NHL Stanley Cup Final Preview

Summary

Empty Netters Podcast – NHL Stanley Cup Final Preview (June 2, 2026)

Host: Almost Friday Media

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Episode Overview

This episode of Empty Netters is a lively, in-depth preview of the 2026 NHL Stanley Cup Final between the Carolina Hurricanes and the Vegas Golden Knights. Broadcasting live from Raleigh, NC, the Empty Netters crew brings their signature brotherly banter, firsthand fan experiences, and sharp hockey analysis to set the stage for an epic series. The hosts cover the stakes, the cities, fan culture, team narratives, food, personal predictions, and much more, all with their usual blend of humor and hockey intelligence.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. The Final Matchup: Setting the Stage

• The hosts open by hyping the magnitude and emotion of the Cup Final: the history, heartbreak, and intensity awaiting Carolina and Vegas fans.

  "Stanley Cup Final, the final handshake line. The final chance to have your heart broken or watch your team make history. For the next few weeks, nothing else matters." — Chris Peters, [00:00]

• The Carolina Hurricanes seek their first Cup in 20 years. The Vegas Golden Knights attempt to claim their second in just nine years as a franchise.

2. Fan Culture & Atmosphere:

• The hosts emphasize the party-like environment around Cup Finals, with special shoutouts to Carolina’s legendary tailgate and Vegas’s crowd traditions.
  • Discussion about naming Vegas’s arena plaza, jokingly exploring options like “The Keep” and “Vomitorium” ([04:15]-[07:30]).
• Both fanbases get respect for passion, perseverance, and, in Vegas’s case, their “embrace the hate” attitude.

  "Nobody does the playoffs like hockey fans, nobody travels like hockey fans, and nobody loses their minds quite like hockey fans." — Chris Peters, [00:57]

• Observations about college sports unity during Canes runs: "This week, UNC, NC State, and Duke fans unite. This is your team." — Dan Rosen, [14:44]

3. Playoffs Runs, Media Takes & Legitimacy

• Debunking narratives that diminish Carolina’s path: “They are currently on the most historic run of all time in best of seven playoffs,” noting their 12-1 playoff record ([09:02]).
• Media critique: Hosts defend their balanced analysis and push back on fans accusing them of bias against their teams.

  "We're just here to entertain you. We're not doing crazy hot takes... don't worry, we're never dogging your team, dude." — Dan Rosen, [06:06]

• Comparisons to past playoff storylines: discussing “villain origin stories” for teams and the constant shifting of narratives around “deserving” teams ([11:21]-[13:02]).

4. The Raleigh Experience: Food & Vibes

• Recap of their arrival in Raleigh, experiences at local eateries, and endless riffing on southern food.
• Ribs vs. brisket debate: Dan insists, “I think ribs are incredibly overrated” ([22:14]); Chris counters with “There is literally no work if they're cooked correctly.”
• Recommendations for Carolina BBQ (Longleaf Swine, Sam Jones) and tangent into BBQ regions and sauce types ([26:37]-[27:42]).
• Hilarious stories about state fairs, local traditions, and dreaming up all-day sports “triple headers” in Raleigh ([17:04]-[18:45]).

5. Deep Hockey Analysis & Series Breakdown

Vegas and Carolina: How Did They Get Here?

• Noting both teams were preseason favorites and delivered on expectations, a rarity (“the two teams favorited...by all the books to the start of the season...now here we are” — Chris Peters, [35:26]).
• Vegas’s path involved roster moves like acquiring Marner, surges after early struggles, and signature playoff resilience.
• Carolina’s run highlighted by dominance (losing just one game), depth, and finally overcoming playoff “nerves” ([40:26]).

Stylistic Matchup & X-Factors

• Expectation that the series will likely go six or seven games, with the victor dictated by which team’s style prevails after the first two games.

  "I kind of think by game one, maybe two, I will have a sense of who's going to win... because one team's style will be winning." — Chris Peters, [36:46] "Games 1 and 2 are going to show us which style of hockey is going to win here." — Dan Rosen, [38:44]

• Carolina’s key edge: newfound poise and success in overtime. Vegas: comfort playing from behind, proven third-period comebacks, and recent Cup experience.
• Recognition of both teams’ ability to "respond to adversity" and veterans’ hunger for a championship.

Narratives & Personal Stakes

• Focus on unique Cup Final stories: Mitch Marner’s Toronto redemption arc, Taylor Hall seeking his first Cup, Rod Brind’Amour and organizational culture, the possibility of the Stahl brothers both captaining Canes Cup teams 20 years apart.

  "Eric Stahl won a cup for the Canes in 2006, and now his younger brother is captaining the Canes in 2026... that's remarkable." — Chris Peters, [63:20]

• Discussion of player experience at the Olympics adding emotional intensity to the Final ([45:04]-[46:19]).

6. Official Series Predictions

All hosts predict a close, hard-fought series, mostly going to 7 games ([53:29]-[66:00]):

• Dan Rosen: Carolina in seven: "I got Canes in seven."
• Chris Peters: Vegas in seven: "It actually kills me... but I always chase the story. Mitch Marner leaving Toronto and winning Conn Smythe and the Cup? That is lunacy."
• Evan: Carolina in six: "I keep doubting them every series... but I have to pick Canes in six."
• Zach: Vegas in seven: "I want us to end it here though... I want to fight. We need a little bite, we need a little fight."

All agree: This Final is stacked with great storylines, good people, and is a "dream matchup" for anyone who really loves hockey.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the atmosphere:

  "We're live for the Empty Netters Stanley Cup Preview show, in Raleigh, North Carolina... ice is ready, and here we are." — Dan Rosen, [01:27]

• On fan energy:

  "Nobody does the playoffs like hockey fans, nobody travels like hockey fans, and nobody loses their minds quite like hockey fans." — Chris Peters, [00:57]

• On Canes' run:

  "They are currently on the most historic run of all time in best of seven playoffs." — Chris Peters, [09:02]
  "This Canes team deserves to win this Stanley Cup... and sometimes they care more than you do in blank and blank and blank." — Chris Peters, [55:02]

• On Vegas:

  "Vegas has embraced the hate. Content creators out here...being like 'they're the devil.' Vegas fans are getting attacked, but they don't care." — Dan Rosen, [07:53] "For the Panthers, they just lost in the cup final, what a redemption story. And for me, Mitch Marner leaving Toronto and winning Conn Smythe and the Cup, that's lunacy." — Chris Peters, [56:17]

• On the brotherly aspect of the Canes:

  "It's insane that Eric Stahl won the cup for the Canes in '06, and in 2026, Jordan Stahl is going to lift it..." — Chris Peters, [62:21]

• On the playoff grind:

  "Miles on the road, voices nearly gone, probably a few terrible decisions along the way, exactly how the Stanley Cup Final should be." — Dan Rosen, [01:12]

• On predictions:

  "We both love both or, sorry, we all four love both of these teams." — Chris Peters, [65:48]

• On optimism for viewers:

  "Flip it to a positive...awesome players on the ice, two fun-ass cities, let's have a blast." — Dan Rosen, [66:08]

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Important Segment Timestamps

• Opening Stanley Cup Hype / Stakes: [00:00]-[01:24]
• Live from Raleigh / Introduction: [01:27]-[02:53]
• Cup Final Fan Experience & Tailgate Talk: [04:02]-[07:54]
• Defending Fanbases & Media Takes: [08:32]-[13:02]
• Raleigh Sports Culture & Food: [13:30]-[26:50]
• Ribs vs. Brisket Debate: [22:14]-[27:00]
• Vegas & Carolina: Preseason Favorites and Playoff Paths: [33:05]-[36:57]
• Series Style & Early Gut Feeling: [36:57]-[38:44]
• Canes and Vegas Playoff Experience & Nerves Discussion: [39:26]-[43:04]
• Cup Final Storylines (Marner, Stahl Brothers, Hall): [56:17]-[62:54]
• Official Predictions Around the Room: [53:29]-[66:00]
• Message to Hockey Fans / Why This Series Rocks: [66:08]-[67:40]

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Genuine Takeaways & Final Thoughts

• A True Hockey Fan’s Final:
  Both teams are filled with rich storylines and dedicated fanbases. The hosts repeatedly emphasize: Don’t buy into big-market snobbery—a small-market Cup means just as much, if not more, to these communities.

• No Villains, Just Stories:
  The crew rejects the “hate” narratives directed at Vegas or the “not legit” narratives about Carolina. Each roster has its share of veterans, underdog arcs, and great human beings.

• Enjoy the Ride:
  With hosting duties on NHL YouTube’s pre- and postgame shows, the crew invites everyone—no matter their rooting interest—to soak up the Cup Final as the greatest celebration of hockey fandom.

• Closing Sentiment:

  "Hockey is fun. These cities are fun. Hopefully you think we are fun... We just want to have fun with you and bring you fun times and happiness and joy and kindness and laughs." — Dan Rosen, [74:39]

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Bottom Line:
If you love hockey or just want to enjoy passionate sports talk, this Empty Netters episode is a vibrant, insightful, and thoroughly entertaining preview of a Stanley Cup Final that promises to deliver as much off the ice as on it. Don't miss the pregame/postgame shows, and—most importantly—don't sleep on these teams, their fans, or this series.

Transcript

[Chris Peters]

Stanley cup final, the final series, the final handshake line. The final chance to have your heart broken or watch your team make history. For the next few weeks, nothing else matters.

[Dan Rosen]

No work, no sleep, tons of group chat, meltdowns after every goal.

[Chris Peters]

It comes down to two teams. The Carolina Hurricanes chasing their first Stanley cup in 20 years, and the Vegas

[Dan Rosen]

Golden Knights, the young franchise going for their second cup in nine years.

[Chris Peters]

Two fan bases, two cities, one cup.

[Dan Rosen]

And while the rest of the hockey world watches from home, we're hitting the road. From opening puck drop to the moment the Stanley cup is raised.

[Chris Peters]

Every city, every game, every unforgettable moment will be there.

[Dan Rosen]

Outside the arenas, inside the arenas with

[Chris Peters]

Hurricanes fans who have waited years for

[Dan Rosen]

this run and Golden Knights fans ready to turn Vegas into the center of the hockey universe once again.

[Chris Peters]

Nobody does the playoffs like hockey fans, nobody travels like hockey fans, and nobody loses their minds quite like hockey fans.

[Dan Rosen]

So whether you're chasing your first cup

[Chris Peters]

or adding another banner to the rafters, we've got you covered.

[Dan Rosen]

Miles on the road, voices nearly gone,

[Chris Peters]

probably a few terrible decisions along the way, exactly how the Stanley cup final should be.

[Dan Rosen]

One trophy, one champion, one last push.

[Chris Peters]

The Stanley cup final starts now, and

[Dan Rosen]

Empty Netters is coming with it. Holy bag intro by Zach and Evan. My God almighty. Welcome, welcome. We are back. Ice is ready. And here we are in Raleigh, North Carolina, live for the Empty Netters Stanley cup preview show. And CP Is not hungover.

[Chris Peters]

Could be, but. But not. Because we had a mess around. Me and the boys had a mess around.

[Dan Rosen]

I was trying to tee you up for an.

[Chris Peters]

As always, I am not. But sometimes.

[Dan Rosen]

Never. He's never been. He's never been.

[Chris Peters]

Dude. It was sick because I was so excited to do a final spree, but we were flying to Raleigh all day Sunday.

[Dan Rosen]

Yes.

