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Matthew could chuck with a goal.
This is what the Panthers do every time they could Chuck scores, Ryan Hart scores. If they've just been a machine for the last two years, and in twenty minutes a game time, they're gonna be hoisting the Stanley Cup skinner.
That's kind of what the announcers were doing on that third goal. Doesn't bother to get the glove up, not screened, should have had a clean look at it. I don't know that I've ever heard a broadcast team on a final call ever of this arrange a player like that. Like they went on for about ten minutes of how horridly he'd let his teammates down, and how they needed him already down to nothing to come up with a big effort, and how.
Poor that one, Like wow, here he's dead.
He's already dead.
My god, you don't think that guy you watched him just put his head down. He was like Superman. He could have bored holes into the eye with the way he felt in the moment.
And then the.
Call, it's like, hey, let's play that back for him. That's the part where he died right there, right here. Watch we make Kretzky's head bleed right here and again right here.
Here's the replay, right here, you know.
And the funny thing is, right, like, you know, I go on with with our guys in Edmonton, you know once in a while. And I went on with them in advance of this game, and we were talking about it and then and and you know, I said, okay, you know, hey, you know, outsider, you know, how do you how do you look at things? You know, because obviously in Edmonton they're they're so wrapped up. And I said, well, I said, you need to score the first goal of the game once in a while. And yeah, yeah, no, I know, I know. And I said, and honestly, I the the goali the goal the goalie situation right now. I think Bill Ranford might be your best shot, or maybe dress up McDavid and put him in goal.
And like like they kind of blew that off.
They were like, well, there's a lot of mistakes and a lot of breakdowns going on, and I think that's what it is with with Edmonton. And I go, yeah, okay, I get that, you know, and I understand that, But I'm like, outsider, when you have two goalie and neither of them are confident, neither them are playing, well, how many games you're really gonna win right, Like, I mean, you know they're going back and forth, but you know between the two and they go back to Skinner tonight, and obviously that hasn't worked so far.
And it's by me. I don't know what you expect.
When when neither goalie is playing well and you have changed goalie.
Anytime you have to change.
Goalies more than once in the playoff, Okay, it's good because you're playing, but it's bad because that series you're not gonna win, like they've now it's been like three times we're going Skinner, then we go back, then we go back to Scriper and and that's just never gonna work. And you can see it now. The Oilers are not playing with confidence. Defensively, you could tell Skinner's not playing with confidence, none of them the goalie wise in this series, the Panthers that's been out everything, the Oilers, and especially when when you want to sit there and throw the puck in front of the net and there's not a lot of activity and it's pretty easy for Ryan Hart or or Kachuk to come in and just you know, dump the puck into the net. That's a really bad recipe right there.
Well, just watching you know, the first periods, obviously getting out to fast start, but defensively, you know, it's like when we're watching the NBA Finals and throughout the playoffs, right, go back to your Nick squad. What was the hallmark? Well, I kind of reached for the ball, but I didn't move my feet. Defensively, it seems like Edmonton's doing a lot of that as well, trying to get the poke check, thinking that they're gonna get the big breakout opportunity and instead they're giving up shots on goal and big rushes.
Uh.
And look, Skinner's not played well. Uh, They've had a couple of other opportunities where they've let him down and walked into where he's at least kept it at bay a little bit, but overall just not matching the the overall effort of the the Florida Panthers. And this one looks like it's it's baked man. That we get to see the cup tonight and then maybe tomorrow the Larry O'Brien and then it becomes all about remember another day we've got you got a few more days the game. Sorry, yeah, that's Thursday, Thursday, right now, it's Thursday.
They might push that to Saturday.
They made that.
I don't know that that's gonna actually be a game they played. They may push out another.
Would that help Hallimburton and the narratives around him or I don't know, although it's just another couple of days of Kevin Durant speculation or what have you.
Well, here's the.
Thing, like, if Caitlin Clark plays, I think they might push the game. Oh hey wait, wait the Fever play. Yeah, people in Indiana aren't gonna watch that. They're gonna okay, yeah, let's we have to play in a non fever day. That's where the finals are right now. Are the Fever playing? We have to schedule around the Fever. Then people are gonna watch. Yeah no, I mean look, I was just laughing.
I was watching a case opening of a new Marble product and they came out with this cool die cut thing that has like the Wolverine clause going through it.
We saw some of that in the Fever game tonight.
Pump around the face in the face, look at this cut I've got here.
I know.
By the way, Caitlin Clark again tonight twenty points Tonight for the Fever did not play a ton of minutes twenty nine minutes because.
The Fever had this game in hand against Mentean's.
So she goes twenty and six, four out of six from three point range. And I'll tell you what do you want to talk about the difference in Caitlyn Clark this season? The biggest difference that I have seen. Obviously, she's stronger. People want to talk about that, and I get it, and I understand, right, you want to talk about how strong she is, how strong she looks. That's going to obviously, that's going to help her and help her get to the rack and help. But the biggest thing that I have seen so far is the hoop as well, is that when she shoots from three, she makes a lot of them. She's only had a couple of games shot part you were right, but like three point she was a volume three point shooter last year, right, and then she's always been She's always taken a lot of threes. But in college, okay, makes a fair amount of them. Might I had a pretty good but last year she was a volume three point shooter. That's the one thing I could take away say, Okay, that's one thing she got.
To improve from year one to year two.
