The Hockey Show: The Gentlemen's Sweep (feat. Eetu Luostarinen)
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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. The second that buzzer sounded, as a fan, I was already like, okay, we're on a Toronto or Ottawa because this is what the Panthers do now. They take teams apart. It doesn't matter how good you are in the regular season. It doesn't matter if they're on the road, if they finished strong to end the season or not.
They are going to take you apart if they're at their best and they're healthy, and they did that to the Tampa Bay Lightning.
That tells you not just how deep the Panthers are. That tells you... about their secondary scoring. They have an excellent top nine.
Yeah, their top nine is any other team's top six. It's not just the Panthers that got better, too. Not to take away from your point, Ethan, but Tampa got better, too. They're a much better team this year than they were last year. So I understand some of the logic behind some of the talking heads that wanted to take Tampa. They're looking much better. Florida was injured. But anybody that's really paying attention here, that was watching what Paul Maurice was doing over the past few weeks, they knew that all they were doing was making sure they could hit the round running in Game 1 with the playoffs. And holy shit, did they.
I'll say this, though. Tampa did get better, and moving on from Stamkos and getting Gensel instead was a great move by Tampa. I'll admit that. But coming into this series, people were talking as if Tampa was the deeper team, the better team. I don't know how you can look at the forward depth on Florida and you look at the forward depth on Tampa and see a deeper team like Zemgis Gergensens and Luke Glendening and Mitchell Chafee and Darren Radish. Those are the guys that Tampa is running out there up against. They're on the bottom six on a lot of teams in this league. Yeah. They have... Erod...
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