Key Players for the First Round

Puck Soup

Sean McIndoe, Ryan Lambert

Sports, Hockey

4.5 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

Sean and Ryan talk about the most important players for each team in the playoffs right now, then go through every series so far.

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0:00.0	I'm Ryan Lambert from Elite Prospects.
0:14.2	I'm Sean McAnoo from The Athletic.
0:16.5	And I'm going to say right off the hop here.
0:22.6	Unbelievable start to the playoffs.
0:31.6	Just really, really good hockey in basically every game has been close except the one Minnesota-Dalice game.
0:34.5	Within a goal or two, right?
0:38.2	Yeah, I think so.
0:42.3	There was three, what, Flyers was three nothing last night, but... Yeah, but wasn't the last one an empty netter, right?
0:45.1	Yeah.
0:47.0	Yeah, just, you really can't ask for more from the league.
0:53.2	They're really delivering.
0:54.3	There's a lot of... the hockey's just been good.
0:57.2	It's not like there's a ton of boring two-one games or whatever, you know.
1:00.9	And when you're going head-to-head with the NBA playoffs, as they kind of are in a way that doesn't usually happen for the first round.
1:16.3	It's good to have a good product on TV at the end of the day.
1:18.6	Listen to you.
1:20.9	Just pumping the NHL's tires.
1:22.6	I love it.
1:25.7	I've been a supporter of everything they've done from day one.
1:26.2	Yeah.
1:34.2	I was there in 1994 and I said they should, they should do a lockout here.
1:35.9	You know?
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