Empty Netters Podcast - 105. Stanley Cup Game 1 Reactions

Episode Date: June 9, 2024

The Panthers shut out the Oilers 3-0 in game one of the Stanley Cup Finals. Bobrovsky will never be scored on again. McDavid will never score again. Power Plays were nowhere to be found but there were plenty of fireworks in the first bout of this electric series.  SUBSCRIBE TO OUR YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuf52MHW1O7guPMzsMvv2kA FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/empty.netters/?hl=en FOLLOW US ON TIKTOK: https://www.tiktok.com/@empty.netters  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ice is ready and we are back with another episode of the Empty Netters podcast brought to you by Labat Blue Light. We are one game in to the Stanley Cup final and it's raining rats. Hallelujah, it's raining rats. Hey, Raybees, it's raining rats. We got a Sergei Barbravsky shutout. We got Carter Ice in his veins for Hagey tucking the first goal of the series. The people in Sunrise, Florida are absolutely buzzing.

And not a single goal broke through for the Edmonton Oilers. Three, zero, Florida Panthers, won nothing in the series. How are we feeling? Christopher James Powers. Dan, who won game one of the Eastern Commerce Finals? Let me guess, I think it was the Florida Panthers, 3-0. What was the score? Oh, sorry, 3-0.

3-0. Who scored the first goal in the Eastern Commerce Finals? Ooh, that would be Maddie Kachuk. Cardover Hage. Who scored the second goal? That would be Matthew Kachukuch. Evan Rodriguez. Who scored the third goal?

That would be Matthew Kachshkich. Luce Reinen. Literally the exact same mirror. Everything that happened in game one of these finals. What are you talking about? Matthew Kachuk scored in game one, you idiot. None of that happened. None of that happened in these

comments finals except for the 3-0 win, which I thought was very... Okay, I was like, wait, what? None of that happened. You're out of control, sir. But they did win 3-0. They did win 3-0. And I'll tell you what.

Bob was fantastic. Bob was lights out, my friend. He was fantastic. Lights out. We have to break down this entire game. We've got to break down what was going on for the Edmonton Oilers, what was going on for the Florida Panthers. We're going to talk about what we discussed in our keys to game one,

because a lot of things were actual keys. They went the other way we assumed, but that's not saying that we're idiots. But let's be honest, we're idiots. We are dumb. We're dumb. We're dumb. But they were key factors, and it just was the other way. They were factors because of the way that they went.

Yep. Okay, so one of the keys was Matthew Kachuk. Matthew Kachuk. I actually didn't think he had a great game tonight. I don't think he played well at all. He was nowhere. He looked tired. Dude, every time, so many times I felt like I saw him waving at the bench.

No, you did. Yeah, he's going like this. Hey, get me off. Need a breather. Need a breather. You're telling me he's an NBA player running down the court going like this. He was a hand up to the bench. Get a sub.

Get on, quick, quick, quick change, quick change. Get in the play. I saw him do that like three times. You're telling me that that happened. hand up three or four times. No, he did not. Tired. Look tired.

Look tired. He did not do that. But I will tell you this. We thought that he was going to be factors. What did he say? Game one. Game one few. Katuk.

Game one through Katuk. Game one in every series so far on the playoffs. Goal. Goal. And we were looking for Matthew Kuchuk to be a factor here. And listen, he is always a factor. But we wanted him to be game two through five few. Well, I wanted him to be Matthew Kaffee.

Yeah. And tonight And he is a factor. He does it. Yes, he was. Not tonight. He wasn't. Not tonight. Yes, he was. Not tonight. Not up in here. You don't need a guy like Matthew Kuchukh to always be on the score sheet. That's why he's so valuable. But today he was not on the score sheet. No assists. Is that true? No goals. Nothing. Goose. Just like the entire Oilers team.

But what I love about... I actually think it feels good if you're... What I love about... Matthew Kachuk is he is a situational guy. He looks at this game and he goes like this, I didn't need to be on this course. You know why? Boys have it. Because the boys have it and no one on Edmonton has it.

And he shows up. I'm back checking. When it's one of those times, there's like, McDavid has a goal, Leanne has a goal, Bushbaum has a goal. And then Kachuk has that fourth goal for the Panthers and they win four three.

That's when we're needed. That's when we're needed. But that was a big factor that did not come through. He did not score in game one. Next point. Let's talk about the Holy War. The Holy War. Come on, dude.

