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The ISLANDERS fire PATRICK ROY and hire PETER DEBOER... Big mistake? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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The Mets lose their star player. They lose their star closer.
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The Mets are in a bad spot right now.
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I've never seen a Ranger team quick before the Olympics.
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We're going to be looking at Aaron Judge and saying that he
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can't win the big game, Michael Jordan said.
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I played 82 games. You don't see the one doing
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that, but Jack Hughes did after getting his teeth knocked down
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to play every single shift he got back in the game.
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And Qi know you were enjoying Easter?
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What were you doing with your fans?
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Any any interesting things? Any family fights would usually
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happen on holidays. No, we didn't have no family
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fights. We was all good.
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We actually went, we had like church.
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So it was for us this Holy weekend.
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And there's a bunch of church events and different, yeah,
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different events that they have thrown for our church here down
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here in Atlanta. And then, so we did church,
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spent times with the kids and then it was a baby shower.
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Somebody scheduled a baby shower, which I think it's
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pretty crazy to have a baby shop on a holiday weekend.
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It's just, it's hard to pull people in for an event like that
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when there's a holiday weekend. But other than that, the heroes,
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the tomb is now empty and will forever be empty.
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And we enjoyed it, man. What about you?
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I was just hanging out with friends.
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Tommy. Tommy I know was doing stuff
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with his family. Speedy was doing stuff with his
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family, actually speeding and go home to Connecticut, which is
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usually something that we expect.
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But he didn't go home to his family, hanging out with his
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uncle and his grandmother. What I was doing as I went and I
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hung out with Mikey C and his family and it was fantastic.
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I, I never got a chance to see him and his four nieces
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together. Got a chance to see some of his
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nieces and nephews and and I get I got to see his mother, who
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reminds me of my mother. She's been always gracious and a
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lot of food. Italians love food.
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Oh my God, Italian food man, Yes.
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All the Italians stop. Shadow.
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American. A black American.
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I I know you like. Soul food.
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You like soul food over there in Georgia, right?
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Right. Yeah.
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I love soul food, by the way. I love.
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I love my. I love Italian too by the.
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Way who doesn't love Italian? Italian is very good because at
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any day you don't gain as much weight when you do Authentic
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Italian sauce. Oh, I love it.
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The stuffed shells we have the chicken cutlets they had the
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mushrooms, which I'm not a big fan of, some steak.
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It was a mixture of everything I brought myself.
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I, I bought a couple of pies for because I you can't go empty
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handed to a family event and expect to just walk right in
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empty handed. I always bring something, cake,
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pie, whatever, anything where I bring drinks, but I, I don't
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drink. So if I bring liquor to a party,
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you know, I'm not going to be the one drinking it.
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So I, I did, and I'm not a cigar smoker, but I brought a couple
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of cigars. So a lot of the guys that were
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there was smoking some cigars. So it's just not my thing.
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It, it never is my thing. But the, the food was delicious.
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I filled up my stomach. Brittany.
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Brittany didn't come. She was enjoying her sleep
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because she's been working back-to-back nights.
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She's back at it tonight at Elle Island Cohen.
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So she's always working. So she says you're always the
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one with the fun and I never had any fun And I notice everybody
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looking at our backgrounds. We do not have a green screen
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anymore. So we we're working on some new
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stuff for the fans to check out some of my sneaker collection,
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some of the some sneakers that are very, very rare.
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We got the Freddy Cougars on the back.
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We got the Christian Dior, Michael Jordan sneakers.
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Everybody, if you know sneakers, I'm going to every single week
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I'm going to change the sneakers so you guys can check out some
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of the new styles, some of the old styles I have so you guys
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can check out some of my my sick collecting habits because I love
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hats. I've got over 400 hats.
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I've got sneakers. I probably have about four or
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500 sneakers and I'm not telling you where I live, ladies and
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gentlemen, because if you know where I live, I'll there'll be a
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lot of slavery thievery. I almost said slavery thievery.
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I also have I collect glasses and anybody likes these AI
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glasses? I got a couple of pair.
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Of these. I'm not putting any glasses on
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the show tonight. I'm staying away from it.
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I'm not doing that. But I've got a ton of things.
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I do a lot and I spend a lot on some nice things.
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So whenever I have kids and, and anybody wants some used or some
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unique things, even behind Speedy, you see some of my
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gloves, some my kickboxing guy, you know, stuff.
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So I, I, I put it, I post up a lot of different things.
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You got Wayne Gretzky's farewell Daily News poster, a lot of
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different things for the fans to check out some of the things
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that we haven't done. Well, ladies and gentlemen, the
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Islanders fire Patrick Wah with four games left.
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It made no sense 24 hours ago. The New York Islanders announced
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yesterday that they fired coach Patrick War after almost two
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seasons with the team. They will replace him with Peter
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Deboer who was fired by the Dallas Stars last season and
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reports say that De Boer has been given a multi year contract
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four years. I heard De Boer is fifth among
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active head coaches with 662 career wins and has the most
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wins for any coach that has never won a Stanley Cup.
