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Chapter 1: What happened in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final?
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Okay, there's a lot of times that this job is a pretty sweet gig. You get to sit around, talk about sports, take naps. They don't write that up in the job description, but you get to do it. This week is one of those weeks where you got to be really excited to do this job. So good. Unbelievable.
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Chapter 2: How did the Carolina Hurricanes make a comeback in Game 3?
A relatively quiet weekend on the Canucks front. We still got some news to pass along on what happened. You can also ask Kev about the Stanley Cup final if Carolina is set to make a change in goal. Kev is going to join the program at 7.30 this morning. 8 o'clock, Eric Francis speaking of the Stanley Cup final. Eric's going to join us live from Vegas where he's covering the final for Sportsnet.ca.
Absolute cinema from this series on Saturday night in Game 3. An all-timer of a game that saw Vegas beat Carolina 5-4 in Double OT. Game 4 goes tomorrow night from Vegas. Eric is going to join us to talk about it at 8 a.m. So we got a big show. We got a million things to look at here. It's a very exciting time. We're very fired up.
So without further ado, Laddie, let's tell everybody what happened.
Hey, did you guys see the game last night? No. What happened? I missed all the action because I was... We know how busy your life can be. What happened? Did you miss that? What happened?
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This year, give her ATS Traffic. Yep, that's right. No more English muffins. ATS traffic time. Okay, we're going to begin with game three of the Stanley Cup final from Saturday night. It was Shea Theodore scoring the game-winning goal, kind of, off the back of Brandon Bussey. 538 of the second overtime, and that barely tells the story. But let's play the audio right now.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of the Stanley Cup Final series so far?
I'm just enjoying the game, which is awesome.
There's a level of purity with this Stanley Cup final that's quite refreshing, actually. There hasn't been a lot of questionable hits, suspendable plays, jawing back and forth. It's been unbelievable theater and drama within the whistles and within the 60-minute. And then, of course, the last two games have gone to overtime. Okay, here's the thing. Game three...
When we take a look back, is going to go down as one of the most memorable games in the history of the sport. Yeah. To put this in context, Game 3 had just, and this is just in regulation, the fastest hat trick in Stanley Cup Final history. That came courtesy of Mitch Marner. He broke Maurice Richard's record by scoring the hat trick in the second period.
It also had the three fastest goals in Stanley Cup Finals history because the Carolina Hurricanes went from 4-0 down to 4-3 in the span of 39 seconds. It was the second time in Stanley Cup Final history that a team erased a four-goal deficit. In a single game.
What was the other one? Do you know?
It was in 1972 between the Rangers and the Bruins.
Okay.
The Rangers were trailing by four. They came back, and they lost the game in regulation, not even in overtime.
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Chapter 4: What are the latest updates on the NBA Finals?
It doesn't mean that he didn't struggle in Toronto in those playoff games like he did. He did without question.
And some of the play looked at times confused, at times listless. I don't think that it was ever like people are like he wasn't trying. I'm like, that's not it.
That's not it.
That's not it. It's not an effort thing. He wanted it as badly as anyone. He's a hardwired, competitive, professional athlete. I think the difference in Toronto was the crushing weight of expectation, as opposed to this, where you can just tell he's playing freer. And that second, I mean, that hat trick in just over six minutes...
on saturday was that puts you in a pantheon reserved for a few of the greats in the game and that's where marner is right now the level that he's playing at although let's not give him a hundred percent on the report card because um i found it crazy that he admitted he admitted it that he didn't know the Canes had changed goalies. Didn't see the bussy come in.
And then he had the penalty shot on the goalie, and the goalie doesn't... Like, it's a southpaw. Yeah. What do they call goalies that...
catch with their right wrong-handed wrong-handed right and then so he lefties yeah he he dekes he dekes to the the glove hand side was so when he deked to the glove hand side was he like whoa what's your glove doing apparently in the post game apparently he said he didn't realize they even switched goalies that's what i'm talking about you don't look up yeah you don't look up and so did he deke he was like wait a minute your blocker's supposed to be there yeah
So anyway, I thought a good idea to look at the goalie.
I honestly think I thought that was a crazy thing to admit, but it was honest. And he said he was exhausted at the time, which I understand. But, you know.
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Chapter 5: How are ticket prices affecting fans for the NBA Finals?
It's like, could you media morons be better served by just reporting the news? So here's a report for you. If Carolina loses the next game, they're facing elimination. But if they win the next game, it becomes a best of three. Those are facts.
Facts only here. I actually disagree with that. Oh, interesting. Tell me more. Because I have to have an opinion on this.
Yes, that's right.
I actually think if they lose game four, they are not facing elimination.
I'm interested in your theory. It's a bit of a hot take. Okay, but the point being, it's so fundamentally important. They don't have the wiggle room. They didn't get the split that they needed on the road in that first game. Like I would be very, very, very hesitant to make a goalie switch to that magnitude. But again, if health comes into it, they might do it.
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Chapter 6: What is the significance of Wemby's performance in the NBA Finals?
Okay. Let's get to the Vancouver Canucks stuff here. Cause there was some news over the weekend and it comes courtesy the 100% Canucks podcast, the podcast, which deals 100% with the Vancouver Canucks. Wow. New Canucks general manager Ryan Johnson was on there.
You listened to the podcast in its entirety, and there was one notable takeaway, and it pertains to what the Canucks may or may not spend and who they might spend it on this summer when July 1st hits for free agency.
Yeah, and Ryan Johnson has already kind of hinted that the Canucks will not be a spend to the cap team next season, and that's understandable given the focus on developing young players. not to mention the lack of quality free agents that's even going to be available on July 1st.
