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Motor City Mad Mouth Show with George Richards · Motor City Mad Mouth

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  Speaker 1: Good evening everybody. I'll welcome to another edition of the
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  Speaker 1: MotorCity mad Mouth Show. Yes, I am at the MotorCity
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  Speaker 1: mad Mouth. But I have a special guest and a
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  Speaker 1: great colleague and a great friend of mine. His name
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  Speaker 1: is George Richards. And George and I go back a
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  Speaker 1: few years. And I'll tell you what to show you
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  Speaker 1: how much respect I have from mister Richards. He is
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  Speaker 1: in my book. Okay, Lessons from the Microphone. You don't
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  Speaker 1: make the first copy unless you're worthy of getting in there.
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  Speaker 1: And that guy across from me definitely got in. And
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  Speaker 1: you know what, when you get an opportunity to pick
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  Speaker 1: it up, let me tell you I have suck at
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  Speaker 1: this guy. You know you the pro at this anyways, Seriously,
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  Speaker 1: I love it. Man. You heard your way in that book. George,
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  Speaker 1: and thanks for joining us tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Well thanks for having me. What's going on? How's your summer?
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  Speaker 1: Ah? Busy man, We'll stay busy all over the place.
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  Speaker 1: Af It's one minute I'm in Detroit, next minute I'm
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  Speaker 1: in Wisconsin. It's been a NonStop and now I'm headed
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  Speaker 1: this weekend to the Miami Florida game up in Gainesville.
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  Speaker 1: We want to make sure, we get what we have
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  Speaker 1: to get in. So I've been productive. Anytime you build
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  Speaker 1: an organization like you have, George, like Florida Hockey now,
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  Speaker 1: we'll get into that in a moment. You know, it
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  Speaker 1: takes a lot of work, whether it's networking, whether it's
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  Speaker 1: showing up at places. That billion organ isn't that easy,
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  Speaker 1: and you just have to put the time and the
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice in the work to do it. As you can
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  Speaker 1: appreciate now with what you've done remarkably down here in
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  Speaker 1: South Florida, with by the way, Florida Hockey now, which
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  Speaker 1: this guy happened to be the owner, the main man.
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  Speaker 3: And publisher. Right, yeah, no, yeah, for sure. I hope
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  Speaker 3: you have a good time in Gainesville. I hope you
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  Speaker 3: don't wear uh, you know, long pants and you know
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  Speaker 3: a suit or anything. I mean that press box at
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  Speaker 3: Florida Field I don't think is air conditioned. So you know,
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  Speaker 3: I want you to stay cool up there. Hold the
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  Speaker 3: swamp for a reason, man, So I.
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  Speaker 2: Hope you enjoy yourself there.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if I can get away with short
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  Speaker 1: nobody wants. I don't know. I'm kidding with you. You
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  Speaker 1: think somebody wants to look at a sixty one year
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  Speaker 1: old pair of leg Now what I end up wearing
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  Speaker 1: up there in terms of.
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  Speaker 2: No, don't don't bring the park, I'll just say.
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  Speaker 1: That, no, no, no, it's not. I'll probably end up
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  Speaker 1: bringing either a halfway in between between a sweater or
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  Speaker 1: a long sleeve shirt that I could roll up or
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  Speaker 1: maybe not. I don't even know, but yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I'd go that way, or you know, maybe get like
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  Speaker 3: you like what you got on the polo shirt. I
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  Speaker 3: think that's perfect again the press. I'm telling you, it's
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  Speaker 3: hot up there.
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  Speaker 1: The only time I was actually up there, George, is
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  Speaker 1: when Florida Atlanta took on Florida, and at that time,
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  Speaker 1: Howard Snollenberg or was a coach and a guy by
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  Speaker 1: the name of Rusty Smith put on a good show
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  Speaker 1: and Owls didn't get blown out as bad as many
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  Speaker 1: people thought that they were gonna. They gave it a
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  Speaker 1: game until Florida ran away with it in the second half.
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  Speaker 2: That's Howard for you, baby.
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  Speaker 1: So all right, let's first of all, you know, if
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  Speaker 1: you're new to the audience or you're coming back, I
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  Speaker 1: want George to introduce himself and tell people how long
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  Speaker 1: you've been covering the Panthers and then I want to
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  Speaker 1: talk about Florida hockey now, so let everybody know that
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  Speaker 1: I call you mister Panther when it comes to a
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  Speaker 1: published here. So go ahead, mister Panther.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I've been covering what the Panthers now twenty years, and
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  Speaker 3: first for the My Harold and then for the Athletic
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  Speaker 3: and now as publisher of Florida hockeynow dot com. And
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  Speaker 3: uh yeah, I've seen some some bad hockey. I've seen
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  Speaker 3: some really good hockey, especially lately, and it's been a
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  Speaker 3: lot of fun covering this team the past couple of years.
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  Speaker 3: They've really turned things around, obviously, and uh man, it's
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  Speaker 3: it's it's weird. It's weird seeing this team be at
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  Speaker 3: the top the way they are. I mean, not only
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  Speaker 3: winning the Stanley Cup, but just the I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: the last couple of years have really been enjoyable. It's
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  Speaker 3: a good bunch to cover. Pomerice's terrific Gulzito of course,
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  Speaker 3: the staff that they've got there in Florida, it's a
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  Speaker 3: good bunch to deal with.
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  Speaker 2: So it's been uh, it's been good, all right.
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  Speaker 1: So what I want you to do and I want
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  Speaker 1: to make sure you get this message out there as
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  Speaker 1: strong as you can. I want everybody in the audience
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  Speaker 1: as well, and they'll be coming in. So yelled an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity probably to bring up later. I know time should
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  Speaker 1: be got right behind me, Bud, look at this guy.
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  Speaker 1: So I want everybody to know how they can subscribe
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  Speaker 1: to Florida Hockey Now and tell them what Florida Hockey
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  Speaker 1: Now is all about. What's going on, Joshua or this
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  Speaker 1: guy is one of your biggest bands out there, so
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna hear from him a lot throughout the night.
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  Speaker 1: And Orlando Escrabano, darned, Shane, Florida is better than Detroit Hockey. Well, Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: I'll have a comment on that later in the show, Orlando,
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  Speaker 1: So hang in there with us.
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  Speaker 2: Half for a while. It's been a while. Florida has
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  Speaker 2: been pretty good against Detroit the last ten years.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, either had to head. Is what it is. No,
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  Speaker 1: it's okay, it is what it is. Yeah, it's hard
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  Speaker 1: to really go against the facts. I mean, I remember,
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  Speaker 1: I'll go back real quick. I remember I covered the game.
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  Speaker 3: It might have been like twenty eleven, twenty twelve. The
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  Speaker 3: Panthers hadn't won at Joe Louis Arena in like a decade,
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  Speaker 3: and I think that it might have been radic to
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  Speaker 3: Vorak had a couple of goals or something, and Florida
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  Speaker 3: finally finally won a game at Joe Louis Arena and
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  Speaker 3: then from then on, I mean, the Panthers beat them
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  Speaker 3: all the time up there. It was just even when
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  Speaker 3: the Panthers were bad and and and Detroit was good.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what it is about Florida and Detroit,
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  Speaker 3: but they've really been you know, even Detroit was still
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  Speaker 3: good back then, and Florida would go up there and win.
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  Speaker 3: It kind of boggled the mind.
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  Speaker 1: Well, what I want you to do that won't boggle
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  Speaker 1: your mind, because get ready for Joshua Door there's gonna
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna be. Can't you put that one up in
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  Speaker 1: just a moment, Okay, because I definitely want to get
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  Speaker 1: to that before we get to some of our stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But George, let everybody know how they can't subscribe before
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  Speaker 1: a hockey now, and not only once, but you'll you
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  Speaker 1: can do it again and then I'll have you do
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  Speaker 1: it later in the broadcast. How is that? Well?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you? I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 3: No, I'll go to Florida Hockey NOOW dot com. We
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  Speaker 3: cover the Panthers every single day. We've had a story
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  Speaker 3: at least one story about the Panthers every single day
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  Speaker 3: this offseason. Check it out summer summer behind the paywall
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  Speaker 3: that it costs what three bucks a month to subscribe,
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  Speaker 3: or you can get a yearly subscription for thirty dollars.
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  Speaker 3: We do have some exclusive content on there, but a
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  Speaker 3: lot of stuff is free just because it's you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's just normal content. But our exclusive stuff columns, mail bags,
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  Speaker 3: you know, in depth features, one on ones with players
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  Speaker 3: and coaches and front office members and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: But again, you're supporting coverage. You know, it's me man,
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  Speaker 3: It's Florida.
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  Speaker 1: Hi got.
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  Speaker 2: I'm the only That's all I got.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I appreciate the support, and come check it
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  Speaker 3: out Florida Hockey now.
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  Speaker 1: And you know what, you're gonna repeat that later in
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  Speaker 1: the show. All right, well, let's go to Joshua Door.
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  Speaker 1: I told you he's gonna be act U. Yeah, he's
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  Speaker 1: your biggest dollars. So all right, josh you're you're here
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  Speaker 1: with George Richards. You've had a chance to read him.
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  Speaker 1: So let's go ahead and talk about your article about
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  Speaker 1: when they used to cover the seats upstairs. Brought me
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  Speaker 1: back to the good old days, all right, So the
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  Speaker 1: good old days? Yeah right, I know Josh trying to.
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  Speaker 1: I think Josh is laughing behind he's laughing in the
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  Speaker 1: chat room, but you can't see him. But go ahead
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  Speaker 1: and please elaborate on that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I wrote today Wednesday, I wrote a story.
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  Speaker 3: Uh, it just came up in my Facebook memories or
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  Speaker 3: something something I had written for the Miami Herald about
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  Speaker 3: that Michael Yormark back then the team president of the Panthers,
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  Speaker 3: they had sold advertising on these tarps that they were
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  Speaker 3: going to put all the way around the upper deck
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  Speaker 3: of the last ten rows. I think it was around
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  Speaker 3: the entire upper deck to be tarped off because the Panthers,
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  Speaker 3: you know, they have one of the biggest arenas in
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  Speaker 3: the league nineteen thousand plus, and they didn't need it,
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  Speaker 3: Like like Josh just said, they couldn't give tickets away,
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  Speaker 3: so they wanted to make it smaller. So I was like, geez,
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  Speaker 3: can you remember that? And then I remember four years
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  Speaker 3: later when Vinnie Viola and then came in the attendance
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  Speaker 3: was so bad they put curtains down. They covered up
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  Speaker 3: an entire end zone of seats with a curtain to
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  Speaker 3: make it small. They turned it into a fifteen thousand
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  Speaker 3: seed arena because and they still didn't it.
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  Speaker 2: They only got eleven thousand for opening night.
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  Speaker 3: Because that's when when Vini Viola bought the team, they said,
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  Speaker 3: no more freebies, no more discounted tickets, none of that junk.
