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Mike Commodore Rings in the New Year: Winter Classic Preview, Macklin Makes Team Canada and 2026 Predictions. · NHL Unscripted with Virk and Demers

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  Speaker 1: NHL Unscripted is a production of the NHL and iHeart podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome to NHL Unscripted. Coming up, our favorite moment of
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  Speaker 1: Plus our man commie that's right, International hockey going right
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  Speaker 1: now World Juniors. We have a commie on the podcast,
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  Speaker 1: Mike Commodore with unbelievable stories about Mike Babcock, Scott O'Neil
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  Speaker 1: and an uber experience which he will not forget. But
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  Speaker 1: first and foremost, happy holidays to all hope. It was
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  Speaker 1: a merry Christmas in Quebec, JD. You're on your way
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  Speaker 1: soon to Florida. Your action pack time right now for
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  Speaker 1: the Demers group.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I was in Canada, Quebec City. See some family
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  Speaker 2: experienced the minus twenty five celsius. That was cold as
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  Speaker 2: absolute dog shit. It was a great time. They'll got
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  Speaker 2: to go skate on the ODR on the outdoor rink.
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  Speaker 2: I still got it. Got to go skate with my
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  Speaker 2: niece who's nine years old almost ten and her hockey team.
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  Speaker 2: So it was a lot of fun because all the
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  Speaker 2: kids were chirping me. It was the girls team, and
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  Speaker 2: they were asking me for my autograph and then saying
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  Speaker 2: my autograph was quote scribbly scrabbly and not a good autograph.
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  Speaker 2: So I was kind of like a little humble pie
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  Speaker 2: with the kids. Kids don't lie to you, so you're
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  Speaker 2: just sitting there and you're like, it's it was tough
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  Speaker 2: to take, but I ended up scoring two and getting
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  Speaker 2: two assists in the little game we played and I dominated.
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  Speaker 2: So at the end of the day, I win, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm the former NHL R So yeah, I serve them
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  Speaker 2: back a plate of justice.
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  Speaker 3: I like it.
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  Speaker 1: Let's hope that there's justice for Canada at the Olympics.
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  Speaker 1: We're recording this before the Team Canada roster is going
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  Speaker 1: to be revealed, but we'll wait until the other rosters
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  Speaker 1: are out to review them all together. But you are
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  Speaker 1: wearing a Shark's jersey because Macklin celebrating is gonna be
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  Speaker 1: on the team, which is gonna be unbelievable. Mac do
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  Speaker 1: Let's go.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, HiT's a mac Daddy. He's a Mac Mac truck.
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  Speaker 2: HiT's the Mac Daddy's a truck. Canada. They did not
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  Speaker 2: fuck this one up. Team Canada. I mean this kid.
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  Speaker 2: We We've said it, we talked about it. We're Nostrae
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  Speaker 2: Demurz and Verkadomas Erkstra Domas, I'll figure it out, Orkstudromas
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, and Pinchevski Magoo. We all talked about it.
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  Speaker 2: We all watched the Sharks. We all know this kid
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  Speaker 2: is special. I don't say it lightly when I say,
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  Speaker 2: and I've been fighting off the edge to say it generational.
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  Speaker 2: He's a generational player. I know. I tweeted about it.
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  Speaker 2: Some people were like, oh, oh, captain obvious. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: no one's really went over the line and said this
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  Speaker 2: kid's generational. They said he's a great player. What he's doing,
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  Speaker 2: and the parody between the disparity between him and second
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  Speaker 2: place scoring on his team is astronomical. Will Smith at
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  Speaker 2: twenty nine points and he's at sixty ye like that is.
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  Speaker 2: That's a bigger gap than I think koutrof the year
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  Speaker 2: he got stumped for the heart. But they're in a
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  Speaker 2: playoff spot. He deserves to be there. I cannot wait
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  Speaker 2: to watch him play with Sid McKinnon, McDavid. You know
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  Speaker 2: right now, I'd love to see him. I saw a
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  Speaker 2: projection but I think him on the left wing, sid
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  Speaker 2: in the middle and Nathan McKinnon on the right wing
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  Speaker 2: is just a perfect line. That is just a line
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  Speaker 2: that's got to be rolled out. And then your first
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  Speaker 2: line for Canada, I think you got McDavid because McDavid's
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  Speaker 2: so high end speed. Maybe McDavid with like a Tom
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  Speaker 2: Wilson or even a you know, i'd try. You don't
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  Speaker 2: want to say mark Stone. Mark Ston will probably be
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  Speaker 2: on the third line if they bring him up. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna be interested to see who they put McDavid
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  Speaker 2: with and who who kind of because there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of talk about who's going to be on his wing.
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  Speaker 2: Butt Going back to macklin celebrity so well deserved, I
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  Speaker 2: think he's going to be a dominant force there. He's
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  Speaker 2: really his evolution from year one to year two. It's
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  Speaker 2: just something that I don't know how many times we've
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  Speaker 2: seen this. He's breaking all these records in NHL history,
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, it couldn't happen to a better kid, and
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  Speaker 2: do a better franchise.
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  Speaker 1: The Sharks, as you said, third in the league behind
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  Speaker 1: McDavid and McKinnon sixty points right now, tal throwing out
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  Speaker 1: potentially Ryanhart playing with McDavid, but we'll see ultimately when
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  Speaker 1: the roster is revealed and where this is team makeser's decisions. Bottomlized,
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  Speaker 1: this should go only win a Classic, something that Canada,
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  Speaker 1: at least ANHL has never done before. Hockey in southern
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  Speaker 1: Florida for the Winter Classic seventy degrees fahrenheit. That's plus
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  Speaker 1: twenty one celts just after you endured minus twenty six
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  Speaker 1: in Quebec City. NHL's had outdoor games in Raleigh and Dallas,
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  Speaker 1: but this is the furthest south that they have gone.
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  Speaker 1: So they've got the two trucks. Instead of won the
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  Speaker 1: building which has a retractable roof pumping in the air conditioning,
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  Speaker 1: they got the refrigerator going. We don't know, it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be like gdy. You know what, it's liketed with ice.
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  Speaker 1: If it starts melting with a danger, that can be
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  Speaker 1: safety et cetera. Are you looking for? I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to Miami. How great is that going to be?
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  Speaker 1: But the actual game experience, how do you think it's
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  Speaker 1: gonna turn out?
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  Speaker 2: I think they're gonna do a good job. They seem
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  Speaker 2: to always pull this together. I think the I've been
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  Speaker 2: to Marlin's Stadium. I've been to It's loan depot. Now
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  Speaker 2: i've been there. I watched the home run derby there.
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  Speaker 2: I watched a couple of games when I was playing
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  Speaker 2: with the Panthers. And it's cold in there, just in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of the summer. Like they they pumped the Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they crank up the acen and they're bringing another two
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  Speaker 2: trucks there. So even if they open the building up
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  Speaker 2: and the game's gonna puck, drop's gonna be at eight,
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  Speaker 2: so the sun's gonna be gone. They're gonna open the
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  Speaker 2: building like an hour before. I think it's gonna stay
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  Speaker 2: relatively cool. I honestly do. I don't think it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be anything crazy. I think it's gonna be very cool
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  Speaker 2: conditions and uh, it's gonna be very unique. So I'm
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  Speaker 2: interested to see how they do it. I think they
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  Speaker 2: they always do figure it out. And the guys, you know,
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  Speaker 2: hockey players, they don't complain. They're gonna play. It's not
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  Speaker 2: gonna be you know, I think ice, you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: it gets a little bit hairy if it gets too soft.
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  Speaker 2: But even if it's soft, that just means you change
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  Speaker 2: the way your blades sharpened. And you know, it's not
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  Speaker 2: like there's gonna be holes in the ice, So we're
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  Speaker 2: to get a look at it. We do a practice
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  Speaker 2: stream with YouTube tomorrow. I'm flying there today as we
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  Speaker 2: film that. After we film this, and uh, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: be there on New Year's Day. We're doing both the
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  Speaker 2: live streams for practice, so I'm gonna see the ice
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  Speaker 2: firsthand and I'll be able to do you know, Bruce
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  Speaker 2: Almighty reporting live from Lone Depot Park. That's how the
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  Speaker 2: cookie good reference. Thank you very much. I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, let's talk about your savers because you guaranteed it
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  Speaker 1: last week. This team is going to playoffs. They have
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  Speaker 1: missed the playoffs fourteen straight years. They've won nine trade games.
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  Speaker 1: They got a chance to get to ten Wednesday night
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  Speaker 1: against Dallas. Their role right now, you've already you've already
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  Speaker 1: drawn a line of the same. They're gonna be a playoffeam.
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  Speaker 1: My question is this could they be buyers? Remember in
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  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen, Yarmo Kakalana was GM of Blue Jackets team
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  Speaker 1: had never won a playoff series.
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  Speaker 3: He went all in.
