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Bryan Berard's Unique Career: Stampeding Mammoth, Red-Hot Devils and our Favorite Hockey Names. · NHL Unscripted with Virk and Demers

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  Speaker 1: NHL Unscripted is a production of the NHL and iHeart podcasts.
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  Speaker 2: It's the Final Countdown or is it? Here? On NHL Unscripted,
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  Speaker 2: we have a great episode coming up. What's in a Name?
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  Speaker 1: Ivan Ivan Zarlie Zilabsky, We run through our favorite hockey
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  Speaker 1: names of all time.
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  Speaker 2: Our special guest today is Brian Barrard.
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  Speaker 1: Overcame the horrific eye injury stories from the Tronomy Police
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  Speaker 1: and the New York Islanders, plus imposter syndrome.
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  Speaker 2: Who's Legit and who is it? JD? Good to see you, buddy,
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  Speaker 2: rock and Roll Halloween right around the corner.
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  Speaker 3: Zemgiz Gigginson's.
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  Speaker 2: Another great one. I thought of last night.
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  Speaker 3: Alt two goals last night too, al.
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  Speaker 1: Post which Don Cherry Wentz famously said his name sounds
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  Speaker 1: against dog food.
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  Speaker 3: I mean the names, there's so many good ones. There's
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  Speaker 3: so many good names too. But the one who's still
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  Speaker 3: in the league Sem gets gig andsonse Yeah, I need
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  Speaker 3: a good, I need a good It's from the you know, Seinfeld.
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  Speaker 3: I like big them g giginsense.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of Bruins Senator's game Prime Monday Night Hockey, as
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  Speaker 1: you're waiting in the scrum to talk to Marcus Sperm,
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  Speaker 1: the Bruins coach.
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  Speaker 2: Thomas turning me, he goes, think about the Germans.
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  Speaker 1: Is they always have like that guttural sound like it's
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  Speaker 1: true Gigginsons like like you'll ever hear like a falsetto German.
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  Speaker 1: It's always tough, Marcus Stum. We've got to get the
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  Speaker 1: bucking deep. We've got to work through the neutral zone.
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  Speaker 1: Like but the Bruins looked like ass Marco, You've got
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  Speaker 1: seven goals, the outaway sentators.
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  Speaker 2: You've got to work harder. You have to get deep,
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  Speaker 2: get the buck down there. But a very happy guy.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know relationship with Marcos Stern, but I gotta
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  Speaker 1: tell you, I'm like, I haven't seen a Granted it's October,
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  Speaker 1: let's see this guy in February.
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  Speaker 2: He just looks thrilled to be a head coach. Happy guy,
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  Speaker 2: great guy. Obviously had the success with the Kings.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, who knows, what is you know? You
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  Speaker 3: bringing up that game is just like sault in the room,
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  Speaker 3: assault in the wound. For me to sit here and
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  Speaker 3: watch this, watch you cheating on me consistently every Monday night,
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  Speaker 3: every Monday night in Ottawa with those shitty ass jerseys
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  Speaker 3: they have.
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  Speaker 2: But the third jersey prutal.
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  Speaker 3: But they put up seven two games in a row,
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  Speaker 3: and then they give up seven. They just it's either
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  Speaker 3: they lose by it, they give up seven goals and
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  Speaker 3: they score seven goals. But you are the connective.
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  Speaker 1: Tissue though, Prime Monday Night Hockey. What's what's the connector
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  Speaker 1: I have? Jason Demers last week Tyson Nash first words, Oh, okay,
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  Speaker 1: he didn't.
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  Speaker 2: There's the best part our producer invention.
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  Speaker 1: You're give me with our host Adnan Burk pause, he goes,
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  Speaker 1: does he do a podcast for Jason Demerse.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, yeah, the reason that Jeff laughed.
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  Speaker 1: He goes, this guy's been in the business twenty three years,
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  Speaker 1: six years of the scoring Canada, nine years of espn
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  Speaker 1: M will be never NHL. And you know him cinephile
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  Speaker 1: because you know him because the podcast. Jason, that's the
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  Speaker 1: first Oh, that's the podcast. And de Mersey's like, that's great.
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  Speaker 1: Visit that the same thing. Oh, oh, that's podcast. And
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  Speaker 1: Demurs I've talked him before on screen.
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  Speaker 3: I'm the fungus. I'm the fungus, I'm the I'm the itch.
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  Speaker 3: You just can't get rid of. I'm always there is there.
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  Speaker 1: But Nash is like he is a JD two point zero.
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  Speaker 1: Like working with him felt like I was working with you.
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  Speaker 1: Like he's funny.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah he's I mean he's yeah, he's he's so quick witted.
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  Speaker 3: He's got his like he's got his one liners that
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  Speaker 3: he he throws out. He probably smoke a stick. He
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  Speaker 3: made a couple of those jokes, for sure. They so
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  Speaker 3: just NonStop. They're so good. But oh yeah, he's a
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  Speaker 3: great He's a great guy, really good guy.
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  Speaker 2: He really is nos for Nichols. He was, he was dropping.
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  Speaker 3: Those for Nichols. That's a good one. I always like
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  Speaker 3: what he says that the nose got a nose for Nichols.
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  Speaker 2: It was definitely entertaining.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of Tyson, Nash's someone with the Nash cast. He's
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  Speaker 1: doing twelve games this year in Utah. So tusks up
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  Speaker 1: a few months in Utah. They've revealed their new mascot,
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  Speaker 1: the Mammoth. Of course, Tusky is the mascot not to
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  Speaker 1: be mistake with Hurricanes Jim Eric Tulsky. But not sure
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  Speaker 1: an expected this start here j D from the Utah Mammot.
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  Speaker 1: Seven wins in a row before they got thumped in
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  Speaker 1: Edmonton on Tuesday. Nick Schmaltz, Clayton Keller, Logan Cooley, Dylan Gunthard,
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  Speaker 1: JJ Paterka have good mind for twenty eight goals in
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  Speaker 1: the team's first eleven games. Schmaltz some of the league
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  Speaker 1: leaders with seventeen points. I know some of those guys.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you know from your time with the Coyotes.
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  Speaker 1: What do you make of this run. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: anyone saw this coming here from the Mammoth in the Central.
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  Speaker 3: It's a crazy I mean, you know, it to be expected.
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  Speaker 3: I think early they got off to a hot start
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  Speaker 3: and they're kind of you know, they're riding that speed
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  Speaker 3: and the riding those the youth, those two lines. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: it's crazy to think Nick Schmaltz. If I'm not mistaken,
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  Speaker 3: Nick Schmaltz is on his last year, and so is
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  Speaker 3: Logan Cooley. They both had an opportunity to sign. Logan
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  Speaker 3: Cooley is now probably the price tag. If I'm Bill Armstrong,
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  Speaker 3: He's just staring at the contract counter and the thing
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  Speaker 3: just keeps ticking up every game. Because Nick Schmaltz is
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  Speaker 3: third in the league in points in the league. Who
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  Speaker 3: to thunk it, But I mean those two lines are
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  Speaker 3: you know, but that peterca Cooley Gunther line has been
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  Speaker 3: so good. They're so they're so fast and they play
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  Speaker 3: so well off each other. And then you know, we
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  Speaker 3: already know about the Schmaltz Keller hate line. That's been
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  Speaker 3: something that's been good now for a couple of years.
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  Speaker 3: So they're they're getting so much scoring and I think
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  Speaker 3: they just play this run and gun offense and they
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  Speaker 3: don't mind to give up a couple I know they
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  Speaker 3: got caught last game against Edmonton, but listen, Edmonton is
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  Speaker 3: two time Cup final you know attendee, and they still
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  Speaker 3: got a good pedigree and they need to get some wins.
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  Speaker 3: So that was a desperation game for Edmonton. But yeah, man,
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  Speaker 3: this is a this is a tough central and I
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  Speaker 3: kinda we allude to it all the time about like
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  Speaker 3: the importance of banking points early in the season, like
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  Speaker 3: you got to get these wins. You got to find
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  Speaker 3: a way because now's the time to get the wins
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  Speaker 3: because not every team's at their best. So if you
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  Speaker 3: can get points when everybody's kind of figuring out the
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  Speaker 3: details aren't there, there's mistakes. You know, these games are
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  Speaker 3: only going to get harder to win. So now that
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  Speaker 3: they've picked up a lot of wins, I think it's
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  Speaker 3: really promising for them.
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  Speaker 2: Do they do.
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  Speaker 3: I think they hold on to it. They've given this
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  Speaker 3: up themselves a good opportunity, So I don't think they're impostors.
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  Speaker 3: I think they're going to contend for a playoff spot
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  Speaker 3: and it's probably the best best start they could could
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  Speaker 3: have got.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so you don't see them winning the Central but
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  Speaker 1: at least contending for a playoff spot, which even a
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  Speaker 1: year ago they're on the outside looking him for a
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  Speaker 1: wildcards to definitely improved team. To your point about banking wins,
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  Speaker 1: you were talking to Marcos Sturmer about this. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: you know how compressed the schedule is JD. It's crazy
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  Speaker 1: so much sh tell us you guys, I've had one
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  Speaker 1: practice in nine days. I'm like, wow, dude, you literally
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  Speaker 1: play a game the next day you're playing again. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: you got a day off plan again. And he's like,
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  Speaker 1: and it's mandated now with the CBA as far as
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  Speaker 1: the number.
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  Speaker 2: Of practices, So coaches love practice.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, we're gonna break down some stuff drilled in players
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  Speaker 1: like man, I just want to play the games. So
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  Speaker 1: you're right, if you blink, you're like man if utuh
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  Speaker 1: goes in a little run here four or five. We
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  Speaker 1: just banked eight points against teams that are retired out
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  Speaker 1: of favor having practice, So I'm with you. The compress
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  Speaker 1: schedule means if you can bank points early, not so
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  Speaker 1: you can coach, but it can really pay dividends later
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  Speaker 1: in the season.
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  Speaker 3: Well, because you you kind of look at the it's
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  Speaker 3: a different you. The way you're playing is you know
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  Speaker 3: you're playing in these sections in terms of like you know,
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  Speaker 3: twenty games, twenty games, and you kind of set yourself
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  Speaker 3: up as a team with these milestones. But with the Olympics,
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  Speaker 3: it's kind of get to the Olympics, it's just sprint.
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  Speaker 3: If there's two weeks off, or you have two and
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  Speaker 3: a half three weeks off, then it's another sprint. So
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  Speaker 3: it's like if you're injured, that's where you get healthy.