Matchup between Sergey Bobrovsky and Stu Skinner. Did you, bro, if you are the Panthers and you're in the locker room pregame, and Paul Maurice has got his whiteboard up, and the lines are here. What's on that board? You know, he's got the lines right here. This is who's starting. Here's who's playing with each other. Right here, there's a couple keys. Yeah, keys to the game.

and it's just our it's our pop our podcast yeah and it appears to me what he wrote what he must have put down yeah was give up breakaways don't cover anybody make sure the oilers get unlimited breakaways and he's in he double circled it give up breakaways I I want to talk some shit for a second. And I like talking shit like this because I'm a coward. Yeah, you are. You always have been. I told you always have been. I told you guys a few episodes. I'm, I'm a sellout bitch. Look at me, dude. I'm just a total sellout. I can't believe the breakways that were given up by that Florida team. And I tweeted. He put it on the board. It's not their, they were doing their job. He said, give up breakways. I tweeted, giving up a breakaway as a defense.

When you're on the PK is possibly the most embarrassing thing you can do. That's my shit, damn. I don't even know how it happens, Chris. You're on the Pek. You're back already. You're on the PK. You're in your box. You're measuring the breakout.

You're seeing what they're doing. There's literally not a scenario as a defenseman where you should ever let a forward anywhere near. No joke, as a defenseman, you should barely leave your own zone. You should get to the blue line because you want to make that entry hard. but you should barely be beyond the blue line. I feel like, yeah, I mean, yes. I'm not even going to disagree with you because, like, yes, like, that's like real. Honestly, that's true.

Dead ass. To give up a breakaway is so insane to me. And the Panthers, I think it was OEL, and I think it was like, I don't know who it was. It might have been Ristelian, or, or no, it was. Lusorin, but I'm not sure. it was the cleanest breakaway ever. Who got the... That one was...

God, who got the first one? The first one on the... R&H was the PP, and he tried to go wide. Like, he tried to beat Bob on the backhand, forehand backhand. I think it might have been R&H. And he said, how's your fucking dad? And Bob said he's just fine.

Thanks for asking, you bitch. And the first one was like a leaf, was like a leave backhand, almost like a mini-four. It was Kulikov. Okay. It was Kulikov and OEL. They just got split like a banana. Yep.

And breakaway goes in and they, Bob makes an unreal toe save. And I was like, boys, what are we doing? And again, they played so well. That's why I'm talking shit. Yeah, yeah. It's such a phenomenal game. But I was like, are you shitting me? What are we doing here?

Dude, remember when I was saying that Chesdy was seen it? Yeah. Remember when he was seeing everything? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dude, Bob's grabbing glove saves. Splits. Locks texted us. Full split.

Boom. Save. Fucking break away. It's like he knows the move already. You know what I mean? It's like he's seen the script. He's seeing the future. He knows the move.

And he goes, I'm going to make it look realistic for a second. Make it look hard. And then put my leg up because I already know you're going here. Did you see, dude? Shot. Bang. Save. I think it was McDavid.

Maybe R&H. Save. Boom. Bob. Blocker. Bang. Right here. Look at me, dude.

Do it. Are you doing a too bad jammer? He goes all the way. He didn't do. Do it. Go all the way. No, commit. Commit.

Keep going. Keep going. You're almost there. Keep going. He went all the way. Get there. I got it. Don't worry about the table.

Keep going. I can't make it. You got to readjust. Get it. Keep rotating. You're almost there. You got to fall down. Good job.

He went all the way. Full rotation. He went all the way, and I think the shot went over the net, to be very clear. I don't even think he got a piece of it. But that's the fact that he is fucking firing. The commitment. Dan, he's firing. The jammer.

Hey, knew they were dead. What did I say to you in round one? Bob looks like a young man. He looks like a young man on it. Are you a little tired right now? You a little out of breath? He could be 22, Dan. Do that hurt?

Do you feel like you pulled something? I tweaked my neck. Yeah. It didn't look good when you did. I tweaked my neck. I'm not going to be honest with you. Even the first movement, it felt like it took you a few warmups to get the legs moving. I tweaked my neck.

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are helping you get to that elite next step that you've always wanted to get to. Bauer has you covered on every single inch of the ice, always. The Oilers, I guess maybe we'll talk about this in a second, but the Oilers were buzzing in the first period. Oh, my God. And you give up that one beautiful goal. Shots what, Chris? Something to four.

14, four. Yeah. You give up that beautiful goal, but whatever, you know, good goal. Yeah. But if you tag both of those breakaways, let alone one. If you tag both of those breakways, completely different game. Completely different game. One to the period, 14 to four shots, two one lead.

You're like, but whatever. But instead, Bob. brick wall daddy in net insane dad are we living in a world where we have daddy bob versus father connor right now in these finals unbelievable so the next thing that we talked about was the special teams effect dude hey how many peepers did the others have three how many peepers did the panthers have two how many peeper goals were scored 12 uh eight i don't know what you that means zero eight you're eight you're You're doing eight? Turn like this.

You do an eight? Producer Tanner. How many power play goals were scored? Goose. It was zero. Zero power play goals for both teams. I'll tell you this. If you're the Panthers, you feel great not getting burned on their power play, obviously.