Is that you can't just go you know, you can't shoot fifteen threes a game and go four for fifteen, Right, you have to have a better percentage from three, and so far she's had that, right, She's she's eleven of twenty from three point range, and she's come back from injury. She had a couple of big games before she got hurt as well, So that's been the biggest thing. And now that she's making threes, like, look out, like, like, what are you gonna do? Because before you can at least sag off of her if she's you know, I'll give you the threes, because yeah, I'll give you the one miracle one that you make from the logo if you're gonna miss the next six, right, Like, I'm okay with that. But now if she's hitting them from three, suddenly, defensively she's.
Got more of the floor to operate on. Watch out.
Yeah, we talked about how it improved. This roster is than the depth and there's no there's no let down. Right, we watched in all playoffs where all right, second unit comes in, how about you're gonna give back versus can you build on the lead?
Sustain it?
And this fever team depth, giving them that opportunity to just sit the other is at some point you gotta put her in bubble wrap, because it started off it's like, ah, you know what they're gonna officiate this? Well, that was the most clown show officiating I think I've seen in any sport, going all the way down to youth soccer and softball. Man, you got people raking across the eyes, getting chesty, and then at the end they just decide, ah.
The hell with it, let's throw everybody out, Like, how is that worse than what you saw before? You let it go?
And and again the official in the the broadcasting, just like with the NHL game, like all right, now we're now we're attacking the officials and getting after them during what was an interminable, I think seven minute review on a Cunningham file, which was well, yeah, it was over the top and two arms coming down as she braced for the giant elbow that was about to be thrown at her by Sheldon, who had already been into it with Caitlyn Clark. But yeah, it was. It was interesting, and you just watched the Caitlin Clark lip reading of I can do whatever the blank, I want because you can't stop me.
People are this is you know we talk about you know, we talk about, Hey, so and so was on a middle Finger tour this year, right, like like the they're they're amped up, Like Raphael Devers is clearly going to be in a middle Finger tour of.
The Red Sox run now that he wants, he wants to play wherever.
You wait, what But like certain times you get Okay, there's players on middle Finger tours or a team on a middle Finger tour where hey, everybody's you know, nobody liked us, but look at what we're doing in the postseason. Right, you could say the Pacers are kind of on a middle Finger tour right now, just because people are picking other teams that aren't them to win series where the other teams were all better going in the series. But like you see that, like you see the middle Finger tour, Okay, you get it because usually that's someone who feels like they've been disrespected, they've been overlooked, and they use that as motivation.
All of this.
I'm telling you. We talked about it a little bit last night. Nobody is ready for the Caitlin Clark middle Finger Tour. That she is going to have this season that she is already out to and you know that she was just dying inside having to miss those two weeks. She was she was ready right To'm ready. I've done everything i need to do to get better this season. I've gotten bigger, I'm hitting my threes. I cannot wait at all. Everybody in this league that says Kaitlyn Clark is overrated or Kitlyn Clark's not the league, and there's other players just as good. Yeah, you watch right. I always say the line from Billions, the big line. Hate, Hate is an endless amount of inspiration. You can't, you cannot. It never goes empty, right, Like Bobby says that every everything you if you can get spurred on by hate. It's an endless resource. And this is one of those there's so many haters out there, Like she's got tons of fans obviously, because look at the way people watch the games. And again we told you she was magic and Larry of the WNB, and she's both of these players. But boy, she is definitely on one of those Okay, you think I can't do something you want to, I am gonna make you understand and make you I'm gonna make you quit hating. That's always the biggest thing when you can see a player make a team quit. We made that team quit. They were done. She is gonna make people quit hating her, and that's gonna be the tour she is on this season for the fever in the w NBA.
Just watch. Well.
The other part of it is maybe they hate her more and it becomes the I I embrace the villainy.
You don't like my game too bad? Stop me? You know, you become the anti hero, you become Walter White.
Well she no, but she but thinking she's so popular, but the haters are so vocal that it almost seems like she's as hated as she is popular, which is not even close. I mean, you look at the ratings, you look at what people are watching the w NBA, and then when she wasn't playing, people weren't watching as much. Like she's the show, right, But it makes it seem like there's more because oh, everybody gets their news from social media, which, oh, by the way, is a horrible place to get your news from, but whatever, and.
So it magories of Sentel, as we found out with the last bit of Indiana Fever news in the Indiana in the Indie Star with the posts that they had to four oh four error it realizing that they'd been made.
So it makes it seem like, oh, she has no, she doesn't. It's just the people want to hate on Twitter. Look at Twitter is a really difficult place, and social media is a really difficult place. As you see going on there every day. It makes it seem like there's a lot when there really isn't. But it's still fuel for a player, for all players who use stuff like this, Like if Tyre's Halliburton did this, he was motivated like this every game.
My goodness, how good he would be. Oh it's a too soon, too soon for Alerburton and I that Mike, I'm sorry, it's a two soon. I don't know. You want to post something. See how he responds tomorrow.
See if we can get that trending in and get him salty. By the way, they are competing in the w NBA Commissioner's Cup, Yes it is today for that five hundred thousand dollars prize pool and other benefits, Yeah, tell, and other benefits.
You could tell by the by the floor, right, that's just look at the floor. No, it's the commissioner's stuff.
It's brought to you by Coinbase. There you go.
I'm telling you, nobody is ready for this, for for the tour Caitlin Clark, the destruction.
Tour that she is going to have this season.
Nobody's ready for Miguel either, nobody, nobody stop him.