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  Speaker 3: So if you're a team, you're kind of like you're
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  Speaker 3: really watching that schedule and you're trying to manage guys,
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  Speaker 3: but you also have to like get these points, so
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  Speaker 3: you can't just be giving guys days off. But you're
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  Speaker 3: kind of stuck. You're kind of hamstrung to that that
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  Speaker 3: the schedule, as Stirm was saying, like, I think both
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  Speaker 3: teams that when I was watching the Prime game, was
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  Speaker 3: like both teams had both teams had only practiced like
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  Speaker 3: once and nine days and they've only been together like
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  Speaker 3: once or twice. And it's like that's that's the toughest
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  Speaker 3: part if you're like an injured guy coming back, because
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  Speaker 3: you don't get those reps with the team, you're just
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  Speaker 3: like throwing into the fucking fire.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he said, normally morning skate, as you know, you're
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  Speaker 1: just kind of getting loose a little bit, you know,
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  Speaker 1: just just getting out there because now like we're trying
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  Speaker 1: to teach stuff, we're trying to use morning skate as
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  Speaker 1: their practice.
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  Speaker 2: That's their only practice time, so you're really trying to
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  Speaker 2: drill it.
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  Speaker 1: In meantime, the Devil's league best eight wins in a
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  Speaker 1: row before getting humbled in Colorado on Tuesday. Jack Hughes
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  Speaker 1: looking locked in since undergoing shoulder surgery in March, fourteen.
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  Speaker 2: Points in ten games.
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  Speaker 1: We know Ken Danico has the Cigars ready to go,
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  Speaker 1: but do you think New Jersey is the team to beat?
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  Speaker 2: In the Metro. Previously you said it's a wide open division.
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  Speaker 2: Can Jersey take it? I do well.
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  Speaker 3: I think the Metro is the worst division in hockey.
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  Speaker 3: So I think it's you know, we initially had Carolina
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  Speaker 3: kind of sitting the top. They've ran into some injury
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  Speaker 3: problems early with Slaven and a couple other guys going down.
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  Speaker 3: But listen, this is a team in New Jersey that
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  Speaker 3: had some injury problems last year. Jack's healthy, Douggie Hamilton healthy,
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  Speaker 3: Doug Hamilton's running the first power play. It looks very
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  Speaker 3: good right now. Their power play is tied for fifth
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  Speaker 3: in the league, clipping around like twenty eight percent. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you got Luke Cues, you got in up front, you
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  Speaker 3: got a bunch of guys that are very good offensively,
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  Speaker 3: and they're playing well together. Arsity Gritzik is like a
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  Speaker 3: is a nice addition. This young kid coming in from
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  Speaker 3: Russia's been really good for them. But Jack and Jasper
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  Speaker 3: have just been fantastic. I mean, they're just they're they're
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  Speaker 3: leading the league in goals per game. Uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they're just shy of four goals the game, which is
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  Speaker 3: pretty pretty incredible when you look at those numbers. In
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  Speaker 3: terms of what they're capable of doing, and they're they're
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  Speaker 3: doing it in different ways, but they're playing good hockey
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  Speaker 3: as well. They're playing sound hockey. And you know, you
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  Speaker 3: we talk about banking points. It's a this division specifically.
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  Speaker 3: You saw like Washington last year. Washington went on that
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  Speaker 3: run last year early in the season and they just coasted.
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  Speaker 3: They co because that Metropolitan so fucking bad. It's just
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  Speaker 3: a it's such a bad division. Yeah, and so many
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  Speaker 3: bad teams in it. I mean, you look at it.
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  Speaker 3: It makes me sick to my stomach.
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  Speaker 2: Uh you know, I just Flyers Penguins.
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  Speaker 3: But it's like you we say that and they're just like,
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  Speaker 3: and man, it's so tough because now I look at
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  Speaker 3: this and I'm like, there are some good teams in
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  Speaker 3: the division. They might not be performing. Maybe I'm wrong,
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  Speaker 3: Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe this is the best division.
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  Speaker 2: It's not the best Caro.
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  Speaker 1: The only guy that really believed in the Devil's aside
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  Speaker 1: from Candanico was tal Ponchewski. How why were the Devils
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  Speaker 1: your pick to win the division?
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  Speaker 4: Well, nobody asked, I mean, no one asked me what
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  Speaker 4: my prediction was. But yes, I was picking the Devils
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  Speaker 4: to win the division. Bear in mind, this is also
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  Speaker 4: the guy who went on this podcast and said he
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  Speaker 4: thought the Calgary Flames had a chance to make the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they don't talk about your losses. The talk about
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  Speaker 3: your wins.
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  Speaker 2: But I did like the Devils.
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  Speaker 3: I love the makeup of their team.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like the core of the players you've mentioned,
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  Speaker 4: they've been together for a while now, like they've been
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  Speaker 4: kind of baking in the oven for a little while.
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  Speaker 4: And I always feel like a team that has its
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  Speaker 4: core kind of evolving together for a few years, eventually
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  Speaker 4: they have their their moment.
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  Speaker 3: I think that moment is, you know, is now for
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  Speaker 3: this team.
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  Speaker 4: I think the division, the metrosexual division is wide open Metro.
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  Speaker 4: I love their goal to take Jake Allen's been great.
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  Speaker 4: Jake Allen's been fantastic for them. With the main guy
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  Speaker 4: markstrom out, I just I think they're deep up front.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, listen, Ken Danico's happy smoking seven scars
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  Speaker 3: a day. We're all happy. That's all we can ask for.
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  Speaker 3: Happy Danico with the cigars and music. You know, I
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  Speaker 3: I went to rehabits all.
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  Speaker 1: I know, because when you when you replace one addiction,
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  Speaker 1: you have to replace something else. I said, so the
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  Speaker 1: booze cigars. He's like, yeah, I go, what about like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, healthy eating. What if you went from like
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  Speaker 1: booze broccoli.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, gotta have a little gotta have a little joy
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  Speaker 3: in life. No, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody advice, I'm like, I got it.
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  Speaker 3: You need them, you need a little one.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Jason Devers has never been accused of being an impostor.
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  Speaker 1: Everywhere he goes he fits in well by way. Well
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  Speaker 1: maybe maybe sometimes when we watch them, because this guy's
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  Speaker 1: an imposture. He doesn't belong here. We're gonna move impost syndrome.
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  Speaker 1: Ten games in, I can't wait to watch Penguin's Lightning.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a Penguin's least, by the way. Coming up
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  Speaker 1: on prime minated hockey, I'm like, well, the Penguins, I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna be watching them up. Oh my god, postures are
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  Speaker 1: not This is a legit run from Sydney Crossman Company.
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  Speaker 2: Are the Lightning? Are they finished? The Kraken's gonna get done?
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  Speaker 1: John Forst is like, watch up for come on, you're
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  Speaker 1: the voice to the Krack and you're lying to me.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, I'm telling you right now, they're gonna fight
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  Speaker 1: for a playoff spot, and the Blues and Wild are struggling, so.
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  Speaker 2: We'll go through each one.
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  Speaker 5: JD.
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  Speaker 1: Penguins are seven two and two might be on the
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  Speaker 1: little shocking things. So for this early hockey season, impostures
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  Speaker 1: are not.
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  Speaker 3: Man I I tell you what, Dan Muse, the muse,
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  Speaker 3: the amuse bouche. Yes, has these guys playing and some
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  Speaker 3: structured ass hockey, but there's a lot. Listen, how can
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  Speaker 3: you start a rebuild when you have Crosby and Malkin.
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  Speaker 3: These guys just ruined rebuilding plans. Dubus is probably like,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna bring Anthony, Mantha and Justin brezo In and
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  Speaker 3: to play alongside a guinea Malkin. Unbeknownst to everybody that
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  Speaker 3: both these guys Manth and Brazil would have breakout seasons
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  Speaker 3: alongside Malkin. And this line is like one of the
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  Speaker 3: best lines in hockey. Yes, I said it. You have
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  Speaker 3: these guys with all that size, they're playing so well together.
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  Speaker 3: They all have a little bit of skill, obviously Malkin's skill,
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  Speaker 3: but Mantha, they all have good hands around the net.
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  Speaker 3: They're huge. You can't push them off the puck. In
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  Speaker 3: today's NHL. They all can skate fairly decent. It is
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  Speaker 3: just an unbelieve It's their best line in Pittsburgh and
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  Speaker 3: one of the best lines in hockey right now. Brazil
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  Speaker 3: scored last night too. These guys are so good, they're
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  Speaker 3: playing so well together. But this team, Sidney Crosby, look
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  Speaker 3: at what Sidney Crosby's doing in this league. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: at this age, at this I don't want to say
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  Speaker 3: advanced age because he's the same. He's a year older
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  Speaker 3: than me, so that doesn't count. He's a young pop.
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  Speaker 3: But man, oh man, is this guy just unbelievable. And
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  Speaker 3: there's some crazy stats of like their defensive structure is
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  Speaker 3: really good, or it's their goals allowed as lower they're
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  Speaker 3: getting you know what it is, They're getting great goaltending
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  Speaker 3: is the biggest thing. Archer see Lofts, your boy has
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  Speaker 3: been the last save in my NHL career. I jump
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  Speaker 3: started him. The last shot, the last last shot that
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  Speaker 3: got saved by on Jason de Murz an old JD
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  Speaker 3: was by Archers. She Lofts and the NHL team saw
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  Speaker 3: him make that save and said, this kid is going
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  Speaker 3: to be a stut But I I don't think they're imposters.
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  Speaker 3: I think this, I think they've I think Dubas is
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  Speaker 3: looking at this being like, oh shit, now I gotta
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  Speaker 3: go win a cup. Yeah, and I gotta go try
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  Speaker 3: to win. Who to thunk it? Said the kid back
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  Speaker 3: in the playoffs.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: Meantime, the Tampa Bay Lightning four four and two overall,
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: two and three.
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: On a home ice.
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: You mentioned Zemis Girginson's The Lightning are hosting the Stars
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: after Kurgans the two gold game against Petters and the
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: Lightning's five to win. Lightning right now, average team impost
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: or not. Eventually the turn the Wormwole turn Jady. Eventually
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: you go from being a juggernautcha team that's all of
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: a sudden fallen a little bit. Has that happened the Lightning?
