Empty Netters Podcast - Are The Avalanche About To Get Swept?!

Episode Date: May 25, 2026

Vegas takes a shocking 3-0 lead against the Avalanche after the Avs shockingly blew a 3-0 lead in game 3. Nate and Cale both look like they will never walk again. The Canes pulled off a massive OT win to save the split at home before they head off to Montreal . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ice is ready. We're back with another episode of the empty notice podcast brought to you by BetMGM, live edition, Memorial Day edition. We got a dog in the office and CP is not hungover. But watch how quickly that can change. Oh my God. You're out of your mind. Zach? We are drinking. We are drinking. It is a beautiful day for a. little Friday beer action and we are going. Well, okay, here's the thing. The people know it's 9 a.m. right? Danny. Dano's off the sauce, but I am at 9 a.m. drinking a mountain dozee. I feel like that's as hardcore as it gets for sobriety.

That's very sober, I would say. So, yep. Happy Memorial Day. Protect Randy. Get Randy off screen. Hey. No one look at Randy. Wow. I will protect.

I will protect this dog. folks we're here on memorial day I want to do a quick pledge allegiance to the flag oh do you remember it I think I do Zach do you

the pledge allegiance all right here we go I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation

under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all Merica baby murk do we see that every day and I want we'll get...

Dude, we were pledging allegiance to the flag every day. Yeah, dude. Yeah, we were. We fucking should. Yep. That's gas. Yeah, we were.

Insane. We should have been doing the anthem. You know what I want to do? I want to... We'll get into it. If Montreal makes it to the cup, every time our plane lands in Canada, I'm going to start singing

the Canadian national anthem. Oh, whoa. I think it's respect. Is there a pledge of allegiance? I want to pledge allegiance to the flag of every nation I visit. The second I get there, I want to pledge allegiance to it. Does every flag have a pledge that you allege to it? I don't know.

But I do think it's like what's... A pledge of allegiance every day in school. We did that every day. Yeah, we did. That was fucking awesome, too. Okay, there is not a pledge of allegiance in Canada, but there is an oath of citizenship. That sounds sick. they must recite

and sign the oath of citizenship see if I can find this oh here we go, ready? I swear okay, I swear I swear wait why are we doing this because you are now as Canadian citizens

no no no no no it is Memorial Day we are not doing that right? Yeah exactly so do you want to hear it and we won't swear? Sure yeah let me hear it how about this I refuse to swear today of all days that I will be faithful

and bear true allegiance to his majesty King Charles III King of Canada his heirs and successors and then I will faithfully observe the laws of Canada including the Constitution

which recognizes and affirms the Aboriginal and treaty rights of First Nations Inuit and Métis peoples and fulfill my duties as a Canadian citizen fucking rights No king though

No yeah there's a king you're not listening? You're fucking, you swear to the king. Yeah, but there's no king anymore. Is there a king of Canada? I feel like an idiot. I don't know. I mean, I'm sorry, I know that there's not a prime minister. He's technically king, yeah. But is there still a king like living?

I don't know. Good question, I guess. No. Because why would they have to swear that, though, if it's fucking not real? Canada is a constitutional marnocky, meaning it has a king. King Charles III is the official head of state and personal embodiment of Canadian crown. While he holds the title of King of Canada, he serves strictly. symbolic and non-political role. Exactly. He's not still sweet. So Charles III

is, I mean, he, yeah, oh dude, he's a fucking monarch. He still gets oathed, dude. But he doesn't do anything politically. That is what the prime minister is for. Dude, would you like to hear the nations that have pledges of allegiance? Yeah, sure. America. Come on. Mexico.

Sick. The Philippines? Sick. India. Sick. Singapore. Sick. South Korea. I bet the South Korea one slaps. It is a national oath of allegiance to the flag. I feel like we got to, I mean, what's funny is a pledge of allegiance sounds so hardcore.

I know. When you think about it, like a pledge. It does. It does. And the fact that we were sitting there doing it as like 10-year-olds daily. Yeah. They're indoctrinating us. Yeah, they got to know.

This is pretty quick. Yeah. It is, I'm not going to be able to pronounce this, but it says, pledge in front of proud teguk flag allegiance to the republic of korea for the eternal glory of the country liberty and freedom to the republic of korea i told you it'd be fucking nails eternal glory eternal glory is just fucking awesome holy dude mountain dew is god damn god damn i'll kick you in the fucking nuts that's great are we 12 what do you mean mountain do we'll kick you in the nuts yeah Those are some of my best days, Zach, some diet dues.

Actually, it wasn't diet back then. Some sugar dews. I told a story on this show once. When I was in college, I smoked a little reefer, drank a little ripple, challenged the mayor's son to a gentleman's duel, and was with some friends at home. If anybody gets that, I'm betting. If anyone in the chat just got that reference, type it into the chat. Check that makes your. of monitoring the chat.

Was with some buddies. We went back to my house and we were just like sitting there watching always it's always sunny in Philadelphia baked. And this is one of the first times I'd ever smoked weed and I was so high and so thirsty

and the only thing that we had got at the convenience store was a 12 pack of full sugar mountain dew and I drank literally 10 of them. We had 10 dues. And like my buddies are like, one of my buddies that got thirsty and looked down and was like, is there only two of these left? What happened to these? And I was like, I drank all. I just couldn't stop drinking. That is like five. That is like 800 grams of sugar.

Dude, and it's so many grams of sugar. And I mean, Christ Almighty, what is that? Like, the best advertisement for weed ever. Yeah, true. It's like 2,000 calories of Mountain Dew in a sitting. That's awesome. It was so bad. What's not bad is the hockey action that we've had over the weekend. Wait. Would we say it's certified great action or no?

Oh, buddy. Yesterday was certified great action. Boom. Great action. You know what? We also got the, look at that. Boom. Great action.

God, that is so good. We had great action last night. We're going to start with Colorado Vegas because we had game two on Friday. Wow, Dan, Dan, in a hole in a wall town called Utah. Dude. From black coffee. Black coffee beats. Black coffee.

And then someone else, uncouth against God. It was uncouth against God. Don't we had to go. Incredible work, boys. Incredible work. Or girls. I don't know who you guys are. Yeah, well done, chat.

Maybe hit us up. That might be worth something. That might be worth a little something. Let me take a screenshot of this. That might get you a netter. That's what I was thinking. I don't know how to. translate this into your IG handles because it never is your same thing. I know, I know.

So the two people that just said that, Black Coffee Dietz and VAR 21, send us a DM. Will you find that DM or is it too impossible to find DMs these days? I could probably find it. Send us a DM and say you did the out cold thing. We'll get the Netters admin on it and he'll find it. That was incredible. That was incredible. What a pull. We're starting with Colorado. Fourth line pigeon two said it first now that I'm seeing this. Oh, wow. So you send something to.

So you send something to. All right, folks, we're getting into these games. It's Memorial Day. We're giving you some content. Hopefully, while you guys are ripping it up, having unbelievable barbecues, hanging with friends and family. Tweet at it. Tweet at it.

Tweet at us. Send your unbelievable photos. We're going to talk about these games. We're starting with Colorado Vegas Friday. Yeah, start game one. We add game. Two, you mean? Or sorry, yeah, game two.

Yeah, Friday we had game two, and Vegas does the impossible. Well, it was crazy because game one, it was like, whoa, this is wild that this is happening. Game two felt like put the house on the ass. There was nothing more certain to me in my mind. Put the house on the ass. Yeah. And then Ross, the boss. Ross the boss, Colton gets us going.

Fucking love Ross so much. One of the most underrated guys in the league. Great little goal scores, goal there, bang, deflection, snipe job, gives it to the crowd, little fist pump, get into the glass, how you're doing? How's your father? How's your mother? How's your uncle? How's your aunt?

And then it was like, we're good. Even though they weren't scoring, I was like, they're still good. They're controlling the play. They're going to get one. Did you think, can we say all the time, you can't let teams hang around, right? Like, can't let this team hang around. Can't let team hang around. And somebody said that in the...

Hanging around. Maybe it was the duck series where they were like, Vegas is scary. I think it meant his biz. He was like, Vegas is scary because they have a good power play. And if you just leave them down one, anything could happen. And I hear that.

And clearly they've proven that. But still somehow in this game, I was like, the abs are fine. Like, I'm surprised they didn't blow them out more, which is a testament to Vegas. But still going into the third period of that game, up one nothing, I was like, the abs are completely fine.

That game started. We're talking. Friday talking Friday game two. That game started and it was just a great back and forth swash buckling battle. Yeah, correct. And Roscoe gets a goal and I kind of felt like definitely huge to get the first goal. Getting one in the first period against Hart is great. Then the second period happened and Vegas had four shots on net. Yeah. And I was like, oh, Colorado, they're doing what they did against the Kings. Exactly. This game's old. They're being like, dude, we don't need to run up the score here. We're figuring you guys out. We're testing the waters. We're getting a feel

for you. Then the third period started. And for me, a minute or so into the third period, I was like, oh, I think you're fucked. Because Vegas was playing well. You saw the ice opening up for Eichel and Marner. And I was just like, oh, I don't think you can prevent this team from scoring. And when it just looked like in that third period that Colorado wasn't testing it, it almost felt like they were being like, just hold. Hold. Yeah. Hold.

I was like, you can't hold. And then Jack Eichel decided to shoot the puck. What if I shoot? What happens if I shoot the puck? What do you think that would do, team? And what do you know? Tie game. And then two minutes later, the human cigarette machine, Barbie, also fucking bar down.

Like Jack went bar in, Barbie goes bar down. and I was like, and you are dead. I take issue with people being mad at Wedgwood about those goals. Oh, it's like, and even on the broadcast, they were like, because, you know, Jack's on the right wing and his sticks out here. Sometimes you see like the Bedard style where it's like you literally get your stick in front of you and your top hand is like at your eye level. Yeah.

Like that's the badard shot. Yeah. Sometimes you change the angle like that. Jack's definitely out here and beats Wedgwood all the way across. So even on the broadcast, they were like, oh, Wedgwood, maybe wants that one. But I'm still like, dude, that's a. snipe off the post. Anyone who said Wedgwood maybe wants that, it goes

and it's that, we've talked about it, we keep calling into the seven hole. Over the pad under the blocker is the new sexiest shot in hockey. And that's exactly where that was. Yeah. It was just that perfect, you know, about a foot, foot and a half elevation off the ice, and it goes barren in.

