Welcome back to sports guys only. We're all in studio. Cowness, Gavin Coles, Nathaniel Kurtzweig, and Crabby. Carter! Carter, what's up, brother? That was great. We synchronized that. That was pretty good. It was pretty good. Harmonizing everything. All right, here's what we're going to start today. Here's where we're going to start because we have our, our NHL expert, Gavin Kolis, in the house. That's a stretch. It's not a stretch. For this group, it's the truth. For the truth. For the truth. You are the NHL expert in this group. For sure. Not. What the fuck with the abs? You want the honest answer? Yeah, I just want to know. Why do you think the Knights beat them so bad? They swept them.

Here's why.

Kale McCar being out is a huge factor. Okay. Their whole game changes when Kail's out. Second problem. The depth of the Knights is really, really hard. How do they lose so many games in the regular season? Injuries. Is that it, you think? Oh, 100%. I mean, you got to think, Johansson's out all of December. At least. I think all of December and part of November. They got the big thing, they got healthy at the right time and caught the right wave of health. Like, and everyone always says that. Like, there's two things here, and I'm superstitious. So I think one, the President's Cup is an issue. No team in 10 years is won the Stanley Cup and run one had the best record. Why is that? Why do you think that is? Because I think you look good in the regular season, but you're banged up.

Like you can't win. This is why I said the other week, depth is the biggest thing. Because you can be as skilled as you want. But if you're not deep, it's such a physical game and so hard on your body. You can't make the gauntlet run. In the playoffs. Just in general. Like, you ever notice how, like, the team that starts off hot never ends hot?

It's because they get, they're healthy, they're healthy.

The moment they start getting banged up, the wheels come off the wagon.

I mean, I still remember when the Bruins had, like, that insane season a couple years ago,

and then they lost in the first round of the Panthers. Was that night, 20, that's what they are right. The Florida, the Florida Panthers. Yeah, Florida Panthers. It's confusing because there's actually an NFL team too. But so, also bad. But the Panthers were like, they ended up being a good team, right? Like, the Panthers had their moments. Yeah. It's just, hockey's just different. You have to have the depth. And I'm sorry, but the knights also at D are just big. Big. And without Kail McCar being there to like, Kail McCar does not get enough credit as a guy that can really like bring the puck up and really be, like, effective, in my opinion.

Like, he's probably top five guys to, like, actually be in control of your puck, maybe top six in the league.

Same with McKinnon.

Like, that's just hard.

Ken's probably top two.

I would say, yeah. Three. I'd put him at three. Okay. Matthews. McDavid or Matthews one or one A, one B. And then I would put McKinn in. Fair. Personally. I would sell the house to have either one of those players. Matthews or McDavid. Matthews or McDavid on the wild.

I'd sell the house.

There's some rumors about the wild. I sent that. I sent that. Some rumors about both. Well, there's rumors that we might be able to get Matthews like in the next year. There's a rumor that McDavid's going to, this is like an insider like theory. McDavid's going to ride it out

and then come to the wild for cheap

because by then the theory is that we would have

Jack Hughes,

Quinn Hughes,

everybody would be on long-term deals,

but we'd have the cap space

to be able pick him up on a decent contract

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