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I'm Griffin Youngs, joined by Christian Boulay, as always, the Avalanche win game two against the Winnipeg Jets five to two and tie this best of seven first round series at a game of peace. Heading back to ball arena, Alex Giorgiev gets the start, Alex Giorgiev gets the win with a 933 safe percentage, and the Avalanche take control of this series. And like I said in the preview, one win in Winnipeg, narrative shifts fast. It shifts fast, and I know you wanted to give a quick intro on some technical difficulties that have been going on. Yep, I wanted to give some quick update on the technical stuff, I got a lot of messages about the podcast seeming shortened for the game one recap, I trouble shot that for most of Tuesday yesterday. There wasn't anything that we could do about it for that one, that one seemed like it was either a bug on Apple Podcast's end or maybe on megaphone or re-upload stuff, there was a lot of other shows in our network having the same problem. I was experiencing the same problem, everything internally for us, the upload itself was fine. So if that does happen again, I just want to say that now, dude, I know not everyone follows us on Twitter and can keep up with what's going on with us here, we got some stuff in the mailbag about it too. So if that's the problem, I would try a different platform, if you're listening on Apple Podcasts or Spotify or any other podcast platforms because it seemed like it worked on some and not others and it was just random for everybody. If you are having a problem, send me a message on the Teletabs, it is a count and let me know what you're listening on and I'll do my best for you, I'll see what I can do. But want to get that out of the way, just in case it gets cut off at the end, because I didn't want to put that at the end because you wouldn't hear it, so let's get right into this game. Yeah, let's get into it, because like you said, at the very beginning, they just needed one and they bounced back and the biggest bounce back of all, after Sunday night's episode, we said Alexander Georgiev should not tend the net the rest of the series. As it turns out, you just end and still sick I've imposed off get calls up, Georgiev gets the start in net, and he rebounded with probably his best game since the all start break. That was a Alexander Georgiev game from last year, or even the beginning of this year, that was a bounce back performance of bounce back performances. And all I can say is Georgiev, sorry man, my God, that's on us. I don't know what else to say, we were all very upset, and it's a good bounce back from him, and it creates no doubt that he's starting game three. 100%. And you look at the reality of game one, Georgiev had probably one of the worst playoff starts of the last 30 years. Was it AJ who tweeted out that it was like the third worst in like modern NHL history? Yeah, it was up there, regardless, and it's safe to say his career might have been on the line in this game. And if you're not rooting for a guy in that situation to rebound, get back on track and save his job, essentially, then I don't know what to tell you, I was rooting for Georgiev hard in this game, and he came through big time. That is by far the biggest difference of this game. The avalanches performance in this game was very repeatable from game one. They looked fantastic. They outplayed the Jets for most of the game. The Jets still played fine. It's not like the Jets are playing poorly. The after just better than them. They're just better. And it is a great bounce back from Alexander Georgiev. And if you're one of the dorks who goes into people's like professional athletes comments and just tells them how terrible they are, you're a dork first off. Don't do that. Yeah, that's just some of the lowest class stuff. Yeah, you can do it's a dork thing to do. Yeah, he knows you don't have to tell him he knows he wasn't good in game one. I don't think there is a person on Earth who knows more than Alex Georgiev that he wasn't good in game one. Anyone who like goes into athletes mentions or slides in their DMS, telling them to retire or worse, which I saw to get the **** out of here. Get out of the fan base. Get out of the sport. You don't belong here. Yeah, don't be a dork. How would you like it if you have a shitty day at your job and people are flooding your Instagram comments saying you're the worst. So don't be a dork. And I just have, I have nothing but praise for Alexander Georgiev, man. Like it's, we came on here and criticized him pretty hard. We hard-boomed him. Yeah. And it wasn't just us. It was every show I listened to after game one, the articles I read after game one, it was national media, local media, the fans, the reaction when he started game two in this game is people were not happy after game one. And he came through as simple as that. He made the saves. That save he made in the third period to keep it a two goal lead for the abs after the penalty kill. I celebrate that more than any of the goals the F scored in this game. That is by far the biggest turning point of this entire series. He helped do Connor Hellbuck. Yeah, Connor Hellbuck was the worst goalie in this game. Connor Hellbuck, now the narrative shifts to him, who has given up now 10 goals in six periods of this series. And in the second period, four goals on 14 shots. He collapsed in that second period that turnover behind the net and the shot from Miles Wood that just goes straight through him and getting beat by Josh Manson on that breakaway. I mean, he, he fucked up in this game. And here's the thing, the abs, if your give not very good can play through it. The Jets can't. The Jets cannot play through Connor Hellbuck not playing. Well, that team lives and dies by their goaltender. And if he is going to struggle in this series, the Jets are going to struggle even more. I couldn't agree more. And I, it's just going to be one of those series where we talked about on Sunday's episode. What the abs are doing is repeatable. They aren't getting lucky with any of these goals. No, like you could say the, the Parisi goal is a little bit lucky, but that was a turnover caused by Trenton. It's eternal. Yeah, exactly. You took words right in my mouth. It's a mistake from Connor Hellbuck, but it's forced by Trenton. Right. Continue. It's a great heads up play by Andrew Kogliano behind that to recognize he can't wrap that and gives it to Parisi who doesn't get it first try. That stays with the puck and bangs it. Yes, that's an unforced error by Connor Hellbuck, but that is execution from your fourth line that buries that puck into the net. Nothing the abs have done in this series has been lucky or unsustainable. They are earning every single inch of ice that they're taking. This is, and once they start to get lucky bounces, the series could be over. Right. It's, it's just, they're playing very good hockey right now. I thought the defense tonight outside of one play by Jack Johnson was very good. Josh Manson had a good game, kill McCarre de Vontaves. I thought the Manson and Dave's pair was a lot better tonight. Yep. The McCarum Walker pair was good. Johnson and Jones struggled a little bit, but what are you going to do? It's your bottom pair and you're missing a very important guy on your defense. Like, yeah, you're hoping you're getting Gerard back for game three of this series or at least soon after that. But even then, like Johnson struggled a couple points. He also had his moments. Came in for moments. Also had his moments. There's one real mistake on the defense, but they weren't catastrophic, which in this situation is what you want. And what you want. And I, this team's got more balls than I would have had in these situations because they, they battled back from being on one nothing than being down to one and they came back and they kind of made this game easy. The third period, it was just all defensive. I think they only had what like three shots in the third period. They only had three shots in the period and the Jets had a couple of looks, but none of them were crazy outside of the one York yet saved. The Jets primarily were on the outside weren't super dangerous. And this game more than anything was a metal test. It's easy for things to be going well when you're scoring seven goals and the other goal is bad. The Jets needed to follow that up in this game and the apps needed to respond. The apps had been here before. They've gone through all of this shit. They know you cannot lose two in a row in the playoffs. And they're down one nothing after the first and hell of us looking really good. They didn't change a damn thing. They just kept coming. They break through. And it's the Jets that have to overcome the abs in this series, not the other way around. Yep, exactly, exactly. So let's, those are kind of a big picture thoughts. Let's go period by period here because there's only one game to talk about. So it's a little bit fresh. The first