Flat as Chris's ass. Cost me the league. Cost me the league. And anyone getting mad at Wedgwood, that's crazy to me. Crazy. So here's, I have a piece of information that I'm going to give to you at the end of this segment,

end of this series that when we talk about it, that is the most important stat that's ever been given in any hockey show. But on the way there, I'm going to give you a lot of stats, okay? The Colorado Avalanche this season, counting playoffs were 45 oh and oh literally 45 oh and oh if they held a two if they held a lead after two periods 41 oh and oh in the regular season four and oh in the playoffs yep not even an overtime lost in not even a man they tied it and then we got clipped in o t 45 and fucking goose eggs and they and then now that's broken. They take a lead going into the second period in this game. In a, in a very

important, I won't say must win, but a very important game too, and they lose to Vegas because they get pipe dreamed twice. Ping, ping, you're down. And then empty netter that night, right? Am I high? Yep. Barbie again. That's, oh yeah, Barbie again. It's things like that where we go, okay, it's things like that where I'm like, dude, this is not, like, all the things you've done so well in regular season are now crumbling in these moments. Because they go, we have won, we have protected a lead. Here's the other stat. This is the craziest. Well, no, I'm saving the craziest thing ever.

The Vegas Golden Knights this NHL season were, remember in the Tampa Montreal series, I, pointed out that Tampa was losing the entire series. Yes. Like you're just chasing it. Chasing the whole time. Even the games you win, you win in overtime after losing the entire game, right? Which is stressful, it weighs on you. We're just like, God damn it.

Yeah. Never protecting elite. The Vegas Golden Knights, I'm just going to give you a number. You won't even know what it means yet in context, but I'm just going to give you a number, okay? The Vegas Golden Knights were trailing this year for 1,965 minutes and 10 seconds. Okay, that's how many minutes they were behind in an, game this season. Now here's another number for you. The team closest to them on the power ranking trailed for 2,200 minutes in 10 seconds. So 2,200 seconds. It's like a little over 300 more. Vegas 1,965

in 10 seconds. Whatever. The 2,200 is the Vancouver Canucks who finished dead last and won 10 games and should have been fucking relegated. They are a fucking midget B team basically. And the Vegas Golden Knights trailed the second most amount of time in the entire season. Dude, they didn't even, I mean, I know the Pacific was a joke, but they won their division. They won their division by losing every second of every game all year. It's unbelievable. Which just shows you how dangerous they are when they're behind. Like they don't give a fuck.

Yeah, they don't give a rat. And also, I want to save some of it because we haven't even gotten to game three. So we should just get to game three. Okay, I'll tell you this. more standard after this man. Teams with a 2-0 lead and a Best of 7 playoff round hold an all-time series record of 365 and 58.

When the lower seed starts with two wins on the road, they're 91 and 22. It's an 805 winning percentage. So already you're feeling like, holy shit. Statistically and historically, you're dead. But we said, or maybe we hadn't recorded it, but I said to you,

this Aves team felt good enough to be like, we can just win two in Vegas. This would be a non-issue, whatever. whatever. All right, so fine. Take me to game three, Dan. Game three begins. It's a nice Sunday afternoon. And we find out Cam McCarar is back in the lineup. Unbelievable. We find out Mark Stone is back in the lineup, which is exciting. The game begins and actually, before we even get to it, let's talk about Bednar's comments about. About Oh, Kale. What do you say? Before game three, he was like, if, like, Kale wants to play,

it's up to him. Like, he pretty, he basically threw him under the bus. He was, he was like, dude, Kale can play. It's him, he is the reason he's not playing. That's what he said. How do you feel about that? If you, if you are Kale, or if you are a member of that team in the locker And you hear that. What do you have to say? I cannot believe someone would say that because to me, so I said to, I ran into a buddy before game three and we were just talking about the series and we were talking about Kail and I said, I bet the a avs got a little greedy, a little greedy because I bet they went

like this. We lost game one. What do you need? Where's that dog? She gone. Randy. She long gone. I bet they went like this.

Here's my take. The aves went, we lost game one in Colorado. Because they were a little, they surprised us a little bit. We are going to win game two. We can win game two at home without Kail. We can definitely win if we play him, but we can win without him anyway. So we're just going to roll the dice,

but we'll win and then give him a little extra rest time. so he's definitely back for game three. And then they lost game two and they were like, oh shit. That was my thoughts on the gamble. Yeah. Because it certainly feels like, and I think we can confirm that

after watching him play here, it certainly felt like he can skate completely fine. It's just a contact issue. He can't raise his arm over his waist. Yeah, they can't let him get hit. And he's obviously, if he goes in the lineup, Vegas is going to drill him every chance they get and they can't protect him,

so we're fucked. And the, it just seemed like such a clear team decision that they went like this i'm sure kale wants to play we are saying kale is too fragile right now and then if he goes in and gets re-hurt then it's even worse than he's done for the son for the season yeah so frankly dude watching him play with my two eyes that i was given at birth i don't understand that comment because that implies that keel has been like I'm completely fine and can help the team. I'm just, I don't want to play yet because I'm like I'm, this is not, I'm not in a good place.

Yeah. I don't think it implies he's completely fine. I think it's Bednar implying that he's going, I believe Kale can play. He is keeping himself out. I think that's what the implication is. Yeah, yeah. I guess, sorry, that's what I meant. But I'm like, what do you mean?

You can clearly see him. Agree. He was labored out there. Yeah. The guy could barely move. He's like the knight in Monty Python. I wonder. His arm's gone. Yeah. Oh, dude. That was, bro, the first shift of the game, the literal first shift of the game, Kale whiffs a puck. Like he has it right on a stick. He whiffs. He looks back down, clears it, and Barbashev runs into it. And he goes, like, you see him, just his face wince a little bit.

And I'm like, okay. It's fucking horrible. I also don't believe any player has ever done that for the most part. Like, has ever been like, I'm sitting out. I'm not playing. Yeah, like someone, someone is asking a question about Nate and who is it? Blake. And I'm like, I want to get to this, that one too in a second. But these guys want to get out there.

Even Mark Stone, Mark Stone has a funny, this is hilarious coming from him. But Mark Stone in an interview was like, I hate watching. I never want to be watching ever. And I'm like, well, you're watching all the time. But he was like, no, it's a massive. staying on my career, massive part of my career, for sure. Like, I am out a lot. But these guys in this moment, you go, you are one round away from the cup. They want to play. They are desperate and dying to get out there. Yeah. I think if, I think it's a two-way street for, for fans, I would tell

you this. It is a two-way street in that normally the players going, let me play, let me play, let me play, let me play, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, and the coach, you can't okay and I would love you out there too but you can't yeah usually that's the direction but sometimes I genuinely think it's the other way where you have to go listen to me I know my body and I will hurt the team I physically can't do a thing and if you put me out there in the situations I know you're going to put me out there in I am going to hurt the team that can happen so maybe that's what's going on where bednar's going kale can play I see him skate in the mornings he could go

out there. And Cale's going, dude, I will literally cost this team the game. And if that's the case, I think that's fair. That doesn't make Cail a coward to me or like, oh my God, Kail's a man. I think he's going, dude, I know, I know my body. I know I will hurt the team. And I think I can respect that. Now, there should be a way to go, okay, fine, just play power play, which is what happened with Nate, which we'll get to in a second. But, but that's my point. If it's going that way, it's coming from a good place from Cale. Yeah. It's fucked up of Bednar to go, the reason Cale's not playing is because Cale doesn't want to go. It takes so much from

a from an award winning hockey player in his prime. It takes such a significant injury to be in the conference final and to go, dude, I should not be in the game. So if that's what's happening, it's pretty remarkable for Cale

to be like, dude, I'm so hurt that I'm hurting this group. Do not play me. We don't know if that's what's being said. But what we do know is that from shift one, he looked so banged up. And it's insane. And he was definitely not his best. And I'm not saying that hurt or whatever to the team. But it's just crazy.

And at the beginning of that game, Colorado comes out, Landy gets the first goal. Yep. You're fucking captain, your emotional leader, Kales back. It just felt like fucking, here we go, dude. Especially because that was Devon Taze. Yeah. With respect to his incredible player. But Devontees beats Hannafin in a foot race.

Like, Hannafin, that was one of the crazy ones I've ever seen. Hanifan, standing there in the blue line, the puck squirts loose, and he's the last man. He's looking at it. And Devon Tate starts skating, and he's like, oh, I should get that. And he kind of, like, gives it a little bit. And then DeVontes blows by him. Hanifton takes a penalty and the rebound gets put in the net. And I was like, dude.

Yeah. And, and, but that was the jump. I was like, oh, shit, the abs are here. The abs are not here to fuck around. Abs are not here to fuck around. And I want to say really quick, just a quick aside, uh, the score app gets their assists backwards every game. Well, do you think they just post them backwards if it's truly every time?

Well, it's just like when you go into the score app, I'm looking at it right now. And it goes, like, goal number two, it goes, Nassim Kodry. assisted by Manson and Natchez. Giving Natchez the secondary assist and he had the primary. Yeah. They do this every game. Can I hear... I don't know whatever your processing

is or how their Algo works, but I'm telling the score app, you're a great app, you got to fix it. What does it say on the first goal? It says, assisted by Nathan McKinnon and Devon Taves. Yeah, see, I think they just post, like they have every... Yeah, but it's that's stupid. I agree. And you fix it. You make an

adjustment. Yeah, me? You got to read it. I know how to read it. I'm saying, but they need to fix it because it's wrong. That's dumb. That's fucking stupid. That's very dumb. But anyway, then immediately sick play by Natchez and Codd, like really sick play by Nacchus and Codry and great finish by Codry. And then we get the power play score.

Oh, yeah. God, I forgot about this. I don't want. This is great. I can't wait to talk about this. Holy shit. This is going to be awesome. I don't want to spend a lot of time on this.

but I can't believe there are human beings on this planet who thought that that didn't hit stick. I can't believe it. I think this. Dude, there was a goal earlier, Dan, in this playoff where we were like, oh, maybe it was one of those Dobeche ones where it was like, God, people were saying, oh, they blew it dead because the Sabres touched. I don't think it was this one, but it was like, that player was like, we blew it dead because the Sabers touched it after the whistle,

not because we thought it was covered. But then the refs were like, no, we said no goal because it was covered. And I'm like, you had it out. So in this one, I legitimately, even though. I just sat up because I'm about to go on the fucking rant. That's why I'm excited. That's why I'm excited. I want to talk about the Dorofi Ev goal.

