Razor and Commie are brutally honest about Montreal's chances.... CTC 81

On this week's episode of Clearing the Crease, the boys talk the Conference Finals, crazy KHL stories, and more!

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SPEAKER_01 0:00

Mitch Martyr is just crushing it here as a Vegas golden night. And how about this? He is one goal short of scoring as many goals as he has scored in the last six postseasons combined.

SPEAKER_05 0:15

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 0:16

Like he's got seven goals in the left.

SPEAKER_05 0:19

I can't believe the Leeds got rid of them. What are they thinking?

SPEAKER_00 0:26

I told you. I told you never got rid of them.

SPEAKER_01 0:32

Clearing the Crease.net. Well played. He is Razor. He's Kami. I'm Stavalski, and we are ready to rock as we are finally at the Final Four Conference Finals here of the Stanley Cup. Before we dive into anything, a couple things to hit on. Just your quick reminder: if you are loving this show and all the content that Kami and all his amazing stories and Razor's insightful Razor edge analysis, you're loving all that? Well, make sure you are liking, mashing that subscribe button, leave a five-star review on Apple, Spotify, or follow along on all our social channels, whether it's on YouTube, Instagram, X, TikTok, or wherever else you are finding us, because you know, Razor, we are finding algorithms here everywhere these days. It's amazing how many times we're popping up and people messaging everywhere.

SPEAKER_03 1:42

I I can't, I it always confuses me. It's the funniest thing. You guys send those messages out. Like, what just happened? Did we do something different? Like, what's going on here? How'd this happen? Um, so yeah, great to see everybody watching and paying attention.

SPEAKER_01 1:55

Call me, I think it might have been Bert's beard.

SPEAKER_05 1:59

Yeah, Big Bert. Hey, like Big Bert said, you either love him or you hate him. So whenever he pops up, for one reason or another, you're tuning in.

SPEAKER_01 2:09

But he elicits an opinion and a reaction. He does. There you go. He's doing something right. He's a needle mover. Yeah, he is an absolute move. No matter what he does. You know what? Speaking of which, maybe we have, we are about a week away from our regular Ozone poker tournament here from the Clearing the Crease podcast. That is coming up, everyone. Save the date. It's coming your way. Thursday, May 28th, 9 o'clock Eastern, 6 Pacific time. It's gonna be Commie at the table, Razor's at the table, Sabalski here at the table, Matthew Barnaby's going to join us. Come on, I feel like we might have to get Big Bird. You know what? Razor, we have to get that invite out to Big Bird.

SPEAKER_05 2:50

Yeah, yeah, Big Bird will play, yeah, 100%.

SPEAKER_01 2:53

I think he's a donkey at heart. Well, Barney knows Barney can't win.

SPEAKER_03 2:58

Barney's gonna try. Barney might win this thing. Like I'm a little concerned about Barney and what he does with my chips.

SPEAKER_05 3:06

I'm pretty sure I remember Barney saying at the old card show when we were staying at Woodbine there, the at the casino there. Uh I'm pretty sure he told me I'm a poker player, and he spends time like in the casino at the poker room. That is something I have never done. Like, I don't think I just can't see myself like people sit there for hours. Matthew Barnaby, he plays poker, so he'll be ready to rock. Yes.

SPEAKER_01 3:31

I mean, the amount of that he the amount of action that he had going that weekend, whether it was basketball, whether it was hockey, whether it was baseball, whether it was poker, yeah, you name it. When we he was locked in, he had his ozun app buzzing.

SPEAKER_03 3:47

Oh no, that ozun that ozun app was absolutely it was like uh it was like a smoking toaster in the morning. That thing would just smoke everywhere from his answers. Raptors saved him.

SPEAKER_05 4:01

Yeah, Barney was at the raptor. Yeah, the raptors saved him.

SPEAKER_03 4:04

Yeah, the raptors, yeah. He told us the story, I went bounced over the net like 30 times. He'd say it's a good thing.

SPEAKER_05 4:10

Yeah, and then he thought the game was over and he went to the bathroom. He was had his winnings and he left and went to the bathroom. I'm sitting there, and there was like, you know, I'm not a basketball guy, but there was like two seconds left or something like that. And they got the ball to half court, and literally the guy they got a clean shot. Oh, wide open shot. Barbie would have lost. It would have been incredible. He would have came back for the bathroom, yeah. Nice try, Matthew.

SPEAKER_01 4:33

He was running through the masses with his arms up like he had just hoisted the cup, and all of a sudden, like, wait a second, there's an empty net.

SPEAKER_05 4:39

Oh, yeah. It was a wide open shot.

SPEAKER_01 4:42

Yeah, it was right there. So uh so again, just a reminder, everybody that's coming your way, May 28th, 9 Eastern, 6 Pacific time. It's the Clearing the Crease podcast, powered by Ozun's Poker Tournament. And you can also join us at the table and be well played. Okay, lots to get to. Here we go. Final four. We've got Colorado, Vegas in the West, the Montreal Canadians trying to end the 33-year Canadian Cup drought. First team since 1993 to maybe win one, but they've got to go through Kami's Canes. Come on, how are we feeling about this Eastern Conference final? This should be a banger.

SPEAKER_05 5:23

It should be, it should be. You're right. I'm interested in a couple I'm interested in the whole thing, but off the top of my head, well, off the top of my head, I feel like I can't lose because on one side you got my canes. You know, I got connections there. And on the other side, we got the Canadians. I love the Canadians and Marty St. Louis. I'm I mean, I love him too. So it's it's win-win. It should be, I'm what I'm most interested to see is uh off the top, at least at the beginning of the series, is how the canes come out. Because the canes, I think, now I'm gonna get the date on the game. 12 days.

SPEAKER_00 5:56

12 days, right?

SPEAKER_05 5:57

And they played like eight games in the last like 42 days or something like that. Like a 37 days.

SPEAKER_03 6:03

37 days, eight games since April 14th. They've played eight games since April 14th.

SPEAKER_05 6:11

And usually you're you're playing eight games in what would that be in three weeks? Maybe something like that. 16 to 18 days. 16 to 18 days. So that's a big layoff. They've been sitting around. I'm sure Roddy's got them going, but like that's got to be hard as a coach, too. And the weather's getting nice. Now, obviously, you're checked in and you're trying to win a Stanley Cup. Like, that's obviously priority number one. But you got 12 days off. The weather's nice. You're teeing it up at old Chatham. I'm sure Roddy, you know, you get a couple days off and then he's been all over them. I'm I have no doubt they've had some pretty hard scrimmages, but it'll be interesting. That game seven, I don't know if we're gonna go back and talk about that, but I watched that last night. It was a great game. Rough break for Buff. Not rough break, it was a great series, but I thought Buffalo outplayed him overall. Um, but they can't add yam, the Abbey Tom brought it home, so should be a good series.

