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Florida Panthers Drill Edmonton Oilers · Sports Exchange

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Good evening everybody, and welcome to another edition of the Sports Exchange. Boy,
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George and I know about this title, don't wait anyways, Glad to
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have our normal crew back here. What we talk about great town Camaradie.
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This is that. So let me go over the topic before we go with
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the crew real quickly. You guess that's gonna be a lot. Most of
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this episode is going to be about the Florida Panthers. We'll throw a little
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bit of NBA in there as well as you know, we've got ESPN in
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there as well. So but that's that. Candy Haling is to my right.
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Hi, Scott, Great to be here, Glad to have you,
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Candy. Glad you're a permanent part of the Sports Exchange. Anybody adds a
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great to mention to it. There's no question that you do. I think
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we have a unanimous vote when it comes to that, so we'll glad you're
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on it. You're part of history, Candy, when we talk about the
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Sportsute team to four decades, seriously, this is tradition and history. Okay,
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all right, and I ought to know what George ecorn, but yeah,
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yeah, the Sports Exchange goes way back. I actually like that way
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back, and Joe Ellis is all part of the history and at this time
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frame, Mark and mister Ellis, I know how much I really like the
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show it. We're good, glad to be here, excited for another week,
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all right, Well, you know what, I'm excited to get the
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show going pretty much all hockey tonight, with the exception of a couple of
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topics as well. And Joe's gonna have a pretty interesting topic He's gonna mention
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later on. But it'll all buy me by himself, okay, And if
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you don't know what I mean, stick around for the whole show. We'll
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go from there, all right. Well, going into Monday night's Game seven,
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Panthers coach Paul Maurice was four and oh in Game seven, okay,
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but with the Cats two to one win that captured Stanley Cup, you can
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make it five and oh. Dallas Stars coach Peter de Bower's record in Game
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seven's is eight to o, decided for the most game sevens by a head
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coach in NHL history. So with that said, Maurice had to do it
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against some tough circumstances because Stuart Skinner, the goaltender for the Edmonton Oilers with
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nine to oh in games from four to seven during the twenty twenty fourth playoffs.
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So, Candy, what are your thoughts about the Panthers road and Paul
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Mariee finally getting into history for and I'll get more into pal Maurice's history.
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But what we saw Monday night was huge. The Florida Panthers did it their
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way, which is the hard way. It took thirty years to win the
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Stanley Cup. This was the first time in their franchise that they did it.
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There's always storylines that you can make on when any team wins a Stanley
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Cup. The fact that they won the first three games lost the next three
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games. There were so many Florida Panther fans down here nervous. They were
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afraid that the Canadians, who haven't won who a Canadian team has not won
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the Stanley Cup in thirty one years. They were afraid they were gonna win
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it this time, but it would not be There's always gonna be some records.
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Somebody was this, and oh and that and oh or you know,
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but they didn't want to go down. And I hate to bring that team
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up to two of these gentlemen on this panel. They didn't want to be
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like the Fort Detroit. What red Wings coming. You know. It's tough
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about hearing that coming from the Milwaukee Admiral and not even did little lead.
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But I gotta get handed to Candy Souse. She does her research in Georgia
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and I just got stunned. But anyways, gotta get Candy her jail.
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Gotta give her her too, and that's what she did. Keep going.
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You can stick it into us a little bit more, no, I I
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mean kudos to them. You know that they fought really hard the first three
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games. I would say that the next three games, Connor McDavid had the
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best of them. And you know, you got you have to give a
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lot of credit to Sergey Barbowski because he played a really good series. He
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had a couple of bad games, I get it, and that's why they
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lost those games. But had he not had some of the really good saves
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that he had, they would have not have won. They would you know,
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you know. I heard a comment, actually it was interesting from Matthew
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Kuchuk, who used to play for the Calgary Flames, and he says out
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there, you know when he left Calgary, Okay, obviously we're talking about
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the province of Alberta. You got Edmonton and Calgary. So maybe I got
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a few of my fans back making sure Edmonton not did not go ahead and
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win it. And yeah, maybe he did get a few. But the
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Matthew could Chuck's credit. More power to him that he finally has a family
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ring, the first in his family anyway. So, George, I mean,
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Paul Maurice finally got it done. And again we'll get into more details
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as well. But when you put Paul Maurice and Peter de Boor, you
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know they're both undefeated when it managed the most elaborate on that. Yeah,
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I mean, you know, Paul Maurice has been around long, long time
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in the NHL coaching ranks. He has a lot of respe back, and
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so it does de Boor too. You know, I was kind of caught
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off guard when I heard the stat about that. No, Maurice has lost
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more games than any head coach in NHL history the regular season I'm talking about
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in not playoffs. But the guy deserved it. I mean, this guy
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is what you call a gym rat. I mean, you know, he
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loves hockey. He goes back to the days of right across the river from
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me in the city of Windsor, when he was part of the Windsor Spitfires,
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and you know, the the amateur teams that he coached here in the
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Detroit and Windsor area. I couldn't have been more happier for Paul Maurice.