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  Speaker 1: He got MATC DW Shane Ryan to single, Adam McQuaid
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  Speaker 1: Keith kincaid. Do Shane sign with Nashville that summer, but
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  Speaker 1: he helped Columbus get their first and only playoff series
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  Speaker 1: win in the team's history. My question is this, do
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  Speaker 1: you think Yarmo is gonna make it moves the deadline
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  Speaker 1: to make sure this Buffalo team finally gets the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: It's so tough because you know, you look at their
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  Speaker 2: roster on paper when they're healthy, and I mean, this
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  Speaker 2: is the team that I don't think needs to add
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  Speaker 2: much other than maybe some depth pieces that you know,
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  Speaker 2: some guys, some extra warm bodies that could come in
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  Speaker 2: if there's an injury, because the one thing we know
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  Speaker 2: is that you know how dominant and how good this
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  Speaker 2: team is and complete this team is when Josh Norris
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  Speaker 2: is healthy. But the fucking poor guy can't stay healthy.
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  Speaker 2: And I think we have to go under the assumption that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, whatever can happen will happen with him, and
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  Speaker 2: there will be an injury at some point, whether it
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  Speaker 2: be the first round of the playoffs, if they make
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  Speaker 2: it in ten games before the end of season. So
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  Speaker 2: I think they need to go get some center depth
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  Speaker 2: to help them out. You know where they get that,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. You know, there's not a lot of
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  Speaker 2: teams because it's weird because the way the season is
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  Speaker 2: and how tight it is. Other than a couple teams
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  Speaker 2: right now that if you look at the standings that
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  Speaker 2: I feel you could say argue that they're out. You
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  Speaker 2: look at the Winnipeg Jets. Maybe they trade Jonathan Taves.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you trade Jonathan Taves for a prospect or a Pick's.
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  Speaker 1: Brutal right now, I gotta be honest, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But you bring in an extra player, like you just
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  Speaker 2: have him to play on the fourth line. Again, I
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  Speaker 2: think Taves is being asked to do too much, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I think Taves is more of a fourth line guy
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  Speaker 2: at this point. So if you can have him on
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  Speaker 2: your fourth line if somebody gets injured, just to help out.
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  Speaker 2: You're looking at you know, you look at the Jets,
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  Speaker 2: who I think they're in a weird point. You look
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  Speaker 2: at the Blackhawks, but you know they're kind of back
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  Speaker 2: and forth. Boston's gonna start falling out of it, I
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  Speaker 2: think soon, and they are, so do they kind of
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  Speaker 2: offload a couple guys, You go get a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of toughness maybe you look at a Tanner Jane, you
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  Speaker 2: look at a Mark Castelick. These guys in Boston that
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  Speaker 2: are that are very well like I, it's tough. It's
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  Speaker 2: because I think they got to get some warm bodies.
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  Speaker 2: But you got to be careful because right now, when
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  Speaker 2: you're on a nine game winning streak, you don't want
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  Speaker 2: to touch anything. A lot of gms will go out
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  Speaker 2: and bring in like, oh, let's bring in an even
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  Speaker 2: bigger player because we can make a splash, and then
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  Speaker 2: that doesn't work out because the chemistry needs to be had,
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  Speaker 2: and you got to think, like they're going into the Olympics,
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  Speaker 2: you have all this, you have this break coming up
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  Speaker 2: in February. You got to do something soon because once
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  Speaker 2: the Olympics happen, it's a sprint. You can't be having
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  Speaker 2: a guy trying to get comfortable playing every other day,
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  Speaker 2: no practices, nothing, no way to get chemistry. So it's
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  Speaker 2: gonna be interesting to see. But yeah, the Savers are hot.
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  Speaker 2: I'm on the wagon. If I said it, I kept
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  Speaker 2: saying it. Another Notster demurz Win, a Verca demurz Win,
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  Speaker 2: and a Pinchewsky magoo Win, I said Josh Norris. If
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  Speaker 2: he's healthy, they will make the playoffs. It's got to
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  Speaker 2: say healthy. This will be your best pressure.
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  Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now the no because you said
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  Speaker 1: the Ducks in the summer, he said, Duck playff Tame,
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  Speaker 1: which looks pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: I'm hot right now if you if you.
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  Speaker 1: Get Ducks and Savers make the playoffs, that's.
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  Speaker 2: Legit, and said Toronto would miss so if that happens
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  Speaker 2: and Florida would make so I'm kind of cooking right now.
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  Speaker 1: If this works well, parlay right now, we're talking. It's
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  Speaker 1: a brutal schedule right now. That's the bottom line for
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  Speaker 1: teams that are cooking. It's great news like the Sabers,
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  Speaker 1: if not the good luck and players are starting to
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  Speaker 1: complain about it Devil's Golden or. Jake Allen commented about
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  Speaker 1: it earlier this week, saying, this is definitely the toughest
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  Speaker 1: season I've experienced. This from a guy this fourteenth season.
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  Speaker 1: He continued, it's just as much mental as it is physical.
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  Speaker 1: And obviously we've seen some of the injuries around the league.
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  Speaker 1: Trust me, those two weeks off, the guys that aren't
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  Speaker 1: playing in the Olympics are going to be really appreciated.
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  Speaker 1: There's one month left of this condensed gouge before the
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  Speaker 1: Olympic break. So what's the strategy right now for teams
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  Speaker 1: heading into the break?
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  Speaker 3: JDA.
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  Speaker 1: I mean this is pretty exhaust You see guys basically
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  Speaker 1: playing every other day.
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  Speaker 2: I think if guys are injured, they're going to hang
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  Speaker 2: around the respective city and do rehab. But I think
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  Speaker 2: most guys are going to try to get the fuck
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  Speaker 2: out and go get top sun. My diagnosis and would
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  Speaker 2: be extra sun and go get to your toes in
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  Speaker 2: the sand, go do some yoga, you know, eat a
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  Speaker 2: lot of protein, rehydrate whatever you can to kind of
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  Speaker 2: get your body light stretching. But it's gonna be a
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  Speaker 2: fucking sprint, especially the guys that are playing in the Olympics.
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  Speaker 2: Like you really got to think about that. Like this season,
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  Speaker 2: I you know, I can make a soft prediction that
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  Speaker 2: whoever's got the most players going to the Olympics, Like
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  Speaker 2: I worry that, you know, they won't have enough choose
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  Speaker 2: to win the Cup, you know what I mean, Like
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  Speaker 2: you look at a lot of teams that have a
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  Speaker 2: lot of guys going. You look at Florida will have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of players out there. You're gonna have Colorado,
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  Speaker 2: these big teams Dallas. If listen, if I'm Dallas and
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  Speaker 2: Jason Robertson gets snubbed yet again, which I don't think
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  Speaker 2: he should. But if he gets snubbed again, I'm riding.
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  Speaker 2: But if they get stubbed, I'm if I'm I'm like, great,
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  Speaker 2: he doesn't get to go always healthy. They can go
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  Speaker 2: on a run and potentially win a Cup. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's gonna be interesting to see. I think the catalyst
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  Speaker 2: this year will really be who can come out of
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  Speaker 2: the Olympics the healthiest. That'll be the team that does
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  Speaker 2: the best and potentially can steal a Stanley Cup. I
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  Speaker 2: think over these top teams if if something happens, because
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  Speaker 2: this is the first time they're back at the Olympics
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  Speaker 2: as well in a while. The NHL players, they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: be It's on all their minds. It's all they're all
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  Speaker 2: thinking of. I know they all want to win a
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  Speaker 2: Cup too, but they're all thinking of the Olympics. They
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  Speaker 2: all want to be a part of it. You can
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  Speaker 2: see how guys have elevated their game because they want
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  Speaker 2: to be on that team. They're gonna play their fucking
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  Speaker 2: ass off and it'd be hard pressed. So it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be interesting to see what happens post Olympic. But this
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  Speaker 2: schedule has been brutal, and it always is. It comes
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  Speaker 2: with the territory. But it's gonna be interesting to see
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  Speaker 2: how guys heal up and how teams look after the break.
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: Speaking of Autawa Centers right now, challenge time, right now,
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  Speaker 1: three game losing streak, they're outside looking in for a
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  Speaker 1: playoff spot. I was just in Winnipeg saw speaking of
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: the Oilers, Oilers Jets and that Winnipeg team right now
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  Speaker 1: limping towards the finish line. Meantime outaway is where I'll
• 12:57
  Speaker 1: be next week for Amazon Prime, Red Wings and Senators
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  Speaker 1: will not be seeing Linas Ulmerk there. He's taking in
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  Speaker 1: definite lea from the team to attend to matters, and
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  Speaker 1: a statement of the club said Linas has the full
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  Speaker 1: support of our organization during this time private matter. We
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  Speaker 1: won't e speculate, but the nature of olmarks leave. But
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  Speaker 1: this is an Autowa team that made the playoffs last year.
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  Speaker 3: J D.
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  Speaker 1: He is an eight to eighty one say percentage, just
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  Speaker 1: back up Levi at Marilina eight sixty nine percent. They
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  Speaker 1: were not getting good goaltending already? Are the sins cooked?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, all Mark's so streaky and then you get
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  Speaker 2: the health. I man, I don't. I don't know this
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  Speaker 2: Ottawa team, they you know, they had moments there on
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  Speaker 2: that streak they looked great, Brady Kuld Chuck came back.
