Chapter 1: What led to the Oilers' exit from the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs?
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Welcome to 32 Thoughts, the podcast presented by your Canadian Toyota dealers and the 100% electric BZ. Available now during Red Tag Days. Dom, Elliot, and Kyle back with you. Welcome to the month of May, Frege. The final day of April. Oh, yeah. Yeah, we're here. April went by in a flash. The final day of the month.
Sure did.
Featured two games, both with elimination circumstances, and the two teams in the last two years that met in the Western Conference Final both had their season's end. On Thursday night, the Edmonton Oilers, a third straight trip to the Stanley Cup final is not going to happen. And the Anaheim Ducks, they are not just a team that can score.
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Chapter 2: How did the Minnesota Wild defeat the Dallas Stars?
We learned they're a team that can close out a series as well. Pat Verbeek, he had the mandate to make the playoffs this year. They have done more than that. The upstart Ducks, Elliot, through to round number two in 2026.
The window is open, Kyle. The ducks have arrived. The flying V has landed. The contention window is open. And look, we know the Oilers have injuries, and we'll get to that, but... I just think that the Ducks deserve the credit. They did not fluke into this series victory. They won it fair and square.
Chapter 3: What updates are there on the Vancouver front office search?
They earned it. They were the better team for most of the series, and I think they've got some guys playing hurt, too. Everybody does it at this time of year. Probably the guy I'm happiest for in some ways is Jackson Lacombe because he was fantastic, and he had another great defensive play on a one-on-one with McDavid in the first period of the game.
And yes, we know McDavid is somewhere around 50%, but it doesn't matter.
Chapter 4: What is the latest on the Toronto front office search?
Him at 50% can still embarrass a lot of people. Lacombe got a big contract at the beginning of the year, the biggest money in Ducks franchise history. And there were people like, who, who, who's this guy who got all this money? Well, nobody's questioning that anymore.
Chapter 5: Who is Misha Donskov and what are his new coaching roles?
And a lot of people in the sport already knew how good he was and how good you look at it. Now the U S won the gold medal.
at the olympics and we all know how good their d was but it had to be really good because this guy didn't get to play a minute he was their extra defenseman and he just sat there and now look how he played in the first round he was a stud i thought leo carlson was great i thought goche was dangerous i was really happy for terry too did a great interview with scott oak the longest yes
serving Duck.
Chapter 6: What questions are being answered in The Thought Line segment?
Dostal, who had not been very good, he entered this game with the worst numbers in terms of save percentage of any goalie in the playoffs, and only Lukudin among goalies who played more than one game had a worse goals against average score. And he was, Kelly felt he was dicey in the first period. Like he thought he was vulnerable, but he locked the door in the last two.
And he looked like he's a great goalie. Anybody who's listened to this podcast knows how highly we think of him, what he almost did to Canada at the Olympics, but he hadn't been himself since the calendar flipped to April. He finished better this way. The, But that fourth line, it's amazing to me.
They kept on putting Veal, Washi, and Moore out there against McDavid, and you would have think that they would have been obliterated by those guys. And they hung in there. They played really well. Like Jeffrey Veal is a 29-year-old guy who's an unrestricted free agent.
Chapter 7: What are the insights on the Canadiens-Lightning series?
And how much money do you think he just made, Kyle?
Oh, I think, yeah, he's at minimum doubled his lot in life going into the summer.
So VL this year is making 775. Okay. Like I look at his history, I think 780 is the most he's ever made. All of his other contracts I think are under 800 as well. Like I don't think this guy has ever been – over 800K a year. I think it's 780 is the max. He's going to get something now. Obviously, it's not going to be ridiculous, but it's going to make a difference in his life.
And I love to see guys like that
Chapter 8: How did the Flyers-Penguins series conclude?
get rewarded. If you go back two weeks, Kyle, I really felt were the Ducks going to be happy to be here or were they actually going to be ready for this? Well, we got our answer. They were ready for this and they're going to be a tough out for either Vegas or Utah, whoever gets them next. Congratulations to them. They deserve it.
And it was Troy Terry who said to Scott after the game, that first game of the series, they lost it, but they thought coming off the ice in Edmonton, we realized, hey, we can we can play with these guys. And they went and proved it. You know who else I thought of seeing them celebrate a series win here on Thursday night? Ryan Strom. Yep. Not around anymore. Traded to Calgary.
And Canadiens fans know this, like early in the Montreal rebuild, Martin St. Louis had this line about, you know, sometimes you go and plant the trees, but you're not around to be able to sit in the shade. Those players that are around during the tough years, the developmental years, the teaching, the young players, how to handle all of this.
You know, in Montreal, Jake Allen was one of the great examples of all of that. No longer here as Canadians are now playoff bound back to back years. And Ryan Strome was very much that.
guy what 14 players made their playoff debut for Anaheim here in this series you know you go around that room and ask the kind of influence that that guy had on that group on his time in Anaheim and even though he's no longer a duck big big part of where they are right now so that was a guy I thought of through all this too Elliot yes and we'll be seeing some more of Ryan Strom I think
Okay. Oilers. Yes. Oilers. So I've said enough stuff that's gotten me in trouble in Edmonton this year. So I was trying to be careful, but I watched Connor McDavid. post game and his line was we were an average team all year when you're an average team with high expectations you're going to be disappointed so someone called me earlier in the series and
And look, we know Edmonton's banged up, okay? Again, it's not an excuse. I think Anaheim's banged up too. But we know Edmonton's banged up. We know McDavid's hurt. We know Dreisaitl's hurt. We know Dickinson's hurt. We know Hyman came back from an injury. And aside from his messy, light kicking motion, I'm not sure how close to 100% he is.
The Oilers, historically, when they lose, they're angry.
McDavid's angry. Dreisaitl's angry. You can't miss it. It's there. It's raw. It's open. These guys are demanding to play with. They demand a lot of themselves. They demand a lot of others. And we've seen their emotion boil over before. We really didn't see it in this series, Kyle. They were disappointed, you could tell. But did you ever see them really angry like we've seen them angry before?
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