All right, you ready? I'm going to be a loud intro. You good? I've never done the intro this way.

Oh my goodness, good morning, good afternoon. Whatever it is for you, my name is

Zach Schamler. This is strong opinion sports. It should be Austin's next to me.

Hello, Austin.

Hello.

This should be episode 360, because I'm actually after this recording episode 359

and then putting them out in reverse order because I'm a madman and I'm going to do three episodes in one night and no only two but still how are you how are you my friend?

Zach I'm well how are you? I'm so good I am as you are too tired we both run businesses now which is like a lot of extra

hell but I'm I'm just glad to talk about hockey with a good friend and talk about round two. I think what I'd like to do though, if we may,

is start with what's currently happening. Like literally, because tonight, we're recording Tuesday,

this will product come out Wednesday,

tonight the Tampa Bay lightning beat the New York Islanders 4 to 2.

Their series is tied one to one,

and then the Golden Knights last night,

Monday night, beat the Montreal Canadians.

So Vegas leads that series 1-0.

And they're playing, I think it's called the semifinals to play, to get into the Stanley Cup final.

That's correct?

Yes, usually this would be the conference finals as it is in

most sports that have conferences which is like all of them over here. Yeah.

Because of the again we talked about it a lot because of the

way that COVID shifted the the season format we are currently in the Stanley

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