Jonny Lazarus and former NHL defenseman Colby Cohen are back with your daily dose of hockey talk — and after last night's absolute madness in Montreal, the show could not have come at a better time.
Marco D'Amico joins the guys to break down one of the wildest games of these playoffs — Buffalo trailing 3-1 before erupting for seven unanswered goals in an 8-3 stunner at the Bell Centre. Rasmus Dahlin. Five points. In an elimination game. Then Marco tees up Monday's winner-take-all showdown at KeyBank Center — can Montreal's storied Game 7 experience hold up on the road, or is Buffalo's storybook season about to get even better?
Steve Peters steps in to give us the full 2026 playoff picture — from Colorado's wrecking-ball run through the West, to the Hurricanes sitting fresh and waiting, to Buffalo's miraculous return from a 15-year drought. Five teams left and the bracket is absolutely loaded.
Then Conor McGahey previews the Western Conference Final from the Colorado side — Nathan MacKinnon on a six-game goal-scoring tear, Cale Makar's injury cloud hanging over the Avs, and whether this Presidents' Trophy squad can finally punch their ticket back to the Stanley Cup Final for the first time since 2022.
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