You can only contain him. No, no, no, you can't.
And and a game that the Mets were uh for to one and I'm putting that in the wind column. Nope, Ozuna with a double brings in three runs. Mets and the Braves now tied for four in the top of the night. So he cleared the bases, right, Yip be skippy, yay, hooray, Yes, yes he did, Yes he did. Yes, Yes, my internet's down. I'm just as that's okay, that's okay. I still look at the standings and see the Mets with a better record than the Dodgers, so that's okay.
And we also beat the Dodgers more times than you beat us this year, So I Mets fan would say that in j does that carry over? Okay? Uh, it does.
Well, Listen, it's gonna be just like the NLCS Mets in seven here mets in seven in the fall.
That's how it's gonna be. Can you get odds on that? Now?
I was gonna say, you see what kind of odds you get? You should go walk into a casino with a pile of money and just say, I'd like to bet it on this.
You give me some odds. You can get unbelievable odds on this.
Right, the next real bet he makes be the first.
Uh stop, you know how much money Harmon is made off of my advice with Betsy's.
Bets.
He's where he's wearing like Jordan's from nineteen eighty four that he goto.
Cares if it's your idea.
I'm just one number one, my feet aren't wide enough for those Jeordans.
Number two and number three where we've still put.
The on sandals.
No, he just you know, you just pull the bottom out so it's instead of the padding and says, you're right on the sneaker now that the sneaker is really comfortable.
That's what I did. See. I got someone to customize these so I could wear them. Whoa, hey, hey, hey, hey, we're not in safe harbor yet, frost. But we're not there.
Why not?
We're not in safe harbor yet. We got to wait a little bit. I can't see east coast. Well, not that, no, you can't. You can say ozuna if you want to.
It's okay, you know what, It's fine, you know what, because we got through the first fifteen minutes, we didn't really mention something that rhymes with schmock schmimvers.
So we're okay with that. We're okay. Everything is to yes. Uh, we'll keep your posting again.
Third period underway, Florida, nineteen minutes away from the Stanley Cup. They lead the Oilers three to nothing. I'm serious, Bill, Ranford and Gold would have been better tonight for Edmonton. But coming up next, the big NFL headline of the day, what quarterback says his team will be out for vengeance against the team that knocked them out of the playoffs last year. Keep it right here, Jason and Mike, you are listening to Fox Sports Radio.
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Well, either that or can wait at ten minutes?
Is that when they start just throwing down the gloves just for giggles, sir, what, well.
Let's see ten minutes down three. I would say more like six minutes.
Maybe six minutes. Now we're quibbling.
Now we're negotiating, but we do agree that it's imminent.
Yeah, ten ten minutes.
You still say, well, there's still some time, still some time, six minutes, it's okay, screw it, man, screw it, blank you blank you blaze. Let's go coach my line out now, yes, go ahead, all right, let's go.
If I'm going down, I'm going down swinging, let's go. H. So this is where we're at right now.
Again, we'll have more in the Stanley Cup final coming up in a few minutes. But a big story out of the NFL today because all of a sudden, Lamar Jackson is on a quest for vengeance.
Like it's a video game or something.
He's talking for the first time since the Ravens playoff lost to Buffalo.
That that horrendously bad loss.
And you think about Jackson, the two incomplete passes and the drop passes.
Oh my goodness, h this is the first.
Time he has spoken publicly since that lost to Buffalo, and he admitted he hasn't gotten over the defeat. He said, but when we come back, we're gonna have vengeance on our mind.
Vengeance. He's got vengeance on his mind. Says I kind of did that.
I mean Batman and said that in the latest film, right, yeahs yeah, oh yeah, yeah.
Maybe that's what he does.
Maybe he you know, he has the capon when he comes out and he says, I am vengeance.
That's his thing. And those are his T shirts this year. That'd be pretty good. I like that. Let's work on that. What I love about this is how he says.
You know, they asked him about, you know, the loss, and you know, look, this is an awful loss to them to the Bills twenty seven to twenty five. And he was asked how long it takes him to move on, and he said, I don't think I can over any losses, to be honest, I got losses from youth football that's still haunt me.
And while there's the.
School of thought that says, dude, come on, man, you're you've won the MVP in the NFL a couple of times and you're having a great career, going to the.
Hall of Fame.
What no, No, I dig that, he says, I still have youth football playoff losses that haunt me. I get that because as a youth coach, there's losses, and I'm gonna think about the rest of my life, my team's I Meanwhile.
The girls ire they forgot about him fifteen minutes after the game. Okay, well we're moving ice cream. No no, no, no, no.
There's games that I I'm gonna think about it this and if this happened, if this happened. So I dig that he says, Hey, I got losses from youth football that still haunt me. I like, because I have times that I lost games even when I was playing, not even just coaching, which was just the last few years, like when I was.
Playing, which was you know, forty years ago, thirty years ago.
I'm like, hey, I remember that game off, we had won this game, Remember doing this, Remember doing this?
Remember doing that? Yeah?
I dig that, man, I dig that he's got that as motivation. Well, my favorite was the follow up when they were talking to t Martin. Yeah that Tea Martin go go Vaal's Ravens quarterback coach and asked.
They were talking about.
What he did this offseason in prep uh Lamar Jackson and what he watched film wise, and the only thing he watched was losses. What did I do wrong? Where did I screw up? And how do I get better from it? Well, you don't lose a lot of games. That means there's a lot of time for other things. Either that or you're really harping on that log.