Me too. What are you doing? We're good. Zach's fucking jumping up around. He's fuzzin all over the place. He's making me fucking nervous. Okay. Well, the good news is we got a bunch of photos from your Memorial Day barbecue and hangs.

Oh, yeah. We're going to get some of those up. We're going to keep talking about hockey, but we're also just going to be new boot goofing now because this is a fucking joke. So here's in there, somebody had said on the last chat, the dantrum was incoming. You are correct. The dantrum is incoming about this goal. Here's my thoughts on it. Dan, before you have the floor.

I think that that play was about at crossbar level. They could have called a goal, but I'm honestly not that mad if somebody was like this, because there's that one back view where it does look this much over. And I would not be that mad if they were like, you know what, dude, we call the no goal on the ice. I think it looks like a high stick. It's arguably a high stick.

We're waving it. But they, the refs went to the bench at the next whistle and said to torts, hey, we are ruling it. This came from Toronto, by the way. This wasn't a coach's challenge. This one went right to Toronto. They said that the glove hits the puck. Now, I...

This is my take. I know this is partially your take. But this is what I want from the chat. I think that the puck clean hit his stick. That's my opinion. But what I can't fathom is even if it hit his glove first, even if his glove knocked it towards his stick, which seems to be what they're saying,

who fucking cares? If it hit their glove, he could have punched it clearly with one, his hand off his stick. He could have just punched... You're stealing my rant. The puck. Then stick.

You're stealing my rant. Okay, you can do it. It is... What do we find? It was like Rule 76.6 or like 67.6 or something. Yeah. It is... The greatest example of overcomplication in a rulebook I've ever seen in my life that that is a rule.

Yeah, what did it say? It was like in an event where there's like a punching towards the blah, blah, blah, blah. If it hits glove, then stick, it's no goal. That's what it says in the rule. That's at least what someone said to us online last night. And that is the stupidest fucking thing. ever seen in my entire life. And frankly,

frankly, dude, I almost think, and I don't even want to add this in there, because I don't want to really overcomplicate it. But in baseball,

if you check swing and it hits your hands, that is a foul ball. Because it's like, your hands are on the bat, dude. Like, it's,

that's part of it. There's a part of me that wants to do that. Like, if you, if I swing for a one timer, and when the pass on the way gets there,

gets tipped up, and it hits my bottom hand glove and goes in. I'm like, that's a goal. I actually don't hate that. There's a part of me that feels that. I don't hate that.

Because I'm like, my hand isn't off the stick flailing around. It's a part of the stick when it's on there. I actually, I'm saying this for the first time. Yeah. I honestly feel that way. Yeah. If your hand is wrapped around your stick, that is now part of the shaft. If your fingers are wrapped around the shaft.

If your hands are fucking squeezing that shaft, even if you're sliding up and down, that is part of the stick as far as I'm concerned. But let's remove that. If there's anyone on this planet who agrees that the rule should be, if it hits your glove and even then hits the sick and goes in, it's no goal, you're a fucking idiot. Yeah. Because that is no different. That is no different. Sorry, Randy.

That is no different than a puck being up in the air. It's okay, Randy. It's okay. It is no different than a puck being up in the air. a player gloving it down and then shooting it in it. Yeah, playing it to the stick. It is no different. It is no different than a puck

coming to you, you kicking it with your skate and then hitting it with your stick. Yeah. It can fucking touch anything. If it then touches your stick under a high stick, it is a goal. So like that, I found that to be possibly the dumbest fucking rule I've ever seen in my life. Yeah. And again, dude, if they had gone, hey, we believe it's a high stick. I would have gone, I slightly disagree, but I'm so fine with this call. So, end of the day,

and first of all, someone said, I'm glad Vegas wants, so it doesn't matter. So this call doesn't matter. Fair. And I also think if they had just gone, it was a high stick. I would go, all good, moving on. Tough call, but moving on. The fact that they have ruled this no goal because of the glove has just opened such a can of worm for me. And again, a friend of the program, Dave Jackson. I always like to preface it with like love Dave Jackson, but just another spectacular example of, let's go to Dave Jackson for the dumbest fucking explanation I've ever heard. It's just like I, actually in this case, he went, when they first got to him, he went like this, that's off the stick. This will be a goal. Yes. Which everyone on earth said. This is what I'm saying.

They put Dave in such a bad spot. This is not a criticism of Dave. Yeah. It's like, we need to let Dave cook. That's why it's crazy. Because I'm like, Dave is like, that's a goal. And then when it happens, they're like, okay, let's give Dave this arbitrary thing to say. And it's like, no, dude, let Dave just talk. We care about Dave's point of view. Yeah. I don't care what you fed him to say. But that was just so nuts because, yeah, if they called it a high stick, fine.

I still think that would have been lame. But that was so clearly off the shaft. It was a great hockey player. It was awesome. And that's the other thing that pisses me off about some Colorado fans who were so adamant to be online and be like this, that's clearly his glove. I'm like, are you this delusional of a fan? Is your fandom so toxic and crazy

that you're actually seeing something different? You're looking at this game cross-eyed. What? Turn this pig on. And it's, that just blows my mind in general. But the other thing is, kicking a puck in is one thing. Having the hand-eye coordination to take your stick

and cross-check it in. And it absolutely hit stick. Like, that's just a great hockey play. You should be like this tat tip. Like, come on. Dude, it was sick goal. Sick goal. And then, yeah, man, it is so great for Vegas that they won this game with that.

Because all the shit talking online, like, it bothers me when people are like, that's so clearly a goal. Yeah. And then it gets called a no goal. And Avs fans come in and go, oh, so clearly, suck on these nuts, bitch. And I'm like this, you lost still. And you know, it's up. You were up 3-0. And this, oh, don't forget, folks, this was 2-0, and that made the game 2-1.

They go no goal, and then bang, Drewie scores a shorty. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Drewie scores a shorthy, and it's out 3-0. You lost. You still lost that game. So it's like, I demand all of those people who were online being like this. Well, it was a high stick, too. It was clearly off the glove.

Fuck you, bitch-ass Vegas fans, you stink. And I'm like, well, you've lost. Dude, okay, so I want to say, and for any Avs fan in here who is, who is upset. I desperately wanted the abs to win that game. I'm not even making commentary on who I wanted to win this series. I just think these are two great hockey teams. I hate that people have been hurt.

I am very sad that Vegas won this game. Now, I have, hold on, I was saying here. Yeah, someone saying, Zach was saying I thought it was over the bar. And I agree. The, I need to, somebody was on me. Someone agreed to me. I think it was either the chat or in the. comments of one of these last ones. There is a legitimate thing about three

goal three nothing first period leads. I am actually so passionate about this now. I was texting Mikey yesterday. This is my this is my one mission on earth. Three goal first period leads is actually detrimental to your team. It's the it's the new two goal lead. It's insane Dan. It is specifically first period. Correct. If you do it later if you go up three nothing in the first period you will lose or at the very least you will give up that lead. We'll do. Dude, because this is what feels like always happens. You go to the room and you go, holy shit, boys, fucking right, we did it.

And no universe to teams come out just as hard. It just doesn't happen. You sit in there in the locker, and you go, hey, boy, stay on the gas. Let's run them up. Fuck it. Incorrect, dude. Everybody backs off a little bit. You play a little bit different forecheck.

You just don't want to give up odd man rushes. You think you'll be fine. It changes. The other team goes into full desperation mode and hear that word when I say it. Because I don't mean down one, down two even. you're kind of going play your game boys play your game it's fine down three you go into full fuck it yeah absolutely send everybody who cares if we lose seven nothing it's the same as three nothing so you create a change in the paradigm of like i am now in desperation mode so there is a shift and

dude i fucking swear to god the losing team always gets that first one it goes three one this is where the hockey game starts because i've seen the teams that survived dude Vegas went up three it wasn't the first period but Vegas goes up three nothing yep a goal it doesn't i guess that one's relevant because it wasn't the first one's period. My point is if once it goes 3-1, you just, if you're the abs, you just have to get 4. If you get 4-1, now everything is settled, then you go, we're fine, we can hang. It's when it's like 3-1, and then you go, we're good. 3-2, you are fucking dead. I swear to God, if I was up 2-0 in the first period, I would stop fucking shooting. Dead-ass, dude. I would be like, just

roll this, get to the room, start playing the game this way, and then it'll motivate us more to push hard. I know that sounds fucking bat-shin insane, but I swear to fucking God, if my team went up to nothing in the first, I would be like, yo, just get pucks in deep. Stop trying to score. It's a fucking real thing. I agree. This game goes on and Zach get ready. Second period starts 19 seconds in Mark Stone power play goal. Mark Stone back in the lineup, given them the energy, that captain energy. And I was like, holy, moly. Here we go. I then tweeted. This is the second time in like three games that I've done this. I tweeted and I go, holy shit, like, you know, goal 19 seconds in. If we get another Vegas goal in the

next five minutes, we might have great action here. Yes, dude, some, some fucking great action. And then what happens, three minutes, something seconds later, about 40 seconds later, wild bill. Oh yeah. I was like, who did that? Yep. Four minutes into the period. Goal. Three, two. And I was like, we got great action. Like this game, this game is fully out of control.

And the fact that Colossar ties the game in that second period, didn't even need to get to the third. Yep. It's now three three. Sick play by Colossar, by the way. Yes, it was. Like, it was a great tip. And then what did the tip? The tip went like post.

something. And like he finishes the play. But it's now tied. And I don't know about you. Obviously, it's easy to say this with momentum. You could have said it was 3-0, Colorado. But coming back and tying it 3-3 in that very next period, I was like, game over. Like, you are fucking dunions. Certainly in the driver's seat. Like you come into the third and you go, boys, what a fucking joke this is. And they go, we should be winning. We should be winning. Because the shorty wouldn't have happened. So they're like, we should be winning already. They've already robbed us. This is insane. Dude, yes, thousand percent. It was, it was all Vegas. And dude, one thing I can't fathom is even some of the games, the abs have lost, I feel like they're playing great still. They've just been thwarted, right? And we said, dude, we probably haven't said this on air yet. Somebody was bitching about Kale being out and all the injuries and blah, blah, blah. No, there hasn't been a defenseman on the abs that has come in and I've gone, they're losing the series because this guy's been exposed. I don't think. the Aves team D has played that bad. Yeah, Malinsky, on the hurdle goal, got turned inside a little bit, but yeah.

And Kales back to that game's a game. Wedgwood, a lot of people are bitching about Wedgwood online. I don't think Wedgwood has been particularly bad and losing you this game. This was his worst game so far of the series, but he hasn't put you in this hole himself. The literal difference has been the Aves can't score on Carter Hart. They have been unable to score consistently on Carter Hart.