It's a major weapon. Absolutely. They did look good, though, in my opinion. The Oilers Power Play looked very good. A lot of puck possession. I thought one and a half looked good. Okay. I think their second power play

Correct me if I'm wrong It might have been their third They had one or two And you know there was a I think it was Ecky maybe Who kept it at the point It was like a in, oh no Drysidal

Through a pass that went off some shit pads And like bounced straight into his feet And then right back on his game Oh yeah yeah yeah They had a couple lucky I remember that kept possession But otherwise that was a good kill And the Panthers were a lot of active sticks

A lot of, dude, sticks. Taken away shooting lanes, taken away passing lanes. Really clean, clean defense. So I think that there's a lot of bright sides to the Edmonton power play. I think there's a lot of bright sides to the Florida penalty kill. Dan, two times. Both are going to be happy with themselves. But at the end of the day, that Florida, or excuse me, that Edmonton power play,

you can't feel great about yourself when you're O for three. Oh, for sure, for sure. Ultimately, your success comes in an overfirmative. Dude, you present a clip. Well, let me just say what I was about to say, but then I have a topic on that. Two times, at least two that I saw. McDavid had did the wheel.

Dude, he was the hamster. He started hamstring. He started hamstring. And he came all the way around. And he sent that fucking pass. And he sent that pass all the way back door to Leon. And stick on it twice down. Two times.

That's how you watch tape. That's how you listen to us. You listen to me. Listen to me talk. Who am I? No, you know nothing. Listen to me talk. Who am I?

Bang, stick, stick in lane. Into the net. No, none. Also, here's what I was going to say. Some dumb ass penalties, if you're the Panthers. Carter Hagee cannot be fucking... The Carter Hagee's penalty was bad, but I'm not going to say some. The Bennett one on dry saddle, dude, like...

And actually, I did think that was a flop. I did think that was a bit of a flop, but that's just like... I don't need that cross check when he doesn't have the puck. If he has the puck, yeah, give it to him. I don't like the call. It's interference, though. He doesn't have the puck. He doesn't have the puck.

He doesn't have the puck. Stay out of the box. Come out. It's a physical game. go to the other side, Dan. If you're the Panthers, and their two powerplays, in my opinion, were horrific, barely had any zone time. Awful. And you just, the, dude, the Oilers P.K. was 15th in the league. And fucking Ray on the broadcast. And I'm kind of sick of chirping anybody, because everyone's doing the job the best they can. But Ray's out here being like, uh, knoblock came in and their power

play really turned around. And it was like, Stuart, like, Stewart had never coached a PK. And they were like, you're coaching the PK now. And now it's amazing. And I was like, it wasn't. amazing. It's 15th. It was 15th all year. They are fucking middle of the pack, nothing PK. And then now they've killed 30 in a row. So like, miss me with the, it's the system. They're doing something special. They're doing, well, they're doing something. They've killed 30 in a row. But my point is like, this is not a good penalty kill that is on drugs right now. Yeah, it's taking it to the next level. Without a question. And this is the thing is you talk about momentum all the time. Talk about when you get that vibe going. Dude, I know that feeling. Start feeling yourself. The show. Shoulders get loose.

Start doing this a little bit. Yep. I get the head, Bob. Yeah. Oh. I love it when you see a team, a unit, in particular, this P.K. unit going out there, and you can tell that they're vibing. Yep. They just know.

They're going to just do their thing. This P.K. goes out there, and they are cocky, dude. Dude, I was just supposed to say it. They are cock. They're jumping lanes. They're taking risks, but also staying so shaped. They're a unit. They're in a minute.

Yeah, dude. Yes, they're moving. They're like this. Moving. Moving. Moving. You ever seen life? Yeah.

Scary. Tanner? You ever seen life? No, you haven't. Tanner's a movie guy. You haven't seen There Will Be Blood. I just made it There Will Be Blood joke and you didn't even fucking react. He said he wasn't listening to you because you're so fucking unappealing that he wasn't listening.

It was that. It was that. But you've seen life. What does he name that thing? Jonathan. Do you know what I'm talking about though? No, he doesn't. He's never seen in life.

He is seeing in life. Christopher. No, that's a... No, he doesn't name a Christian. Dmitation game. Fuck. Tanner, look this up what we're talking. Because the scientist guy...

He calls it something. He names him. He names this life form that they find on the planet, which eventually turns into, like, alien and kills us all. Yeah. Spoiler alert. He names it something. Fucking Christ.

Well, if you haven't seen alien at this point, it came out in the fucking 80. The statute of limitations has passed, sir. That's what the Edmonton P.K. is. They're this amoeba that just lives in its own unit, moves together, reacts together. Calvin. Fuck. Oh, yeah. They named it after the high school.

Calvin Coolidge. No. Yeah, it's Calvin. They give Calvin Coolidge High School gets to name it and they name him Calvin. You don't have to hide that middle finger tanner. Flip him off. Dude. This penalty kill is this.