Yeah, yeah, one percent. Hey, listen, this is on how many times you watch that play? Seventy two?
I just keep watching it over and over and over, and you know, and that's the funny thing, is like when I because I remember when I when I played and I played and I played hockey, and I played softball, and I played it a you know, a couple of high level softball.
He's been still high level softball.
But I played hockey competitively and and in my life as an adult, like when I played in these games, and and you know, we won a lot, right, Like we won a lot we won in hockey, we won in softball. But if if you just put me like a sensory deprivation tank and came out and said, hey, when you think of you know, softball and hockey.
What do you think of?
And the first thing that would come to mind is is a couple of times where we lost, right, Like the losses still kind of like, ah, we should have won that, we should have won that game. Meanwhile, like I said, I won a lot, right, Like I played in one league as my biggest legue.
Like we won like five times in seven years.
And I think about the two years we didn't win, and I think about, oh, this game right here in the semifinals we lost. We lost in the championship, in this game we should have won. Like that's what I think of, Like it's weird, you know, So I and I completely get behind the whole. Uh, I hate losing more than I love win. And then that's a difference because I the fact that that's what would come to my mind. I dig that, and I dig that about Lamar Jackson.
Oh there's no question about it, right, I mean, and at every level, there's there's always that that extra piece of which is the game that that you remember. It's it's not all the wins, it's the one play that did you in. Maybe they would kill off a perfect season, Maybe the one throw that that you can't get back for that guy that was finishing his run. We could have gotten that guy into the end zone or or gotten him a goal and and all of that, like like my daughter's horrible with it, Like they win, like all right day at the office they tie salty that it was a waste of two hours of time loss, just.
Wasted two hours? Why did even come out of here? Nil? Nil? What do we even do? You know? We got an exercise TV? Why did I do that? That's terrible? Uh.
But speaking of Lamar Jackson the Quest for Vengeance joining us now on the hot line. Longtime NFL insider check them out on Odyssey Washington Post in one O five seven the Fan in Baltimore, where I am sure he spent a lot of time on his show today talking about the Lamar Jackson Quest for Vengeance. It's Jason locking for what's happening, Bud going on?
Gentlemen? Quest for Vengeance? Huh?
The quest for were you like, you know.
Rob because he's robbed in the MVP.
I'm picturing you guys like with swords and chalices today. Yes, and Lamar Jackson the Quest for Vengeance for the season.
Yeah, Look, I mean I think they're one of the three best rosters or certainly five best rosters in football. Big for the rare team that has a head coach currently employed who's won and all, they've got a multiple time MVP quarterback and it really should have been three and two in a row, and yet they've found ways to undermine themselves when it matters most in January to this point, during the brilliant entirety of the Lamar Jackson era, you can go back to, you know, when it started the first game against the then San Diego I think they were still San Diego Chargers. Then the year he took over for Flaco, you can go to the following year where they've got a Tennessee team they should have beat at home comfortably that blew them out, and like it just hasn't happened for them, So, you know, vengeance or I don't know how to best characterize it, but certainly it's been a series of missed opportunities in which they have succumb to turnovers and they have not been able to make plays on defense, and up until recently, they were coming up short on offense as well. Although I don't think that's really going to be a concern anymore. So Yeah, look, I think if Lamar Jackson's healthy, they're going to win I don't know, thirteen games, and they're probably going to win that division and they'll have a chance to go to the super Bowl and we'll see whether they take advantage.
Of it or Now you feel sorry for Joe Burrow at any point for the nonsense that the Bengals put him through a season.
We knew it, you know, we talked about it really from the moment their season ended, and I'm like, this guy is going to go on an off season campaign the likes of which we've never seen before to basically try to shame Mike Brown and doing the right thing. And sure enough, that happened, and it happened all the way through Super Bowl media week or you know, radio Row and all that stuff, and he got what he needed on the offense. Mostly, I still think the offensive line would leave something to be desired. Defensively, there's a lot of work still to be done, and it's it's hard to withhold your services for a meaningful part of the season. The way this CBA is structured. We all know that it's one of the many things this league accomplishment. They took a collective barging agreement that was already heavily weighted in their favorite prior to two thousand and nine and then really got you know, plenty of key concessions to I think make it even more weighted in their favor. So he's going to play a fair amount of football for them this year, Henderson. But like even if he misses a few games, and even if that just causes the vibes there, which are never right in September, to be even more skewy screwy. And they managed to lose to a team they have no business losing too, like they've lost to New England to start last season. That can be the different, I mean back to be different between going to the playoffs and not. So. Look, I think with Joe Burrow re upped with those guys. He knew that they're not the most progressive for you know, forward thinking organization in the history of the world. He's trying to sort of drag them into the twenty first century, and he's had a fair amount of success. But they screwed themself by allowing all those contractual situations to fester as long as they did, and it was never They were never going to get them all done easily and smoothly, and now they still have worked to do.
NFL inside of Jason locking for our guest to Jason Smithson with Mike Carmon.
All right, so I love this story.
Today out of New York, Brian Dable nothing but rave reviews for Jackson Dart. He fits right in, he's smart, he's aggressive.
I like it.
Obviously he's got it, you know, when the football's fly for real. But Jay, how long until Jackson Dart takes over for Russell Wilson.
Week four, Week six? We like, how long until that happens?
