David Amber

And remember they had two off days in a row and he got pulled the game before very, you know, we worked with Kelly Rudy and I said, Kelly, how strange would that be for a goalie to get pulled, have a full off days the next day, and then another off day and not skate.

And he said that that'd be very strange because you want to touch the pack.

You want to be with the guys you want to, you know, get sort of your mojo back, whatever.

And so that was a real red flag, like, hmm, Bussey could be the guy.

And then it all just leaned that way.

He, you know, to Bussey's credit, he got grilled.

You know, I was in the scrum, and people were like, are you going to start?

What have you heard?

And he just kept saying, well, we'll see, we'll see, we'll see.

I'll be ready, I'll be ready.

And I think maybe what also, you know, added a layer of comfort for Carolina is the fact that he played very well.

I know he had the own goal that, you know, was in overtime, was very unfortunate to bounce off the boards that went in the net, but...

You know, leading up to that, think about how good he was.

He stopped the first 18 shots he had faced, and he hadn't been in net in two months.

So, you know, here he is, and this is kind of a really cool storyline potentially.

I assume he'll be back in net.

for uh for game five that's the assumption i have at least i'm sure robert and more will not tip now and tomorrow but um i would imagine buses can be there and then they're going to try and ride this guy who eight months ago was put on waivers from florida so it's a really cool story and just another layer to this completely unpredictable stanley cup final

I don't know.

I mean, I do all this speculation.

When Barbashev went through the crease, there was the disallowed goal.