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Can Canada or New York End Their Stanley Cup Droughts?

ESPN Daily

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🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Technically, the NHL regular season does not finish until Thursday, with a few teams still fighting for the last playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. But the true contenders to raise Lord Stanley’s Cup have already become pretty clear. So with the playoffs officially starting this weekend, we find ourselves filled with pressing questions. Is Canada finally poised to end its three decade title drought? Can Connor McDavid get over the hump? Are the New York Rangers for real? Our NHL expert Emily Kaplan tells us what to watch for and why this year’s race looks as wide open and unpredictable as ever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Emily Kaplan, I hear Utah is lovely this time of year.

0:04.0

We'll be finding that out soon, I think, Clinton.

0:07.0

What are you trying to allude to?

0:08.0

I find it very odd that a team would announce its moving in the middle of a season and basically just

0:15.2

tell a bunch of guys in a locker room. How does that happen with the NHL in a franchise

0:21.0

like the coyotes who have just seemed to be all over the place for the last five years.

0:25.1

Five years, Clinton, this has been like a decades long saga and just to catch up some of our

0:29.7

listeners who might be confused here, The parallel story going on in the

0:33.4

NHL right now besides the playoffs is that finally the NHL has come to a

0:37.9

solution with the Arizona Coyotes. They haven't been able to find a

0:40.7

permanent home and they are facilitating a sale to Ryan and Ashley Smith,

0:44.8

the owners of the Utah Jazz, and the Salt Lake City market should have a team starting next

0:50.9

season, which is just crazy to say how loud but it's happening.

0:54.0

This is also a situation that provides one of those fantastic your team name has no

0:59.1

business regarding where you actually are such as the Los Angeles Lakers that come to mind are they

1:04.7

gonna be the Utah coyotes? No they are not this is gonna be a really

1:07.7

complicated deal and actually the former owner of the coyotes is gonna maintain a lot of

1:11.5

the intellectual property with hopes of bringing

1:13.9

the NHA back to Arizona eventually.

1:16.4

So this truly is the saga that doesn't end.

1:19.2

But Ryan Smith took to X.

1:21.4

He's a tech guy.

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