Thomas Drance

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.

And that includes, like, the 2011 Boston Bruins.

That includes... Because, you know, at least with those teams, you just didn't like how Brad Marchand carried himself or whatever.

Yeah.

You didn't like that he was trolling you.

Whereas like this team, there were real moral reasons to be like, these guys suck.

You know, I don't want good things for these guys.

Uh-huh.

They're the worst, right?

So there was an element to which it was a relief to see that Vegas' morally gray way of doing business in terms of their player recruitment and what they're willing to incorporate onto their team and embrace and defend, including by kicking reporters out of the rink when they ask about it.

It's good to see that that wasn't rewarded, right?

Like for once, or not for once, but once in a while in hockey, justice prevails.

And it did last night.

So that was nice to see.

But the...