have a great system. They have a great coach.
• 45:06
  They have Jacob Slavin, arguably the best defensive defenseman in
• 45:09
  the league. So So yeah, I don't, I don't put
• 45:11
  any stock in OK, not no stock. He was really, really good his
• 45:14
  first round stats and towards the end of the season.
• 45:17
  But I don't think Freddy's that guy anymore.
• 45:19
  Maybe earlier in his career, but not he's not that guy.
• 45:21
  Pell So if you think radar. So you think Radar if he lets in
• 45:24
  only two goals every game, Philly wins the series?
• 45:28
  Yeah. I think so, yeah.
• 45:30
  I think so. Also if tip it comes back,
• 45:32
  that's absolutely. Massive for sure he's.
• 45:33
  Like they they. Need for important.
• 45:36
  I don't think they could win if he doesn't.
• 45:38
  That's yeah, it's. Tough but look if they win, if
• 45:41
  they go home with the series tied 11I W, it's huge so and
• 45:47
  they're. Waiting if they go down, if they
• 45:49
  head back home, down to nothing. I think it's pretty much over
• 45:51
  though. Yeah, I mean a lot riding on
• 45:54
  this third period then. Absolutely.
• 45:57
  All right, let's go to the Western Conference, starting
• 46:01
  with the Colorado Avalanche versus Minnesota Wild.
• 46:03
  I know we just want to talk about the game last night.
• 46:06
  It was insane. But let's talk about how we got
• 46:07
  here real quick. Colorado with an easy sweep on
• 46:10
  LA. We already talked about it.
• 46:12
  LA it, you know, we were you talked about Boston not
• 46:15
  deserving to be in the playoffs. LA did not deserve to be in the
• 46:17
  playoffs. Yeah.
• 46:18
  So not much to see there. It was a pretty easy, you know,
• 46:21
  no harm done. Nothing, nothing exciting there
• 46:24
  other than Kopitar retiring. Then Minnesota versus Dallas did
• 46:28
  not even make it to game seven. Only game six.
• 46:30
  They actually made Dallas look pretty bad.
• 46:33
  Dallas scored. What was it?
• 46:35
  There was a stat that they went I think 200 and something
• 46:38
  minutes without a 5E five goal during that series.
• 46:40
  Then they had. One their power was nuts though.
• 46:43
  55 golden ones I think in the last game of the series so.
• 46:46
  Yeah, Maverick Pork goat. Jake is chosen 1.
• 46:50
  Yeah, it's crazy because their power play was insane.
• 46:53
  It was going like 50%. They were scoring every every
• 46:56
  second power play, but it wasn't enough when you can't score
• 46:58
  anything 5 E 5 and it's just nuts because going into the
• 47:02
  series, look, the series still want to six right.
• 47:03
  So clearly they were still pretty evenly matched.
• 47:06
  But it definitely felt towards the end.
• 47:07
  The series like Minnesota was by far the better in the drivers
• 47:10
  seat by far, but they were in the driver seat and the stronger
• 47:13
  team and it's just crazy because Dallas is always one of those
• 47:16
  contenders. They have such a bright future
• 47:17
  still, right? All their guys are locked up for
• 47:19
  long term good contracts other than we'll see what happens with
• 47:21
  Robertson. But this Minnesota, that Quinn
• 47:23
  Hughes acquisition, it's just working out really well for them
• 47:27
  right now. They look really sick.
• 47:28
  So that's what brought us here to Colorado, Minnesota.
• 47:32
  What do you think went wrong for Dallas though, Because we have a
• 47:34
  lot of Dallas fans of the discord, you know, they were
• 47:36
  popular team for for Stanley Cup that we saw what they done in
• 47:40
  recent years, like they've just been one of those teams that is
• 47:42
  always a strong competitor, right?
• 47:44
  And this year felt like they had the best thing that they've had
• 47:46
  in recent years. What went wrong?
• 47:49
  I really hope this doesn't lose his followers and let me hear
• 47:51
  that. I love all of you guys.
• 47:53
  We really appreciate the support.
• 47:55
  As I say at. The Cameron Jodari.
• 47:57
  Shout out yes, but imagine they had stank open right now.
• 48:01
  Yeah. Maybe would have been better
• 48:05
  than Ranson, and who knows? All.
• 48:07
  I mean, he was a lot better, yeah, but they also were playing
• 48:11
  Ottawa, so. I I actually just, I'm just
• 48:15
  starting to believe that odd injure is really not that good.
• 48:19
  You would say this and, and I don't know, I feel like he's
• 48:23
  still pretty good. He was really solid until he
• 48:26
  wasn't for for like this in the series he had some really good
• 48:29
  game. He started off with a weak game,
• 48:31
  then came back with like 2 really strong games and then
• 48:34
  they lost the next like 3. And, and Minnesota is a good
• 48:39
  team, so great. I I just, yeah, they're, they're
• 48:42
  really, really solid. I mean, even before the Queen's
• 48:46
  acquisition, we thought they could be like a four.
• 48:48
  So now they're, they're elite. Dallas on the other hand, if
• 48:53
  it's not, I'm never gonna blame a series on a goalie.
• 48:56
  Allah, Pete Tabor. But like it's, it's one of those
• 49:01
  things that he you could that could be a difference maker and
• 49:05
  they were just getting better goals.
• 49:06
  That you can't blame the goalie when they can't score 5.
• 49:09
  Goals, that's the only thing. If they were actually producing
• 49:11
  the offence that we expect from them and they lost, then I'd be
• 49:13
  like, I get what you're saying because Halstead was nuts,
• 49:15
  right? It was definitely a difference
• 49:17
  maker in that series And Andre, he stole.
• 49:19
  I'm not stole them, but he won them those two games, but he
• 49:22
  also lost at least two of those games.
• 49:24
  So I would agree. But the number 55 scoring for
• 49:28
  almost the entire series is just you have to it's both.
• 49:31
  You have to give credit to Minnesota, but also clearly
• 49:33
  there was an issue there in Dallas.
• 49:34
  I mean, to me, an obvious one is ripe rope being out for the
• 49:38
  whole series. That's a big that's your that's
• 49:40
  their number 1C. So that's a, I mean, yeah, they.
• 49:44
  Have guess potentially. But I guess, yeah, he's better.
• 49:47
  But right now is their number 1C.
• 49:50
  Any team is going to be a lot worse without their number one,
• 49:53
  and when you're going 2 teams that are so evenly matched,
• 49:56
  losing that is pretty massive. So I think that is a big part
• 49:59
  that doesn't get talked about a lot or enough or at least maybe
• 50:02
  just I wasn't thinking about it until I just did think.
• 50:04
  About it someone so many good players you gotta forget they
• 50:07
  were also missing 1. That's it.
• 50:09
  So it's a bit, I think you can say the goaltending could have
• 50:13
  been better, you could say they were missing rope.
• 50:15
  But at the end of the day. Every team is missing players,
• 50:17
  every team has injuries and battling stuff that you know.
• 50:20
  It's just the better team at the end of the day.
• 50:22
  You have to give credit there. I mean, their miss stacked like
• 50:26
  a fun stat for you. 3 of the top four points guys in round one
• 50:30
  were on Minnesota. You have Hughes, Boldy and
• 50:32
  Kaprizov. That's insane that having those
• 50:34
  three players. Then you have Walstead who's
• 50:36
  showing up like a Vezina goalie and oh, Walstead starts playing
• 50:38
  poorly. Oh, they have Gustafson, who's
• 50:40
  also been an amazing goalie over the past season.