I think it really depends on how good the defense is. Russell Wilson needs certain things to go to be in place for him to be able to keep a team, you know, in contention, on the fringe of the contention, and we saw that with Pitchberg. And then as soon as that defense went from being elite to dropping and Watt started missing more time than he was playing, then it all kind of collapsed right from the inside. And I think that has the potential to be a very impactful, disruptive d line, you know, Like I mean, it's really early to be looking at early lines. But and like, I think they're going to give the Commandos some trouble in that game, and so they might be able to get off to a fast dart time of like Pittsburgh last year. And I get it it was Fields the first six games and not Russ, but it's a similar sort of script. But yeah, I mean, look, there's going to reach a point where it's clear that that they are still in a rebuild, and then the way to keep your job and try to maintain it through the rebuild is to start showing that the young quarterback is better than the other ones. And as you know, the kind of potential they think he has, it's still a bit of a risky proposition for me. I'm far from sold that that kid's going to be ready for the bright lights of that city as quickly as he might be asked to do it. But you know, Russell Wilson's good for six to eight weeks and then he's he's going to hit the wall. That's just where he is in his career.
So but but yeah, one last one for you, Jason.
As we look at the power structure of the NFL, you lose a guy to the PGA tour. Does that mean Roger Goodell's going to be the commissioner forever?
Well, look, Brian roll Up, so a name that you had heard as possibly the next man up going back six to eight years back when the rumblings, you know, two contract extensions to go, when Goadell was letting people, you know know then that hey, I'm not doing this forever. And you know, they this is a hard group of dudes to try to corral and keep together. And you know that that had been out there for a long time, and the strongest internal candidate I had heard for quite some time, you know, would have been Brian Rollop or he certainly would have been among them. And it is clear now that you know, Goodell is pretty entrenched, and I think he really enjoys trying to be the guy to make this even more of a global game and growing the game that way. And once they add these extra games, there's going to be an international game probably every week between maybe week three and I guess week fifteen if they go to eighteen or something like that. So yeah, I do think that's a little bit telling that that chair, that seat is not opening anytime soon. And you know, Brian's a really sharp guy, and I'm not the biggest golf guy in the world, but I'm sure he'll be good for the PGA.
Jason Locking for a one five seven the Fan in Baltimore, Odyssey, Washington Post Jay as always, Buddy, appreciate it, man, and good luck. Hopefully we get good vibes going for the next USMNT game.
Well more importantly, let's get a Canada win and a Jonathan David anytime Gold tonight and that with the Florida Panthers will turn out well for us, so we'll see.
All right.
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By that reference to Canada soccer there on FS one about to start the Gold Cup game in Vancouver, Canada against Honduras. US men soccer plays again Thursday in Austin, Texas. The Gold Cup tournament is on FS one and Fox. The Americans beat Trinidad five nothing in their opener on Sunday, and yes, we've got under six minutes left in regulation. Looks like the Cup will be awarded in Florida tonight. The Panthers already up three games to two and the Stanley Cup Final against Edmonton, leading four to nothing in this game. Sam Reinhardt with three goals in this one, and he scored unassisted about five minutes into the game. If this is a shutout, that will stand as the game winning Cup clinching goal, which he did for Florida last year in Game seven. Nobody since Mike Bossi of the Islanders has back to back years had the cup clinching goal, and of course Bosse goes back over forty years. But it's four nothing late Florida at home against the Edmonton Oilers, and it's looking like still the last time a Canadian team won the Stanley Cup was nineteen ninety three.
And he was my guy growing up Man New York Gotenders. Oh, he was my guy growing up. I wanted to be Mike Bossy From when I was seven until I was like eleven, I wanted to be Mike Bosse.
And that was eighty two to eighty three for him with the Clinchers, and of course that was the third and fourth year in a row they were winning the Stanley Cup the Isles. Florida was in the final last year and won the Cup in seven against this Edmonton team, and the year before Florida made the final lost in five to Vegas. NBA Finals Game six will be Thursday at Indiana. Oklahoma City leads three games to two. Pacers. Guard Tyrese Halliburton reportedly has a strained calf. Indiana and the WNBA was a winner over Connecticut, which is two to nine eighty eight seventy one Caitlin Clark twenty points, New York ten and one thirty four points for Sabrina Yenescu in a New York Liberty win against Atlanta eighty six eighty one victories from Minnesota which is eleven and one. Dallas was one and eleven but got a victory, and Washington won at Chicago seventy nine seventy two Chicago three and eight. Angel Reeseon defeats seventeen points, ten rebounds, seven turnovers. PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan will step down when his contract ends next year. In Major League Baseball, the Braves have just won against the Mets five in ten innings sack fly from Austin Riley. The Braves had tied it bottom of the eighth on a three run double from marcel Osuna, ruining another good start from David Peterson, who's era this year is two point six to oh I five and two for the New York Mets.
But yeah, this was this was a gut punch. This losses.
This is four to one in the eighth. I'm like, that's in, it's over.
We're good, and it's said you Toddling Smith one no, said Noe, tumbling from that lofty perch that you keep holding over over Steve and Justin so much.
And then there's the Yankees who have gone twenty nine.
Yeah, scoreless Friday, they've been.