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: I I I do believe, so, you know, it kind
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: of stems from last year a little bit when we
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: were talking about the playoffs. I just don't know if
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: Vasilevsky health wise can hold up. He played great last game,
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: and but you know, they they're kind of always a
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: couple of injuries there. You know. I just feel like
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: the finn and and I don't love the way their
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: decoor looks. They I think losing Purvis was a big loss.
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: It's just an interesting one with them. I'm on the fence,
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: so I want to say I'm just gonna lean no
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: and be contrariant to not be like, yes, they're great.
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: You know, they got Kucher off point hegel Genseil. But
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: I want to say, like, I think something's awry with
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: this team. I don't know, I don't quite know what
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: it is, but I watched them and I don't love
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: what I'm seeing. So but again, this is one of
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: those teams of the pedigree that can probably that'll shove
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: it up my ass in two weeks and rattle off
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: eight wins, kind of like the tal Ponchewsky call of
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: Calgary being a good team. That's one of the worst
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: takes of all times. That's it's up there.
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: Want in and listen what happens in the group.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Chuck Taw wanted in because he called the devil so
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: goll give a little bit of love then, for okay,
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: I didn't give me some love, I'll be self deprecating,
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: mentioned my flames pick, and now we're just mercilessly broutbeating
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: him for the flames pick.
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: We have to Yeah, I'd say for that pickets, for
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: that pickets deserved. Yeah, they're they're they're they are tepid,
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: to say the least.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Their offense is pop gun the wild top imposter or not.
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: They lot twenty two goals over their first four home games.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: They lost a Utah six two. They lost your Sharks
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: six five in overtime. They're one five and two when
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: their opponents scores first. I know, we love Carilla Thrill.
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: He had his first even strength goal out of a
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: team high six so far this season.
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: But they're three, five and three. They're a subpar team.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Impost or not. I think they're imposts. I didn't love
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: them at the start of the season. I was a
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: little worried in this Central Division where a lot of
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: the teams got significantly better. Uh, I just they're five
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: on five play has been horrendous. They can't score five
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: on five. They're relying firmly on their power play. They
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: have the best power play in the league, so they're
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: drawing penalties and scoring. It's very dangerous. But you know,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: if that goes, if that one cold at all, I mean,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know if they would have won a game
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: this season. So you know, there's it's tough.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: They're just they're not getting the goaltending they got last
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: year from Flip Gustavson. They're not getting the you know,
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: good defensive play that we've come to known from the
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: Minnesota Wild. You know, you you like their decor on paper,
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: but it hasn't really been doing the job. I'm just
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: not I'm I'm a little worried about them, and I
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: don't love the start in the Central Division. I think
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: that we tell again, I'll keep harping on banking points,
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: but the one division where that is paramount that you
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: need to bank points early is this Central Division. Because
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: they we saw last year with Colorado, Winnipeg and Dallas
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: they just held that they held that spot for the
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: whole season. So it's like you need to get up there.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: And you're already started way way back right now, Like
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: this is not they We're in dire straits. You just
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: signed the highest paid player, Carill Caprisov, who's played well
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: to this massive contract, and all signs are pointing to
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: this is a team that's going to the playoffs, that's
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: playoff bound, and just a whimpering effort early in the season.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Don't love it don't love it.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Seetle Cracking right now, surprisingly a good start. This is
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: a good story, by the way, Brandon Montory two goals
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: Shane Wright scored last night the Crack and they lose
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: the halves for three and overtime. But Montour in his
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: tenth season eighteen goals last year, he left the Cracking
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: for four games last week to do his family and
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: led the death of his older brother Cameron from complications
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: from als. Of course, our thoughts the Montour family. Great
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: to see him come back in the ice and score
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: a couple of goals. Cracking right now five to two
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: and three. I don't think many people have them as
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: a playoff team. Maybe they're the team that hover around
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: but better than expected so far. Imposter or not for
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Shane Wright and company.
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: Oh a tough one. I mean that was a beautiful
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: moment Pod Coles and going up to Montour. I know
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: there's a video that very sad for them on tour family,
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: But you know, getting to this Kracking team, I mean
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: they're kind of middling in all team stats. They're not
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: really you know, jump, they don't jump off the page
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: at you. But they're kind of playing just a decent
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: brand of hockey, and they're getting great goaltending from Joey
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: Decord on most nights. He's keeping them in gains. You know.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: I think the addition of Mason Marchman really helps. They
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: get a little bit more snarl to them, and they
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: have a back end that is very good on its
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: best night. So you know, it's I don't want to
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: give it. I still think jury's out. I still think
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: it's an imposter. But the one caveat and the one
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: thing I'll say is after the poorest metropolitan division, the
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: Pacific is not much better. So the Pacific is a
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: little light, you know. And I think the Pacific, there's
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: really three teams in that Pacific Anaheim, they Vegas, and
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: Edmonton just because of their pedigree. After that, I think
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: it's wide open. But I don't know if there's going
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: to be five Central teams or not that make the playoffs.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: So I think Seattle's competing for a playoff spot. They
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: are not going to be competing at the top. They're
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: going to be in that wild card bid. But I
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: I can't get on board with this. I need to
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: see another ten games.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: Tel.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: I don't know, I need another ten from them.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: I like it a little ten game towel.
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: Let's we're gonna start calling them ten game twel titty
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: tow to.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Ditty towe meantime for the Rangers in the Canucks. You know,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: Egor Shister can actually put the blame on himself. Speaking
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: of goal toen, he was, you know, a little bit
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: d So what happens. Jonathan Quick comes in, He gets
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: his sixty fourth shutout twenty three, saves the Rangers.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: J T. Miller returned to Vancouver and the Rangers win
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: it to nothing. But they're four to five and two team.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: They're imposters, right.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they stand they don't have enough upfront. Back ends
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: not deep enough. You know, it really falls off after
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: Fox and Gavrikov. Not to say these guys some good players,
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Braden Schneider. You know they have the goaltending, but I
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: just don't know if they have the jam up front.
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: You know, they really hoped Lafarnier is gonna be this
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: one hundred point player and shown flashes of it. He
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: just can't find any consistency. Mika's advantage that hasn't sweat
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: once in his twelve year career. He's played better though,
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: but just hasn't just hasn't lived up to what we
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: expected from New York. But I never loved this lineup
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: from the start. And then you, you know, you take
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: out Vincent Trocheck, who's kind of a little bit of
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: an engine for this, this this depth down the middle.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: I just I don't see it. Imposters for me, don't.
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: I don't see it at all.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: A couple more to go, and these are good stories
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: from Detroit red Wings. Year nine of the Eyes are playing.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: There's seven and three right now. We talked with the
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: red Wings last year. Excuse me last week? What a
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: great start throw threw off too. Are the Red Wings
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: imposters or not? It feels like this team's jit.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: They're always imposters to me until they until I see
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: him down the stretch.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: They aren't until they disprove because it's.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they gotta they gotta prove me. They gotta prove
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: me wrong.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Dylan Larkin is not an impost then he's scored.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: No, Dylan Dialon, Dilon's a player. And I tell you
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: what coalition of the seventh rounders em and Finney fucking
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: studs dark horse for the dark Horse for the Calder
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: Nice I like it.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: And by the way, he's got eight goals over all
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: the season and one more for you. I feel like
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: this has to be an impost Blackhawks five three and two.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: I tell you what, This team's fucking exciting right now
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: to watch. If you're watching the Blackhawks. If you are,
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: if you listen to us on your way to work,
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: tune into the Blackhawks, folks. This is a fun team
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: to watch. Connor Bodard he's playing hockey. He's he's doing
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: what we all expected him to do. I mean that
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: hat trick last night was diabolical. The way he was.
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: The release he has right now it's on another level.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: I don't know if he's using a twenty five flex
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: stick because the whip on that thing is wow. It's
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: like a dominatrix whip in one of its servants.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, I didn't think we're going to do a
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: BDSM conversation, but yeah, he can it be in a workhorse.
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: How about Spencer Night that you know.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: What, That's why I need you for those things. Good
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: for Spencer Night signs a ticket, wants to be a
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: number one, had wasn't able to get an opportunity. He
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: is now saying come to me watch me bow Acknowledge
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: and I am Spencer Knight. He has been great. I
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: mean their decourse, listen, their decoors young but you know
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: Alex vlasek liv shoon Off, Wyat Kaiser, Sam Renzel, these
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: are like some butting stars. These are picks that have
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: a lot of upside to them. So you know when
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: Blaschell comes in and these guys are playing good ho
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: I mean Frank Naser, the Naser Laser has been has
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: I feel has really pushed Connor Badard to be better.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: And because he kind of has that swag, he's like
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: a little bit of the the anti Connor Berdhard. You know,
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: he's like a little bit more We got some piss
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: to him, a little bit cocky, arrogant. Connor kind of
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: was that, but in a weird way, kind of a
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: way that you wanted to you didn't want to love,
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: You wanted to punch him in the face. But you
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: see him kind of relaxing a bit playing hockey and
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: like getting a little bit of swag out to him,
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: getting that swagger that we all knew he had in him.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: So I don't want to I don't want to call
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: him imposters because I still think anything above what we
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: all thought. They'd win five games this year, so they're
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: already exceeding expectations. So I just want to like enjoy
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: this a little bit, and I hope this is this
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: is what you want out of a rebuild, is you
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: want to take a step forward. I wish there were
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: no bad teams in the NHL and everybody was good
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: so we could watch exciting hockey because I hate rebuilding
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: as an absolute passion of mine. I can't stand it.
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: I think this is not in a development league. You
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: have to try to win, and I like what they're
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: doing right now in Chicago, So it's nice to see
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: this take a step forward and then for right now
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: be a team that we hoped would improve a little bit.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, like you said, it's an impost and that you
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: don't think that they're a contender for a playoff spot,
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: but not an impost that they're better than you thought
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: they'd be.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: So they're exciting expectations.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, but dark first NHL hat trick is one
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: hundred and sixtieth career game. He becomes one of the
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: seventh Blackhawks player to score at least fifty goals before
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: turning twenty one. It's crazy. I think how young this
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: guy still is. One more topic than We'll do a
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: quick time out and get to Brian Barard or special guest.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: But first your boy, Max Selly.
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: He won't be twenty years old until the summer, but
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: he's five goals and eleven points in his last five games,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: going a five point game against the Rangers last week
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: the NHL.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Player of the Week.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: Fourth player in league history to get two five point
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: games before turning twenty. The others are Wayne gretzky Dale,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Howard Schuck and the great Brian Trotcay fifteen points and
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: nine games, he's fourth the NHL. Is he gonna be
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: on Team Canada or what?
