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Panthers Win Game 5 to Take 3-2 Lead in Stanley Cup Final _ NHL on TNT · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: I know on Tuesday in sunrise, the Stanley Cup will
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  Speaker 1: be in the building, will be there. Leam McK Henrik Lunquis, Anson,
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  Speaker 1: Carter Paul Zannett's Wayne Gretzky. This felt like such a
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  Speaker 1: critical moment, critical game. We've know both teams are skillful,
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  Speaker 1: we know that they're strong and resilient. Did it feel
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  Speaker 1: like one team had a little bit more will, a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more desire and just met the moment tonight?
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  Speaker 2: Right from the get go, Florida played a really smart,
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  Speaker 2: intelligent road game, and we could see the first ten
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  Speaker 2: minutes they looked like the better team. Edmonton looked cautious,
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  Speaker 2: they were on their heels, they weren't making plays, they
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  Speaker 2: weren't getting pucks to the net, really no threat offensively
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  Speaker 2: in the first period. And when you win a game,
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  Speaker 2: when you come back from being down three goals on
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  Speaker 2: the road, game four, I thought the energy and enthusiasm
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  Speaker 2: would have been breathtaking for the weathers, with these fans
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  Speaker 2: and how great the fans are. But that just shows
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  Speaker 2: you how professional the Florida Panthers are.
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  Speaker 3: They just went about their job. What about their work.
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  Speaker 2: They leaned on their top guys that they got contributions
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  Speaker 2: from everyone, and I thought at the defense cor this
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  Speaker 2: was their best game. Is a defense score in the
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  Speaker 2: whole series, no doubt.
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  Speaker 4: I was actually shocked at the amount of passengers that
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  Speaker 4: the Oilers had tonight, Like I couldn't believe they laid
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  Speaker 4: an egg like.
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  Speaker 3: That at home. But all credit to the Florida Panthers boys.
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  Speaker 4: And you could really tell that they were on a
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  Speaker 4: mission for the moment you saw them in the tunnel
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  Speaker 4: coming out. They seem confident, they seem loose, and they
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  Speaker 4: knew that they were going to establish their game early
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  Speaker 4: and often, and I really thought it started with that
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  Speaker 4: third line. I felt like at that sixteen minute mark,
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  Speaker 4: there was one shift in particular where I was like,
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  Speaker 4: oh wow, they just took the momentum and I really
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  Speaker 4: never saw them give it back the rest of the game.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I feel like at this point we should
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  Speaker 5: not be surprised what they've done on the road in
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  Speaker 5: these playoffs. It's historical, right, they come in and every
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  Speaker 5: building doesn't matter what team, and then they have their style,
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  Speaker 5: they know how to play, and on top of that,
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  Speaker 5: you have a couple of players that made incredible individual efforts.
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  Speaker 5: Start with marsh and I mean those goals are world class.
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  Speaker 5: We talked about it off camera here how smart he
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  Speaker 5: is with his stick. It looked like nothing was going
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  Speaker 5: to happen, and he managed, not with full speed, but
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  Speaker 5: just how he locks the stick of the defenseman. Then
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  Speaker 5: he gets to the park, then he gets in and
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  Speaker 5: we saw it in game one right, Game two two
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  Speaker 5: s it's a thing how he uses his strength with
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  Speaker 5: his stick and then small old dangles in front and
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  Speaker 5: puts it in.
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  Speaker 3: That was a masterclass.
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  Speaker 5: And I felt like he was driving the bus so
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  Speaker 5: you could see it already the first couple of shifts,
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  Speaker 5: so he was out there.
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  Speaker 6: I feel like teams will win back to back Stanley Cups.
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  Speaker 6: Is Florida has a chance to do that? Have to
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  Speaker 6: have a strong third line. I think you touch on
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  Speaker 6: the biz. When I played Detroit Red Wings had that
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  Speaker 6: grind line most recent history, HBK line in Pittsburgh, get
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  Speaker 6: good Rose line in Tampa Bay.
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  Speaker 3: This third line for Florida Panthers outstanding. Gretz.
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  Speaker 6: When you played, what was your third lines like and
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  Speaker 6: how important were they to the success you guys winning
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  Speaker 6: Stanley Cups.
