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Coming up in about 20 minutes, why me, Nick's fan, Nick Costos, watching Game 1 of the Western Conference final, felt like I was watching a horror movie.

With Victor Wimb and the Spurs against the Oklahoma City Thunder, our bets for tonight will close the show as per usual.

But joining us right now, Jay Croucher on to close the hour. Love our friend Jay Croucher.

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Good friend of the show, Rob Bozola, of The Hammer, circles off, circle back, bet stamp on Twitter at Rob Bozola.

With us now to talk a little Stanley Cup playoffs and, of course, the National Football League, my friends.

Welcome back to the show. How you doing? doing great man uh great night last night uh game seven overtime and not in the nachel game one over time double over time and then just like i mean

we're we're really lucky to have sports in our lives nick we we are and And just to punch home a point that you and I were talking about off air, it will be nice, though, to have not a lot going on for a little bit before football starts, obviously. Need a little bit of a respite. I think all of us do, right? Yeah, I mean, last year, the Jays went on a run in the summer. So I was like, you're like, I'm burnt out from last year. Not to say I don't want the Jays to go on some sort of run again this summer, but two or three months here to golf, enjoy the summer before we get back into the NFL. But yeah, the schedule release this past week, like as soon as that happens, you already start diving in. I'm looking at week one. I'm even looking at week two. And I'm like, ah, you know, who might get upset in week one where I'm going to find value in week two? I have a real sickness when it comes to this stuff. But it's great, man. I really enjoy it. I hate to phrase this the way I'm about to phrase it. let's clear the national hockey league so we could spend more time talking about the national football league.

So Rob, obviously, is a huge NHL fan, big NHL better, so fascinated to get your thoughts on the conference finals.

Montreal, Carolina, in the east, Colorado, Vegas, and the West.

Let's start in the east where I said this to Liam McHugh from Turner earlier in the show. The Carolina Hurricanes kind of remind me, Rob, of hockey's version of the Buffalo Bills in the Josh Allen era. They're there every year, towards the end every year, but can't get over the hump. Now, you were right when you said Carolina was going to stomp Philadelphia. I was wrong on that one. I'm going back to the well-fading Carolina.

I'll take the Canadian's here.

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