period, the Jets I thought came out and they played good for the first 10 minutes plus I think they came out and they made some plays. They were hitting everything, keeping pucks in the abs defensive zone. And the one goal, I'm still trying to figure out, did that bounce off someone and your gift just didn't have time to recover? It looked more like a lucky bounce than a bad goal in my opinion. Yeah, I mean, he was obviously getting a harpoon for it because it's the third shot of the game ending up in the back of the net. He was a little out of position, but also at the same time, this would have even ranked in game one as any of his worst goals. And the important part is, yeah, he gives up the goal. He doesn't give up another one that you can say is his fault, the rest of the game. He holds down the fort the rest of the way. And, you know, it's unfortunate because it seemed like the puck took a little bit of a bounce, or you've had trouble tracking it, and it's a nightmare start to the game for that to end up in the back here, net that way, and you're starting to think about it again and the Jets, like you said, had a very good start in this game. They're out shooting the abs nine to two. At one point, they almost switched sides from game one. Yeah, and they also got helped by just two of the worst penalty calls I think I've ever seen in playoff hockey. And the first one on Ross Colton, I thought was ticky tack. That seems like it's no contact. If there's one thing I've learned so far, the Jets will fall very easily for a playoff. Yeah, they're going to fall. And I didn't love the call. But abs kill that one off. Good penalty kill, your gift comes up with some big saves. And then the second one on Caleb Jones. There was no penalty there. There was none. I just love the fact because later in the game, a very similar situation happens with Sean Walker. And that one's not called a penalty, but the one where Caleb Jones and Adam Lowry is just falling already. They call that one. Just a brutal call. Caleb Jones didn't even touch him. Right. He didn't even touch him on this play. Like he just lost his balance and fell into the boards. And the Colton one, they called it on Kiviranta. Right. And then changed it later because there was no penalty on the play. So you're starting the game off with an unlucky goal. And two penalties that just didn't happen. And then they're forced to call another one on the Jets to make up for it with a pretty weak hooking call. On, you know, need to write her. Like just between that and the caps and Rangers game today, like just play off officiating is getting under my skin. Just get yourself out of the game. Please just do your job. I'm not asking for anything else. You see a penalty fucking call. It stopped trying to do too much. Right. It just there. There were two brutal calls. And the ads were able the, the PK was very good tonight. Very, very good. And they kill off both penalties because the refs are incompetent and the ads get a short and power play. If there's one critique I have for the apps tonight in the power play, they went back to their regular season form and just started passing everything. Yeah. Everything. I think Miko turned down like three or four slap shots he could have taken. And it just shoot the puck. We saw what happened in game one. You shoot the puck. Good things happen. Like it's, it's, it's good to shoot the puck. Like you don't need the perfect play every time. They, they overpass on that first power play. Not a whole lot happens. But for the last 10 minutes of that period, the apps really turned it on. Yeah. They, they started to get their footing underneath them and kind of at the end, a little bit unfortunate that they didn't tie the game in the first period. Hellbuck was great in the first period. Hellbuck had a strong first period and the first power play, I didn't mind all that much. They got four shots on goal on that power play. Hellbuck had to make a couple of really big saves. And from that point on, that was the turning point. The apps dominated the rest of the first period and took a lot of momentum into the second period. It's the, the double minor in the second period. That was the really, really bad one that really could have been a big swing point in this game if they didn't turn it around. But the first period as a whole started slow, they really picked it up after that. They end the first period with the lead in shots after getting out shot nine to two with a 15 to two shot lead, 15 to 12 shot lead by the end of the period. And just, it took them a second to, to get going for whatever reason. But once that train got started, it, it was real hard to stop. It was real hard to stop. And when this team's clicking offensively, and they're finding ways to cycle the puck. And the thing was, is it took the big guns a little bit to get going in this game. The second line of Casey Milstad or Turi Leckenen and Valinacuchkin slash Zach Parisi has been everything we wanted in more in these first two games. They have been creating chances offensively. It's a shame Casey Milstad didn't end up with a point tonight. I thought he was phenomenal. And it gave the big guns a little bit of time to get their footing underneath them. And then they started to take over later in the game. But that second line with Milstad and Leckenen being the main two on there have been phenomenal. That one kicks a mask. And Val might have been the best player on the ice in the game. I'm glad he got the empty net goal at the end because he deserved it. What a monster he was on both ends of the ice in this game. Defensively, he was a nightmare for the Jets to deal with. He's breaking up everything getting pucks out of the zone. He's creating odd man rushes the other way. He's keeping the puck in the zone. The Jets did not know how to deal with him. He's a completely different animal. And he's a cheat code of a human being. He is. He's a cheat code of a human being. And when he's executing up the way he's executing right now, he's impossible to stop. He's impossible to contain all those things. So, I just want to give Coos that second line. I don't think Lecky was the only one in Val got a point, a goal. But I thought Casey Milstad had a phenomenal game. Milstad deserves his credit as well. And he had a, I think a solid first game, not a perfect first game, but he looked like he's responding well to a playoff atmosphere. And it's a pretty tough atmosphere to come into when a pack is your first two playoff games on the road in that atmosphere. And he seems like he's adjusted well to it. He's just a calm, smart player. And the puck is just always on a string with him. It's actually crazy just how good he is at handling the puck. And he was good ends up playing 1443. I would like to see it closer to 1516. But there was a lot of in that second period. The abs had a four minute power play. I think the second power play you got the ice for maybe 40 seconds. Maybe. So that takes a big chunk out of it. But Casey Milstad was good. That second line was good. And after the first period, you're only down one nothing. Me and you were both texting, saying like, honestly, that was a good period. You had a flu people go in. They responded well, the second period. If they continue doing what they're doing, they're going to score. And boy, oh boy, did they score the second period. There was a lot of doom and gloom after the first period, which just did not match what my eyes were seeing in that first period. Like they played well, they responded really well. Yeah, they started a little slow. Yeah, they're behind one nothing, but they were really starting to pour it on. And Connor Hellbuck looked good. He didn't look invincible. He was really good in that first period. It's really. But you know, Connor Hellbuck's not invincible. Like it's the same thing we said coming in this year. This is not prime, carry price, prime, Henrik Lundquist, you're going up against right here. Vezna goalie this year. But you can beat him. You beat him six times in the last game. And lo and behold, in the second period, they stick with their game. They pierce him four times in that four times and completely completely changed momentum. It's a game. And what line gets the first goal of the game, the Ross Colton line, which has been great. These first two games as well. Yolke Vronto was a man-able tonight. He was on fire. I didn't even know that was Yolke Vronto for some time. He was making play after play, man. He was great. That is exactly the kind of around the edges play you need from a guy like Yolke Vronto in the playoffs. I'm not expecting him to score goals or even really even put up any points in this series. But he's blocking shots. He's digging pucks out along the boards. Like he's making life miserable for people. And on this play, it's a great face-off win for Ross Colton. It was 70% in the face-off today. And Miles Wood two for two in the playoffs. Like we said, if he's saving them all for the