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- Jason Linkes: Coming up on back checking the bolts. You don't see that hit too much in the NHL anymore. And when you saw it, the announcers, everybody reacted because of it. And I think that's just because the open ice hit, it's like the hip check. It has disappeared a little bit out of the game. And it was one of the few times where I've seen an open ice hit where a guy just really gets clocked. Welcome to back checking the bolts. Back checking the bolts is your cup of coffee to get you the latest on the Tampa Bay Lightning. Join host Jason Linkus and the managing editor of Raw Charge, Justin Godfrey, as they break down the Lightning's most recent games and go beyond the highlights, telling you what the box scores didn't. It's time to drop the puck. We are back with the instant reaction to game four of the Tampa Montreal series and if you are a Tampa fan It's a very fun instant reaction because that was a 3-2 victory Brandon Hagel the man of the series so far two more goals got the game winner with about six minutes left in the game Now it's time for me to bring in Justin Godfrey, the managing editor of raw charge. You can see him each and every day at www.rawcharge.com. Justin, this game had a little bit of everything, huge hits, a couple of different guys in the lineup, some controversy. Where do you want to start? I have no controversy. This is a completely clean Tampa Bay Lightning victory. There were 13 power plays and I'm telling you right now, if you check social media, Montreal fans are going nuts. you know, they are a passionate bunch, my friend. Nah, ⁓ like you said, this game just had a little bit about everything. thought honestly, coming off of what people are called game three, the worst game of the series for the lightning. I thought the first period the lightning played was probably one of their best, not only in the series, but it felt like one of their best periods since the, ⁓ the Olympic break. They look like that team that put together 21 game points streak, 19 game points streak or whatever. They were moving the puck a lot better. They were skating a lot better. Thought they'd look like there's a lot more room. Honestly, for them to be down two nothing, it felt like one of the first game of the series where the better team wasn't leading. Goetzel gets that late goal, which huge boost. Then Hegel scores early in the third and then ties and then they gets the game winner. Yeah, just a really fun game to watch. know Montreal fans probably don't enjoy the same feeling, but really thought it was one of the better games for the Lightning of recent memory. This is as tight of a series as you will find. Four one goal games, three of them of course went to overtime games one, two, and three. Justin, as you'd mentioned, John Cooper hated their game three performance. Heading into game four, there were some lineup changes. Sabrin was out all over. Bjork Strand was back in the lineup. Declan Carlisle on defense. He sat. Meanwhile, Max Crozier, who made a lot of noise in this game. He was back in the lineup. Tell us about both of those guys and how you feel that they played. Yeah, it was interesting. Not only, you know, you're looking at those two changes, which we kind of talked about, you know, after game three, if Coop would make the switch on forward and he brought in Bjork Strand gives you a little bit more speed, a little bit more offensive. skill, but not only did they do those lineup changes, they mixed the lines up too. You looked at the top line was Brighton point, Brandon Hagel and Nikita Kucherov. So he broke up the Sorelli, Hagel duo that, you know, has been the lightness best duo for, for much of the last few years. And then that second line was Gensel, Sorelli and Yanni Gord. So, know, Gord gets a little promotion there. And then the new third line with Bjergstrainer on it, he had Dominic James engage Gonsalves. And then I left that kind of grinded up fourth line of Nick Paul, Corey Perry, and Zemga Skurdinsons, which is really the only line that kind of stayed together. But it was interesting that I liked the combinations, honestly, to tell you the truth. I know we're so used to seeing Hegel and Cirelli play together that, you know, they almost share the same brain, but I think the Lightning kind of needed a little bit of a spark, a little bit of a change. And we saw it tonight that, that Hegel point Kutroff line was, was flying out there. You know, just look at it. quick, ⁓ some of the stats they had the 16th, the lightning had a 16 to three shot advantage with that trio on the ice at five on five. So they really, I kind of feel like for the first time in the series, the lightning kind of dictated the pace this game was played at as opposed to reacting to what Montreal has done for much of the series. You had mentioned the Gensel goal at the end of the second period. It really created a lot of momentum for the Lightning heading into the third. I want to talk about the pass that from JJ Moser, that was a dynamite play. It was four on four. The Lightning had just taken a penalty to basically make this a four on four hockey until the end of the period. But Moser on a little bit of a give and go just threaded the needle and hit Gensel. Perfect pass. Gensel of course was able to roof it and beat Dobish. What a pass by Moser. Yeah, it was, ⁓ you know, like I said, that's kind of the place that you saw when the lightning were rolling. ⁓ these quick decisive plays, they're not thinking about it. ⁓ you know, Gensel had a little bit more room to come in on the entry. He comes in, he skates around the net. They're able to keep the possession. And yeah, like, like I said, the little give and go, just give it to, give it to Moser and then bust towards the net on the far post. That's what Gensel did. The pass was right on. Domish couldn't get over it to make the save. ⁓ you know, the If Montreal goes into the third period up to nothing. Um, I think it's a different game to light. And you're going to be pushing a lot more than they had to, um, to get that goal. think, you know, Nikita Khrutchev isn't on this team. Jake Gensel is your runaway MVP for this team. Not only in the regular season, he goes getting all the press, but Gensel's had a really strong season or a strong series against Montreal as well. Um, so for him to get that first goal and then he hit the post. I mean, he had hit the post I think a little bit before that. So. They almost tied it up at the end of the third or at the end of the second. There's that little mouth scrum. Yeah. Huge scrum in front of the net actually point shot hit the defenseman. And if it doesn't hit the defenseman, who I think was sort of unaware that the shot was coming towards them, that's two, two with about six seconds left in the second. Yeah. Cruisers right there. You would have put that right in. Yeah. I kind of got deflected up a little bit and then rattled around and, to give Dobrik's credit, he made a really nice, he kind of got his stick on it. Cause You know, Gensel was crashing the net and it would have been an interesting call if the puck had gone in. Cause Gensel kind of dove head first into, into Dobish. So it would have been the old goaltender interference review would have been hilarious at that point. I they built off of that. came out strong. got the power play early on and Hagel just, you know, wins about, know, when you watch these things on replay sometimes and you know, what's coming, you watch what's going on before the goal. And Hagel was battling the entire power play. It was a really nice play. And, ⁓ you know, he gets that inside position, Kutrow puts it right on his stick and he deflects it home. Justin, before we talk about a couple hits that happened in this game, I want to go back to the first period. Andre Vasileski had to really face a barrage early in that first period when Montreal was pressing on the power play as well. Vasileski really was awesome tonight. Yeah. You know, it was kind of funny before the, before the game, you know, I heard, I don't know who was talking about us, some little national media. They were talking about Vasilevsky not having a good series. And if you look at his raw numbers. Yeah. But I think he has been absolutely fantastic in the series. A lot of those, you know, he's got a 882 save percentage, but how many of those goals have come, you know, on the power play or on the penalty kill, I should say. I think at five on five, he's been absolutely outstanding. And the first period was just another example of it. Montreal came out, you know, thought, I Tampa had a good start. Montreal kind of came on. had an early power play and Vasilevsky was just absolutely on point. He made a great save. I believe it was on demodove. So rebound, you know, the shot comes in from the slot. It hits his, it hits Vasilevsky's pad kicks over to. I was either Slumpkowski or Demidogna. can't remember who it was, but he's right there to put that rebound in and Vassey just pushes over. It makes the save look easy. ⁓ So yeah, he had three or four of those kind of quietly spectacular saves in the first to keep the Lightning into it. And then once the Lightning got their, their feet on them, I really thought they played really well. I thought it was, like I said, one of their best games. And I honestly thought it was one of Montreal's kind of, I don't want to say worst games, but I don't think Montreal played well for long stretches of that game. had trouble getting the puck out of the zone. They actually had some trouble dealing with tapas speed, isn't something we've seen so far in this series. yeah, just. Bassie did what he had to do. Hagel just continues to be a one man wrecking crew and yeah. So it's just fun. That's all I can say, man. This is just a fun game. It's been a fun series. And I think some of the people talking negatively about Vasileski. Aren't giving, they're not giving Montreal enough credit. is a really talented team. And I think whoever is going to get out of this series is going to give Buffalo. I'm assuming it's Buffalo now that they have the three one lead over Boston. They're going to give Buffalo everything they can handle. And my guess is the betting odds are probably going to favor either Tampa or Montreal, barring an injury to one of those teams heading into the second round. Justin, there's a lot to dissect with this game. Two huge hits that caused both benches to get into a little bit of an upward. The first one was Corey Perry. Corey Perry went into the corner, took a stick to the face, came off bleeding. You saw Cooper wanted a penalty. I actually thought it was a good non-call because Corey Perry was pretty much at the defenseman's quad. I know you have to be responsible for your stick, but at some point, if it's below your waist, which is on the, in the NHL rule book, it's a little bit of coming upon the player too. Yeah. I had absolutely no problem with no call there, ⁓ which is kind of amazing considering there's been 8,722 high sticks already called, ⁓ in the