[Chris Peters]

And then we had Stanley cup live stuff all day Monday. And we were talking on the plane, all four of us being like, what are we going to do? And it was like, I think Tuesday morning is going to be the day.

[Dan Rosen]

Yeah.

[Chris Peters]

And in the time. At the time, I was frustrated about

[Dan Rosen]

that because I was like, I want

[Chris Peters]

to just get it up asap. But it's. Hold on. Oh, how's the. How's the audio? It says. I think they're tweaking it. And it's. I actually am fired up that we're doing it today because it's game day.

[Dan Rosen]

Oh, I think we. A game day live is so clutch. We're gonna filibuster before we totally get into everything to make sure, everyone's happy with all the volume levels. We're in our makeshift studio here in our spot in Raleigh, so we'll take some time, but absolutely, man. It's like we're, we're here, we're fucking rocking and ready to go in North Carolina, ripping this live show because it is game day and yeah, we've just got a lot of stuff going on, folks. So what we're going to be doing this whole week is Stanley cup live pregame show on NHL's YouTube. Make sure you check that out. 6:30pm Eastern. It's going to be unbelievable. It's going to be a blast. You're going to tune in, you're going to see all the guests, all the fun stuff and then you are getting the netters live after every game.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah, good point.

[Dan Rosen]

Right back here. After the game, post game, I know you're going to have all these thoughts. I know you're going to want to check in, see what we're saying about the games after each game goes. And that's where you'll find us here on the empty netters. YouTube live, post game, every show, boots on the ground. It's going to be incredible.

[Chris Peters]

Dude, I'm, I'm excited because normally the pregame stuff, nor. Well, actually the fact that Carolina has such an epic tailgate is going to be even sicker. But normally pregame stuff, we're kind of, we're, we're almost feeling pregame jitters. We're bopping around trying to just get in the mixer, see some fans. But then we go in. This will be even more epic because we will be bopping around pregame everywhere, hitting the Carolina tailgate, hitting that Vegas. I always call it the courtyard, but I don't know what that area is called. But hitting all that because remember how sick the Vegas stages.

[Dan Rosen]

We gotta figure out that name.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah. How about the like, there's got to

[Dan Rosen]

be something with like the night social, like the Vegas Round Table.

[Chris Peters]

Like there, there's the Vegas strip and then there's the Vegas tip.

[Dan Rosen]

Is it like Camelot?

[Chris Peters]

Yes, it's the round table, but it's square. It's a square. It's the square table. The square. Kind of boring, but it is like it's, it probably has.

[Dan Rosen]

It's like that. I mean, it's not a patio.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

It's not a, it's not a porch. It's not a deck.

[Chris Peters]

You.

[Dan Rosen]

It's just like a big opening area that has a big stage right in front of the arena.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah. Let's Call it that. The big open area that has a stage outside the arena.

[Dan Rosen]

You know, in Rome they called the exit.

[Chris Peters]

Someone says Toshiba Plaza. Oh, I don't know if that's the real name or not.

[Dan Rosen]

Well, Plaza is a good.

[Chris Peters]

I mean, we like the Plaza.

[Dan Rosen]

I was going to say in Rome and the Colosseum. The stairwell that led out was called the Vomitorium because it literally looked like people were being vomited out.

[Chris Peters]

Okay. Let's call it the Vomitorium.

[Dan Rosen]

Vomitorium. If we wanted to do so, I'm

[Chris Peters]

going to be bopping around the Vomitorium every.

[Dan Rosen]

The Vomitorium Plaza.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah, the Vomitorium vip. The Vomitorium. I just need the eye. If we can crack the eye. It's called the vip. Bow Body. Bow Body. Bow Body Bow Body.

[Dan Rosen]

Making acronyms.

[Chris Peters]

That's such a cut. I hope somebody got that.

[Dan Rosen]

The.

[Chris Peters]

We're gonna be bopping around. We're gonna. But it's gonna help me because then we're gonna be get going live, getting a bunch of sick guests, getting me fired up for the game. Then we just go right in. We watch. So we hyped the game. Watch the game, Come back, talk about the game.

[Dan Rosen]

Come back, talk about the game. It's exciting stuff, folks. You're getting pregame show, Stanley cup live, postgame show, empty netters live. Yep. What more could you want? And you know what? You know what I'm pretty excited about so far? We've had a collection of great fan bases throughout this playoffs. Tons of fun teams, a lot of emotional fan bases. And we were having a conversation in the airport about how sometimes the comments on the YouTube and sometimes the. The messages are. People are way too mean. And I get it. Your favorite team is in the final. But it's like, let's have fun. Let's have fun. I think if. I think we need to remember that Chris and I are. We're just here to entertain you. We're not doing any, like, crazy hot takes. We're not talking anyone. We're just, like, joking around all the time. So, like, don't. Don't worry. We're never dogging your team, dude.

[Chris Peters]

Okay, well, here's. I will say this here.

[Dan Rosen]

I was gonna say I'm excited because I think both these fan bases are great.

[Chris Peters]

Oh, these are two incredible fan bases. Also, someone said the keeper.

[Dan Rosen]

Whoa.

[Chris Peters]

It's called the keep.

[Dan Rosen]

The keep is a great.

[Chris Peters]

That's. That's pretty sick.

[Dan Rosen]

That's. That is deep cut.

[Chris Peters]

We like that a lot. Yeah, it's either the Vomitorium Plaza or the Keep.

[Dan Rosen]

Those keep is pretty fun.

[Chris Peters]

Those are the two finalists right now. Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

I.

[Chris Peters]

These are two awesome fan bases. They both love their teams and they're both very nice fan bases. I think the Vegas fans have a little hate us because they ain't usually because they're getting attacked. I feel like Vegas fans are getting attacked.

[Dan Rosen]

Oh, I think Vegas has embraced the hate. I mean, we've got content create creators out here, like pandering for clicks being like the most hated fan base in the world. They're the devil.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

And it's like, I'm sure a lot of fans are being like, okay, dude, yeah.

[Chris Peters]

You know, chill. Yeah. And then the Canes fans have a little bit of not. I'm not like little brother. But it's like they haven't won. Like they lo. They've lost conference finals all the time. They haven't won in a long time. They're not a huge hockey market. Like, they are fighting that fight. I'm not sure what to call that. But you know what I mean? They're like, it's nasty.

[Dan Rosen]

It's the constant doubt.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

That they're battling. It's like everyone. No one ever believes in them that they can do this. And yeah. Nobody believes this is what's funny.

[Chris Peters]

Hate us cuz they ate us. Versus nobody believes this is what's funny

[Dan Rosen]

in that they had that feeling of no one. No one believes in us. They can't get over the hump. And it was all about the Eastern Conference final. And then they got over the hump and now people are still like, you guys suck. And I'm like, they just lost one game through three rounds.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah. What the fuck, dude? I actually looked that up because I was wondering and it. They are. They're the first team to reach the cup finals in 13 games or fewer since the NHL went to best of seven in each of the four rounds since 86. So this is. They are currently on the most historic run of all time in best of seven playoffs. And as I said before, 16 and two is the record. So they, they, they, they are flirting. They're flirting with history the way this run has been.

[Dan Rosen]

It's true.

[Chris Peters]

Do you want to. Do you want to say.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Chris Peters]

Wow. Great comment from Greg. 12 and 1 at 11 million under the cap. Dope. Even though this is the rules. Especially considering how many teams recently have won while being over the cap.

[Dan Rosen]

Pretty good. Good.

[Chris Peters]

Being significantly over the gap.

[Dan Rosen]

I mean, dude, like, I, I don't know I mean, I think it's the. It is the Eastern Conference final struggles.

[Chris Peters]

Yes.

[Dan Rosen]

But the way people just permanently are like, this team's not legit. Is very funny.

[Chris Peters]

Oh, yes, dude. Okay. Actually, to kind of circle all the way back. That's one thing that I think got lost in the sauce with certainly some of our chats, that the Canes are nasty, and we picked them. They've won or they've played 13 games and they're in the final, which is lunacy. I just said it's never happened before. We picked them. I picked them to make the finals based on my picks in 16 games, which is a pretty dominant run.556. You picked them to make it in 15, 4, 5, 6. So then when we're going on the show, because, by the way, I haven't. I got an hour to fill, boys and girls, you know, like, I gotta do my job. And when we're going on the show, being like, man, could the Habs come back? Could this happen? Could that happen? People were like, dude, all. It is, like, no respect to the Canes. And I was like, we picked them. Like, I'm just saying that there has been.

[Dan Rosen]

It's. It's funny. Like, people always talk about the. The villain origin story.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

Or, hey, boys, if I. If I shift like this, Zach, is that a disaster for you?

[Chris Peters]

No.

[Dan Rosen]

Okay, cool. I mean, we.

[Evan]

We want to see more.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

I was more just trying to get comfy, but look at how great that angle looks. People always. We talk about the village villain origin story. I. You showed me. We were mentioning earlier. You showed me that one YouTube comment the other day from a Cane's fan that was like, I'm. I can't believe this trash. And I'm like, dude, we get featured in the Cane's official hype video every single round because we are, like, the only people in media who have authentically been like, this Cane's team is good. And this is why. And the fact that there's any fan who's like, you guys hating on the Canes, I'm like, what? Excuse me?

[Chris Peters]

I actually just think, dude, it's. And. And to be very clear, I'm sure I do this all the time.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Chris Peters]

When. It's. When it's. Especially before this job, when it was the Bees or whatever. But it's. I just think if your team is winning, you just want. Or actually, it doesn't matter if your team's running. You just want all the praise on your team if. If anything goes well. Yeah. Because we were getting killed in the Tampa series.

[Dan Rosen]

Yeah.

[Chris Peters]

For going. It's never. The habs are good. It's always Tampa up. And then in the finals, it was like, it's never the canes are good. It's always the halfs.

[Dan Rosen]

I was like, okay, like you just want. I mean, we can't just give stroke offs, guys.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah, we got to.

[Dan Rosen]

We got to give strokes to everybody.

[Chris Peters]

Yep.

[Dan Rosen]

That's the point. It's. This is a national show.

[Chris Peters]

Okay. So, dude, do you want to do. Should we say who we think is going to win now or do you want to talk about it first? We usually do. We usually do the prediction first and then talk about it. Do you want to say.

[Dan Rosen]

I think we talk about it. I think let's have some fun.

[Chris Peters]

Okay. Okay.

[Dan Rosen]

Let's chit chat a bit. Let's talk about Raleigh and food and let's talk about fun stuff. Let's talk about the vibes here in the Airbnb. Yeah, we'll talk about the series too.

[Chris Peters]

So I was so excited to get. And I mean, so was Zach, but I was so excited to get here and back in Carolina.

[Zach]

Yeah, I was pretty fired up about being back in Carolina.

[Chris Peters]

What a state, dude. What a state in the union.

[Dan Rosen]

Zach got dropped off at 5am last night by 3, like 45 year old female escorts. It was unbelievable.

[Chris Peters]

Correct.

[Dan Rosen]

Brandine, Brandy, Brandina.

[Chris Peters]

We had to marionette puppet him into the house. It was unbelievable. Speaking of Bernie the. So the. We got an Airbnb. We're right by the rink. It's incredible. And

[Zach]

the chat wants to see your Duke shorts.

[Chris Peters]

Come on. Which camera is it on?

[Zach]

Yeah, there you go. Yeah, get the cameras out.

[Dan Rosen]

Let's go, let's go.