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This decision comes with four games remaining in the season
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and the Islanders losing back-to-back games to the Flyers
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and Hurricanes. The Islanders have lost four
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straight games and seven out of their last 10 games and now have
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fallen out of a playoff spot. They are one point back from the
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Flyers for the number three spot in the Metropolitan Division and
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one point back from the Senators for the final Wild card spot.
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Both teams have a game in hand against the Islanders.
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The Islanders are off until Thursday and then we'll finish
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the season with games versus the Maple Leafs, the Senators, the
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Canadians and the Hurricanes. Now, a lot of Islander fans
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sitting here today, and I'm an Islander fan and I speak for
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every single Islander fan. And wondering what Darsh was
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thinking four games left of the season.
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And there's a lot of ways you can point your fingers at what
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the Islanders did. You can argue that Darsh was
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wrong, or you can argue that maybe Darsh is a genius.
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And I'm going to tell you why. Darsh never picked Patrick Wah
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to be his head coach. As a matter of fact, when he was
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given the job, he was told by ownership that he has to keep
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Patrick Wah, that they want to move forward with Patrick Wah.
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They want to see what he can do with the young talent that
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they're going to bring in in this coming draft, which have
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proven to be guys that are going to be a part of this team in
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this organization next year. And Matthew Shaffer has had a
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sensational year. He's going to win rookie of the
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year. He might be up for a heart.
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He's not going to win the heart trophy.
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But he's been sensational. He's been the face of the New
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York Islanders. What you expect as a number one
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pick in the first round. But here's the problem.
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Patrick Wah over the years, if you remember when with Colorado,
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he's had a problem developing youngsters.
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As a matter of fact, he's had problems making the right
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transition with goaltending. This guy's arguably the greatest
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goaltender of all time. You can argue it's Patrick Wah
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or more Tan Brodor. 2 Canadian players that have stood pretty
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much stood on their head and stood for a lot of different
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things from Patrick Wah who was brought up and was brought up by
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the Montreal Canadiens in the 80s that won a Stanley Cup with
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the Canadians and eventually won.
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I think he won 2 Stanley Cups with the Canadiens and then won
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a Stanley Cup with the Colorado Avalanche.
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And I remember that 96, the year of the rat when they knocked off
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the Florida Panthers in four games and three overtimes.
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I remember it very well. Why?
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Because I'm a Van Peasburg fan. That's a whole nother story.
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Patrick Wah to me deserved it the least to finish the season.
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I do believe that. This guy, what was it, four or
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five weeks ago, was up for coach of the year.
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I was arguing that he was the coach of the year.
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And then all of a sudden, since the All Star break or the
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Olympic break, the Islanders slowly but surely were trembling
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the wrong way. And maybe it was the break,
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maybe it was the time off. I don't know.
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And then they made that trade for Braden Chen.
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They gave up a first round and a third round and a young player
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for Braden Chen. He waved his no trade clause to
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come to the Islanders. Maybe it was Matthew Shaffer,
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maybe it was Patrick Wall, whatever everybody is saying.
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Maybe it could have been both, who knows.
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But you brought this guy in to win or compete for a Stanley
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Cup. That's what you did.
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And what did you do? You brought this guy in.
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He's really the Brady. Chen has done nothing since he's
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come to the Islanders. I know it's only been a 10
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games, but he's really done nothing.
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Maybe it adds a little bit of leadership.
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You don't give up a first round and a third round and a player
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that was playing better than Braden Shedden in the last
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couple of weeks for a guy for a team that might not even make
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the playoffs now. Now, what are your arguments now
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if they fall short, if the Ottawa Senators beat you out for
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that playoff spot? Or how about the Philadelphia
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Flyers beat you out for a playoff spot?
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The Flyers. Peter de Boer is a good coach.
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He's been successful. He's taken multiple teams to a
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Stanley Cup Final but failed to win the big game.
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We've heard a lot of coaches and professional sports.
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If you look at their record, it's amazing.
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Peter Laviolette, if he didn't win a Stanley Cup years before,
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even with all the wins that he has, is one of the greatest, one
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of the top 10 greatest coaches of all time.
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We wouldn't consider him that because he couldn't win the big
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game, he couldn't win the championship game.
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Peter Laviolette did that. Peter de Boer has not.
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I don't care if he's a fifth amongst active head coaches with
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662 wins, that doesn't matter Now he's taking over teams in
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the middle of the season and taking him to Stanley Cups.
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We've seen that failed to win, so maybe that's what the
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Islanders are thinking about. But what I've been reading is
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that Peter de Boer was the hot name that was going to be
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available next year when it came to teams looking for a head
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coach. And the Islanders didn't want to
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lose out on him. They wanted to make sure that
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they linked him and they signed him before that happened.
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And I, I don't know Peter de Boer personally.
