Empty Netters Podcast - Game 1 Of The Cup Final Was An Absolute Slugfest

Episode Date: June 3, 2026

Who saw that coming? Game 1 was a drunken street fight, and Vegas came out on top, but the Canes, and their fans, fought, fought, fought! We are live in Raleigh to break down all the plays, where Carolina went wrong, where Vegas went right, and look forward to game 2. Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 10:26 - Breaking Down Game 1 24:20 - The Lenovo Center Checklist 40:55 - Carolina Should Be Unfazed PRESENTED by BetMGM. Download the BETMGM app and use code “NETTERS” and enjoy up to $1500 in bonus bets if you lose your first wager! Thanks to our Sponsors! BetMGM: Use bonus code NETTERS when signing up to receive up to $1500 in bonus bets if your first bet loses. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER (Available in the US) 877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY) 1-800-327-5050 (MA), 1-800-NEXT-STEP (AZ), 1-800-BETS-OFF (IA), 1-800-981-0023 (PR) 21+ only. Please Gamble Responsibly. See BetMGM.com for Terms. First Bet Offer for new customers only. Subject to eligibility requirements. Bonus bets are non-withdrawable. In partnership with Kansas Crossing Casino and Hotel. This promotional offer is not available in New York, Nevada, Ontario, or Puerto Rico. Your game deserves a stick that's built for you — customize your Pulse at https://Bauer.com with MyBauer Quick Turn. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Stanley Cup Final. The final series. The final handshake line. The final chance to have your heartbroken. Or watch your team make history. For the next few weeks, nothing else matters. No work, no sleep. Tons of group chat meltdowns after every goal.

It comes down to two teams. The Carolina Hurricanes chasing their first Stanley Cup in 20 years. And the Vegas Golden Knights, the young franchise going for their second cup in nine years. Two fan bases, two cities, one cup. And while the rest of the hockey world watches from home, we're hitting the road. From opening puck drop to the moment the Stanley Cup has raised, every city, every game, every unforgettable moment. We'll be there. Outside the arenas, inside the arenas. With Hurricanes fans who have waited years for this run.

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Probably a few terrible decisions along the way. Exactly how the Stanley Cup final should be. One trophy, one champion, one last push. The Stanley Cup final starts now. An empty netters is coming with it. are live in the chat. Post game, rocking, fresh out of the Lenny,

unbelievable action. We got a great action. That's an early great action stamp, Dan. We got a great action stamp on this live. Great action in game one. It's unbelievable. I feel like we knew it was going to happen. I feel like we knew the great action stamp was going to happen

because game ones are wonky. I say this all the time. Game ones are wonky. And I actually think that game one might even be kind of what it goes like in terms of the level of action. But I wish we had Dan's shocked face up, which you said about a sweep, which no one thinks it's going to happen. But I think anyone would put on their best shocked face if you had told me that was going to be a five-four haymaker session with a goal being scored with three minutes left to decide the game. It was truly stunning, stunning stuff to get nine goals, nine times. Unbelievable.

Insane. That was remarkable. We thought this was going to be a goalie duel. Not really saying either goalie played poorly because both goalies made great saves. Freddie made a couple monster, monster saves. And I just can't believe it. I feel shell-shocked that we had a 5-4 ripper. Unbelievable.

It was, especially, it was, it was insane because, dude, the, the, like, Eilers scoring in 20 seconds was, he had just gotten settled. We were all talking about if there'd be a goal in the first 10, if what was going to happen in the first period. And Vegas was actually having a pretty good shift. They got the puck deep. I almost had a give and go. And I think it was Shea that misplayed that or jumped over a stick or whatever. But then it was like, I remember hitting you being like, oh, all of a sudden, two on one out of nowhere. Oh, yeah.

Nowhere. And it was like ping piping in. Let him explodes. What a rip. Close personal friend, Nick Eilers. And a shout out 99.9. The fan. Oh, dude.

Shout out of boy Dennis. And Tim. And Tim, of course. But we went on the amazing radio show talking Keynes right before the game. And they did a, who is your first goal score? Yeah. And what period? And I go, you, I think you astutely,

We're like, it's probably going to be second period. We might have a stalemate here. And I was like, first period, Nick Eelers. Now what's funny is... You're like first minute, Nick Eelers. We get into the barn and I place a bet on Bet MGM. No goal in the first 10 minutes. And I literally turned to Chris and I go, I put 50 bucks on no goal in the first 10.

It really is as you said it to me. I literally say that. And then I turned to the ice and Eilers is on a two-on-one. It shoots and scores. And I start jumping around going, I called it. But it was right after I was like, I just said no goal in the first 10 minutes. It was 30 seconds. I was sort of like, you didn't call it at all.

And then I see what you, I see what you meant. Yeah, you're like, oh, got it. But listen, the game started about as electric as you possibly could have asked for. Everybody told us the tailgate would be good. It was incredible. Everybody told us it would be loud in there. Hey. Bang, Eler's goal, the roof came off.

It was unbelievable. If you're not tuning in to the NHL YouTube pregame show with us on Stanley Cup Live, 6.30 p.m. Eastern Thursday, we're going to be back with all these great guests. We had Katie Feeney on today. Unbelievable. We had the Osborne brothers on today. And then obviously the good old Canadian boys, Jarvie's pals, they jumped on.

We're going to be hanging with them tomorrow. It's just such a fun time. The cup was there. It's fantastic. That was the star of the show. As he always is. We talked about it on that show. The tailgate at Lenovo is a fucking joke with how good it is.

That thing was nutty. This was a college football. NFL football level tailgate. We had some great friends that we met that we were hanging with. They had two pizza ovens, two of them. Yeah. Two. Two.

Literally going simultaneously. Twin pizza ovens. They brought like, shout out, shout out Michael and Steph because that was just such a setup. A couple of legends, Michael and Steph. He brought, I think he said he brought 16 pizzas. Yeah, I think so. And man, this little kid was sitting on the cooler. He was ripped, looked like Bruce Boudreau, eating wings, he had sauce all over his face.

And Michael walks up and he's like, hey, Get up. Opens up that cooler. There's fresh dough. Fresh moths. Perfect pizza dough ready to go. Fresh moths. There was like slices of moths and then shaved moths.

Yeah. He had homemade sauce that he'd made the night before. He was ladling it on. He looked like a pro. The kneading. The kneading was remarkable. In that moment, I was like, oh, shit. Dude, he started kneading and tossing the dough.

And I was looking at him and I went, are you fucking kidding me, pal? This is unbelievable. We've got to start a shop here. It was just great, great stuff all around. We had the Knievels. Yeah. We're going to see them on Thursday.

They had a gigantic like Coors Light Stanley Cup erected. I got to get eyes on that. The boy saw that. I will say what we didn't do properly was I, and this was mostly on me. I was like trying to keep it, stay light on my feet before the show. Yeah. I got to get barbecue from someone on Thursday. I know.

