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Episode 9 - Round 2 Madness to Round 3 Predictions

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 Round 2 of the Stanley Cup Playoffs is officially wrapped, and Episode 8 is all about breaking down the chaos it left behind. Dante, Donny, and Jordan dive into every series, every surprise, and every storyline before shifting gears into full Round 3 mode. We’re making our predictions, analyzing the matchups, and debating which teams have the edge as the conference finals get underway. 

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is episode 9 of the Rink Hockey Podcast, and today we're diving into full results of round two of the Stanley Cup playoffs. I'm here with Donnie and Jordan. We'll break down each series, what stood out, and how those outcomes shaped the matchups in round three. We'll give our predictions, analyze the strengths and weaknesses of each remaining team, and look at what could decide the conference finals. Before we begin, a quick reminder to like and follow the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and YouTube. And be sure to follow the rink on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook for updates and extra content. How are you boys doing tonight? Lovely, especially since Montreal's in the conference finals. Can't be uh too upset. Uh at the time of us recording this podcast, once again, you know, on par for us, we are a little behind. Uh we've seen both yeah, if life life is life. We've seen game one of both uh series so far, and then as we're doing this game two zone for Colorado and Vegas. Uh to start off, we're gonna go over the West, and then we'll finish off with the East because as we all know, me and Donnie will talk for probably four hours about the Habs. Um, so first off in the West Boys, the Avalanche

Colorado Beats Minnesota

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beat the wild. We'll kind of do what we did last time. I'll say what our predictions were and see if me and Jordan did a little bit better now that Donnie was here, and then uh we'll go over the series and then look at who they're playing. So Avalanche beat the wild. We all had Colorado winning this one. I had them in five, Jordan had them in seven, and Donnie had them in six. So at least, you know, we all had Colorado was winning this one. Uh Jordan. Yeah, yeah, well, yeah. There's real close there, getting the seven. Jordan, what'd you think of the series?

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Uh yeah, Colorado was by far the better team throughout the whole series. I mean, the missing piece of Erickson Eck, I think, is a huge um spot that can't be understated. Like he is definitely their number one center and kind of makes that lineup a little bit deeper and rounds it out better. Uh Brodean on the back end, I think, makes a little bit of a difference. Both those guys in the lineup, they still don't beat Colorado. Colorado was way better, and uh they tried to score with Colorado and it just doesn't work.

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Yeah, I think this is kind of the daunt to Jordan's point there. Um on top of Erickson Hack being out, they also didn't have Jonas Prodeen. We saw the goaltending struggles that the Wild had uh in the first few games, losing that game one, nine-six to Colorado. I don't think any goalie would survive nine goals against normally. You get a pulled goalie at that point, and then they tried to go to Gustavson and then back to um Wallstead, kind of working back through their goalies, and it just it felt like Colorado was too deep, right? We even saw that game five must win for the wild. They build a 3-0 lead, play great, and Colorado just chips away 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, eventually wins it in overtime. Um, even if it wasn't in five, I think it probably would have been in six. It just felt like a much deeper, more experienced team beating a team that's still trying to get that playoff experience and get over the hump. Um, I think it'll be interesting to see where Minnesota goes in the offseason. Quinn Hughes is obviously a big talking point, and and maybe they can add a few more pieces to really compete in this very tough central division for the next few years.

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Yeah, that that 9-6 first game really felt like Calgary and Edmonton from a few years back when Calgary won that game, and they thought, okay, now we can score with Edmonton, we're just gonna play run and gun hockey, and they go on to get reverse swept and didn't look good after that, right? Minnesota didn't really change anything, said, Hey, we're gonna be able, we're gonna try and score here with them, where they should have tried to, you know, play more of a defensive system, make it harder on Colorado, bog them down, slow it, slow the game down a lot, and they just decided not to do that.

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Yeah, this series, the one thing I noticed too like the goalies on both teams honestly were not good in this series. Uh like even in the closer games, they weren't bad. Uh, I'm pretty sure the save percent the team save percentage for the whole series, not one goalie was over 870 for their save percentage as uh average, basically. Just looking at the stats here quickly, Colorado dominated Minnesota on the power play at 38.5% compared to Minnesota's 23.1. They dominated in the shots on goal category, and like Jordan said, not having Aries and Eck in there, Colorado also dominated in the face-off circle, allowed them to really set up in the zone when they needed to and control and dictate the play. The Colorado Avalanche, there's only one category they didn't win in this series, and that was hits. Um, Minnesota outhit Colorado, not by much, but they outhit them. Their team was more built for that. And the Felinos. The Felinos were throwing their bodies around, and while you know Colorado won the series in the end, Minnesota might be having the last laugh right now as Mikar is still injured, and you can really toss that up, probably to the beating he took this series because they just they they were going after him every second they can. Yeah, but um overall, uh yeah, the depth we talked about this earlier on on our podcast, just how deep this Colorado team is. You can't you can't try to run a gun with them like we are just talking about, they're just way too deep down the middle, and you're not trying to just shut down one line on this team or a 1A, one B line. They have four lines that are just rolling at all points in time, you know.

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So yeah, I actually think Minnesota's depth player did pretty good in the series. Like they went and got Michael McCarron at the deadline, thought he had a pretty major impact.

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Shockingly, he's been he was really good.

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Yeah, I think if you're Minnesota, you needed more from Kaprazov. He had a few games where he kind of took over, put up multiple points. Quinn Hughes had a great series. Like, I think they're like one major offensive piece away, like that kind of level player. I don't know how you even go about adding that, but um yeah, they have to try to get creative to get one more dynamic forward, I think, on this team.

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Trying to I think Quinn Hughes was really good for them in in these playoffs. I thought he pretty much was right as advertised, right? A little bit small, but he was able to control play. If you're a Minnesota Wild fan and from years prior and this year, are you happy about giving Caprizov the money you gave him? No, like that's a lot of money for a guy that just doesn't really show up in playoffs, hasn't shown it yet, at least.

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It was the largest contract, right? Or it is the largest contract. Like I if I'm paying someone that money, uh I'm expecting them to win me a game or two in the playoffs. Win you a game by minimum, not even just like be an impact. No, no, I want them to be winning me a game. And I agree, he just they just they didn't get that from him.

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He hit a two-on-one in the overtime there and decides to pass the puck across and doesn't get the pass across, right? Like shoot that puck.