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I heard he's a nice guy. I've also heard a lot of players
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don't like Peter de Boer. He's been very, very bad when it
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comes to goaltending. He's had problems with every
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team that he's gone to, especially Ottinger when he was
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with Dallas, had a problem with him.
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Dallas, I remember that team Dallas was one of the best teams
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in the NHL a couple of years ago.
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They had one of the best records.
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I mean, flat out talent from top to bottom, from the first line
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to the fourth line. I mean, they were as good as
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anybody, but the fact here is that team failed to win.
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So no matter what, when you point your fingers on how
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talented or how great of a coach Peter Dubois has been in the
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regular season, and there are a lot of coaches that have been
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very good in the regular season in all sports.
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Do you want to go back and you want to go look at time time
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again pointing out coaches in the NFL, the NBA, the NHL and
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even the MLB that failed? Don Mattingly was a great
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regular season manager. He was a great assistant
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manager, but the guys never won a championship.
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Even as a player, one of the greatest Yankees, my favorite
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Yankee of all time, he never won a championship.
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Even as a manager or assistant or first base coach, he's never
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won a championship. And some teams and some players
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and some coaches just can't win the big one.
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That's what worries me about Peter Dabour.
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Now, I know Darsh is very liked in the NHL.
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He's he, this is the first time for him as a manager, as AGM,
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running an organization. He's young, he's energetic.
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And maybe Peter Dabour and him have these, have this
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relationship, maybe they're butt buddies.
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I don't know. I have no idea.
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But what I do know is if Darsh wants to make a statement, if he
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wanted to put his fingerprint, his thumbprint on this team, if
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he thinks Peter de Boer is the guy that's going to take him to
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the promised land, he's out of his mind.
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I just, I don't get it. I would have waited until this
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season was over. If Patrick Woff fails to get
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into the playoffs, if you fire him and you move on, if you lose
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out on Peter de Boer, there's quite a few good coaches that
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are still available right now or there are going to be coaches
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available at the end of the season because they're going to
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get fired. Peter Laviolette is still
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available. He's not hired.
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They're going to hire Peter Laviolette.
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You're going to tell me that Peter de Boer is better than
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Peter Laviolette? That's what makes no sense and
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that's my question. Now, if Peter Boar gets his team
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in the playoffs and this team makes a playoff run and they go
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all the way to the Stanley Cup and maybe they win a Stanley
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Cup, Darsh looks like a genius, looks like a complete genius.
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The chances of that happening when it comes to hockey slip to
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none. It's not going to happen.
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I'm telling you, all you hockey fans, all you Islander fans,
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listening to me right now, and if you're not listening to me,
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you can listen to me and hear me now.
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This team is not good enough to win a Stanley Cup this year.
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They have. You can argue they have the best
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goalie in the league and you can argue right now they have the
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best face off guy in the league, best two way player in the
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league in Bo Horvat and they have the best young player in
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hockey in Matthew Schaefer. Everything else, garbage.
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Garbage. And that's why they've proven
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time and time again, yes Ranger fans, because your team's
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garbage too. I don't want to hear how good
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their young players are playing now.
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They're garbage too. The only team that is worth
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watching right now in the metropolitan area of of hockey
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is the Buffalo Sabres, who you can argue is the best team in
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the NHL. And what is the consolation
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prize for the New York Islanders?
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If they sneak into the playoffs and get that wild card spot,
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guess who their consolation prize is?
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The Buffalo Sabres, Great. What a consolation prize for all
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you Islander fans to see them losing 4 or five games.
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Peter De Boer, I and I, I've talked to a bunch of Islander
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fans over the last 24 hours. Mikey C is a big Islander fan,
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he says. I don't know what Dash is doing,
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but Mikey, you see, also says that the Islanders don't have
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any talent, which I think is ridiculous.
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I think they have players that you can build around, not
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players I I don't think this team is fast enough to be a
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championship contender. And as far as the Flyers
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concerned, if the Flyers beat you out in the Metropolitan
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Division for that third spot, that's embarrassing.
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It's embarrassing because this team has been rebuilding for 10
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years. We all know what happened to
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their goaltender and some of their players after that mishap,
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the allegations. Remember that happened a couple
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of years ago. I'm not going to mention
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everybody knows if you know hockey what happened.
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Their top goalie prospect might never play hockey again.
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The Philadelphia Flyers as an organization has been a laughing
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stock since the Legion of Doom. What did they call him?
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The Legion? Yeah, the Legion of Doom with
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Eric Lindros and Le Clair, John Le Clair and and Michael
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Renberg. This team has not been very
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good. They've found ways to fail to
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get this team even into the playoffs some of the years.
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I think in the last 10 years, they've made the playoffs three
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times. I'm not saying the Ologies have
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been any better, but it's been bad.
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And the way Philadelphia was being portrayed going to the
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season was not good. And the second-half of the
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season, Since the Olympic break, Philadelphia has been one of the
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hotter teams in the NHL, them the Blue Jackets.
