WEBVTT - Stanley Cup Finals Betting Preview (Ep. 706) 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:05.320 Good afternoon everyone. Welcome to the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:07.760 live stream here on the Fantasy Pros Twitch channel. The 0:00:07.760 --> 0:00:10.920 Stanley Cup Finals have arrived, perhaps a little bit earlier 0:00:11.000 --> 0:00:15.160 then we expected. I am Tyler Kanyam wearing the Edmonton 0:00:15.200 --> 0:00:18.320 Oilers jersey today had to do it, joined as always 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:22.280 by Betting Pros, NHL expert and Edmonton Oilers fan Kelly Kirby. 0:00:22.480 --> 0:00:23.960 I guess I don't have to ask you how you're 0:00:24.000 --> 0:00:24.520 doing today. 0:00:25.239 --> 0:00:29.120 I'm doing pretty splendid. I'm wearing last year's Western Conference 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:33.160 champion shirt, which is just more I wore it last 0:00:33.240 --> 0:00:36.320 night too, which is just more indication of how stupid 0:00:36.320 --> 0:00:39.680 confident I want. Otherwise, like why am I wearing? Why 0:00:39.680 --> 0:00:42.040 would I jinx them? And yet I didn't care so 0:00:42.240 --> 0:00:43.280 and I didn't drink them. 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:45.040 Well, it worked out and we're going to talk about 0:00:45.120 --> 0:00:47.879 jinxes today for sure, because there's a big thing that 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:49.959 the Oilers and McDavid did last night that we will 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:52.879 get to. As a reminder, we are live each and 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:55.800 every Tuesday and Friday at three pm here on Twitch 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:58.360 throughout the end of this Stanley Cup Finals. If you 0:00:58.360 --> 0:01:01.880 are watching this on YouTube, you're following and subscribed to 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:04.560 Twitch dot tv Slash Fantasy Pros so you can come 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:07.679 hang out with us live on those days. So feel 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:10.520 free to drop drop a comment, question, anything you want 0:01:10.560 --> 0:01:13.840 to talk about. As we get into the Stanley Cup Finals. 0:01:13.880 --> 0:01:18.200 So lots to get into here, lots of storylines, lots 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:20.840 of different things we can talk about, lots of bets. 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:25.120 You cast your Game five bet there for the Carolina 0:01:25.160 --> 0:01:27.560 and Florida series, so we made some money there. I 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:29.920 got the Panthers to win Game five on their own, 0:01:30.000 --> 0:01:32.959 so that was nice there. So obviously we've got the 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:36.880 Florida Panthers and the Evonton Oilers Part two. They rematch 0:01:36.959 --> 0:01:38.840 again in the Stanley Cup Finals last year with the 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:41.640 Florida Panthers winning this They've never made it for the 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:44.720 third consecutive year, so I guess in hockey terms, we 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:46.280 consider this to be a dynasty. 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:50.480 I mean, I don't know, like I guess, I hadn't 0:01:50.480 --> 0:01:54.400 really thought of it, but maybe. I mean, they keep 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:57.160 arriving out of the East no matter who else is 0:01:57.200 --> 0:02:01.920 doing anything. But you know, again with the rearranged playoffs 0:02:01.960 --> 0:02:04.880 this year was also like did they you know? Was 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:07.840 the setup in the best way possible? For them, which 0:02:07.960 --> 0:02:09.720 I kind of start to believe that it was a 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:10.320 little bit. 0:02:10.560 --> 0:02:13.320 Yeah, And I've kind of been having this conversation with 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:16.400 my friends of you know, he can't, I guess considered 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:18.919 a dynasty because they've only got one championship so far. 0:02:19.040 --> 0:02:22.120 It's just three appearances. You look at the Golden State 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:24.840 Warriors and New England Patriots to Kansas City Chiefs. But 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:27.200 I just feel like in hockey it's not the eighties anymore. 