[Chris Peters]

Oh, yeah. This guy. I'm actually probably gonna lose grown ass, man. Unfortunately, I'm probably gonna lose a lot of fans. I'm sure a lot of Carolina fans in this chat hate Duke and are now like, yeah, but don't you feel

[Dan Rosen]

like it when, when something like this happens? Like the Carolina Hurricanes are in the sand. The cup. I feel like UNC, NC State and Duke fans need to unite.

[Chris Peters]

Oh, 100%.

[Dan Rosen]

Like, this is your team. Like, this is. This isn't a college game. This is a. Like, I want people, I want the chat to tell us, like if you, if you are a UNC person or an NC State person, you are friends with a Duke person this week.

[Chris Peters]

This week.

[Dan Rosen]

You have to because like you're like, we're all rooting for our team and NC State.

[Chris Peters]

I Cannot believe how close NC State is to Lenova.

[Dan Rosen]

Oh man. People are sleeping on NC State. That. That football stadium is. What the is that place called?

[Zach]

Oh, Carter Dunley. Carter Dunley.

[Evan]

What are you talking.

[Dan Rosen]

The NC State football stadium?

[Zach]

Yeah, I gotta. Let me get it off the.

[Evan]

I don't think you're supposed to know this stuff.

[Zach]

I know. And I, I thought Carter Finley.

[Dan Rosen]

Carter Finley. Finley, Finley. Yeah. Carter Finley. That place is numbies. It's right next to Lenovo. We were talking about a. An all time day would be like November, December. Hitting a day. NC State game. Hitting the tailgate. Doing the tailgate. Hitting an NC State game and then rolling that into a tailgate for an evening Canes game. Could you imagine?

[Zach]

Dude, great November day.

[Chris Peters]

It's. It's one of the great days of all time.

[Dan Rosen]

And you. You will. You would never leave.

[Chris Peters]

Yes.

[Dan Rosen]

You would literally walk from one parking lot to the other.

[Zach]

Literally.

[Chris Peters]

Your car parked right in the middle.

[Dan Rosen]

You pull out and pull in.

[Chris Peters]

You go.

[Dan Rosen]

Well, I actually some of those ladies

[Evan]

with the wrapped hot dogs outside.

[Dan Rosen]

Yeah. Oh yeah.

[Evan]

Dude, if they don't have that. I mean, I'm curious tonight. I wonder what the vendor cart situation

[Chris Peters]

is going to be.

[Dan Rosen]

I do think in that situation you got to put the car in neutral and push it to the other parking lot.

[Chris Peters]

I need there to be.

[Dan Rosen]

Or you've got a dd.

[Chris Peters]

Didn't you say, Zach, that the NC State basketball team plays in Lenovo?

[Zach]

Yes.

[Chris Peters]

Like that's where their games are. So I actually think we gotta find.

[Zach]

Did you all see the banners? No, if, if you. So when we go tonight, you, you. You see all the NC State banners hanging up.

[Chris Peters]

Okay. So I think, Dude, I think you go, you find a weekend where the NC State football team plays at 1 on Saturday. Keep in mind, it's. It's early November, it's 70 degrees. NC State football plays at 1 on Saturday. Carolina Hurricanes play at 7:05 on Saturday night. North Carolina State basketball team plays Sunday at 1. And you sleep. Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

They probably kick you out.

[Chris Peters]

Yes. You go parking lot, Parking lot at 9am Shout out Shea Theodore, 9am Parking lot, into the football game. Walk right back into the parking lot. Continue raging into the Canes game. Come right back into the parking lot, continue raging until you pass out in your car.

[Evan]

And then you get home and your wife's like, I want a divorce.

[Chris Peters]

No, you wake up, oh, I'm taking the kid home Sunday night. You get home and you go, what kids?

[Evan]

Dude, I sold my kids for all these tickets.

[Chris Peters]

What are you Kidding me. Dude, the kids belong to Carter. Fin.

[Dan Rosen]

That would be a sesh. Oh, my God.

[Chris Peters]

That's what I'm talking about. And Dan. Yes. Lot. I wonder if I can find it. A lot of action in the chat, but like about the. The. The friendships. But someone says Chris. Chris says Duke, UNC and NC State fans combined to create the KACs. That's how it happens.

[Dan Rosen]

That's what I'm talking about.

[Chris Peters]

That's how it happens.

[Dan Rosen]

I have.

[Zach]

I have a story for you guys.

[Chris Peters]

Okay, here we go.

[Zach]

In 2002, October 19, 2002, they did the triple header. They had an NC State Duke game at Carter Findlay. They had a Carolina Hurricanes, New Jersey Devils game. And then they had a. They had the North Carolina State Fair

[Chris Peters]

and a basketball game on Sunday morning.

[Dan Rosen]

Or a Sunday day that must have been Sunday. This. This is. This person in 2002.

[Evan]

October 19th.

[Chris Peters]

October 19th, 2002, the greatest day in North Carolina has sports.

[Dan Rosen]

That is insane. Dude.

[Chris Peters]

Dude, I thank God also. God Bless your memory.

[Dan Rosen]

24 years ago. Quick poll.

[Chris Peters]

Thank God I wasn't living here for that, because I would be dead. Yeah, you wouldn't have made it if you and I. Please.

[Dan Rosen]

Did that say who the basketball game was against or was it just an NC State game?

[Chris Peters]

Okay. I pray that I meet someone someday who. Who did that. Like, I. I hope. Because they're here. Whoever. The people that did do that are currently in Raleigh.

[Dan Rosen]

Like, I mean, I want to talk if you're. If you're going to the game tonight in the tailgate and you have done an NC State Canes game and just even the doubleheader. Yeah. Come find. Tell us. Because, I mean, I hope that's a thing. I hope it has a name also.

[Zach]

Have y' all seen. They're talking about that. The state fair. Did y' all see that? You saw the entrance to the state fair?

[Chris Peters]

Yeah.

[Zach]

Last night.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah.

[Zach]

That is it. Crazy looking place.

[Dan Rosen]

Dude, state fairs are so awesome. It is insane. I mean, if you've ever been to the Minnesota State Fair, that is the craziest experience.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah, I've never been.

[Dan Rosen]

Dude, sweet Martha's cookies coming out your butt.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

Cheese curds. Livestock. Cotton candy. They had this one thing. They had us. They were making ice cream. Cotton candy, sushi rolls.

[Evan]

Oh, I don't know if that sounds good to me.

[Dan Rosen]

I'll tell you what.

[Evan]

Immediately was interested, and now I'm.

[Dan Rosen]

It looked pretty scary.

[Chris Peters]

Wait, dude. And was there any fish?

[Dan Rosen]

No.

[Chris Peters]

Okay.

[Dan Rosen]

It was. It's literally ice cream. Like, think about like an Ice cream sandwich with two cookies on top.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

They would take ice cream and. And get it into like a cylindrical roll and then wrap cotton candy around it. Like the seaweed.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

So it was just like cotton candy.

[Chris Peters]

Okay, then I'm in.

[Evan]

So the sushi method. But no.

[Dan Rosen]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a sushi method.

[Chris Peters]

I was like, dude, I am out. If there is fish in that, there's

[Dan Rosen]

no raw fish in there. There is raw ice cream though.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah, I love raw ice cream. Actually probably don't. I want, I want. You want cooked? I want fully cooked. Yeah, I want fully cooked. Diet green, the whole works. So, dude, Carolina. So sick. We. Where did you guys have dinner last night?

[Zach]

Positive. Midwood. Yeah, yeah.

[Evan]

Midwood barbecue.

[Chris Peters]

Okay. So the boys last night hit Midwood barbecue.

[Dan Rosen]

Yeah.

[Chris Peters]

And I'm jealous because I really do want some Carolina barbecue, which I believe is. Is no sauce.

[Zach]

Less saucy.

[Chris Peters]

Less saucy.

[Evan]

I was not cooking the sauce. Right.

[Zach]

It's.

[Evan]

They give you the bottles.

[Zach]

They give you the bottles.

[Dan Rosen]

Ah, got it.

[Evan]

You control your sauce journey because dude, anyone.

[Chris Peters]

And shout out. And so much love to anyone in this chat now who was also watching us yesterday. Thank you so much.

[Dan Rosen]

Yeah.

[Chris Peters]

But somebody mart think was like, we were like, do you like Carolina barbecue? And he was like, not my favorite. He was like, cuz I like Texas barbecue, I want it lathered in sauce. So I think it's a little less sauce. But the boys got some barbecue. Midwood. You said Midwood. How, how was it?

[Zach]

Fantastic. It's great.

[Chris Peters]

What'd you get?

[Zach]

I got burnt ends. I got pork burnt.

[Chris Peters]

You got burnt ends?

[Dan Rosen]

You are such a Jesus, dude.

[Chris Peters]

It's unbelievable. I love it.

[Evan]

You got collard greens.

[Zach]

I did get collard greens.

[Evan]

Mashed potato or not a mashed potato.

[Chris Peters]

Mac and cheese.

[Zach]

Cheese and hush puppies.

[Chris Peters]

I did think that.

[Dan Rosen]

Good God.

[Chris Peters]

I did think he woke up this morning with the handlebar a little longer. Yeah, I think he. I think he has one more round of burnt ends tonight and that thing's going to be touching his chin.

[Dan Rosen]

He's a southern boy, dude.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

Because I'll be. I think I've admitted on this show before I don't like barbecue that much. I like barbecue. I just don't like it that much. So I'm excited. Well, I'm excited for people to educate me. Like Zach can show me around, teach me the ways.

[Zach]

Learned what?

[Dan Rosen]

I mean, Ev, you went to school in Georgia.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

Like you guys can both teach me a thing or two.

[Evan]

Yeah, yeah. I mean it I like the controlling my sauce levels.

[Dan Rosen]

I think it's a nice thing, you know. Here's a quick discussion. I think ribs are incredibly overrated.

[Chris Peters]

I, Dude. I, I, I can't believe. I think. Was it keegs? We were asking something.

[Dan Rosen]

I almost like keegs. It was keegs.

[Chris Peters]

And he goes, brisket, ribs, ribs. And I love ribs. And Dan does not. And I thought was like, I wonder if Dan's going to admit he was on a roll.

[Dan Rosen]

Well, I was ready to, I was ready to be like, you know what? But then he was just, he kept going. I think ribs are incredibly overrated.

[Evan]

Is it? It's not enough meat for all the work.

[Chris Peters]

Corre. Incorrect. Not if they're cooked correctly. Dude. There is, there is literally. There's no work.

[Evan]

You have bad ribs. It's one of the worst experiences getting stuck in your teeth.

[Dan Rosen]

Sticky ribs, dude. Yes. Where it's like, it is getting stuck in your teeth and you got to, like, nod off the bone. That is a bad experience.

[Zach]

I agree.

[Dan Rosen]

And obviously. Yeah.

[Evan]

And they fall right off and they're real meaty.

[Dan Rosen]

I mean, if you, if someone can give me ribs here in Carolina, buddy,

[Chris Peters]

you, I'll, I'll get you some. Here's an idea that will blow the dick right off your.

[Dan Rosen]

Why don't you shut your stupid mouth and let me finish?

[Chris Peters]

You will be dickless for the rest of the finals. You will be dickless for the rest of the finals after you have the ribs here.

[Dan Rosen]

Can I vanish? Can I vanish? I, if someone can show me ribs here in Carolina where I order them and grab the edge of the bone and go. And it all falls off. And then I can eat it with a fork. I'll eat it with my hands.