playoffs with that gold route he had in the regular season. Awesome. And he's a playoff guy. You could see it all year that when it gets to the playoffs, that's a guy who's going to be super valuable. And you weren't getting this last year. That's all I can think. Like just entire third period. Like you're not getting any of this last year. The only difference, or the only goal you really got from your stars, like McCar sets up that one for Lekenin and McKinnon Springs, Manz Now the Box. But you got to go from Miles Wood set up by Ross Colton and Zach Parisi set up by Andrew Cagliato. That was not happening in the Seattle series. That never happened once in the Seattle series last year. Like through two games of this series, you have the exact same series score and the exact same result. Lost in game one, win in game two, I could not feel more different about this team coming out of the first two games. And I did last year against Seattle. They did too. They had to rally that game. I almost lost that game too. They had to rally to win that game. But the third line has been everything we thought it would be going into the playoffs and more. I love the way they play man. They just hit everything. And they are going to forecheck the living shit out of you and then to follow it up with Trenton and Duane. And those that line combinations mean like they are just going to forecheck you. They aren't the greatest skill guys but they're going to get chances. And the Winnipeg Jets outside of their top line was chiefly Connor. And is it to fully playing with them or who's the third guy playing on them? Is it Elers. They kind of seem to go back and forth. They kind of soon. But if you're a third line and fourth line are playing like that, they're out playing the Jets third and fourth line. They're going to win those games because the abs top talent is better than the Winnipeg Jets. And that's a big loss for the Jets to be losing that battle head to head because at the top advantage abs the whole the whole way. There is no debate about any of that. The advantage for Winnipeg in this series has to be in their bottom six. And they got outperformed in this game. They've been outperformed in both games in my opinion. I agree. I've loved the bottom six in both of these games to start the series. Like even you all Kibi Ronta has bought into it. Maybe that's just what we were waiting for this whole time with Kibi Ronta all season like we've seen from him in the past where the Jets bottom six. I mean David Gustafson had the goal in the first period but outside of that they really didn't have anything and the Jets had to lean on their top guys, which is not the recipe to beat the abs. Nope, not the recipe. So Miles Wood gets the first goal in the second period. And like you mentioned earlier, the abs get just a glorious opportunity. Kale McCar takes a stick in the face, a double minor. And you're thinking if the abs can just get one, they're going to run away with this game because they had all the momentum and the power play was over passive. They're really missing Jonathan, Drew Anne, I think in this game that they were missing him in that in that bumper role, but they still had a couple chances, nothing glorious. And the four minutes kind of ticked by and you're like that felt like a huge missed opportunity and I'm so glad the abs won this game. Because if they were the loss, we would have looked back on that opportunity and probably been like that's why we lost the game. Yeah, I mean, that's a huge missed opportunity. That's a huge swing point in the game and a huge wasted opportunity. That's my big minus coming out of the game is that four minute power play. They got one shot on goal. And there was a couple of times where Ranton and just overpass and man, shoot the damn thing. You're one of the best shooters in the show. We've said this at length this season. You got a shot on the power play. There are very few people on earth who can shoot that thing better than Michael Ranton and he just, he seems to be deferring about it. If there was one thing I didn't love in this game, it was Miko. I did not think he had a goal. I didn't think he had a good game. But I like his effort was there. But here's the thing, Miko Ranton is not scoring and you're tied one one. You know that's going to change. That is going to be learned about Miko Ranton. He will start scoring some points. So just give it time. I'm not worried about Miko Ranton and being a no-show because he's trying. He's blocking shots. He's clear in pucks. He's making the right decisions where it matters most. He's just, he's overthinking it in the offensive zone and he's not shooting. And there are just several times on that power play where the half just got to shoot the damn thing. I know it's Connor Hellabook and I know he's got the reputation and you're going to have to beat him with the perfect play. Shoot. Shoot the buck. Have enough faith in yourself. The Colorado Avalanche, a noted offensively talented team to be able to beat a goalie. Yes, it's Connor Hellabook. Yes, he's very good. Believe in yourself enough that when you have a shooting lane that close to shoot the damn thing. Shoot the buck. Shoot the buck. But that's getting nothing on that. They had a really good chance. I think it was Ross Colton and Hellabook made a big save and it leads to a breakout. And Jack Johnson, I don't know what you're doing on this play man. Like, it's a good tipping by Shife Lee. Don't get me wrong. It's a good tipping. But what was Jack Johnson doing on this play, man? Like, I still have no idea. Like, you could tell Georgia thought that Johnson was going to eliminate that guy. He doesn't even tie up a stick. He just puts his arm in his chest. Yeah, he has nothing there. He has his back to the puck. I'm watching it right now on ESPN. He has his back to the puck and just entirely on Mark Shife Lee. And he's a step slow. And he's also not tying up the stick, which is just, you're not really doing anything in this. Like, you're lightly pushing him away from the net, which puts him in a better scoring position than he would have been if you had just left him alone to begin with. And there is nothing Georgia can do on this play. I saw the muscle reaction from everyone being like, "Oh, Georgia, again, giving up another goal." He's not made a rubber. Like, there's nothing he can do on that. It's a great deflection by Shife Lee, but it's easily prevented. Yeah, it's an easily preventable play. If you just play the stick or do anything or just... There's nothing really Jack Johnson was doing on that play to be particularly helpful. It's a very good play from Winnipeg that you can expect a good team in a series. They're going to make good plays, but the abs are down two to one. They finally get one from Wood and they're losing again, but again, the metal of this team has been tested before. And this is the kind of thing where it's hard to get rid of this team. Yeah, the Jets have beat them three times in the regular season and blew them out big time, and they won game one with seven goals. The abs are just going to keep on coming. You give them a little bit of life. You give Cal McCar a little bit of time. At the point, he'll find Laconan for a deflection and things are just going to spiral out of control for you. That passing point to set up this Laconan goal is just beautiful. I mean, McKinnon doesn't get an assist on the play, but I believe he drops it back to Taves. Taves drops it back to McCar, and McCar has a wide open yawning cage to shoot at. And Laconan just continues to score big time playoff goals. Yeah, it's what he does. Right place, right time and Cal McCar. I think we were dead on in the preview that I think he was just sick of the regular season. I think we were dead on with that because he is a new man in the playoffs. He has been throughout the two games, both combined the best player for the abs. He has been dominant this entire game. I'm about easily been the MVPs of the series so far. What have the Jets been able to do to Cal this series? They've had no answer for him whatsoever. When Cal is skating around that blue line with the puck and giving himself some room, they just are kind of looking around like, I don't know what you want from me here. I can't stop this. Nope, you can't stop it. And they tied the game at two, which was, I think, just massive. I don't know what else to say other than, like you said earlier, this team just has resolve right now. They're going to find ways to come back. And they're never out of a game. We've seen that all year, but it is nice to play with a lead, which they would get, what, like two minutes after that Laconan goal. Pretty much. I mean, it was barely even that. I mean, how much time? Yeah, like three minutes after minutes. Was this the one after the post by Kyle Connor? Yes. I think it was. So the abs get a little bit of a lucky break. It goes off the post. Yeah, because that's the one where Jack Johnson fell asleep. Yeah, he