Chapter 1: What gift ideas are suggested for Mother's Day?
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But listen, when you do get the gift, at least if you're going to get it last minute, at least make sure it's this one. Okay. Aura Frames. Steve, you gave one to your parents this Christmas and it became... A big hit of a gift. It was such a big hit, by the way. Yes. The Aura app, the Aura Frames app reached number one on the App Store Christmas Day 2025. Actually? Yes. I can totally believe it.
Isn't that wild? It's an excellent gift for your parents. It's an excellent gift for anyone traveling abroad. And can I tell you, the person in my house who likes it the most, Isla.
your your daughter two years old she will up up because it's up on the counter we bring it down to the kitchen floor and she'll just lie on her stomach scrolling through all the photos i love that on it which like of all the things she could scroll through pictures of her family i know and every single person who comes across the screen hey she has to tell us who it is That's grand. Yeah.
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What a weekend. What a weekend. Just an unbelievable set of games and a lot of incredible stories. And I just want to do a quick Spark Bracket update. If you haven't got your brackets in, Jesse, are the brackets officially closed? No, they close, I believe, 7 o'clock Eastern tonight when Game 2 of the Sens Kane series kicks off. I think it's the closing time of the bracket.
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Chapter 2: What are the highlights of the Montreal vs. Tampa game?
I've said it for years, said it for years. It's absolutely in crazy. How, how many levels removed is what happened from Brandon Hagel? Simply. grabbing Caden Gooley's stick and hitting his teammate with it. It's not, I mean, there is, I mean, there's an intended action with that. This one seemed completely accidental, right? So there is. Yeah, but it's an infraction. And the result is the same.
The infraction caused the additional infraction. Well, you gotta be in control of your stick. Well, that's not true. You put a caveat on it. Brandon Hagel cannot simply grab Caden Gooley's stick and then hit Braden Point with it. Okay, so we found, okay, so there is a line. All right, can we go further?
If you do something that's against the rules and it causes my stick to hit your teammate, I shouldn't get four minutes for it. That's asinine. That's so stupid. And the refs disagreed. They said, no, that's actually very smart. Jesse, do you agree with Steve or do you agree with the John Cooper school of thought that this should have been a penalty? I'm like, Hagel also got two for interference.
Yes. On that play. He did get his pen. It was a Habs power play that turned into a Tampa power play, which is just Jedi mind. Yeah. Yeah. I was trying to bring it up here again so we could go through it. But it's like, I think the refs got it right by the letter of the law. Which is what will come out of their ass. Which is like, that's fine. Yeah. You know?
But what I'm saying is the letter of the law is so dumb. Lightning fans are already steamed this morning that they lost this game. And so when they see them win the game, like, I don't know. That's the sequence there. So watching it back, Caden Gooley's stick hits Braden Point in the face because of Brandon Hagel beginning middle end. Right. And I just think that's... A weakness in the rule.
Okay.
All right. Fair enough. That is a weakness in the rule. Now, something I did say after the stream, and I was... either right for the wrong reasons or wrong for the right reasons. I can't decide. All right. I said, John Cooper is going to manipulate the story of this game to be about the, the calls in the game. Now he did, but not for the reasons that I thought.
And we have the clip and we are going to play it. Do you want to go to that now? Like we can, I suppose we could go to the post. Yeah.
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Chapter 3: What are the key moments in the Sabres vs. Bruins game?
I want to show this first. Show this first. This is, so this is the screen grab and you'll see right there. Okay, looking back at it now, 24 hours, fresh minds. Is there a case to be made that the stick was going for the head before Hagel got in the way? Yes, but it whabangs point in the face, causing damage and causing the extra two minutes. So four minute double minor because of Hagel.
It would have just been this limp thing that point maybe goes, oh, and like a little head back or whatever. But he's walking. That's two minutes. Okay, fine. Which isn't a Tampa power play, right? Which is what they got. Yeah, because Hagel gets the interference. And then, yeah, there's an argument that I'll listen to that. This should have been a wash.
Where it's two minutes for Hagel, two minutes for Gooley. Okay, fine. But it's four. And the reason it's four, objectively, is Brandon Hagel. He's the reason it hit him so hard. Because he's getting interfered with. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Because this limp stick he's holding at the top one handed has nowhere to go. So it just goes bang into the guy's face. Yeah.
