00:00Game number one tonight, Joe, in hockey down there in Carolina.
00:03How about this?
00:04The Montreal Canadiens and the Carolina Hurricanes,
00:08monster favorite across the board.
00:10You see the graphic, minus 196, Joe.
00:12I'm seeing 200s and minus 205s now permeating the marketplace,
00:16and the total still sits at 5.5.
00:18Carolina is the heavy favorite.
00:20Montreal long season, or excuse me, long series in the past.
00:23And Carolina, it seems like they haven't played in weeks, Joe.
00:26What's the spread line tonight for this one?
00:28Well, that's mostly because they haven't played in weeks, Donnie.
00:32And, you know, here we go again, another one of these situations
00:35where you've got a team coming off a Game 7,
00:39their second Game 7 of the playoffs here, Donnie.
00:42Montreal doesn't like to do anything, apparently, in five games, four games, six.
00:47Nope, they want to play seven-game series.
00:49And now here the Hurricanes have been really like,
00:51okay, you guys ready?
00:53Like, what are we doing?
00:54Where are we going?
00:54Well, you're heading to Carolina now to take them on.
00:58And I've got to tell you, Donnie,
00:59this is going to be another one of these situations
01:01where Montreal likes to play physical.
01:04Montreal likes to play fast.
01:07And that might work early in this game.
01:10But I just ultimately think that Carolina is going to stifle them,
01:14play Carolina kind of hockey, which is, you know what?
01:17You're not crossing center ice.
01:19Sorry, you're not going to get a ton of shots on goal.
01:21It's not going to happen.
01:23So I do think that Carolina will ultimately win.
01:26But I do think Montreal's got a shot early in this game.
01:30Dare we say another first period over in this spot here, Donnie.
01:34Have a good times in Buffalo.
01:35Yeah, they made the playoffs.
01:37They gave their fans something to cheer on.
01:39And dang, almost advanced to the Eastern Conference Finals.
01:42But Lindy Ruff, he's the big winner here.
01:44Two-year extension there for the Buffalo Sabres.
01:47Yeah, what's old is new again, right?
01:49Hey, good old Lindy, got it right this time around.
01:52Listen, the future's bright for Buffalo.
01:54It's good for the NHL.
01:55It's, you know, some new blood in here.
01:58Nobody thought we'd see the Canadians in the Eastern Conference Final,
02:01but we're going to get that tonight as well.
02:03Now's the time for the Begula family to raise ticket prices
02:06and also then slash payroll and rake in the business here.
02:09Just kidding.
02:10Come on now, Buffalo.
02:11Stay with it at this point.
02:13Yeah, exactly.
02:13Stay long-term.
02:14It's not viable in Buffalo anymore.
02:16I have to move this team somewhere else,
02:18maybe even to Quebec, Canada at this point.
02:21How about this one, Joe?
02:22Kael McCarr, one of the best, if not the best defenseman in the NHL.
02:26He missed game one last night.
02:28And you know what happened?
02:29Didn't work out well.
02:31Vegas Golden Knights go on the road and pick up a victory over the Avalanche
02:34in game number one.
02:35You need McCarr.
02:36And this has to be something serious, Joe,
02:38because he got drilled in the previous round here.
02:42And that's not one of those things that looks like you just shake it off.
02:44It's maybe something more.
02:45But in the NHL, we never know officially what anything is until the season ends.
02:51Yeah, no, we don't.
02:53And it's unfortunate.
02:55Was that a...
02:57Nathan McKinnon was going to tell you.
02:57Yeah, Nathan McKinnon was going to tell you about it, Joe.
03:01Go ahead.
03:01Are you coming out?
03:02All right, good.
03:03I've just said execution like five times.
03:05I think that's what hurts.
03:11There, Joe.
03:12Nathan McKinnon just explained to you exactly the injury Kael McCarr had.
03:16Yeah, that's wonderful.
03:18But really, that's not the story.
03:20The story of that game last night was Cara Hart once again standing on his head
03:25because it's not like Colorado didn't have a million chances on him
03:30in the first period and the second period.
03:33But give them credit.
03:34They're playing at a different level.
03:36And Mitch Marner just had to get out of Toronto, apparently,
03:40because he is absolutely a one-man wrecking machine right now.
03:45And Vegas, I think, sent a message to Colorado there.
03:49So up 1-0, stealing home ice.
03:51That was outstanding last night by the Vegas Knights.
03:56Yeah, Nolan Patrick got drafted number two overall by the Philadelphia Flyers.
04:00On the day of the draft, everybody in the organization assumed it was going to be Kael McCarr.
04:04They had a consensus.
04:05And Ron Hextall went rogue, picked Nolan Patrick.
04:07Nolan Patrick got migraines, never really played in the NHL.
04:10And McCarr is a superstar.
04:11And also, Carter Hart standing on his head for Vegas.
04:14That's the Flyers' future superstar goalie, but got himself into trouble off the ice
04:18and now plays for another organization.
04:20So be it to be a Flyer.
04:22Let's continue with the Flyers' wave here.
04:23Rod Brindamore, former Flyer great, he's on alert, Joe.
04:27You got to watch out for this power play for those Montreal Canadiens.
04:30Suzuki, Caulfield, Slavkovsky, Demidoff, and Hudson, Joe.
04:34He's letting his boys know you better watch out.
04:38All right, I was waiting for a video to pop up.
04:41Okay, yeah, no, and he knows Montreal is going to come after them, and they are.
04:46I think it's going to be a great game.
04:48Let's go with the Ice is Hot.
04:50That's down in Carolina.
04:51So the Hurricanes and the Canadiens, game number one of the Eastern Conference Finals.
04:55The Montreal Canadiens decided underdogs with only a 36% chance, according to Calci, to win this game.
05:02Carolina trading at 64% here with a chance but a 66-cent contract,
05:08which means a $100 investment on the favorites tonight, which are the Hurricanes.
05:11That pays back $152.
05:15Yeah, and same situation here now.
05:18Even if you don't think Montreal can win this game tonight, right?
05:23And we just saw – nobody thought Vegas was going to win it either.
05:27And Vegas came out there and smacked them.
05:29And again, there is an issue with some rust here.
05:32So I don't mind.
05:34We know Montreal is coming after them.
05:36You know, the power play is going to be interesting in this series.
05:41I do think that the overs, especially early, would not shock me if we get a couple of goals
05:47in the first period here.
05:49And then I think Carolina will get stingier as the game goes on.
05:54So I think early overs, full game unders for me in this one tonight.
05:59Bye-bye.
05:59Bye-bye.
05:59Bye-bye.
05:59Bye-bye.
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