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Sometimes you get on the roller coaster and you enjoy it

Other times you get on the roller coaster

There's too many twists and turns and loop-de-loops and you throw up after the fact. That's what game one was for Carolina Hurricanes fans tonight. 2-0 lead, 3-2 deficit. Then it's 3-3 because Eric Stalls in the building, so you know Jordan Stahl's got a score. Then it's 4 to 3 in a deficit. Then goes to spare ties this thing up, but it's

hurdle off a faceoff that wins this thing with about three and a half left in regulation.

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Critical face off there. And, you know, Keynes get the benefit of that with a ghost spare goal where he collects a loose puck off of face off. They lose this game off a critical face off. I mean, that's what we just saw tonight is what this series is going to be. It's going to be those moments. It's going to be, do you get to the loose puck? Do you clear the puck? You know, do you make the play down the boards when you have to?

Do you block the shot where you need to? You know, I don't think you could ask literally for a better start,

25 seconds into a Stanley Cup final, to get a goal from Nikolai Eelers.

And then he blasts another one and it's 2-0 and everything's really good.

Look, I know that people and we'll do the inside hockey people early.

Everybody was crapping on the Pacific Division this year because how bad it was.

They just were.

You know, they call it the Pillow Fight Division. I mean, these are, you know, people who do the national, you know, coverage of the National Hockey League. And I just think that, you know, in the back of my head, it was, Vegas was off and there was just some reason why they were off. You know, maybe there were some injuries, maybe not having, you know, Alex Pitterangelo on their, their blue line this year, you know, he's a bit of a heart and soul guy. They had to figure that at whatever it would be. Maybe they just were sick of Bruce Cassidy as their coach. Maybe. Um, but now John Tortorella has come in and he's pushed all the right buttons, but always in the back of my mind is I'm like, you know, this Vegas team is good.

They're big.

They're tough.

You know, they're the,

they were the, I don't want to play them in the playoffs team, right? If I'm in the West. And then all of a sudden you start watching them play. And well, you know, they really should have lost to Utah, but they didn't. And when Anaheim pushed them, no, they did, but they didn't

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