WEBVTT - Stanley Cup Finals Game 4 Preview and Best Bets (Ep. 714) 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:04.280 Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome into the Stanley Cup Playoffs 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:07.360 live stream here on the Fantasy Pros Twitch channel. We 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:10.000 are now through three games of the Stanley Cup Finals, 0:00:10.000 --> 0:00:13.039 so we're getting close to the end here. I'm Tyler Kanyem. 0:00:13.080 --> 0:00:15.680 I am joined as always by Betting Pros, NHL expert 0:00:15.920 --> 0:00:19.119 and ed Minton Oilers fan Kelly Kirby. Thinking maybe not 0:00:19.200 --> 0:00:21.280 so calm and collected today. 0:00:21.239 --> 0:00:23.119 Okay, so I'm gonna start here so that we just 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:24.919 have it out of the way, so there's no like 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:30.400 I didn't say it. Florida beat the crap out of us. 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:33.279 They were great, Like that's it. So yeah, I'm not 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:35.519 everything I say from here on out is a complaint 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:38.360 or part of my therapy or whatever has to happen. 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:42.680 But yeah, in terms of calm and collected, I mean 0:00:42.920 --> 0:00:45.519 it's like two to one, so whatever. Like, I'm not 0:00:46.400 --> 0:00:50.000 dying yet, but we have things to talk about. 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:53.519 There is still time for sure. As a reminder, we 0:00:53.560 --> 0:00:55.840 are live each and every Tuesday and Friday through the 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:57.880 end of the Stanley Cup Finals. As I mentioned, there's 0:00:57.920 --> 0:01:00.720 I think a maximum of three of these left, maybe two. 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:02.920 We'll see how it goes. 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Give us your 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:30.039 perspective as an Oilers fan of what the heck happened 0:01:30.120 --> 0:01:33.280 in Game three last night, Oilers losing six to one 0:01:33.640 --> 0:01:34.920 to the Florida Panthers. 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:37.119 I mean, I just want to say that the last 0:01:37.160 --> 0:01:39.520 goal was just such an insult to injury, like you 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.000 could have just kept it at six, like we could 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:45.480 have at least cleared the under. But no, obviously that 0:01:45.520 --> 0:01:48.440 wasn't gonna happen. But yeah, I mean, you know, I've 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:51.760 never seen I've never seen a team give another team 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:55.560 eleven power plays like I've I want. 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:55.720 To go back. 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:57.440 I want to go back to our Stanley Club preview 0:01:57.480 --> 0:02:00.760 when I basically was just like we can, and by we, 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:03.120 I mean Oilers. We can win, we just cannot, under 0:02:03.200 --> 0:02:06.800 any circumstances play their game. And last night it was 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:09.360 their game and I sat there and I'm like, I 0:02:09.360 --> 0:02:12.480 feel like I'm watching pee wee hockey with a bunch 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:16.120 of like boys who can't regulate their emotions. Like it's 0:02:16.280 --> 0:02:18.839 just like, what what is happening right now? 0:02:19.680 --> 0:02:22.800 And especially game like game two, we saw eleven penalties 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:24.880 in the second period, and you think, okay, game three, 0:02:24.960 --> 0:02:28.239 maybe some cooler heads will prevail. And I know Evander Kaine, 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:30.080 that's his style of game. I think he ended up 0:02:30.120 --> 0:02:33.080 with sixteen or eighteen penalty minutes. There was, you know, 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:34.800 some some stuff at the end there or a few 0:02:34.800 --> 0:02:37.119 players got misconducts, but he took those back to back 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:41.320 penalties seemingly in that game there, and they just never 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:45.640 seemed to get the chance. You know, Brad Marshawn scores 0:02:45.680 --> 0:02:49.320 the first goal of the game. He's been unbelievable. Do 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:51.440 you think that this is something the Oilers? Is this 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:54.120 a problem or is this something they can rectify? Like 0:02:54.160 --> 0:02:56.680 there's no way there's one hundred and thirty eight penalty 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:59.359 minutes in game three, eighty something in game two. 0:02:59.480 --> 0:03:02.239 This can't Yeah, so I like to believe, Like my 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:05.120 belief here is that at some point, probably in the 0:03:05.120 --> 0:03:07.680 middle of the second period or for sure the second intermission, 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:10.160 that I think they were all like, fine, let's just 0:03:10.160 --> 0:03:13.160 get it all out tonight, Like let's just let's just go. 