Postgame Show: The Hockey Show Won The Stanley Cup!
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On Monday night. And shave. And shave. We have time to shave. Yeah. Thank God, because I got really tired of this. How my face was looking. You look different. Yeah. I haven't seen you look like this in a while. Yeah, I look clean. I don't look like a bum. Took you a couple years off. Rose is with us today. We are going to reflect on everything that's happened over the past two months.

Yeah, that was a whirlwind for everybody. Yeah. Especially Rose. We got to explain why Rose isn't here with us. Yeah. She's on Zoom, first off. Yeah, Rose is currently on Zoom, looking about as refreshed as one can be with COVID. Yeah.

Because she's caught the bug. She got the Canadian COVID. Yeah, she got the Canadian COVID. It's a much friendlier COVID. Much friendlier COVID. Yeah, much friendlier COVID. Sorry you got me. I apologize to our Canadian viewers. You guys are awesome. For an example of how she feels, you can hear the way she feels. Go ahead and talk there, Rose.

Well, yeah, you can all feel how I feel. Everybody's like, oh, you sound so sad. I'm a very happy person, but yeah, that's how I feel. Yeah, she is a very happy person, but she sounds like shit. So let's go over the past two months. I guess let's start with Tampa.

We did travel to one road game, and that was the road game that they lost. Yeah. Well, but it was kind of like Edmonton Light, because they were up 3-0 in the series. We'd go up there. We're having fun with the fans. We're farting around outside talking to people, and...

Chests were out, right? We were confident and cocky. We're feeling good. The game didn't go that well. No. But, you know, I think experiencing these away arenas and kind of seeing the fans and their element, it's a lot easier to take when your team ends up winning in the end. Yeah. So that made Tampa a little bit easier, as did drinking in the beer garden after we were done. Oh, yeah. That was excellent. You know I love a beer garden. I do. We've been to Tampa several times, obviously, to watch games.

Panthers games in the playoffs. Rose hasn't. So how was your experience in Tampa? I didn't go. Rose wasn't in Tampa. Kirsten was in Tampa. Kirsten was in Tampa. Where were you when we were in Tampa? It was Kirsten. I knew it was a lady. Women's Final Four? Is that where you were? I don't even remember where I was.

But Kirsten. You were somewhere with Lucy. Yeah, you were with Lucy. Yeah, I was somewhere with Lucy, yeah. You definitely were with her. I guess it was the WNBA draft or something like that. Maybe that's what it was. It was like two months ago, though. Geez, so you were, nonetheless, Rose was not home. Yeah, no. But she definitely felt better than what she does now. Well, now we just had to take Rose to Tampa next season. Yeah, we got. You got to show her the Tesla coils. The eventual. Oh. Oh.

Okay, let's go over Boston. We did not go to any road games for that one. You won't go to Boston. I'm not welcome to Boston. It's cool. We didn't really need to go to Boston. No. No, we didn't need to go. But as Paul Maurice said, that series was mean. Yeah. That series was tough. For example, the Sam Bennett punch to Brent Marchand's face. That was pretty much...

That summarizes the entire series. And then Pat Maroon basically chasing Panthers around for the last two games, trying to get people to fight. Oh, and speaking of fighting, the David Pasternak-Matthew Kachuk fight where Chucky popped his helmet off. That was a cool moment. Yeah, that was a very cool moment. So for whatever playoff series for the rest of time, it will be Panthers in five because when Kachuk punched Pasternak in the face,

His hand went up in all five fingers. So that's a meme for all time, and the Panthers ended up winning that one. That's cool, right? Because you don't see playoff fights generally. That doesn't happen. And then you see two superstars going at it. I mean, it wasn't that great of a fight, but they both were throwing haymakers. They were trying to get it in there. So I don't know. Just thinking back, that was a really cool thing. Yeah. On to the Eastern Conference Finals.

We did go to a road game. That was the game five up in Madison Square Garden against the Rangers. Rose was there. Rose was actually there. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And it was a cold, cold night in the arena. We were getting there. Yeah. It started with all of our flights were delayed. Yeah. And I was like, okay, we're not going to make it. We're all in three different flights, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah.

We were lucky to get there. Well, you had Claire's graduation that day, too. So you didn't even have the ability to fly out until, like, noon. No, no. I had to be a responsible father. I had to be super dad that day. Well, you have to put in the effort because we were out of town for, like, basically half the last couple months. Yeah. Things like that. Yeah, it definitely felt like that. And I felt like I touched down at, like, around...

five, six o'clock. That's what it felt like. We were lucky that I had the eight o'clock start time. But I remember like Rose trickling in, you trickling in, everybody getting to the arena. But we all got there.