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Otto has been good. And that's why all three teams
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could sneak into the playoffs. And the Islanders might be
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waving on the golf course, drinking their beers, hanging
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out with the Ranger players, stuffing their thumbs in their
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asses. It's it's honestly, it's a joke.
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It is a joke and endorse. She's starting to scare me
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because we have seen GM's do this sleeping Lula Lamorello and
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I remember sleeping Lou. Sleeping Lou made one good move
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and that was trade for Bo Horvat, which at the time I was
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wondering if it was going to be a good move cuz they gave up
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prospects and players and and talents.
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It didn't make any sense. But it seems like Bo Horvat by
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far has been the better player. But what I see right now is a
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big problem and the organization trust in Dosch.
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Matthew Dosch is a, he's very well known for the Tampa Bay
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Lightning. He's been a part of that
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organization, the success of that organization, that
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organization that's won multiple championships.
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Darsh's was the guy. I thought it was a, it was a
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good hire by the Islanders instead of some of the old
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fellows that they were going to bring in after, after what you
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saw with Blue Lamorello after a couple of the last three years,
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it's been absolutely a joke. My problem here is he's signed
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guys. Pajo.
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He resigned. Pajo for what?
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Why did he do that? Some of the things that he has
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done over the last couple of weeks, the last two or three
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months, you start to shake your head, yes, this offseason,
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there's not a lot of great talent.
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What are you going to do? You're going to resign Anders
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Lee, you're going to give your captain a three-year deal?
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Are you going to pay him more than $4 million?
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You'd be crazy. None of it makes sense.
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Now. Again, these guys that they
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drafted over the last last season to me was 1.
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Not not only the greatest draft the Islanders have had in the
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last 25 years, it might solidify this organization for years to
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come because of the young talent that they brought in.
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Look at the look at the two first round draft picks.
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Akerson, he looks like he's going to be called up.
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He just signed a three-year deal.
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The other kid that they drafted, Eklund, he's playing for the AHL
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right now. He's probably on his way to the
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NHL next year. Eisman looks like he's going to
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make now. He wasn't.
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He wasn't Darsh's draft pick a couple of years ago.
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He's drafted by Lula Morello. He fell to the Islanders.
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He's been one of the better young United States players in
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the junior hockey championships. Eisman looks like he could be a
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player. He's been playing very well in
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Boston for college. They have talent that they're
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slowly but surely bring it up. But guess what?
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So Rogan is now 3031 years old. How many great years you have
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left with this young kid, this kid who just got a big contract
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from the Islanders finally is 100% healthy after two years
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after that back surgery where some people didn't think he was
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going to be at full strength. You're this guy's going to win
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goalie of the year finally when he failed to do it a couple of
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years ago before his back injury.
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And now you're going into an offseason, you're bringing your
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coach, you don't know where this team is.
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You know what this team's going to be next year and you don't
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have any money to invest. Everybody says the salary caps
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going up. Who cares if you can't bring
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these players in? Nobody wants to play at the UBS
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Arena. No offense, I'm sorry.
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Yes, Braden Shen waved. There's no trade clause.
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The guy's like 80 years old and he wanted to play with Matthew
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Schaefer. This isn't a guy like Cal
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Macaro. One of these guys, I mean, John
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Tavares told the Islanders go suck it.
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After the Islanders asked him at the trade telling do you want to
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stay or not, He told him he wants to be an Islander for for
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life. And what happens?
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He leaves the Islanders. Did he make the right choice?
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No, no. He made the wrong choice.
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He went to the Maple Leafs. But here's the facts.
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It seems like the Islanders always get screwed.
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Speedy. Always.
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Yeah, they're in a weird fusion right now of because they looked
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like they were pretty comfortably in a playoff spot.
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They decided to go after these veteran guys.
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Like you said, extending the veteran guys I I thought was
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very bizarre too. We knew it was going to be a
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pricey one with Braden Shen because he was a guy that's an
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older player, but he was a good playoff player.
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She was like, all right, maybe you can embrace this to work,
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but the price that they gave up was a lot and and now you're
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combining that with a lot of these already guys that are
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inheriting these big contracts as it is confused with these
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guys getting called up right at the end of the season.
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It was a weird mixture of trying to make a lot of things work all
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at once that apparently just didn't get to them.
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Now again, they were hockey is a sport where you've seen streak
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reliant team is still do very well.
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Auto has been that team now two straight years where they look
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at last year they had like one of the hottest winning streaks
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in the second-half of the season for them again in the playoffs
22:17
last year. And then you're seeing with
22:18
Philadelphia and as a result, somebody else has to fall out.
22:21
The Islanders weren't playing bad.
22:22
It was just mediocre up until this last two weeks.
22:25
And now you're seeing the repercussions of it as far as
22:27
the coaching move, yeah, I don't think it makes any sense right
22:29
now. What are your four games left in
22:31
the season? You were talking about it
22:32
comparing to other sports, too. We talked about a win.