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Let's go?
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Yeah, Why would you not want this kid on
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Team Canada? This is a I don't know this This
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: kid is, you know, this is just mad Max Fury
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: Road Witness, just witness blood Bank. This is you want
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: this kid Sidney Crosby is. He's a mini Sidney Crosby.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: He's a mini sid You know. I kind of eluded
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: initially like he's gonna be a hybrid of Jonathan Taves
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: and Sidney Crosby. I was Wren leaning on the Jonathan
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: Taves side at his best. But this kid is so good.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: He works so incredible hard. He's so hard on pucks.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: His underlying numbers of like puck battle wins. I know that,
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: you know, sounds like such a nerd stat, but that's
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: so important as an indicator of like a guy's will
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: to win. And you just see it, like you see
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: him willing like this Sharks team that does not have
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: enough talent and enough in the pool and enough depth
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: to really do much, but he's willing them to to
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: these close games, exciting games. He's just a guy and
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: I think if you put him around these veterans, these
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: really good players, he is going to thrive at the Olympics.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: And I think he should be considered heavily to be
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: in this Olympic roster right now on the fourth line,
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: fourth line center. And I just think he's he's a
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: guy even if you bring him as a thirteenth but
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: I just think he's a guy that understands the role
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: and and and understand he's understands the game and he's
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: he's it's a lot like Schaefer. He's a he looks
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: you know, and you have all the jokes with Will
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: Smith and you know, the sleepovers, and he seems like
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: a kind of Gigley guy. But his emotional maturity on
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: the ice is very high, and he's got a high
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: hockey IQ and that's hard to teach, and that's something
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: you need to be born with and he was gifted
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: from the gods. And I just think, man, it's listen.
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: The Sharks are bad, but we said they'd be exciting.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: They are exciting. These games are just must watch hockey
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: if you if you're a fan of mistakes and goals
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: and all sorts of ship like that. So so yeah,
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: so I'm he is not an impostor. And I know
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: we're not doing the imposter game anymore, but I just
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: wanted to say he's.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: The real deal from play.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: I like the impostor game like it was a fun game,
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: very f.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: On social media. If you want more imposter games, we're
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: willing to do that here.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Max Delly, the Baby Faced Assassin still to come here
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: unscripted tal Ponchewski with a cine file and sixty he's
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: gonna talk about pro beach hockey. But coming up next
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: it is indeed Brian Barrard and overcoming considerable in his career,
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: the highlights and low lights and all of it. It's
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: coming up next after this on NHL in Scripted. Our
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: next guest was the first overall selection in the nineteen
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: ninety five NHL Draft by the Ottawa Senators, who then
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: sent him to the New York Islanders and then we
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: won the Calder Trophy as the league's top rookie. He
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: went on to collect three hundred and twenty three points
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: in six hundred and nineteen career games with the Islanders,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Maple Leafs, Rangers, Bruins, Blackhawks, and the Blue Jackets. He
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: also in the Bill Masterton Trophy in two thousand and
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: four and now serves as president of the Colorado Extreme.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: Brian Barrard, Welcome to NHL and Scripted man. Great to
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: see you.
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: Thanks for having me, guys, I appreciate it.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: Colorado Extreme, let's start there.
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: What can you tell us about your work with the
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: organization and that big alumni tournament you have coming up.
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: It's a good start for sure. I've been there almost
• 31:00
  Speaker 5: about a little over a year now. I actually went
• 31:03
  Speaker 5: out to Askton just to kind of a little fun,
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: little vacation. My girlfriend and Loopool, a couple of guys
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: Jeffrey Loopool, Upshawal, my buddy Andy Mack kind of moved
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: out there during COVID. I met Sheldon Glitski and there
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: we kind of go. I mean, he started Extreme about
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: four years ago, basically free hockey. He expected anywhere from
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: you know, fifty two hundred kids. We're now up to
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: six hundred kids in the program where youth organization, I mean,
• 31:26
  Speaker 5: we provide free, free hockey, free ice time, free equipment.
• 31:30
  Speaker 5: We did a deal with the NHL and Peer, So
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: the organization has taken off and it's it's it's it's
• 31:34
  Speaker 5: been Uh, it's been great.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: How how have you seen just the reception and and
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: the growth and how did this kind of come to be,
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: you know, just just chatting with these guys. Is it
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: something that just happened organically or or has it kind
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: of been planned as you've as you've moved.
• 31:50
  Speaker 5: Along completely organically? It was it was we went out
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: there for a little vacate, like I said, and and
• 31:55
  Speaker 5: uh I I met Sheldon, his wife Katie. This has
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: been kind of a you know, a second mount for
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: Sheldon with with his other companies close to kind of
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: exiting his other company. He's got five kids under ten
• 32:04
  Speaker 5: years old, under eleven now, so they're all playing. Yeah,
• 32:07
  Speaker 5: they're all playing hockey. He played at Alabama Huntsville, so
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: their hockey family I saw, to be honest with I mean,
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: we stayed and my girlfriend stayed at their house and
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: just saw what all their family was about. I saw
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: the coaches he hired. We have hired coaches. We're close
• 32:22
  Speaker 5: now to two outdoor arenas, full sized outdoor arenas. It
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: was a limited ice time, and and all the coaches
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: he hired. I mean, it's it's just a great program.
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: And the kids down valley again. You know, we all
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: know hockey is not a middle class sport anymore. So
• 32:34
  Speaker 5: we're doing the best to provide, you know, great coaching
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: and development on and off the ice.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Five kids eleven and unders. He does not like sleep.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Hopefully I'll get man his wife.
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's great. It's great. They have four boys at
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: one girl and they're they're all leasing up to skate,
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: so it's great.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Man, that's awesome. Think how much you love the support
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: the pass it on your kids. Well, taking a memory
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: lane here, Brian, how shocked are you when you got
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: traded right after being the first pick in the draft.
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: I was definitely I was Actually I was actually hurt
• 33:02
  Speaker 5: in Montreal, abduct strained, and I was walking around kind
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: of doing a little shopping during the day and I
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: got out. I didn't even hear from Milburgh. I actually
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: heard it from a Sheerwood rep and Toronto called me
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: and said, You've just been traded to the Leafs and
• 33:14
  Speaker 5: I was like, no way, there's not a chance. So
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: actually rushed back to the rushed back to uh rush
• 33:20
  Speaker 5: back to the hotel, and my coaches were actually assistant
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: coaches were sitting in the lobby and they're like, you
• 33:23
  Speaker 5: better get up there. I think it's too late, they
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: told me, And I went up. I knocked right on
• 33:27
  Speaker 5: Milbury's door and he's like, he's been traded. So he's like, uh,
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: it was kind of funny. He's like, we just needed
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: a goaltender brought. He's like, I needed a goaltender real bad.
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: And and to be honest with there was nothing it
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: couldn't have been better for me. I mean, at first,
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: I was hurt, you know, obviously, you know, I thought
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: I was gonna be with Long Island for a while.
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: It was close to home for me, about three hour
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: drive from my parents, but going to the Leafs, I
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: mean with Matt's and Stevie Thomas and we were closing
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: down you know, MSG Maple Leaf Gardens. We had like
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: ten games left and open up the brand new Aircanada
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: Center and we had a good run that year too,
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: so it was it was great for me.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: I mean, you also were living in a in a house,
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: I think from what I've heard with Brian McCabe, Eric
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: for you show you at a young guy's house, I mean,
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: talk to me about that, you know, being you know
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: living with veterans or or you know young guys living
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: with veterans, but you know, you guys are all young
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: coming up together. I kind of did that in San
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: Jose with Devin Setegucci and Tory Mitchell, and it was
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: actually amazing for my career, you know, because we were
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: so relaxed all the time, just all being together.
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: I agree totally with you. I mean we had a
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: lot of young young prospects too, I mean, you know
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: getting there. Brent Lendos was there as well. He started
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: with you know, struggling with his concussions unfortunately, but as myself,
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: Cabor Todd Bertuzzi, Eric fi Schow, Singing Palfi, even young
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: guys like Scott the Chance. So we had a really
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: good kind of core Kenny Jhsen. So we had a
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: really good core guys that you know, made it easy
• 34:52
  Speaker 5: for took the pressure off a little bit. And I
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: mean we weren't very good the first couple of years,
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: but still it just made it an easier way to
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: kind of you know, adapt and playing in the NHL
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: at at a young age.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: I was just say that the coaches just hate that
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: house too.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: These guys are getting after it all the time. Way
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: too much fun being had there, right.
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: Oh, it definitely was. I mean especially you know, me
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: and McCabe too. We like to go out a little
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: bit and back then it was He's on the Island
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: live music, so it was a lot of fun. I
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: mean Caber met his wife there and things like that
• 35:26
  Speaker 5: as well. So we had a lot of fun. And
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: then you added guys like Ken Blane, a, Richie peelon Micvacota.
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: We had a great team on and off the l
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: on the ice, but off the ice, we definitely had
• 35:35
  Speaker 5: a good team.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: Off the ice.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, great off ice team and it was a pretty
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: interesting time, Brian, because Milbury's replaced as GM with Neil Smith.
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: He's gone six weeks later, replaced with Garth Snow, who
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: was the team's backup goal of the year before.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: How did you describe that much change?
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: That was a change end to my towards the end.
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: I mean that that's kind of when after I got traded,
• 35:55
  Speaker 5: but you know, I went back there for one more
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: year and that's when gar Snow was in charge, and
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: and you know DiPietro was there as well, so it
• 36:01
  Speaker 5: was it was you know that that was definitely a
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: differ time. That was when the organization really kind of
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: seemed to be a little bit of you know, I
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: don't say in a mess, but it was a mess. So,
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: I mean, it was just it was an experience, that's
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: what we realized it. There's also the business. You know,
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: it's a business part of the game as well. It
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: can be frustrated times and then you see some guys
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: get disrespected and things like that. So it kind of,
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: you know, towards the end of the correct that was
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: towards the end my career kind of left a little
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: bit of a sour taste in my mouth as far
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: as the politics, it kind of you see some teammates
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: and stuff get hurt, and there is the business side
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: of hockey, so unfortunately.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the business side is always can get tricky. And
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: I mean somebody that you also played for was pack
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: Quinn and you know, an intimidating figure. You know, do
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: you have any good pack Quinn stories. I'm sure you
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: know he was. I'm sure you yeah.