That is what's happening in this series. So look there first, right, if that's going to be the problem. But yes, dude, the abs have been playing well just not scoring until the third period of this game. They went like 12 minutes without a shot with five minutes left. Awful. In your season on the line, essentially, they had two shots in the third period. And I'm like, what are you doing, dude? Yeah.

I think, I want to talk about, I mean, this game, hurdle scores. then we get an empty-knack goal, this game ends up 5-3. Let's talk about the teams now and what's going on here. I want to talk about Vegas first. Yep. The hatred by certain people for Vegas

is going to define this Stanley Cup final. What do you mean? Like by fans? Yeah. Okay. And by just like several people. Yep. It is crazy.

to me how it's, to me it really started last night, or at least where I could see it. Okay, go on. They go up to nothing, but now they go up, everyone was like, okay, well, maybe Colorado can come in and just steal two in Vegas, and now it's two, two, and no blood, we're fine. It's

now 3-0. The hate for Vegas, for various reasons, that started flooding the internet last night, flooding our DMs. Like, we weren't even talking about Vegas. Yeah, yeah. I want to the app to win.

We're just, yeah, like 100% I wanted the abs to win. We're just talking about it online and oh my God, the messages we were getting last night. It was just like anger. People were angry and they just wanted somewhere to vent. So they came to our DMs and they were like, this fucking team, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. If this team wins, if this team, when this team goes to the cup and then if this team wins the cup, I think we are going to see some of the most petul. behavior we've ever seen in our lives.

Yeah. And I think Vegas loves it. Oh, dude, they feed off this shit. I think this team loves it. I think their management loves it. I know their fan base loves it. But it is crazy. And what we're seeing, man, is like, you know, I saw E.J.

Eric Johnson coming on the show soon. Get excited for that. It's going to be awesome. But he just said he thinks torts is like the perfect fit for this Vegas team. Now, I'm excited to talk to him about that, because I don't know if I agree with that long term. I doubt he does, too. And he means right now. Yeah.

And it's so interesting to me that Cassidy, as he has done with many teams before, he did it with the Bruins. He's now done it with Vegas, runs into a wall where people go, we're done with this. Like your vibe where it's great. It works. You're an amazing hockey mind. You're an amazing hockey coach. But we're done. Yep.

Got to move on. I am still impressed that Torz's voice was able to come in and be so refreshing. Because Torz is also a no-nonsense motherfucker who will motherfucker you. It worked perfectly. I mean, they came in, they won 90 fucking percent of their regular season games to end that season. And now they come in and they beat the fucking wheels off multiple teams. And now they're up three-oh on Colorado, the president's, trophy winner, the team everyone said,

President's trophy curse won't mean shit to this group. They're too good. And they are so unfazed by this Colorado team. So unfazed. And we just saw it perfectly with a three, nothing first period lead in Vegas is like, whatever. Boom, second period, tie game. Now you've lost Colorado.

I think it is so unbelievably impressive. You brought up the, they trailed more than any other team in the league other than Vancouver all season long. They win the Pacific. Now they're up 3-0 in the Western Commerce Final. They are unfazed by everything. And I said last night, we posted something. I was like, this team played possum all year, and they tricked everybody. And so many people were like, they didn't play possum. Like, they didn't have Wild Bill. And, you know, they made a trade for Anderson. And they get torts. And I'm like, all good points. But like, they definitely played possum. In the sense,

that with those injuries and with the shit, they were just like, this will still be fine. We're going to turn it on in playoffs. And absolutely torts has helped them turn it on in playoffs. But like, this is what they do. There's a next gear. We talked about it when Jack Eichel, when they won the cup, Jack had 67 points.

Yeah, yeah. And then finishes the playoffs with like 26, leading the team. They all know how to fucking turn it on. And this group is just like, they're playing at a level. in my opinion, whether it be torts, whether it be the players turning it on to that next level or a combination of both. I think it's a combination of both. They're better right now than they

have been all year and it's not close. And also, Mark Stone is so fucking valuable. And it's so great Marty being on the show all the time, being able to talk about being a teammate, winning a Stanley Cup with him. He's like, he is the best guy. The best guy and he is such a leader. leader. This is the shit you talk about that's like, you will hear stories about players like Mark Stone for years and years to come. All of these guys who want a Stanley Cup with him and now might win a second Stanley Cup with him, they will be like, oh, dude, Stoney is like the biggest leader of all time. Like, he just gets us there. And this guy comes back in the lineup, immediately scores a goal. They come back after being down, you know, it's like, that is the difference

maker type shit. Oh, dude, couldn't agree more. Fucking A, man. This, this, this very, this Vegas team is just, they tricked us, they tricked the whole league, and here we go. We said about Dahlene when he tied that game. Yeah. I was like, that's your guy. That's your fucking guy right there. Mark Stone coming back when it was like, Kale's probably going to play. Cale's probably going to play, but he's out, he's out, and then he's in.

Mark Stone, we were going, Mark Stone might never walk again. He's done. And then him just stepping out in game three, the same game Kale comes back, by the way. And Kale looks more hobbled than him. I'm not trying to say it's a one-to-one. But Mark Stone coming back in the same game. game Kale comes back and having a goal and an assist in that comeback is just that's your fucking guy. That is fucking heavy, heavy dick shit.

That was so awesome. On torts, or you go ahead about town. Yeah, I just wanted to add the thing to Stone. It's like we, there's so much hate that goes on for this Vegas team. I don't know how the fans do it. I know they've only been around for eight or so years. But like, it's the Mark Stone hate. I don't get.

If you hate Vegas, okay. But this is one of those things like I, I understand people hate certain players. Like people hate LeBron. I used to hate LeBron. There comes a time where you just have to tip your cap. And go,

he's one of the greatest players of all time. I don't really get what Mark Stone ever did that made people hate him unless it's the injury stuff. It's like, you know, rival teams. he was always like on LTIO. Yeah. But my point of view on that has always been... He's actually hurt.

Well, A, it's a rule. Like, it was a rule in the... Like, stop getting mad about it. And then B, yeah, if you think Mark Stone was faking a ruptured spleen, come on. So if that was your only reason to hate Mark Stone,

drop it. Like, this guy's just like an awesome... Like, enjoy it. Enjoy gamers. Watching gamers is fun. Yeah, and he is one of those. He is a gamer. Quick shout out to Torts for this, and I, who did this?

St. Louis, maybe, you'll remember. Yeah, St. Louis. Heroic, heroic, heroic, no pole of Carter Hart in the first. Like, you are up 2-0 against the Aves. You won two in Colorado. All you have to do is win one in Vegas and you feel fine. The Aves score three straight goals, and again, Not really his fault.

Drury's a breakaway. Caudry, pretty good snipe, Landy, like half Tays breakaway rebound. You know, not really his fault. But Carter Hart has played every minute, right? Yeah, I think so. Like this would have been such, if I'm torts, I am immediately going,

Hart, take a seat. Yeah. Not your fault at all. You're tired. This is a well-earned break. Maybe Hill goes in and shuts the door because it's a new goalie. Give him a touch.

Might be beneficial for later anyway. And we will happily lose this game if we do, or Hill pitches a shutout and we come back and win. Either way, house money, Carter Hart, you're starting game for no matter what. Heroic, no pull of him. All the data says pull him there. Heroic, no pull of him. So true. Into Carterhart shut out the rest of the way you beat the abs and now you have a three, oh, fucking strangled. Yeah. That was awesome. Are you ready to move on to Colorado? Um, yes. Actually, the last thing I'm going to say about Vegas is

good God Dorfayev is going to make so much money. Oh, he's a fucking, he's the man. That's unbelievable. The last thing I'll say about Vegas is this, and we've said enough about him, but I just wanted to point this out. Mitch Marner, you looked at me, and you were like, unbelievable, two more,

and the first assist was gross, but like two more assists, right? Like, he does not cool down, he does everything, but here's what I genuinely fucking loved so much. He takes, the abs go, or sorry, the knights go up four three, with five minutes or so left. Mitch Marner takes a,

tripping penalty on Naceous. Which was dog shit. I think it was a I think it was a very tough call. His stick 100% hits Natchez in the foot. I think Natchez probably felt the contact and went down, but 100% Marner is stick checking, misses stick and puck and hits Natchez in the leg. So I'm

not going to go that hard and you, of all fucking people, don't, we're not going to complain about the refs, so I'm not complaining about the refs there. His stick hit his leg. But dude, the fucking fire that Mitch Marner had after that, when he literally slammed his dick and was screaming at the

rest. Instantly. Dude, this and maybe Lee's fans... Dude, Nate just goes down and Mitch's arms immediately go up being like, get the fuck up, you pussy. Yep. And then the refs arm goes up and yeah, he slams him in the box. He's still shaking his head like a psychopath for a full two minutes later. Dude,

I'm telling you, and I highly doubt there any Leaves fans in this chat. But the... Leaves. I just don't believe that we have seen that fucking fire and motion from this kid. Like, dude, all the complaints was like, he doesn't care.

He's a ghost in the playoffs. Mitch Marner is ripping a refs head off one game away from the Western, from the cup. You know, like, look how much he cares. Look how much he is doing for this team. That really fired me up where I was like, dude, this is what we all wanted. As a hockey fan, this is the Mitch Marner in the playoffs that we all wanted in your game. I agree, man. It's, we've made the joke about like the Buffalo curse for the last several years where

it's like a former player of the Buffalo Sabres has won the Stanley Cup the last like four years in a row. That's tough to see. Yeah. You are seeing it right now. If you're a Toronto fan, I think there's plenty of Toronto fans

who are happy for Mitch. Even the ones that are happy, this must make you frustrated, not from a Mitch standpoint of like, fuck you Mitch. It must make you frustrated of like, God damn it, our team. Like, why do we let this guy go to waste?

This guy looks like a world beater, like a generational hockey. player. I think he is leading the playoffs right now in points, and he's playing remarkably well. I mean, he's playing visionary hockey. Yeah. Visionary hockey. Antoine goes, Mark Stone skates like everything hurts in his body. Oh, that's true. Mark Stone, I'm going to start saying, when I wake up in the week or like after a night out drinking or something, and I get up and you have that creaky body feeling, you're just mad, I feel like Mark Stone today. Yeah, that's funny. Yeah, it's like that is absolutely true.