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I'm also of the believer that like if you are dishing record-breaking money out to reset a market, the last position you should do it is that wing. Unless it's a Nikita Kucherov absolute game-breaking talent, like IQ and everything. I don't think Cap Resolve's quite on that level, but if you do it to a centerman or a number one defenseman, or even to a certain extent a goalie, which we know the goalie market right now is a little bit behind where the the player market is with the McDavids and Cap Resolve now. I yeah, I'm fine with giving that money to a center or a D, but Winger's impacts on games, it just feels like it's must much less, and you're not getting the return on for your money, in my opinion.

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And I yeah, agreed. And adding on to that, I honestly don't even think goalie should be in that status anymore. Just my personal opinion. Look at the four teams that are remaining in your uh pilot playoffs right now. 100% is is any of them paid over five and a half? Like maybe like what's Anderson getting paid right now?

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I don't even know.

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Like, as you know, I mean, like is anyone bigger? All you need at the end of the day, you know, the the saying is the saying, sure, you can have the prices and the hello bucks and the hassocks of the world. That's completely different, obviously. Those are generational goaltenders, you know what I mean? But that being said, Hello Buck has proven that he doesn't always show up in playoffs, whereas some of these goalies right now are showing all you need to do is get hot in playoffs, you know what I mean?

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Or or you can just find a goalie that commits sexual assault.

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I mean, I don't hey he's on he was cleared and he is on fire now, baby.

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I mean, I don't agree with that take. I think goaltending is a pretty important position. You look at the conference the last five years, and it's Babrowski, Babrowski, Babrowski, Vasileski, Vasilesky, all guys getting paid at the top of the market, right? This year's a little bit different.

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If you can find that guy, I think it makes sense to pay him. But teams have shown recently that they build the team from the forward group back, and it's very difficult to find that goalie worth that amount of money in today's NHL. It's a lot harder to develop a goaltender in the system. You can draft someone whose high pedigree looks good, looks promising, but that development from drafting a goalie to being ready at 24, 25, 26, whatever that goal that age is, is so difficult for organizations nowadays, right? And you often don't see that kind of success. It's usually and then you have goalies that like a hella buck that are now in their 30s, almost over the hill in terms of goaltending peak. Oh, he's over the that's that's where their peak kind of comes out and their yeah their windows shortened, right?

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Um speaking of goalies and the wonderful Carter Hart, we'll go into the Anaheim

Knights Take Down The Ducks

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Ducks Vegas series here, where he was one of the reasons, in my opinion, Carter Hart was one of the reasons why this series went Vegas' way. There was many things that went good for Vegas in the series, but many that went bad. They they truly struggled with Anaheim's speed and their counterattack. Anaheim getting 31 shots per game on average compared to Vegas, just sitting at 23. But Carter Hart's overall save percentage sitting at 9.30 for that series, whereas Anaheim 8.856. For me, the series really came down to goaltenders and who showed up and who didn't. And I really think uh Anaheim's goaltending let them down. Donnie, what do you think?

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Oh, 100%. I think like you're saying, Carter Hart won that head-to-head matchup in all six games. Anaheim outshot Vegas. There wasn't one game where Vegas had the shot advantage. Um I think what we saw from Anaheim is very promising for the future with their young players, dynamic offensive forwards that are continuing to develop, and gave Vegas a pretty good series here. And to your point, Dante, if they got a little bit better goaltending, this series could have easily went seven and potentially a different direction. Um we we talk about how important goalies are in these playoff series, and one save or or one major play can kind of make or break your year. And yeah, I don't I don't think if you're a Ducks fan, you're you're mad with what you saw.

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You shouldn't be at all. You're a young man. I don't think anyone thought they'd be in playoffs to begin with. Never mind making it to round two here. Like I wouldn't be upset at all.

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I think it raises big questions about Dostal, right? Like you came into it thinking he's probably your franchise goalie. That's kind of what the word was. And I just don't know. He didn't ever make the big save when needed. It kind of just fell flat there for me in the Eventon series, and then also in the Vegas series. Um, he looked good at the beginning of the year, tapered off. I don't know if he can handle the workload. I don't know. Um, that's my biggest uh question mark for that team, but they're gonna get better. Like Anaheim's gonna be back there, they're gonna be threatening. Um, I I honestly could see them competing for a cup in the near future with how that team is. One thing I wanted to bring up actually was probably one of the people that played through one of the most uh impressive injuries was uh Cutter Goeche. Uh he actually broke his L1 and L2 vertebrae in his back on March 30th, missed two weeks in the regular season, and then came back and played the entire playoffs. It's absolutely insane.

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It's pretty fucked when you think about it, eh? Yeah, like when you when you think him and the other injuries we mentioned before, it's fucking insane what these hockey players go through. And then like I don't know how you guys feel about it, but it pisses me off to no end because then you look at other sports around the league.

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Well, he's not a basketball player, he'll miss the hangnail.

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He's got a hangnail, so he's not in the game tonight, or he fucking, you know, like not everyone. Obviously, there's probably some pretty tough dudes on that and NBA too, but I don't know. I just don't see like the the NHL toughness, these guys like the guy had a cutter goche, he's a broken back, and he's still he played great this series too.

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He did.

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He like I honestly, if he didn't announce, I don't know what you guys, but if he didn't announce that injury, I don't I would never have guessed he actually was injured, to be honest with you. I would explain. Well, I didn't think he was in an injury at all, but yeah, Donnie, what'd you think?

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Yeah, I don't know. Just quickly on the ducks outlook here. So they have some pretty big decisions just looking at their cap friendly. So they got both Cutter Gochie and Leo Carlson have expiring deals this year. Obviously, both have RFA status, but those are two huge big ticket contracts you're potentially handing out this offseason. So getting those two deals done are huge. They had just locked in Jackson Lacombe earlier this year to nine million a year, kicks in next year, and then on their decor, they have John Carlson, Jacob Truba, and Radko Gudis all on expiring contracts here. Uh-huh. Either walking as free agents. Of course, maybe maybe they like what they saw with Carlson. You sign him to a veteran deal for a few years, but I can also see Jacob Truba leaving.

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I think Truba's someone I think they want to keep, though. Like he was playing on their offline with the city. I think they want to, but I guess I agree on it. Winnipeg.

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Yeah. Bring him, bring him home. And then to your point, Jordan, like Dostel's 25 years old, but they have him locked in for six and a half million for four more years. Four more years they extended him.