don't know again. Jack Johnson. He had a game tonight. I'm not going to go off on him, but I see why he is playing like nine minutes a game. And when Sam drawers back, it'll probably be like eight, because that's what's going to be. So, you get the chance, they go off for a change. I believe it was. It was either Manson or someone else dumps the puck into offer a change. I have trending comes flying in. And Connor help up just flubs it, man. Like, Jacob trending makes a good play pressures him. And help up flubs it. It goes right to Andrew Kogliano who finds that Parisi in front. And talk about versatility was that Parisi I think he played on all four lines tonight. I think he took shift with all four lines. He's just going and doing everything. And he misses the first one. Gets the second one to go in and the abs in the blink of an eye have it three to lead. Yep. That's all it takes with this team sometimes just a little bit of a mess up. From Connor hella Buck and a little bit of space for Kilmer car on the goal before. And that's it. That's all it took. And from that point on the Jets for rattle. But they had not been pushed like that so far in the playoffs and in the last couple of years they've been underdogs or like the other series they had against the Oilers. There's no fans in the building like this was the first time in a while that the abs kind of pushed them around a little bit and they got reminded of what the abs can do because I think they kind of forgot for a little bit. Because they score the seven goals in game one of the series and they have the lead and they just, they don't realize I think that the abs can do that, that you can't give them anything or just pardon the button in avalanche is going to come your way. And they're going to run you over. And that's what the last 10 minutes of the second period where the abs just ran him over that goal by Parisi was huge. And like you said the Jets go West Connor hell but goes if Connor hell bucks not having a good night. They're going to struggle because that decor has shown cracks like more sees good you'll be honest good. Stanley's okay. What is Nate Schmidt hurt. I haven't heard his name on series. I think he is like I think he actually is hurt because I have not heard his name in months. Right. Okay, I just want to make sure that I'm not just imagining things because I haven't seen out there. But they're okay and Connor Hoba makes them look better because he's the best goalie on planet earth, which also has this been an easier vezna to win in your life than what Connor always going to do. He's the only goalie who's been good this year like well tending in the playoffs has been atrocious. And all like I've like we were all mad at your give after game one and rightfully so but then we watched the games the next day are like. Oh, so just no one's good. Like Connor whole books just was the most consistent all year long and that's why he's going to invest now granted he's been great but it's just very funny to talk about that. And late in like okay this is another thing that frustrates me about playoff hockey. I get four and four is a thing like there's going to be matching minors and it benefits the apps more than anyone. But I also just think like if you're on call pen just make it five out five the entire time just just have those guys go off and then sit in the box until the plays like there's a whistle. I just hate for one for hockey it's either one person committed penalty or no one committed to penalty like let's just keep playing here. Late in the second period, Nathan McKinnon finds Josh Manson out of the box, a leaping play by the referee to get out of the way and Josh Manson looks like goddamn killing the car on this breakaway goes forehand or backhand forehand five who on Connor how about the abs and the blink of an eye in a period they were down one nothing going into and to one down. They have a two goal lead at the end of the second period. Yep, five minutes later all of a sudden they have a four to lead going into the final period and the building is just dead silent. What if what a pass from Nathan McKinnon to set up Josh Manson right out of the box and Manson looks surprisingly comfortable on breakaways. He's had very few in his career but like he has no problem with the most of the time and he has surprisingly good hands. Yeah, like I said the Jets for really rattled after hell of a mistake the abs had a couple of chances late in the second period and looked like they were going to run out of time that they just get one last chance right before the horn and that that was a killer. More than anything that was a huge momentum killer for the Jets like it quieted the building down huge the Jets, their body language after that gold was brutal they went back to the locker room like heads down. Tail between the legs kind of thing like they did not have a response for what the abs threw at them in that period. It never responds and that's what happens when the abs are clicking and they're getting competent gold tending. They're a very hard team to beat and a hard team to keep down and I want to just echo that point that we said the very beginning of the episode. The abs are getting everything like they're earning everything that's going in for them. There has not been one ounce of luck the abs way the series in my opinion so far. It's been hard working, highly skilled goals and we all know in hockey there's going to be lucky bounces eventually. The abs are going to start getting those but so far through two games they've just outworked and outplayed the Jets. And if it's not for the third worst goal tending in modern NHL history and a playoff game they're probably up to 0 in the series. Yeah they're probably up to 0 and we're talking oh man they're going to Colorado up to 0 right now. This series might not last very long at all that's not the situation that we're in but you are tied at 1 now going back to the toughest barn to play in in the NHL at ball arena in the altitude that everyone likes to make the excuse about. So we'll see how the Jets respond to that in game 3 having to deal with everyone's favorite excuse again but they did what they needed to do. Ultimately we asked them to split in Winnipeg and they did and in the third period of this game they shut it down. Nothing happened and that's totally okay the outside three shots in the third period. But here's the thing the Jets didn't score so their mission of just good defense lock it down. The Jets had one good chance I think that Euler's chance was the only one that the ads really gave up. But you ever came up with the save and that's all I can ask for in the third period of a playoff hockey game you're up by two. Nothing happened. There was no like sweating it was just good solid defense and it's good to know that the abs can do this. And every single line did it in that period. The top line was playing great defense. The second line was playing great defense. The third line was playing great defense. The fourth line was playing great defense. Everyone had the full buy in because you look at it and say oh they only had three shots. In the third they went into turtle. The Jets only had eight. They only had eight. And the apps had like a couple shifts where they dominated the Jets and the Jets. They hit a post that could have made the two much earlier in that period on that chance from Nathan McKinnon that just barely hit the post as it snuck through Hellabook. And the Jets with a power play and the empty net for two full minutes essentially four minutes with an extra man. Eight shots on goal that entire period. That last penalty kill was one of the best penalty kills all season. That was a bad penalty kill. Could not do that any better. Like it looked a little dicey for like 15 seconds. The second Val got his stick on that puck and cleared it. The Jets didn't know that it flew by super quick because the abs they had it locked down. They know how to play in this situation. They've been through this thing before. It's good to know that they have that in them because they haven't had the opportunity too much this regular season to do that because it always felt like they were coming back and having to fight back from deficits. It's good to know that when you have a two goal lead they can lock it down. They can't. That's the thing in this series now that we have seen that the abs are back. We're through two games in this series and the abs have been the better team. Echoing my point from earlier, the Jets have to overcome them. They have to find a way to beat the playoff abs. Now that that series has changed and the abs are back in control. The only shifts to the Jets. Now they have to come into ball arena and find a way to beat this team when they're clicking. There's not a lot of teams in this league that can do that. Yeah, no, I mean it's maybe the Florida Panthers. Maybe. That's it. That's a round four problem. Yeah, that's a Stanley Cup final problem. But