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You also listen to him on Sirius XM. Mr. Rupp, how you doing? I'm good. How you doing? I'm doing very well. I listen to you with Coolius a lot, and I feel like I should call you Ruppur, but I will not do that. Let's, let's... You can call me whatever you want.

No, I'm good. Ruppur's good. So the Hurricanes got off to a slow start. They allowed 30 goals in their first six games, which made everybody around here, that just made our heads spin because we hadn't seen that really in any five or six game stretch in five years.

But a lot has changed. They've only allowed 19 goals in their last nine games. How much of that is maybe just settling into the season, and how much is that as guys just kind of snapping to it? Yeah, so a tough start.

Didn't look very cane-like early on. Made me kind of wonder what's going on, but at the same rate, I believe in this team, and they're, they're one of the, I mean, they've got as just a bit of a chance to win the Stanley Cup than anybody else coming into the season from what we've seen in the past and who they still are now and all the great kind of, I guess, identity pieces that they have in this group. So you knew it was going to be a little bit of, there's going to be a correction on that. I will say this, a lot of road games start season, which is not always, it's not always bad.

It's not always great though, right? And when you're sitting here after 15 games, and how many tickets they played? Eleven. Eleven. Eleven?

Yeah. Eleven on, thank you, eleven on the road. So eleven out of your fifteen are on the road, and you're kicking at a nine and six record, I'd be happy with that.

Like, that's good. But I don't think this team has played to their capabilities yet. They've gotten better. You mentioned the goals against over the last nine. That sounds more like the Carolina Hurricanes that we're used to. I think there's things that are going to still be happening with this group. I mean, you still have Svechnikov kind of finding his way back into things. He'll get going offensively. So, I don't know, at the end of the day, you're not winning the Stanley Cup in the first 20 games of the season. I do feel like you can lose your bid for a Stanley Cup in the first 20 games, and they're fine. They're nine and six, and I expect them to get better as the season goes on. We don't see a lot.

Mike Rupp is joining us, NHL Network, Sirius XM, NHL Now, by the way, four o'clock tonight, players only segment. To me, it's just Devin Dubnik gets to wear a t-shirt. That seems to be... Yeah, that's the best part about it. We get to wear whatever we want to wear. We got in there. We had a company-wide email that went out talking about just dress code and all that stuff, and then we came in and we're like, wait, so we have to wear suits again? No, no, that's not for you guys. Like, all right, cool. Back to the t-shirts and hats. I love it. It's very, very casual.

So you say you can't lose it, but you could. What went on? What is going on? I don't know. They won a couple of games in a row now.

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Call clickgrainger.com or just stop by. Grainger for the ones who get it done. It's a great question. They are a team that, when you look at what they've done in the past couple of years, and they've been considered a contender out west, their power play was one of the best in the NHL history last year, and so when you're going into the next season, can you expect that to be replicated? I mean, it's tough.

It was one of the best ever for a reason. It doesn't happen often. You would expect it to come down a little bit. It has. Connor McDavid had 153 points last year. I still think he's going to have a boatload of points when this is all said and done, but it's not the start that we're used to seeing from him. I think that what we're starting to see is this is a team. I don't love the build of the team, and they're a fragile group where if something goes wrong, it can really put things in a tailspin, and a lot of those things I think have been masked. I think it was masked over the last season or the last couple of years because that power play was so good.

Connor having 153 points, Leon's right side with 128. That covers up a lot of things, and right now, those things aren't being covered up, and they did not get good goaltending. They kind of shoot themselves in the foot with some of their decision making.

I don't know where it goes from here. I think they're a much better team than what we've seen, but they're a much better team when their superstars are playing like Superman. That's just this team. If they're all world and their power play is all world and they get decent goaltending, they can win, and they can go far in the playoffs, but if the goaltending slips or depth scoring dries up or the power play comes down a couple clicks, next thing you know, I don't know if they have other ways that they can win hockey games, so that's what they're trying to do here, and they have a coaching change and see if they can figure that out. It's not that you have to have great goaltending, but you have to have great goal prevention. You can't give up what they're doing, which is almost three and three-quarter goals a game and win. That's probably what is getting in the way of the New Jersey Devils at the start of the season.

