Thomas Drance

if anyone if I'm wrong if I'm leaving anyone out please let me know but as a very close observer of the space I'd say it's fair to say I think this is true Reese Jessup the first Canucks blogger to win the Stanley Cup so look there's a million different storylines first of all I want to talk about the game itself I thought Brandon Bussey was immense

there was a moment where Carolina was leading, where it began to feel like the sting was out of Vegas is five on five attack.

I think the loss of Linus Carlson and some of the injuries, William Carlson.

What did I say?

Linus.

Oh man.

Also a really good player.

He could, they could have used him.

Yeah.

William Carlson, the loss of William Carlson, and then a sort of some mounting, uh,

black and blue like the guys who weren't injured but seem to be hurt on the Vegas back end I think sapped them their speed ultimately I thought was going to be a problem all playoffs it wasn't but but all of a sudden that last 40 minutes and really I thought even more pronounced in game five you saw them struggle to generate five on five that said they still had some great looks especially on the power play and should have at least made it to one

if not for the intervention of the crossbar and that Jack Eichel chance, not to mention what was the chance that like, I can't remember who took it, but Brandon Bussey was like on his knees and made the save.

I'd forget.

So, yeah, I mean, there was some sketchy moments.

It wasn't like a dominant Vegas out of answers performance, but it was a, you know, solid defensive showing.

And I think it was very clear who the better team was over the course of that six game series victory for Carolina.

There's a million different hockey angles that we could get into and we can get into with Landon, but...

I sort of felt invigorated coming out of this sporting weekend generally.

Not just the Carolina victory over a Vegas team that was loathsome, to put it politely.

Like, the politest thing you could say about Vegas is that they were the least likable team and would have been the most universally disliked champion of my lifetime.