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: Pat was old school though, so yeah, for some reason,
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: a lot of the old school coaches like Brian Sutter,
• 36:57
  Speaker 5: Pac Quinn, even Mike Keenan. I never played for him,
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: but you know, try to trade for me a couple
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: of times. Seemed to like me a little bit. I
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: like playing for the old school guys to be hon
• 37:04
  Speaker 5: and Pat. Pat was intimidating. He had those big, big,
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: you know, big Irish fists that would palm the coolers
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: and he was a big man. But he kind of
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: opened a door and let us play. And then when
• 37:13
  Speaker 5: we needed our butts kicked, he kick us in the
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: butt as well. So Pat, that was funny. I mean,
• 37:17
  Speaker 5: you know, I mean from Toronto, you know the least
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: there is no there's no secret what should do. So
• 37:21
  Speaker 5: Pat used to just be fine we'd be sitting in
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: the players lounge, you know, in the morning with the
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: old school warm up with a couple of coffee and
• 37:27
  Speaker 5: heat packed around the back and a bag.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: Had a firm bangla exactly.
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: But he would always come through and he just laugh,
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: he goes they brought I heard it, you know, I
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: heard you had dance and she was on last night
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: or something like that. And right enough, I was that
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: fluid till you know, three thirty four of the more
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: so the old fluid in Toronto, you.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: Downtown, n Yeah.
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but he had the he had the good you know,
• 37:51
  Speaker 5: smirk on and he was he was old school too.
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: I mean in between periods that year, I think we
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: had seven or eight guys that smoke butts in between
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: periods and Patty Quick, Patty Quinn and uh you know
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: Pat Quinn and Ricky Lee would have the cigars cigars
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: going in between periods too. No, it wasn't much breathing
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: in that locker room, that's for sure.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: How is that just being I always I always fascinated
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: by that, Uh, just guys you know, ripping SIGs in
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: between and it worked, But I mean, how is that
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: covering to the room and what a laid back style.
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we had We had the Russian mob there too,
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: So we had seven eight rushing guys and most of
• 38:24
  Speaker 5: them were the smoking butts like Danny Markoff and guys
• 38:26
  Speaker 5: like that that I loved. You know. We had a
• 38:28
  Speaker 5: hardcore team, which but you know, Masen Dean is probably
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: probably one of them, and I played with for mess too.
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: He's one of the better captains I've played for on
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: and off the ice. Not big vocal guy, but leadership
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: and he kept that team. We had a bunch of
• 38:40
  Speaker 5: characters on the team, but that was probably the best
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: team and probably the best chance I had to want
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: to stand with the couples on that team.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, there's no question about that. Leaves team certainly was special.
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: It was in Toronto, of course, Brian, that you suffered
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: that devastating eye injury many people thought would end your career.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: It was remarkable you were able to come back. Of course,
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: won the Masters and Trophy later in your career. That
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: committed to the game. How adamant were you though that
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: you were going to come back no matter what.
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: I feel, I wasn't I thought about Crew was doing.
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: I mean, you know, I caught that stick you know
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: caught me. It was an accident, but just caught me
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: the right way. I mean, did a ton of damage.
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: You know, probably for a good six months to a year,
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: I thought my crew was over. But then this is,
• 39:17
  Speaker 5: you know, the surgery start kind of kind of dwindled
• 39:19
  Speaker 5: a little bit. I had about six or seven eye
• 39:21
  Speaker 5: surgeries to kind of repair them. Right now. Yeah, never really,
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: I mean basically it was. It's kind of good thing
• 39:26
  Speaker 5: because I think that if I would have got some
• 39:28
  Speaker 5: vision back my brain, I would have two different signals.
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: I don't know if I would have ever been able
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: to play. So the one that played with the good
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: left eye and he came back playing those six or
• 39:36
  Speaker 5: seven years, it took me a little while to adapt.
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: I think I got backed offensively, but I think the
• 39:41
  Speaker 5: toughest part of the game was in the defensive zone
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: with the one eye covering guys in the slots and
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: kind of going back for pucks and things like that.
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: But you know, I was twenty three years old, so
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: you know, in hindsight, I would have done again.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean that's that's amazing too. And like
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: what was the you know, you talk about the defensive
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: zone and I played with Michael Grabner who who suffered
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: an eye injury as well, and he kind of got
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: a little bit fuzzy this back. But I think to
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: your point that, like that's interesting. You're like, well, you're
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: trying to get some vision back, but if you get
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: a little bit, it's it's distorting to your view and
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: it's distorting to your brain because you're getting kind of
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: fuzzy in one eye. So it's almost better to I mean,
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: it's it's awful to say it's always better to have
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: just the one eye. But for you defensively, did you
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: have to like tilt your head like how does that work?
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: And and also to continue on that when you came
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: back to the Rangers, like winning the Masters in Trophy,
• 40:30
  Speaker 3: Like how gratifying was that? You know?
• 40:33
  Speaker 5: And the biggest thing I think it's, you know, from
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: going back for a pocket, you know, my feel and
• 40:38
  Speaker 5: things for the game. I'd say you can get a
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: little bit better. But if a guy, well, you know,
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: one guy was basically chasing me from behind, you kind
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: of feel where he was or kind of keep your
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: head on the swive was I'd love to say the defenseman,
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: but yeah, you know, if two guys would jump me.
• 40:50
  Speaker 5: That's where I get hit pretty good sometimes, but also
• 40:53
  Speaker 5: it's just kind of lose and that's where you kind
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: of lose track of guys. And with one eye and
• 40:57
  Speaker 5: and no depth perception, made a little definitely tougher defensively,
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: you know, winning the Masters, and it was something that
• 41:03
  Speaker 5: you know, I didn't didn't fact that. It was just
• 41:05
  Speaker 5: more of a I wanted to come back and play hockey,
• 41:07
  Speaker 5: be part of the locker room again with the boys
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: and the camaraderie and and things like that. So the
• 41:11
  Speaker 5: Masterson was just was just a bonus.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: It was a remarkable perseverance, the commitment. He certainly deserved
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: that award.
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: Brian, that Rangers team truly unique on paper, stacked, Eric
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: linch Ross, Theo Fleury, Mark Messier, Brian Leech, Pavelbury, Mike Richtor,
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: Matthew Barnaby. What do you remember about unique collection of characters?
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: That we did not make the playoffs, which is crazy,
• 41:32
  Speaker 5: that is insane, because I mean that team was again,
• 41:36
  Speaker 5: we were stacked. I mean, I don't even know how
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: many All stars we had on that team, but you know,
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: just got off the rough start right away. Coach got fired,
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: slats came down you know from from upstairs and Slats
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: that same I mean, Slats was was awesome to me.
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: You know, I played all eighty two games that year,
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: probably was a six or seven defenseman. He could have
• 41:53
  Speaker 5: sat me many a Knight's but he knew kind of
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: knew what I was coming from, and when the team
• 41:57
  Speaker 5: started struggling, he stuck with me and keave an opportunity
• 42:00
  Speaker 5: to kind of start my comeback. You know. As far
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: as that team, I just think there was there wasn't
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: a bucks on the ice, you know for all those
• 42:05
  Speaker 5: guys and and uh unfortunately, I mean that that definitely
• 42:09
  Speaker 5: that would have been a nice playoff run if we're
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: Goulda made it in the playoffs, because I think then
• 42:12
  Speaker 5: mess could have kind of grabbed the reins. But it was.
• 42:14
  Speaker 5: It was definitely an interesting year and a lot of
• 42:15
  Speaker 5: good guys on that team.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: Can you give me a specific story, but either Lynn
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Dross or Flurry two of my favorites.
• 42:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Flur. Flurry was tough. I mean, we'll keep that Flurry.
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: I can tell you one good story. Towards the end
• 42:24
  Speaker 5: of the year, he kind of disappeared and he was
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: looking at my Porsche to buy and he just He
• 42:29
  Speaker 5: actually disappeared with my Porsche for for about three or
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: four months, so I thought he actually stole it from me. Yeah,
• 42:35
  Speaker 5: he's down in New Mexico and I got his girlfriend
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: called me at the time and got my dress, and
• 42:39
  Speaker 5: like two days later FedEx showed up with a check,
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: but I had his car, he had my car and
• 42:42
  Speaker 5: just kind of he kind of disappeared on me. He
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: went down to New Mexico. So it was interesting. He
• 42:45
  Speaker 5: mentions in his book too is funny.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: But did he just take it?
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: Did he take it for a test?
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: Driver was like just take it just to come back? Yeah,
• 42:54
  Speaker 5: excuse me. Yeah, so.
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: In Mexico and somewhere now, I did you know what
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: kind of Porsche it was?
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: That was It was a was a Force Cabrolet just
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: a night elet support your correct and the big Lindross
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: was my roommate. So I think I gained about ten
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: to fifteen pounds that year because that man can eat.
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: So yeah, we.
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: We just go for you know, we go for nice
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: dinner and stuff and get back. He'd always he was
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: good for his room service. Another meal and ice cream
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: at eleven o'clock at night, level thirty at night. What
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: was the I follow through. It was whatever could be
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: a salad. And but we love our ice cream too,
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: so both of us. I put on some weight that year,
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: that's for sure.
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: There's nothing better being on the road with the guys
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: in that ice cream late night after dinner, just just
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: the hot scoop of chocolate, scoop of vanilla.
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: It was before all the guys had their own rooms too,
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: so everyone you had roommates and stuff too, so it
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: was fun.
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and if your if your roommate was eating, you
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: were eating with them or.
• 43:49
  Speaker 5: Exactly.
• 43:51
  Speaker 3: I mean, uh, you know, you finish up your NHL
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: carew too. You know, back on the Islanders a bit,
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: you talked about it a little bit going back for
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: the year, but you know, talk about the Rick d
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: pahro of it all and did you ever you know,
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: looking back the way his career went when you played
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: with him, being like that would ever be a possibility
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: of something happening just the way he kind of came out,
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: was shot out of a cannon and then disappeared as
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: quickly as he came in.
• 44:16
  Speaker 5: Just as injuries. I mean, Ricky was you know, he
• 44:18
  Speaker 5: could handle a puck with the best of them. You
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: know as an athlete, he was a good goaltender, no question.
• 44:22
  Speaker 5: I mean the first time I met him, he was
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: jack too. You know, you can tell he was in
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: the weight room a lot, just as much, and that's
• 44:28
  Speaker 5: kind of very odd for a goaltender. But you know,
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: I just think his injuries, I think his knees as
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: hips more as hips than anything from ended his career.
