00:00so let's start with carolina here and this is the team that may be going into the season some
00:05people thought yeah maybe they could be a cup contender but i don't think a lot of folks thought
00:09that they'd be the champion at the end of the year uh let's start off with them what worked
00:13for them all season long and then you know clearly when they got into the postseason they were just
00:17dominant yeah it's it's their style greg they don't have superstar players like vegas does and
00:22i think when you look at this game and you look at the series it's stars versus structure they
00:27have great structure they have a great coach they have great concepts right and it's worked for them
00:32i think at this point craig what we're looking at is a team had 113 points in the regular season
00:37which
00:37is a lot they have 12 and one in the playoffs and we're still looking to poke holes in this
00:42team
00:42like what's wrong with this team why they can't they win they can't win game wins of conference
00:46finals but this is a very organized very well coached team um that is favored coming in so i
00:52don't think there's anything more they have to do than just to execute their game plan against the
00:57vegas golden knights and they could be lifting the trophy in a couple weeks all right so maybe
01:00they will let's touch on the vegas side and denny you talk about you know the history of sports
01:05franchises and you've been around long enough to know that usually when an expansion team is formed
01:11it can take a really long time before they have success vegas had success almost immediately
01:16and really never looked back and here they are back again in the finals and so from a franchise
01:23perspective denny i wonder your thoughts on this it's just an anomaly to have a team formed in less
01:27than a decade and to be this good yeah it's funny you have carolina who's been built on drafting
01:33developing and not taking big swings where i guess you could give a comparable with respect to the
01:39vegas golden knights they're like the la rams of the nhl they're all in all the time they've been
01:43all in since day one craig and they've got the three standing cup finals in nine years as you
01:47mentioned they don't care about public perception they don't care about media they don't care about
01:51anything all they care about is winning and that's why they went and got carter hart when he had those
01:55off ice issues and that's why they've traded for guys like mark stone and jack eichel when they were
02:00out of favor on their team so this is a team that is solely focused on winning they fought a
02:05great
02:05coach with a couple weeks left in the season and bruce cassidy john tellerola has been fantastic
02:10everybody knows the record uh with him behind the bench uh they just want to win they're underdogs but
02:15this is a very very dangerous underdog they're a live dog and there's not much separating these two teams
02:19to be honest correct all right so uh denny i know that you like the hurricanes to win the stanley
02:24cup finals what other plays do you think that folks should get in on before it begins tonight
02:29i think early on you want to play the under so i'm going to play under five and a half
02:33goals
02:33and the player i really like on carolina is jackson blake he's the son of jason blake who used to
02:38play
02:39in the league a couple of decades ago i like him for any time point so i'm not sure canes
02:43will win
02:43the game tonight but i do like the under tonight because i think it'll be a while before the
02:47the offense just kept going in the center of the cup five
02:49the offense just kept going in the center of the cup five
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