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I really couldn't. On the on the flip side, well, you know,
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what can you say. I mean, Edmonton gave it all they could.
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I mean, you know, take it and stretched the South to seven
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games. We'll talk more about that, but I tell you it was a
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hell of a game. It was a hell of a battle and uh,
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you know, Florida deserved to win. I mean, it was really a
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great series. I I I you know, back and forth, back and
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forth. We saw what was going on, and Surgey did a great job
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in the nets, and obviously Connor McDavid had a great series. We'll talk
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more about that, but yeah, I'm happy for Maurice. Maurice is a
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good coach. He's been a good coach. Some coaches have a tough time
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breaking the ISO to speak, pardon the pun and winning their first Stanley Cup.
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It took him a long, long time so hats off to him and
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to the Florida Panthers. Well, I mean, con David when ahead won
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the Times My Trophy from a losing team, So yeah, go ahead,
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Joe listen. I mean, the fact of the matter is the coach had
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a three to zero lead. They played tight, but when it mattered,
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he got his guys to do what they did the first three games. He
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kept them believing that they could win, you know, and they came out
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of they played their game. If you watch Game seven, that was a
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Florida type game. You know, I'd been tended with stifled except for one
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break away. It was all Florida Florida style. You know. It was
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a great thing to see if you were a Florida fed you know. And
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they took one of the best players in hockey out of the game. And
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that's all coaching. I mean, grant that the players have to execute,
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but it starts with the guy sitting at the bench setting up everything with the
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line changes and you know, putting the right guys out there and calling the
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right plays. And he did a fabulous job, especially being in a position
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where had they blowed Game seven, you know, he would have been looked
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upon as one of the the worst coaches in history. But you know,
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he came back and he did what he needed to do with Game seven.
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Congratulations. Yeah. I think the one name that should be mentioned. I'm
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going to mention it too because I covered the Panthers for a year is a
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guy by the name of Joel Quinville. He's the one who actually got a
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lot of this turned around for a while. It's unfortunate that he had to
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leave due to a situation in which I'm sure he probably has regrets over and
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I know he's out of the league until they let him back in. But
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I you know, working with Joel Quinville, you know, during that COVID
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year, he had a ven I think he could have won a Stanley Cup
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in time had he have seen this whole thing through, And God willing,
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he'll get another opportunity. So you know, I want to put a shout
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out out to Joel Quinville, I really do. But no question about if
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Paul Maurice, to me, did an unbelievable job. You know, think
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about this guy. I mean, you know, he's been there what two
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years, right, and they got to Stanley Cup finals and he won the
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second one. What else is there to be said. So well, so
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let's continue with the Florida Panthers theme for a bit more. Florida Panthers added
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to this stat seventy six point two percent of the teams that won the Stanley
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Cup after winning Game one of the Best of seventh final. Now, I'm
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going to give everybody. I don't normally do this to offense, so this
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is something that will be a little bit different. Okay, if you are
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playing the lottery, I'm gonna give you a four digit number that you should
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consider playing. Two zero, two to one. Why would I give you
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that number? Well, the Panthers one game one, okay, two to
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nothing, and then they ended up winning the final one two to one.
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Now these are numbers you don't even think about, but you can end up
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doing that. So go out there and if you win, well, you
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know, more power to you. If you win, you can send us
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a few more subscribers to the South Florida Tribute and YouTube channel as well.
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So all right, Candy, what are your talks about the Game one winner?
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Obviously it's a good omen for them. It was I think, like
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Joe, it alluded to Florida play their game, and you know, we
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one of the saying in almost most sports that I've ever been associated with or
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watched, they always say defense wins championships. The Florida Panthers were the better
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defensive team, and that's what they did. To Conor McGregor. They played
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defense a lot of that game. If you watch, they didn't allow a
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lot of fast breaks. They had the one break where they where they actually
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scored, the Oilers scored, but other than that, they really shut down
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the defense and they really kept kept them off their game. And so I
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would say defense really wins championships. I think the Panthers that last game they
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didn't want to be. They didn't want to be the team that never won,
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the team that never got there, the team that always loses, the
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team that the laughing stock, because let's face it, the Panthers have been
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pretty much a laughing stock for many years. Back in I was reading a
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stat that back in two thousand and six, the Panthers were averaging that they
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were giving away over forty one hundred free tickets. They were handing out tickets.
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In two thousand and eight, the team introduced the first time or program
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where anyone with a valid Florida driver's license could get two free tickets to eat
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any game. Because they weren't getting fans in the stands. People in Canada
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were wondering, why would you have hockey in Florida? Florida is a hot
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state. Why would you do it? Well, you know what, they
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did it and they finally won. They played their game, They played their
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heart out. They played game seven like they played Game one, and I
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think they realized that they needed to. And the coach coached them and told
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them, hey, look what you did in game one. Don't forget what
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you did in games four, five, and six? What did you do
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in game one? You shut them up? You shut them out to do
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that again, and that's what they did. Kudos. Sometimes these stats just
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don't lie, no matter how much we want to think that they could.