• 44:35
  Speaker 5: It just shows, I mean stuff, the sports stuff. You know,
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: you can be you can be a top of your game,
• 44:40
  Speaker 5: you know, at any time, and then it kind of
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: can be taken away from you. So you get to
• 44:43
  Speaker 5: kind of count your blessings for sure.
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, oh, you gotta tell his tal coming in.
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: Well, I was just gonna ask quickly Brian about you know,
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: your your draft day and your your draft in general.
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: First overall pick, it's a big deal.
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: You know, you're taken by Ottawa, which is a team
• 45:01
  Speaker 4: that's building up all these assets at the time, and
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: before you know it, you know, you don't even end
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: up in Autoway. You get traded for Wade Red And
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: just curious what you had to share about that experience.
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: I mean, it must have been just an absolute whirlwind
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: for an eighteen year old kid. Who's getting ready to
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: start his NHL career.
• 45:18
  Speaker 5: It was I mean, the draft day was awesome. I
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: mean obviously was an Edmonton you know, some some pretty
• 45:22
  Speaker 5: big names like Doan, Gimba, Wade Red and a lot
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: of guys that had great careers went. You know, that
• 45:29
  Speaker 5: day was you know, my whole family was at brothers, siblings,
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: you know, my parents. It was a really good day
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: and I was pumped. Obviously going for Soroll, I was
• 45:38
  Speaker 5: kind of going back and forth. I didn't know if
• 45:40
  Speaker 5: I was going to go, but we kind of had
• 45:41
  Speaker 5: a pretty good idea. On draft day, went to Auto
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: Senators and to be honest, I kind of got a
• 45:46
  Speaker 5: bad rap right away because American kid not want to
• 45:48
  Speaker 5: play in Canada and that was untrue. But definitely I
• 45:50
  Speaker 5: played in Toronto. That's probably my best city I played in.
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: Went to Ottawa and that was a problem. I had
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: a lot of young guys. You know, they had a
• 45:57
  Speaker 5: lot of young guys. Are really no leadership, especially in
• 45:59
  Speaker 5: the general man. I don't want to rip on anybody,
• 46:02
  Speaker 5: but yeah, that the limitations is gone now that point.
• 46:08
  Speaker 5: The organization was just in a tough spot. So I
• 46:10
  Speaker 5: went into you know, I went into my first NHL
• 46:12
  Speaker 5: locker room and just had a bad taste in my
• 46:14
  Speaker 5: mouth right away. And then they sent me back. You know,
• 46:17
  Speaker 5: I was kind of I was hoping and ego wise,
• 46:20
  Speaker 5: you know, being an eighteen year old kid not too
• 46:21
  Speaker 5: many players play, you know, getting drafted first overall and
• 46:23
  Speaker 5: playing that next year, and that was a goald mine.
• 46:25
  Speaker 5: I wanted to play in NHL, was eighteen years old,
• 46:27
  Speaker 5: and worn Otto sent me home and kind of left
• 46:29
  Speaker 5: the bad taste in my mouth. It was it wasn't
• 46:31
  Speaker 5: my hockey decision, it was a financial decision. And that's
• 46:34
  Speaker 5: what kind of all started. Bruce Garrett at the time
• 46:37
  Speaker 5: kind of told us, you know, off the record, what
• 46:39
  Speaker 5: was going on upstairs. And I had Tom Laidlower's an
• 46:42
  Speaker 5: agent then and just like, let's get me out of here.
• 46:44
  Speaker 5: So I went back to junior and then they traded
• 46:45
  Speaker 5: me to you know, Millbury, I know, was having some
• 46:48
  Speaker 5: issues with read and at the time at training camp
• 46:49
  Speaker 5: as well started coming showing up from some of my
• 46:52
  Speaker 5: junior games. So I know the trade was close and
• 46:55
  Speaker 5: and then there it was, so it kind of it
• 46:57
  Speaker 5: was a three There was a big deal. Actually it
• 46:58
  Speaker 5: was a three team trade. I think yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 47:01
  Speaker 5: it was huge. A lot of players went everywhere. But
• 47:03
  Speaker 5: I think the but you know, Redding had an unreal career,
• 47:06
  Speaker 5: so I think they worked out and worked out for
• 47:08
  Speaker 5: Auto as well.
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: I think it worked out for It's one of those
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: the you know, if people get hung off on like
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: somebody's got to win and lose in a trade. I'm like,
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: sometimes everybody wins, and that's that's kind of the way
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: they're designed and meant to be. But you know, a
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: group that always wins is is your little cast of characters,
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: You Loops, you know, talk about meet and Jeoffrey Loopol
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: and you guys striking up quite a very significant friendship
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: and and you know, if guys have spent a lot
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: of time together, you know, I've kind of been around
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: you guys with you know, Ob and Shane O'Brien and
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: and Upshaw and all those guys, And I mean, you
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: guys are just some of the must watch TV hilarious
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: conversations that I've been able to kind of be a
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: fly on the wall and listen to. You guys are
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: just so funny when you guys get going. But talk
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: a bit about Loophole and how he came into your
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: life and how you guys have just kind of created
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: this Colorado Extreme which is like just an amazing event.
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: I think that is a testament to your guys' closeness.
• 48:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's I mean, those those guys I met basically
• 48:08
  Speaker 5: the Three Musketeers right or you got Obi, Obi, Uppy
• 48:10
  Speaker 5: and Loops. I met him first just out kind of
• 48:13
  Speaker 5: in the Newport, California area. We did a couple the
• 48:16
  Speaker 5: Vegas tournaments started, just started hanging out. I started during
• 48:20
  Speaker 5: the lockout, went off to the West Coast and started
• 48:23
  Speaker 5: hanging out those guys. Obviously, golf was big me and Up.
• 48:25
  Speaker 5: He would take on Obi and Obi and Loops all
• 48:27
  Speaker 5: the time, you know, in the golf course. And just
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: that's how our friendship began and then just kind of
• 48:33
  Speaker 5: stayed due that. You know, they're younger obviously, probably seventy
• 48:35
  Speaker 5: eight years younger than I am, you know, the kind
• 48:37
  Speaker 5: of you know, I went to Phillies camp too, that
• 48:40
  Speaker 5: was my last NHL camp, and those guys, you know,
• 48:41
  Speaker 5: Uppy and Loops are there and and just the friendship
• 48:44
  Speaker 5: was kind of born. And still we got a really
• 48:46
  Speaker 5: good group of guys hockey in and some baseball guys
• 48:49
  Speaker 5: as well, you know, just from the West coast and
• 48:51
  Speaker 5: you know kind of led me to coloradur stream. I mean,
• 48:53
  Speaker 5: those guys moved out to Aspen obviously during COVID ever
• 48:55
  Speaker 5: already mentioned that and then yeah, you know I lean
• 48:58
  Speaker 5: on them too. We have a we have a big
• 49:00
  Speaker 5: it's our biggest fundraise. So it's Colorado Extreme's biggest fundraiser
• 49:02
  Speaker 5: coming up. It's it's a fan camp as well. It's
• 49:05
  Speaker 5: December eleventh to the fourteenth. It's in Aspen. It's it's
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: an epic weekend. Guys coming on Thursday to stay. The
• 49:12
  Speaker 5: Sunday we play the on The big game is Saturday
• 49:15
  Speaker 5: at three pm. We played the as alumni, so we
• 49:17
  Speaker 5: got about forty I'd say about forty top, you know,
• 49:20
  Speaker 5: old players coming in for this weekend. Yeah, it's it's huge.
• 49:24
  Speaker 5: And we had a Fantasy camp you know, part this year.
• 49:28
  Speaker 5: So on Friday, we're bringing all campers. It's going to
• 49:30
  Speaker 5: be a complete NHL experience. We got all the equipment
• 49:32
  Speaker 5: managers coming in. It's amazing. Yeah, so we get to
• 49:35
  Speaker 5: the we got the Fantasy Camp game. The goal the
• 49:38
  Speaker 5: goalies are Mark Andre Fleury and Lunk Twist, so there's
• 49:41
  Speaker 5: not gonna be many goals scored from these campers. Yeah, came.
• 49:44
  Speaker 5: The campus should be pumped up. So I'll send you
• 49:46
  Speaker 5: guys some stuff if you don't mind putting it out there.
• 49:48
  Speaker 5: But yeah, yeah, I appreciate. It's gonna be a great weekend. Lot.
• 49:53
  Speaker 5: I gotta get in shape, but I just I just
• 49:55
  Speaker 5: got drafted in a men's league out there, so I'm
• 49:57
  Speaker 5: looking forward to start playing the games to play in
• 50:00
  Speaker 5: the playoffs. But but I'm probably I'll probably be the
• 50:03
  Speaker 5: worst player on the ice, to be honest with I.
• 50:05
  Speaker 3: Mean, anytime you go to Colorado, it's like and you'd
• 50:07
  Speaker 3: play the Avalanche. It's like, guys just survived the first shift.
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: Don't get caught out there in the first shift that.
• 50:13
  Speaker 5: Morning usually the morning skates. When I suck wind, I die,
• 50:16
  Speaker 5: and if I dake game time, I'm usually kind of adapted.
• 50:18
  Speaker 5: But it's it's definitely it definitely takes a toll, especially
• 50:20
  Speaker 5: where we are. We're gonna be playing. We're down valley
• 50:23
  Speaker 5: a little bit, but the fantasy game is gonna be
• 50:24
  Speaker 5: up in Aspens, so we're probably gonna be around eight
• 50:26
  Speaker 5: nine thousand feet, so there'll definitely be some guys sucking
• 50:28
  Speaker 5: some wind geez for sure.
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: Altitude always a challenge, Brian, honestly, man, congrats, So what
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: was a terrific NHL career, certainly inspiring the way overcame adversity,
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: playing in different franchises and doing a ton of great
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: work now post career alumni charitable events, great stuff.
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: Man, congrats, Thanks guys, thanks for having me.
• 50:44
  Speaker 5: I appreciate it.
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: Thanks once again at Brian Barrard. He was terrific.
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: We'll get to some of our favorite names in hockey
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: history in just a second, but first, Cinephile in sixty
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: I've been immersed in the World Series in addition to hockey.
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: Was great to be back in Toronto for the first
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: two games. Other World Series Jason Dodgers. So I've not
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: had time any time to watch movies, but Talpinschewsky has
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: he's squinting right now, isn't about pro Beach Hockey?
