Empty Netters Podcast - Tampa Bay Montreal Might Be The Best First Round Series

Episode Date: April 22, 2026

It was a bar fight down in Tampa but the Bolts answered the bell and evened the series. The Bruins did the same despite more late game struggles. The Mammoth got the first playoff win in franchise history. And the Avs take a 2-0 series lead but the Kings are making them work for it Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 1:50 - Tampa vs Montreal Game 2 31:18 - Bruins vs Tampa Game 2 49:21 - Utah vs Vegas Game 2 1:03:34 - Kings vs Avs Game 2 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. When life feels overwhelming, therapy can help. Sign up and get 10% off at https://betterhelp.com/netters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the Empty Netters podcast. Can you believe what this has become? There was a full 48 hours where I felt like I was like literally Superman. Jumbo loves playing Fortnite, so he gets on the sticks. Did TR show you the sauna cycle or was that all year? No, no, I invented that. Almost a year now that I haven't taken a body check. That's kind of nice.

So we are back. We are horned up and we are going deep. Finish tonight with some chicken fingers and a few guineasas and ran into you guys. That's where this pod came to life. Ice is ready and we are back with another episode of the MT Netters podcast brought to you by BetMGM. We're live in Tampa just got back from the amazing lightning, Canadians game, OT thriller. What a fucking show. We got a big Boston Bruins win, huge Utah win.

Yes. And then a wild OT win for the afts. So we're going to get into everything right now, beautiful stuff. Again, coming to you live from Tampa. I'm your host, Dan Powers, Dr. Watkins on the sticks. What is up? Can't see him. You can't see him.

You can always hear him. I'm like John Sina. We have made this place a petting zoo behind it. It's true. There's so much food over there. There's a lot of good. And then on the IR but still here battling. CP.

As always, let's fucking jump right into these games. Like we said, we're here in Tampa. We got the end of the abs game going on here on the TV. But what a beautiful show. The Tampa Bay Area. lightning put on for us. We come down here. We get brought in, treated like royalty because that's what the Tampa Bay Lightning organization does. They're just high class, class, class everywhere. We went to Hatrix a billion times every day. We did everything with this team. It was unbelievable.

And then we come in and we get a thrilling, thrilling game. It was beautiful. Yep. Echoing everything you said, top to bottom, everyone we meet in the Tampa Bay staff. Thank you a million times over. The experience is top notch. The people here are amazing. The rinks amazing. The atmosphere is amazing. I have a question. I have a question for the people of Tampa to start this segment. I have a question for the people of Tampa to end this segment.

My question for the people of Tampa to start this segment. Do I look like a bitch boy with my lap pillow? Why do people do that? I get ahead of it. I actually like a lap pillow too, but why is that?

It's because there's someone to put your arms. There's like, you know, you don't have to just like lay your arms flatness for like a nice little. I think you're also protecting a very vulnerable part of your body. Your belly, your groin.

And it's like, you know, I sleep with a pillow. I hug a pillow when I say... Really? Yeah, it's good for... It makes my shoulders not collapse on themselves. And do your T-Rex bullshit?

Or do you still do that? I have actually been working on my T-Rex hands. You should get like a wrist pillow. I still do it and I'm like, stop doing it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Okay, so we're gonna lap pillow.

I mean, I am. I'm not changing the thing. I don't need to see my erection. My question of T.D.D. is hiding an erection. I actually, well, maybe that's a little rated R for this pod. I'll ask you later. Are you kidding? my question for the people of Tampa

I don't like your laptop pillow because your shorts are all jacked up and it looks like you are ass naked I am you gotta remove your lap pillow I hate what I'm looking at I wear I pod I can see your tan line dude

I pod in this you look like a pervert I pod in only this I hate it now slightly better my question to the people of Tampa when they do their starting lineups they show the players

who are starting and they go This guy, this guy, this guy, and each guy on the Jumbotron hits a slap shot. And it's like a photo shoot slap shot. It's not like an in-game highlight. They just all go, here's Nikita Kuturov, and then it shows him hammering a clapper. Yeah. Jake Gensel was starting tonight.

They played his clapper. I only saw it for a second, so I'm not accusing him of anything. I just need the people of Tampa to let me know if anyone else has noticed this or if I saw it wrong. It looks like his starting lineup clapper is the biggest miss-hit muffin to ever have been clapped. And I'm like, how did nobody go, Jake, hit that again? Because obviously you're one of the great goals scores in the league and you can do this. You just, he needs to hit that one again. Okay, so we need the people of Tampa to come in the comments and let us know if that's something they've noticed before.

I'm going to say, the one thing I noticed about that, I actually thought his face was the most realistic. Like, he kind of went like this. Like, I think he actually really stepped into one. Yeah, maybe he stepped too hard. He overstepped. We don't know. We got to find out. I think he overstepped.

I'm not sure that that happened. I think he overstepped. People of the lightning community, what am I looking at? Wemby just knocked himself out. Oh, no. He's gone. He's gone.

He just smacked his face on the park A flow. We're not talking basketball on this show. All right, yeah, people of Tampa. Let me know. Let me know. This game starts. It is three minutes of Montreal domination, I got to say.

Lane Hudson goes pipe dreams off the crossbar, and I was like, holy shit. Definitely, there was some, I mean, Tampa didn't get a shot. until what we get to. But definitely Montreal was on it early, but no one was on it as much as one man. Oh my God, dude. And we're going to talk a lot about this man in this segment.

Brandon Hagle was shot out of a fucking can of this game. Yes. I said it from his first shift, and you'll see this on our midform of going to the game. But I was like, this fucking guy looks like he got a shot of adrenaline straight into his cock. You said that in the first minute, and then we said it 15 fucking times the rest of the night because it was insane. It was so true. I mean, he was all over the place. And we're a big Brandon Hagle podcast, just a great dude in every sense of the word and a great player in every sense of the word.

He is a big game guy. We saw it at Four Nations. We saw it at Olympics. And we see it here in playoffs. This guy just gets the team going like nothing I've ever seen. I actually saw something on Twitter that I couldn't agree with more. When Hedman retires, you put that C directly on Brandon Hagle's jersey. Whoa.

Dude, what a take. To be this talented and this effective and this much of an energy guy is fucking ridiculous. So many people all over the bird today were like every, get a clone of Brandon Hagle on every team. If you do whatever you can to find that to happen. But he fucking comes out and he's all fucking over the place. And yes, like you said, Montreal had most of the chances. But then Tampa gets it in. Their first shot on net.

We were saying like they had a lot of good in zone possession. They were working it around, but they weren't getting any Pucks in the cage. Finally, they got some good in-zone time. Puck goes over onto the half wall. Higgs gets it and just rips one. Gets through traffic, finds it in the net, and Tampa was buzzing. I'm like, I'm like, he goes crazy. It's like, oh, shit.

This place is going. Yep. Dude, and then we saw something that we've teased. When we were on our play-up preview with Marty, we were talking about like, no, there's a little feistiness in this series here, a little bit of bad blood. And these teams fucking hate each other. I forgot.

You brought up the St. Louis thing, and I was like, oh, yeah, right. But I kind of forgot they played in the cup in that second final. I was like, oh, yeah, the bubble final. That was them. And there's more here. They were obviously battling

in the Eastern Conference, in the Atlantic the whole way. This team is, they're not friendly. No, man. They were fucking going. I hate this. You got to stop doing what you're doing. This is, I'm begging you.

Don't get another pillow. I hate, Evan, find me a third pillow. I hate. hate looking at you. Find me a third pillow. I hate looking at you. You got to get rid of at least one of them. Actually, just, just that.

Actually, I'm okay with that. Because I know it's uncomfortable. Yeah, yeah. You've made your bed. These teams were fucking going at it the second they could in the first period, and it was unreal. We had multiple full-on ice line brawls just every time people could get in the mix, and it was always Higgs.

Yeah. Pairs was in there, mixing it up after every whistle. It was just a fucking. Donnybrook. It was unbelievable. We're getting it up on the grid. These teams are going at it. And it felt like in that first period, Montreal was out shooting them for sure.

Yeah. But Tampa's pressure just felt significant. And then we had our first, holy shit moment of the game. Delayed penalty against Montreal. Tampa gets it, take it out of the zone. They go to get back in the zone. Cooch, straddling the blue line, smokes on it's like a tabletop situation.

Huge collision. The culinary interference on Cooch. And you, I didn't see it live because I was filming the corner. You liked it. Oh,

oh, sorry. Hated the fucking call. Yeah. What do you mean? I forgot. I got, I mixed up two things. Yeah, you're fucking idiot.

It's late, dude. Yeah. It's like I've already said this. I know. I hated it. And Cooch immediately was like, are you fucking kidding me? Like, the play's going.

And he's like, what the fuck? Pug goes in, whistle gets blown, and then mayhem. It's just everyone going at it again. Pairs drops the gloves. He gets like an instigator.

And then, now all of a sudden Montreal is in the powerplay. And I had said, I was like, insane that that play results in that. And again, some people and their pee brains online couldn't process what we're saying. And we're like, that was just an insane play. We had a Tampa power play coming when they're up one nothing. And then mayam ensues and now it's a Montreal power play. Yep.

And then ultimately, Lane Hudson shot from the point, tie game. But it was like, that was just a great microcosm of it was just bedlam every five seconds, Every whistle blown. Everyone on the ice is fighting. That was crazy, Dan, because there was so, the energy was already awesome. I was getting texts from friends at home going, I can't believe you're at this game. Then the big fight happened, which is an all-time video on our IG. You were filming, you got everything. The fights were starting, and then it's over.

