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Kevin Weekes Does It All: Torts In, Treliving Out and the Jets Make a Run. · NHL Unscripted with Virk and Demers

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  Speaker 1: NHL Unscripted is a production of the NHL and iHeart
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  Speaker 1: Podcasts Episode.
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  Speaker 2: Number seventy five that cannot be right tow Are You kidding?
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  Speaker 1: Member Cruising ahead here in NHL Unscripted, our special guest
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  Speaker 1: host Nate Thompson is still along for the ride as
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  Speaker 1: far as our guests. This week, Kevin weekspan as this
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  Speaker 1: guy got stories. He played under John Tortorella in Tampa,
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  Speaker 1: so gotta ask him his theories to put his hiring
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  Speaker 1: means in Vegas.
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  Speaker 2: Plus the inside outcame caming up in ESPN. Canna be
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  Speaker 2: very very cool. Look forward to that.
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  Speaker 1: In the meantime, though, we kicked things off with what
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  Speaker 1: was a rather exciting game for the Colorado Avalanche. The
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  Speaker 1: last time I was there Fellaws just two weeks ago,
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  Speaker 1: the Penguins wed him seven to two. This time, the
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  Speaker 1: Avalanche come back nine to two and absolutely hammered this
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  Speaker 1: Calgary Flames team which is rebuilding in fairness and was
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  Speaker 1: expecting really to compete.
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  Speaker 3: JD.
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  Speaker 1: I was trying to be a contrarian a couple of
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  Speaker 1: weeks ago and saying, hey, what if this Avalanche team
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  Speaker 1: relinquishes the top spot to Dallas and then you know
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  Speaker 1: the Apps could lose the Wild and seven. Now after
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  Speaker 1: watching them up clast and personal, clearly the Avalanche beat
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  Speaker 1: Dallas Stars a couple weeks ago, that big head to
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  Speaker 1: head game, it looks like the Aps are still the
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  Speaker 1: tune to beat. And I gotta tell you, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: think i'd been an NHL game this season see a
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  Speaker 1: team put up double digits, but I almost saw it
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  Speaker 1: nine to two.
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  Speaker 2: The Avalanche are for real.
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  Speaker 4: They're just I think they they accrued a little bit
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  Speaker 4: too many injuries. They're two three weeks ago and hide everybody. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I just think it's it's they are the team to beat.
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  Speaker 4: Dallas has kind of looked a little bit better with
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  Speaker 4: ranting in back and you know, I still think that
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  Speaker 4: Central is gonna be an absolute shit show to come
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  Speaker 4: out of it. But man, he's just they have too
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  Speaker 4: much center depth, They've too many, too much on the
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  Speaker 4: back end. Now, you know, I saw the news on
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  Speaker 4: my car that he got hurt in that game, So
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  Speaker 4: I don't know how bad it is, but I'm for
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  Speaker 4: sure they're gonna, you know, if any guys get any
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  Speaker 4: I think little lingering issues. They're going to rest them
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  Speaker 4: before the playoffs because they think they want to be
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  Speaker 4: as healthy as possible because they know what this team
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  Speaker 4: can do and that this team could probably just walk
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  Speaker 4: through the West in the and win a Stanley Cup.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, it's it's a good, good hockey team. And
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I don't got much more than that, other
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  Speaker 4: than saying that they're fucking sick.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 1: I love the fact you mentioned the center depth because
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  Speaker 1: you look at it and say, well, McKinnon, obviously, you know,
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  Speaker 1: another one hundred point season, four straight, incredible, brock Nelson's
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  Speaker 1: your number two, and then Noz and Cadri reacquired is
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  Speaker 1: your number three.
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  Speaker 2: And Nas was okay the first little stretch.
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  Speaker 1: He did two goals five assists in the first eleven games,
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  Speaker 1: but scored two goals in that game. An Avalanche power play,
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  Speaker 1: which has been much belign most much of this year,
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  Speaker 1: finally playing better.
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  Speaker 2: They were three for four of the power play. Now
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  Speaker 2: sat two of those power play goals.
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  Speaker 1: I do think when you look at a team, it's
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  Speaker 1: very old school that that center depth right now tough
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  Speaker 1: to top of colle out. I was able to trot
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  Speaker 1: out there with McKinnon, Nelson, Cadre.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, j he mentioned it, you know, without mccarr and
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  Speaker 5: I think he'll he'll tell this too. When you have
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  Speaker 5: the center depth that they have with McKinnon, Nelson, Cadre,
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  Speaker 5: I mean you, I mean Drury, Parker, Kelly. These guys
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  Speaker 5: are good, good centers like that that Drury Drury too,
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  Speaker 5: Like that helps your That helps your defenseman having good
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  Speaker 5: centers like that, It really does.
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  Speaker 3: It helps your helps your defenseman depth.
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  Speaker 5: And and this team there's not much else to add
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  Speaker 5: what j D said, I mean, it's this team's this
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  Speaker 5: team's an absolute wagon juggernaut like they for them, it's cup
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  Speaker 5: or bust really, and I don't know, there's not much
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  Speaker 5: else to add. Don't think they on the aves except
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  Speaker 5: that they're just there for for me. If they don't
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  Speaker 5: get to the finals, it's gonna be a it's going
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  Speaker 5: to be a loss.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Nicholas Watt too, they're at center as well. Even
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  Speaker 1: if you want some more depth. The major story of.
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  Speaker 4: The week, which yeah, I always forget saying now there's
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  Speaker 4: nine points in twelve games to there, so he's right
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  Speaker 4: a rock.
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  Speaker 1: But I meantime, the story of I think probably the
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  Speaker 1: last week definitely caught me by surprise, especially when I
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  Speaker 1: saw John Buchigraz just posting a picture of John Torrella
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  Speaker 1: eating some chicken palm and the headlines in Vegas, Baby Vegas,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, I'm really sure what that means.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, wait, what.
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  Speaker 1: John Tortorella is now the head coach of the Las
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  Speaker 1: Vegas Golden Knights, struggling Golden Knights firing head coach Bruce
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  Speaker 1: Casty eight games left in the regular season and replacing
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  Speaker 1: him with Torts. This is less than three years d
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  Speaker 1: win the Stanley Cup. Cassidy is out towards his seventh
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  Speaker 1: coaching gig with six different teams. He coached the Rangers twice,
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  Speaker 1: actually fired by Philly last season almost a year to
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  Speaker 1: the day before his hiring in Vegas, and Vegas wins
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  Speaker 1: towards his debut was against the last place Caducks.
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  Speaker 2: Lots of thoughts on this night.
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  Speaker 1: My first one is says, I don't know if it's
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  Speaker 1: too little, too late, but I do appreciate an organization
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  Speaker 1: that says, hey, we don't think it's working.
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  Speaker 2: Right now, so we have to mix it up.
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  Speaker 1: We all know that Vegas has been sleepwalking the last
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  Speaker 1: couple of months, and they probably were going to be
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  Speaker 1: fodder for anybody face from the playoffs. So I do
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  Speaker 1: credit Bill Folling Company on all we gotta make a
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  Speaker 1: move now. I don't know if that makes sense. Ten
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  Speaker 1: games left the regular season, if that's gonna enough. Towarts
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  Speaker 1: is definitely a fire and brimstone kind of guy. He
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  Speaker 1: will get everyone's reaction. I don't necessarily think if it's
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  Speaker 1: the right move, I won't say's passed his prime. But
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  Speaker 1: again I think towards the guy that comes in there
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  Speaker 1: at least gets your attention. Is it enough to win around? Perhaps?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how it works out next year. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how much Maurner's sleeping for the next seven years.
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  Speaker 1: But at the very least I appreciate organization that says
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  Speaker 1: it's not working. We got to change it up. We
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  Speaker 1: don't care how many games are left. And if you
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  Speaker 1: don't think a coaching change can make an impact, look
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  Speaker 1: at Rick Bonus and what he's.
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  Speaker 2: Doing with the Columbus Blue Jackets night.
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  Speaker 1: Your first thought when someone said Twarts to Vegas playing craps,
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  Speaker 1: let's go Vegas.
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  Speaker 5: Don't wait, baby, They don't wait. They make things happen
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  Speaker 5: right now. And that's what they did. You know, Kelly
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  Speaker 5: mccrimman and.
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  Speaker 4: The huge horns on him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely brass balls.
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  Speaker 5: If they don't, If they don't make this move, I
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  Speaker 5: feel like Kelly mccrimman's thinking, all right, Dallas, Colorado, Minnesota,
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  Speaker 5: Like that's where realistically Vegas should be with those teams,
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  Speaker 5: And when you look at their roster on paper, like
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  Speaker 5: they are extremely underachieving this year, and when you look
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  Speaker 5: at the amount of games left and the type of
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  Speaker 5: coach that they need to come in, I don't hate it.
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  Speaker 5: I don't hate them bringing in Towrts. I really don't,
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  Speaker 5: because for a team that has eight games left, you
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  Speaker 5: need a certain guy, certain type of coach, experienced guy,
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  Speaker 5: and he's familiar with a lot of guys in that room,
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  Speaker 5: a lot of guys, a lot of guys on Team USA.
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  Speaker 5: So I think that helps. And then on top of it,
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  Speaker 5: I think there's gonna be a really good effect on
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  Speaker 5: Mitch Marner from John Torrirella on it. I just I
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  Speaker 5: just have this feeling like this could be a really
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  Speaker 5: good fit for him going into the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Mitch Marner is a good all around player.
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  Speaker 5: He really is good defensively and torts likes those type
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  Speaker 5: of players, so I can see it being a good
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  Speaker 5: fit too.
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  Speaker 1: It makes me think, though, JD, like, you know, being
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  Speaker 1: a small guy my whole life. You know, the way
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  Speaker 1: that you get everyone's attention is you go up to
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  Speaker 1: the biggest, baddest guy. You go punch him in the face.
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  Speaker 1: That's towrts his m He's like, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: wear out the fourth line guys. I'm gonna go right
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  Speaker 1: after the stars, and if I get his respect and attention,
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  Speaker 1: then everybody else will follow suit. I understand Date's point,
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  Speaker 1: but again, I still don't think which barn is sleeping.
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  Speaker 4: Well, what's I saw the meme is actually not the meme,
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  Speaker 4: but they had a video of his face. Did you
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  Speaker 4: see the dumb and dumbro I was fucking his face
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  Speaker 4: on it, Jim Carrey kick his listening. Well, my first
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  Speaker 4: thought on that is Kelly McCrimmon. On this whole thing,
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  Speaker 4: Kelly McCrimmon is like good Fellow's casino style GM, where hey,
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  Speaker 4: come on over, come out of my house, come for dinner,
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  Speaker 4: and he's just smashed smashing in your knee caps and
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  Speaker 4: slitting your throat, being like yeah, gone, like to his
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  Speaker 4: best friend brother like this guy does not this guy
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  Speaker 4: would fire his mother, like he would fire his mother
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  Speaker 4: from the team and would not give two ships about it.