He's Calvin. It's this one unit. moving amoeba and they are so in sync. And I'll tell you what, dude, you lost 3-0. You were down 1-0 in this series. If you're that P-K and what we talked about in the special teams, Florida needs to rely on their power play. They need to click. Powerplay was instrumental against the Rangers, right? Yes. Hey, it's one win. That's great. You won 3-0, but they need their power play to get going if they expect to beat this Edmonton Oilers team. And on two chances, that Edmonton penalty kill absolutely stifled them.

Slight disagree on this point. They did need it to beat the Rangers. You're 100% right. But I actually think this Florida team could lose the special teams battle by a little bit and beat this Edmonton team five on five. By a little bit. But you cannot expect, and I'm not saying this isn't going to happen. You can't expect to give up or to have three.

power plays for Edmonton and you're not going to keep them off the board 100% you're not going to keep them off the board and Dan yeah so I'm just saying like dude if Edmonton you want some bright sides to this game that's a fucking huge bright side your penalty kill is still absolutely

nuclear the um you you were right earlier about the cockiness like they are now they're in that like you've had the exact right amount of beers the exact right amount of Lab blue lights and you're just feeling yourself.

You're buzzing. And dude, like every joke, killing, everyone you talk to, every new person you talk to, guy or girl, they're like, that guy's the fucking man. I love that guy.

The Edmonton Power Play right now is absolutely peaking at a party. Yeah. They are absolutely peaking at a party. They could walk up to anyone. They could take a celebrity shot on the pong table and you know it's cash. They were going to flip first cup every time.

And they're going to walk in, take a perfect scoop of guac. The chip's not even going to break down. They're going to put a to Tostito scoop in and it's not even going to break, and they're going to get the exact amount of guac, and they're going to eat it. And not even going to break. They're going to eat it. And then someone's going to drop something on their way by. They're going to reach down, catch it. Are the shots going down easy? Oh, dude. They still don't even feel them. Not even making a make sure Edmonton has won too many shots. That's the end up. And if Florida, Florida, I don't even think Florida needs a goal to win. They don't need a power play goal to win this series. They just need a power play goal to make sure Edmonton has won too many shots. And now they're too drunk. And they're like a. Got them. Yeah. Because if they just get one power play goal,

now Edmonton's too drunk. That's solid. I want to talk about, I want to give my boys Edmonton another factor. You got to feel good about the shots that you gave up. Dude, so let's kind of combine one and two,

the other two we talked about, Florida shots and Edmonton transition. Yeah. Florida got out shot. What was the number? Do you have it? Let me get the period breakdown. Like, Florida is a third period team.

If anybody, look at Tannis sweatshirt. If anybody doesn't know what period the Panthers are good end. Call the fucking Rangers right now. It's the third period. So the third period was actually kind of even. It was like 7-6. First period, fucking landslide.

Second period, still like 10-6. I'm like-shot breakdown. First period. Edmonton, 12-4. Yep. Edmonton, 13, 8. Edmonton, 7-6. So they outshot them every single period.

First period, though, in particular. Yep. 12 to crazy. In Florida, yeah. And here's the other thing. Florida, 0-2 this year in the playoffs. when being outshot. And can we talk about our nightmare?

Dude. Talking about Florida, we were like, dude, the one thing you can't let happen if your Florida is, do not be Vancouver, do not be Dallas. Do not somehow

get completely suffocated by this Edmonton defense and their shot blocking and their in zone congestion and only get five shots on net in the first period. And then boom, 12-4. But somehow Florida snuck one through.

A beautiful goal. Barkoff. Classic barco. I don't mean to say somehow, like, it was a pristine goal. But you know what I'm saying? If you're getting four shots on net, you don't expect to score. And dude, you feel like the fucking rain. And I'm not chirping the Rangers, but you feel, if you're Florida,

okay, day, dinner. Get fucked. You feel like the Rangers, where you're like, that was a beautiful goal, but against the run and play completely. And then the Rodriguez goal was a, like, bad turnover in the corner, and he just makes it count. Bang. And that's what we were saying about the Rangers.

Rangers getting out shot 40 to 20, but every opportunity they'd, they just bang back of your net and you're like fuck me if you're the Oilers that's what you're preaching in the locker room who fucking cares dude that's a tough loss but it's on the road in game one who gives a shit we beat the brakes off them we're fine yeah that's the speech I'm giving is all I'm saying and I think I agree with the speech it's here's the thing it's like three breakaways fucking we we we talk about right this this Florida team is the most

unrattable team in the playoffs I think of all the teams that made the playoffs it's very hard to rattle this team. They got a bunch of dirty boys. Yep. They got a bunch of sick puppies. Covered in oil, dude. A bunch of fucking puythroid degenerates. A bunch of Florida men.