22:33
The Denver Nuggets did it with Mike Malone late in the season
22:36
and they had a guy that was in their system already and David
22:39
Adelman, who many of our guests have said that he was going to
22:42
get a head coaching job somewhere else no matter what.
22:44
Now you're thinking the same thing with the board, which
22:46
probably makes sense. He's been a hot commodity with
22:49
every team he's gone to, but I just don't think the timing
22:51
makes a lot of sense right now for this type of team.
22:53
The board had happened in two other instances when he was
22:55
hired by Vegas in the that was like 2 months into the season.
22:59
That was a team that was already built.
23:01
That was a team that just went to a Stanley Cup and they just
23:03
got rid of Galan because the locker room issues.
23:05
Then Dallas, the same kind of thing they got rid of Rick bonus
23:07
was at the time was kind of a surprise.
23:09
They had a bad year in the COVID shorten year, kind of a cup
23:12
hangover. And then they got rid of Rick
23:15
bonus, who's bumped around different teams since then and
23:17
brought into Boer. But I don't think this type of
23:19
team has anywhere close to the talent level that the Vegas or
23:22
the Dallas Stars did at that time.
23:24
It was a team still kind of in transition.
23:26
They have good young talent for sure.
23:27
They have some veteran talent that stepped up, but it's just
23:29
it's a weird timing of it all to do it four games.
23:32
Left and and this is the same thing.
23:34
This is the same thing that the Golden Knights just did.
23:37
They bring in a a very well known coach.
23:39
You Ranger fans know very much about and so does the Vancouver
23:42
fans for a little bit of time. And you decided to part ways
23:46
with Cassidy who helped you win a Stanley Cup and also take in a
23:50
Boston Bruins team to a Stanley Stanley Cup, a successful head
23:54
coach and they were still a playoff team and they parted
23:58
ways at the tail end. Well, 12 games left for what
24:01
sense? What made any sense from that?
24:03
It made no sense. Now is it going to work?
24:07
Only time will tell. Only time will tell.
24:10
So let me tell me is it is it is it an interim or is it four time
24:13
he just? Now he's a four year deal.
24:15
Four year deal, which is which. Cute.
24:19
That's the other conservative thing too.
24:20
He's always been one of those coaches that he does well early
24:24
in his ten years with teams and then it'll fizzle out later.
24:27
And I think a lot of coaches, that's a lot of a lot of times
24:30
what you saw. You saw that with the Devils
24:31
right away. They went to the Stanley Cup in
24:33
2012. They beat the Rangers in the
24:35
Eastern Conference finals that year and then they fell off
24:37
pretty badly where they didn't. They missed the playoffs for
24:39
quite a while. And the same thing kind of
24:41
happened with Vegas. Vegas is a very talented team,
24:43
but they knew they had to get rid of him when that core was a
24:46
workout. They bring in Cassidy and a
24:48
year, a year or two later, they trade for Eichel the deadline
24:50
before they missed the playoffs because the rest of their teams
24:52
hurt. And then they win the Cup the
24:53
next year. And I think that's the same kind
24:55
of thing you're dealing with here.
24:56
And he went to Dallas you forget about.
24:57
That I know and Dallas was a different case.
24:59
Now they went to the three straight Western Conference
25:01
finals but never got over the hump.
25:02
Now granted, I think Vegas was a better team than that year, but
25:05
they definitely could have beaten Edmonds in one of those
25:06
two times. But I again, it got fizzled out.
25:08
Like you said, he had a bad relationship with Huntinger, bad
25:10
relationship with Jason Roberts, and especially who was one of
25:13
the supposed to be one of the better young players.
25:14
He fell off the bat. A lot of bad relationships with
25:18
goaltender. If you look at the goaltenders
25:20
that he's dealt with now, he's going to an Islander team that
25:23
has arguably the best goalie in the NHL.
25:25
You can argue he is the best goalie in hockey right now and
25:30
you send them over there. How does this make sense?
25:32
It it only hurts, it only hurts the Islanders because this guy's
25:36
been standing on his head all season long and now you're going
25:40
to go into the playoffs. Let's say you make the playoffs.
25:42
Are you going to trust that this guy is going to work well with
25:44
Sorokin? I wouldn't think so.
25:46
Yeah. And you?
25:47
Mentioned something else too, like there's now, especially
25:49
with Cassidy now available like you have him available, you have
25:52
Laviolette available like why what?
25:55
What's wrong with waiting on one of those three guys?
25:56
All right, is the bore your main target?
25:58
Fine, but if you miss out on de bore, go get Bruce Cassidy, go
26:01
get the lobiolette. Like you could have done that.
26:03
Lobiolette started early on with the Islanders and then Millbury
26:06
dysfunction and got they got rid of him because Mike Millbury's
26:09
an idiot. But nevertheless, like you have
26:11
enough candidates out there that are going to do good things.
26:14
If Carolina lose again in the playoff, maybe Rob Rimmore gets
26:17
fired. He could be available.
26:18
Like there are options that the Islanders had.