And they'd fight. And they'd fight again. And there was a fight. And the fight again. People are crazy. Headlocks, old school headlock noggies from people. And to your point, I, guess I knew they were going to do something with the cooch interference, but it did feel

like we were about to go on another Tampa Power Play, and if you get a goal there, it's 2-0, the fucking rink lights on fire. And I said to you guys in the moment, we are, we are, we're experiencing one of the great playoff games ever, we are in the mixer, this is insane. And then, yes, at the end of that madness to them, for them to go correctly, assuming you agree with the interference call, which I know you don't, but correctly for them to go, that's a Montreal Powerplay now. based on the rules.

And then to have it be a lane goal tie game and the first period to end 1-1, truly didn't suck the life out of that building because the life has never been sucked out of that building, but it brought it way down from the crescendo that we were at where I was like, holy hell, dude, this is amazing. And then it was like, it's actually 1-1 and you're in a dog fight. Oh, no, it very much felt like Tampa was going to go up to 2-0 on that, what they were about to get power play, and then all of a sudden was a tie. Yeah.

So then we get into the second. second period and even going into the second period it felt like Tampa's got this game. Yeah. I thought Montreal completely took over the game. You say completely took over the game and then because of that feeling who else but Mr. Energy himself, Mr. fucking lightning bolt, Brandon Hagle drops the gloves with Slavkovsky. Yes. And this was another funny Twitter moment.

You saw everyone do this. Fucking chicklets posted this. That was a fucking knockout punch from Brandon Hagle. Yep. And if you don't understand that term in hockey terms, I'm sorry for you. That is a you issue. That was a fucking K-O punch.

They get in a fight. Hags is just head down, letting Slavs throw missing. And like great, good punches. Yeah, yeah. Like, yep, yep, yep. Steps up, throws a fucking clean hook that just goes straight,

knuckles to chin. And like, were they full, that was not feet get tangled. That was a smoke in the button straight down. And credit to Slavkovsky. Right up. I'm fucking, I'm still going.

But that was a fucking take down K-O punch. And it was awesome. Yeah, dude, he could be conked. Dude, that was my next point. That man is concussed. And I am so impressed by him for bouncing up and throwing punches and finishing that game. But that was a fucking

chin shot. Unbelievable. The slow-mo or the free frame or whatever. There is a freeze frame that it's just like clean, like the helmet's moving one way and his chin's moving the other. I mean, unbelievable. be butt hurt. It was a great tilt. Yeah. That's a one punch. You got to see

a one punch, everybody. It was awesome. Enjoy the show. And then also, if you want to have something to be fired up about Habs fans, be fired up that slaps a fucking beast and just popped right up. That said, a couple of things. Hades is speaking after that. He is a professional shithousery master. He's too small. Yeah. Yeah. And then in the penalty box, he's going

fucking night night. Unbelievable. But also both of you guys. You can't be fighting it. Yeah. Like, Higgs is a superstar in every sense. And Slav is a big game superstar with a hat trick in game one. You guys can't be fight. Can't.

What if he is conced? It's can't be. And listen, I'm not going to be the guy to tell Hakes that. Yeah. Like, if I'm on the Tampa Bay staff, I'm saying that to him behind a fucking glass prison door. You can't fight.

Because he's going to fucking chin job me if I say that to him. But it's like, you guys are too valuable. You can't be fighting. Yep. It's insane. Also in the box. I think this was in the previous. shithousery. Higgs picked up

a towel and was wiping tea. He was doing the cry. Wiping tears. And Perry was, it felt like Perry was literally going, what is wrong with you got? It didn't seem like he was yelling at them. He was trying to be like, you're being idiots. I would pay so much. I wish that was Mikeed, dude. Many American dollars for what

pairs were saying. Same. It was just like the worm was back in his bag. Yeah. I was like, this is incredible. What made me laugh earlier is I was thinking about that scene in Mighty Ducks, dose. Yeah. Where it's one of the in the games, I think. He comes in, after all the shithousery in Bombay goes,

you having a good time? And they go, yeah! And he goes, good, because so are they. Because they're beating us. That's how I feel like in this moment with the lighting. So you guys having a good time, and they're all fired up. He's like, good, because the haves are winning. We're one period away from defeat.

Yes, dude. Literally, I was like, what are we doing here, dude? I got to fucking figure it out. I mean, that period ends. It truly, it felt like Montreal had all the momentum. And I'll get to a larger point about Montreal, but we saw late in the second period about a minute and a half left. Good ozone entry by Montreal, you know, getting under Tampa's skin and a rare bad poke check, I thought, by Vassie. It's just kind of a paddle poke.

He just missed it. And Anderson, who was fucking all over the ice tonight, banging bodies, getting on the score sheet here, picks up the puck, gets in the back of the net. Definitely wind sucked out of the building there. Yes. Oh my God, dude. So end of the period. They're going in. We go into the third period down 2-1.

Now, here's my point about Montreal. I think a lot of people underestimated this team. And I know Habs fans are thrilled by that. Yeah, like, keep fucking underestimating us. This team is fucking good. Oh, my God, man. This is not some scrappy team.

Like, look out for Montreal. This team is fucking nasty. Yes. The team is nasty. And they've just got so much talent. Credit to their drafting. Credit to Hughes. Like, the way they've constructed this team

and so many of these players have hit. And they're just good. God, shoutouts laugh, dude. And what they were doing tonight was getting Tampa off their game. Whether it be by construct or by just playing good, hard hockey, Tampa was fighting

a lot tonight. They weren't playing their slow, smooth, possession-based game where they let their superstars take over. They were trying to get in the mixer because Montreal's fast. They're skilled, they're quick. And it was just like, it was a very good game for Montreal. So going into third,

it was like, all right, Tampa, what are you got? What can you do? And you would have a point about Cooch. Yeah, there was two moments. There were a few moments here that I was flagging. One, and you said it to me, I just wrote it down. Yeah. Was you pointed out, it was, this thing was in top of the second even.

You go, Cooch is frustrated. Yeah. And I kind of just kept an eye on it after, and he looks frustrated. Dude, there was a play where the first Peeper just wasn't really going. Then he got hit by, I think it was Cernakor radish. Yeah, yeah. Got smoked by a point shot. And he was like, fuck me.

and then there was a play. They tried to get zone entry, got called offside, or maybe a high stick, and he, like, faked the slap shot after the whistle. That was just, like, out of frustration it looked like.

Yeah. And I was like, yeah, this guy's fucking not, not vibing right now. Yep. So that was a little concerning. This is equal parts concerning, but maybe good.

This is right before Montreal scored to go up to one before the Miss Vassie. Braden Point. Moser hit point on a great stretch pass. He made a nasty move and just wired one wide. And, man, if you could get him, and he's probably dealing with stuff, obviously he missed Olympics,

but if you could get him turning into the Braden point of a year ago, centering Gensel, I'm like, God, you are so dangerous. So it's encouraging as a Bolts fan to see some of those near misses, but also remains discouraging where I go, hey, now would be as good a time as any, Braden, to just turn into a 50-goal guy. No question about it. No question about it. You know, what else made me laugh, dude.

There was a play where Cole, Cawfield, who hasn't done a ton yet, only two games, but just, you know, he scored 51 goals or whatever it was. Hasn't done a ton yet. Hasn't had a bunch of great chances. He made a backdoor cut. The puck didn't come and he just was skating away. And I think it was Cernak, but somebody just fucking fed him a cross check. Yeah.

And Cole, like, looked over at him and then just skated away. Did not, did not cross check back, did not slash, didn't say anything, didn't even beak at all. He was just, it was so funny. And I'm not making fun of him. I love it. No, I love it too. I'm a fucking goal scorer, dude, leave me alone. Leave me out of, leave me out of whatever the fuck this bullshit.

I'm saying, dude, he's going to score a goal later in the series. He's going to go, bet you wish I was mixing it up, dude, hurting these paws. But instead I'm keeping him safe. So he took. He was like, I don't give a shit about that. That was great. Oh, dude, this was actually crazy. I forgot about this, too.

There was a, the habs at the end of the second. They're already up to one. Very end of the second. There's a delayed penalty, and Tampa kind of gets mixed up because there was a weird interference right out of the blue end that was also missed. Yeah. Excuse me, Montreal had a three on O. Oh my God, I know.

With the very end of second, they did one too many passes. Yeah, it was just too pretty. And I was like, dude, that actually would have been, that could have been game. Yeah. If they go 3-1 going into the third. That was fucking nuts.

Okay, so yeah, you're right. We go into the third. Hegel, you said it. I don't know if you said it earlier, but they, it really started to flip here, where Tampa started to find their game, way more so in OT, but here's where we went. Took about halfway through the period.

Tampa really started to find their game. They were getting all over it. And yeah, Hags makes a great play, bounces behind the net, Cooch picks it up, and you could see it. You were like, man, here's the rap. Like, you just had it in a good position. He's so good at that. Comes around, you could see it in his sally too,

because, dude, this is what I've been talking about, man. We looked it up 16 games in playoffs where Cooch had not scored a goal. That's crazy, man. 16 games spanning multiple playoffs. Yep. And for a guy that good with two cups to his name, you know that that's among.

on the back that he's like, get the fuck off, dude. Yeah. And you could see it in his cell. He was like, thank fucking Christ. That was also a big moment for the, for the bolts where it was like, okay, Cooch is going. Yep. We're starting to feel it. It was also sick because I had written down that it was criminal that that building, the energy in that building was only going to get to celebrate once that game.