Yeah. They're disgusting. Because they've been there. They know what it takes. They're dirty dogs. You can't really rattle this team. So right now, they feel good. But I'll tell you what, dude.

Of this core, of the big, big boys on this Edmonton team who've been there forever. Newch. Yep. Connor. Yep. Leon. Yep.

Booch. Yep. Who's been to the cup? None of them. Yep. I don't think they're rattled. No, me neither. I think they take this L on the chin.

On the road. But they look at a lot of bright sides. Yes. I think they go into game two and they go, dude, our peeper wasn't going. That ain't going to continue. Yep. Even if you're Florida in this locker room, those unrattelable boys, they're not going, yep, they're never going to score on the power play.

So if you're Edmonton, you go, they're not keeping us off the board forever. Connor wasn't really going. Leon wasn't really going. You had that great shot advantage all game long, literally every single period. Your PK is still absolutely dominant. I think they go into game too confident. Feeling fine. It's rare that you lose three-noticed.

Nothing in game one of the Stanley Cup final and you go like this. Whatever. And I'm not saying they're saying we're fine. But I am saying they're going, we're okay. You're not freaking out. They got out hit. They were like doubly out hit, which we said was going to happen. Yeah.

But they're like, they didn't look like they were getting beaten down really, if that makes sense. Like a few times I was like, man, the Rangers are hemmed in here. They're getting pounded behind the goal on. I didn't feel that way a tonne about the Oilers. On the other hand, though, and this might be complete nonsense. But this game, if you look at the shot totals

it feels like I should be going the oilers were all over them what a bad break and I didn't actually feel like the oilers were all over them I certainly didn't feel like the Panthers were all over them

okay I got to... But do you know what I'm saying? I was kind of like that was a whatever like way more shot discrepancy obviously but I didn't feel like the oilers were killing them this I'm gonna switch into my

I was standing by my oil gang I'm gonna switch over yeah yeah abandoned ship because I'm, well, I'm not, I'm not shipjump. Yeah. But I want to hear what you think about this because I actually really like that take.

And this is how I felt, and I'm curious if you felt this vibe too, I think home ice is definitely a factor here. And this is one of those situations where how many times did we say, based on how games were going in these playoffs, home ice don't mean shit. Yeah, right, dude. 100%. I think home ice do mean shit here because of how far away we are. I actually really dig that. I don't know. I think it's real, dude.

How many Edmonton people are in South? Fort Lauderdale. Not a lot. Ain't a lot of transplants. I bet we could count on two games. That's actually a good take, game. Who is living in Sunrise Florida? That's like, yeah, I'm a local at those games and they're like, I'm an Alberta guy.

I bet it's low. There's no way this exists, but I'd love to see the road fan attendance percentage over the finals. Well, you know, I'm sure there are people traveling, but I'm saying like, There's a lot of people who live in certain. Like New York is a great example. Like New York's play in Florida. There's a lot of people in New York who are like, and vice versa. I was going to say Florida would be half range of stuff.

Like I'm from there. Yeah. This is a situation. I'm like, who the fuck is living in Sunrise, Florida is from Alberta and vice versa. Yep. So I actually do think there's vibes in these two arenas and I can't wait. To get to the rig, dude. Cut glass.

I'm the guy from a... Cut glass with those. Water boy. Holy shit. Coach, Come on, guys. Do you know this? Henry Winkler says that at one point.

He goes, special teams go with coach blank. No, he doesn't. He's not named in the movie. Yeah, he's named. No. Because the kicker goes like this. Oh, shit. No, he's not named.

Yeah, he rubs his little. Bread, Boullier. Coach Boullier. Maybe he says Coach Boo or something. That's incredible. I can't wait to get to end. Oh, that, the oil rig is going to be spewing, dude. Look at me.

Bang. Wouldn't you say this, though, dude? Hold on. I'm not done. I haven't made my point. Go. When I said, I'm jumping ship. When I said, I'm switching vibes.

And I'm curious what you have to say about this. Edmonton was out shooting Florida. It seemed like they had more high danger chances. Some of those breakaways. Yeah. My God. When that second Florida goal went in, it did not feel like

oh my God Edmonton was all over them Florida gets that that lucky bounce it felt like that was always coming yeah which was so strange to me

because they did not have a lot of shots on net they scored that second goal and I was like yep I truly I literally out loud went yep I was like damn yeah like that was like they had it and there's something

about this swagger there's something about this vibe that that Florida team has. It's their dominance. It's their, it's their presence. It's their experience. And I know Knoblock fucking sewered the bills and was like, yeah, don't matter. I'm telling you, like, they were getting out shot. They were getting out played in certain areas. But that second goal went in and it was not surprising. It was not a, oh, backbreaker, dagger. It was like, yeah. Yeah. Dude, I'm, I'm, I'm, I said I'm leaning in. No, I said I'm leaning in, dude. Like, I think Florida is

way better. I think Florida is fucking way, way better than this Edmonton team. And this was an example. And I'm sure Edmont fans are like, what are you talking about? Like we control, dominated long portion of that game. I'm like, yeah, and hand up. This is what I thought Dallas was going to do too. But I'm like, yeah, but they're just going to beat you. Like, yeah, you're right.

