BONUS: Hutson's OT HEROICS Propel Habs to 2-1 Series Lead vs. Tampa

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My name is Ian Blaubert, also known as At Maybe It's Ian and I'm joined as I always

in by Laura Saba, also known as the Actor Stick.

Laura, we're here on a Friday night which we usually don't record.

We don't publish episodes on Saturdays but when the playoffs are here, Laura, what does

Marty say we have to do?

We elevate our game.

We elevate our game and we're here for you.

It'll be a quick bonus episode just so we can get our feelings out of us after the Montreal

Canadiens win three to two in overtime in game three at the Bell Center, an incredible

atmosphere for that hockey game and they take a two to one series lead into game four

on Sunday night.

Laura, what do we do with any of that?

That was just, I'm so glad I got to go to games at the Bell Center this year and fully

understand what that kind of moment is like.

How are you feeling after that?

Honestly, I don't know because obviously during the game it feels like you're going to die,

right?

Every shot, every penalty, every hit, everything just makes you kind of spiral.

I just feel like the fans really brought it.

Obviously Kirby Doc redeemed himself and then some in tonight's game, I just sometimes

I look at this team and I think I can't believe these guys are our team and Lane Hudson is

just one of those guys and I have to say like it seems extremely cruel, but the price

you pay for being good and for keeping toe to toe with one of the best teams throughout

the regular season is in having to play that team and then having to go to overtime and

having every game be close, even though I will say that for the first period and the third

period, the Montreal knees were far superior to the Tampa Bay.

Even most of the second period, Tampa scored in like the first five minutes and then you

look at the money puck chart of like the shot attempts.

It was a flat line for Tampa for the rest of the period.

Like Montreal really stepped up.

I'm really happy with the effort that we saw also like Lane Hudson becoming a shooting

threat.

Goals from the blue line, which is just like if you told me that last year that well

next year in the playoffs, he's going to uncork to from the blue line.

I'd be like, that's not happening on like the, the, the best in a favorite, that's

better.

Yeah.

I'm like the tallest goalie that has ever lived in Andre Vazelowski.

What I really loved about that goal was a couple of things one bulldog forcing eternal

over on the wall.

He was an animal in this game, taxi A, buying time down low, right?

He's just shifty.

He didn't force a play.

He looked for the right look.

He waited for his guys to get in front of Vazelowski because by the time the puck got to

Hudson at the point, you couldn't see, you know, if you were looking at the camera from

the other end, you couldn't see Vazelowski.

He couldn't see a thing that happened.

It was by him before you knew what happened.

That's how you score in the playoffs were guys.

Yeah.

That's it was the magic bullet man like that's that's those are the things you have to do

in the playoffs.

Hey, let's, let's, um, let's talk about Kirby dot quick.

Yes.

Just maligned after the first after game two, um, wore the goat horns, as I'd say, um,

he, he bounced back in a significant way.

And I think when you get the vote of confidence that he got from his coach, you kind of owe

it to your coach to do that.

And Kirby doc did not disappoint.

He has a goal in this one.

He had an assist on the first goal, not to overshadow it, bold look on the first goal.

He knocked down the, the doc passed at knee high.

And then in the same motion just passed it over to taxi.

Like that, that's the key.

It's fourth line pulling off some really slick plays, um, the entire night that are you

are muted.

I'm too excited.

I'm so excited.

Um, but I like, I don't know throughout this playoffs, have you been looking at certain

guys?

Well, Dick is one.

I know we're going to talk about armors.

I kind of bit like these guys being like are these the same people like when you talk

about elevating your game and almost everyone's elevating your game and I do have something

to say about the first line a little bit later, but, um, everybody's, but these guys are

doing it like, you know, double triple, like quadruple, what, what we are expecting.

And I think for me, Buduk has been a revelation this prior series.

Yeah, especially, especially game three game three was that lines coming out party.

They were spectacular, um, you know, we were, we were tough on Kirby doc.

We've been tough on Kirby doc.

But that, that comes with the territory of having to do a show like this, right?

Like we, I don't feel that we ever get personal with it.

We certainly try not to, um, but like hearing the bell center cheer chant Kirby, after he

got a secondary assist, yeah, should go to tell you how much it matters to fans that you

show up when, when you need to show up, they, they, they, they get mad at you when you

don't do it right.

When you do it right, there's no better place on the planet to play and sat, and I almost

called it a Saturday.

It certainly felt like one Friday bell center proved that, uh, in spades for the Montreal

Canadians and their players, um, any final thoughts on that before we move on?

Uh, honestly, I just want to say like it felt like an incredible, um, like game three.

I can't imagine what game four is going to be like now that you're up to one in the

series, right?

They're not deflated.

So I honestly, I can't wait to hear the bell center on Sunday night.

Man, me neither.

All right, let's leave that there.

When we come back, let's talk about Arbor Jacques, who was phenomenal again in ways that

are really just difficult to understand the Montreal Canadians can mine cannot comprehend

what we are seeing from Arbor Jacques, I right now, and we'll get into that just a minute

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Laura.

I don't know what's gotten into Arbor Jack, I just it feels like he has the mightest touch

right now, doesn't it?

Like every, every move he makes with the puck is the right one.

He's skating the puck out of danger in really effective ways.

Like every once in a while, I just feel like he has so much physical momentum on his side.