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  Speaker 2: They kind of skid it a bit, started winning. I man,
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  Speaker 2: it's this is kind of one of those teams that
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  Speaker 2: could benefit from a splash move, like trade a superstar,
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  Speaker 2: maybe find something that works. There's no goalies available, so
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna have to live with Linas Olmark. But Linas Olmark,
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  Speaker 2: you know when he is on is a very good goaltender.
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  Speaker 1: But how can be gone if this is like a
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  Speaker 1: mental health leave?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, And that's the problem is maybe why
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  Speaker 2: he's so streaky is that he's a hard time dealing
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  Speaker 2: with the pressure and anxiety. So you know, do I
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  Speaker 2: think you know where where else can you find a
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  Speaker 2: goalie right now? You look at Philly maybe one of
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  Speaker 2: their teams. You can look at Vegas. You know they
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  Speaker 2: got their three Aiden Hill, Carter Hart, and Akira Schmid.
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  Speaker 2: Once Aiden Hill's back, you know, there's a world in
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  Speaker 2: which you can go get one of those three goalies,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the New Jersey Devils, who you know, after
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  Speaker 2: that lost last night, I think they're fucking done. I
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  Speaker 2: think this team needs they need a high end player
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  Speaker 2: bad and I just don't think they're good enough. And
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  Speaker 2: I didn't think they were good He sure dropping the clubs.
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  Speaker 2: No they got no, they got no nuts right now.
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  Speaker 2: No one's stepping up. It can't be Brendan Dillon all
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  Speaker 2: the time. And you know, it's got to be somebody
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  Speaker 2: else to have a little piss and vinegar. And they're
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  Speaker 2: not looking good right now. And they got two goalies,
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  Speaker 2: Markstrom and Allen. You know you can go poach one
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  Speaker 2: of those guys. So there's some goalies around the league.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to require a player. You know, if I'm Ottawa,
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  Speaker 2: do I look to maybe go get a Mark Strom,
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: Aura Allen or you go look maybe Buffalo as well.
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: They got three goalies, so there could be a potential
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: move there. So it's gonna be it's gonna be interesting.
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: I think we're at that crux of the season where
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: a team that's kind of up and down, like Ottawa,
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: like New Jersey, you're gonna see them make a move
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: because they need to if they want to make the
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: playoffs and not fall out of this race completely.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: I'm with you and you want to kind of get
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: some momentum. I finally made the playoffs last year. For you, Audawa,
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: it would be frustrated to.
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: Take a step back.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we'll get to our guest Mike Commodo in
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: just a second. But one more topic. JJ's payday. The
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: Lightning signed defenseman Jj Moser eight year extension, average annual
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: value of six point seventy five million dollars a year,
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: twenty five years of age. Nice fit in the Lightning
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: Blue Lines and s arriving at twenty twenty four. Part
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: the mckel's circuit Jeff trade with Utah Darren Rattis is
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: obvious having a fantastic year, and Moses been playing with Radish.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: Those guys just stepped up obviously with Headmond's injury. What
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: do you make of Moser? Seems like this is a
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: good price and a great deal for.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: Him, well deserved, you know, a great pick up, one
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: of the sneakier pickups in that Surgate you have trade.
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: I think you know you're starting to see that trade
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: tilt in favor of Tampa a little bit. You know,
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: Sergachev obviously is great, but uh, you know, JJ Moser
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: has really stepped up and all those injury riddled defensive
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: decors for Tampa Bay Lightning. You know, you're missing Headman,
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: you're missing McDonough for a large stints, you're missing Chernac
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: And he comes in and him and him and Radish
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: just just absolutely kind of carried this team to where
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: they are right now. You thought they'd be cooked, done
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: fieni bon soois, but they are alive and well, all
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: thanks to JJ Moser. You know, opportunity meets timing and
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: preparation and he was ready to go when he was
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: called upon to lead this team from the back end,
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: and he's doing it. He's a great you know, he's
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: a really under I hate giving Bill Armstrong any kind
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: of credit ever in my life because Bill Armstrong, you know,
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: I hit him with my car if I saw him. No,
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: just kidding, I wouldn't do that for for legal purposes.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't do that. I would just but he's uh,
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: it was a great pick up by him. It was
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: a great find by him in Arizona. JJ Moser a
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: great find. I'm you know, I think he and it
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: was a good deal, good trade going for Sergachev and
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: making a splash, and I think most are just It's
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: what I remember Bill Armstrong talking about him and kind
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: of quickly near the end of my career when I
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: was around the team and just saying, like, watch out
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: for this kid. He's a really smart, good player, good responsibly,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: can play two ways. So congratulations to him getting that paper.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: Boom boo.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: Good stuff for JJ Moser in company. Still to come
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: here an NHL inscript, we'll talk to a comedy Mike Commodore,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: terrific guest. He's really funny, entertaining as an excellent podcast
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: called Clearing the Crease. He'll tell us the story about
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: driving an uber and how a teenage girl out at him.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: That's coming up after this. Our next guest. Was drafted
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: in the second round forty second of braw by the
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: New Jersey Devils in the nineteen ninety nine NHL Draft.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Went on to collect twenty three goals, one hundred and
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: six points, and six hundred and eighty three Peli mites
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: in four hundred and eighty four games the Devils, Flames, Hurricanes, Senators, Bluejackets,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: Red Wings, and Lightning Stanley Cup winner, one of the
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: most outspoken voices in the hockey sphere. Also is a
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: great podcast called Clearing the Crease with my old buddy
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: from the Score, James Sebalskin Andrew Raycrop.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: That's right, it's Mike Commodore Commy. Good to see you.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: What's up guys, Happy New Year. I'm pretty sure I
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: didn't score twenty three goals either. I think they got
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: that wrong. I'm pretty sure the number is twenty one,
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: but nobody cares, so twenty three is close enough.
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Well, it's great to see. I like the fact, as
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: I said, you're doing a podcast, you're always outspoken. You
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: believe the NHL missed a big opportunity by not having
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: games played on Christmas, which they used to do for years.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: This year was really cannibalizing in the sports Mark TripleHead
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: of NFL, quintuppleheader of NBA, and you thought there should
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: have been hockey games as.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: Well, well, not on Christmas. I think on Christmas eve Day.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: I was sitting there Christmas eve Day here in Scottsdale,
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: and I understand that maybe every year. Andrew Raycroft actually
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: brought up a good point. Maybe every year isn't a
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: great idea of let's say if Christmas Eve falls on
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: like a Sunday or something with football and whatnot. But
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: I was sitting at Moxie's here in Phoenix after wandering
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: around the mall in the morning. It's like the last
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: place I wanted to be, and I'm sitting there. So
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: I sit down at Moxi's to have a beer. I'm like, ah,
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: see what's on TV? And it's like football reruns and whatnot,
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: you old UFC fights. I'm sitting there, I'm like, what's
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: on today? And so I looked at my phone and
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: the only thing that was on was at six pm
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: Mountain time was the Hawaii Bowl California versus Hawaii, which, hey,
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: look that's great, awesome, good for them, and I'm happy
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: to watch the Hawaii Bowl. But there's a full day
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: that's wide open. So I'm sitting there and I'm like,
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: I wonder, now, I know all this has to be
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: like collectively bargained, but I'm like, this is like days
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: like this, this is a massive opportunity. Like I get
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: it's Christmas eve Day, but at the end of the day,
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: like and if the players are don't want to do it,
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: then don't do it. But I don't know. I'm just
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: thinking from you know, from my playing days, and what
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: I would think if I was still playing is like, okay,
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: so let's say I don't get the twenty fourth off,
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: but I get the twenty seventh off. Like, I don't
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: really care. That's fine. A day off is a day off.
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: I get it. I've never had kids or a family either.
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: I understand Christmas Eve and Sanna and all that stuff.
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: But you know, let's make the games early. And I
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: was thinking, you know, two three games with like I mean,
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: i just fired off up the top of my head.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: I'm like, have the Rangers play the Islanders. Maybe the
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: Devils play the Phillies. I'm thinking like or sorry, the
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: Devil's play the Flyers. Sorry? Yeah, And like I was thinking,
• 20:51
  Speaker 3: like no planes, like you can drive to the game
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: or short like a train ride or something. Have you know?