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:15.160 You want to fight fight tonight, you want to like 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:18.880 do dumb stuff, do it tonight. Because if they didn't 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.680 say that, then I have no idea what happened, because 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:24.000 I mean it was just like I said on Twitter, 0:03:24.040 --> 0:03:25.680 as soon as as soon as they scored the fourth goal, 0:03:25.680 --> 0:03:27.400 I was like, now you pull skinner and let them 0:03:27.440 --> 0:03:29.760 rest like it just like there's we're not winning this, 0:03:30.040 --> 0:03:32.320 so there was no reason to keep doing what we 0:03:32.320 --> 0:03:35.960 were doing. But yeah, I mean it's you know, obviously 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:39.000 I've seen both teams complain about the referees going against them, 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:41.680 but I think that if that, you know, it's they 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:44.520 if they keep calling it like this, it's just it 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:47.920 should actually benefit the Oilers because the Panthers are so 0:03:48.080 --> 0:03:51.680 much like there's so much more physical and yet they're 0:03:51.880 --> 0:03:55.680 so good at acting. I mean, did you see Bobrovski, Like, 0:03:56.320 --> 0:03:58.640 I'm like, if it was that easy to knock you over, man, 0:03:58.680 --> 0:04:01.320 you would never become an NHL So like, I mean, 0:04:01.320 --> 0:04:04.240 he's just Flailly. I'm like, oh, here we are. 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:06.560 But yeah, they know exactly what to do. 0:04:06.640 --> 0:04:10.520 You mentioned Florida had eleven power plays and Edmonton, you know, 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:12.720 game one, they seem to come in with such confidence. 0:04:12.720 --> 0:04:15.200 We've talked about it ad nauseum about it just seems 0:04:15.240 --> 0:04:17.320 like the Team of Destiny seems like a different team. 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:20.279 They win the Western Conference Finals, they have no shame 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:22.120 about touching the trophy, like they're going to go out 0:04:22.120 --> 0:04:23.960 and win this and then do you feel like maybe 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:26.239 there's some immaturity. I don't even say it's an experience 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:28.360 because they were there last year. But like you said, 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:31.120 playing they know what they don't they can't do in 0:04:31.200 --> 0:04:33.520 order to beat Florida. They need to play the offensive game, 0:04:33.520 --> 0:04:35.520 they need to play the skill game. Do you think 0:04:35.560 --> 0:04:39.599 Florida is just that annoying that to get under their skin? Like, 0:04:39.680 --> 0:04:41.520 is it something that Florida is just that good at 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:44.080 or is it something where Edmonton is still just showing 0:04:44.080 --> 0:04:45.440 a little bit of an experience there. 0:04:45.560 --> 0:04:48.479 Yeah, I mean I think it's just more it's yeah, 0:04:48.680 --> 0:04:50.960 I mean, I don't know if there's a Florida Panther 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.839 that I would want to hang out with, like that 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:57.080 would you get annoying pretty clearly, But like in general, 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:00.320 they shouldn't be engaging in the way that they are. 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:03.280 And and even in the first two games, I don't think 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:06.120 they did like like in the second game, Florida just 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:08.279 won like that it was a good game, did what 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:10.480 you know, Like, I have no real complaints about how 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:13.880 that one went, aside from Bennett, you know, taking out 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:16.960 a goalie. But the last night just there was just 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:21.880 no excuse everything everything they went wrong immediately. I'm a 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:25.760 little nervous about McDavid injury wise, you know, I didn't know, 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:27.760 we don't know what. I don't know what Nugent Hopkins' 0:05:27.839 --> 0:05:32.120 situation was. They banked around with the defenseman lineup like 0:05:32.279 --> 0:05:35.480 I it is. I'm like, I don't know if right 0:05:35.480 --> 0:05:37.640 now is the time to mess anything up, but they 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:38.880 seem to be trying so. 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:42.599 And I think too, Like Paul Maurice in his press 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:46.440 conferences afterwards, he's joking around. He's they're saying, you know, well, 0:05:46.800 --> 0:05:49.400 Sam Bannon hasn't done a lot, yeah, or Barkoff hasn't 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:50.960 done a lot in this series. Oh yeah, We're going 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.039 to trade him and he just I don't I don't 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:55.760 even want to call it arrogance. It's certainly annoying if 0:05:55.760 --> 0:05:58.800 you're not a Florida Panthers fan that they just they 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:03.480 just seem to be so so confident, comfortable, they're not worried, 0:06:03.960 --> 0:06:06.080 and I think that's starting to rub people the wrong way. 0:06:06.120 --> 0:06:07.560 But it's also kind of like it's a little bit 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:10.920 scary as someone who's bet against the Florida Panthers in 0:06:10.960 --> 0:06:13.480 this series and bet on the Oilers to see players 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:15.760 like that, coaches like that is going okay. They don't 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:18.000 seem to be rattled, like after Game one, maybe there 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:20.480 was a little bit of rattle, but they just really 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:22.560 don't seem to be which is a little bit scary. 