You had more shots. You had this. You had that. Florida's way better than you. They're going to beat you. And so that wasn't surprising for that. And buddy, if you are in the Florida locker room, we were just saying if you're in the Edmonton locker room, you go, we're fine. Right? If you're in the Florida locker room, you go, we can play five times. better than that. That was one of the worst playoff games we've played all, all year, and we

won three-nothing. That's scary. Like, wait till we wake up and actually play good. Yeah. Then, then you're really fucked, and you're never scoring on Bob again. That's what you're in the Florida Lockham, you're like, we won this game three-nothing, you fucking clowns. That's what you're saying in the Florida Locker. Yeah, I do think that that is, that is real. Like, I think Florida is not at all, like Maurice, I think takes the boys in that locker room and goes, that was a fucking shit performance voice. Like, yep. He looks at Bob, and I think the D, and he goes, great game. He looks at the big boys and goes, guys, are you fucking kidding me?

18 shots on net. Like, this is Edmonton's whole game. It has been the last two series. You fell right into their trap. Do you have any worries whatsoever if you're an Edmonton fan, if you're in that Edmonton locker room on the way Goose, Montore, Ecky, handled, and Leon. And Hyman. No. There was a few.

Hyman had that one chance. I might have been on a power play with that back door. Haman had a couple. That's like that's where he scores from. He's right there. You know, and like how was that puck getting on his stick? There were a few of those.

But I actually thought they were really pretty responsible in lanes down low. We were talking about that earlier. Connor got going, but like, you just can't stop Connor. Yeah, like a lot of that, you need Bob. You know, you go, don't give Connor too many chances and hope Bob builds you out once or twice. You didn't give Connor too many chances.

Bob billed you out twice, you know. So yeah, like your PK was, I think you're, I feel right. Not worried. I'm not worried. You think you feel all right. You're scared of that. But I'm saying about those three. The breakaways is a nightmare.

But other than that, I'm like, whatever. And then, okay, here's another question. Do you feel like, this is a big one for me? I don't think I saw Bob. We saw the birth of Bob last year. Yeah. Game five. Four.

Four. Five, real. Game five against Boston. We saw the birth of Bob. And he's been here since. Yep. I don't think I saw Bob play like that against Vegas last year. Yeah, he was almost too...

You said it. He fucking found youth, dude. He was too tired. He's an old man. But he's playing like a young man. I know. And dude, he started this game, dude. He came out.

He came out, plays the puck. Can I see that move one more time? No, God, no. I'm not a young man. I can never do that again. He came out and played that puck got blocked. Made that save, dude. He's fucking fly.

Do you see him? He's flying everywhere. Chris, it's not even those. It's the like, it's that breakaway on the power play. It's these toe saves. Yeah. These lateral movement, because they're not desperation, just gets the tip of the webbing.

Like, he's making confident, big time lateral movement saves. I'm just saying, that's scary. I don't think I saw that Bob last year against Vegas. And here we are in the final, game one. Just game one. But that was a very good performance. Yeah, and Skinner wasn't even bad by any means. But...

Skinner 17 shots. Yeah, like, you're just like, fuck. And Bob, it's like exactly... This is what sucks, dude. It's like... And this is us defending Skinner. But this is what sucks about the situation. Skinner goes, you know, 17 shots against.

Two goals allowed. 15 saves. 8-8-2 say percentage. Bad stat. Yep. But a good game. Two good goals. Like, fuck.

Second one, not his fault at all. It's almost like... First goal, good goal. I feel like if you're a goalie and like the beginning of the game, they're like this, this team's only going to get eight shots on you. You're like, great, dude. You're like, well, I fucking hope I save all of them. Otherwise, my stats are going to look like shit. Because like all it takes is...

And like we said, how many times have we said it? That first goal, that Verheegee goal was beautiful. Yep. Who's saving that? Two people? Yep. Like, give me a great goal, dude. No.

So Skinny is like... He made a sick one on Reiner too, I'm pretty sure. It was one glove saved. Multiple six. Then I was like, oh, yeah, dude. Multiple six. Yeah. So Edmonton fans, which we get, if you're sweating right now because you're down a game.

Florida needs only three wins now. You need four. This is not on Stewie. No, no. He was all right. That was a, you know, the stat looks bad. That was a totally acceptable game. Agree.

