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Chapter 1: What happened in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final between the Hurricanes and Golden Knights?
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Welcome to 32 Thoughts, the podcast presented by your Canadian Toyota dealers and the 2026 Tacoma. Get yours before red tag days are over. Happy Friday. Tom, Elliot and Kyle back with you. As the late Bob Cole would say, and the series is a brand new one. All squared. through two games of this Stanley Cup final as we now head out to Vegas for games three and four.
It was Taylor Hall who said on the off day, things can change on a dime at this time of year. It looked like the machine that is the Vegas Golden Knights was going to roll on through to not one, but two wins. Victories on the road and absolutely grab hold of this Stanley Cup final almost as soon as it got underway.
But, Elliot, what did Jordan Stahl say in the aftermath about the Vegas Golden Knights? They're human. Yes, they are human. Because Carolina, you could certainly see it on their faces at certain points through the first, I don't know what, 50 minutes of that game, that they looked like they were facing a team that maybe was inhuman. No matter what they tried, they could not find an answer.
When I was watching you do that interview with Jordan Stahl, I was actually wondering if... Stahl initially was trying to tell us the hurricanes believe they were another species, the Golden Knights. They were not human.
I don't even know where you come up with half of those.
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Chapter 2: What are the implications of Dylan Larkin's trade request from the Detroit Red Wings?
But, you know, and the reason why I think it was relevant and certainly noteworthy for Stahl to say, say that line that they are human because, I mean, hey, we're certainly wishing all the best for Braden McDowell. I mean, that was horrifying. The shot that caught him up high there off Nikolai Ehlers had really no chance of getting out of the way.
But he leaves the game in the first period, Vegas down to five defense, and it was looking very much like one of the all-time great defensive clinics possible. by Vegas on the road, no less, really, up until Logan Stankhoven, an incredible individual effort to... Get the first goal to change the feeling in the building and ultimately, you know, flip this game on its head.
It was a clinic. There was not much going on there. I mean, first of all, it turned out to be a great finish and everybody left saying what a great game and what a great series it is after two games. We had an incredibly entertaining game one and we had an incredibly entertaining last 15 minutes of game two and
And, you know, honestly, it's better for the Stanley Cup final and the overall quality of entertainment that Carolina won this game. Vegas goes up 2-0. I think people are starting to check out of the series, to be perfectly honest, Kyle. So there were a couple of things that really changed this game, Kyle.
Chapter 3: What is the future of Darnell Nurse with the Edmonton Oilers?
Do you know what they were?
Well, I thought that we know Rod Brindamore loves to stick with his lines. He continues to trust the game plan, but he did make some changes.
Chapter 4: What updates are there on the coaching searches for LA and Toronto?
And I felt that helped spark Carolina a little bit. Seth Jarvis alluded to as much in the postgame. And I don't know. I mean, maybe this is a little one here, but I'm looking at, you know, Stankoven just before his goal, he actually gets waved out of the faceoff. And does that set him up?
in the end, in a better position to go track down Rasmus Andersen behind the net to then win the battle, to then get the puck back, and that leads to the first goal for the Hurricanes. Those are two that come to mind for me.
So you're right.
Chapter 5: What is the significance of the Barrie Colts sale in the OHL?
Both of those things are right, but those are not the answers I was looking for. The answer I was looking for was the tarps off and Bonnie Tyler.
Chapter 6: What were the highlights of the NHL Awards announced recently?
So about 10 minutes to go before Carolina starts the comeback, they ask for tarps off in the crowd and people start. There were a lot of people in that crowd who took their shirts off. I was surprised at how many people jumped into this with two feet. Now, I will say this. I'm going to make a bit of a public service announcement.
Some of you in Carolina, when you take your shirts off, you have to make sure that your pants are pulled up because there were some close scenes with people sitting right behind them. That's the one thing that kind of concerned me slightly, but I love the general enthusiasm of the audience.
Chapter 7: How does the Thought Line segment address listener questions?