[Chris Peters]

I was going to say out of prison. Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

But if someone can find. Send me to a place here in Carolina where I can do that.

[Chris Peters]

Yep.

[Dan Rosen]

I'll be first in line and I will change my tune on ribs. But I. Yes, Evan. I feel like the majority of my time in my life I go and get ribs and, and I gotta fucking muck up my hands to gnaw meat off a bone. Good or not.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

And I'm like, listen, that wasn't that much meat. Like, I'd rather get a fucking delicious brisket or pulled pork or burnt ends or something like that.

[Evan]

I slow cooked smoked ribs once.

[Chris Peters]

Yep.

[Evan]

And that's an experience.

[Chris Peters]

It's incredible.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Evan]

But you gotta, you gotta tear the fat cap off.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah.

[Evan]

It's a real.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

It's a lot like, dude, some tritip you lathered in sauce that.

[Chris Peters]

You don't even like brisket that much. Yes, I do.

[Evan]

That's what I got.

[Chris Peters]

Yes, I do.

[Dan Rosen]

I do like brisket also, but I like tri tip more.

[Chris Peters]

You don't like a mess. It's a mess. You don't like a mess.

[Dan Rosen]

That's not true, dude. Like, I will absolutely muck lobster and clams and.

[Chris Peters]

Oh, lobster I will give you. Yeah, but I think that you.

[Dan Rosen]

Oh, I am a psychopath. Like, I am very Patrick. Sometimes.

[Chris Peters]

You're like, I don't want to. Even though I would like the taste of wings in my mouth, I don't want wings because I. Because then I'm going to have to get it on my hands and all this shit, man.

[Dan Rosen]

I do love wings, though. But Chris is right. If I ever eat with my hands or eat something that gets on my face, you'll notice this. Now, I, I, I don't care if we're in the fucking Diabetes bar in the world. I go to the bathroom and wash

[Chris Peters]

my face because he's like, I don't like this. Which is why you don't like ribs.

[Dan Rosen]

The feeling of food on my hands and face makes me want to unzip my skin and take it off and then hang it up in the closet. Like, it's. I am so uncomfortable.

[Evan]

If I. I got a point for you. Crabs. Do you. Do you do the crab?

[Chris Peters]

Like, dude, do you want to talk about not enough meat for the work?

[Dan Rosen]

Yeah.

[Chris Peters]

Holy.

[Evan]

I know.

[Dan Rosen]

Crab bakes are. Maryland crabs are.

[Chris Peters]

They're very good.

[Dan Rosen]

Dude. Give me. What is it? Is it snow crabs or king crabs that are like, the big real. Those and those, dude, you just go like a middle snap and pull apart.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah, yeah. That's the whole thing, baby.

[Dan Rosen]

Long piece of crab leg, dude. Maryland crab bakes. I'm like, what are we doing?

[Chris Peters]

One of our boys in LA is from there, and he's. He flies him out from some sick spot and he does an incredible day. Like, we have the hush puppies and the whole thing. It's amazing, but it's so insane because they're like, you're gonna do a thousand things. This crab. You get this much. And he's like, these part. By the way, the thing that looks like the biggest piece of meat, that's the lungs. If you eat it, it's poison and you'll die. And I'm like. I'm like, what the. Dude, this sounds horrible.

[Dan Rosen]

I think that was. He was treating you with little kid gloves there. Like, it won't kill you. But he was like, chris, don't eat those.

[Chris Peters]

Okay. I gotta find.

[Dan Rosen]

All right, so someone get me a rib shop. Rib shop. Someone get me a rib spot that the meat will fall right off the bone. And I will try that this week.

[Chris Peters]

You got a few rib supporters in here, Dan.

[Dan Rosen]

Of people being like, yes.

[Chris Peters]

It's like, yes, not enough. Like Shelly, yes. Not enough meat for the work. Thank you. L31. No ribs. Brisket all the way. But there's a lot of. But there's a lot of ribs people in here, a lot of.

[Dan Rosen]

A lot of rib lovers.

[Chris Peters]

And they're gonna get you some good spots. I saw one long, long leaf.

[Dan Rosen]

That is a great name.

[Chris Peters]

Very good. Apparently long swine.

[Dan Rosen]

All right. Also write that down.

[Chris Peters]

Also they're saying. Longleaf swine. Sam Jones bbq. They're saying, Carolina barbecue's vinegar based sauce.

[Dan Rosen]

And I love, yeah, yeah, I love. I, I, I. Carolina barbecue is my favorite.

[Chris Peters]

So I'm probably gonna.

[Dan Rosen]

But someone, I think it was Keegs yesterday told us what, which barbecue is it? That's more of like a mustard based. Because that, that fucking. It may be. But someone was like, it was, it was Keegs for sure. He was talking about all like the different types of barbecue and he was like, city, right? Yes. There's Kansas City barbecue. There's Texas barbecue. Carolina barbecue.

[Evan]

Memphis.

[Dan Rosen]

Memphis barbecue. Nashville doesn't do barbecue. Right.

[Chris Peters]

Like, they're.

[Dan Rosen]

I mean, they obviously do barbecue, but they're more, they're more hot chicken.

[Zach]

A lot of gold. Why did I forget that? Yeah, Carolina gold is the mustard base.

[Chris Peters]

Okay?

[Dan Rosen]

Oh, Carolina gold is mustard based. Okay. I want to try that. I mean, vinegar base and mustard base. That sounds right up my street, dude.

[Chris Peters]

So we were talking about that epic day in October and WM98, he goes. My first shift at, at Lenovo, my first shift was 18 hours. Travis Scott concert, North Carolina State basketball Canes game. I didn't leave the arena for 20 hours.

[Dan Rosen]

Wow. I don't. That, that can't be in order.

[Chris Peters]

Like, I don't know. Travis Scott concert must have been last the night before.

[Dan Rosen]

Oh, unless it's a night before.

[Chris Peters]

Travis Scott concert stayed. NC State Dig. Basketball game at night.

[Dan Rosen]

There. That is crazy work.

[Chris Peters]

Let me see.

[Dan Rosen]

Or sleep in the parking lot.

[Chris Peters]

When you sit in the chat still. WM98 did. Is that the order correct? Is it concert sleep?

[Dan Rosen]

I mean, there was an overnight basketball game also. NC State basketball. And Cane's playing in the same day is crazy work.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah, you can do it. That crew gets to work, dude. Or maybe. But I feel like it had to be that order.

[Dan Rosen]

I don't think you can do hockey. Second, how do you get the ice okay?

[Chris Peters]

Dice is okay. The ice is always okay.

[Dan Rosen]

I don't think it's always okay.

[Chris Peters]

It's always okay. The ice is there all the time.

[Dan Rosen]

Yeah, but, like, if you played a basketball game with the parquet over that ice, and then you're playing hockey that night. That's.

[Chris Peters]

That's brutal. Yeah, maybe we're about to find.

[Dan Rosen]

I think you got to play a hockey game first.

[Chris Peters]

We're about to find out.

[Dan Rosen]

Yeah, we'll find out.

[Chris Peters]

So we. We went to dinner at Pools. P O O L E. Pool's Diner, which apparently used to be. It still kind of is. One side of it is this, like, tiny little diner.

[Dan Rosen]

It was like a pizza shop. Right There was like, pool's pizza.

[Chris Peters]

They were saying, well, next to it was a pizza pie place. Okay. But I think that's just pizza.

[Dan Rosen]

I was like.

[Chris Peters]

And then they made it one place, and now it's like a Michelin. I don't know if it has a star, but it says it's Michelin mentioned.

[Dan Rosen]

Michelin acknowledged.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

There was a Michigan Michelin plaque in there.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

But I was like, is that a star? And I don't know, but maybe it is.

[Chris Peters]

Maybe it is.

[Dan Rosen]

Either way, Michelin has been there, and they're like, this place is good.

[Chris Peters]

Pools down diner. It was incredible.

[Dan Rosen]

Yeah, it was very good.

[Chris Peters]

Oh, my God.

[Dan Rosen]

Steak I had was insane. The pimento cheese dip was insane.

[Chris Peters]

Was insane.

[Dan Rosen]

And the staff there was so lovely.

[Chris Peters]

Everyone was adult.

[Dan Rosen]

Like an unbelievable collection of humans. Really good stuff. Go to pools.

[Chris Peters]

Go to pools. And, dude, there was something that Dan and I saw it, too, but Dan was like, that's the coolest thing I've ever seen. And he thought he cracked it.

[Dan Rosen]

I was telling you about this.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Chris Peters]

Okay. Yeah. We went into the bathroom, and on the wall, there's, like. It's all these, like, tiles, and there's a. No, I saw the no diving thing first, which I thought was hilarious. There's like a no diving little square in the. In the tile with, like, the person right by the toilet. And I was like, that's funny. And then it said. I kept looking around. It was like, four feet, blah, blah, blah. And then Dan comes out, and he's like, dude, this place was a pool. It's an indoor pool. We're sitting in an indoor pool.

[Dan Rosen]

I was like, I think that this Place used to be an indoor pool and now they called it pools.

[Chris Peters]

He's like, our friend Al.

[Dan Rosen]

Our friend Al was like, it' the pool family, you twat. And I was like, well, sorry.

[Chris Peters]

But there was a theme. But there was a theme. And for the people that don't know, because I don't know if everyone in this chat knows this, the shelves at the bar are diving boards.

[Evan]

Oh, that's cool.

[Dan Rosen]

So sick.

[Chris Peters]

Sick.

[Dan Rosen]

It's a great spot. It's an interesting menu because it's not that Southern. There was like some southern vibes. Like they had some like fried okra and the pimento cheese.

[Chris Peters]

Absolutely.

[Dan Rosen]

But otherwise it wasn't overwhelmingly Southern.

[Chris Peters]

Yes. I mean, I had that in New York. North Carolina shrimp. They were incredible.

[Dan Rosen]

Yep.

[Chris Peters]

WM98 says that is the correct order. Travis Scott, 10pm they didn't leave until 5am Basketball game was at noon. And then we had canes at seven.

[Dan Rosen]

Unbelievable.

[Zach]

How do you not leave until five, eight? What were they?

[Chris Peters]

He was just ripping. Dude.

[Zach]

I mean, if you're just ripping. But are you like ripping out the parking lot?

[Chris Peters]

I think Travis. I think Travis Scott ripped till five, eight.

[Dan Rosen]

No chance. No, they're right. No.

[Chris Peters]

Inside. Do whatever you want.

[Dan Rosen]

You gotta. There's gotta be like laws, like two hour show.

[Chris Peters]

That's a seven hour show.

[Evan]

I'm saying. I mean, normally.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

Right.

[Evan]

So like, what?

[Chris Peters]

Yeah, I think they just. Maybe they. Maybe they just bopped. But I'm saying that's an unbelievable. He didn't leave at all. Like, he didn't leave at 5am he's

[Dan Rosen]

a 10 or a noon North Carolina basketball game. Getting flipped into a 7pm Hockey game is remarkable work by the.

[Chris Peters]

By the crew.

[Dan Rosen]

Yeah, that's remarkable work. I mean, ridiculous. All right, let's get into this game.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

Let's get into some hockey.

[Chris Peters]

Hell. Yes.

[Dan Rosen]

We've got game one tonight here in North Carolina at Lenovo. I can't believe it's tonight.

[Chris Peters]

I know, it's crazy.