He just kind of puts the he's moving up the ice of a guy comes towards him.

He kind of just throws his arm off and like just let's his hulking body protect the

puck.

What have you liked about Arbor Jack guy's game really since the playoffs started?

Honestly, the decision making, it's been incredible, right?

And we've always known that there's a good defenseman in there.

I'm not about to sit down and tell you that he compares to a Mike Matheson or to a

Lane Hudson or a No Adopson.

That's not what we're saying, but the decision making has gotten so much better.

And I wonder if it's a Marty thing or not, right?

Like he spent a lot of time in the press box this year.

He did not show frustration, which I'm sure he is frustrated.

Every single player wants to be playing, nobody wants to be sitting in the press box.

And I am certain that the coaching staff talked him through it all, right?

Like this is what you need to be doing.

This is what we're expecting.

But I think for me, like, and I know this sounds crazy, but I feel like the moment that

they played him at forward, I think honestly, like it changed the way that he saw it in

that like if I want to be valuable to this team, I need to change the way that I play

in the ways that they want me to, right?

And I don't know.

But I think you're right.

Yeah.

It's like he knows that he has to do what it takes, but what it takes is that he's been told

all his life.

He's something, right?

Like he's a tough guy.

He's a tough guy.

But we've always known there's talent there.

Why did the Canadians grab him?

Right?

Why do we get frustrated with him?

Like, you know, we're doing an Arbor Jacques, like positive episode because we've done so

much criticism of him.

And I really think it's because he has spent his entire life being told he's a thing

and not realizing that he has these other things to offer.

And I think that day, it gave him that idea that he has these other things to offer.

Obviously, he's helped by the fact that there is an injury, there are crucial injuries

on this team.

So, you know, it's going to be a very tough decision, what happens when no adoption is

ready to go.

But right now, I think that every game is making him better because he's getting more confident

in his own abilities.

And just the idea that he can do these other things.

I think it's just, it's brought out a whole new player at him.

And I do want to say one thing too.

I know we're talking about the top line and we are a little bit worried about it.

We're going to talk about it in our full length episode on Monday, depending on what happens

on the Sunday night game.

Like, it's definitely something that we do need to talk about, particularly since John

Cooper stole Marty San Luis' trick and with the hard matching.

But I will say that, you know, he's also been playing with the best players on the team,

right?

A lot of shifts alongside Strubel behind that top line.

Yeah.

And I think that he's picking things up.

I think that they're helping him and he's kind of making up for what they're not doing.

Yeah.

He also just like having a third pair you can trust means that you don't necessarily need

to lean on the mathisins as hard, right?

Down the stretch, definitely.

Like that's just what coaches do.

They shorten their bench when times get tough when things are extra critical.

But Jack, I played 10 minutes at five on five in this hockey game, which doesn't seem

like a lot.

But when you consider that a lot of this was played on special teams, like, that's quite

a bit.

And in that, he was 84% of course he for.

So like, that's just, again, when we came into the series, that was one of the biggest

concerns, right?

Was that pair?

How are they going to match up?

And on the road, they were great.

And first came back to the belt center, they were excellent.

They were, they were so, so, so good.

Like, which is just so, I'm just.

Of the things that have surprised me in this series, the top line getting skunked at five

on five is certainly one of them.

But this is more surprised that this pair has decided we're going to be the best NHLers

we've ever been, which is just, it's really great news for the rest of the team.

All of that stuff rolls up hill.

Yes.

I agree.

And honestly, I just, I can't believe these are our guys.

I think I can't believe this is the team I'd dare for.

Yeah, it's really, really just incredible stuff.

Hey, before we go, game, game four predictions, what do you got for game four?

Hopefully not another overtime, man.

It's going to be tight.

It's going to be three, two or two, one, and hopefully not another overtime, but I cannot

see the Montreal Canaanis playing this well for three games and not winning that one.

I am predicting a multi goal lead for the Montreal Canaanis, which is doesn't sound like

I'm predicting much, but considering we are, we're three games into this series.

And neither team has had a multi goal lead is this.

For me, I know we're biased.

We're habits friends.

We're live and large with this series.

This is the best series in the playoffs right now.

Yeah.

Like the games are close.

These guys hate each other.

It's awesome watching these, these two guys go, you know, these two teams go at each

other.

It's a great hockey.

Yeah.

This is what we expected to see from some other matchups.

We're not getting that.

We're getting it here.

And I will say one thing though.

I know it's very short because LA is almost out, but that Colorado LA series has been

really good to honestly.

I haven't caught much of it because it's on so late and my brain is just fried at the

end watching this emotional roller coaster every other night.

I'm so jealous of neutral fans because I feel like I'm going to die every single game.

So that was why like when your team doesn't make the playoffs, the playoffs are actually

kind of awesome.

You can just like, it's when you're actually a hockey fan and not just a fan of a team,

you're like, ooh, I can just, everything, it becomes a buffet every night.

You're like, ooh, I can get a little bit of that.

I can have this on a second screen.

Like it's just, yeah, yeah, I, I'm very jealous of those teams, but hey, not so jealous

because much of Canadians are up to one on the Tampa Bay Lightning.

And I've played some really incredible hockey in that stretch.

All right.

We'll leave trivia for our next episode.

We don't want to leave out the people who might have missed the bonus episodes.

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And we'll be back with you guys then after, after game four.

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