Exploring the Intensity of NHL Western Conference Playoffs

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00:00Now let's look at the Western Conference in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

00:04Jets, Blues, Stars, Avs, Vegas, Mini, and Kings, Oilers.

00:14I'll say this quickly.

00:16As far as East Coast, West Coast, you know, the sports media as a whole,

00:20there is an East Coast bias, right?

00:21Most of the network's out in New York.

00:24There's only a few West Coast teams and all that.

00:27But I'm telling you, Scott, like the Eastern Conference is like JUCO stuff, bro,

00:31next to the Western Conference.

00:33Like now we're talking.

00:35Like, you know what I mean?

00:35We're talking about these Eastern Conference series.

00:37Like, yeah, all right, whatever.

00:38You know what I mean?

00:38I'm much more all in Washington.

00:40I think it'll be kind of entertaining.

00:41But you get into the West, and it's just next level.

00:45You got hitting, it's speed.

00:47You know, the Western Conference is just better.

00:49And look at the standings.

00:51It's like the NBA.

00:53I don't know what it is with the West being best right now,

00:55but there's, you know, like the Vancouver Canucks basically nearly would have made the playoffs

00:59if they, you know what I mean, if they were in the East.

01:01But it is what it is.

01:02So I'm just saying, you got some great teams, man, in the West.

01:05Colorado and Dallas.

01:06You know what I mean?

01:07What a great freaking series here.

01:08We just talked about Robertson being out.

01:10One thing with Dallas, guys, and I just saw a stat about them.

01:15Since the Four Nations faceoff, they've given up.

01:18Like, I think it's the second most goals in the league, five on five.

01:22Since the Four Nations faceoff, they're, like, amongst the top teams in the league

01:25in shots against, like, not in a good way.

01:29Like, the Dallas Stars are leaking a little bit down the stretch.

01:34And, you know, you see this with good teams.

01:35The Winnipeg Jets won the President's Cup.

01:37They actually stumbled in the last month as well.

01:40The season's long.

01:41But I think Dallas, Scott, they might just be one of these regular season teams, man.

01:46Right?

01:47I always buy into Dallas every year all the time.

01:49And I swear to God, just like a week ago, I was thinking, man, I think it's going to

01:53be Dallas and Carolina in the Cup.

01:55It's kind of a weird Cup, but I was like, I think it's going to be Dallas and Carolina.

01:58Not now.

02:00No, I'm having a hard time with Dallas now.

02:02So, I'm going to go Colorado here, Scott.

02:04Yeah.

02:05It's going to be Colorado and beat Dallas.

02:06I'm not even on Dallas in that series.

02:08Yeah.

02:08The Avs have their flaws, too.

02:10The Avs are basically a one-line team.

02:12You could argue two, but they're not very deep, the Avs.

02:15You know what I mean?

02:16They got star players.

02:17You got McCarr.

02:18You got McKinnon.

02:19They're good.

02:19They fly around and stuff.

02:22You know, the trade helped them.

02:23And it's ironic they're going to get Ratnan now going head-to-head.

02:26But Colorado are good.

02:27But I don't think they're going to the Cup, Scott, Colorado.

02:29But I got them beating Dallas now.

02:31St. Louis and Winnipeg, guys.

02:33We talk about the President's Cup curse.

02:36The President's Cup is, the President's Trophy, excuse me, President's Trophy is what they

02:40give if you have the best regular season record in the NHL.

02:44It's like a kiss of death.

02:46You know, it's unlike, like, the NFL or, like, the NBA.

02:49You know, they get to home court and all this.

02:50The NHL has been 11 years since the team has won the Cup that had the best regular season

02:54record.

02:55There's something to it.

02:56I don't know if you get worn out in the regular season.

02:58I don't know what it is.

02:59The Blues, Scott, you know, bro, these guys were scorching, bro, since the Four Nations

03:04face-off.

03:05Right.

03:05We went into the Four Nations face-off thinking that Jordan Bennington was the weak link.

03:09He saved the day for Canada.

03:11And how about this, Scott?

03:11We have a rematch.

03:13Jordan Bennington versus Connor Hellebuck, USA.

03:16Right?

03:16They went head-to-head in the championship game.

03:18Now they go head-to-head again.

03:20Hellebuck's got a reputation of not getting it done in the playoffs.

03:23That he's more of a regular season warrior.

03:25The Jets have had a reputation of being regular season warriors.

03:28And President's Cup's winners also choke.

03:31So you asked, like, who's the live underdog?

03:34I'd say the St. Louis Blues, Scott.

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