Edgy Playoff Hockey Game: Edmonton versus Vancouver

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00:00 (upbeat music)

00:03 - So this hockey game tonight, listen,

00:05 there's been a lot of talk, a lot of hype,

00:07 a lot of bad blood, like the last 48 hours

00:10 just been nothing but complaining.

00:12 And I've been part of it at times as well,

00:15 but everybody's getting involved in this right now.

00:19 And there was a lot of talk,

00:21 oh, the Oilers are gonna do this,

00:22 and they're gonna do that,

00:23 and they're gonna try to send a message.

00:25 They came out, they played the body a little bit,

00:28 then they took a dumb penalty,

00:29 Vancouver couldn't do anything on the power play,

00:31 but it's been pretty uneventful.

00:34 There's too much on the line right now.

00:36 If this was a regular season game,

00:39 then there would have been a brawl by now.

00:42 You know what I'm saying?

00:43 They don't like each other, but nobody scored.

00:46 It's the first period of a pivotal playoff game.

00:49 There's no time for personal grudges right now.

00:52 This is the type of stuff you store for next year,

00:56 or you wait until it's near the end of the series,

00:58 and you know you're about to lose, right?

01:00 The general code though in hockey,

01:02 if you get lit up in the playoffs,

01:05 is not to do it late in the series if you're losing.

01:08 That's deemed as kind of classless,

01:10 because then you're just trying to get the dude suspended

01:12 or something after,

01:13 or you're trying to hurt somebody on the way out.

01:16 You know, I'm just telling you,

01:17 the unwritten code is somebody lights you up,

01:19 you don't like something that happened to you,

01:21 you've got a grudge, and it happened in the playoffs,

01:24 you wait until the following year.

01:26 And preseason is fair game.

01:29 Remember?

01:29 (upbeat music)

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