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  Speaker 4: Would barrier, no pension, no pay, no golden parachute, like
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  Speaker 4: get the fuck out of here. And on top of
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  Speaker 4: that too, he goes, He goes, I never had a
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  Speaker 4: fight once with Bruce Cassidy. I was like, what, like,
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  Speaker 4: what was a conversation, Hey, Bruce, you're done, Get the
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  Speaker 4: fuck out of my city. Bring in John Tortorella. But yeah, towards,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, this is coach recycling to the ends degree.
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  Speaker 4: I guess, you know, I guess he's gonna come in,
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  Speaker 4: and they might bring him in on the two of
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  Speaker 4: your grising, you know, to advise next year.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so we see what happens in Vegas. That
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  Speaker 2: was a surprising move.
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  Speaker 1: A not surprising move is what happened to Maple Leafs
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  Speaker 1: is general manager Brad Schure living out after three seasons.
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  Speaker 1: He made sweeping changes to the roster last summer, including
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  Speaker 1: singa bye to Mitch Marner. He hoped that a new
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  Speaker 1: roster and a head coach, Craig Brewby, could finally give
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  Speaker 1: the Leafs a lengthy playoff run, but the season was
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  Speaker 1: a disaster. He missed the playoffs the first time in
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  Speaker 1: a decade. The main question JD people were saying to
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  Speaker 1: me is why make the move now? If you know
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  Speaker 1: what your living's not going to come back? Why does
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  Speaker 1: it need to be done with only X men of
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  Speaker 1: games left in the regular season? And I believe my
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  Speaker 1: understanding would be that it just takes time, because again,
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  Speaker 1: if you know he's not gonna be the guy, you
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  Speaker 1: might as well have a new face come in, evaluate
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  Speaker 1: this roster moving forward, get ready for the draft, and
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  Speaker 1: so on. Were you surprised at all, JD? Just that
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  Speaker 1: and now rather than the end of the season for
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  Speaker 1: true living, a.
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  Speaker 4: Great human being. I've heard and everything, But I would
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  Speaker 4: have shipped them into the sun, you know, six months ago.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I can't believe they waited this long. I
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  Speaker 4: can't find the article tal if you can find it.
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  Speaker 4: But did you see their their ownership come out Toronto
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  Speaker 4: and say, Keith Pelly, did you hear this psychopath came out?
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  Speaker 4: And he goes, I think we have some great founding.
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  Speaker 4: We already have foundational pieces. We're not It's just it's
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  Speaker 4: not going to be a full rebuild. It's going to
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  Speaker 4: be a little retool. I'm like, dude, are you that, like,
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  Speaker 4: can they not see there? Do what? The rose colored
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  Speaker 4: glasses in Toronto is absolutely insane. They got to burden
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  Speaker 4: this thing to the ground, and I liked that they
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  Speaker 4: did it with Tree Living. Now at least let some
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  Speaker 4: many maybe get in there. And he had a sense
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure they have an idea and I'm sure they've
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  Speaker 4: been looking. I wouldn't be surprised. I know Shane Doan's
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  Speaker 4: around there, so I'm wondering if Shane don maybe gets
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of a nod. He's kind of been
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  Speaker 4: around there in like an advisor role. He'd be a
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  Speaker 4: great kind of ad and an addition there. But yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I just he made some bad moves man tree Living
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  Speaker 4: and again, a great human I've heard, fantastic person, but God,
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  Speaker 4: he made some bad moves. And I just can't believe
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  Speaker 4: that the maple leafs came out Keith Pelly and said
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  Speaker 4: that they have like foundational pieces. That kind of turned
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  Speaker 4: me more than the Tree Living thing, because I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: he's just absolutely fucking delusional. Nate.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, on top of that, he.
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  Speaker 5: Says, uh, Buffalo and Montreal are are are coming, are
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  Speaker 5: coming down him.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, well, they've been coming.
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  Speaker 5: Coming for a felt if they've been coming for a
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  Speaker 5: long time, you're looking you're looking at him from behind.
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  Speaker 3: Now, Yeah, I agree with JD.
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  Speaker 5: I never played under Brad Tree Living, but same, I've
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  Speaker 5: heard unbelievable things about the guy. And it was like
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  Speaker 5: he was, you know, Toronto was already such a good
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  Speaker 5: regular season team, and he was it was like he
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  Speaker 5: was building this team just for the playoffs because they
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  Speaker 5: hadn't had playoff success. And you know, obviously it's backfired
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  Speaker 5: and and the broster did not turn out the way
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  Speaker 5: I think he thought it would. And this is big
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  Speaker 5: I think for Keith Pelly just from what I'm reading,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, this is this is his higher. Uh you know,
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  Speaker 5: I don't believe he hired Brad Tree Living that was
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  Speaker 5: a Shanahan higher. So this is a big one for
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  Speaker 5: him because he's got to get this right. Because for them,
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  Speaker 5: if they're not rebuilding, which it's pretty evident to me
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  Speaker 5: that they have to, they got to bring it. They
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  Speaker 5: got to bring it down. And on top of that,
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  Speaker 5: JD like, is Austin Matthews going to stay?
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 3: Does he really want to stay during all.
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  Speaker 4: After those comments. But I mean, I guess that's maybe
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  Speaker 4: was a comment directed at Matthews being like, we're not rebuilding,
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  Speaker 4: so like.
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  Speaker 1: I would say, he doesn't want to tell Matthews, the
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  Speaker 1: rebral Matthews, I'm out of here.
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  Speaker 2: Then he's like, no, look, buddy, you got me two
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  Speaker 2: more years, a couple of moys.
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  Speaker 4: We're going to keep you here.
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  Speaker 2: Everything's design right now to keep Austin Matthews happy.
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  Speaker 4: You got two foundational pieces like John Tavers is played well,
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  Speaker 4: but it's John Tavers. Matthewnyes's time will tell if he
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  Speaker 4: can develop into something that's a stud And then Max Tomi,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, other than you know, the fights and he's
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  Speaker 4: had he's had a better year this year. But I
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  Speaker 4: can't you know, I can't trust that that's going to
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  Speaker 4: get you to the Stanley Cup finals. They're NHL players
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  Speaker 4: and they're they're good a NHL players, But you you
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  Speaker 4: show me those five guys and say we're going to
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  Speaker 4: the Stanley Cup finals, I'm like, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I just feel like a team that I said, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the Nucleus Stanley Cup team.
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  Speaker 1: Gouda's taken the least by the way two weeks after
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  Speaker 1: a knee on knee hit ended Austin matthews season earned
• 12:49
  Speaker 1: him a five game suspension. Rocket Goodas Face in the
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  Speaker 1: Least Monday Night. Anaheim injured entering the game, but insisted
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  Speaker 1: on suiting up against Toronto, and it didn't take long
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  Speaker 1: for someone to take on the Ducks captain as Max Dom.
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  Speaker 1: We dropped the clubs at Goodas off the opening face off.
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  Speaker 1: I don't hit Delf too much into this, but I
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  Speaker 1: just could appreciate for one tough got to another. How
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  Speaker 1: about the thoughts of the rematch? You gotas wanted to
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  Speaker 1: answer the bell?
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  Speaker 4: I respect, go ahead, Well, I want I want Nate
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  Speaker 4: to get the long answer here, So I'm gonna go
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  Speaker 4: quick on this because Nate's the one that put his
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  Speaker 4: nuts on the line a lot more than I did
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  Speaker 4: when he played. But I defer to him, but go ahead. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: this is like the ultimate hockey move, hockey guy move.
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  Speaker 4: Like this is the fact that and I want to
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  Speaker 4: get Nate's opinion on this, but like that's like I
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  Speaker 4: can't even know what the equivalent is. It's like you're going,
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  Speaker 4: You're electing to go to the firing squad. You know,
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  Speaker 4: I heard he had a bad shoulder, bumped shoulder, Like
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  Speaker 4: if you get a bump shoulder, it's an acy, or
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  Speaker 4: it wasn't acy. It was a high ankle sprain. It's
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  Speaker 4: high innkel sprain. I've had him like you can't plant
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  Speaker 4: on your foot, like you can't, you can't have any toast,
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  Speaker 4: so like you're just holding yourself pretty straightforward and you're
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  Speaker 4: just eating punches. So like he tried that level of
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  Speaker 4: like hey, I'm made a mistake and I got to
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  Speaker 4: own up to it and him feeling bad. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: if you're a fan and you hate radkal Goudis, like
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  Speaker 4: that shit, that's pretty ballsy. He didn't have to play
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  Speaker 4: in that game. And this is a team that's trying
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  Speaker 4: to win a Stanley Cup right now. Goodas that are.
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  Speaker 4: They're firmly in the playoffs, like and he's a big
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  Speaker 4: piece of that. So I can't imagine what he was
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  Speaker 4: going through, Nate, but I'll let you take it away.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, it was. It was pretty incredible to see.
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  Speaker 3: It was.
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  Speaker 5: It was for me his captain material stuff and and
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  Speaker 5: Rad coogutis I we both know him a little bit,
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  Speaker 5: great guy. Uh you know, he obviously what he did
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  Speaker 5: wasn't wasn't good. But for him to for him to
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  Speaker 5: basically say, I have to play in this game. I
• 14:42
  Speaker 5: don't want this to linger and I and I take
• 14:45
  Speaker 5: this a step further with him, like I don't think
• 14:46
  Speaker 5: he's just doing it for that reason. I think he's
• 14:48
  Speaker 5: doing it obviously too, because he doesn't want other guys
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: on his team to be affected, you know, young guys,
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: guys getting hurt like that was a big part of it,
• 14:56
  Speaker 5: knowing that Toronto hasn't have much to play for and
• 14:58
  Speaker 5: they're still trying to get in the playoffs.
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: I mean it was I was at the game. It
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: was pretty electric. I mean, I like, after the national anthem,
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: there was people around me.
• 15:06
  Speaker 5: I was like, hey, you don't want to sit down,
• 15:07
  Speaker 5: just keep standing up, just because of the opening face
• 15:10
  Speaker 5: off and and and to your point, JD like the
• 15:14
  Speaker 5: fact that he basically said, like I don't care what
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: the injury is, I'm playing this game, and you know,
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: the whole game, Like he took absolute abuse. Like it
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: wasn't just the fight, Like every time someone skated by him,
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: they were giving him a cross check, they were running him,
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: they were I mean, the guy that me Poetta went
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: after him again, like he just took absolute beating that
• 15:36
  Speaker 5: whole night and played with whatever he's playing through and
• 15:39
  Speaker 5: just kept on coming. And it just shows a ton
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: of leadership and and I think he's trying to teach
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: these young guys right and to your point as well,
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: JD at the beginning at the top, like there's no
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: other sport that's even close to this that can like
• 15:53
  Speaker 5: I can't even compare it to anything that a guy
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: is like, Hey, I got to show up and I
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: got to fight tonight because of what I did two
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: weeks ago. Even though I have a hind ankle sprain,
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: I'm still going to show up. It's it's it's fuckings.
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: It's awesome. Actually, I mean respect to Raco.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: Goodas yeah, kind of like we got to see a
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: Bradture living. You know, it's your living's record not strong
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: with people all university like him. With Rocco Goodis, certainly
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: there's a love it or hated element to his game.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: A yell can ride the line to and be clean
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: and dirty. But again everyone's always say he's a great guy,
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: especially if he's a teammate something which is not getting
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: great reviews right now.