But he gets out there and he battles, dude. It's unbelievable. Okay, give me some abs. Give me some abs. Okay, I want to talk about the abs. Now, I believe passionately that they are a team that could come back from this. However, if any team could, I do think it is them. However, this Vegas team is too good to let that happen.

Especially, I would say, with how KL looks. and people are saying Nate's. And now Nate. Nate's like questionable for game four. I think this series is over. What a shocker. Going out on a limb. But I do believe in Colorado.

And I'm going to tune in tomorrow night. Tomorrow night? Yeah, every night. I'm going to tune in tomorrow night and watch passionately and hope that this series gets stretched out because I want to watch more hockey. I do believe it is over though. in how many?

Like, are they getting broomed? Is the dock? Is the dock too dialed? Oh, they might get swept. Yeah. I mean, the fact that this game is in Vegas is like... What part of me think is... If Kale and Nate are hurt...

Yeah. This game is in Vegas. Vegas is playing this way. They absolutely could get swept. I mean, do we talk about Montreal or like Vegas has aura now too? Yes. No question about it. So much aura.

So much aura. Like, there's no doubt. They could absolutely get swept. Part of me thinks the abs can gut out a game for a win and then we'll win game five at home and then Vegas wins in six. I think it is, I think it is very bright-eyed and bushy-tailed to think that they can do that. But they could.

I think they could, though. I just, I don't think, truly, man, I look at, oh yes, it was this guy. Go on.

Knight Rome had said this earlier. I forgot who said it. And I totally agree with him. He was like, I don't want this to go forward, but he's a Vegas fan. He's like, I don't want Vegas to get rusty before the finals.

And I completely. I agree with that too. I legitimately think you want, If you are Vegas, you desperately want this to go six games. Yeah. Just keep playing, have two tight ones, get reps, beat the abs in six, and then go in. Unless Montreal or Carolina also rips off a gentleman sweep, then you can do the same. But I'm so with you.

I think it hurts you if you're Vegas. If Montreal wins tonight, Vegas is like, maybe we should sweep. Yeah, yeah, right. They're going to win in five. Yep. I do think that they can fight. I'm, I'm,

I'm, I'm excited about them fighting. I'm excited about them, I'm excited about them possibly getting a win tomorrow. Uh, but let's, let's live in a world where they lose.

Mm-hmm. I want to start with Bednar. We got so many, even before the game, yeah, it was only 2-0. So many DMs in hockey talk saying, do you fire Bednar?

Personally, I have the Rod the Bod Carolina take on this. Good coach. He's a great coach. He's up for Jack Adams this year. You are a perennial Stanley Cup contender. You do not fire that coach. You do not.

I agree. And I also give Colorado an out where Carolina does not get one over the last several years. You've been without Landy. You've been without Nashuskin. And now here you are. Nate and Kale.

Nate and Cale. Dead. Zombies. You do it. You absolutely do not fire Bednar unless, which I do not believe is the case, there is reason to believe that there's issues in the locker room. Players are like, we're fucking done with this guy. Then maybe have the conversation.

But if everyone's like, we fucking love Bednar, we're running into Buzz Soz, blah, blah, blah, you do not fire him. Now, I hate that Cale and Nader hurt. Me too. It sucks. I hate that Cale and Nader hurt, and I'll tell you why. not because of what you think. Yeah.

Well, it's also because of what I think, but I know what you're going to say. The constant take we have is, we want to see the best players on the ice. I want to see the best versions of every team playing. I hate. Somebody just, Zach just says,

injuries have robbed the abs of so many cup chances. And that's the take. And it's a fair take. It is a very fair take. It's what I say all the time. Like we've gone on all season. We posted a clip last week where I was like, is their window, are they in the back nine?

Like, is their window closing in a couple of years? and they look at this last five years and they're like, how the fuck do we not have more cups? And it's because Landy was hurt. And it's because Val has been out. And that does suck. And injuries do rob teams. But I hate the excuse because you don't want to have to have the excuse.

It sucks. I also hate the reality. It's like, like I just said, we want to see the best players playing. I do not like that Kale and Nate are hurt right now because we did the one for one thing. Kale's out, yes, that's brutal. Mark Stone was out though. So in two games, you had a very significant injury on both teams, respectively,

was the third highest point score on each team, was out. Vegas won two games. Now Mark Stone comes back, now Kale comes back. Both banged up. Looks like Kail's more banged up. But either way, both not playing 100%. Vegas wins. Nate gets hurt in the game.

But Nate finished the game, but Vegas wins. I do not want there to be. an excuse here. Yep. Where Colorado fans go, we only lost that series because Kale and Nate were hurt. I do not like that.

You should, and dude, weren't you, US fans, all the people saying that you can beat fucking Vegas without Kail anyway? Dude, when I tweeted, Kale Makara being out for this game, I was like,

if Kail's out for more than one game, things are going to get very interesting. I got so much hate from people being like, stop making a story out of nothing. Kale being out doesn't mean anything. We can still beat this Vegas team, blah, blah, blah, blah.

It's 3-0 now. Yep. So, interesting. Somebody said, dude, somebody goes, DG, DG 69-691 goes,

I've never heard this before, but people are talking about this ass thing and he goes, injuries are part of the game. If you piss like a puppy, stay on the porch. And I think, okay,

I like that. Stay on the fucking board. Stay on the porch. What are we thinking? Randy feels about that, dude. Hey, Randy thoughts? What about,

hey, pissing like puppies, Randy, what do you think? Randy pisses outside. Yeah, only. She's a great dog. The, go on. I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I don't think it's an excuse.

I, obviously, that fucking sucks. And if we come in game four here and Nate, what if Nate's out? Dude, if Nate is out, I could just, dude, what happened? Like, is his leg broken? I, maybe, but like, maybe, dude, that was a brutal shot. He could not move. And people, I saw someone mad being, like, He shouldn't have been out there.

I'm like, dude, Bednar says to him, can you play in the power play? You can see him right at the bench? Nate goes, I have to go to the locker. And he goes, can you play in the power play? And he goes, yeah. Yeah. This is what kind of frustrates me. If I were an Aves fan, well, I talk to you a lot yesterday about in-game adjustments.

And I think that there are some coaches who are phenomenal with in-game adjustments. I actually want to give Knoblock a little stroke off. Okay. Knoblock two years ago, when the Edmonton Oilers were down 3-0, made remarkable in-game adjustments in that series, which then got it back to a game seven. Yeah. There are a lot of coaches who I think really struggle with in-game adjustments. And I know that an 80% Kale McCar and 80% Nate McKinnon are better than most players

in the league still. Uh-huh. But I look at that situation against this good Vegas team. And you have that power play with the goalie pull or you have the goalie pull situation, you have a power play situation where you have a hobbled Nate and a hobbled kale on the ice. And there's part of me that's like, we've spent so much time talking about how deep this Colorado team is, put fucking Brock Nelson on the ice.

Yep. Put Nazim Kadri on the ice. What are we talking about, dude? Like, you have too many good players that I'm like, do not fucking spend this two minutes with two injured players on the ice who literally can't move. Yep. Put other guys out there. Great call, dude.

Some people are with you on the chat there. And also this person, I guess I won't say who you are. But if you are listening, because I think you are due to this text, you will know I'm showing you out here. Great comment. Great point. and almost happened by accident to Vegas. Yeah.

But Vegas knows how to play and win without Mark Stone in the lineup because they have to do it so much. The aves don't know how to play without McCarr. So he goes out and they go, oh, fuck. Dude, and that is what I was ranting to you about yesterday, I have the in-game adjustments. When you have world beater players like that, that's huge, but you can't get too reliant on them. You can't depend on them or else you fall apart. To the point where I am borderline, like if I were a coach and I had a K-LL McCar, I would spend half of practice working on the PP, working on the breakout, working on a

neutral zone trap without kale. Yeah. Because I'd be like, what if he goes down? Yep. Just in case. It's a great call, dude. It's interesting. That's it for this game? I have one closing thought. No, I have a very big topic here. Okay. Mine's a nothing burger. Okay. Do you do nothing burger. No, no, it has to be the last thing. Okay. The last thing I want to say, and we are a player's podcast, we don't ever talk shit about anybody as often as we possibly can. I think Nate needs to be less emotive with his body language. I don't think it's great, dude. I am with you.

They're just, dude, you are, you are a perfect hockey player. I'm obsessed with you as far as a hockey player. He is, he is my, every year. Nate is a like 40 to 50 goals 60 a set. Like he's unbelievable. I have nothing bad to say about Nate. Yeah. But when your team's losing in the Western Conference final and you're not getting passes in the slot, you're not getting passes on a three on two and you're throwing your hands up.

You're throwing your head back. It can't be doing that. Don't see Sid doing that. You don't see Sid doing that. And you're Nate McKinnon, man. Like I need, we need you. everyone is relying on you I need to look at Nate

you are a general dude you are Maximus Decimus Meridius you are riding through the woods in Germania with your sword raised screaming Roma Victor and I need to know that you're dialed

and if you're throwing bad body language that is so contagious and it's contagious in multiple ways it can make guys see it and go fuck like Nate's not Nate's not feeling it like he look at that body language

he doesn't think we can win. It can also piss you off. If you're a player and I choose to pass it back to Marty Natchez instead of Nate and the play breaks up, but I see out of the corner of my eye Nate throwing his head back, there's a chance that those players are going, fuck you, dude. Yep. Like fucking Marty's a hundred point guy. Yep.

Blow me. I'm going to throw him the fucking puck. He looked open. He was open. Yep. That shit is, it's dangerous. It's dangerous stuff, man. Dude. And it's like, I need more.

What's happening, Zach? Okay. I need more. So I'm, I have trauma, dude. I'm sorry. PTSD. I need more Nate in the pool with goggles on. Yeah, that's my guy. Like, I, dude, it's like, I think that there is such a market for Nate just being happy. Like, I don't know what they, this leads me to, we got to get some vibes going for Nate.

What guys need to figure out what makes Nate happy and you need to just throw him head first into that. It, because I need happy Nate. Yes. But unfortunately, I don't know what that is. I don't know what makes it happy other than winning hockey games. I think that might be the only thing. And dude, this is, this is a announcement. This is completely made up.

I know nothing about this, but I'm just telling you. And I wonder if you agree, this is what it feels like the situation is there with Nate. it feels like if the penguins went up 3-0 in the first period and then blew that lead in the second period and then came to the lockerum. Sid would be in the locker room going like this. Tie game, boys. Fucking 20 minutes. Just beat him for 20 minutes.

