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00:00and that is I want to start with First Vegas because that's the team honestly for me
00:04that I'm the most surprised about as we have started here over this first week.
00:10They are now down 2-1 to Minnesota after losing last night 5-2.
00:14They've given up 10 goals in their last two games.
00:16I really thought that this was one of these series that there was not going to be
00:20much resistance from the underdog.
00:23The Wild had not looked good for months, but if you look at these last two games,
00:27particularly last night, suddenly Minnesota has that like October, November,
00:33early December Minnesota look to them.
00:35Kaprizov looks like a heart trophy candidate.
00:37Gustafson's playing great, and now they're up 2-1 in this series,
00:41and now Vegas I think is going to have to work.
00:43We sat here talking about how easy path for Vegas, take care of Minnesota,
00:48wait around, see if LA's going to knock off Edmonton.
00:51Now they've got a lot of work to do, and that will include a game four
00:55tomorrow afternoon, Saturday afternoon in St. Paul at the XL,
01:01where Vegas is going to be road favorites in this game, understandably so.
01:04But you look at those series odds, look at the series odds for Vegas and Minnesota now.
01:08Minus 110 both ways, all right?
01:10Pick them series at this point with the Wild up 2-1.
01:13Now I still think Vegas is going to win,
01:16but I need to see a little bit better on the defensive side.
01:19They're giving up way too many goals.
01:21I got to find a way to slow Kaprizov down here in that game four coming up on Saturday.
01:27So that's the biggest thing that stuck out to me from last night.
01:29The other thing, of course, is that Tampa, I'm just going to call it like it is here,
01:34Tampa's finished.
01:36They lose both games at home to Florida.
01:392-0 last night.
01:40They got completely smashed in the first game.
01:422-0 last night.
01:44Down 2-0.
01:45They're going to Sunrise against the defending Stanley Cup champs.
01:48And I'm one of the guys who sat around for weeks.
01:52Not again with Florida this year.
01:54Teams can't do this.
01:55You tell me they're going to go to finals three years in a row.
01:57They're not that great of a team.
01:59They got to be tired.
01:59Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
02:02That is why sometimes you can take all of this stuff and you just throw it away.
02:06It doesn't matter.
02:07Because what happens when the lights turned on on Tuesday?
02:10They beat Tampa's ass.
02:12And now here we go.
02:12They're up 2-0.
02:13A tighter game.
02:14Now do I think Tampa's going to completely go down the tubes here?
02:18And get swept in this series?
02:20No.
02:20I do not think that.
02:22I think that they're going to have some kind of pushback, we would hope.
02:25But game three for that series, which is also on Saturday, an early start too.
02:29You know how I feel about these early 1 o'clock in the afternoon starts.
02:35And you will get it with Florida being a minus-135 favorite.
02:39Tampa's got to show a little bit of push here down in Sunrise now at the Panthers.
02:44Also last night, you had the Leafs take a commanding 3-0 lead against the Senators.
02:48So the Senators, to be fair, have fought very hard in this series.
02:53The problem is that Toronto has hit them with some overtime goals the last couple games.
02:58Early in the overtimes as well.
03:00And now it's a 3-0 series.
03:01Series is finished.
03:02And honestly, I think that the Leafs will finish it off on Saturday.
03:07I think it's going to be a 4-0 go.
03:08So Toronto, Ottawa is a small favorite on Saturday afternoon at the minus-115 right now.
03:14But I think that the Leafs are going to find a way to get themselves some extended rest.
03:20While, and they hope that Tampa will force Florida to a few more games so that that series can get some distance to it.
03:26That's for sure.
03:27And the other game for last night was the Blues completely smashing Winnipeg 7-2.
03:33Now, I thought the Blues played well in Winnipeg, especially in game number one.
03:39They gave up the late goal with Connor.
03:41They end up losing.
03:42Again, they were tied in the third in game two.
03:44Connor scores early in the third.
03:45They end up losing that game 2-1.
03:47But they came out, and they've scored a ton of goals in this series.
03:49And I think that that's the thing that you look at and go, you know, maybe are we getting the same stuff from Hellebuck here in the first round?
03:57He's given up some goals in this series now.
03:5911 goals in the three games.
04:01Bucinevich with the hat trick on Thursday night.
04:04Can St. Louis get this next game?
04:07And they don't play again until Sunday, by the way.
04:09Game four is Sunday for the Jets and the Blues early, like I said.
04:13That's a 1 o'clock east, 12 o'clock noon local in St. Louis.
04:18Game number four is we're going to have that.
04:21And you saw Winnipeg still minus 430 for the series up 2-1 as they will look to try to get a game in St. Louis.