Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What was the emotional impact of Brad Marchand's return to Boston?
Well, he didn't want to go somewhere else just to lose to Florida. Like he could have stayed in Boston for that.
Or lose in the first round.
Well, that's what I'm saying. You know, the best case scenario is either go to the Panthers and win Stanley Cups or go somewhere else and probably lose to the Panthers over the next decade.
Yeah, that's true. Now, he did not play the Bruins last season after the trade deadline because he was injured. He returned a little bit before the playoffs started. And as we said, the rest is history. Now, going into this week. Paul Maurice decided to start Marchand's line. So he was out there on the ice during the national anthem, which is a really good moment there. Not his national anthem.
Well, I mean, he is Canadian. So he just stood there like, OK, I'm getting ready for the game, blah, blah, blah. It's not for today's discussion, but it's such a silly thing that they still do that. Yeah, it's stupid. It's stupid. And what they did in Texas is even dumber. Now, they made it mandatory via law in Texas to play the national anthem at sporting events. But whatever.
That's another discussion. But the big moment happened during the Bruins tribute video to him. That was really, really nice. Everybody stood. They applauded. And Brad Marchant was a blubbering mess. He was tearing up. And it makes sense considering that he spent 16 years in that city winning one Stanley Cup in 2011.
Very classy by the Bruins, by their fans. Just overall, it's a really cool moment by everybody involved. I like what I saw.
I mean, I don't know how much hockey fans in general, and we'll toss it to Danny here for his take on this, but to see a tough hockey player, not just any tough hockey player, but Brad Marchand's been one of, you know, controversial for a good chunk of the first part of his career, but certainly one of the toughest guys in the league. Yeah. Plays bigger than his body. Oh, absolutely.
But the waterworks were flowing with Danny. He was a big blubbering mess, Roy. You took the word from me. It was excessive. It was excessive. He's not the first legend to return back to. Is he even from Boston?
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Chapter 3: How did the hosts react to Marchand's tribute video?
So... Cindy Crouch, we scored a second goal, and I just crumpled up the paper and just threw it in the garbage. Like, see you later. So, yeah. Again, integrity.
Well, lucky for you, that's their only visit to South Florida.
Yeah.
Isn't it weird, though, that, like, the two games? Two in Pittsburgh. Back-to-back days. It's like a Saturday, a Sunday in March, I think it is. We're trying to drag you up there for that. It's stupid. It really is.
It's weird. We have a new segment that's going to probably just maybe make you money. It is time for Puck Luck, sponsored by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours. David.
Yes. All right. This week's weekly Puck Luck parlay. For our Friday night slate of NHL games, I've got three picks for you. First off, from the Toronto at Buffalo game, we're going to take Austin Matthews over three and a half shots on goal. Buffalo allows the second most shots in the NHL at 33.1 behind only. San Jose. And Matthews has hit the over in four of his seven games this season.
Also, his career in Buffalo, he averages over four shots a game. And his past three visits to Buffalo have seen Matthews put up six, five and five shots on goal. Then in the San Jose, New Jersey game, we're going to take the over six and a half because San Jose cannot keep the puck out of their net. But they do score a lot. They've scored three or more.
in each of their past four games, and they've allowed at least three in every game this season. The Devils have won six in a row, and they average four goals at home. Final leg is Kyle Connor from the Calgary at Winnipeg game, over two and a half shots. He's hit that number in three straight games, and in all of Winnipeg's home games this season, where he's averaging five shots on goal.
Total odds on your parlay for puck luck this week is plus 448. So go ahead and make you some money.
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Chapter 4: What are the latest updates on the New York Rangers' performance?
You know, granted it's still nine games in and that could certainly become a trend, but the Rangers have really done an excellent job for the most part. at defending in front of him. Last night was not one of those cases, and that's why you saw the Sharks put up five goals.
But in the previous eight games, while he's had to come up big in a lot of those games, I don't think it's nearly the workload that he's had in years prior. You noticed that center ice last night during pregame skate, Ryan Reeves, and I believe it was Artemi Panarin having a nice conversation.
