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In the final 2024 NHL Playoff Preview show, host Matthew Zator welcomes in Jacob Billington and Joey Ganzi to set up the 2024 Stanley Cup Final between the Florida Panthers and Edmonton Oilers. In this clip, they take a look at the matchup between Aleksander Barkov and Connor McDavid.
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Speaking of Barakov, this is a great jumping off point here
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Barakov won the selfie trophy and he's going to be probably playing a lot
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against Conor McDavid, trying to shut him down. But there is the case of being that is going to be matching up
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trying to shut him down and then take away his offense, which there's always that danger
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I know back in 2011, Ryan Kessler was always against guys. His offense was basically negated, even though he negated the other guy
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So I mean, do you want that for Barakov? I don't know. I'll start
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We'll start with you, Joey, on Barakov versus McDavid. What do you think of this matchup
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Who's going to win it? I mean, it could just saw off and they're both going to just shut each other down
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I guess. I mean, this is something that's going to be, this feels like Mike Tyson
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versus Jake Paul almost with how hyped this thing is. You have arguably the most complete player in the NHL versus arguably the
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best player in the NHL right now. But I don't think Barakov is scared of the challenge
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He's gone against some of the toughest in the NHL, in terms of forwards
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The point leader Kucherov, I don't think he had a single point this
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play, this past play. I don't know if he scored a goal or a point. I don't remember. I do apologize
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David Pasternak, I know he scored, but for the most part he shut him down and Panarin was left off the scoreboard until the end of the series
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He has really stepped up in a huge, huge way, taking away a lot of options
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for these top players and he's been dominant and it's only fitting
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that the final test is Connor McDavid. Yeah. Oh, a hundred percent and that's like McDavid's been otherworldly again
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how he's been throughout every playoffs he's been in. He's been really good
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He's not scoring as much. I mean, he's a lot of his points are assists, but he has been really good
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Jacob, what do you think about McDavid going against Barkov? Is he going to be able to overcome this guy
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I mean, he's a selfie trophy winner for a reason. Yeah, I'm a little upset because Joey took my stat there, but I have
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the specifics. I have the specifics here, but so Barkov between in the first three
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rounds played just shy of an hour and a half against Kucherov, Panarin
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and Pasternak and the only one of those players to score a goal with
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him on the ice was David Pasternak who scored one in an hour and a half against the top player on each of the three teams
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That is absolutely insane. Now, do I expect that number to go up when you look at McDavid
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Yes, I think so or well might not be McDavid scoring the goals, but
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the number will go up for goals against but I do think that he's
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going to be incredible and I love the way you put it Joey with kind of like he's going through the gauntlet right now
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He's gone through the first three and now he's up against the final boss and that's and it's very fitting because I mean, he just won
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the selkie and he's showing that he can do it in the playoffs too. I think with this matchup between McDavid and Barkov, we're looking
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at the two front runners for the so are the cons life trophy
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