SPEAKER_03 7:01

Yeah, it was just little magic in Montreal, right? Little magic, that that 93 thing, the magic, and they're gonna need all of the magic to be Carolina. Like I did yeah, I did the NHL radio a couple times, and and what we talked about the mode like Buffalo Canadian, it was so sloppy. It was so sloppy, like goals all over the place, no defensive structure, comebacks, galore, just seems like it's feeding into Carolina, right? It just feeds right into the hurricanes, just walking over Montreal, but there's magic, and and and that Montreal magic thing is uh is special with a rookie goaltender, the young guys, the game seven wins, the overtime wins. Um, I hope I hope Montreal can make it a series because right like realistically on paper and everything else, other than the Rust thing that we just talked about, Carolinas feel superior. But you hope the magic brings this thing along and and makes it uh makes it a lot of fun.

SPEAKER_01 8:07

Do you catch them? I I just wonder if the Habs catch them napping here with Carolina just uh skating in mud for these first couple of games. I tell you again, this the rust factor here. Like you just cannot simulate that sort of intensity. As and commie, you know, you've gone the distance, right? You know what it takes to win a Stanley Cup here, but you cannot simulate a game even with a hard scrimmage, right? This is going to be, I think this is going to be a problem for Carolina to get started. And now I have been wrong with my Carolina pick so far in the postseason. I thought the senators were gonna shock and uh wrong, but this is one that I think legitimately could be problematic for Carolina here with the time off.

SPEAKER_05 8:46

Yeah, definitely the rush. You can't simulate it. I mean, yes, I was lucky enough to go, you know, the distance a couple of times. I uh I didn't have 12 days in between games. I do remember that. I don't think I had any more than maybe two. Um, so I I think if Montreal is gonna have a chance in this series, well, well, first off, they need to tighten it up like Razor just touched on. Like this sloppy play ain't gonna cut it against Carolina, and they're they will jump all over you. I think if Montreal is gonna have a hope of winning this series, I think they better jump all over them early, and they better try and pick one off real quick, at least one, uh, if Montreal is gonna have a chance. Because as Carolina gets going, if they if they do in fact start a little bit slow, then I think Montreal is gonna have you know more than their hands full. So yeah, it'll be interesting. I mean, history's on Carolina's side, too. I mean, I don't have the numbers in front of me, but the canes got a pretty good record against Montreal over the course of the last 20 years. I mean, uh next next podcast, I'm gonna come up with the number. I'm gonna find out. I'm gonna do some digging. Um, so but it who knows, like you said, Montreal, like you guys just touched on, is gonna need some magic for sure.

SPEAKER_03 9:58

Well, I I know the I know the story you're talking about when Montreal had you guys on the ropes to rip. Martin Gerber couldn't make a save. He was pooping his pain, he was all sick and the flu and sick and couldn't do anything, and then Cam Ward comes to the rescue. And that's that's really the same idea, the same game plan that Montreal is gonna have in this series, or gonna need to have because if this goes more like if this goes 6'7, Carolina's legs are just gonna be so superior to what what the tank has in Montreal. And then you go to goaltending, right? You go to Dobish, Dolbish again, you talk about magic and goaltending in Montreal, the magic that that this guy seems to have now, winning two game sevens on the road, 65 of 68 in both of those game sevens combined. You get you don't pull them in game five on the road when he gives up three quick ones and they roll with them and he finds his way. He gets pulled in game six and still comes back with that magic and seven. So uh Dobish has a little something going for him right now. And of course, we all know the history going back to the 70s of young goaltenders in Montreal being um being difference makers and and and coming out of nowhere. And and again, it's just so funny. It's it's what what's so great about Montreal, right, guys, is it's different everywhere else because they take the dope story on and and make it mytholic mythological right out of the gate, right? Like right away we go Ken Dryden, right away we go Patrick Wall. Like, there's no like in between where you're talking about, you know, like the random guy that that played three seasons in the NHL. You go to these guys. Um, there's no Andre Rasico comparison here, right? You go to you go, and then you know they win two game sevens and they're five and two, six and two. You go right to 93 when they won the cup. You don't go to 2010 when they got to the semifinals and lost to Philly. You go right to 93. And there's really no other team in the league that can do that, and that's that's what makes it really cool, right?

SPEAKER_05 12:06

The canes better stand out of the penalty box, though. I will say that. I'm sure Rod's preaching it. I mean, if that Montreal power play keeps moving around like it does, I know the Canes PK is pretty good, but if if I was Rod, I would be stressing uh discipline for sure.

SPEAKER_01 12:21

Fraser, you you look at a lot of teams going with two goalies a lot. Uh, is is fatigue a concern at all for Dobashir? Now, if like 14 games, I mean, look, what he did, he outduled Vasilevsky, who might be the best goalie of this generation, right? He did that in game seven. Uh does it again against Buffalo in overtime in game seven, but is fatigue a concern for a young goalie?

SPEAKER_03 12:43

I it it isn't for me, especially at this point now. Um, again, for a goalie, like you're not practicing now, like you're through it all, and you've won two game sevens. Like you can basically Dobish could run a marathon tomorrow, I bet, off adrenaline, off confidence, off how he feels. Listen, there'll be a little blip in the middle of the series, but I think my big thing with one goalie is when there is a little blip, you're not changing back and forth. I think we saw it with Buffalo. Like, I I I might argue Lion would have been a better start for game seven. Maybe Lion doesn't give up that goal in overtime, but they were back and forth. Like they they were pulling they're pulling goalies every other game. Yeah, and I feel like Buffalo couldn't get in the rhythm, like they they just had that little bit of an issue that didn't put them over the top. I'd rather have a guy, there's a great chance to your point, see-ball that Dobish lays an egg in one of the first five games. Like a full on, just like we saw in game six, six goals go in, just because it's a lot of averages, playing a lot of hockey, and it just kind of goes away, but you know you're going back to him. I just like the fact that you're going back to him. And and these guys haven't lost a game back to back with him in that. That means he's not tired. It means that he's able to rebound, and the tiredness comes in when you lose two in a row. That's when the mental fatigue comes in. He hasn't shown that yet.

SPEAKER_01 14:05

Well, he's he's looked great so far. You look at the Habs magic, and you know, some of the big guns haven't necessarily dominated, they haven't carried the load in the sense that you got some of that Habs magic right now. Alex Newhook, seven goals now, right? And you know, Mr. Gabe seven all of a sudden, and he's stealing thunder from your boy Justin Williams there, commie.