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They may not. Matterer of times, the one I've already given you unquestionably
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between whether to power or Paul Maurice and now this seventy six after game one.
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You have to use them at some point. I know we talk about
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analytics or numbers, but these numbers are exactly what they are. So all
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right, George, go ahead, yeah you know? And and JB alluded
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to it earlier. I mean, you know, the tight defense, the
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hallmark of the Florida Panthers clearly illustrated in those stats. Got the two nothing
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and then the two to one and to h To their credit, they really
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knew how to clamp down on most of the Edmonton threats. And we all
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know that Edmonton did get obviously three victories in the series. But there's no
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denying there's no denying the Panthers this year. We all know they were on
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the US last year and had to watch Las Vegas hoist the Stanley Cup.
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And we've had many heartbreaks other teams over the years. But like Candy says,
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I mean, they've been a laughing stock. Let's face it. I
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mean, you know, anytime you're around that long. I mean, look
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at the laughing stock we see in Toronto, for crying out loud. What
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are they up to now? Fifty eight years or something wasn't in nineteen sixty
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six or something. I forget the year. I mean, you know,
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and even Canada, like you said earlier, Candy, I mean, Canada's
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been waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting. Boy, I'll tell you that's
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got to be just nerve racking. But it wasn't. It wasn't. It
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wasn't the team that Edmonton wanted to face. Let's face it, because Florida
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very hungry, very good, defensive minded team excellent. Those two games,
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like you said, Scott won and seven one Game one in Game seven were
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just epitome of that type of defense that they play in that we all knew.
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It watched like like like we're saying. So I'll tell you what I
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mean. One drought ends and one drought continues as far as the two major
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stories go here, But yeah, Florida clamp down when they had to.
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Well, amazingly enough, Allen, you know we've talked about sir game Lebrovski.
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You know he played his two best games in the first and last game
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in the series. I mean, I mean, obviously it's hard to go
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out there and stop a Conner with David and the rest of that scoring machine.
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But when you think about it, Edmonton dominated Game one. If they
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could have put the pump in the back of the net, Game one,
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with the way they dominated, would to be looking at a totally different scenario
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that Edmonton would be the Stanley Cup chance. But we don't play these games
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called IF's is what we don't do. And as a result, Florida got
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their Desert Championship and you gotta an itt go ahead, Joe. I mean,
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it was just a nice thing to see because you know, when you're
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up three games to none and you go on a three game losing streak,
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you have no momentum, there's nothing there, you know, and you have
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to totally regroup. You have to start over and clear everything out of your
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head. Now. I mean, we all know professional athletes all say they
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do that, but we're human. We all have feelings. I don't care
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what anyone says. You went to bed being up three nothing thinking you're winning
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this thing. No matter what. You wake up, you know, losing
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a three game lead, and even though the team's in one game one and
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you're at home, you're still going to be worried. The other team's got
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the best player in hockey on their team, they have speed, and you
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haven't performed at three straight games. You know, what a great job for
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them just to come out and play their game. I am so impressed with
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that. It was probably one of the best games of the year to watch,
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you know, better, better than any other sport. I'll have more
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stats than over the next couple of weeks about hockey. Tonight focus was on
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the Panthers, but I'm going to tell you right now, the Edmonton Oilers
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played this series on house money, is what they did. I think anybody
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expected them to win anyways, the fact that they took the Panthers on the
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brink to Game seven and had them on their heel. I think even the
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last couple of minutes of that game, when I noticed on the Oilers is
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they simply ran on a gas. They were tired. But it was a
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mentally exhausting series. But the one thing we can't forget is that you talk
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about two teams that have a distance between twenty five hundred and forty one miles
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and traveling, so you talk about the two to two one one one.
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I don't care when anybody said, you sit there, tell me that that
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travel didn't wear on them. The NHL did a good job, you know,
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with the two days in between. But still, I mean, you
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know there are times and you should go to the two three two model and
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the two two one one one. And I kind of questioned the NHL.
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They've been doing it for a while but they've never gotten to match up this
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far out. That's what they didn't do. We'll see the Panthers thing one
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more time, and then we have a couple of other things too, and
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I'll go back to it to wrap up the show, all right. Paul
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Maurice's first head coaching job was with the Hartford Whalers in nineteen ninety five,
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yes, folks, the Hartford Whalers. He proceeded to coach at Caroline Carolina
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Hurricanes, who, by the way, made it the Stanley Cup Finals.