Exactly. We kind of missed that. Yeah. I do want to get it at a real restaurant too, but I also think it's part of the experience of getting it. I mean, that's what days offer for. Yeah, yeah, that's exactly right. I'm telling you it's pretty sick. Man, I just think it is a, we keep trying to spread the love and the positivity about this game, these two teams and this series.

And everyone, everyone who is a little salty doesn't want to give it up for Southern hockey. I mean, boys. Like, how good was today? The whole day, or you're talking about the game? The whole day. The whole day was incredible. Fantastic. Like the vibe.

Also great. I was a little worried it was going to be swamp ass hot. It's perfect. Because it's south and it was 76 degrees. We walked to the arena. Wasn't that humid? It was not too bad at all.

No. It was just lovely. It was great. So weather was fucking great. Food was great. Yeah. The arena was killer. Yeah.

It was just special. Special stuff going all over the place. And we get into the Lenny. And I do have to say, man, I mean, we had heard that that place was loud. And, you know, I think I tweeted out. I was like, damn. Yeah. This place is loud.

And people are like, we've been trying to tell you. And I was like, I haven't been. What are you on from me? I hadn't experienced it yet. It was unbelievable. You said people coming in. You saw, we saw people walking in when they open the doors. People walk it in with ear plugs.

And I was like, yo, that is the real deal. Crazy shit. That is the real deal. I was like, what the hell is going on here? That was insane. And, yeah, man, it was. All the hype building up was awesome. Yeah.

I thought the Stanley Cup live show today was incredible. And I was really feeling the excitement of being at a Stanley Cup game again. More so than even a few days, even getting in Raleigh, just walking into that rink, I was like, here we go, dude. Oh, yeah. And then we found that sick area. I don't know what that place is called. Don't say it. Gate keep.

Gate keep. Gate keep. We found that sick area. It was unreal. And then, man, to get that jump right away. was a dream start. I mean, it felt just like it felt just like

Montreal game won. Yeah, I was going to be kidding me. Yeah. Let's jump into that first period. Let's hear from BetMGM and then let's get, let's dig into the game

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How are you? Ben-M-G-M-M-M-M-make-It legendary just like this game. We start off the action. Nick Eilers gets the goal-score and party. in less than a minute. Unbelievable. And then what does he do? He does it again.

He doubles down. He doubles down. He had 11, dude. He had 11. He doubles down. Unbelievable. Do you double down on 9? I was just thinking his number's 2.7.

Yeah. He'd get Delta 27, 9, double down. Boom. You got to double down on 9, right? He might be double down on 9. But Eilers gets his fifth and sixth goal of the playoffs, gets the boys up to nothing. And it felt like,

an electric factory in that moment because you know anyone who I know Keynes don't forget but if you forget Jarvis scored immediately in game one against Montreal and then it was like boom immediate football 30 seconds later another one

and it was like oh oh we're out of control so Eler's making it to nothing it was like hey Vegas different beast here this is the different team but this is what Vegas does it was all yes and no yes absolutely there is no no here I'll wait for your no

but I don't think there's a no here. This is what Vegas does. They're getting brutally outplayed, brutally outshot, and they get some good puck movement while the barn is still fucking rocking. Yeah. It's like a minute and a half later. Good pass across the point.

Theo blasts one on net. Hits a little bit. I think Robinson might have gotten a touch on it or something, but ends up in the back of the net and it's 2-1. And I got to give it up for the Keynes fans. Oh, yeah. I was actually, I found myself feeling as though I were in a horror movie with how silent it was in that arena when they scored.

It was just not a, it was strange, Zach. It actually felt weird. It was actually strange, yeah. It was like, it went in and I was like, is someone dead on the ice? It's a Morgan. Yeah, please. And I think this is a continual trend in sports where a team, like the canes who have just lost so many times

and I experienced this with Auburn myself because they do it a lot where they've lost so many times the moment they get in those big moments and so they've had that happen over and over and over and then when you're finally there when the other team scores your heart just drops so a sound can't even come out of you

it's true because it's just like but dude what's crazy is I at least I kind of expected at least that groan that you just did I kind of wanted to ugh or something not even a boo just the collective groan it was literally

dead silent it was truly just sword and it just everybody went nothing it's like a library it was genuinely a library yeah yeah it was crazy we saw it and we were like did they just that just go in

at that point it was nine three shots canes yep and the period goes on and we get down to about four minutes left three minutes left and Vegas was pushing they're getting chances and they got one really close call yeah and I turned to you and I was like do you cannot go into the second period tied to two two after this period you are all over this Vegas team you cannot let them go we're tied after that yeah and Carolina held on which is great but then like I said earlier this is what Vegas does

they come out into the second and 30 seconds into the second. Goal. Yeah. Tie game. Barbie. Barbie. Got to get him a new nickname. Got to get him a new nickname.

Well, Barbie's fine. But we're not saying the machine that might hold cancer sticks. No, we'll not. Not doing that anymore. He doesn't like it. So we have to fix that. But 30 seconds in, boom, Barbie. We're walking around Lenny.

Because we're doing stuff at the intermission. We're bopping around. I wasn't back to the seats. No, we're going into different suites. We're getting pulled into different places. different places. The Barbie goal goes, I didn't even see it go. I have to watch it on the Jumbotron

because it was so quiet. It felt like nothing happened. Well, actually, I don't know if you remember this. We were in the concourse and I hear the TV guy going like this. 1836 to go in the second period, 2, 2. And I look at you guys and I go, is it 2 2? And everybody goes, no. And I was like, I think it might be 2 2. I was like, I had the second.

Yeah, exactly. It's insane. What the fuck? I pulled up my phone. I was like, it's 22. Do we got to get in there. And we finally get into this new suite. We step foot in it and then Wild Bill scores.

Yeah, correct. And now Vegas is winning. Which was also a, you know how the other day you said, Marner, you go, I haven't seen a lot of Marner lately, but then you kind of check and he makes one incredible pass. That was such a nasty pass. It was so good. A great shot from Bill, too, but just that was amazing from Marner. And I was up.

There he is, dude. There he is again. It was unbelievable. And then Stahl, the captain, ties it up. And that, in that moment, I was like, okay, we've got three unanswered Vegas goals. Now you have lost the lead. Vegas is winning early in the second. And it felt like things could potentially get out of hand here quickly.

They kind of locked it down and then stall scores and now are tied. What were you feeling in this moment? Okay, yeah, this is great. Because that's pretty much the action for the two period. So let's kind of backtrack and discuss this. I do want to pause real quick and say that if people could see you two, they would think that we are launching nuclear codes. That's kind of what it feels like at this point. When I hear you guys whispering and see the clicking and the scroll, I'm like, you two are doing matrix level algorithm work over here.

We're dealing with some equipment that's being a little finicky. So we apologize for some technical brother. They are doing, because I got to tell you, I know you guys see the chat too. Like the chat is like, you guys are recording on a Nintendo DS. What the fuck is this? So they are, oh, wait, is the audio brutal? People are like, what are you using an etch a sketch to record? This is fucking insane.