No, I was originally on your side and watching it back. I'm trying to convince myself of the Tampa side, but I think you're right. I think it should have been a wash in this whole thing. I can live with a wash. What makes absolutely no sense to me is Tampa coming out of that with a power play. That's ridiculous. Fair. That defies logic. It's being difficult for no good reason. What are we doing?
We can go to the John Cooper clip now, but I do want to talk about Josh Anderson's disallowed goal as well. Another big moment in the game. You want to go to Cooper, Jesse? It's the first. Yeah, we can play Cooper. It's right here. I thought he wasn't going to let Montreal have the victory and he wasn't going to let Tampa have the loss. And I think he played this absolutely perfectly. I do too.
What you're going to see here is you're going to see the first minute 04. I think that the NHL was a little bit late in streaming this media avail. So we can't play this video. We can play the audio here. Okay, we'll play the audio. Don't play the video here. Here's John Cooper talking.
I mean, come on. We took four offensive zone penalties. Just look at them. I mean, that's not over-aggression. That was like stupidity in a lot of them. So that was on us. That was a game that we just gave them an opportunity to win. And this is the Stanley Cup playoffs. This isn't game 62. So that is extremely disappointing in the way we, you know,
listen conducted ourselves in the amount of penalties we took now let's be honest what the it would go three for six whatever it was so if you're going to kill penalties off at 50 then you're probably not going to last very long but if you kill penalties off at 50 when you only give up two so it's one for two you know okay well maybe you can survive but you can't uh You can't let that happen.
So that's on us. There's no excuses, nothing.
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Chapter 4: How do the teams prepare for the playoffs?
And what we did, conducts this orchestra. Guys, he's going to be featured on this show until Tampa's out. Like there is nothing better than a John Cooper press conference. It's the greatest thing. It's must watch television. Last night, like watching that, like if that Caden Gooley sequence happened to the Leafs, I'd be hospitalized. Like he the fact he's never won a Jack Adams is malpractice.
Yeah. From everyone who covers the sport. I don't know who votes on the Jack Adams. I don't know if it's the writers of the jams or what doesn't matter. It's malpractice. Whoever it is, they're wrong. If you go to his hockey DB page, his last award is an award. I don't recognize. Okay. I think college hockey. Oh, cool. He's got cups, though. He does have cups.
And yeah, like I don't think he cares. But the game for coaches does not end at final horn. And he's so good. Well, that's game two. That's the start of game two. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. You're not wrong. And so I think you looked a little deep. I think he's just saying his team took a bunch of bad penalties. Well, and they did. And I think he's talking about that Gensel one. Yeah, that was horrible.
That's a whore. OK, think about I know it's game one of the playoffs and the whistles are still a little tighter than they will be. Right. Because by game four, game five, that's when we start to see real playoff whistles, which he said before the series began. Of course, because there was five PKs they were on or six PKs or whatever they took. That's not going to happen by game five.
But think about last minute of the of the game. OK, last minute of this game between Montreal and Tampa that's been so hard fought, the The crowd is electric. It always is. It's not Emily Arena anymore. I was corrected on that. I forget what it is now. It's something else. I also know that. You have to be egregious in that moment to get a ref to call a penalty, even in a regular season game.
That Gensel penalty is unacceptable. And it's canceled. And that loss is on that. That's on him. That's one of your guys. Tampa has Jake Gensel because of his playoff pedigree. Yes. He's incredible. And he let them down. Yeah, he let them down like we you're out there in that moment because you're Jake freaking Gensel.
And do we think that Jake Gensel is not going to come back and have a great series? No, but this one's on him. No. And like he passed up a few shots to and he had a great game. In the overtime, I'd say Martin St. Louis should be the star first star of the game because that game turns on him calling that time out. Yes, I think that was the pivotal moment there.
And if we're talking about coaching, like I know you guys want to heap all this praise on John Cooper and give him all the awards. Oh, stop it. Listen to this. To me, in that game, deserves the Coach of the Year award for that timeout. Wow. That's unbelievable there. Jim Hiller could never. Where he's thinking, okay, they've been out there for a while. These are my stars.
Even though overtime has just started, I'm going to burn this timeout so I keep those guys on the ice and they're fresh. And then they noted, I think it was Cuthbert on the broadcast, where he's like, oh, he's going to drop some play. He's like, no, this is just strictly a breather. And the guys are still out there and Slavkovsky scores.
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Chapter 5: What concerns are raised about Freddie Anderson's performance?
I don't have... It's not that I don't believe in Freddie Anderson's talent. I don't believe in Freddie Anderson's consistency. And you can go and you can look at all of the... People will go and they'll go on Hockey TV or whatever, and they're going to go and look at his save percentages throughout the years. Yeah, because he plays for Carolina, the best defensive team in the league...