Like that would be the speech. And Nate gets in the locker in between the second and goes like this. What the fuck are we doing? Like he's motivating, but it's in that way. He's like, Jesus Christ, we've got to get our heads out of our asses. We fucking three goals in the second period. Like, what the fuck was that? Come on.

And again, he's trying to be positive. but it just comes from such a fucking, I'm furious place instead of a, like, again, I'm making this up, but that's what it feels like the situation is with his style of leadership. 100% man. And I, I am just here to say, Jess says put an inflatable pool in the locker room.

There we go, Jess. That's what I'm talking about. Let's get an inflatable pool in the locker room. Let's get some splish-splashing going on before game four. And the thing is, dude, this is the Michael Jordan comparison, right? Yep. When he does that, what was that thing called Last Dance, Doc?

And he's sitting there and he's like, listen, you wanted to say I was an asshole, I was tough to play with, I was a jerk, that's fine. But I never asked my teammates to do something that I wasn't always also doing. Yep. That mentality works when you go six for six in the final. Yeah. when you are the greatest player of all time. Now, Nate's damn near close to the greatest player of all time.

But unfortunately, they don't win every year. And unfortunately, they're down 03 in the Western Conference Final to a team that everyone thought was worse than them. You cannot be this guy. You can't. And Nate is what... Oh, how old is Nate now, Chris? 29, 30?

Look that up for me. because we're at 30 years old dude you're 30 we're at the point with Nate where I'm like dude we got to find your happy place this is a happy Gilmore moment for Nathan McKinnon we have got to find your happy place because I've seen it I've seen him do some interviews where he cracks a joke and smiles and the way it lights up the entire room because people are like whoa dude got to laugh at a Nate at media day when he's done some shit and every now and then he cracks a joke joke with Sid. I was going to say, and he shows some levity.

Everyone loves it. It is so, so contagious when Nate's happy. Yep. I love that he's dialed in. He's not boozing. He's giving guys on the team shit for drinking sugared sodas and drinking on, you know, two nights before a game and stuff like that.

Man, if that's you, that's you. Let the boys live and just bring some happiness to the locker room. You need to understand. understand how much of a leader you are, how much people look to you. And when your leader is fucking yucking it up, the vibes are through the roof in a locker room. Yeah. And I think it's been too long with Landy out for several years working on his knee and all the rehab. It's been too long in that room with angry too serious Nate. And it's not working. That's the thing.

It's not working. You got to lighten up, pal. Let's find your happy place. Let's figure out who your Virginia Venet is, let's figure out who your grandma is, and let's figure out what fucking makes you tick. If it's putting on fucking goggles and jumping in the pool and swimming around playing mermaids, I want you to be

aerial, pal. I want you to have fun, because fun is the key for this guy and for that locker. Dude, 100% I was just going to say, his happy place is like, it's a resort pool, and Sid's there, Sid's there playing piano, you know, and he's like, hey, buddy. And then

Landy, and then Landy, he's hopping on a pogo stick and he goes, my knee feels, my knee feels incredible. Never, never been never, never injured. And then there's, there's the cups there, but they're pouring electrolyte water into it. And they go, I think gets some vitamins. Oh, here we go. He sips electrolyte water out of the cup while Landy, while Landy Pogo sticks and Sid plays piano and then tosses him some goggles and then Nate jumps in the pool. That, that's where he needs to go. And then go there in your mind, dude. Go there in your mind. And it will all be. fine. That's incredible, Dan.

Absolutely correct. Okay, what is your nothing burger to end this with? This is the most important thing I've ever heard. Do you remember when Kurt Warner was on the Arizona Cardinals? Yeah. And they went on an improbable run to the Super Bowl. Yeah. Do you know, do you remember why that happened? Why he went there? Why they made it

to the Super Bowl? Because Larry Fitz is a fucking God. No, that's the real reason. But do you recall the supernatural reason? I don't. He had told his children before the playoffs started that if they made the Super Bowl, they could get a puppy. Oh, my God. And then they had puppy magic, the whole playoffs. So obviously. They lost that bowl to the Steelers. They did. Yeah. After Life for Chelle had one of the most insane games. And Jerome Bettis fumbled when they were trying to like wind the clock down. But then Pittsburgh jumped on it. That was crazy. Oh, wow. I forgot about that. I have become aware that puppies make everything work. Well, the ad is true, but Vegas is working with their own magic, and I was not told this. You're telling me Vegas has puppy magic? Nope, they have undefere magic.

Five, five of the Golden Knights wives are expecting in June. There are five players on the Knights who are all about to have a baby during the Stanley Cup. finals five there that is so many babies that will be placed inside a stanley country if they if someone had told me that before the playoffs start because they've been pregnant for eight months if someone had told me what was going on in Vegas eight months ago dude if someone had told me before the playoff started that five golden nights wives were due in june yeah i would have bet my fucking house on Vegas winning the Stanley Cup. And unfortunately, I'm just finding this out now, so I'm only able to act now, but Vegas is already up 3-0 on the West Congress finals, so it's

fucking irrelevant. And I've lost all my money. I'm essentially poor. And if I had known this, this is the most baby magic shit I have ever heard in my life. How were we not told? How were we not aware? I feel like a fool of the highest order that I had to have Vegas from the start. five wives are expecting babies in June. This is the most automatic Stanley Cup win in the history of fucking earth. And no one told me. And shame on someone.

I don't know who I'm pissed at, but I am pissed. And there you go. That's the most important piece of data in the history of hockey. The chat is going fucking bananas. About Prego Magic. They are 100% on them.

Oh, dude. This is Prego Magic. This is Prego Magic, dude. This is Prego Magic. What are we fucking talking about? Five? I love. need someone to find out what was going on eight and a half months ago.

Like, like, chat, tell me what was happening? Like, this is literally, what month is that? Someone just said,

Nick, NightRome said Vegas had baby power up in 23 as well. What the fuck? Like, so, so, so explain this to me then. Explain that how I'm just finding this out,

dude. Who told you this? It was actually, oh, I can't, I can't tell you. I'll tell you off. Okay, fine. I think it's like a secret

but like No no I get I get it I now think I know who told you I just like What the fuck What was going on The I will never understand

Someone says oh it's Halloween Oh oh this is pretty good Beginning of the season I don't know what it was We just got a text That makes a fucking Done a sense So

well dude listen man and you know what and he's one of them I'm serious he's one of them true dude that's true oh shit he's one of the expecting well hey here's the thing folks uh

baby magic is real and I don't know that you can beat that dude if someone had fucking let me know you'd all be rich Montreal Montreal players enjoy your season well any of you with kids You better start making puppy promises right now to try to combat this because right now there's nothing that you can do. Correct.

This is over because we have five children being placed in the Stanley Cup. Five. Randy heard puppy magic. It's the most important thing I've ever heard. Yeah, correct. Holy shit. All right. Let's talk some Memorial Day stuff before we get into Montreal, Carolina.

Okay. We're going to put some picks up? Yeah, Zach. Why don't we start rotating some picks in? Okay, wait, I just want one thing. Oh, exactly. I want to get my bed on babies, lower third in. Wow.

This t-shirts coming out soon. Bed on babies. Prego badge. We are a pro-baby podcast, which is very cool. All right. And then first, first things first. This was our first. Let's talk about this first.

Yeah. Can you believe that? You think they're a diet? no you know what you know what's a bummer I bet these aren't bad oh I bet they're incredible

what are you talking about actually Zach what do you think about this to so I'm in in lieu of drinking I am sipping on a mountain dew zero shug right now it tastes like fucking rock and roll and someone sent me these

and they were like you got to get do dogs to go with your mountain dew today and I'll tell you what I'll venture over to the shops and if I find them, I will buy them. Zach, what do you think about this? I saw this the other day.

This guy posted a video and he was like, apparently if you take vanilla cake mix, you can mix it with any soda because the carbonation in the soda is enough leavening to make the cake rise and then you have the soda-flavored cake.

So this guy took vanilla cake mix mixed it with six ounces of orange fanta baked it and then it was just like this orange cake and then he put made like an orange creamcicle icing that he put on top and it was like an orange creamcicle cake and he was like this is the most delicious thing I've ever seen and then I looked in the comments and people were like oh my god dude this is like the biggest game changer ever I've been making a lemon cake with Sprite for years some someone was like I've been making root beer chocolate or Dr. Pepper chocolate cake for years. Someone says

Kim confirmed it works with any soda Yeah Mix combo There you go That seems a lot Like a lot for me Vanilla cake mix

Then you mix it With the soda of your choice Combine it with an icing And then you've got an extra flavored cake Dude Somebody goes Oh what

Where is this Somebody goes Look at dew dogs That is crazy stuff Where is this comment It's not even far Look at the bottom Like out

Uncured beef Franks Blasted With original Flavored Mountain Dew Blasted dude. That's why I'm telling you, this shit tastes like rock and roll. Like, dude, dude, dude, blasted the original flavor.

Someone goes, RJT goes pulling out my cross to combat that photo. Yeah. I mean, they look horrifying. Horrifying. That is so awesome. I do need one, to be honest with you. I do need one. Yeah, I mean, I want to try it. I mean, like, let's be honest. I do need one of those. It is, you know, whenever we see these weird soda flavors, we see them with chips a lot of popcorn and stuff like that. Putting it into a hot dog is a choice. Like why? And it's a choice that I don't know

that we needed to make. Why? Okay, do we have any other? Yeah, let's pop a couple of these photos up. So all of you are doing your, and we want to talk more about some Memorial Day parties. Hell, yeah, if you can see that. Oh, wow, on the hat too. Oh, sick.

Quinn Hughes, USA hockey shirt, rocking on Memorial Day fucking right. Extremely sick. Fucking rights. That is awesome. Let's get another one. God, the transition is so fun. It's so good.

All right. This one fired me up. Oh, yeah, yeah. What was this? Before, we got a nice, looks like a golden blonde ale. Yep. A little sexy ale, dude. Yeah.

Looks like, remember that soccer company Kappa? Yeah. Looks like that. Yep. And that can went right up the ass of that chicken that's in the grill. Beer can chicken. That is awesome. That is great branding.

Dallas Blonde. That's a great branding for you. Incredible. I want that beer immediately. I can't believe it's in that chicken. That beer will get you horned up like you would not believe. That's amazing. And that beer went right up the ass.