0:06:22.600 --> 0:06:22.839 I guess. 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:24.800 On the plus side, we did do well in our 0:06:24.839 --> 0:06:29.800 bets recapping previously, just just to quickly recap what I 0:06:29.839 --> 0:06:31.760 still have alive. Aout the Oilers to win the Cup, 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:33.720 had them to win Game one in the Cup, that's 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:35.919 still alive, Sam Bennett the most goals in the series. 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.560 That's still looking like it's very very alive as well. 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:40.960 And then in game this would be for Game two, 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:43.479 but the Vibrowski over on the saves. That seems like 0:06:43.520 --> 0:06:45.520 it can just be something bet over and over again. 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:49.080 The over six that hit in game two, in game three, 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:51.320 I went under for Game three, and as you mentioned, 0:06:51.320 --> 0:06:53.520 there was that Lake goal that brought that to under 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:55.919 six and a half. And then on your side. For 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:58.080 your sake, I hope that this doesn't end in five 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.200 games because that would mean that the oilers I don't 0:07:00.200 --> 0:07:03.560 win again. But McDavid most points is still alive. You've 0:07:03.560 --> 0:07:05.800 bet him to get two plus points, which he's done 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:09.280 almost you know, every single game, the overs and then 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:11.800 a great call last time for the Corey Perry point 0:07:11.880 --> 0:07:14.360 and perhaps an anytime goal at plus two seventy. 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So, first 0:08:09.920 --> 0:08:12.080 of all, talk about with the Oilers being down, if 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:13.760 you want to talk about the zig zag theory, you 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:15.600 would think maybe they'd be a little bit more in 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:18.040 favor of Edmonton. But tell me about what you think 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:19.800 of Florida at minus one forty five. 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:23.679 So objectively, I'll switch to objective. But I also wanted 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:25.640 to mention that the two bets I put on out 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:28.560 on Twitter last night was Anton Lindell to get a 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.600 point and Bennett to score a goal. So like you 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:33.760 and I are putting bets out there every day even 0:08:33.800 --> 0:08:36.600 if we're not doing this, so it's going to take 0:08:36.600 --> 0:08:39.040 a look. But objectively, I think that's too high for Florida. 0:08:39.559 --> 0:08:44.360 It's certainly too juicy to bet in my opinion, given that, Yeah, 0:08:44.840 --> 0:08:48.560 game three was awful, they look dominant, like but also 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:53.000 okay again, like you're telling me that they're that much better. 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:56.200 That is difficult to eat. Now if it drops to 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:58.400 like one twenty, I might minus one twenty. I might 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:02.880 take it because they're at home, because Edmonton loves to 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:06.640 dig holes for themselves. But yeah, and I say I'm 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:08.679 going I think I'm going under on the six and 0:09:08.720 --> 0:09:12.560 a half, just like we talked about, like there's one 0:09:12.679 --> 0:09:16.200 under game and it wasn't yesterday, and so I you know, 0:09:16.280 --> 0:09:18.680 and there are stats on Twitter that talk about which 0:09:18.679 --> 0:09:21.040 I don't really necessarily believe in. But Stuart Skinner in 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:27.000 game four's is lights out now, okay, like what does 0:09:27.040 --> 0:09:30.480 that mean? I don't know it, Just like I feel 0:09:30.480 --> 0:09:31.120 like it's gonna be. 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:34.160 Considering the oilers are almost always playing from trailing in 0:09:34.200 --> 0:09:35.880 a series. I think that's a good Like he can 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.240 play under adversity. I think he can play when when 0:09:38.280 --> 0:09:40.480 the chips are down a little bit, and I do 0:09:40.559 --> 0:09:42.680 agree with you. I think Panthers at minus one forty 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:44.640 five one fifty is just not happening for me. One 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:47.040 of my favorite bets is Oiler's money line because it's 0:09:47.040 --> 0:09:49.880 one thirty one thirty five. To me, Oilers have been 0:09:49.920 --> 0:09:51.400 a good road team the whole series. 