Just because everybody was pumped full of electricity. And I was like, man, they get one goal. That sucks. Yeah. So to see Cooch tie it and have it be Cooch. and let them go nuclear again, that was really sick. Yeah, no doubt.

Then, again, it's all Tampa, and then with two minutes and 14 seconds left, unthinkable, truly the dumbest penalty you will ever see from Sabrin. I mean, this was, you mentioned this, there were a couple of just, you know, like fired up Bolts fans in there when they call it interference.

They're like, fuck you, that's soft. I disagree, sir. That was the most insane. Sabrin's just coming down the ice and just sees Anderson's numbers and was like this, I'm going to murder you. There's something right behind you that I need to get to and I'm going to go right through you, pal. Doesn't look at anything else and fucking buries him. No puck, no problem. They call a five-minute major on the ice, which was overturned because that's always reviewed.

And I agree they should have overturned it. Yep. But I was actually going to say, shout out Laz. I saw Laz on Twitter. He was like, lightning are lucky that they overturned that because I think that could have been a five-minute. And I was about to chirp him and be like, don't be a bitch. Yeah. But then when you look at the replay, you're like, that is an insane.

It could have been. Like, it's, I think it was the right call to overturn it, but it was closer than it should have been. Yeah. Because I'm like, what are you doing, Sabard? And it was a lovely moment on hockey media where it was just like the chicklets boys, the home by three boys. Everyone was like, what the fuck was that, dude? That is like the dumbest play I've ever seen. But thank God, because you would have hated to see that game end on a power play goal like that.

Just like game one, too. Yep. Such a good point. Uh, bolts kill it off. We go to OT and OT was all bolts. Bloodbath. I mean, it was like, shout out. There was a couple things I wanted to shout out here.

Yanni Gord was fucking all over the ice. They actually had an unbelievable. It was like a two on two, him and DJ went in and it was just like bang, bang, bang. And I think it like Gord slid it to DJ back door. Maybe that was point actually with him. But like, it was fucking disgusting and it just barely missed. But he was all over the ice, creating havoc everywhere. and then Lane Hudson, dude.

Oh yeah, great call. There was a shift where Tampa had it hemmed in Montreal Zone for about two minutes. And for about a minute and 40 seconds of that two minutes, Lane did not have a stick. Yep. And with that much his own time, it should have been night night. Yeah. But the way Lane was just skating, staying, shadowing, Braden Point was remarkable.

I mean, like, Point is doing everything in his bag of tricks, spinning, protecting the puck flipping around changing direction just trying to get any space and lane is just right there with him and like there's nothing you can do you can't really break that up without your stick it was fucking a master class of skating and frankly tampa didn't even really get a chance and then montreal got it out and i was just like dude if you need to know how good of a skater and player lane hudson is that was a great example it was remarkable it looked like a drill in practice where they go you great call take you put your stick down and just shadow this dude and he goes no problem dude exactly exactly that was insane

So to get to the goal, because I want to build this up, because there's something I just happen to be paying attention to, the HABs ice the puck. And it was a high flip. And I didn't feel like they needed to ice it, but they ice it kind of trickles past the line in Tampa, you know, lets it go. They get the whistle. And it was, what, seven minutes left or something? And I looked on the ice because I was like, oh, icing right here. And the HABs had either their third or fourth line out. I don't know which one, but I just saw that it wasn't a ton of stars on the ice. And then, because it's not a Dallas. game. Sure. And then I look at Tampa and it's same deal. And the Kooch line had just gone off. And I thought to myself, just because randomly I was paying attention, man, I wonder if Kup will line change here because Montreal has a not good line out. I wonder if he'll stick them on the icing.

And Tampa just starts skating. They shoot the puck down and everyone in Tampa just starts going to the faceoff. And I was like, oh, he's not going to do it. Who cares? They're probably tired. He's probably saying, do you want to go? And they're going, we just got off, dude. But then right right before they get to the faceoff, dot, Kup goes, Spin it. And Cooch's line jumps off.

Moser jumps on. They all get on the ice. And then literally, immediate drawback. Moser, sneaky, kind of hesitated. I was like, good to puck, dude. But then he got it. Nasty dango across the blue line with a nice little cheeky pick. Not pick, but just like stick work from Cooch.

Thank you. Good job. Moser comes around. Snipe job. And I was like, man, what awesome. Not that it's, you're breaking the mold as a coach to go, hey, they iced it, put our good line out. But just awesome instincts.

And to see it work immediately, I was like, oh, my. My God, that was epic. I'm glad you called that play out by Cooch. It was just great to just hesitate Doc. Like, Doc was coming up. Got it, just tangled them up a little bit to let Moser do the walk, and then he just fucking toys that blue line, snaps one off and puts it up where in grandma's bathroom cabinet where the nasty stuff is.

Dude, can you imagine what's in your grandmother's cabinet? So much expired medication that'll probably get you seen. It's high as shit. Dude, that'll get you see in unicorns. There's probably ludes in there, dude. Oh, yeah, dude. They go, there's no more ludes. I go, check my grandma's house.

pal nasty nasty stuff in there I promise you great to see Moser get that tuck too but that barn fucking exploded and that is to all

the northers not Canadians all the northern hockey fans who sometimes like to boo bird southern hockey watch a clip

of that OT goal that fucking barn goes nuclear and that's just Tampa dude and I was going to watch a clip of

outside the rink after the game and listen before we move on from the series and give another huge shout out to the bolts, the entire organization for bringing us out, showing us a great time.

Just like nothing but love, man. Like all the fans, hat tricks, Dave at hat tricks, everyone here is so fucking awesome. We love coming down, truly, like, love coming down. I said this to a couple of our friends. Also, also shout out Ryan Wynn. Yes, dude. What a great time.

You all saw him on the live today. What's his show called Kick Ice? That's our boy. Yeah, kick ice. We're going to get him. in the mixer more. But I said to him, dude, as people know,

I was in fucking England and then I flew to L.A. I slept for three hours I'm not doing that for a lot of cities. Correct. There could have been plenty of places where I'd have been like, dude, I can't swing it.

When it's Tampa, I'm coming. Bro, the party after, I had a couple devils on my shoulder being like, come, come out to bars. If we didn't have to go record, I was like, dude, this might be,

if we had a couple of pops but I was looking for CP in the morning. If we had a couple pops and didn't have to record, I would have been fucking dancing right there. It was a little. It was unbelievable. But my closing thoughts are, this, both of these teams are playing unblood hockey.

This is going to be a bloodbath. If Tampa had lost this, I wouldn't have been like you're dead. Yeah, I agree. These games could go either way for both teams. These two teams are going to kill each other. You said this to me, this was a really astute point because everyone's been saying that about Minnesota, Dallas. Haven't heard that once about this series. After watching that game tonight, I am now, if I'm one of these two teams, I'm terrified of even surviving this.

Whichever the team is that wins the, it's going to be Boston Buffalo, right? Whichever team wins that, they're looking at the winner of this series and being like this, well, they're already dead. Yeah, they're six feet under. The way these two teams are playing each other, like, it is, listen, I love both these teams' chances. But like, it is going to be hard to win this series. And the way they're playing, they're fucking beating the wheels off each other, dude. So I'm like, fuck me. It's going to be gnarly.

So huge, huge stick taps to Tampa, both the city organization and the team. I mean like just an unbelievable, unbelievable game, but both these teams look amazing. The fans are amazing on both sides. It's phenomenal shit. Yes. All right. Well, to do the two things I had to finish it that I said I wanted to bring back.

Here come the CP shoutouts out. Yeah, CP shoutouts. Let's get some shoutouts. 15 minutes on the clock, please. Here, CP shoutouts. Ping. And I actually meant to do this in the midform, and I should have done in the midform because that's where he deserved it,

but since I forgot. The guy we interviewed for our midform, James at Hattricks. We said prediction. He said three nothing. It was beauty of a guy. Yeah, beauty of a guy. He said three nothing. It was three two, so not quite, but he got the Tampa goals.

And he said, you're going to see a Vassie game today. And in my opinion, we did. It wasn't a shutout, but I thought Vasi was incredible. Did he get the second star? Yeah, second star. You know, that was a big time Vassie performance. I love that. And then this one, I said I had one more question for the people of Tampa at the end of the segment.

Here it comes. We went to hat tricks every day of this trip. Yeah. And when we got there the first time, the menu is so good. we were just perusing the whole thing because I said I could eat everything on the menu and I was trying to prove that fact. Do you either of you remember

the one funny thing we saw on the menu? Oh yeah. Yeah, it is the Greek salad laying on a bed of potato salad. The Greek salad, in the salad section, it says this is served over a bed of potato salad. And I was like, oh, that's an interesting. I was like, I was so geared up

to order the Greek salad and I was like, I don't know if I want that. Way to serve that. I don't know if I want them together. I think we've got to consult the Greeks about this. Right, yeah, and what their opinion. What do you think about this?

Sounds like, oh, that's cool hacktrix version of that. They do wings Dave's way. They do Greek salad, potato way. So then we ordered food to be delivered here on a way back to record this because we were starving. I ordered a Greek salad without even looking. I opened up Matt Tuckerware. Are you telling me there's potato salad on that? There are two scoops of potato salad in that Greek salad.