Shut out three straight games. Yankees lost their fifth straight Tonight's at home. Angels beat him for nothing, because you know who doesn't see Kyle Hendricks mowing down people at this point of his career. Aaron Judge was zero for four with three strikeouts. So gian Carlos Stanton at Yankee Stadium had two hits. The rest of his team was two for twenty seven with twelve strikeouts. Saint Louis a twelve to two winner at the White Sox, who've lost six in a row. Kansas City had lost six straight but got to win at Texas sixth to one. Cubs in Baltimore each one, Cincinnati six' five over The, twins who've dropped five. Straight toronto with two solo homers bottom of the, ninth Beat arizona five to, Four detroit And miami with, wins And colorado hit seven home runs in a ten to six win At. Washington, updating it's Now florida five nothing Over. Edmonton five minutes.
Left back to, You thank, YOU.
Steveo The edmonton net was empty again another goal By. Florida at least they they Put skinner back out. There so this game should probably end five, nothing but, hey you never. Know we are moments away from awarding The Stanley. Cup at just WHEN i say it's gonna end five to, nothing The oilers score make it.
Five, well you, know with four and a half left to, go they break this shut Of bobrovski's not gonna have.
It the final clinching game so five to One panthers over The oilers under five minutes left to. Go but coming up next are The pacers gonna have their biggest star For game six of THE Nba.
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Ice Kenny ALBERT tnt on the. Call The Florida panthers have just won their second Consecutive Stanley. Cup, that of, course is the play of the, day brought to you by Tire. Rack for over forty, Years tirerack's been helping customers find the right tires for, how what and where they. Drive ship fast and, free backed by free road a protection with convenient installation options like mobile tire. Installation tireraq Dot com is the way tire buying should. Be, well we're watching The panthers celebrate on the ice right. Now Paul, maurice WHO i thought when he took over As whaler's head coach in the, nineties was really. Good oh we got pullman, now he said twenty years. Ago by here he is best coach of THE. Nhl back to Back Stanley cup. Title remember when he was the youngest coach in THE, nhl he was coach of The. WHALERS i was, like oh my, goodness.
Guys what's going on? Here why Is connor McDavid not? Celebrating uh, yeah, Wow frozburg from only seems.
Sad he's full of haterade the.
Night, yeah as many shots as we're seeing The panthers Winning connor McDavid on the, bench second Consecutive Stanley cup. Final For connor McDavid's second consecutive, defeat the best player in THE nhl is, now you, know been in the league a, Decade i'd been around a. While uh and yet still is looking for that First Stanley. Cup and now this is the, thing right you, know handshake happening right. Now this is what kind of starts to define. You connor McDavid had a great run in his great. Look he still is still the best player in, hockey but he's someone who at some, point all, right, well when you, achieve when you get, there when you show you're good enough to get, there all, right then the then the stakes changed for you in the last two, years back to Back Stanley cup finals and up closer to winning last year losing in. Seven now you know they they don't even make it there this. Time now it starts to Become connor, McDavid kenny validate and get A Stanley. Cup that's What that's what happens when the conversation about all time great players when you move the goalposts on.
Them.
Right we talked about this With Caitlin clark earlier in the hour where, okay a great rookie, year rookie of the, year all these, said, okay now what has she got to Do? Now now it's going to wind up being A wnba championship or. Bust, oh now she's got to. Win second year of the. League she's got to. Win but the goalpost get. Moved now the back to Back Stanley cup final and not a title is going to start to Define connor McDavid and it would be the same thing For Wayne, gretzky you know the first few in the league when he took him a while to.
Win same thing for all the great.
Players eventually you have to, win, Right Lebron james had to win at some point if you're gonna be the, best, Right Michael jordan had to, Win Kobe bryant had to, win all these, guys it gets to that point and McDavid is right there, now and that's become the question of here's the best player in. Hockey he's got to win, now this is the end of this. Game as soon as that final buzzer, hit that becomes the flip for the best player in THE.
Nhl, well but that's the way it works in, sports. Right how many conversations do we have about the best to? Never right when we have these greatest of all time conversations that folks loved the book of.
Lists when we.
Start talking About Dan, MARINO i was, like well it was the best to ever spin it back, then and then you start throwing up your, hands going but and it's always the reminder of you, know and we'll talk about this more with the pacers of, yeah just because you get down to this, path it doesn't mean that you're gonna walk back in. Again, Right so everything's got to be left on the on the court for McDavid and. Company you, know they can say what they want about defensive, lapses and certainly that third goal will live in, infamy, uh particularly when you pair it with the announcers. Call but the fact that you're down to nothing in a blink of an, eye and offensively you're not getting off on the right foot at, all game after game against this. Squad and maybe it's just the matchup, problem but the problem Is florida's not going.
Anywhere. No and that's the thing is that they.
Have they have found that great blend of veteran and youth and solid. Goaltending it's like it's not any one thing That florida does better than. Everybody it's they just do everything.
Better.
Right they always get the timely, goal, right they they get that first goal of, again like Anything florida needs they. Get it's almost like they made a deal with the. Devil, hey we want to be the best team in. Hockey you you make us great at, everything and and then and then we'll just figure out my eternal.
Soul after it's all. DONE i was gonna, say what's the? Payoff? Then how fast is the devil come to?
Collect like there's there's No achilles, heel there's no this is where you have to Fight. Florida they're just. Better they're just better. Everywhere and and. Again it's it's a perfect mix and blend of. Veterans like it's really it's it's it's tough for me to watch BECAUSE i gotta watch my team not get past them every year in the. Team but but this is My my team's better than your. Team just all my teams are better than Your, really The rangers are better than The. Kings the, rate the range really? Real how long you been doing the, Show? Frostburg how long you we doing the? Show The rangers of my? Team, wow you don't even. Listen you don't listen to ANYTHING i. SAY i don't know why we're still. Together it doesn't. Happen oh my.