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  Speaker 2: Whoever pays is going to be here. And they were like,
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  Speaker 2: there might be five thousand people that pay good. That's
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  Speaker 2: all we're going to have. And that's all they had.
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  Speaker 3: That year was rough from an attendance standpoint, but they
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  Speaker 3: really did reset the market. People listen, when the Panthers
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  Speaker 3: finally made the playoffs in twenty twelve, I had people
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  Speaker 3: come up to me going, I can't get free tickets.
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  Speaker 3: I want to go see the playoff game, but where
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  Speaker 3: are the free tickets. People were just so used to
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  Speaker 3: getting free tickets, whether they went to the sandwich shop across.
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  Speaker 2: The street or ran into Randy Moehler at the gas
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  Speaker 2: station with a stack of tickets in his pocket.
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  Speaker 3: That's how they operated back then, and Vinnie Viola and
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  Speaker 3: his staff they put an end to that stuff. And
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  Speaker 3: now you look at the arena and you know they're
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  Speaker 3: getting twenty thousand people in there for playoff games, and
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  Speaker 3: if they could add more seats they would. They're going
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  Speaker 3: to be sold out more often than not this season,
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  Speaker 3: and it's good to see. I mean, again, the Panthers
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  Speaker 3: were really bad for a really long time. They've been
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  Speaker 3: pretty good for a pretty long time now, and then
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  Speaker 3: it's showing they've they've got some pretty good support down
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  Speaker 3: here in South Florida.
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  Speaker 1: So George, show me what media coverage was like back then. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: you know, we have to do our job. Anyways, I
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  Speaker 1: was coming down back then as a visiting writer for
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  Speaker 1: the Detroit Red Wings because at the time I was
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  Speaker 1: working with you know, the Detroit Monitor and George Rei
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  Speaker 1: Corner and Mike Lewis was certainly very helpful one.
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  Speaker 3: Of the courts, right, Mike Lewis is a great guy
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  Speaker 3: with the PR staff trying to get Mike Lewis to
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  Speaker 3: write columns for US at Florida Hockey.
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  Speaker 2: Now, just like, I'm glad you threw that out there.
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  Speaker 1: The doors opened, Mike, Mike Lewis and Mike and I'll
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  Speaker 1: just throw it out even more. Mike Lewis is actually
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  Speaker 1: one of the best PR guys I've ever worked, and he.
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  Speaker 2: Like, no, no, no, Mike, Mikey was great.
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  Speaker 1: He's also in my book, by the way, Sorry interrupted. Well,
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  Speaker 1: but going back to what was media covers like back then, it.
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  Speaker 2: Was actually pretty good because it was a different era.
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  Speaker 3: Back then, right when I first started, you had the
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  Speaker 3: three three newspapers down here. Brian McGain covered for the
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  Speaker 3: Palm Beach Post, Michael Russo had just left the Sun
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  Speaker 3: Sentinel and gone to Minnesota, and uh and Steve Gordon
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  Speaker 3: replaced him, and and I covered for the Mayam Herald.
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  Speaker 3: So you got the three major newspapers. What you didn't
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  Speaker 3: see a lot of was the television. But because you know,
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  Speaker 3: by the time Dolphin season ended, the Panthers were pretty
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  Speaker 3: much usually out in the playoff race, there was really
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  Speaker 3: no reason to come.
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  Speaker 2: And now it's a different world.
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  Speaker 3: Because you know, the Sun Sentinel doesn't cover the team,
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  Speaker 3: The Palm Beach Post doesn't cover the team. The Miami
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  Speaker 3: Herald covers the team a bit, but not like we
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  Speaker 3: used to them. We went to all the games, We
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  Speaker 3: covered all eighty two. If it wasn't me on the road.
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  Speaker 3: It was somebody else. We sent someone else on the road,
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  Speaker 3: and those days are those days are gone. And we
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  Speaker 3: all know, you know the reasons why and stuff. But
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  Speaker 3: you know, so we're trying to fill that void here
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  Speaker 3: covering this team. And you know, we're not a fans site,
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  Speaker 3: Florida Hockey now. You know that we're not a fans
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  Speaker 3: This is not yeah, it's you know, the team has
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  Speaker 3: been good and and since I've started this thing, and
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  Speaker 3: the team's been good. My first season at Florida Hot
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  Speaker 3: with Florida Hockey now was the twenty twenty one COVID
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  Speaker 3: season and they ended up almost winning the division. They
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  Speaker 3: went to the playoffs, and so things have been pretty
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  Speaker 3: good for the Panthers.
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  Speaker 2: Said, but but what I'm saying is it's a news site.
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  Speaker 3: You know, If the Panthers do do wrong, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 3: tell you they did wrong.
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  Speaker 2: If they do right, I'm gonna tell you they did right.
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  Speaker 2: And it's you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, it's like again, they've been pretty good the last
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  Speaker 3: couple of years.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's go, all right, We're gonna go with
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  Speaker 1: Joshua Doors commics. I'm gonna read some of them off
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  Speaker 1: because something we've already discussed, and then we're gonna continue
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  Speaker 1: to roll through and they get to the stuff I have.
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  Speaker 1: I think the stuff tonight, George will actually be just
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  Speaker 1: as important as the chat room as what I have prepared.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna cover all bases. So anyways, obviously Joshua, if
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  Speaker 1: they couldn't pay, Pe'll show up then all right, we
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  Speaker 1: already dressed that, all right. So now Joshua wants to
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  Speaker 1: ask you when I'm gonna have Rod Peterson on with us,
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  Speaker 1: how do you like that, because let me tell you
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  Speaker 1: what we've done is we've gone ahead and revive Fire
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  Speaker 1: Up Florida, Okay. And the reason why we've done that
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  Speaker 1: is because he covers the Cats and Bolts, so that
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  Speaker 1: gives me an opportunity to bring in tap as well
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  Speaker 1: as the Panthers. So it's kind of neat, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you lead off on a hockey topic or two and
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  Speaker 1: then we'll get into the regular thing. But you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I want to go back to one other thing that
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  Speaker 1: you mentioned. Okay, I think it's important about this. When
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  Speaker 1: there was a lady and I'm not going to mention
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  Speaker 1: any names at all that talk about us being a
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  Speaker 1: fan website with motorsports. At that point in time, I
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  Speaker 1: vowed I'm not covering you guys ever again, because we're not.
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  Speaker 1: And that ended. What that pretty much told me was
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  Speaker 1: you didn't go to our particular website to check it out,
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  Speaker 1: So why would I invest money into you? Okay, if
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  Speaker 1: you didn't have the decency to do your due diligence
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  Speaker 1: about us, We are not. We cover a lot of
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  Speaker 1: different things at the trip, and obviously hockey and all
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  Speaker 1: the sports. You know, I'm not going to sit here
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  Speaker 1: and promote people to get you know, seriously injured or
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  Speaker 1: fatally injured on here. Yes, if you want to go website,
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  Speaker 1: you can see it, but I'm not going out there
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  Speaker 1: promote that stuff. But you. But so that's why I
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  Speaker 1: appreciate what you said about Florida Hockey now, George, not
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  Speaker 1: a fan site, because you know, like anything we're taking
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  Speaker 1: this industry, you've got to be objective what do you
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  Speaker 1: like it or not? In order to be fair to
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  Speaker 1: the audience that you have, don't you agree? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: And and and they expect that, I mean, the the
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  Speaker 3: you know, the players, the coaches and all that they expect.
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  Speaker 3: They may not like it, but they expect tough questions
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  Speaker 3: after losses and after you know whatever. They expect that
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  Speaker 3: and they don't want to be tossed softballs, uh, you
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  Speaker 3: know in the press conferences, So you know that kind
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  Speaker 3: of listen. I've just try to try to do the
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  Speaker 3: job and cover the team the best I can, and and.
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  Speaker 1: I think we do that.
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  Speaker 3: I think we do a pretty good job of covering
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  Speaker 3: this team. There's not too many stones left unturned when
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  Speaker 3: it comes to the Florida Panthers on our website, so
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  Speaker 3: you know it.
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  Speaker 1: And again, we had to do that.
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  Speaker 3: We had to do that stuff, hey Rod, We had
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  Speaker 3: to do that, you know, back in the day, you know,
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  Speaker 3: covering this team when there was a lot of competition. Man,
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  Speaker 3: there was back you know, there was no twit or
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  Speaker 3: there us no Facebook. You didn't know that you got
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  Speaker 3: scooped on a story or that you scooped someone else
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  Speaker 3: until the next morning, you know. So you know that's
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  Speaker 3: old dinosaurs. We remember those days.
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  Speaker 1: Right. Well, oh boy, don't don't even get me started,
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  Speaker 1: otherwise you won't get to sleep tonight. Now was scoop? Now?
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  Speaker 1: Was scoop a scoop? Last year? What?
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  Speaker 2: Eighteen seconds?
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  Speaker 1: Right? I mean?
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  Speaker 2: And then somebody with sources. Uh puts up.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I've heard that. My sources tell me yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I actually have a lot of nicknames, scoop upsy won.
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  Speaker 1: So allor right, let's go to the chat room. Joshua
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  Speaker 1: Door wants to know, and I will go slowly on
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  Speaker 1: the torch when you're gonna hop on? When is Rod?
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  Speaker 1: When you're gonna yeah? Yeah, So he wants to know
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  Speaker 1: when you're gonna hop on our show, Rod, and iye.
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  Speaker 3: Well, whenever I get invited. All right, you just set
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: it out here has to be offered. I'm not just
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: gonna storm in. I don't talk about it.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't.
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: I don't crash parties. Now, Scott, let.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: Me tell you. I'm George. You got to let me
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: tell you from one colleague to another friend, whatever you
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: want to call me. Okay, you have an open invitation
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: to come on any time you want, period, exclamation point,
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: no question mark. That's not all right? All right, so
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: rock all go to Orlandos in a moment, we'll actually
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: go to it now hoping Stevie why brings that floora
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: magic back up north to Detroit. So that's what he says.
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, go ahead, So yeah, there you go. All right,
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: So let's go on to a couple of things here,
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: and we're going to continue to roll with the chat.
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: How did it feel to finally cover a team that
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: won the Stanley Cup? Because I know that when we
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: go back to what happened last year against Vegas, and
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: I actually predicted it. You tell all your Panthers pr
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: people that were, anybody that cares, and I'll say I
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: predicted the Panthers would win this year because they went
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: out there and lost the year before. And I can
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: say that because when I was covering the Bad Boys
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: many years ago, the Pistons came back after a tough
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: loss of the Lakers and went on win a couple
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: the Red Wings loss of the New Jersey Devils, and
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: how did that work out? Won a few Cups there.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: So what I ended up doing is trying to rationalize
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: the whole thing. George, all right, the Panthers got in
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: that year really against Vegas and kind of I don't
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: want to say backed in, but they made it by
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: you know, the season, they barely made it. But once
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: you get in, it's a different animal.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: It's a different animal for sure, and that last all
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: of last season could have changed so so dramatically. You know,
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: we talk about them making the playoffs as the eighth seed,
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: right and maybe back.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Then, I don't they were helped.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: Sure when Pittsburgh lost that game, that that home game
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: to Chicago, which I still can't believe that they lost
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: that game. We were we were at the bar watching
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: the Chicago Blackhawks the night before they played at home.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: Looked awful, looked like it looked like an AHL team.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: And then they've got to go to Pittsburgh the following night.
