Stanley Cup Final Preview: Can Lightning Strike Thrice?

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🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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The Stanley Cup Final begins tonight! The Tampa Bay Lightning are chasing history as they look to be the first team to three-peat as champions in 40 years…but standing in their way are the Colorado Avalanche, who just might be the NHL’s next IT team. It’s the Final matchup that many expected we’d get, so we call up our NHL expert Greg Wyshynski to tell us how these teams got here, and let us know what else we might see as they face off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Greg Wyszynski, the interest is a full disclosure.
0:02.3	We are always in the interest of full disclosure on the SPN Daily.
0:05.6	I know nothing about hockey, and I rely on you to know things on our behalf.
0:10.5	And I will say that some of the stuff you told us back in May,
0:15.8	as the playoffs were getting underway, some of it was absolutely spot on.
0:20.3	Mm-hmm.
0:21.3	That's fantastic.
0:23.0	Yeah, okay.
0:23.7	Tampa, you were right about them, right?
0:26.1	Like they were fantastic, have been fantastic.
0:29.6	Conor McDavid has been somebody to fear.
0:33.3	You got that right.
0:34.3	Ethan McKinnon, same deal.
0:35.7	Colorado, you were ahead of the curve there.
0:38.5	All of that is true.
0:40.3	I don't see the problem yet, Pablo.
0:47.7	The problem, Greg, is that you're crystal ball.
0:55.5	How would you defend the prophecies that you've made beyond the stuff that I just gave you credit for?
1:02.2	Well, obviously none of you are familiar with the idea of the reverse jinx.
1:08.4	I am the person who has engineered this Stanley Cup final for the ages.
1:14.6	Do you think the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Colorado Avalanche have the ability to make
1:20.1	it through this arduous fondlet known as the playoffs to get to the final round without
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