0:02:27.200 --> 0:02:31.560 It's so much harder to get to multiple finals, just 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:33.519 as we've seen with upsets and all that. So I 0:02:33.560 --> 0:02:35.720 think they're pretty close. And then I saw a thing 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:38.919 the two thousan You looked at the twenty fourteen NHL draft, 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:41.080 by the way or how that worked out, and I 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:44.160 was looking at it today. Number one pick was Aaron 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:48.560 Ecklad by the Florida Panthers, still there. Number two was 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:53.200 I know, dry Settle went through to Edmonton. Number two 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:56.200 was Reinhart to Buffalo, who then got traded for a 0:02:56.240 --> 0:03:00.520 second round twenty twenty two pick. Eight years later, Bennett 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:03.040 was number four. He also got traded, so the Panthers 0:03:03.120 --> 0:03:05.799 have three of the top four picks, where he went 0:03:05.840 --> 0:03:09.000 to Calgary so it's interesting to see how they've built 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:11.000 sort of the old fashion wakes. I think a lot 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:13.120 of times they're saying, you know, the big thing is 0:03:13.160 --> 0:03:15.359 the Panthers get the tax breaks while the players want 0:03:15.360 --> 0:03:18.000 to go there. But when you look at it, they've 0:03:18.040 --> 0:03:21.160 actually kind of built it through the draft. So you 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.320 did mention the playoff format. How do you feel I 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:26.560 know we've talked about this before the one versus eight. 0:03:26.639 --> 0:03:29.400 We had some great first round series, great second round series, 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:31.360 then we get to the conference finals. Both of them 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.280 wrap up in five games. Did you find them taking 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:36.880 yourself out of the Oilers fan part of it? Were 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:39.880 they anti climactic series? Were they still exciting? How did 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:40.640 you feel about that? 0:03:41.480 --> 0:03:43.360 I feel like they were pretty anti climactic. I mean, 0:03:43.400 --> 0:03:45.800 I think that even the discussions that you and I had, 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:49.520 even with the I don't know, can Carolina do this 0:03:49.640 --> 0:03:52.760 type of thing, we also talked about how it kind 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:56.600 of felt inevitable, like the rematch really kind of seemed 0:03:56.640 --> 0:04:01.040 like it was set up specifically for this. What you know, 0:04:01.200 --> 0:04:03.200 I mean, you liked Carolina, you liked the stars that 0:04:04.200 --> 0:04:07.160 it was. I feel like it was okay, maybe on 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:09.960 paper it wouldn't it shouldn't have gone this way that 0:04:10.000 --> 0:04:12.840 the way that it went, And I'm not sure who 0:04:12.880 --> 0:04:15.320 else you would put in the conference finals to have 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:18.240 made it better, like for any of these teams. 0:04:18.520 --> 0:04:21.880 Yeah, I agree, and I think the Dallas Evonton series 0:04:21.920 --> 0:04:24.960 was certainly entertaining. I think more entertaining than Florida Carolina, 0:04:24.960 --> 0:04:27.920 which was pretty one sided. I think there, you know, 0:04:28.120 --> 0:04:30.359 there were a couple of games Dallas could have maybe 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:32.440 won and got this to a game six or maybe 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:34.400 a game seven. The end of the day, I think 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:36.440 these were just the two best teams. But I think 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:38.760 of you know, Dallas Colorado being a great series, you 0:04:38.800 --> 0:04:42.480 think of Winnipeg being a great series. Florida and Toronto 0:04:42.640 --> 0:04:45.680 they go to a game seven, So it's it's you know, 0:04:45.920 --> 0:04:47.880 would you prefer the Leafs and the Panthers to be 0:04:47.920 --> 0:04:50.960 in the conference finals. I don't know, but I know 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.160 it's going to be a big topic of conversation, as 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:55.760 it always is, because you know, when the most eyes 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:58.960 are on you in the conference finals for one for one, 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:02.040 see you later, time to go home, so be interesting 0:05:02.080 --> 0:05:04.120 to see. I don't think anything is going to change 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:05.919 in that sense. I think the NHL just likes that 0:05:06.040 --> 0:05:10.360 system way too much, and you've got your Stanley cut 0:05:10.400 --> 0:05:12.600 bet there on the oilers, So what are you planning 0:05:12.600 --> 0:05:14.120 to Are you planning to play off of that and 0:05:14.360 --> 0:05:16.880 taking Florida here? Are you just gonna ride it with Edmonton? 