Agree. Those two goals were not. Gave his team a chance. Yeah. But dude, it's just, it's Bob, bro. It's now like 11 of 12 that he's given up two or fewer in the playoffs. And you've got to believe, and they just didn't, by the way, but you've got to believe, if you're the Panthers,

that we can get three on Skinner every night. So if Bob's giving me two or less, we can win every night. We can get three on Skinner. And again, they just didn't. Or I guess they did with the empty netter, but you know what I'm saying? Yeah. So, yeah, it's the Holy War, dude. And Skinner played good, but if Bob is like this,

I don't know how you beat this Panthers team. Period, dude. Period. I don't know how anybody beats this Panthers team, let alone a team that I was fucking. parading around here, the fucking stars, Vegas, avalanche. None of them. None of them being and I'm not going to,

I'm not going to name any names here, but, you know, where we talk to a thousand people every day about all these games, both, you know, friends, family, people in the hockey world. So we're on a million group chats. The amount of texts I got today

and I'm not saying like it was a unanimous like, oh, there was a, just the amount of text that I got today that were like, dude, Florida's too much. Yeah. Because we were talking about it. We were all talking about the game.

Fuck. We were so excited about the game. And then so many people were like, dude, Florida is just too much. They're so complete. Yep. And like you said, I think very astutely. And that's hard for me to say because you, sir, are a fucking moron. Yep.

But you said very astutely, this team didn't even play to the best of their ability. And they just won three nothing in game one of the Stanley Cup final. How do you not feel good? And dude, remember this stat too, by the way. They are fucking dominant on the road in the playoffs. Dominant. Their power play 20 percentage points, or like 10, 12 percentage points better. Their record better.

Like, they are a scary road playoff team. To your point, blah to travel, Stanley Cup nerves, blah, blah, blah. But if they catch two at home and you're like, great, now I've got to go play the best road team in the fucking playoffs. That's brutal. Fuck me. That's brutal. Yep. Taking a quick break to talk to you guys about our favorite gambling partner.

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that we didn't hit the empty net bet tonight? I did. You did? The fuck, dude? Did it without you? Did you know about this? You knew, too. Tanner and I did it together.

You guys bet on an empty netter without telling you. So for those, is your camera on? I did turn it on in the middle of it. Okay, good. I was like, I didn't realize I'd be this much of a character. Well, I mean, you're part of the team, buddy. So for the people who are seeing our boy Tan Man right now, Tanner is coming in. He's got his ranger sweater on.

This is our boy. He's producing for us today. Coming in, Tanner was like, as a hockey guy, he was like, dude, I'm producing the podcast today. We got a Stanley Cup final game on. We got to get some action for the game. What are we doing? And then I go, there's only one move, dude, empty net goal. And you guys didn't think to fucking, oh, you didn't have my number.

You texted the wrong number. And that's my bad. You guys texted the wrong. And some other guy just got, hey. There is some guy. There's some random guy who I, I, I, I, money right now. Yeah, he, like, he didn't even respond to the group chat, but he was like this. Some dude just absolutely cashed.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Some random guy was like this. These guys are going, putting money on an empty net goal. I'm going to get on this action. That is unbelievable. He's richer now. That is un-fucking believable. But you got to be happy about that.

Because he's put some money in. I just don't know, like, I don't know that the empty net goal, because I've got to bet it. You can't not bet an empty net. But I feel like I don't love it next game. Oh, you don't? No. I do. I think an empty net goal is literally on the table every game.

Every game. Every game. So I feel dumb about that. Thanks a lot, boys. As we close out. I have another dumb thing. Give me your dumb thing, and then I'm going to talk about things we're looking for it for game too. How dumb do you fucking feel that you thought Connor McDavid is going to have more than 40 points of this play?

Not dumb at all. You're going to get swept to have zero points. Let me ask you a serious Seriously Yeah, go Would you be at all surprised At all? No, if you had five points tomorrow

Or, uh, four? I'm gonna be more realistic Would you be at all surprised If he had four points on Sunday? Not at all Or Monday? Not at all. That's what I'm saying.

This is what Connor does. I know. And I'll tell you what Father Connor Immort and Joe I can't wait to hit him Our King, Shiny and Chrome riding to the gates

of Valhalla. If you think that he doesn't look at that game going, we got Goose in game one, and if he's not fucking pissed. He does this all the time, by the way. He didn't get a shot on goal. He didn't get a shot on goal. Oh, no. Conor zero points.

Wake the fuck up, dude. Bang, automatic goal. I'm actually going to hammer Connor on any time goal score on Monday. I'm going to hammer that. He will carry you himself. Connor. Witness me. Witness me. Harrah.

That's my child. He's talking about, that was pretty good. Yeah. That was good, right? Yeah, I've seen the way. Anytime. Anytime goal score. Hammering empty another.

Hammering empty another. All right. Close out. Couple of keys that you're looking for for both teams. Heading into game two. Florida. Way, way more shots.

