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Chapter 1: What insights does Landon Ferraro provide about the Stanley Cup Final?
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Step strong with orthotics and footwear from Kintec and keep your thoughts coming in to our Dunbar Lumber text inbox, 650-650. We'll hit a lot of your questions and comments and more overrated, underrated overflow coming up in the next segment. But let's go to the Able Auctions hotline and welcome in our next guest. It is Landon Ferraro, former NHL and current sports analyst.
What's happening, Lando? How you doing, man?
I'm not too bad. How are you guys doing?
Hey, man, we're chilling. Lando, are you a big Lando guy? Like, did you get Lando a lot growing up?
Not much. It was like when they tried to force a nickname.
Right, yeah.
You seem like such a great Landon, not a Lando. Yeah, I'm like... I don't know if I'm not cool enough to pull off Lando or like I'm not Star Wars enough because that was the one I got all the time. Right. Was Lando Calrissian. Everyone thinks it's the funniest one ever. But, you know. I don't think I'm quite a Calrissian type.
Is Lando even cool? I'm not sure if Lando... Lando's cool.
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Chapter 2: What predictions are made for the outcome of the Stanley Cup Final?
Like they have a really good team, but I would say if you start going back and forth player to player that like Vegas, like you're taking that lineup more times than not. And, And the way that they've been able to go, and Brett Howden has been out of the world. It's been crazy to watch. And that release and goal from the other night was just insane.
But Carolina, they just seem to keep thinking that they're done in the series and they find a way to battle back in the game or put up an effort like they did last game. And I'm just hoping it goes seven. It's been so fun to watch and and so different than what any of us were expecting, right?
Yeah, I think that's what's so interesting, too, because I think we're all expecting a lower-scoring, tight-checking game, and it's been open. Even Vegas of that first period yesterday, there was breakaways early on, and that's kind of the recipe to how to beat Vegas. Carolina, it's been kind of my issue going back, obviously, multiple years.
It seems like when they get to these heavy rounds, teams just are able to open it up on them. But what's strange to me is also the periods themselves have their own personalities, where it's like Carolina's been so good in the early going. Vegas wins in the second, and the thirds have been Carolina's as well. But Vegas has been able to make hay in those second periods so well.
The periods themselves, let alone the games, they're wildly different. The swings are so huge.
they really are and you know like most especially stanley cup finals like when a team gets a lead or at least it's how it used to be like a team got a lead and you could basically turn the game off yeah you knew they were never going to give that up and and now it doesn't even matter what the score difference is it's
Like you said, it's three separate games, it feels like, and it resets and you're like, okay, well, Vegas is now in charge. And then from the drop of the puck of the second, well, they can't touch it now. You know, it keeps going back.
But, you know, again, I think especially because I didn't think it was going to be a straight check-a-thon, but I definitely didn't think there was going to be this much offense that it just kind of it's blowing me away in a sense and keeping me on the edge of my seat and really enjoying it. So the way that, you know, you don't feel like you can really pick what's going to happen.
It feels like an actually anything can happen series.
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Chapter 3: How have the Carolina Hurricanes performed in the series so far?
That's pretty good.
We've used Jordan Stahl as a template because he was drafted second overall in the draft here in Vancouver in a draft with Taze and Backstrom. And you think if you compare the guys, you're like, oh, well, Taysom Backstrom had the better careers and all that. But, you know, Jordan Stahl's here at 1400 career games and having success in the playoffs and just been so consistent all the time.
And we've kind of used him as a template of like Caleb Malhotra. If the Canucks draft him at third overall is if you look at it, it's like, hey, that's the type of career. Like, is that a big reward? Is that something that you look at and say, if Malhotra has like a Jordan Stahl like career, that's a great outcome.
I mean, yeah, if you're getting 1,400 games and, well, what, he's got to be close to 800 points. But, you know, at the same time, it's different, right? Like, you're never ever going to complain about drafting a guy that is that consistent, that they can eat minutes for you and all of it. But also, like, you look, I don't know if he ever had over 50 points.
He had 50 once.
Okay, so he had 50 once.
29 goals is his career high.