• 50:43
  Then you have Erickson Eck, you have Zuccarello, you have you
• 50:47
  know. Zuko means in the first series 2
• 50:50
  and now Ericsson. Ek is also hurt and like doesn't
• 50:53
  mean we can maybe dive into the game happened last night and
• 50:56
  just give our predictions right this season this series is gonna
• 50:58
  go you wanna lay it out for us let's.
• 51:01
  Let's get into some of this. These stats for Colorado,
• 51:05
  Minnesota Central one versus Central three.
• 51:07
  They split their season series 22, which is honestly pretty
• 51:10
  impressive for Minnesota because Colorado had like 9 losses this
• 51:13
  year. So I'm exaggerating a bit, but
• 51:16
  pretty much. So for two of them to be from a
• 51:18
  Minnesota and then to split the series is pretty impressive in
• 51:20
  terms of goals, assists, points. McKinnon was top for Colorado
• 51:24
  and was higher than than Minnesotans who had top goals
• 51:26
  and points with Kaprizov. Top assist was Hughes.
• 51:29
  Again, obviously a lot of these numbers are would be higher if
• 51:32
  fuses on the team full season rather than just midway through.
• 51:35
  But still, it's a creative had 89 points this year.
• 51:39
  McKenna had 127. It's just a crazy because he's
• 51:42
  in the conversation. He was yeah, so.
• 51:45
  But I mean, it feels like he's always heard of it.
• 51:47
  But yeah, in terms of goal tending, both of these goalies
• 51:50
  have been elite. It's also kind of crazy that you
• 51:52
  have the battle of the quote UN quote backups, right going into
• 51:55
  the season was Blackwood and Gustafson and now it's Wedgewood
• 51:59
  and Walstead, the W's. So it's it's pretty pretty,
• 52:03
  pretty cool to see. And then power play wise,
• 52:06
  Colorado, we talked about it all year, 28th in the league, awful
• 52:09
  power play. Minnesota third best power play
• 52:11
  in the league. You get to the penalty kill.
• 52:13
  Yeah, it does so and then get the penalty kill.
• 52:15
  Colorado first in the league, Minnesota 15th.
• 52:18
  So again, this is one of those I mean, I'm still giving the edge
• 52:20
  to Minnesota in the in the specialty teams, but but it's
• 52:24
  kind of kind of nuts and it's quickly injuries Colorado.
• 52:27
  Josh Manson is was out for game one.
• 52:29
  We'll see how long he's out. Joel Ericsson Ek out for at
• 52:31
  least the first two games and that's a massive loss and see
• 52:34
  when he comes back. Let's talk about what happened
• 52:36
  last night. First, First off, my new pet
• 52:39
  peeve is when Josh has specialty teams site special teams.
• 52:44
  I don't believe that my I think my eye twitches every time you
• 52:46
  say it. Can I continue?
• 52:52
  So what happened last night for for those of you that stayed up
• 52:54
  there for the have one, yeah, I view it at six, nine, yeah.
• 53:02
  Yeah, And this little 169, yeah, that's nuts.
• 53:05
  I I was speaking to my friend who doesn't really watch hockey,
• 53:09
  just watch the basketball. And I was like, that's like a
• 53:11
  team winning 200 to 180 and that does not happen.
• 53:16
  That's insane. Playoffs, too.
• 53:20
  Yeah, and you know, I, I wouldn't be surprised if the
• 53:23
  next game is like 21. I, I just feel like these are
• 53:27
  both powerhouse teams that just did not know how to match up and
• 53:30
  they're going to figure it out quickly.
• 53:32
  So I mean, I just want to say like what our predictions are
• 53:36
  because one of us is the odd one out.
• 53:38
  We both have the same, same teams in the East.
• 53:44
  Josh and I both think Colorado's gonna win.
• 53:47
  Josh is Colorado in seven. I have Colorado in five.
• 53:50
  Kevin has Minnesota and seven. So I'm going to give my
• 53:53
  rationale for Colorado. Josh could chime in too.
• 53:55
  And then Kevin, I want to hear your thoughts because I know you
• 53:58
  have a lot of good things to say.
• 53:59
  And I'm, I'm curious about this. But basically, to me, I think
• 54:02
  that what it is with Colorado is that they are so incredibly good
• 54:07
  on their star power is so elite that you don't realize that this
• 54:12
  team is also incredibly deep. Like their third line, Ross
• 54:17
  golden Kadri and Nick woke could be line to like is better than
• 54:21
  buffaloes line to or line 3 depending on you know what I
• 54:25
  mean whatever. But the the current line 2 for
• 54:28
  Buffalo according to what their lineup is and yeah, and it's
• 54:33
  just their elite all around. Their defensemen are fantastic.
• 54:36
  Also their goaltending is questionable, but good enough
• 54:39
  and has been good enough all season.
• 54:41
  So and they also have one of the two best players in the world
• 54:46
  and McKinnon I was talking about.
• 54:50
  Martina, just obviously. Yeah, and I will say like their
• 54:53
  power play, although dog awful all year, like how bad can it
• 54:58
  really remain? I mean, I guess it can because
• 55:02
  it was for such a huge sample size, but like they still should
• 55:05
  be good. So I think they're going to
• 55:06
  shoot a lot of pucks on net wall that's going to need to
• 55:09
  continuously play out of his mind in order for Minnesota to
• 55:12
  have a chance. But I really think they'd
• 55:14
  Colorado's going to win, and I think it's going to be tough.
• 55:17
  You think that a good winning strategy for for walls that
• 55:19
  would be letting in fewer than nine goals next time?
• 55:21
  I think so I. Do I don't know why I didn't go
• 55:24
  to the first game? Yeah.
• 55:26
  Yeah, and I wouldn't be surprised.
• 55:28
  So I have Colorado in five, but if it does go past five games, I
• 55:31
  think we're going to see Gustafson at some point in the
• 55:33
  series. Really.
• 55:35
  Yeah, it happens. One more game like this and and
• 55:38
  it's definitely that's the thing when both teams have such good
• 55:41
  backup options is that it's very easy to make the switch.
• 55:45
  If one of the guys is faltering, you don't have time to mess
• 55:47
  around. It's not like a season long
• 55:49
  thing where maybe they'll turn the ship around like no, you
• 55:51
  need the wins. Now your guys not playing how
• 55:53
  you want them to be. You put in the other guy who's
• 55:55
  just as good. So I don't think that's a crazy
• 55:57
  take. Yeah.
• 55:59
  Alright, I like Kevin Go because I've already talked to.
• 56:01
  Tonya, I was going to say, listen, I'm the only one that
• 56:03
  picked Minnesota. I told you guys from the
• 56:05
  beginning, my optimal final was Minnesota and the Habs and my
• 56:09
  office pools reflected that. I thought these were two of the
• 56:13
  best teams set up for long term success, but obviously Colorado
• 56:18
  was the number one seed and the juggernaut team this year.
• 56:21
  They were the best team by far. Was not even a question.
