Debating Hockey Rivalries: Toronto vs. Montreal Legacy

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00:00What did you think of those games last night?

00:05And then I want to ask you about the Toronto Montreal rivalry through the years growing

00:09up in Montreal.

00:11What did that mean to you?

00:13And what did it mean to everybody else?

00:16You know what?

00:17It's the most overrated rivalry in modern sport.

00:20The like growing up and like the Toronto Maple Leafs haven't won a Stanley Cup since 1967.

00:28And for the most part, like this is the most successful the Leafs have been recently.

00:33Like the Leafs get called out for being a dominant regular season team and failing in

00:37the playoffs.

00:38Dude, they used to suck in a regular season too.

00:41Like most of my life, the Leafs have sucked.

00:43The Montreal Canadiens real rival are the Boston Bruins.

00:48That's the team that the fans hate the most that there's like, you know, it gets nasty.

00:54Like it used to be the Quebec Nordiques as well.

00:56The Leafs is sort of a media one.

00:58It used to be a rivalry in the original six days in the fifties and stuff and you know

01:02what I mean?

01:03Fine.

01:04Right.

01:05But in the modern era, it really isn't.

01:06It's still special.

01:07The media hypes it up.

01:08You know, it's the, it's the Yankees Red Sox, bro.

01:10You know what I mean?

01:11That's what it is.

01:12It's the media loves it.

01:13It's the two media markets, French versus English.

01:16Like it's the old school sort of rivalry, but I'll tell you what, the Canadians have

01:20gotten the better of the Leafs, even though the Leafs have been the better team over the

01:23years recently.

01:25It's another one of these deals where it's like Auburn, Alabama, if you're going to win

01:28one game, beat the Leafs, like the Canadian fans, you know, they like to beat the Leafs

01:33still.

01:34I still, you know, a little bit of a rivalry, not like it really was, but the Canadians

01:38do get up for, Canadians are a good home team.

01:41Martin St. Louis, their head coach is very, the former Tampa Bay Lightning, great Hall

01:46of Famer.

01:48He's sort of there.

01:49They want to win, but he's about entertaining like, you know, he's like, listen, he kind

01:53of told people we're rebuilding, but this is Montreal.

01:57We can't just be a boring hockey team.

02:00So even as we rebuild, we sort of have to entertain and score goals.

02:04And the Canadians can score goals if they can figure out how to keep the puck out of

02:07the net.

02:08I think they could be a playoff, not a contender in the playoffs, but flirt with the playoffs

02:15to get into the playoffs.

02:16You know what I mean?

02:17Like battle to get into the playoffs type of deal this year.

02:20I still think they're a year or two away, this Habs team, but I think they are live

02:23dogs tonight.

02:24Scott at plus 150.

02:25Now you got other ones too.

02:28How about the game where you are, Calgary and Vancouver?

02:33I'll tell you what, there's a lot of, a lot of excitement about this Vancouver Canuck

02:37team this year.

02:38I was excited last year and I knew people were sleeping on them.

02:42And last year, guys, their win total was, I think it was 90, 91 and a half, 89 and a

02:47half, 91 and a half.

02:48They smoked it.

02:49They lost 109 points last year.

02:51This year, their win total is 99 and a half.

02:54For the record.

02:55I think they're going to go over again because even if they win a couple of less games than

02:58last year, they'll still go over this number.

03:01But they're a good hockey team.

03:02Scott Rick talk.

03:03It's one of the best coaches in the national hockey league point blank.

03:06One issue for the Canucks.

03:09They lost a couple of guys, but I think they did a good job of replacing them.

03:14Thatcher Demko, their goalie is out.

03:17He's got a prolonged injury that they can't figure out.

03:20And it's like, literally they said it's one of these one in a million deals, like McCaffrey.

03:23They got Demko flying around from Switzerland and all these doctors and what should we do?

03:29And they all say, listen, it's just a time thing.

03:31So Demko is going to be out, but he lost a good goalie.

03:34They bring in Lankan in as well.

03:36I think the Canucks are going to win tonight.

03:38They're minus 200.

03:39It's a little pricey.

03:41If you want to play the puck line plus one 25, I don't have a problem with it, but let's

03:44throw something out here.

03:45Guys, the Vancouver Canucks are very fast starters, all right?

03:49These guys score goals in like the first minute of the game, first two minutes of the game,

03:53a lot.

03:54So let's go.

03:55Will there be a goal scored in the first 10 minutes of the game tonight in Vancouver?

03:58I say, yes, there will be.

04:00The Canucks are going to score first in the first couple of minutes.

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