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: The game start maybe at twelve Eastern, run them back
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: to back with the last one being the cut or
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: the Ducks versus the Kings out west, and then you
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: got kind of a day day long hockey. It's over
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: by you know, I guess it'd be over you know
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: if you have them go at three pm Pacific time
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: sixth eastern. Yeah, yeah, or something like that. But I
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: think I think they do that.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: They do that kind of style of distance the day
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: of the twenty seventh when the guys come back. But
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: I honestly, when you tweeted that, I was like, you
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: know what I mean, it's such an open day to
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: do it in the morning and have morning and afternoon
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: games and then have the guys on the twenty seventh.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: It's just it's like a travel day at night to
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: go to the game on the twenty eighth, so you
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: get the twenty seventh, so you get the twenty fourth night,
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: the twenty fifth, twenty sixth is off instead of doing
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: it flipped where you get twenty four to twenty five
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: to twenty six and then the twenty seventh you're traveling
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: because they do travel the day of the game. I
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: think it's something that worth talking about on the CBA
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: because I think the NHL has looked at trying to
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: find creative ways to like maximize the schedule. That's why
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: we play later in the year for the the Stanley
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Cup Final. It's to be where there's no sports. So
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: I think it's like it's maximizing the days because I
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: don't think the guys would mind personally, because you know
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: not I hate ever quoting Lebron James, but he was
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: talking about playing on Christmas Day and he's like, it's
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: part of the part of the deal. We have to
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: do it. He's like, I actually like it. It's part
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: of like my tradition and it's a fun thing to do.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: I'm like, guys would probably embrace it. Kid, you can
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: get your kids coming to the game, kids that fly in.
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: I think it would be a good idea. So actually
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: CBA had put it on baby, Yeah, Like I don't
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: think it. Yeah, And if teams maybe you have the
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: not you could do it however you want. But I'm
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: thinking maybe it's just like, hey, if it gets going,
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: it's like, look, you know, if you're playing for the
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Ducks or the Kings, that you're going to be playing
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: on Christmas Eve Day.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: That's that's just how it is. And I fired out
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: some you know, I know it's just Twitter, but you know,
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: I fired out, you know. And maybe fans don't want
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: to go to the games, but I think they are
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: very interested in going the games as long as they're early,
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: and you could, you know, if you're running the games,
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: like make it very kid friendly or you know, have
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: things going on very christmasy and targeted towards kids and whatnot.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: And I don't know. When I was sitting there at
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: Moxie's crushing a couple of beers, I was just like,
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: this is this seems like a wasted opportunity to me.
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: But I don't run the league, so I don't care
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: what I think.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: You're banging about the fact it was a terrible day
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: of sport.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: Like awful day of sports, right.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: You looked around like there's no basketball, there's no fun,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: and exact, Geny's right, everybody's off. She's like, I just
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: wanted something on Hawaii. Was the one game eight o'clock
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: the only thing?
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Now kind of shifted into the NHL and and
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: teams that are doing bad things. I know you briefly
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: played in Columbus with Scott ar'neil. I mean, what do
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: you make of the Winnipeg Jets right now and what
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: the hell they're going through?
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: Poor Arnie Kingston guy, poor Arnie.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, well you're not going to get poor Arnie
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: out of me. I'll tell you that I had him
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: in Columbus and uh, Scott ar'neil is right next on
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: my list, right He's he's on par maybe in front
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: of Mike Babcock. For me, ah, I'm not as much
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: as I would love to just rip the coaching staff
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: right now, and I would love to see him get
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: canned because I think he is an arrogant scumbag. I'm
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: gonna pump the brakes. I mean, they need to get
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: just from looking at like, I'm not gonna sit here
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: and say I've watched a bunch of Jets games, but
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: it seems like there's they got three four guys there
• 24:24
  Speaker 3: that are that are producing, and after that there is
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: a steep dropoff. So if they could find I mean,
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: the thing is like with these everybody getting you know,
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: two points one point, and you know the separation is
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: basically nothing. You know, as long as they have that
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: Hella buck around, you know, I have a hard time
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: like writing them off, but they are it is starting
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: to get to the point here where if they don't
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: get on a heater, they could be in trouble. And
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: I like Winnipeg. I've I've went through there a lot.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: When I went to school at the University of North Dakota.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: I would fly in there or drive through there or whatever.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: But man, I'll tell you what, if you're on a
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: bad Jets team that's a long winner in Winnipeg, I'll
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: tell you you got nowhere to lie.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, stuck in Manitoba. There's only so many earls you
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: can go to that right, Since you mentioned since you
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: mentioned Mike, your criticism Mike Bob Babcock back at twenty
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: nineteen was so notable that year we saw Bill Peters
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: design his behavior became public. Do you think your criticism
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: of Babs helped change what we consider inappropriate behavior from coaches?
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: Wow, that's a good question. Actually, nobody's ever asked me
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: that I think it has. Yeah, I'm gonna go before
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: you go ahead. Yeah, yeah, I mean that's all I had.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: I had. I mean, I appreciate that. That was never
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: my intention, like at all, and a decade long war
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: on Twitter roasting Babs was never my intention, like at all.
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: I mean I was having I mean, I hate Mike Babcock,
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: there's no question about it. But I mean the whole
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: thing kind of started because I was I was in
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: Carolina to crank the Horn when Detroit was coming in
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: to open up the season and I was having a
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: drink and Chris Chelly O's message me like, hey, Babs
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: was coming back to Detroit. It was his first year
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: in Toronto. Anyways, long story short, I'm like, yeah, I
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: see that, and Chelly, who does not like him at
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: all either and has way more stories about him than
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: I do, Shelley was like, you should roast him on Twitter,
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: and I remember sitting looking at my phone and I'm like,
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: I mean, i'd like to, but I'm like, you know,
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: i'd kind of I've been out of the game for
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: like five years or so, but I'm like looking at
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: my phone and I'm like, Okay, if I go down
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: this road, I'm like, I need to be comfortable that
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: I never want a job in hockey again, because yeah,
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: there's the people that know me, but you know, most
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: of the league doesn't know me, and it's not a
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: good look going off roasting coaches on a public form,
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: roasting any realty really, But I was like, you know what,
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: screw it anyways, and that's how it's got started, and
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: I just stuck with it. I mean, I was taking
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: grenades from you know, Tron mape leaves to have a
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: pretty big fan base, and at the beginning there they
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: thought that I was God. So my mentions in Twitter
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: was just a bunch of land mines. But yeah, you know,
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: I guess maybe if nothing else, maybe because I kind
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: of went and did it, maybe some guys were a
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: little bit more comfortable going on Twitter, and you know,
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: if they had some frustrations and stuff like that, maybe
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: they were a little bit more comfortable doing it. But
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: like I said, I mean in general, like I don't
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: want to come up. I loved ninety nine percent of
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: my coaches. There was two there was Arneil and Babcock
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: that I didn't enjoy and we touched on both. Yeah,
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: we touched on both, you know. And it's not because
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: they were hard on me or anything like that. I
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: just think they're bad people, well both of them, but
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: Babs for sure. And you know it's I don't you know.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: My intentions wasn't to get well, My intentions was to
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: get Babs canned. There's no question about that. That was
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: one of the best days ever when he got canned
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: in Toronto and then I mean he would pull in Columbus.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: Was just pure insanity and gone again insanity. Yeah, and
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: that day was actually probably better than the Leaf's day,
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: just because that's probably the end for him. And I
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: don't feel bad for him at all. Dude, You've had
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: plenty of chances, You've made plenty of money, You've had
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: plenty of opportunities. You basically because of your ego and
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: your arrogance and your you think everybody's coming to watch you,
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: and you think you're the man and the you know,
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: it's all about power with him. I mean, he probably
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: just you know, he probably just screwed himself out of
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: the Hall of Fame. I don't know who's gonna like
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: vouch for him. I'm not sure. I mean maybe not
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: where at the end of the day. It's kind of crazy. Look,
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: if he gets an opportunity in Columbus, like literally, just
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: don't be an idiot and like be a decent person.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: Just don't be an idiot. And like, you know, he
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: does no hockey. I can't. I'm not going to say
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: things that I don't think are true. He does know
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: the game of hockey and he does run a good practice.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: I'll give him that. Just don't be an idiot. You're
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: gonna win some games. You're young enough where you probably
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: coach for quite a while longer rack up some wins.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: You know, you're not probably not going in front of Bollman,
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: but you're gonna go up the list. And he's already
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: up the list decent, like a fair amount, and you're
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: like a no brainer. And now all of that, in
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: my opinion, is probably gone.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: And you know, talking about that, like those two coaches,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: you said you like ninety nine percent of your coaches
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: and they were great people, Like was that something that
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: when you played for them you were vocal about? Because
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: you know, when I I always had hard times with
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: certain coaches, seeing things that I didn't necessarily I just
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: didn't like. I didn't think there was respect behind it,
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: and it wasn't ever, it wasn't ever towards me, But
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: I ended up getting myself in trouble because I'd sit
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: up and say something like you did. And I'm just wondering,
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: like where that line was for you with coaches and
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: and what do you look for in a coach because
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: you said ninety nine percent were great, but you know
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: what was it about them that kind of just turned
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: you a little bit because it wasn't directly targeted towards you,
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: but it still was enough to kind of put.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: A burr up your ass with them. Yeah, I mean
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: with with Babcock. No, I never did with Babcock. I
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: mean I had long story short, I had him twice.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: Really both times, I really wasn't The first time, I
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: wasn't around. I was sent straight to Cincinnati, so I
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: wasn't even there. And then the second time, you know,
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: I was in Detroit, you know, and I knew I
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: had just got bought out of Columbus and I was
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: in and they had a bunch of veteran guys there
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: that had just won Cups like and so I just
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: you know, I just mind my bill. I knew this
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: was my last chance. So I was just kind of
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: trying to make it work. So I never said anything there.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: With Arneil, I did because he was a first year
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: coach and I was kind of looked upon as being
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: a leader in Columbus. That's part of the reason why
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: they signed me. They had a young team and I was,
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: you know, a veteran at the time. And anyways, he
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: came in my third year and it was a catastrophe
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: from the beginning. He was extremely arrogant. Took me a
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: while to figure it out, but in my opinion, he
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: came in it. Scott O'Neil had a really good hockey career.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: I think he played like seven hundred games of the
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: Miners and he played like seven hundred games in NHL.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: I mean, that is an excellent career by anyone standards,
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: I think, And but I think in Scott O'Neil's mind,
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: he came into Columbus. It was his first time being
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: a head coach, and he didn't think that he got
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: paid enough when he was playing, and he came in.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: He wasn't coming into like, hey, I want to make
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: this work. He was coming in like it's time to
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: get even, which is unfortunate because I thought we had
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: a pretty decent team there. And so who was the
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: first target. I mean, you got a thirty year old
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: defenseman that's the highest paid defenseman in your organization. Any's single,
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: doesn't have kids. This guy's got plenty of money. I
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: am target numero uno. So I was we had he
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: would like avoid me, and I basically had to like
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: force a couple meetings with him, and then by Christmas time,
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: I was gone zo And that was the beginning of
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: the end for me, those are the worst, the force meetings.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: Oh oh dude, he would have me. I'm like, I
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: mean it was frustrating, Like I kept getting scratched and
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: we were losing, and like when I did get an
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: opportunity to play, I was pretty good. There was a
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: stretch in the fall and I'd broke my thumb in
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: a fight over in Sweden with Ryan Close. I missed
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: some time and then came back play good, then scratched again,
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: and I'm like, you know, it's we're sitting here, we're losing.
