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Florida Panthers Win Back-to-Back Stanley Cups _ NHL on TNT · Bleacher Report

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  Speaker 1: Here with Anton Carter, Hendrick Blunqus Bova Zanetts, Wayne Gretzky Blarna.
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  Speaker 1: Panthers are back to back champs. Heard with Jackie with
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  Speaker 1: Brad march Jan saying the secret of the success is
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  Speaker 1: that this team's a family. And you heard an emotional
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  Speaker 1: matt to get Chuck the panger or a dynasty, it's
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  Speaker 1: the culture.
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  Speaker 2: The culture here is unique.
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  Speaker 1: They've won back to back Cups, They've gone to three
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  Speaker 1: straight finals.
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  Speaker 2: There is something special about this culture here.
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  Speaker 3: Gretz Well, I think that everyone said it best when
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  Speaker 3: they traded for matt to Chuck. That was a gutsy
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  Speaker 3: trade because the player they traded was a tremendous hockey player.
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  Speaker 4: And Matthew came here and I.
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  Speaker 3: Know we've talked about it, but the fact is he
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  Speaker 3: did change the culture. He didn't have to say a lot.
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  Speaker 3: It was how he played and how when softas he
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  Speaker 3: was on the ice, and what he would do to
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  Speaker 3: win the championship, and that fed through the whole hockey club.
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  Speaker 2: Joe I thought when.
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  Speaker 4: They lost Montour and Eckman Marson.
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  Speaker 3: I thought, okay, those guys are a really good defense
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  Speaker 3: fan and long came Seth Johones and I can't say
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  Speaker 3: enough good things about their management team.
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  Speaker 4: They did a great job.
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  Speaker 3: They had more depth, they deserve to win the Stanley Cup,
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  Speaker 3: and they had the best goaltender and throughout the playoffs, I.
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  Speaker 5: Just look at the rundown of potential cons Mike winners.
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  Speaker 2: Congratulations with the Sam Benn.
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  Speaker 5: But we were going back and forth hot starving about
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  Speaker 5: Bennett or Marshawn or Barkhov or Bob.
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's depth right there. And Angels person could
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  Speaker 2: have won the MVP.
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  Speaker 4: And eck Quad.
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  Speaker 2: He was unreal.
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  Speaker 1: I scored four goals in this game, right, Sam reinhard.
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  Speaker 2: Unbelievable, incredible.
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  Speaker 6: I just have to say I haven't played in five years.
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  Speaker 6: Every year that goes by, you get more, you know,
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  Speaker 6: separation from the game.
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  Speaker 2: But when I listened to them.
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  Speaker 6: Talk about the group the locker room, it makes them
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  Speaker 6: miss the game so much. It's no better feeling than
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  Speaker 6: to be on a team where you feel like you're
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  Speaker 6: playing for each other and anytime you have success, that's
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  Speaker 6: what you need in the locker room. It's not enough
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  Speaker 6: to just have great players. You need that feeling of
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  Speaker 6: you playing for each other. I just get goosebumps when
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  Speaker 6: I hear them talk. They mean so much to each other. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: and it's such a big part of playing this game.
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  Speaker 6: That's why we start playing the game as kids too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: We love the competition, but we love doing it together
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  Speaker 6: in a great group. I just absolutely love it. You know,
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  Speaker 6: I might want to go skate tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. It never gets told either.
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  Speaker 4: Guys.
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  Speaker 5: You watch these trophy presentations for all these other sports
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  Speaker 5: in these leagues. I love seeing the players get the trophy.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, those are the guys that out there blocking
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  Speaker 5: shots of their face, scoring goals. Yes, you're gonna have
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  Speaker 5: a great ownership and great management for the players.
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  Speaker 2: Are the ones that get it done.
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  Speaker 1: And it goes back to the captain, Sasha Barkov, three
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty nine days after he got it the
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  Speaker 1: last time. But then biz Barkov doesn't give it to Marsha,
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  Speaker 1: and he doesn't give it to good.
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  Speaker 2: Chuck or Bennett. Well Bob.
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  Speaker 1: He goes out and they find all the first year
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  Speaker 1: winners on this team, and all of them are next.
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  Speaker 7: Absolutely, And when you touched on earlier as well, like
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  Speaker 7: the fact that Sam Bennett gets the con smite, he
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  Speaker 7: goes and drops it off right by the bench.
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  Speaker 4: He doesn't care.
