The Canadiens begin their quest for a 25th Stanley Cup on Sunday with Game 1 of their first-round NHL playoff series against the Tampa Bay Lightning.<\/p>\n
The entire city will be on edge as the team looks to avenge their loss in the 2021 Cup Final, but perhaps no Montrealer bleeds bleu, blanc et rouge more than The Sick Podcast\u2019s Tony Marinaro, who has built a media empire covering Nos Glorieux.<\/p>\n
So after all the hours poured into watching, analyzing and commenting on the team, does Marinaro think the young Habs have a fighting chance against the more battle-tested Bolts?<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the question posed to him by hosts Bill Brownstein and Aaron Rand on this week\u2019s episode of The Corner Booth, recorded at Snowdon Deli.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u200aI think the Canadiens will win it because A, my heart is saying the Canadiens will win it. B, it would be unbelievable for the city. C, it would be tremendous for my podcast,\u201d Marinaro said.<\/p>\n
He also thinks if this year isn\u2019t the Canadiens\u2019 year, based on the trajectory of their rise from the ashes of a last-place finish in 2022 to one of the most exciting franchises in the league, success is inevitable for the current core.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u200aIt almost seems like Tampa Bay had their time and now it\u2019s the Canadiens\u2019 time. I could be wrong, but I know I\u2019m going to be right about this: If the changing of the guard doesn\u2019t happen this season, it\u2019s going to happen next season. You\u2019re seeing it, the talent is there.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to providing his own prediction for how the series between the Canadiens and Lightning will pan out, Brownstein and Rand also offer their guesses, with a smoked meat sandwich on the line for the victor. <\/p>\n
One of the hosts is more confident in the Habs than the other, but you\u2019ll have to tune in to find out which.<\/p>\n
The Corner Booth is also available on The Gazette\u2019s\u00a0YouTube channel<\/a>,\u00a0Apple Podcasts<\/a>\u00a0and on\u00a0Spotify<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Canadiens begin their quest for a 25th Stanley Cup on Sunday with Game 1 of their first-round…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-612315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}