[Dan Rosen]

Seven or. Excuse me, 8pm yeah, pretty sure every game's at 8, 8pm Eastern. Every single game. So it'll be 5pm Pacific. We got the number one in the east team, Carolina Hurricanes, who lost one. Have lost one game in the playoffs so far.

[Chris Peters]

Yep.

[Dan Rosen]

Going up against this surging tightness, Vegas Golden Knights looking for their second cup in their just young nine years of their history, brought in Mitch Marner, brought in Rasmus Anderson and brought in Torts. And they are now a wagon.

[Chris Peters]

Here's something that I forgot.

[Dan Rosen]

Yeah.

[Chris Peters]

And I'll give you a stat that I'd already told you but I'll explain why Pretty much not everybody but the over. Actually we should check the odds. The. The overwhelming majority of people are picking the Canes to win the Cup. And as I was going through for example the NHL.com picks. It's like 66. It's like 10. 10 out of the 15 people I think picked the Canes. But in a lot of the descriptions of their picks of like why. Because everyone gives a reason. Okay, what do you think? What do you think the odds are, Dan?

[Dan Rosen]

Oh, I bet just for tonight.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah, this actually looks like today. Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

Okay. I guess the odds tonight are.

[Chris Peters]

Give me.

[Dan Rosen]

Kane's money line is plus or. Excuse me. Kane's money line is minus 115.

[Chris Peters]

Minus 155.

[Dan Rosen]

Interesting.

[Chris Peters]

So yeah, they are the betting favorite. I'm trying to figure out the full. Can you guys look that up? Who's. What the. What the to win the Cup. Not just tonight on BetMGM. I think I'm seeing minus 145 canes to win plus 120 Vegas. So the Canes are the favorite. Most people are picking them. But one thing I totally forgot, Dan is Vegas when they got Marner was a massive pick.

[Dan Rosen]

Chris, this is. This is why I've been saying. I was saying all day yesterday because I or I think the. The. When we. When we flew, I. I put in,

[Evan]

yeah, Hurricanes at 150.

[Chris Peters]

Okay, 150 to win. The.

[Dan Rosen]

When we flew, I posted something. I was like talking. I was like, dude, this is fun, man. Like if you're. If your team's knocked out, if you're just like kind of a casual hockey fan, I'm like, absolutely. Watch the series. Both these teams are awesome. And there are a bunch of people being like Vegas is not a top team. And I was like, yes, they were. I don't. I'm sorry. They were first. All they were. They were first longer in the Pacific than any other team. They're basically first all season long. Yes, the Pacific was a pillow fight. Yeah, blah blah, blah, blah blah. But like yeah, preseason they get Marner and was like they're going right to the Cup. Like that happened.

[Chris Peters]

So it's weird that the two teams favorited to go to the cup by all the books to the start of the season, it was Vegas and Carolina by a lot. Like it was like, okay, the Stanley cup final is going to be Vegas and Carolina. So it was funny watching all these writers say their Picks. And they were like, well, I hit my preseason Stanley cup pick which was Vegas versus Carolina. I'm shocked we got here. But that was my pick, preseason. So I was like, oh, wow, that is weird. Like a couple dudes literally have Vegas over Carolina in cup Marner, Con Smythe. And I'm like, that is an all time call in September, all time. But it's like they were just taking chalk. That's what's crazy. It's not even that crazy of a call because I'm like, you just said what, what everyone was expecting to happen and now here we are. So, yeah, it's. It's going to be two great series and I'm actually glad you suggested we talk since before, before making the pick because I have some stuff to get out. And one is I really think I get a lot of people on both sides have been messaging me, Canes in five, Vegas in five, that think one team is going to really exert their dominance on this series. I don't think so. I think this is going to be a hard series, six or seven, and it's going to go both ways. But I will say I kind of think pretty early, maybe not game one, because sometimes game one's a bit of an anomaly. Teams are feeling each other out. Yeah. But I kind of think by game one, maybe two, I will have a sense of who's going to win the series in six or seven. Because one team will be, their style will be winning.

[Dan Rosen]

I completely agree.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

And when that happens, I'm not going to say who.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

I'm going to keep us all on our toes. Keep the suspense high and bubbling. But I agree. After game two, I will know exactly who's.

[Chris Peters]

Even if it's one. One.

[Dan Rosen]

Yes.

[Chris Peters]

Because it's like the Panthers the last couple years. I know I've said this on the pod before, but it's like the Panthers, they go. As long as we feel like we are grinding them down, I don't give a fuck how many games we lose along the way. I know we're going to win in seven. And then they did every time last year.

[Dan Rosen]

Edmonton won game one.

[Chris Peters]

Edmonton won game one. And then game in Edmonton and then

[Dan Rosen]

game two was an OT win.

[Chris Peters]

Deep ot. The Panthers pulled it out.

[Dan Rosen]

So like we, I think we talked about this on the pod. Obviously we had that awesome I or I had that awesome erod moment in the gym. Edmonton won game one and we, we went back to the hotel and we were like, florida's winning this series easily.

[Chris Peters]

That's what I mean, I'm like, I,

[Dan Rosen]

I'm sorry to say that because I know a lot of Edmonton fans were like, it's our year, dude. Florida was the beat the out of them and it was just like a weird game with weird. And I'm like, this same with game

[Chris Peters]

two went to overtime. Like I was like, how are you an ot? But agree. You could tell the style they're playing this game. This series is going Florida's way.

[Dan Rosen]

Yeah, there were just a lot of crazy moments like game five. I'm sorry, we're talking about last year's series. But game five, we had our awesome watch party shout out tin roof in Fort Lauderdale and Florida just dog walked them. That is such a great feeling for fans. That was the moment for Florida fans where they're like, yep, this game's or the series is over. Like we have won. Then they came back in 1 and 6. I could not agree more. Games 1 and 2 are going to show us which style of hockey is going to win here.

[Chris Peters]

Right.

[Dan Rosen]

And what something I resent is Carolina plays Ottawa, Carolina plays Philly. And everyone goes, not a real test. We don't know anything about this team. They haven't played a real incredible goalie, which I reject because Omar is great and just signed a big ticket. He's the goalie there in fucking Philly for the next several years. So you say what you will about those teams though. They then get to Montreal and lose first game. And everyone's like, look, here we go. They finally got a real test. They finally got a real team. Now they're struggling. They get lit up like a Christmas tree, bada bing, bada boom. And then they win in five and

[Chris Peters]

people are still going, well, then they flipped back. They were all stinks.

[Dan Rosen]

Yeah, now they're finally going to play a real team in Vegas. And I'm like, when will it stop? Yeah, when will. When will we stop moving the goalpost for this team? So I reject all of that and I stand by everything we were saying. This is one of the things we got yelled at for in the Eastern Conference final. The ghosts are real. The, the, the nerves were real for that team. And we heard a bunch of the guys yesterday on Stanley cup live being like, oh, dude, like, you know, that was a long rest. And then we came out in that game one and we were like, jesus, that is the nerves. There's nothing wrong with nerves. How you respond to nerves is what's important. There's nothing wrong with acknowledging nerves. And yes, we kept saying when they were up 3:1 and you go back home. You don't want to lose that game five. You don't want to fucking lose that and then go, oh, my God, it's three, two now and we're going back to Montreal. So, like, the people were like, you know, all. All you can say is, oh, they can't lose. They can't lose. And I'm like, yes, because they can't.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

Like, that would have been a bad game to lose for them, for momentum and nerves. So I think that they answered all of those questions and I think that that was a real test and a real series. And I think it's something in the cap of Carolina fans that this team has lost one game.

[Chris Peters]

It's insane.

[Dan Rosen]

It's utterly insane. And Vegas isn't much. How many games has Vegas lost? Like five. Like, they lost two to the Ducks, two to Utah. Two to Utah and one or zero to. Or they've lost four. Oh, yeah, they've lost four games.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

So it's like, this is crazy, man. Like, we have not seen a final in a little while where it's like these teams are like, they've barely played any games and it's like Vegas, too. Every time Vegas slammed the door. When Vegas slammed the door on Utah and then slammed the door on the Ducks, it was an emphatic slam.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

They were like, we. Yep, you won two games, but we are so much better than you. Goodbye.

[Chris Peters]

I would say I said this to Jack or. No, I said it to Hannifin yesterday.

[Dan Rosen]

Yeah, you did.

[Chris Peters]

Cuz I would say Carolina has just been awesome the whole way.

[Dan Rosen]

Absolutely.

[Chris Peters]

And I don't even mean to say they're not getting better. I'm just saying, like, they started so good that I'm like, you're just. You've just been.

[Dan Rosen]

I think they are getting better.

[Chris Peters]

But it was. We, we.

[Dan Rosen]

Dude, it was weird. We talked about it in Ottawa and Philly. Like, I was like, I feel like they're just kind of like playing with their food here. They didn't really have that many wins in those series where it was like, oh, you're beating the bag off this team. It was kind of like they did enough to put them away.

[Chris Peters]

Dude, I think Ottawa was the best team. They played.

[Dan Rosen]

And then it's like, dead, dead better than Montreal.

[Chris Peters]

Are you.

[Dan Rosen]

Yeah, you're out of your mind.

[Chris Peters]

But I was never that high on Montreal this year, as you well know.

[Dan Rosen]

Dude, Montreal beat Tampa and Buffalo.

[Chris Peters]

I know they played incredibly well, but I like that.

[Dan Rosen]

Respect to Ottawa, but, yeah, Sorry. Go on. You.

[Chris Peters]

You. Carolina's been started so high and it's just. They're probably sloping up a little bit, but they're like, they've just been great. Whereas Vegas, through three games against Utah, I was like, you have lost. You are out to Utah in six.

[Dan Rosen]

Yes.

[Chris Peters]

And then I look at their level of play now, and I'm like, oh, my. Like, they have really been riding the wave.

[Dan Rosen]

No question.

[Chris Peters]

The playoffs, like, we are getting better.

[Dan Rosen]

No question. And. And those, those two Ducks wins. We were at one of them. I mean, like, you know, hurdle scores with the goalie pulled, and we were like, oh, my God, are they about to tie this game? Like, they, you know, the Ducks are great, but those Ducks wins. Vegas is like, we're in this. Yeah. And then it was just like, bang, bang, you know, here we go.

[Chris Peters]

The. Another interesting thing I have is, and this will kind of factor into this, how the series breaks out and what I think is going to happen. The Canes, for the first time, admittedly, have looked. Here's where I think the Canes are different. The Canes are different. This is a different team. Like, that's the whole thing.

[Dan Rosen]

That's me. You're mimicking me.

[Chris Peters]

I'm making fun of you. This is a whole new Canes. I'm kind of like, no, it's the Canes who have always been great. And like we always say, they've been missing bounces here and there. I think the Ealers AD is incredible. I think the Keandre AD is incredible. And I think Freddy, obviously, which we've always said, which we've always said is a big factor. But for me, the. Where I see this is a whole new Canes is the. The OT games. Like, it just felt like, oh, if Florida takes you to ot, you lose. Like, you lose, you lose. Kachuk, Chuck Bus. A bus, bus, bus. I'm like, you just gotta find a way to win those. And I know it's like a luck sometimes bad bounce here or there, but this Canes team is. Has been to some couple OTs, some double OTs, and they just, they find a way. That's what feels different to me. Yes. Going against a Vegas team, which we said the other day, who trailed more than anyone except the Canucks and has the most third period comebacks of any team. This team, the Stanley cup finals is very hard. Whichever team can be more comfortable, don't go away from their game when it gets tough, is going to win. And Vegas has proven they are comfortable down goals late. They don't give a fuck. But I think the Canes for the first time have proven they're pretty comfortable when it's not going their way. Totally. So that'll be interesting.