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:19.680 I took Florida when they were plus one twenty five, 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:23.560 just that conversation that we had, and I'm like, I 0:05:23.560 --> 0:05:27.000 don't think that I did. However, last night I looked 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:28.200 at it. I was like, so, let's see how this 0:05:28.279 --> 0:05:30.960 set up. And I was sitting there and I was like, oh, 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:33.800 such cowards with the minus one ten minus one ten thing. 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:37.359 I'm like, come on, But yeah, no, I took them 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:39.320 at plus one twenty five just to offset. So I 0:05:39.320 --> 0:05:40.920 will come out ahead either way. 0:05:41.080 --> 0:05:43.520 But and I think we kind of predicted yet. I 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:45.240 wouldn't be surprised if we get to the end and 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:47.360 they just say minus one ten minus one ten, especially 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:49.640 because we've got so much time before Game one. Let's 0:05:49.640 --> 0:05:52.559 see where that's It's already kind of gone a little 0:05:52.560 --> 0:05:54.760 bit towards Edmonton. I think they're like minus one twelve 0:05:54.880 --> 0:05:57.680 or minus one thirteen now, so it will be interesting 0:05:57.760 --> 0:05:58.920 to see how that shakes out. 0:05:59.000 --> 0:05:59.120 Now. 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:01.520 I do want to talk about Stanley Cup odds, but 0:06:01.600 --> 0:06:03.320 before we do, I do want to talk to you 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:06.279 about an offer at FanDuel. 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So before 0:06:38.440 --> 0:06:41.120 the playoffs started, the Florida Panthers were plus three point 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:44.080 fifty to win the Eastern Conference, which they did, so 0:06:44.120 --> 0:06:47.240 if you bet that they cashed. The West was interesting, 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:49.279 and we talked about this a lot. The Stars and 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:51.400 the Avalanche were both the favorites to come out of 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:54.880 the West. Oilers were third at plus four fifty, and 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:56.480 it's one of those things I'm looking. You look at 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:58.240 it now at the benefit of hindsight, and you go, 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:01.560 why the heck did I not take Edmonton Oilers at 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:04.720 plus four fifty. They looked mortal at the start of 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:06.520 round one, and there we are. And then you look 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:09.440 at the Stanley Cup odds beforehand. You know you got 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:11.880 a plus eleven hundred I think, or a plus one thousand. 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:14.560 The Oilers were around plus nine hundred, the Panthers were 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:18.280 plus eight hundred, which were the second best odds before 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:20.720 the Stanley Cup started. And now it's obviously shrunk all 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.559 the way down to essentially even money. And then another 0:07:23.600 --> 0:07:26.160 thing that's interesting. When we wrapped up last week's show, 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:29.440 we said, Connor McDavid for the con smythe is plus 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:32.040 one sixty five. You're never going to find better odds 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:33.440 in a first of all, did you bet him at 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:34.560 plus one sixty five? 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:39.000 Yes, yeah, me too, when I was like, yeah, I mean, 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:41.080 if they make it, I just don't know who else 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:42.480 takes it. 0:07:42.000 --> 0:07:45.240 So yeah, and he opened. He was the second favorite 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:48.320 behind Nathan McKinnon. He was plus fifteen hundred to win 0:07:48.360 --> 0:07:51.240 the con Smyth before the playoffs started, and I'm kicking 0:07:51.320 --> 0:07:53.440 myself all the way through because he was plus fifteen 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:56.320 hundred before round two, he was plus eight hundred, before 0:07:56.400 --> 0:07:59.040 round three, he was plus three fifty. He's now down 0:07:59.040 --> 0:08:00.840 to plus one twenty. So if you got the plus 0:08:00.880 --> 0:08:03.320 one sixty five last week, good for you. Do you 0:08:03.360 --> 0:08:05.480 think there's still value there at taking him at plus 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:07.280 one twenty, Yeah. 