• 56:23
  So obviously on paper are going to be better than everybody
• 56:26
  else, right? But as we've seen in the Stanley
• 56:28
  Cups prior, usually the best team on paper doesn't always win
• 56:30
  all the way at the end, right? So I'm still very confident in
• 56:34
  Minnesota the rest of this series.
• 56:35
  I think they've been battling injuries the whole time, like
• 56:38
  they didn't have Zuccarello for the first three games against
• 56:42
  Dallas. They lost Joel Ericsson, Eric,
• 56:44
  like you lose Ericsson egg you're 2 second line centre is
• 56:47
  Daniel Yarov, so like. Yeah, going to go.
• 56:50
  Yeah. The gold.
• 56:53
  But then you're playing against the Colorado team that has
• 56:55
  arguably the best centre depth in the whole NHL with McKinnon,
• 56:59
  Nelson, Kadri injury down the middle.
• 57:01
  Like that's nuts. Crazy.
• 57:03
  Ross Colton usually is third line centre.
• 57:05
  And Colton usually could play centre and they haven't played
• 57:07
  on the wing because they're so confident in their centre depth,
• 57:10
  right? So like a team like that and
• 57:11
  they have Nick Wah, who they traded for, who is usually a
• 57:14
  line three, line 4 centre who's playing on the wing because
• 57:17
  they're just so stacked there. So when you're playing a team
• 57:20
  like that, it's just so hard to have an advantage in the bottom,
• 57:23
  like the bottom tier lineup combos.
• 57:26
  But I think Minnesota has enough firepower and top end talent
• 57:31
  that they can overcome a lot of this.
• 57:32
  I think they will have the advantage on special teams.
• 57:35
  I think if their power play keeps clicking like.
• 57:37
  They can national teams, yes, exactly.
• 57:40
  They they will keep they will keep hammering it in and as long
• 57:44
  as Wall Street plays average, I feel like Minnesota has a shot
• 57:47
  at this series now. I feel like game only kind of
• 57:49
  throw it out there. You're not gonna be another game
• 57:50
  like this series. If you do, like, it's gonna be
• 57:52
  insane, right? Like, I don't even know what
• 57:54
  else to say at that point. I think we're going to see a lot
• 57:56
  more closer games and Minnesota is gonna have the edge right
• 58:00
  now. It's hard to predict that after
• 58:01
  you see game one, you're like, OK, now it's like it's like how
• 58:03
  Josh says, like it's hard to envision anything else happening
• 58:05
  for the rest of the series. But there will be a game where
• 58:07
  maybe it's super lopsided in Minnesota's favor.
• 58:09
  They're like, Oh my God, is Minnesota is gonna run away with
• 58:11
  the type of thing right? That's why I think this is going
• 58:13
  7. Listen, Colorado is the heavy
• 58:16
  favorite. Maybe not the heavy favorite,
• 58:17
  but they are the clear favorite here for a reason.
• 58:20
  I just something about this Minnesota team, I feel like when
• 58:22
  they're all healthy, they they match up so well against all
• 58:25
  these other teams. And Matt Baldy is cementing
• 58:28
  himself as one of the best players in the NHL is honestly
• 58:31
  insane to watch. And then you have Kaprizov on
• 58:33
  his team. That is also just insane, right?
• 58:36
  Like and Queen Hughes. Yeah.
• 58:38
  So you got the match of the two best in the league.
• 58:41
  You have one of the best wingers and one of the best young
• 58:44
  developing hangers in the league.
• 58:46
  Is just so much firepower on both of these teams that I don't
• 58:49
  know, I think it's going to be a battle of the contenders.
• 58:52
  If someone's going to be Colorado, is Minnesota like?
• 58:55
  I, I mean, OK, yeah. Minnesota fine.
• 59:00
  Yeah. Well, OK, fine.
• 59:02
  More more politically correct. If someone in the West is going
• 59:05
  to be in Minnesota, whoever comes out of this series I think
• 59:08
  is going to wreck the next opponent.
• 59:12
  But you never know. But probably.
• 59:14
  No, no, for sure. Well, that's that's like, I
• 59:15
  think. Varying injuries.
• 59:17
  Yeah, I. Think yeah, of course, but that
• 59:19
  conference finals to me is like way more favorable to whoever
• 59:24
  comes out of this series then it is on the other side.
• 59:27
  I think like the East is like really up in the air, whereas
• 59:30
  whatever happens here. But yeah, I mean, I see, I hear
• 59:32
  you. It'd be, it'd be interesting to
• 59:34
  see. I just think that Colorado has
• 59:37
  the clear advantages. But you're right, it never goes
• 59:39
  by the book. So I mean, in that way, I just I
• 59:42
  think are the crux of what we're saying that's different is you
• 59:44
  think Walstad has to play average.
• 59:46
  I think he has to play insane because when they did beat them,
• 59:48
  they tied the series season series 2 too.
• 59:50
  I mean, I had well set for one of those games.
• 59:52
  Wall set was nuts there. You got like a 4241 on 42 and at
• 59:57
  that point Carolina had lost like one other game.
• 1:00:00
  So it's like. You know.
• 1:00:01
  If Walstead plays average, how many goals he let in game one,
• 1:00:07
  four or five? Enough to win the game.
• 1:00:11
  Yeah, but yeah. But if Wedgewood plays average,
• 1:00:14
  then yeah, yeah, yeah, No, for sure.
• 1:00:16
  I mean, this is the first time that Kyle Mccarter and Quinn
• 1:00:19
  Hughes of played each other in the playoffs.
• 1:00:21
  Very. I mean, part of that is because
• 1:00:22
  Vancouver has been changed forever.
• 1:00:24
  But yeah, but it's kind of crazy because it's been such a topic
• 1:00:29
  of conversation ever since the two of them entered the league.
• 1:00:31
  It's Kyle McCarthy when he uses the better defenders.
• 1:00:33
  It's cool to see them matched up against each other.
• 1:00:35
  And I think it's just going to be a fantastic series.
• 1:00:37
  I view it as this whole, I mean, it's really very similar to the
• 1:00:41
  East, the whole the two divisions, right?
• 1:00:43
  You have one division that's just a powerhouse all the way
• 1:00:45
  through, or at least the top three in the division are all
• 1:00:48
  really strong. And you have another division
• 1:00:49
  that's kind of like a joke. And other than in the east,
• 1:00:53
  Carolina is legit. But realistically, the metro is
• 1:00:55
  kind of a joke. And then in the West, the
• 1:00:57
  pacifics complete joke from top to bottom.
• 1:00:59
  And then the central is just a juggernaut to juggernaut.
• 1:01:02
  So I think this is going to be one of the best series in the in
• 1:01:05
  the playoffs. I don't know if anything can
• 1:01:07
  beat this Montreal Tampa series because I don't think we'll ever
• 1:01:09
  see a series this close for a long time at least.
• 1:01:12
  But I think it's gonna be really cool and fun and I would love to
• 1:01:15
  see a lot more 15 goal games. That'd be really.
• 1:01:17
  Cool. I will.
• 1:01:18
  I will say, though, that if Eric's neck is missing more
• 1:01:20
  games, I think that's like, I don't see Minnesota winning
• 1:01:23
  without him. That's obviously it's a big
• 1:01:26
  asterisk. So if he's playing in Game 2,
• 1:01:29
  he's probably not going to be 100.
• 1:01:30
  Out for Game 2. Well, there you go.
