Old-School Hockey Tactics Revived in Toronto-Ottawa Clash

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00:00The Toronto-Ottawa game was old school.

00:03Stole ours went Billy Smith style.

00:06People are debating, you know, furiously right now

00:11whether a penalty should have been called.

00:14Listen, that's the way that it used to be in the old days.

00:16If you wanted to stand in the crease in front of the net,

00:18you had to pay a price for it.

00:20Remember Tim Kerr of the Philadelphia Flyers?

00:23He used to be a big dude in front of the net,

00:25and he used to just get, like, cross-checked,

00:27murdered in front of the net.

00:29Billy Smith, of course, New York Islander, great goaltender,

00:33kind of known as, you know, people talk about Ron Hextall,

00:35but Billy Smith set the stand.

00:37He was a butcher.

00:38Yeah, Smith, yeah, Billy the Butcher, exactly.

00:40I was a goalie when I was a kid too, Scott, and when I played hockey.

00:45And I learned from Billy Smith as well.

00:48You know, so I loved seeing that last night from Stole ours.

00:51And basically you take the blade of your stick too,

00:54and you get them right in the calf, Scott.

00:57Scott, there's no protection on the calf.

00:59There's no, like, hockey players don't have protection in the calf area,

01:02basically.

01:03A little bit of padding now in the modern era, but the old days.

01:06I used to actually practice in my backyard, Scott,

01:09hitting the blade of the stick against a tree.

01:13You know what I mean?

01:14Like, I would practice slashing people.

01:16So watching Stole ours do that last night, I was like,

01:19whoa, this is old school stuff.

01:21At the same point in time, hey, they should be allowed to run them as well.

01:24But the Battle of Ontario is getting physical, man.

01:28They were playing some serious old school hockey last night.

01:31It'll be fun in game three in Ottawa.

01:33And I was shocked as well, like you, Scott,

01:37that the Tampa Bay Lightning got punched in the mouth like they did

01:41by the Florida Panthers.

01:42Man, this Panther team just dials it up to another level,

01:45and it's hard to keep up with them.

01:47Tampa better win game two.

01:49Otherwise, they're in a lot of trouble.

01:50I mean, they just stomped them and scored six goals

01:56and did whatever they wanted.

01:58And I got to tell you, I've heard everyone, you, me, everyone,

02:03you name it, Carver, they played too much hockey for three years.

02:08Bro, they looked like the champs last night.

02:12They came out and looked like, hey, watch what we can do

02:14when we want to do it.

02:15And, you know what, they have played a lot of hockey, Scott,

02:19but Chuck hasn't played in forever, right?

02:21So he shows up, right?

02:23He's been rested.

02:24So it actually was almost like a blessing in disguise for them.

02:28You know, though, you look at game one, Scott,

02:30of the Kings and the Oilers, and it was a similar situation, right?

02:34The Kings, and although it was, you know, on their home ice,

02:38the Kings ambushed the Oilers early, and it was like, dear God,

02:41this is insane, we're getting murdered, and the Oilers fought back.

02:46They got some momentum back.

02:47So we'll sort of see if that carries over into tonight.

02:51Tampa never got any momentum back, Scott.

02:53You know what I mean, like a football game?

02:55It's like, you know what I mean, you'll see it, like, yeah, okay,

02:57you know, you'll wonder why they're leaving the starters in.

02:59They're losing 34-0.

03:01It's like, listen, man, they got to get a touchdown.

03:03They got to get something going to get into the practice,

03:06to go into next week.

03:07The Oilers nearly won the freaking game.

03:09So there's a difference to me where the Oilers aren't going to be thinking,

03:13yeah, we got murdered in game one, like, what the hell happened?

03:17It's sort of like, yeah, we had a bad start, but everything, you know,

03:19we can beat these guys.

03:22Tampa's lost in the first round three years in a row, man.

03:24Like, at some point, you can't just talk about it.

03:26You got to do it.

03:27But it's one game, Scott, but, man, the Panthers are good.

03:30They're just that good.

03:32I got to tip my cap to them.

03:34Yeah, and, you know, Reinhardt and Bennett,

03:36they had so many different guys, big guys, big-name guys, you know,

03:42producing and doing their thing.

03:44It really was unbelievable.

03:46And I thought, obviously, I thought Vasilevsky looked terrible.

03:50I've never seen him look that bad in a hockey game in my life, ever.

03:54You know, it's going to happen.

03:56Man, and it sounds cliche, but it really doesn't matter if you lose 7-1

04:02or you lose 1-0 or if you win, right?

04:05You know, the L.A. Kings, you know, some people are thinking it's a negative

04:08that somehow they let the Oilers off the hook and they got the Oilers' momentum.

04:12They won the game, right?

04:13You blew the lead, yeah, but we ended up winning the game.

04:15When it's all said and done, they don't ask how.

04:18It's just how many games did you win in the series.

04:19So, one game at a time, but there's – you know, it gets harder to win

04:25as games go on in the playoffs, right?

04:27You know, like they always say the hardest game to win is the last game.

04:29And when you have to win, it's harder.

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