[Dan Rosen]

Kane's undefeated in OT in these playoffs. And Vegas.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

Team that trailed almost more than any other team in the league has the most third period comebacks. Both these teams know how to play through adversity. So this is what we were talking about. I, I want fans to tune into this show, tune into Stanley cup live and get fired up for this final. Because regardless of the fact, you know, people always say, oh, God, I wish it was bigger markets. I wish that this final was two original six teams or teams with the best player in the world, Connor McDavid in it and all this and all that. Dude, this is going to be great hockey.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

These are great fan bases. Hate all you want. These are great fan bases. The fans love their teams. That's going to be rocking in the barn. But more so than that, these are unbelievable teams with unbelievable players who have just been battling. And I mean, talking to Slaves and Jarvie and talking to Hanny and Jack, like, obviously Mitch too. A lot of these guys played at the Olympics. Like they went through Ealers obviously too. But like, these guys went through battles. Like when you're supposed to get a break, you go and play the most emotionally elevated tournament of your lives. All these guys, none of them have played in the Olympics before. The most elevated, emotional tournament of your lives. And now here you are in the Stanley cup final. Like, this is unbelievable, man. Like, there's so much insane talent on the, on the ice here. It is going to be such a fun series.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah. I think Hanny was like, yeah, you got to take. You can't take this for granted. What a run, dude.

[Dan Rosen]

It was like I was looking at Dewey. 2014, Drew Doughty won a Stanley cup and an Olympic gold medal in the same year.

[Chris Peters]

Sick.

[Dan Rosen]

And was talking to him the other day and it's like, those are years that you're like, you will carry that year for the rest of your life. And no matter what, we're going to have players who have done that.

[Chris Peters]

Yep.

[Dan Rosen]

It's either going to be the Vegas guys or Slaves.

[Chris Peters]

Oh. I was like, who's. Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

And it's like you get to go, this is the most remarkable year of my. My life. Like, that's crazy.

[Chris Peters]

Rod actually had a. Rod can be intense. News flash. Rod can be intense sometimes. But he had a cool comment. Cuz I love Kane's always post Clips of his post game, you know, and he's. He's. And even slaves this.

[Dan Rosen]

The Marner comment.

[Chris Peters]

No, I didn't. I don't know if I saw that one or you tell me what it is after. But he said cuz he's been doing the. The race thing to the boys. And that slaving thing was so funny yesterday when he was like, be a Buffalo.

[Dan Rosen]

Be a Buffalo run into the storm.

[Chris Peters]

I was like, oh my God, dude. The Sabres also.

[Dan Rosen]

That's pretty sick. That buffalo do that.

[Chris Peters]

I don't do they like there's.

[Dan Rosen]

You think Rod's lying to the boys? No.

[Chris Peters]

Buffalo. Buffalo run into the storm. Are you talking about right now?

[Dan Rosen]

Dude?

[Chris Peters]

Somebody. Somebody look that up. Dude, I can't believe that for a second.

[Dan Rosen]

They're heavy enough that they can just plant.

[Chris Peters]

Well, the funny plant. The funny thing is that ibis, that bird in Florida is pretty sick. That bird is. It's the last thing all the animals fly, flee when there's a hurricane. And the ibis.

[Dan Rosen]

Oh, looks like it's real.

[Zach]

That is 100 real. That is 100 real buffaloes. Buffalo charge into the store.

[Chris Peters]

They. They see a storm coming and they

[Dan Rosen]

go, that is so cool, dude.

[Chris Peters]

Like I'm. I feel fired up. Me too.

[Dan Rosen]

Like a storm is coming in. Buffalo go. Like they look at each other and they go, let's go.

[Evan]

I think it's probably fun for them.

[Chris Peters]

They hit it. Yeah. Yeah.

[Evan]

Why do we refreshing.

[Dan Rosen]

Why do we think they do that? That's crazy work.

[Chris Peters]

It's insane. Everyone think, oh, we can't. We can't outrun the store.

[Dan Rosen]

As they're running in. The ibis are like, what are you doing?

[Chris Peters]

Yeah. Yeah. They're like, we know. We just left. I think they go. I think they go. I guess we can't outrun it. Yeah, it's coming for us. So if we just run this way, we'll get through it faster, you know, like boom. Counter, counter speed. But Rod said. Because Rod, that would have been great

[Dan Rosen]

fodder for the Sabers if they had made it.

[Chris Peters]

I know. And I'm there.

[Dan Rosen]

They're playing the Canes.

[Evan]

Yeah. Why didn't.

[Chris Peters]

Well, I'm. I now fear that slaves said that on our live. And now the someone in the Sabers organization has now heard that information and went like this. We are now.

[Dan Rosen]

Well, I mean, if we ever get in the future, which we probably will, a Sabers Hurricanes playoff matchup. You better believe the Sabers are going

[Chris Peters]

to make that crap and go bitch. We are. We. We Are the fucking storm.

[Evan]

Chris, your. Your hunch was correct. It is just because they get through it fast.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah. Like, because if the storm is moving at X miles, it's like a physics question. If the storm is moving at X miles an hour this way and the Sabers or the. The only way out is through the Buffalo can run X miles an hour this way, then you're. You're done with the storm.

[Dan Rosen]

More of us do that.

[Chris Peters]

We should all run at the store.

[Dan Rosen]

Everyone's bitching about.

[Evan]

Oh, this is clearly the metaphor. Right?

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah. Yes.

[Dan Rosen]

Every.

[Chris Peters]

We all run to the storm.

[Dan Rosen]

Run to the storm, dude. Be a buffalo.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah. And I don't know, like, Vegas, though, I feel like can use that too. They're like, if they. If the canes of the storm. They're like, let's just fucking run it someone.

[Dan Rosen]

If the Vegas admin doesn't make a video meme of Jon Snow standing alone facing down Ramsey's army.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

And being like, that is the storm. And Jon Snow is the Vegas Golden Knights just ready to take on.

[Chris Peters]

Dude, it is funny that Rod goes. The playoffs are the Storm. So we are Buffalo. And I'm like, this. You are the Storm. You are literally Buffalo is another team. We are so confused.

[Dan Rosen]

Yeah.

[Chris Peters]

But anyway, he said, I've been to two finals or I've been to three finals. I lost in 97, I think, with the Flyers. I lost in 02 with the Canes, and I won in 06. And he goes, I barely remember 97 and 02. You think, well, either way, what a magical season. It was so great. He's like, don't remember it at all. 06 stays with me forever. And it's an intense quote because it's a lot of pressure now, but I was like, okay. I like, I kind of like where he's headed. Where. Because it's like, it's. It's. It. It reeks of. You'll take this to your grave.

[Dan Rosen]

Yeah, it's. It's interesting because. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. It's interesting because I believe him.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

But that's only because he won.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

Like, he. He barely remembers the losses because of the joy of winning.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah. Because it. Because it.

[Dan Rosen]

Like, if he hadn't won, I think he would remember those two losses more than anything in his life.

[Chris Peters]

Yep.

[Dan Rosen]

And that's what's. That's what's funny here, right? Is like, is there anyone. I actually need to know this?

[Zach]

There you go.

[Chris Peters]

Come on.

[Dan Rosen]

Is there anyone from this Vegas on this Vegas team? Who was with the team that lost?

[Chris Peters]

The 2018 team?

[Dan Rosen]

Yes.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah, I think so. Hold on.

[Dan Rosen]

Like, who is on this roster that was on that team?

[Evan]

Shea Theodore.

[Dan Rosen]

Oh, yeah. Shea has been Bill, right? Wild Bill. Yes. Wild Bill Shay. Is that it?

[Chris Peters]

It's just the Misfits.

[Dan Rosen]

Yeah, I think.

[Chris Peters]

Was Riley Smith on that team and then left and is now back?

[Dan Rosen]

I think so.

[Chris Peters]

I think that might be right too

[Dan Rosen]

because he was a black ace. Right.

[Zach]

That was a. They lost audio for a second. That was my fault.

[Dan Rosen]

Oh, but we're back.

[Zach]

Yeah, we're back.

[Dan Rosen]

Okay. Sorry. Zach turned our audio off because we were buffaloing so hard cuz he was

[Chris Peters]

thinking about Brandy and.

[Evan]

And Brandine them into a buffalo void where there was no audio.

[Dan Rosen]

Yeah, we're just going making buffalo noises.

[Chris Peters]

Riley Smith. Wild Bill.

[Dan Rosen]

It's Riley Smith.

[Chris Peters]

Wild Bill.

[Dan Rosen]

Theodore. Aiden. No, no.

[Chris Peters]

Oh, McNabb.

[Dan Rosen]

Oh, nice nabber.

[Chris Peters]

That might be it.

[Dan Rosen]

Okay, so four.

[Chris Peters]

Four of them. So we got four guys and Will. Will carry a. Was on Vegas, lost and then one with Vegas and is now on the Canes.

[Dan Rosen]

Yes.

[Chris Peters]

That's kind of funny.

[Dan Rosen]

That's so funny. So. Well, I bring that up as to say there. There aren't many guys in this series who have lost the Stanley cup final, but there are those four.

[Chris Peters]

Yep.

[Dan Rosen]

But then they won and then Carrie is funny. Like he. Yeah, yeah, he lost and won, but on the other team.

[Chris Peters]

So like there.

[Dan Rosen]

There's not a lot of. There's not a lot of like fucking redemption here, you know, like not a lot of guys that are like, dude, I lost and I need to win. Yeah. So this is like both these teams are just drunk, you know, drunk of like, give me a fucking cup. And, and for obviously for a lot of the Vegas guys, it's. Give me another cup.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah, I have some. Yeah. Do you want to say who you think now or.

[Dan Rosen]

Sure. We're. And we're. We're going to do this, folks, because

[Chris Peters]

I have a couple other things to say, but I should say the pick first.

[Dan Rosen]

Yeah, we're going to do this, folks.

[Chris Peters]

For.

[Dan Rosen]

For the purposes of entertainment. I'm going to pick a team. CP is going to pick a team and we're. And listen, we, like we said we think this is going to be a very tight series, but it's. This is. This is good. Yeah, you're going to have one and I'm going to have one. I think I'm going seven.

[Chris Peters]

Me too.

[Dan Rosen]

So that's perfect.

[Chris Peters]

Yep. You can just. You can say, well, I'll give you A countdown. But you can say first. And I knew you have to do it because I'm staying consistent. Exactly.

[Dan Rosen]

Yeah.

[Chris Peters]

And I got. I got a couple things to say.

[Dan Rosen]

Okay. So we don't need to count down. I got Canes in seven.

[Chris Peters]

I'll take Vegas.

[Dan Rosen]

And CP is taking Vegas and seven.

[Chris Peters]

And here's why. Because it actually kills me. And I woke up this morning in a cold sweat. I'm not even kidding. I have to. I have to. I have to wash my sheets now. I was sweating. I sweat through the mattress thinking about who. Thinking about who was going to win this game, win this series. Because I think, I mean, dude, genuinely, I think you said this yesterday and this word is weird in this context for sports because every dude deserves it. But the Canes, this Canes team deserves to win. After the run they've had for eight years, after the work they've put in, after the buy in the belief, after the season they've had, after the playoffs they've had, this team deserves to win this Stanley Cup. And a huge part of me hopes they do because it would be so sick. And it's so sick for hockey. I fucking hate the people that are like, I hate when these markets win. Fuck you. It's awesome when these markets win because these fans care.