SPEAKER_05 14:25

Alex, Alex Newhook, he he's the king of Newfoundland right now. I'll tell you that. Oh boy.

SPEAKER_03 14:31

From Montreal, from Montreal East, he that I mean, he it might take him, it might take him five weeks to drive home from Montreal with that guy. Move over, Michael Ryder. Moncton. Look out Moncton on the way through.

SPEAKER_01 14:46

That guy's gonna be getting screeched everywhere here. So I mean, what a what a run he's had. You know, it's shout out to Mike Matheson, too, in terms of what he's done on the back end, playing 25 minutes a night. It's just, you know, you're seeing this, and you know, it's not like Demodov's lighting it up. Even Caulfield has been, you know, he's putting up, you know, assists, but he's not necessarily, you know, pushing the way through with scoring. Like there is some magic with this Habs team. And so let's get to our series prediction for this one. Where are we going? Montreal, Carolina, winner going to the Stanley Cup. Where are we picking?

SPEAKER_03 15:22

I'll go first. I'll let Call me. I'll I'll just get this out of the way. Uh it's very, very, very similar to the first round against Tampa. I picked Montreal in the second round, so I feel good about picking Montreal in the second round. I had them taking Buffalo out. I didn't have them taking Tampa out at the start. It feels very similar. Where I I want nothing more for this league to have the Montreal Canadians in the Stanley Cup Finals and talking about 93, but I I just don't see it in the structure comparing both of these teams, how Carolina loses. This path for the Hurricanes is lined up great. The story for Montreal is amazing. I I don't know how they beat them four times.

SPEAKER_01 16:02

Come on, I'll say I'll let you, I'll give you some more time on this one because I feel like you're you're going because I I feel like you know where you're probably going on this one. So you're probably right. Let me just be the one to wave the flag here.

SPEAKER_05 16:14

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 16:15

Give me the Montreal Canadians. You know what? Taylor Hall's obviously cooking right now for Carolina. Logan Stankhoven has obviously been crushing it as well, these playoffs. But there is some Montreal magic happening right now. Give me the haves in the shock and awe. I know I keep getting it wrong with Carolina, so let's keep the good times going. Allez, les bleus, blanc et rouge. Let's go Montreal. So give me the haves to somehow find a way. And I think part of it comes because of that early start that Carolina just might be a little off to get going out of the gates.

SPEAKER_05 16:58

I like it. Uh look, I love the city of Montreal. I've had a blast there. People in Montreal have always treated me very well. I used to be very fluid in French, and I enjoy still trying a little bit online. I love their head coach.

SPEAKER_03 17:14

I can't wait. I put the translate, I take the translate off my axe to see what he said. Try and figure it out with my partially French abilities.

SPEAKER_05 17:26

I love their head coach. I mean, Teddy Purcell scouts for them. I look, I love the Montreal Canadians, but at the end of the day, I gotta roll with my canes. Uh Rod Brindemore, I think, is gonna have him ready to roll. I don't think it's gonna be easy. How about that? I I think part of me, I don't think it's gonna be easy. I think there's some magic there, but I think that's a tall task. And I am uh, I mean, I want to be welcome when I go to Raleigh, so I gotta take my canes in this one.

SPEAKER_03 17:56

You're gonna be what do they have? A horn or something? What do you got? Game, game, game one of the finals? Is that you? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Crank it up.

SPEAKER_05 18:04

Dundant will call me and yeah, he'll send us, I'll pay for my flights and my hotels and have to find tickets on and I'll be there. I'll probably have to pay for a fan experience to crank the horn. Yeah. He ain't paying. You're not getting any per name out of that guy.

SPEAKER_01 18:22

That guy's cutting cores anywhere. Oh, yeah. No, you know, and and in fairness to like to what Carolina's done, like you look at what this core has done over the last half dozen years. Like, they have gone what numerous conference finals, right? I mean, they've gone to more conference finals than some franchise that have been around for a half century, you know, short window.

SPEAKER_03 18:42

This year, boy, they better do it now.

SPEAKER_01 18:44

This is the window. This is the the Yesberg Kutkan Yemi bowl. Go figure. You know, the hostilities that started between these two teams. Oh, yeah, that's right. That guy's not even playing. He's been a scratch the entire time for the Canes.

SPEAKER_05 18:57

Yeah, that didn't really work out too well.

SPEAKER_01 18:59

No, no, all that yeah, that whole uh that whole intensity, it's not working.

SPEAKER_05 19:04

It's on a T for the Canes. They have been, like you said, they've been very successful, other than the teams that have actually, you know, the your Floridas and your Tampa Bays and your Pittsburgh's and team and your Vegas, I suppose, since they won. I mean, the Carolina Hurricanes have been right up there, right behind them as far as success. Playoffs every year, conference finals every other year. I mean, it's to the point there where they almost take it for granted in Carolina, which I mean, tell that to a Flames fan, for instance, or something like that. They'll be like, conference finals. They'd be going bananas on the Red Mile right now. Yeah. And so the Canes fan have been, you know, they've been spoiled the last little while, but it's on a T form to at least get to the final this year.

SPEAKER_01 19:45

By the way, commie, I don't want to go too deep on this one, but it does. There are some things that are popping up on social media that kind of conjure up memories of the Red Mile in Montreal right now.

SPEAKER_05 19:55

Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, like just say it. Somebody sent me a video of it. It was really nice.

SPEAKER_02 20:00

It was really good.

SPEAKER_00 20:01

Yeah, really, hey, this is 2004. Hey, what's going on here?

SPEAKER_05 20:05

Get to Montreal.

SPEAKER_01 20:07

There we go. Uh, meanwhile, we go over to the Western Conference final, and we've got Colorado, Vegas. I don't think anybody's surprised that Colorado's here. And for all the speed bumps and um the drama around Vegas here with here they are, Final Four once again. Uh, what they've done as a franchise here in their existence is truly remarkable. I want to talk about Mitch Marner here for a second. Like what Mitch Marner is just crushing it here as a Vegas golden knight, and he has one goal. How about this? He is one goal short of scoring as many goals as he has scored in the last six postseasons combined.

SPEAKER_05 20:47

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:48

Like he loves Vegas.

SPEAKER_05 20:50

He loves Vegas. I can't believe the Leafs got rid of him. What are they thinking?

SPEAKER_00 20:56

What are they thinking?

SPEAKER_05 20:58

I told you.

SPEAKER_00 20:59

I told you you should have never got rid of him.

SPEAKER_05 21:00

You don't get rid of that guy.

SPEAKER_02 21:05

That was the last comment I think I made last year.

