The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
Has The Stanley Cup Been BETTER Than The NBA Finals? | Hour 1
08 Jun 2026
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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
This is the Dan Levitard Show with the Stugatz Podcast. This episode of the Dan Levitard Show is presented by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours.
Holy shit, the Stanley Cup final.
This is the United States of Tortorella.
How did it become that? How did it become the United States of Tortorella? How do the Vegas Golden Knights go up four goals, cough up a four-goal lead in the third period, which has never happened before? A team has never before coughed up a four-goal lead in a third period, and then lost the game. They didn't lose the game. Vegas didn't lose the game. What happened to momentum?
Chapter 2: What significant events are happening in the Stanley Cup finals?
How does Vegas win that game if momentum means anything? Put it on the poll at Levitard Show. How the hell does Vegas win that game if momentum means anything? Because that is a gut punch if you're Carolina. You had to feel like you were ordained to win that game once you come back from four goals down.
The puck was kicked in off the back of the skate of the... Carolina goalie. That's how Vegas won. They shouldn't have won the game.
There have been, I think, multiple two-goal comebacks throughout this series.
Chapter 3: How did the Vegas Golden Knights manage to win after a four-goal lead?
Every game, I think, is featured.
Game one, Carolina was up 2-0. Vegas came back and won. Game two, Vegas up 2-0. And the third, Carolina came back and won. And this one here, four-goal lead, but Vegas still won.
Most dangerous lead in sports, I guess, if it's a four-goal lead. That's extra dangerous. Yeah, it's been... An unbelievable series. You have iconic moments. What Braden McNabb is doing, not like anyone ever doubted that he was going to play right away, took a puck directly to the face. Directly to the face. Hospitalized immediately. Heroic performance in Game 3.
You know how bad that hurts, Dan? You take a puck right to the nose? Well, this is, as far as I can tell, the only thing that Tortorella has done is made sure that all the Vegas players take pucks to the nose and also freezes out the media.
Chapter 4: What impact does momentum have in sports like hockey?
Roy, correct me if I have this wrong. I really thought that the only way that Vegas would win this series is if the games were low-scoring.
Yeah, me too. I knew it was going to be close, and I was right as far as the road dog is concerned because they covered in all three games. But I thought it was going to be low-scoring, good goaltending, good defense. I was wrong on that.
Dan, they scored the four goals to tie it in the third period. Well, the first three goals were in a span of 39 seconds. 39 seconds. They scored three goals to make it a one-goal game.
We almost forget the fact that Mitch Marner had a hat trick.
He's going to win Conn Smythe if Vegas wins.
Yes, absolutely. He leads everybody in points and goals.
Such a disaster for Toronto. Oh, I need one of those to cash on the DraftKings Sports app, let me tell you. Mitch Marner doing an incredible thing right now, just like Mike Brown and Carl Anthony Towns are changing the narrative around their careers.
Mitch Marner.
Mitch Marner was the scapegoat for a loser franchise in the postseason. The Toronto Maple Leafs, everybody's ire was directed to Mitch Marner, who's one of the best two-way players in the game. He has been un-freaking-real.
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Chapter 5: How is Mitch Marner changing the narrative for himself and the Maple Leafs?
I'll never be that guy. That guy seems fun. Just yell things to the bartender and he comes right over. Instead, I'm the guy who goes to the bar and I'm sitting there like an asshole waiting like 10 minutes for it to make eye contact only to ignore me.
Do you do a little lean? Do you have your card in your hand? Do you have the cash in your hand?
A little lean? Yeah, of course. With Barkley, you do the thing where you pull the wallet out like you're gonna pay, but you're, you know, we're letting Barkley pay this, right?
He throws elbows. If you try to pay around him, he will throw, he will throw, he almost took my head off. Like, just, literally just whoosh, and I had to duck out of the way and say, what the hell are you doing over there?
I was like, I just wanted to go. He buys all the drinks. You just said the word asshole, and it reminded me of an unfortunate thing I saw this morning driving in. The Metrorail has advertising on the side of it, and somebody decidedāI don't know who this is a slogan for, but the saying wasā
access to the whole something, access to the whole something, and then when the doors open and close because of how it's written and where the S's are, it just says asshole when the doors open, like because of whatever their marketing is.
A really bad job by whoever it is that decided to put those S's and that whole in the same sentence so that when the doors open, all of a sudden you just have the word asshole on the side of your metro rail.
Why won't he just take my drink order? He has to see me, right?
Not the way he would see Barkley. You understand that Barkley walks into a room and he's usually the most famous and important person in there. So in my experience, I imagine this was Amin's experience over the entirety of the week. Whenever Charles walks into a place, it's his party, his tab, and everyone knows he's there. He's been used to it being like that for about 45 years.
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Chapter 6: What legacy changes are being discussed for Karl-Anthony Towns and Mike Brown?
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Don Libetard! It's not my favorite rejoin. Context needs to be applied. I thought the context was applied. We'd like to rip that out of context. I was going for a thing. I have a family.
You're going to pretend here that you don't love Matthew Kachuk more than you love anybody you've ever loved?
I don't love Matthew Kachuk more than my daughter. Stugatz! Now it's pretty damn close.
This is the Don Levitas Show with the Stugats. Speaking of broadcasters, I should mention Stacey King, a famous Bulls broadcaster. Famous Bull died fairly shockingly at the age of 59 here. And I don't know whether Benetti did this or not on the Peacock NBC broadcast, but he was supposed to. The Bulls had asked in an homage to what it is Benetti had done for us.
for Benetti to, during the Sunday night game, because Benetti used to work with the Bulls, to drop in Stacey King catchphrases into the Peacock and NBC broadcast. I have to check with Benetti to see if he actually went ahead and did that, but he was going to do that. Stacey King, beloved in Chicago, beloved personality as a player, more beloved as a broadcaster. Roy,
We have one more Benetti sound. Benetti did one more free catchphrase out of nowhere that we have not played a day later after our charity event for Boog Shambi. Can you play the sound of Jason Benetti sneaking in another Greg Cody catchphrase over the weekend?
Tiger's offense has started to cook here in Tampa. They're going to leave going, what, we break a window? On the way out of here. Dan, you know, Stacey King was a friend of mine. He was just a wonderful man, a very great positive energy about him. You could hear it in his broadcast, his excitement to call the games. He was awesome.
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