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  Speaker 2: You got to have depth, right, We had Craig McTavish,
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  Speaker 2: Dave and Pat Hughes, And that was the line. We
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  Speaker 2: knew they were gonna go out there and they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: work hard, they were gonna set it tone and they
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  Speaker 2: were gonna be strong defensively and if they got a goal,
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  Speaker 2: that was a bonus for us.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: But you're right right from the first game and I
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  Speaker 2: heard I remember listening to the coach after the first
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  Speaker 2: game and he was talking about, you know what, we're
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  Speaker 2: trying to keep Barkoff out there and we're trying to
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  Speaker 2: keep Londell out there against them, So they're not even
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  Speaker 2: looking at that line as a third line, they're looking
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  Speaker 2: at a second line.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna talk to Brad Marshain about that third line,
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  Speaker 1: about the whole game in a little bit, but let's
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  Speaker 1: get to the highlights here. In the postgame show presented
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  Speaker 1: by vand of Pharmaceutical, all the fans out fired up
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  Speaker 1: huge game of year and Edmonton as they tried to
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  Speaker 1: take the series lead. The big story coming into this
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  Speaker 1: Cal Picker gets to start on the keels of a
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  Speaker 1: spectacular Game four, but it was this man, Brad Marshen
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  Speaker 1: just ready pouncing and then finish it.
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  Speaker 4: And points it's about the details. I mean that's a
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  Speaker 4: neutral phone face off at center Rice. I mean Pod
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  Speaker 4: Coleson gets beat and then all of a sudden at Holm.
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  Speaker 3: Rarely you see him.
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  Speaker 4: Get beat one on one, he gets bita to the outside,
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  Speaker 4: Marshy perfectly pulls it over going top shelf and like
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  Speaker 4: this one. I mean, I don't know what you're gonna do,
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  Speaker 4: Sam the Bennett Menace. I mean, how many goals does
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  Speaker 4: this guy have on the road now? Thirteen goals and
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  Speaker 4: this is insane, man, this guy's probably gonna win the
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  Speaker 4: cards fight or Marshall picked her poison right, But just
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  Speaker 4: horrible defending.
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  Speaker 3: On both goals and not a good start for them
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  Speaker 3: in that first period.
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  Speaker 1: I'm really enjoying you still calling him Sam the Bennett menace.
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  Speaker 1: He said, Sam the Menace Bennett. But that's a different story.
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  Speaker 1: You don't do nothing here, and if Bob making stops,
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  Speaker 1: it's been a huge evands. All the time we talked
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  Speaker 1: about bumps scoring over the right shoulder, didn't happen on
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  Speaker 1: that one.
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  Speaker 5: Hang, No, when you get too close to Bob, that's
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  Speaker 5: when he gets so good because he's.
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  Speaker 3: Hard to elevate it over him. You need a little distance.
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  Speaker 5: Even if you're tipping the shot or even taking shots
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  Speaker 5: further out, he's always better.
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  Speaker 1: The frustration continued at this point for McDavid. He'd been blanketed.
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  Speaker 1: He got an opportunity wrung one off the post. This
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  Speaker 1: is legendary stuff right here for Brab Marshah, dress completely
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  Speaker 1: undresses Wallman.
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  Speaker 3: There, boys like look at the requestioned his speed. It
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  Speaker 3: feels like he's got new RFE.
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  Speaker 4: Brab Marshaw, he's just high stepping through the neutral zone
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  Speaker 4: and then obviously magician will work here.
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  Speaker 3: It's beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: It's another guy who's gonna get paid in the off season.
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  Speaker 1: Now watch this.
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  Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, he probably had three tickets to get
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  Speaker 3: the end. I've never seen that before. That's something I
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  Speaker 3: would do. Voice. Yeahhree nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Third period. Finally McDavid, he breaks through some quick hands,
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  Speaker 1: quick feet. It's his first goal of the series.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was unfortunate early on he had that glorious
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  Speaker 4: opportunity on that two on one. Couldn't very Finally finds
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  Speaker 4: at the back of the net for the first time
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  Speaker 4: in the Stanley Cup Final, and I.
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  Speaker 3: Mean too little, too late in my opinion, And this was.
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  Speaker 4: The straw that broke the camel's back sort of speak.
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  Speaker 4: I mean just on laser shot talk G's barred down
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  Speaker 4: from Sam rein Art and we've seen.
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  Speaker 3: This story before. Voice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a great shot, but he can't leave a
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  Speaker 2: guy like that open in the slot area.
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  Speaker 3: There's nobody within ten feet of him.
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  Speaker 2: This is the Stanley Cup Finals, Game five, and he's
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  Speaker 2: wide open and having lunch break there.
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  Speaker 1: And that response was a minute later. This came later
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  Speaker 1: on though a very ten goals in the series, not
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  Speaker 1: enough five to the final.
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  Speaker 3: Way stuck in there. I didn't know you were part
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  Speaker 3: of this, looking way too seriously.
