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00:00Well, we just told you about the Montreal Canadiens and, you know,
00:032-1 series now that Carolina has that lead.
00:05Have you been following along in the Western Conference here?
00:08A 3-0 series lead.
00:09Yeah, everybody thought it's Colorado Avalanche,
00:10by far the best team in the Western Conference.
00:12No, it's the Vegas Golden Knights with a 3-0 series lead on the Avalanche
00:17with a chance tonight, Joe, to clinch that series in a sweep.
00:22Find your head coach picking up Carter Hart,
00:25and you find yourself making another cup run.
00:27And tonight, Colorado is on the road, backs against the wall.
00:30They're a slim favorite, minus 115 in a total at 6-1⁄2, Joe.
00:35Does this go back to Colorado?
00:37This is one of the more improbable series that we've ever seen.
00:41Well, and it's not – it's getting worse for Colorado
00:45because not only did they lose Kale McCarr,
00:47now Nathan McKinnon is very banged up here,
00:50and that is a huge problem for the Colorado Avalanche here.
00:56I mean, listen, McKinnon's an absolute monster.
00:59It's one thing you can weather the storm without McCarr,
01:02but not having Nathan McKinnon and then having the Kushkin also being banged up,
01:08Colorado's a mess right now, and Vegas can smell blood in the water.
01:11This is too experienced of a team, Donnie, not to smell blood in the water
01:16and not to look to close this thing out two nights in this game.
01:21And I think they will.
01:22And your boy there, boy, Flyer fans, couldn't get rid of Hart, good, Jim, goaltending.
01:27This guy is out of his mind.
01:30He will be it again here, I think, tonight in the big moment.
01:35Once again, Donnie, the President's Cup trophy, you can keep – you can have it.
01:39I don't want it because every year, Donnie, for a long time now,
01:44we're watching the team with the best record in the NHL in a regular season
01:48never make it to the NHL Finals.
01:51Since the late 1980s, Flyer fans have been waiting for that franchise goalie.
01:55They thought they had it in Carter Hart.
01:56Things happened off the ice.
01:58There was – Flyers couldn't bring him back.
01:59Now he's getting a second chance at his career and performing well.
02:02Same thing with John Tortorella, who was the Philadelphia Flyers head coach,
02:05and now he's out there in Vegas.
02:07Say what you want.
02:08Things I love about hockey, and those things that sometimes show absolutely puzzle me,
02:12and sometimes it's just as simple as who's injured and how'd they get injured.
02:17Okay, tonight we don't know if so-and-so is going to be on the ice.
02:20Let's call it Mitch Marner, which we're going to get to in a few moments here.
02:23What's his injury?
02:24Lower body.
02:25Can you be more specific?
02:27Lower body.
02:28Let's hear from Max Domi right here, Joe, with a tweet from the Toronto Maple Leafs.
02:32Ford Max Domi underwent off-season surgery to address an issue he played with
02:37through the 2025-2026 season.
02:40Due to complications arising from the procedure, Domi will be out indefinitely.
02:44Domi will continue working with the club's medical staff and will be re-evaluated
02:47at the start of training camp.
02:49Why can't we just say what he had injured and what we're fixing here, Joe?
02:53Is somebody on the street going to say, hey, I heard Domi had a knee injury.
02:58I'm going to take his knee out on the street.
03:00Why do we play this game?
03:01And, oh, Joe, flip it over to the NFL.
03:04Patrick Mahomes' injury looks like a knee.
03:07We're never going to say that.
03:08He had surgery.
03:09Where was the surgery on?
03:10Don't worry about it.
03:11Is he rehabbing?
03:13Don't worry about that either.
03:14Why do we do this in the NHL?
03:16Well, we're doing it all.
03:18Well, the NHL, Donnie, we've been doing this forever, right?
03:21And I don't think it really has anything to do other than the fact that these guys won't
03:26admit there's an issue ever.
03:27Like, they just, I mean, they could chuck a couple of seasons ago during their Stanley Cup
03:33finals run and win, right?
03:35You come in, the guy's got a broken spleen.
03:37He's got this.
03:38He's got that.
03:39You find out afterwards and, you know, it works both ways where it's, yeah, just good.
03:44They're all hurt, Donnie, in that sport, but they never admit it.
03:47It's the most amazing thing to me.
03:49Hockey players are built differently, and I think it's more ego-driven than it is trying
03:54to manipulate something in the NHL.
03:57I just think these guys, they don't say anything until the season's over, and then they're like,
04:01oh, yeah, by the way, I'm having a hard time walking here.
04:05Yeah, for the flyers, like Owen Tippett, like, hey, we don't know what's wrong with them.