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: Pittsburgh really needs that win, and they beat Pittsburgh. We
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: still can't believe this. So anyway, Florida clinches. But even
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: if Pittsburgh had won that game, Florida still had a
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: game left Florida and that would that game would have
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: meant something to Florida, that game against Carolina. Florida still
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: could have won its way into the playoffs. Still, it
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: would have been on the last day of the season.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: They're still the eighth seed. Right then, they're down three
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: to one to Boston and that that game five could have.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Turned in any different ways, and the Florida.
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Panthers go out in five in the first round and
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: it's whole hum right.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: They end up winning that. They win this series.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: So they go to the finals, they're beat up and
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: they end up losing to to Vegas, a better Vegas
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: team at the time. This team this year, coming into
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: training camp without Brandon Montour, without Aaron eck Glad, for
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: the first couple of weeks, you could just see a
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: different I mean, they were they were a business like
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: from the start of training camp. They were back on
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: the ice two weeks after the Stanley Cup final. They
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: took their They were like, we're getting back to this thing, baby,
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: We're getting back and lo and behold, they did it.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: There was a lot of hard work, a lot went
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: into it, but they also learned a lot over the years.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: This team has learned that you really they can go
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: through a couple losing skits here and there, and they
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: did that, but you know, they were sick.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: They were a little beat up.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: They come home for that final home stand and people
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: are like, what's going on with these guys? They stank
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: all of a sudden, and then they win the rest
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: of their games and they win the Atlanta As far
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: as covering a winning team.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: It is different.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: Because me and Goldie always have that joke, you know,
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: they're three points out, but you know they have a
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: game in hand. You know, that was always kind of
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: the joke with the Panthers. They'd always turn it on
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: at the end when it was a little too late.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: And now you.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: See this team, especially last year, they were in control
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: from the start that you knew that they were going
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: to get one of the threes, you know, one of
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: the time three seeds in the Atlantic.
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Whether they want it or not. I don't think they cared.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: They were going to finish second or third in the Atlantic,
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: and they ended up catching Boston. Boston didn't want to
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: play Tampa in that in that first round, and you saw,
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: you know, Boston's last two games of the season where
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: they just completely you know, they looked like an AHL
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: team and Florida was able to catch them. And when
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: the Atlantic, and you know, things work out the way
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: things work out, Florida needed to beat Tampa, right, they
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: needed to get over that Tampa hump and did it.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: When they did that, I was like, this team might
• 20:33
  Speaker 3: be going back to play for the Stanley Cup, and
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: they did.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, the only thing I can always tell
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: people out there is when you have a bitter loss
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: or series loss, it stays with you for a long time.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: You know it's not really well.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: You can go one of two ways, right, It can
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: demoralize you, right or or constrengthen your resolve. And I
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: think it did with the Panthers. They stood on that
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: ice Edmonton went into the locker room. Those Edmonton guys
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: in the locker room when Florida was out there celebrating
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: the Panthers when they were in Vegas stayed on the ice.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: You could.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: We've got a picture up running a number of times
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: you see Tampa Bay over by there and then they're here.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: The Panthers just.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: They kept that in their memory bank man, and uh
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: it really they really use that as.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Fuel for that season.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can't get any more motivation than standing there
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: watching somebody celebrate. And let's not kill ourselves, folks. Okay,
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: you know you have to win sixteen games to win
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: to come back. When I was growing up, it was eight,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: it was there were eight, But now you have whats right, right, Well,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: that's what it was, yeah, an octopus, but you have
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: eight games to win. Now that's twice as much and
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: now you have what thirty thirty two teams. You know,
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: I think it's it's tough.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: No, no, it's it's the hardest thing to win. I mean,
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: you know, you well, you talk about tournaments. It's fun
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: watching March Madness because you've got all these underdogs and stuff.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: But boy, to win, to win a.
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: Set, to win four seven game series, back to back
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: to back to back, that is a rough that that's
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: tough to do. You look at the New York Rangers
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: right right before they went it ninety four, they hadn't
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: won it since nineteen forty. Fast forward last year is
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: the best team they've had, you know, since the mid
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: two thousands, mid twenty tens or whatever. And they run
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: into the Panthers. I mean, you know, that New York
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: Rangers team was stacked and they could you know.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: So it's rough. It's tough to.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Do, and well what they did is certainly remarkable. Want
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: to congratulate Panthers are doing what they do. And we'll
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: get into other things as the show progressives on. So
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: we talked about we're going to talk about Bill Zito
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: and Paul Mariice. What I want you to do is
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: we're going to do a two part give me your
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: comments on Bill Zito. When you're done, transition over to
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Paul Maurice. Because the one thing you told me when
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: we were in a Marlins game, you know, and you
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: and I been there a lot. I've covered a lot
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: of baseball and my schedules all over the planet, that
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: you once told me you don't think the Panthers are
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: going to be as good as the year before when
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Andrew Brunette was there. But okay, they're not gonna be bad.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: But then they had that coaching change there. So let's
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: go ahead, we'll talk. We can you can talk about
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: that that I want you to go into Bill Zito
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: and then Paul Maurice. So you got three questions with
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: a price of one if you get what I'm fan.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean going back to that, Yeah, you asked me.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: You know, the Panthers had won one hundred and had
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty two points, win the President's Trophy.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Louse gets swept in the second round. Look awful, right.
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: They didn't look good in those playoffs, even the series
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: they won against the Washington Capitals.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: They did not look good in that.
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: It was it was curter Ver Hagi carrying that team
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: on his back in that first round of Florida gets
• 23:47
  Speaker 3: knocked out in the first round by a crummy Washington team.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: That was a crummy Washington team and Florida, oh, you know,
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: Florida was almost down three to one coming.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: You know, it was bad.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: So the Panthers that coaching change. So let's that took
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: a lot of guts by by Bill Zito to say,
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: you know what, this team is good, but we need
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: to make it better.
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: We need to change the way we play.
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: And he brought and he lets Andrew Burnette go because
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: he knows to change the team, he needs a veteran
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: guy who's not gonna change. We all love Bruno, we
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: all love Andrew Burnett, but he would have been a
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: first year, really a first year full time coach trying
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: to change the culture of a team that had just
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: won one hundred and twenty to put up one hundred
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: and twenty two points the first time they lose three
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: four games in a row and the heat starts and
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: the outside noises start.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: What do you do?
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: Naturally, you go back to what worked and you try
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: and get some wins. And in all that stuff, Paul
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Maurice was not gonna do that. He told me that
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: on day one. He goes, George, I don't care about
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: getting fired. We lose three, four or five games. We're
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: sticking to the plan. And that's exactly what they did
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: that year two years ago.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: The first half of.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: The season was what is this?
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: The and and fans were going nuts.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: And I think I think I think both Bill and
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: Paul heard some of that outside noise because fans were upset, like,
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: you've you've you got rid of Burnett for this?
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Now all of a sudden, instead of us winning games.
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: Six, four, seven, four, seven, five, we're losing games three
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: to two? Is this what you were boring? But it
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: clicked the guy that the players finally, this guy's not
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: changing his mind. We better get with the program. And
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: they were a different team in the second half of
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: the hockey season. They ended up getting into the playoffs,
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: and you saw how this is a playoff This is
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: a team that style is playoff hockey. And that's what
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Paul Maris brought and that's what Bill Cacido changed. He
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: was able to pull off the Matthew could Schuck deal
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: That took, you know, some major Cajones.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: To make that through.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: You you trade your old time leading scorer who had
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: just had a career year in Jonathan Hubertoh, you throw
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: in a top pairing defenceman, You throw in a first
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: round pick, You throw in the prospect for one player.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: Guess what not only bill Zito probably if Calgary would
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: ask for more, probably would have given them more because
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: he needed Matthew could schuck. He needed to get rid
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: of the headache that was coming with John and than Huberdos.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: He foresaw all of this, He foresaw, he saw it.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: He looked into the future. Bilil. Bill Zito's done an
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: amazing job tearing down this roster without with the team
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: getting better every year. When have you ever seen this?
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: He took over this team in twenty twenty and there's
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: what three players four players left right, and the team
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: has only gotten better each year. This was a complete rebuild, retool.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: But you still had Eck Glad, you still had Barkov,
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: Bobrovsky got better. Why during it, right, you know, when
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: Luc Dryanan was here. It's yea, and it's and you
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: know it, it's you know, I'm surprised bill Zito hasn't won,
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: You know, GM of the Year.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: But that's voted on by general managers.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: So it is what it is.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: It's kind of a fake award. He doesn't care.
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: But now he's done a really good job of rebuilding
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: this team. His first trade, you know, two weeks into
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: the job, he gets Patrick Hornquist here. That completely changes
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: the Florida Panthers. He gets rid of a bad contract
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: in Mike Matheson, who I just saw a couple of
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: weeks ago at Aaron Akladd's thing. Mike Matheson, one of
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: the greatest guys you'll ever know. But that was a
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: that was a bad contract and he was able to
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: get rid of that and things have just grown from there,
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: and you know, I think, and then Paul and again
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: Paul Maurice, what can you say? You listen to what
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: Sasha Barkov says about him.
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: He knows what he's talking about.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: He's been through every situation in hockey over the years.
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: I mean, the guy, you know, he was the coach
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: of the Hertford Whalers, for goodness sake, He's been around
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: a little bit. Right, most kids don't even know what
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: the Hertford Whalers are. They might know the logo, but
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: they don't know what it is. He's done a great
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: job with the Panthers. And you know, it's just been
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: a marriage made in heaven for Florida, Zito and Maurice
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: and they work together very well. And the team has
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: bought in and that's the biggest thing. The team has
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: bought in one and you see, you see it on
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: the ice.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: Well, the one thing I can tell you right now, okay,
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: as having been around the game my whole life, being
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: born and raised at least in an original six city,
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: right is this? Okay, The two words that come to
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: my mind, okay, is a great general manager cannot be
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: afraid to make bold moves. You just can't. And if
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: you are, then you have no business being in a
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: business anyhow. And as far as Paul Maurice is concerned,
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: let's not forget this guy went out there and led
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: to Carolina Hurricanes into the finals, only to lose with
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: the Detroit Red Wings. So it's not like he hasn't
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: seen the Stanley Cups from start to the final round.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: The only thing that changed this year he finally got
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: over the help and won it all. But it hasn't
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: been playoffs. It's not like he hasn't been playoff tested.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, no, no, no, no, you're absolutely right. And
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: you look back at that, well, was that two thousand
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: and two?