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: Mister magoo, The floor's yours.
• 51:17
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 51:18
  Speaker 4: I had a great time last week. Was able to
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: attend a very cool screening. Uh here in southern California
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: have this cool new film called The pro Beach Hockey.
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: Got to meet the meet the director.
• 51:29
  Speaker 4: After Jake Simperman is his name, talented guy worked on
• 51:33
  Speaker 4: this for a long time. Uh, Genie Busses in the
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: film Luke Robotie, Pat Bresson, Bobby Ryan and it's it's
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: it's about roller hockey, but it's really about this is
• 51:43
  Speaker 4: crazy to think about it.
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: Basically, in the.
• 51:45
  Speaker 4: Nineties there was a Beach roller Hockey league in Huntington
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: Beach in Los Angeles that it aired on ESPN two
• 51:55
  Speaker 4: and it was just this cool renegade league, this new
• 51:57
  Speaker 4: form of hockey. And the cool craziest part about it
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: was that the sideline reporter, uh for this league on
• 52:06
  Speaker 4: ESPN two, is this this young u n h alum
• 52:10
  Speaker 4: named Ellen Weinberg who would eventually years later go on
• 52:14
  Speaker 4: to be Ellen Weinberg Hughes, the mother of Quinn, Jake
• 52:18
  Speaker 4: and Luke Hughes.
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah yet, what so there you go.
• 52:23
  Speaker 4: So if you're we're talking to the Hughes brothers, ask
• 52:26
  Speaker 4: them about their mom being on ESPN two back in
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: the day that I'm.
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: Really going from the Blues Brothers to the Hughes brothers.
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: Go ahead, Just really cool film, interesting story.
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: You know, we like talking about the convergence of hockey
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: and movies when we can. We're trying to get j
• 52:43
  Speaker 4: D cast as the racist coach on this new young
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: Blood movies.
• 52:47
  Speaker 3: So give me one racist movie, give me one.
• 52:51
  Speaker 4: So here's just just a really cool film pro beach Hockey.
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 52:55
  Speaker 4: I'm not sure when there'll be other screenings or when
• 52:57
  Speaker 4: you'll be able to catch it, but great job by Jake.
• 53:00
  Speaker 3: And a really fun film. It's it's really cool. I
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: I was at this, Uh there's this event in San
• 53:07
  Speaker 3: Francisco and Max McCormick was there. It was signed with
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: the Crack and he said surgery. He's part of that
• 53:13
  Speaker 3: film as well. And they're like, you know, they're looking
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: for distribution. I mean at one point, I don't know
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: if you mentioned this, but at one point they was
• 53:22
  Speaker 3: like more viewed. They had more views than like an
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: NBA playoff game or something, or an NHL hockey game.
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: Like it was like a they had some ratings that
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: were insane. I don't know if you saw that in
• 53:33
  Speaker 3: the movie, but if they mentioned it, tal but it's
• 53:37
  Speaker 3: a really dah they did.
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: They got great ratings and it was just this machine
• 53:40
  Speaker 4: of content. They literally they they brought in all these
• 53:43
  Speaker 4: guys to play. They'd come in on the weekend. They
• 53:45
  Speaker 4: built a outdoor roller rink on the beach, and these
• 53:50
  Speaker 4: guys would come in every weekend. They'd played two, three,
• 53:53
  Speaker 4: four games every weekend. They'd get them a bunch of
• 53:55
  Speaker 4: hotel rooms to stay near the rink. They just absolutely
• 53:59
  Speaker 4: tie went on all weekend.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: It was a party. Yeah, it was totally.
• 54:02
  Speaker 4: Unique, very cool moment for the for the game before
• 54:06
  Speaker 4: all the homeless were there.
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: Oh my god, are you kidding me? On the beach
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: in Cali.
• 54:12
  Speaker 2: Get the homeless involved, right, grab a stick.
• 54:14
  Speaker 1: If you want some money, you gotta gotta, you know,
• 54:17
  Speaker 1: defend before they yeah.
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: Before before they destroyed that that state. Oh no, I'm
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: not a hey controversial. It's an amazing it's an amazing Honestly,
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: it's it's a cool story. Well probably arguably one of
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: the better sizzle reels you'll see out there in trailers.
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: So I always implore people. But I talked to Max
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: McCormick about it, and he mentioned Simperton and and and uh,
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: just a very cool I mean the fact you a
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: Genie Buss is incredible to kind of dedicate some time
• 54:56
  Speaker 3: to this as well, Like this was the thing, Like
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: she's not it's the Lakers talking about the Lakers.
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: No, she's got quite a bit of credibility's no quiet.
• 55:04
  Speaker 4: Well, she said, the reason she's in it is because
• 55:06
  Speaker 4: there was a there was a roller hockey league, a
• 55:09
  Speaker 4: pro roller hockey league that preceded this beach league, and
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: she owned a team in Los Angeles, and she admits
• 55:15
  Speaker 4: in the film that owning that team kind of showed
• 55:18
  Speaker 4: her dad that she could.
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: Do the job of running the Lakers one day. And
• 55:22
  Speaker 3: that was that was really yeah, tal amazing stuff, amazing work.
• 55:27
  Speaker 3: This is kind of one of the this is kind
• 55:29
  Speaker 3: of one of the better cinophiles.
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: This is actually this is he's i mean huge brothers.
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: He's dropping gd bus Well.
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: It's like it's a it's a nice change of pace
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: from all the David Bammott play right cinephiles, you know,
• 55:44
  Speaker 3: and talking Francis Ford Coppola. This is a little more
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: populist and a little hey, but it's this is great.
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: I love Cinephile's great centephile and sixty and.
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: Sixty continues, Uh, we want to talk about some funny
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: names though, because top point at the of the day
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: in the HL Saturday Night Blackhawks prospect Marcel ourselves facing
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: offense Abas prospect, Ivan Ivan just awesome. I remember, I
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: remember what Ivan Ivan got drafted, Like, I can't wait
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: that this guy I've played against them, you played against
• 56:14
  Speaker 1: talk to you about Ivan Ivan.
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: I mean, what's there to talk about?
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: Good player?
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, good player, a better name.
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: He's like Jimmy two times every time you said everything,
• 56:23
  Speaker 2: it's a two times, Get the papers.
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: Get the papers. Mitchie State Forward, Riley Funk. Favorite names
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: in hockey So I love Don Bopray because it's a kid.
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: It was just such a fun name to say, Don
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: Bouprey Al post So and I mentioned earlier. I mean
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: Ron tug that I mentioned a Chris Berman. Oh you're
• 56:40
  Speaker 2: not gonna be Ron Ron. You've got a couple of
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: beauties as well. JD.
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: How about for your favorite hockey names, Well, you know
• 56:46
  Speaker 3: the there's always the ones where people say, like, you know,
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: Ron Tugnet because you're like, you know, you tugged a
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: drive or something, or you pulled some Billy guarantee. But listen,
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: we used to play a game which like helped with
• 56:59
  Speaker 3: your hockey knowledge. Player knowledge is basically, you say a name,
• 57:04
  Speaker 3: so you'll say a name of a player in the league.
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: So let's say you start with. You start with Chris
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: Pronger because you love Pronger. You have a heart on
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: for progress. You say Chris Pronger. You have to take
• 57:13
  Speaker 3: the first letter of the last name, and that is
• 57:16
  Speaker 3: the first letter of the first name of the next player.
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: And you got to just keep going until somebody forgets
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: a name. So if I'd say Chris Pronger, you'd say
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: Paul Korea. Now it's a K. So you got to
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: go with a K. You got to think of a
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: player on the spot. It could be current or former.
• 57:33
  Speaker 3: And if you say a name that has so if
• 57:36
  Speaker 3: it's like Chris, Chelio, so, c C, it flips the
• 57:39
  Speaker 3: rotation so it goes back. So like there's all these
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: and we used to play in junior on the bus
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: for hours, on these twelve hour bus rides, and you'd
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: go through all these names, and you'd always try to
• 57:50
  Speaker 3: get to Z because Z is working agains squirrely, you know,
• 57:54
  Speaker 3: zemgiz Gergensin's wasn't in the league at that time, but
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: like you had zadan O'chara, Ziggy Palfie. But then you
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: had one of my favorites, zar Le's Elapski. Yes, I
• 58:05
  Speaker 3: call we called that one the finisher. If you could
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: make your way to Zarle's Elabski, you were finishing nice
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: and he is one of the all time great mugs
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: on hockey dB. Zarly'sz Elabski played twenty years professional hockey
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: because he went over to Europe in like twenty years.
• 58:23
  Speaker 3: He's forty one when he retired. Amazing stuff. The Zilapper
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: Harry SITTERI.
• 58:28
  Speaker 1: You think of my guy, tell you was playing forty six.
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: He's still in the HL. The fact that Zelabski is
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: going into his forties is probably not well documented, but
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: I love the fact that's the checkmate. Like in chesshi, Okay,
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: what's the pivotal move? If you watch Searching Brawye Fisher, Oh,
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: if you get the Queen of a b Charlie's Zilabsky
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: was the finishing move.
• 58:44
  Speaker 2: Tao's some favorite names. Cal Clutterbuck is an excellent one.
• 58:47
  Speaker 3: What else do you can know?
• 58:49
  Speaker 1: Dal just said to be Rob Clinkhammer and Cal Harry
• 58:53
  Speaker 1: Steri is one of my favorites.
• 58:56
  Speaker 3: I mean, Zemgiz Gigginsons is hard to is great. Also,
• 59:01
  Speaker 3: Ouvis Malynsky's this was another one.
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: I think you're just gonna say OUI croup I always OI group.
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, who else did I play with that had a
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: I mean I played with Harry SEITERI.
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: Tal.
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to think of some other ones. I mean,
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: I'm sure you could go into the you know, the Fins,
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: the finish and and I'm sure they'd have some Yeah,
• 59:27
  Speaker 3: you get.
• 59:27
  Speaker 2: Some goofy names one of them along the way.
• 59:29
  Speaker 3: By the way, did we did we even mention? Did
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: we glaze over the Thomas Harley signing? Are we are?
• 59:34
  Speaker 2: We see it? For?
• 59:35
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: Listen, this is a guy broke out obviously the last
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: couple of seasons with the Stars.