You know, it's also more difficult to weaponize cap space in a new era where cap space is not that hard to find around the league. But I do wonder, and the quote he had, by the way, was obviously we're being very strategic in the sense of knowing where we are and what the vision is. We're not going to try to jump the line and spend without a purpose.
We've got areas out of the gates that I think we need to improve on, some team identity and maybe role definition. I'll look at opportunities of doing that maybe ā via other routes, but you're not going to see us, unless our picture changes, July 1st, sitting there spending a ton of money. And I don't think the picture is going to change.
We're going to try to build this through the draft and to do it slowly, do it right. And if there are opportunities to add and it stays to the vision, sure, we'll do it. But we'll be very strategic with it. So, again, it makes sense in a rebuild where... Frankly, you're okay with losing. You're not okay with a losing culture, but you're okay with losing because you need to draft top-tier talent.
But I do wonder... if the idea of cutting payroll helped convince ownership to do this rebuild and face the reality of missing the playoffs for the next few years. If revenues do fall because of this, and maybe, you know, tickets aren't as popular, and maybe even there are some empty seats at Rogers Arena during the regular season. If revenues do fall, at least expenses would fall too, right?
I just wonder. I'm always curious about what ownership is thinking because I think one of the Sidians had, I think, the quote of this new era when he said, like, ownership, and I'm paraphrasing here, ownership was, like, tired of trying to win and still missing the playoffs.
Again, this year, early in the season, was the Canucks doing their best to win, and they were still the worst team in the NHL. They came into this season going like... This is the best we can do, right? And they have been, for the most part, a capped team to the point where they've been capped out multiple times where they're like, we got no more money to spend.
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Chapter 7: What are the Vancouver Canucks' plans for the upcoming season?
And maybe it's a short-term deal. Like you throw some wild money on a two-year deal at some guy and hope he comes. Now, I don't think the Canucks are ever even going to consider that. They'll be like, no, we're in a rebuild. We're not going to spend to that.
But what do you think about the idea that cutting payroll and cutting expenses, and hopefully this doesn't extend to the front office, by the way, which, you know, It might that if we're going to do this rebuild, like ownership is like, okay, if we're doing this rebuild, we're not spending much anywhere because our revenues might fall. And that's the big concern.
That was always the concern about rebuilding, right? It was always the concern. You can make a lot of money even just with one round appearance in the playoffs. It was always a concern. So if they are going to commit to this, are they going to do it on a shoestring budget?
So the ceiling for this year, upper level salary cap ceiling is $104 million. The floor is $76 million. So there's a $29 million. It's called a $30 million variance between the most you can spend and the least you can spend. And the Canucks, as you mentioned, have been a cap ceiling team for an awfully long time. I think in this first free agency, we're going to get the tell.
Yep.
I think we will. Trance's idea and the reason that I think he keeps describing it as radicals, it is a radical school of thought because I don't think the Canucks would be alone in saying we're not going to do that.
I think there's a lot of people in the industry at that executive level that we wary of being at the bottom of the league and, you know, offering these gargantuan eye-popping contracts to guys. Which do make sense.
Do make sense when you consider what Drance's idea is, which is you need to overpay to acquire talent because talent is what's going to be available on the trade market and what people are going to want to try and acquire via trade. You need to have some chips to utilize in the trade market so you can, as you said, essentially buy picks. It makes sense, right? There's a lot that goes into it.
You have to have the buy-in from the executives in the club, ownership, management, all that. You also need players that are willing to do it. I think that's the bigger hang-up for me. If you're going to throw wild money, let's say a hypothetical. The Canucks are going to throw wild money at a Michael McCarron, right?
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Chapter 8: How are the Canucks addressing their roster and salary cap situation?
You just go to these guys and you say, this is our plan. This is what we don't want to do. We're going to pay you handsomely if you want to come play for a little bit. And when it comes time to flip you at a deadline, this one or the next, we're going to do that. But you're going to get a lot of money, more than you've probably ever made in your NHL career. It's an intriguing thought exercise.
Yeah, but it's not going to happen. But it's not going to happen.
I'm going to be real curious to see where the Canucks rank in terms of payroll heading into the season. I'm not talking about even after free agency because there could still be some trades after that. I'm talking about... at training camp, you know, is Jake DeBrus there still? And if he isn't, has he been replaced by anyone?
Now, maybe it's Brendan Gallagher, which is kind of an even swap, although Galley's only going to get $4 million, I think, in pay, actual pay, this season, if they do add him. You know, is Pedersen going to still be there? And if they trade him... Do they have to take a bad contract back or something like that?
I'm just going to be curious to see where they rank in terms of payroll because, you know, I'm not that against the idea of just scaling down the salaries only because... the Canucks have made their own bed in so many of these cap crunches that they've been in. Right. And if you want to, if you want to have a good room, just tell the guys like, this is going to be the team.
In the next little while. There are no high-priced free agents coming to save this team. You guys are it. And you're it. You guys are the guys. And you're going to have to work hard. And you're going to try and be better every day. And you're going to have to have a good attitude. And this is the vision that we have, at least for the next few years. So go.
Yeah. The one caveat I'll say is like, I'm not sure year one is going to be full of all of these tells that we want and hope for because they still have, I think they still have a lot of work to do with offloading guys still. Like, I don't think DeBrusque should be any part of this moving forward. I don't think it's good for his career and I don't think it's good for the organization.
And we'll see on Besser and we'll see on Pedersen and we'll see, frankly, on Demko when he comes back.
So if you keep moving guys out and you say, this is not the year that we're going to try and maybe overpay for a free agent or two, that's fine because there's still a lot of work to be done. I don't think that the material changes to the active roster are done.
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