Boudreau on the Maple Leafs' direction, drafting first overall and the Canadian team landscape
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Here's our TSN hockey analyst joining us here on the Maple Toyota Hotline. Here's Bruce Boudreaux. Bruce, we're going to be presumptuous here that we know what the Cup Final is going to look like. We're going to put Carolina into a Cup Final here against Vegas. Again, presuming that's going to happen, who do you like in a Cup Final, Carolina or the Golden Knights?
What are the predictions for the Stanley Cup Final between Carolina and Vegas?
Well, that's a great question. Vegas has won seven in a row. Carolina has won... 11 out of 12. They both are playing fantastic defensively. I'm still thinking the West is stronger and Vegas has peaked at the right time and they beat the best team, supposedly. So I'm going to take Vegas because they've even gotten rest to boot winning the series in four games. But Carolina... has looked awful impressive, especially the last three games where they haven't given Montreal a chance at all to win. And last night was almost a coup de grace. I mean, Montreal didn't have an answer for anything Carolina was trying to do.
So, Bruce, is there anything? We just talked about it, how Carolina's played perfect and Montreal trying to get anything going. Is there anything that you can see as far as maybe adjustments or something that Montreal could try to at least even the playing field, get some shots on goal on Carolina's or break some of their systematic play in the neutral zone to get some offense going, because right now they're just being stifled.
Yeah, they're, you know, Carolinas, the pressure they put on in the neutral zone doesn't give you any opportunity to make a play. It just doesn't. They're attacking. I call it playing above the blue line because they're forcing the play. They're not letting you dump it in. They're not sagging. But the biggest thing, or not the biggest thing, but one of the things, if I was Montreal, I would change every line you had because nothing's working. I would put somebody with Caulfield that could get the puck out of the corners. I mean, because it's not working. But, I mean, give them something where Carolina goes, geez, I don't know what to do against this line. Maybe it would, you know, at least give some momentum to the Canadians and they'd come out.
And I think if they ever scored the first goal, they might make it a bit of a different game. because then they'd get some hope. Because I think if Carolina comes out, and I really believe that they're going to come out as hard as they can, and they want to bury them in the first period, if Montreal scores the first goal, they might say, hmm, we've got a chance. And that's the only thing that I think can happen, if it does happen, that they're going to have a chance. Because Carolina looks just overwhelmingly better than them right now.
The aggressiveness with which Carolina is killing penalties reminds me of when Noodles sees a buffet and he sprints up to the front of the line and knocks people out of the way like there's a fire in the room behind him. So, you know, what do you do if you are the power play team? Because I love that. It's like hockey porn for me, watching people be that aggressive on the PK.
Well, I mean, the only way, and Montreal's trying it and they can't do it. And there's a reason the PK is so good is, A, their pressure. But Montreal has to make four good passes in a row, almost one touch pass to beat their pressure. And they can't. And they're just attacking up front and they're making two good passes. Or one good pass, the second pass is bouncing or it's not in your feet and they're on you so quickly, you know, they get it down the ice. So what do you do? You shoot the puck. If they're going to front everything, you shoot the puck behind the net, not behind the net. but off the board so the rebound comes out behind them and you try to get scrums in front of the net. To me, it seems to be the only way.
I mean, when I had Paul McLean in Anaheim and we won the power play, like the best power play in the league, that's all we do. We said we'd have the bread and butter. If things aren't going right, you shoot the puck and you attack the net.
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