What do you think is above the chicken? A... It looks very interesting and delicious. But is that a brisket, too? Well, yeah. This person is having... the best memorial day I've ever seen. This is an incredible spread. This is an incredible spread. That's an unreal grill. They've got a dish that looks like something like a mac and cheese going on the top right there. They've got a brisket. It's another one of the things. They've got a beer can chicken. Like whatever's above the chicken might also be about the mac and cheese. I know. It looks like grilled hulumi, but there's no way people in Texas making beer can chicken brisket and mac and cheese are having grilled hulumi. Correct. Phenomenal. All right, Zach, next one. Yep. Oh, yes. Hell yeah. Little blades.

Session, Blade Nation, a Memorial Day? This one fired me up too. They set the picture in and they go, little roller action on Memorial Day. Yeah, that'll get you going. That is a great day. That is a perfect day. That'll get you going. So what are you guys going to do today? And this is what I always get curious about with Memorial Day. Are you supposed to do your barbecue yesterday so you can get tuned up and have the day off? Or are you supposed to do it today? You're supposed to do it today. Or are you supposed to not be a camera? you're supposed to take a feather out of the vets who served and do both days.

Oh, well, yeah, you do the whole weekend. Yeah. You do the whole weekend. Someone sent us a gif of Denzel. I think that's in flight where he buys a thing of Smearnoff and just starts chugging us. And it was like, it said Americans on. Well, it said a three-day weekend exists Americans. And it just was Denzel absolutely chugging Smear-off.

And I was like, correct. And I see no problem with that. I see absolutely no problem. problem with that. And that's all, dude. So yes, you, you're supposed to have been ripping all weekend and you certainly rip today. And if you were starting to complain about Tuesday, then fuck you. And also, I'm working. I'm out here working. I'm going to be back in here working and I'm still going to go after it in between working. Yeah. I mean, there's just no way that we don't do something today and celebrate this amazing day and honor our troops. We have to. Yes. Absolutely. That is exactly

Correct. Yeah, no doubt about it. I do think getting outside too is huge. Like I went on a hike yesterday and Big Bear. It was amazing. And I was like, this is the right way to go. That's so sick, dude. I walked around everywhere yesterday and I hung by the pool, which is special. Yeah. Very special. And if you don't think Randy and I walked here today, too, you're out of your mind. Yeah. I know you did. We sure did. It was incredible. We've got game three. Yep. And Zach, can you put the camera on yourself. Yes. And then continue to talk. Yes, I can put the camera myself and continue to talk. Oh, wow. We're going to filibuster because we have some things going on in the studio. Right now, Dan's going to use the little boys room.

Randy is going absolutely crazy right now. I think he's following Dan in the bathroom as well, guys. So, yeah. Oh, you can hear it in the background. I'm going to go ahead and fade on the next game while we're getting ready to talk about this, y'all. Zach, how are you feeling about the Habs aura? I'm feeling wonderful about the Habs aura. I'm feeling, as I told you guys, I saw the Ghostbusters, Ecto on the way to the office on Friday,

and I knew the Canes were going to win game two. I feel solid about the Habs aura. Oh, this is getting, there's a lot going on in the background, I wish. chat says what is memorial day jude o3 xx it's a day where we remember the fallen soldiers and celebrate our country um wish i had an olympic jersey too i agree 100% with y'all um let's see what else we've got in the chat going on right now um i saw phonetics is doing a pre-order the team USA jersey i know the team USA jerseys should have been available everywhere constantly after the olympics happened like i was like i need my jack queues After that goal, I was like, I want my toothless shirt.

I want my Jack Hughes jersey. I want to wear them all the time and celebrate our country. I was 100% on that, dude. I, yep, the jersey pre-ordered, that's smart. But yeah, these jerseys should have been out and available for all of us when we wanted it. Dude, I wish you guys could see. I'm just going to cut a little bit to what I'm not showing revealing fully what's going on right now, but I'm just cutting to Randy jumping all over.

Randy is trying to pull Danos clothes. off right now, guys. I know it's getting a little wild. Cain's are still crossing the streams to bust the Habs. They are, dude, like straight up. The Ghostbusters are busting and they like to bust as the song says. Yeah, it's unbelievable. I mean, that's a true lyric. They like the buzz. Busting didn't have that connotation that time. Yeah, Habs got this absolutely at solar pilot course. They do. Nice versus Habs in 93. I think we bring it back. We're going to be there.

It's going to be a lot of fun. I think we get after it, yeah. Andy is fired up about this suit. Am I allowed to reveal it? Or do we want a little... Do we want a little ghostbusters? Yeah, do it. Okay, hold on, hold, hold on.

Let me get a little who you're going to call. Yeah, okay, don't demonetize us. Don't, don't demonetize us. We already showed highlights. We're demonetized, so it's fine. Oh, no, I got a, I got, damn, I got YouTube premium, guys, and I still got it add. You do? You got premium?

Fuck. That's awesome. Yes. All right. Going to let it build. This is a great theme, An song. Something strange. God, yes.

Let's go. Listen. Randy? Randy, don't get too fired up. Don't get too fired up. Don't get too fired up. Don't get too fired up. So I said this on the story yesterday.

I don't think the ghosts have been busted. Are you, sir? I do believe the ghosts have been acknowledged. Okay, um, here's the thing, Dan. They have been acknowledged. They were nearly not busted in a bad way. They were nearly fucking slimed to death. Because I'll tell you what,

if the Habs got fucking 10 shots and won that game in overtime, the canes, I would have legitimately recommended the Cains didn't travel to Montreal and just got an extra rest for summer. I would have recommended they just stay home and say this series is over and two, let Vegas sleep and we'll just move on to the finals.

That's how close they were to not busting the ghosts. Correct. The fact that they were acknowledged, you saw it from the admin. Yep. They talked about it. They've got an Etsy witch situation going on. They knew that they had to exercise demons. They had to cross streams. And, you know, You know what I think was a big factor of this being for sure?

The fact that signing of the summer, new team edition, friend of the program, Nikolai Eilers is the reason they want. I had said a few episodes ago. I'm not saying... I can't begin to say how creepy those white gloves are on you. White gloves in general, I think, are the creepiest fucking shit in the world. Dude, and just to be clear for everyone back home, everyone listening at home, I tried to get a, fully inflatable stay puff man that I was going to sit in. It was,

no wouldn't deliver in time. And so I was, I could get this. I'll tell you this. This is a promise right now to the listeners. If the Carolina Hurricanes win this series, we will get that. Yep.

And I will bust you. Yeah. You bust me. I will bust you somehow. Yep. We'll figure out what that looks like. Yep. But that will,

and it will be an ordeal. I, I wanted to be. sitting here in a fully inflatable stay puff suit that you could have you know how people have seen people like they fart in the uh yeah yeah yeah and then i suffocate yeah that could have happened yeah um also uh well actually it doesn't matter well i'll deal with that later this keep talking this this is an important thing the unluckily dan the ghosts certainly were acknowledged but i'm telling you they were busted they were busted i'm not saying that means they win the

series, but I am saying that now it is a series. I don't believe at all that this is going to be now a 5-1 Habs win. It could be, but I just don't believe that because I do believe that it was busted. The Habs don't shoot, Dan. They don't shoot the puck. It's one of the craziest things I've ever seen. I've never seen a playoffs team get so few shots in playoff games that they are in, that they are competitive in, that they either win or lose in overtime. It's mind-blowing. But the ghosts have been busted. And I also want to say this because you said this earlier. A few episodes ago, I said that Nick Eilers is not a mega-meagastar. I'm not arguing that, but I am arguing he is enough of a difference maker to change with the fabric of this Kane's team. And that has ever been on more display than it was

in game two, especially on his first goal of the night, which was fucking putrid. His first goal made me leap out of my seat. It did. It was unbelievable. Listen, man, ghosts have been acknowledged that I look at it one of two ways. One, we had another fucking insane Montreal Canadiens performance where they only had

12 shots on net. I've never seen anything like it. In the game that went into OT. Yep. Ridiculous. And I just said it went into OT. If you're Montreal, you feel pretty great

that you only had 12 shots and that game had to go to OT in Carolina too. Yes. So like you're feeling, you're kind of laughing. Yeah, weirdly both teams feel good, right? Yes.

The flip. side of that, the Carolina spin zone is you have all the demons, you have all the ghosts, you lost game one in epic fashion. This was always going to be a battle because even if you guys get the rust off, even if you get in the right mentality, all the Mo Mo Mo that Montreal has is going to be hard to get past. This game, you kind of went into being like, this one's going to be a grind. We just have to get a win. And you did get a win. the spin zone for Carolina is you go, we got the win, dude. Like, we got a win.

We played great. We got a win at home in the fucking Eastern Conference final. That's all the fucking matters. Now we're back on track. That is the spin zone. Yep. Whose spin zone is going to come out here on top in game three is the question. Yep.

The, uh, yeah, right. Who spins is going to come on top? Bell Center, different animal. Montreal though, sneaky. Hasn't been that good at home. lost a pivotal game 6 to Tampa with chance to close that out lost at home, lost a bunch of them to Buffalo. I think a game 6 to Buffalo, is that right?

Yeah, they did, didn't they? Didn't they lose game 6 with a chance to close out both those series? Yes, I think so. So they haven't been that good week. We keep being like, the bell center is the best barn in the league and the fans are amazing. All true things. But the HABs themselves have not played that well at home.

So this isn't like, oh, now Montreal goes home and it's easy money. They're going to win two and now it's three. went. Incorrect. You have to take care of your shit. Carolina knows this fact. They're going, we're fine. We just smothered this team for five straight periods, I would say. Not smothered in game one, but periods two and three were completely fine. And then game two, you smothered them the whole day. So you go, we are completely fine. Our game travels. Our game translates to the road. It's all good. No worries. I go back to the big concern for the canes. In the same way the Avs are battling is the Dobech thing. You just go, we haven't really gotten to Dobesh at all.

It does feel like we need to win these games, 2-1, 3-2 at most, you know, where I'm like, holy shit. And that's a lot of pressure. Freddy's been amazing and played, you know, we talked about this during the game. This was one where I go, Freddie's save percentage is horrible, but it's not really his fault. Or I don't want to say that because I just made fun of that last game, but you know what I'm saying? I don't think Freddie played a bad game in game two. did think he made no big saves in game one. In game two, I don't think he played a bad game, even though his save percentage was bad. Yeah, I agree. Someone in the hockey talk was like, Freddy sucks. And I was like, kind of a wild take to say that after game two. Yeah.

Because one goal was an insane tip in that no one could save. And the second was a garbage goal that was sitting in between the feet of a thousand players, no, the goal he couldn't see it. And it was just a bang, bang. So I'm like, that wasn't on him at all. It does suck when they have 12 shots and you give up to them. Yeah. God damn. I've been talking about Dobesh a lot, these playoffs, and I've made a couple of comparisons.