Nobody can hear you. Like, the chat is just peppering with people pissed. So they're actually doing God's work trying to. So wait, the audio sucks right now? Why are we even talking? No, it's just, it's a little, if you go too hot, it gets too, too distorted. And if we go too quiet, people can't hear it. Wow.

So either no one can hear us or they go, we can't hear you. Or it's so loud. They're like, it's too loud. They either can't hear us is too low or they can't hear. Okay, no emotion. No emotion. I'm going to give it to you flat. I'm going to talk. Just try to talk within a range of three decibels.

I can do that. I'm going to talk like Jim Nance this whole time. That's actually genius. That's perfect. So to go back and assess the first two periods. I actually made the joke to these guys that when the canes went up to nothing, I said you can't go up three nothing in the first. That's an automatic loss.

We know this. Turns out they needed that third goal very badly. They should have gone up three nothing. the first because this is what I wanted to bring up that we forgot to say in the first Stank also had that clean breakaway where he almost scored and I'm thinking at this point if you're Vegas you have given up a full ice two-on-one to Nick Eilers and whoever and Martinoke don't forget in that first two Slavo hit the crossbar like 30 seconds after the first one and then right after that we also had that great pass behind the net passed out to Eilers after

after he'd already had two. Oh, in the one T. Right in the slot, one T just whistled it past the post. Carter Hart knew nothing about that. Like, he was like, oh, shit. Then full ice Eler's breakaway goal, then full ice stankavin.

Yeah. Where if he elevated that, it was pretty quick move. Yeah. That was a sick play to knock that down even. Oh, my gosh. To go on the breakway. But at that point,

I was like, oh, my God, dude. Vegas is like, you know, you know, the way Carolina looks like they were running around with their heads cut off in the first period against Montreal, all game one. Oh, yeah.

Vegas, it felt like they, it looked like they, beer league down where all the d was just just go just get up in the rush and you're like oh shit we got popped for another breakaway and your goalie's going dude i don't care that it's midnight on thursday the fucking floaters you know and he's like i don't care i'm not back checking that's what vegas looked like for the first 10 minutes i was like jeez no question about it they were all over the place man do you want to address the chatter going on in the chat at the beginning of the show who don't understand what slugfest means oh dude i'm actually devastated that it's now a different link

because that's all gone yeah yeah so i don't know if those people are still in the chat but that actually baffling to me. Just in case anyone is in this new chat, some of the first comments in the initial link were like Slugfest, did I watch a different game? Do you, I think they think Slugfest means... Snoose Fest? No, I think they think it means like a stalemate

where you're just like boxing back and forth and no one can score. Like a violent game. Yeah. Oh, oh. Which it really wasn't a lot of money. Slugfest... There were some big hits.

Well, slug... But again, that's not what it means. A Slugfest is when there is no defense being played and people are just throwing haymakers at each other. There were nine goals in this game, folks. If you don't understand that Slugfest is a reference to not a lot of defense, nine goals were scored in regulation. I don't know if this was the first person, but someone says English is my second language,

damn. Aren't you the one on Duolingo? Yeah, I do. 10,000 straight days. Don't know a single one. I'm so sorry. That is so. Someone else says, are those pleaded pants?

They sure are. That is so thoughtless of me. If English is your second language, then I apologize. Yeah, it's just like that's for sure. Correct. Yeah. Absolutely correct.

It's just a bunch of goals. So, and then, Dan, the second period, um, I did want to bring this up to someone, I won't be able to scroll back enough and find this, but someone had commented, um, is Hanif and Hurst, sloppy game. And I do think that one of those first two breakaways, I'm pretty sure was, they got behind him.

It was, it was a second. And then there was, was another play where he literally, it was kind of just a two-on-two materializing and he fell down, like pivoting. Yeah, that was weird. That kind of broke the play up still, but I was like, whoa, dude. Maybe he had had busted wheels today. And then on that third goal, and he'll tell you, I'm not beacon him. He'll tell you this. He has the puck, like, alone on the half ball and just it to the middle and right to Carolina stick and they're like, pass up to stall goal. Yeah. And I was like, man, and I actually give him credit because he kind of back checked to the

back door there and then Stahl sniped it. And he, you know, he did the universal stand up for my head back a little bit, but I was expecting a stick across the goal pose there because he was like, damn, we just came back from two, went up three, two, and then I threw that pizza. Yeah, I thought he was going to show a little bit more fire there. Yeah. I give him credit for controlling that. So I will say, it was a sloppy. I don't think he's ready.

He seems completely fine, but it was a sloppy game. I expect he's going to be way better. Yeah. We saw Slavo have that dash four. Oh, yeah. That must have been game one, right? Yeah. And then he bounced back.

Yeah. But yeah, when that goal goes in, after I'm thinking, if you're Vegas, you go. it's 3-3 and we those were so self-inflicted if you're Vegas that's the take you go I literally forgot elers was behind us on the second one I I had a puck jump over my stick or I misplayed a puck at the blue line to go literally to a two-on-one and then I threw a pizza every goal they have including the missed stank breakaway that they should have four is my fault uh so that in that moment you you kind of feel good if you're Vegas because you go we did this to ourselves but dude you're going how this game is three three what is happening right now. Oh, yeah. That must have been a crazy, and I would give anything. I forget who we were talking to,

I think Keith, but I would give anything to have heard tortses and rods to conversations between periods of both of both intermissions in this game. For sure, man. What's nuts is this game

gets tied up here. We come into the third, and I feel like everyone didn't know what to feel. Are we in the driver's seat here? I'm referring to, to all the Keynes fans in the barn. Are we in the driver's seat here?

Are we getting to their goaltender? Are we getting goals in? What's the vibe? What's this? What's that? And you start the period end. Fucking howdy. Yep.

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It's so fun. You know how it does that. Yeah. Well, actually, dude, I'm going to tangent us again because it's this moment in time linearly where we were moving through our life. So this is, or I think we, maybe we didn't post on the story because we failed. I know. I think we did put it on the story, but we've got more work to do in game too.

So, and I don't know if she's in the chat, but someone in our live this morning, Kelly, she said that she had tips to do it, Lenny. And I go, I type in the chat, they tell us them. Kelly shows up to the rank,

comes to Stanley Cup live, with a note card of tips for what to do at Lenny. Okay? And it was the ladies of the hurricanes meet outside 108 after the first period for a pick, so we were supposed to do that.

We were supposed to go to Subdog. We were supposed to meet Andrea at the 226 bar. We were supposed to go to the whaler's We were supposed to not lose our rally towel And we were supposed to get barbecue I'll tell you this We did not make it to sup dog

We will but we didn't make it We failed that one We did meet Andrea at 226 bar Check yes unbelievable unbelievable Unbelievable and Bobby Yeah oh Bobby legend We did not go to the whaler store Because the line was too long

Failed that one we will try again I also still feel conflicted about that We did lose our rally towel But got it back So I'm putting a check mark there Success we did not get barbecue Failed that one But listen

Ladies of the Hurricanes, 108, we went there after the first period. So we did our job. Kelly was there. She said, hey, they changed the schedule. And the ladies of the hurricanes are coming to 108 after the second period. So please come back. And we go like this. I will 100% come back.