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But loss of the Red Wings the Toronto Maple leaves the Winnipeg Jets and the
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Panthers. Now after twenty six years and yes, Georgia, nineteen hundred and
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eighty five games, he's won a Stanley Cup. But you know what,
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this guy, I've never met him. Hopefully one day I will, he
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said. He hopes the Winnipeg Jets will win it next year. This guy
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put a lot of time into Winnipeg and one of the toughest things about the
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Jets, small market Canadian team, is what they are. You wonder about
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the sustainability of the Winnipeg Jets. For him to say, I hope the
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Winnipeg Jets win it next year as a class act. Of course, can't
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answers why would they worry about it? Anyways, they got the gorilla off
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their back, and this series for the Panthers is going to produce some retired
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numbers before it's all said and done. You already have one of them,
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Roberto logo. We'll addressed a little bit later in the show. So Candy
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once again. You know, as Tommy Lasorda once told me, because God
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delays does not mean that God denies, and that definitely became the case with
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Paul Maurice. Paul Maurice was once the last player picked in the NHL draft,
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an afterthought almost He never made it to the league as a player,
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and there were many times when he wondered if his name would ever be on
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the Stanley Cup. It took him one thousand, nine hundred eighty five games,
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nine hundred and thirty nine wins, four different franchises, a team relocation
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three times, getting fired twice by Carolina alone, and a semi retirement to
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get him to this moment once he dreamed about for almost for most of his
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fifty seven years walking the planet, and he had never experienced it until now
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they're saying that he's the type of guy everybody respects, and it's because he's
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earned it. He doesn't expect people's respect just because he's the head coach.
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He does it the right way. He truly cares about each individual in this
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locker room and it goes a long way. So yeah, we all respect
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him as much. If you listen to some of his comments after the game,
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he talked about how and you hear this a lot, but how this
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team really cared for each other and built each other up and it wasn't one
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of the things sometimes you see is you see a star player and it's a
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me, me me, and what all my individual stats? You really didn't
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hear about that. You heard about a team playing as a team for a
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coach, So good job. Kudos to him, Kudos to him, George.
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Yeah, I had mentioned that earlier or too, about Maurice being such
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a you know, a hockey rat if you will. I mean, I
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found one thing very interesting about him, you know, when I mentioned about
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Windsor, Ontario. He's born in Sue Saint Marie, Ontario, which is
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across the river from Sue Saint Marie, Michigan so and then you got him
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in Windsor and then he came over to coach a team called the Detroit Compuware
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Ambassadors or the Detroit Junior Red Wings from nineteen ninety to ninety five. So
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there is that connection. Obviously. We we know what a great job mister
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Carmonals, Peter Carmonos did to build his franchise in the NHL, and you
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know, Maurice was part of that as well. I just think it's so
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cool because when he was with Windsor, they had the best record in the
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league. You know, after he retired as a player and he was fifty
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fourteen and two, their record was back in nineteen eighty eight the Winsor Spitfires
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of the Ontario Hockey League and they rolled. They rolled to the finals of
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the Memorial Cup, but they didn't get it. In the final game,
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they were upset by the Medicine Hat Tigers, losing seven to six. And
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next to the Stanley Cup, the most important trophy in hockey is what they
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call the Memorial Cup. All being said, this man has a wealth of
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experience, Like you guys said, a lot of it has been in a
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losing way. I mean, let's not be getting ourselves here. I mean,
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he had a lot of suffering teams and records around the league, so
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he waited a long time. He earned his keep, he got it done.
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But boil boy. He was with some great, really good teams in
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the NHL along the way, and also some bad teams as well. But
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I've always admired him. I always wondered, you know, the guys,
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you know, I wonder why the Red Wings ever took a chance on him.
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Of course they got Scottie Bowman, Mike Babcock. Hard to argue with
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those guys, but Maurice was a good man. Let's go to the chatting
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room real quick. Hawk two no Panthers that I missed. Well, be
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honest with you, you missed the first three segments all dedicated to the Panthers.
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So if you decide that you want to want rewatching on the Florida's Tribune
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YouTube channel, feel free to do it. I do have one more segment
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than I'll talk about with the Panthers, but the first three Hawk two is
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what you missed thus far. Glad to have you on. Nevertheless, Okay,
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Joe, go ahead, listen. It's it's the hardest playoffs to win,
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whether a coach or a player, and to be around and have that
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type of storied career, and to finally get the Stanley Cup victory and to
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have your name engraved on the cup and to say you're a Stanley Cup champion.
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That's a great honor and congratulations. You know. Not much more to
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say about that, that's just a yeah, yeah. Can I say something
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I want to I want to say that I I'm disappointed. I had two
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things that I was pretty disappointed with when after I watched that game, and
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one was the Panthers fans booing the Connor smythe Han Smyth presentation that was supposed
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to go to McDavid because he is the best player in hockey. You should
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never be booing someone that earned that. He earned that trophy right and in
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a losing batter. But on the second hand, I was disappointed that he
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did not come out and accept that trophy. And I know it is hard,
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they just lost. But as a tennis player, you stand loser and
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the winner on the tennis court after and you watch both the ceremonies, you
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don't he did not have to watch the whole ceremony but he's have at least
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come out, I feel and accepted the that trophy. So I was disappointed
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with the Panther fans booing him, but I was also disappointed that he didn't
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come out and get that trophy. Okay, that's fair, okay to Yeah,
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we have a lot of great stuff on there, so when you rewatch
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it later, and I know you won't be disappointed, and we'll be doing
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some hockey stuff over the next couple of weeks or so. I just want
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to get a lot of them Panthers information in today. So all right,
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well, we're gonna go ahead and shift to the NBA right now. The
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NBA draft miss and I think there's gonna be more hype about a player that
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will be drafted later, either in the first round or into the second round.
