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My name is Bill Mats.

I'm your director of Funning Games for the

evening. And I am joined for the second time now. This is a regular thing. My new line mate,

J.P. Zapata. What's going on tonight, J.P. Not much, man. I'm glad to be back.

I would rather talk about a victory. But I think this was a great test, and I'm excited to talk about this one. It was. It was. Just watching how this game unfolded the Flyers first couple of minutes,

you called it a great test. I was just like, oh, yeah, well, this is what the Hurricanes do to you.

They just have the puck and say, come and get it. And typically you can't uh they're the best possession team in

hockey they have been for a while they play with a tremendous pace they move the puck quickly and

kind of was oh all right well looks like this one's not going to be much of a game but after those

first few minutes i really thought the flyers even things up. You know, it was funny as, as Sean

Couturey makes the play to set up the, the Ointypical, the first goal of the game, I'm just watching

how the hurricanes are playing. And it's, yeah, I really think Coots is the only guy, like,

physicality-wise, and, like, what he's able to do

with his stick to break up passes and everything. He's the only one who really matches what

Carolina can do. And as I'm, like, saying this to myself, basically, he creates the turnover

in the neutral zone to get play going the other way. Flyers score. And it was, all right,

they're going to be even in this one.

They even end up taking up a two to one lead. They had a bunch of power plays, couldn't

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