Chapter 1: What are the highlights of the Stanley Cup Playoffs so far?
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What's going on today?
What's going on? How are we feeling?
Very excited and hazy, I told you. I'm very excited and I'm looking forward to your reaction at 5 o'clock because I've been thinking... Lately, I've kind of been starting the 5 o'clock hour and I have an intro... I want to take it for a test drive today.
Okay. So we're taking it for a spin at 5 o'clock. You're teasing an hour ahead on how you plan on opening the 5 p.m. hour.
And I think what I say, you're going to be like, damn, he nailed that.
Okay. I look forward to it. Is it scripted? Do you have something scripted?
Do you think I ever ā what do you think I ā Chat GPT, like how to start a 5 o'clock hour on TV.
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Chapter 2: How did the Sabres secure their win against the Bruins?
I tried it. For who?
No, I just... We've got a lot of you coming up in an hour.
Do you think I would need... Like, I just wanted to see what it would say. And it's so generic. It's stupid. I said, what would be a good question to ask... a hockey person tomorrow. And it was like, it was so generic. It didn't even reference the games that were played. And I typed it. I'm like, the games happened already. Like, there's games that were played.
Oh, and then it was just so generic. I tried AI, and it sucked.
You gave it a shot. It didn't work out.
It's good, though. It does have good things. I mean, Labby, you're not going to have a problem talking to your old coach and your buddy, Labby. I'm fired up for Labby.
That would be great. Well, we're two days into the Stanley Cup playoffs.
Yeah, what do you make of it? What's your story?
I think it's been great. Take me down to Buffalo. Take me down to Buffalo. Did you see the guy trying to fight the dummy with the Bruins jersey on, and he fell on his ass? He lost the fight to a karate dummy.
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Chapter 3: What impact does Juraj Slafkovsky have on the Canadiens' performance?
That's what's wild. The Bruins were just... Swayman was great, and it's 2-0, and the Bruins are just peacocking their way to game one. And all of a sudden, bing, bang, boom.
K.H. Thompson says, uh-uh, not doing it. Not happening tonight. I mean, that place, on this goal that we're showing, I believe. No, this is the first one.
This is the 2-1 wraparound, which I love a wraparound goal.
He steals the ball. Just jam. His second goal, this one, is a power move. Like, he just grabs his puck and steps to the middle and scores.
That guy's got a stupid reach, and... I'm not kidding when I say this. He's got a Mario reach. He's not Mario, but he has that kind of reach where he can put, and Jamie, you know better than anybody, a guy that can shift the position of the puck and get a different angle where his core of his body is stationed in the same place, and he can shift it three feet to the right and kind of roof it.
That's dangerous stuff, man.
Crazy, crazy. And then that third goal there by Samuelson, the roof almost came off that building. There was, on X, they had removed the broadcasters, removed everything, just the sound. I don't know if you saw that. It just was the video of them scoring and the in-house sound of the building exploding. That was insane. And the people outside blew right through the barrier.
Yeah, I saw that. ESPN cut away from that quickly. Because all of a sudden I'm like, uh-oh, these guys have broken through the gates and they're going to storm the building.
It was. Bedlam.
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Chapter 4: How significant is Leon Draisaitl's return for the Oilers?
We had just moved to North Carolina. And when we went on that run in 2002, it was so loud. I'll never forget skating out for game three at home in the finals. And that was the only time. People throw out the cliche like it was so loud you can't hear yourself think. That's what it was. It was so loud. It's so awesome to be a part of.
And that's like so many games from now, so many weeks from now, the cup final. That's the amazing thing. If you're in Buffalo, if they can go on a run here, and it's very early, but if they can, times what we saw last night by 100, you know, by 200, 300, 400.
Imagine that crowd like in two months from now. Exactly. Like, what a run. And we've talked about this many times. It is a run for guys that meet at the bar every night for playoff hockey. Like, they're about to go on an absolute heater. If it's like, want to go watch some puck, and it's night, you get a triple overtime. Especially when the weather turns and the patio's become an option.
There's nothing better.
Well, think about yesterday. If the weather was nice yesterday and you're a puck fan... You are soiling your shorts walking out of the bar because it started at 3 and it went all the way to 1 o'clock in the morning.
And they were all good games. Yes. Literally all of them were good games yesterday. I mean, Minnesota laid a beating on Dallas. That was the only outlier.
What do you guys think about that schedule? Because it's coming into light this season where it's like, two of the top two teams in each conference are playing each other in the first round. Like, is it time for Jerry to sit down and say, we've got to fix this? Or you have the opinion, Hayes, he's just not going to do it.
He's not going to do it. He's made that very clear. Gary Bettman believes they have a great playoff system. They're not going to change it. So he's not going to change his mind. We talked about it last week. It will change when Bettman retires and someone new comes in and feels like they have to put their ā
fingerprints on the league and absolutely they will change it from there on forward it's not it's not going to change anything but you know the it's just it there's ebbs and flows you know like this year the pacific was bad in other years the metro has been bad some years the central some years the atlantic It's the same in every league. It changes all the time. Nothing is perfect.
