All right. Let's be honest.

Did we really watch the third period?

No.

No, not really.

Let's be honest.

The dude scored 77 seconds into the game.

It was just Gustav Forsling, his first goal, the postseason, on a shift that was, it looked like it was February on a Wednesday night.

It looked like they played three sets of games in a row.

Yeah. Like like where was the

energy at a start of this hockey game well that was that was this is year seven yeah that was

the first embarrassing performance by a rod brenda more team in seven years in a game that mattered

let me let me let me get this right out of the gate first, okay? Credit to the Florida Panthers. Sometimes teams, they're a war machine. Sometimes teams are just in their bag, and the Florida Panthers over the last three years have absolutely been in their fucking bag. And, yeah, but they didn't dominate the games like this. I get that. I get that. I get that.

The way the-

- There's only one appropriately. Joe. Joe, let's be honest. The way the Panthers are playing, they're going to win this series regardless, the way that they're playing. You can make the argument in game one that even play all that great. I know Paul Maurice even said we even play our best game. they still found a way to win.

That gets to the other aspect of this.

If we can say that the Florida Panthers are equally Maurice even said we even play our best game. They still find a way to win. That gets to the other aspect of this.

If we can say that the Florida Panthers are equally that good,

well, we can also say that the Carolina Hurricanes were equally that bad tonight,

like just embarrassingly bad.

To your point, this was one of those things that we haven't seen a game like this

in Lenovo Center in quite some time. That looked like a regular season Tuesday night. Let's just burn the tape and move on to the next one. The problem is there's really no way to move on in the next one in a series like this. This is it, man. So I think, honestly, I want to say this out of the gate too. I'm kind of proud of Carolina Hurricanes fans tonight because as the second period was wrapping up, we started getting a shoot the puck chant a couple of different times over the last three minutes and then the period ended with a boo, with a few boos. To me, that is growth for the Carolina Hurricanes. Getting to this point isn't good enough anymore. Getting to this point with an opportunity for you to get to the Stanley Cup, that's the thing that you came to see.

So the fact that the Keynes fans are getting to the Gallows humor, that's a little maturity from the Carolina Hurricanes fans after seven years of doing this.

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