• 1:01:32
  OK. Well, that just kind of if
• 1:01:35
  Minnesota is going back home down O2, I think their odds of
• 1:01:38
  winning are a lot less good than, you know, one-on-one and
• 1:01:42
  having it split right. So because I think.
• 1:01:44
  Colorado here first, I think. I think.
• 1:01:46
  Colorado wins at least one game in Minnesota.
• 1:01:49
  I mean, listen, you never know. But this game, too, I feel like
• 1:01:52
  was the crux of the match up. So if Eric Neck is not playing
• 1:01:56
  in that already, then I'm definitely less confident in
• 1:01:59
  Minnesota in seven. But hopefully they can make it
• 1:02:02
  happen because I think within, yeah.
• 1:02:04
  Will will you buy a Daniela your OBJ jersey?
• 1:02:08
  Got mad Zagarella jersey or something.
• 1:02:10
  OK, that's good. How about a Vladimir Tarasenko
• 1:02:14
  jersey? Did you see that goal last?
• 1:02:16
  Night. I mean, he has those in his bag.
• 1:02:18
  Though the one handed, yeah, I mean it's the forget that he was
• 1:02:22
  yeah, that he was a really good player before he got pulled, you
• 1:02:24
  know, like. And also last thing, last thing
• 1:02:28
  I will say, like we had this conversation earlier this year,
• 1:02:31
  I think it was a mailback question where somebody was
• 1:02:33
  asking about dynasty purposes or whatnot, but I it was talking
• 1:02:38
  about Makar and Quinn Hughes. And my take was that it's just
• 1:02:42
  kind of like, you know, Mccarran always one.
• 1:02:44
  I'm firmly in the bone. I think Josh how was saying how
• 1:02:46
  like both of them are in the same tier.
• 1:02:48
  I'm in that boat now. I feel like Queen houses show me
• 1:02:50
  enough that like Makar is obviously still elite and maybe
• 1:02:53
  has a safer floor, but this Queen Hughes on Minnesota is
• 1:02:56
  just a different level. Like I I feel like they're both
• 1:02:59
  I put them the same, like nothing to change between the
• 1:03:03
  two of them. So I've changed my mind.
• 1:03:06
  I have seen more information. I have updated my opinion.
• 1:03:08
  I think both illegally talents. Yeah, I've been talking about.
• 1:03:12
  This about we're talking about Queen Hughes, Allah, Queen,
• 1:03:15
  sorry, we're talking about this time next year.
• 1:03:17
  We're talking about Lane Hudson in that.
• 1:03:18
  Conversation. I hope so, yeah, 100%.
• 1:03:21
  But yeah, I was talking about that whole Quinn Hughes being
• 1:03:24
  comparable to my car since our pre draft content from last
• 1:03:28
  summer because I looked at their stats from the from the season
• 1:03:30
  before and I said these are surprisingly close for two guys
• 1:03:33
  who are viewed so differently fantasy wise.
• 1:03:35
  You just have to think. Yeah, 100 and you know what,
• 1:03:38
  it's totally fair. He had no one to play with.
• 1:03:40
  Now on Minnesota, it's a completely different.
• 1:03:41
  It's a huge game changer. And yeah, give me I'd rather
• 1:03:44
  like Macar gets drafted around like 8th overall when he gets
• 1:03:47
  drafted around like 12th overall.
• 1:03:50
  I mean, would you? I'd rather fair.
• 1:03:52
  I'd rather have Quinn. He was at 12.
• 1:03:53
  I think with with means I got the second round pick earlier.
• 1:03:56
  I think I would prefer. That, I mean, to me it will be
• 1:03:58
  like if there's one that has a way better playoff schedule, I
• 1:04:00
  will go in that direction like but.
• 1:04:02
  Yeah, but at the same spot, like say your 8th overall and you
• 1:04:06
  wanna pick a defenseman. Let's say you use as a 444 and
• 1:04:11
  343 or 434 type of thing. Like give me the extra game
• 1:04:14
  semifinals, give me give me Quinn Hughes, right?
• 1:04:17
  And I feel like maybe with what I just said, people will think,
• 1:04:21
  oh, maybe I was so low and couldn't use before I still had
• 1:04:23
  them as a top three defenseman. It was like, hey, Werenski, they
• 1:04:26
  were always in that conversation.
• 1:04:27
  Right now it's like it's 1A1B with both of these guys and
• 1:04:31
  nothing to nothing to separate them besides Playhouse.
• 1:04:33
  Schedule, I mean, that's that's a big thing to say that you
• 1:04:35
  would take cues over my car with a better playoff schedule.
• 1:04:37
  I think until this year and until this trade in Minnesota,
• 1:04:40
  no one would ever do that. But now I wouldn't fault.
• 1:04:42
  It's McKinnon, McDavid. It's the same thing.
• 1:04:44
  Yeah, the Oscars here is like if he's for sure staying on
• 1:04:48
  Minnesota, et cetera. I mean, he just, he just signed,
• 1:04:50
  no? No, he's, he's got like one year
• 1:04:54
  left I think after this. One, he's for sure staying.
• 1:04:57
  I mean, it really depends how well they do, but if they if
• 1:04:59
  they go on a run here, which already looks pretty solid with
• 1:05:02
  me, it's the second round, then I could see him staying for
• 1:05:05
  sure. Alright, let's go to the pillow
• 1:05:09
  fight division, as Connor McDavid called it earlier this
• 1:05:11
  year. We have the Pacific Vegas Golden
• 1:05:14
  Knights versus the Anaheim Ducks, Pacific one versus
• 1:05:17
  Pacific three season series. Anaheim was 3 and O versus
• 1:05:21
  Vegas. That was pretty crazy to me.
• 1:05:23
  That was I'm I'm actually surprised.
• 1:05:25
  That is surprising. That was pretty.
• 1:05:26
  Yeah. I actually had my prediction
• 1:05:29
  originally was Vegas and I switched to Anaheim after seeing
• 1:05:31
  that. You're so easily swayed by this
• 1:05:33
  was so bad for like. Yeah.
• 1:05:37
  So quickly, how did they get here?
• 1:05:38
  Before I get into the stats of this series, Vegas beat Utah.
• 1:05:42
  That was actually kind of heartbreaking as I think most
• 1:05:44
  people are rooting for Utah there.
• 1:05:45
  And in the first five games of the series, Utah was leading in
• 1:05:48
  the third period and all five of those games, and they were, they
• 1:05:51
  left Game 5 down 32 and they lost in game six, kind of got
• 1:05:55
  decimated there. So I think that could come down
• 1:05:57
  to the experience that, you know, we were talking about it
• 1:06:00
  in all our predictions, right? We kept picking, we think Boston
• 1:06:02
  over, Buffalo we picked, I think we picked Edmonton over and
• 1:06:06
  there were a couple different spots where we were like, oh,
• 1:06:08
  the experience is really gonna shine through.
• 1:06:10
  I think this was that Vegas, Utah series was that that
• 1:06:13
  experience kind of shining through.
• 1:06:15
  Mitch Marner had an actual good playoff series in round one.
• 1:06:18
  Turns out the Leafs were the problem the whole time.
• 1:06:20
  Soccer, yeah. So that was it.
• 1:06:25
  Got it, got it, got it. Throw shot at the at the least
• 1:06:28
  in our Habs jerseys, yeah, those are.