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:10.760 I think there's definitely value. I don't know. I don't 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:14.760 know personally if someone from the losing team wins the 0:08:14.840 --> 0:08:18.800 consum ice ever, but I also think that if this 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:20.960 is even close, or if it's a high scoring and 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:25.240 the Panthers somehow win, I mean, if Bobrovski gives up 0:08:25.480 --> 0:08:27.320 more goal, of like, who else are you going to 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:30.600 give it to? But yeah, you know, yeah, I just 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:32.160 don't have any issue. If it's plus money. There's so 0:08:32.200 --> 0:08:34.080 many bets I will make if when you give it 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:37.160 to me, I'm McDavid. So this one seems like, I mean, 0:08:37.160 --> 0:08:38.559 if they win, there's no question. 0:08:38.920 --> 0:08:41.080 And let's just say hypothetically, I don't want to put 0:08:41.080 --> 0:08:43.640 it into the universe for you, but let's just say 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.680 the Panthers win this Daily Cup. Bobrovski's the current favorite 0:08:46.679 --> 0:08:49.319 at plus two fifty got bark Off at plus five 0:08:49.480 --> 0:08:51.240 fifteen and to Chuck all the way down at plus 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:54.120 eighteen hundred. Do you think Bobrovski is to play there 0:08:54.160 --> 0:08:55.520 if the Panthers were to win this. 0:08:56.920 --> 0:08:59.880 Sort of I was looking today about like which players 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:03.880 had really good series last year, and Kochuck was was solid, 0:09:04.080 --> 0:09:07.880 and so for his number to be that low, I 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:11.880 that's tempting to me. But I mean, I think that 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:15.040 they have that scored correctly because basically what they're saying 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:18.160 is Edmonton is going to try to outscore him. It's 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:21.480 on Barofsky to stop that. And so I think that 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:23.680 it's okay that he's there. I'm not going to bet it, 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:25.960 but I think that Kokchuck could also have just a 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.000 blow up series and steal it. 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:30.840 So I agree. And when I saw that too, to me, 0:09:30.880 --> 0:09:32.680 it's one of those things where like I think McDavid 0:09:32.720 --> 0:09:35.160 at plus one twenty is great because I think that 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:38.120 that's probably the most likely situation. But yeah, when I 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:40.160 looked at Florida, I'm like, this is an opportunity that 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:42.600 let's just go hunting for some value here. You've already 0:09:42.600 --> 0:09:45.440 got plus money on McDavid. That to me, to Chuck 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:48.120 knowing how he plays in the finals in the playoffs 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:52.120 in general, he's the type of guy that plus eighteen hundred. Like, 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.320 I just think, if you give to Chuck eighteen times 0:09:55.360 --> 0:09:57.120 to be the best player in the series, is he 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.679 going to do it more than once? And so in 0:09:59.720 --> 0:10:01.880 that sense, I feel like there is some value there. 0:10:01.920 --> 0:10:04.480 So I think for myself McDavid, I've already got the 0:10:04.480 --> 0:10:06.360 plus one sixty five, but I still like it at 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:09.440 plus one twenty and I do not hate Kachuk at 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:13.400 plus eighteen hundred at all. So as we get into 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:16.960 this series, as we mentioned, it's opened up basically the 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:19.760 same on either side, minus one ten on the Oilers, 0:10:19.800 --> 0:10:22.240 minus one ten on the Panthers. When you look at 0:10:22.240 --> 0:10:25.360 this series spread, there's some money to be made there 0:10:25.480 --> 0:10:27.520 if you so choose, If you think that this series 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:29.520 is going to be a quick one, You've got the 0:10:29.520 --> 0:10:32.160 Oilers minus one and a half, they're plus one eighty 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:34.480 and the Panthers at minus one and a half are 0:10:34.520 --> 0:10:37.319 plus one seventy. So we talked about it a little bit, 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:40.160 but do you think that this is how you expected 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:42.160 