0:09:51.400 --> 0:09:51.760 I think. 0:09:52.480 --> 0:09:53.920 I don't want to say you can take the home 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:56.680 ice out homee advantage out of it for either side. 0:09:56.720 --> 0:09:59.800 Florida's loud, Edmonton's certainly loud as well, But when you're 0:09:59.800 --> 0:10:02.560 at this stage with the way Edmonton's been playing, I 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.040 think that when you're getting up to one forty one 0:10:05.000 --> 0:10:06.720 to fifty, they've shown they can win on the road. 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:09.400 They've been you know, Game one, they win, Game two 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:11.880 is close, they lose in overtime. Yeah, there's the blip 0:10:11.920 --> 0:10:15.079 here in Game three, but I don't think this series 0:10:15.160 --> 0:10:17.199 is nearly as lopsided. It was a crappy game for 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:19.920 Edminton in Game three, Like that's when you can crumple up, 0:10:19.960 --> 0:10:21.640 throw in the garbage, not look at the tape. I 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:23.880 don't think there's Do you think there's a lot that 0:10:23.920 --> 0:10:25.680 they can take out of that game? Aside from the 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:27.960 penalties or is that just one of those like, look, 0:10:28.000 --> 0:10:30.880 we just didn't have it tonight, Skinner didn't necessarily have 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:33.480 it tonight. They still had chances like can you just 0:10:33.520 --> 0:10:35.199 throw that tape in the garbage or do you think 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:36.640 it might be a bigger issue. 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:38.480 I'm going with the tape in the garbage. I mean 0:10:38.600 --> 0:10:41.280 you have to have short term memory loss in the final, 0:10:41.480 --> 0:10:44.240 Like there's just no other way to play it. You know, 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.720 you and I were joking about novelty bets, like what 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:49.120 would the chances have been that Jake Wallman was going 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:53.800 to spray the other bench with water? When that When 0:10:53.840 --> 0:10:56.120 that started happening, I just thought, oh, we are so 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:58.600 off the rail. As I texted my friends, I was like, 0:10:58.640 --> 0:11:00.720 I was like, and this game is drunk, Like I 0:11:00.720 --> 0:11:03.800 don't even know what else to do with it. So, yeah, 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:06.320 to me, it was such an anomaly and it's such 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:09.560 an outlier that to bet based on how it went, 0:11:10.640 --> 0:11:13.360 I'm not interested in that it was Florida's first home game. 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:15.880 I mean there was a lot going for Florida that 0:11:16.040 --> 0:11:21.840 in this whole thing, So I'm hoping beyond hope that yeah, 0:11:21.880 --> 0:11:24.079 it was a blip, and I. 0:11:24.040 --> 0:11:26.120 Think too a lot of times when you have these instances, 0:11:26.120 --> 0:11:28.200 whether it's hockey or other sports too, you have this 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:29.719 game where it kind of you know, it ends in 0:11:29.760 --> 0:11:32.200 a little bit of fighting, or there starts the animosity 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:34.800 and obviously there's a rivalry from last year, and then 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:36.880 all of a sudden, you know, the media or people 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.480 like us are putting all these expectations on the next game, like, Oh, 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:43.000 what's gonna happen? Rarely does that actually, you know, come 0:11:43.040 --> 0:11:45.200 to fruition. I don't think we're gonna get the you know, 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:48.920 Pedro Martinez throwing an old man to the ground thing. Like, 0:11:48.960 --> 0:11:50.720 I feel like this is going to be not a 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:52.280 one and done. Like I think it's gonna be a 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:54.840 little bit chippy because it's the finals. But I don't 0:11:54.840 --> 0:11:57.440 think you're gonna get one hundred and thirty five penalty minutes. 0:11:57.600 --> 0:11:59.600 I don't think you're gonna get eleven power plays. I 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:01.400 don't think you're going to get a ton of fights. 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:03.920 There's too much at stake now too. And we talked 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:07.280 last time about the winner of game winner of a 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:09.880 Tide series, or maybe we didn't talk about it. I 0:12:09.920 --> 0:12:12.280 talked about it on the YouTube short the winner of 0:12:12.320 --> 0:12:14.760 Game two in a Tide series wins a series seventy 0:12:14.800 --> 0:12:17.120 one percent of the time. I don't have the stats 0:12:17.160 --> 0:12:19.480 for this one, but I think you can pretty much 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:20.959 say if you go up three one in a series, 0:12:20.960 --> 0:12:24.600 it's probably in the nineties. So Edmonton has to win 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:26.559 this game. I think they can't play around with this 0:12:27.040 --> 0:12:29.480 this foolery, or they can't lean into what the Panthers 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:31.600 want to do, or they might be in big trouble. 