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So you Anaheim really needs he they need Dostal to get or like because I mean I didn't see him being this bad, to be honest. Like, I I I don't see him being the right elite level of a goaltender either. But yeah, he's a young guy. So I I'm still putting my faith in him at least for another season or two for sure, before I even start to maybe consider that factor, especially because I mean the market and the goaltenders right now, if you are trading for one or moving it, you're just moving it for another young goaltender anyway. So you might as well see what's going on with him. But to that point, that defense core, too, those guys are pretty old players as well. So I guess it's gonna come down to Anaheim whether they truly think that they can compete again next season and can continue to compete, and whether John Carlson, Truba, and sorry, who's the last one there? Goodas, was it?

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Gudis, yeah. Yeah, who's their captain, right? Who's their captain, right?

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But that might and see, I'm I'm of the opposite thought of that. That's the guy I let go, and I'm giving that C to Carlson immediately as soon as he's gone. Uh, Carlson really impressed me, these playoffs, to be honest.

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Yeah, John Carlson was a stud. He played really well for them on the back end.

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Yeah, uh I meant Leo Carlson. I was just making it sure.

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Son of a bitch. And then the other sorry, quickly, quickly as well, the other name that uh is rumored to be out there that might be an odd man mount is this Olin Zellweger. So he's a 22-year-old D-man. He's also on an expiring RFA deal. Uh might not be enough chairs on that back end with this Tristan Lunau, Pavel Mentukov, Lacombe, and then their veteran D that they're gonna look at bringing in. That might be a guy you see on the move, still young, mobile. I think he had 22 points this year. Uh to that point, he uh traded to a different team.

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Healthy scratched a lot of the playoffs, right? For a guy who was playing in the AHL for most of the season. He got in and it was okay, but yeah.

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And he's from Calgary, Alberta. Maybe if the target the flames can scratch.

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I take him, he's he's pretty solid. Like pair him with Perek. Honestly, like yeah, that's a problem.

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What are those guys? You mean your right wing, left wing forwards? Because neither of them could play defense. Um, but both those like Anaheim's in a good position, yeah. Like he they have to make a decision basically in the offseason based on what their cap situation is and what they want to do. Are you going to move on from all your veteran guys and play all your young guys? Because if you are, you're taking a step backwards, probably. You gotta let them develop. Or are you gonna start moving some of those young guys out on the back end, like Donnie mentioned, and maybe filling some holes you had within your lineup to try to go on another little run here? It'll be interesting. Um, right

Round 3: Colorado vs Vegas

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now we are it's game two currently of Vegas and Colorado. Vegas stole game one. Uh someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure Colorado is currently winning still. Oh yeah, one nothing. Yeah, nothing still. Yeah. So this series, yeah. I mean, we talked about it a little bit amongst ourselves prior to this, but a huge blow for Colorado here with Noah McCarr. And it doesn't sound like he's gonna be ready till the end of this round anyway, if that. He hasn't been able to have a consistent skating regiment yet. Um Vegas steals game one, which is huge. But now you need to take advantage of the fact that Colorado's best player is out. Close game right now, one-nothing. It seems like both goalies are having uh uh a good game here, but game one once again, uh what's his name there? Wedgewood, right? Sorry. Uh Wedgewood did not impress me at all, whereas Carter Hart stole game one from me. He's had two, he's had a really good last round. He was pretty decent prior. He's doing really well again right now. So Colorado, who's got nothing but offensive firepower, is gonna have to really find a way to break through his uh shell. And Vegas is gonna have to find a way to keep on playing them tight and stealing some wins, considering that they don't really do well against fast teams, you know.

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So yeah, Carter Hart um definitely has gotten better as these playoffs have gone on. Like against Utah, I thought he was probably below average, and then throughout that series, he got better. Last round I thought he was good, and he's kept going from there against Colorado so far. That's the key to the series to me.

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And I think I think Vegas more than any of the four teams left in these playoffs, understand their identity as a team more than anyone. I think you see a Colorado team very high offense, high octane, like you're saying, Dante fast. Vegas knows they can't escape with them. If they open it up and try to get into a track meet, they would get blown out. Uh Makar being out is huge for them. And if you watch game one, Vegas just waited for their opportunities. They played solid defensively, limited Colorado's chances for the first two periods at least. And then they got that one power play goal, they scored a goal on the counterattack, and they're they're very opportunistic. Uh, I think Warner's having a hell of a series. But it's it's a guys are crying. It's a very well-coached team by Tortorella playing to their identity and getting better goaltending every game, to your point, Jordan.

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Agreed.

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Yeah, depending on how long Makar is out. We know Makar is a game breaker for Colorado and can take over and make plays. If he's out till games five, six, and seven, it might it might be too late. This game's only one nothing. Vegas could still win this game tonight.

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And to that point, you know, Vegas is also missing Stone. I mean, he's not the city, he's not the he's not the game breaker that Makar is, but if you look at Vegas' record with Stone in the lineup compared to without Stone in the lineup, it is like two different teams are actually playing. Like they're they're a way better team with him in the lineup than they are out. So if they can steal a couple games too, I don't know what his status is on his injury for when he's coming back, but I don't expect him back anytime soon. He's that bad. Who knows with him?

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But uh yeah, it sounds like it might be his back again, so you never know with the back.

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So you never know with that, but the one thing I was I like I would say too is like Colorado, we were talking about it just prior, they aren't that big of a team either. They are a fast, skilled base team, and like Donnie said, Vegas is very comfortable playing and who they know who they are, so they know what they need to do to win this. Colorado is not gonna outbully Vegas. I believe I I think Vegas is way more of a tough, bigger team than they are. So, like if they keep on playing the way they're playing, like Donnie said, capitalizing their opportunities, we might see a pretty pretty big upset here because I don't think many people have Vegas coming out of this, but uh we can go around the the table here and say what we think. Donnie, what do you think?

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I think for sure this series is going six or seven. I think Colorado finds their game. McCar comes back by game five is my prediction. Okay. I'm gonna say Vegas in seven is my prediction. I think they build out potentially a 3 1 lead in the first four games. I think Colorado claws two games back with Makar back, but I think they find a way to win it in in a game seven. That's what I'll go with.

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Jordan Yeah, I am kind of sniffing the same flowers here. I think uh with Mikaro, nice. I also think he'll probably be back game game five-ish, somewhere in there. Um with Nakar out, their decor is so small with Malensky and Blankenberg out there. Vegas is gonna take a pounding to them. Um they'll just gonna run them into the ground, I think. I think uh they have the better goaltending, and like significantly so with Carter Hart, as long as he keeps playing how he has been. And Mitch Marner right now is playing out of world. Um he's exactly the type of player that Toronto always wished they had, and too bad they uh didn't draft a guy like that and keep him around. Um I think I'm gonna have to say Vegas in six because I think Colorado's goaltending is gonna let them down.

