The Sheet with Jeff Marek
Stanley Cup Final Preview: Canes vs Golden Knights ft. Pierre McGuire
01 Jun 2026
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Chapter 1: What are the key storylines heading into the Stanley Cup Final?
okay kicking off another week here on the sheet welcome to it glad to have you aboard today for this uh monday june the first um as the stanley cup final gets underway tomorrow vegas versus carolina you already knew that um here's something for you i'm gonna play a little bit of video here and then we'll uh we'll get to the program um hockey is a cold emotionless business right this is just business and everybody understands it's
No room for emotion. No room for emotional ties. Just cold, hard business, right? Here's Brendan Gallagher.
First and foremost, so thankful and so fortunate to have spent as much time as I have here. The fans right from day one, it's been truly a privilege to play in front of them. It's an opportunity that not a lot of players get in the C-League. I've got to do it for 14 years now and it's not lost on me how special it was to call the Bell Centre home.
The very, very first time I stepped foot in this organization, you know, management, coaches, teammates have had a long years. I can't, there's been ups and downs, but I don't have a single regret. So that's pretty clear. I'll be kind of moving on here, but, you know, incredibly, incredibly.
And then he went on to tear up and essentially pause the press conference. Let's get to the program today.
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Chapter 2: How do the coaching styles of Rod Brind'Amour and John Tortorella differ?
The Blueprint is powered by FanDuel. Download the app today and play your game on FanDuel. Coming up on the program, we have a lot of topics to get to. So it's a great day to have Pierre Maguire, who is back from his tour of both Switzerland and Sweden. So plenty to get to there where he was with amongst other people.
Oh, you know, like little obscure hockey players like Nick Lidstrom and Henrik Zetterberg and Who else was he with? Carl Hagelin would have been there. Michael Samuelson as well. So we're going to get to that with Pierre coming up in a couple of moments as well. Stanley Cup final preview, Vegas versus Carolina. We'll do some of that. We'll talk about coaching vacancies.
We should talk about the Memorial Cup as well. Congratulations to the Kitchener Rangers.
Chapter 3: What is the goaltending matchup for the Stanley Cup Final?
We'll talk about front office shuffles. We'll talk about the Jack Pridham situation. He's now property of the Tampa Bay Lightning. But I thought, Peter McGuire, we might want to start with a conversation about Brendan Gallagher. And what that last clip kind of didn't show was him having to pause and collect himself. He was pretty emotional about the idea of leaving Montreal.
And, you know, the feeling is tough because you can see now Montreal is back on the ascent and they're going up the right side of their winning cycle.
and Brendan Gallagher is going to be one of those players that I think a lot of the younger kids will look back and remember and say when the building blocks were put in place, Brendan Gallagher was there, but by his own words saying, it looks like he'll be moving on. I want to get to your Swedish and Swiss adventures in a second, but do you have a thought on Brendan Gallagher?
By his own words, it looks like I'll be going somewhere else.
So many good ones. There's nothing bad to say about Brendan. I'll start off with how much he cared about living in that community. I grew up in that community. I still go back there in the summers.
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Chapter 4: How have the Carolina Hurricanes performed in the playoffs leading up to the final?
My mom's 90 years of age. She lives by herself in downtown Montreal. My nieces and nephews live in the city. My nephew's a huge Brendan Gallagher fan. So one day I just called Brendan up and I said, I need a favor. And he goes, what's that? I said, would you just give my nephew a call and just pump him up? He's a little down. No way. Yeah. But Brennan said, yeah, no problem. So he did.
He picked up the phone. He called. The kid's, you know, doing great now.
Chapter 5: What impact do star players like Jack Eichel and Sebastian Aho have on their teams?
He's at the University of Chicago and he's doing unbelievable things academically. Everything else. So it just showed you, like, Brennan cared about living there. Brennan cared about being a Montreal Canaan. Brennan wasn't just taking a paycheck. He endorsed the entire community. But as a player, I mean, how many guys have the heart, the size of the franchise every single day?
The Montreal Canadiens is a worldwide brand. His heart's as big as the world. And you think about all the things he did for the franchise. He wasn't the biggest guy. He wasn't the fastest guy. He wasn't the strongest guy. He wasn't the most skilled guy. But he's a guy you can count on every single day, whether the team was bad or whether the team was good.