SPEAKER_05 21:07

I know. I think we were, I think all of us were kind of calling for a move. Pack your ish, right? Yeah, I mean, he's he's yeah, pack your shit, Mitch. And he is. I mean, if you're a Leaf fan watching this, you gotta be like, I mean, it's just add thank God they got the first overall pick, so maybe you can focus on other things a little bit. But you know, he I mean he's been putting up points, scoring highlight real goals, uh playing both ends of the ice. He has been he has been excellent, which and you know what, good for him, because I mean at the end of the day, we people were having a field day with him in the playoffs. We all we all of us said he's a good player, though. We all knew that. But I mean, I I would say it's it's gotta feel real good in Mitch Marner's household in Vegas right now. He's gonna be feeling pretty good about himself.

SPEAKER_03 21:51

Yeah, he had the toes in the pool the last few days. He's feeling really good about how things have gone his way. He's a great player. And And and what what happens, right? C-ball, you talk about all the goals scored, and and commie, you know this from the guys and the runs that you've been on is you need a you need the group behind you to get you through one or two games. Because no one can do it themselves. The Connor can't do it. Wayne didn't do it himself. You had Yari Curry and he had Mess and Kough and Fury's. Like everybody, you need a couple of games to get you through. Because if you do stick around and you're a great player like Mitch Marner, you're gonna end up with 15 goals in the playoffs. It's inevitable. You just have to play enough games to do it. You need to be around long enough to do it. And and so often in the NHL's first round, great players get knocked out in the sprint of the first round because they don't get enough behind them. They lose in six games, they end up only having two or three goals in the series. Meanwhile, some other guy goes to the next round, and then he gets six goals in the next round, like an Alex Newhook, and all of a sudden this guy's amazing. And I couldn't get it. It's just so he's finally got that in place. He got through the first round, he tore it up in Anaheim. That goal behind his legs and through his legs, and the whole thing was there's two guys in the world that can do that. Two guys in the world that can do that, him and Connor. And it's um it's made him special. And now he gets to really show. Now they really Vegas Vegas is heavy. And they're really hard to play against. They got a lot of grid. If anybody can take out Colorado, I think it's Vegas at this point. Are they fast enough though? I don't know if it I don't know if they need to be fast enough. That that's how heavy they are. Like I think with Carlson now back in the middle, they got Hurdle on the third line in the middle. Eichel, of course, their centers are locked in a pretty good spot where they line up center-wise better than call or better than any other team against Colorado. Because that's really where the game's played.

SPEAKER_01 23:53

Think about what you just said there. Thomas Hurdle playing on the third line.

SPEAKER_03 23:57

That's what I mean. Like, holy shit. There's 30 teams that would do anything to have that guy on the third on their second line, let alone the third. Right? And and Makar banged up. I want to see what McCarr looks like because he he did not look good in game five.

SPEAKER_01 24:11

Tommy, can you play as a guy who had a heavy game, and especially at this time of the year, can you play heavy against Colorado?

SPEAKER_05 24:18

Yeah, I think you have to, personally. I mean, I think you have to. I think that would be I would be trying to play as heavy as possible without taking penalties or doing anything dumb. I think you definitely have to. Uh, I've liked Vegas all year. I think I picked them to win the Pacific. They've had a little bit of disappointing season. I mean, now who cares? It doesn't matter. They're in the conference finals. But yeah, I think they're in tough, though. I mean, I think Colorado, I mean, for me, McCarr, if he's banged up, that might be a thing. We'll see how he looks or whatever. The goaltending is a little bit, you know, the it's a little the two-goalie thing. The two-goalie-goalie thing there. Yeah, compared to the rest of their team, where you know, they're pretty much all set. You know, the goaltending thing gives me maybe a little bit of pause, but you know, it I I look back. Minnesota was, you know, Minnesota's a good hockey team, and they beat them in five. Like, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:08

I mean, that's swept, and that was after sweeping LA, too, right?

SPEAKER_05 25:11

Yeah, swept LA, and then Minnesota, like, and those were good hockey games, don't get me wrong, but I mean Minnesota was a top five team in the league. I think we'd all agree, and they beat him at five. So for all the talk of the Canes being eight-o, I mean, Colorado's eight and one, and their competition was a little stiffer.

unknown 25:27

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 25:27

So whole that's the thing. That's where I'm going. Like, it's it's kind of a similar situation where I'm hoping Montreal gives them a. I hope Vegas, like, I'm I'm trying to talk myself into it, but eight and one, eight and oh is yeah, there's a reason for it.

SPEAKER_01 25:41

Yeah, there is a reason. Okay, who are we picking here for the for these ones here? Uh Vegas, Colorado.

SPEAKER_05 25:46

I'll go first. I already kind of said I'm I'm taking the abs. Even with uh I'll cross my fingers, Makar's okay, but I I mean top to bottom, they're pretty good. Like I said, the only question mark for me, a little bit of the goaltending going back and forth, but the abs are good. Give me give me Colorado.

SPEAKER_03 26:03

I I think, yeah, I I give me Colorado. I think Vegas makes it hard enough on them that they get to game six, let's say. But but at the end of the day, the cream's gonna rise and and it's Colorado.

SPEAKER_01 26:16

You know what? I'm just gonna go opposite both you guys. Give me Vegas again. Give me Vegas. I I think you know what? And the one thing that it's really kind of stood out for me with Vegas, when they smell blood, they've gone for the kill in both those series, right? They did it against Utah and they did it uh against the Ducks. When it mattered, they kind of put their foot on the pedal and dropped the hammer. And so I do think that there's enough leadership, there's enough experience that can kind of weather that storm against the Az. Look, Colorado's been a machine all year. It's kind of crazy to go against them, but you know what? I'm gonna be the devil's advocate. And this also plays to my don't puck it up. So that's a tease coming up for just a little bit. So give me Vegas. Speaking of Vegas, Bruce Cassidy, coach. Sorry, comment, you want to jump in on something like that?

SPEAKER_05 27:00

One last little thing on that. Yeah. Which and I don't think it's gonna happen, but there's a world here where Colorado. I mean, I could see a world here where Colorado beats Vegas in five and the Canes beat Montreal in five, and that will be how many? That'll be 13 games for the Canes and 14 for the Aves, and they're in the final. I mean, that's gotta be that would be that's a record. That's gotta be a record, right?

SPEAKER_01 27:27

If that's what you play, how many did Carolina play your year?

SPEAKER_05 27:30

Oh, we went six, five, seven, seven. Seven. Yeah, there you go.

SPEAKER_03 27:36

So that's the normal number. Yeah. Instead, these guys are gonna go 18.

SPEAKER_05 27:46

Yeah, there's a world where it could. I don't think it does, and I hope it doesn't. I'd like to see more hockey. I hope it doesn't happen, but there is a world where it could.