I've got the new comparison. Okay. Good. And this is the one. Are you ready? Dobeche gives off Binnington vibes. Ooh, interesting. Big time Bittington vibes.

Yeah, it kind of does. the I could play 40 more and I don't know if I look fucking nervous I don't know if you saw his quote after this one but he was like I gotta be better for my guys that is such a fucking dog quote dude yeah it is like you give up two goals in regulation

and then an OT winner that's a sick fucking shot and if like all of Carolina's goals were like really I mean I don't put any of those on Dobesh either he's mad about the Elers one because it just slides five hole on the ice but it was just such a sick play yeah you know So he is giving off big time aura on the aura team. And he kind of has that dog mentality that dinner has.

Big game, big game vibe. Big game vibe. I like that a lot. Okay. Yeah, it's interesting. So for me, dude, the Cains, actually, I mean, Montreal just has aura swag pumping through their veins, you know? So they don't give a fuck, Zach.

Like basically what I'm trying to say is I'm going, the Cains. are going, we feel good because of blank, blank and blank, I don't think the habs are thinking or feeling anything. They just show up to the rink and go, what? Yeah. I don't think anything's on their mind. Yeah. Like they don't even know what day it is, what year it is, what month it is,

what round it is? They're just like this, what? Do we have a game today? And they go, yes, go. I think that that's true. And I think because of that, you need to take advantage of this opportunity if you're Carolina.

Hmm. That's what I'm saying, dude. This is crazy for Randy. If you can take advantage of this as Carolina, that's huge. Because you need to look at, we're in the Bell Center. They have not lost two games in a row all playoffs. Oh, yeah. Everyone's talking shit about us.

That's actually such a good call. Being Eastern Conference Final Chokers, we played two terrible teams. We're not even that good of a team. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. I believe, with the aura, if Carolina can win tonight, if they can figure out a way to win tonight, they will, for the first time, all playoffs. So a little bit of doubt, a little bit of fear into Montreal because they'll go, now everyone starts talking and they go, whoa, Montreal loses two in a row for the first time.

Everyone was like, Carolina, they suck, they're going to get swept, they're going to get gentlemen swept. Now that's off the table. Yep. And now you are back in the driver's seat, having just won a game in Montreal. all. Not completely. You flip the script a little bit. You change the narrative a lot of bit. And you get people talking about different stuff. Yep. I think that's such a good call. This game, I was going to say Carolina just really needs a split because I think if they get a split, they come back and they go, clearly this is a long series now. Clearly, we feel like we're the better team. And we have two games

at home, all good. Like, get the split and your job is completely done. And I mean, I still mean that. I get this split and your job is completely done. However, if you can get this one, I just think it's such a narrative poll because you go, we have a series lead in the Eastern Conference Finals. And Montreal lost back-to-back games for the first time. You know, now you're like, we're going to win. Yeah.

For the first time in years, dude. Yep. For the first time in years, Carolina could lose a Eastern Conference final game and not be stressed if they win tonight. Yes. If they win tonight and then they lose game four, they're kind of like, okay, you got the split. Like, we're in the driver's seat.

Because if you lose tonight... Winning tonight is monumentally important for Carolina. Because then game four becomes, oh my God, if we lose this game, we'd get gentleman swept again. Because don't forget they got gentlemen swept last year. You will. If you lose this game and then game four, you will get gentlemen swept because it'll just be too much. Damn, dude. Going back to the bell center, too much.

So this game is actually gargantuan for Carolina. I think game four is gargantuan. if they lose this one. But that's why I'm saying this one's so big. Like you just kind of have to get this one. I don't think it's gargantuan because think about all the pressure that there was in game two and they went to OT and they managed to win.

So they can respond. But I think if the Habs win this game it confirms they will not lose back to back all playoffs. I know. So then that means mathematically you've lost the cup or you've lost this series. So if the Keynes lose tonight, the Habs confirmed will not lose back to back

all playoffs and the Cains are out. So if they lose tonight, they are out. If they win tonight, they could still be out, but they could win tonight, though. They have to win tonight. They just need to just Like that goal, God, that fucking second goal was so fucking bad. Ooh, interesting, that's kind of cool.

What's that? Well, someone says Carolina has not lost back to back since January. Yeah. Which might be true. I just hadn't even thought about that. It's all the habs. They don't lose back to back. Neither of the Keynes. So somebody's, somebody has to break that streak. Yeah. I guess they don't have to, but if you want, if we need some, if we want some good action, it's going to be somebody losing back to back. Yeah. That would be good. And listen, the ghosts have been acknowledged. Let's see if the ghosts can be bust. Can you bust these ghosts? And what would, what does busting mean to

you winning this series? Yes. Okay, so we were going to have to wait a while for them to bust. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But you can, you can, you can. You can. bust a few ghosts. Like if you win this game, I think that's some ghost busted. But you haven't busted me yet. Yes. You are you. I am white. I am the final. Like if we

get Why am I saying we? It's because I'm wearing a ghostbuster show. Can we shout out an amazing comment? Yeah. Okay. At Thomas Singleton 5724 said Dr. Staypuff ready to hand out free exams. Yes. Yes. Correct.

It's amazing. Great. So I want to say, yikes, I do want to say, again, that I love both of these teams. I'm not rooting for anyone. We're just trying to entertain you guys, and I'm entertaining you by sitting on Memorial Day in a fucking Ghostbusters costume. Okay? That doesn't mean I'm a Keynes fan. It just means I'm trying to make you laugh.

Can we also, another shout out, okay? Yep. We've had, you know, we had the, I'm not going to speak about, but we had the crashes. We had the four crashes day. We have 344 people in here. Yeah. Legend, which is deep respect on their holiday. Sticking with us on a holiday.

Fucking Legends. So, yeah, no Montreal fans take me sitting in this costume as me being a Keynes fan. I just want good hockey and I want seven games. Yep. But for the Canes and for the Keynes fans, if you can get a win tonight, that is some ghost busted. Like the librarians in there, the, I think, slimers in there. Is his name Grimer or Slimer? I don't know.

I think it's Slimer. he's in there you still need stay puffed you need four wins to get stay puffed but do keep acknowledging the ghost just because you acknowledge them and you got to win does not mean they're gone stay sharp I'm right here

stay sharp pro town packs on streams ready to be crossed and and keep fight you want to see me in a fucking inflatable suit you got to keep winning yeah correct you've got to keep winning so I think getting to dobesh is a big thing here

Freddie needs to. I would love to see a confident game from Freddie. Yeah. And it sucks because you've got to win, but like 12 shots, two goals went to OT. That's not a confident game. I know, but I just think he played pretty well. He did. Like those goals, I'm like, what? But again, there's stuff to say. You need to have Montreal fans have to be like this. No, we can get to him that game. What do you think happens tonight? I think the bell center is going to be out of control. I think they're going to go, take your American holiday and get fucked. Me too. I think the Canadians look incredible tonight.

I think they're going to come out like bats out of hell. Ghosts out of hell. Not all ghosts are in hell. No, they're not in hell, I think. They're here. Pergatory.

Yeah, yeah. They come out like ghosts out of purgatory. They're going to come out like ghosts out of the opened proton pack. It's not the proton pack, but it's the thing they're put in when that the fucking dipshit mayor, who's also the principal in Ferris Bueller, right? Yeah.

It's a different guy? Yeah, I don't know. I think it's a different guy. He's in diehard. That's what he's in diehard. He's the shitty newscaster. Oh, that guy. Yeah, yeah.

And they make them open up the thingy and all the ghosts come pouring out. That's how the HABs are going to come out tonight. So you better be ready with your past. So it's first period, right? And Buffalo Sabres, even though they never fucking capitalize on this, they did a really good job of scoring early Bell Center goals. Yeah.

To do everything they could take the crowd out of it. Carolina, looking to go early. I also think it's a high time. for Sebastian Aho to do something. Yep. Sorry. I agree. You just,

we can't, we can't be talking about Sebastian Aho the way we talk about him if you can't step the fuck up here, dude. You got to score a gritty goal. Boys need you. Boys need you. I'd love to see,

I'd love to see a Slaven master class. I'd love to see Cole Cawfield. People were talking shit. They were like, Mr. Saturday night. Yeah. Nothing. I'd love to see him. I've loved to see Cole get on.

He's an American. He knows it's a day off. Yeah, yeah. Oh, dude. Cole, look for Lane and Cole goals tonight. Yeah. No, Lane Point. Is Lane hurt?

Cole Cawfield goal. Well, he got fucking absolutely bundled last game. Yeah. Oh, you know what else I did want to talk about? Really quick, I just want to address. There was that play. I don't know if you saw this. People, some Havs fans were bitching about a Taylor Hall sticking his knee-on-knee

hit against Lane. Absolutely not. Okay. We're just putting that one to bed. It's over. Lane turned at the last second. It was a bang, bang play. No one did anything wrong. Lane was not wrong for being like, what the fuck? Like he got his knee caught in a weird situation, but that was not dirty from Taylor Hall. We're moving on.

Howden scored, therefore. A new hook, anytime goal. Dial it in everybody, new hook, goal. That's my sign off for you. Dial in a new hook anytime goal. Let's have a great memoir. all day. Hey, we have, we have to be right back in here in about five hours to start recording again. So you got five hours to fucking get nuts, everybody. What time's the game on? Five. Oh. I'm not watching the game here. We said we were eating dogs and watching the game here.

No, no chance, dude. Okay, maybe I'll do it. Could you wear the Ghostbusters costume all day? Yeah, you can't take that off, unfortunately. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, I'll be watching the game in this. Yeah. We busted the internet ghost. For sure. For sure. Let's get weird, dude. I'm about to go party. Yeah, let's go enjoy.

I'm going to go to the gym. And salute our trips. Yeah. But then I'll party. No, he won't. 100% he will not. I don't have to drink to party. Yes, you do.

That's what partying is. No. I can do other things. No. I'll fucking hammer deuce. It's ridiculous. It's great. Everyone in the chat.

Thank you for bearing with us today. All those crashes. That was insane, but that's what makes it worth it. Great stuff. Let's enjoy Memorial Day on a serious note. Shout out and so much love to all the troops who let us have this amazing country and have this day to honor you. It's amazing. We love all of you.

Let's celebrate this day. Let's have a great time and let's watch some hockey later and have some fun. See you later tonight.