I love the way they played in these two games. It's kind of a shame they aren't up to well because they played well enough to be up to 0. But you're tied one one. You have home ice advantage now for the rest of the series. You have to just go protect home ice. If you protect home ice and win three games at home, the series is over. Yeah, that's it. It's over. If you protect home ice, you're going back to Winnipeg with a chance to win this thing. Yep. And that's all you can ask for. That's all you can ask for. So I'm very, very excited for Friday's game. If they repeat this effort again, man, we're still waiting and we're two games in and Nathan McKinnon's been good. He's been good. But you know there's a Nathan McKinnon game coming up where there's going to be three or four points in the game. We haven't seen it. We haven't seen Nathan McKinnon at home yet this series. I will say that we have not seen Nathan McKinnon play a game at home yet in this series and through two games. He's got three points and he was a plus three in this game already. He should have had another because he was directly contributed to the the archery lack and goal. Just too far down on the assist list to get a point on that Nathan McKinnon's been excellent. And now he's going to come back to his building with momentum and the jets. They're on the back foot defending him. They've done okay. I thought the Lowry lines done good against them so far. They've had moments where they don't think they've shut them down. No, they are from shut them down. But we're still waiting and you know it's coming this series where Nathan McKinnon's going to have like two goals to assist in the game. Yeah, let's go ahead. And you saw it in game one even where McKinnon's flying around people. He rings it off the post and early in the third period. He has the goal and the assist and he has another assist in this game. Like he looks perfectly fine. There's nothing wrong with Nathan. But that's just the exciting part for me is that we haven't seen amico ranting and point explosion yet. We haven't seen the Nathan McKinnon like usual playoff like two to three points a game. We haven't seen that yet. And the series has tied one one. Like that's the exciting part. The way you've won these games is your depth. Your depth has won you a game and could have won you a second one. Yeah, you've won two playoff style or sorry one one playoff style game. Like in my head, I still feel like we won game one even though we we didn't. But even still, they outplayed them in that game and they're getting good playoff style performances from a lot of their guys. And to your point, we haven't seen those explosions from the top guys yet. Kael Makar has been excellent. He had three points in game one. He has another two today. He's got five points in two games this series, which is just ridiculous. If you if you had any doubt who the best defenseman in the world is you don't anymore so long watching the apps play. But yeah, the abs advantage abs in this series, it's their series to lose from here on. The Jets have to respond to them. The abs are in control and they're going back to their building where they have been really, really good this year. Really good. And Connor Hellebach's been very beatable this entire like he's beatable. And now he's going to have to go on the road where it's it's going to be loud. He's going to have to struggle. He's going to be. I still think there's going to be a game where Hellebach has like 48 of 50 saves. But I still think they have to win that game because when they're on home ice, they're just a different animal. And it's going to be good, man. It's going to be really good and I cannot wait for game three on Friday. Well, do you have any other thoughts about game two before we move on to preview for game three? I mean, the some of those calls at the end, I thought were pretty ticky tack. Like the one that gave Winnipeg their power play. You're calling that, but you ignore the hit that sends Walker to the locker room because it's. I refresh my memory who made the hit again, but yeah, no mess. Yeah, no mess. That's a dangerous play. Like he he yanks Walker down on the boards and like if Walker gets unlucky, he destroys his legs. Right. He destroys one if not both of his legs. There's only two people chasing that book. The ref is staring right at it and just ignores it. You want to know why it was ignored because at the end of the game, both teams had three power play opportunities. And both teams had 10 minutes of penalty minutes the entire game. That's exactly my point. Call penalties. That's it. You don't have to even everything up. If you make a bad call, you don't have to average it out with another bad call. Like it's just playoff style officiating frustrates the hell out of me because there's no point to any of it. There's no consistency. You're not doing your job. You're just making sure that everything is even and they're not trying to stop games from getting out of control. They don't care about that. All they care about is like, oh, no more than three power plays for one team. Like that's a dangerous play. That's the kind of thing that should get you put in the box. If not more, like that kind of thing you should not be doing in the NHL. That's the kind of thing where you see very serious injuries happen where that could rip apart his ACLs. If he follows the other way, that could break his neck. Yeah. I just, I hate it. I hated that. He's going to get no discipline for it. And I just think that's silly. It was silly. And then the duhame one, like, yeah, I think in the regular season, you call that, but in the playoffs, I think you let that one slide. After you let that go. Yeah, no consistency. Didn't love it. I thought all three penalties that Jets got were pretty mad, pretty mad. My game didn't love all of them, but the abs go three for three. They skate out of Winnipeg with a five, two victory. And once again, Alexander Georgiev. Sorry, bro. You were great tonight. Yeah. I mean, he showed that in this game. After the performance in game one, and you're getting put back in that net for a game two, you got to show up. And he did. He got to show up. And again, I think his career was on the line in this game. I could not be happier for him. I'm so glad he got that. And you hope now has a 933 on a big stage. They're chanting his name after puck drop, and he silences that building. You're hoping that's a building block for him the rest of the way, because we've seen this team needs him. Every team needs their goaltender. When in this game, when he faces 23rd shock, Georgiev had only given up two goals. The game before when Georgiev had faces 23rd shot, he'd given up seven goals. At both points, the abs had four goals. And this time they won. It's not a huge search to find out what the catalyst was for that as to why the abs won this game versus why they lost the last game. They needed better goal tending, and they got it in spades. They got it in spades in this game. And you're hoping that it carries for him the rest of the way. Because he got lucky with Ananden being sick. He would have been pulled in game one. And Ananden probably goes in game two. 100%. He almost certainly goes in game two. He's not available. Georgiev gets a second chance. He takes full advantage of it. And now it's one game. How you going to do it again? Yeah, do it again. And hopefully Ananden's back for game three. He must have a terrible case of the flu or something to be out for two straight playoff games. He'll hopefully be backing him up. But Georgiev gets a start in game three. I don't think it's much of a question. After that performance, you give Georgiev the nod. I still think Felicia Short, if Ananden's back, I still think it's short. But hopefully he can build off of it. And you look at game three, Friday night in Denver. I could see a blow up for the abs. I really could. I could see like a six to two win. I really could. There's a real opportunity here to take control of this series in game three. Coming back to your building. After playing as well as you have over the last two games, you should be up to. Oh, it's only one one, but you've got the split that you wanted in Winnipeg. You're coming back home. Like we said, you haven't seen the huge explosions from your top guys. I think you're getting it. It's coming. Trust me. It's coming. Yeah. I feel good about game three. I feel good about this series right now. Like even after game one is frustrating as we were, I still felt fine. Oh, we felt great. Like we said on the show, it was like, this is the weirdest feeling I've ever had after losing game one. Because the abs, it took a historic gold tending bag, gold tending performance for them to lose. Like they played great. And then they followed up again and played great tonight. I still feel great about this series. Yeah. And I think game three, I just, I have a feeling it's the McKinnon's masterclass. I think we're seeing four points out of him in this game. I certainly hope so. I mean, if you can really take a good stranglehold on this series and get a. Blowout win, I guess he can say it's like it feels weird to say blowout in the playoffs and predict blobs in the playoffs. But I feel like rant and ends really do for something. I think McKinnon's do for like that jaw dropper of a play and jaw dropper of a performance that really has everyone go man. He is in that conversation for best in the world because McDavid had that in game one. He was fantastic for the Oilers in game one of their series against the king. And I think McKinnon's do for his here. And I think the abs all do respect to the Jets. I think they're going to play fine. But I think the abs top guys and they're going to get stuff from their bottom guys like they have been for the first two games of this series. That's a very tough combination overcome. Again, win this team clicks and they hadn't clicked much after the all-star break outside of their winning streak. After that winning streak, they couldn't click for a little while. They flipped the switch for the playoffs. And now here they are. Things are clicking. They're connecting on passes. They're communicating a lot more. And if Giorgiev is backing them up with solid goal tending, not asking for perfect, just solid goal tending. 