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The Valenti Show

The Hockey Elite Chime In On The Lack Of Interest In Stanley Cup Finals

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

3.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Mike and Rico take some calls and read some ticket texts from the hockey elite about why people aren't interested in the Stanley Cup Finals.

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0:00.0

All right, now we're cooking with gasoline.

0:02.6

So a couple of questions in the mix.

0:05.2

One is, look, Stanley Cup finals start tonight.

0:07.3

Not that we would ever get to experience that again.

0:10.1

But Connor McDavid is the greatest player in any sport on the face of the earth.

0:14.3

He's the greatest hockey player ever, potentially.

0:17.2

Yet no one's watching.

0:19.3

Ratings are down 25%.

0:20.8

And I don't think anyone is stopping what they're doing tonight to watch Stanley Cup finals.

0:24.2

Why?

0:24.8

What keeps you from watching?

0:27.0

Part two was something simpler.

0:29.6

I'm rooting for McDavid because I think, and I know this sounds stupid guys, he's too good to not have a championship.

0:36.7

Like he's not a bleephole.

0:38.6

He's not like a guy suspended 18 times for drugs or who somehow had screwed up his career.

0:44.8

All McDavid does is show up to work.

0:47.1

And just, he, I hate saying somebody deserves one, but like, he's the opposite of Dan

0:52.9

Marino.

0:53.4

I got it.

0:53.9

Like, he deserves it. I want him to get one. I just don't think that hockey really

0:58.1

promotes itself. And that's why you have that. If you're not the hardcore fan, it's, oh, wait,

1:03.9

Stanley Cup, it's not over yet? And then you're like, oh, well, who's in it? And it's like, oh, okay. So you say it's lack of promotion, noted.

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