And Lindsay, Kelly, Tyler, Seth, they're like, come back. And I'm like, we are coming. Yes. So leaving the 200 level on the way to 108, because I wonder if they're in here. Something very special. Oh, Kelly's here. Kelly, I am very sorry because we were genuinely trying to come back on the way there. Somebody goes like this.

Hey, one of our friends goes, hey, it's Gary Betman's birthday. Yeah. And he's in this suite. Gary would like to see you. Wish him a happy birthday. Come and say hi to Gary and wish him happy birthday. So we go, of course. Also, I'm sorry.

I always got to say it. I fucking love Gary. He's the goat. So like, it's Gary's birthday. I'm like, listen, I'm going, I love Gary. I'm going to say happy. birthday to Gary, here we go. And Gary's got a million people in the suite. He's not going to take, he's going to go, hey, guys, great to see you. Thanks for saying hi. And then we'll be right down to

108 to get my pick. Yep. And we go in the sweet, Gary's in there. We go, Gary, happy birthday. He goes incredible to see you guys. The cake's delicious. Try the cake. Have some chocolate cake. It's delicious. And I go, what a world. This is amazing. And then we are, Gary turns to do his, continue living his life. We turn to exit the suite and go to 108. And then our friend goes like this, before he taps on the shoulder, it goes, before you guys go, I would like you to meet coach. Would like you to meet coach.

And I go, how is Rod up here? That's insane. And I'm like, what? And I turn, next thing you know, I'm gripping the hand

of one, Bill Belichick. Bill Belichick, in the suite, sitting there, minding his own business, UNC QZ on. And I,

no, it was the best. Was it a best? He had a sick button down on, the vest, the zip up vest over the button down. His hair looked like a million bucks. He looked like a million bucks. He was happy. Dude, I rarely have I frozen like that in my whole life.

Oh, thank God for me. Thank God for you. I was literally like, squeeze me, baking powder. I'll tell you what, folks. You hear a lot about how things in your life, like what school you went to, what job you have, what things that you're a part of, organizations, clubs, groups,

those networks are important. Well, Bill and I are in the same network. Correct. And I was able to reference said network. And he lit up like the nose on a certain reindeer on one cloudy night. And we were just off to the races.

All of us just yucking it up. I have never seen Bill that animated in my life. He, he, he, it looked like we were breaking down old Army Navy highlights from the 1930s. That's how happy he was. It's just, he, he's just such a delightful, delightful man. We were chatting for almost a half an hour. Dude, the whole intermission, I was like, we have to, we have a 108 picture.

Oh, the game, the game, the game started. And we eventually had, I was like, Bill, enjoy the game. I don't want to pull you from the game. We've ended it. We ended the conversation with Bill Telich. He was still, his back was to the rink. Literally just, just chatting. And then you were like, Bill, do you want to watch?

My cheeks were hurting because I was just laughing and smiling the entire time. And listen, I know he's got the reputation. He can be a grumpy guy on the sidelines and this and that. But when you're just yucking it up with good people, he's an absolute and utter delight. He's so just smart and eloquent and funny. He's like got a dry sense of humor. He's just so fun. That was incredible.

It was one of the best moments of my life. Dude, same. He was snapping jokes. Oh, he hit me with a couple jokes that I let out. You know when you kind of let out like a surprise laugh when you're like, oh shit, that was so funny? Dude, oh, man, it was great. I think we were talking, because we were talking New England summers and we were talking something about prep or whatever. And I said something and he laughed.

Not a belly laugh. He's Bill Belichick, but he kind of gave that like his mouth open. He put his head back. And I was like, oh, yeah, we got him a couple times. Come on, coach. We got him a couple really good times. We gave him a couple Milan stories that he was really. digging.

But what, what an experience? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He was like, yeah, yeah. Dude, it was so good. Hey, hey, let me tell you, that was just,

that was as good as it gets. Sol's here, Saul, we didn't get a pick, dude. We did not get a pick because I was too scared, Saul, honestly. I legitimately was like,

it's because I'm not a fucking bitch. I'm not a peasant. No. Hey, let me take the phone and get a pick. Ruins the entire experience for Bill. That's kind of what I meant. I was like,

Bill, Bill goes home today, and he talks to his friend. friends and he talks to people and he goes, I met a couple great guys today. You know what the best part was? They didn't ask me for a stupid picture and didn't make sure to get the shoes in the picture. Yeah.

That is such an unnecessary ricochet. So he is banned from the pool. He is banned from the pool. I'll be there. He's out now. Unbelievable comment. So Kelly, Lindsay, Tyler, Seth, I'm very sorry.

I will get the lady. Yeah, we'll see you on Thursday. But it was coach. It was coach. And it was incredible. I came back and told the boy. boys, I was just with Bill. And Zach said, let me shake your hand so I can feel Bill's hand through your hand.

Yeah, I did. Hey, could you feel it? I just wanted to exchange hands. It was nice. It was incredible. Zach was actually high. We came back and we were like, sorry, dude. We weren't, we got that long. And you're like, what happened? We were like, we were with Bill Belich. It's like, let's go. It's also great to see him there. It's great to see him in the mixer in North Carolina sports.

You know, that was fantastic. It's unbelievable. All right, jumping back into the game. Game starts. howden scores a minute in 21 seconds and the third period. And I mean, you know Rod is having a chat with the boys that now, I mean, they come out hot in that first scoring

you know, 20 something seconds, but then you give Vegas a 30 second goal in the second and then a minute and 20 second goal in the third. You cannot have that. You cannot have that no matter what team you are, you cannot start periods flat. And if you get scored on an under two minutes you're starting flat. Because we also went like this to all the Keynes fans we were seeing on that walk

in the intermission. Everybody was, some people were confident, some people were nervous, but to everybody, we were going, it's fine, it's fine, win a period, win a period, win a period, win a period, win a period. And obviously Rod is saying some version of that because he's going 20 minutes, win 20 minutes. You're all good. And you just come out and get popped immediately. Yeah. It's like, okay, great, now we're chasing this entire period of the whole rest of the way, which is a nightmare. Yeah, it was brutal. And we went about half a period there where Vegas is just up and it was like, all right, everyone kind of felt like OT was very possible. It was like the canes are scoring again. It felt very much like the canes are scoring again. And sure enough, bang. They did. Ghost gets on there. Third goal of the playoffs. Tie game. But then five minutes after that. Yeah.

Bang. Beautiful goal from the behind the back, no look pass from Sizzins. Oh, yeah. After Ghost tied it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

You're paying attention? Sorry, I was looking at something on the chat. Yes. That pass was incredible. Yeah. And I don't think, so, dude, I have a larger thing to say about the goal tending. just to wrap it up

we can get into the semantics let's just fucking get it going here hurdle scores game over 5 4 pulled the goalie had a couple of great chances at the end there one really quick beautiful draw I think that was Halsey on the one-timer oh was it I couldn't figure it

I couldn't I can't really but Mitch Marner he got a piece of that right he got a piece buddy that was a full on block like he has an unbelievable block and yeah all she wrote 54 win for Vegas So game ends roller coaster of a game.