26:20
They didn't have to rush everything for last four games
26:23
of the season. It makes no sense.
26:25
And and again, as an Islander fan, and I am an Islander fan,
26:28
I'm wondering what is now. I'm not taking shots at Matthew
26:31
Darsh and Island fans, please understand me right now.
26:35
I I don't dislike Matthew Darsh. I like him.
26:38
I think he's a good GMI, like what he did in the draft last
26:41
year. I like what he's slowly but
26:43
surely making this a young team. Lou La Morello has built a a
26:46
veteran team, the oldest team in NHL.
26:49
And slowly but surely, yeah, you got lucky.
26:51
You won the draft, you got Matthew Shaffer.
26:53
So good luck. You got very lucky.
26:55
And then you, you made that trade for Noah Dobson.
26:57
You moved him away. You went to Montreal, you
26:59
brought in a goal scorer who's been very important to their
27:02
offense and you brought in two first round draft picks.
27:04
That could be the future of this organization.
27:07
But what you've done wrong and what you've put yourself in is
27:11
you're bringing a guy like Peter de Boer.
27:13
Now, Peter de Boer could be great for the Islanders.
27:15
You might be as an Islander for jumping for joy.
27:17
Speedy likes to jump. I'll jump too.
27:19
But my, my pecs might pop back and forth.
27:22
The fact here is as an Islander fan, you wonder is this
27:27
organization put in the right position to win?
27:30
Even with Peter de Boer, even if you kept Patrick Wah, I would
27:34
have waited for Cassidy, I would have waited for Laviolette and
27:37
interviewed these guys. Before you just jump and hope
27:40
that Peter de Boer is the guy and he's going to take this team
27:43
to a championship that has. This team hasn't won a
27:45
championship since the early 80's.
27:48
The early 80s. When was the last time they were
27:51
in the Stanley Cup? I know in the early 80s.
27:53
They haven't made it since then. Yeah.
27:55
So do you think it was a a decision just based off the late
27:59
season mishaps and losing games or do you think it was something
28:02
else that added to this, that they had to make a decision this
28:04
quick? I think Matthew Darsh and
28:06
Patrick Ward didn't like each other.
28:07
I don't think Matthew Josh ever liked Patrick Ward.
28:10
He was forced to keep Patrick Ward.
28:12
And that's the problem with with professional sports.
28:15
If you're hiring a coach, here's the thing, if you're hiring your
28:18
GM, you hire the GM first over the coach.
28:21
It's been a big problem for the New York Jets over the years.
28:23
They hire the coach before the GM.
28:26
They did that with Aaron Glenn. Aaron Glenn was hired and then
28:29
they brought in Muji. Muji didn't want Aaron Glenn.
28:32
Muji made a joke when he was out there at the press conference.
28:35
He said, I interviewed Aaron Glenn.
28:36
I liked him, but he didn't want to put in.
28:38
I didn't hire him because he didn't hire him.
28:41
So he hired Sean Payne. They were waiting for Sean Payne
28:44
was to come become available and they traded first draft draft
28:47
picks for him. They gave up talent for him.
28:50
So he never wanted him. So what is he doing right now?
28:53
Emoji is not making an excuse for Aaron Glenn.
28:55
He's just making sure that he's going to put his team in the
28:58
right position so he doesn't lose his job.
29:00
Now you look at Matthew Dosh, Matthew Josh was handed the job.
29:05
He was handed the job and he said you got to keep Patrick
29:08
Wall and he's probably saying, well wait a second, I was picked
29:12
to be the GMI could have picked and he could have taken any job
29:15
because there were other teams that were very interested in
29:17
Matthew Dodge. He was one of the highly
29:19
profiled up and coming GM's he was and what happened?
29:24
He took the Islander job. Why did he take the Islander
29:27
job? Well, he took the Islander job.
29:29
One reason why is the Islanders won the draft, they got the
29:32
number one pick. So he had his pick of the litter
29:35
and the way the Islanders were structured, he thought, I, I
29:39
can't do any wrong. I mean, this is the oldest team
29:41
in the NHL. They're they haven't been good
29:43
for the last couple years. Lula Morello has been a joke.
29:46
That's why we call him Sleeping Lou because he sleeps more than
29:49
he understands where he is. He can't do wrong.
29:52
So he took the team where he's going to keep his job for a
29:54
significant amount of time and he won't have to worry about
29:57
being fired. And that's why he is.
30:00
So him take your Patrick Wall on was a joke.
30:03
And now he's happy because he gets Peter de Boer.
30:06
But to me, what when you look at Peter de Boer and his success,
30:11
is that the success that you want to bring in for your
30:14
organization and, and know that this guy has got, he's been to
30:19
the promised land, but he's never won.
30:21
He's been there what, 2-3 times and he's never won.
30:25
That's scary. And the Islanders are trying to
30:28
win. They haven't won in 30 something
30:30
years, almost 40 years so. Kid, we got to move.