first four games. ⁓ so the one that actually draws blood, you know, doesn't get called. ⁓ but, ⁓ yeah, no problem with that. ⁓ It wasn't a penalty. It's just one of those things that happens in hockey. So a little bit of a scrum after it just because, know, anytime a guy like Perry, who is a leader on this team, you know, he doesn't wear a letter, but he is one of the lightening's leaders. The reason they brought him back here. Uh, if you see him bleeding, you're going to, you know, take some umbrage to it. So that's what the lightening have done all series. It's what they've done all season. So yeah, they kind of, you know, got into it a little bit. I think it was a Dick Paul and Arbor Jackage were kind of laughing at each other. Um, God blessed Nick Paul if he wants to drop the gloves against that guy, but, uh, you know, nothing actually came out of it. I they just ended up with a lit matching minors or something like that. think Jack actually dropped his gloves and Paul wouldn't reciprocate. me. Like if I'm Nick Paul, I'm not dropping my gloves with that man either. And you're talking about probably, you know, it's either anywhere, uh, Oliver and Columbus is your top two heavyweights in the league. So, you know, Yachty Gord's been yapping at yac cage all series long. like, that ever actually, turns into a fight. You know, God bless God rest the Yachty Gord soul cause he'll get pummeled into the nether world. So Justin, the second hit I wanted to talk was Max Crozier leveling Slavkowski at center. Slavkowski went off the ice, didn't appear again until the third period. Now the hit happened late in the second period. So he probably missed a shift at the most. But a big hit, the Montreal bench was not happy. It's the playoffs. No one's going to be happy to see a guy get leveled, especially a top line player like Slavkowski. But I thought that was a good hit. He did not leave his feet until he actually made contact. And that's just, that's, that's physics. Yeah, exactly. And it's one of those hits, you know, you know, soft cost, he's skating through the center of the ice with his head down. You're going to take a hit like that. Everyone's going to slow angles down. They're going to freeze frame stuff on, social media to make it look like the initial point of contact was the head. He put it right into his chest. ⁓ does the show ride up a little bit? Yeah. But that's like you said, it's physics going to happen. ⁓ you know, if I was a lightning fan and somebody did that to say, Hey, would I be really upset? Would I, I was on the bench, would I be screaming? Yeah. But in the end, it was a solid hit. ⁓ You know, Crozier's kind of a sneaky big hitter and that's part of the reason he's in the game. Um, and I thought he played pretty, pretty well for a guy who hasn't really played much for the last two months, two and a half months. So Justin, don't see that hit too much in the NHL anymore. when you saw it, the announcers, everybody reacted because of it. And I think that's just because the open ice hit it's like the hip check. It has disappeared a little bit. out of the game and it was one of the few times where I've seen an open ice hit where a guy just really gets clocked and it's clean. Yeah. ⁓ and actually the fact that there wasn't really a scrum after it, was kind of impressive. mean, it ended up there ended up being a whistle just because I think, ⁓ there was a slashing call at the end of it. think Crozier got slashed late in the play, I mean, both teams were kind of let that kind of go. And of course they, you know, they got together after the whistle and They probably said some mean things to each other or tried to some people's feelings. But in the end, usually you see, if you do see a hit like that, even if it's legal, you know, the gloves are flying off and somebody's trying to find somebody else. So, you know, I did get Montreal credit for that. Now, of course the negative thing, some people are going to be like, well, they didn't stand up for one of their best players. know, ⁓ Crozier should have been buried into the boards. There's always going to be that faction of fans that talk about hits like that. ⁓ I think he was a good clean hit. ⁓ Is it a series changing hit? mean, the, the Tampa radio crew was kind of talking about that. It's one of those hits that you can kind of point back to the lightning pull from it. You're not going to know that until the series is over. If the lightning lose game five, then it's not really that much of a defining hit, but if they go on and let's say they win the next two, then you know, all of a sudden that becomes a much bigger hit in retrospect. I did think they gained some momentum from the hit. thought their play. was much better from that point on in the hockey game. I thought that when that play happened, I thought it woke them up a little bit. I would say it was probably a game-changing hit. I have no problem saying that. Hegel has mentioned this in the past. This team plays better with a little bit of emotion behind them. I think they've tried for such a long time to be this even-keeled, don't get too high when you're good, don't get too low when you're bad kind of team that they kind of suck some of the emotion out of the way they play. And that's kind of been missing the last couple of years. This year we've seen a lot more of it. This is a team that right now doesn't really have a designated fighter, but if you mess with anybody, they're going to come back at you. We've seen Jake Gensel drop the gloves, Hagels drop the