And that was a pretty cool night at Madison Square Garden. For me, it was a dream. That's my favorite arena to go to, to watch hockey, is Madison Square Garden. I love the Rangers fans. I love the building. I love New York City. But doing that in the playoffs and the Rangers taking a 1-0 lead in that game and that building just exploding like that, that's one of those things that I'm taking with me from this run was the Madison Square Garden feel. Yeah, and the fire engine going off on that one. That was very cool. That was cool. Rose, what was your experience in New York?

Well, first of all, I was supposed to get there before Roy and my flight ended up... You're always supposed to get there before me. Yeah, I know. But my flight ended up leaving after you. Remember? Because of the weather. Main issue or something? Yeah. I don't remember what. And then I landed and I had to go get an Uber and I was like...

I have a bag, so I had to go to the hotel, run to the hotel, put it in the hotel. Then

Grab another Uber and then just run. And I think I just missed like a minute of the game whenever I got there. Oh, and I ended up in the players press box because I was looking for you guys. Oh, remember? I was trying to tell you where to go. And all of a sudden she's like, I think I'm surrounded by players. I go up the stairs. I look to my left and there's Rose around all the Florida Panthers stretches.

Just like this little girl with all these massive hockey players. And you were lost, but you looked like you were very comfortable and in your own element when I rescued you from that situation. You looked like you were doing okay on your own there. Poor Rose over here standing next to Josh Mahur. Yeah, right? She's just looking for Barkie. Oh, he was a nice. Yeah, well, she ended up getting very much next to Alexander Bogov. We'll get to that in a little bit. But the day after...

We filmed some content. We were going around the entire borough of Manhattan. That was fun. Well, other than the hot dog hunt Rose sent us on. Yeah. Which eventually that video has got to make its way to the public because I don't think it's actually been posted yet. No. So we're going to have to – maybe that will be like a summer special, our day in New York. A super cut of the entire playoffs. Yeah, very –

Well, Rose, I mean, I'll tell everybody now. Rose got us I Love New York shirts that we had to wear around Manhattan while talking to all the Rangers fans about the loss that they just suffered the night before. And then she sent us on a race, which, you know, I put the air quotes up because Roy obviously was not taking this race very seriously. Hell no, I wasn't. To find hot dogs randomly in the city. Yeah. And Rose was just sitting there with her feet up waiting for us to show up.

But yeah, this video needs to... We got to figure out a way to get it. Here's the thing that I believe that was a problem. I was thinking, okay, it will be chopped onions. Yeah, same. Diced onions put on there. But the onions they gave us...

We're marinated in, what, tomato sauce? Something like that, like ketchup. And it was weird because we went to two very different hot dog stands. We went in opposite directions. We ended up with the same gross-looking thing. Yeah. I mean, the way I take my hot dogs is definitely not like that. I mean, it's sauerkraut, sweet relish, spicy mustard.

Boom. Done. I like the sweet and salty mix on your hot dog, actually. I don't ever want to say those words in that order again. But that sounds good. I'm like a ketchup, mustard, chopped onions. I'm fine with a little sauerkraut relish, whatever. I'm good with decorating up my hot dog. Give me a toasted bun. Good to go. Yeah, I'm a foodie. But the hot dog rolls that we got were not what I was expecting, and I could not finish it because that was not good. Disgusting. That was not good at all. So that was on you. What was your experience that day?

Well, I was expecting you to finish the hot dog. And when you didn't, you guys lost. So I won. We both lost. Again. It was a forfeit. Rose is the winner of this whole playoff thing. Except, well, obviously, and now you've got your big prize of COVID. So congratulations to you. Woo-hoo. Woo-hoo. All right, off to the Stanley Cup final. Oh, my God. We were in a pickle in this situation because we

I was expecting the Panthers to win this one in six. So I was preparing, okay, we're going to end up going up to Edmonton for game six. We said we would go for a championship game. A game. Well, yeah, because who thinks that you're going to go there twice, right? Even the Panthers had to go and win the first three games. Yeah, we had zero choice but to go up to Edmonton for game four. And that did not go well at all. It's okay now. So game three ends on like a Thursday night.

Game four is on Saturday. So we at midnight Thursday are scrambling to book our travel to get up to Edmonton for this, what we think is going to be crowning moment in the franchise's history. And then it was 8-1 that they lost? Yeah. Jesus Christ. I mean, it was cool. And now that they've won, I'm saying it was a cool experience.

But walking out of the arena in Edmonton after game four and seeing like the insanity that was on the streets out there, like the three of us were walking around for hours, you know, bar hopping. Drinking, yeah, yeah, yeah. But the party just never stopped. And in Canada, pot's legal, so people were walking down the street smoking joints with their shots and...

