The greatest outdoor game in NHL history

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1. Walking around the fan experience was amazing with all the jerseys. The color mix of those blues with that yellow did look amazing.

2. Funny hearing people who know fuck all about Tampa Bay and Ybor give people who live there shit for nodding to the history of the region. Coop and the coaches were giving a nod to the Cuban and Italian heritage of Ybor.

3. The man in the box needs a show with the zodiac Mr Rogers

4. The Pens snub for HTIH needs to be investigated.

5. As a TBL fan, the highlight of this episode was DJs reference to Rachel Green Triffle. Oh my fellow millennial ❤.

6. Boston is the city of champions. You should know this

7. About the Pasta goal, we were in section 114 so Sway and the corner ref were right in front of us. It was loud, but his arm went off and the whistle did blow. Kuch and another TBL forward both stood up and stopped the hard pursuit and that’s why Pasta even had the breakaway opportunity. Sway thought it was a delayed penalty on Tampa and at one point started moving toward the bench to allow the extra man. When Pasta kept going and the Bruins fans around us started cheering everyone was confused because it was a clear stoppage of play. If Sway and the Tampa guys heard it, maybe Pasta just had some selective hearing going on. All of that’s possible, the volume in the stadium was insane. No one sat down through OT or the shootout, it was everything you could want in a game.

8. 9:52 I wish is was 38 here, it’s been between 10-15 for almost the past week 🥶

9. The Tampa coaching staff were referencing old Ybor/old Tampa

10. Lightning wore the Bucs creamsicles because they were playing at RayJay and wanted to pay homage to them. Cooper dressed the way he did to pay homage to YBOR city. It was all Tampa centric

11. My blues have not won 3 in a row.

12. Dropkicks would of been the play… If it was played in Boston. The entire song in question is about GOING to Boston lmfao

13. This is part of Tampa history, Old Time Cubans mafia guys in Ybor City in Tampa! They explained it on the broadcast….😂

14. Are goalie fights the hottest team in hockey? Also, how do they impact Nathan Mackinnon's Hart candidacy.

15. The theme was so local centric, and I think that’s why people who aren’t from Tampa were so confused. Lots of people didn’t even know what Gasparilla weekend is or the significance of the Buc’s creamsicle uniform.

16. Guys , Tampa has a huge Cuban population? John Cooper mentioned it and the broadcast mentioned it. Did you all watch?

17. I finally get some Kraken content and it ends with them being shit on 🤦🏻‍♀️

    They just beat the number 1 team in their division and are on a 4-game win streak. As of today, they're 6th in the Western conference, 3rd in their division, & only 3 points away from the number one spot in the Pacific. Matty Beniers and Jared McCann (announced today as NHL's first star of the week btw) each posted 10 goals in January, with Canner accumulating 20 points across 17 games. Philipp Grubauer is having a stellar season and his SV% currently puts him 3rd in the league while his GAA has him hovering around the top 5 (Joey Daccord is also doing pretty well and had two great back-to-back games last week). Every time Jacob Melanson is called up the team performs better as a whole. He's a powerhouse who has 112 hits in his first 21 NHL games (and has only taken one penalty while drawing five); he also notched his first NHL goal in early Jan. Jordan Eberle, one of those old guys, is leading the team in goals and points. Berkly Catton (currently on IR, unfortunately) is an absolute star. It took him 27 games before he scored his first NHL goal but then he scored his second very shortly after (and added another 3 over the next 9-ish games). He's so impressive already and with more time/experience, I think he's going to do great things in the league. The team is also one of only three that is undefeated when gaining multi-goal leads this season (Avs & Wild are the others)…

    Effusive praise isn't needed, or even warranted tbh, but it'd be nice if the team got their flowers when it's earned.

    (Sorry this is a novel. Clearly I have strong feelings about this team lol)

18. I understand where people are confused about the themes but the locals all loved it lol. It’s like the nhl/espn went full pirate theme but Tampa just represented Tampa in all its quirks.

19. Good discussion, but I’ll add a bit of detail here. As others have said, the pirates were a nod to Gaspirilla, the coaching staff were giving a tip of the hat to Ybor aka Little Havana.

    Now, as far as that charity shot, I found it disgusting. What sucks is it detracted from something Tampa has been doing for over a decade. Under Vinik, the team has donated 50k as a grant to a local hero/charity every home game. The practice has continued under the new owner and for the game they upped that number to 100k. That alone was awesome. But once ESPN jumped in to dangle the million, I found it disgusting, it should have at least been the full net at a minimum. As you said, they should have planned for it to be the million anyway, it was for charity. I understand the reality is these stunts always have an insurance policy that’s actually paying out, so the odds have to be sufficiently low enough that a reasonable policy can be attained but this was tasteless.

20. More people need to tell men no 1:56:45

21. RL looks like Jason Statham in his next movie “The Librarian”

22. RL is a legend, this was so much fun #BlueCrew

23. I also hate all the Avatar movies and I only saw the first one. That was a waste of 3 hours

24. The only time i've seen Coach Cooper outside of an arena was at a cigar bar in Ybor City, massively on brand for him. Also shout out to AEW

25. I had to come back and say my flabbers are gasted that we are finally getting flyers on the show! Happy days