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  Speaker 7: They care about the team trophy and they get it,
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  Speaker 7: and like you said, they give it off to the
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  Speaker 7: healthy scratches, the guys who have never really had their
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  Speaker 7: chance to taste the victory before.
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  Speaker 2: And it's just.
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  Speaker 7: Remarkable what this group has been able to achieve and
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  Speaker 7: doing it back to back. Guys, we know how hard
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  Speaker 7: this Brian is, third straight final and how many miles
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  Speaker 7: on the tires.
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  Speaker 3: But I just replenish, and I'm amazed at how organized
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  Speaker 3: they are on the ice, their power play, they're penalty killing,
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  Speaker 3: their defensive structure. Traveling back and forth from Florida Edmonton,
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  Speaker 3: where they found time to decide.
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  Speaker 4: Who's going to hit the trophy first. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 4: a day long job in itself.
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  Speaker 3: They messed the three or four of the captains got
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  Speaker 3: together and said, hey, what do you think of this idea?
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  Speaker 3: And they all said, Okay, that's win tonight and that's
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  Speaker 3: what we'll do. But just a class the organization, a
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  Speaker 3: classic group of young men, and they deserve the Stanley Cup.
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  Speaker 7: And another thing too, like what they put themselves through.
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  Speaker 7: You heard Matthew kachuck Ging interviewed there. His adductor off
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  Speaker 7: the bone like I don't even know how much pain
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  Speaker 7: he must have been in to go through that, and
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  Speaker 7: also an abbessue like this. I'm sure that the laundry
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  Speaker 7: list of injuries are gonna come out. But the personal
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  Speaker 7: sacrifice that these guys put themselves in order to hoist
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  Speaker 7: Lord Stanley, it's a grind.
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  Speaker 2: Boys, I don't know what it feels like. I know
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  Speaker 2: what you do.
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  Speaker 4: It's a grind.
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  Speaker 3: And I was sitting with Keith to Chuck in the
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  Speaker 3: game three against Toronto and he told me that Matthews
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  Speaker 3: shouldn't even be dressing because his leg was torn.
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  Speaker 4: It was so bad. But the kid has so much
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  Speaker 4: heart and that filters through the hockey club.
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  Speaker 3: You can lead by emotion too, you can lead by
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  Speaker 3: your presence, and that's what Matthew has done for three
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  Speaker 3: straight years. He changed the whole organization as far as i'm.
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  Speaker 7: And the fact he was able to play to the
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  Speaker 7: level that he played, I mean, how many goals in
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  Speaker 7: these Stanley Cup finals, and I mean he was not
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  Speaker 7: a liability all there through the run, great defensively, that
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  Speaker 7: great wallwork, hanging on to it down low, and I
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  Speaker 7: think it's just also a testament to his line mate
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  Speaker 7: Sam Bennett and the fact that he helped carry him
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  Speaker 7: throat these this run and be able to achieve fifteen goals,
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  Speaker 7: thirteen of which on the road. So so that second
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  Speaker 7: line in general playing through pain and being able to
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  Speaker 7: accomplish what they did.
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  Speaker 2: Tip of the cap man just a full blown wagon.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, at this point of the season, it's gonna
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  Speaker 6: take a lot for guys to sit aside, right, even
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  Speaker 6: though you might be able to walk almost leaving the rink.
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  Speaker 2: But it's just incredible.
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  Speaker 6: And also a lot of teams are dealing with types
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  Speaker 6: of the type of different types of injuries end of
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  Speaker 6: the season, right, the question is how much how bad
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  Speaker 6: is it? Like their first run three years ago against Vegas,
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  Speaker 6: you know, they were really banged up and it kind
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  Speaker 6: of cost him the title a little bit. This year
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  Speaker 6: they've been better off with injuries, for sure.
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  Speaker 2: I Methica Chuck talked about culture. You've got Sam Bennett's
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  Speaker 2: deals up, heck bled deals up. We've spent a few
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  Speaker 2: days here, boys, Listen.
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to be in guys pockets, but you'd
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  Speaker 5: be kind of fool to turn this down.
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  Speaker 2: They've been a pretty good situation here in Florida.
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  Speaker 5: Panthers YEP, a team that's could come contend every single year,
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  Speaker 5: first Stanley Cup Championship, and then look at the other side, what's.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna happen to the Evanson normal.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of questions.
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  Speaker 2: What's gonna happen here? I think I saw a Seato
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  Speaker 2: down on the ice with some paperworkers.
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  Speaker 5: I'm trying to get him a pressure try to sign
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  Speaker 5: McDavid's I think, what's gonna happen?