SPEAKER_01 27:55

Yeah, more game sevens, more game sevens. Come on, let's ramp it up here. Uh, okay, speaking of drama, Bruce Cassidy. Uh both you've got two teams from the same division as the Vegas Golden Knights that have been asking, saying, Oh, hey, you know, as McLamore once said, one person's trash is another one's treasure. Bruce Cassidy showing the door in Vegas, Edmonton saying, Oh, hi, we're single and ready to mingle now that Knoblock's no longer here.

SPEAKER_05 28:20

After it got leaving.

SPEAKER_01 28:21

And Vegas basically says, Yeah, no thanks. And then LA's kind of kicking tires, saying, Oh, hi there. You up? And uh Vegas still saying, uh-uh, you can't talk. So how do we feel about this one? Because just days prior, Vegas got handed the hammer by the National Hockey League having a second round pick taken away from them for not doing for their sort of abuse of media, essentially, and not not just and also John Tortorella getting fined $100,000 here. How do we feel about what's going on with Vegas off the ice right now?

SPEAKER_05 28:55

Yeah, I mean, we've we talked about this a little bit before. Vegas does things differently. I don't understand the I don't understand the media thing. Like Tortorella should know better than that. And that is a stiff fine. Like, not the hundred grand, whatever. I'm just sure John has a lot of things. A second rounder, I mean, you get players out of the second round.

SPEAKER_02 29:14

Yeah, especially if you're gonna be a good thing. Well played, well played. Second round pick, Michael.

SPEAKER_05 29:20

Oh, yeah, right in the middle of the second round, you can find some gems. But uh but all joking aside, like that is a pretty stiff fine. Um so I don't really get what they were doing. I don't know if it was an airport thing, but whatever whatever it is, they they shouldn't have done it. And also the coaching. Like, I don't really get that either. Like, obviously, there don't really, I mean, wouldn't you want to kind of uh at the end of the day, and no disrespect, I know coaches are a big part of the game, like don't get me wrong, but at the end of the day, you're it's not you know, you're not not allowing them to talk to Wayne Gretzky or something like that. It's like, and you get them off your books and and like, okay, like I don't think this, I think we were talking before, I don't think this has ever happened before where it's been like denied, denied, deny. So I don't really uh personally, I don't really get it.

SPEAKER_03 30:05

Yeah, I hate to have the exact same take as commie, but I do. I I I don't understand either of the situations.

SPEAKER_01 30:12

I there has to be I there has to be something, but I'm a division thing, is it hey, I you know, we're not we're not selling you to the division.

SPEAKER_03 30:20

The coaching thing, that makes no sense. No sense at all, like the division thing. Like it's not again, like commie just said, it's not Wayne Gretzky, like Bruce Cassidy can't score any goals back. He's not playing. If he was so good at it, why'd you fire him in the first place? Like, what are you worried about? Like, why wouldn't you want to take his five million bucks off the board? Like, you're paying so you so you're not letting him go so you can pay him more money for no reason at all. It just there's something there. There, there's something there, and there's something there with that media thing because torts knows better, the team knows better, and it ends up being like a stiff enough fine where you couldn't open the room up for Mitch Martyr to say four words and get the hell out of there, or Carter Hart to say is too, yeah, I played great, it was fun, I can't wait till the next round and see you later. Like something's weird out, like Butt Vegas does it weird, they always have, they don't care. They like being kind of the outlaws, and these two scenarios are are an epitome of that because I I don't get it, it's really weird. I don't know anyone out there, I haven't talked to anyone. Something's razor.

SPEAKER_01 31:26

This came this came from higher than torts, don't you think?

SPEAKER_03 31:29

That's what I mean. Yeah, 100%. It has it has to go right from the top. Like the because that's an like because again, torts isn't paying the hundred grand, let's be serious. And and the second round pick is like that's that's organizational problems. Torts didn't do this willy-nilly, and if he did, that's why you fire a guy. Then you bring Cassidy back because you're already paying him. If Torts did that on his own. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 31:55

Unless they're bringing Cassidy back after Torts after this year. It's like, hey, look, you either win this or we're bringing back Bruce.

SPEAKER_05 32:01

It's weird. That's why nobody can talk to him. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 32:04

No, we're keeping them, we're keeping them, we're getting back together. Yeah, we're gonna make it work. We're going through couples therapy right now here. So who knows? Uh, but they're Vegas doing Vegas things, and that's where they're at right now. Uh, it's official. I think everybody kind of felt it was gonna happen here in Vancouver, but Adam Foote is out after just one year as head coach of the Vancouver Canucks. I'll just say this, guys, as somebody who's kind of in this neck of the woods, this felt like a cry of desperation when they made this hire to try to appease hiring Quinn, uh, you know, to try to keep Quinn Hughes with all this uncertainty when Talkett left last summer. Uh, it didn't work. Obviously, the bottom fell out on the organization, and and here we are. I don't think there's a surprise on this, but um, did Adam Foote get a fair shake? Probably not. Probably not. Um, but it but it feels like an absolute miss from the organization in the sense that you were just trying to curry favor with a star player who was already pretty much telling you he wasn't planning to come in. Like this is just I don't know. This was this was a real miss. And I'll say this I thought Jim Rutherford was gonna be a great fit, you know, commie. I you know, I you guys go back, obviously won the Stanley Cup together. I thought Jim Rutherford would have been a perfect tonic for what the Canucks needed. A guy who's won a proven track record, a guy who's confident, you know, brings those three Stanley Cups. But oh my goodness, outside of the one outlier year where 2024, what an absolute disaster. I mean, we talked about culture last week, and if you check the archives, if you missed last week's episode in terms of well, Razor and Kami, it really explained examples of what culture is within a room, within an organization. Um, it just everything they seem to touch, turn to mush. They seem to bet on the wrong guys like JT Miller and Gwen Hughes and and all these guys who just checked out, and now we're the where's the organization? They are on a full-on rebuild now. So Adam Adam Foot feels like a casualty of war, if you will.

SPEAKER_05 34:04

Well, I got good good news for Canucks fans. You still got EP40.

SPEAKER_03 34:10

Well, that's what I know. Well, that's good news. Yeah. We brought up a few names that have all left. There's one guy that's still there that is the that everyone's really needs to like.

SPEAKER_01 34:25

They called him the alien. They called him the alien, and maybe you know, ET phoned home. Maybe EP can phone home too. He's got to prove that.

SPEAKER_05 34:32

When we brought that up, you know, our post, our Vancouver Canucks post, you know, and I don't know a whole lot about the obviously I'm gonna back Jimmy. I love Jimmy, and his track record speaks for itself. Um, but when we post about the Canucks, we do seem to get a quote quite a bit about the old Aquilinis and the and the ownership group around there. Uh, it doesn't seem like they're exactly loved in the Vancouver area. So maybe there's some.