Goodness but like we're going to therapy.
Now The panthers Are Stanley cup. Champs coming up next we get back into THE Nba. Finals Well Tyres halliburton play In game. Six this Is Fox Sports.
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Watch my question to you, guys is he a stony?
Gut?
Oh IF i was eighty percent, BEFORE i am one hundred percent on board With Andy Paez all star one hundred. Percent he looks like it's gonna be there for. Years he's solid everywhere at. Centerfield he's a good enough. Fielder he does. That he hits for, Power he knocks and, Runs he does he. Is he is just becoming a fantastic. Player now you see why they stuck with him most of the year last, year where he struggled a, lot because, look The dodgers knowing we got a guy coming, up we know how good he, is, right they Knew paez was coming and look at the. Guy, now he's gonna play center field for the next decade and be An All.
Star only twenty four years, old one hundred and sixteen games played last, Year bad at two forty, eight already up a good thirty five points on the. Year plus he's already matched his home run IN rbi production before. Tonight so there you.
Go so you both are on. Board, oh one hundred, PERCENT i can get on.
Board so there's only one stupid dummy.
Here don't care Who's who's?
That he's standing at the top of the stairs of the padre dug.
Up, WELL i mean IF i Was Pa, HAZ i would have gone and walked over and, said don't you know WHO i?
Am?
Yeah WELL i think he knows who he is. NOW i think about the bowling guy, line right, yeah The Pete weber. Line yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah Yeah love me or hate? Me you you watch?
Me?
Yeah uh so.
Again, Yes i'm one hundred percent in With andy pos with The All Star, game, RIGHT i mean coming out just making sure two eighty thirteen homers forty six RBIs got two more. Tonight his ops is pretty. Good it's just over eight. Hundred like he just does it.
All.
Right, yeah he's not someone's not he's Not, otani he's not someone that's. Good but he does it all and he gives you offense and defense from the center field position and it's it's above. Average. Yeah i'm completely down for, him. MAN i Mean i'm in twenty four years. Old he's gonna Be All star the next ten. Years, yeah he's a starting Like connor. McDavid, well that's, true he does finish the.
Job twenty TWELVE Us open was When Pete webber looked at A heckler and, said who do you think you?
ARE i am right there you.
Go uh.
S we'll have more on this game coming up. Again three Three padres And dodgers in the top of the fifth.
Inning but you just mentioned.
McDavid we watched The panthers win The Stanley cup a big, Night Sam reyanhart four goals and you haven't seen that in The Stanley cup final game since nineteen fifty. Seven The panthers win back to Back Stanley cups to beat The oilers for the second. Time and you, know just just a, second because you, know to give you something And i'm sure people will see This tomorrow's, like what AM i.
Going to say about THE.
Nhlu they're not going to say anything about The panthers what they're.
Terrific let me talk about how great they.
Are This oilers team is incredibly, talented, right you have two of the top five players in the game In connor McDavid and leandrich and. McDavid, still you, know he's been in the league near a decade, now so the question about him is going to Be kenny. Win but you're talking about a team that is powered by two of the top five, players. Right this is this is The bulls Having jordan And, pippen you, know at their disposal during the course of their, careers and still here they are falling short twice to The Florida. Panthers, now what is it why The panthers went back to Back. Cups i'll tell you exactly what it. Is you watch The panthers. Playing UNFORTUNATELY i get to watch a lot of them because they go through my team to get to The Stanley.
Cup final every bleeping.
Year they're a throwback to the like The islander and The oiler dynasties of the, eighties and if you want to talk about the The Mini Red wings dynasty in the mid to late nineties early two, thousands like that's with their throwbacks, too because these were teams that were just better than you. Everywhere, right they have three lines that all do. Damage right, now you don't have that in THE. Nhl you don't have that kind of depth. Everywhere you don't have you don't have three lines that can all score. Goals and they go out and get brad marshand and now they have young players and veteran players who who are able to. Contribute these are how these dynastic teams are. Made or this was The islanders of the, eighties, Right it Was bossi And trachy And potvan and Then pat La fontaine comes in and same thing for The. Oilers It's gretzky And. Messi but then here Comes Yari curry And Paul kaff and they keep these guys together and they're better than you. Everywhere then The Red wings With eiserman And federof And, larionoff and then and then all the all the when they had the Five russians playing together all the. Time then here Comes darren McCarty And Chris. Draper they were just better and more solid than you. Everywhere and their defencemen were. Good Nicholas lichten was one of the best defenders in THE nhl for a long. Time, right whether It's osgar Or.
Vernon made no.
Difference that's what This Florida panthers team is. Like and it's really incredible to, watch also very frustrating to see a. Team but they're just better than everybody. Everywhere there's no, weakness there's no there's No, hey if you're gonna win this, series you have to make sure you convert on the power. Play you have to make sure that you are, controlling controlling. Whatever there's, nothing there's nothing you can say, there there's, there there's nothing you can. Say, okay this is how you beat this. Team you have to hope your your goalie stands on his head and you can get those timely. Goals and clearly that wasn't happening in The Stanley Cup final where The oilers couldn't even figure out who their goalie was gonna.
Be but that that's what This panthers team they.