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Tomorrow. The Toronto Raptors are showing interest in Bronnie James with the number
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thirty one pick. Can you imagine the impact of Bronnie James in Toronto.
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He'll be bigger than Vince Carter. Can you imagine that? All right,
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you know what, I'm gonna go to reverse order this time, Joe,
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what do you think he's not ready for the NBA. It doesn't matter where
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he plays. It's a joke. It's Lebron be a Lebron. It's horrible
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and stupid. It's a farce. Might as well put all four of us
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in the NBA. Put Kate len Clark at the NBA, right, you
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know, put Major Russo of the NBA, because we're all just as qualified
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as Broddie James at the moment. Yeah, I mean, the reality is.
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But I'll tell you, if he does go to Canada, you know
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they'll take Bronnie, and James knows he'll definitely sell some tickets out there,
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and you never know. I mean, one team is high on you and
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at the coaching staff. But yeah, I don't think he was ready to
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come out. I think you should have stayed to know that you're intellegeball.
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That's for sure, all right, George, go ahead, Yeah, I
26:47
have to agree. I mean, you know, for me, it's still
26:49
way too early for a lot of these kids coming out in the NBA.
26:55
You know, I'm more of a traditional guy like that and would wishes that
26:59
they would stay at least through their third year if they're in college. But
27:03
I know that doesn't happen anymore. For most of the stars, it's one
27:06
and out, two and out. Now we're getting guys from the G League,
27:11
we're getting guys from European leagues. But no, I don't think Gee,
27:15
I don't think Rynie. I don't think he's ready either. I mean
27:18
I think that you know, it's it's it's to a point now where you
27:22
may say you're ready. You may have an agent that says says you're ready.
27:30
Take a step back and look at the whole situation. And Money's great,
27:37
most of them are not ready when they come out. I think,
27:42
honestly, the only reason why he really wants to come out is because he
27:45
wants to play either with his dad or against his dad. And I think
27:49
his dad is getting so close to retirement that that is the reason why he's
27:53
kind of being pushed, maybe even by Lebron because everyone's known that Lebron one
28:00
wanted to play with his son. They wanted to be on the same team,
28:03
and so how do you do that. You got to declare for the
28:07
draft. Because so I think that's the only reason really why, and maybe
28:11
not the only reason, but one of the big reasons. That's the driving
28:14
force of why he's gonna he's in this draft, is he ready? No?
28:19
Well, you know what, I'll be the one this time, my
28:22
corn that brings up this reference. And don't say a word. By the
28:25
way, Hawk two, Yeah, you're right, McDavid probably felt defeated and
28:29
one of the Cup not in a reality I'm sure you're right. I can't
28:33
really disagree with that point. But the reality is is you want a trophy
28:37
and that's one that's gonna be on your resume the rest of your life.
28:41
But Hawk two, I definitely see your point. Here's the thing. The
28:44
best father son stories or sons have always been the house he had Gordy Howe,
28:51
he had Martin Howe and Mark Howen. By the way, Gordy and
28:53
Mark are in the Hockey Hall of Pay Okay, so you know when they
28:57
played for the Hartford Wheelers and he's and Arrows. And I do predict though
29:02
that when the time comes and Houston's given a franchise, I think Houston Arrows
29:06
will be back. I really do so. In the Hertford Whalers, I
29:08
ended up going to the Hartford see it over in the mall and it was
29:12
unbelievable watching a game inside of the ISCA base inside of them all. But
29:17
yeah, I could see your point. Wanting to play with or against his
29:21
dad, I get it, you know, and maybe the pressure pressure is
29:26
coming from his dad Lebron James. I don't know. All right, Well,
29:29
you know what, this is a hot topic last night, so that's
29:32
why I'm going to bring it back on tonight. ESPN is offering stephen A
29:36
Smith eighteen million per year. He wants twenty five million dollars. All right,
29:41
Candy, how do you see this one playing out? ESPN has lost
29:48
so many of their good talent, and maybe not lost, maybe they pushed
29:53
them out because they can't afford everybody. Stephen A is there is one of
30:00
the still last remaining that is drawn a lot of whether you like him or
30:08
not, He's drawn a lot of attention. He gets a lot of attention,
30:11
he gets a lot of views. We're talking about him, listen.
30:15
I mean that's what ESPN wants, you know. They don't want the quiet
30:21
commentators that nobody talks about. They want the commentators that people talk about.
30:26
But they also want to be able to afford him. I don't know.
30:30
I don't see them going up to what stephen A wants because I don't think
30:36
they can afford that, and they can't keep affording that. But do I
30:41
see Stephen and some other spot getting paid that. Who knows it could happen.
30:49
I sure wouldn't pay that much for him. But nobody's handing me,
30:53
you know, millions to talk though, either so it's okay, Well you're
30:57
worth more than a million saus anyways. But the reality of the situation is
31:02
if Stephen A Smith twenty five million, he'll do it on a late night
31:06
show that is it's sports related. But one way of candy talking. I
31:08
know we've been blowing through the show pretty quickly. Why don't we do take
31:11
a little station break before Georgia and JB kick in? So go ahead.