So I need to know. So is this a Tampa thing? This is what I'm asking. The people of Tampa, I'm dead ass. In the comments, do your Greek salads come with potato salad standard? When I order, do I have to go, I'm getting, I'd like a Greek salad, please. Add grilled chick, hold potato salad. Is that the, is that the way you order?

I can't believe I was given CP shit about the shout-out section, and we almost missed this discussion because I need to know the answer to you. Come to Tampa. Come to Tampa and get grouper and potato salad and your Greek salad. Those are two opposing salads date. It's a Russian doll of salad. I assure you, this is not a Greek thing. I assure you that. Or maybe I can't assure you.

You can't. I feel pretty certain about that. It's a Tampa thing. It's got to be a Tampa thing. How did it start? Who did it? I need to know every single bit of this. Because if this is a standard Tampa thing, that there is a bed of potato salad under your Greek salad, that is bonkers.

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And of course, if you've been listening to this pod, we were at the Tampa game. So we weren't able to watch it live. But shout out a couple things. Maybe three things. Number one, we got Boots on the ground correspondent. MTNET is correspondent in Boston. Rory Gavin knew we were at Tampa. So I said, hey, dude, I need you to get dialed for us.

So he's watching the whole game. He's huge bees guy. Watch the whole game keeping us post. So we got Rory's notes. Also, we do our homework. We came back and we watched a very comprehensive, fast forwarded replay and got the highlights of the game. But then also, a couple of buddies sitting in front of us at the Tampa game.

Oh, yeah. Go to the University of Tampa. One of them, I think a Sue must have been a Boston guy. He had a Boston shirt on under his Bolt's jersey. This fucking guy had a parlay going on. And he was just watching the Bruins game the whole time. Where I was like over his shoulder. Like, hey, what's that?

It's right. Unbelievable. So, we're going to dish on the B's Buffalo game right now. And yet again, bees get off to a nice little hot start. Well, I would say first period, Jeremy Swayman Show again. All sway. Yep. It was like, maybe the offense wasn't got. I think shots were like eight, nine in that first period, but a lot of good chances for Buffalo,

but Sway was standing on his head. Yeah. And it was like the first game. I know that obviously Buffalo had a crazy flurry in the end, but Sway played incredibly in that first game. He played incredibly in this game. And it's like, if you're Boston, we've said a million times. if Sway is going, you're like, we can be

anybody. Yes, and Sway's going. And it was great. Not that I didn't even think, or I guess you could argue, the second Tage one, Sway wants back, that Flourche's one. But it was just, so I don't think he had to fix anything, but it was just nice to start this game and be like unfazed, you know, so that

was good if you're a Bruins fan, if you're Boston. But just physical game, the power play's not going for either team, get out of the first zero, zero, and you're like, okay, let's see how we feel this out. and then RV RV gets on the board Harvey gets on the board

with the back hand Can we talk about Yeah The pickup that this guy is And has been for the Boston Bruins He is about to get a fucking bag What an unexpected bag He's gonna get like a four or five year

Dude he What you'd love to see When a guy signs a prove it deal And then fucking approves it And like I don't even know Like yeah we're going to call that A prove it deal But to me that was almost a

kind of what what do you got for me deal he's 33 yeah but I'm telling you he's gonna get a four year deal yeah Dan no it's crazy man he's gonna get a four by five dude and like what a defense been draped all over him just like awesome fucking goal

that's huge if you're boss and you want that road lead again right and then man I'm a gross goal that's what I'm saying yeah nasty yes so then I'm saying and I'm gonna come back to remember this by the X I want to come back to RV with something later but uh Then I had said, if you'd listen

that when you were sick, when Evan and I were just riffing, game one, I had said Morgan Geeky went 17 games without scoring towards the end of the regular season after having a career year. Oh yeah. And scored, I don't know, four in the last five or something, got to 39, I wish he hit 40.

But it was thinking to myself, if he can get, if the Bruins are going to win the series, Morgan Geeky needs to be, he can't be drought Morgan Geeky. He needs to be flood Morgan Geeky. And we're not watching. So I'm like, he's got to go,

I'm glad even in the loss, he gets the goal in game one. And then you get the notification that he scores in games. It just says geeky goal. It doesn't say, it doesn't say geeky goals for his own fucking head. Geeky goals back to back games, baby. He is back. We are back. And then we see, we watch the highlight, and it's the fucking alley-oop.

Dude. Unbelievable. So crazy. Unbelievable. That is a like, I mean, it's just a tough, tough situation for Lion. And, you know. I think it was. I think it was UPL at that time.

Oh, did UPL get yanked at that point? Yeah, okay. And yeah, I mean like you don't like to see that happen to anybody. You agree, honestly. I was like, happy the beast girl, but I was like, ah, Jesus Christ. So then you go to shout out, because I just thought Hagen's had a good chance in this period. And I was like, yes, yes, yes. I want to say something about Hagen's.

The Higgins, Minton, who's the Dinofflin? Yeah. Shout out, Ty Anderson. Yeah. He mentioned this on Twitter as well. again, from what I could see and from talking to people, you know,

all our Boston buddies who are at the game, that line is fucking flying. Yeah. Like that is the Bruins kid line that they have not had in a long time. And not,

they don't have points through these games, but like they're fucking suffocating team, the lines that they're playing against. And when you think about like, you know, those three guys playing playoff hockey on a line together, and you can confidently look at them

as the coach, as Sturm, be like this, nothing changing with that line. It feels so special. It feels so good. And then an incredible, Zaka scores on the peep, which is great for a bunch of reasons if you're Boston. Power play breaks through.

Also, I think it was, or maybe it was honestly a bad clear, but there was a moment, and I was watching that highlight. It was either a great holder, a bad clear, but just Buffalo had a chance to get it out and didn't. And it's the same story from the first two Buffalo goals in game one,

where the puck is on a Boston stick. and doesn't come out. And man, you obviously only remember the ones that end up in the back of your net, but in playoffs, dude, if you have a chance to get the puck out, it has to be out. It just feels like you're burned on it every time. Sick, high bumper tip there. You fucking love those goals. Bruins go up 3-0, end of the second.

Chances are pretty even. And I think importantly, if you're Boston, they were out shooting Buffalo. I wrote it down. I think it was 1914 at the end of that. And I think back to game one where Sway was standing on his head. But I was saying the whole time, Boston, if they're not, they win is stealing this game, Buffalo is fucking everywhere. Agree completely. Obviously, it doesn't feel that way so through two.

Yeah. I also, in a cocky way, started feeling like, my God, the Bruins have to feel like we should have won game one if we didn't puke with five minutes left. We're running them in game two in Buffalo both times. Yeah, I mean, listen, when it got to 3-0, if, excuse me, when it got to 4-0 with the Arvston goal in, and like, I know you have a lot to say about this, but like yeah good god the pickup that arpton was for this bruinst i mean like he has had such a good season he's going to get fucking paid uh when you goes for nothing absolutely if you're this brun's group you're like dude we fucking shit down our leg in game one and we're in buffalo yes in one of the craziest environments you could ever yeah you're like we are can fucking win this series no question

so you are definitely feeling good then we get i mean again this buffalo team is great So there's nothing that's like, oh, there's, you know, sneaky, leaky goals. Yep. You get a Byram goal. You get a Krebsey goal. And then you get fucking coach, player coach, Jeremy Swayman, calling timeouts from the crease. Because it's like, that was the correct call. Like no shit talk to Stern, but it's like, look back to game one, dude.

There's fucking five, four minutes left. They get hemmed in twice. Bang, goal, goal, goal. They're hemmed in again. They tie it up. And Sway is like, call a fucking timeout, dude. Like, are you shitting me? we're just up 4-0 in a blink of an eye, it's 4-2,

and we're getting it rammed down our fucking dick hole, and you're not going to call a time out, you're not going to do anything. So he was right to be like this, yo, fucking stop the game. Dude, I'm already dead. Jesus Christ, it was insane. Yep, so that was nuts.

I also wanted to say on the poll, because it was, RV scored 15 seconds into the third top tittybocker, and then they went with the pole. And I actually love the poll there. Normally, I'm not a big goalie pull guy. You know that. where I'm like, I'm kind of the Vassie school where I'm like, let him go, dude,

just he wants to see shots. I don't know, something about Buffalo having no play of experience, UPL having no play of experience. I'm kind of like, you're fine, dude. Just get out of here. I completely love the pull. I think that there are maybe two goalies in the league that I would accept the Vazzy treatment of just like,

I want to see. And it's Vassie and I don't even know who. Maybe not yet. Chasturkin, maybe. Yeah, I'm just like, I want the rest. I think it's probably good. I'm like, get the fuck out of the net, dude. Like, what are we doing here?

I'm gonna there are there are two texts maybe that I have from Rory that I put in these notes because they made me laugh so hard it goes Arvinson goal uh 15 seconds 15 seconds into the third Josh Allen silent I really got me I really got me okay so great pull and then dude um did you by the way did you see Josh Allen's chug I actually didn't see it yet is on Twitter I'm sure it is I feel like I want you to pull it up right now please hold Maybe it might have been on, actually check G. G called it out. Go to G's Twitter. And he was like, listen, I'm not a chug guy. And it's like, and I'm going to say this is a bad chug. And I couldn't believe it. Before we're even watching it, I couldn't believe the call up because I was like,

Josh, if there's any man that I feel confident in his beer abilities, it's Josh Allen. And then I watched it. And I'm wondering if we need to have a conversation about Josh Allen's beer chug. Oh, that's a response. That's a response of a good chug. Try to find this chug and let me know what you think. Because I'm a Josh Allen guy. And I feel like I don't like the slander here.

