Chapter 1: What happened in Game 3 between the Carolina Hurricanes and Philadelphia Flyers?
You know, the next round, by the way, in Buffalo, there would be the combine if Montreal wins Grand Prix.
Oh, that's right.
You're going to be staying in a hotel in Windsor for those games in Montreal.
In Montreal. That's right.
That's right. We've got you in the suburb. Oh, yes. Which suburb? The suburb of Windsor. Like Nova Scotia or Ontario? Oh, it's Ontario.
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Chapter 2: What is John Chayka's upcoming meeting with Leafs Head Coach about?
Another Stanley Cup playoff edition for you. Dom, Elliot, and Kyle, the gang is all here. Thoughtline is back this episode. You'll hear... At the end of the podcast, a conversation with Elliot, Josh Doan of the Sabres, and his father, Shane. But first, before we get to all of that, Preach, one game on the calendar on Thursday night.
And I was kind of thinking about that one cutaway clip from Family Guy when Peter goes skydiving.
First time?
Chapter 3: What updates are there on the Vancouver Canucks' front office search?
Yeah, you? Yeah. No, no, not my first time.
I wonder if that's a conversation to be had between the Senators and the Flyers right now.
Chapter 4: What is the latest news regarding Nashville's front office search?
Seven straight wins to open the Stanley Cup playoffs for the Carolina Hurricanes. And I don't think any of us during the regular season were looking at the Metro Division as as a juggernaut per se, but it had been clear almost wire to wire that the Hurricanes stood above the rest through 82 games. That hasn't changed through the playoffs.
You cannot pick your opponents, but the Hurricanes have taken care of their own business on the verge of a second consecutive sweep to begin their playoff run.
It's kind of wild how, in theory, Carolina could be through to the Stanley Cup semifinals on Saturday and Montreal and Buffalo might only be two games in.
Chapter 5: How do Kyle and Elliotte handle listener questions in the Thoughtline?
Yes, their eventual opponent, one of them. Just bananas. By the way, there's another juggernaut this round, Kyle. Oh, yeah? Yeah, I want to read you a text I got that I woke up to on Thursday morning. It said, Stroma's legit, might take your job. He should quit now and transition to the panel. Did that come from Kevin? No, it did not, but it certainly could have.
It came from a retired player who's now in a management position. I woke up to that text on Thursday morning here in Buffalo. No, Ryan signed off after the game. He did a great job. Fantastic. No surprise. Anybody who knows him, no surprise that he was as good as he was. That shorthanded goal, Chatfield, what a backbreaker, Kyle. What a backbreaker.
That was where the game was in the balance and was no longer after that moment in my mind.
I agree.
Chapter 6: What were the highlights from the Sabres vs. Canadiens game?
1-1 game. The Flyers' penalty kill, one of the worst all year. I think it's something like 3-for-30 in the playoffs. The true Achilles heel of the team. And to give up that goal at that time was just a killer. That was shorthanded. Yes, absolute killer, absolute killer. And you mentioned Ottawa, you know, first time. No, not my first time. It's almost the exact same series.
I never think this is about lack of effort. I thought Ottawa competed hard.
Chapter 7: What insights were shared during the interview with Shane and Josh Doan?
I thought Philadelphia was competing hard. Just in every game, especially with Anderson continuing to be an absolute wall back there, Carolina just always finds a way to be a little bit better. Who makes the big play at the big time? Chatfield. It's been like that for Carolina all the way through. They bend, but they don't break.
They continue doing what they do, and this was another example of it on Thursday night in game number three. It's a Herculean task for Philadelphia. You know, one of the things I wonder about the Flyers is this whole league right now is going to have cap room. And I look at Philly, and I see a lot of guys who really improved this year. Drysdale really improved this year.
Zegras really improved this year. The Mishkov thing, that's a story for another day. We'll deal with that when and if their season ends, and we'll talk about that. But one of the things the league did this week, Kyle, was they officially announced with the Players Association the payroll range for next year. And we know that the salary cap is going to be $104 million.
And all these fans are saying, oh, our team is going to have this much. And everybody's talking about how they have $11 billion in cap space. there's not enough players to spend it on, right? Some of these fans are going to be disappointed. And I'm not convinced that all of these teams are going to want to go to the cap.
And especially since I don't think everyone's going to have players that are going to have access to get the kind of players that you're going to want to get to really jump up there. Like, I look at Philly, I see a really hard, competitive, workmanlike team. They need one more game breaker in the worst way.
I just, you can really see it, especially since Mishkov, and again, he didn't play a ton late in that game. His minutes, what did he play, nine minutes? Something like that. So, you know, there's obviously going to be a question here. But I look at the flyers and I say, boy, Marton looks like he's a hell of a player. That looks like a 500-level home run.
they need a game breaker and that that to me like i think ottawa has game breakers carolina just beat them they just beat them i think philly has a lot of guys who play hard i don't know how many true game breakers they have that's the one and and those are the hardest guys to find
I mean, they may have one in Martone.
Yeah, it's interesting. Maybe he could be. He could be, you know what I mean? But I just watched them, and I say they need one. And the easiest way to solve your problem is internal, and maybe Mishkov will turn out to be that guy. But I watched them against Carolina, and they might lose anyway, but but they just need one more game breaker. They're competing their heads off.
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Chapter 8: What music is featured at the end of this episode?
Can someone from lower in your lineup be the one to make a difference at a critical moment? But really, your highest paid guys, the ones in the highest leverage situations, can they look across at their counterparts on the other side and go, I'm beating you tonight. And that can be a true driver of things.
And Philadelphia is still going through their development in that sense, to not take anything away from how much of a success this has all been. And I also felt too, I mean, geez,
nick up a couple of posts early on you know behind Frederick Anderson and is it a little different if it's a half inch one way or the other but I suppose it's the old Grant Fuhrer line that's all I gave you if you're Anderson but they did have chances early it was not like it was a quiet game on that front for them and then
Yeah, the short-handed goal, 11 seconds into the power play, that can't happen.
See, I think even if Philly scores on those chances, Carolina proved in game two they fell behind 2-0 five minutes in. They still came back and they won the game. Carolina is like a steamroller right now. Even when things go badly, they don't break down, they don't give up, they continue to just come at you. And You know, they're a machine. They're just an absolute machine.
It was interesting, your Campbell River buddy got the penalty. Yes, he sure did. See, I almost wonder if some kind of warning went out, because like we said on the last pod, I heard the league was unhappy about Quenville's reaction to that missed icing in game one, which I think is crazy. Like, he... In that moment, I don't know how anybody could expect a coach not to react in that way.
But there is something about Brindamore that really drives the league crazy sometimes. He is definitely... It's funny, you know, all the coaches, they kind of say, okay, they know when everybody in the league is getting mad when Brindamore starts getting hammered with stuff because he's always the guy they go to first. Easy target.
So when Brindamore gets that penalty, that's a sign to all the other coaches that the league's had enough.
And again, speaks to the respect that he still has of that group because that put him, what, down five on three briefly. And they went out and killed the penalty for him. They didn't let that be a turning point in the game. So second series in a row, a hit from Taylor Hall is Spark Debate. This one on Travis Sanheim, initially called a major, withdrawn to two. What was your view on it?
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