And then they played one of the great 80s dance club songs holding out for a hero by bonnie tyler the place was rocking and the hurricanes clearly listened to the lyrics and said hey i think she's talking to me because they scored three goals right away and almost won the game in regulation So it's clear that Tarpsoff and Tyler were the turning points of the game.
Yeah, well, you know, Elliot, my bad because I clearly wasn't looking up at the video board during that commercial break when they had the tarps off, call to action. But I will say as that third period went on, suddenly they're cutting to fan shots during stoppages and I'm seeing more and more people with their shirts off. And clearly I didn't put two and two together.
I thought it was a big coincidence. But yes, yes. Great point by you. That was a key moment in this comeback for Carolina.
And Seth Jarvis credited those fans because as he quite correctly pointed out, it's not warm in there. The rink is much colder now than it was in the last round against Montreal. Like it was freezing there at the morning skate today.
It was cold in there and really throughout the whole day. And of course, part of it being it's now getting quite hot in Raleigh during the day. So trying to combat the conditions to make the ice as good as possible. And we all know the wind tunnels that exist inside that Lenovo Center. So Stankhoven with the goal that gets them going. Still, Vegas looked...
like a team that had relatively things under control. But, you know, I was asking after the game, actually Mark Jankowski, and wondering if, you know, those high flips, like we've seen Vegas do it. You know, I think about that game against Colorado, the Mark Stone goal. I think Ron showed that there on Thursday night.
And then one of the Brett Howden goals was, again, the high flip that just causes problems for the defense with the way the puck can bounce off the ice under pressure, especially when you've got a forward hunting them down.
And so I wondered, you know, was that a conscious adjustment for Carolina to start doing that a little bit, you know, to give Vegas a taste of their own medicine, I guess, or just to try something different from what they had been doing? And, you know, Jankowski didn't say that was... you know, specifically what they did and that they there was no mandate to, OK, start now with the high flips.
He just said starting to started to play a little more simple, a little more hurricane hockey. So that helped get the game tied. And then, of course, things only got more intriguing and more crazy from that point on.
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Chapter 8: What music is featured in this episode, and who are the artists?
I know there's people who felt it should have been a goal. Fine. Everyone's entitled to their own opinion. I just looked at the whole situation and said the officials were right there and he's making a call. How on earth are they going to overturn that unless it is so blatantly obvious, which it wasn't.
No, and my thing was, I didn't think it should be something that could be challenged to begin with, Elliot. And, of course, I can't hear.
Don't forget, even if there's intent to blow Kyle, if the puck goes directly in, it's a goal. Right, like you're talking continuation? Yes. Yes.
I didn't think that was continuation. I didn't either, but that's... in a way irrelevant because you can't challenge for that. That would just be a league-initiated review. That's not something that John Tortorella would ask for, right? Like he was asking about goalie interference.
And I can't – of course, we can't hear what Johnny Bear, the referee, is saying to Ivan Barbashev when they're standing behind the net after the play is blown dead. But given his hand gestures, he certainly looked like a guy that was saying the puck was there – Goalie put the glove on the puck. I blew the whistle. Play's dead. That's it. That was kind of what
I was thinking, watching that all play out live. So then when it became the possibility of Vegas challenging it, now I kind of was in my own head going, okay, did I miss something here? Because all along I thought that this wasn't really a play that should be able to be challenged to begin with. It felt like from what the call was on the ice is that, They felt Anderson had the puck covered.
They had it frozen. The play was blown dead, and there was nothing else to see here. So that kind of played with my mind, too.
Yeah, I thought it was, again, I thought it was a bit of a Hail Mary. You know, you're up 1-0 in the series, and your penalty kill is shutting them down. I don't mind the gamble, but I didn't think there was any way they were going to win it at all. And by the way, the NHL made the officiating supervisor, Stephen Walkam, available to a pool reporter post-game.
I like that, and they should do that all the time. That was important. And because I saw an explanation get retweeted and sent out there, that was, it should do that. It should be available for games like that. But then I wasn't surprised in the least bit that Stone scored to tie it. That's what Vegas does. And then we obviously saw what happened in overtime.
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