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: It's this playoffs system.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: We've talked about it a lot, especially what's happening right
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: now in the Central the fact you've got these loaded teams.
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: You're gonna have Colorado and Dallas and Minnesota, and you
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: know those teams, two of them knocked out after the
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: second round the playoffs.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: But it's interesting about that gap from the East and
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: the West.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Fellas Nashville, Los Angeles, Winnipeg, San Jose, and Seattle are
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: battling for the last wildcard spot in the West. All
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: teams that will be nowhere near the postseason if they're
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: in the Eastern Conference. Meantime, five teams in the East
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: currently outside of a playoff spot would comfortably.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: Be in the playoffs if they're out West.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: Even the Leafs would be battling for a playoff spot
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: if they're in the Western Conference.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: Was they were until nineteen ninety eight Central Division. Again
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: that we've talked about.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: It's not something that's new. Everyone's saying, listenone was just
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: saying it for a while. But my question is this,
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: what would it take for Gary Batman Company to actually
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: make a change, Like how dramatic would have to be
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: They'd say, okay, you know what we got to do something,
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: get to one to sixty, one through eight, whatever it is,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: because this current system is too flawed.
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: Uh, if winning peg ends up making the playoffs, he'll
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: change it. That's that's what's gonna take it. If they
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: fucking slide in, they're one point out, it's insane. They
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: played so good right now. Yeah, I mean, listen, that's
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: that's hockey, baby, Like it's sometimes it's cute when I
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: was when I was playing, I mean, the East absolutely
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: stunk compared to the West and la Anaheim and San Jose,
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: we were just stomping teams and the East had, you know,
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: ten less points than the West. Eight seed and guys
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: that we really out of the playoffs. So like it happens,
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: there's swings in the NHL. I I do believe the
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: one in eight needs to be handled. I believe how
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: the playoffs are formatted once teams get like now that
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: you're in and it's set, that I think needs to
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: change because I understand and I've heard Gary talk and
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: and he says, you know, it's the most exciting first
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: round of any sport. And I don't disagree with him
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: on that, But don't you think that the first round
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: of the NHL Stanley Cup playoffs, and Nate's been in
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: them and so have. I like that regardless of who
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: you're playing, rivalry or not, you are trying to fucking
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: kill each other in that those first two games, it's
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: the most exciting hockey. I remember, you know, I was
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: playing like we were in San Jose. We played Colorado,
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: wasn't even our division. The first round they took us
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: to six our first year, it was a fucking war
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: and we like didn't even know each other, and as
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: soon as the puck drop it was like somebody hit somebody,
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: and like like that's but that's NHL Stanley Cup playoffs.
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: Like that is the first round. It is no matter
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: what you put in front, somebody's gonna do something stupid
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: and then there's gonna be a big rivalry from there. Though,
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: once that first round is done, the second round lacks
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: some juice sometimes and so you want that second round.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: That's when I think they need the rivalries is in
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: that second round, and I feel like the stakes are higher.
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: So I don't think one sixteen they need to go
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: to too much travel. I think that's that's that's us
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: doing too much. But yeah, one versus eight needs to happen.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: I know Gary won't do it, and he's pretty firm
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: on on the seating right now, but yeah, that's why
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: I just yeah, I just think it's the best product
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: no matter who's playing in the first round of any sport.
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: So yeah, my argument to the to the one through eight,
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: which it should be, is, uh, you know, you have
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: your stars like mccarr, these guys playing in the conference
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: finals and finals rather than being knocked out in the
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: first round. And on top of that, like you have
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: these teams that are you know, they have such a
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: good regular season, they should be rewarded and part part
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: of getting a standing up finals. And JD will agree this,
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: Tod like, you gotta have a little bit of a luck,
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: a little bit of luck, and at the same time,
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: you gotta have a favorable matchups getting there. And I
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: think if you're in the Central Division right now, like
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: you no question have the hardest road to the Stanley
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: Cup right now. So I think there's that element to
• 20:17
  Speaker 5: it as well. But I'm too much of a traditionalist too,
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: Like one through sixteen, uh, probably not one through eight
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: definitely should happen.
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we all know Grey Bevans the type.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: It has to be something drastic, otherwise they'll say, well,
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: it's cyclical, these things happen, they'll change. As long as
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: the playoffs are good, people are going to watch the
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: matter what. But I still keep thinking of the fact that,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: you know, as the playoffs progresses, the fact that a
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Minnesota is going to be out the first runder of
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: the Dallas will be out the first round. Of the
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: fact that that match, whoever wins, that will face Colorado
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: as a second round matchup.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: That will be a shame. But hopefully, as always, the
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: rest of the playoffs speak right, go ahead.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: Jady, A quick question from all of you, just to
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: have a little bit of fun. Nashville Predators at seventy
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: seven points, Eli Kings at seventy six, Winnipeg at seventy six,
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: San Jose at seventy five, Seattle at seventy five, Lewis
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: at seventy three. Who do you think's in? Because only
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: one of them is making it in right now, who
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: do you each got that makes it in the playoffs?
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: I still got Nashville even though they drop four straight
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: and they are three straight and then they're going to sleep.
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: Right now, I still got to stick with Nashville. But
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: who you guys got, because that is a fricking pillow fight.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: But whoever is winning that gets nine extra days in
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: the NHL and they're done because they're gonna get swept.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: But who do you got?
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Well this brings us to our last topic, which is
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: about the fact these last Gas team. So I'm gonna
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: stump right now with the team that I'm pulling for,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: which is the Winnipeg Jets. According to Money's the Jets
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: are fifteen point six percent chance. The only reason I'm
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: pulling form is this NHL Amazon Monday on Prime. We've
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: got the Jets coming up and John fors in the
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Seattle KRACKTT. So I want this Jets team to win out.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be back in the Peg on Monday.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Jada, you've told me the past. You think it is old,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: sneaky with some food.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: Nate corroborating that, also saying the Peg a sneaky, sleepy
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: town for NHL player. So I'm hoping at something in
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: the water there. I'm hoping the going while the porta
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Jermaine when I'll be there five days from now. Let's
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: Scott O'Neil and the Winnipeg Jets again fifteen percent chance.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: I got money puck odds. You said Nashville right now,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Nashville's at twenty one percent. San Jose is actually a
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: twenty five percent, and the Kings of all the teams
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: you mentioned, they have the best odds right now, thirty
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: four percent. I think Nate's hardes with the Kings. Go ahead, Nate, No,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: all right, I'm with I'm with JD. I had them
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: out too. I had them out too, and I gotta
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: stick to my guns. Yeah exactly.
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: I'm saying Nashville is going to get in still because
• 22:37
  Speaker 5: I because of the Pillow Fight division. I just thought
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: there was gonna be five Central and three Pacific instead.
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: You know it was gonna be dominated by the Central.
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: So I picked Nashville even though fucking Winnipeg. Man, like,
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: this is San Jose too.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: This is crazy.
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: You're right, I know Tal's taking San Jose. I want
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: to take them though. I want to take San Jose bad.
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: I thought you were gonna take your sharkis for sure.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: I should have. I don't know what I was thinking.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: I just I want I don't know what. I want.
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: Stammer to make the playoffs same hed comeback season. Yeah,
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: I was just gonna say.
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: I mentioned in our in our text chat last night
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: Jets Sharks on April sixteenth, a playoff spot could be
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: on the line in the biggest Jets Sharks Jets Sharks
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: matchup since West Side story.
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: To the story, great work. I do tell you gotta
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: give it to him every now and again when.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: We come back. We'll talk to our friend Kevin Weeks.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: He's gonna be a part of the ESPN Inside Out
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Classic this week. Weeks He's got stories for days. You're
• 23:38
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• 23:40
  Speaker 1: NHL and scripted.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Our special guest. He's one of our favorites, both on
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: the air and off.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: He was drafted in the second round, forty first overall
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: by the Florida Panthers in nineteen ninety three NHL Draft.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: He would going to play three hundred forty eight regular
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: season games with the Panthers, Canucks, Islanders, Lightning, Hurricanes, Rangers,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: and Devils.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: That's right, the Tri state area.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: He dominated and since his playing days, he's become one
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: of the most trusted broadcasters in the sport and again
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: a friend to all, especially when it comes to headroom
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: on those videos he posts on social media and it's
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: the one.
• 24:22
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• 24:25
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• 24:25
  Speaker 4: Weeks see.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: How are you, brother, what's up?
• 24:27
  Speaker 7: What's up guys? Good morning?
• 24:28
  Speaker 8: Thanks for that ads, what's up fella. It's great to
• 24:31
  Speaker 8: be with you guys. Thanks for having me. I know
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: we've been trying. You guys are trying to get me
• 24:35
  Speaker 8: on for a while, so appreciate we were able to
• 24:37
  Speaker 8: make it work and thanks for your patience.
• 24:38
  Speaker 7: Man. Happy to join you guys, of course.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: Of course.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Thrilled you're able to make the time.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: We have so much to get to as always, we
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: could wrap for hours, but I want to go with
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: the good stuff out of the gate. He's been hosting
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: the Big Inside Out Classic this weekend, in which the
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Caps and Rangers players replaced on screen by characters from
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: the classic films. We know what it's like. We see
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: with young kids, so does Nate listen. These animated movies
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: have taken on life of their own. And I've seen
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: this even with you know, people who aren't in the sports,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: like oh wait, they're doing whatever it might be like
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: the SpongeBob football games. It is a huge success on Nickelodeon.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: So I think this is a great idea. And you,
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: in particular have such a great personality because you obviously
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: are a great father, but also can relate to kids
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: well and can still call hockey well.
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: So when you're.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Calling an animated game, how do you do that to
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: make it pleasurable and attracted to that audience while still
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: not alienating the dads we're watching who still want to
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: watch hockey game.
• 25:25
  Speaker 8: Oh I appreciate that, man, Thank you for the kind words. Look,
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: I think it's really cool because pardon me allows us
• 25:32
  Speaker 8: to connect with a younger demo. And as like anything,
• 25:35
  Speaker 8: when you connect with a younger demo, typically you'll have
• 25:38
  Speaker 8: a grandparent watching, You'll have an ant to uncle watching,
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: You'll have you know, a brother in law watching. There'll
• 25:43
  Speaker 8: be a grandma, grandpa, somebody will be watching with them. Typically,
• 25:46
  Speaker 8: So with that, yes, it's directed primarily in terms of
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: the focus towards some of our younger demos, the younger
• 25:53
  Speaker 8: kids that love TV and that love sports and maybe
• 25:56
  Speaker 8: have a chance to kind of meet.
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: Them in the middle.
• 25:58
  Speaker 8: But at the same time, once you have kids, it
• 26:00
  Speaker 8: kind of draws them in it's like me, I love hockey.
