Fair warning, this isn’t going to have much to do with the Vancouver Canucks. Aside from the “Tortorella coached the Canucks for one season and tried to fight Bob Hartley in an intermission yadda yadda yadda.”

On Thursday night, the Carolina Hurricanes pulled within one game of becoming Stanley Cup Champions when they took down the Vegas Golden Knights by a final score of 4-2 in Game 5. Pavel Dorofeyev opened the scoring for Vegas seven minutes into the game, but Carolina responded with three unanswered goals to take a 3-1 lead heading into the third period. Andrei Svechnikov added a power play marker to make it 4-1, and another goal from Dorofeyev made it 4-2, but that would be it for Vegas. The Golden Knights now head home

While some thought Carter Hart might be in the mix for the Conn Smythe Trophy ahead of this series, his play has slipped in the Cup Final to the point that those conversations aren’t really being had. Instead, it seems like Mitch Marner’s award to lose, and it could get interesting if Carolina wins the series. For Hart, his name has been mentioned in stats no goaltender wants to be mentioned in during this Cup Final.

First, he became the first goalie to concede four or more goals in each of the first four games of a Stanley Cup Final. Then last night, he broke his own record, and became the first goalie to concede four or more goals in each of the first five games of the Stanley Cup Final. On the series, he’s got an .854 save percentage. Not great!

Which is why it seemed perfectly reasonable for my colleague over at DailyFaceoff.com Jonny Lazarus to ask Tortorella if there was any thought to swapping Hart out for Adin Hill to start the third period on Thursday night. The Hurricanes were up 3-1, Hart hasn’t been spectacular by any stretch of the imagination, and switching up their goalies certainly seems to have worked for Carolina.

But nope! That’s actually the stupidest question Tortorella has heard.

Question: “John, did you consider at all going to Adin Hill in the third, was there any conversation or thought about it?”

Answer: “Oh for Christ — that could be the stupidest question I’ve heard.”

Jeez, talk about a sensitive subject. Now, Tortorella didn’t actually specify if that was the dumbest question he’s ever heard, or if it was just the dumbest one he’d heard last night. Either way, that’s a perfectly reasonable question to ask when a goaltender is breaking and setting records for most goals allowed in a Cup Final.

I’m just guessing, but it seems like a pretty safe bet that Carter Hart will start Game 6 for the Golden Knights on Sunday.