• 1:06:31
  Pretty why you save me for it. And then just sign like the
• 1:06:35
  worst gems of all time. I don't know.
• 1:06:37
  Oh my God, yeah. Well, they're a little caveat on
• 1:06:40
  that. Like what?
• 1:06:41
  What? Yeah.
• 1:06:41
  How does this? Happen press conference.
• 1:06:42
  Did you see the press that was nuts where the guys like this?
• 1:06:46
  This reporter asked him, I forget the exact wording, but it
• 1:06:50
  was brutal. It was like I did 5 minutes of
• 1:06:54
  research and I've heard that this guy who hired as a con
• 1:06:58
  artist and he's horrible and everyone around the league and
• 1:07:01
  then he's like, well, you must be looking at different sources
• 1:07:03
  because we did due diligence and he's like, that's all you have
• 1:07:05
  to say. And it was like, this is so.
• 1:07:07
  Spicy, the reporter. Is hockey when is this?
• 1:07:11
  Because it's like a soap opera. Like I didn't even know about
• 1:07:14
  this guy beforehand. I just like watching Matt Sunday
• 1:07:17
  in there, just trying to like play it cool and.
• 1:07:19
  Wow. What a thing.
• 1:07:21
  The reporter said he interviewed 20 NHL like executive personnel
• 1:07:27
  and he said like if he name dropped all 20 of them,
• 1:07:29
  everybody would know their names.
• 1:07:30
  And they all said that they were like, what just happened?
• 1:07:34
  This is like a mess of a of a situation right here.
• 1:07:38
  And then he was just like, I had spoke to 20 of these guys and
• 1:07:41
  got this information. Who did you speak to to like
• 1:07:44
  have a different information and basically like called him out.
• 1:07:47
  It was like, what are you doing, buddy?
• 1:07:49
  Like how did you come to this conclusion?
• 1:07:52
  His only experience was being GM of Arizona, the Coyotes a couple
• 1:07:56
  years back and he did a tremendously awful job there.
• 1:07:59
  And it's it's obviously known as one of the worst tenured GM jobs
• 1:08:04
  ever. And then somehow he gets hired
• 1:08:07
  by the leaves. I've been seeing a lot of people
• 1:08:09
  online saying that Leafs like the ownership, they just wanted
• 1:08:12
  a yes man will just say yes to whatever they want.
• 1:08:14
  Well, that's kind of why they went there.
• 1:08:16
  And they were like, they will hire this guy to be the yes man.
• 1:08:18
  We'll hire Sundeen to try and get some people to, you know,
• 1:08:21
  oh, he was a fan favorite back in the day.
• 1:08:23
  So maybe we get some good will that way.
• 1:08:25
  But look, as a certified Leafs hater and the huge Habs fan, I'm
• 1:08:29
  just laughing. It's gonna be.
• 1:08:31
  Hilarious to see people. Why do you call him a con artist
• 1:08:34
  though? How the how you got this job was
• 1:08:38
  like I was just how do you get this job with this?
• 1:08:40
  Experience recently I was reading about it recently
• 1:08:43
  because obviously it happened and I was like looking into it
• 1:08:46
  and the like the whole Arizona, the 10 year in Arizona, the guy
• 1:08:51
  was just doing the craziest stuff and with no explanation
• 1:08:55
  and he had almost no experience. I don't know how he got that job
• 1:08:59
  in the 1st place and there's definitely some weird stuff
• 1:09:02
  there. I'm going to look into it more
• 1:09:03
  and because it's just it's just wild.
• 1:09:05
  But yeah, that's fun. Little tangent if you're if
• 1:09:08
  you're a. Leader, I know we have leaves
• 1:09:09
  fans. I know we have some discord.
• 1:09:11
  Like let us know what your thoughts are on this, this GM
• 1:09:14
  signing and stuff. I feel like they put medicine in
• 1:09:16
  there. He's gonna be calling the shots,
• 1:09:17
  but they have him as like the assistant so he doesn't get all
• 1:09:19
  the Flack if stuff goes wrong. And then maybe they'll just be
• 1:09:22
  like, OK, you're do GM type of thing.
• 1:09:23
  That's the fall guy. Yeah, well, just shock is like a
• 1:09:27
  huge role for the Habs, right? Yeah.
• 1:09:29
  Yeah. So it's the same idea, right?
• 1:09:32
  Yeah, maybe it. But Hughes is also good.
• 1:09:35
  Yeah, you knows what he's doing. Yeah, I'm excited.
• 1:09:38
  I'm excited to see them trade Matthew Nice for pennies.
• 1:09:41
  And awesome Matthews for pennies, probably.
• 1:09:43
  Yeah, exactly. I think probably gonna try and
• 1:09:46
  send him to Arizona. He doesn't.
• 1:09:47
  Know. Anymore.
• 1:09:49
  That's what they got Jacob for, like, oh wait, we'll just
• 1:09:51
  connection. Yeah, exactly.
• 1:09:55
  But yeah, that that first that series, I look, I think it's
• 1:09:58
  Utah has an exciting future ahead of them and they shouldn't
• 1:10:00
  be like it's obviously always upsetting to lose, but it's
• 1:10:04
  pretty cool that they made the playoffs in the their first year
• 1:10:06
  having a real name. So.
• 1:10:07
  How do you tell when? And I thought, yeah, you did.
• 1:10:09
  They were up to one. I thought they had it in them
• 1:10:12
  game four. They were losing 30.
• 1:10:14
  They brought it back 33. If they win that before three,
• 1:10:16
  yeah, if they win that game, I feel like it's obviously a whole
• 1:10:19
  different series right at that point.
• 1:10:20
  But I feel like that was like the metal, the metal bullet that
• 1:10:23
  really just like took them down and they couldn't get in the in
• 1:10:26
  the series. That's why I was worried with
• 1:10:28
  the Habs. I felt we had multiple times to
• 1:10:30
  close out this series and we didn't do it.
• 1:10:31
  And I thought normally you get punished for that kind of thing.
• 1:10:34
  We, you know, we'll call it skill, call it resilience,
• 1:10:37
  effort, we resilience, you know, we we got there in the end.
• 1:10:40
  What happened to Utah is what I expect to happen to a team that
• 1:10:42
  doesn't close out a series when they have the chance.
• 1:10:45
  So it's it sucks for Utah, but but look, like I said, I
• 1:10:49
  wouldn't be too discouraged. But yeah, Vegas Palador FEV huge
• 1:10:52
  huge hatty in for Vegas. You can always talk about the
• 1:10:55
  beer bets. How many points does Alexa
• 1:10:59
  products have in the playoffs, Sir?
• 1:11:01
  I mean if you add him and Ilia in the regular season, I'm just
• 1:11:05
  saying. They have three power play.
• 1:11:07
  Points 2-3 power play points. There you go.
• 1:11:10
  Yeah, that probably Vegas here. Really.
• 1:11:12
  Yes. Yes, you were right not to make
• 1:11:15
  that bet to that a single more powerfully point.
• 1:11:19
  That's right. And then on the Anaheim side,
• 1:11:22
  Anaheim, Edmonton, Edmonton kind of got smoked.
• 1:11:24
  They they looked pretty awful the whole series.
• 1:11:27
  And did you guys read all the the post series post game
• 1:11:31
  pressers with McDavid and stuff? He is not sticking around.