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  Speaker 1: I think we have to get into all of it
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  Speaker 1: because there's questions on both sides, especially if you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a modern dynasty and you want to keep this
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  Speaker 1: thing going on the Florida side, and big sort of
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  Speaker 1: existential questions going on with the Oilers. But Sam Bennett
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  Speaker 1: right now, he's a Panther, he's the Consmike winner fifteen goals,
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  Speaker 1: thirteen on the road, five in the final, and he
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  Speaker 1: spoke to Jackie Rdman earlier.
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  Speaker 8: Sam, congratulations a two times Stanley Cup.
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  Speaker 9: Champion, hands MVP. How do those words sound.
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  Speaker 10: I mean, it's just it's incredible. This is uh, this
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  Speaker 10: was harder than the than the last time. It's uh.
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  Speaker 10: I mean we put in so much work. I'm just
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  Speaker 10: so proud of this group. There's there's honestly twenty five
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  Speaker 10: MVPs on this team, so I mean it's, uh, yeah,
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  Speaker 10: it's it's the best feeling in the world.
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  Speaker 9: Do you say this one was better and harder than
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  Speaker 9: the first? Why?
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  Speaker 7: I mean?
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  Speaker 10: I think just knowing what it took, what it took,
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  Speaker 10: like knowing how hard we had to work to get
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  Speaker 10: back here. And I mean there's we played a lot
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  Speaker 10: of really good teams in this run, and I'm just
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  Speaker 10: so proud of this group. We battled through a lot
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  Speaker 10: of adversity, we were you know, counted out at times,
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  Speaker 10: but uh, this is just an incredible group.
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  Speaker 11: I don't know if people will look back on this
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  Speaker 11: Cup final and and talk about the goaltending, but Sergey
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  Speaker 11: Lebrowski made some incredibly timely saves for you guys. Have
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  Speaker 11: you ever seen a goaltender so dialed in the way
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  Speaker 11: that they prepare?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 10: Never, It's it's it's remarkable. I mean, I mean, that's
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  Speaker 10: my MVP. He's every night, He's the guy that this
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  Speaker 10: is uh, you know, he holds this whole thing together,
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  Speaker 10: just the composer and the nut gives us so much
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  Speaker 10: confidence and yeah, he's uh, he's one of a kind.
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  Speaker 9: Big summer for you. Paul Maurice has stated that you
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  Speaker 9: are dealing with the babonic flag, the dang fever. I
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  Speaker 9: don't know if you said, would you like to respond
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  Speaker 9: to those rumors?
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  Speaker 10: They're not true?
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  Speaker 8: All right, fair enough, listen, enjoy the celebration. Congratulations on
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  Speaker 8: it all and thank you.
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  Speaker 3: Nice to watch, are you you know what? No, it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't get enough recognition. Dale Talon for signing Bob. He
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  Speaker 3: was the guy who said, you know what, this guy
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  Speaker 3: is going to change their franchise. And he struggled a
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  Speaker 3: little bit for a couple of years and all of
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  Speaker 3: a sudden he turned it around.
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  Speaker 4: And then he turned it around amazing.
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  Speaker 1: There was a time going into that run. We were
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  Speaker 1: here for that final run when they went to Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you could not talk about Serge Bobrowski without
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  Speaker 1: breaking up his contract. And it wasn't a positive note.
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  Speaker 1: It was one of those things that he wasn't living
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  Speaker 1: up to. Now that's gone, we're talking about a future
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  Speaker 1: Hall of fame. Yeah, he's underpaid now, yes, and Sam
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  Speaker 1: Bennett is going to get I mean, and we'll see
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  Speaker 1: if he stays. But you keep hearing that word over
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  Speaker 1: and over that this is a family and it has
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  Speaker 1: that family vibe. So we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: I think they took it to a question.
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  Speaker 7: I think they took it to a whole new level
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  Speaker 7: when Bush went down to the steam room and it
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  Speaker 7: was all of them in there and Bush couldn't been
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  Speaker 7: get inside. So that was a great little inside story
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  Speaker 7: from the j W and Edmonton team.
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  Speaker 4: I wonder if trousers down there with the t towel again.
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  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, But like you said, man, this is an
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  Speaker 7: amazing group and no shocker that they were able to
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  Speaker 7: accomplish us with the dedication and that family like atmosphere
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  Speaker 7: every day in the locker room.