It was cool. The Panthers winning makes it cooler for me, but I'm glad we got to experience that now that I'm not suffering from it anymore. Yeah, and then the Panthers ended up losing three straight back to game six, which they lost for the third straight game. Yeah, we were too tired to really think about anything outside of get our content out.

Get a drink. Go home. Get home. Well, because at that point, our dreams are on the brink of being crushed. Yeah. And in a most historically significant and awful way. And exhaustion. I mean, just from all the travel. So get us home to Game 7. But that made it all worth it. Before we talk about Game 7, Rose, what were your experiences in both trips to Edmonton? Wow. For Game 4, I was watching Game 3 in Brightside.

And they won. And I was like, okay, I have to go to Edmonton. So shout out to Kristen. At 2 a.m., we were booking the flights. But the flight, because it was so late, I had to go Miami, Houston. And when I got in Houston, because we are tired. I don't know what happened to our tire.

It exploded. They didn't let us out of the plane. So I lost my connection to Denver. So they had to change my connection to San Francisco. So I fly to San Francisco.

Then from San Francisco to Edmonton. But then the plane just started flying around Edmonton. I'm like, when are we going to land? And they were like, oh, no, there's lightning and there's a warning of tornado. So we're going to be here waiting for that to end. And then they're like, oh, we run out of gas. So we're going to go all the way to Calgary. Woo-hoo-hoo-hoo!

So it's always what you want to hear on a plane, right? We're out of gas. Sorry. The tire blew and we're out of gas. Yeah, that's not good. Please put your seat backs and tray tables in their upright and locked positions. Yeah. So they sent us back to Calgary. We flew up the tank. And then finally we made it to Edmonton. And then the second time, it was much better. Like Roy and I.

We were travel buddies, so at least I had someone to talk to. Then I drove all the way from Calgary to Edmonton on the way there. I am a very professional driver. I'm sorry? What was that? You're a professional driver? Yeah.

So who's driving next time we go to Tampa? I am. Roy or Roy? No, I am. I'm definitely sleeping in the back. Yeah, you are. Roy is driving, and I am DJing. Oh. Nice. All right, well, there's that. My flight experience for game... I mean, you guys already know my flight experience. It was bad. I mean... There was no good experience. No. Game four...

I was with Rose. We traveled to Houston, the Tire Blue. But Rose's connection was far earlier than mine because I had a five-hour layover. Then I ended up in Denver. And then another five-hour layover going up to Edmonton. So that was, what, 10 hours worth of layovers. Yeah. And I got there pretty much late. So there was that. And then coming back,

I went to Toronto, then went to Montreal, and then went back to Miami because I ended up having to change my flight just in case the Panthers won. In fact, I had to change my flight. You changed your flight when we were in Edmonton. Yeah. I had to change my flight to later in case the Panthers won. Party. Party.

But going out at 7.30 in the morning after covering the Stanley Cup final game is entirely too early anyway, so I had to change it regardless. It all worked out. Yeah. Three Canadian cities on the way back before going back to Miami. Game six's travel was much better. Flew up from Miami to Chicago to Calgary with Rose. Drove. Drove back. Flew back to Charlotte. Back to Miami with Rose. Much easier.

But we were... bleep that out. We were exhausted. So, off to Game 7. Game 7, where... I don't know about you guys, but I was in a shitty mood all day before Game 7. I felt really bad for my wife. I was such an asshole around the house. I was done. With all the travel, the three straight losses, I was just done. And so getting to the game, but once we got there, and we're all together, and...

They scored the first goal, and then I just lost my mind. Yeah. I lost my mind. Yeah, that was great. My nationalism went out the window. Yeah, journalism died that night. I was doing live hits for the Panthers. Sorry, not for the Panthers, but about the Panthers for the show. I was not happy. I was angry, obviously, because, I mean, we're going to Game 7. This could be the worst collapse in sports history. I'm thinking to myself, okay.

I mean, it's a 50-50 shot. I'm not happy that we have this 50-50 shot. This series should have been over and done with. We should have had the parade already. But, yeah, we get into the arena. The coolest thing about that was the beginning was the National Anthems. They had an Alanis Morissette.

That wasn't even the coolest thing. Nobody heard. Yeah, nobody heard. Nobody could hear her singing. No, because everybody was singing. That was cool. Both national anthems were being sung by the fans. I've never seen that before. Well, what we saw up in Edmonton with the Oilers fans, basically they all just in unison sing O Canada.