Chapter 6: What are the biggest X-factors that could decide the series?
And the way he just handled this last little piece of adversity that he had to deal with, with being a healthy scratch most of the playoff, Just phenomenal. If I were Vancouver or any team looking for a character infusion, he would be on speed dial, and I would pick him up quickly.
You know what? It's interesting you mentioned Vancouver, too, because that's one of the teams that everybody has sort of keyed in here. If Gallagher's leaving, Vancouver makes some sense. I got a text from someone who suggested this. Brendan Gallagher to Vancouver in exchange for Philip Hedl, who we should point out Jeff Gorton drafted. when he was with the New York Rangers.
The cap hit is bigger, but the money is about $250,000 difference. So it's not as if you're taking on new money if you're the Vancouver Canucks here. All you're doing is using cap space. He's a great culture guy, as you mentioned. I know they don't flood the room, but good guy in the room. And if you're looking for a new vibe in that room...
Chapter 7: What are the latest coaching developments and news around the NHL?
Man, Brendan Gallagher makes a lot of sense. And at this point, Filipino, with all due respect, is probably a negative asset in Vancouver. That one makes sense to me. That's a good one, actually. They may be a second-line center.
Yeah. The biggest question mark, obviously, is the health of Filipino. But no, just... Apples for apples, that one makes sense. That's a sensible way to look at maybe being able to do this for both teams, for both teams. But, you know, I just, for Brendan, to me, if I were a team that was close, he'd be a guy that I'd want.
If I thought there was just a little bit of, you know, let's say moxie missing from the dressing room and maybe on the ice, he'd be a guy that I'd want to get.
And they loved him there. Like, look, they love Brendan, and how do you not, right? Everywhere he's gone, junior hockey, NHL, it doesn't matter.
Chapter 8: What are the predictions for the Stanley Cup Final matchup between Vegas and Carolina?
He's loved everywhere. Okay, before we get to it, we've got a lot of things today. Tell us about the tour, and tell us about hanging out with Nick Lidstrom and Henrik Zetterberg and the superstars. Give us the Sweden down low, and give us the Swiss down low as well.
Yeah, well, I started in Sweden. I was there living in downtown Sweden. For those that know Stockholm, I was living in Osterman, which is like the main area in downtown Stockholm. I had an apartment there for almost four weeks. I worked for a company in Sweden called Elite Prospects. Most people utilize that as a resource for hockey. And I've been working for them since last December.
And we did a lot. They're one of the sponsors of the Boreas Solomon Courage Award. So I spoke at the Boreas Salming dinner. It was great to be there with Inger Hammestrom, who's a good friend, somebody I used to travel with all the time. So I'll keep dropping names. So many former Leaf players were there that are Swedish. So it was great to see them.
But to me, the biggest thing about the Swedish players is how much they care about their community and how much they give back. Nicky Lidstrom's unbelievable. I did an hour sit down with Nicky in downtown Stockholm. And at some point you'll be able to see it, Jeff. And he said stuff about players and about organizations and about different coaches.
It was just, it was overwhelming how great he was and spent a lot of time with Henrik Zetterberg, a lot of time with Michael Samuelsson, some time with Patrick Hornquist, who's always been one of my favorites. And you think about Hornquist, the last player picked in his draft year. Yeah.
and the guy goes on to win stanley cups two in pittsburgh and one in florida and you see him play golf and you're like he hadn't lost a bit of it he's he hits a golf ball the way he played hockey with violence you know what i mean um and then carl hagland one of the sweetest guys i've ever met in the national hockey league and just an amazingly well-educated person so
So many good stories, so many great people that I met in Sweden, and I'm really grateful to Elite Prospects for everything they did for me and my family. My wife and I basically lived like Swedes for almost a month, and then we went down to the World Championships for the last week, and that was off the charts in Zurich. It was really, really good.
You know, just as a side note, they refer to the last players selected in a draft as Mr. Irrelevant. Mm-hmm. I think about Patrick Hornquist with the Florida Panthers, and he was selected last overall in 2000. And let me get it here. 2005. And his head coach with the Florida Panthers, Paul Maurice, was selected last overall in 1985. So champions with a couple of Mr. Irrelevance there.
Give us the lowdown on Switzerland as well.
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