Don't forget before the show is done, we will give you another chance to win a pair of tickets to go see the capstick on the hurricanes at Capital One Arena for Game 2, which is Thursday night.

Game 1 is tonight at Capital One Arena.

Right now on the Rood guest's hotline, rude, the most reliable heating and air conditioning products in the DMV, waiting to be joined by our friend Alan May.

He should join us shortly to help break down the series as Carolina visits.

My guess is that he'll be very optimistic.

He's usually pretty bullish.

You know what I mean?

He's not going to care what these analytics guys say.

It's not going to put too much stock in that.

Well, we went through all of the so-called experts, you know, the guys who cover hockey for ESPN and all this big name.

Well, Martin Messier took the canes, but a lot of them took the caps.

Yeah, but a lot of those guys aren't analytics guys.

True, true.

Right. They're just, they're just commentators. Right.

Or former players.

Can the analytics people account for the fact that Tom Wilson, this is from

Russian Machine Never Breaks.com, Tom Wilson has a lucky egg in his locker stall and he's not moving it.

Okay.

It's nestled up there of some athletic tape on the top shelf of his locker.

Like, how do you put that into your analytics machine?

What do you do with that?

We never got into this, but I had texted a drab that I wanted to, and I think we both forgot.

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