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Fair enough. I'm gonna just for the sake of argument, I'll go opposite of you guys. I'm gonna go Colorado in six. I think at the end of the day, Hart's playing Unreal, Martyr's playing unreal. 100%. I agree with all those points. Uh, I just don't see Vegas being able to keep Colorado to these low-scoring games for too long. That team will break out eventually. I I I think. Or who knows, maybe McKinnon will miss another wide open net. Uh let's uh let's uh go over to the east here. Let's start off

Carolina Sweeps Again!

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with the first series we'll talk about. Uh Carolina and Philly. Uh Carolina once again swept uh Philadelphia back-to-back sweeps from round one to round two. We also all had uh Carolina in this in our predictions. None of us had them in a sweep, though. Um you know there's not much like we did, like the same thing we did for the last round. There's not much to say here. Philadelphia was just outplayed and outclassed in almost every uh way here. They are once again a young team that just snuck into the playoffs as well, and Carolina kind of had their uh way with it. Uh way with them. Donnie, what'd you what'd you think?

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Yeah, I think like you said, it's just two different leagues playing in this series. Um we talk about how Philly played a Pittsburgh team. I think those two were arguably the worst playoff teams in the East coming in. Randomly being able to play each other is pretty bad on the league in terms of look, in my opinion. But Flyers took care of Pittsburgh, the uh Pittsburgh retirement home, and uh moved on to Carolina. Carolina was also very arrested, taking care of Ottawa easily in the first round. And yeah, just just very little resistance. We talk about Carolina's depth scoring, that second line on the Carolina hurricanes being arguably the best in hockey right now. Frederick Anderson played out of his mind. I think he had first two rounds back-to-back game one shutouts in both the Ottawa Philly series setting the tone, and it just it never felt like Philly was in it until they ran them, they forced overtime in game four. Feliers had all the chances in that overtime. Carolina came back first chance. They felt like they had the end of the series, so not too much else on that.

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Yeah, I think Carolina had the better goalie. Carolina had more depth, Carolina outskated them. Big thing in the Pittsburgh thing for uh Pittsburgh series for Philadelphia was their young guys, like uh Martone really stepped up and and scored goals for them when they needed it and stuff, and that didn't happen against Carolina. Um, yeah, that's really all I had to say.

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Uh the outlook for Philadelphia, though. Um, you know, I uh if you would have asked me, I didn't think they'd make the playoffs. Uh Port of Martone has emerged as probably my favorite next season as of right now for probably rookie of the year. Uh he looked unreal this entire entire playoff round, and since he joined Philadelphia over there, they have some nice young pieces that they're starting to put together here. Mitchikov played way better towards the end of the season. He struggled at times these playoffs as well, though.

SPEAKER_00

Um get serious and you know, come into the season in shape and stuff.

SPEAKER_01

Ready to go and not taking everything half-assed like he has been lately. Uh and then, you know, they their goalie situation was always a question mark for me, but Vladar played pretty well, to be honest. Uh, he he he actually is pretty pretty good these uh playoffs here. But their young team, I I don't think the fan base will be upset to be eliminated here either. I don't think they plan to be there at all. I just uh I don't know if they'll be around here again next season, to be honest. Uh if I had to choose a team to bounce back, it's gonna be Caroline or uh sorry, Philadelphia. They'll probably be on the outside looking in next season.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, this this kind of feels like a one-off playoff appearance for me.

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Um I think they made a bit of a talkett special, right? Talkett kind of did that in Vancouver, had the one-year boost.

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My big question marks for them, like we talked about Mitchkov, he was kind of jerked all over the lineup all season, had kind of had his feuding with Talkett, didn't feel really feel like a Talkett type player in terms of defensive responsibility and intensity and everything. So they have to figure out what they're doing with him in terms of their planning. Dante, you talked about Porter Martin jumping on the scene. Absolute stud. Trevor Ziegris is an RFA. I don't believe he's re-signed yet.

SPEAKER_01

No, I think he will be though.

SPEAKER_02

Uh yeah, I think he'll buy into Philly. He likes playing there. But like that Sean Couturier, they're paying him 7.75 for another four years. Travis Keneckney makes 8.75 for another four years. And then Owen Tippett, everyone's kind of talked about him potentially as being in that in-between where they try to get rid of him. He's making 6.2 for another four. So I think he was pretty good this year, though. I I liked him during the season playoffs. I suck at I didn't notice him too much. I didn't notice him.

SPEAKER_01

He disappeared completely in the playoffs for me. He really struggled to establish his game.

SPEAKER_00

And then outside of the-Kay in the playoffs, right? Like the type of game he plays.

SPEAKER_01

You would think at least, yeah.

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And then on their decor, outside of like I like Sandheim as a player. He's also 30 now. They have Cam York, who's 25, still relatively young-ish. Wrist alignance probably on his back legs. Dry'sdale, they're gonna continue to see what they get in him. But I think Philly is a team that are gonna definitely gonna look at the trademark and free agency to potentially add a few more good pieces to their their team here.

SPEAKER_01

Agreed 100%. And then uh, you know, Carolina's moving on, and they play the Montreal Canadiens.

Canadiens Beat Buffalo

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I I don't think I've ever been, or all three of us have ever been this stressed out watching hockey and our especially like you know, two back-to-back game seven rounds between for Montreal and this Buffalo series. I know me and Donnie talked about it. I thought it was I thought it was done when we lost that home game and got blown out in front of the home crowd. I did not I did not expect us to be able to pull it out too too much, but they did it. Montreal's moving on. That was a really good series as well. Two very young teams, eh guys? Like both of them are both these teams. I think we're gonna be playing each other a lot in the future in playoffs here, especially with how the playoff setup is and all that kind of stuff.