• 26:02
  Speaker 8: My older cousins started playing in the street in Toronto
• 26:04
  Speaker 8: started playing following him. Next thing, you know, my parents
• 26:06
  Speaker 8: and my letent and and uncle, they're all in in
• 26:09
  Speaker 8: the game. So that's kind of how that worked. But
• 26:11
  Speaker 8: here's the one thing I would say, and our first
• 26:13
  Speaker 8: two that we did, which were really really fun on
• 26:16
  Speaker 8: ESPN a couple of years ago or two years consecutively
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: now I should say, both started trending on Twitter like
• 26:23
  Speaker 8: they were trending topics, and my phone started blowing up
• 26:26
  Speaker 8: in a good way, because sometimes it doesn't always blow
• 26:29
  Speaker 8: up in that way, but it started blowing up in
• 26:30
  Speaker 8: a good way, and people.
• 26:31
  Speaker 7: Are like, oh my god, we're watching and I got
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: my granddaughter loves this is amazing. You got to do more.
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: The league has to do more of these.
• 26:35
  Speaker 8: So I think it was a really good point of
• 26:37
  Speaker 8: emphasis and a good focus group that we got that
• 26:39
  Speaker 8: feedback and that the fans and people in the game,
• 26:42
  Speaker 8: just different people around were saying that and giving us
• 26:45
  Speaker 8: that feedback.
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: It was encouraging.
• 26:46
  Speaker 8: And we got two Emmy nominations for both games, two
• 26:50
  Speaker 8: EMMI Finals for both games. So hopefully they let us
• 26:52
  Speaker 8: know because the first two times they never let us
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: know that. So hopefully are good folks at ESPN are watching,
• 26:57
  Speaker 8: and if we get another Emmy nomination, they better.
• 26:59
  Speaker 7: Let us know.
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: They're acting like we just knuck in there like cockroaches,
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: like they don't want to even give us the heads up.
• 27:04
  Speaker 7: Give us the heads up next time.
• 27:06
  Speaker 8: So no, we're looking forward to it alongside Drew Carter again,
• 27:09
  Speaker 8: anarda our and our crew. It should be a lot
• 27:11
  Speaker 8: of fun.
• 27:12
  Speaker 4: Let the boy know he's got an Emmy. Hey, let
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: us know what's going on.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: The lights on, they know there's a clause nomination.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: I gotta kick it a little bonus. That's where it's
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: at week, so you know it.
• 27:24
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I see, I know. Let me jump in with
• 27:26
  Speaker 8: one quick thing too, which is pretty interesting. And I'll
• 27:29
  Speaker 8: tell you what's really cool. So as you know, kids,
• 27:32
  Speaker 8: they live in kind of this alternate universe sometimes.
• 27:35
  Speaker 7: Uh and and our son last night.
• 27:36
  Speaker 8: So we've got a bunch of there's a bubble hockey
• 27:38
  Speaker 8: super checks just opposite me here. But we've got like
• 27:41
  Speaker 8: three of these different hockey games. Right, There's a bubble hockey,
• 27:43
  Speaker 8: then there's one with plastic men that you actually move
• 27:46
  Speaker 8: with your hand, and then there's an air hockey and
• 27:48
  Speaker 8: he's taking the plastic men off of that and put
• 27:50
  Speaker 8: them on. Here's where I'm going Yesterday, he's got the
• 27:53
  Speaker 8: Pop the Pops. The pups are in the lineup. The
• 27:56
  Speaker 8: Pops are in the lineup, Like Everest is not in
• 27:59
  Speaker 8: the lineup. He takes Everest, puts him on the playing service.
• 28:02
  Speaker 8: I go Rockies, he goes right, Key's in the lineup.
• 28:05
  Speaker 8: He takes Rocky, puts him into lineup. So I'm like, bro,
• 28:09
  Speaker 8: those guys are not in the lineup. Okay, He's like, no, tonight.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: In the lineups.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: Chase chases on the case.
• 28:17
  Speaker 7: Chases on the you guys know.
• 28:20
  Speaker 8: So so all of that to say, that's kind of
• 28:23
  Speaker 8: you know, that that kind of mirrors where we're going
• 28:26
  Speaker 8: with this broadcast, just because those things are you know,
• 28:29
  Speaker 8: they're in love with those things.
• 28:30
  Speaker 7: So it's pretty awesome.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: That's amazing. And and uh, I mean, you're so good
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: at molding into different forms of color with different you know,
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: with different games. And right now you're also provided color
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: for the n cuale A tournament. So right now you
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: got the Frozen four coming up. You got miss Denver
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: Nodak Wisco like for you, how's that been? And being
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: a Toronto boy, Canadian boy covering that college hockey, I mean,
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: how is that atmosphere, what's what's what's the difference for you?
• 29:01
  Speaker 4: And how do you like it?
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: Bonkers? That's a great question. Thanks you.
• 29:04
  Speaker 8: I'll tell you what I grew up and of course,
• 29:06
  Speaker 8: you know growing up in Toronto, growing up in the
• 29:08
  Speaker 8: Toronto area and growing up in Scarborough. For me, everything
• 29:11
  Speaker 8: was junior junior, junior junior, and you know the geography
• 29:14
  Speaker 8: when you just look up and down the road. We
• 29:16
  Speaker 8: had Oshawa twenty minutes east at my parents' house, and
• 29:19
  Speaker 8: then he had Kingston, Belleville, you go back the other way, Kitchener,
• 29:22
  Speaker 8: gwelf London. You know, they were all around there and
• 29:24
  Speaker 8: obviously there's more teams there now. But man, I'm telling
• 29:27
  Speaker 8: you going to Oshawa Old Memorial Civic Center on a
• 29:30
  Speaker 8: Sunday night and games I wasn't days, I wasn't playing
• 29:32
  Speaker 8: like when I was in Banham and the.
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: Biggie was there.
• 29:36
  Speaker 8: I'm getting goosebumps talking about it because I played with
• 29:39
  Speaker 8: his brother Brett and when and when Biggie went to Oshawa,
• 29:42
  Speaker 8: bro Nhlai, they looked like Komodo dragons watching him play.
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: I swear to god, I mean, he's that's sick. He
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: was that sick, like that much of a freak.
• 29:59
  Speaker 8: And they had really good players on his seat, my
• 30:01
  Speaker 8: man Freddie Brathwaye and the net went on to play
• 30:03
  Speaker 8: a long time the NHL. Dale Craigwell played for San
• 30:05
  Speaker 8: Jose Sharks. I can go up and down. They had
• 30:07
  Speaker 8: really good players. But that was like our thing. So
• 30:10
  Speaker 8: when these letters were coming to my parents' house, like
• 30:12
  Speaker 8: go I turned fourteen, Michigan State, Oh that's really cool,
• 30:16
  Speaker 8: all right, put it to the side. University of Wisconsin. Oh,
• 30:18
  Speaker 8: that's really cool. Put a sign you man. Oh that's awesome.
• 30:21
  Speaker 8: Cool bu oh that's I had like because it was
• 30:24
  Speaker 8: a one track mine to play junior and although the
• 30:27
  Speaker 8: majority of us did, especially Canadian born players, then a
• 30:30
  Speaker 8: couple of my buddies played in college and now doing
• 30:33
  Speaker 8: college hockey. I gotta say, man, it's un believable. It's bonkers.
• 30:38
  Speaker 8: It's an alternate path. It's a different kind of reality
• 30:41
  Speaker 8: because the players get more time to train and to
• 30:44
  Speaker 8: practice and to develop. But to answer you, the atmosphere
• 30:48
  Speaker 8: is amazing, and I hope to cover a lot more
• 30:49
  Speaker 8: in the future. I think it's awesome even in South
• 30:51
  Speaker 8: Dakota just now. My partner Jason Ross, like those fans travel.
• 30:56
  Speaker 8: They had buses for the fans, like it's really hype.
• 30:59
  Speaker 8: And the way they run their teams, they really run
• 31:02
  Speaker 8: them very well, some as wells NHL teams in terms
• 31:05
  Speaker 8: of resources. So to answer you, JD, it was a
• 31:07
  Speaker 8: lot of fun. I love doing it. I really enjoyed it.
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: I love that it's in Vegas, Totty, pretty good spot
• 31:15
  Speaker 5: to go a weeks.
• 31:16
  Speaker 8: What suit you got, Okay, so listen gold suit, no,
• 31:22
  Speaker 8: no here, I would love that. But here's where I
• 31:24
  Speaker 8: got Stevie nixed. So I did the regionals. I did
• 31:29
  Speaker 8: the regionals and then they pull out the sharpest scissors too,
• 31:35
  Speaker 8: so it's gonna be bouci. I guess Kobe Cohen and
• 31:38
  Speaker 8: they've done it for years obviously, and they've also used
• 31:40
  Speaker 8: to do it with Barry with Barry Melrose our a
• 31:41
  Speaker 8: great friend who's going through some hell challenges. So those
• 31:44
  Speaker 8: guys always get the Frozen four. But we did the
• 31:46
  Speaker 8: regionals so, but I can't tell you we were there.
• 31:49
  Speaker 8: I had a Vegas game for ESPN with Steve Levy
• 31:51
  Speaker 8: about ten days ago, and they're so excited to host
• 31:54
  Speaker 8: this man. Like speaking to people from the organization, they're
• 31:57
  Speaker 8: so jacked that they're hosting the Frozen four in Vegas.
• 32:00
  Speaker 8: So I think it's gonna be epic. But I'm gonna
• 32:03
  Speaker 8: be watching it like everybody else from the sectional from
• 32:05
  Speaker 8: the couch over here. So look forward to watching it.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: That's a crew. That's a great crew.
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: Speaking of cruise, you know you started out in Florida
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: and we're gonna go back.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: We gotta go back to your playing crew a little bit.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: You know, you you joined a.
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: Vancouver team that had a lot of personalities. You know,
• 32:21
  Speaker 5: I'm looking at the Mark, Mark Messier, Naslyn mcgilney, Todd Bertuzzi.
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: What were there had to be some good stories playing
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: on that team in Vancouver.
• 32:30
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I would say the biggest, The best one I
• 32:32
  Speaker 8: can tell you is just playing with mess Guys, It's
• 32:34
  Speaker 8: unbelievable playing with him that I could you know, we
• 32:36
  Speaker 8: could talk off camera for a long time, but playing
• 32:38
  Speaker 8: with Mark Messier was unbelievable, especially when he came back
• 32:41
  Speaker 8: to play at the Garden. And I want to say
• 32:43
  Speaker 8: that was my first NHL shoutout too. We knew we
• 32:45
  Speaker 8: couldn't lose with him being back at the garden, fans
• 32:48
  Speaker 8: going crazy for him. So all in all, it was unbelievable.
• 32:52
  Speaker 8: Just learning from a guy like him and some of
• 32:53
  Speaker 8: those other guys, seeing how they roll, it was unreal.
• 32:56
  Speaker 8: And you know this too, guys, when you get to
• 32:58
  Speaker 8: work with or play with like icons.
• 33:01
  Speaker 7: It's everything. It's everything, you know.
• 33:04
  Speaker 8: You just to see how they operate, see how they think,
• 33:07
  Speaker 8: see how they conduct themselves, see how they approach the game,
• 33:09
  Speaker 8: see how they approach life. I'll give you kind of
• 33:12
  Speaker 8: a parallel story to so not with Mess, because Mess
• 33:15
  Speaker 8: wore different skates every day, which was amazing, by the way,
• 33:18
  Speaker 8: brand new skates show up, different brands, graphs today, CCMs tomorrows,
• 33:23
  Speaker 8: different brands, bro different brands, and smooth as cocoa butter
• 33:27
  Speaker 8: in them like not I got to break these in
• 33:31
  Speaker 8: not skating around like you know, he's got fifteen bunions
• 33:33
  Speaker 8: on one foot like smooth.