Great action for all the fans, even the Cainz fans, frankly. I mean, yeah, it's obviously a tough one to lose, but just great, great action. And yeah, man, here we are. Here we are. Okay, yeah. So some big picture stuff for me. When Ghost scored, I almost brought this up in our finals preview app, but it was a little, honestly, it was an entire article. It was a little in the weeds where I was like, I can't even.

get into this. I was just looking at the spark notes. But they did a big goalie breakdown. And obviously teams are watching tape. And I remember this in the Bruins-Hawks series when they were like, Crawford is a man glove. And all the bees were shooting here and Crawford even gave an interviewer. He was like, I know they're shooting at the glove. Like, it's whatever. So there was a huge thing that was like Carter Hart gives up an extreme majority of the goals he gives up our blocker. So shoot there. And I heard someone say in the broadcast that it was like, oh, they're going blocker a lot. This period. like the Keynes had made an effort to do it.

And that go shot was right here. And Carter Hart, there was obviously the puck kind of ricocheted and that's a good chance. He's on the dog, I think, by the time he lets that one go. So an NHL player can score from there and you're never really mad at your goalie. But I will say there wasn't a ton of a screen. Hart got the full push squared up,

came out on the angle and just got beat there. And I remember thinking in that moment, I was like, oh dude, because again, we said, uh-oh, which one of these goalie is gonna give up four goals? And now they both have. And Carter Hart's thinking, And fuck, there's my blogger again, where I'm getting a Kostal snald nipped them there too. So in that moment, I was like, Jesus, dude, this could get crazy.

Freddie, I forget what they said in that article, but I don't think I'm trying to go through all of them in my head. Someone at the top of the chat said, playoff Fred, he's entered the chat. And I was like, I don't know that those were bad. Like, go through all of them. She goes off a ricochet. Yep. the Barbie one maybe he wants that one

I can't remember it because I didn't see it live I had to watch the replay because we were walking around it's a pass like right out from the corner of Barbie like he gets beat but it's not that bad but here's the thing this is why we always say when anyone in the chat who ever asked us what we mean when we go

games drunk right now yeah we had nine goals all 5V5 yeah zero power play goals oh for three for Vegas oh for two for Carolina I believe. These are two goalies who have been good, who are both cons myth finalists, or favorites, rather, and they both had poor games.

I mean, as far as save percentage, these are poor games for them throughout these playoffs. This was a drunk game. There was so many two-on-ones. There were breakaways. There were people falling down. It was of high emotions. Game one, Stanley Cup final. Everyone is horned up.

All the blood's rushing to your cock. can barely pay attention. First goal, first goal was 30 seconds in. Yeah, I know. It was the first shot of the game. It was literally the first shot of the hockey game. The first play of the game, really. Like, that is horned up drunk hockey. That was insane. This game, you know, and it's like this, this is, this is what happens. And the thing that's interesting to me is, for me, the most prevalent thing about this game is how comfortable Vegas is being uncomfortable. We said before the game. It's been a huge narrative going into this.

They're totally fine with dumping the puck in and going and digging it out of greasy areas. They're totally fine going down in games. As you pointed out, they trailed more than any team in the league except Vancouver. That is ridiculous. They are really good in third periods, really good in third periods. And you come to this game, there's six goals scored in the game, you go into a third period and you go win the third. Yeah. Win the third period. What do they do? They win the third period.

This team is just very, very happy to go get your lead. Don't care. We're going to fight back. We're going to find a way. They did it. Now, the other side of that is, other than that, that being the strongest narrative of this game for me. I don't think Carolina should be that worried about this one. I really don't. You did not want to lose. You certainly don't want to lose game one at home. You don't want to lose either of these games and God forbid you go down 02

because that is spooky, spooky situation population North Carolina. Yeah, correct. However, after this one, you know that 5V5, you've got. into the goalie. You know that you have star players like Nick Eler's scoring. That's great. And you can chalk this one up to the drunk factor. And you're kind of like, fucking A.

We let that one slip a little bit. Was it game one abs versus Minnesota that felt like that too? It was 9-6. Yeah. It was kind of like, oh. Forget it. It's, yeah. Forget this one.

And there's precedent for the canes. They lost to Montreal. Game one. No doubt. They moved on. you just go forget this one. That was crazy. I think so too. Okay, hold on. Let me read, let me do our last ad and then and then we'll continue. Okay. Okay. That train of thought, Dan, great job. Okay, here we go. Here we go. A little car gurus action. Little car gurus action. Oh my God, I love

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Bang. It's a great name. So, Dan, you said Carolina shouldn't be that faced. I don't think they should. I am going to disagree. Okay. But I'm not saying,

oh, this series is over, blah, blah, blah. You don't respect me. You don't respect. I don't think you respect me as a man. And my opinions. He always has something to say. Right off the bat. We started this episode and I was like,

Vegas, this is what Vegas does. And Chris goes, well, yes and no. I mean, didn't even let me. I don't even let me finish.

I don't think that boils down to respect. Just undermine me. I will say with y'all having a strong disagreement of how the series is going to go, I think that allures more to it. Yeah. You, Hey.

He's on, he's an enemy. Oh, true. It's the entire way. Yeah, exactly. He did pick Vegas and Vegas is that once. Also, Zach, you are getting more Southern with every hour we are spending here. It's so true.

It's hilarious. Like, your Southern accent is starting to come out. He's talking slower. It's also pretty late. Well, I say, it's late and I've been drinking. Yeah, yeah. Now you know why we have audio. Yeah.

Dude, yeah, it's, I also say I won't be satisfied. until I get a brother titty twister fight between you two. Okay, yeah. It's going to get to more. It's coming. It's coming. Get to fist of cuffs. I have not thought about a titty twister in a long time.

I, honest to God, think if someone gave me a titty twister, right now my heart might stop. Like, I don't think, I have not felt, I haven't felt that pain in ages. What about a body glove in the back? That would actually kill me. You know how sensitive my back is. Titty twister, you think? I have five starred in the back, dude. Are you shit?

There are two things. I have the softest back you've ever felt in your life. I'm going to make you feel it later. Actually, shout. Wait, am I going to be asleep for this? No, because then you can't enjoy it. You have to be asleep. Locks was it asleep.

Yeah, correct. Got it, okay, got it. Alice loves my soft back. Always comments about it. Do you get it exfoliated? Do you get it worked out? No, dude, I don't know what it is. Do you scrub it at all?

Do you, I wash my back? I'm very, no, I'm very flexible. Oh, I have the hand lufa and I just use my hands. That's crazy. Okay. I can get back there. But I do, with this arm, I have to loop the lufa into my fingers because I have to use the back of my hand. That's so crazy.