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: You have your highest paid defenseman in the organization scratched,
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: and you're not letting him play at all. I'm the
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: number seven or eight, I'm paired up with a forward
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: in practice, and basically it like came down to, yeah,
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: he wouldn't let me. Like so basically it was one
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: practice my d partner with Derek mackenzie, who was a forward,
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: and I just told Derek I go, hey, dude, don't
• 33:02
  Speaker 3: give me the puck today. And He's like, what I said,
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: don't give me the puck today. He goes, uh, okay,
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: And so for the first part of practice, every time
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: I got the puck. I would try a sauce pass,
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: so I don't care if the pass was across the
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: ice or if it was like three feet in front
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: of me the centerman. I was getting some air under it.
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: So I'm screwing up every drill and Scott Arneil slams
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: his stick on. He's screaming at me for the other
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: side of the guys goes off the ice and I
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: followed him right in, right into his office and we
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: had it out like I've never really talked to any
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: coach like that before, which maybe that didn't help me either,
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: But anyways, that relationship was done, and you could just
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: see what happened in Columbus. We had a meeting with
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: I had meeting with Scott Housen, who was the general
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: manager at the time. It was a fairly new GM
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: and his first year, Like I said, we made the playoffs.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: It was the first time Columbus had ever made the playoffs.
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: Like things were kind of on the up there a
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: little bit. And you know, I had a meeting with Scott.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: He's like, hey, like, Arneil doesn't want you round. I'm like, yeah,
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: no shit, I'm like, hey, you know, the moral of
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: the story was, I'm like, I go, Scott, we're telling
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: Scott this. I go, Hey, I go, you want to
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: know who looks bad in this? He's like, you're kind
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: of looking at me. I go, I do. I go,
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: you want to know who else looks bad in this?
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: And he kind of looking at me. I go, you do?
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: You signed me to this deal? And I'm gone, and
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: it's halfway through. I go, you look bad as well.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: I go, you hired the wrong coach, hired a power
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: hungry coach who's trying to get even for whatever reason.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: I go, your head's on the block. Next, I go,
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: you made a mistake. And sure enough, within a year
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: it was I think Arneil was there for a year
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: and maybe a month. And how everybody was gone. Rick
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: Nash was the whole organization was all blown up.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Everybody's gone, by the way, and Housen hasn't been everybody,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: no Housing hasn't been an NHL GM since that tells
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: you where that goes? Yeah, our producer tal by the way, Mike,
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: he wrote a book called Breakaway, which is excellence all
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: but from behind the iron curtain, guys defecting, et cetera.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: I am curious because you had Fatista as a coach
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: in New Jersey.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, what was he?
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: Like?
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: I loved him. I thought he was I thought he
• 35:08
  Speaker 3: was awesome. Uh yeah, I got a couple of stories
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: about Slava, you know, I had him. He was the
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: assistant coach in New Jersey. Like my first year. I
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: was up and down for my two years in New Jersey,
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: like fifty games up, fifty games down basically. And I
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: mean the head coach for most of it was Larry
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: Robinson and the assistant coach was Slavia Fatiga, the condor.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you're like, you would have had to be
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: a total bonehead as a d man to like not
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: learn something like those are two best. He's the best.
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: Larry Robinson is awesome. He's he's the man like he
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: he liked me too, like he was the reason why
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: he even got any opportunity there at all. And anyways,
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: I think the world of both those guys. But yeah,
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: Slava was I mean he was an old school Russian,
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: like you know I was. I was young obviously, and
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: like you know, when I was up and during training
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: camps and stuff like that, like and and he liked me,
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: called meha I Meeshad You know, I go through practice,
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: and really my practice didn't start until the practice was done,
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: because like everybody else would go off and now it's
• 36:06
  Speaker 3: time to work on some like defenseman stuff with Slava
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: and which I loved. It was awesome and it was
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: harder than hell. He's got that old school where like
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: you just keep keep it moving. But he was great.
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: And I actually saw him again the last time I
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: seen him, you know, because he was here. I mean,
• 36:24
  Speaker 3: his career is obviously incredible, and I don't know how
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: much you know about what he's doing now, but you know,
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: he went back over to Russia and he was like
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: the Minister a sport. He was like, yeah, it's incredible. Yeah,
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: like he's he's boys with Putin, like they are tight.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: And when I went over there playing in Russia, he
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: was like the I don't know if he was the
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: minister of sport for the country or if he was
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: like the head politician for lack of a better term,
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: for the whole region where Vladivostok is, which is the
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: whole region along the Pacific uh Pacific Ocean that's where
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: Vladivostok is. So he was kind of like the he
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: wasn't the owner of the team, but he was basically
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: like the face of it. So we'd see him once
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: in a while. And I'll tell you what I you know,
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: I know him as Slava, you know, my de coach
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: in New Jersey and obviously a Hockey Hall of Famer,
• 37:12
  Speaker 3: and I got a ton of respect for him. But
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: like you know, I talked to him and stuff like that,
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: and I'll never forget when I got over there. And
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: then once I was there, I was there a little
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: bit late and one of the de gates he came
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: in after one of the games. You know, it's a
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: bunch of Russians and we I think we had five
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: or six imports, and he walked in the room, and
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: I tell you that it was like a noisy room.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: He walked in the room and you could hear a
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: pin drop, like those Russians were looking at him like
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: Jesus Christ just walked into the room. And he's just
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: kind of standing there and I'm like, Slava, I'm like,
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: you know, I'm just yelling how you doing this and that?
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: And the Russians are looking at me like there's something
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: wrong with me. But he came over a big smile,
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: and I got nothing but great things to say about him.
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: He's a good dude. Fancy that's funny. You just walk in.
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, the Russians were like, oh yeah, yeah, I'm
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: like be asked a good guy.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, that wasn't the only time you were
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: kind of missed up with a dignitary. You went to
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: the White House at the Cup as a Cup champion,
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: You had the President compliment your hair. How was that
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: whole experience and and going there and being a part
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: of that whole process and celebration.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was awesome. I've actually been fortunate enough to
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: do it twice. So we were won a national title
• 38:28
  Speaker 3: at the University of North Dakota as well, So a
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: few of us got to go when Clinton was in
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: office and then in two thousand and six when Bush
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: was in office. Clinton was and it was two very
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: They were both great experiences, but they were two very
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: different experiences with Clinton just the timing of when we
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: were there. We were in the Oval office and there
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: and they're like, the whole team couldn't make it. I
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: wasn't in school anymore. And the scene basically the guys
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: that weren't on the team anymore came on the trip
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: to the White House because the rest of the guys
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: unfortunately had to go up the Anchorage to play to
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: play for the weekend, so it was less people. Yeah,
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: I know, it's a tough I just had a trip.
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: And some are still pissed off. They're like, that's a
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: jo I'm like, dude, I didn't make the rules. Like,
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: I agree, it is a joke. We should have tried
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: for a different day. But sorry. But since there was
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: less people, you know, we were in the Oval office.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: We were supposed to have fifteen minutes. We ended up
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: in there for almost an hour, and you know, he
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: was telling stories and you know, talking about the room
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: and whatnot. It was really cool. And then yeah, with
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: Bush it was cool too. We had the whole team,
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: so we had a lot bunch more bunch more people
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: who were over in one of the wings. I knew
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: something was coming because I got a call from a
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: White House writer and like hey, you know, like you know,
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: and talking about my hair and this and that or whatever,
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: and so I was like, I knew something was coming.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: And I laughed as it was going on, because you know,
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: he mentions my name and the hair thing or whatever,
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: and he turns over, you know, kind of turns around.