And it's really cool because it's like 20,000 people singing at the same time. So that kind of trickled down to Florida because there was a decent amount of Oilers fans at Game 7. A lot of them made the trip. And so O Canada went first. Everybody sung. And then, you know, being Americans that we are, like, bleep that. We're going to one-up you. It was spite singing. Yeah, it was spite singing. Yeah, that's exactly right. How patriotic. I mean, kind of.

Fits right about now, doesn't it? I guess so. As I'm in my USA jersey. Yeah. Carter Verhage, goal and assist. Played a game of his life. Sam Reinhardt, the cup winning goal. And...

And Bob was great. Bob was spectacular. It was very appropriate, right? Verhege has an amazingly tenacious game. Very, very Carter Verhege. The game of the series. The game of the playoffs for him. Sam Reinhart, the big goal scorer from the season, gets the game-winning goal. Bob has a great game other than one goal. I mean, the whole thing just feels like very Panthers. Yeah. And then they finished it in the corner in the... Oh.

Double zero, and then the cup was lifted. Connor McDavid won the consmite. He did not show up for that one, nor do I blame him. Look at that right there, man. Paul Maurice with the cup. Let's get to that. We go downstairs, and Rose, who was already sick before we even found out that she had COVID, she was not feeling well, but she was determined.

Show up to this game. So it was both her and Danny. We had a mission for Rose. This whole playoff, she wanted one thing. That's it. I said if I didn't have that one thing, I would quit. What was it? Tell her what was the one thing. I said I want my picture with Marky. If not, I quit. I go. I won't do anything else in my life. If they win the Stanley Cup, we will get that picture. Yeah. And we're going to pass that along to...

To the boys in the back so they can put it up on the screen for you. Yeah, she got that picture. We were herded down into like a bullpen area, which was actually the dining area for the broadcast. Yeah. In the bowels of the arena. In the bowels of the arena. And the goal horn blew because that was the Panthers team picture with the cup. And then we got herded into the ice. That's...

So seeing all the Panthers fans over here, like looking at us going onto the ice, they're cheering. It's still loud.

Everybody's happy. That was a moment. That was cool. I think, at least for us, and for you a little bit more, because you and I were both there in Vegas last year. You were in Tampa the year before, but the year before it was Colorado-Tampa, so there was no vested interest there. Well, no, there was actually vested interest because I was obviously pulling for Colorado. Comparatively...

So last year we were in Vegas. Heartbreaking. But it was going on the ice and being out there. It was a cool experience. Yeah, that was right after the Paul Maurice press conference where that made me feel better. Yeah, well...

Half the team was hurt, and Paul Maurice being Paul Maurice just kind of finds a way to soothe with his words. But I feel like those experiences made walking onto the ice in South Florida at Amaranth Bank Arena with all the Panthers fans, how many people on the ice were we celebrating with because we had personal relationships with them? That was what I had been envisioning for 12 months after doing it in Vegas, but doing it with the wrong team and the wrong arena.

So the way it all ended at home on that ice, after going through it and hating part of it, like I wouldn't trade any of it at this point. Yeah, celebrating with the likes of Aaron Brown and Jonah McPherson, George Richards, Kobe Guy, Alex Bongarner. Yeah, that was Billy Lindsey and Doug Plankins, Steve Goldstein, Randy Muller. That was...

Celebrating with Billy was, it's still kind of resonating with me. Bill and Z, just his call and the final goal and his emotions on the ice like that. There's just a lot that's kind of sticking with me. Yeah. Rose, what was your experience on the ice? The ice? I was very, very sick. So I was a little bit out of it. But when I saw Barkie so close, I was like, okay, this is all worth it. And a lot of people told me, hey,

"Don't go, you feel sick." I didn't know it was COVID. If I knew it was COVID, I wouldn't have been there. But I was like, after everything we've done, after all of this, I'm very invested in this team now. I am a hockey fan now. So how could I not go? And it was worth it. Like seeing both of you reactions and all of the fans and then

The lifting of the cup and Barky and et cetera, et cetera. It was just a witness history, as you said. And I was glad to be part of it. So very, very happy and very, very sick. And on that note. On that note, that is the end of the National Hockey League season.

So what's coming up next is the NHL draft and free agency begins on Monday, and we're going to start the offseason all. And, oh, boy, we got a lot of stuff that we got to do this upcoming offseason because a lot of moves are going to have to be made and a lot of hearts are going to have to be broken, and we're going to see a lot of new people on this team. And we can't wait for it as we go into the offseason portion of the hockey show. What the puck. For Rose.

For David George of the Hockey News, my name is Roy Bellamy. We will see you in a couple weeks because I am taking a little bit of time off. Thank God.

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