SPEAKER_00

I these teams could end up really hating each other.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, this could be the start of uh a really good deep rivalry like we used, like we had with Boston and stuff like that. You know what I mean? I think we're gonna see each other a lot in the upcoming years here. Or who knows, maybe Buffalo completely falls off the face of the earth again and doesn't play well as all at all. But um, Jordan, let's start with you. I mean, we watched a lot of these games together at the rink here, so what were your thoughts?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, I thought um it was kind of a series of one team blowing out the other and then the other team blowing out them. Like it just felt like there wasn't really a a super close game. Even uh even game uh four was it when Buffalo won 3-2. I uh it was a close game on the scoreboard, but it felt like Montreal was by far the better team, right? Like just taking the game to them, like and then game uh game seven, you finally got like that one goal overtime, you know, a little bit more back and forth. I know everyone says Buffalo probably deserved to win that because they handled the second period. I I don't really completely agree with that. I thought uh Montreal had has had trouble with second periods, honestly, all playoffs, and I thought they did exactly what I thought they were gonna do in the second period. They had a two-goal lead, they're gonna try and shut it down, kind of limit the high danger chances, which I thought they did. They got hemmed in lots. I kind of expected that, and they came out at the end of the period still up a goal, right? Um, third period, they looked nervous, I thought, but then as soon as Buffalo tied it, Buffalo then started looking nervous and kind of went into a shell, and then Montreal really took it to them, right? Um I thought that the top guys for Buffalo, as in Tage Thompson and Tuck, Alex Tuck were pretty invisible. Um, Tage Thompson scores what two empty netters and off the boards or whatever. A goal where he goes to rim it in and it hits off a stanchion and comes out with like the most one of the luckiest goals I've ever seen. Um, and then Tuck did absolutely nothing. He he's trying to be a 10 million plus dollar player, and I don't even know if he's worth seven after that series.

SPEAKER_01

Fucking even less. He would he did nothing for me, honestly. Um Donnie, what'd you think? I know we lost. We I think I lost years of my life watching this series, the series beforehand. But like, you know. Well they did it, you know, but uh the fact here.

SPEAKER_02

Let's just let's just quickly walk through the games here. So game one, I think that was more of a feeling out process type of game. Montreal just came off an insanely intense, very tight seven-game series against Tampa Bay. Dante, we talk about I think Tampa led in that series for 20-some minutes total throughout the entire seven-game series. Montreal played an unbelievably defensive game in that series. So game one, Buffalo comes out high octane. Montreal kind of had to find a way to transition. Buffalo wins that game four-two. We see uh games two and three, Montreal find their game, start to take over. They win both of those games handedly, five-one and six-two. Game four, to your point, Jordan.

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Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02

Tight game. Montreal gets a 2-1 lead, 2-2 goal, absolute horseshoe luck off the Zamboni door, ties the game for them. Buffalo gets a little bit of a momentum from that lucky bounce, wins that game. That was the only close game of the series. Yeah. Game five, Montreal made adjustments back on the road, wins handedly in game five, get a power play goal from Demedov Dante, first line starts to get going. I think game six was the only real anomaly where I don't really fault Montreal for how they played. It felt like it was just watching a different team. We got the early lead, went up 3-1, uh, got a little bit uh irresponsible with penalties, and that game quickly got away from them. But we the the message with this team, Dante, is just like resiliency, man. And and I think it starts with Marty St. Louis down. This team top to bottom. We talk about the first line not going at the level they need to. The depth scoring has come through on every level in the series, every line scoring, contributing in games. But it it does like two very different teams in these playoffs. You have Tampa Bay, high octane, but also very defensive and smart. We play their game. We we stick out a a very tight series in seven against a good team, finished one spot ahead of us in the standings, fifth overall in the NHL, and then we play the fourth overall team in the NHL, completely different team. Uh maybe more high octane offense, less defensive structure, worse goaltending, and we find a way to pull it out there too. And uh the the biggest confidence I have in this team, like we talk about that first line not going. That first line gets going in the Eastern Conference Final and the Cup Final, and we continue to get the depth scoring and defensive structure coaching.

SPEAKER_01

It's something crazy to think about, but like wow, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02

If that happens, which is Jakob Dobish becoming an absolute stud in front of our eyes at 24 years old.

SPEAKER_01

That's it's unreal, actually, when you think about that.

SPEAKER_02

And and finds a way to outduel the other goaltender in the other side. First series was Vasilevsky. This series, I'll say worst goaltending with Lukanin and Lion. And now we're going into a series with Freddie Anderson in game one. He just he continues to get the job done. And at 24 years old, it is absolutely ridiculous what we are seeing him do.

SPEAKER_01

100% agree. And to the to your point you were making, uh, Donnie, there, like Dolbesh playing the way he is, the depth is the way they're going. If you would have told me at the beginning of this, like the first round, it was yes, okay. The first the the first line struggled, and we we tossed it up to we we tossed a lot of it up to tap of the tight the defense, the tightness of the game, no space to skate. And then you come to this Buffalo series, and I'm like, okay, so there's way more uh space out there, they're gonna get going now. And then they still struggled, but then it didn't really matter because our depth guys they're playing so well. And I know I mentioned this to you, uh Doc and um New Hook, they've definitely earned extensions with this team for me at this point, and even uh Bullduke, who you and I were not happy with how he played in the regular season a lot of the times, but he is again, he reminds me a little bit, and yeah, I think you're the one that said this to me uh a little bit of Josh Anderson, where they come out, it's their the playoffs is their time to shine kind of they find their game and they've been it's been good. Um, so you're looking we look forward and we're we're looking at like we've we watched game one so far for Carolina

Round 3: Montreal vs. Carolina

SPEAKER_01

and Montreal, and wow, like we stole another one. And I don't know uh like you know Carolina's gonna come back and they're gonna play strong in for their game two here. There's no doubt in my mind about that. But I truly think we shocked those guys with how fast and how quickly we could counter on you. The one thing like you watched more of the game than I was able to, but Carolina loves the pressure super hard and high in the neutral zone, and the way Montreal was just one quick touch passing all the way around them was just is brilliant to see, you know.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah, and my journal my boss and I were actually talking about it today, and like the amount of room on the ice for Montreal players on rush chances and counterattacks is not like anything they've seen so far in these playoffs. They're trying to pressure you so hard where they're making mistakes defensively, and like people are wide open yesterday.