gloves. Pretty much everybody on this team has a fight, I think, except for Brandon Pointer Kucharoff, but it is a gang mentality for this team. And when they get fired up and sometimes that's a problem. think sometimes if they don't get a hit like this, or they don't get a big play, they have trouble hitting that emotion. And it affects their game. yeah, I mean, so rile them up at your own risk. I think there there's a lot of confidence in their game right now. I think this is something they could build on. I do think it's a little unfortunate that now we have two days off before they play again, which kind of happened with the game too. And, know, they had that big overtime game and then it's the extra day off and you can kind of get, you know, you know, Montreal is not feeling as bad about themselves with that extra day of rest. But it'll be a pretty interesting atmosphere for game five in Tampa on Wednesday. Justin, I want to talk about the big guns for Montreal and I have the stats right here in the series. Nick Suzuki, no goals, four assists. He's a minus four, Cole Caulfield. He had the power play goal today, three assists as well. He's a minus five, Slavkowski had the hat trick in game one, hasn't had a point since. He's a minus four. If you were to tell a Montreal fan, your top line is going to be combined minus 13 through four games. I'm willing to bet most of them would think that they're down three, one or swept in the series. Yeah. ⁓ just with the way they relied on through much of the season and like even the season series against the Lightning. I mean, we had talked about this for the preview. That trio had absolutely lit the lightning up, especially over the last two games that they met in the regular seasons. All credit to the lightning defense. ⁓ I did think that the, in the third game, game three, I thought that that line played really, really well. The Suzuki line, they just didn't, you know, get the puck to go into the net, but I thought they were kind of a little bit more back to their style of play where they were generating a lot of chances down low. ⁓ And even tonight they had a couple early on, but I think the entire Montreal offense kind of fell apart even with the two goals that they scored, you know, fairly quickly with each other. They weren't generating a ton of chances overall throughout the entire game. thought the Lightning defense was really solid. They push a lot to the perimeter and especially like at the end of the game, know, Montreal had a six on four for roughly 90 seconds or so. And I think they got one shot on that and it was kind of a weak shot through traffic that Vassilas we saw the Lightning block four or five shots. They held their structure fantastic, I think on the six on four at the end and just didn't give him any of those cross-ice passes that Montreal loves. know, you, saw Demidov with his stick in the air for almost the entire two minute power play waiting for that pass that he could one time. And they just couldn't get the puck over to him quick enough to make that an effective play. that's on the lightning penalty killers. That's on their defensive structure, which has been a lot better as this series has gone on. I actually thought both teams, their penalty kill was extremely good tonight. Montreal had to kill an extended five on three disadvantage midway through the third period. And they did not give Tampa much to operate. You have to give credit to the Montreal penalty killers there because it looked like the Lightning had a prime chance to not just take control of the game. Of course, Tampa ended up with the Hagel goal to win it. But I want to talk about that power play. What did the lightning do wrong on that five on three? Because I thought they were just standing still a little bit, little bit too little movement. think they're trying to be a little too precise, which kind of interesting enough. thought they had done better earlier in the game on their power plays as far as moving the puck around. thought their first couple of power plays were pretty good. They were a lot crisper with their passing. They were generating some chances. thought Dobish made a couple really good saves. You know, we talked about Vasileski in the first period. think Dobish was kind of. The same for Montreal, especially when they were short handed. made a couple of really nice saves. Um, but yeah, on the five on three, think the light knee were just trying to be almost a little too patient. they're like, we don't want to rush us. We have this great advantage. We want to make sure we get the great shot. And they're a little too passive. Much all they broke up the, couple of the passing plays and we're able to clear the puck. that was, that was big on them because they were able to shoot the puck down two or three times, which, you know, kills 15 and 20 seconds right there. Um, but yeah, I thought the, The one thing I liked about the power play where the lightning scored on it, the first angle goal is he saw a little bit of a change in the lineup. Gensel was out high with Kuturov dropping down onto the goal line. And if you watch that play a few times, you're like, how did, how did they get space to make that pass? Right. How did, why did Montreal let them make that pass across the crease right to, to Hagle? Well, right before it, Kuturov has the puck as usual, you know, he's feeding back and forth with Hagle or with Gensel at the point. And there's one sequence where Kuturov has it. He tries the back door pass. think Radish was cutting