And Dan, in fact, if you, even if they fucking win. No kidding, dude. Even if they win and that same shit happens, if Florida's outshot 35 to 18 in game two, you have a major problem. Because this is one of those like, you saw what they did, there's their game one, it's on tape, whatever they were doing in the neutral zone, whatever they were doing in D zone coverage to limit your shots, you have on film now. And you talk to the boys tomorrow and then you show up Monday. And if the Panthers can only muster 15 shots against the Oilers with a game on tape, then there's an issue here. Yeah. I expect.

them to be peppering the goal, peppering the goal. So I'm looking for that big time. Oilers, I don't change much. You hope the power play clicks, but like I said, I thought the power play looked all right. 30-something shots, Bob, a lot of breakaway saves. Like, I'm like, you have your chances. Finish. You know what I mean? Like finish. But that's not a note because like they were trying to finish. But it's like finished, dude. Finish better. And that's a great. If they scored three of those, they scored two of those and lost three to in overtime, we're going great game from the other. It just, they got shut out so it kind of looks shitty. But like, like, I don't have much to say about their game.

Florida, for me, keep the feet moving. This team, amazing in transition. Stay out of the box. Very quick. It's the, listen, you beat Edmonton up, and that was a big factor. We talked about that. That was going to be a big factor.

Rock them, sock them, baby, let's go. You can't take stupid penalties. And there was one for sure, maybe two. Stupid penalties. Keep those feet moving. Don't get behind the play. Don't be chasing. Don't get them.

behind you. No cross checks, no hooks, blah, blah, blah. Keep the feet moving. Because when you're outskating them and banging bodies like this and you're just roughing them up, you're going to be ahead of the eight ball the whole fucking game. Keep the feet moving. Edmonton, like I said, I loved their game. Yeah.

I really did. I loved their game. They gave up some really quality goals. Like, you know, it is what you're playing one of the best. You're playing the best team in the year. Yes, dude. From the fucking beginning from day one to day end. they were the best team.

I'm not mad at those two goals. Edmonton, I want to see that offense clicking. I want to see a little bit more adjustments in the ozone. Okay. Possession. Yeah, yeah. They had good stretches, but I hear you, though. They did.

They did, right? But we talked about that power play. Connor Wheel kicked to Leon. Twice we saw that broken up. Florida's on top of it. I want to see playing below the goal line. I want to see a little bit of change up. Give me some overload.

Give me some passes to the front. More moves for Hyman, banging in those rebounds, banging in that doorstep shit. Make Bob keep moving. He's all over it, dude. He's seen it. Seeing it. Like you said, he's seen it. We're not getting these perimeter shots.

I want to see some doorsteps. I want to see some rebounds. Give me that Connor off the pad Dubush. And I'm not talking about on a two-on-one. I'm talking about in the zone. Give me some more of that stuff. I think that's where we're going to bang in some goals right around the crease. Can I say one last thing?

Yeah. And this might be a panic, but I actually kind of love this. Knoblock was already doing shit. Like he kind of took Connor and Leon off the penalty kill. He let, he said it before, he loves to send them out together right after the penalty. I, on the road in Florida, the Maurice has been putting Forsling out against Connor every time he steps on the ice. I would jump Connor offline. Like the third lines out.

Don't hate it. Don't hate it at all. Mid shit. Third lines out. Forsling off. The puck goes deep. I'm waving the center real quick. I don't know who it is.

Who's the fucking third line center on the way. whatever, boom, Connor, jump on, bang, just get 30 seconds before they can get Foresling on the ice on the road. At home you're gonna be able

to do your thing game two on the road I might jump Connor a few times when Foresling's not out there I know that's the point out dude you think about the depth of this team Yeah, oh dude I mean they're scary

but I'm just saying when Foresling's on out I might try to jump Connor I'm just saying it's like there's so many guys like you put them out against the second pairing you put them out against the third parent Like this team

is insane Yep But I just, you know, get in Maurice's head, dude. You know he wants that matchup, so fucking take it away from him as much as you can. Yeah, I like it. Keep an eye on it. Huge Game 1 in the books. Florida up 1-0.

Shut out for Bob. Yeah. I mean, come on. He's in his bullshit again. But it's the same deal against New York. Yep. Need a couple bounces. Florida of them went down.

Yeah, need a couple bounces. So we'll be back on Monday. Huge game two. Who! Expect some fireworks. Expect some intensity. We'll be right. there with you. We'll be following you along the next couple of days until that game.

Skate hard. You jump the gun on the skate hard? You said until then. Have you ever done that? You teed me up. I did say we'll be following you along until then. That's my bad. You want to try it one more time?

Yep. We're going to be... Skate hard. Fuck. Hold on. One more time. Hold on. One more time. We're going to be ripping darts and

cutting farts and until then now skate hard skate hard we fucking nailed it god