[Dan Rosen]

Yeah.

[Chris Peters]

And sometimes they care more than you do in fucking blank and blank and blank. Just because you're a popular hockey city and you take it for granted. You know what I'm saying? Like I actually. Dead ass mean that.

[Dan Rosen]

Yeah.

[Chris Peters]

So I. A ton of me hopes that the Canes win. The only thing I always chase and the reason I'll go Vegas other than it's fun to have some representation is I always chase the story. It always feels like the story somehow wins. And in for the, for the Panthers, like go back two years ago, they just lost to the Oilers. And you're like, go back three years ago with Vegas. They get Eichel and you're like, oh my God, Jack gets to Vegas and wins a cup. Wins. Or he didn't win consulate, but like he was, you know, led the playoffs in points. The next year the Panthers go, well, we lost in the cup final. What a redemption story. And then, and you could argue Conor came back from 30 and that became the story, which it almost did, but it wasn't quite enough. Then last year the Panthers get Marshan and are trying to go back to back. Like that was the story. I guess the Oilers are like, what was our redemption? But it just felt like the Panthers were doing that thing. And for me, Mitch Marner leaving Toronto and winning Con Smythe and the Cup, I'm like, that is lunacy. So I'm like, it just has to happen. It's the cocky gods being like Mitch Marner that's the skew.

[Dan Rosen]

I mean, I agree with everything that you just said. I will preface all of this with what we always say in that I'm not. This is a dream Stanley cup for me.

[Chris Peters]

Awesome.

[Dan Rosen]

I'm not rooting for anybody. I have so much love for so many of these guys who we're lucky enough to have relationships with. I really appreciate and stand for both fan bases. I just want great hockey and I agree with all those storylines. And one thing that I will always say that I believe in very passionately, that I will say to fans is the narrative of like, Vegas is evil. People are posting those graphics of like, you know, the entire country in Canada is rooting for Carolina except Nevada. Yeah, I, I understand that a lot of people think it's cool to do this, like pandering. Like, fuck Vegas, fuck these guys. Like, they're the most hated team in the world. And I would encourage you to remember that. There are so many good players on this team. And I mean, I mean good people. Like, there are so many good people. We just chatted with a bunch of them. They are guys who have dedicated their entire lives to this game and are desperate to win a Stanley Cup. There are some of these guys who are trying to win their first Stanley Cup. You're so right. The Mitch storyline is incredible. I think the Torch storyline.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah, that's another great one.

[Dan Rosen]

A lot of people want to, want to look at Torts and be like, he's this big piece of shit. I think if you really like listen to a lot of Torts interviews, like, I think he's kind of a softy deep.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

I think he's an old school hard ass coach on the surface, but I think he's a good dude and we've had nothing but amazing interactions with him. So it's like, I think there's great storylines here for both teams and I think we're all lucky. I think we're going to get a very cool journey. Yeah, I do. I just love this Carol. I mean, I love both, but I love this Carolina team so much.

[Chris Peters]

It's so awesome.

[Dan Rosen]

I think I feel the same way as I felt about Florida and Tampa in that I think it's ignorant to on this market and these fans and, and act like just because they're A Southern state. They don't know or care about hockey. We're seeing it every day. There are so many Canes fans. So seeing so many Canes fans in the airport.

[Chris Peters]

Wait till I show you videos from the tailgate.

[Dan Rosen]

Yeah, like, the tailgate's gonna be amazing. And I loved what the boys were saying yesterday, how they are they. There's so many guys that were on this team last year. It's like the same group. They brought in Ehlers, they brought in Key Bussy, and they were like, we went through that loss that, that Eastern Conference bounce last year, and we felt it together. And now we were able to exercise the demons and bust the ghosts together. And now they're in the cup. And Rod and Tulski and Dundon like, sticking together and creating this family nature. We, we talked about it with, with Steve on the show yesterday. Dundon going to Milan because he had players in Milan, I think is so gas. And obviously, like, getting to go to the Olympics is unbelievable.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

The vibe of him being like this, I got my boys here, dude. On various different nation teams. Yeah, that is so cool. So I, I think that this Carolina team really has the family vibe in a very cool way.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

And I'm like, that would be fun to see them do this together. And like, I think about guys like, I mean, Stall, Stall One and Pit, but like slaves and Martinook. Like, these guys that are very, very much feel like, aho. I mean, yeah, yeah, he's not that young anymore, you know? Like, I think about him, I think about ghosts. There are guys that just feel very Carolina. And you know who I'm really fired up for? Shout out the fucking show. One of the best Instagram accounts in the game. If you're not following the fucking show yet, go do that. But they, they, they posted a video that had this as well. Dude, Halsey.

[Chris Peters]

Oh, bro, it's so sick.

[Dan Rosen]

I, I, I don't think enough attention is being paid to Taylor. Like, watching Taylor hall lift a cup will be very, will be awesome. I mean, like, this guy's been on so many different teams. He was a first overall pick, and he has been such a good fucking pro.

[Chris Peters]

Yes.

[Dan Rosen]

And he's such a good man. And the fact that he is 34.

[Chris Peters]

33.

[Dan Rosen]

34.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah, that's probably.

[Dan Rosen]

And he's playing like a kid on fire right now.

[Chris Peters]

He's an dude, dude. He's like, he is un. Taylor hall is like, when you get an old dog, a new puppy.

[Zach]

Yes.

[Chris Peters]

He's got two puppies on his line. And he's like, I feel. I feel six years old again. I'm like, you're 14, dog.

[Dan Rosen]

But it's like, yeah, all those great stories on Vegas.

[Chris Peters]

There's.

[Dan Rosen]

There's just as many great stories on Carolina. So I'm just like, I feel like

[Chris Peters]

a pig in shit, dude. I'll give you one more.

[Dan Rosen]

I'm so fucking fired up about this series. I'm just like, so happy for everybody. I wish everyone could win.

[Chris Peters]

I wish we could all eat sunshine and rainbow. I wish we could bake a cake made of sunshine and rainbows and we could all eat it and be happy. That's what I wish. Let me give you.

[Dan Rosen]

I am her.

[Chris Peters]

Let me give you one more. The. And I was talking about this with Keenan. Now I don't know if people are talking about this. I think. And I know who I'm gonna say wasn't the captain because Rod was the captain and lifted the cup. But it is crazy to me that when I think about the Stahl brothers, Eric Stahl is like the Cane to me. And Jordan Stall, in my mind, is. Is a Pittsburgh guy, but he has been on the Canes for a long time. Years or something like that. Like, it's ridiculous.

[Dan Rosen]

Has he been the captain of the Canes now as long as Eric or longer?

[Chris Peters]

Dude, maybe. And it's. What's crazy is that the last Canes, like, and dude, they are. They are like three years apart. It's not like there's a 10 year gap between those brothers. It's insane to me that Eric Stahl won the cup on the canes in 06. And in 06, and then in 2026, Jordan Stahl is going to lift it. And I'm like, wait, how young was

[Dan Rosen]

Eric on that team?

[Chris Peters]

Dude, I think 2020. But I'm still like, how are. We should be talking about that more like that is actually agreed. I know the Rod Rod thing is cool, but I'm like, hold on.

[Dan Rosen]

Stall. Stall things.

[Evan]

Jordan is the. Has been the captain for seven years and Eric was only captain for six years.

[Dan Rosen]

There you go. So now officially this season, dude, isn't that crazy? Eric Stahl, you've been cucked.

[Chris Peters]

You are not the.

[Dan Rosen]

You are.

[Chris Peters]

You are not you.

[Dan Rosen]

You are not the Stall Cane anymore.

[Chris Peters]

Jordan stole it. Especially when he raises the cup first. That is nuts.

[Dan Rosen]

If they win the cup, if I were Jordan, I would be such a motherfucker to Eric.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

Like, I'd be like this. I, A, I have more Cups than you now. B, the Canes are My team.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah, agree though, dude. It's so true. So, yeah, shout out Keenan. Because not enough people are talking about the fact that Eric Stahl won a cup for the Canes in 2006, and now his younger. His barely younger brother. Yeah. Is captaining the canes in 2026, and they might win the Cup. Remarkable.

[Dan Rosen]

That is a very funny, funny story, dude.

[Evan]

We think install brother statues.

[Chris Peters]

100%, dude. 100.

[Dan Rosen]

How do you not?

[Chris Peters]

You just throw a mark statue up there too. Because it Great call, Ev.

[Dan Rosen]

Like, if they, if they win the cup, you've got to get a stall brother statue outside.

[Chris Peters]

Oh, true. Someone says, I hope Eric stalls a siren sounder tonight. He's got to be one of the games. He's going to parmesan cheese one of the games.

[Zach]

Could you also, you know, it would

[Dan Rosen]

be a sick statue. Would be like one stall brother handing the cup to the other. Oh, like, that'd be. Or like, maybe they're both just holding it.

[Evan]

Yeah, they each got a hand.

[Dan Rosen]

They're doing an Eiffel Tower with the Cup.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome.

[Evan]

Nobody has done that. But maybe somebody.

[Chris Peters]

But maybe someone has.

[Dan Rosen]

Evan. I hate that we just put that lore into the world, because I almost certainly that has happened just thinking about it now. Okay, Zach, go on.

[Zach]

Say. I think if you, when you walk in the stadium, I think you should have to walk through the Stall hall.

[Chris Peters]

Oh, the hall of stall.

[Dan Rosen]

Of stall.

[Chris Peters]

Of Stall. That is sick. Yeah, that's Stall of Fame. That is nice. That is really good. That's good. The dude. Honestly, my last closing thought is, and I saw some quotes about this, the, the one thing or another thing that I think Vegas has maybe a slight edge, but with Rod, the Canes will figure it out. Is there are so many distractions this week with, like, family and friends and tickets and, like, people, People come out of the woodwork being like, hey, what's up? Like, I need help.

[Dan Rosen]

Can I get tickets?

[Chris Peters]

And it's just like Vegas, having gone through this very recently, being like, yo, do this. Stay the course. It's fine. I think it's slightly helpful because it is chaotic for players at this moment because this is it. This is the big show.

[Dan Rosen]

Yeah, it's true that and that that's CP's not saying that that's specific to Carolina and Vega. That happens. The Cup.

[Chris Peters]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Correct. Yep.

[Dan Rosen]

But yeah, man, it's. I, I, I think I. Listen, we've gone through it. We think we're rooting for both teams.

[Chris Peters]

Hell yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

Sorry I just. We're.

[Evan]

I have to pick Canes in six.

[Chris Peters]

Okay.

[Evan]

I have been. Because I keep.

[Dan Rosen]

You've been doubting him every series.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah, you're right.

[Evan]

I get to the thing and I'm like, maybe they're going to fall apart now.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah. You had Ottawa.

[Evan]

Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

Yeah. So yeah, you.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah, you. You definitely have to be on Canes

[Evan]

and like give them.

[Chris Peters]

So that means, Zach, you have to be on Vegas. How many games?

[Zach]

I am definitely already was going Vegas. I think I'm going Vegas seven games.

[Chris Peters]

Okay.

[Zach]

I want us to go back. I want us to have the fun there. I want us to end it here, though. I feel like that would be a lot of fun.

[Chris Peters]

Okay.

[Zach]

And I want to fight.