SPEAKER_01 34:56

You're you're friends with Tom Galar. You're friends with Tom Gillardi there, right, Commie?

SPEAKER_05 35:00

Yes, I am friends with Tom Garde.

SPEAKER_01 35:02

Ask Tom Gillardi out.

SPEAKER_05 35:04

I'm pretty sure I have, and I don't think he's a real big fan. Let's just say when the Canucks don't do well, I think Tom's doing just fine watching that.

SPEAKER_03 35:17

I think he's the clean slates in. The clean slates in, right? That's what they're doing in Vancouver.

SPEAKER_01 35:23

You know, Razor, you played obviously with Henrik, Daniel, Ryan Johnson as well, who all became official as you know, from the last time that we talked. Uh, I will say this, though, from a Vancouver standpoint. I I haven't spent much time around Ryan Johnson, but just Daniel and Henrik, the one thing that I think those two guys are gonna bring in, they don't do anything half-assed. Those guys work, they're committed, they're dedicated, they're at like the epitome of what professionals are. And so, if nothing else, those guys are gonna put in the work. Like, this is not gonna be, you know, one foot in, I'm busy doing other stuff. I think if these guys signed up for the commitment, they're gonna see it all the way, Razor. I mean, you could speak to it much more than I because you were in the room playing with them, but uh those guys are pros.

SPEAKER_03 36:04

100%. And and I think even more importantly, because again, just from our Instagram comments that we get when we talk about the Canucks is the disjointedness. Those the obviously the brothers are always on the same page, and and and so will RJ. They're gonna those three guys will be on the same page. There's not gonna be mixed messaging coming through. I would imagine who they hire will be on the same page as those three. You're not gonna have a situation where like Boudreau and that whole thing, then talk wanting to like it hasn't really there, hasn't been a cohesiveness through the top to the bottom. That is going to end up happening. I it's not gonna make wins happen right out of the gates, but it gives you a it gives you a bit of a running start here. And I don't what it's to take five years to build a program in this league. Like that's what you're looking at. Like it this thing's down to the studs.

SPEAKER_02 36:58

At least, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 36:59

Maybe maybe Bruce there it is, comes back. Bruce, there it is. Bring him back. Maybe that's what the Canucks, maybe that's what EP40 needs. He needs a little bit of a special year, right? Yeah, yeah, just free flowing and just do whatever he wants. I don't know, commie.

SPEAKER_01 37:17

I mean, they kept talking. They they were, you know, there's there's a lot of talk connecting the dots with Manny Mohotra, and obviously the success he had with Ryan Johnson in Abbotsford. But I'll tell you, there was a guy who just took a team in junior B to the championship in Ontario. He's a former Canuck who's still pretty popular in Vancouver.

SPEAKER_05 37:34

Well, he can he can build some culture, and that'll move the needle in Vancouver. What it is Imagine if they brought in Big Bert fresh off a Sutherland Cup and 61 and 6 junior. Well, you call junior B there, but it's really junior A. I'd love to.

SPEAKER_03 37:50

I'm interviewing Bert. If I'm those guys, I'm interviewing Bert. Get out here on a plane, get it. I want to interview him. I love it.

SPEAKER_01 37:59

Bring bring the beard back too.

SPEAKER_05 38:01

Oh, yeah. Bert will do whatever it takes. Whatever it takes.

SPEAKER_01 38:04

Whatever it takes. Whatever it takes. Uh, okay. Want to get to our fan question in a quick moment and also don't puck it up before we wrap up. A quick comment from both you guys. Macklin Cellebrini was given the C for Team Canada at the World Hockey Championship. And this is with our team already that had guys like John Tavares, Ryan O'Reilly. Pretty impressive. Like everybody loves Macklin Celebrini right now. Like, I think it is the best-selling jersey right now in hockey. And then all of a sudden, Cindy Crosby shows up and says, you know what? I want to play some more hockey because that's how Cid rolls. Yeah. Um, Mac still got the C, but should he still, with Sid, be in there? How do we feel about that one, Razor?

SPEAKER_03 38:43

Oh no, that's that's it's a world championship. It's not the Olympics, it's not the Stanley Cup playoffs. Um, Macklin had it, they gave it to him. Sid decided to play after. Sid is not stepping on anyone's toes, uh, even Macklin Celebrini. He's even a 20-year-old. That's just not Sid's thing. So, and I I my guess is Sid that like everybody's in on this a little bit too. It's like, let's let's the Sid's more than happy to let the kid do the thing, and he would never take it. So that it it makes complete sense to me.

SPEAKER_01 39:12

Come on, you uh wore the uh the maple leaf at the worlds and came away with a gold, if I'm not mistaken, right?

SPEAKER_03 39:18

Nine and oh.

SPEAKER_05 39:19

Nine and oh, nine games. How do we nine and oh from the the Russian disco that's right, that's right. Nine and oh heard that national Canadian national anthem nine times. Uh, you know what? I actually love it. I think it's great. I think it's uh I think it speaks to what kind of a person Crosby is, to be honest. Because I'm sure when he decided to come on the team, like hey, no, no, no. Hey, I don't I don't need that. Like, it's hey, look, maybe we will uh we'd all like Sidney Crosby to play forever, and at times it looks like he can, but he's not gonna play forever. It's time for the new wave to come in. And I I think it's great. I think it's great. Celebrini has it. And I like I said, uh my big takeaway of it was you know, Crosby gets it. That's a good dude. Like he's not he doesn't care about having the C on. That's not he's there to play some hockey and help out and contribute however he can. Doesn't have to have a C on his shoulder.

SPEAKER_01 40:11

Yeah, I mean it's grooming for the future, right? I mean McDavid, McDavid's gonna be wearing that C probably for the foreseeable future for the next 10 years.

SPEAKER_03 40:19

That'll be the you know, celebrities not getting a C until Connor finishes that. Unless San Jose wins a cup. Oh yeah, unless San Jose wins a cup or the Oilers. What are the odds?

SPEAKER_01 40:34

What are the odds?

SPEAKER_03 40:34

He's gonna have to go to dinner with you a few nights if that happens, Carmie. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 40:39

Do we got a futures on that on Ozoon? Who wins a cup sooner? Celebrini or McDavid?

SPEAKER_03 40:44

I I I wouldn't want to do that to Connor.

SPEAKER_05 40:47

Yeah, that would hurt. That would hurt. Yeah, I'll save that one for later. Let's see what the Oilers do this summer.

SPEAKER_02 40:53

Putting it out there.