31:18
So The Selfword Tribune Publishing Company published a book last November. Actually, it
31:22
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31:26
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31:36
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33:00
I have Joe Ellis in my mind, go ahead and let's talk about Steven
33:04
A. Smith's value. Chuckles the clown. He's got great value. You
33:13
know, ESPN's not going to pay him what he wants. But you know,
33:16
people hate him or love him, there's no one between. And people
33:22
like to watch. When you hate somebody, you tend to watch. When
33:25
you love somebody, you tend to watch. So he'll get the money somewhere.
33:29
Don't think it's going to happen at ESPN, but I definitely think I'll
33:31
get what he's looking for. I think the greatest broadcaster have ever stepped through
33:37
ESPN towers. Anyway, maybe I'm a bit more partial to him Bob Lee.
33:40
I had a good, fortunate meeting Bob a couple of years ago national
33:44
Sports Media Association event, and in fact, Candy and I'll be going up
33:47
there on Friday night and was spending the weekend up there as well. So
33:52
Bobby is the best. I think. Yeah, Steven's gonna get paid,
33:54
it's just not going to be a ESPN and I would be surprised if he
33:58
goes out there and jups out of sports. So many great people have looked
34:01
lest sports to do all the things and they've done fine with it. So
34:05
all right, George, you can wrap this topic up. Well, you
34:08
know, how about we have a trade here, folks. We're gonna trade
34:13
steven A Smith for or Charles Barklay. Barklay's already barking about leaving TBS and
34:21
TNT, And wouldn't that be funny if somehow steven A goes over there and
34:25
then Charles finds his new home at ESPN. The money situation, yeah,
34:32
that is something that I know Walt Disney and ABC and ESPN have a lot
34:37
of money, but that is an awful huge demand for anyone in the broadcast
34:45
business. So I don't see it happening either. But you know, stranger
34:50
things has happened. I mean, you know, these guys move around sometimes.
34:52
We never thought Joe John excuse me, John Madden would move move around
34:58
as much as he did. Al Michael moved around. I mean, you
35:00
know, we've seen it over the years, some of the guys moving back.
35:05
Musburger is another one from CBS to ABC, and the list goes on.
35:09
It's possible he's going to get a new contract, but I'm not so
35:15
sure, and I don't think it's going to be that much. And it's
35:17
gonna be with ESPN. That's that's too outrageous a demand. I feel.
35:22
Okay, yeah, that's fair enough. And you know, and one of
35:24
the topics on Nation Week's edition for the Sports We Change will be Charles Berkley's
35:29
retirement, that's for sure. I'd like to address that. This week.
35:31
I decided to spend the majority of the show talk about the Florida Panthers,
35:36
So George Eikron was thinking the way I do. Then again, he half
35:39
for forty years, so it's a different So everybody's spoken on this one.
35:44
So I'm only gonna mention one more Panther theme here. But I think one
35:47
of the best things about Florida's championship is that Panthers legend Roberto lul Wongo,
35:52
the name will go in the Cup to an already attractive resume. You talk
35:57
about a guy that played a career altogether, and all of a sudden,
36:01
Lulongo's name was going on. I had an opportunity one time to talk to
36:07
Roberto Luongo and you know what, the Panthers PR people even back then,
36:10
they were pretty good bad now. But the main thing is, you know,
36:15
I asked for Berto la Loongo. I think I went five to seven
36:19
minutes, and a PR guy said, after I was done, you know,
36:22
you really need features. Really another times said I'm sorry, but he
36:25
was nice about it. I didn't know I was an out of town guest
36:30
media guy anyhow, but I respected the fact that Luongo went out there and
36:35
got hammered, I think by the Red Wings to the forty five shots.
36:37
This guy could assume for lack of protection. But I'm glad Thatbert Roberto l
36:44
Loongo's name is going to go on. Plus his numbers already retired. Over
36:49
at the Ameran Bank Arena, that's what they call it, so candy.