Well, my heart is with the Bruins. This is it, right? Yeah, he does the drum bang. Oh, and then chug? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wait till he finishes the drum bang. He's in the goadhead. And he's in the Goathead jersey.

He's in a tucky jersey. jersey too. Back pocket. He pulls it out back pocket. He starts chugging. He's swaying side to side and he slams it and a decent amount of beer comes out. That's not as bad as you guys made it sound. What do you mean me?

That's not, I guess you're questioning. Yeah, yeah. I'm saying let's have a discussion about the chug. Yeah, and G only says weak chug, which I would say it was a weak chug. It's not the best chug. Yeah, it's a weak chug. I was afraid it was the best. I think I'm going to give him the benefit of the doubt.

skinny can. Yeah. That looked like a Mick Ultra or maybe a Corona. It's a skinny can. I'm sure it's not coming out that well. It was probably warm. Actually, no.

He should have a... A warm beer in Buffalo. They'd rather die. There's no fucking chance. You're right. So I'm just saying, I think Josh Allen would maybe like another chance of that chuck. I bet he would.

I agree with you on that. I agree with you on that. So then as you said, Buffalo starts going crazy. They score with the goalie pull. The Bruins can't get an empty netter to fucking pay us, which is some bullshit. they are, Buffalo is scary with five minutes left.

Like they're a fucking scary team with five minutes left. And Roy was making me laugh again because he just, we obviously saw the highlights of the chaos at the end, but he just kept being like, it's relentless, it's relentless, we're fucked, like all the texts are coming in,

flurry of shots, we're fucked, we're fucked. And then, but the two things he hauled out, which were massive, gargantuan Jeremy Swamen save with 220 left. Yeah.

Because if it goes four three there, dude, you just go, what are we doing? Literally, what are we doing? If it goes for three, like you get a TV timeout. Buffalo comes out.

They then pull the goalie, and you're swarmed. Yep. You are swarmed. And then there was also that play where, this is why I wanted to come back to, RV had that huge clot kill in the corner, just burning.

He had two tucks, and one of them was an absolute snipe. He opened the scoring. He had, he was the Hegel, not to that level, but he was the Hegel. He brought the intensity. He was the high bar for that entire.

game. Ed's had that play in the corner. What a pickup. That was already a given, but that was a career game for him. Like that is literally a career game for that dude of just, oh brother, unbelievable. I just told you, this man is getting fucking paid. Yep. This man signed, what is it? One year three mill, just like a just, let's get a little more cash in the pocket here. He's going to get a fucking five year deal from this season. It's unbelievable. If on the Buffalo Sabres, I don't give a Fuck. I want to give a quick shout out to our boy, P.K., looking like a York high school colonial days. He should be churning butter. If people aren't privy yet to the fact that he is wearing something preposterous, everything.

First day, he had bell bottoms on. Day two, he looked like the hot priest from Fleabag. And day three, he looks like my fucking 1700s ancestor just weaving baskets. Yeah, playing, what's that hoop and stick game? I think it's called hoop and stick. That's awesome. There's no way. It must have a name. Yeah, I think it does.

It might just be hoop and stick, though. They weren't naming things. No. If I'm the Buffalo Sabers, obviously you don't like, you know, the road team is always get a split. That's the job. Yeah. I actually don't give a fuck if I'm the Buffalo Sabers.

You go, we've gotten into the game way too late twice, but we see how deadly we are. Playing on the road is sometimes easier when you have all that hype behind your city. It's okay. You've solved Swainman a little bit up at the end of game so you go, we can score. Yeah, it's like, I don't even think they've solved sway. We've solved the Bruins team in the end of games. And I do think that that's kind of being a theme of this B's team a little bit. I don't think that you're happy that you're a shutout into the third period back.

You're way too late twice. Way too late twice. So that's not great. But there's no panic at all in Buffalo. And those two goals are big. Those two goals are very big. I love the fight from Nikita Zorov with Zach Benson. Yeah.

Like talk about a size difference there. But he talked about it after the game, as he always does. He answers the bell. but he was like, listen, dude, you slash my goal. It's my job to protect my goal. So kind of missed me with the like, oh, typical Zadora of going after the smallest guy in the ice. Zadora is a defenseman who's going to protect his team.

And it doesn't matter if it's a fucking tiny guy or a huge guy. He's going to give him a whack. Absolutely. Very two different series for me, Boston, Buffalo, Montreal. Oh, yeah, totally. Like, this Boston Buffalo, even though Buffalo is waiting until late to turn it on, feels very high flying, very offensive focus, puck possession focused.

And yeah, I mean, here we go. Another series, Tide 1-1, you're going into Boston. Anything can happen. You know, Boston loves playing at home, but at the same time, I don't think Buffalo gives a shit. And I straight up think they're going to be having more fun. It's awesome of the crowd behind you, but they're just like, there's so much emotion there.

Oh, yeah. They're like, just go on the road and play, dude. My sneaky controversial take is I genuinely believe that this Boston Bruins team is a better, playoff team than this Buffalo Sabres team. I think this Buffalo Sabres team is a better regular season team than Boston. Well, I mean, I completely agree. I don't even think that you can argue that. I don't think there's enough guys on this Buffalo team with playoff experience to be able to put that measurement up against. So I'm absolutely right. So I think Boston's going week. Because of that,

even before we knew they were playing Buffalo, we said so many times, I felt like every hockey talk for the last month when people would be hyped about the Bruins, I was like, no one wants to play this Bruins team. Yeah, correct. you that. And it's the similar thing with as the flyers were surging up and it looked like they're playing Pitt. I was like, that's not a fun matchup for Pitt. And Ottawa, too, is like, Ottawa is going to be a problem for someone. This Bruins team is not a matchup that anyone wants. At all in there showing why. Unbelievable. All right. Let's take an ad break and we'll be right back. This episode of the Empty Natives podcast is brought to you by BetterHelp. Folks, we just got through tax season.

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Utah ties up the series 1-1 on Vegas ice fucking phenomenal stuff phenomenal fight from the mammoth Little fight Little fight! I'm not gonna lie This game started About halfway through the first period

Vegas gets a power play, Stone scores I thought Uh-oh Okay yeah I didn't think it was done Because mammoth Mammoth were playing well But I was like

Fuck me It just feels like Vegas Especially because it goes It goes off Surgachev And sometimes when that happens, I go, and it's also stone. Yes, it just felt like, oh God, here we go again. And also, for fucking Christ's sake,

is it the first loss for Tororella? Yeah, yeah. Well, actually, this was... No, there was regulation. Yeah, yeah. Then literally, yes. It's the first regulation loss for Torterla. That's actually fucking crazy.

So it's like, man, Vegas is buzzing. We got stone scoring. I was a little nervous. Oh, that's insane. Agree. And what I was going to say earlier was somehow when it's sometimes if it goes off a defenseman I go it's not your fault who cares but sometimes when it's just Vegas I go you're fucked this is this is all going to happen but then

Vegas returns the favor and and Utah bounces one in and this one killed me because it's a week's goal off RAS yeah I'm like so full he's just like thanks buddies that's so good couple of guys got out of Calgary and are facing off and they're still linking up for goals so good so good Okay, so then you go into the second 1-1. Yeah. And it's a pretty good game. I think at this point for me... Yeah, go ahead.

Now, what were you about saying? I was about to say, Utah picked it up, cranked it up even higher here. Utah 13 shots in the second period. Yep, cranked it up even higher. This period for me, Utah ties up that week's goal in the first period. We get to the second period. I'm like, Utah's feeling it.

Yep. Utah's feeling it. This team is going, we belong here. We belong in playoffs. We belong. against you. Fuck a, fuck a wildcar team. Fuck a duck, dude. Fuck a duck. Don't care. Ducks are in your division. We can fuck them too. We'll fuck a golden night. I'll put a slit right in that shining armor. Holy Christ, it already looks like a V. And I'll absolutely

crack stick on you. Look at their mask. There's a little V. You're telling me those tusks can't cut a slit in there and then that trunk can't slide in. You're telling me that. Look at this. Tusks up. Watch that. I'm stuck in permanent tusk. You got a trunk right in your shield. Did you know I was permanent tusk right now? Yeah, you're tucked up permanently. Permanently tusked. That's unbelievable. That's incredible dude. Get me back to Utah. We've got to get you to Salt Lake. Dude, can I take you on a quick tangent? Yeah. I was

seeing a friend and we were talking about baby books. You know, baby books are so, not like how to raise baby, like books for kids. They have a baby. You know, you read kids' books. There was one book that was like emotions. This sounded pretty weird of. So it goes,

it goes... Who was this friend, Mr. Epstein? Yes, yes. fucking toast. I'm sorry. That wasn't... Tostook! Fucking burn!

I think they're just called children's books. Baby books. Okay, baby books is the weird way to put it. No, baby books are how you raise a baby book. Yeah, but you kept saying baby books. So it's children's books. You're talking about children's books.

You got it, okay. And it was... That's all the hanging out with Jeff that he's been doing. Yeah. And it goes... This might be the new bit on the empty-nighters podcast. CP, good friend. No.

No. No. No. No. That's my dog. He's your brother, man. And that's my alive friend. You know,

You know who CB is actually friends with is Palm Beach Pete, dude. You know about Palm Beach Pete? He's this motherfucker who's like getting famous on the internet because he looks exactly like Jeffrey. Oh, yeah, I've seen that. Oh, I, he's like, no, dude, I just look like him. And then people are like this. Are you, are you, have you been with him?