in on the far left circle. The pass gets through, the shot doesn't get off. Second, right after that, they get the puck back. Kuturov shoots the puck from the goal line. You know, it's not a great shot. It's not a hard shot, but it's a shot. Now all of sudden Dobish has to respect him shooting from that spot. They play catch a little bit and it kind of draws the Montreal defender out just enough that when the pass comes back down to Kuturov. That lane is finally open. He fires it, you Hagel's got the inside position and it's a tap in a goal. You know, that's something that Montreal hasn't been giving up a lot of on, you know, when they short ended, they've stayed in their structure. They stayed in that box and not allowed that, that pass to the middle of the ice. And I think Kuturov just kind of, he toyed with them a little bit and kind of baited them into ⁓ spreading out a little bit to open up that lane. So it's, it's the little things that he does like that are so good, like him, McKinnon. Crosby does stuff like that. You know, that's what those upper-latel on playmakers can do is you give them the same situation. have three different plays that they can, they can make and you don't know which one's coming and they take the best one and turn it into a goal. Montreal's power play goal was very similar. Cole Caulfield was able to slip behind Lilleberg and basically had the tap in pass Vasileski was interesting of all the power plays they both. The two power play tallies in the game were almost identical in how the plays were drawn up. really like how the Montreal set that up because a lot of it has to do with Suzuki just maintaining possession of the puck along the boards. You know, Caulfield sitting down below the goal line and he just kind of waits for the opportunity. He can read the play. He can see that the passes come in and just darts out in front. ⁓ so it's not like, Hagel is like battling for 30 seconds with a defender jousting and You know, trying to push off, you know, Caulfield just waits for his opportunity, sneaks out there, puts his stick on the ice right in perfect position and Suzuki just hits it with the pass. I mean, that, that was a well-drawn out play and it plays in their straights because you Caulfield's not a huge dude. So he's not going to be able to win a lot of the, you know, if you're pressing on him in the front, if Lilleberg's slamming on him or McDonough's like jousting with him, he's not going to win a lot of those battles. So keep him kind of out of the play a little bit and then just kind of sneak him in when the opportunity. opportunity presents itself and know, Suzuki just made a great play with the puck. So I love watching good power plays work their magic and the fact that people can score in different ways, you know, that's part of the fun of this game. Justin, one of the, your keys to this game and we had put it out there on social media on a couple reels was getting traffic in front of the net. Grade the lightning tonight on getting traffic in front of the net. It's by far their best game in terms of taking away Dobish's eyes. Just getting players in front of them. It's kind of funny that none of these goals were really, um, you know, rebound goals that we were kind of looking for. Uh, you know, they all kind of clean plays, you know, tap ins that the third angle is hilarious. Cause basically Kutrash just whips an 85 mile an hour pass off his chest and into the goal. You know, it's, you go stand in front of the, you know, it's the old Lemieux you go stand in front of the net. I'm going to bounce 20 goals off of you. They were credited with. I believe 20 high danger chances by natural stat trick. haven't done the math yet, but I don't think they had 20 high danger chances in a series to tell you the truth. So especially early on, ⁓ the first half of the game, they were really getting in there. They were getting some, some good looks at, dovish. were making him work a lot more. And I think even if you don't score on those opportunities, you're wearing the goaltender out. He's diving all over the place. He's not a technically proficient goaltender. He's not Vasilevsky when it comes to. in terms to efficient movement. He's kind of more of that, Dominic Hoshik. I'm just going to, you know, do whatever I need to do, flop around on the ice, swim across the crease to do, whatever I need to do to, uh, keep the puck out of the net. And the fact that he's like six foot five or six or whatever he is, you know, kind of helps out with that. But if you get him moving around, that tires him out later in the game. So maybe he's not on point for a shot that's coming in. And, I just think the Lightning just did a much better job of possessing the puck in front of the net, getting to the front of the net. And then eventually, uh, getting it into the net, which is the most important thing. This series is at least going to go six games. One stat that I saw tonight, Montreal had 50 hits compared to Tampa's 28. Those hits over the course of a six, seven game series can start to wear on you. Any concern in your eyes that Montreal is a boxer out there and you've covered boxing. You keep throwing punches and eventually. your opponent tires late in the fight. Any concern about the lightning there? I don't think so. Both teams are throwing their fair amount of hits. ⁓ Another thing is like, if you're leading in hits, one thing that tells is that you going out of the puck and you're chasing. So yes, you're playing physical, but you're also expending a lot