Chapter 1: What happened in the Avs vs. Vegas series?
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Chapter 2: How did the Vegas Golden Knights dominate the series?
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Big show ahead. We're going to begin with our morning guest list. It's the Duik Morning Drive brought to you by the Duik Auto Group. It begins at 6.30 this morning. David Amber, Hockey Night Canada Sportsnet NHL host is going to join the program. The Vegas Golden Knights will play in their third Stanley Cup Final in nine years after sweeping the Avs last night in Vegas.
Tonight, we'll get one step closer finding to who Vegas plays in the Cup Final when the Habs take on the Canes in Montreal. David's going to join us at 6.30. to talk about all the playoff action. 7 o'clock, Frank Cervalli, our NHL insider from Victory Plus. Some coaching talk maybe with Frank this morning. What's going on here in Vancouver? What about the searches in L.A., Edmonton, and Toronto?
Will there be any other surprise openings? Maybe in Colorado? Frank's going to join us at 7 o'clock this morning. 7.30, Patrick Graham is going to join the program. He is an AP sports writer out of Denver. Av season just came to a crashing halt last night. A real stunner for everyone in Colorado. How stunned is the city of Denver? Where do the Avs go from here?
Patrick Graham's going to join us to discuss that.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of the Avs being swept?
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Chapter 4: What insights does David Amber provide on the matchup?
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What happened? One of the most dominant regular season teams we've ever seen in NHL history is out. The Colorado Avalanche swept out of the playoffs last night. Mark Stone scoring for the second straight game. And the Vegas Golden Knights advance to another Stanley Cup final with a 2-1 win over the Avs in game four. Yeah, four-game sweep in the Western Conference final in Vegas on Tuesday night.
Okay, Halford, we all know what happened in this series. I'm going to give you a bunch of names, and they all wrote compelling storylines in this series and will going forward, and you pick which one you're thinking about the most after this series. Okay. John Tortorella, Mitch Marner, Mark Stone, Carter Hart, Nathan McKinnon, Kale McCarr... Jared Bednar.
I want to pick two and I want it to be the first two, but I'm just going to go with one.
Okay.
It's torts. All due respect to Mitch Marner and his dark times. It's, it's, it's torts for me. What has happened here is such a remarkable story. And quite frankly, the most improbable thing that I think he could have told me going into this season. If you had told me that John Tortorella with eight games left in the year was going to take a 39, yeah, 39 win and,
Vegas Golden Knights team and blast through the playoffs. They wouldn't have 11 of their last 13 games. That's the thing that gets me the most. They're not scraping by. They're not scratching and clawing their way and winning every series four games to three. Yeah, they have turned into an absolute dynamo behind John Tortorella, who 22 years after taking the Tampa Bay Lightning to
To a Stanley Cup Finals. Now getting another crack at it with the Vegas Golden Knights.
Did you see what he said about the most impressive thing about yesterday? And he was just saying, like, we checked our asses off.
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Chapter 5: How are the Habs preparing for their game against the Canes?
Yeah. Was the quote. And it is funny because, you know, this is classic media. Like, we are the worst. We are. We are terrible, and I'll explain why. Okay? How many times have you heard... me on the show over the last few years talking about the Canucks defensively and going like they don't know how to check.
I've heard it lots.
They don't know how to check. They're terrible defensively. How many times have we made fun of the Edmonton Oilers for their defensive breakdowns and the fact that sometimes they can just look clueless, right? Like Evan Bouchard comes to mind, right? Just absolutely no idea.
And then there are two teams right now in the Stanley Cup playoffs who might meet in the Stanley Cup final, and we're like, oh, they check too well, and it's boring. Boring. Right? I mean, it's classic nitpicking, but it's important that we recognize it because... Sure. What Vegas did to a high-powered team like Colorado. They wiped them out. And I know McKinnon and McCarr were hurt.
I know that. But what they did was a checking and shot-blocking masterpiece. And it's the same sort of thing that Carolina is doing to Montreal.
Yeah.
Was that series less entertaining to watch because Vegas was in it, checking the hell out of Colorado? Probably, but man, you just don't win much in hockey when it comes to elite-level hockey. without being able to check and commit to defense. And that's what torts has done with this team.
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Chapter 6: What factors contributed to the Avs' playoff exit?