Do you know him? He's like, I was once at a party with him. And, uh, I didn't, well, it wasn't invited by him. We just happened to be at the same party. And he was attached to a lie detector test. And the woman was like, there's some deception going on. And people are like this. So you're Jeff.

He goes, Actually, every party he's ever hosted, I was there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It is me. Because it's in fact me. The children's book goes, are you, it's teaching kids' emotions? And it goes, are you happy like a hippo? Are you excited like a dog?

Are you this? And some of them are sad, right? Because it's trying to stay a kid, whatever. And then one of them is, are you angry like a duck? Are you this, are you that? And then at the end, it said, are you insatiably horny like a mammoth? Like, yes, that was in there. And then it said, but, you know, moods come and go.

don't worry, don't have to worry about anything. And it's like all the animals and everyone's like happy. And then the last page of the children's book says, except the duck, he is always angry. And I was like, what the fuck did a duck do to this author? That is insane. Discriminatory. But I just realized it's because you get

fucked like a duck. You just said fuck a duck. And that's what made you realize. You were the first person that said fuck a duck. Just so we're clear. Just to be very, very, fucking Christopher. Also, so everyone's clear, it's like 3 a.m. We're loopy as shit. Definitely losing.

And they're pissed all the time. They're like, stop fucking me. Pist all the time. Anyway, recovering from tangent. Yes. In the second period, Jack Eichel takes eight. Hold on, hold on, hold on. I was going on saying, like, the mammoth were definitely viving. Yeah.

They were starting to feel their games. So, okay. Go on. Jack Eichael takes a, in my opinion, and his opinion, because he gave it to the ref, a horrific holding call. That was just like His stick is entitled To get in the space I think he was on Kooli

I can't remember But anyway He takes a call And then I think that put the mammoth Up 4 and 3 But this moment The mammoth had a 4 on 3 Then a 5 on 4

ensuing once the two matching Or the miners came out of the box And it was chaos They were flying all over the place It felt like The mammoth have cranked it up This is where they break through They might get one

They might even get two here And Carter Hart dude was making outrageous saves in and even um not just great saves on point blank chances among the chaos oh yeah which is also dude he was fucking like he was flying careful careful that hog's gonna come out your your trunk is going to come out careful carterhart's doing backflips yeah it was incredible and kept it even and that's when i went actually the manor with are fucked because they are playing better but carter hard is going to be a brick law and steal this guy on a goalie yep Exactly.

But then, dude, 40 goal. Dylan Gunther. Right after a kill, too. Right after a kill. Dude, like, actually. Exactly. Vegas on the people.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And we always talk about the vulnerable minutes. Usually the team that just killed it is. We got the reverse vulnerable minute. Come down, Dylan Gunther absolutely clap bombs, a one team. Wire job. Just gorgeous goal.

Yep. And I was like, fucking mammoth, dude. They're fucking coming in here. They're not playing around at all. And then what was it? like 20 seconds later. Yeah. Genuinely, it was maybe a minute.

Let me look at it. I want to get an example. Under a minute. No, it was a minute. A minute and two seconds? Am I doing that math right? Or is it under a minute? I thought it was under a minute, but I don't know. I think it was, oh, it was about a minute. Yeah.

He's not feeling very well. It was about a minute. He's not feeling very well. Barbie. Ivan Barbashav. One on three. Just a ballet dancing. Recking ball.

Juan Lake. Just muscles his way through and scores a gorgeous goal that felt quite suffocating for the mammoth. Because it felt like game one where it was like the mammoth were in the fight and then it was just like Vegas was too much to score that goal right after the kill. And then Vegas doesn't even let them celebrate. Yeah. It's just like it's only one of those situations.

I know this game was in Vegas. But it's where like the guy on the fucking. Yeah, still saying the guy. What the fuck am I trying to say? The loud speaker? the PA. The PA. The PA is announcing the goal

and then the other team scores too fast and you're like, oh, fuck, yeah. And so yeah, Vegas ties it right back up and it was like, all right. Dude, when that happened, they announced that Vegas, Jack Eichol had 12 multi-point playoff games in his Vegas career and Vegas was 11 and 1 in those games

and then that goal he had an assist on for his second assist in the night. So they were like, this is his 13th multi-point playoff game. They are 11 and 1 in the previous 12. and I was like, uh-oh. So that was a huge moment. I'm with you on that. And then,

uh, we'll get to the goal in a second, but I just wanted to state again, because I thought Utah was again awesome in the third period. Completely agree. Carter Hart, dude, is, wasn't even that good in the regular season.

You know, it was such a to-do and he got signed and everybody was like, wow, Vegas gets this A goalie. And then people were like, he wasn't even that A before. and then he got here and he was fine. You know, he's good, but just like, whatever.

And then when Torts went with him and he played well down the stretch, you knew it was going to be him in playoffs. But before those seven games or whatever, I was like, maybe they start Hill. Like, who knows? And I cannot say enough good about how well he's playing goalie right now. Like, that is actually scary. No, for sure, because Utah was on it.

Yeah. In the third period, Utah outshot him 10 to 7. It felt very much like Utah's game. But at the same time, I felt the third period was a little. sleepy. Sure. It was like they were tied. There were some decent chances here and there, but nothing crazy as far as I was going to

Yeah, Vegas had some good ones too. I don't want to make it sound like they were getting steamrolled because they were. Yeah, and it was also in the, I mean, what were the, the, we had a power plays in this game. I'm trying to look up the salary. But it was like brutal for both teams. Oh for four for Mammoth, one for four for Vegas. Vegas got that first period power play.

Which was on off-star to chip. But yeah, it was just like, you know, like nothing was really going there. and then again great play or great save by Carter Heart Carter Heart but then Coley came in cleaned it up

sets a record for US porn players yeah oh yeah good call so it was sick because it was an awesome move by Gunther awesome save and then Cooley scores to be the youngest American score in this first two-off games ever and I gotta say Cooley

beat Jack Eichol down the ice like they were Jack and Jack's back-checking. Jack's in his back pocket. And Jack gets his stick on him too. So to Cooley to win that race and have that strong stick, we just saw it. We'll get to it, but just, you know, QB had a chance where it's like a last minute stick lift, you know, fucks it up. Yeah. Logan Cooley is going toe to toe with one of the best centers in the Lee alive. Alive. And I'm like, and I'm not saying he's better than Jack or anything, but I'm just like, holy hell, he is not disappearing in this moment. He scores the Utah Mammoth's first playoff goal ever

and the Utah Mammuz's first playoff game winning goal ever. He's fucking 12 years old. And that is remarkable. Yeah, he's not a teeny. So this one to me was, I forget what S&Mardi had this series. And I think I said seven. I can't remember what you guys said. But this to me on Vegas Ice was the exact type of performance

that the Utah Mavith had been doing for the last two and a half months. Yeah. Where they don't give a shit about whoever they're playing. They're not afraid to any team. of any superstars, they're not afraid of any away ice, they can play with everybody. They've got a great fucking constructed roster and they've got a lot of

belief. And this was a gritty win. Oh, my God. Go down, you tie it up. You take the lead, you take a punch in the chin of giving up that lead immediately. Then you go into a tough, gritty third period. Your power play's not going, but you just keep fighting. And to win that game in regulation was impressive. And man,

Vegas pulled the goalie, and some of us bet on empty netters. We went over for four today. And that not getting not getting that I didn't get the Boston one but I was like that sucks tough break well you don't get to we're in Tampa we don't get it overtime not going to complain we're in the building free hockey Boston pulls the goalie or Buffalo pulls the goalie Boston has five minutes to score can't do it and then Kings go to overtime so it's like whatever I'm actually not whatever we'll get to that but but this one bogan coolly is waltzing down fucking

main street Park City and I go get on the lift pop it in get on the lift go get on the lift go up top we'll all celebrate with champagne and Rasmussen goes full butterfly and fucking stuffs it that was insane and then by the way after that that's when you feel like you're going to lose because you go oh fuck

and Vegas came right back down and it was chaos down the stretch someone whiffed one maybe Hannafin was a left shot Dia I forget who that was someone up top whiffed one but then it ricocheted right to stone and he got incredible wood on that was Hanny I think yeah

he got okay wood on it there was a there was a Given the situation, he got incredible wood. Yeah. It's like another stick got in there. Like you couldn't really lift it. Yeah. Like, and it's funny in those situations, I said, when you have the goalie pulled in, it's

fucking 11 guys on the ice. It's like when you're packed in like that, it's so hard to get a puck through. Yeah. And when a puck goes through, it's like it's going in. It's like how did it get through everybody. The goalie definitely can't see it. And it was one of those situations. There was just too much going on.

Yeah. But it was great. It felt like they were going to tie it. But dude, that one's one I'm happy for just because I get a lot of friends on both those teams and I just want a great series and you don't want anyone to accidentally run away with it so to get 1-1 is awesome Utah gets the split they're

so fired up to get home you know what I actually don't love they're doing these um uh we've all seen the in the tunnel you grab a player on the way to the locker in between periods but they've been doing this a ton of shit with guys like guys like skate over to the bench

and I'm not mad at the reporters were doing it but they're just like grabbing guys in the in game and they grab Gunther when it's like two two to or something. And they're like, how sick is Delta Center going to be? And he was like, I don't know. I'm juiced to find out.