SPEAKER_02

And I I honestly think that's an anomaly with Carolina almost being too hyped. We talk about the 13 days off that they had, record-breaking break between series and history. Uh, so coming into this game, the the message, the subject was rest versus rust, right? Montreal coming off two tight uh Game 7 series against very good teams, Carolina coming off two sweeps, haven't haven't lost in these playoffs yet. And I think Carolina came in on that first period, they scored 30 seconds in, and that was great for them, but they very quickly became over-aggressive in their four check, right? And uh, Dante, to your point, the touch passing was very key, but also Montreal's defensive ability to outskate and make one quick pass to get around that initial four-checker was the key to this game. You can go pull up, I think, four of the Montreal five goals short of the empty netter. It starts in Montreal's end, where the first four-checker is immediately on that D-man, one touch pass to the other D-man, and that D-man snapping it up the wall to a winger or skating up. There was one goal where Alexander Carrier completely outskated Seth Jarvis up the wall. And I think that was the one where it ended up in the Dineau breakaway. He ended up ditching off to the winger. Winger one touched it past Slavin, Dano walks right in, snipes the low glove on Anderson, right? So I I think Montreal came in. They had a perfect game plan on how to counterattack this aggressive Carolina team. But I think we'd be kidding ourselves if we think we were gonna see this again tomorrow, right? I think Carolina is gonna be a lot more reserved and maybe even play uh a zone or a one-two-two defense and and not for check as hard, but in the same breath, that'll give Montreal's D more time to make plays out of their own zone, yeah, and and not force turnovers on the on the defensive side, right? So yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

It felt like the whole conversation rest versus rust, and I think you could see that they had their legs, but they weren't connected as a team, right? With a lot of their pressures and stuff like that, they weren't all pressuring at the same spots and stuff, and I think that really came through, especially in the first period. Um, I think the second period they kind of got their game back, and that's kind of more what you'll see through this series was what the second period was. And then I thought Montreal played honestly the best road third period you could ask for, right? One shot any shot, didn't give them any chances, just killed everything, like just ideal.

SPEAKER_01

Uh to to add to also what Donnie was saying before about the defensive games these two teams play. I wrote this down prior to doing this just because I wanted to talk about it. So both these teams are one of the few teams in the NHL that actually play man-to-man defense in their zone. And I know we've me and Donnie kind of bitched about it uh quite often sometimes in the Tampa Bay and the Buffalo series, because you look at the man-to-man and in Tampa, they were they were rougher, they were on us right away, and they forced us in those what man-to-man situations to lose battles one-on-one with some of their taller, bigger guys against some of our uh smaller players. Then you fast forward to Buffalo, and Buffalo figured it out. We're gonna rotate instead of down low behind the goal line, we're gonna start rotating up at the blue line to catch you guys running around too much. At the end of the day, that was what cost them the game where they tried to rotate up top, and Dallen and Thompson got crossed up, leading to Montreal scoring on the other way. Now you fast forward to this Carolina series, and it they both play man-to-man defense, but Montreal seems to be better and faster at it. So Carolina struggled deeply to break away from the man-to-man and create something in the middle of the offensive zone. Like you said in that third period, Donnie and Jordan, everything they had when they had offensive or offensive zone time was all outside. They could not break through Montreal's man-to-man defense at all. Even with the goalie bolt, even with the goalie bolt, it just they couldn't do it. Then you look at Montreal and the other end, and they almost liked having liked being played man-to-man. They know it well, they've been doing it all year perfectly. They know their skill and sometimes their willingness to take risks that most players won't kind of help them out here once in a while. Like I watched I watched Demodoff three or four times getting played man on man, and it's like he was just drooling at the uh drooling about it, just so excited that I'm gonna pull off whatever move I can think of here. I think he made between his legs a couple times, you know what I mean. So I agree with you, Donnie. I don't think Carolina can stick to man-to-man if they want to win this series the whole time. I do think they need to drop down to a more of a zone trap situation and force Montreal to not be able to carry the puck to the neutral zone with speed. They need to force them to dump it. But that will Zavigate to that. Well, we had to do that against Tampa Bay. You know what I mean? That's why when I look at this series, obviously I'm a Habs fan, I'm obviously gonna pick them to win here. But Montreal has now had to play, like you said, Donnie, two series, two very different ways. One, very structured, tight checking, no space. Buffalo, a little bit more space out there, bigger physical game. I don't know what Carolina could really throw at them that'll be different. Obviously, if they play better than Montreal, Montreal shoots themselves in the foot with terrible second periods or uh the high sticks uh penalties, which I think Donnie, uh you almost broke your phone at how many high stick penalties they called on. Like, control your stick, guys. Come on, you know what I mean? But um, I'm very excited for the series. I agree there Carolina will answer back in game two at a much more structured thing, uh, much more structured game. So I think game two was really gonna be a tone setter for the series, in my opinion. I don't know what you guys think, but I think game two really will give us a true outlook on how this series might go.

SPEAKER_00

I think game two definitely will give you a better idea of how the series is gonna go. I think uh you guys are saying that they're they need to switch their defensive style. They don't do that. Carolyn doesn't do that, they they explained that.

SPEAKER_03

Brandon doesn't do that, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

He just doesn't change what he's doing. He just what I've taught you is gonna work, and too bad. It feels um, you know, like he just but like punches it in and makes sure. Oh, Vegas just tied it. Um, make sure that like yeah, you know what's going on at all times, right? Like, this is our system, we're not changing anything. That could really hurt them. I think he said in game one. Throughout the whole series against uh Ottawa and against um Philadelphia, they were only scored on five times. That's crazy. That's very low. We scored five times. The biggest problem with Carolina is they never had a game where they ran away with a game. All those games are close.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Right? So it's not like they were scoring a ton of goals. They don't have the guys that will score goals.

SPEAKER_02

They don't know how to come back from a major deficit either.

SPEAKER_00

So they have to play, they have to play a tight checking style that is high pressure and capitalize on their chances. They're gonna throw a bunch of pucks at net and hopefully get a bounce and one goes in. They haven't played a team that has the high offensive upside that Montreal has, the high octane, the speed, the quick counterattack. And that's how you beat them. You beat them with quick counters in the neutral zone and you get on them. If you score early on them, they're not coming back from it. They're not a team that can come back from a deficit. And I think that's where Montreal's biggest advantage is.