the lines to open for the series? Markets and what 0:10:42.200 --> 0:10:44.440 do you think about the series spreads. Do you think 0:10:44.520 --> 0:10:46.280 one of these teams can get it done in five 0:10:46.360 --> 0:10:47.600 games or less. 0:10:48.880 --> 0:10:51.280 Yeah, actually we'll talk about that a little bit. But 0:10:52.120 --> 0:10:54.199 I do think that this could actually get lopsided in 0:10:54.240 --> 0:10:57.760 a hurry. So it is interesting to me that the 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:00.079 Panthers spread is actually that it has better odds and 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:05.120 the oiler spread either way, Like I don't know, Like 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:07.400 in my head, I when I again, when we get 0:11:07.400 --> 0:11:09.199 to our other bets, I'm going to make a case. 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:11.360 But you know, I think the smart money is to 0:11:12.080 --> 0:11:14.760 avoid the spread at this point because it went seven 0:11:14.840 --> 0:11:18.880 last year, even after being down three to zero. It's hard. 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:21.520 It's hard to really see if one of these teams 0:11:21.520 --> 0:11:24.760 can kind of just dominate it. But I'm still not 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:26.200 a big fan of the spread. 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:29.640 That's how I felt as well, and I mean stupidly. 0:11:29.679 --> 0:11:32.080 I guess my favorite bet from round three was for 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:34.920 both series to go six or more games, and neither 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:37.400 of them went to six games. And I have the 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:39.559 same feeling here of just this is what's going to 0:11:39.640 --> 0:11:42.760 be interesting, because what I loved about the Eastern and 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.360 the Western Conference finals was that Florida and Carolina were 0:11:45.400 --> 0:11:47.319 so similar that was going to be an under series 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:49.400 there wasn't going to be a ton of scoring. Dallas 0:11:49.400 --> 0:11:51.079 and Edmonton were pretty similar. That was going to be 0:11:51.080 --> 0:11:54.280 a highest scoring series. So now you take the highest scoring, 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:58.200 the best defensively, you put it together and now it's like, okay, 0:11:58.240 --> 0:12:01.240 well it was an automatic over for Edmonton Dallas, it 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:04.559 was an automatic under for Carolina Florida. Once we start 0:12:04.559 --> 0:12:06.080 getting into the games, which we're not going to talk 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:08.240 too much about today, but once we start getting into 0:12:08.240 --> 0:12:10.480 the games, how are you looking at this? Like, I know, 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.200 game one you can get six's already, Like, do you 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:15.880 think that the offense can overpower here and we're looking 0:12:15.920 --> 0:12:18.840 more towards overs or are we looking more towards unders? 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:24.360 I feel like that entirely depends on which Skinner shows up, right. 0:12:25.080 --> 0:12:27.600 I think that because I think that others are going 0:12:27.640 --> 0:12:30.480 to put three or more goals up pretty easily, Like 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:32.360 not I mean not easily, but I mean I think 0:12:32.360 --> 0:12:35.280 that they'll get to three. The questions is Skinner going 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:39.280 to give up four? So it's that's that's how you 0:12:39.320 --> 0:12:42.439 have to look at it. The return of Eckholm is huge, 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:44.760 I think, and now that he's got like six days 0:12:44.760 --> 0:12:49.559 of rest, like that's just a monster opportunity there, so 0:12:49.559 --> 0:12:53.600 so that with his return, I'm a little bit leaning 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:56.240 towards the under sometimes. But when we get back together 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:58.400 on Tuesday, I'll probably give you an entire speech on 0:12:58.440 --> 0:13:02.080 why we should the over. So it's you know, right now, 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:04.679 I'm just like, yeah, I want to see how the 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:06.760 first game goes. But the fact that it's in Edmonton, 0:13:08.160 --> 0:13:11.000 I'm like, I'm like, I don't know, I would still 0:13:11.040 --> 0:13:13.160 if the over stays plus money, I'm like, I'll just 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:14.200 I'll take it. 0:13:14.320 --> 0:13:16.640 So that was my thought I did. I had it 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:19.360 on the Best bet graphic. Briefly, I took it off, 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:22.760 but I have