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: Yeah, two thousand and two with Carolina and you know,
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: he boy, they went through some rough times moving from
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: Hartford to North Carolina and they played in Greensboro, but
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: the team was based in Raleigh, which is like ninety
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: minutes away. So basically told the guys just show up
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: for the games. They didn't practice, and then lo and behold.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: A couple of years later, they're in the Stanley Cup Final.
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: They take game one, if my memory serves, they won
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Game one of that Stanley Cup Final, then lose one
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: in like double or triple over time. I mean, so
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: they lose in five, but it was a good series.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: And then he doesn't get back. All those years he
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: coaches in Russia, he does broadcasting, he's living in Columbus, Ohio,
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: playing golf, and then he gets back in with the
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: you know, you know, with the Winnipeg Jets and the
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: Ashes of the Atlanta Thrashers. He helps build into a
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: really good Western Conference team and lands with the Panthers.
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: You know, twenty years, I think twenty one years in
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: between Stanley Cup Final appearances.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: And that's the thing about Paul Maris too. Whenever you
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: if you ever want.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: To criticize Paul Marie, the first thing people would say, well,
• 30:40
  Speaker 3: he's the losing his coach in the NHL, right, And
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: that's what people were saying. They said it through the
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: playoffs when the team lost a three to nothing lead,
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: you were hearing Paul marae, Well there it is the
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: losing us coach in NHL history. Well, yeah, have you
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: seen some of the tire fires this guy took over
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: over the years. Yeah, he's coached some real crummy hockey team,
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: starting with the first one. Those Hartford Whalers were awful,
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: their bags packed, and he's trying. He's a twenty eight
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: year old guy trying to coach these guys. He's a
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: hell of a coach who's taking on some bad jobs
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: and turned them around for the most party. He couldn't
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: do anything with Toronto. I don't know if anybody could.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: Back then. They were terrible. Back then, those Carolina teams
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: were bad. Listen, the Winnipeg team was.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: But hey, Paul.
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: Marays has done a real good job. Your long story short,
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: and the players love him. They you know, they they
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: love the you know, his dry humor, his personality, and
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: and again that he won't change, and they finally were like,
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: this guy is not going we better start playing. And
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: then he throws f bombs at him when they need it,
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: but he doesn't do it all the time. And that's
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: why I think a lot of people are when the
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: Panthers have a bad period. Oh, I'd like to be
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: in that room when Paul Maurice gets in there. I'll
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: bet you ten bucks. He doesn't even go in the
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: room most of those two because he doesn't he doesn't
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: even go in the room. The guys will figure it out.
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: He treats them like men. He treats them like the
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: NHL players that they are, and that goes a long way.
• 32:19
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• 32:21
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• 32:24
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• 32:38
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  Speaker 1: All right, well George, well, just want to make sure
• 33:56
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• 33:59
  Speaker 1: had me probably had my favorite Beavery diet, Mountain dew.
• 34:02
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• 34:05
  Speaker 2: I'm just drinking the water.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: Oh okay, yeah, but I'll tell you I like to
• 34:09
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• 34:12
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• 34:14
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• 34:17
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• 34:36
  Speaker 3: every single day, and we got training camps starting on
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: the I think the nineteenth of September, so you know,
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: by my math, that's about three weeks away, chief.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: What do you think? And and by my math, one
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: of the reasons I scheduled this show now is to
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: get what everybody's appetite, to get him ready for training camp.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: You can't there's no way that we could go out
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: there and start the Panthers season without wet in your appetite.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: And like I said, George has got an open invitation.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: You don't need anybody. This guy come out whatever he
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: wants to do. But tonight was a good opportunity to
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: get ahead of this training camp, especially as I get
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: really as I wrap up baseball, George and I start
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: to get into football, and of course I'll be running
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: my second book later in the year, once the year
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: is over with, and then going from there. But meanwhile,
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: all right, so we talked about Paul Marie and so
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: the bold moves that Bill Zito made. But people have
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: to understand it. I've always thought the Stanley Cup playoffs
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: are way better than March Madness. Don't get me wrong. Okay,
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: but if you have to test, resolve, okay, in sixty game.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: But here's the biggest thing, George, and that's this. Okay,
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: when you play overtime in the playoffs, you're playing until
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: you don't have any legs left. Not the five minute
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: with all the shootouts and all that. And you know,
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: I could go either way as for whether I like
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: to shootout or not. But I understand why you do
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: it because you always definitely want to put yourself in
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: a vision where you have a winner.
• 36:03
  Speaker 3: All you need something for TV you can't have, Yeah,
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: you can't have seasons. It's kind of like in baseball
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: with the new extra innings rule. They don't want to
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: wear out pitchers and they want the games they don't
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: you know, Ballet's sports or whoever's.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: They don't want games going until two in the morning.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: Even as much fun as it was to say I
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: was that Mets game that went twenty two innings, Those
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: are not fun games at all, right until they're over
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: and you could say, oh, yeah, I was there. Other
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: than that, those are miserable games.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, no.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Right, So, George, I gotta ask you a quick question. Okay,
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: really quick. Do you have extrasensory perception? I have ESPN plus. No,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: that wasn't what I asked you. Esp You know why
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: I asked you that question because now I'm gonna be
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: talking about Bally's and I thought you were starting to
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: read my mind. If that's good, that's why that's yeah,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: that's no, it's okay. So it's all about that's why
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: we have so much fun when we cover Marlin games
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: and pantherd wherever we end up planning up. No, that's
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: why I asked to ask extrasensory production or in my
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: own book and a great mind staking like GMTA. I'll
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: give you all kinds of one liners when we start
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: going out, and I'll even take it. I'll even treat
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: you over a great steakhouse here out in South Florida
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: and we'll talk about that at a later day. They'll
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: just be on me. We can figure out plants on
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: how we can do other stuff. But with that said, okay,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: let's transition over to Bally's. Okay, with the decline of ballets,
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: tell me what the panthers new TV situation will look
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: like this year from what I read. But I need
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: you to help clarify me on this, okay, that they're
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: doing a way with valleys or the insecurities or whatnot
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: to go to a much better situation. But you're the
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: one who needs I need you to provide the details. Please.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, So the Panthers won't be on Bally's
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: anymore ballet sports, and by the next year it might
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: be it's it's gonna be fan dueled network or something.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: I don't know what's good, but they won't be Bally's
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: anymore because that that naming change is coming.
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: But very simple, they're just going over the air now.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: Everybody gets confused when I say they were leaving cable.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: The only way to get the Panthers right now is
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: either through streaming or cable on Bally's. You have to
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: have cable that has Ballys or a streaming service like
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: DirecTV now or right, or you stream the games through
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: a subscription. Now they're going to be over the air,
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: so if you have an antenna, you'll be able to
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: get it on Channel thirty nine in Miami all the
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: way to the Keys. If you have a digital antenna,
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: you'll get it in the Keys. You'll get Channel thirty
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: nine in the Keys, Channel nine in West Palm. You'll
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: be able to get it all the way up the
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: Space Coast. There's a West Coast station that's going to
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: be soon to be named. But every cable channel carries
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: these channels, so they're still going to be on your
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: cable TV. You just don't need cable TV to get them.
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: So it's a very good thing for the Panthers. Maybe
• 38:55
  Speaker 3: they're not getting a check for eighteen million dollars from
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: Balis when the season starts. It's you know, their new
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: deal with Scripts is probably half that, but I bet
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: you they've got some kind of deal with the advertising.
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: They will now be reaching what ten million people, and
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: you know they could reach ten million people where they
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: only had a fraction of that because listen, a lot
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: of cable companies were dropping Bally's as it was, so
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: even if you had cable, you may not get ballets.
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: A lot of the streaming services don't have ballets, like
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: if you have Fubu, excuse me, something like that, YouTube TV,
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: they don't have balis, so you aren't get it anyway.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: So with this you'll be able to find the game.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Now.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: It may be a little confusing at the beginning, but
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: everybody's gonna get it.
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: Everybody's got access to it.
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: And if you live in Detroit and you want to
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: watch the Panthers, they're still going to be on an
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: ESPN Plus just like always. So a lot of people
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: have been confused about that, like what does this mean
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: for me?
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: I live in Atlanta, Georgia. How do I watch? I
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: watched the same way you always did.
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: If you watch the Panthers on TV last year in Atlanta,
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: same thing this year.
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: It's just South Florida. Okay, can now let's go to
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: chat room a little bit. I'm sure there's some pretty
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: good question. I'll make sure we get to everybody and
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: stay on point with what we have. So we have, Yeah,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: we do. We have a pretty good Panthers turnout tonight chatroom,
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: which is good. George's I've been a Panther man for
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: twenty five years. Good to have b Low's on here.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: I see the South Florida tributoring on hockey show. Let
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: me tell you something, I have good hockey resources. And
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: anytime you go ahead and have a friend like George
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: and I have been friends for a long time. He's
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: always welcome and I enjoy bringing George on. You know,
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: we get along. Well, you don't realize the conversations we
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: have when we're not at the rink or at the stadium, but.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: Watching the Marlins.
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, hey, listen, we find a way to
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: keep our conversations where So Blow's as pop Quistion, who
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: is the Panthers goalie in two thousand and seven. I
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: do know that one for you, Thomas Becoon, Okay, there
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: you go, Thomas Folcoon, Okay, good on blows all right,
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: getting rid of Huberno and Brunette transform the team.
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: Well yeah, definitely, Well hold on, had I gotta go
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: back in good question. I gotta go back to that
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: trivia question he may have been asking. At the end
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: of two thousand and six oh seven, that would have
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: been Eddie bell for and Alex auld Starting in two
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: thousand and seven it was Thomas Vocoon and Craig Anderson.
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: So just to hear that one up.
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: All right, no problem, let's go back to.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: Hold this up here, Joshua, if the fans were in charge,
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: they could chuck deal. Never would have happened.
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: You're absolutely right, Maurice, never would have been if it
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: was up to the fans. He's absolutely right, and and
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: that's why trust the pros. Josh right, I mean, Bill Zito.
