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00:00Now let's look at the Western Conference in the Stanley Cup playoffs.
00:04Jets, Blues, Stars, Avs, Vegas, Mini, and Kings, Oilers.
00:14I'll say this quickly.
00:16As far as East Coast, West Coast, you know, the sports media as a whole,
00:20there is an East Coast bias, right?
00:21Most of the network's out in New York.
00:24There's only a few West Coast teams and all that.
00:27But I'm telling you, Scott, like the Eastern Conference is like JUCO stuff, bro,
00:31next to the Western Conference.
00:33Like now we're talking.
00:35Like, you know what I mean?
00:35We're talking about these Eastern Conference series.
00:37Like, yeah, all right, whatever.
00:38You know what I mean?
00:38I'm much more all in Washington.
00:40I think it'll be kind of entertaining.
00:41But you get into the West, and it's just next level.
00:45You got hitting, it's speed.
00:47You know, the Western Conference is just better.
00:49And look at the standings.
00:51It's like the NBA.
00:53I don't know what it is with the West being best right now,
00:55but there's, you know, like the Vancouver Canucks basically nearly would have made the playoffs
00:59if they, you know what I mean, if they were in the East.
01:01But it is what it is.
01:02So I'm just saying, you got some great teams, man, in the West.
01:05Colorado and Dallas.
01:06You know what I mean?
01:07What a great freaking series here.
01:08We just talked about Robertson being out.
01:10One thing with Dallas, guys, and I just saw a stat about them.
01:15Since the Four Nations faceoff, they've given up.
01:18Like, I think it's the second most goals in the league, five on five.
01:22Since the Four Nations faceoff, they're, like, amongst the top teams in the league
01:25in shots against, like, not in a good way.
01:29Like, the Dallas Stars are leaking a little bit down the stretch.
01:34And, you know, you see this with good teams.
01:35The Winnipeg Jets won the President's Cup.
01:37They actually stumbled in the last month as well.
01:40The season's long.
01:41But I think Dallas, Scott, they might just be one of these regular season teams, man.
01:46Right?
01:47I always buy into Dallas every year all the time.
01:49And I swear to God, just like a week ago, I was thinking, man, I think it's going to
01:53be Dallas and Carolina in the Cup.
01:55It's kind of a weird Cup, but I was like, I think it's going to be Dallas and Carolina.
01:58Not now.
02:00No, I'm having a hard time with Dallas now.
02:02So, I'm going to go Colorado here, Scott.
02:04Yeah.
02:05It's going to be Colorado and beat Dallas.
02:06I'm not even on Dallas in that series.
02:08Yeah.
02:08The Avs have their flaws, too.
02:10The Avs are basically a one-line team.
02:12You could argue two, but they're not very deep, the Avs.
02:15You know what I mean?
02:16They got star players.
02:17You got McCarr.
02:18You got McKinnon.
02:19They're good.
02:19They fly around and stuff.
02:22You know, the trade helped them.
02:23And it's ironic they're going to get Ratnan now going head-to-head.
02:26But Colorado are good.
02:27But I don't think they're going to the Cup, Scott, Colorado.
02:29But I got them beating Dallas now.
02:31St. Louis and Winnipeg, guys.
02:33We talk about the President's Cup curse.
02:36The President's Cup is, the President's Trophy, excuse me, President's Trophy is what they
02:40give if you have the best regular season record in the NHL.
02:44It's like a kiss of death.
02:46You know, it's unlike, like, the NFL or, like, the NBA.
02:49You know, they get to home court and all this.
02:50The NHL has been 11 years since the team has won the Cup that had the best regular season
02:54record.
02:55There's something to it.
02:56I don't know if you get worn out in the regular season.
02:58I don't know what it is.
02:59The Blues, Scott, you know, bro, these guys were scorching, bro, since the Four Nations
03:04face-off.
03:05Right.
03:05We went into the Four Nations face-off thinking that Jordan Bennington was the weak link.
03:09He saved the day for Canada.
03:11And how about this, Scott?
03:11We have a rematch.
03:13Jordan Bennington versus Connor Hellebuck, USA.
03:16Right?
03:16They went head-to-head in the championship game.
03:18Now they go head-to-head again.
03:20Hellebuck's got a reputation of not getting it done in the playoffs.
03:23That he's more of a regular season warrior.
03:25The Jets have had a reputation of being regular season warriors.
03:28And President's Cup's winners also choke.
03:31So you asked, like, who's the live underdog?
03:34I'd say the St. Louis Blues, Scott.