Kyle Bukauskas

So I had to take advantage.

So that was good.

So, all right.

I had to take advantage there.

And credit to the Montreal Canadiens.

We watched Thursday night taking advantage of a well-rested Carolina Hurricanes team coming into game one of this Eastern Conference Final.

I don't know about where you and Dave were stationed.

It was deafening in that building.

Yeah.

At the start of the game, and obviously when Seth Jarvis opened the scoring, and it was an absolute hornet's nest, but it's amazing, Friedge.

The Hurricanes gave up five goals over their four games against Ottawa in round one.

They gave up five goals against Philadelphia in their sweep of them in round two.

They gave up five in game one, plus an empty netter,

for good measure, to Montreal in Game 1 of this Eastern Conference Final.

Fresh off another emotional Game 7, the Canadians were in rhythm to begin this series against the Hurricanes.

No, not at all.

And I was kind of surprised by this, but in some of the stuff we got from SportLogic before this game, just going over a couple of key storylines from their perspective, one of the things they pointed out was as much as Carolina's steamrolled through the first two rounds, they've kind of been...

average when it comes to giving up chances off the rush and giving up chances from the inner slot.

And that was true in the regular season.

And it kind of carried over into the playoffs among the, you know, the 16 teams that they got in.