• 33:38
  Speaker 9: Yeah, exactly, Like honestly, it was just it was just
• 33:42
  Speaker 9: like he's so elegant, so elegant to watch and all
• 33:47
  Speaker 9: these different brands show up every day and you just
• 33:49
  Speaker 9: take them out lace them up, like not even put.
• 33:51
  Speaker 8: Them on the hydroculator to moisten them or anything out
• 33:54
  Speaker 8: of the box. Fresh, let's go, I'm mess chin up,
• 33:58
  Speaker 8: shoulders back, let's go. So anyway, I'll tell you kind
• 34:02
  Speaker 8: of a parallel sort of that. No, all smooth, I'll
• 34:06
  Speaker 8: tell you a parallel story. So we're I'm playing in
• 34:08
  Speaker 8: Carolina and it's kind of you know, a similar iconic
• 34:10
  Speaker 8: player in uh in Ron Francis, right, And I remember
• 34:15
  Speaker 8: I was like, man, we're over by the boards. Was
• 34:16
  Speaker 8: during practice, Man, holy smokes, man Jeter and man Jeter,
• 34:22
  Speaker 8: what he's doing and what he's done, and man, what
• 34:25
  Speaker 8: this guy's done and what.
• 34:26
  Speaker 7: That guy's done.
• 34:27
  Speaker 8: And I was just talking, just rambling, just getting in
• 34:29
  Speaker 8: between drills, and Ron Ronny Francis looks over at me.
• 34:32
  Speaker 7: He's like, as in, I'm in that ether you ain't
• 34:39
  Speaker 7: didn't even say it. He didn't, he didn't even say it.
• 34:41
  Speaker 8: He's like, it's like, oh, it's like that, okay, I
• 34:47
  Speaker 8: got you, I got it.
• 34:48
  Speaker 7: So yeah, that was that.
• 34:50
  Speaker 8: Those were some of the stories that you get playing,
• 34:52
  Speaker 8: you know, with those those elite guys, and and just
• 34:55
  Speaker 8: how unreal they were.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 34:56
  Speaker 8: But but mess and mess carried a different aura a
• 34:59
  Speaker 8: bottom too, just because he had the swag. Can you
• 35:04
  Speaker 8: imagine practicing with a Scully cap on, sometimes in no helmet,
• 35:09
  Speaker 8: like just a skull cap, like a Scully cap that's it,
• 35:12
  Speaker 8: like a beadie sometimes exactly.
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: Never I was wondering when they were gonna cut me
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: every day.
• 35:20
  Speaker 8: Of course, of course you're just like walking on eggshells,
• 35:23
  Speaker 8: like you know, it took so long to just feel comfortable,
• 35:26
  Speaker 8: to know that you had a place in the league.
• 35:28
  Speaker 8: But uh yeah, mess was a different caddies one on one.
• 35:30
  Speaker 8: One of the best ever man, one of the best athletes,
• 35:33
  Speaker 8: just a great, great man, great dude.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: Swag obviously, I was about to say teammate now at ESPN.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: Still doing good job obviously with Steve Levy, our friend
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: Swag and PK Suban. I'm surprised you. I've never asked
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: you this. Our great producer Tow brought this up. You
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: battle with the NHL over the right to wear the
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: double zero on your back. You eventually set out for
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: eighty because that was the closest you could get to it.
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: But I've never asked you where did that come from?
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: And how long did that battle go?
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: The NHL.
• 35:57
  Speaker 7: Okay uh So basically I wore double zero.
• 36:00
  Speaker 8: The majority of like my minor hockey coming up in
• 36:02
  Speaker 8: Toronto play for Toronto Reppingks. So I wore double zero.
• 36:04
  Speaker 8: A lot and true story. Mike Torkiya, who's older than me,
• 36:08
  Speaker 8: was an awesome goalie. He ended up playing for Dallas,
• 36:11
  Speaker 8: played for Kitchener, was unreal for Kitchener. Played in the
• 36:13
  Speaker 8: nineteen ninety World Cup for Kitchener against Eric Lindross and
• 36:17
  Speaker 8: the Oshawa Generals, which my dad and I went to
• 36:19
  Speaker 8: that game at Cops Coliseum at Hamilton. Oshawa won that
• 36:22
  Speaker 8: game in ot epic game. But Torch was an unreal
• 36:25
  Speaker 8: goalie as well, and he lived in our neighborhood when
• 36:28
  Speaker 8: we used to live downtown in Toronto, so I saw
• 36:30
  Speaker 8: him as being older than me. He rocked double zero.
• 36:32
  Speaker 8: I'm like, yo, this is fire. Of course, Robert Perish,
• 36:35
  Speaker 8: the chief for some of the Celtics iconic it was
• 36:38
  Speaker 8: kind of a thing.
• 36:40
  Speaker 7: So like, okay, this is this is going to be
• 36:42
  Speaker 7: my number. So I wore it. I wore it, I
• 36:43
  Speaker 7: wore it.
• 36:44
  Speaker 8: There's a couple odd years where you know, the people
• 36:47
  Speaker 8: that do the sweaters your jerseys, they messed them up
• 36:49
  Speaker 8: and I was like, thirty two for a year. Okay,
• 36:51
  Speaker 8: Magic Johnson wore that, so that's cool. I was then
• 36:54
  Speaker 8: like thirty for a year. Okay, that's kind of brute,
• 36:56
  Speaker 8: but whatever. Get back at double oh's. Wear double o's
• 36:59
  Speaker 8: in junior, wear double o's in the minors, in the
• 37:03
  Speaker 8: in the American League, and the ih else. I'm like,
• 37:04
  Speaker 8: this is my these are my digits. All of a sudden,
• 37:07
  Speaker 8: Marty Buran was the last one to wear double zero
• 37:11
  Speaker 8: when he got called up to the Buffalo Sabers. Marty
• 37:13
  Speaker 8: b I was the last one to wear it, and
• 37:16
  Speaker 8: Matt Taxing Mabi And next thing you know, I say
• 37:20
  Speaker 8: to the I say to a trainer, I'm like, well,
• 37:22
  Speaker 8: like what number you wear? I'm like double zero? Like no,
• 37:24
  Speaker 8: you can't wear that. What do you mean The league
• 37:26
  Speaker 8: said you can't wear that? Like what are you talking about?
• 37:28
  Speaker 8: Like the league said you can. So anyways, my then
• 37:30
  Speaker 8: agent at the time was kind of going through it.
• 37:33
  Speaker 8: He wasn't really a big agent at the time in
• 37:35
  Speaker 8: terms of his like stable of players that he had,
• 37:38
  Speaker 8: and there was no way I was going to win that.
• 37:40
  Speaker 8: So basically I had to kind of color tell me
• 37:43
  Speaker 8: tween my legs and I was like, okay, I'll wear
• 37:46
  Speaker 8: number eighty. It's the closest looking number to double zero.
• 37:50
  Speaker 8: There was an eighty in my parents' first address in Canada,
• 37:53
  Speaker 8: five eighty. So I took the eighty. Jerry Rice was
• 37:56
  Speaker 8: wearing eighty, and that's kind of where that came from.
• 37:58
  Speaker 8: That's kind of where that came from. Yeah, but I
• 38:02
  Speaker 8: got to tell you it's weird when you wear a
• 38:03
  Speaker 8: number that's not your number. Out don't care what anybody says. Yeah,
• 38:05
  Speaker 8: not a number that you love.
• 38:06
  Speaker 7: You know what I mean?
• 38:07
  Speaker 4: It doesn't feel right right, doesn't feel right.
• 38:09
  Speaker 7: I don't care what anybody starts. I don't like, just
• 38:11
  Speaker 7: be happy. I got a sweater.
• 38:12
  Speaker 8: I'm like, bro, this is the league what you're talking about.
• 38:17
  Speaker 8: You're playing pro. This isn't or you're playing at a
• 38:19
  Speaker 8: high level. This is one thing. If you're just playing
• 38:21
  Speaker 8: ball hockey with your buddies, like you want to feel
• 38:25
  Speaker 8: the part you want to feel who you are, that
• 38:28
  Speaker 8: becomes kind of a part of you.
• 38:29
  Speaker 7: And yes you could, Hey, I wear four. I changed
• 38:32
  Speaker 7: to forty four. I understand. You know you wear seven.
• 38:35
  Speaker 8: You go there, you go to boss exactly, Tom or
• 38:37
  Speaker 8: those are those this's my birthday too. You go to Boston, Okay,
• 38:41
  Speaker 8: Ray Borg wore that. Okay, Ray Borke, then fill us posito.
• 38:43
  Speaker 8: You understand the history of it. But aside from that,
• 38:46
  Speaker 8: like just to be just to be like salty to
• 38:49
  Speaker 8: somebody because they're a young player, and then you think
• 38:51
  Speaker 8: they think that they're special because they're wearing a number.
• 38:53
  Speaker 7: I think that that's kind of antiquated myself.
• 38:56
  Speaker 4: You know, you talk about coming in and coming in
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: the league. I work with you at the network. You
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: have a saying we do these little like gifts at
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: the network. So it's like during a game if if
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: somebody says something outlandish, a Mike Rupp face will come
• 39:11
  Speaker 4: up and I'll go, what the rop. But there's one
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: of weeks. See, anytime somebody scores, it goes walkaw all right,
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: it's his first game, goes welcome to the National. I
• 39:21
  Speaker 4: say that to ask you, what was your welcome to
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: the national moment? And what was there? Where was there
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: a moment where you step back and you're like, holy shit,
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: like no one's gonna believe this, but this is my
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: NHL moment in my own head.
• 39:35
  Speaker 8: Yeah, So there's a few, all right. So The first
• 39:38
  Speaker 8: one is my first NHL start in Ottawa. My last
• 39:41
  Speaker 8: year junior in the O before I turned pro, I
• 39:44
  Speaker 8: played for the sixty sevens.
• 39:46
  Speaker 7: We didn't make the playoffs.
• 39:47
  Speaker 8: My boy Jamie Langerbrunner, who then became my doubles teammate,
• 39:51
  Speaker 8: great dude, great player, assistant Jim of Boston the man
• 39:55
  Speaker 8: he left Minnesota went to Peterborough, which never happened, by
• 39:57
  Speaker 8: the way, to play for the Peterborough piece. So they
• 39:59
  Speaker 8: end up getting into the playoffs ahead of us. We've
• 40:01
  Speaker 8: got like five six of us on our sixty seven
• 40:05
  Speaker 8: seene that go on to play in the NHL, and
• 40:07
  Speaker 8: there should have been more like we had a bunch
• 40:09
  Speaker 8: of guys. Anyway, all that to say, we don't make
• 40:12
  Speaker 8: the playoffs. So now I'm kind of thinking, all right,
• 40:14
  Speaker 8: you know whatever, every practice you got to treat them
• 40:17
  Speaker 8: like a game, especially when you're a goalie for me anyway,
• 40:21
  Speaker 8: same thing in rookie camps and all these things. So
• 40:22
  Speaker 8: now we're playing. It's my first NHL started in Ottawa.