36:53
Some talks about Roberto, kudos to him to like all the guys that have
37:00
been there for a long time, through the bad times, to stay there
37:06
and to win the Cup. But you know, we talk about the team,
37:10
but you also have to talk about the economic impact that it's gonna have
37:14
on the Florida Panthers and Florida around the around here. One of the things
37:20
that I thought was really cool is. There was a they showed a picture
37:23
of Florida Panthers forward Johanna Gladovich and his wife Allison. They had twins during
37:30
the New York Rangers series. They put those twins in the Stanley Cup and
37:36
took a picture, like how cool is that? They took the Stanley Cup
37:38
to the beach. They had it out, they were swimming with it in
37:42
the Atlantic Ocean. The hard Rock Hotel which is the Geit the guitar that
37:49
has the nightly show. If you watch, if you go on to Facebook,
37:52
you can go on to the Facebook page and the light show it is
37:57
shows the guitar. It shows a Stanley up going up. It talks about
38:00
congratulations Florida Panthers. There's gonna be a parade on Sunday. It's just cool
38:07
to see because I have I have not witnessed Florida winning much of anything down
38:13
here. That the Dolphins have won, the Heat have won, the Marlins,
38:16
they've all won. So now finally the Panthers have won. And I
38:22
think it's kind of cool because I always have said that South Florida the fans
38:29
were fair weather fans, and that's that's the truth. Like if the team
38:32
is winning, they're gonna support them. But if the team isn't, they're
38:36
not. So it's kind of cool to finally see some support around a team
38:39
that, yes, that they won, but just the economic impact that this
38:43
is gonna have is pretty cool. But I'm happy long ago. Yes,
38:47
okay, Katie, let me tell you something. You're the oldest of four,
38:52
right I am. Okay, So what I'm saying to is this,
38:55
The other three weren't even born when the Miami Dolphins won their two championshi back
39:00
in the seventies, so you know, you know, no, they weren't
39:04
even alive. You're the only one of the Everly family, Okay that was
39:08
alive when the Dolphins had an undefeated season then they backed it up. So
39:13
interesting. I also want to point out too that tonight's Sports Exchange is being
39:16
dedicated to my colleague Peter Weed. He passed earlier away earlier in the Europe
39:22
in February. But you know, since we're on the Sports Exchange is a
39:25
big moment in South Florida sports history. Peter. I'm always thinking about you.
39:30
There's never a day that doesn't go by, So Peter, I hope
39:32
you're looking down and enjoying what we're talking about. This show is dedicated Peter
39:36
Weed. All right. With that said, JB. L let's go ahead.
39:39
Well listen. It's great for Berta La Loongo. It's great for the
39:45
city, the state of Florida. You know, he's a long time good
39:51
player. You know, I don't think he's a Hall of Famer, but
39:53
he's just a really good player and a good guy. Congratulations to finally,
39:59
you know, get the to say he's a Stanley Cup champion. I mean,
40:02
these guys, it's the hardest championship to win at oldest sports, the
40:07
hardest playoffs to get through. You know, I got to give them a
40:10
lot of credit. I agree, all right, George, Well it's this
40:19
first Stanley Cup, it's not his first outstanding achievement. Looking back on Lawongo's
40:24
career, Winter Olympic gold medalists twenty ten and twenty and fourteen, a World
40:31
Cup champion in two thousand and four, the IIHF World Championship gold medalist in
40:37
two thousand and three. In two thousand and four, he's won the William
40:43
Jennings Trophy in the NHL. He's been in an NHL All Star Game participant
40:49
for six years. He won the Mark Messier Leadership Award back in two thousand
40:53
and seven, you know, and now twenty twenty four, he's gotten it
41:00
as an executive in the Panthers front office, his first Stanley Cup. So
41:07
hats off to him. You know, I've seen him many times before and
41:13
he gave the Red Wings a lot of tough metals on the ice. I've
41:16
always admired of Berta Longo. He's been a good goalie and a good man
41:21
in the NHL too, so so to me, I think this is just
41:25
a nice fitting cap to his outstanding career. And I know he's not done
41:30
yet as far as being a front office executive or coaching or whatever he might
41:35
the future right hold, But yeah, I'm happy for him. He's a
41:38
good guy, and like I said, even though he's had these other achievements,
41:42
this is the proudest and the best one you could get. And that's
41:45
witty. The Stanley Cup. Yeah, I think the biggest challenge of Florida
41:50
pants is going to have going forward, and I did predict that they would
41:52
win it in seven games, where there might have been other individuals that I
41:55
know that are avid Panthers fans. I said they're going to win it seven,
42:00
and they did win it seven. I stayed by the prediction the whole
42:02
time, and I'm not because I'm a big time prognostic. Are nothing to
42:07
do with it. But I also believed in my mind that the reason I
42:10
did predict that they'd win it is because teams that go to the finals the
42:15
year before learn from what they've done and then they're able to come back hungrier
42:20
and angrier and subsequently go out there and win it all. So again,
42:24
that's another reason why I ought to go to Panthers and seven and that did
42:29
come to fruid. So we're gonna get the partying shops, you know what.
42:30
I'm gonna lead off this time. Okay. I didn't have an opportunity
42:35
to do it last night because we were so deep into football. It was
42:37
ridiculous. But okay, I'm gonna get around to doing it now. And
42:44
that's this, Okay fine. On June twenty, two thousand and nine,
42:50
Michael Jackson and Farah Fawcett died. Why am I bringing this up? Okay?
42:57
I had major back surgery on my L four and L five, you
43:02
know, and at Holy Cross Hospital in Fort Lauria, and they took care
43:07
of me really well, and the only thing that saved me from going insane
43:09
was I had lots of morphine. So anytime I need to know when I
43:14
had back surgery, folks, it's better than anything you can dig up on
43:19
those websites or whatever about medical background. All I need is Farafauset and Michael
43:23
Jackson and that's when I had my back surgery. So since I didn't get
43:28
a chance to talk about it yesterday, I'm saying it now. All right,
43:30
you know what, Candy, go ahead, what's your parting shot?