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: There's no chance he had any idea which guy was there, Like,
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: no clue, no clue. I kind of laughed. I'm like,
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: this dude has no idea who I am at all,
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: and so I just I got to laugh to myself.
• 40:05
  Speaker 3: But it was a cool experience for sure.
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: When you got to Detroit, Mike fans petition for you
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: to wear the number sixty four to honor the class
• 40:13
  Speaker 1: show Commodore sixty four a video game.
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: How much pressure was it to wear it? Why did
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: you decide against it?
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah? Uh, there was a decent I mean, yeah, in
• 40:24
  Speaker 3: looking back, I should have wore it. It was dumb
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: of me not to. Uh, there was a decent amount
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: of pressure for me to do it. The trainer gave
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: it the okay to the paper. I was kind of
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: hoping he would shut it down, but he's like, now
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: he could wear it if he wants. Oh wow, yeah,
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: so he got I got the okay. The only reason
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: why I didn't do it is because, like I said earlier,
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: you know, I had already had this run in with
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: Babcock convinced me to come to Detroit and Ken Holland
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: and I just got bought out, bought out. Sorry he
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: was better English and this I knew this was my
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: last chance. If this didn't work in some fashion, I
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: knew I was done. So going into it, I was like, man,
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: I'm like, uh it just I don't really want to
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: be looked at as like a yeah, like like kind
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: of a party favor, and you know, like I know
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: this is my last chance, like Commodore sixty four, Like
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: you know, maybe Babs won't like it, you know, like
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: I just want to kind of just do my thing. Now,
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: looking back, it didn't matter what number I wore, It
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: made no difference. So I apologize. I should have for
• 41:27
  Speaker 3: the fifteen or sixteen games that I did get out there,
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: it would have been cool to see Commodore sixty four.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: I had like Commodore, like they came back with a
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: new computer then, like a mini one. They were like
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: messaging me on Twitter like to like, hey, you know,
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: maybe I missed out on a sponsorship deal. I don't know,
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: but yeah, I should have done it. That's my apologies.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: Well, you should have got a sponsorship deal for Uber
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: because that's one of the more famous comedy stories. And
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: you know, I think I've talked maybe once in passing
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: about it, but I've seen stories. But for you, what
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: was when you did that? Explain how that came to
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: be number one and the number two was your most
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: memorable Uber customer. Okay, how it came to be was
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: I was a couple of years into retirement. I was
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: sitting down here in Phoenix and in my opinion and
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: probably I would say, I was drinking a little too much.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: But at the same so I was trying to tone
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: it down. But at the same time, you know, I
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: was single, and I didn't want to just be sitting
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: at the house alone. So I look, I was trying
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: to find a way to stay off the bottle, but
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: still like you know, go out and be social and whatnot.
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: So I thought, well, why don't I just drive for Uber.
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: Then I can I can meet some people, I get
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: to go around town a little bit, and obviously I'm
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: not going to be on the bottle because I don't
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: want to end up in jail. So that was my
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: thinking on how I got started my most memorable Well,
• 42:54
  Speaker 3: and part of it too was like you know, like
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: I said, I was single, I'm like, well, you know,
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: maybe I'll meet some of a couple of yeah, maybe
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: I'll meet some women. So in that regard, my best
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: opportunities and looking back, were my first night. There were
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: a couple of opportunities, but like I just started doing this,
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: and I'm like, I didn't want to be a creep
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: right on night one, so I'm like, I you know
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: it just I just did the driving and was very professional.
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: My most memorable rides, I mean, I actually kind of funny.
• 43:23
  Speaker 3: I got a picture on my phone I would say
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: my most memorable bride would be and it kind of
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: ties in. We had a twenty year reunion just a
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: couple of weeks ago for our Cup team and Doug
• 43:31
  Speaker 3: Waite was on our team and we were laughing about it.
• 43:35
  Speaker 3: His wife sent me the picture. I had never had
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: it before. One of my rides, one of my nights,
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: I went, it's you know, it's pitch blackout. I'm going
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: to pick some people up or whatever over down kind
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: of wherever down in South Phoenix kind of Arcadia, and
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: I'm sitting outside and like a younger crew comes out.
• 43:52
  Speaker 3: It's about younger girls, like if I had to guess,
• 43:55
  Speaker 3: like fourteen fifteen, and there's like eight of them, you know,
• 43:58
  Speaker 3: and there's only I'm only supposed to carry like five.
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: I had like a Cadillac Escalade Hybrid deal or whatever.
• 44:04
  Speaker 3: And they're like, well, we have a few. I'm like,
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: just get in. I go, I don't care. We're not
• 44:08
  Speaker 3: going too far. It's not a big deal. So get in.
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: And the girl that sits in the front seat, you know, hey,
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: how you you know what's going on? Somehow hockey came up.
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: I didn't bring it up. Somehow I'm like, oh, I'm like, well,
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: how do you know about hockey? Well, my uncle used
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: to play hockey. Oh no, oh yeah. I'm like, oh,
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: some why, here's perk up. I'm like, oh, please, I
• 44:25
  Speaker 3: hope I played with this guy. And she I go,
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: oh really, I go, well, who's your uncle? He goes,
• 44:31
  Speaker 3: She's Doug Wait, and I burst out laughing. I go, hey,
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: I go, can you please text him or call him? However,
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: I go, tell him, you just got picked up in
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: an uber by Mike Commodore and let me know what
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: he says. So she called him, but it was in
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: the evening and Doug was coaching the Islanders at the time,
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: so Doug was on the bench, so he didn't answer.
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: So he took a picture, send it to his wife
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: and whatnot. And I actually just got the picture a
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: couple of days ago. It's pretty funny. Yes, yeah, it
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: was pretty funny. Oh that's so good? Is that is unbelievable?
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: About I was because my next question was going to
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: be what you answered, was like, did you pick anybody up?
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: You knew? They were like, holy shit? Called me what
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: the fuck's going on? There was another There was another one.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: Some people from Columbus. Uh, you know, just a couple
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: of people. It made me laugh. Picked them up. You know,
• 45:20
  Speaker 3: I'm taking them with a grocery store. I'm waiting for
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: him to get at some groceries and then they want
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: to ride back. I'm like, yeah, man, I'll just wait.
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: Not a big deal. And so I you know there,
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: where are you from Columbus? I'm like, oh, Columbus, Columbus.
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: While yeah, yeah, I'm like, oh, I used to live there.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 45:33
  Speaker 3: They're like, oh really, what did you do there? I'm
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: like wow, I'm like, actually, I used to play for
• 45:37
  Speaker 3: the Blue Jackets. And they're sitting in the back seat
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: and I can see them. I look in the rear
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: view mirror. I could see them looking at each other like, sheah,
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: right to my uber driver. This guy played for the
• 45:48
  Speaker 3: Blue Jackets.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah right.
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: So they're like, oh, so you know you know Rick Nash.
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: Then I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I do know Rick.
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: What about Derek Brossard? And they named off a couple
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: of names. I'm like, look, I go, I know you
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: don't believe me. I go, you can just google me.
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: I go. I swear I'm not full of shit here.
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: And anyways, we had to laugh about that.
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: That's so good, so good. Hey, talk about you had
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: your twenty year reunion for you know, winning the Cup
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: and you talk about seeing Dougie Waite and all that.
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: How great was that? I saw you were miked up
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: some great candid things. But how tight was that team
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: and still, you know, twenty years later. Just talk about
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: the reunion and the feelings all being back together.
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it was awesome. I mean, the reunion was great.
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: You know, it ended up being a three day thing.
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: The Cup was there, which makes it kind of cool.
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: Unfortunately I couldn't wait. It's a oh yeah, yeah, guys
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: were some guys got in there. So the celebration day
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: was on Tuesday. It was the Canes versus the Blue Jackets,
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: but there was also a game on Sunday versus the Sharks,
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: so some guys like Ray Whitney went in there on
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: like Friday, so you know, you can imagine that goes
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: right through Tuesday. I didn't get there till Monday morning, unfortunately.
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: So there was a couple guys that I missed that
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: were there Sunday but couldn't make Jimmy Rutherford, for instance.
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: So I'm sad I missed them. But it ended up
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: being a real good turnout. You know, you never know
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: you're gonna get everybody. People are busy, there's things going on.
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: You got guys that are living in Europe, like it's
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: not convenient. But it was a really good turnout. Yeah,
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: it was awesome. I mean there was guys that you know,
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: I guess as as years go by, like Nick Wahaleen
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: for instance. You know, I hadn't seen him since I
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: played against him, and he came over. It came for
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: for the whole thing there and I saw him, and
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: you know, who knows if I'll ever see him again.