30:34
On attack. Kid, we're going to move on to
30:36
Golf Club in a bit. I just want to say maybe Lou
30:38
Labarello should either learn football or Aaron Glenn should
30:40
learn hockey. They'll be the perfect coach.
30:41
GM Pier. If you don't know about it, Lula
30:43
Morello. Lula Morello was not AGM for
30:47
hockey when he came up as AGM and as an executive.
30:50
He was doing it for. He was doing it for basketball
30:53
and football. He was perfect.
30:55
He was a basketball football director before he took over and
30:59
he got his first GM job with the Devils and he's he was
31:02
unbelievable for the Devils. He wants 3 Stanley Cups.
31:06
He drafted Martin Brodeur, he built that organization.
31:09
But you know what he did wrong and why he tailed off as AGM?
31:12
Because he decided to keep old players re sign old players like
31:17
Scott Stevens, Rob, I'm sorry, Scott Niedermeyer, all these
31:21
guys that he drafted, he decided to keep him at the tail end of
31:24
the career career and the team fell apart right in front of
31:26
their eyes. He made some great change.
31:28
Jason or not, he he he Bobby Ho leak.
31:31
I remember I remember those teams.
31:33
But guess what guys at the tail end he lost because he couldn't
31:39
decide when do I move players and when do I decide they're
31:44
done? And that's exactly what he did
31:45
with the Islanders and that's why he doesn't have a job
31:47
anymore. All right, ladies and gentlemen,
31:49
my golf clap of the day. This deserves a golf clap, no
31:54
doubt. Golf clap, golf clap.
31:58
All right, ladies and gentlemen, my golf clap of the day is I, I,
32:02
I don't know what's going on here.
32:03
The Chicago Sky has traded WNBA All Star Angel Reese to Atlanta
32:09
for the to the Atlanta Dream for not one but two first round
32:14
draft picks, a 2027 and 2028 on Monday.
32:18
Makes no sense, ladies and gentlemen.
32:20
And here's the reason why. I know when you look at Angel
32:23
Reese, she's 23 years old. She's one of the better
32:26
rebounders in in right now in the WNBA.
32:29
She's a star, She's the face, She's great.
32:32
She's a troublemaker and you trade for a troublemaker.
32:37
Now, right now, an organization like the Atlanta Dream that's
32:40
looking to rebuild, looking to build around stars.
32:44
Angel Reese is the girl you want to build around a person that
32:47
doesn't get along with everybody, doesn't get along
32:50
with teenage take shots at players on other organizations
32:53
and teams, has her own thoughts about with the way the WNBA
32:57
should be played and the game should be played.
32:59
She's been an absolute weird personality, I would say to say
33:04
the least. And she's she was the first
33:06
woman to get a Reebok deal from Shaquille O'Neal and Allen.
33:08
Ive isn't good for her. I'm I'm happy for her,
33:10
congratulations to her. But as far as giving up two
33:14
first round draft picks for Angel Reese, to me that's going
33:17
to set Atlanta back a couple of years.
33:20
I don't think this is a good move.
33:22
This I, I just, I'm not a big fan of this move.
33:25
I you say what, what is she averaging right now?
33:28
She's averaging. How many rebounds she averaging?
33:31
What do you mean how many rebounds she's averaging?
33:33
We have a 14 rebounds. Yeah, she's avering to 14 and 11
33:36
right now, and she's averaging about 3.7 assists right now.
33:40
I got the numbers right in front of my face.
33:42
To me, that doesn't win championships, bud.
33:45
You got to be a good because you got to be a good team.
33:47
Player 14.1 points, 12.9 rebounds.
33:49
She's not a good team player. She doesn't get along with
33:51
teammates. That's why Chicago decided to
33:54
pour ways with her. Why would Chicago want to give
33:57
away their superstar if if they thought that she was a face and
34:02
a personality that they can build around?
34:04
She's 23 years old. She says something out of
34:07
pocket, I can't remember exactly what.
34:09
She. Says a lot of things out of
34:10
context. You know, but it was just
34:11
something recent that kind of rubbed in the wrong way.
34:13
So they. Everything rubs me the wrong way
34:14
when Angel Reese means she's rubbing.
34:19
She's like top five, top two or three most viewed WNBA.
34:23
And how does that help the basketball team?
34:25
Has Chicago won? Anything.
34:29
What has Chicago done since she's been there, bud?
34:32
Say what? What has Chicago done since?
34:34
Chicago's not a good team. Exactly.
34:36
And why aren't they a good team? Because they got to deal with
34:39
that mischief. Crazy woman.
34:41
Their issues happened way before injuries.
34:44
Got and they still got a problem with her when she was there.
34:46
And what are they doing now? They're parting ways with her, a
34:49
23 year old phenom that every she was the one that had took
34:53
shots at Caitlin Clark. Caitlin Clark has helped the
34:56
WNBA grow. She's brought, she has used.
34:59
Yeah. What?
35:00
What she done? Viewership.