• 1:11:35
  He's not even making it through the two years of his contract.
• 1:11:38
  He is you think he's either gone or is coming trade deadline or
• 1:11:41
  the trade deadline after that. I think it's going to fully
• 1:11:44
  depend on how well the team does this coming year.
• 1:11:47
  But if the team is doing Harley, he's getting traded at the
• 1:11:50
  deadline. If they do well but they don't
• 1:11:52
  do anything in the playoffs, he's getting traded the deadline
• 1:11:55
  after that. So this is.
• 1:11:56
  A if you don't get traded off deadline that he's not signing a
• 1:11:59
  contract. She's such.
• 1:12:00
  An I mean, yes, it was straight up literally like the first of
• 1:12:03
  all his comments, dry titles, comments.
• 1:12:05
  He was like, yeah, the team wasn't good enough.
• 1:12:06
  He's like, we have two years to figure this out.
• 1:12:08
  Like everyone knows the two year contract timeline.
• 1:12:11
  They are all well aware of it. The fact that Stan Bowman still
• 1:12:14
  has a job is honestly baffling to me.
• 1:12:16
  I don't know what dirt he has on the owner or what's going on
• 1:12:19
  there, but that has got to be the most.
• 1:12:21
  It's crazy watching these incompetent people have these
• 1:12:24
  crazy jobs when it's like, I feel like I could do a better
• 1:12:27
  job. I would have never traded for
• 1:12:28
  Tristan Jarry. Yeah.
• 1:12:29
  OK, you traded for a backup goalie and tied up all your cap
• 1:12:33
  and then had awful goalie production.
• 1:12:35
  What do you It's just ridiculous.
• 1:12:38
  Christopher McDavid, It'll be like a fantasy trade.
• 1:12:41
  But I do not wanna see David in Toronto.
• 1:12:44
  I do not want to see McDavid in. Toronto, I know, but he's from
• 1:12:47
  there. Yeah.
• 1:12:49
  It's like, you know, maybe. They'll be horrible.
• 1:12:51
  Do not speak of that. Yeah, he.
• 1:12:53
  Was supposed to go there? No, he was supposed to go to
• 1:12:55
  Buffalo. Buffalo, Yeah, that was the.
• 1:12:57
  Buffalo. Yeah, I think you're supposed to
• 1:12:59
  go to Buffalo. And then Edmonton won the
• 1:13:01
  lottery. And the lottery?
• 1:13:02
  Yeah, exactly. I mean, I feel like he would
• 1:13:04
  have been more upset in Buffalo, yeah.
• 1:13:07
  He's like, I mean. You have been.
• 1:13:09
  Good they've gone yeah yeah yeah seriously somehow they'll find
• 1:13:13
  the way but yeah I I I really wanted like I put Edmonton I
• 1:13:19
  thought they were gonna win but I'm very high on Anaheim all
• 1:13:22
  year. I actually like give some credit
• 1:13:24
  to Anaheim for winning despite the fact that obviously what
• 1:13:27
  Edmonton you know presented on the ice is they were clearly
• 1:13:31
  injured dry saddle came back for the playoffs.
• 1:13:33
  I'm sure you could have rested like another week maybe 2.
• 1:13:35
  McDavid was playing through what a fractured of it and that's
• 1:13:39
  terrible. You know, the rest of the team
• 1:13:41
  was not fully healthy. It was very obvious.
• 1:13:43
  But even at that, this is like a team that's been to the sound
• 1:13:45
  like Cup two years in a row with the best players in the world.
• 1:13:48
  Anaheim's a good team and yeah, I'm very confident in them in
• 1:13:52
  this series, but I think they're gonna get demolished by whoever
• 1:13:54
  comes out of the centre would. Still.
• 1:13:56
  Have a random question for you guys because I saw someone say
• 1:13:59
  this in like unlike a Reddit comment.
• 1:14:01
  Do you think Cutter Gautier is better than Sulkowski?
• 1:14:05
  I've heard about this debate in the past because I think I'll
• 1:14:08
  drop it in the same year, right? Yeah, that was the debate, yeah.
• 1:14:11
  Like my first instinct was like, what are you talking about?
• 1:14:14
  Life is like God, he's amazing. But then I'm like, go to you.
• 1:14:17
  Had 41 goals this year. Yeah.
• 1:14:20
  I think it's also part of the team that he's on to, that he
• 1:14:23
  can be a little bit more talismanic, if you will.
• 1:14:28
  But I think Slav has more overall, you know, player
• 1:14:33
  profile that suits a two way game a little bit more.
• 1:14:36
  Like I think he's really come along defensively and his
• 1:14:39
  physical presence is also like a big reason of why he's, you
• 1:14:42
  know, so good and the impact that has on the ice.
• 1:14:45
  But honestly, it's super close. Like this is where my bias will
• 1:14:47
  come into play and I'll be like, you know, because of all the
• 1:14:49
  other intangibles that Slab has. I'll probably go there.
• 1:14:52
  But listen, is Cutter potentially better like this?
• 1:14:56
  Yeah, real reasonable reasons. Yeah, I think that.
• 1:14:59
  Just a random thought because I saw.
• 1:15:01
  Better I do, but not because I'm totally biased in this.
• 1:15:07
  It's just like I've seen him succeed tremendously on Slovakia
• 1:15:10
  on the world stage, who doesn't really like, they're not that
• 1:15:14
  like they're, they're OK, but he's their guy.
• 1:15:15
  They have like a serial named after him.
• 1:15:19
  They don't have that for Cutter Goatee and the state.
• 1:15:25
  I think he's American. Anyways, all this to say, yeah,
• 1:15:28
  I'm on team Slap there, but it's close.
• 1:15:30
  It's definitely. Like the Habs already have two
• 1:15:32
  superstars with Caulfield and Suzuki, right?
• 1:15:34
  And doesn't have a superstar like Neil Carlson emerged this
• 1:15:37
  season as a potential superstar and cutter as well.
• 1:15:41
  So that's could be like their Cofield, Cofield Suzuki like if
• 1:15:45
  he wasn't there and laugh was enough.
• 1:15:46
  To the shade to Troy Terry. Troy Terry knows like value him
• 1:15:53
  as a adequate fantasy asset. So shades to former forward
• 1:15:58
  Jackson. Like, Oh yeah.
• 1:16:00
  Sure thing. Jackson Lacombe tied for the
• 1:16:03
  league lead and assist this these playoffs with Jack Eichel.
• 1:16:06
  So both. Jobs both in this series.
• 1:16:09
  And. Give us a breakdown.
• 1:16:12
  Give us the breakdown. OK, quick breakdown because just
• 1:16:14
  how do we get here? So yeah, Anaheim on the season
• 1:16:16
  Series 3 nothing. Most goals.
• 1:16:18
  Anaheim had Cutter Goatee with 41, Surface with 37.
• 1:16:22
  Dorsey was the leading goal scorer for Vegas this year.
• 1:16:25
  Just just nuts. And on my championship fantasy
• 1:16:27
  roster. Most assists.
• 1:16:31
  Otherwise you would have. Jack Eichel is 63.
• 1:16:35
  Jackson Lacombe with 48 most points, Eichel with 90, Cutter
• 1:16:39
  Gautier with 69. Very nice.
• 1:16:41
  Then goaltending wise, we had Dostal with a .88, like it was
• 1:16:46
  pretty close. Yeah, I know.