SPEAKER_02

And on the opposite end, Jordan, like I think this playoff run for Montreal, like they've they've shown they thrive on the chaos. Like 100%. But they find ways to get out of these holes. Vegas. I'm almost hoping they get scored on now every game. Yeah. But my so just to summarize my point, Dante. Like my I just uh you have to give Marty St. Louis so much damn credit for how he has this team playing, not only the defensive structure, but these lines meshing and playing for one another, and just like the direction this team is going, Dante. We we as Habs fans, we could talk to her blue in the face on a second line center. We need one more top four D before we're really ready to compete for a cup. I don't fuck it. I don't think any of us at all saw Montreal going on this type of run where they beat the fifth overall team in the NHL, they beat the fourth overall team, now they're playing the second and potentially have to play the first. And they don't look as far as it's very early in this Carolina series, they do not look out of place. And it's so far ahead of where we expected it. But my keys to this series, I got two of them, is uh Dobish's compete. He needs to continue to be the better goalie in every single game. Freddie Anderson had a very bad game one. I think there were a few goals he would have liked back. Uh we might see Boosie if game two goes similar to game one. Uh Dobish needs to continue to elevate his game and improve and give Montreal a chance every night. Uh keep them in games, calendar weak goals, etc. And like game one, Dante, we saw that first line going for arguably the first time in the series after full octane. Slavkovsky, Slavkovsky is such a driver of play when he's moving his feet. His biggest thing is his skating, right? When he is skating and moving at a high speed and in the game, that's when he uses his speed and size and fore-check and playmaking ability to really uh lean on the defensive team against him. And we saw that with that unbelievable goal he scored in game one, right? He had an unbelievable behind-the-back pass to Caulfield to tie the game in the first minute in game one as well. And if that first line starts to contribute and create offense every game five on five, I I don't think Carolina has the guns to keep up with that kind of octane, to your point, Jordan. I like Svechnikov, I like Aho, I like Jarvis, but they are not that dynamic of offensive players compared to Suzuki, Caulfield, and Slav. I think Montreal has a major advantage when you look at first line to first line in this series. And with the depth performance they're getting for their second, third, fourth lines, the level that Marty has those nine forwards playing, they like they could blow Caroline out of the water here unless things change, right? I have no doubt Carolina's gonna make changes for game two, but with what we saw in game one, I don't know how we don't get excited as abs fans for how this is trending, right?

SPEAKER_00

I agree a hundred percent. I have never seen a player look so relieved, and like a weight was lifted off of him as Slefkowski looked after scoring that fifth goal. Yeah, that fifth goal. Like he just looked so like relieved that he finally got one five on five, and you know, a nice move, and yeah, that was interesting to see.

SPEAKER_02

And and another comment, Dante, like the 6-2 win yesterday. I'd argue, I'd argue one of the Habs more invisible defenders last night was was Lane Hudson. Hudson, he's trying to get a big thing. Didn't pick up a point, didn't didn't pick up a point. I thought Caden Gooley, Alex Carrier, Matheson, Dobson all had very solid games. Gooley was a beast out there, transition. I think he had two assists on some pretty good big goals in the transition game. Um and and yeah, if you get if you get Hudson going on top of all of this, like yeah, I have no doubt Carolina's gonna make changes in game two, and you kind of have to see what changes they make. But yeah, it's uh it's feeling really good as a Habsman in the Space.

SPEAKER_01

It's gonna be very interesting to see how they come out tomorrow. But like we all said, it's uh if Montreal can keep playing it the way they're playing, it's gonna be a very difficult series for Carolina, where they and their fan base definitely thought that they were gonna be walking to the finals pretty easily here. Um so obviously, you know, I think Donnie and I are picking Montreal to win the series. Donnie, what do you got them in?

SPEAKER_02

I'm gonna say Habs in seven just to keep this seven-game series going. It'd be pretty legendary if you win a cup going seven game anyway.

SPEAKER_01

If they have another seven-game series, I don't think I'll survive to the finals, but we'll see. Jordan, what do you got?

SPEAKER_00

Um, so I my I have three big keys to this matchup. Um, it's first it starts in net. Does Dobish continue playing how he has? He looked like from everything we've seen so far, he can handle the adversity of playoffs, the ups and downs, the roller coasters. Maybe he was looking a little tired against Buffalo at uh one point. I know in the interview he afterwards gave seven, he said he wasn't. Everyone's gonna say that. If he can keep playing how he's playing, and Anderson comes back down to earth, um, because he's not the goalie he has been in the first two rounds. I think he's been playing out of his mind. He's a good goalie, he's he definitely should be a starter on a team, but he's not that guy. Um, he's gonna come back down, which it looked like he did in game one. That's a big step. Second, second one is Montreal needs to really be able to run through their lines and not have to sit guys and not make Suzuki play 35 minutes in a game and uh make sure Struble, you can actually trust them to play, you know, a good 10-ish. You can't you can't go 5D and 11 forwards every single game against Carolina, they will run you into the ground because they play such uh high speed, heavy, hard on you game, always pressure all the time. If you're cutting guys out of the lineup, it's gonna be too much for guys that are getting unnecessary ice time.

SPEAKER_02

I think that's that's why I think they brought Struble in, is because Jackai is the physical, I call it a nuclear deterrent. Like if you're playing a very physical team that's gonna try to burn it to the ground and start fighting your star players, Jack Eye's good to have in your lineup. But it's very clear that Marty trusts Struble's 200-foot game in his own end more than Jack Eye, and that's why they have him in there. If he can play 10-12 minutes a night as the sixth defenseman, I think you're very happy with that contribution.

SPEAKER_00

I 100% agree with that. I think that's why Struble's in there. I also think they believe he's a better mover of the puck.

SPEAKER_02

Yep.

SPEAKER_00

And that is my third key is the Montreal defense moving that puck quick. If Matheson, Matheson and Carrier have been the worst at it so far these playoffs, they just they get the puck, the play dies, Matheson starts doing his lolli gang and gets pressure, and he turns the puck over, puts his defensive partner in a bad position, and then they get hemmed in for a long time, right? You can't do that against Carolina. You have to move that puck. That first pass has to come quick. Yeah, that's why Strubble's in the lineup because that gives you another guy that you trust that can do that. Ultimately, with all that said, I think that in true Montreal fashion, this is going seven games. Um, why would it not? They've showed me nothing that uh it their series won't go to seven, and if they make the playoffs again next year, I'm gonna pick the pick the series to go to seven again because that's just what they do. Um I think they will pull us out. I'm going halves and seven.

SPEAKER_01

Let's go. No, we're fucked now. Yeah, we're we're fucked. Now we're gonna lose. Fuck you, man. You had one Jordan.

SPEAKER_02

If Jordan's boss is listening to us, give him a race.