SPEAKER_03 40:54

Yeah, that'll be a good one. That'll be a good one next November.

SPEAKER_01 40:58

Well, for all of you watching, leave your responses in the comments for us to digest. And speaking of comments, it is time for our fan question of the week. And that's where if you have a question for our rock stars like Kami and Razor, just hit us up with the hashtag ask CTC this week's question from Corey Mahoney, who's looking for story time from you two gentlemen. Looking to hear about some KHL, non-NHL ridiculous moments. Love story time with you guys. This is from Corey. Razor, you were over in Finland for a while, weren't you? You got it at Well, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 41:33

You know what? I hadn't even thought about Finland. Um I I'm going first because Commys is just, you know, what I it even if it's the show, yeah. Even if it was just a mundane Tuesday, wherever he was, like it'll be blown. It'll just be great. Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_02 41:48

Come on.

SPEAKER_03 41:50

Oh, yeah. Come on, I I'll have a I'll have a finished story. I'll have a finished story because I I kind of forget about where I've been. I I forgot I was in Finland. I'll remember that. But I want to talk about and and commie will definitely laugh at this. We were I was having beers with a few of the guys, like guys have played in the NHL for a really long time this past weekend. But somehow we got onto the the AHL bus and how you you so what would happen in the miners, you would get the you would get the menu from the local shitty like town pizza place, right? Pizza and subscribe before the game. Yep, pizza and subs on the bus. So you'd go through and you'd put it in, you'd put your cash in the bucket, and then and then you'd order and it would be sitting on the bus after. But what I was dying laughing about was that inevitably, literally every single game, that pot of money would be short 10 bucks. Yep. Some asshole on every single bus trip would short everybody else 10 bucks in the miners without fail. And it would have to be the coach or the trainers making like 20 grand a year, and he's putting an extra top 10 bucks in for the guy at the back of the bus who's been in the league for eight years and he just doesn't want to pay and he's cheating everybody else. And I literally laughed, I hadn't thought about that in 20 years, minimum, 25 years. And I we were laughing so hard about all the times that the pot would be short seven bucks because some asshole at the back of the bus wouldn't put his five bucks into the kitty. Um, and that that's basically what the miners is in a nutshell, just pure jungle.

SPEAKER_05 43:32

Post-American League games. Your choice was do you want a soggy sub or a cold stepped-on pizza? That's your choice. You get one of the two. They put that order in early, they make it right away.

SPEAKER_03 43:43

That that shit is sitting there for hours, and then they order it at five o'clock when you're walking into the rink. You get out of there at 10 30.

SPEAKER_05 43:52

Yeah, get it in you. You got a bus ride and you got a game in less than 24 hours. Get that shit in you.

SPEAKER_01 44:00

Had tip to our producer Stu Stone, who says, uh there's there's the next promo for our next episode that says Razor goes off on cheap teammates.

SPEAKER_05 44:12

That is true. It was always it was always short.

SPEAKER_01 44:16

In Junior on the bus with the 67s, it was uh Swiss Chalet was the go-to for for years. Oh wow, that's way better than the American League belt. Way better.

SPEAKER_03 44:26

Way better.

SPEAKER_01 44:27

No, this was that's a well played. All right. Don't don't puck it up, you cheap bastards at the back of the bus. So there's your don't bucket all. Um okay, here we go. Time for don't buck it up. Uh, and this is oh, sorry, Cobbie, did you have a story you wanted to add?

SPEAKER_05 44:43

Well, yeah, I I can add it. Yeah, I actually I was gonna thank you. No, what was the guy's name who uh Corey Mahome Corey? I'm glad Corey asked this question because I actually went into my my notes app here on my uh my iPhone, and after, as the season, it's not not all in order, but as I was over there in Russia, I took some notes, and I haven't clicked this note, is at the bottom of my list. I haven't clicked this note in like 10 years. I haven't touched this thing. So it says Russia notes. So I'll just read some of them off right off the bat. Biggest weakness in KHL coaching by far. Long flights, practice before or after. Promised 100,000 points, 100,000 K a point, like a uh for every like a win is worth three points. Got 192K rubles right away, now getting nothing. We have 70 points, so they shorted me half a million rubles. Signed for 11.5 million rubles. They say fly over and sign. I land and immediately they chop my salary to 10.5. I put that in my notes. Here's one that brings in Finland. So when I got over there, I've it actually worked out in my favor because I can't say I was in great shape when I got there. So I needed some skating time. So it actually worked out okay. But when I got there, you need like a visa to play, obviously. So for people that don't know, Vladivostok is on the Pacific Ocean. The rest of the league is over by Europe. And when you leave to get a visa, you have to leave the country, right? So you would think that, you know, you guess you don't have a ton of options there in Vladivostok. You're not going to China and you're not going to North Korea, which is right down the road. But Japan is like a two-hour flight away.

SPEAKER_04 46:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 46:26

So that's where I thought I would be leaving the country to get my visa and then come back. So I'm sitting on praxing skating, I'm like, hey, let's get this visa. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Mike. So here's what I put in my notes. They sent me from Vlady, Vladivostok, to Helsinki. Helsinki. It's on the other side of the like that's like a 14-hour flight. Yeah, it's like Helsinki for a work visa. I'm gonna say some names, they're just like their management of the Russian team. Frolloff gives me important papers to be stamped. Katkoff supposed to meet me at Moscow airport. He doesn't. I show up in Helsinki, a Finn takes me to hotel, he stamps my important papers and laughs. I go to the visa office in the morning, they all laugh at me and say, say all I can get is another tourist visa, because that's what I was on. So I can't work, I can't play. Katkop or Admiral Vadivostok, the team, they didn't send the papers. I stayed two nights in Helsinki, fly 15 hours home, and then there's a whole bunch. So I ended up going out to Helsinki for literally nothing. Uh Russians love expensive designer clothes that they can't afford to buy, but they love Mercedes, Iron Man movies, and official documents. And then I have in parentheses anything with a fucking stamp on it. They love I mean, I've got some notes. I mean, I could go on here for I mean, I'll just end it with this. It was browser, because that's kind of I got in that fight. Uh January 20th, 2014. Restaurant fight, two-on-one. Not sure how it started.