Or top three year in and year out. You should know this. He was a world beater with the Ducks. In the playoffs. Yeah, he was good with the Ducks. And then, hilariously, when it gets into games that matter, he had three losses against the Panthers last year, 15 goals allowed. Damn. It's a lot. In the playoffs. Not each. Not each.
Chapter 6: How do the Hurricanes need to adapt to succeed in the playoffs?
My point is, when you're averaging in big game, when you're averaging five goals against, that is not good. And I think people are always talking about, oh, man, Carolina needs a game-breaking forward. And Carolina thinks that, too. Like the Mikko Rantanen trade, the Gensel trade. Oh, they went out and got Ehlers. Yeah. Well, I don't think they got Ehlers to be Mikko Rantanen, though.
I think he just fits their situation. No, but he was the best winger available. And not a game-breaking talent.
Yeah.
I'm talking about Connor McDavid. He was at a good game. Yeah. But I'm talking about Connor McDavid as a game-breaking talent.
Chapter 7: What updates are provided about the Canucks' GM search?
There's a tier of players above him. And they don't have anybody in that tier. And that's okay. To me, they don't need to get that guy. The rest of the team's fine. They need the goalie. That's what they can get. You would have started Brandon Bussey. Absolutely. Even though Frederick Anderson had a shutout and made an unbelievable save. With the power of hindsight.
An unbelievable save against a team that had a 0-1. Expected goals, guys. There wasn't a lot for him to do, but when there was, he stepped up to the plate. And you know what?
Chapter 8: What are the implications of the Leafs' president/GM search?
That's great. That's what you're paid to do. We'll see what happens over the course of the season. He did his job, and he did it well. Right. And my thing with Freddie Anderson is not, does he do his job well? It's, does he do his job well consistently? Right. What's your expectation tonight? Tonight?
Because a lot of people are going to be hearing this probably like mid-game or like just before the game. Henderson's 40 saves deep. Oh, I'm going to get shit on. I know that. I know that. I don't know that Otto is going to be able to put up those kinds of games. Yeah, because I just don't know. You're saying 40 shots deep. Carolina Hurricanes hockey. 18 shots.
The Ottawa Senators had the Leafs thing going on where even when you're down, you can't get the score effects going because the defense of the Hurricanes is so good that Sens end up with 22 shots. Hurricanes have 29. That's a game where the Sens are trailing all game. They should have more shots. They should be able to pepper shots at Anderson, but they just can't.
They famously won a game with a random man in net. When Florida beat them in 22-23. Literally. Yeah, and when Florida beat them in the conference finals in 22-23, obviously they were regularly outshot. The Panthers regularly outshot by Carolina. But what people forget about that run is the Panthers were regularly outshot the entire run. And it wasn't just Bobrovsky, although he was phenomenal.
This is 23. This is 23. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What the Panthers were unbelievable at was how opportunistic they were. They when they had an opportunity, they fucking buried it. And, you know, we talk about how tough the Panthers were in the playoffs and how mean bullying and all that's true. But nobody for their two Stanley Cup wins really maybe outside of their fans gave them enough credit for.
Is this the moment to score that I'm scoring? They always buried it. And I think the way the Senators are going to get back in this series and get past these guys is they're going to have to be efficient. They're going to have to be opportunistic. There's no firing a shot wide. How many times have we seen Nylander, Marner, Matthews do that?
You need to be laser when you get an opportunity against them. And know that you've got a goalie. And Freddie, if he starts tonight, that you can get inside his head, you get him off his game early, and you can take advantage. Crash the net. Absolutely. And here, let me throw this out. Let's say the series goes seven. Okay. How many goalies does Carolina use? Oh, two. Two, 100%.
I think it might be three. I can see it being three. You can check off it? If he's healthy. I don't think they care. Listen, I'm pro running three goalies, so I would love to see it. In one series? Yeah, why the fuck not? Win the series. Just win the series. The physical narrative, just to touch on that briefly, Caroline needs to be more physical, blah, blah, blah, blah.
They out hit Ottawa in that game 57 to 39. Which is crazy because they had the puck the whole time too. Exactly. Exactly. That's crazy. Carolina, if they want to get in there and smash bodies, they can do it. They're more like Tampa than they get credit for, if that makes sense. Like Tampa is this highly skilled skating puck moving team, but like they're bastards.
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