The Stanley Cup Finals are in full swing, and the Tampa Bay Lightning dynasty have never looked more threatened than they do after two games in the Finals.
Posted at 6:02 p.m.
As long as you haven’t lost a game at home, you’re not in trouble. I found Tampa Bay very slow. I feel like they struggled with the altitude. I find that several guys were not advancing in the first two parts. Vasilevskiy has been sluggish in the first two games of every series to date, but he’s always found a way to bounce back.
Stephane Waite
Meanwhile, there is still action in the NHL. Head coaching vacancies everywhere are slowly being filled, with well-known names like John Tortorella and Peter DeBoer. And at the Canadian, Kent Hughes offered himself flexibility under the salary cap by exchanging the contract for Shea Weber.
This transaction is therefore an opportunity to definitively settle the Weber-Subban transaction, now that Weber has left and Subban’s contract has expired. In the red corner, Philippe Cantin, who has always been critical of this Canadian transaction. In the blue corner, Stéphane Waite, who knew the two players from the inside. Bring out the popcorn!
Very ordinary transaction in my opinion. If we look at it season by season, the premiere, we don’t even talk about it. P.K. Subban was nominated for the Norris Trophy, the Nashville Predators advance to the Stanley Cup Finals. It seems pretty clear to me, the verdict of this first season. But the whole deal may have had a little less impact on both teams than was thought at the time.
Philippe Cantin
Host: Jérémie Rainville
Guests: Stéphane Waite, Philippe Cantin and Guillaume Lefrançois
The detail of the episode
Block 1
- 0:30 – Guillaume in Tampa: Summary of the situation with the Lightning.
- 2:05 – Dynasty? Tampa doesn’t play that way. What should the Lightning change?
- 10:52 – For Colorado, possible to do better?
- 1:30 p.m. – Having had a little patience, Patrick Roy would be in a position to win the Stanley Cup and not in Cape Breton on a bus with chicken on his knees.
Block 2
- 18:47 – With the departure of Shea Weber’s contract in Vegas, we can close the chapter: Philippe, good transaction Subban against Weber?
Block 3
- 37:04 – Tortorella in Philadelphia, DeBoer in Dallas, Cassidy in Vegas. (Who will go to Boston? Detroit? Winnipeg? Chicago?)
- 48:28 – The Blackhawks in reconstruction? Last year of contract for Kane and Toews. DeBrincat on the market?
- 51:20 – Memorial Cup: Shawinigan, Saint John, Hamilton and Edmonton. Your choice: a Canadiens prospect or a QMJHL club?