The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Hockey Show: The Gentlemen's Sweep (feat. Eetu Luostarinen)
02 May 2025
The Florida Panthers have advanced to the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs, and Roy, David, and Ethan are here to celebrate. The crew examines how the Cats effortlessly discarded their cross-state rivals and what so many experts got wrong about this series. Plus, wins and fails of the week include Gabriel Landeskog's first goal back and an all-time party foul by one of Meadowlark's own. Plus, Tara Slone of NBC Sports California joins the show to discuss how Canada feels about the country's chances of bringing home The Stanley Cup for the first time since 1993, Macklin Celebrini's rookie year, and where the Los Angeles Kings go from here. Finally, Florida Panthers forward Eetu Luostarinen joins the show and tells us about his chemistry with linemates Anton Lundell and Brad Marchand, representing Finland at the Four Nations, and life as a new dad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Full Episode
Hello, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Hockey Show. My name is Roy Bellamy. Behind me sweeping right now is David Dwork of the Hockey News. And the shipping container is Ethan Badowski. And me and David are wearing ties. And I'm wearing a suit. And I'm wearing a 3XL.
the hell for man this is not 1995 i don't know why we've been doing that old shirts thread oh throughout the show this week so i thought we were going to continue that and then you guys are in here in a freaking suit and tie well you're like 235 pounds when you're like 16 years old no no no just triple x i thrifted
So I'm in a suit, and Dave is in a tie, and he's holding the broom because the Florida Panthers gave the Tampa Bay Lightning a gentleman's sweep. So I can tell you that I still don't understand why the members of the media decided to pick against them, but hey, what are you going to do? But the Panthers completely shut them down.
They shut down the Lightning pretty well because when you're that good, when you're scoring that well, especially on special teams, And the Panthers' penalty kill stifles a player like Nikita Kucherov? I mean...
That should be terrifying for the rest of the league. I would think so. Tampa, I mean, you've talked about how good of a scoring team they were, how amazing their power play was. And Florida, I mean, you know where they took them.
Yeah.
Shut down city. Shut down city, baby. Everything between the circles was incredibly difficult for Tampa. You could tell as the series was going on, they were getting more and more frustrated. They were blocking shots. Lots of shot blocks. The shot attempts were there, but the shots on goal, not so much.
The play for me that defined really what this series was all about was the play that Luster Reinen made on Kucherov, where he just put Kucherov in his pocket. It led to the fifth and final goal in this game. And Brad Marchand, this line was absolutely unbelievable in Game 5. Nine combined points. More points than Nikita Kucherov and Braden Point in the entire series in one game.
Etu Loserainen had more goals and the same number of points in Game 5 that Nikita Kucherov had in the entire series. The Panthers dominated the Lightning. They pieced them apart just the way that they did last year. And looking back on it... This should have been the expected result.
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