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: It might not. I mean I don't know if I've
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: I haven't seen him. I played with them and seen
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: or heard from him since. Yeah, Yeah, he's he's been,
• 47:38
  Speaker 3: he's doing good. He's he's remarried. He's he's out in
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: his hometown there in Sweden, and he's he's he's got
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: like a trucking company his family. That's so he's doing
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: some trucking for my front loading. Maybe, I think is
• 47:49
  Speaker 3: how I understood it. But like, I don't know if
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: I'm ever going to see him again, unfortunately, and so
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: it's it's great to catch up. You know, he sit around,
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: have a few beers and you know, stories that you've
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: forgotten come up and somebody said him as something which
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: kick something off in your mind. And so it was great.
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: The Canes did a great job. It was very nice
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: to them to do it. They make us play an
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: alumni game, which I can't say I'm a huge fan
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: of that. But other than that, it was good.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: Last one for you, Mike, you want a World championship
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: with Canada. In two thousand and seven, JD spoken to
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: how nice is to play for your country. Obviously we're
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: all patriotic as Canadians can't wait for hopefully Canada to
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: win Italy. But what was that experience like for you?
• 48:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was awesome. It was. It was the only
• 48:31
  Speaker 3: time that you know, I had ever been any kind
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: of invitation. I think it was with Team Canada. Like
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: I'm it was probably the only time I was ever
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: even on their radar. I was lucky in the fact
• 48:44
  Speaker 3: that the tournament was it happened at a you know,
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: I was actually for me. I was playing well at
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: that time of my career. I just come off win
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: in a Cup in two thousand and six, and I
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: had a good year in two thousand and seven. I
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: was lucky because the tournament was in Russia, and if
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: I'm being honest, a lot of the real good defensemen
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: didn't want to go, so Steve Eiserman went down the list,
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: and I still I thank you Ray Whitney. Every once
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: in a while, Iman called Ray Whitney and was like, hey, look,
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: I'm picking between Mike Commodore and Andrew ference who should
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: I take? And nothing against Andrew Ferrence. I played with
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: him in Calgary, and Andrew is an excellent defenseman and
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: he would have been a good choice as well. But
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: raised my boy and raised like, kid me, you got
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: to get get Mike on the team. And Steve's like, okay,
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: I'll give him a call. So Steve calls asked me, Hey,
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: you know, are you interested? I said, yeah, yeah, mister Eiserman.
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: Of course, while the tournament's in Russia. I'm like, hey, Steve,
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: I don't care where the tournament is. I'm coming. I
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: could care less what the venue is, I'll be there.
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: So yeah, it was fun. It was our team got
• 49:49
  Speaker 3: ripped on when it was picked because like it wasn't
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: any it was. There are definitely some big name Gate
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: guys on it, but the big name guys were like younger.
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: So the fans were looking at the team and they're like,
• 50:01
  Speaker 3: Mike commodorees playing on this team, like are you kidding me?
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: And anyway, so they thought we were gonna get smoked.
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: I actually played a lot. Eric Brewer and I were partners,
• 50:12
  Speaker 3: Like our decore was me Eric Brewer. Uh enough was there?
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: Weber showed up after the first time of the playoffs. Yeah,
• 50:20
  Speaker 3: but he elbowed. He elbowed some guy and they had
• 50:23
  Speaker 3: and got some He barely played, honestly, Yeah, I got
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: kicked out. I think he played like a period. He
• 50:28
  Speaker 3: elbowed some German and it was done well. Barrett Jackman
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: was on that team. The thickest decor ever. Oh yeah,
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: we had. We had a little meatback there for sure,
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: and uh, you know, as as things would work out,
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: we ended up going nine to zero and won the
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: whole thing, and it was awesome. It was a really
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: good experience for sure.
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: This has been a great experience for us clearing the
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: crease of Mike Commodore's podcast accords you can listen. Fantastic
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: job with ray Croft and James Seabalski. Mike, these stories
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: were unbelievable. Wish your great success with the pod and
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: I uh, I'll never think of Doug Waite the same way.
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: That was a great story.
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: Well, thank you very much, guys, and thanks a lot
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: for having me happy you new.
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: All right? Tom now fore, little centophile in sixty Bradley Cooper.
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: I'm a big fano because he loves the Philadelphia Eagles,
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: who have now won the NFC East. He's also a
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: pretty funny guy. Obviously loved him in The Hangover, and
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: he's a rather charming guy silverl Lioness playbook who doesn't
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: love it? Having said that a rare misstep for him
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: as a director, he was critically acclaimed film A Star
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: Is Born with Lady Gaga Maestro, which I didn't love,
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: but he'd appreciate the craftsmanship. Now he makes a film
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: with our buddy Will Arnett. We're still trying to get
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: the podcast Is This Thing on? Unfortunately, wish this Thing
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: was off. The new film is available right now on Netflix,
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: and it's a big misstep for both. Arnette co wrote
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: the film and developed the screenplay with Bradley Cooper, but
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: it's yet another film about middle aged white people and
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: unnecessary navel gazing. Basically, Will Arnette Laura Dern split up
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: and he ends up reserving the stand up comedy to
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: try to deal with his frustrations. Yep, it's about as
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: bad as it sounds. I've seen this before. I was better.
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: It was called Punchline, and honestly, I know that Tal
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: is not a fan of Noah Bomback, but watching the way,
• 52:10
  Speaker 1: I kept thinking, if Noah Bomback made this, it'd be
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: a better movie. It'd be something that can to marriage
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: story because I can see you good divorced movies. This
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: movie aims to be a marriage story, but it falls
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: well short. Again. Arnett is a great comedian. He's a
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: massive Leaves fan. I'll watch arrested development all day. He's
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: featured in the Cinephile book. But this is a dramatic
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: turn from him which doesn't quite work. Laura Dern looks
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: ingnificantly older than him. She gives a group performance. This
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: one is very predictable and painful. I would skip. Is
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: this thing on currently available on Netflix? In the meantime,
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: I do want to recommend a film which was fabulous
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: called Blue Moon. It stars Ethan Hawk on My Favorite Actress.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: He's never been nominated for Best Actor. He's nominated twice
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: Your Best Supporting Actor Training Day. He's been nominated for screenplay,
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: of course, the Great Movies. He'd maybe with Richard Linklayter
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: the Before Sunset Trilogy. But this is his chance, first
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: ever Best Actor nomination for film called Blue Moon, in
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: which he plays a five foot two guy with a
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: bad comb over and he's wearing a fat suit. Actors
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: love it when they get to play ugly. Ethan Hawk
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: has been a charming, good looking guy for thirty five
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: years since Goodwill Hunting. No, I'm gonna go ugly, I'm
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: gonna go short. I'm gonna play Lorenz Heart, who was
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: a part of the group. Everyone knows Rogers and Hammerstein,
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: if you know musical theater. But before that, it was
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: Loren's Heart. It was Rogers and Heart. And so the
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: movie takes place. It's basically a wonner. It's just a
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: one night play. And he's sitting there at the bar
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: and it's when Oklahoma is premiering. Oklahoma is the new
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: musical from Rogers and Hammerstein. So he's lamented about his life.
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: He's talking the bartender play but the great Bobby kind
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: of Valley, and he's talked with the loves of his life,
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: et cetera. It's not a film for everybody. But I
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: gotta tell you Hawk's performance is unbelievable. He basically carries
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: the film. It's like a one act play. Market qualities
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: in the film from the substance doesn't show her uff
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: this time, but she is in the movie.
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: But Hawk is just no moth no no.
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: No, no, no this time. But I gotta tell you
• 53:52
  Speaker 1: Ethan Hawk deserves one Best Actor nomination. I hope he
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: gets to this ship for Blue Moon. He's a brilliant actor.
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: And again, Jill, with her love of musical theater, you
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: mentioned Rodgers and Hammerstein. Her ears are gonna perk up.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you right now, watch Blue Moon. It's a
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: great film.
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: Two things. Ethan Hawk, Yes, deserves his flowers too. What
• 54:09
  Speaker 2: does Bradley Cooper do to his face?
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: And it's one of those roles like I don't like
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: when directors then put themselves in the way, like Cooper
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: gives himself the role.
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, but let's let's just talk about his face.
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: But let me just finish my thought movie because I
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: don't like when directors give themselves a cameo role. So
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: in the movie he plays it the goofy guy smoking weed,
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: who's like, you know, trying to be goofy and stuff,
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: trying to get back. I'm like, like, just just direct
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: the movie.
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: In docums, just direct direct either, Yeah, just direct. So
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: you don't like when Quentin Tarantino does that.
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: No, I don't, It's unnecessary.
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: We never had that. We never had that conversation about
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: Quentin Tarantino calling Paul Daniel ruining there will be blood.
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: Now he said versions of but never This means spirited
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: because I know how much he loves Dorbly blood, as
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: do I. And I have the DVD of Therby Blood
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: and in it he says he goes, this is one
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: of the great films last twenty years. And what he's
• 54:56
  Speaker 1: still in the DVD is he goes. My one quibble
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: with it is he goes, Dan Lewis is so incredible.