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: They stayed the course. That's a good that was good
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: and Jordi thank you, thank you.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: Hora.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go, all right, I said, I'm not
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: getting into pronunciation of names if I know it's good
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: for me. I'm leaving it alone. George did once in
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: a whole far again. All right, we'll just keep reading
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: them along and and that book is flaming out. I
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: guess talked about my book, which is good, and you'll
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: end up in that one again too. What happened is
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: now never mind. No chat wasn't shut off, Joshua. Part
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: of what we're doing here is making sure you got
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: it all from our end, incorporating and this guy's out
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: a roll. You got to tell you these guys in
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: the chat room, let me tell you, we've got some
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: pretty good diehards in here, you know. And it's really
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: encouraging to see a very active Hello Joshua, nine million
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: times over. Hello again. Scott loves watching the Marlins, of course,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: you know, Joshua. If you think you're gonna go ahead
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: give me a hard time out the Marlins. Let me
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: explain something. George knows it too, that I've been covering
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: baseball myself for a lot of years and played the
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: game as well, so you know, I love hockey. My
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: baseball connections run deep as well. And when you start
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: to get up there a little bit older in age,
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: you try to pace yourself a little bit about what
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: you can do versus what you can't do, plus what
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: my restrictions are on the weekend in terms of covering,
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: which I wish I could be a beat writer and
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: do it all the time, but now I'll let George
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: building Florida Hockey. Now we're trying to build a network,
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: so it's hard to be every single place. So the
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: Panthers in my time covering them, especially with Mike Lewis
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: as well. Nothing against Anelin being back, Christy Perete, nothing
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: against them. I just worked with Mike the most and
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: Mike remembered me a lot when I was in town
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: as a visitor for the Wings. That's why I'm talking
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: a little bit more about Mike. Nothing against Addie or
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: Chrissy at all. This is nothing to do with them.
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: It's you can only be in so many places at
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: one time, and for me, baseball has a big inventory. Okay,
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: their home schedule there's like eighty one games. The NHL's
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: schedule itself entirety is eighty two. And I do have
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: a good history with baseball, and I make no bones
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: about it. But hockey, come on, if you're brad in
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: an area where you were brought up, with Gordi Howe,
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: Alex Delvecchio, I mean, give me a break, and then
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: Steve Eiserman later although lamarg majority of his career. There
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: you go play that. So this guy's a red Wing
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: guy too, so you know he knows exactly a good
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: piece of valuable memorabilia from Motown. But the reality is, yeah,
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: I make up bones about it. I talk about all sports.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: It just so happens we're in a position now. There
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: you go, Alex Delvecchio, unbelievable. I've bet I have some
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: full time autographing. So this guy is not a pant
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: One trick pony. This guy here has a pretty good
• 44:16
  Speaker 1: feel about what hockey town is all about as well.
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, when the Panthers didn't have their own team,
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: don't be surprised if they're looking.
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: At this guy now, nineteen sixty one Cincinnati Reds.
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: Look at this guy. Well, of course he's a he's
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: an Ohio guy too, so that doesn't hurt. So, you know,
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: we try to keep it real. So in terms of
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: I hope the one thing that we've been able to address,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: because this was something I really want to make sure
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: we ended up getting it out. Okay, is I want
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: people know how they can watch the Panthers because here's
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: the problem I'll give you. Listen.
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: It is confusing, and I get it because I, you know,
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: listen when I when I, when I write, every time
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: I write about the broadcasting thing I get, I'll get
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: a lot of questions for it. But the truth of
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: it is, almost everybody's cable is going to get in
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: the South Florida area. If you live in Tampa or Orlando, no,
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: your cable won't have Channel nine out of West Palm.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: It just won't because it doesn't. Why would it.
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: But if you have a digital antenna, look it up.
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: You can get so many channels. I'm getting Channel nine
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: from West Palm in my house implantation, so you can
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: get from all over with these digital antennas, depending on
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: how you adjust it and all that stuff.
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: And it's crystal clear. It's an HD.
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: And again, if you live out of town, you're gonna
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: see the games just like always. If not, it's on
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: channel thirty nine in Miami Fort Lauderdale. If you live
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: in Boca, you're.
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: Gonna get it on thirty nine and nine.
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: It's gonna overlap because it's TV in the West coast,
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: the Naples Fort Myers, they're gonna have it. So they're
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: expanding their base because listen how many times on Balle's
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: where did they confuse? You know, when the Orlando Magic
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: are playing that the Panther game got goofed up or
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: something because they had to switch because of.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: The territorial restrictions.
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: That's all.
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: You know, it's going out in the air. If you
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: can get it, you get it.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: So well, here's the problem we ran into the summer.
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: The Marlins were off. I couldn't get them here in
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: Broward County because of that.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: Situation, because of the Exfinity Bally's.
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: Exactly now I could get them. I'm talking to my
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: friend done in Miami like Jesse to playlock, Craig menermedi
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: and you know, it's great to see you guys here
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: is Bally's still in business, you know what I mean?
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: They were in a well docu and that hurt that
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: is that might might be the straw that broke the
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: back was okay, the battle with Exfinity, because Exfinity is
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: Comcast owned by NBC, is one of the top cable
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: providers in South Florida. When Ballely's went off, after you know,
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: the Panthers were in the playoffs, it didn't matter. Their
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: games are on TNTESP and ABC. But I think that
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: might have been that might have broke the back for
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: for when it came to the Panthers making the decision
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: to go to Channel because they're like, well, how much
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: more can we deal with this because next it's going
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: to be Direct TV, and then after that it's going
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: to be Charter in Frontier.
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: All the cave. Let's just give it to the people,
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: And that's what you got.
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: Everybody in South Florida's gonna be able to get the
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: game four three not cost you a dime. If you've
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: already got Exfinity Cable, you've got Channel thirty nine, so
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: you're good.
• 47:20
  Speaker 1: Well, unfortunately for the Miami Marlins, they were the sacrificial
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: lamb that.
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: Detroit. In Detroit.
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: Now, the Infinity is not big in the Michigan area,
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: but there are some people in Michigan that couldn't get
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: the Tigers.
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: Same thing. Yeah, no, that's a good point, and as
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: much every now and then when I do bring up
• 47:42
  Speaker 1: a Detroit reference, I'll bring up this one as pertinent.
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: Many years ago, into Silver Dome used to have their
• 47:47
  Speaker 1: roof cave in. Bill Davidson had seen enough, and I'm
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: building my own arena. What was it called the Palace
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: of bomber Hill. So it takes something like this to
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: force you to go out there and use a stimulus response.
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: Well, they all these parent company they're in bankruptcy court.
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: They may not come out of it. This was as
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: good a time as this is probably the perfect time
• 48:07
  Speaker 3: to move on and start your own thing, because they're
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: the Stanley Cup champs.
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: Right, if you're gonna do it, why not now? I
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: mean that's true. The iron couldn't be any hotter than
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: it is right now. For the Panthers.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, your marketability is so much better when you want
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: at all.
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: And we always thought that it'd be the Miami Heat
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: to do this first. We always thought it'd be the
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: Miami Heat that went out and was on Channel thirty nine.
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: And it's the Panthers that did it. So good for them.
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: They beat the Miami Heat to the punch.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: Well good, well, hey, listen, you know what.
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: The first time since like ninety five.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: Well, it doesn't hurt when you have Einstein slash Bill
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: Zito running the show and then you have a pretty
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: good coach at Battle Testa and has won a lot
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: with nothing in Winnipeg and Carolina. It's not like he
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: went to to big market and failed. He ended up
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: going out there to two markets and are big. And
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: I've seen a lot of coaches the years that having
• 49:00
  Speaker 1: more losses because they've had to take bad situations or
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: a start from scratch, and that goes against the records.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: So what I do is I don't hold the record
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: against them. I just say what kind of a situation
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: did you and er it and how many championships you
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: have and and that's how I gauge a great.
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying they're like like like, uh, Josh just
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: said if the fans, the fans that were angry, that
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: was an easy, easy.
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: Arrow to sling.
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: Was, well, there's he has the most losses in the NHL.
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: There now you're seeing why, And yeah, I guess you're right,
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: he does. But he's also coached you know, some real
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: some real dogs.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: Over the years come on trying to win up and
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: win up and give me a break. That's not easy
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: to do.
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: And I think they moved from Atlanta for a reason, right,
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: I mean they were bad.
• 49:49
  Speaker 1: Well yeah, but let me tell you, and we could
• 49:50
  Speaker 1: get into this another time with Ryan Peterson. I can
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: tell you right now, I have a gut feeling down
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: the road Atlanta's going to get another team in the
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: summer games. They're gonna Yeah, I think so too.
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: And it'll work this time. Yeah, they go to North Atlanta,
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: it'll work. Yeah, you know, and the NHL knows that
• 50:08
  Speaker 3: they're going to get a billion dollar one point three
• 50:10
  Speaker 3: billion to do it.
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: They're doing it.
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: There you go in Atlanta, NHL. Not a matter of if,
• 50:16
  Speaker 1: it's a matter of when. I as an old Panthers coach,
• 50:19
  Speaker 1: I got to work on them briefly. And we're going
• 50:22
  Speaker 1: to talk about former coach Joel Quinnville. Do you think
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: he'll ever get another head coaching job.
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he will. I think somebody's going to
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: give him a chance.
• 50:33
  Speaker 3: I think that Joel Quinnville is a very respected guy
• 50:37
  Speaker 3: in this league.
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: I think a lot of coaches still talk to.
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: Him, you know, either on the phone or whatever. When
• 50:44
  Speaker 3: he got reinstated by the NHL, I think that was
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: more for Stan Bowman, because the NHL knew that the
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: Edmonton Oilers needed a GM, so they they made they
• 50:56
  Speaker 3: made an announcement that Joel Quinnville, Stan Bowman and the
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: other the other guy from the Blackhawks were now eligible.
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: That was that was a move first, stan Bowman.
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: There was only one coaching job open in the NHL
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: at the time, and that was for the Columbus Blue Jackets.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: And after the can.
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: Ken who did they just who did?
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: Who is the former Detroit coach that that was at well, I.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: Mean Ken Hollell was a former general manager.
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, the coach, the coach, the coach of the
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: black of the Red Wings when they just won it
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: the last time they won it.
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: Mike Babcock.
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: Mike Babcock.
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: After after Columbus had to fire Mike Babcock, there was
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: no way they were hiring Joel Quinnville.
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: So there was one job open. He wasn't going to
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: get it.
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: Now every every coach that's on the hot seat has
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: to worry about Joel Quinnville because he's ready to go,
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: He's ready to jump in.
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: He's a proven winner.
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: He he won here with Florida until this whole thing
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: went down in twenty twenty one, and uh yeah, he'd
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: still be the coach here. Joel Quinnville would still be
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: the coach of the Panthers if none of this stuff
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: blew up. So the Panthers loved having him here. He's
• 52:07
  Speaker 3: still friends.
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: With uh with with Vinnie Viola.
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't be surprised to see Joel Quinnville pop up
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: in your timelines this weekend when the Stanley Cup is
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: at Saratoga with Vinnie Viola.
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: They're horse racing pals.
• 52:24
  Speaker 3: Just throwing that out there that you might see Joel
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: Quinnville in the background.
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: So yeah, long, long story short. Yes, I do think
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: you'll get a job.
• 52:35
  Speaker 3: I don't know where or when obviously, but he's going
• 52:38
  Speaker 3: to be the number one guy that if a team
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: struggles out of the gate and you need a veteran voice.
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: It's as long as they feel like he's you know,
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: rehabilitated or whatever, and you know he's seen the you know,
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: he's seen the light when it comes to his past sins,
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: and I think everybody feels like he has the ANHL
• 52:57
  Speaker 3: is cleared to him.
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: He'll have a job.
