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Chapter 1: What thrilling matchup is discussed in the Stanley Cup final?
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And the reason I threw that shot at you, Arash, is because you are down playing the World Cup. He is the naysayer of the World Cup. He's like, nobody cares. No one's going to go to any of the games. Complaining about the FanFest.com.
We'll see. It's too long.
Kids got alligator blood. Cannot get rid of him. You hanging around like tourists in the city? Is that what's going on here? Apparently there won't be any. I can just hear it through the studios.
I can't wait. I can't wait. I can't wait for like four weeks after when we get the breakdown of how this all went down. Y'all haters are going to come down to me bringing me gifts. Being like, I'm sorry. Yeah, you're going to be like, we're sorry we hated on you. We're sorry we doubted your rash. Who gives gifts for the pigs? Bro, first one out of the gate always gets bloody. I'm just saying.
Hey, calm down. I'm just saying. People will remember me. Don't turn off my mic.
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Chapter 2: How does big-time player movement benefit the NHL?
Like, the Olympics were different, obviously, right? Right. Yeah. It was like, the spotlight was on Vancouver, and the spotlight isn't even on Canada. It's like, it's so large.
It's too, it's too, it's just too, it's just too big, just, you know, I understand people talk, well, I understand people talk about, like, Brazil, and like, when you're centralized to one specific region, North America's just as, like, all these cities are also going through their own specific problems and again, don't want to get into the drama of it.
But the reality is they're not playing in just one city. The host nation usually has multiple venues for multiple cities.
But I just don't know if they're this far apart.
Right, but there's 12 host cities in Brazil versus... 100%. Yeah.
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Chapter 3: What are the latest rumors surrounding Jake DeBrusk?
It just feels a bit more... But 12 different cities. It's still like 12 different locations. In Brazil, though. Yeah, but it's still different locations. Across three countries. But also just... What I'm saying, is it less exciting in Vancouver because they don't have games in Edmonton and Calgary and Winnipeg?
I think for the overall scope of the World Cup... I can't believe we're doing a World Cup show all of a sudden. For the overall scope of how many different cities are hosting matches, I get the lack of attachment there can be because...
Chapter 4: What could Vancouver potentially receive in a Jake DeBrusk trade?
If you wanted to be like a traveling fan for any of the European nations that have hosted.
You take a train and you're there in like an hour.
It's not easy to go from Vancouver to Miami to New York.
But even in the U.S. alone, going from L.A. to Miami is worse than traveling through Europe anyways because North America is so gigantic.
Yeah, but I don't think this is a Vancouver issue. I think this is like a 2026 World Cup issue.
And all I'm saying is I have a Persian uncle that could probably have done Science World for like $250.
Yeah.
He kind of went down to Michael's and he's like, I do it. No problem. No problem. I put it together. You sit back.
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Chapter 5: How does Ottawa's interest in DeBrusk impact the trade dynamics?
You relax. Both Sat and I are Iranian before people can use it.
I know. I know. We're allowed to do this. We're allowed to do this.
Tones. Canada and the U.S. are like the second and fourth largest countries in the world. It's like, yeah, they're large.
Yeah, they're big. Big country.
It feels detached a little bit.
All right. Let's get on to it. Yeah, Justin Nisman. Overrated, underrated. Hanging around after work. Underrated here. People who know me.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of player contracts on trades?
Yeah. Totally overrated.
Anyways. Oh, no. Look, for us, like, at the end of the day when no one's here, yeah. Yeah. Well, I mean, it's less cool.
Yes. But in general, hang around. All right. The Open. Let's get to The Open, brought to you by FiberTech.
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Like we'll get to some stuff around Jake DeBrusque and some rumors percolating out of Ottawa coming up in a moment. But the biggest event of the entire sporting calendar for the National Hockey League is the Stanley Cup final.
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Chapter 7: How do injuries influence team performance and player trades?
But oftentimes or sometimes the final is a bit of a dud. This has been anything you could have ever hoped for when it comes to a Stanley Cup final. It was the most lopsided game of the series last night. It's a two-goal decision. And it's only two-goal because of an empty netter. Exactly.
And even the goal that Jordan Stahl scored that was a game winner was... I mean, it's a great effort, but you talk about grinding it out and just banging pucks in, essentially. That's what he did. And I can't think of a better showcase for the NHL, especially when you think of it as... Two non-traditional markets. Vegas has become a strong market.
But Carolina, of course, is still one that's not a huge market. Their fans are obviously on board and they've been to a few Stanley Cup finals. But it's just such a great... message to the rest of the league about, hey, what you're able to accomplish.
And also when you're looking at it from the U.S., especially coming off the Olympics, and now you have a Stanley Cup final that's been as good as anything we've seen over the past decade. This is such a massive win for the NHL.
Yeah, and we were chatting about it with Frank on Monday, and, you know, you wanted to see, because the NHL's had so many of these moments of positive momentum as the league trending in a direction, and lockouts have happened. And it's not just like, oh, it slows down the momentum a little bit. A season removed, shortened seasons, COVID impact, that has huge ramifications.
Because if you're trying to get into it, it's like, okay, well, there's another stoppage here. If you go from 2004 to now, we're talking about three major stoppages between COVID, two shortened seasons, even the delay coming out of the... North, like the North division here, there's been challenging moments to say, Hey, I want to enjoy like a four year, five year cycle of getting into this sport.
And what are the key inflection points? We'd say, okay, 2010 Olympics. That'd be a big one. Lockout shortly thereafter. And so all the positive momentum coming out of, as mentioned, the Olympics into this, there has been no stumble.
Yeah.
As Frank mentioned, like, you got offshoot TV shows between heated rivalry.
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Chapter 8: What are the potential outcomes for the Canucks in the upcoming season?
Like, Shorzy, I think, plays a big role in this as well. Like, the hockey culture of it all. And people down south getting into...
hockey yeah and now to have these finals so far it's through four games all the goals it's been spectacular and yeah like another dynamic game last night incredible and you know we always often talk about how important it is for any sport for the best player or the best players are close to the best players getting to the final and being on the biggest stage we see it in the NBA all the time usually the best player in the league
for the most part, finds himself in the final. You see LeBron James so many different times, right? And you kind of go through the top teams. That doesn't always happen in hockey. But you came off back-to-back years where Conor McDavid was in a cup final. You went to a Game 7. You had the Four Nations before.
If the NHL doesn't take a leap between now and the next couple years, I'm not sure there's ever going to be a bigger opportunity for that to happen.
Yeah. You know what? Great shout. Because... You have this player, McDavid, and a huge personality team in Florida as well, back-to-back champs. And I think the fact that They weren't in the playoffs this year, and I think we can all say it's because of the injuries. Like, no Barkov, right? Like, they were run down.
I think there's going to be some intrigue going into it next year as far as, like, a season storyline for people that are now grasping the NHL to say, okay, like, are Florida going to be back in? And is Carolina, like, the Eastern Conference paper champ? Like, because technically the Panthers haven't lost a series. They haven't been knocked out. Now, they didn't make the playoffs. They get it.
Yeah, but you can always say we haven't lost a playoff series since we lost the Cup Final three years ago.
Yeah, it's been a long time. And so next year, there's going to be immediate Carolina-Florida storyline that's already baked into... Even if Carolina doesn't win the series and win the Cup, you already get that Eastern Conference friction of Carolina versus Florida right away. And how much is Florida going to puff their chests out coming into next year? Like, hey, we're all healthy now.
And so that impact, I think, is going to be huge. And to your point, if you...
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