35:03
All this stuff matters. Oh yeah, it was just in the
35:06
cart. Who's our arch rival?
35:08
Here's my arch. You don't.
35:09
Think they play on that. Here's what I think she is.
35:12
I'm not saying Angel Reese isn't a person, a face.
35:15
I'm not going to build my team around.
35:17
I'm not giving away 2 first round draft picks for a woman
35:20
that is uncontrollable. It's the WNBA, it's not a lot of
35:24
talent. You act like it's a.
35:26
A billion dollar deal. So.
35:29
What do you mean, Saul? So what?
35:31
No, I didn't. Who would you say, Caitlin?
35:33
Clark has helped him get TV deals and bring in billions of
35:37
dollars. Has Adrian Reef.
35:38
Oh, really? Really.
35:40
Yes, he has to have a rival. It's the magic bird rival she
35:43
was. Bitching and moaning when
35:45
Caitlin Clark got that big huge deal from Nike.
35:47
Oh well, I do not get it. Well, I have another girls.
35:50
Got it. Major this she got a Reebok.
35:52
Yeah, she got a Reebok deal because they couldn't find
35:54
anybody else to sign with Reebok.
35:56
They can't find nobody they couldn't find.
35:57
Anybody else they would have to share?
36:00
I mean to try to get. Dude, it was all over Netflix.
36:04
It was all over Netflix. I watched the whole episode.
36:08
The only person that was interested in signing with them
36:10
was Angel Reese. They went to Shay, they went to
36:13
Kawai, they went to everybody. They're all said no.
36:17
They all said no. But guess who said yes?
36:20
Angel Reese. Angel Reese.
36:21
Angel Reese. Good for.
36:22
Her shoes selling too. Man, Oh yeah, great.
36:25
Ugliest shoes I've ever seen in my.
36:27
Time no way, no way ugly all right now you just hate it dude.
36:30
It's just say I'm a hate it. She's got these ugly purple
36:33
sneakers. That make me wear a purple shoe.
36:35
I like purple, it's one of my favorite colors.
36:37
I would never buy an Angel Reese shoe.
36:39
They're ugly. Hater.
36:40
Just say I'm a hater then. I'm not a hater.
36:42
Because of the shoes. Yes, you're right, I'm a hater.
36:44
For her shoes. I'm a hater for her shoes.
36:46
They're ugly ugly sin. I'd rather take a dump and make
36:51
that the color of my shoes than the purple ugly ones.
36:53
The. Purple nurples the purple.
36:55
Nurples that she has over there. You want to go and buy a Reebok
36:58
shoe? What are they, $1415.00 Right
37:00
now? Nobody's buying them.
37:02
No, that was like 80. That was like 80, I think 80.
37:04
Two, I rest my case. Overpriced. 0140 we both for
37:08
them. I'm selling out now.
37:10
I'm not buying her sneaker. Look at anyways.
37:12
Line, line, line. The folks won't.
37:15
Huh. They want them shoes.
37:16
Look at. That Why don't you buy them?
37:18
Why don't you buy the shoes? If my daughter was older, I.
37:21
Would here, here's the shoe. Yeah.
37:23
Like if she had a beautiful shoe like this.
37:25
If she had a shoe like this, that'd be different.
37:28
I'd buy those shoes. Overrated.
37:29
No overrated support. Overrated.
37:32
Can't tell it overrated. These are beautiful.
37:35
It's only because of the rare is the reason these.
37:37
Are beautiful. I can dance and prance around.
37:40
You see that, Look at it. I can move.
37:42
Look at that, I can move there. Light as can be.
37:45
Look, Paige loves no support. Paige loves no foot support.
37:48
Listen, these are sexy. You don't wear these.
37:51
Are sexy. Look at that.
37:52
Why you don't want me? You listen, I can promote them.
37:55
I can promote them. I can hit home runs with them.
37:57
Look at these. Look, I'll even lick the
37:59
bottoms. That beautiful.
38:03
You don't wear lick the butter. Beauty matter.
38:06
You don't wear beauty. That's why you can lick the I.
38:08
Don't. I don't have to wear them right?
38:11
They just have to look beautiful.
38:13
They just got to look beautiful. Give me the Andrew reasons over
38:15
those any day. Get out of here. 100 and forty,
38:19
$40 just to $100,000. Yeah, let's go with that.
38:23
Let's go with the Angel Reese's ladies.
38:25
And gentlemen, not about. The number that's overpriced.
38:28
Yeah, that's you made. It been around for a long, long
38:31
time, buddy. $50 shoe right there.
38:33
You want to look it up? Go look.
38:35
It up 100,000. Get the hell out of here over
38:38
all right, ladies and gentlemen, that was our golf clap of the
38:41
day. So let's give it a little golf
38:43
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But anyways, thank you to the fans.
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So we have a lot of hate on. Them.
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I got to go back off now. That's what Nathan's going to do
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39:48
All right, That's it for a show. Dominic Easley and I gotta go.
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I gotta go take a dump of something.
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