905, 910. That's all I need. That's all you. That's all this team really needs. You just give them a chance. They're going to make a real run at this here. We're talking far beyond the Winnipeg series, but you can only take it one game at a time right now. We take it one game at a time, but I just have a feeling it's going to be. I'm going to say 6-2 is what the abs win. I think McKinnon has four points. Ranting and gets a goal. And I think the Jets, like I said, are going to play well. It's just McKinnon's going to take over. They're not going to be able to line match against McKinnon in this game. The abs will be able to line match going into this game. And I think it's a big night for the abs. I think it's a big, big night. I agree. I'm going to say it's a 5-3 win for the abs. I think we're going to see all the same things we've been mentioning here with big nights for McKinnon. And Ranting. It's a feeling you might get a little closer towards the athletes. It's a garbage time or something. And whatever, but I feel good about the abs going into this game. And I don't know how I feel about the two-day break coming up. Oh, I hate it. I don't know if that's going to be good for them or going to be bad for them. I feel like it gives Winnipeg some time to get into Denver and adjust. But it happens in the playoffs. You're going to get a chance to rest some of your bumps and bruises and just go to war the rest of the series. And fingers crossed, Sam Girard's back for game three. They need Sam Girard in this series. Don't rush him back. He needs to be 100% because this is a hard hitting series. You need him 100%. And I think that's why he didn't play these first two. Yeah, I agree. And yeah, they need Sam Girard in this series. They need his puck clearing ability. They need his puck moving. And things are lining up for the abs right now. You just, you take out the historically bad performance and goal in game one. We're feeling right now. You can't erase it entirely because it still happened, but you're going back home, tied at one. You've outplayed them for two straight games here. The abs are the better team and there's still more that they can do. Like they have not shown their hand here as a team. They've just shown that Winnipeg, you have to hope for a bad night from the abs. Like Winnipeg is a very, very, very good team that deserves a lot of respect. But the abs are different. And the abs, they've been through this thing before. They know how to do it. They had their metal tested in this game and so did Winnipeg. More than anything in the playoffs, you lose games. It's going to happen. It's going to be how you respond in the next one. And it came down to Giorgi having to respond in this game. It came down to the abs having to respond in this game. And they know how to do it at this point. They've been through the rigors of going to win a Stanley Cup. And last year, having to fight through that Seattle series and dragging that series to seven. I think there were a lot of lessons learned in that series too. And now you're getting dragged into a tough series against Winnipeg again. And starting on the road this time, which is something this team hasn't done a lot. And I mean, how is that for responding for this team? Not very good on the road. Going into the white out in Winnipeg and having two really, really strong games. What else can you say? That looked like the old abs in the playoffs. And also, you just have to take no count. What the abs did in 2022 going 16 and four, that never happened. So that will never happen again in the morning. Like that just does not happen. You're going to lose games in the playoffs. It's how you bounce back. And they bounce back phenomenally in this game. So very, very, very happy with it. And game three on Friday is going to be a blast. Any other final thoughts about the abs before we quickly recap. The rest of the NHL. Ballerina, battery rocking for game three. Oh, it will be. Don't you worry. I mean, I'm not worried, but challenge has been sent by Winnipeg. And I know we're going to respond. And in our absence for game three, because obviously I live far away. And Christian is going to be traveling for a wedding for games three and four. Step up in our place, make that building hell for the jets. Yeah, this would be the first playoff game I've missed since. Very long time. I have not missed. COVID probably. Yeah. No, I went to all the COVID ones. No, I mean, like that. We're in the bubble. We're in the bubble. Yeah, I went to all those. Those are cool. Yeah, no, I'm not happy about it. But being the best man of the wedding, I kind of have to show up. There's not much else I can do about it. So unfortunately, you know, real life gets in the way of our silly little. Oh, that's a thing, man. It's like you realize how ridiculous you sound when you talk to people who don't really care about sports. And they're like, who cares? It's a hockey game. You don't realize what type of hockey game you don't get it, bro. Yeah, and they're like, you're really going to watch the game at the wedding. I'm like, fuck yeah, I am. Like, do you expect me not to? Like, the first thing I asked was, do you have a TV in the reception hall? Because that's what I will be standing by the entire time. So we're in battle right now. Yeah. And my brother is a diehard nuggets fan. And he's like, yeah, we're watching the nuggets games too. Like, I don't care that we're in a beautiful state. We are watching TV while we're here. Don't care. So, yeah, we'll be traveling. You'll be working the NFL draft, which that's pretty badass to say, honestly, like you'll be working the NFL draft. But I'm very excited for Friday and let's get it, man. But I'm so super pumped that we said on Sunday, the NHL playoffs have been kind of boring so far. I thought they were phenomenal these past two nights. I thought they've been they bounce back. We'll go back to Monday to start Maple Leafs come back. They tie the Bruins in the series. Austin Matthews with the game winning goal. It was kind of the same thing as they have. If they get goal-tending, they have a chance. They got a real shot. I mean, I was unimpressed by the Bruins in this game. I thought they could-- Very uninspiring effort from them. Yeah. Very uninspiring effort from them. And just, I don't think they need to keep overthinking the Swamin Olmark thing. Just Swamin's better. You don't have to keep throwing Olmark in there just because it's what you've been doing. It's overthinking at best. Yeah, they're trying to overcorrect from what happened last year. Right. Like they ran Olmark into the ground, but like Olmark got hurt last year. Like there's really not much you can do about that in the end. Yeah. So good for the Leafs. I thought that was a good bounce back performance from them. And they tie the series at one. That series is still going seven no matter what. I don't care. But I just wake me up when it's game seven. But good for the Leafs. Austin Matthews found the scores. Very weird with William Kneelander. What's been going on with it? Yeah. He plays all 82 games and he's missed the first two and no one knows why. Yeah, it sounds like he took a hit in game 82. That's kept him out. But there's footage of him in morning skates skating around and handling pucks and looking like he's okay. And good to go. Like I'm not going to pass judgment on anything because I have no details on what's going on. But it's definitely a strange one. It's weird. It's weird. He plays all 82 and then he's not even really like he, I don't know, just weird. Hopefully he knew that under his back. But I forget who I saw this from and I'm sorry that I'm not giving you credit