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean a lot of people in Detroit are
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: hoping he ends up going with the Red Wings. Since
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: he's a Windsor Native.
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: Listen, that's that's a guy that's going to be on
• 53:07
  Speaker 3: the hot seat, right, Jeff, Yeah, he's on the hot seat.
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: I think I think he's a terrific I think he's
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: a terrific coach. But then we'll talk about the Red
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: Wings if you want.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, we will. I just wanted to bring
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: that up because he's a Windsor native. I think he
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: I don't know if he was with the Windsor Spitfire,
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: but yeah, well address in a few moments. I do
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: want to go over a couple of Oh were you
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: really I was just recently in Toronto about oh, well,
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: good for you. Yeah, I love Windsor. I have no
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: problem with it. I like to I remember, I can
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: tell your stories so many times I used to go
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: across the border to get like pop rocks and things
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: that you couldn't get when they were out law in Detroit.
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: But then, you know, I have good times in my
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: time of Windsor. I don't know if they get the joint.
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: And of course we had Channel nine back then Hockey
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: Night in Canada, so we had one more station most
• 53:54
  Speaker 1: people in the United States that we were on a
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: we were bordering Canada. Yes, at least in all right,
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: let's talk about the Panthers they conquered. Let's talk about
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: some of the offseason moves. Okay, good, the bed and
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: the ugly. I'm gonna turn it over to you. Yeah,
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: and then well after that, I'll follow it up with
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: a repeat, and of course we'll talk a little bit
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: of Red Wings as well. So go ahead, let's talk
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: about as I mentioned, you know, they conquered. I want
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: you to go over more of the offseason moves since
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: you're on in every single day. Go ahead.
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, the Panthers, obviously, I mean, there were some
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: guys that had to get paid right from the Panthers.
• 54:27
  Speaker 2: They lost a couple of big guys.
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: Brandon Montour, Oliver Ekman, Larsen, Ryan Lomberg, Kevin Stenland. I
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: thought he was a guy that Florida might keep, but
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: he ends up going to the Utah Hockey Team or
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: whatever they are, the Utah Hockey Club.
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: So they lost, they lost, They lost some big guys.
• 54:47
  Speaker 3: I mean, and it's just a matter of this is
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: the Stanley Cup, the salary cap era. You know, it
• 54:54
  Speaker 3: is a Detroit guy all too well, you can't pay everybody,
• 54:59
  Speaker 3: but Florida was able to Sam Reinhart That's something that
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: we'd been talking about all season long that you know,
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: everybody was telling me that there's no way Florida's going
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: to be able to keep Sam Reinhart. I said, just watch,
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: they're gonna he's gonna take less money. He probably could
• 55:13
  Speaker 3: have gotten eleven million dollars somewhere and he took eight
• 55:17
  Speaker 3: to stay. So the Florida Panthers did a real good
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: job being able to sign Sam ryin Hart.
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: He did not want to leave.
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: They've they've got you know, they were able to sign
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: some guys on the cheap. You know, they got Nate
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: Schmidt from Winnipeg who got bought out. They've got Jessper
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: bow Quists, they got Thomas no Sick, e J.
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: Greer.
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: Who else did they sign? The other Bowquist?
• 55:41
  Speaker 3: Adam you know, a number eight draft pick not too
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: long ago with the Blackhawks, who was a big piece
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: of that Seth Jones trade to Columbus. He Columbus thought
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: he was going to be a star. They end up
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: getting rid of him. Florida get some cheap. He's a
• 55:57
  Speaker 3: restricted free agent, so the Panthers have hiss for the
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: next couple of years. That might be the most underrated
• 56:02
  Speaker 3: signing of the offseason. If this works, you might have
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: just found yourself a top four defenseman for the next couple.
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: Of years cheap.
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: And you know, so bil Zito working some magic, trying
• 56:14
  Speaker 3: to bring in some guys at with limited funds, just
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: like they did last year. You know, you look at
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: some of the moves they made last year that worked out.
• 56:23
  Speaker 3: They re signed a Meetri Kulakov on the cheap. They've
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: did a real nice job of of of restocking things Florida. Listen,
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: They're gonna have a different fourth line, They're gonna have
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: a couple different defencemen, and Spencer Knight is now the
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: backup to Sergei Bbrovsky as Anthony Stilars moves on to Toronto.
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: But this is basically the guts of this team is
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: still together.
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: This this team has good bones, you know, as we
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: used to say back in the day, there's good bones
• 56:54
  Speaker 3: here and the Panthers are gonna be fun.
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: Well, Vladimir Kashenka went to Detroit.
• 56:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah he right here, b all knew he wasn't staying
• 57:01
  Speaker 3: you did, you couldn't afford him, right.
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: Well, And Mike Gilletts, let me tell you, if he
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: could buy championships. He would have gotten more at the
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: salary cap. Era had gotten in the way everybody he
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: was making deals right and left. But hey, at that
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: time he took advantage of the system. Let's face the reality.
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: The NHL's salary cap is a lot lower than it
• 57:20
  Speaker 1: is a Major League baseball. I mean, seriously, bring major
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: League baseball.
• 57:25
  Speaker 3: But listen, people boo Gary Bettman when he comes on
• 57:29
  Speaker 3: the ice here in South Florida. They ought to be
• 57:31
  Speaker 3: standing up and applauding. He would not let this team
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: leave South Florida.
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: He's been a.
• 57:35
  Speaker 3: Champion for hockey down here, and him making sure that
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: there is a salary cap keeps teams like Florida able
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: to compete with Detroit, because the Detroit would have just
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: written a check. I mean, if there was no salary cap,
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: you'd have Detroit, Toronto, Montreal and the Rangers and everybody else.
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: Go go on your merry way, because they would have
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: bought every single player they could. Now the salary half,
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: everybody's on even footing. Now, if you're a Montreal fan,
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: you hate it. But if you're a Detroit fan, you
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: hate it because you know how much money your organization makes.
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: But you can only you could spend just as much
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: as the Arizona Coyotes.
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: Is that fair?
• 58:14
  Speaker 3: I don't know, but it definitely leads to parody. And
• 58:17
  Speaker 3: that's why you see the Montreal Canadians and a long rebuild.
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: You see Detroit and a long rebuild. And you've got
• 58:23
  Speaker 3: teams like Florida, Tampa, Bay, Vegas La was there for
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: a while, Anaheim has got a cup. All these other
• 58:31
  Speaker 3: teams have kind of it's been an even playing field
• 58:34
  Speaker 3: as far as salary caps go, Well.
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Chris Drejer he is nothing but good for the
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: team for a period of time. I don't know.
• 58:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, is gonna come here. He's been hurt, he's
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: got some injury issues. He comes in here on a
• 58:47
  Speaker 3: on a on a cheap deal, and and he'll give
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: He'll give Spencer Knight some fight if Spencer, you know,
• 58:53
  Speaker 3: if somebody struggles, listen, if Sergey Bobrovski gets hurt or
• 58:57
  Speaker 3: gets sick, you bring in Dreage and you got back,
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: you know, so you're fine. The Panthers have done a
• 59:02
  Speaker 3: nice job with that backup goalie position in the last
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: couple of years. Oux lying, as you know two years
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: ago and then this this year, they got Anthony Stillars,
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: who nobodyne too much about, and he had statistically the
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: best season.
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: In the NHL this season.
• 59:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, it's interesting when you look at additions and
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: some trash. I don't sure what market you're in. Toronto
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: by they had one of Stanley Cups sixty seven, right,
• 59:26
  Speaker 1: I mean a Stanley Cups is sixty seven? How many
• 59:28
  Speaker 1: people were born then? I know I was born, But
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: you know, that's another story. I'm not here to criticize
• 59:32
  Speaker 1: the Maple Leaf and I'm just saying.
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying, this salary cap keeps things.
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no, they keep every in Montreal, Montreal, all
• 59:40
  Speaker 1: those teams are going to have their you know, listen,
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: Montreal is building a very nice team, to Detroit is
• 59:47
  Speaker 1: building a very nice team.
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: They are gonna be teams that come up and go.
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: But if there was no salary cap in the NHL,
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: it would be the wild Wild West, and you'd have
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: baseball where you've got the Los Angeles Dodgers of the
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: three hundred million dollars pay.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: Roll in the Marlins with fifteen. I mean, it's just
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: who wants that? Well?
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: All right, so the Panthers nearly made history for all
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: the wrong reasons, or up three nothing and obviously Edmonton
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: gets back in it. They end up getting back in
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: the series and then Florida closes it out. How much
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: pressure do you feel that the Panthers felt knowing that, hey,
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: you know this is something, this is a record we
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: don't want to be a part of. Knowing full well
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: that Edmonton battled their way to stay in this series
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: only to finally close it out. Do you think this
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: could have been a long damage a thing for the
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: Florida Panthers and they have not been able to close
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: the series out. Yeah, I think that that's a sting
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: that doesn't come off you.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: I think even being on that ice after Game seven,
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: there was more of a feeling of relief than celebration
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 3: because the Panthers knew it.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: They they were.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 3: Gonna go down in history as one of the sports
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 3: greatest choke jobs.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: Even Pol Maurice talked about it.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 3: He said, when he came into the building the day
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: before the game, ESPN had, you know, had like a
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: banner up. I guess it was probably like one of
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: the you know, the early morning ESPN shows like Get
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 3: Up or Wake Up or whoever the heck it is
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: and it was like biggest choke job ever Florida Panthers.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 3: And he was like, couldn't get the TVs changed before
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 3: the guys came in to see it.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: Yes, there was a lot of pressure on the Panthers
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: after that.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: Now Matthew could chuck, you know, kind of sold it like, no,
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: this is you know, they we won three day one three,
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 3: this is perfect. And listen, the team came out and
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 3: played great that first period. And that's what Paul Marie said.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: He goes, if we don't play good that first period,
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: we're in big trouble. They played a very good, strong
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: first period. I think it was tied one one. But
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 3: he was like, no, we're good, we can play this game.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: We're fine.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: But yeah, that's a stink.
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 3: Fifteen years from now, Sasha Barkov's going into the Hockey
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: Hall of Fame. People are talking about, well, he was
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: part of that Florida team that was up three to
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: nothing and lost to Stanley Cup.
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: The Panthers they never they would never have recovered from that.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 3: I mean even if they won the Cup down the road,
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 3: they would still because nobody, what is it the forty
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: seven Detroit Red Wings, I think are the only team
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: that have blown a three to zero lead in a
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 3: championship series.