0:12:31.880 --> 0:12:33.800 Then you mentioned the total as well, you're leaning more 0:12:33.800 --> 0:12:36.000 towards the under of the six and a half. I 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:38.400 do like the over, but on the six, I think 0:12:38.640 --> 0:12:42.079 it's just I agreed last time I thought that was 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:43.800 going to be the under of the series because it 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:45.960 was tied. I'm now at the point where it's like, 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.880 I'm just going to bet over six until it stops happening, 0:12:49.240 --> 0:12:51.000 which very well could be in this game as well. 0:12:51.040 --> 0:12:53.520 But it's like, just watching these two teams I play, 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:55.200 I almost feel like it's hard for them not to 0:12:55.280 --> 0:12:56.480 at least get to six. 0:12:56.720 --> 0:12:58.360 But you do lean towards the under. 0:12:58.240 --> 0:13:02.719 Yes, yeah, I do, just a little bit. And I 0:13:02.800 --> 0:13:05.520 it's dangerous. I mean it's really dangerous, like tomorrow or 0:13:05.600 --> 0:13:08.040 on Thursday. I might just decide randomly that I'm gonna 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:09.480 go with the over six and a half because I've 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:13.000 I've been doing that depending on how the line moves, 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:14.520 but I think under the six and a half. But 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:16.000 I you know, you and I've talked about I love 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:18.720 You're over six, Like that's over six just feels like 0:13:18.800 --> 0:13:21.680 the right choice pretty much every time these two teams play. 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:24.720 But the other thing I was gonna say is like 0:13:24.800 --> 0:13:26.640 looking at like I so I was looking at last 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:28.960 year when the Oilers went down three to zero, and 0:13:29.000 --> 0:13:31.160 I remember after Game two they lost four to one, 0:13:31.240 --> 0:13:33.199 and I mean it looked like I had the same 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.200 feeling that I had yesterday where I'm like, I don't 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:38.560 even know who this team is. It's this is just 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:41.760 this is just gross. And and then game three they lost 0:13:41.800 --> 0:13:43.960 four to three and it was super close. So like, 0:13:44.000 --> 0:13:46.640 I feel like game they're just reversed this year. Game 0:13:46.679 --> 0:13:49.360 two was this was that one. But then they came 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:51.880 the Oilers came out and won eight to one in 0:13:51.960 --> 0:13:54.920 game four, and so it's like that fire again, that 0:13:54.960 --> 0:13:57.280 firepower is there, and if they get on a roll, 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:59.120 they get on a roll, like yeah, you know, then 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.160 it's we're off to the races again. But if they 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.400 try to, if they try to fight and be more 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:06.679 annoying than the Panthers, they will lose every single time. 0:14:07.559 --> 0:14:09.160 Yeah, they have to play their game, and they can 0:14:09.200 --> 0:14:11.160 show when they do play that game, they can put 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:15.200 up six, seven, eight goals. I think it's Bibarovski, especially 0:14:15.280 --> 0:14:17.120 sitting back there, if you let him get comfortable, if 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:19.160 you're not taking a ton of shots, if you're playing 0:14:19.200 --> 0:14:21.840 this game that lends into Florida what they want you 0:14:21.880 --> 0:14:23.560 to do. He can just kind of sit, but you've 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:25.280 got to keep him moving side to side, and he 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:27.600 did make some great saves last night, but I think 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:29.600 that that's going to be a way that you can 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.240 get to him. We do have a question here. I 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:35.040 think Edmonton still has the series, gonna win game four. 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:37.720 I think it goes to seven games. Not a non 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:39.720 betting question. What has been your favorite storyline of the 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:42.360 playoffs so far? So I would assume probably for you, 0:14:42.440 --> 0:14:46.440 it's the Oilers getting to the finals. But if I'm wrong, 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:48.440 what has been your favorite storyline so far? 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:50.600 Well, first of all, it's very nice to see you, 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:53.680 and your question is great, and you're my new favorite 0:14:54.160 --> 0:14:54.960 watcher anyway. 