[Dan Rosen]

Yeah, we need a little fight.

[Chris Peters]

We need a little bite. We need a little fight.

[Dan Rosen]

So we've got a house divided. I like it.

[Chris Peters]

Well, we had to be because I think we. We both love. Genuinely. We both love both or. Sorry. We all four love both of these teams.

[Dan Rosen]

I think. I think I'm just excited. I'm excited for the fans, man. I really want. I know there's like we were seeing a lot of comments online and people for various reasons being like, I'm not watching this series. Like I, you know, fuck both these teams or who cares about this?

[Chris Peters]

Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

And I'm like, let's flip it to a positive and say we got a bunch of awesome players on the ice. This is going to be a fun ass series and two fun ass cities. Let's have a blast.

[Chris Peters]

I really hope it's. We all think it's going to be a long series, but I really hope it is too. I got a lot of people being like, someone could sweep. That would. That would be a bummer.

[Dan Rosen]

I think I would be shocked.

[Chris Peters]

Oh, me too.

[Dan Rosen]

I would. Hey, I'm going to put on my shocked hat. I would be shocked if this were a sweet.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Evan]

Shocked.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah. Yeah, that's good.

[Dan Rosen]

I'm shocked.

[Chris Peters]

That's good, Dan. That's really good.

[Dan Rosen]

I would be shocked if this is a sweep. So yeah, that's going to be turned into a meme if there's a sweep.

[Evan]

Now, before we. Before we go, there's one thing I wanted to bring up to you guys.

[Chris Peters]

Hit me.

[Evan]

I just saw online, but you let me know when you're.

[Chris Peters]

I'm. I'm ready. I'm ready.

[Evan]

Okay. So this is courtesy of. I saw this on Twitter. Somebody named Emily Morgan creates at Em. Creates. Made this fan made redesign of the Canes logo.

[Dan Rosen]

I feel like I know that person in there.

[Evan]

This is like. A lot of people are talking about it right now, and they're kind of like, shitting on it. I don't hate it, but you see the H in the middle?

[Dan Rosen]

I do.

[Evan]

It's sort of like a whaler's thing. But I wanted to get your take on it because people are talking about it.

[Chris Peters]

I actually like it. I actually think it looks more like a. With the actual graphic they put on the. On the weather. On the Weather Channel.

[Dan Rosen]

I mean, I think it's coming.

[Chris Peters]

You know what I mean? Like, it looks a little. It looks a little wonky on the weather Channel. And I actually think that looks more like it on the real one.

[Dan Rosen]

Obviously, the H is for hurricanes, but you're right, ev. Like, it has a Hartford. And like, I'm like, can we stop

[Chris Peters]

stealing from Hartford here? No, no, dude, they are also at

[Dan Rosen]

H. I just said, I know it's for hurricane. Yeah, just like, it feels almost like you're stabbing me in the ribs. I mean, I think it's sick. Do I think it should replace it?

[Chris Peters]

No.

[Evan]

Well, yeah. I mean, it's speculative.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah, The Chad hates it. They don't like it looks like a barbell. It's bad trash.

[Dan Rosen]

You know what? That would be a sick logo for the hurricanes gym because it does look like a barbell.

[Chris Peters]

Oh, okay. Okay.

[Dan Rosen]

You know what I recently saw.

[Chris Peters]

Hey, hold on. Hey, Kelly, Kelly. What are the notes? Tell us. Tell us what the notes are. We're gonna be everywhere. Go on.

[Dan Rosen]

I recently saw. Do you guys have Spotify on your phones?

[Evan]

I don't have it on my phones anymore, but I. I have it.

[Dan Rosen]

You're an Apple music guy.

[Evan]

I have. I have quo.

[Dan Rosen]

You fucking absolute peasant. Get out of this house.

[Evan]

Wait a second. Now you're. You're a Pepsi drinker. Okay, so you have nowhere to talk. He might be.

[Dan Rosen]

Hey, hey, Fucking take it easy. We're sponsored by Pepsi.

[Evan]

Oh, that's true.

[Chris Peters]

We love Pepsi also.

[Dan Rosen]

I will fucking die on this hill. Pepsi, Pepsi Zero is so much better than Coke Zero. It's not even close.

[Evan]

And I will say way crispier if we're sponsored by Pepsi, you guys legit live the life because we had to order groceries and we got. We got Pepsi.

[Chris Peters]

Yes, we fucking.

[Dan Rosen]

Damn right we did. That's a great chirp.

[Evan]

So wait, wait, wait.

[Zach]

Yeah, Wait, you were.

[Evan]

What did you.

[Zach]

You say earlier?

[Dan Rosen]

Here, here, look. Catch. Catch my. Catch my phone.

[Zach]

Yeah, catch your phone.

[Dan Rosen]

Yeah.

[Chris Peters]

There's too much.

[Dan Rosen]

No, I'm gonna. I'm gonna Give you a dime, dude. And look at the Spotify icon.

[Zach]

Okay.

[Chris Peters]

The new one.

[Dan Rosen]

There's a new. There's a new icon for Spotify, and it's like a disco ball.

[Evan]

Here, I'll send.

[Dan Rosen]

Oh, yeah, you're putting it on the phone. Don't put my phone on camera. God. There's a new icon from a lot of.

[Zach]

A couple.

[Evan]

Brandy.

[Zach]

Brandy.

[Dan Rosen]

Brandy and Brandina. The spot. The new Spotify logo is, I think, incredible because it's. It's showing the death of minimalism, and I love that.

[Chris Peters]

But did you. Do you know what happened?

[Dan Rosen]

No.

[Chris Peters]

Oh, buddy, Continue.

[Dan Rosen]

Oh, God. Well, is there, like, some awful backstory here? Did someone get.

[Evan]

Yeah, someone was murdered by a disco ball.

[Dan Rosen]

Yeah. I'm like, what the fuck?

[Evan]

After they saw this. I actually own a disco ball.

[Dan Rosen]

I. That is the least surprising thing I've ever heard in my life. I bet it's like. I bet it's a legit disco ball that you got from, like, fucking. What's that Bar? Good time at Davey Wayne's. Yeah.

[Evan]

My God, I haven't been. I haven't thought about that place in a long time.

[Dan Rosen]

Anyway, I love this logo because I think it is representing the death of minimalism and we need to kill minimalism.

[Chris Peters]

And it was 20. It's 20 years. Right? That's why I think they've Spotify, maybe.

[Dan Rosen]

But, dude, I just like bringing back design. Like, remember when houses used to be full of color and, like, cars were super colorful, and now every car is some version of gray, black, white.

[Evan]

Oh, yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

And it's just like, we've lost life in the world.

[Zach]

You're.

[Evan]

No, you're.

[Zach]

It's like.

[Evan]

You know how they redesigned, like, fast food chains to be very, like, blocky and modern?

[Dan Rosen]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Chris Peters]

So kids.

[Evan]

That used to be more fun.

[Dan Rosen]

I bring this up as. As to say that em designs, whatever that account was, amazing work. And keep it up. You're dope. That felt a little minimalist. And I think there are. There have been a few people. I really like the mammoth logo.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

But there's been a lot of people online who have been like, the mammoth logo looks like it was designed by AI. And I kind of hear that. And I think in sports teams, we look at some of, like, the old school logos that we've been begging to be brought back, and they are more. They're full of life, those old logos. And like, the panthers. Is it like the old, like, jumping cat? That's such an old school 90s design. I'm, like, full of Life and color.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah, yeah.

[Dan Rosen]

I'm like, oh, I want more. And I think this design is fucking awesome.

[Chris Peters]

Okay, so Spotify official had to tweet out. All right, we understand. We know glitter is not for everyone. Our temp Glow up ends your regularly scheduled Spotify icon returns because people got so fuming mad that they were like, this logo is trash. That Spotify and their entire marketing team goes, okay, sorry, we'll just go back. Are you. It's an absolute tragedy. They got sewered so bad on the Internet for it that they are now returning it back.

[Zach]

This is the greatest.

[Evan]

This is why we can't have Nice thing.

[Chris Peters]

It's a dude, Dan. It is a tragedy. What.

[Dan Rosen]

What is the. What is the chat saying?

[Zach]

The chat said, I want the outside Burger Jail back.

[Chris Peters]

Damn it.

[Zach]

Do you remember, like, fast food restaurant?

[Chris Peters]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, the Burger Jail.

[Zach]

The Burger Jail, dude.

[Chris Peters]

Yeah.

[Zach]

That's awesome.

[Chris Peters]

Great call. Chat.

[Dan Rosen]

Yeah, yeah. That. That's really upsetting, dude.

[Chris Peters]

It's.

[Evan]

It's.

[Chris Peters]

It's.

[Dan Rosen]

I. I would actually love someone in the chat who doesn't like this new Spotify logo to tell me why. I mean, I doubt they're one of those people online raging, but, like, what is to hate about that?

[Chris Peters]

A lot of people saying, I like the disco ball. I loved the disco ball. Yeah. You're like, it is just a. It is just a sad, sad day that they do this. And then Twitter fucking bots. Losers. Loser boss. And then they have to go, okay, sorry, we'll change it back. And I'm like, crazy. Shut up.

[Dan Rosen]

That's crazy. All right, we got a lot of stuff to get to CP and I are going to be doing Stanley cup live 6:30pm Eastern Time.

[Zach]

Before we do all that.

[Dan Rosen]

Oh, Jesus. Zach's telling me to wait.

[Evan]

It's okay. Truly. Fine.

[Chris Peters]

No, no, no.

[Dan Rosen]

Let him cook, dude.

[Chris Peters]

I want it.

[Dan Rosen]

You guys both work so hard on all this stuff. You gotta cook. Are we gonna do a closeout video?

[Chris Peters]

Oh, wow.

[Zach]

Yeah.

[Evan]

I thought you were trying to put the Burger Jail picture up.

[Dan Rosen]

So am I still talking or is the audio coming in?

[Zach]

Yeah, the audio is coming in.

[Dan Rosen]

Okay, you can talk, though. You can talk. Oh, yeah, but I'm talking over. Okay, well, you're seeing this unbelievable outro made by the boys. Here's us at Stanley Cup Live. We are. We're gonna be ripping 6:30pm Eastern time every single game. So tonight, make sure to pop on NHL YouTube to watch us ripping it up pregame. You'll see a bunch of the tailgate you'll see a bunch of the players coming in and out. Some special guests.

[Chris Peters]

It's going to be very special guest.

[Dan Rosen]

Very special guest tonight.

[Chris Peters]

Very special guest.

[Dan Rosen]

And yeah, Canes fans, you're not going to want to miss this, but it is going to be such a blast. Make sure to tune in and see us there. Let's have some fun, folks. That's. I can't emphasize this enough. Hockey is fun.

[Chris Peters]

Yes. It's a great hockey fun. Supposed to be fun. God damn it.

[Dan Rosen]

Hockey's fun, sir.

[Chris Peters]

Yep.

[Dan Rosen]

And we're not going to get Denzel'd here. We are going to actually continue to have fun.

[Chris Peters]

Yep.

[Dan Rosen]

Hockey is fun. These, these cities are fun. Hopefully you think we are fun and we just want to have fun with you and bring you fun times and happiness and joy and kindness and laughs. That's all we want to do. So let's do it.

[Chris Peters]

I'm in, bro.

[Dan Rosen]

Let's do it. We're going to sign off. We will see you Tonight on the NHL YouTube Stanley Cup Live, 6:30pm Eastern Time. See you there.