Throw they were mind me WHEN i watched The islanders AND i watched The oilers and then The Red, Wings it's, like, yes they all had really good, players but they just had the right mix up and down the roster where you could put the third line out there and expect a big, game Clinching Stanley cup. Goal, right you could do, that, Right The Red wings could put their third line out, there you could get something From darren McCarty And Chris. Draper, right you could do. That you could see, That and that's kind of what This panthers teams remind me. Of and this has been a big run they have and it's not going. Anywhere like this is not a team that, suddenly, hey it's gonna get torn apart or ripped, apart like that's what they've been.
Doing for the last couple of.
Years this could be one of those teams, that, hey three cups in a row and we're, saying, wait, wait are they going? Back they going back to the oiler The halcyon days of the, eighties when teams are winning three and Four.
Stanley cups in a, row, like that's how good This panthers team? Is, well but that's beauty of.
It, right you build AND i don't know how much you discount like the commissioner did and many other folks did about you, Know florida.
And income, tax because we talk about it for every other.
Sport right in terms of getting guys to sign buying into a culture or staying, put it's, like, hey you save ten percent if you stay here versus going, there and you've got a winning culture and a nice, life so why.
Would you want to?
Leave so part of that is just what you've built as a. Roster so, yeah they're not going, anywhere and they come at you in. Waves we've seen the quick starts and obviously some legends in the, making and who's not going to want to sign on to try to go for a third, right any of the free agency issues and conversations they, have unless someone's really going to hit a multiplier like they're scratching off the bottom of a scratch off lottery. Ticket they're staying In, florida so you're gonna have to run through them. Again so for the oilers for your, squad for my woe Begone blackhawks. Squad it's been fifteen years since. Greatness there all of those things to, say you're chasing what has been a. Machine it's something we've talked about a lot with OUR nba discussions.
Of what the thunder might.
Be for a moment it looked like maybe it was going to be torn asunder by these, pacers but now very firmly planted towards the finish, line you, know toes in full, straight straight, line towards the, endgame perhaps tomorrow Or thursday. Night keep trying to trying to advance it so we can get it done. With but you, know it's an extra day of talking about. It but all of that of how you build a franchise with your draft, choices free, agency rookie, contracts and the right blend of, Things florida has hit on a formula that. Works so, yeah barring some unforeseen, disaster.
They're not going anywhere a.
WHILE i mean, it, MAN i MEAN i would not be surprised if we are talking about. Them but like we, are The islanders won for it right in The, islands one for in a, row right after The canadians won four in a, row right With Gila floor And Steve shutt And Ken dryden and. ALL i, mean this was that was some kind of. RUN i, Mean i'm going back. Aways BUT i, again it's not going to surprise me if we're talking about The panthers doing this over the course of the next couple of, years because they're just that.
Good everywhere here's a good one.
Something go, ahead justin Sorry, mike but we got to talk About brad March shan for a.
Second, YEAH i, guess go, AHEAD i guess we. Do, guys what do you? Mean just gave him away and yeah we're done winning three, Iracky, Yes brad Mar shand is. Great And bruins just, said, yeah, here yeah we're. Done go, ahead take. Them wait what what the hell's going on?
Here but, then, look that's what teams, do, Right that's what teams that are. Great they find the, right that right veteran to come in and say, Okay and it's like you can't imagine their team before you got, them, Right like you can't imagine this this team before they Got brad March. Shan you thought having the kachuks and all the big goals they had Last the last couple of years have been.
Great. No, now Now marshan shows up and it's like you felt like he's been there for seven. Years he's only been. There how old is? He oh? Man probably not as old as you want him to. Do, yeah thirty seven in a, Row i'm telling, them you man not probably Four stanley cups in a. ROW i would not be. Surprised, WELL i was chuckling because you, know awful.
Announcing all, RIGHT i should say the freezing cold takes account does not Miss. Uh they found one From november of twenty one By Jerry sullivan covering stuff out there on The east coast In Sam, reinhardt highest Paid, panthers no, goals want to assist his last six. Games ice time is. Declining where are The sabers fans who told me how much they would miss? It WHEN i hear of all the positive qualities the team lacked in the. PAST i think Of Ryan hart from twenty to twenty one that got under earthed as that game went.
Final oh, wow that.
Outstanding the internet is Forever dan.
Great jason should be.
With, him by the, way with who really march in.
Oh With Marsha oh dude as a whaler fans, think you, Guys, no, no, no you THINK i can't refer Anything bruins being a whaler.
Fan, NO i can't do. That it's.
Impossible that Was those are the best hockey games of my. Life was going to go on hard for The bruins come in and everybody's just. Screed we spend the entire game just screaming at each, other the.
Fans that was the best.
Part, wait, wait, wait Justin you guys have just found common ground and it's not you, know a playoff series where it's the lesser of.
Evils you you Both NOW i really Hate. Boston.
Yay let's get to the biggest story of the. NIGHT i still can't figure out Why connor McDavid's not. Celebrated sad, RIGHT i can't wrap my hand around what Is grosburg.
Is having the greatest night in the. World, right The oilers?
Lost you, know The dodgers have tied the game against the Podres pa has hits two home.
Runs we say he's going to be An All star like everything's coming Up frostburg. Tonight who just aren't? Dry like what is going? ON i was lied to through Surnames Cory. Gerry you don't have to.
Cry, yeah Poor Corey, perry, Right Corey. Parr what was he twenty two when he won The cup and now it's, like, wow it's.
Been a, While. Corey did he really win The? Cup it's been a. While