• 40:26
  Speaker 8: You know, my folks come down to drive the four
• 40:28
  Speaker 8: hours from Toronto down four one to get there. My
• 40:30
  Speaker 8: then agent whatever, different people, bro man, this is the
• 40:34
  Speaker 8: day before the game, they tell me.
• 40:36
  Speaker 7: I'm like, I'm deep breathing.
• 40:38
  Speaker 8: I'm doing like yoga retreats in my dress and in
• 40:40
  Speaker 8: my hotel room, just to try to get right, just
• 40:42
  Speaker 8: to try to center myself, because it's not like these
• 40:45
  Speaker 8: guys coming in now.
• 40:46
  Speaker 7: We're Oh, I played with you last year at the program.
• 40:48
  Speaker 7: What's up? I played with you last year University of Michigan.
• 40:50
  Speaker 7: What's that? And the league is young.
• 40:52
  Speaker 8: This is like all the guys you play, you grew
• 40:54
  Speaker 8: up hockey cards, the whole thing.
• 40:56
  Speaker 7: So it was a trippier transition, right, Yeah.
• 40:59
  Speaker 8: So we get in, we play, we tie the game
• 41:03
  Speaker 8: to to there's no o t there's no like shootout
• 41:05
  Speaker 8: or whatever. We tie the game to to. I'm second
• 41:08
  Speaker 8: star or whatever I was in the game. After the game,
• 41:11
  Speaker 8: I'm doing an interview in the hallway because I played
• 41:12
  Speaker 8: junior Ottawa. We're playing the sims and doing an interview
• 41:14
  Speaker 8: in the hallway, and I then coach Doug mclainey's horsing around,
• 41:17
  Speaker 8: but he sees me doing a live interview and he
• 41:21
  Speaker 8: hits like, ad NaN's headset off my head live interview,
• 41:25
  Speaker 8: bro live, Like we're doing a live interview. This is
• 41:29
  Speaker 8: mid nineties, like who does that? So that was kind
• 41:33
  Speaker 8: of like one of those. We then had one where
• 41:38
  Speaker 8: we're playing the Rangers down in Florida, down in old
• 41:40
  Speaker 8: Miami Arena, which was the boss. I loved that building.
• 41:43
  Speaker 8: We're playing there and warm up Richter Leech mess Gretz
• 41:49
  Speaker 8: this is who we're going against. So it's again it
• 41:52
  Speaker 8: was I don't know, maybe this was my third or
• 41:53
  Speaker 8: whatever start, so that was a thing. And anyways, we
• 41:57
  Speaker 8: end up losing this game for three. I get I
• 41:59
  Speaker 8: have thirty eight saves. I don't know if I'm a
• 42:01
  Speaker 8: game star in this game or not. After the game,
• 42:04
  Speaker 8: we I'm out right and we're working out outside the
• 42:06
  Speaker 8: our dressing room in Miami Arena. So I'm riding the bike.
• 42:09
  Speaker 8: Guys at work, who we're doing whatever. Wayne Gretzky walks by,
• 42:13
  Speaker 8: puts his hand on my shoulder. Good job out there today, kid,
• 42:16
  Speaker 8: And he kept walking. But he had four points. He
• 42:20
  Speaker 8: was in on all four goals.
• 42:22
  Speaker 7: They went four to three.
• 42:24
  Speaker 8: I'm thinking, I'm kind of nice. I'm like, oh, I
• 42:26
  Speaker 8: made thirty eight saves, kind of getting this thing. Gretz
• 42:30
  Speaker 8: just like checkmated me and he wasn't trying to be
• 42:32
  Speaker 8: like spicy.
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: Either right, this nice it is being nice.
• 42:36
  Speaker 8: But he's like, I'm being nice, but I had four
• 42:38
  Speaker 8: points though, so welcome to the league. Thanks for the
• 42:40
  Speaker 8: four point night, but you played well, see you later.
• 42:43
  Speaker 8: So I ended up telling him this story years ago.
• 42:46
  Speaker 8: I told him this story years ago at at doublegoat
• 42:49
  Speaker 8: him and Jordan at Jordan's Grove twenty three down there
• 42:53
  Speaker 8: in Jupiter's golf course. We're sitting at the table and
• 42:55
  Speaker 8: I told this story and Gretz was howling. You couldn't
• 42:58
  Speaker 8: believe it. He's like, did I say that to you?
• 42:59
  Speaker 8: Him like, yeah, you said that to me, So anyway,
• 43:02
  Speaker 8: that was kind of funny. And then the other thing
• 43:04
  Speaker 8: and and kind of going back to your walking to
• 43:05
  Speaker 8: the national guys, I could not win a game to
• 43:09
  Speaker 8: save my life, like I couldn't. I couldn't get a win.
• 43:12
  Speaker 8: I could not get a win. I was like, oh
• 43:14
  Speaker 8: and thirteen. And some of the games I played really
• 43:16
  Speaker 8: well in some of them I was inconsistent in and
• 43:19
  Speaker 8: I couldn't string I couldn't string the game together at
• 43:23
  Speaker 8: the NHL level because I'd become so dominant in the
• 43:26
  Speaker 8: IHL and whatever else in IHL goal the year, and
• 43:29
  Speaker 8: I was played number one minutes even coming out of
• 43:31
  Speaker 8: junior in the American.
• 43:32
  Speaker 7: League my first two years.
• 43:33
  Speaker 8: So once I kind of got it was hard to Okay,
• 43:36
  Speaker 8: do I make a save, I made the save, Do
• 43:38
  Speaker 8: I freeze it, do I move it?
• 43:39
  Speaker 7: All these different things.
• 43:40
  Speaker 8: At the league level, and I couldn't get a win,
• 43:43
  Speaker 8: and people were all over me.
• 43:44
  Speaker 7: This guy baach.
• 43:46
  Speaker 8: DH and ten bah one two and oh one and five,
• 43:51
  Speaker 8: and it was really hurtful, like, honestly, God, I couldn't.
• 43:55
  Speaker 8: And then you know, you had the people that are
• 43:57
  Speaker 8: then intentionally calling me Steve, Steve Weeves can't get it
• 44:00
  Speaker 8: when I'm like, well, you know Steve Weeks.
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: I know Steve Weeks.
• 44:05
  Speaker 8: His dad was a principal at Silver Springs Public School.
• 44:07
  Speaker 8: My cousins went there. Our names aren't spelled the same,
• 44:10
  Speaker 8: We're not on the same part of the color wheel. Yes,
• 44:12
  Speaker 8: he was a goalie, but we're different people. So I
• 44:15
  Speaker 8: started to kind of take on, just like snowball life
• 44:17
  Speaker 8: from its own and I was snowballing downhill Man and
• 44:21
  Speaker 8: I was just trying to pull like any little what.
• 44:23
  Speaker 8: I made a save on him, okay, but I made
• 44:25
  Speaker 8: two saves on them, okay, but I couldn't.
• 44:27
  Speaker 7: It wouldn't click for me.
• 44:30
  Speaker 8: And that's a big part of why I emphatically want
• 44:32
  Speaker 8: to shout people out with welcome to the National because
• 44:35
  Speaker 8: it was a real hard transition for me, and I
• 44:38
  Speaker 8: know the way I felt, and I know the way
• 44:40
  Speaker 8: you know it was kind of being covered and being reported,
• 44:43
  Speaker 8: and how hurtful it was and how frustrated it was.
• 44:46
  Speaker 8: So I want for every young player that's out there,
• 44:48
  Speaker 8: when their mom and dad's watching, their siblings are watching,
• 44:52
  Speaker 8: they make the show, they get their first w they
• 44:54
  Speaker 8: score their first goal, I want to highlight them because
• 44:57
  Speaker 8: that's an iconic moment, you know, that's like you've landed
• 45:00
  Speaker 8: on the moon type moment, and I want to play
• 45:02
  Speaker 8: a little part in celebrating then when they get that.
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: Randy Han does that too. He calls every he calls
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: every first goal like it's the Stanley Cup final winning goals.
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: So those that those family members have a memory of
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: core memories, that's pretty cool. I love that.
• 45:19
  Speaker 7: Thank you, Yeah, that's where that came from.
• 45:21
  Speaker 5: I love that week see and thanks and and and
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: Gretz just basically being like, you're welcome kid.
• 45:27
  Speaker 7: Oh my gosh, it's so good. Check.
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: Speaking of being back in the NHL, you know you
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: played under you know Torts, John Tortorella. Uh, what do
• 45:36
  Speaker 5: you make of him being back in Vegas and being
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: hired there.
• 45:39
  Speaker 7: Let me tell you something.
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: Weeks and Tarts together. Weeks Towards had nine.
• 45:45
  Speaker 7: Towards had ninety nine lives.
• 45:47
  Speaker 8: Man not nine, he's got ninety, No kidding what but Towards.
• 45:52
  Speaker 8: Let me tell you something. I played for Torts in
• 45:54
  Speaker 8: the American League and Spangler Cup. I got loan to Rochester.
• 45:57
  Speaker 8: Steve Shields got called up the Savers. I got loan
• 46:00
  Speaker 8: that we go over playing Spangler Cup. Anyways, we uh
• 46:04
  Speaker 8: as an American League team, we go play. I'm goalie
• 46:07
  Speaker 8: of the tournament. I had one game, we had seventy
• 46:09
  Speaker 8: I had seventy two saves in one game. I think
• 46:10
  Speaker 8: we got out shot seventy six or twenty something. We
• 46:12
  Speaker 8: win the game, and you know, it kind of went
• 46:17
  Speaker 8: kind of viral in the days of pre going viral
• 46:19
  Speaker 8: because it's you know, it's a lot of shots, seventy
• 46:21
  Speaker 8: six shots or whatever it was, seventy five shots, and
• 46:25
  Speaker 8: I'm thinking I'm going to get the next start. I
• 46:27
  Speaker 8: don't get the next start, I'm like, what, but this
• 46:30
  Speaker 8: is towards coaching, So so that was kind of my
• 46:33
  Speaker 8: first kind of introduction to him.
• 46:35
  Speaker 7: But then I played from.
• 46:36
  Speaker 8: In Tampa and then he came in, and you know,
• 46:39
  Speaker 8: he did a good job of kind of shaping that
• 46:42
  Speaker 8: young roster. A lot of us were very young, Pavel Cabina,
• 46:45
  Speaker 8: Brad Richards, Marty Saint Luis, Vinnie Le Cavalier. You know,
• 46:49
  Speaker 8: I can vack claud prosh bowl like good players man,
• 46:51
  Speaker 8: Like I can go down the league, down the level
• 46:54
  Speaker 8: of how the players.
• 46:55
  Speaker 7: That we had on that team, and he's like, no,
• 46:57
  Speaker 7: we got to do.