• 59:39
  Speaker 3: You're looking at what is it ten point eight a
• 59:41
  Speaker 3: a v ten point five eight seven jeepers man that
• 59:44
  Speaker 3: is a that is a A one defenseman, that is
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: a top pair that is like a franchise defenseman signing.
• 59:54
  Speaker 3: I mean maybe a year ago because now it's like,
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: but I think it's a little.
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: Rate, Like I don't want to say he's a rat.
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: I think he's a good player. Like the money's a
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: little steep in my view. When I saw it was like,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: I know the CAP's going up. I never gets but
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: I'm like, I thought he's an eight million dollars year player.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: He's like ten and a half.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: Oh, he carried that team last year. I think he
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 3: earned it. I think he's he is a yeah, I
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: mean he's worth it. I'm very high on him, you
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: know this. Always have been right in the Harley all day,
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: every day, rev the engine. He revs my engine. So
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 3: but yeah, I think it's a good deal. I listen,
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 3: who knows where the CAP's going to go after the
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: next two years, But it seems like revenue is going up, up,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 3: up up up. So yeah, you know, dumb ass me
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 3: doing a podcast.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: For you could still come back one year deal.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: I keep saying, Yeah, I look good right now too.
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: Body's tight, he's tight.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: I'm sure it is last topic here, speaking of veterans
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: still getting it done.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: Sidney Crosby seventeen hundred points.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: He reaches the miles to a family in the crowded
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 1: PPG Paints Arena, ninth all time on the scoring list,
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: behind his buddy Mario Lemieux. He has a chance to
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 1: pass Lemieux and Steve Eisman to get his high at seventh.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: He turns thirty nine this summer.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna get to two thousand points,
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: but I don't want to bet against him.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: I think Sid gets to over eighteen hundred points.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: I still think it's one hundred points left in I
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: think he's still got two years still left in him.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: I'm going to say eighteen forty he finishes. What do
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: you got?
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 3: He's at what now?
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: Too?
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: He's at seventeen hundred, So I'm gonna say a couple
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: more years.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 3: I should know that. Duh, seventeen hundred hover for thenwork.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 3: I just saw the number and you just said it. Listen,
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 3: Jay two more.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: He's still about a point a game player, I think, Yeah,
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 1: eighteen thirty forty, that's it.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: It's you know, Sid loves and his express that much.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 3: He loves to play the game and wants to keep playing,
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 3: and that's like what he does. So you know, it's
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: a lot different than Novech Can. I feel like, is
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: this is his final tour and he's he's gonna go
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 3: play in the KHL after next year, he's just going
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 3: to retire. I just feel like Sid just loves the
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: game so much. I can't see him not coming out
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 3: of this in the next two years. So yeah, I
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: could see him put I mean, he's not slowing down.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 3: I mean, this guy is unbelievable. He's so good. And
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: if they keep putting a team around him and keep
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: putting players or trying to you know that, and if
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: you know ownership and Dubas aren't like Major League where
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 3: they're just removing all the all the nice cities that
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 3: you have in the NHL. That's what I feel like
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: this team has been like for the last few years,
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 3: where they just keep taking players from him, like good players,
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 3: putting him with young kids. It's Major League all over again.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: It's his Major League. He's the catcher.
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: Every time take a piece off, that's it.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: We just take a piece off. That's what it feels like.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: Dubus is trying to do it, and this guy just refuses,
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 3: refuses to die. He does not want to die. You
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 3: cannot get rid of him.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 1: Crosby resputing if he gets to eighteen hundred, he'll be
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: fifth all times. I'll say he gets to eighteen fifty one,
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 1: because Gordy Howe is fourth right now. To eighteen fifty,
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: I think he just passes mister hockey and that's it.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: Fifty one for Sid.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: I'd say eighteen eighty two.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 1: Wow, Okay, the TV show eight to eighty two.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, eighteen eighty two, the you know, the year
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: of the invasion, and uh, the Boston tea Party eighteen
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 3: eighty two. I don't think it was. I don't think
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: it was that. It's made that up.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: Seventeen seventeen seventy seven. Seventeen seventy six is the Declaration
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: of Independence. I'm gonna say the tea party was probably
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: seventies seventy seventeen seventy four. Some were in there. That's
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: my guess. Last thought here, by the way, Messi's third eighteen.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: He's not gonna get to Messy exactly. You don't need
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: to know these things.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: Last thought for Halloween.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: Right around the corner, we're discussing an Amazon Prime coast
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: to coast people can be dressing up and immediately brought
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: up JD's get up last year Reno nine one one
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: the Nu Huggers, in which your balls were essentially exposed
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: coast to coast in Canada.
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: What are you in jail doing for Halloween? This different?
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: I don't want to know. It's just give me a
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 2: sneak brief. Your Boston tea party, by the way, confirmed
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: seventeen seventy three.
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 3: Go ahead, I was close taking a wild get.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: Usaid eighteen eighty three.
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 3: I said, now, I said, seventeen seventy seven, after over
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 3: four years, Oh yeah, when I was balls deep in
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 3: that costume.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think that was the first to me. Max
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: I saw it.
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 3: Who is this guy? You're doing a podcast to that guy? Friend?
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: Hey friend Reno nine?
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 2: And like did he keep it on the whole time?
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: To go out? How cold is that studio? It looks
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: like he's smuggling grapes in there.
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 3: I don't think it was out. They were hanging pretty
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 3: low that day. They were hanging pretty low. I'm a worker.
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 3: Uh no, listen, Uh are.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 2: You gonna be on the air this Halloween? Let me
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: ask you that.
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 3: No, I'm not. I start. I think I start back
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 3: on the fifth. But but we funny story the other day.
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 3: I was like, it was the twenty fifth. Twenty fifth,
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 3: So like two weeks ago, I'm sitting at home and
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 3: I'm part of this like group chat that somebody had
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 3: me to this this one buddy of mine. I don't
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 3: know anybody else in the group chat. There's like twenty people.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 3: It's like a pickleball group chat. These guys are all
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 3: like pro pickleball players and they just set up days
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 3: to go play pickleball. So, you know, unbeknownst to me,
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 3: I haven't really you know, checked in, I haven't been around,
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 3: but all you know, two weeks ago, I get a
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 3: flyer in the group chat and it says, you know,
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 3: there's a Hallow come join this Halloween party at set address.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 3: And I look at Jill and I'm like, should we
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 3: just do it? Should we just like crash it? Because
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 3: I'm like, I don't know anybody at this event, like nobody,
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 3: don't know one person that.
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: Sounds like I see it a friendship.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, similar, not really but similar. So we went
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 3: as Jill posted on it on Instagram, but we went
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 3: as She went as Aunk Gladdison weapons.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: Nice, that's great.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, And I and you know, thinking, now, I don't
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 3: know if I I don't know if I culturally appropriate
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 3: anything because I did Asian face. So but I didn't
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: do Asian face. I went as the vice principal that
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 3: gets she basically she makes him kill the essentially the
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 3: iconic scene or the guys running in the and jumps
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 3: on the girl and tries to kill her. That's who
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 3: I went as with the eyeballs bulged out and everything.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 5: So I went that.
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so I went as that, But then I realized
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 3: that it was an Asian actor. So I was like,
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 3: did I do something wrong? I don't know.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 2: This part's probably getting edited, is it.
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 3: I'm more like a question like is that are we are?
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 3: We said? In today's world? Don't get uncomfortable. I'm I'm
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 3: admitting to it. I'm like, did I sure you're not.
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: Being exposed by you're getting in front of it. It's
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: not like it's a movie, that's it. Yeah, well it's.
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 3: A character in movie. I'm not I'm playing the guy
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 3: that was. Yeah, I'm not. You know, so that that's
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: the question. Like I didn't. There wasn't any altering of
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: my It's it was me wearing the clothes essentially of
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 3: that actor and portraying him in essence.
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: I think people know your wife's a Thespian, they know
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: that you're getting a characterize.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 3: But that you know, like where is the line drawn?
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 3: Like you know, that's my question as we continue and
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 3: we'll see if this makes it. But you know you
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 3: could you could? You can't do blackface, that's that's no. No,
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 3: or like you can't dress. I'm not going to go
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 3: on a turban or anything and and or you know
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 3: what I mean, or put on a put on a
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 3: play like a anyway, but like playing a sentence.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: That's why I don't want to jump to help, because
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: you can playing like I go what like where you
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 1: going with this?
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna sentence.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 2: I'm not.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 3: I'm sure.
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: I'm just he's an Asian, he's.
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 3: An Asian actor, but I'm not playing an Asian actor,
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 3: playing essentially the guy that was killed. And I'm playing
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 3: Benedict Wong. That's who I'm playing. He's the actor of
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 3: the movie is Benedict Wang, and I'm playing him. But
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 3: I didn't even realize it. Looked at my wife and
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 3: I'm like, is this bad?
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: I said, what did you do for Halloween? I dressed
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 2: up as Benedict Wong?
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 3: Speaking of great names, move over, Benedict Cumberbatch.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 1: We have we have a new Benedict on the block,
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: Benedict Carld, Benedict Cumberbatch, and he's making his impact.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 3: You know, I listen, I think I'm I think I'm
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 3: in the clear. The thing is is that nobody the
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 3: best part about it so anyways, getting back to it,
• 1:08:51
  Speaker 3: So we walk into this party and and we don't
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 3: know anybody, and this guy's house is like head to
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 3: toe it's like a haunted house. Open bar, open, you know,
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 3: there's food every wear, like amazing food. And we end
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 3: up like there's a glow in the dark pickleball court,
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 3: and we just basically walk in and like we own
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 3: the place, Asian appropriation and all. And I just we
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 3: just we just had a great night. And we ended
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 3: up meeting the owner of the house, and we ended
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 3: up having all these weird connections of knowing all these
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 3: different people in the city. So it was pretty funny.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 3: We're the only people that will crash the Halloween party
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 3: if you invite us and potentially get in trouble.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: I thought Jill's costume is awesome.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: I mean, weapons is going to get some Oscar buss
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 1: Amy Madigan might win an Academy award. I mean that
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: that's a good costume of her. You was Benedict Wang,
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 1: not bad, you.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: Know what we said. I was like, listen, Hunt, I've
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 3: kind of led the dance for the last few years.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 3: I'm like her the star.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like that's good of you.
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 3: Dangle Yeah.
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 2: Anyway, Brian Barard was the star here an angel inscriptive
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 2: thanks once again to him.
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: Thanks for checking us out. We'll be back next week,
• 1:10:05
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• 1:10:22
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