Now, yes, they haven't had Jack Hughes. They hope to get him back this week, but the Devils have had a hard time keeping the puck out of their own net, even while they have a power play that is operating at nearly 40% efficiency. Yeah, and so I'm not, I know that there's some people out there that are saying that this team is a little bit smoke and mirrors because that power play was so good that they're actually not a good team, five on five, and what's going on with them?

I think they're just going through it. This is a good hockey club. I mean, the Devils team, they're a good team. They're missing, clearly missing Jack Hughes, who was, he was on like 155-point pace when he exited the lineup with injury.

Nico, he shares that, I mean, he's awesome, one of the best two-way guys in the National Hockey League. So I mean, they're missing some big pieces. And I actually find at times that when you miss players like that, even when you're losing and during the time that those guys are out, it could be good for your group long-term to kind of just figure out what you got, maybe what you need, um, put guys in different situations. I do think this team's going to be okay. I think that they are a team that's just, they're dealing with it right now and teams deal with it all the time at different parts of the season. And I just think that they're, the one thing that was better last year, their goaltending was pretty solid last year. And again, it wasn't great, but like you said, it just has to be good to be predictable. And that's been a little bit of a struggle so far.

Yeah. That has not been a struggle for the Rangers, uh, who have, uh, allowed just over two goals a game. Uh, and they lead the metropolitan division that what, 10 or 12, two and one, uh, they have been tremendous. Um, is it all Shisterkin or what do you make of what that team has looked like so far this year?

So this one's really interesting to me because I feel like where they're at right now is they're a completely different team than what they were before. And what I mean by that is the story of this organization, the last few seasons has been, they live and die by their power play, their power play is, I mean, it drives them and their guys, their top end guys feel good about their game. When the power plays clicking, it spills over to five and five play. But most of the story over the last number of years, then, uh, Igor Shisterkin is covered up for a lot of their blemishes defensively and under Peter Labulette, who everyone in Carolina knows. Well, he's got them, he's got them winning games with defense first, like their, their defensive numbers and what they're giving up against even, even quality looks again are way better than they've been over the last couple of seasons. So their power play is still a top end power play. The penalty kill has been great this year too. So those things certainly help you Igor Shisterkin has been awesome. Jonathan quick when he's gotten in has been good. Louis Deming when he plays got a big win. Um, so they're getting some goal tenning, but I find it really interesting with the group because they're, they're giving themselves a chance to win every night when the offense isn't even there. I mean, they've got, you could argue what's supposed to be their top line in the band of Jed.

Um, try to right now it's, I think it's Blake Wheeler. They haven't even really gotten going and they haven't had a ton of depth performances or Tammy Panarin has been light in the world on fire. She's been awesome. Been Trochex been awesome.

Um, laughing. Here has been adding a nice punch. I mean, there was out Adams Fox right now, um, they miss him and the offensive punch, but I think this is all positive things because the problem with that team has been when the power play is not working or Igor is not stealing you games, there's no nothing in between. Like you're losing hockey games. They're not now they're giving up less against and I think that'll set them up for the future when they get fully go and get everybody going offensively.

I think they're going to be a very tough team to beat. I will have to wrap it right there, Mike Rupp, NHL network, NHL now starts at four. Uh, also you can check them out. Serious XM love listening to you, uh, all season long.

I appreciate your time, sir. We can talk again next time about why the Boston Bruins are the same, no matter who plays for them. It doesn't matter. No Bergeron, no crazy. They're the same team.

Uh, and it is, if I were a Bruins fan, I'd be just marveling at the fact that this team doesn't allow goals and all they do is when, uh, I thank you very much. Appreciate it. All right. Thank you. You got it. Mike Rupp here on the Adam gold show.

All right. Again, coming up at seven 30 tonight, uh, the hurricanes will take on the flyers nationally televised game on TNT. Kenny Alba will have to call and Brian Boucher, who played, I think two years with the hurricanes, although didn't play a lot, he was hurt, but he was here for two years and is a very good analyst. So it's good to see them here.

It's good to have a national television spotlight on the case, isn't it? We should have dressed up like chip Patterson today with bow ties and everything. I have a jacket. I have a sport coat in the car. Uh, I'll tuck my shirt in. I'll tuck my shirt. Oh, you're going to the game tonight.

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