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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
Me and Ryan have been officially welcomed to the jungle that is Barstool Sports.
I brought it towards the Coyotes and I asked them if it was okay if I joined the Spit Chicklets podcast full time.
Ryan Whitney, you got a pink Whitney out there now. Get that on camera. It's a full time member. Marley just got an assist from Chris B. Whoa, we're buzzing right now. Honk. What is up, folks? That's a wrap. That's a season. What a cup final. The Carolina Hurricanes are the Stanley Cup champs. Shout out Pink Whitney. Did that have anything to do with them winning the Stanley Cup? Also, sure.
Probably not. Probably not, but it helped their fans enjoy some of the parties last night. A lot of it being snuck into the arena for the watch party in Carolina for the Game 6 clincher in Vegas. Pink Whitney representing its boat season, its beach season, its summertime. Time for some Pink Whitney. Put it on ice and enjoy yourselves.
And, guys, one man on this show predicted the Carolina Hurricanes would get it done.
It's you, right? And seven?
That happened to be me.
The same guy that said they would never, ever win a Stanley Cup because they don't have a number one center.
Very true. Very true. And for a team who I believe I would say was kind of the original around the league great team that was called a fraud, they just shut everyone up.
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Chapter 2: How did the Carolina Hurricanes become Stanley Cup champions?
Like, this is going to be the biggest double-wrister Carolina Hurricanes glaze pod you've ever heard in your life.
And they deserve it. It's from the front office down to DeLaurier coming in. It's like the entire way, and we have all the moves and all the players and everything that's happened there.
But seeing Rod Brindamore, and 20 years later, after raising it as captain of the Carolina Hurricanes, get it last after all the players basically chuck it up in the air, hug the thing, which only he could do, right?
It was a clean and jerk after the hug.
It was a clean and jerk, a snatch. And then he's in the locker room with his shirt off. But more than anything, and this was just said before we started recording, I said, save it for the pod, biz style. Game six was the most Carolina Hurricanes hockey game. It was like it all came together. It was all in the stars.
It was all karma that they would actually clinch the cup in a way that they've played hockey for a long fucking time where you don't even have a chance of getting goals against them.
I think it was a 30-minute span in game time where Vegas only had two shots on net.
At home in a clinching game.
That is, it was a master class. It was a couple early big saves by Bussey. It got things calmed down. They were able to get the first goal. And after that, man, there was a few times where they look rattled or disoriented. Maybe a few chances on that penalty that Robinson took. But other than that, man, it was one line after another.
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Chapter 3: What role did key players have in the Hurricanes' success?
Eichel had a bunch of crossbars in post that crossbar in the third. That was it. That was pretty much it. Right. If you could make it to one, then you never know. But the way that they came out and got that first goal. So like Slavin gives it up to Hall. Kind of a tough turnover, right? You can't make that happen. But Taylor Hall, who by the way,
He was healthy scratched by the Chicago Blackhawks last year. One of the worst teams in the past 20 years. The guy was getting health bombed. When we spoke to him in Chicago in the midst of that, his vibe was like, I don't know.
I didn't think he was going to play another year after that.
He was like, just kind of seemed like, yeah, I'm getting healthy scratched on one of the worst teams in the league, if not the worst. For him to put on the performance that he did in the playoffs and to start it off, and I guess for me, just knowing him so well, I'm so happy for him. I was watching his interview, watching him raise the cup.
I believe that Anderson went to give it to Ajo, and Ajo said, no, Halsey, get in there. I think that was the order. Anderson got it second after Jordan Stahl, and it was just like, man, I was so pumped for him. Knowing him as just this young, like, Full of piss and vinegar. Kind of cocky, but not really. Great kid, 18-year-old.
And now he's a father of two, and he's been on six, seven different teams. And then he does that in the entire playoff. Could have been the consummate winner for sure. It was just an incredible storyline to see him start it off. And then for the second goal, and I'll throw it to you guys after. The two dogs, Stankoven and Blake, whose extensions start next year at $5 and $6 million apiece.
They haven't even started yet. Eight years. They are those guys. They're undersized. Blake's a fourth rounder. Stankovic's traded around and they just work and work and work. And Blake buries it kind of a lucky bounce off a stick. And I said this team is just that's immediately when I looked at their roster for next season in which every single guy is signed.
Besides Anderson, UFA, which he's probably moving on. Look at Bussey. And then you got Deloria, UFA. Hopefully they bring him back, but that's no money. And then Nikitian's an RFA who was on the all-rookie team D, nice player, but he actually fits into another, like, long-term deal bargain.
Oh, for sure.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the Hurricanes' victory for the NHL landscape?
Top GM. Top GM. I mean, I'll eat the L for, like, the Stankhoven move. I think everybody was like, what was that? You know, at least he would have had something planned for Renton as far as, like, locking up long-term.
But for him to end up pulling off that move and probably now it looks like, listen, Renton is an unbelievable player, but you also have Stankhoven at half the price now for the full term of that deal. So, and for him to get the first rounders out of that, for him to also get Hall in around that time, I agree, man, that the moves that he's made to bring these guys in, like Keandre Miller.
I mean, we just talked about Walker, Goss' spare, bringing him back in after his second time. Like going to get a guy like Carrier, who's got cup experience from Vegas. Like the way that he built the entire, Jankowski, another guy who was basically a throwaway who jumped around a little bit. Like Robinson, where did he come from? Columbus?
Like these guys are all throwaways that this guy went and picked up.
All based, I think, on the analytical numbers, man. A lot of them.
Let's not forget here.
And how they fit in that system.