SPEAKER_04 48:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 48:03

Followed by police station, then back to the bar. $20,000 American fine the next day. Not off my paycheck. I have to go get it in cash, no paper trail. Filipenko, who was our general man, this guy was a straight up thief. Filipenko says I'll get it back if we make the playoffs. Minus fees for police electronics. So I ended up getting I got 690k rubles back today. This is they only took 60,000 rubles to pay the police. Shocked it was only that. The police wanted new TVs. And I mean, I got a lot more. There's like you bought TVs. I should do like a sword for the police department. Yeah. I went in there and had to give a statement. But there's another one too. Like, I'll read it another time because I don't want to talk for too long. But we had our Olympic break. It was a Sochi Olympic year, and I got notes in there, so I'll read it off another time. But we had three weeks off, and then we had three games left in the regular season. We need to win those games to make the playoffs, make those playoffs. I'm supposed to get my money back. Once again, we're on the Pacific Ocean. Um and there's three weeks off. We get one week to ourselves. I went to Singapore, which was kind of cool. And then we have a two-week, let's skate, let's do this stuff. So you would think like we let's stay somewhere like kind of local. You know what I mean? Maybe stay in Vladivostok. If you want to go crazy, maybe we go up and play a Murr, which is an hour like flight north. No, we go for uh I forget the name of the town, a 10-day training camp, two a days in Liberec, Czech. Oh, Liberek, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Czech. So another flight all the way across the country again. And anyways, I got it. I forgot about this until I started reading this. I got in all kinds of trouble there. Like I was drunk last four days of camp, missed bus, sprint to rink, get in, shower. I got suspended again by the team. They said I was drunk. I have a set parentheses. I said, I am not. Seven hours of sleep, last drink at 3 a.m. They sent me home. Then they wouldn't let me ride the bike after I got off of like a 12-hour flight. I'm like, oh, that's too bad. The rest of the team was all riding the bike. I got sent home. I'm like, see you guys later. Then they had to pay me my rubber. Anyways, we'll go more down that road. I got like, I got a lot of notes on Russia. Anyway. We're coming to the end of the season. I think I think we got to do very well. I think we need to do a summer edition.

SPEAKER_01 50:28

We need to do just a summer edition of commie's cage Russian experience.

SPEAKER_05 50:33

And there is, I don't want to be, it isn't all negative. There is some positive in there. I f I I fire out some shout-outs.

SPEAKER_01 50:40

There's a great there is a great episode. There's a great episode in our archives with uh where we cut off with with Nigel Dawes and you two comparing stories about life in Russia. There are some positives. There are some good stories. No question. I'm glad I did it. But you saving Jonathan Taves. Um tossing a jockey. Um there's there's a lot of great stories in the archives if you want to dig those up. Okay. You're welcome, Chicago. Bringing this one down. There you go, Chicago. Yeah, you're protecting them. You know what? Mike Commodore, you know, should be on that Stanley Cup. Oh, three Stanley Cups at Chicago.

SPEAKER_05 51:14

That's right. And every time I went in there, I was like minus three. Thanks. Saving your players. You guys blow my doors off.

SPEAKER_01 51:23

Guys aren't doing helping me here. Okay, don't buck it up this week. Vegas. Vegas Golden Knights. You know, Vegas? Just keep being you. You know, I don't really like you, but here's the thing villains make sports better. Just simply that. So, Vegas, keep cutting great players, keep firing coaches and not allow them to go find work elsewhere. Keep acting like you're holier than thou and keep on winning. You make sports better. The ultimate heel move is to win this spring. Win that Stanley Cup. Shot the abs here in this conference final because villains matter. Ask the Broad Street bullies, as the bad boy pistons, the sign stealing Astros, every UFC mouthpiece that can actually back it up for a change. Mohammed Ali learned a long time ago that you know what? People will pay to see you get beat up or you beat someone else up. So, Vegas, you got something going. Keep being a heel. Don't buck it up now.

SPEAKER_05 52:34

I love it. I love it. I'll go next. Good one, Seaball. I like that. They do pipe, they pipe guys in the front office too that don't deserve it. They pipe everybody. Oh, you're people love it.

SPEAKER_01 52:46

Hey, people seem to love the Grinch now, so clearly it's market for it, right?

SPEAKER_05 52:50

Oh, you might be a little bit of a threat to my job. Just can him. You're too good at what you do. Get him out of here.

SPEAKER_02 52:56

Get rid of him. Hey, he's winning too much. Get him out of here. Put him on LTIR.

SPEAKER_05 53:02

I'm just gonna go with I'll just stick with the uh, I'll just stick with my canes, low-hanging fruit. No disrespect to Montreal, none whatsoever. It's been a hell of a thing to watch. There's no question about it. And I'm happy for Marty St. Louis and everybody else there. But this is kind of on a T for you, Carolina. There's been you've been spoiled. Fans, and they they don't even realize it's been conference final after conference final after conference final, which is a hell of an accomplishment. You become used to it. But the Canes, this is on a T for you here to get to the final. Now, after that, it's gonna get a whole lot tougher. But we'll take one step at a time here. Don't puck this up. Take care of business and get to the final.

SPEAKER_03 53:43

Well, mine's a little connected to the Vegas Golden Knights. Don't puck this up, Edmonton Oilers. Who is your coach gonna be? What in the world? This is where your summer's already difficult enough. You gotta make Connor happy, you gotta make Leon happy, you gotta find a goalie, you gotta get the Bouchbaum to play every game consistently. You got Darnell. Don't mess this up by firing your coach, letting it leak out, and then not get a legit coach in here on the back end of this. You do not want to puck this up, Edmonton Oilers, get yourselves a coach.

SPEAKER_01 54:18

Razor, I got it. I got the answer for you based on that. Oilers need a coach and they need a goalie. Who am I thinking of?

SPEAKER_05 54:28

Oh, Patrick Waugh?

SPEAKER_01 54:30

Patrick Waugh!

SPEAKER_03 54:31

Come on! Yeah, why not? Patrick will love dealing with that goaltending issue. Yeah, yeah. Snap on him. Yeah, he knows better. Goalies know better not to jump into that pool. Patrick, though. That would be interesting. There you go. I haven't heard that name. Not a terrible idea. Not horrible.

SPEAKER_01 54:52

Can he handle the Canadian market? I mean I want a couple of Stanley Cups in Montreal.

SPEAKER_03 54:56

You can tell Connor to take a shift off every once in a while. There you go. I don't mind it seaball, actually.

SPEAKER_01 55:02

You're clearly looking for a coach that's gonna be there for a good time, not a long time, whoever it's gonna be, right? You want somebody to push buttons. You're not looking for a Woodcroft or a knoblock, you're looking for somebody who's gonna get into people's grills, right? And maybe Patrick is the answer for both goals. Maybe if Patrick wants to put the blocker and the and the and the put him in match back on player coach.

SPEAKER_05 55:22

The goalie bird and the Reggie Dunlop. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 55:26

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SPEAKER_05 56:00

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SPEAKER_03 56:10

Yep. That is it. So I will be cooking one. Oh, I am gonna be a great. Absolutely theman.

SPEAKER_01 56:17

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SPEAKER_04 57:00

Well played.