That happens to me too. But it's only my left arm, my right arm, I can get way back there. Interesting. Interesting. Interesting. Um, because of Set soft back. Yeah. My entire life, I've had a very sensitive back.

And I'm talking, you go to, a family event, you go to your friend's house, and it's always an older gentleman, who goes, oh, Danny boy, it's good to see you. And it's the pat on the back. And when I would get those, usually those are a great moment of like, hey, my friend's dad really likes me. Or like, cousin Jeff, good bloke, loves me a lot. Whenever that moment would happen to me, I'd be like, f-faw, fuck, come.

Like, it actually, like, hurt bad. It still does to this day. Dan's softback power sounds like you're like a military. military. Yeah, yeah, it does. It's like, it's like vaguely racist and we're not really sure why. Yeah, we're not sure how. What a soft back. I had, I had an old guy at a wedding grab my gut once. Whoa. That is, did you leave? I would have gone. It was so, he was being very friendly and drunk and he's like, ha ha laughed and he took a hand, maybe two and grabbed what he could find, which I mean, like, I'm not, I'm not in great shape. I was like, you don't have a gut at all. It's a little bit there. I mean, especially, you know, at a wedding and a little puffy. And he got in there and grabbed it and was like, like ha ha ha and I was like what the fuck are you I was like what is your relation to this man I just met him oh my I just met him that guy is doing big that that that calls for challenging him to a duel on the spot or you walking home with your shoes slung over your shoulder like a walk of shame

yeah it was I don't even know what to do in that moment because I don't want to like cause a fight at my friend's wedding but it was just like what is I feel like that's a moment where you look around, like you look at your wife and you're like, did that just happen? Well, he also felt up her too. So it was, yeah, like, she was like, I think that he like tried to molest me. I think, I don't think he tried. I think he succeeded. Was this Jeffrey Epstein?

He got you both. It was horrible. Yeah, we were on Little St. James. It was a great. It was Epstein style. Can I bring up something as we, you know, kind of come to a close here? Well, no, no, no, I get a lot more. Oh, God.

I never went. You went like, I said, first of all, first of all, I said, first of all, I said, I said, then we've launched into this. Everything that's happened here was when I was about to say something about the game and then you don't respect me. All right, Chris, 30 seconds, go. I said kind of coming close. Amazing.

We're not, we're not. We're not. We're not. No. I can't look at the chat. The chat is way too far. Our chat is award winning. Yeah, correct.

Award winning chat. Yep. Like they are so funny. Yeah, you guys are getting a Webby this year. I genuinely, we're not. I can't, I can't look at the chat because I'd get too distracted because they're so funny. It's ridiculous. What are they saying?

Evan's been molested. Yes, actually. They want to know the name of this guy. Christopher, name. Softer in his back is the further he stretches at Colin Sele. At Rick is rude. Moisturized Back. At Colin Shelley, Mr. Fantastic, washes his back with stretch your arms.

That's true. Is this empty net? He's after dark. Yeah, we have hit after dark hours. We're hitting after dark hours. Okay, Chris, please. Dan, this I want to tell you, this is a lot of dark hours. from the chat. Rick is rude. This is from a while

ago. Did you guys see the Jesse Granger article about how Hurdle got out of his funk, what he did? No. Because Hurdle said this. This is what I did. Did Rick is rude tell us? Yes. Oh. He started ripping Pokemon packs. Oh, I do know that they've been doing rips. He started ripping. I was talking to Bex about that today.

That's incredible. Rick, in the chat, we are big on Pokemon in L.A. with the Kings Boys. Like we are, we're big on ripping packs. We rips him upper deck hockey cards. I know, but I need... Actually, you know what? You got a fucking mascot.

You know what? Thursday, if there's any Keynes fans in the chat, Thursday, if someone comes to the game and finds me and gives me a Pokemon pack... We'll rip it live? I'll rip it with you for sure. And if we get a fucking... Oh, sorry, I thought we were on Stanley Cup live for a second. I was like, I can't swear. I can say, fuck shit.

And we will split the proceeds of any great card we get, but also... So anyone who gives me a Pokemon pack at Thursday's game, free Netters merch will be sent to. Okay, dude, now we're talking. Now we're talking. I'm so big on Pokemon. It's the best.

But I don't like that there, we gotta stop getting off. Oh, Kelly has a card shop for us. That would be gas. That would be gas. I can't, we can't derail the whole. We cannot get into Pokemon. While we're.

Friday breaks, dude. It's that up. Oh. That actually, oh, we got a great action sticker up here. God, that's amazing. Great action, baby. Today was great.

It's unbelievable. We can't get too off topic. Land your plane that I've derailed you on. Hey, Friday breaks. Have Friday breaks on Instagram. Yeah, check out Friday breaks. Also, hashtag Thursday Pokemon breaks if someone gets back. Yes, dude.

We need that handle ASAP. Nobody gets that. Nobody get that. Nobody get Thursday Pokemon breaks. Nobody get that. So here's where you had said, you're not that worried about Carolina. Yeah.

And I was going to counter. I said to a bunch of people before the game, I can't remember if I said this on our morning show. But I said if after a game or two will kind of feel like one team is asserting their style. So if it's a split after two games, but Vegas is only getting 15 shots a game, I am going to go, Carolina is going to win this series because I know for a fact that if you can hold a team to 15 to 20 shots per game, eventually over the course of a seven game series, you're going to win. Full stop.

But if it's a split after the first two games and both, games are 5-4, Vegas is going to win the series because... Okay. That's what I said to a ton of people before the game. Just because if you're Carolina, you're going, oh, shit, we're playing their style and not ours. And after the first period of this game, I was like, oh, Carolina is... Vegas had three shots, or maybe four, but it was like three shots.

And I was like, oh, this series is over, dude. I don't even know... It was two ones. I was like, I don't even know what's going to happen tonight, but I'm telling you, Vegas is going to finish this game with 12 shots. It's Montreal all over again. Carolina is going to win because you just cannot win a series shooting 12 times a game. Yeah.

And then in the second period, Vegas outshot Carolina 11, did exactly that to them. Outshot them 11 to 4 took the lead. And I was like, oh, fuck. That was such a swing. And that's why I said I would love to know what Torts was saying because they were facing. And again, this is dramatic. It was one period of a hopefully long series. But Vegas, after that first period, was staring in the face of, you are Montreal to us.

Yeah. Yeah. Do exactly what we did to them to you. Different team, different. different animal, incorrect. You will never get a shot on goal. You have lost. They were staring that in the face.

Yeah. And then came out and hammered. Now, I think that still could be, I don't think there's any world where this is going to be a gentleman sweep of Vegas. But there's still a world where this was game one against Montreal, where they were too drunk, too horny, game gets kind of out of control. This one was obviously way closer than that. Yeah.

But we could come into game two and it could be an OT win. It could be Carolina. is like we needed to settle down. We got to figure it out. And they get off to the races. That could happen. Now it could also be the exact opposite where Vegas is like, no, no.