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: Nobody even knows who they are.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: I think if I remember right, George, I believe it
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 1: was nineteen forty two against the Toronto maple Least World
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 1: War two.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 3: Nobody remembers anything like the Athletic actually did some research
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: and did some research on that team, and they were terrible.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 3: They shouldn't have even been in that final, but they
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: were because of World War two or whatever. They were using,
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 3: like you know, factory workers.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: On the ice.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 3: Nobody remembers that until somebody goes up three nothing and
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: then they get brought up. Okay, the forty two Detroit
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: Red Wings, nobody knows that team at all. This Florida
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 3: Panther team. For the next fifty years, people go remember
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: that Florida team. I don't remember who beat him, but
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 3: that that that hockey team from Florida.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: I mean people, they would have been talking about it forever.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I would have been a grill on their back.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 1: A few other questions, just so everybody knows. Okay, the
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 1: sportsing change will be at about nine to nine ten
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 1: tonight Eastern time. Obviously, George and I are giving you
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 1: about the best Panthers information that we can because we
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: scheduled this broadcast as a preview towards training camp, which
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: is three weeks out. So with that said, you had
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: the United States in Canada, Okay, George Edmondton, and you
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: talk about the distance between Edmonton and Florida to begin with,
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: My goodness, I mean if I were collecting frequent flyers,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: I'd have a trip all the way to Iceland. Book
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: right now? Yeah, now the Canadian But now the Canadians.
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 1: You know, Canada US and the last team in Canada
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: to win a Stanley Cup was a nineteen ninety three
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: Montreal Canadians coach by Jack the Mayors. So do you
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: think that the Panthers? Oh yeah, well he's pretty good.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: You said, I'm back home too, would good? But he
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 1: Now we played with trivia question. So do you feel,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 1: and you know, obviously you're closer than anybody else that
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 1: the weight of the Panthers goes beyond blowing that three
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: oh street that they'd be the team that allowed Canada
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 1: to break that long drought it was Now you know
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: in Canada, you don't think so.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: Now I don't think anybody who's even talking about that.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: I think were they were at the beginning of the series.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 3: People were saying, you know, the weight of Canada and
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 3: all that, and I think that, you know, I think
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: it was Matthew Coustuck.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: Again, we were laughing.
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 3: I'm like, hey, Matthew, do you think Calgary's rooting for
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 3: for Edmonton. He's like, no, they're rooting for us. You know,
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 3: Calgary's rooting for me. You know, uh, they're they're in
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 3: for the Panthers because they hate Edmonton.
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: But no, I I never got that sense.
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 3: I mean maybe some of the Canadian media, because the
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: Canadian media was here in force for the four games
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 3: that were played in Sunrise, the Canadian media, and it
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 3: got bigger, like Game seven, every local broadcaster in Canada
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 3: was here, you know, doing live, live hits.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: So there was a lot of talk of that at Canada.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: Not here though.
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 3: I think here it was just the three to zero thing,
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 3: like they when the Panthers won Game three, I think
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 3: it was a Thursday night games. Game four was a
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 3: Saturday and the Stanley Cups in the building and everybody's
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 3: talking and you know, you've got Paul Maurice, your team
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 3: can win the Stanley Cup tonight and he's like, oh
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 3: my god, you know, couldn't sleep last night.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 2: They all from that to Game seven, where everybody's.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: Like, dude, you've kind of you know, you've kind of
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: choked the bed here, you know what I mean? Again,
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 3: that was That's the stink that I don't think because listen,
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 3: the Florida Panthers for for you know, for the last
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 3: twenty years have been had have had that reputation off
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 3: same old Panthers, right you talk, you know, Oh the
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 3: Panthers are in third place, right, yeah, they'll blow you know,
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 3: good people, you know, because they've had that reputation in
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 3: South Florida, not recently, but you blow a three zero lead,
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 3: people would be like, same old Panthers.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: You know.
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: And then you've got to next year.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 3: Every city you go to, every team that comes in
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: here wants to talk to pal Maurice pre game, every
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 3: broadcaster and there so coach, how you guys recovered from
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 3: that loss in the stamp. You'd have to talk about
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 3: it all year long. It would never stop, it would
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 3: never stop.
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: All right, personal opinion, I want yours on this too,
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: two to one one one to me. I like the
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: two three to two format. Albeit you had two days
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: to travel with all that distance. But give me your perception,
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: which one should it be? Two two one one one
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: two three two?
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 3: I think the two three two works, I mean, that's
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 3: what we grew up with, right, I mean yeah, and
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 3: you know, you know the.
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: World Series used to be that I don't remember.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 3: Is the World the other The World Series is still
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 3: two three to two, right, So if it's good enough
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 3: for the World Series, I think it's good enough for hockey.
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you get rid of this.
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 3: I mean because listen, the NHL back in the day
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: used to have a media charter or wherever they didn't.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: They don't have those anymore.
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 3: So you had all these sports writers that you know,
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 3: trying to get paying all this money for two three two.
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 3: Go there, camp out for a bit. If you know,
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 3: if it's three to you're coming home.
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: You got two games. You can pin it on the road.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know, but again, it's you know, it is
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 2: what it is.
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: Hey, Listen, those are your easier questions. I've hit you
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 1: with everything but the kitchen sync. But I've told a
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 1: couple more kitchen sink topics. So hanging there, all right?
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: So now let's talk about the obvious question, George, Well,
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 1: the Panthers repeat. Obviously they've they're the hunted and obviously
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 1: they we've talked about the departures and the additions, but
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 1: now they're the champion. Everybody's coming after you. You know
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 1: you're gonna have a big crowd there. But now you know,
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 1: like every other repeat, repeating as champion in the NHL
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 1: is probably one of the toughest pas to do because
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: they have to win sixteen to get there to finish
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: it off. But let's just leave all that out of
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 1: the way. Do you think that the Florida Panthers, with
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 1: the group that they have, well know what you have
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: in the front office, any viola support of owner Bill Zito,
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 1: nothing short of nothing short okay of a genius and
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 1: so and then of course we have pal Marie. So
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 1: I guess I don't know if we're having any issues
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 1: whether anybody can see the chat or not, but I
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 1: can see it on my end, so and George can
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 1: see it on which up. Yeah, yeah, we can. So
• 1:08:35
  Speaker 1: we when we see it, we address the questions that
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 1: they fit in. But let's go back to what I
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 1: just asked you, Okay, and that's this. Do you think
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 1: that the Panthers can repeat in this coming season?
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 3: Real quick, Josh just asked if the if the roster
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 3: is said, they'll probably have a uh, they'll probably have
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 3: a couple of free agent guys come in as on tryouts,
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 3: but you know, maybe fourth you know, fourth line guy
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 3: might make the team.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 2: But it's pretty much set.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, they always have the free agent tryout,
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 3: maybe two veteran guys or something. We'll see, but I
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 3: think they're set as far as the team repeating. Listen,
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 3: there's a reason why teams don't repeat. The last team
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 3: to win back to back championships were the Tampa Bay Lightning.
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 3: And I'm not disparaging the Lightning at all, but that
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 3: was a completely different situation. Their first championship came during
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 3: the COVID year. It was in a bubble. They started
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 3: the playoffs from scratch. They each team had six months off,
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 3: you know, because of COVID. Then they go to Toronto
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 3: and they okay, and then the next year it's a
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 3: fifty game season and they win.
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: The championship again in front of no fans. So listen,
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: they didn't have to play an eighty two game season.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: Back to back years. Florida made the finals. Last year,
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 3: they won it this year. They've played over two hundred
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 3: hockey games in the last two years. That is a
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 3: lot of mileage on these Panthers. No, I don't think
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 3: they're gonna win the championship again, because how can you
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 3: that's another one hundred games, one hundred plus games that
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 3: they've got to play on these legs and everything.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 2: Can they Yes, they've got the talent.
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 3: To do it, but at some point, this team's just
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 3: gonna run out of magic. They're gonna run out of gas.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 1: But this team's built for the long haul.
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 3: So you know, Hey, they're the favorites, they're the betting
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 3: favorites in Vegas to win the Stanley Cup.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: But it's tough, folks, That's all I'm saying. Tampa Bay
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: did it, Yes they did.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 3: They did it, but they did it in a weird,
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 3: weird way, And there's a reason why teams don't repeat
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 3: in the NHL, especially for a team that went to
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 3: the finals.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: Two straight years. It's gonna be tough.
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 1: That's all.
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 3: Not being Captain Downer, but that is a lot of
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 3: hockey games to have to play. Do I think the
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 3: Panthers are a playoff team. Yes, I do think the
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 3: Panthers are going to make the playoffs. After that, anything
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 3: can happen. But then you're getting again into those seven
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 3: games series. He's with those tired legs and they they
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 3: got a lot of miles on them.
• 1:11:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah. But you know what, I think that's one of
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 1: the major reasons why Florida Hockey Now was such an
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 1: excellent publication, because you're not one of those guys who's
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 1: a homer, who's going to automatically jump on here and
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 1: just say yeah, no matter what you talk about journalism, George,
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 1: the way it has to be done objectively. Albeit you
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: cover the local team here and it's certain, but that's different. Okay, Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 3: If Aaron asked me this, Hey, do you think what
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 3: I heard? I heard you said, I tell them. I'm like, dude,
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 3: I go do it.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah right, don't tell us about it, but I don't.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: I don't think they're going.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 1: One of my favorite lines George in the industry was
• 1:11:42
  Speaker 1: don't tell us about a show us when you're talking
• 1:11:44
  Speaker 1: on TV. And that's what I've always sawt don't tell
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 1: us about show us and I'm talking.
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 3: Fay, Hey, the respect is there. This is a darn
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 3: good hockey team, right, But that's a lot. That's a
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 3: lot to ask, but we'll see. Hey, why don't you
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 3: get anything can happen?
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 1: Baby, Well, let's let's face President's Cup winners aren't guaranteed
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 1: of winning at all. It's the best team with a
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: goaltender that you can stand on, a goaltender or a legia.
• 1:12:07
  Speaker 1: If you have a hot goaltender, you have a great opportunity.
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: And won't get into that tonight. Although you saw a
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 1: couple in Boston and New York that were excellent goaltenders,
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 1: and the one in Florida saw some really good goalies,
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: didn't they They sure did.
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 3: So even Skinner with Edmonton really turned his thing.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: Well, he turned it on later in the series seven games,
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 1: is what he did. So yeah, there's no question about folks.
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: So one thing, one big rule in journalism that George
• 1:12:36
  Speaker 1: and I can both say that we have dealt with
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 1: for many, many years, is you've got to be objective,
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 1: lay out the facts and let these games get played.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know we're not. If I want to
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 1: be in a prognostication business, that's fine. I have no
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 1: interest in doing it because it goes against my journalists
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 1: and expectation is to educate, entertain and inform, and that's
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: what I believe we have to do, and that's what
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 1: we're here doing tonight. All right Now, Obviously we have
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 1: some Detroit fans in the chat, and we appreciate the
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 1: contributions of the Panthers, which is why I allowed more
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 1: time on it. And I'm glad you came out a
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 1: little bit earlier so that we could do it and
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: leave no stones on are go bring up that Red
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 1: Wing program? So all right, we'll talk about the Red Wings.