• 1:16:49
  I gotta switch it to Carter Hart because he's the one who's.
• 1:16:51
  Been playing, I can't you can't even think about the goalie
• 1:16:54
  styles from Vegas. This.
• 1:16:55
  No, it's honestly like, yeah. And then specialty special
• 1:16:59
  teams. Sorry.
• 1:17:00
  Thank you because special teams, special teams, I don't know
• 1:17:05
  whatever, it's my my brain just not working great today.
• 1:17:07
  Vegas with 6th in the league for both power play and penalty
• 1:17:10
  kill. Anaheim 23rd and 26
• 1:17:12
  respectively. Huge, huge favor for Vegas.
• 1:17:16
  So this is a pretty interesting one because a lot of stuff is
• 1:17:20
  pointing to Vegas, right? Obviously they're the favorite
• 1:17:22
  for that. 3 nothing, 3 nothing series season series win for
• 1:17:26
  Anaheim for me was enough to put I predicted Anaheim in seven.
• 1:17:30
  Kevin put Vegas in six and JQ Anaheim in six, so this is going
• 1:17:35
  to be a pretty good 1 I think. I think this is going to have
• 1:17:37
  the most goals of well, OK, some might do ridiculous Minnesota
• 1:17:44
  Colorado game. Aside from that, I I'm confident
• 1:17:48
  that this is gonna have the most goals and it's gonna be super
• 1:17:51
  high scoring and I think that Anaheim is going to come out on
• 1:17:54
  top. Yes, they beat an injured
• 1:17:56
  Edmonton, but if they could beat Edmonton, they can beat Vegas
• 1:17:59
  and I I still I'll say the exact same thing as I said going into
• 1:18:03
  round one, you have a third line 40 goal scorer, Cutter Gautier,
• 1:18:07
  who's also playing with Mctavish and apparently their best player
• 1:18:10
  paling. And yeah, this is a tremendously
• 1:18:13
  deep team. All three of their top lines are
• 1:18:16
  legit and Jeffrey Vial on their fourth line is sick too.
• 1:18:21
  So this team is just firing on all cylinders and yeah, I think,
• 1:18:27
  I think they're going to win for I'm very confident actually, and
• 1:18:31
  I know they're the underdog, so. I mean, I think it's crazy to
• 1:18:35
  say you're very confident, Anaheim.
• 1:18:37
  Is going to win this. I'm like, I'm confident.
• 1:18:39
  To me, I'm confident. Very is confident.
• 1:18:41
  I think there's like a 66% chance of Vegas wins this series
• 1:18:44
  and a 33% chance that Anaheim wins this series and a 1% chance
• 1:18:47
  to tie. Yeah.
• 1:18:54
  But I, I think for all the reasons why you guys went Vegas
• 1:18:57
  in round one is also the same reasons why you should go Vegas
• 1:19:00
  in Round 2. And I was the one that went Utah
• 1:19:03
  in round one. And then so I now I came to my
• 1:19:05
  senses and I'm just like, all right, like, you know, listen,
• 1:19:08
  if Vegas played Edmonton, I think they could have swept
• 1:19:10
  them. To be honest.
• 1:19:11
  I think that's kind of how Edmonton was playing and how
• 1:19:14
  Vegas really Vegas just show me in the Utah series that they
• 1:19:18
  know how to win and they don't feel the stress of defeat when
• 1:19:24
  they're up against the their backs are up against the wall.
• 1:19:27
  If you never feel like they're out of it.
• 1:19:29
  And another thing that's a very powerful feeling of confidence
• 1:19:32
  to have in the hockey series, especially when you're playing
• 1:19:35
  against another team that does not have that experience.
• 1:19:37
  And I think Utah and Anaheim are both teams that are, you know,
• 1:19:40
  coming into their era of being able to compete in the playoffs,
• 1:19:43
  But it's still early for both of them.
• 1:19:45
  And I think that this Vegas team, with the experience they
• 1:19:48
  have, is going to show throughout this series that they
• 1:19:51
  will win the close ones and that'll be to give them the
• 1:19:54
  edge. I think it'll still be a close
• 1:19:55
  series, but I wouldn't be shocked if it's like super 1
• 1:19:58
  sided either. And if it's super 1 sided, I
• 1:19:59
  feel like it's gonna be Vegas inside.
• 1:20:01
  I can't see Anaheim like sweeping this or winning it in
• 1:20:03
  five. I can see Vegas, I agree,
• 1:20:05
  winning it in five or in four type of thing.
• 1:20:07
  But if it goes, it could be 6 or 7.
• 1:20:10
  I think if it goes to like past five games, I don't I'm going to
• 1:20:14
  win. If it's as close series of four
• 1:20:16
  or five games. I think Biggest takes it, it's
• 1:20:18
  like either they just totally wipe the floor with them or it's
• 1:20:22
  a real battle to the end and I think Anaheim just going to out
• 1:20:25
  offence them. But it's also.
• 1:20:28
  Thinks that Anaheim has the edge goaltending wise, not that
• 1:20:31
  dostal. Was not impressive at all.
• 1:20:33
  This year, no, he hasn't been he's been super streaky all
• 1:20:36
  year, but when he was on, he was on Carter Hart.
• 1:20:38
  I can't get I can't get over that letting in four goals on 12
• 1:20:40
  shots against Utah. So I don't think he has the they
• 1:20:44
  could just see. I think that's I mean, a lot of
• 1:20:46
  times it's kind of a cop out answer.
• 1:20:47
  I feel like right for the underdog team.
• 1:20:49
  You're like, what's their win condition?
• 1:20:50
  Goaltending? It's always goaltending, right?
• 1:20:52
  But I mean in both cases that we've said it, it's because they
• 1:20:54
  have the better goaltender. Like like we said, Southern have
• 1:20:57
  the most amazing season. I still trust him a lot more
• 1:21:00
  than Carter Hart and don't even get me started on Eden Hill.
• 1:21:02
  So I think especially special teams is going to be a big part
• 1:21:06
  of it. So we'll see.
• 1:21:07
  We'll see what happens there and we'll see if how John Tortorella
• 1:21:11
  keeps his team in check. But I don't know.
• 1:21:13
  I'm pretty hyped on Anaheim and again that clearly they match up
• 1:21:16
  well against Vegas if they went three and against them.
• 1:21:18
  I know Vegas is a lot different team in the last month than they
• 1:21:21
  were for the rest of the season, but I I see that three and O and
• 1:21:25
  I think Anaheim could take. Them to me though, it just feels
• 1:21:28
  like the special teams are huge, huge discrepancy between the two
• 1:21:32
  of them like Vegas is an elite power play team and PK team and
• 1:21:35
  Anaheim is a below average power play team and PK team.
• 1:21:39
  I think that in a series like this where Vegas is already the
• 1:21:41
  team that you know is coming in as a favorite, has the pedigree,
• 1:21:45
  has the experience. I think that like ways even more
• 1:21:49
  on the scales of the series. I think Anaheim just came out
• 1:21:52
  guns blazing. Its Edmonton and Edmonton.
• 1:21:54
  Tina was already half broken with fractures everywhere and
• 1:21:56
  they were just able to like break through.
• 1:21:59
  And now they're gonna play Vegas team that doesn't have all those
• 1:22:01
  cracks and they're going to hit like a brick wall.