of energy to hit somebody. So I'm not overly worried. Plus I don't think there's been a bunch of bone jarring heavy hits. You know, there was a couple of scary moments for lightning fans. Jake Evans hit on Kuturov, I kind of sent him into the boards awkwardly. You kind of worry about stuff like that. Like, yeah, Kuturov came back in the game, but he was flexing that hit pretty, pretty aggressively right after the hip. is that something he's going to be dealing with, you know, as, as the series goes on, as the playoffs go on? But I'm not overly concerned about the hits just because they're having been a lot like that. Now, if it was one of those where they were coming in, just absolutely leaning on the forwards, ⁓ I'd be more concerned, but I think a lot of those hits are from. On their for check. they're hitting bigger guys. So they're, they're running into a little burning. They're running into McDonough, which those guys have been taken that they can take those kinds of hits. So I don't think so. And bring back the boxing analogy. I think the lightening are playing with a little bit more confidence. think they feel like they've seen, they've taken the best that Montreal can throw at them and they're still in the series. So I think, you know, you're a boxer, you take a guy's best shot and it doesn't hurt you. You know, you're going to be a little more willing to, to, to, throw hands to play, you know, maybe drop your guard a little bit more in terms of trying to get more offense. And I think you may see that from the lightning moving forward. Um, I think they feel like they can roll with the Canadians. They can shut them down when they need to. So they can be a little bit more aggressive with the puck. And I think, you know, you saw a little bit of that today with just the speed they were attacking with. Um, they were driving to the net a lot more than they had been in the past. So it's gonna be interesting to see how. What I'm assuming are going to be the next three games play up. Justin. You got game five coming up. Any thoughts going into game five. Keep rolling with it. ⁓ I mean, just kind of keep doing what you did today. ⁓ you know, play that north to south game, get the puck in, use your speed through the neutral zone. And that's, you know, something that I kind of like out of that, you know, that Dominic James, ⁓ Goncalves and George storyline is those guys can wheel with the puck. ⁓ they can get it from the blue line to the other blue line and into the zone really quickly without having to pass it or dump it in. If they could do that, ⁓ know, same thing with brain and point who's looking like he's skating a little bit better now. You know, they got the guys that can carry these pucks through the neutral zone. Keep doing that. those shots on net. Keep putting the pressure on a dovish head. know, Montreal's a young team. think they've played really well. I think their poise has been really good. ⁓ you know, some people may say, ⁓ they chuck this game away, but it's just two good teams. going at each other. And I thought, you know, they had some good responses after the lightning score. They just didn't get the goals that they'd been getting lately. this is far from over. I don't think the lightning are going to like win the next two and then, you know, move on. I think this is going seven. So buckle in boys. It's going to be a fun one. chance St. Louis splits up his top line? You got to wonder at some point, maybe you move, ⁓ know, Slavkowski to on a line with Demidov, you know, but. Yeah, it's, you gotta kind of wonder at what point does that start bothering him? I listened to his press conference the other day. He's not super concerned because he felt like they were still getting the chances. ⁓ which like I said, in game three, they were getting their chances, but I think at some point you kind of have to start thinking about it, even if it's not for the entire game, maybe it's a shift or two here or there. ⁓ yeah, wake them up. think seeing Slavkovsky maybe we're like Tessier and, ⁓ Demidoff. get that line going. That's, you know, that could be a potentially dangerous line for the, against the lightning. So we'll see, we'll see, you know, it's adjustments. That's what these series are all about when you're playing the same team. know, six or seven times in a row. final question. What's going on over at Raw Charge? Oh, let's see. We'll be talking about the lightning kind of some more points. had the recap go up just before we started recording. So then we'll dive down to some deeper points, some deeper thoughts, expand on those tomorrow. We'll talk about the Syracuse Cruns picking up their first playoff win today as well as they beat Cleveland four to one to even that series at a game a piece, you know, kind of delve in to the old AHLL and see how they're doing. So, ⁓ yeah, we got that, you know, we got that extra day to write some more stuff and we're going to enjoy it. Well, we will be back after game five to give you that instant reaction. Right now the series is tied at two. It's going to be a doozy. For Justin Godfrey, who you could read each and every day at www.rawcharge.com, I am Jason Lankes. Thank you very much for joining us today. Please hit that like and subscribe button. We appreciate everyone out there. And hey, go Bolts. Go Bolts. Thank you for listening to back checking the bolts. We are free and available on all platforms, including Apple, Spotify, I heart radio, Amazon, YouTube, and Deezer. 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