04:08And season ends, like, oh, by the way, he was bleeding internally but trying to get out.
04:12The hockey players are absolutely insane.
04:15And to play, like, can you play hockey with, like, a broken tibia?
04:18Or playing hockey with broken ribs?
04:20You know how mad that hurts just to skate and breathe?
04:23Let them get hit with broken ribs?
04:24But how about this?
04:25I led the end of the last segment here into this one, Joe.
04:29Escaping Toronto seems to be good for some players.
04:32Mitch Marner, who couldn't get anything done in Toronto, goes to Vegas.
04:36Now they're on the berth of a Stanley Cup final.
04:38Your quote, we have an older group that just stays patient and calm.
04:41We don't turn on each other.
04:43We don't get mad at each other.
04:45How about that quote, Joe?
04:46Is that a little knock to maybe that Maple Leaf locker room?
04:50Yeah, I think it is a little.
04:53And it should be.
04:54I mean, because he, you know, it wasn't only him in Toronto that fell short.
05:00It was the collective group there starting from the top, as we see.
05:05So kudos to him.
05:06Goes to an organization that knows how to win.
05:08And look at that.
05:09He's winning.
05:10And he's leading the way, too, no less, Donnie.
05:13By the way, let me take a look at this next.
05:15Because I got a story here coming out of Vegas.
05:16And by the way, good to be Vegas right now.
05:18Looks like every single sporting league is going to be recognized with WNBA.
05:22Soon coming the NBA, the NHL.
05:25Obviously, we know the football team is out there.
05:27But hear me out on this, which I find interesting.
05:30T-Mobile Arena is not that old at this point.
05:32So this is the part I want to focus on from a tweet from Evan Sidery.
05:36Vegas Golden Knights owner Bill Foley plans to submit a formal bid here for an NBA expansion team.
05:40We all know Vegas is going to get an NBA team.
05:43It's just a matter of who they want to front or head it.
05:45And maybe LeBron James will be a part of that.
05:47But it also includes, Joe, a $300 million renovation for T-Mobile Arena.
05:53Like, it feels like it was built yesterday, T-Mobile Arena.
05:59And yet we need $300 million in upgrades.
06:02But I got to say, that's better than the ones that we've been hearing over the past couple of days.
06:05Like, yeah, the NBA is going to get a brand new arena in Vegas.
06:07How many arenas do you need in Vegas at this point?
06:11Yeah, they have more arenas than they have people actually showing up and going to Vegas these days, Donnie.
06:16So, yeah, I don't know.
06:18I mean, you got, when is that baseball stadium going to be done?
06:21What else are we looking at?
06:23What else can we bring to Vegas, apparently, here, Donnie?
06:26But $300 million, you're right, for a T-Mobile arena that, I don't know, called me crazy.
06:31It felt like it was just brand new there, Donnie, just a few years ago.
06:35And I'm not sure what $300 million gets you these days anyway in upgrades.
06:40And, by the way, just take a look at the Wikipedia.
06:43Opened in 2016.
06:44That means it's 10 years old.
06:46It's basically brand new.
06:47They paid $375 to build the arena.
06:50Now $300 to renovate the arena?
06:52Boy, I'd like to get in on that job at this point right now.
06:55By the way, let's go back to hear from Mitch Marner here on what makes Vegas so great, Joe.
06:59You guys trailed a lot more than you'd like in the regular season.
07:02Do you feel like spending time on the wrong side of the score can make you more comfortable in those
07:07situations, pay dividends in a game like this?
07:09Maybe in a way, yeah.
07:11I think we obviously have an older group as well that just stays patient and stays calm.
07:15And, you know, we don't turn on each other.
07:17We don't get mad at each other.
07:18We know everyone's trying to do their best out there every single shift.
07:20So that was a talk kind of throughout that intermission is just keep doing what we're doing.
07:25We're doing the right things.
07:26We're getting scoring chances.
07:26We're getting looks.
07:28If we keep doing that, we'll get rewarded eventually.
07:30And I think we did that going into the second and then throughout the second and we got rewarded for
07:34it.
07:35You know, it's doing the right things, Joe.
07:37Those Carolina Hurricanes with a victory last night, 3-2 in overtime over the Canadians to take a 2-1
07:43series lead.
07:44Let's squeeze in Marty St. Louis and his post-game comments here.
07:48The last range to the right, Guillaume.
07:50Hello, Martin.
07:51Sometimes in prolongation, the teams will cut the ball a little bit.
07:55Did you wait for a long prolongation to run all the trio?
07:59I don't know why you asked me that.