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  Speaker 2: And I put my money on it. I think Bennett
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  Speaker 2: and Neck Glad will stay. I really do. I think
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  Speaker 2: they both stay hanked and they want to run it back.
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  Speaker 6: I'm gonna do whatever I can right to keep them.
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  Speaker 6: There's such a big part not on the team, but
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  Speaker 6: the DNA of the team. How about heck Well, the
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  Speaker 6: way he played these playoffs. I didn't know he he
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  Speaker 6: had that in him. I mean, I knew he's a
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  Speaker 6: great skater and skill guy, but he was physical. He
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  Speaker 6: played on the edge and kind of got the opponent well,
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  Speaker 6: irritated almost every game.
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  Speaker 3: Little Legie and played every shift either against Stresaid or
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  Speaker 3: McDavid or both, and didn't miss a beat.
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  Speaker 4: And he was physical the whole series.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you said it earlier, he had that rest.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know when he had those games off, it's
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  Speaker 3: in value twenty games off and he came back. He
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  Speaker 3: was just a horse out there. He played as good
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  Speaker 3: as I've ever seen him play.
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  Speaker 2: And having Seth Joan certainly helped too. It takes that
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  Speaker 2: pressure off the right side.
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  Speaker 1: And you mentioned the unrestricted free agents for Florida that
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  Speaker 1: at Platt Maate Schmidt, Brad Marshan, some big names there.
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  Speaker 1: Some guys were definitely if they want to going to
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  Speaker 1: go out and get paid, they definitely deserve it. We'll
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  Speaker 1: see if Florida can keep them. The guy runs the
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  Speaker 1: whole thing, Paul Maurice. He has been from start to
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  Speaker 1: finish the last couple of runs the voice of this team,
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  Speaker 1: uh part jester, comedian, philosopher, and he pushes all the
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  Speaker 1: right buttons and now back to back champion. Earlier with Jaggie.
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  Speaker 8: Pomery's congratulations, you guys are officially back to.
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  Speaker 9: Back Stanley Cup champions.
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  Speaker 8: You know, Sam Bennett said this one was harder to
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  Speaker 8: win than the last one because he.
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  Speaker 9: Knew going in what it would take. What will define
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  Speaker 9: this run for you?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I don't know how they got up the mountain.
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  Speaker 12: I mean, we're all standing at the bottom of the
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  Speaker 12: start of the year and it looked pretty high, and
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  Speaker 12: we had a lot of twists and turns, we covered
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  Speaker 12: a lot of miles, and we had injuries.
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  Speaker 2: But these guys love each other.
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  Speaker 4: That's the best I can come up with.
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  Speaker 7: It.
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  Speaker 2: It's the truth, and it's the way they treat each other.
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  Speaker 12: They care about each other, and that's their energy source
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  Speaker 12: and it's the most powerful energy source.
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  Speaker 2: And it certainly didn't come from the coach. But they
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  Speaker 2: love each other.
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  Speaker 9: You know, three Cup finals ago you told me that
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  Speaker 9: the love these guys have for each other.
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  Speaker 8: Basically eliminated any cynicism.
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  Speaker 9: You might have had left about professional sports. Two years later,
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  Speaker 9: how how proud are you of what they've done since then?
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  Speaker 12: You know what, I've been really lucky my whole career.
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  Speaker 4: I've coached in the wonderful cities. I've had great teams.
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  Speaker 12: These guys are different like, I haven't met people like
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  Speaker 12: this before, right, it's the collection of them.
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  Speaker 2: There's great men on every team.
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  Speaker 12: It's just all of them, all of them.
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  Speaker 4: Every guy.
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  Speaker 12: So the first guys that touched the Stanley Cup are
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  Speaker 12: the guys who.
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  Speaker 4: Hadn't won it before.
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  Speaker 12: And some of those players never played in the game,
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  Speaker 12: but they're all part of them. That's the bark Off.
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  Speaker 2: Effect in our room. He loves everybody. Everybody's part of them.
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  Speaker 8: You can tell it sort of emanates off the group,
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  Speaker 8: if you will. You look at guys like Marshan, like
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  Speaker 8: Nate Schmidt, they come in, they seem to fit in seamlessly.
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  Speaker 9: Is that a product of that culture that has been built?
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  Speaker 4: They show up there and it's like they've been here
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  Speaker 4: ten years.
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  Speaker 12: And then Evan Rodriguez said it to me the best
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  Speaker 12: last year at the end, he said.
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  Speaker 2: It's the first place that ever been record. Just be myself.