SPEAKER_01

Fuck it, and then when we lose, fire him, because it's his fault. Fuck. Well, obviously I'm picking Montreal, but fuck it. I don't care. I don't know. I don't know what I I feel, but I'm feeling Montreal in five. I know it's crazy to say. I I just I don't I don't see this one going. I don't see this one going seven for some reason. I think uh I think Carolina's been off way too long. I don't think it they're gonna have enough time to get their game back to the level it needs to be. I think Anderson's gonna get picked apart again like he did all year by the by the Habs. I mean, to that point, Demodoff scored the same goal twice on him so far this year. The exact same bloody move.

SPEAKER_02

Same deke and everything.

SPEAKER_01

Same deke, same everything. Right down to the right down to the T, the exact same. Yeah, and then if if he struggles, you're gonna bring Boosie in, and then what, you're gonna put him in cold into the middle of the Eastern Conference Finals. I don't know. If I'm Carolina and I'm a fan of that team, I am more worried than I want to admit about how that game one went. You really do hope they bounce back, but that is not a good sign to start. A long rest is not a good thing. It's gonna take a while to get that intensity back up for them, I think. Um, but uh who knows? That's why uh they play the games and we just sit here talking about it. So we'll see what uh ends up happening. Um anyone

Jordan's Final Thoughts

SPEAKER_01

uh got some final thoughts? Jordan, start with you.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, final thoughts is um not as fun because it's not a playoff team, but uh Calgary has been rumored to be open to trading anyone but Dustin Wolf and uh my guy, uh my number one defenseman in the whole league, uh Zane Parek. Um and apparently they're looking to move up to that number two spot with uh San Jose. I don't know what on our routes you're gonna get at that. But like you'd have to look at like a defenseman, maybe like a white cloud, um uh frost, uh like I don't even know what we have that would really make that trade go through, but apparently they they're interested in it, so that'd be cool.

SPEAKER_01

I'm also interested in being a millionaire, but you know, things just don't always happen. Donnie, what are your final thoughts?

Donny's Final Thoughts

SPEAKER_02

You guys can hear me still? Sorry, I thought I mean my mic.

SPEAKER_01

No, you're you're here. We can hear you.

SPEAKER_02

Um I just want to shout out the Carolina Hurricanes fans at the Lenovo Center. Uh it feels like every time I watch them, they somehow get dumber and dumber at understanding hockey. Uh they were booing offside calls, icing calls. I feel like the ref looked at Brenda more wrong. They started booing. It's just like a not very intelligent fan base. And when there's as many ref you suck chants and boos and as everything as we heard in this game one, it just ruins the the experience for the viewer, especially on TV. So if there's any Carolina fans that are viewing this, just just just chill out.

SPEAKER_00

Just call it. To that point, there was more ref you suck chance than go canes go. That's a problem. That is a problem for your fan base. Come on, be better.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, so to that point, Donnie, you gave them the their fan base a quick shout-out. I'm gonna give

Dante's Final Thoughts

SPEAKER_01

our fan base a quick shout-out here for my final thoughts. Have fans, I love you guys. You're all you're all brilliant, but for the love of God, stop making us look stupid. The WHL Hurricanes team, the Left Bridge Lethbridge hurricanes are not the fucking Carolina hurricanes, guys. That poor fucking team had to send out a letter to have fans to please remind them that they're not the Carolina hurricanes. Okay, so to my to our fan base, I love the passion. I love you all, but for the love of God, please fucking read before you start writing stuff. But I laughed so hard when I read that.

SPEAKER_00

Also, if they give out any towels uh this round it at the Bell Center, send them to the rink, please. Thank you. Yeah, thank you.

SPEAKER_02

I would love a towel. Anyone listening to this, I would love a towel. But I I honestly wonder about the legitimacy of that, Dante, or if it's just a bit of a I mean a ploy.

SPEAKER_01

But they did post some of the they they posted some of the clips of it, and I'm not gonna lie, it's it's something that I can 100% see happening. Yeah, like but yeah, uh little funny thing. I laugh.

SPEAKER_00

The Montreal fan base is the craziest fan base in the NFL. Up and down, be getting on guys, on players, on teams, and cheering for your guys. Like it's just a wide spectrum, it is by far the craziest roller coaster in the whole week.

SPEAKER_02

I'll say one prediction for a torch bearer for

Crazy Torch Bearer Prediction!

SPEAKER_02

these for games three and four this round. I think one, I think one we see is Marie Philippe Poulain, the captain of the Clarkson Cup winning Montreal Victoria.

SPEAKER_00

You play for the Habs?

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, I really no feeling. I really hope not.

SPEAKER_01

I'll be so mad. I'll be so mad. Has nothing. Congratulations. Well done. You won. You have no fucking business holding that torch. You have no fucking business doing that.

SPEAKER_02

How many more Habs legends that have won cups do they have to go through?

SPEAKER_01

Bob Gain Call.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah, Wall would be good. I I would also love to see Carrie price at some point. There's a shit there's a shit ton of guys. I don't care.

SPEAKER_01

But there's a lot of number retired there. There is a shit ton of guys that the Martuk organization can pull out of their assholes that I'd rather see bring that torch in than her. No offense to her. She's an amazing player, amazing career, amazing everything. But it has no it like if it has no reason for her to do it. There's zero reason in any way whatsoever.

SPEAKER_02

I would respect it.

SPEAKER_01

I would not get to a point.

SPEAKER_02

I would not get to a point where they run out of people.

SPEAKER_01

You're not how are you gonna run out of people? How are you gonna run out? I'd rather have Dale fucking Weezer come out there with a damn torch. At least he played for the fucking Marshall Canadians. No offense, Dale Weese. I love you, buddy. Come to the rink, you're local to Winnipegger. I love ya. But it just makes no sense to me. I get it. Like quite like I said, no disrespect her. Amazing career, amazing everything. They won the championship.

SPEAKER_02

But she has worked with the team as well.

SPEAKER_01

I don't care. She's never played for them. There's no reason she the whole point of the torch, like obviously not the exact words, but they're passing down the torch from our hands to yours. Her hands have never touched the fucking torch. She never played for the team, okay?

SPEAKER_02

You gotta clip this, buddy.

SPEAKER_01

Give me George fucking Peros out there before he give me Marie Flu Poin.

SPEAKER_02

Call John Scarter.

SPEAKER_01

Fuck give me Ryan Gianta. Give me fucking Morgan Riley, fuck. Or not Morgan, let's just add our fucking re that fucking idiot name we had. Mike, give me Mike fucking Riley out there, okay? All right. We'll see you guys on the next episode.

SPEAKER_00

Peace.

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Peace.