And it is very, very impressive to see what they did to a Colorado team that at times this season could score at will. And they just looked like they were out of juice, out of answers because of the way that Vegas played them.
They got wiped out. They got absolutely wiped out offensively in this series. They couldn't figure out Carter Hart. They looked like they never found their rhythm. They never really figured out a way to break down everything that the Golden Knights were doing. And here's the thing. And I want to play, Laddie, that second clip that I sent along last night, the late-night clip from Tortorella.
He really goes a little bit deeper into talking, and it's not like reinventing the wheel on defensive analysis, but talking about how everything that it takes to play really good, stout, resolute defense in the Stanley Cup playoffs, the Golden Knights did over the course of four games in this series. And then he goes on to talk about the Avs as well.
It's about a minute-long clip, but I want to play it anyway because Torts was very good last night in talking about his team in that series. which will be remembered for a long time as one of the most improbable sweeps in Stanley Cup playoff history. Here's John Tortorella on how and why the Vegas Golden Knights are so good defensively with a little bit of talk about the abs as well here.
Following the sweep last night, here's John Tortorella.
We checked our ass off. That's what stands out to me. And that's how you win in this league is by checking. And when I say checking, not body checking, but checking, being above the puck, winning the battles, gaps. I mean, I could go with it. Checking is a heading. There's probably 30 things you can talk underneath that heading. By far our best game.
It's something we have been concentrating on and I think we've gotten better and better through the rounds. But tonight's game was our best checking effort. And that's a hell of a hockey team. We played over there and I know people are crawling up Betsy's ass about this, that, the other. He is one hell of a coach. He's got a great staff there. We knew I was very nervous.
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Chapter 7: What role did coaching play in the series outcome?
We knew how we had to play because it's such a potent team. Uh, and I thought we, I thought it was our best game. Uh, so, and again, I want to, uh, from Joe right on down, that's a great organization. That's a great team. We found our way. And I think Betsy said it the right way there. It was such a close series. We just found our way to make another play.
Uh, so I have a tremendous respect for the, for Betsy and that staff and that organization.
11 of their last 13 games they've won now. And I had a feel like... I know Colorado was banged up. And like you said, there was a lot of different things that went into this. But this was about as dominant as you can be defensively in a series.
to absolutely wipe out a team that averaged, what, 3.7 goals per game during the regular season, one of the highest-scoring teams we've seen during the regular season in the salary cap era, and a team that really, through the first two rounds of the playoffs, didn't have many issues going along, right? The abs were rolling going into this Western Conference final. They looked fine.
And I know, you know, Kael McCarr's injuries were obviously more significant, and, you know, he missed the first part of this series, but...
The way that they got just absolutely flatlined offensively was, it was wild to watch, and I think by, you know, the turning point of series, clearly, was when the Avs were down 2-0 in the series, and they got out to a 3-0 lead, and you thought, okay, they figured it out. They figured out a way to get to the Golden Knights, and they figured out a way, more importantly, to get to Carter Hart.
And that was the game where Tortorella said that, you know, we showed the real big balls. And in that one, the element of the defensive prowess that Torts was talking about, that was the goaltending. That was where he mentioned several times that when it got to 3-0, Hart just wouldn't allow that fourth goal. And it gave them a chance to get back in the game.
And you need all those different things firing to have the kind of defensive performance that the Vegas Golden Knights have. Are they the cup favorite regardless of who comes out of the East right now?
I think it's a toss-up if it's Carolina and Vegas.
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Chapter 8: What are the fans' reactions to Marner's comments?
I would say that there's not a team that looks more complete than Vegas did in that series.
How many games has Carolina lost in the playoffs?
No, Carolina's fine. Carolina's a good team. Carolina's a good team. But Carolina, I don't think, has that sort of... suffocating element to the degree that Vegas showed against the best team in the NHL. I don't know about that.
I don't know about that. I think Carolina can suffocate with the best of them.
I think we might find out.
I do want to talk about a few other characters in this series. Quickly, I just want to say that I think Mark Stone might be my favorite player in the NHL. If someone were to ask, you know, I don't get asked that.
Why?
Because you're the same age? He's a little bit older based on his looks. I just, I love his story. I love the way he plays. He was a sixth round draft pick. And a big reason why was like his skating is not good.
A little funky.
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