Vegas Golden Knights vs Carolina Hurricanes | Series Preview | Stanley Cup Final
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What are the initial thoughts on the Stanley Cup Final matchup?
well here we are the stanley cup finals steve by the way streaming tomorrow we will finally find out what steve looks like in a stanley cup final not cheering for the canadians which is crazy this must be so hard for you streamed 18 habs games and uh yeah and you loved it didn't you you would much prefer that to the leaves they were fun um but also um we also will find out in the next week or so who wins the spark bracket
That's the most important part. Not the cup, not the consmith. Who wins the spark bracket?
10,000 people in there. Oh, yeah. If you win this, you get bragging rights forever. Even if you don't win next year, you're like, who cares? I won that year. That was great. Exactly. All right, let's start in goaltending. uh really really interesting going into the playoffs you wouldn't have thought Brandon Bussey was going to get the start Freddie Anderson sorry you would have thought Bussey would get the start Fred they decide to go Freddie Anderson in Vegas you have a Stanley Cup goaltender on the bench and it's Carter Hart who had a very mediocre season you could honestly make an argument based on predictions at the beginning of the playoffs these were the two worst starting goalies Yeah. Yes, you could.
Absolutely, you could.
Based on expectations?
Having watched as much hockey as you guys have watched, who do you give the edge to in goaltending? Because it is a bizarre matchup.
I got to go with the guy who's only allowed 20 goals in 13 games. And that's Freddie. He's definitely had an easier job. Yep. I think both goalies have had a decently... Like, their teams have done well in front of them. That's why they're here. But Freddie has done the best at not allowing goals. Dude. Is that the job? 20 goals in 13 games. Six of them came in one game. Right? Or five or six of them came in one game. So the stat is actually more impressive than that. There wouldn't be an argument. Like, I don't know how to make an argument that it's not Freddie.
Jesse, will you make an argument that it's not Freddie? I'm not going to do that. But I will point out that I think both teams are a lot more similar than we give them credit for. Because of Vegas, the way they've played under Tortorella, where they have such a great emphasis on blocking shots, they make it easy on their goaltender. Right. And the same thing with Carolina where it's not the blocking shots, but it's just a system that allows them to maintain offensive zone pressure and not have a lot of shots the other way. They're only allowing about 22 shots per game in the playoffs so far.
How do the goaltenders compare in this series?
They make it easy on their goaltender. So it's not even that much of a goaltender matchup in that it's like the goaltenders just need to do their jobs when the jobs come to them because it's going to be so infrequent for these both teams. I don't know if the matchup is going to turn into a stalemate where it's Harden against Harden. Both Pokemon are just using Harden and there's actually nothing and it's a bunch of 2-1, 3-1 games. I don't know if it'll turn to that or if one of the other teams, one of these teams breaks through and it's like, oh, they've actually broken through to that shell that both these teams have and they found a way to score a bunch of goals. So we could see where it's like it's very easy on Vegas in terms of goaltending.
It's very easy for the Hurricanes in terms of goaltending. Or we see one of these teams break through these great team systems that both of these teams play. Yep.
Yep. And listen, we go to the defense now. And we got McNabb, Theodore, Hannafin, Anderson, Coghlan, who's been very good. And there's a few different guys that kind of can switch in if you want to for that last defensive spot, but they don't play very much. Then you got Jacob Slavin, Chatfield, Keandre Miller, Sean Walker, Goss Despair, and Nikitian. And again, I wonder about who you give the edge to here because both teams are playing such great team defense. It's kind of difficult to make a call. I mean, I'm curious to hear what you think.
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