But like, it's 2-2 and our life is on the line. Shut the fuck up. And again, I think it was like Steve Levy, who I love and adore and have so much fun every time I see you. I'm not mad at the questions. It's just so funny where these guys are like, I don't have time for this, dude. But that being said, Delta Center is going to be fucking rocking. And I am also juiced.

Crazy. All right. Let's wrap this episode up with the final game of the night. Another OT battle. Aves Kings. Yep. A lot of people saying need more from this series. A lot of people saying not a lot of action.

They're not totally wrong. Well, coming in. What do you mean? Coming into tonight. No, I'm talking about it all night tonight. I actually thought they went like this. There was zero goals in this game until the third period. I thought they went watched the Tampa Montreal first period

and they said that looks fun. And then Mikey Anderson absolutely lights the fuck up, Marty Natchez. And then they get into it. That was a monster. Dude, that was insane. And like, talk about a guy who's going to keep it clean, and that was a clean elbow tucked. And I know people online in the slow-mo.

Like, he bounces up and hits him in the head. I know people are going to be mad. We can't have another discussion about this. If you are so fucking dumb that you still don't understand the leave your feet rule, then I'm sorry. We will not waste time talking to you. Because it is a brain that cannot comprehend things. And that is that. That was, and that's our boy right there.

That, what a fucking hit, Mikey. Holy shit. But that, that fight, so, so in game one, the, you're right, no goal is till late, but the Kings were very pesky. They were, like, literally the Kings players, like everybody juices, face washing kale. And I'm not saying, the only way the Kings can beat the ass is if they dirty up the game. I'm not not saying that, though. So I kind of liked the way they played game one.

and to just see Mikey lay that hit and then all the boys like full line brawl I was like yes come on dude that was firing me up I have so many questions about this series and to keep it positive for both teams listen abs we're all over

I think a four Z deserves a fucking tug and a half I know man for how well he's playing I mean, this guy not supposed to be the starter. Yeah. You have a Vezna-type goal tender in Darcy Kemper and you've just been playing so well.

So Anton Forsberg is playing in these games and he's been playing outstanding. 14 shots in the first period by Colorado. Can't figure him out. To six or something. Eight shots in the second. Twelve shots in the third. It's like, and the guy is just fantastic.

Everywhere. But the Kings, D, has been good all year. Yeah. We'll forget that. They were not scored on a lot this year, too, have scored so few goals. and to be a playoff team means your D must be pretty fucking good

because you're winning a lot of crazy games. So here you are and the Kings are just kind of doing what they do. They play a really frustrating style hockey. So on the positive side, DJ Smith and the Kings go, listen, we're not scoring that many goals. We got to frustrate a team

and we got to just try to stay in a battle. And they did that. Now, they're a little Floyd Mayweather, you know, forgive the ridiculous comp, but they just take, like everyone feels like you're, we're hammering him. And I'm like, I'm not actually getting hip, though. You know, like, they're just kind of like, yeah, you 20 shots.

Take all your shots. Yeah, yeah. But at some point, you're like, is it fun hockey to play? Like, are the guys liking that? I feel like we've talked about it all year. They have so much talent. They have so much offensive talent. I feel as if it's not being utilized well.

But at this point, can you change it? And can you change it against the abs? Yeah. I don't know. So you look like you're in a game where it's like maybe you just have to duke it out. and try to not get lucky, but like, you'd be patiently wait and get your chance. Now, they had a chance with the QB penalty shot. Yeah, so as with the power play, puck jumps over Kail stick, QB breakaway.

I was like, well, no, it was a penalty shot. But yes, he gets pulled down or whatever. I just thought it was hilarious that Kale caught him. Like, I know he caught him only to the effect of a penalty shot. But, like, that puck goes over his stick, and I'm like, oh, wow, QB is gone. And then the camera's like on QB, and then all of a sudden, Kail is just right here still grabbing him. And I'm like, how are you here? Dude, I, I'm not lying.

I knew he was catching him immediately. I was like, Christ. Not anything against Q because it's kale. If there's one guy, like in what world are you surprised by that? Oh, dude, you just had such a head of steam. I was like, yes. Yeah, it's kale, though. Yeah, I was insane.

But QB gets a penalty shot. Incredible move, in my opinion. Totally agree. Incredible move makes Wedgwood bite the shot, the fake shot, goes to, his backhand, elevates the backhand, and Wedgwood still got it. Which leads me to my next point. How many times did I say, I'm curious to see how Wedgwood does? He has been doing phenomenal. He not only, like, would that save? And I know the Kings aren't getting that many shots, but fucking A, he's saving him. So Scott Wedgwood has never played

in the playoffs. He has two games, and he looks marvelous. Stahlemm. Yes. Yeah, he's answered the bell in such a big way. It is awesome to see. even in chaos things. Like there's been a few plays where a puck will ricochet up and he loses it. He doesn't where he kind of retweets to the net, gets a bet. But nothing is facing him. No weird playoff. The playoffs are always extra crazy because everyone's just getting every puck to the net.

And it's almost, you're facing shots in ways you have never before. Yeah. And that has not bothered him at all. So after the QB miss, we have a 30-minute delay because a fan hits the glass and it shatters all over the king's bench and staff. Marty texted us about this. That was fucking insane. That was insane.

Marty texted us about this and was like, dude, look at Greener on the bench. Yeah. And shout out of boy, that green is just like completely unfazed. Yeah. By what has happened.

His hands are in his pockets. He literally just turns around and then he steps forward and starts testing the fucking fucking... Testing the fucking strength of the other glass. Yeah. like it was just unbelievable behavior and uh that yeah that was nuts that was a 30 minute

that was wild dude uh that was so crazy too because um no one knew what was happening on the broadcast we're watching they're like what what's going on and then dewey was like one of them was like doy's yelling at us being like a fan hit the glass and i don't mean maliciously they were just kind of you know they were fired up as a big play but that was fucking nuts dan how much of a fucking douche must that guy I felt like. Yeah.

It's not your fault. I gotta say, I'm a bit of a bitch when it comes to like the people who sit around the bench and they're giving it to the other team. I just couldn't see myself ever doing that. And again, I'm a bitch for that. But like, I'm like, what are you doing? I don't think you're a bitch for you. I think it's dumb as hell.

I think it's like, what, what's, what's, what's up with your life that you got to do that? That's kind of what I'm saying. I'm like, you spent all this money. First of all, those seats. suck ass. You can't see shit. So if you're going to an NHL game and you're like, those seats seem great, they blow. You can't see any of the game. But to spend

all that money and then go and sit there and spend the whole fucking time beaking these players who are just going out there battling and have marvelous lives that we probably wish we had, I'm kind of like, grow the fuck up, dude. Okay, but just to be very clear, neither of us have any idea if that person said any words to the Kings players.

Correct. From what I saw on the thing, he goes like this. Yeah, like, Wedge makes a save and he goes like this, woo, banging the glass, just like any soul on earth on the glass. Like a celebration. I don't know if that's what was going on. Okay, but we certainly don't know. Yes, I agree.

He wasn't like, fuck you. I don't care what you saw. I find it hard to believe that he got up and like one hand and he was like, yeah, Pat, Pat, Pat, Pat, Pat, Pat. Well, there was a dude at the game. I bet there was some two-handed pushing going on that class. Now, if it was Rockum-Sockum pushing, yeah, you're a douche. Did you see that it was kind of just pushing, whatever.

There was a guy tonight at the Tampa Bay game who was like in the second row, but he was lurching over somebody to pound the glass angrily. Yeah, yeah, from the second row. And I'm like, that's a little rude. Take your road. Yeah. But I actually think, Dan, either way, even if I was doing literally this. Yes.

I just think if that glass is shattered, I'm talking me personally. I would have been like, oh my God. Oh, I am so sorry. Like, this is, I am mortified. A couple of the king staff definitely gave it to the fans. Yeah. So I don't know. Like, I don't know if the fans were like, you like that.

bitch, in which case I'd be like, get this person to fuck out. Oh, dude, I would have pigeon tossed again. Maybe I'm a bitch for that. But if I, if there was a fan after that, beaking like the coaches, I would have pigeon tossed that person so fast. Yeah. But yeah, also very possible that person was like, oh my God. Because it just takes so long. Like, it's literally the whole rink. Like the 18,000 people, 30 minutes and you're like this. Oh. Like, you know, when you drop your glass drink at a bar and it shadows and you're like, sorry, I'm such a prick. It's like the all-time bar drop. We also then had that crazy play.

Was that like second period or something? But I forget who hit it. But it looked like we had a Colorado goal and it went in like the skirt of the net. This was the third. I had this in a second. So these are just small plays, but it was awesome. I thought Clarkie made an unreal no look past to laugh.

Oh, gorgeous. I wanted to bring that up because that was another great wedge would save. He is just seeing everything. Great play by Clarkie and laugh. Then, iconically. dude legacy game iconically after murdering marty natius in the first mike and anderson faces a three-on-one with landisog kale and natius and eats it dude like plays it perfectly swings it blocks the pass back across in a zero zero game and i was like mikey dude

have a day just gorgeous outrageous then we go to the third 10 seconds into the third or whatever it was bang ab's goal and we're like ah fuck yeah and then dewey eagle eye do we saw it so fast that didn't go in hand up and he was like, no, no, no, no, no, no. It took so many people a long time to figure it out. And I actually fucking saw someone tweeted, an abs fan, tweeted and it was like,

abs fans who are booing that goal being called back, we have lost the plot. Yeah, yeah, correct. It did not go in. And also, that's not like a, boo, we wanted a goal. That's like a, no, like you go, yes, of course. Yeah, yes, of course. It did not go in. To do the game.