for it. I think both those teams are kind of fugazy. I don't think either of them really have a chance to pick up. And whoever like whoever wins that is just going to get mauled by Florida in the next series. Yeah, that was going to be my point when we talked about Florida Tampa, which I guess we can do right now. Yeah. But Florida looks really good, man. They've just got that feel around them right now that Tampa had a good response in this game, dragged it to our first overtime of the playoffs so far. But Florida whooped them in overtime and at five on five, Florida is kicking their ass. They they've just. The left he's been phenomenal in these first two Rob Robske he's been phenomenal too. It's probably, it's definitely the best goaltending dual we have of the first round, but Robske with that ridiculous spinning save on the back of his glove. Fast, a left ski had a great night as well, but Florida. They're just better than Tampa, man. They're just better than Tampa. And it's a very fun series. It was very fun that this game went to overtime, but at five on five, man, this is Florida series. Yep. Yep, I couldn't agree more. I think I said Carolina. It looks like we're on a collision course for those two in the. And a conference. Same man. And through two games, Florida has impressed me more. There's a long road yet before we could have those two matching up in the conference final. But man, Florida in a very vicious series against their biggest rival is looking really good in Tampa. They kind of look like a team that needs a lot of work. Five on five. Yeah, they're playing fine. Like they're not playing terrible, but they get out shot 37 to 23 in this game. And they have six power plays only convert on one of them. I mean, I obviously was a little distracted by a couple of other things going on. I could not watch this game super closely, but. They just, they're going to win a couple of games in this series, but I think it still goes six. Yeah, I think it goes six. I still think Florida is going to win this series. Like far it's just got to beat. They've got so few holes on their roster and they play such a team. Their team rules. Yeah, like I've. I should have gone back in on them. I should have. I should have listened to myself. I should have listened to myself because I've watched two games them so far. Like man, that's a deep team. They had ever Rodriguez playing the third line. Evan Rodriguez played 11 minutes. Great. Yeah, they put him into a checking for you. It's seven hits in this game. Yeah, it's just Florida's a different animal right now. We'll save the caps rangers because that will be quick. I do want to talk about the hurricanes Islander series. The Islanders have choked two games that they could eat very easily be up to in the series. If they were if they were a better team, they'd be up to a series, but the east is such a joke that they let the Islanders and the capitals into the playoffs. And dear God, the Islanders are not serious. This is not a serious hockey team. They need a lot of work. Yeah, they had a three nothing lead on Carolina. Yeah, in game one, they probably deserved a better fate. They had 12 shots in this game shot attempts in this game. The the hurricanes at over a hundred. The Islanders, I don't think they had 40. Final shots of this game are 39 to 12. And my God, this was it was embarrassing. I don't even like the Islanders and I was embarrassed for them. Yeah, that was a tough one. Giving up two goals in the final two minutes to lose the game and regulation is impressive. I mean, very, very impressive. Seven of their shots came in the first period in the final 40 minutes of the game. They had five shots and four of them came in the second period. So in the third period, they had one shot. One one shot on it. A very, very embarrassing game. I think the Islanders win one, but I think that's five. I don't know if they do. The hurricanes are going to keep getting better. If the if the the Islanders can't win one of those games, I don't know if they're winning any game. That's true series. It still just feels so weird to have Sorokin just sitting on the bench. Yeah, I mean, varlama has been better this season. And Sorokin from what I'm gathering from the Islanders community has given up a lot of soft goals lately. And they don't feel comfortable throwing them in there, but it doesn't fucking matter. When you get out shot by 27, have one shot on goal in the final 20 minutes of the game. And then give up two goals in nine seconds to lose the lead and then fall behind. That's pathetic. That's absolutely pathetic. The Islanders, they got hot and made the playoffs and got the third see at the end of the season. That should not change the direction that this team needs to go in. They need a lot of work. They need serious rework because they're nowhere close. Nope. Nowhere. Nowhere. But hurricanes take a 2.0 lead in that series. We'll talk about the caps Rangers real quick. I thought the caps played hard tonight. Yeah, they played harder. I mean, I was frustrated by this game because they did play harder. I did not like the officiating. No, there's too many penalties being called in that series. Like these are two bitter rivals. Let them fucking duke it out. Yeah. Let them duke it out. I mean, the caps power played. Doc says the reason he lost this game, the game winning goals, a short handed goal that they give up because their power play is useless. They scored a power play goal in this game, but it's not the usual setup. It was on the transition and I think the caps are going to win a game in this series. To be honest, watching the first two games of this series, the Rangers do not come off as a threat. To me, really, they should not be relying on the caps making mistakes and very questionable penalty calls to beat them by a goal in their building. I will say the Rangers, they're a good team. The caps are not a good team and the fact that I feel pretty comfortable. We're going back to New York for a game five at the very least is not good for them. They got saved in this game. I think the Rangers are a very mad team. Like they're good. You're in very windy. Oh, we knew that. I'm a little biased here. You'll get that fully out of the way here. But my God, these guys win after everything. What do you think about the Panerian hit on Oshi? It's a headshot. No penalty on that is a fucking joke. And we're just going to sit here and act like it's not. We don't have to sit here and do that. Then the fact that the Rangers went on the power play as a result. Questionable at best. You can tell it's almost 2am for Griffin because I feel like if I just brought that up maybe four hours ago, it would be a totally different topic of discussion. But I agree. I think that should have been a penalty. And I will say very annoyed at the coverage of this series. Just openly cheering for the Rangers. Oh, they don't want the caps to win. No, the caps, they're pissed at them because they wanted their stupid original six match up between the Rangers and the Red Wings so they could market the shit out of it and you can get all the old heads. They wanted Rangers penguins again. No, they wanted the Red Wings 100%. They wanted the Red Wings because so they could talk about 1939 or whatever when the Rangers played the Red Wings eight to seven in the who cares Stanley Cup final. So they can talk about all that old shit again. They're pissed that the caps made this. They've never seen a team get so openly talked down on in every broadcast where they're bringing up. Are you not watching them on monumental or is money. Well, I'm going back and forth because they have me genuinely curious at certain points as to what they're saying. The first game I watched the first period on ESPN. It's all here's the leads the caps have blown this year. Here's their gold differential. I'm like, why are we doing here? They're in the playoffs treat them with a little bit of respect. I get there, not very good, but there's another team in this series. And like the Rangers can do nothing wrong. It's I get it. The caps are not good and they're not going to win this series, but my God, it's incredibly disrespectful to just be like to be openly cheering for a team and just being like, yeah, well, the Red Wings should be here instead. They weren't good enough to let this team make the playoffs. That says a lot about you. Right. Right. So caps down to nothing in that series. I agree with you. I think they're going to win one. I think that's still five games and the Rangers win that. And that's going to stuff a really good matchup between the hurricanes and the extra because I think the hurricanes couldn't embarrass them. I really do. I could I could see it happening. I don't know about embarrassed them, but I think the Rangers are. They're they're they're huffing their own farts a little too much right now, right in a little too high. The caps are not good beating them. It's not really worth anything. I've watched a lot of