bet game one over. It's minus I've 0:13:22.760 --> 0:13:24.599 got the six, so you can get a six and 0:13:24.679 --> 0:13:26.559 a half if you want the plus money. I just 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:29.440 took the six because I always I'm obsessed with push 0:13:29.480 --> 0:13:32.719 potential in hockey, and it was minus one ten or 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:34.840 minus one fifteen, I think, So I did take that 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:37.400 initial over, and as you mentioned, the deciding factor for 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:40.000 me was that this game is in Edmonton. They are 0:13:40.559 --> 0:13:42.560 I don't know what the streak is now, is they 0:13:42.600 --> 0:13:44.720 had won ten of twelve. It might be like either 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:47.360 twelve of fourteen or something like that. Now like they've 0:13:47.400 --> 0:13:49.880 just been rolling and their offense has been rolling that 0:13:50.040 --> 0:13:54.120 now they roll right into Edmonton and they just feel 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:56.920 like a different team. And the one thing, there's two 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:58.560 things that you mentioned that I want to talk about, 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:00.679 one being the goalie, but got to start with it. 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:06.080 They touched the trophy. So as tradition, if you I mean, 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:08.160 I'm sure if you're watching this, you're probably a hockey fan. 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:10.520 But if you're not, when the Eastern Conference Finals and 0:14:10.559 --> 0:14:13.160 the Western Conference Finals champions are named, they get a trophy. 0:14:13.240 --> 0:14:15.959 There is the Clarence Campbell Trophy and there's the Prince 0:14:15.960 --> 0:14:18.920 of Wales Trophy. For the Western Conference, it's the Clarence 0:14:18.960 --> 0:14:21.200 Campbell Last year and if there's a stigma, you don't 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:23.640 touch the trophy. You certainly don't touch the Stanley Cup 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.200 until you win it, but you don't touch the you 0:14:26.240 --> 0:14:29.040 can or you can't. Yeah, last year the Edmond Snoilers 0:14:29.040 --> 0:14:32.600 refused to touch the Clarence Campbell Trophy. They lost. This year, 0:14:32.920 --> 0:14:35.520 they touched it. Connor McDavid, there's this funny picture floating 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:38.720 around and him like very unsure or should he should 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.200 he not? Afterwards he said, well, you know what, last 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:43.920 year we didn't and it didn't work out. Florida Panthers, 0:14:43.920 --> 0:14:46.080 by the way, didn't touch it last year. One didn't 0:14:46.120 --> 0:14:48.560 touch it this year. What do you make of this? 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:51.880 Do you think it was a smart thing? I actually 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:54.880 I like this move because I think again last it 0:14:55.080 --> 0:14:57.160 just to me it shows last year they were a 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:00.280 little bit timid. They were a little bit scared. It 0:15:00.360 --> 0:15:02.640 was new to them. The Panthers had been there already 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:04.800 when they lost to Vegas, so they were They had 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:07.160 a little bit of hesitancy. And to me, this shows, 0:15:07.200 --> 0:15:09.400 you know what, We're just going to go win this now. 0:15:09.520 --> 0:15:12.120 Like I know, I keep bringing up the four Nations, 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:14.760 but it's such a huge deal for those players to 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.520 have won that tournament. McDavid scores the winning goal in that. 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:20.280 To me, it just shows this mentality of like, I'm 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:22.760 not letting us lose it. We're gonna go win this now. 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:24.080 How do you feel about it? 0:15:24.760 --> 0:15:27.040 Yeah? That was the first of all. I left so hard. 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:28.960 When he was standing there and he looked back and 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:30.800 it was kind of that it was that look of 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:34.360 are we sure we're doing this? Like obviously they talked 0:15:34.400 --> 0:15:37.600 about it before, you know, I went I told you 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:39.120 last time, I went to the Hockey Hall of Fame 0:15:39.160 --> 0:15:43.240 last summer and they were not in the Stanley Cup yet, 0:15:43.240 --> 0:15:46.440 but they were in the finals and the Stanley Cup 0:15:46.480 --> 0:15:49.440 was there, and so we stood on the platform, my 0:15:49.880 --> 0:15:53.200 parents and my wife and I and she was my 0:15:53.200 --> 0:15:54.440 wife's like, can I touch it? 0:15:54.840 --> 0:15:55.080 Right? 