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  Speaker 12: I didn't have to be tougher, funnier, or any of
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  Speaker 12: the things that I'm not. Well, He's tough, but I
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  Speaker 12: could just be myself. And I think that's that's where
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  Speaker 12: that comes from.
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  Speaker 11: What can you say about the dog that is Sam
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  Speaker 11: Bennett and the way that he performed this postseason because
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  Speaker 11: I remember a time when he was trying to find
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  Speaker 11: his place in Calgary.
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  Speaker 9: He seems to have found a home for now here.
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  Speaker 12: I mean, he gets here and he plays with a
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  Speaker 12: great player, Jonathan Hubertal and then the next year Matthew
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  Speaker 12: kachuckstrows up. And then what happens is his game developed,
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  Speaker 12: It gets better on its own. Playing with those players
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  Speaker 12: changes the way that you play. Stop his nails. He
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  Speaker 12: says five words a year, but he's got a big
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  Speaker 12: smile on his face tonight.
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  Speaker 11: How quickly will you call him this summer to try
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  Speaker 11: to convince him to stay.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, he's not leaving the building.
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  Speaker 9: You're kidnapping him.
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  Speaker 8: Listen, I think the fans would understand if you took
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  Speaker 8: those measures. Thank you for this, congratulations, go and enjoy
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  Speaker 8: it very much.
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  Speaker 1: Says five words of year. He's not getting by the work,
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  Speaker 1: get paid for just about everything else.
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  Speaker 7: Words.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they keep mentioning the most of his team,
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  Speaker 1: and love was the word that Palmer rees used, and
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  Speaker 1: it brings the team together. And you don't necessarily need
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  Speaker 1: that to win the whole thing. It certainly helps if
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  Speaker 1: you have this talent, this glex of players do you
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  Speaker 1: remember that feeling when you were playing with your teams.
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  Speaker 3: Listen, I'm overly impressed at what he's saying. But I
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  Speaker 3: played on a lot of teams that had a lot
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  Speaker 3: of love and missed the playoffs. It takes a little
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  Speaker 3: bit more than that. You got to have goaltend, you
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  Speaker 3: gotta have coaching, you gotta have skill, gotta have toughness.
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  Speaker 3: They got all that. On top of that, they all
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  Speaker 3: like each other. So it's a combination of a lot
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  Speaker 3: of things, and they seem to have pushed all the
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  Speaker 3: right buttons at this point in time. And the opposite
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  Speaker 3: thing is for Edmonton, they're gonna have some questions in
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: the offseason of you know, they just didn't have enough
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: depth against the Florida Panthers, and you can't just rely
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: on two guys to continue carry your hockey club.
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: It's too hard over four series.
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: And we talked about it just earlier. Look at the
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: depth of Florida. One of the five guys could have
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: won the con Smyth right, and even the Chuck's name
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: has probably got some votes.
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: You played very well.
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: So Edmonton has some big questions in this offseason, and
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: sure they're going to answer them.
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: We could talk about that a little bit.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: DraftKings as Jazz has told me, as the Oilers actually
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: is the early Cup failed.
• 15:30
  Speaker 12: Bus sixt offer sheeted.
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: As you got the under right, Yes, sick.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: But you'll look at free agents for them, Corey Perry,
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Jeff Skinner, Connor Brown, captain, Frederick Klingberg. And then the
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: big story, of course, will be that Connor McDavid has
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: one year left on his contract, so it's going to
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: be going into the summer with this feeling of uncertainty
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: with this team. Leon Drysideles signed long term. Connor McDavid
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: it is not. And now you have a lot of
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: Oilers fans back to back years didn't get the title
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: and now they're wondering how secure is this team?
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, especially after going back to back too.
• 16:09
  Speaker 13: I mean, Connor McDavid's gonna determine what happens when it
• 16:12
  Speaker 13: comes to free agents. No guys deals her up and
• 16:14
  Speaker 13: a lot of players took less money to come to
• 16:17
  Speaker 13: Edmonton for a chance to compete, and if McDavid's there
• 16:21
  Speaker 13: or not, that's going to dictate what a lot of
• 16:22
  Speaker 13: free agent's.
• 16:23
  Speaker 11: Going to do.
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: Gruts, Yeah, it's a tricky, slippery slope right, and nobody
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: really has an understanding of what exactly is going to do.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: All I can say is I know he loves it there.
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: I'm sure it's pretty easy and easy to negotiate the deal.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: How much do you want on the cap over eight years?
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: I could do his deal.