• 46:57
  Speaker 8: This, this, this, this, this has got to be this, this, this,
• 47:00
  Speaker 8: this this, And although it was a little bit frustrating,
• 47:02
  Speaker 8: and then they traded for Habey Bullen, which was really
• 47:04
  Speaker 8: frustrated for me, but I really used it as an
• 47:07
  Speaker 8: opportunity to be a sponge and learn and learn because
• 47:10
  Speaker 8: Haby Bullen was the man. He go toe to toe
• 47:13
  Speaker 8: with belfour, toe to toe with Patrick Watt, toto toe
• 47:17
  Speaker 8: with Marty.
• 47:18
  Speaker 7: He was that good.
• 47:19
  Speaker 8: And I used that with that time with him and
• 47:22
  Speaker 8: torts to really take my game to the next level.
• 47:24
  Speaker 8: And uh yeah, very interesting, but I'm going to tell
• 47:27
  Speaker 8: you a quick story about Torts too. So we're working
• 47:30
  Speaker 8: on NHL Network and I remember, like it was yesterday,
• 47:33
  Speaker 8: like Towarts, I played for you don't leave me hanging.
• 47:38
  Speaker 8: So I come in one day, I'm like, I heard
• 47:40
  Speaker 8: you're going to Columbus.
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: Weeks.
• 47:41
  Speaker 8: I don't know what you're talking about. You're off your RockA,
• 47:44
  Speaker 8: I don't know what you're see you just come up
• 47:45
  Speaker 8: with all this crazy. I'm like, Torts, I heard you're
• 47:49
  Speaker 8: going to Columbus. I played for you. Don't mess around.
• 47:52
  Speaker 8: He's like, a day and a half later, Towards has
• 47:55
  Speaker 8: gone to Columbus, So then you can't do that. So
• 47:58
  Speaker 8: then he's with us on ESPN, and I'm like, Torts,
• 48:02
  Speaker 8: I'm gonna polish you up here like the best pair
• 48:04
  Speaker 8: of Italian dress shoes ever.
• 48:07
  Speaker 7: You're gonna be glistening. You're I'm gonna.
• 48:09
  Speaker 8: Polish you up on TV. But you better not leave
• 48:12
  Speaker 8: me hanging again. And fortunately when he got the when
• 48:15
  Speaker 8: he got the Philly job, he gave me the scoop. Okay,
• 48:17
  Speaker 8: so add that for your flyers and uh and yeah,
• 48:21
  Speaker 8: so I think for him. Ultimately, listen, Bruce Cassidy did
• 48:23
  Speaker 8: an amazing job there. Let's give Bruce all his flowers,
• 48:27
  Speaker 8: you know, help them win a Stanley Cup. He really
• 48:28
  Speaker 8: took the team to the next level. I think they
• 48:31
  Speaker 8: I was just out there. I just told you, And
• 48:33
  Speaker 8: I think for for them, they started looking heavy footed,
• 48:38
  Speaker 8: they started looking slow, the boots weren't really there. Something
• 48:42
  Speaker 8: was missing. And that doesn't all fall on Cassidy. To me,
• 48:45
  Speaker 8: they messed up when they traded my boy Logan Thompson.
• 48:47
  Speaker 8: I've said this a billion times. Oh yeah, but I
• 48:50
  Speaker 8: think for Torres this is and for them, this is
• 48:52
  Speaker 8: a good opportunity for a little what I want to say,
• 48:55
  Speaker 8: some jumper cables on the boys.
• 48:57
  Speaker 7: Just some jumper cables on the boys. Definitely has that's
• 49:00
  Speaker 7: my thought. Yeah, I like it.
• 49:02
  Speaker 5: He's a coach I never played I never played for.
• 49:05
  Speaker 5: I would love to play for.
• 49:06
  Speaker 7: Yeah. Yeah, he's real.
• 49:07
  Speaker 8: He's real And sometimes, you know, sometimes, how can I say,
• 49:12
  Speaker 8: Sometimes you get in in instances where you want somebody
• 49:16
  Speaker 8: to put a little bit more honey on what they're
• 49:18
  Speaker 8: telling you. Torto's gonna give it to you direct. But
• 49:20
  Speaker 8: I've I've always had a really good relationship with him,
• 49:23
  Speaker 8: and and he's always real he's always he's always direct,
• 49:27
  Speaker 8: and I've always had a good relationship with him, so
• 49:29
  Speaker 8: I'm happy for it.
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: Awesome.
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: One more and we'll get you out of here. Weeks
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: you mentioned the Flyers.
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: I gotta bring up the fact this Philly team right
• 49:36
  Speaker 1: now is on a run and everyone thought they were
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: dead eight tow and won their last eleven games.
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: Scarborough's own Rick Tocket is doing a phenomenal job.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: Damn Bludar has been great all year, but week see,
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: here's the revelation. Sam Yerson was unplayable bunch of the
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: year hit at eight sixty save percentage before the break.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: Since then, he's been incredible. I cannot believe how good
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: Sam Arrison has been coming out of the break. And
• 49:55
  Speaker 1: now they've gotta pote one two. Obviously, I love connecting
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: Ziegress has been great. This Flyers team just a hell
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: of a run there on.
• 50:02
  Speaker 7: I'm impressed.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 50:03
  Speaker 7: It's funny.
• 50:04
  Speaker 8: I've done I don't know seven six seven Flyer games
• 50:07
  Speaker 8: this year, just driving down the turnpike almost as from
• 50:10
  Speaker 8: the house here in Jersey, and I got to tell
• 50:13
  Speaker 8: you every there's such an interesting team. You're watching the game,
• 50:17
  Speaker 8: they're not dominating the game. Then they're down. Then all
• 50:21
  Speaker 8: of a sudden, out of know where, there's a play,
• 50:24
  Speaker 8: a little connecting player around the net. Bang, they're back
• 50:26
  Speaker 8: in the game. And now on tippet's going once again,
• 50:29
  Speaker 8: which I love.
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: The forehead when you're announcing stuff. How'd that come to be?
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: I love it? It's my favorite thing. On the highway,
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: you put yourself locations.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: When he did in Barbados what I think he did
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: on the side of the four oh one, I was quick.
• 50:41
  Speaker 4: He had to fall over into.
• 50:44
  Speaker 8: I did, Okay, So what happened was listen. You know,
• 50:47
  Speaker 8: you guys know we've we've been around a long time.
• 50:49
  Speaker 8: I've got a lot of respect for Dregs and and
• 50:52
  Speaker 8: really the o G. Bob McKenzie, the originator, the Bob
• 50:55
  Speaker 8: Father and Dregs, and then there's Chris Johnson and Freeze
• 50:59
  Speaker 8: and all those different guys and pere Lebron. I don't
• 51:01
  Speaker 8: want anybody to feel left outed, Frankie Saravali. There's a
• 51:06
  Speaker 8: bunch of different people, and all of them work really
• 51:08
  Speaker 8: hard at what they do at their craft. But one
• 51:11
  Speaker 8: thing that I've always wanted to do, and JD you
• 51:13
  Speaker 8: kind of talked about this earlier, is not be a
• 51:16
  Speaker 8: one trick pony per se.
• 51:18
  Speaker 7: I've always wanted.
• 51:18
  Speaker 8: To try to learn different skills and add different things
• 51:21
  Speaker 8: and be able to do different things, because you know,
• 51:23
  Speaker 8: the media landscape is always changing. There's always something new,
• 51:26
  Speaker 8: there's always someone new, there's always this, And for me,
• 51:30
  Speaker 8: by being versatile, I feel like that provides like a
• 51:32
  Speaker 8: different type of value. So there's no real thought, we
• 51:35
  Speaker 8: need you on this show. Cool, you want me on
• 51:36
  Speaker 8: that show. Cool, you want me over here, Cool, you
• 51:38
  Speaker 8: want me between the benches, Fine, you want me in
• 51:40
  Speaker 8: the booth, cool, you want me to hope whatever. And
• 51:43
  Speaker 8: that was something where I was pretty intentional about it
• 51:46
  Speaker 8: because I've played, we played, We've been in the game,
• 51:51
  Speaker 8: and I know a lot of people in the game.
• 51:53
  Speaker 8: So there aren't any other former players in any major
• 51:56
  Speaker 8: sport that have become an insider, so to speak. So
• 51:59
  Speaker 8: it's something that I kind of wanted to add and
• 52:02
  Speaker 8: just based on relationships, and you guys know this, ninety
• 52:05
  Speaker 8: nine percent of the stuff that we know we can't
• 52:06
  Speaker 8: say anyway, just based on relationships, and you can't necessarily share,
• 52:10
  Speaker 8: and you value your relationships more than you do being
• 52:14
  Speaker 8: able to break news.
• 52:15
  Speaker 7: But for example, like how that came to be. When
• 52:20
  Speaker 7: I first started doing it.
• 52:23
  Speaker 8: Anyway, my wife encouraged me should just go ahead and
• 52:25
  Speaker 8: do it, and just what do you just you always
• 52:27
  Speaker 8: have this in from your talking to people on the
• 52:29
  Speaker 8: phone all day. Just just go ahead and start doing it.
• 52:31
  Speaker 8: And I tried to be honest with you. I tried
• 52:33
  Speaker 8: doing it through the networks, and they're kind of like, well,
• 52:38
  Speaker 8: you're not so, and so you're not so, Like all right, okay, cool,
• 52:42
  Speaker 8: So I can't break it, Okay, no problem. So that's
• 52:44
  Speaker 8: why I start doing it on Twitter and on social
• 52:47
  Speaker 8: And the first one I was trying to do the
• 52:49
  Speaker 8: selfie and I kind of jack it up and then
• 52:51
  Speaker 8: everybody's laughing and they're like, weeks, what are you doing?
• 52:54
  Speaker 8: You don't even know how to use the phone?
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: You are you?
• 52:57
  Speaker 7: Are you on a flip phone? What are you doing?
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: Bro?
• 53:00
  Speaker 7: Are you on a Nokia?
• 53:02
  Speaker 8: Like?
• 53:02
  Speaker 7: What are you on?
• 53:03
  Speaker 8: And then I started leaning into it more at my
• 53:05
  Speaker 8: wife's kind of suggestion, I'm like, all right, I'm just
• 53:07
  Speaker 8: gonna lean into this and own this. I know I
• 53:09
  Speaker 8: look like a dork, and it started to become a thing.
• 53:12
  Speaker 8: But the other part of it, too is where you
• 53:14
  Speaker 8: ask like the locations. The best part of this, guys
• 53:17
  Speaker 8: is you know, the stories don't wait for you to
• 53:19
  Speaker 8: be convenient. You're just talking about like talk or whatever
• 53:23
  Speaker 8: the case may be. It just doesn't wait for Tom
• 53:27
  Speaker 8: or Adnan or JD.
• 53:29
  Speaker 7: Just for you guys.
• 53:29
  Speaker 8: When it's convenient, right, it just happens. So when it
• 53:33
  Speaker 8: happens where you're at, you got to go ahead and
• 53:36
  Speaker 8: report the news and give the people what they want.
• 53:37
  Speaker 7: So that's kind of how it's started.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: Obviously, the multi talented he's been hosting the big Inside
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: Out classic this week and the Capitals and the Rangers
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: replaced on screen my characters from their classic films as
• 53:48
  Speaker 1: animated as ever.
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: Wicks.