08:01Because the fourth trio was there and it was at the beginning of the prolongation.
08:05Yeah, he was there.
08:07Thank you very much, Martin.
08:08Thank you for your time.
08:10I agree with everything he said.
08:12Who was he ripping, Joe?
08:15Translate that for me.
08:15Who was he ripping out there?
08:17I agree with everything he said there, Donnie.
08:20I think if you play it backwards, you have a better chance of actually understanding what he said there.
08:25Here, let me survive.
08:27It's a young team, Montreal.
08:29And you have a very, and I mean very experienced, Carolina team that you can tell, Donnie, in these kinds
08:36of games.
08:37This is now back-to-back games, Donnie.
08:39In which they have gone and they have won when it mattered the most.
08:43You've got to learn how to win in the NHL.
08:46And Carolina, in defeat, has learned a lot here.
08:49Montreal, though, the future is bright.
08:52I just never thought they were going to be good enough to beat this experienced Carolina team to begin with.
08:58By the way, like, you take a look at, and again, Marty St. Louis, obviously it's a French last name
09:02there, can speak French.
09:03But if you are in that Montreal scape there, I always, like, wonder, like, Shohei Otanek, learning the English language
09:08can make you so much more money.
09:10Like, if you are an NHL player who lets you say it's American or Canadian, doesn't speak French, if you
09:14can speak French, like, they probably would give you the benefit of the doubt on everything.
09:18Like, he's trying to assimilate and be one of us.
09:20Me with a Spanish background, I can't even speak Spanish here, so don't look at me for learning a new
09:25language.
09:25I can't do it, Joe.
09:26I can't.
09:28And now we bring up those Carolina Hurricanes.
09:30Can they win in advance?
09:31It looks like they're going to play Vegas here.
09:33They take a 2-1 series lead over the Montreal Canadiens with a 3-2 victory in overtime in Montreal
09:39yesterday, Joe.
09:41Yep, I think this is experience talking here, Donnie.
09:44It's back-to-back games with the Hurricanes that they could have lost.
09:48They've had their hands full with Montreal.
09:50Montreal, by the way, did this exact thing to them during the regular season here.
09:56But when it matters the most, experience shows up, and that's exactly what Carolina has, and they did it again
10:02last night.
10:03Let's get over to the ice, and who would have thought this?
10:05Well, maybe some people have said Colorado, by game number four, they might be looking at a sweep to move
10:10on to the Stanley Cup Final to take on either the Canadians and or the Carolina Hurricanes.
10:14That's not the case.
10:16The Golden Knights are at home.
10:17They win tonight, Joe.
10:18They vanquish the Colorado Avalanche in a sweep heading into the Stanley Cup Finals themselves.
10:24Look at the trading right now, Joe, in the Kelsey marketplace for this game tonight.
10:2850-50 on both sides.
10:30The yes contract is actually Colorado at 51 cents, Vegas Golden Knights at 50 cents a year.
10:36Can they live to fight another day, talking about the Avalanche, and send this game back to Denver?
10:42It's tough for them right now.
10:44I mean, they lost Cale McCarr.
10:45McKinnon is now really banged up.
10:49He is a shell of what he was during the regular season.
10:53Nakushkin also banged up.
10:56You know, Colorado is every game they're playing here, they seem to be losing another key cog in their lineups
11:03and in their lines.
11:05So it just feels like Vegas smells there's blood in the water, Donnie, and they are way too experienced at
11:13home here tonight, I think, not to close it out here.
11:17Don't like the goaltending we're getting from Colorado.
11:19They look defeated, Donnie, and it shouldn't shock anybody if Vegas gets it done in a 4-0 sweep.
11:26Also in the Couching Marketplace, Joe, you know as well as I do, we love the events tab.
11:30If you click on that here, comeback, post, glass, short side, overtime, all in there.
11:34Do you know what I'm not saying on there, Joe, which I actually wanted to maybe wager on?
11:38The word sweep.
11:39It's not listed at that point because you know they're probably going to mention that 15 times on this broadcast.
11:45Not available tonight, but certainly if we want to see that series extend, it's got to be a must-win
11:49situation for those Avalanche.
11:52You never want to be down in a series, Joe.
11:54Oh, no, we're down 0-1.
11:56Oh, no, we're down 0-2.
11:56We're down 2-1.
11:57We're down 3-1.
11:58All better case scenarios than Joe to be down 3-0 in a hockey series, especially when you were the
12:04favorite to win the Stanley Cup.
12:05Let's hear from Jared Bednar right now, head coach of the Colorado Avalanche.
12:09Coach, you have all the momentum in the world going into the second period.
12:13What kind of fell apart for you guys?