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Chapter 5: What challenges are the Maple Leafs facing in their front office management?
They were all close games. They were competitive games. There were a bunch of comebacks. You had Slavkovsky winning in overtime.
I was just going to say, how loud do you think the bell center will be?
Well, there is a pathway where Buffalo-Montreal is going to meet in a week and a half.
Do you remember those old school matchups back in the day? What was that division even called, Jamie?
Patrick?
Was it the Patrick with... With Boston and Buffalo and Montreal and Hartford?
I think it was the Patrick division, I believe. I don't want to misspeak, but just off the top of my head, there was the Smites, which was out west.
The Norris was in the midwest, including Toronto.
The Norris division and then the Patrick. Yeah, I think it was... I don't know, but it was gritty, man. Now, listen, I don't know if Tampa... It was weird. Tampa took control of the game, and then they let it get away. And Montreal, this Marty St. Louis, calling that timeout in overtime was brilliant and cagey, man.
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Chapter 6: What strategies should the Raptors use against the Cavaliers?
You want to talk about potential bar play? If he went to a bar in Montreal, whoa.
I think that whole power play unit, dude. The oldest guy on the power play is Suzuki, and he's like 27 years old.
Okay, so what's your power rankings of after the first weekend of walking in the bar? anywhere in the National Hockey League and having the most street cred? Is it the five guys on the Montreal Power Play?
Might be.
It might be. Taves Thompson would be high. Oh, Chippewa Street. Chippewa Street with short shorts on. He may honestly tell Josh Allen, actually, you've got to wait in line. Like Thompson may walk in somewhere and tell Josh Allen, QB7, actually, the line starts over there.
So you're telling me last night, If Josh Allen's in line to get a pint and Tage Thompson, Tage Thompson gets the pint first.
Last night.
Like you think the server goes up and says, oh, Mr. Thompson.
Tage Thompson. No, dude. Last night. Not tonight and not the rest of time. I'm saying last night Thompson gets the first. Here's what would happen.
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Chapter 7: How do playoff atmospheres affect team performance?
He's rocky.
He's got a hoodie on, and he's running in the back streets with the street meat.
For a young guy, a knife like that, that's a beauty start.
Well, you know what, though? Here's a sneaky one I would say only because I'm a goalie hugger. This Vladar, he made a save with eight seconds left in the game there. He's been their MVP all season long, and I'm happy. Martone is a great story. That Pittsburgh Phillies, I expected bloodshed. It's not bloodshed, but there's intensity there. There's the intensity there. Martone had the goal.
Was he the one who scored the third goal under the bar short side on Stu Skinner?
This is what we're watching. I think he tipped it here, right?
Yeah, that's in front, a little redirect. But this is the third goal right here. Under the bar, boom, game over. Right there.
Guys, this is stud, guys. And I tell you what, I had this conversation with Craig Button. And by the way, what a fantastic luxury if you want to talk like prospects or development or what they're turning into. Wonderful resource for anyone in our building. I wish people that loved hockey had the option. Because I called him and I said, I watched Porter Martone in two world juniors.
And all I kept doing was like looking for flaws, like how are his feet? Does he move quick enough? Is he getting there? Is he intense enough? Does he make enough plays? And maybe some guys are just meant to be in the National Hockey League, and he might be one of them, man. It's early. I know I'm not getting carried away, but maybe that guy was just meant to be a stud.
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Chapter 8: What insights does Josh Lewenberg provide about the Raptors' Game 2?
Trouble.
That's scary. That's trouble. He's one of their top players.
You're starting at home too, right? This is a scenario. You're going back to mini. That building will be going nuts if you're down 0-2.
And the other thing I'll throw out there, folks, I thought Glenn Gullitson right away, did you hear it in his media? He's like, yeah, didn't even think about pulling Ottinger. Because that's a big storyline, right? You've got to be careful with him. Because Peter DeBoer is watching that with a cigar in his hand right now. He left Ottinger in there.
But he said... He left Ottinger and he even said... Goals weren't his fault. He's going three feet wide, hits a defender, which is fair. But still, it's a storyline, right? For sure it is. Because they got blown out.
And what have you done for me lately? We know what happened the last time they were in big playoff games. Let me throw one last potential bar play.
By the way. Before you name this, we're going to update. Hazy, you're responsible for this power ranking. It's not the Man of Steel. It's the National Hockey League playoffs bar play power rankings. And we're going to update it every Monday.
I love that. And we are going to continue to push.
on josh allen or tage thompson and marty baron has chimed in and josh allen would be served for number one qb7 still getting yeah i still think he had i think he gets the beer and he hands it to tage thompson that's how classy that guy he is a classy individual see him today i think they got a mini camp in town he's decked out in sabers gear it looked awesome um the last bar play i'll throw out before we wrap up i know this one's stupid
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