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:59.280 And the photographer was like, he's like, well, most people 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:02.200 don't do that, like because the team would lose. But 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:05.840 I was like, my wife is so impulsive that I 0:16:05.880 --> 0:16:07.440 think she touched it and didn't want to tell me 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:09.560 after and then Edmonton went on to lose. 0:16:09.640 --> 0:16:12.920 Now we know who's exactly. 0:16:12.520 --> 0:16:16.160 So I've blamed her for a year. Yeah, I mean again, 0:16:16.200 --> 0:16:20.240 this comes back to I I've never I don't know 0:16:20.280 --> 0:16:23.880 it's been I watched a lot of sports and this 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:27.400 team is literally acting exactly how you said, Like there 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:31.800 is there is a strong effort going on like like 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:36.680 we don't care, tradition doesn't matter. And yeah, but there 0:16:36.720 --> 0:16:39.640 that moment where he was just like are we sure? 0:16:41.080 --> 0:16:43.880 Was totally it's gonna be. Just it blazed in my 0:16:43.960 --> 0:16:45.640 memory of him, look like he looked like a little 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:47.760 kid all of a sudden, and I done it. Like 0:16:47.840 --> 0:16:50.760 Conor McDavid is a superstitious player. He's worn the same 0:16:50.880 --> 0:16:53.160 socks if you've ever seen that, the same sock since 0:16:53.240 --> 0:16:55.720 Junior that has have hold in them. Like he is 0:16:55.760 --> 0:16:58.920 someone who is very specific with how he goes about 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:01.560 his business. So I love to see that to say, yeah, 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:03.920 screw it, we're just gonna go win. And if we don't, 0:17:04.080 --> 0:17:06.240 it's not because of a superstition. It's not because we 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:08.960 touched a trophy. It's because the Florida Panthers are going 0:17:09.000 --> 0:17:11.439 to have to beat us. So that to me, and 0:17:11.480 --> 0:17:14.960 we've talked about it before. They just when you watch sports, 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:17.560 you just sometimes go You see it all the time 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:20.200 with the Kansaity Chiefs because they just have Patrick Mahomes 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:22.399 and they just don't lose. You go, yeah, this team's 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:24.679 just gonna win, like you seting it right now. I 0:17:24.680 --> 0:17:27.640 think with the Okac Thunder in the NBA, they're gonna win, 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:29.919 right And I think that that's the vibe that I 0:17:29.960 --> 0:17:34.399 get from the Edmonton Oilers. So I'm happy that he 0:17:34.480 --> 0:17:36.400 touched it. Like I said, the Panthers didn't, So we'll 0:17:36.440 --> 0:17:39.000 see how all that plays out. Getting into the nitty 0:17:39.040 --> 0:17:40.840 gritty of the series a little bit, obviously, this is 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:43.760 a rematch of last year, and the big storyline was 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:47.119 that the Florida Panthers win the Stanley Cup in Game seven, 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:49.720 a two to one victory. They jumped out to a 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:52.600 three nothing lead before you know, there's the I think 0:17:52.600 --> 0:17:54.600 it was Game seven, but there's the famous clip also 0:17:54.600 --> 0:17:56.800 of Conor McDavid screaming at everybody in the locker room 0:17:56.880 --> 0:17:59.800 to get it together and to take it seriously. Oiler's 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:02.040 store and back. They win Game four, five, and six 0:18:02.080 --> 0:18:05.320 by a combined score of eighteen to five. And then 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:07.760 the other big storyline going into this I guess, is 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:09.880 that it's been more than thirty years since a Canadian 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:12.359 team has won the Stanley Cup. That was Montreal Canadians 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:15.560 in nineteen ninety three. What do you make of I'm 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:18.360 interested to get your perspective as an American me a Canadian, 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:21.160 what do you make of this whole? Like Canada hasn't 0:18:21.200 --> 0:18:24.600 won a Stanley Cup. I don't make much take much 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:26.200 stock into it because I look at all the teams 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:28.480