Right? You're going to need pieces around and all of it. It's just such a different thing. I don't know. Of course, I'm talking all over the place, but of course you're going to want the guy that can play that long, but you're also going to need someone that can really... take the first line and drive and make plays for you too.
The reason we kind of use it as an example, because to Stahl's credit, it's like he's been like a regular selkie conversation guy. He's never won it, but he's been in the mix basically his entire career. So even if the point production's not there, and 50 points kind of being the high watermark, you're getting a lot of value from the defensive side of it.
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Chapter 4: What factors contribute to the unpredictability of the Stanley Cup Final games?
Yeah, absolutely. Before we get out, I've got to ask you about what's happening with the Edmonton Oilers and their courtship of Mike Babcock, who is now officially under investigation by the National Hockey League for his conduct during his short stint as the head coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets at the behest of the NHLPA, who urged... the NHL to do the complete investigation.
And this might drag on a little while and we'll see what Edmonton does. But number one, were you shocked to hear that Edmonton was zeroing in on Mike Babcock? And number two, is it even the right move to make for a team that finds itself in a pretty desperate spot to keep their star player in the fold in Connor McDavid?
Just that last part. I mean, man, does that sound like the Canucks?
Yeah, with Quinn, right? Yeah.
But honestly, there's a lot of parallels there through the last couple of years. But if you look at Edmonton just this year, they're starting to make moves because they know they're on a time crunch with McDavid's contract. And, okay, well, they panic and they make a goalie trade. Well, now they have going into next year as of now is Jari, and that's kind of it. right?
Like they, they, then they obviously were going to make a coaching change, but that slips through. So then they've got a fire knob block. Well, then Cassidy starts popping up and will that get shut down? Like it's just one, one thing after another right now. And to me, the Babcock, when that name got brought up, I just, I was, I mean, I was kind of thrown back a bit.
I wasn't expecting to hear that name again.
popping up in in conversations anymore right like to me he was in Toronto he got let go there for for all the you know for everything that happened there and then he spent a few years out of the game and and said that he had learned and done the work and all that and then he gets hired by Columbus and doesn't make it to training camp right to me that was the second chance and all right well it's done
So I was really surprised. And to answer the last part of that, like, honestly, like, take away all the extra stuff with Babcock. I just I don't think it's the right guy for that team at all.
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of period performance in the Stanley Cup games?
Because the point we were making on Monday is, and for me, it feels like they had a very specific idea of what they wanted, not so dissimilar to what Vancouver did. I was saying like, oh, we want someone that has connection to the previous group. And this is now the group that's like, hey, we want a Stanley Cup winning coach.
Well, that's like a six pool candidate list that's available to you right now. Is there a profile of coach that makes sense for what they need right now?
I mean, I just think they need someone that,
has a bit of personality, like has a bit of fire in them, like because they are dealing with two of the best players in the game and not that they need to be babysat or anything like that, but you know, it's, it's not hard to see that, you know, Dreisaitl is an emotional guy and he gets heated on the bench to have someone that does carry a bit more weight back there might be a decent idea for them.
Like I, I, The thing for me was I did think that they needed to make a coaching change from Knobloch. How it all went down was a complete mess, but I do think they needed to make a change. The thought of Cassidy, to me, that is the perfect guy for that team right now because he does have the accountability factor. He is hard to a sense. You've heard stories from guys, but at the same time,
the majority of the guys that have told those stories and then on top of it, everyone else that I've talked to that have played for him, like they really like playing for him. Yeah.
It's tough and it might get old after a while, but for the beginning and, and if you're one of his guys and by one of his guys, that means like you work hard, you do what you're told, but like you play the game the right way. It's not like he's asking you to do these outrageous things. He just wants guys that battle and that are in the game. They're committed to each other.
That's what he is, and that's what Edmonton needs. Whether they can get him or not, that'll still be after playoffs, see what pops up. But someone in that mold, I don't think they have to have the championship, but they've got to have the confidence and the backbone to stand in there and kind of stick your ground.
Yeah, and honestly, the guy I think about, and I know it didn't go well for him with Columbus, is Dean Everson. He's just hanging around there, and he's one of those guys that does challenge his players. He's not afraid. He was a tough player himself back in the day, and certainly a coach that could kind of sway that type of influence.
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