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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

The Hockey Show: The Cup Is Back Up For Grabs

The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Meadowlark Media

Sports

4.732.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 April 2026

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

THE STANLEY CUP PLAYOFFS ARE FINALLY HERE! After a long regular season, it is time to shift our focus towards the best postseason in sports. Roy, David, and Ethan give their predictions for each first-round series, then react to a couple of great coaching rants in the wake of the Columbus Blue Jackets and Detroit Red Wings missing the playoffs. The squad eulogizes the Panthers quickly themselves, then Bill Lindsay of the Panthers Radio Network joins the show to fully break down the lost season that 2025-26 became for the Cats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The playoffs are here, and the Panthers are not in it.

0:02.6

We talked to Bill Lindsay about that.

0:04.1

Coming up, this is the hockey show.

0:20.1

With David Dorcas of the hockey news, Ethan is over there. Rose is stillke of the Hockey News.

0:22.4

Ethan is over there.

0:23.8

Rose is still out of country.

0:25.0

My name is Roy Bellamy.

0:26.0

This is the hockey show.

0:27.0

The playoffs start tomorrow.

0:28.4

What's your hat?

0:30.4

I forgot it.

0:31.8

I'm not wearing a hat today because, you know, crazy morning.

0:36.9

That's what usually happens when you have a child. I don't know. That's like, say, walking out of the house. Have a child? Pants on, though. I mean, I can remember pants. I mean, you know, that would be a stiff breeze coming up there. There's a breeze hitting your head, man. What's going on? Yeah, my head is kind of cold. Yeah. Yeah, so the playoffs start, as I wrote the top of my head, the playoffs start tomorrow. We got our matchups. We are ready to go. We got the sabres and the Bruins. We got the lightning and the Canadians, the hurricanes, the senators, and the penguins, and the flyers in the east and in the west.

1:13.1

Avalance Kings, stars, wowed, go to knights, mammoth?

1:19.4

I can't believe it.

1:20.2

I can't say that with a straight face.

1:21.6

We're still getting used to the mammoth.

1:23.0

That's the NBA TV series.

1:24.6

Yeah, yes.

1:25.8

And that'll be on true TV.

1:27.7

And allers and ducks. All right. It's prediction time, boys. I'm excited to see the, the Mam-Zambo, whatever it's called in the mammoth. The Zameth. The Zameth. Guys, I'm fired up. I mean, this is what we live for, right? It's the Stanley Cup playoffs. And now we get to do it from a neutral viewer ship.

1:47.7

The couch. I mean, it's just what we live for, right? It's a Stanley Cup playoffs. And now we get to do it from a neutral viewer ship. Like, how nice is it to not have to stress? Like a vintage playoff match for many of the Panther faithful panther following down here in South Florida. The only thing I have to stress is that those damn Tampa Bay Lightning don't win the Stanley Cup. Why? Who cares? Because nobody wants to watch them win the Stanley Cup. I don't even think Tampa fans want them to win the Stanley Cup. Just another reason to bring the rivalry and get that piss and vinegar going to that season. I'm good at that. Let somebody else do it. Get some new blood in there. That's why I'm excited about the Flyers being in here, even though very surprising team. I'm excited to see the Mammoth senators back for a second year. Like I think we have a really, the ducks, of course, our duckeys are in the playoffs this year. Your duckeys. Your ducies. Everybody's ducies, Roy. So I just think like it's an exciting mix of old school. I mean, not old school, but, you know, the teams that have been around for a while. The teams that have been around for a while, you talk Colorado, you talk Tampa, you talk kings, the wild, the stars, the Oilers. But, I mean, really, if you look in the East, like the Panthers aren't there, the leaves aren't

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