Let's not forget. Exactly. Rottenham didn't want to sign there, and Mitch Marder didn't want to get traded there. And Jens, you brought it up via text yesterday or two days ago.
Yeah, I think going back to what Jordan Stahl said, is guys jump ship or they stay. Like, Stankhoven wanted to be there, right? Like, he's a guy – he fits that team to a T. The way he skates, the way he works, and then you put him with those two guys, that line was amazing. But, yeah, the –
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Chapter 5: What strategies did Rod Brindamore use to prepare Bussey for game three?
So he gave him the whole intermission to mentally and physically get as loose as he could. And when he first made the switch, you know, I was like, no, Freddie's playing in game four. It's just a mental and physical reset. But then Bussey made me a believer the way he performed. And I believe in history, guys. And The Stanley Cup here, now the previous Stanley Cup here.
Wow, does that sound great to say? But in the first round against Montreal, Cam Ward came in in game two in relief against a great Montreal team. The Hurricanes lost in overtime, but that gave me the belief, go to Cam Ward down 2-0 on the road against Montreal. And Bussey gave me that same conviction, regardless of how it would have worked out.
Krip, what did you hear? We were just talking about Carolina being probably one of the last teams on the waiver wire based on their finish the year before. So Bussie hits it from Florida. Why no other team? What was the thought process on everyone passing on him? You know what?
I don't know. I can't speak for all the other teams in the league, but what I can tell you is Paul Schoenfelder, you know, Rod Brindamore, some of his closest friends in the world. I mean, I walked his mom down the aisle at his wedding.
Chapter 6: Why did the Hurricanes believe in Bussey's potential as a goaltender?
Our goaltenders. But... That's not his strong suit. But what his strong suit is, he delegates and never usurps. And that includes the goaltending position. And Paul Schoenfelder had watched Brandon Bussey in the American League, even dating back to Western Michigan, and he loved him. He loved him more than anything because, toss the numbers, he always found a way to win.
And so that's why if he was going to be available, the Hurricanes were going to grab him, even if it caused a goaltending logjam.
Tripp, I know you're super close with the Stahl family. You've been to all the weddings.
Chapter 7: What does Jordan Stahl's Stanley Cup victory mean to his close friends?
But what does it mean to you to see Jordan Stahl lift that Stanley Cup? Because he's been there through the good, the bad, and he's just been the mainstay of that organization for the longest time now.
You know, Yance, I can so vividly remember his wedding reception in Thunder Bay right as it was starting. Sidney Crosby and the majority of the Penguins are there. Jordan and his wife, Heather, are just starting to make the rounds to thank everybody for coming. And a guy that you guys know well and represented with, Paul Kropelka said, Emmett, my real name. The Canes just acquired Jordan.
I got to go tell him. And And then to think about how he trudged the road, that broken leg in a preseason game in Buffalo, and he has always been so selfless. It just makes me emotional to think about it. It's just that simple.
And then what a guy's first six years, right? Like those years. So him and Eric plan on like competing for a cup together.
And his attitude, I'm guessing knowing him a little as the way I do, probably he's never a guy that's like coming in body language, bad up another season down the drain, like just by never leaving or requesting to leave or signing anywhere else shows that even through the dark days, he was like, no, I'm here. We're going to get it done.
I made a commitment this year that I will never compliment him to his face again. Because you walk away feeling terrible because he never wants praise. And he laughed when I told him that. And, you know, in NHL history, guys, will you ever find a head coach and a captain? Left shot, complete centerman. Team first. Tremendous in the community.
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Chapter 8: What key factors contributed to the Hurricanes' success this season?
You know, like Jordan Stahl wouldn't even care that he won the consmith. But his teammates, even with all the other great candidates, they were over the moon for him. And I can't put into words. There were some low points that I experienced just in my friendship with Jordan Stahl. Faith is a big part of who he is. And let me tell you, the great wit deserves a huge assist.
Because on that plane on Long Island after game 82, he ain't on social media. He sparked it. The fight with Brady Kachok to start the playoffs. And by the way, wit in my bet where I was going to paint my dog, Ottawa might have been the toughest opponent Carolina had. They didn't lose.
And they didn't lose, but they needed a red-hot Freddie Anderson, and they needed a full eclipse of a screen in that important Jordan Martinuk game-two overtime goal. If it goes to Ottawa 1-1, who knows? Because that was a good team. So Jordan Stahl all over being the playoff most valuable player.
That was the crazy play where Stahlsy got hosed on the offside, where he set up Martinuk, he scored, got the penalty shot. Ron is saying, does he have to take it? He did, didn't score, and then scored the OT winner. So there were some crazy fun moments. Let's move away from the players for two seconds. We got to talk about Tulsky, the most handsome man in the Carolinas.
This is getting a tattoo of him.
Listen, I think everybody was maybe hard on him, especially media-wise, about when he moved for Rotten, but didn't have him signed, but then got out of that at the 12th hour and ended up picking up Stankhoven and That deal and moves he's made along with Hall and all these other ones, this guy is like a hockey genius.
And he's maybe faced a little criticism in the past for some of these moves, not having a true superstar. But talk about what he's done with that team and how now he's set this team up for the future. Cap space, first-round draft picks, guys locked into team-friendly deals, nobody making too much money. Another Stanley Cup won by a team with a player not making over $10 million.
What has this guy done to change things around in Carolina?
Well, the first thing I think about being a unique general manager, Eric is... very comfortable in his own skin. And he has self-belief, which you have to have. He treats other people very well. He and I were actually at Harvard at the same time, but we never met. Maybe we should have.
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