00:00All right, so let's go to the finals here.
00:02You know, I mean, John Tortorella takes over this team late.
00:06Now, Grant, he could become just the eighth coach in the history of the NHL
00:11to take over a team late in the season and win a Stanley Cup.
00:15And we know he won a cup when he was back with Javi Bullen
00:19and the Tampa Bay Lightning.
00:20And you got Rob Brindamore here who won a cup as a player with the Hurricane
00:25and also now has a chance to win it as a coach.
00:28How do you see this finals here, and who do you like in this finals?
00:33I think it's going to be a long series.
00:34I think it could be six or seven games.
00:36And you know what?
00:37It's going to be a toss-up.
00:39I think both teams play a very hard style of hockey,
00:41and I think it's going to be fun.
00:42And for me, it's fun to see Carter Hart.
00:45He's played extremely well and a healthy Freddie Anderson.
00:48I'd always thought Freddie Anderson was a great goalie.
00:50It was just a matter of being healthy.
00:51So for me, it's going to be a fun goalies duel.
00:55And you know what, too?
00:56I would say this, too.
00:57When you have a guy like Brindamore, are you surprised the way that his style
01:01of play that he had and how tough he was?
01:03You could see how he's, like, you know, how he's really brought his influence
01:08into that team.
01:09I would say this, watching him coach that team right now.
01:13He kind of coaches it like he played.
01:15You know, you saw it also in the Eastern Conference Finals,
01:17even with Marty St. Louis.
01:18And Marty brought that energy to the Canadians as well.
01:21But that's probably not a shocker, what Brindamore has done with that
01:24Hurricanes team.
01:26No, not at all.
01:27I mean, I think a team takes on the coach's personality.
01:30And you watch Carolina play.
01:32They roll the four lines.
01:33They play hard.
01:34It's exactly what Rob did when he played.
01:36I think that's the thing that you look at is he was a hard-nosed player.
01:40There was no gray areas.
01:41You did everything right.
01:42And you look at Carolina, they played the same way.
01:45So I think they've taken on the personality of their coach.
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