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: Paul Daniel gets overpowered because it's a little bit like
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: Alli Quarry. But in the interview you're referring to him
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: weeks ago. He goes, this guy's the worst actor in Hollywood,
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: Like he just killed the guy.
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: But I thought Paul Dano was fantastic in the movie.
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: I agree, sniveling nincompoopy, Like I mean the scene where
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: he embarrasses and insults playing you when he gets him
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: to keep.
• 55:19
  Speaker 3: It, I abaded my boy a time.
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: That's one of the best scenes because he's poking them,
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: he's getting them going. And at the end again when
• 55:27
  Speaker 1: when de Lucia's towers over him with I drink your
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: milkshake speech, I'm with you. You've got to have two
• 55:31
  Speaker 1: great actors going toe to toe. I disagree with Tarantino's
• 55:34
  Speaker 1: criticism and the fact he did it publicly.
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and then back to Bradley Cooper's face. I know
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: we're jumping all over the place here, but what's he
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: doing one are the great looking humans and just decides
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: to do some face pull fucking Hollywood bullshit.
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: Well, one of my friends of you once he goes,
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: do you think he's good looking? Or is he good
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: looking just because he's rich?
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: What do you mean?
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: He goes, if you look at his features? Like, no,
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: I think he's a good looking guy.
• 55:55
  Speaker 2: He goes a big nose.
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: I go, know, I think he's a good looking guy,
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: and I think he happens to be rich and famous
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: as well. But he's going a little too far now.
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: He's got the money's gone to his head. He's fifty
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: years old. I mean at this age, had fifty.
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: You don't got to touch your face, maybe seventy if
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: you want, and you got a vanity play. Just put
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: some beef talo on and relax. Enjoy the wrinkles. Enjoy
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: the wrinkles. It's part of life.
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: Humphrey Bogart years ago, was being touched up by the
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: makeup artist and he's like, what are you doing? She said,
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: I'm trying to get rid of you wrinkles. He pause, goes, no, hey,
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: I've earned those. Leave them.
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: That's part of the right.
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: That's how I play a weathered weathered man.
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: Of course, like doing this podcast is giving us a
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: couple of grades, but we wear them proudly. No, not
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: about no marketing. We wear them proudly.
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: We want to just quickly touch on the fact Hot
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: Mike hijinks. We saw the return of Flyers radio broadcast.
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: We're doing this Saunders. Yeah, two game TV three weeks later, Well.
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: I agree with you, but then tells get in there like, okay, fine,
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: it was a cringe moment, but Tim was joking around.
• 56:48
  Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, being at the Flyers game last week,
• 56:51
  Speaker 1: this is the best thing for his career.
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: JD.
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: I saw several T shirts saying free Tim Saunders. Nobody
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: know this guy was before. Now loves him because he
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: clearly has a great sense of humor. And he got
• 57:02
  Speaker 1: suspended for it. I'm sure the Flyers said, listen, we
• 57:04
  Speaker 1: don't want to suspend you. You're a great guy, you
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: do a great job, but we just have to do this.
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: It'll be beneficial to your career. No such thing as
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: bad publicity, which makes you think of other great Hot
• 57:12
  Speaker 1: Mike moments including Peyton Manning, Gilling, damn it at Donald
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: Brown and shot Deshaun Watson saying I masturbated it and
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: I'm ready to go.
• 57:21
  Speaker 2: There's uh, there's that one's I mean, that's that one's funny.
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: But knowing what Deshaun Watson's done on the table and
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: how he enjoys the old uh yeah, the old poking stroke,
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: I think he's just a big rubbin tug out. Well,
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: he enjoys the tug. No rub that's what he enjoys.
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: Tug hold the rub no. But I the there is
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: a great one with Kevin Weeks on the NHL Network
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: that they show me. It's actually so funny. It's like
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: I think it's on YouTube somewhere, but it's him. It's
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: just him talking to I think it's Jamie Hirsch or
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: Jamison Coyle and he's just they're live and he's sitting
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: there and he's like whip and he's like he's like,
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: oh they suck. And they're like and they're like, oh,
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: we're live. They're like we're live, and he's like, what
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: we're live. He's like, no, we're not, and like yeah.
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: He goes, okay, okay, we'll do it live. And then
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: he just turns out and he goes all right, everybody,
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: here we go. He just like dives into it, but
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: it was like ten seconds, like live on air, just
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: being like wooo, just like messing around and they're like,
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: we're live. He's like, ah, funny, kind of like Tim
• 58:24
  Speaker 2: Sunders did. The best part of the Tim Saunders thing
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: is when they go Tim, we're live and he goes, ah, yeah,
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: and then he goes, wait, we are that's the realization.
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: Oh fuck, so.
• 58:38
  Speaker 1: Good Tim Sonders.
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: It was great.
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: As far as our favorite moments of the year, I'm
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: gonna say listen, Canada winning the four Nations is absolutely unbelievable.
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: It was a great game, a great tournament.
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: Talent.
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: Your pick is go ahead, Alexandrovechkin record setting goal.
• 58:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, my favorite moment of twenty twenty five was was Ovechkin.
• 58:54
  Speaker 4: The Ovechkin train, Ovechkin watch, whatever you want to call it.
• 58:57
  Speaker 4: Just the anticipation, the celebration, Like I don't think I've
• 59:00
  Speaker 4: ever seen a game stopped like that in the middle
• 59:02
  Speaker 4: of the game after someone scores goal. I mean, the
• 59:04
  Speaker 4: whole team came out, his family came out, they halted everything,
• 59:08
  Speaker 4: and I mean, I don't know how we're going to
• 59:11
  Speaker 4: verify this, but I don't think this record is getting
• 59:13
  Speaker 4: broken ever.
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: No, I don't think so. I said stupidly on the network,
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: it's not gonna get broken for a long long time,
• 59:21
  Speaker 2: and it was a captain obvious. I'm like, yes, I
• 59:24
  Speaker 2: know it's gonna be a long time. We've ever does
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: get broken, but I don't think it ever will be broken.
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: There you go, h but no.
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: I mean favorite moment has to be just the repeat
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: of the Florida Panthers. I think the way they did it,
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: you know, I just think was incredible. I was out
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: there live watching it, watching them win that I was
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: able to walk by the dressing room as they when
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: they won because we had to do some stuff on ice,
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: and I think i'd Adam Party, who was like a
• 59:48
  Speaker 2: scout there was like or works for the team, was like,
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: and I know him a little bit, It's like, hey,
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: come on in, and I was I had a second
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: and maybe jump in the room, smoked some cigars and
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: I was like, nah, I don't want to go in
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: with the guys. It's their time. But yeah, just it
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: was amazing to see that a repeat the three years
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: in the Cup final and you know, being in South
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: Florida and seeing where they are. I think that's what
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: was my favorite moment so far of twenty twenty five.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 2: And then I mean, Macklin Celebrini's gotta be the other one,
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: the short one. Macln Celebrini, what he's doing for the
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: Sharks team right now, can't wait to see it into
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. Happy New Year. Go fuck yourself.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: So no, I'm gonna say, make that your prediction. Cele
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: Briny wins the Heart Trophy.
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 3: How about that? Yeah?
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 2: I think so if San Jose Sharks make the playoffs,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: he wins the Heart Trophy. So me saying he wins
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: our trophy is saying the Santaose Sharks will make the playoffs.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 1: Tell your prediction for twenty twenty six.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 4: I'm going back to Ovi. I'm saying he comes back.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 4: He will sign either a one or two year deal
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 4: this summer. I don't think you know, we've been speculating
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 4: he might go for a thousand goals.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's about that.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 4: I think this team has enough talent to win another Cup,
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 4: and I think he wants to be there win or
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 4: if it happens, so he'll be back.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 1: I mean that's definitely a bold prediction. You go, maybe
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: come back. Fiction is Rick Tackett wins to Jack Adams
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: Coach of the Year. Philadelphia Flyers are gonna right. Talk
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: was unbelievable.
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: The kids.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: Scarborough guy, he's doing an amazing job of the Flyers.
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 1: Rick Talcket, Jack Adams.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: He's got He's got everybody fooled you included everybody. He
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: ain't winning the Jack I mean the Jack Adams.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: Was gonna win the playoffs the first time in five
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 1: years and Talkeets lead them there.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: No, I would There's there's some other teams that could.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: John Cooper's never wanted Jack Adams. I'm telling you. Patrick
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: roy Pa No, Patrick.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: Patty tells, Wow, uh No, it's gonna be Bedner.
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 1: No, they'll say he's got all the tout in the world.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 3: They'll like it.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: They never give it to the best. Phil Jackson doesn't
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: win it. They give it to the guy who like Oh,
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: they were expecting.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: Much, John Hines.
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: What about John Hines's Rick talking before its John No,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 1: Joe Quinnville return. That's what they did. They like it
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: when they got the team wasn't good, then they made
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 1: the play So Doc smort good MCLA Flyers not good
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: make the playoffs. Quen vl versus talking. Thanks so much
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: for checking out NHL Unscripted. Appreciate you guys. Always happy
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 1: to hear everybody.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 2: We'll talk bye, Brad Marshall, all right, Happy New Year guys.
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