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:55.680 But Yeah. 0:14:55.960 --> 0:14:58.640 For me, it's really kind of been the McDavid ken 0:14:58.720 --> 0:15:01.040 McDavid win the Cup because I like, I get it 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:03.000 really annoyed when people are like, oh, he never won, 0:15:03.080 --> 0:15:07.000 he never won, and so like, yeah, I mean I 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:11.200 disagree that he has to to be considered like great, 0:15:11.720 --> 0:15:14.000 but it would be really nice to get that off 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:16.160 the back. And then really, and honestly, and I really 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:20.040 hate to say this, but like what watching Sam Bennett 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:22.800 do what he's done, what he's doing is it's just 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:25.440 like how do you you know, how do you stop him? 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:28.440 What is going on? Like, so I think it would 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:31.760 be that between those two McDavid getting the Cup and 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:35.640 then Bennett just being dumbly good. 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:39.280 And I hate to agree with everything that you're saying, 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:41.040 but we're having this conversation when we were watching the 0:15:41.040 --> 0:15:43.680 game last night. Of as much as I dislike Florida 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.320 because they always eliminate the Leafs and just the way 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:48.080 they play, but then you look at the team and 0:15:48.160 --> 0:15:50.200 you go, well, this is like half of Team Canada here, 0:15:50.880 --> 0:15:52.480 so it's hard for me to root against them. So 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:55.600 I'm just rooting for Bennett and Ryan Hart and Marshawn 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:57.120 you know a couple of months ago, going to be 0:15:57.200 --> 0:15:59.320 rooting for the get for them again in the Olympics 0:15:59.640 --> 0:16:02.840 up coming, So it would be nice to see some 0:16:02.920 --> 0:16:05.640 of those players win the Stanley Cup. But obviously, at 0:16:05.680 --> 0:16:07.760 the end of the day, my favorite storyline is Evant 0:16:07.920 --> 0:16:09.880 just getting back there because it's not the easiest thing 0:16:09.920 --> 0:16:14.360 to do. Seeing Connor McDavid's maturity, him sort of changing 0:16:14.400 --> 0:16:17.560 his personality a little bit, wanting to go after it 0:16:17.600 --> 0:16:21.080 and win the Cup. And you did mention another question 0:16:21.080 --> 0:16:22.760 I had for you this off topic that reminded me 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:26.440 we were again having this conversation last night comparing guys 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:28.640 like McDavid to in the people in the past, like 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:32.360 Crosby and Gretzky. I'm not going to compare McDavid to 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:35.240 Gretzky yet, certainly, but when you look at someone like 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:39.240 Crosby who has three cups, like all things equal, McDavid's, 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:41.680 you know, certainly a better goal scorer. You could even 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:44.120 argue a better playmaker as well. But do you think 0:16:44.280 --> 0:16:47.040 all things equal, he needs those one, two, three cups 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:49.560 to be considered the greatest or it doesn't matter quite 0:16:49.600 --> 0:16:50.000 as much. 0:16:50.280 --> 0:16:52.640 I think he well, he for sure needs one, right 0:16:52.720 --> 0:16:55.800 and it would be I think he somehow would get 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:57.800 a boost because you know, narratives are weird sometimes, But 0:16:57.880 --> 0:16:59.360 I think he gets a boost if they win it, 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:01.400 and they're the first Canadian team to win it since, 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:05.720 you know, nineteen ninety three. So in that regard, I 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:10.840 feel like that he for sure needs one. If in two, 0:17:10.960 --> 0:17:15.280 three would be great. And it's hard to Yeah, it's 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:17.320 hard to quantify exactly how many he would need to 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:23.560 fit into that conversation, but the comparison with Crosby is good. 0:17:23.560 --> 0:17:26.280 But and some of what he can do is comparative 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:29.360 to Gretzky. It's just Gretzky's numbers look like they were 0:17:29.400 --> 0:17:30.840 made in a lab somewhere. 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:34.359 Yeah, I often do that. I'll go on to Hockey 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.800 Reference and then in baseball going to Baseball Reference and 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:39.360 just look at Barry Bonds and Wing Gretzky's numbers and 0:17:39.400 --> 0:17:41.760 go like, yeah, I mean, I remember the tail ends 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:43.400 of their career, but just looking at them, going how 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:47.879 did this even ever happen? It's unbelievable. But I'm of 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:49.920 the mind, I'm sort of always of the mind if 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:52.200 all things are equal, the championship sort of, I don't 0:17:52.200 --> 0:17:54.439