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  Speaker 2: All I know is right now the Steamer's beaten Pink Tony.
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  Speaker 4: The final Dagger, who might mean mugging over there?
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  Speaker 3: How did busy Bets do tonight?
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  Speaker 1: Hank?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's time to go to commercial. What do
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  Speaker 3: you guys think?
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  Speaker 1: Now, let's talk with Brad marsieah before we get into that.
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  Speaker 1: Because first player multiple two goal games in a Cup
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  Speaker 1: finals since Max Talbott No. Nine, first player with five
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  Speaker 1: roll road goals in a single top and a guy
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  Speaker 1: who just makes things happen. He finds you on your heels,
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  Speaker 1: he takes advantage.
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  Speaker 3: Boys. These aren't tappings. These are just unbelievable individual efforts.
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  Speaker 4: And like eck Holm is one of the best defensive
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  Speaker 4: defensemen in the league, and he walks him like nothing.
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  Speaker 3: And just check out the read here, like he knows
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  Speaker 3: that Wallsman's coming over.
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  Speaker 4: Folm works this triangle and and Hank, you mentioned how
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  Speaker 4: strong he is on his stick as he comes here.
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  Speaker 3: Look at how much weight he puts down.
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  Speaker 4: On Waalman's so he can't knock that puck away below
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  Speaker 4: the goal line. So that strength on his stick is huge,
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  Speaker 4: allows the puck to come back over and then slides
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  Speaker 4: it through the wicket, just like you said.
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  Speaker 3: In game two.
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  Speaker 5: And it's interesting to hear that he watched that so
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  Speaker 5: because he was the master of that. He could stand
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  Speaker 5: still and protect the puck without touching the puck.
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  Speaker 3: He was just.
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  Speaker 5: Locking sticks all around him, and it makes sense that
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  Speaker 5: he looked at him a lot practice it a lot,
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  Speaker 5: and a lot of it is determination too.
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  Speaker 3: The strong hands he did.
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  Speaker 5: We talk about that in the playoffs you need to
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  Speaker 5: have a heavy stick hold on to but protect it
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  Speaker 5: as well.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's doing it so well.
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  Speaker 6: And I mentioned that hpk line for Pittsburgh with Hagling,
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  Speaker 6: your former teammate with the Rangers, Benino and Kessel. That's
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  Speaker 6: what marsh feels like to me. Phil Kessel was a
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  Speaker 6: first line player playing on the third line and getting
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  Speaker 6: a great opportunity he playings against other teams third line.
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  Speaker 6: That looks like what I'm seeing right now with Marshan.
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  Speaker 6: He's a first line player playing down the line up.
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  Speaker 6: Now you're playing against other teams maybe fourth and fifth defenceman,
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  Speaker 6: or maybe fifth and sixth defenseman.
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  Speaker 3: So that's opportunities. He's taking full advantage him right now.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't think enough can be said about the
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  Speaker 4: five men defensive effort each line who was going over
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  Speaker 4: the boards for Florida.
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  Speaker 3: I looked over at the scoreclock.
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  Speaker 4: I think there was about three minutes left, and the Oilers,
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  Speaker 4: with the power plays that they had in the second period,
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  Speaker 4: had only generated sixteen shots on that So from Barkov down,
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  Speaker 4: I thought that was Barkov's most impressive night. Knowing that
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  Speaker 4: you were going to see McDavid's best. He was the
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  Speaker 4: wet blanket that we all expect him to be every
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  Speaker 4: game long. And each line followed up Sam the menace,
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  Speaker 4: Bennett bo I got it in the first time in
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  Speaker 4: a long time, but it was just it was just
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  Speaker 4: incredible and in that decor, from blocking shots to closing
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  Speaker 4: on guys, from when they went down on all fours
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  Speaker 4: at the right time, to just being a position allowing
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  Speaker 4: Brabrowski to get the strong side and net taking.
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  Speaker 3: Away the fire side. It was a masterclass on defense.
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  Speaker 4: So, I mean, we talked about the offense, but defensively
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  Speaker 4: they were just so so sound.
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  Speaker 1: And listen, there were some people out there didn't think
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  Speaker 1: Brad Marshan should be in the discussion for Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: May've changed your minds during this series, wondering if he'd be.
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  Speaker 1: I'm that Olympic team for Canada next year. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think there's any question at this point.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I mean.
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  Speaker 6: A couple of guys like that. No, it's happy to
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  Speaker 6: boys the bees. After two rounds that DROPI turn
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  Speaker 2: Out to the Sam Bennett's on the other side.