• 53:49
  Speaker 1: You can't think enough and obviously you're a great teammate
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: on the air off there much loved to make the
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: kids being a girl dad. You get it all done
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: and you do a top shelf. So love me, man,
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: Appreciate you, Oh love you, guys.
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 53:59
  Speaker 8: Thanks for having me on. We'll do it again. We'll
• 54:01
  Speaker 8: do a longer one next time. This is just appe teaser.
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: We'll do app teezer right Joed right now, co host
• 54:06
  Speaker 2: of the show.
• 54:07
  Speaker 7: I love it. Thanks for having me on.
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: Boys, I did want to talk about a classic here
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: on the Wayback Machine. Liar Liar introduced it to the boys.
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: At what age is it good enough to watch Liar
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: Liar with their children? We're like, well, I think this
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: is right the age seventeen, fourteen, nine and seven nine
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: year old's some sexually explicit scenes kind of fast word
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: a little bit, but I gotta tell you this, Jim
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: Carrey Nate in terms of Gopher Broke balls out comedy,
• 54:34
  Speaker 1: you look back at his career now and obviously A's
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: Fentura still rings true. People love the mask. Dumb and
• 54:39
  Speaker 1: dumber we have mentioned earlier in the show, but I
• 54:41
  Speaker 1: think Liar Liar pound for pound eighty five minutes courtroom comedy.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: It's about as high concept as it gets. Just one thought,
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: just as guy can't lie for twenty four hours, and
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: then he goes through every single physical gesticulation you can
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: imagine height of comedy.
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: The boardroom scene in particular.
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: If somebody hasn't seen Liar Liar in a long time,
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: just go look up the boardrooms even Liar Liary me
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: and the boys on the floor as he insults every
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: single person. He caps it with the tattoo excuse me,
• 55:07
  Speaker 1: the two pey when he slams it on the wall
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: like I haven't laughed at heart in a long time.
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: Amen to liarler.
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: I it's so good, and I mean there's so many
• 55:16
  Speaker 4: lines in uh you know, the fishing what's the fishing
• 55:20
  Speaker 4: line when he does it to the girl or when
• 55:22
  Speaker 4: he's sitting there.
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: The pen is.
• 55:30
  Speaker 4: There's just so many Oh man, it's it's that that
• 55:33
  Speaker 4: boardroom scene. I mean, the whole thing is is amazing.
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: When he gets pulled over by the cops. Uh, when
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: I'm speeding. All the parking tickets, there's the party does
• 55:44
  Speaker 4: all the parking decads and everything. So yeah, he's I
• 55:49
  Speaker 4: mean his height was, I mean, his peak was. I
• 55:52
  Speaker 4: don't know if there's many peaks like kids in comedy.
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: Great cast, by the way, everybody had lilar check it out.
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: You haven't seen it in a while. All right, a
• 55:59
  Speaker 1: couple more stories here to get them. We'll call the
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: day Frondal finding his place in Chicago. More rookies making
• 56:05
  Speaker 1: their NHL debut these last few weeks. One may have
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: already made his imprint on the Blackhawks. Anton Frondell, the
• 56:10
  Speaker 1: third overall pick last summer, joined the Blackhawks last week
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: has five points of five games shown some chemistry with
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: Connrabra Dart and sparks some hope among Blackhawks fans, especially
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: if they can get a top draft pick this summer.
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: Jad a little more love here. It's been Blackhawk down
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: all season. Maybe some reason to have optimism.
• 56:28
  Speaker 4: It has been. I listen, they this Frondell, they have
• 56:30
  Speaker 4: high hopes for him. They're open to find a dynamic
• 56:33
  Speaker 4: winger to go alongside of connorbra Dart, and hopefully they
• 56:39
  Speaker 4: can find some chemistry and they can get another pick,
• 56:42
  Speaker 4: bring in another high end talent and then just slowly
• 56:45
  Speaker 4: build some veterans around them and really kind of build
• 56:48
  Speaker 4: towards something. And they've taken some steps in the right direction.
• 56:51
  Speaker 4: Blash has done a great job, and I think this
• 56:53
  Speaker 4: team's responded well. Connor's rounded out his game. So Frondell
• 56:56
  Speaker 4: is a nice piece and a nice ad for them.
• 57:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they've been talking about they need someone to play
• 57:02
  Speaker 5: with Connibra Dart, and they've been talking about Frondelle. Come
• 57:04
  Speaker 5: and the games that I've watched, he looked good. I
• 57:07
  Speaker 5: mean even his first game makes a nice play to
• 57:09
  Speaker 5: mckayb to get a you know, to get his first point.
• 57:12
  Speaker 5: And this is this is what the Chicago Blackhawks need
• 57:15
  Speaker 5: moving forward. They need these young guys to hit because
• 57:19
  Speaker 5: you know, they can't be they can't be rebuilding forever.
• 57:22
  Speaker 5: It's you know, it's time to take to take the
• 57:24
  Speaker 5: next step. I think they're probably looking to be like
• 57:26
  Speaker 5: you know, the likes of Montreal, Anaheim, these teams that
• 57:29
  Speaker 5: have you know, taken the next step. Chicago's gonna have
• 57:31
  Speaker 5: to do the same thing with these young guys.
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: Coming still is a great anthem, but the very lead
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: you go to Chicago, man, that anthem.
• 57:36
  Speaker 4: Rocks all right.
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: Flowers the baby Faced Assassin Macklin celebrating multipoint game against
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: the Blues Monday night. The Shark Star becomes the sixth
• 57:43
  Speaker 1: teenager in an NHL history to collect one hundred points
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: in a season, after Gretzky, Howard, Chuck Lemieux, Jimmy Carson,
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: under the Radar, and Sidney Crosby. Another major milestone from Maxell,
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: your boy JD. You can talk all things celebrating a
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: teenager getting it done with the sentry mark.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, there's there's not enough we can say
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  Speaker 4: about this kid, and I think it's it's going to
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: be one of those things where we're going to get
• 58:06
  Speaker 4: like McDavid fatigue, where it's just there's just records being
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  Speaker 4: broken all the time and you're like, oh, yeah, I
• 58:12
  Speaker 4: did something again. But they've found a ton of chemistry
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  Speaker 4: and this is kind of the line of the future
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  Speaker 4: for them, and that's what they're hoping with this, Chernisov,
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  Speaker 4: Smith and celebrity. This is the line that they want
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  Speaker 4: to put out there. And Macklin kind of struggled a
• 58:27
  Speaker 4: little bit for three four games, and I think they
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  Speaker 4: needed Churnisov is hurt with that concussion, and he's kind
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  Speaker 4: of finding his game now. So they're they're very dominant together.
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  Speaker 4: They kind of find ways to play on the perimeter.
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  Speaker 4: But with you know, Will Smith is more of their
• 58:42
  Speaker 4: perimeter guy, but then with Macklin and Chernisov, they can't
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  Speaker 4: cut through and and and I mean, he's just he
• 58:48
  Speaker 4: plays a two hundred foot game. He's so hard. He
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  Speaker 4: works so incredibly hard away from the puck. And I
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  Speaker 4: think if you're a young kid or you're a coach
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  Speaker 4: teaching a young kid, and they keep saying I want
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  Speaker 4: to be Macklin celebrity, it's like show everything he does
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  Speaker 4: away from the puck, because that kid will quickly be like, no,
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to do that. I'm want to be
• 59:06
  Speaker 4: Patrick Kane instead, because he goes he plays a hard game,
• 59:10
  Speaker 4: Nate like hard game, and that's it's it's that's what's
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  Speaker 4: the most respectable thing I have for him is that.
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  Speaker 5: I love that you pointed that out, just because everyone
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  Speaker 5: talks about how good he is with the puck and
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  Speaker 5: how the plays he makes, and he is, he's unbelievable,
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  Speaker 5: but away from the puckets crazy. When you when you
• 59:29
  Speaker 5: Iso cam him, when you got Iso cam adn like
• 59:32
  Speaker 5: watch him, you know in the D zone. I mean
• 59:35
  Speaker 5: I played, I played the center position, you know, for
• 59:38
  Speaker 5: him to be the first guy back, first guy in,
• 59:41
  Speaker 5: like he's all over the map and and I think
• 59:44
  Speaker 5: that's just a testament to you know, he is. He's generational.
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  Speaker 5: But it's not just his talent, it's his work ethic,
• 59:50
  Speaker 5: the way he you know, handles himself on the ice.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, if if if San Jose gets in, uh,
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  Speaker 5: he's got to be the m v P. I'm sure
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  Speaker 5: JD agrees with me on that one. I Mean, it's
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 5: it's pretty evident how important he is that Santos a team.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, we'll.
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  Speaker 4: See what happens. I want to give it away from Cooch,
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  Speaker 4: but I mean I love him. Cooch is my guy.
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  Speaker 4: Do we have any more flowers we're given out?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: One more flower gonna give out and the we'll call today.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 1: Alexander Vatchkin five goals in his last three games. He
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 1: wrapped up his twentieth thirty goal season. Mike Gartner ranks
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 1: second in hockey history in that category's seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: But you give to some you don't really want to
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: talk over.
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  Speaker 4: I'm guessing, Well, it's been three straight years. I've made
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 4: a bet with Mike Rupp for a bottle of Camus
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  Speaker 4: that he wouldn't at a certain point in the season
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 4: he wouldn't get thirty goals, And every single fucking time
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 4: I make the bet, and then he gets it with
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 4: like eight games left and he probably won't have a goal.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm I am convinced he's watching and using that
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 4: as fuel every time.
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  Speaker 2: You think you think he hears, but you would, Mike
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  Speaker 2: rup And you know what.
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  Speaker 3: Just.
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  Speaker 4: It's all about me. If you haven't noticed all about me.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 4: So goes so quick, Nick, because I have to give
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 4: flowers to somebody before we're done.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, he's always in his fucking JD's paying for
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 5: this bottle of Camis and that's it.
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  Speaker 3: That's all he's thinking.
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 4: Him and Ruppers splitting it.
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  Speaker 5: The only thing I had to add is I thought
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  Speaker 5: it was amazing seeing his son right on the glass
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  Speaker 5: after he scores thirty.
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  Speaker 3: I thought that was I thought that was awesome. But
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 3: that was awesome.
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  Speaker 4: Go ahead, JD, fucking go back to He's go back
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 4: to Russia with your fucking what he's about two he's
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 4: goal scoring titles, set up a pitch, cost me three
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 4: bottles of wine. Anyway, I'm gonna give flowers to real guy,
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 4: real man.
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  Speaker 9: Uh.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 4: Victor Arvidson. Wow, the Boston Bruins. Uh, he has nine
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 4: points in his last four games. He is somehow we
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 4: could not piss a drop in Edmonton and he has
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 4: really found his game here for Boston and they are
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 4: cooking right now. So big shout out to him, big
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 4: shout out to the Boston Bruins team. But Victor Arvidson
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 4: man doing doing the damn thing, and people chase them
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 4: out of Edmonton and you can play with the top guys,
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  Speaker 4: and he is playing some good hockey right now.
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  Speaker 1: Once again thanks to Kevin Weeks, our special guests, thanks
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  Speaker 1: to Nate, jd and Tal Episode seventy five in the books,
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