As we've said, very comfortable being uncomfortable. We handle their business in that one. We've now figured them out. We're going to roll. It could also be a combination of both, which we hope and we go seven games. Yeah. And this just, I mean, when that game was three to three,

I turned to you after having a great chat with her good friend Bill. And I said, this feels like a microcosm of what this series can and hopefully will be. Yes. When it was three to three at the end of two, it was like, this is amazing. We did it. Like let's just keep this up, folks. I did want to bring up one thing. I seem to see a narrative online with Keynes fans who are very frustrated and fed up with Sebastian Aho. Yeah, there's a lot of chatter earlier about the first line again. A lot of people talking about the first line and being like,

They simply have to get going. I did think Svetch was pretty, and frankly, Aho, too, were pretty quiet today. I just can't remember them on the park. Like, there's not moments where I'm like, ooh. Not doing anything. Yeah. That said, Sebastian Ajo has, I believe it's four goals and three assists for seven points, plus three through 14 games.

How many points do you have in the regular season? Do you have that up? If not, I'll look it up. Look that up for me. That is not good. enough from your number one center. Now, I'm seeing a lot of people going, yeah, let me introduce you to playoff, Stanley Cup playoff Sebastian Aho.

Yeah, 80 and 79. I mean, it's incredible. Amazing. Again, a lot of people going, yeah, this is Sebastian Aho in the playoffs. May I read you something? Yeah. Sebastian Aho in 103 career Stanley Cup playoff games has 92 points. And he is a plus 27.

Yeah, that's actually awesome. He also has more points than any player in Carolina Hurricanes history in the playoffs. Because I would venture, Dan. So I'm just saying this guy is 28 years old and he has 92 points in 103 playoff games. Is he playing as well as he needs to be playing in these playoffs? No. Yeah. But I think maybe we need to pump the brakes on, yeah, that's playoff Sebastian Aho.

Sebastian Aho is damn near a point per game player in playoff history in 103 games. It's pretty fucking good. Yep. So let's start backing your guy. Rick is rude says did I'll get put in Eichael jail. There you go, Rick. Yeah. Like, I would say, absolutely he did.

Jack Eichel is Sasha Barkov. Yeah. Like, Finkel is Einhorn. Yeah, yeah. I think playing against Jack Eichel is going to be tough, dude. And let's also not forget, he was also just playing against Nick Suzuki. I know they beat them in five. But, like, sometimes we actually see this with Barkhoff against the Oilers.

People are like, Barcoff's not really scoring against the Oilers. And I'm like, it doesn't matter. Because he's taking away Connor and Leon. So it's like when, you know, like there are times where a player will disappear offensively, but it's because they're doing so much work on the defensive end. And yeah, Eichel J.L might be real with AHA. That said, you've got to figure out a way to if you're getting isolated, fine. Make sure Svet and Jarvie are going.

Because, yeah, guys, you are not going to win this series against the Vegas Golden Knights. Like, yeah, you got past Ottawa. Yeah, you got past Philly. Because that first line did get going a little bit against Montreal. You ain't beaten Vegas if you guys are quiet. Especially, dude, because the way Vegas gets that goal, because Carolina is what, five and O in overtime, right, or something? Is it five?

I think so. Or maybe that's wrong. Jack can correct me, but it's full. It's something. It might be five. To two games against Ottawa go to OTA? I think so. Yeah, then I think it's five.

So I think Carolina's five and O in overtime. And you're sitting there when went after ghost tied it if you're Vegas. And you're going, and by the way, dude, that ghost goal, I know it was a weird faceoff play, but that came off the heels of someone on the canes took a delay a game over the bench. And Vegas is going, there's 10 minutes left in the game. We're up a goal about to go on the power play. If we score here, it's over. And not only did they get nothing going, but also the fucking building erupted again at the end of that kill and then immediate goal.

So I'm just saying you can see the impact of that building and that crowd. So you're thinking if I'm Vegas, I'm going, dude, there's five minutes left in a tie game here where we had the lead twice. They've come back. If this goes to overtime, they haven't lost yet. They've got the juice and this building's going to go crazy. I want nothing to do with that. So Vegas stepping up and getting that goal there is just a testament to them where they're like, dude, I don't have time for this. It's absolutely huge.

I will score right now. It's absolutely huge. I think that this game couldn't have gone better. I'm so so pumped for this series. I'm so pumped to see what else we get. I like that we, you know, we didn't get it. Eichel goal today. We didn't get a Marner goal today. We didn't get a Jarvie, Ahho, Svetch goal today. There's more fireworks to come from the series. Again, I really don't think that there's a lot

of question marks for either team. That's what I mean by if I'm Carolina. I'm not freaking out. I think both goalies respond here. I don't think we're going to get nine goals next game. But I'm fired up. I'm so fired up to be here. I'm so fired up with everyone we met today. So much southern hospitality. So many awesome fans. So many awesome Vegas fans who traveled that we got to meet as well. I'm thrilled to have a day off, do some fun stuff. We'll make

sure you guys are all seeing all that on the socials while we're ripping around Raleigh here. But we are getting everything we wanted. We are off to the races here on an electric series. This has been a blast. So let's just keep rocking. Somebody said Marner didn't

do press after that block shot. I haven't seen anything about that. hope he's okay though because I didn't even see it hit him I don't know where yeah or where it might it might have got him what doesn't that I mean you can just don't they rotate guys like what's he scheduled to do do do you get pre-game scheduled to do but I don't know actually um but let's keep an eye on that but otherwise dude yes I mean holy hell great action in great action man again I'm with you I don't expect nine but I expect tight ones the whole way yeah um and dude you know it's gonna be it's gonna be it's

going to be which goalie? Because we just, we don't have this elite, elite goalie. I think both of that, I mean, I hope they both think they're the best goalie in the league.

But I think most, uh, objective viewers would say these aren't the, the A plus plus tier. They are certainly not. They are not, if we went into this season saying, you know,

name your top five, 10, eight goalies in the league. They're not in it. It's four million. They're playing great. Yeah, that's incredible.

But, so which one can kind of grab that. Yeah. Yeah. It's just going to be a huge. difference. And unfortunately, like we said in Stanley Cup live, the lost tonight means game two takes on a ton of weight. Oh, man. It's going down, it can happen, but I mean, Christ, going down O2 heading to Vegas is nightmare fuel. So it takes, it puts a ton of pressure on you,

but this team has responded every step of the way, not only this poll playoffs, but also this whole year. Every time that questions have been asked about this Carolina Hurricanes team, they have stepped up. Yes. I expect a haymaker, haymaker of a game, game two. And if there is a blowout at all this whole series, I would bet it's Cains in Game 2 because they know how much is on the line. Agree. All right, before we sign off, I want to do a couple little shoutouts. Number one, shout out the fan we met. Oh, dude, yes, thank you. Shout out Connor. I'm pretty sure his name was Connor. Connor is a huge Keynes fan. He is from Michigan, or he lives in Michigan,

and he drove 12 hours from Michigan today to get to this game. And then was there alone, dude. didn't bring anybody with him, came by himself. No. Ripped the whole game. We saw him, I feel back, because I think we saw him when it was after the first, and it was 2-1, and we were all feeling good. But listen. What do you talk to the camera?