43:36
Kudos to Jordan Love him and his now fiance got engaged on their trip during
43:45
the off season. Here, kudos to both of them. That's it.
43:51
What about you, George, Well, I'm going to pass out at kudo
43:54
too. A man that died too early. Don Shane finally being his reward
44:06
from the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame as that it was announced in the class
44:09
of twenty twenty four that our friend Don Shane and Scott you saw him at
44:15
so many Lions and Pistons games. I know as I did. A great
44:19
guy, a hard worker at ABC Channel seven in Detroit. Sports anchor who
44:23
died way too young at age sixty. I just am so happy for him
44:28
winning the winning the admittance and to the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame Induction banquet,
44:34
which will be held in October in Detroit. Well, you know what,
44:37
Katie, since you were going to Jordan Love Route, I might as
44:39
just thrown out there. Anyways, congratulations to Jared Dolphin Kristin Harper for tying
44:45
they're not as well. I mean, I'll tell you one thing about Jared
44:47
Dolphin's did tates and women when he marries a sports illustrated model like Kristin,
44:52
but apparently they have an unbelievable relationship. So I'm glad for Jared Dolphin Kristin
44:58
Arper. I have to leave know Ellis for last because after what he said
45:02
to me today that this had to be a standalone segment, and Elis usually
45:07
gets a standalone segment, But this is really a standalone segment, to know
45:10
what I mean, Joe. So before we before we get to that,
45:15
I just want to give credit to the College g League Ignite. They have
45:20
two players drafted, best college of the world, and don't forget about the
45:24
foreign colleges. J L. Borg and Perth, Australia. It's great to
45:30
see the NBA draft. I don't even know half these guys are. It's
45:32
pretty sad. I mean, hopefully they're good because I mean, you know,
45:37
I didn't know too much about Luca before we got here. It's pretty
45:39
wild. But you know, since we're talking about foreign stuff and you know,
45:45
let's talk about some policies. So if you're not happy, because we
45:47
talked about the presidential debate tomorrow and the prop bets for it, so I've
45:52
decided and I announced it live on the air last night. If you're not
45:57
happy with either of the choices, that's perfectly fine. When you go to
46:00
the voting booth of Abra fifth write jb Ellis, let's see how many votes
46:05
we could get. I'll be announcing my vice presidential pick and my cabinet as
46:08
we go through I get closer to the election. But you know, if
46:13
you're not happy, got ahead, right down, jb Ellis, do the
46:16
right thing. Don't waste your vote or write a vote counts. Let's see
46:21
what we could do. Let's show the world that you know, jb Ellis
46:23
should be your president and we're not happy. What's out there. Well,
46:28
you know, it's funny how you say that. I told you you should
46:30
run for president in a few weeks ago. I can't believe that message got
46:32
through and then you began to think about it. Man, Right, you
46:37
never know just the millions of votes, that's all. Yeah, what's your
46:44
campaign strategy? Uh? Just keep announced I'm running for presidents. See any
46:49
votes we get. Well, the one thing you got going for you that
46:52
most people don't have going for is at least you had the ability to get
46:54
your word out via new media. So and you have whatever shows you want
46:59
to go and appearing and set your agenda. So I'm pulling for you,
47:02
Ellis all day long, and it'll certainly be an eye opener in November fifth.
47:08
Right now, all I'm looking forward to is this weekend as I go
47:14
back to the National Sports Media Association, catch up with some colleagues and meet
47:17
some new people and be able to meet new people. It's a good event
47:22
run by Dave Goran for sure. So well, then I'm pulling for you,
47:25
Joe, I am. So let's see what let's support demand, let's
47:30
support come in, all right, Katie, why don't you take us home
47:34
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So it's been a fun, fun time being with you guys tonight, some
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51:43
at the end of my column in the MotorCity Tribune. Oh yeah, Candy's
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got a picture of it over there forward by the late Ernie Harwell, Uncle
51:52
Ernie to Scott and to me and a great man. And also there's all
51:57
kinds of great pictures in there. Scott's did a couple of pictures. We
52:00
both say who they are. Well, you have to buy the book to
52:02
find out. I like that, lie, Candy. I'm gonna use it
52:05
on mine too, and even this guy corners with a couple of famous people,
52:09
but I'm not gonna tell you. Anyways, it's been a lot of
52:15
fun. Thanks, guys, had a great show tonight, and mind you,
52:19
George Raythorn wrote the forward on mine as well, So I got a
52:22
good job, so thank you. So that's go ahead, Candy all these
52:29
hand signals, man, I'm still trying to get you some of my new
52:31
glasses, all right, but uh so I won't go on public radio or
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podcasting that. I'm still not sure what the meme is and I don't even
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worry about it. I got the smart people that can figure out meme and
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artificial intelligence and all that business. But anyway, thank everybody for joining us
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here on the Sports Exchange, and I'll be half of Candy em Bling,
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jb Ellis, George Iicorn, and myself. We hope you have a great
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weekend and we will see you next sweek here on the Sports of Sames.
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Good Night, everybody, good night, and congratulate the Panthers, ye