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32 Thoughts: The Podcast

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🗓️ 5 June 2026

⏱️ 80 minutes

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Summary

Kyle and Elliotte begin with Carolina’s stunning Game 2 comeback against Vegas before diving into Dylan Larkin’s trade request and major questions facing the Oilers. They also provide updates on the coaching searches in Edmonton, Los Angeles, and Toronto, along with news surrounding the sale of the Barrie Colts. The episode closes with reactions to the NHL Awards.

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0:00.0	What do you think of the way he's dressed?
0:01.9	Would he fit in around here?
0:05.7	He's looking a little rural for us.
0:11.8	Welcome to 32 Thoughts, the podcast, presented by your Canadian Toyota dealers and the
0:16.2	2026 Tacoma.
0:17.6	Get yours before red tag days are over.
0:20.3	Happy Friday. Dom, Elliot, and Kyle back with you, as the late Bob Cole would say, and the series is a brand new one, all squared through two games of this Stanley Cup final as we now head out to Vegas for games three and four. It was Taylor Hall who said on the off day, things can change on a dime at this time of year. It looked like the machine that is the Vegas Golden Knights was going to roll on through to not one but two victories on the road and absolutely
0:58.0	grab hold of this Stanley Cup final almost as soon as it got underway.
1:04.6	But, Elliot, what did Jordan Stahl say in the aftermath about the Vegas Golden Knights?
1:11.0	They're human.
1:11.8	Yes, they are human because Carolina, you could certainly see it on their faces at certain points to the first, I don't know what, 50 minutes of that game, that they looked like they were facing a team that maybe was inhuman.
1:25.5	No matter what they tried, they could not find an answer.
1:29.1	When I was watching you do that interview with Jordan Stahl, I was actually wondering if
1:34.3	Stahl initially was trying to tell us the hurricanes believe they were another species,
1:40.8	the Golden Knights. They were not human. I don't even know where you come up with half of those.
1:45.6	But, you know, and the reason why I think it was, it was relevant and certainly noteworthy for Stahl to say that line that they are human because, I mean, hey, we're certainly wishing all the best for Braden McDowell.
2:01.5	I mean, that was horrifying.
2:03.2	The shot that caught him up high there off, Nikolai Eilers, had really no chance of
2:08.2	getting out of the way.
2:09.7	But he leaves the game in the first period, Vegas down to five defense.
2:13.8	And it was looking very much like one of the all-time great defensive clinics by
2:21.0	Vegas on the road no less really up until logan stankhoven an incredible individual effort
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