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: Sitting here on my desk. I don't even know why.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe maybe you just knew tonight you
• 1:13:19
  Speaker 1: were going to go out there talk to a guy
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 1: from Motown. But so let's talk about the Wings a
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 1: little bit. Eight year playoff drout and nearly ended it,
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 1: you know, weren't for the last game of the year.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: So let's you know you certainly every time we've talked
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 1: about the Wings, we've talked about it in a very
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 1: positive way. Yeah, give me your thoughts about where the
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: Red Wings go. You think this year that they finally
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 1: go out there and break the they get into playoffs.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 3: Well, I think adding Vladimir Tarasenko is going to be
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 3: a great addition to the Red Wings. Listen, this is
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 3: a team that still has a lot of money under
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 3: the salary cap.
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: They're going to be able to make some moves.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 3: They didn't make a whole lot of moves in the
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 3: off season, which I found a little surprising.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 2: They're kind of running it back.
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 3: They got Patrick Caine back, but they're kind of they're
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 3: kind of running back last year's team. And listen, Detroit
• 1:14:05
  Speaker 3: was improved last year but kind of faded down the stretch.
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 3: Are they a playoff team? I kind of think they are.
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 3: But you look at how tough the Atlantic is, It's
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 3: not gonna be easy for Detroit. You've got Ottawa looks better,
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 3: but I don't know about them. Buffalo looks better there
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 3: due You've got Florida, Tampa, Toronto, Boston. That's four in
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 3: the Atlantic. Is Detroit better than any of those four teams?
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 3: I don't think that they are. Now they might. Now,
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 3: somebody's got to come out of that mix. Maybe it's Florida,
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 3: maybe it's Tampa.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 3: But that's what makes it tough in the Atlantic is
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 3: because you've got Buffalo in Detroit chomping at the bit right,
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 3: and you've got you know, the big four in the Atlantic,
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 3: who don't want to give up what they've got.
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 2: So it's gonna be interesting to see.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 3: That's why they play eighty two games in the National
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 3: Hockey League. But I like Detroit. I think they're I
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 3: think they're well coached. I think they've got a good team.
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 3: But I don't you know, I don't think that Stevie
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 3: Wide did a whole lot this offseason to help them.
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: Other than bring in Vladimir Tarasenko.
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 3: They they got the defenseman, I know they they they
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 3: got they got a good defenseman.
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: I can't I'm not. I don't cover the Troit.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 1: They also shored up their goaltending a little bit too.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 1: You know. I believe the guy from l A Cam Talbot.
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 1: They got Talbot. Yeah, yeah, they did pick him up.
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 3: Sorry, if I knew we'd talked about Detroit, I would
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 3: have looked the stuff up.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 1: Well, it doesn't matter. It was just a throwing because
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: a big deal.
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 3: So I'm not I'm not giving you an educated but
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 3: I'm giving you my thought that I think that I
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 3: think I like their I love their coach. I love,
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 3: but we'll see because again, you've got four teams in
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 3: the Atlantic that don't want to give up their position. Now,
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 3: could there be five teams in the Atlantic make the
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 3: playoffs absolutely to two could be a wild card.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 1: We'll see. But well, some of the things that I
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 1: end up incorporating Georgians shows is if I follow the
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: lead of the chat room and you see a lot
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: of people from a certain areas, I like to incorporate
• 1:16:07
  Speaker 1: that way. I like that.
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was just in Detroit.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 1: Well there you go. That's so bad. I mean Derek
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: Lolone though, is in year three. I gotta believe that
• 1:16:18
  Speaker 1: this is a make or break year for him. And
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 1: of course Joel Quid will sitting out there as well,
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 1: so you never know. But what do you think? Do
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 1: you think this is Derek lolone? You know, he's got
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 1: to get in this year otherwise maybe he may not
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: see a fourth year.
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 2: As far as Derek goes, yeah, I think I think
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: he is. He's not, like I said, he's kind of
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 2: on a hot seat.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 3: But if they get off to it, you know, you
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 3: know he was he was the assistant coach in Tampa
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 3: under John Cooper, right, I think the world of both
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 3: those guys.
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 1: We'll see, I mean, we'll see.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 3: I mean Joe Quinnville would be the obvious big splash
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 3: move in Detroit. But does Stevie why want to make
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 3: that He had an opportunity to make a big hire
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 3: a couple of years ago when he hired Derek and
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 3: didn't do it.
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 2: And you know, we'll see all right.
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  Speaker 1: And lastly, as far as the wings and then we'll
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  Speaker 1: give you an opportunity to go up there and get
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  Speaker 1: Florida hockey doll again. But talk about Steve Eiserman. We thought,
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  Speaker 1: you know, he's done. He did a marvelous job with
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  Speaker 1: Tampa and now he's trying to utilize his iSER playing
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  Speaker 1: as they call it, a building developing and then fitting
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  Speaker 1: in pieces and free agency. And maybe the reason he
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  Speaker 1: didn't And I'm always speculating from what I see I get.
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  Speaker 1: I follow hockey all over the place, Panthers. I follow
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  Speaker 1: it all because it's a topic that I am certainly
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  Speaker 1: close to. Now we have a hockey show, uh fire
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  Speaker 1: up Florida, which has turned into one of myself. Rod Peterson,
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna be on there whenever you have time to
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  Speaker 1: come on. But let's talk about Steve Eiserman real quickly.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that he's just about ready to turn
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  Speaker 1: the corner with the Red Wings again?
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  Speaker 3: Time will tell, right, He was able to get Listen,
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  Speaker 3: he was able.
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  Speaker 2: To get Caine. Last year.
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  Speaker 3: We weren't sure how Cain was gonna play. He turned
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  Speaker 3: out to be a real nice signing. They've made some
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  Speaker 3: good signings. But people are wondering, you know, people are
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  Speaker 3: wondering if he can replicate what he did in Tampa.
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  Speaker 3: He built that Tampa team into a champion. I mean
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  Speaker 3: that that team has his fingerprints all over it. But
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  Speaker 3: you know, we'll see again. The division does him no favors.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, no, that's fair, and I agree the Red
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  Speaker 1: Wings they're working out for him, and you've got Bill
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  Speaker 1: Zito calling the shots of the Panthers. And the fact
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  Speaker 1: that they've built a new practice facility out in Fort
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  Speaker 1: Lauderdale certainly is another positive stuff that they're doing to
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  Speaker 1: make sure that this club is situated by being fanned friendly,
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  Speaker 1: by going there. I like the ice tend It's only
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  Speaker 1: about ten to fifteen minutes away from where I live
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  Speaker 1: out in Girl Springs, But I understand a lot about
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  Speaker 1: the War Memorial Auditorium area because I used to cover
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  Speaker 1: boxing back in the day, so I go about that
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  Speaker 1: area and essentially located so they're able to more take
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  Speaker 1: their brand to Fort Lateral. Well, they Panthers have done
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  Speaker 1: in Power County has been unbelievable, and obviously the anticipation is,
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  Speaker 1: all right, we've got this championship. Can we drop from
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 1: day and it's closer to West Palm Beach and that'd
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 1: be a long running story about where the Marlin should
• 1:19:14
  Speaker 1: have put their saying, But we won't even bother at
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: that one tonight. But being what I want you to do,
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  Speaker 1: I am really thankful that George Richards willing to come
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  Speaker 1: on tonight spend a lot of time as we get
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  Speaker 1: at the Panthers get ready for training camp. So what
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  Speaker 1: I'd like you to go out there and do for
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  Speaker 1: the third time, because I believe that we get new
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  Speaker 1: people as we go on, is I want everybody to
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  Speaker 1: Check it out. You will find a better, more credible
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  Speaker 1: individual than George Richards, who not only does his writing
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 1: as well, but I know he does up here on
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: podcasts from time to time. And we're just thankful that
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  Speaker 1: he's willing to join us tonight just the Motor City
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  Speaker 1: Mad Mouth show. My name was Scott Morgenroth. Please be
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  Speaker 1: down by Florida Hockey Now and Miami herold writer George Richards. Candy,
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  Speaker 1: what I want you to do is give one last
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  Speaker 1: station break. We need George to stay out for just
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 1: a moment or so after the show, and then we'll
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: be able to wrap things up. But meanwhile, Candy, final
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: station break. And yeah, Joshua Dora, I'm glad you've been
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 1: active in the chat. George Richards knows his stuff. So
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: many new people covering the Panthers much respect for the old.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 1: And there you go. You got to he's always fired
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 1: followed you. And I'm glad that Joshua was very active
• 1:20:40
  Speaker 1: tonight in the chat. That knows he wanted us to
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: put this show together. But I didn't make sure of
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  Speaker 1: the time. He was all right, Candy go, I take over.
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  Speaker 5: Nine three or four four nine four one. If you
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• 1:22:06
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  Speaker 1: Scott, well done, Candy, well done, everybody in the chat room.
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  Speaker 1: Just so everybody knows, you know, looking forward to doing
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 1: more and more projects with George. He's one of the
• 1:22:20
  Speaker 1: classiest people I've ever better connected with, and he's in
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: my book, the one that Candy talked about. So meanwhile,
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 1: we want to thank everybody for joining us here in
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 1: the MotorCity Mad Mouse Show. It's been a treat special
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: to have George on anytime I could get him in here.
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  Speaker 1: But now obviously you know we we do everything we
• 1:22:37
  Speaker 1: can to make every minute count. So hey, well, kudos
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  Speaker 1: to the chat room, with bigger kudos to you, George.
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: And do you have a Twitter handle that people can
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 1: go ahead and follow you on for those interactive on there?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's confusing at George Richards.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. Well, that was tough boy. I've seen tougher
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: things on so at.
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  Speaker 2: That time on Twitter, checker out.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, how about my YouTube channel, the Florida Hockey Now,
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 3: The Florida Hockey Now YouTube channel.
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 2: Check that out.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 3: Got a lot of hockey, not to a lot of
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 3: live stuff, but a lot of a lot of a
• 1:23:07
  Speaker 3: lot of videos from like we had yesterday, how they
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 3: made the ice and all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, like I told you earlier, you could have
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 1: put that on there, but better late than never because
• 1:23:15
  Speaker 1: I check out the YouTube. Yeah, but you know what,
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: people are gonna rewatching this show, especially the Panther die
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: hards as well as hockey fans coming to get it
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 1: out there. We follow each other on Twitter anyway, and
• 1:23:26
  Speaker 1: I will tag you when this thing goes on there.
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 1: It will give me a favor. Reshare it to your
• 1:23:30
  Speaker 1: followers as well? But meanwhile, there you have it, So
• 1:23:33
  Speaker 1: George Richards has it own YouTube channel, Florida Hockey Now.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: Subscribe to George Richards as we appreciate your loyalty to
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 1: us as well, but that's it. Fortunate changes coming up
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  Speaker 1: after the Motor City Man Mouse Show. So once again,
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  Speaker 1: hope you enjoyed this show and we're looking forward to
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  Speaker 1: the next time. Good Night everybody, and we'll see you
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  Speaker 1: in a short pet Happy trail