• 1:22:03
  It's going to be like a reality check a little bit.
• 1:22:04
  That's how I feel this series goes.
• 1:22:06
  Listen, they're about to play their first game tonight after
• 1:22:08
  we finish recording. So maybe one of us can be proved
• 1:22:12
  right. By the time you listen to this,
• 1:22:13
  you're going to know who was right and who was wrong.
• 1:22:15
  Between the two of us. It's just game 1-2.
• 1:22:17
  You don't want to read too much into it, but.
• 1:22:19
  But I will. Yeah, it's over.
• 1:22:22
  Vegas winning every game 50 or the other way around so.
• 1:22:26
  It's crazy, I can't help you. Let's just let's just quickly go
• 1:22:30
  through our what we predict gonna happen this season, this
• 1:22:32
  series, and then like where we see the finals matchup going and
• 1:22:35
  then our prediction for is gonna win.
• 1:22:37
  OK, I'll probably. Revise.
• 1:22:38
  Yeah, essentially rest of bracket.
• 1:22:40
  Rest of playoff bracket wants to start.
• 1:22:43
  So I have Montreal, Carolina, then I think, I think Montreal
• 1:22:50
  is gonna win. I have Anaheim, Colorado,
• 1:22:54
  Colorado's gonna win. And then I don't really want to
• 1:22:56
  say what I'm I'm gonna say, but I, I think that Colorado is
• 1:23:00
  gonna be Montreal in the finals. Boo.
• 1:23:02
  But hey, last time I said that, look what happened.
• 1:23:06
  So I'm very I hope to be proven wrong, truly do so.
• 1:23:12
  And what you? Got I mean, for me it's similar.
• 1:23:14
  It's obviously haves over Buffalo.
• 1:23:16
  I think it'll be a tough series, but I think the has the
• 1:23:18
  experience they have. They should take it Caroline
• 1:23:21
  over Philly. That feels like the most slam
• 1:23:23
  dunk one to me in my book. And listen, hopefully Philly
• 1:23:25
  wins. Rooting for Philly and if we
• 1:23:27
  have any Carolina fans that discord like please don't hate
• 1:23:29
  us. Obviously we love your team, but
• 1:23:33
  it'll be fun to see affiliate affiliate upset here.
• 1:23:36
  And I got Vegas beating Anaheim and I got this is a tough one,
• 1:23:41
  right? Because like, my heart wants
• 1:23:42
  Minnesota. But if Eric the next not
• 1:23:44
  playing, I feel like, you know, there's too much stacked against
• 1:23:47
  them down the middle. I gotta go Colorado.
• 1:23:51
  But I'm rooting for Minnesota. And then I think it's gonna be a
• 1:23:54
  Colorado versus Habs final. And then I wanna go halves, man,
• 1:23:57
  I wanna do it. I think this is the year we have
• 1:23:59
  the magic power of friendship, all of that, the hockey gods,
• 1:24:04
  everybody's in our corner. We gotta do it.
• 1:24:07
  I, I love it. I'm going halves over Buffalo
• 1:24:10
  and you know, I'll change my mind going Philly over Carolina
• 1:24:13
  because I if if haves in Philly are playing, then I'm going to a
• 1:24:18
  game in Philly. So it's gonna be not.
• 1:24:21
  This is basically what we want to happen.
• 1:24:24
  I say why not? No, not, no ones gonna not gonna
• 1:24:29
  call me out for anything, right. Anyways, so house versus Philly,
• 1:24:33
  I'll be there. It's gonna be sick and how are
• 1:24:35
  gonna take it? And then in the West, I've got
• 1:24:37
  Colorado versus Anaheim. And yeah, Colorado is going to
• 1:24:41
  take over Sanheim. And just like you, I guess we
• 1:24:43
  all have the same finals. We've all got Colorado.
• 1:24:46
  Yeah, I mean. 4 matchups, sorry. Yeah.
• 1:24:52
  And uh yeah, Montreal's obviously going to take it.
• 1:24:54
  We're going to sweep Colorado. Oh yes, and.
• 1:24:57
  I give the profanity at the beginning of the episodes that
• 1:24:59
  were like level headed homers that I tried to be realistic.
• 1:25:02
  And then Josh is like, yeah, we're sweeping everybody, maybe.
• 1:25:08
  Throughout the episode I be realistic, but from my end of
• 1:25:11
  the end of episode bracket, I gotta go all the way, you know?
• 1:25:14
  There's a philosophical question Would you rather lose this round
• 1:25:18
  or lose in the finals? Lose in the finals.
• 1:25:21
  Yeah, losing the finals, just as good experience and all that.
• 1:25:24
  In terms of like the heartbreak of it, it's you.
• 1:25:26
  Know I wanna watch as much as hockey man.
• 1:25:28
  That's true. Yeah, Yeah, yeah.
• 1:25:31
  OK, I think I would take lose this round to be honest.
• 1:25:35
  I just. You gave us the whole.
• 1:25:38
  Way takes a fake was really hard yeah no hey fake fat I'm you had
• 1:25:41
  tapped winning round one you don't want any.
• 1:25:45
  Winning. What are you talking about?
• 1:25:46
  If we make it all the way, it's gonna be just devastating.
• 1:25:49
  It's like it's gonna be. Horrible, devastating Route 2 as
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  well. It would be, it would be like a
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  bummer, but I'd be like, Oh well, opposed to no.
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  Let me let me ask you this though.
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  Obviously we're all rooting for the have is the most.
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  What other team are you rooting for the most?
• 1:26:06
  Philly. Philly really?
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  11 team from the West, one team from the east?
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  Like who you rooting for the most besides the Habs?
• 1:26:12
  Anaheim on the. West, Yeah, OK.
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  I mean, for me, if it's not, if it's not going to be us, like,
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  let it be Buffalo. So I I hope the winner of this
• 1:26:21
  series makes it sound like a final.
• 1:26:22
  It's gonna be the Habs. Obviously it wasn't like for
• 1:26:25
  that situation to happen, it would have to be Buffalo.
• 1:26:27
  That eliminates us and therefore I can no longer root for them.
• 1:26:30
  If they eliminate. Them.
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  Stanley Cup champs or something you.
• 1:26:34
  Know if there weren't other teams that I was like all that I
• 1:26:37
  also liked, like Philly or Anaheim, then I could get on to
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  Buffalo. But since it's US versus them,
• 1:26:42
  then screw them. Yeah, that's fair.
• 1:26:46
  Yeah, that's fair. OK, Thank you to everybody for
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• 1:27:08
  This is going to be fun. I'm tired.
• 1:27:11
  That was a long episode. A lot of good things to say and
• 1:27:14
  I feel like it's going to be a really, really interesting next
• 1:27:19
  week of hockey. Philly Carolina 22 Carolina just
• 1:27:22
  scored 8 minutes left. Ohhh day.
• 1:27:24
  No, and they showed all of us at the Jarvis's friends
• 1:27:26
  celebrating. Like that's, that's like the one
• 1:27:30
  kind of thing. I'm like, alright, this is hype.
• 1:27:34
  There are some crazy dudes, that's all man.
• 1:27:39
  Alright, Ernie, take it away. But about bound banger
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  management Fantasy hockey podcast.
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  Whoa, whoa, Boo. Sasala Coop.
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  Go, Habs, Go.