And as they wrapped up, as Ryan Reeves was about to skate away, Matt Rimpey skated over and must have said something to Reevo because those two got into a pretty massive fight. A couple of heavyweights going at it. And, I mean, it was just haymaker after haymaker. Yeah. Matt Rimpey ended up leaving the game early after this fight with an upper body injury.
And clearly it was because he took a couple of haymakers to the head because Rimpey is a terrible fighter.
Rimpey's the only guy that I've ever seen make Ryan Reeves look anything but massive. Like I always used to look at Ryan Reeves like this guy is like Frankenstein on the ice. He's huge. But then I look at him next to Rimpey and holy cow, like he makes Ryan Reeves look normal sized.
Yeah, he managed to pull the jersey over Rebo's head and put some hammer fists on him, but that's pretty much it. Describe the scene for us. What exactly happened?
Well, the warm-up conversation, again, I think everyone knows the relationship and friendship between Ryan Reeves and Artemi Panarin, especially after I think it was on Missing Curfew where Ryan Reeves was talking about how him and Panarin used to play basketball or something and drink some vodka after games. So those two guys, that was clearly a friendly conversation happening at Center Ice.
And Rempe took his opportunity to get Rebo at the red line and give him a heads up that he wanted one. Um, and those two have had some, you know, I guess previous history going back to the Rangers in Toronto a couple of years ago when, when Reeves was there and Reeves is putting the lineup basically to fight Rempe.
Um, but again, like whenever you see a heavyweight on the other side, it's somewhat anticipated that those two were going to go at it at some point in the evening. And, um, you know, I think last night Rempe kind of went at a perfect time. The Rangers had a really slow start to the game.
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Chapter 5: What challenges are the Florida Panthers facing this season?
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It's time to head into the Panthers' den, and the Panthers' den is pretty dark right now. It's not been a good time for Florida. Saturday, they lost to Buffalo 3-0. Tuesday, they beat the Bruins 4-3 in an emotional game. We'll get to that in a second. Thursday, last night, lost to Pittsburgh 5-3.
Chapter 6: How did the Panthers perform during their recent road trip?
We'll get to that game a little bit later. And Saturday, they will play the Vegas Golden Knights. At home. All right, so Florida came off of, well, they were still on a disastrous road trip. They have lost four games, all of them, in regulation, after starting the season with three straight at home.
All right, so we'll go and bypass that and move to the last game of the road trip, which was in Boston. We mentioned Brant Marchand and his return to Boston, which was crazy emotional. As Danny GQ said, he was a blubbering mess. Blubbering in Boston. I like it. Yeah, and it's understandable.
Rubbering Brad in Boston.
The alliteration is keep growing. Hey, look at you. You're a writer. All right, so he made his return, and the Panthers went into the third period leading 2-0. And that's when things got crazy, especially in the last three minutes of the game. Boston scored too early in the third before Ito Luzerainen took the lead back.
But Morgan Geeky ended up scoring with a minute and a half left to tie the game again. And then with 26 seconds left, Carter Verhege's shot that went off the post hit the leg of Andrew Peek and went into the net. The Panthers would hold on to win despite a clock malfunction at the end there. I forgot about that. The game. So that's what happened.
And they finally broke that losing streak and ended up being 4-4 at that time with eight points in the standings. Why don't you go over the game? How did that go for you?
It was good to see Florida get going on the power play. That was something that they'd been really been struggling with on the road trip. I think in the Buffalo shutout loss, they had like 15 power play shots. So things were clicking. They just couldn't get the puck in the net, which was really a big story of the entire road trip.
Like their underlying numbers, the offensive stats, they were there maybe not as strong as we're used to seeing from the Panthers when they're at full strength, but certainly good enough to win in a lot of areas. So you could kind of feel that things are going to turn around at some point for the Panthers. Got a little bit of that feeling in the Boston game. The third period was crazy.
Blowing a two-goal lead, granted on the road, but still a two-goal lead in the third period. Blowing that. Taking another lead. Blowing that again. They got lucky with that fluky ass. It reminded me of those. You remember the McDonald's commercials from back in the day with Jordan and Bird? Yeah. Off the wall, off the backboard, off the rafters, nothing but net.
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