What are you looking at me for? Because I wanted to have a conversation. I don't need to talk about it. I know what happened. It was amazing. I lived it. Connor, we saw Barnburner. I'm sorry, you got to sleep tonight in the Airbnb,

and then drive 12 hours back to Michigan tomorrow, but you saw a Stanley Cup finals game, and it was pretty fucking cool, and it was an awesome, awesome game. and I love you for that effort. That was epic. That's what being a fan is all about, buddy. I hope you had a great time.

Do you have any other things before I try to close us out that you're going to surprise me with? Yes, a ton. No. All right. Matters after dark, baby. We're going to go all night. Shut out.

Shut out, fucking. Shut out, Bill. My two shout-outs are one. Everyone in the chat, we know it's late. Especially the Keynes fans, dude. I'm going to have three. Everyone in the chat. I mean, love you.

you guys, all the East Coast fans who are in the chat right now. I know it's late. It's unbelievable. If you are watching this, make sure to tune in to Stanley Cup Live because it is super fun. Yeah. I mean, we are just, I can't, we always like to say, and you know, we don't want to get emo on you late night here, but we're so grateful and happy and having such a blast with all of you whenever we get to do stuff like this and come to these games, meet all of you amazing fans, take pictures with you, just have fun. It's so great. for us. It fills us up. It fills our cup so much. It fills our hearts so much. And we're having such a blast on Stanley Cup Live. So if you're watching from home, pop it on the NHL YouTube, it's so much fun.

All these great guests. Katie, Lily, those great people who are joining us. Just so fun. Yeah. So make sure to do that. And then next episode of Netters, I wanted to do it tonight, but it got too late. I want to do some conspiracy theory talk. Yeah, you were saying that. I mean, dude, we're going to have to wait West Coast game then because every one of these is going to be Well no I think I'll have more juice after Oh okay because we had to do a little bit of the you know It was the first game yeah yeah But I want to shout out our friend Al who I think might be watching

Who gave me this conspiracy Oh dude I didn't realize it was this could should I tease it This is fucking this is great action Fuck the game I'm gonna I'm gonna tease it So Al we're at dinner with our dear dear friend Al Just a beautiful beautiful man And he tells us this story, which is a great

conspiracy, and Netters fans know that I'm a big conspiracy. Yes, correct. And the conspiracy that we're going to get into next episode, which will be after game two, on Thursday night, we're going to have Netters after Doc talking conspiracy. Jesus Christ, I'm dying. Because the government's wiring.

Actually, though, we're talking conspiracies. I'm going to leave you with this T's. We'll see you Thursday. We're talking the conspiracy, that Jackie Kennedy actually had her husband the president of the United States murdered

and we know who did it. We know who killed him. Relevant news. We also have a picture of you guys with Belichick. Dude, I was about... This is an actual photo. I fuck you, dude, because I was about to shit my pants because I thought somehow someone in the book, because there were people we knew in that suite

and I was like, oh, someone snapped. Please get a picture. Yeah, they did get a picture. Did you see how happy, Chris God thinking that was real? Motherfucker. This is a real picture of you guys. I was like, holy shit, dude. Someone got it and now I can show my friends. I actually have two buddies that I cannot wait to rub this story in their fucking faces. Oh, they're going to die. And I can't believe I thought you actually had that pick.

And then it's that pick, dude. Oh, that is insane. Well, what pisses me off is there, there's a lower third on there that says Gary Betman, Bill Belichick. And they don't mention you. We should have been mentioned. That actually is the face I made when I saw him the first time. Like, that is dead ass exactly, exactly what I envisioned what I look like. Yeah.

See, no mention of you guys on there, which is a discharging. respectful. God, dude. That kind of must have been electric. Dude. Did say Travis, Kelsey, or Taylor Swift's boyfriend, though. Yeah. Oh, man. Hey, this was an unbelievable day, an unbelievable start.

We cannot thank you guys enough. Like, I just, I, I, I, we're, there are wild times. We're all going through and God damn it, does it not feel good to be able to hang out with awesome hockey people? What do you two think for a Stanley Cup game? I was overwhelmed with the difference of energy it is. Yeah, crazy, right? To go to that, like they'd go to like a random game in December,

which is what I normally go to to a fucking like game one Stanley Cup. Dude, and isn't it also wild just like the little moments like on Stanley Cup live today? When the cup is just plopped right next to us. People came at you like a swarm of bees. And it's like we think about those moments, man. It's like you grow up loving hockey and wanting to win the Stanley Cup. And like next thing you know, I'm breathing on the Stanley Cup and acting like it's a normal Tuesday. Just like being in the presence of the cup and then the more so like we've had two days where we've gotten to be the president of the cup.

But being in the presence of the cup where there's just you can just see like the children's faces and the dads and everybody just everybody together smiling and watching those moments. happened for the first time and we just get to stand there. Incredible. Pretty cool. It's unbelievable. Pretty cool. It's pretty cool. Zach, though. Jack's going like this. Yeah, dude, try going to an iron bowl one time. That's what he said. He did say that. I did. I see the decibel thing.

I see the decibel thing. No, no, no. Actually, that's not what he said. He said, he went like this. Yeah, try going to an iron bowl one time. Y'all, y'all ever been to an arm bowl? I did. I was giving Chris shit. I was like, Jesus, question. The energy is great, but... Y'all been to an iron ball.

You ever hot taftone? Three letters, SEC, boy. I was like, Jesus, it's right. I mean, the best thing, best thing that was also said today was I was walking around, you're going to see it all the tailgate, and he's like, man, I've never seen this

for a hockey game before, and I was like, well, look where we are, y'all. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's because we're in Carolina. Yeah, it's a tellgate country. God, it's unbelievable. Kelly, to answer your question why I said y'all is,

I actually am Southern. Yeah, yeah, he actually is. I'm not faking it. I'm not coming here. Kelly, that was that, was that a Kelly who made that comment? Yeah, I think she thought I was. Kelly, when I said earlier that he is getting progressively more, like, it's because we have put him back in the blender.

Like it is, this is what happens when you, I mean, if Chris and I go anywhere near Canada, we just start talking Canadian because of growing up playing hockey there and it is just, it's unavoidable. If you guys, my yinzer's going to come out. Oh, yeah, these guys, dude, it's unbelievable. And C's one our city. All right. Well, hey, that's going to do it for this one, folks.

Unbelievable times. And again, just overwhelmed with how fun this has been. We hope you're having fun with us. And we owe it all to every single one of you who watches and interacts with us. It's amazing. We can't wait to be back at it for Game 2. Stanley Cup Live on the NHL YouTube. And then, of course, after every game, Netters episodes alive, let's get it going.

Netters after Dark. We'll see you next time. Conspiracy, conspiracy. Piercy. Jackie did it. Jackie did it. Jackie did it. Oh.