12:16Everything.
12:17Just given what happened in that game and where the series is at now, like what is kind of the
12:22emotion at the moment from you and from your group that you've noticed?
12:25Well, it's low.
12:26It's as low as it can get, you know, because you've got a big hill to climb, and so the
12:31next 24 to 36 hours is for.
12:35You've got to find a way to get over it and regroup and go again.
12:40Regroup in Vegas.
12:41Are they a party?
12:42They'd hawk us on here?
12:43How are they going to turn this series around, Joe?
12:45Because if they do, you can put a pretty penny into your back pocket.
12:49Take a look at the series winner, Vegas Golden Knights versus the Colorado Avalanche on the Cal State Marketplace.
12:5410% chance for Colorado to come back, which means they've got to win four straight games, possibly without their
13:00best players.
13:01If they can pull this off, Joe, a $100 investment would pay you back $910.
13:09Is there a chance?
13:12There's always a chance, Donnie, but what you also have to do here is you have to look.
13:17No, they're not.
13:18I think the last time we had a team come back from 3-0 was the 2013 Chicago Blackhawks.
13:25I think it was the last time.
13:26It's only happened a handful of times in the NHL where teams have come back from 3-0 deficits.
13:31It's never happened in the NBA.
13:34But when you've got already McCarr out, McKinnon is 60% at best.
13:41You've got all of these injuries piling up, not to mention the curse of the President's Cup winner.
13:46The President's Trophy Cup winner here with the team with the best record every year seems never to be able
13:53to make it to the Stanley Cup, much less win it.
13:56I think now you need to start looking at Vegas, not just in this game tonight here, Donnie, but you
14:01better start looking at them in the Stanley Cup championship market as well.
14:06Do we think they can handle business against, let's say, Carolina?
14:11That's your opportunity right now in those markets to jump in early.
14:16Yeah, by the way, you look at, again, with Colorado, it's like, hey, they're down two good players.
14:19No, they're down, like, McKinnon might be the best player at his position, if not the best player in hockey.
14:24Cale McCarr is the best defensive hockey player in hockey that's also offensive as well.
14:28You're down both of those guys.
14:29Well, what do you expect that's going to happen?
14:31You're going to struggle, which is exactly what they're doing now.
14:34Series winner now.
14:35Last night, Joe, we saw the Carolina Hurricanes pick up a victory 3-2 and now take a 2-1
14:40series lead over the Montreal Canadiens.
14:43And if you look at the Carolina Hurricanes right now, boy, they shot up quickly again, Joe.
14:4781% or excuse me, 81 cents is the contract to the yes that the Carolina Hurricanes win this series.
14:54$100 investment pays back $124, but I got to tell you, like, we talk about it all the time.
14:59It's not about seeing it all the way through.
15:01The Montreal Canadiens should have one more game in their own building before going back to Colorado.
15:06If you feel the Canadians can come back and win this series, $100 investment does pay back $500,
15:11but sometimes you don't want to see it through.
15:13You're talking about the Canadians win game number four.
15:15That contract price is going to go higher and you'll be profitable even just in a 2-2 series
15:20without worrying about who wins this seven-game series, Joe.
15:23Looking forward to who's going to play in the Stanley Cup.
15:26Who's it going to be, Canes or the Canadians, depending on what price for you?
15:31Well, you know, it's amazing.
15:32I mean, Montreal has proven to be, I don't know, pretty resilient, haven't they, Donnie,
15:37as they've taken a couple of games to seven, and they have, when it's, you know, when it mattered,
15:43they got it done, and they have been a thorn in Carolina.
15:48So, Carolina's used to, all right, it's 3-0, you're not getting the puck over the blue line,
15:53don't even think about it, but that's not been the case with Montreal.
15:56They're too fast.
15:58Each line is getting past the defenders of Carolina, and they're getting shots on goal.
16:03They could have easily won that game, Donnie.
16:06They could have easily won game two and at least been up two games to one,
16:11but instead, here we are.
16:13I don't know.
16:14Carolina is beyond me with the pricing point.
16:17I think if Montreal can win one more game here at home, which I think they can,
16:21and then it's 2-2, well, what is Montreal's value going to be,
16:26not only in the series, Donnie, but also in the finals market there?
16:30That, to me, is how you got to look.
16:32Look at the repricing.
16:34Don't look on whether or not they're actually going to win anything.
16:37Yeah, 7% right now.
16:38The Montreal Canadiens in that marketplace, if they win, of course, that's going to move higher.
16:42And again, don't have to see the Canadians actually win the Stanley Cup,
16:44but if they get there, that's a nice little price point here.
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