• 16:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, nineteen point three million or whatever the number is
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: going to be. So that's not going to be the issue.
• 16:45
  Speaker 3: The issue is is he going to resign it? But
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: from all indications are he loves it there. He likes
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: to coach. Coach has been with him since junior hockey.
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: He's very close with Leon and Corey Perry has been
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: a good fit for that team. So I would be
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: surprised if Honors not resigned.
• 17:01
  Speaker 7: I got to congratulate obviously the Oilers on making it
• 17:04
  Speaker 7: back to back finals, congratulate on the way they were
• 17:06
  Speaker 7: able to replenish the lineup.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: But going back to last.
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: Year, how hard is it wane when you've created this foundation,
• 17:13
  Speaker 7: when you have certain guys like McLeod, Broberg, Fogel and Halloway,
• 17:18
  Speaker 7: and all of a sudden you have to say goodbye
• 17:20
  Speaker 7: to those guys and kind of re established that that
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: core group where to me, I feel like as good
• 17:27
  Speaker 7: of a job as they did, there was a big
• 17:28
  Speaker 7: miss and re establishing that culture that brought them there
• 17:31
  Speaker 7: the first time. They got the taste, but weren't necessarily
• 17:34
  Speaker 7: able to bring those same guys back.
• 17:36
  Speaker 8: Yeah.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: And you know, it's a funny game because if you
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: look at the first three rounds, Edmonton was as dominant
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: as a team as anyone. I mean, they played extremely
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: well against a good team in Vegas.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: They beat La.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: They've went into Dallas and took home ice advantage and
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: beat Dallas who was a really good hockey club. And
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: we all thought, Okay, Edmonton's got home ice this year.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: That's going to be the difference in this series from
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: last year where Florida had Game seven and all of
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: a sudden, it's one one leaving in Edmonton, and I'm thinking, wow,
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: and listen, if Edmonton doesn't have that comeback in Game four,
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: they're down three games to one going back to Edmonton.
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: So I don't know, they got some questions they got
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: to answer. I'm sure they will. Stan Bowman's won three
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: Stanley Cups and he's been to finals.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: He knows what he's doing.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: And listen, when you can build your team around twenty
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: nine and ninety seven. That's a pretty good start, and
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: I think they have to say, Okay, is this our
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: goalie or not. They got to solidify that you can't
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: go into Game five of the Stanley Cup Finals and
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: switch your goaltenders. I've just you know, I've that's very
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: rare that it's ever happened.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: The mismatching net was it's overwhelming in this because you
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: do have a future Hall of Famer and you have
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: another team that's going back to me. Yeah.
• 18:48
  Speaker 6: I think that was the big question going into this series.
• 18:51
  Speaker 6: It was a little bit of a mismatch, no question
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: about it. Not to take anything away from Stuart Skinner
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: or Pickard, I thought, you know, leading up to this
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: series that it fantastic job to take their team here,
• 19:02
  Speaker 6: but playing the best team in hockey right now, you're
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: gonna need extremely good goaltending. And we talked about going
• 19:09
  Speaker 6: into this game tonight about the timely saves that Bob
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: gave Florida throughout this series and throughout the playoffs, and
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: it just gives them so much confidence and calmness because
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: it's so many momentum swings and your gain m you know,
• 19:24
  Speaker 6: loose An edge here and there for five ten minutes.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: That's where you need your goalie.
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: And I felt like as soon as Florida got a
• 19:30
  Speaker 6: couple opportunities, they made Edmonton pay. So, yeah, it was
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: a little bit of a mismatch.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Especially in this series.
• 19:37
  Speaker 7: It felt like in the first five minutes most games,
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: Edmonton would really bring it. He'd make a few clutch
• 19:42
  Speaker 7: ones and then they'd finally establish their game. And like
• 19:45
  Speaker 7: you said, I was just so important for them to
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: get them over the hurdle. And wow, it's a remarkable run.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: Well, I just want to know how they're going to
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: fit all those people in the locker room. The old days,
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: we used to bring everybody in the locker room, and
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: that locker room made that big.
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: But these images are so great. We're gonna step aside
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: for just a moment. But these are the players with
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: their family. We talk about all of them with their teammates.
• 20:10
  Speaker 7: And you see.
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Barkoff getting the cup, but nobody gets here alone. Barkoff hoisted,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: all the hands go up, and now on the ice
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: behind us, all the family members celebrating with the players.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Back to back Stanley Cup champions. The Florida Panthers a
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: lot more from Sunrise