Crazy. So, dude, then we started recording. it's very tense, right? This whole third period's very tense. And the Kings get a late power play. What was that called? Do you remember? No.

Because Clarkie got clipped. My brain is dead. Clarkie got clipped was bleeding. They didn't call it on Nate, which I actually thought was a fine no call. I thought it was a high stick. It wasn't. Then I think it was a high stick. It was a high stick.

It was Panarin entered the zone. Parker Kelly gets a stick up. And like really ripped him back. I was like, oh my God. You got to call that one. And it was even worse on the replay. But yeah, it was a call, you know, Parker Kelly High Stick on Panarin. Then Panarin gets a beautiful pass.

And, dude, we said in the preview, the King's power play is like 29. The King's PK is 29. The King's PK is fucking second. The Avs PK is fucking second. I was like, ah, this is such a bloodbath. Power play looked awful, but then they get some possession. Yep. Good play by QB up top.

Gets it down to Trevor Moore, who makes it an un-per-elieve-de-leave-play to keep the puck and then just feathers a great pass through but then the fucking let's give it the the third assist Scott Lawton just fucking buries Devonteves in front

let's that pass go through and then Panarin rips it in and you know what I will say this okay because I want you to say your take on this dude if we're gonna fucking allow how many times have we talked about this we've talked about this in the pod for years

if we're going to allow pushing and shove in cross-checking, chip-in, all that shit in front of the net in hockey in general, power player or otherwise. When a goal gets scored as a result of one, you can't bitch. And Devon Tave's rightfully so, immediately to the ref was like, I just got fucking cross-checked in the back and that resulted in a goal. I'm like this. Sorry, dude.

If we have all agreed that this is how hockey is played and certainly in the playoffs, then that is just what's going on. And I fucking loved the way Lottie celebrated too. Like that puck went in and Lottie was like, let's fucking go. And I was just like, that's right, Lottie, you get an assist on that play. Dude, your take is correct because of the disclaimer because you're 100% right. I would go, because in the moment I thought both parties were right. Devontes is right to get up and scream at the ref because you got to be fucking kidding me.

But the ref is right to not call it because he goes, buddy, I will show you clips of you in front of the neck. Correct. Burying people with crossdacks. This is what's happening. Now, me personally, I know I'm going to get sued for this. I wish those were penalties. I think there are ways to move people in front of the net without fucking burying people with crosschecks. This isn't lacrosse.

This isn't NOM. Brother. There are rules. There are rules here. You can't just go shooting people on a whim. Yeah. And brother, we've been talking about this for years in the pod. I agree with you.

Yeah. Like, I'm not saying I wish that was called. I think it is crazy how in sports. it's like basketball, how everyone just fucking travels and no one cares about it. And it's like in soccer, how everyone dives like a bitch. And we don't give it yellow cards for embellishment. We need to just at one point of the beginning of a season

and all these sports go, hey, you know how for years we've let this fucking stupid ass thing continue? We're not doing that anymore. I think pushing, shoving abs, not only should it happen, it is necessary, but these just fucking unhinged cross-checks to the ribs back and spine. I'm like, we could probably turn that down a little bit. Dude, you know how? Ruffing

is a penalty, but like, what's a rough? And you're like, well, you know, yeah. Well, no, roughing is probably like you see it. You know, there's no clear definition. Yeah. There is a cut and dry black and white definition of what a cross check is and they are being delivered in front of the net and no one cares.

It's an epidemic. I forget who was on the show we were talking about them. They're like, oh yeah, dude. And when you do the ones that like go down over your hip like hip body and get in your pants, fucking terrible. But anyway, great goal, beautiful shot by Panarin. It felt like we were actually

joking around. We were like, I mean, Colorado's going to get a power plane for two. And they didn't need it because they were all over it. We actually saw Nate Dog get a bit of a breakaway. Oh yeah. I think that was also, Mikey. Yeah, that was a sick move by Nate because it kind of got it under the stick.

And just a great save by and Forsy was standing on his head at the end there. But yeah, it just felt like Colorado's like, well, we're not losing in regulation. Yeah, we're not losing one, nothing. They came down and then just such a cheeky play. Kings get it. Try to rim it around. Can't get it out. Great play by tapes. Keeps it in. Tries to put a shot on net that Landy actually tips wide. Yeah. Goes right to Natchez.

Forsy, you know, jumps over to the post and Natchez actually passes through Foresburg's five holes. Backdoor to Landy. Goal. Captain ties it up. Boom. We go to O. And before that, I want to say, because I said this earlier, and I was like, we'll come back to it. Q had that move that Nate did under the stick. Q had one of those coming the other way. Yeah.

Oh, my God. What a beautiful move by Q. Made an incredible save. And the one, I forget how it happened, but that one that was sitting on the doorstep that Q had. It was a great tie up. I think it was Drury, but I couldn't quite tell. Yeah, Drury definitely had him physically tied up, but Q got his stick down. And another stick came through and, like, kind of blocked it off.

So I actually give Q a ton of credit there. Me too, me too. He was battling through two players and still got a shot off. So, but that was just great fucking D by the abs. It was unbelievable. Chaos now we're in overtime. So, yeah, we go to O.T. And I actually like the Kings fight in O.T.

Like, I thought we didn't even get halfway through O.T. But I thought the Kings were all over them at times. They had three shots, two, good back and forth. But then, yeah, a bit of a scrum in front of the net. Pucks ricocheting all over the place. Nick Waugh gets in front. Clarkie's battling a couple people. He drops to his knees to block the shot and like three sticks go in.

Washtick gets on it, taps it, sneaks through. Beautiful fight. Boom. Avs go up two games to none in Colorado. Now, all things considered, like we said at the top here, I think a lot of people would have guessed. Avs would be up two games to none after two. Most brackets. Most brackets have that.

I also think the Kings have a lot to be psyched about with how frustrating they're being. This is the number one scoring offense in the NHL and you have held them to two goals in both games. Yeah, 2-1, 2-1 and this second one was overtime. Forzberg's playing incredibly well. You are getting fucking Dewey, winding the clockback through two periods. You had fucking almost 18 minutes of time on ice.

It's insane. This has been the case all season. Colorado is happy to play this way Yeah Happy to play this way Like dude is it frustrating? Yes but you've won both games So if we go through games here

And they sweep and they win fucking 2-1 They don't give a fuck Yep So until the Kings frustrate them And then also starts scoring This means nothing The one good thing you will say For the Kings is you are frustrating

You are doing one half of the game Very well But when you do look at guys We're gonna you know not call anyone out, but point out the most important things and some of the best players on this King's team. You look at guys like Kempi. You look at guys like Q. Panarin has goals in both games.

Laugh. Trevor Moore. These are guys that need to score goals. Absolutely. And you are in this King's locker room and you are going, dude, this is going. We got to get the other half going. And you can fucking absolutely win games here. Now, Colorado has the beautiful

recipe of going, we're happy to keep things just the way they are. Just the way they are. Wedgwood is playing incredibly well. The defense is playing incredibly well. You're holding the Kings to a low amount of shots. Like, you're happy to keep playing this game. Because if it turns into a shootout

and the King starts scoring, the abs will loosen up their game a little bit and we know they can fucking score. So this is a steep mountain to climb. but I glass half full I do think the kings look at it and they're like there's an op there's a way through here yeah I dude it's it's a dagger to lose such close ones especially in OT one and you go god if we could have stolen one in Colorado but I'll say man we got a lot or I got I'm sure you did too but I got a lot of personal texts after our preview thing of people and some of them are Denver fans but them going fucking kings or absin six what are you fucking talking about like what are you paid the king's paying you to say this shit and and And, you know, it's currently on pace for four. But I think any Aves fan, if they were telling the truth, would be like, Christ, dude, this has been way tighter than I thought it was going to be.

So I think you're pumped if you're L.A. You go, dude, those are two tilts on the road. Let's go back to L.A. and see if we can win a couple hockey games. Dude, that's what I'm saying, man. And it's like, you know, it's, you got Copey out there, and Copey's last year. You got Clarkie and Dewey on the points. Like, there are guys who can score.

amongst all the other guys that I just named. And absolutely, Denver, Colorado fans have every right to have chirped. Like Marty picked the Kings and Seven and like abs and six, blah, blah, blah, blah. We deserve those chirps. But with the way these two games have gone, this is all I'm saying, we come back to L.A. on Thursday. L.A. wins that game. I don't think you're going, this is a joke. That's what I mean.

Yeah, totally. Let's say L.A. wins that game like four one, three one. And like they get goals going. You are definitely like, fuck. Fucking A. They're a little bit frustrating. Yeah, yeah. So, again, the glass half full is L.A. has every opportunity to make this a fight. Yeah.

But again, if things stay the course, I don't think these are games you're winning to want. I don't think they're games that you're winning in O.T. So, like, Glass half empty is the abs are this close to breaking through and they score five in game four or game three. I actually think even worse, Chris, glass half empty is the abs have to change nothing. Yeah, right. Like I said, they are so happy to play this way. Yeah, you go, whatever you want. They'll play, if you want to play this game, they'll play this game.

Yep. Well, they'll take a couple. Yeah, we'll take a couple of miles. You give me a couple miles. So the opportunity is there, but the abs are in no hurry to change anything. Yep. And that is scary. All right.

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