caps games this season and I'm watching the series right now and like. Exactly. I would not feel very good about this victory right now, even if they do win the next two, I'm like, that's this is not super impressive what the Rangers and do are doing right now. And the hurricanes, they're going to look a lot better too. The rest of the way. And that's that's going to be an all time whiny series. If that ends up being the case. Oh, I can't wait for the hurricanes and the Rangers. Oh my God, I would not want to be a ref in that series. You are going to get docked by both fan bases. Everything you do is going to be criticized. Yeah, but for I think that's pretty much what we got for the East East. Yep. And if we can move on to the West, we'll save the funny one for last, but as it stands right now, they'll start, we'll start with the least interesting. The Oilers kick the shit out of the series is going to be five. Five five is generous. The Kings look very overmatched. Very overmatched. They they got worse this off season. The Oilers got better. They don't have gold tending. And the Oilers, they're on it right now. McDavid's on it, dry settles on it. The guys, they got the deadline are on it. The Kings. Boy, are they going to need a miracle? Yeah. The thing I want to say, and we said at the playoff preview, if the Oilers don't make the conference final, it's a failure. They got to burn it down. Yeah. Absolutely burn it down. They should host to the conference final. I extended to the cup final. The way the first two rounds are set up in the central, we're going to beat the shit out of each other for two straight rounds. If the Oilers cannot find a way to take advantage of that, you got to ask some very, very serious questions about this core right now. Because McDavid has five assists in this game. They go two goals in the first, two goals in the second, three goals in the third period. The Kings, they don't have a chance. Nope. It's literally just as simple as that. Seven four does not tell the story of that game. Some of those Kings goals were outright. Hell. Yeah. Yeah. So that series was boring. One of the Pacific. I mean, the Canucks and Predators have been good games, but there were combined 30 shots on goal in this game tonight. It was not good. The Predators win. The big news out of that. It's a tied series at one one, but Thatcher Demko's hurt again. And if he's hurt and misses a significant amount of time, the Canucks aren't beating the Predators. Nope. I mean, I picked the Predators in seven. I'm not clear void and saw Thatcher Demko getting hurt, but I feel a lot more secure in that pick if Thatcher Demko's not going to be there. And the Canucks, they won game. One of that series is in dramatic fashion in the manner that they did with the two goals and like eight seconds to take the lead in that game. Nashville's playing hard. They've got the makings of a team that can pull off a decent first round upset and and Vancouver without Thatcher Demko, I think they're in trouble. They're in big trouble and that Patterson missing that wide open net that this kind of the story of that game by that is that's going to be it. And do I think the Canucks can still win the series? Absolutely. But you see Sorrow's first Casey to Smith is not a good matchup. Yeah. Sorrow's now has a supreme advantage in that over Casey to Smith. And I think that's a deep series. I think we're locked in for seven in that series. We're just going to go back and forth. I think I think Nashville's just going to eat it out. I think so too. I lied. There were combined 34 shots in that game. Oh, that's better. Yeah. And the Predators scored four goals on 16 shots. Not great. Not great. And then the funniest series of them all. I think it's going to be the best series of the first round. I think these two teams are very evenly matched Vegas first Dallas Vegas comes out swinging. They win game one. Mark Stone made some miraculous recovery in time for game one of the playoffs once again. And scores the first goal of the series scores the first goal of the series and play 17 minutes. What a medical miracle. Honestly, I am kind of I want to say I'm cheering for Vegas. I'm rooting for them to beat Dallas because that's really, really funny. But also like they're just so brazen about it. They don't give a shit like they know they know full well what they're doing like the golden Knights account and everyone just being like Mark Stone's back tonight for game one. Just no shame. No shame. Mark Stone being like yeah I guess they don't like me when he's getting booed. Everyone knows every single person knows like it's just I respect how blatant it is. I almost if you want this to stop then stop it like the NHL could stop this. They they're doing what is allowed within the rules. You can get mad and bitch alone about all you want. We talked about the trade deadline until someone stops them from doing it. They're going to keep doing it and the abs are doing it right now granted totally different scenario. But until someone stops them from doing it who's your your dumb if you're not doing it. I mean it's just incredible that three years in a row Mark Stone goes and LTA are before the trade deadline. And in the first year they had to kind of panic bring him back before the playoffs so they've made it so they can make it and they didn't. And last year he's back for game one this year there's no timetable Christian we don't know when Mark Stone's going to be back. Everybody know everybody in the world new Mark Stone is coming back for game one comes back and looks just fine scores the first goal of the series. Funny as possible thing. Funny as possible thing and the two guys that were added because he was on OTR no a hand if and had a good game and Thomas Hurdle scored a goal in this game as well. Yeah. And Jay Gautinger was bad. Yep Jay Gautinger was sucked in this game. That's hard to do because I didn't think Logan Thompson was particularly good in that game either. Yeah. Jay Gautinger was a 733 the Golden Knights had 15 shots and they scored on four of them. What are you going to do man like the stars I still think that's a very long series I think it's going to be back and forth but if they lose game to they're in trouble. They're in big trouble already already losing game one but Vegas this is exactly what everybody said. They're going to get their guys back they're going to be much better for the playoffs and this is the star's reward for winning the West they get Vegas and it would just be really really really funny if they lost. I know we're all rooting against the bad guys in Vegas but I want to beat them I want to beat Vegas and I I want to see Dallas lose because that's really really funny. Oh can you imagine if they lose just the like the there could be like actual burnings in Toronto from Dallas fans to change that. Yeah. That would be a shot and then the abs beat them in the second round I'd love it. I'd absolutely love it that's like a perfect scenario for me. Yeah. And it's just very funny and I bet on Vegas in that game and they found a way to win that's a good team. It's a good team. I do feel like it is shitty for Dallas because having to face Vegas in the first round seems a little bit unfair but. Hey man. Okay, you got what you wanted you won the West you guys talked all that shit all season you got what you wanted. I kind of hope they lose game too. Could you imagine a thing? I hope I know nobody wants Vegas to win the series. I hope Vegas wins this series. I think it would be really really really funny and that's what I care that's what I care about more than anything if things are funny. That's way better to me. Yes, 100% 100% may have the stand up playoffs really kicked off. They some good games some close games and we'll have the rest of the week around two days off which feels weird like you said but. Come Friday night we'll be back talking some more abs hockey it'll be a late night episode for the both of us. But I think I'm good man we're approaching midnight in the mountain time zone it's approaching 2 a.m. for you. So it is 1 52 a.m. Eastern time after essentially what five straight hours of playoff hockey for me after a full day of work. So my energy levels have been running on low for quite a little bit in this episode if you haven't been able to tell. So I am more than happy to start to wrap this up here as first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs. Well underway in the avalanche in the Jets tied at a game of peace as this series shifts back to Denver and it is advantage avalanche. But we are going to wrap this one up here. Thank you also very much for tuning in as always you can use promo code tell it as it is on seek geek for $20 off your first order of $50 or more. If you want to follow us on Twitter you can follow me at G Young's NHL you can follow Christian at Christian underscore belay and you can follow the show at till it abs it is. 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