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Nick Kypreos Has Some Thoughts: Playoff Preview, Bowness' Rant and Kopi/Quick Say Farewell. · NHL Unscripted with Virk and Demers

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  Speaker 1: NHL Unscripted is a production of the NHL and iHeart podcasts.
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  Speaker 2: Coming up an NHL Unscripted.
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  Speaker 1: You knew Pope Lea was a White Sox fan, Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: he's also a Flyers fan. Nick Kirpriers is going to
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  Speaker 1: join us to preview the NHL playoffs and plus no
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  Speaker 1: no etro, what happened to that statue? Of course, it's
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  Speaker 1: an exciting time right now if you're a hockey fan.
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  Speaker 2: Nate Thompson, long for the ride.
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  Speaker 1: I'm out named Burke, Jason de Murs, talpinchef'scare producer, maybe
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  Speaker 1: some new listeners now at the playoffs right around the corner.
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  Speaker 1: And before we get into it, you look at the
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  Speaker 1: biggest surprises and disappointments of this regular season JD. It's
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  Speaker 1: pretty straightforward to me as they look at the landscape.
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  Speaker 1: Biggest surprise to me the Sabers in the playoffs first
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  Speaker 1: time in fifteen years. Now you can point the fact
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  Speaker 1: Utah's him first time since the team moved, Flyers first
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  Speaker 1: time since twenty twenty, Ducks are in first times to
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, and the biggest disappointment of the season just
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  Speaker 1: came back from Toronto happy birthday to my mom.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, grew up for dinner on Sunday night.
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  Speaker 3: Hey Mama, RK mama.
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  Speaker 1: Rickets a happy seventy six. But the mainle Leafs the
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  Speaker 1: biggest disappointment of the season. Okay, how else? How is
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  Speaker 1: there any other answer?
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  Speaker 2: They made the playoffs nine straight seasons. They didn't make
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you could say Panthers biggest disappointment, but they had injuries.
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  Speaker 2: Easy answer for me.
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead. Biggest disappointment for me probably would be the
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  Speaker 3: Detroit Red Wings. I would say that firmly in the East. Firmly.
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  Speaker 3: I think they were top spot in the Atlantic for
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  Speaker 3: a little bit, and like they've done so many times before,
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  Speaker 3: they've extended their playoff trout and they just fell out
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  Speaker 3: in an awful way. We heard Todd mccollin talk. He
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  Speaker 3: had a great speech just about this is hockey town
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  Speaker 3: and these fans clamor for playoffs and they're they're so disappointed.
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  Speaker 4: There.
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  Speaker 3: There are a lot of disappointments though this year in
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  Speaker 3: my mind, but I put Detroit at the Helm just
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  Speaker 3: because you know, Toronto. I didn't like them, and they
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  Speaker 3: kind of had all these injuries and we expected.
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  Speaker 2: Companies missed the playoffs. Come one years, it seems gon
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  Speaker 2: to miss the plas.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we fucking knew in the first twenty games that
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  Speaker 3: they were done and they were just were kind of
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  Speaker 3: hanging on. Detroit was firmly in it. So for me,
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  Speaker 3: it's Detroit my biggest surprise, I got to say, and
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  Speaker 3: I probably, yeah, my biggest surprise, it's got to go
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  Speaker 3: I know everybody's gonna say Buffalo, but it's gotta go Philly.
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  Speaker 3: I think Philly battling back, especially where they were in
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  Speaker 3: the standings, And we did some metrics on them yesterday
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  Speaker 3: on first shift was with EJ. Raddick was since the
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  Speaker 3: Olympic break, like their first in rush differential, So how
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  Speaker 3: many odd man rushes they get and how many rush
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  Speaker 3: chances they deny? Their first in the league. So they
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  Speaker 3: tightened up some stuff and like change their system. So, uh,
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  Speaker 3: kudos to those guys for kind of clamping down. And
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  Speaker 3: obviously Dan Vladar the star, as Kevin Weeks said, it's
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  Speaker 3: just incredible run here in the second half. So Philly
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  Speaker 3: biggest surprise, biggest disappointment Distois red Wings.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, as far as the Flowers are concerned,
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  Speaker 1: nine points. It will play but one point there a
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  Speaker 1: three point eight percent. Obviously they played great and the
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  Speaker 1: beneficiary is the fact that Islanders and Blue Jackets fell apart.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, we are going to talk about Bluejackets
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  Speaker 1: and Rick Bonus is fiery tired against his team.
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  Speaker 2: Nate. For you, biggest surprise, biggest disappointment.
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  Speaker 5: For me, it's Winnipeg. Biggest disappointment. I think you go
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  Speaker 5: from Prion's Trophy winners to missing the playoffs next year.
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  Speaker 5: Like I understand that there's some drop off a little bit,
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  Speaker 5: but not that much. I mean, especially I know they
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  Speaker 5: had some injury issues. Hellabuck was out, they out, They
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  Speaker 5: got off to a decent start, and then the wheels
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  Speaker 5: fell off and then you know, too little, too late
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  Speaker 5: down the stretch. But Winnipeg for me is a big disappointment,
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  Speaker 5: I think for that reason, biggest surprise I think for
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  Speaker 5: my For me, I think just start of the season,
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  Speaker 5: we didn't expect him to be in the playoffs and
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  Speaker 5: almost one hundred points is a Pittsburgh Penguins I think
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  Speaker 5: just with what Dan Mus has done, Dubis big Dick Dan,
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  Speaker 5: big Dick Dan, They've had, they've had, they've had different
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  Speaker 5: injuries along the way, with Malk Malking being out Crosby
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  Speaker 5: and they just kept chugging along. So those two teams
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  Speaker 5: for me are biggest surprise and disappointments for sure.
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  Speaker 1: So since Demers brought it up, I do have to
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  Speaker 1: bring up this beaus we all work at anytel network.
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  Speaker 1: I don't realize the influence sometimes the host may have
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  Speaker 1: in terms of sitting the tone. Jordan Schmaltz was with
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  Speaker 1: me for the first time and off air when we
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  Speaker 1: had the Penguins side off air, I said, big Dick
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  Speaker 1: Dan Muse and he and Steve Grimson laughed like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's Demrc's joke. I said, He's a small guy with
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  Speaker 1: a big voice, so clearly must have be a huge wrench.
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  Speaker 1: When we came out of break on television on Television,
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  Speaker 1: National Television, Jordan Schwaltz when I asked him, Hey, what
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  Speaker 1: do you make of the Buffalo Sabers and just the
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  Speaker 1: great season they pass all they'veen pretty good? Go im
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  Speaker 1: out to New York Islander's Matthew Shaffery, because honestly, I
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  Speaker 1: think Matthew Shaver shoot up to training camp, pulled out
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  Speaker 1: his wrench, put it on the floor and goes here
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  Speaker 1: we go boys hop on.
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  Speaker 2: This is live television. You can't say wrench. You can't
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  Speaker 2: do you.
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  Speaker 3: Could say wrench, I said popping cherries. You can say
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  Speaker 3: whatever until they cut, until they fire you.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and the usually just get a little warm first.
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  Speaker 3: Right dropped his wrench. Matthew Shaver does pp wrench him?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I want confirmation now from Tomas Siki just how big
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  Speaker 1: is the wrench?
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  Speaker 3: Give him the shower. We need somebody, We need the shower. Chronicles.
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  Speaker 2: One thing, that one thing that's the stute when you're
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  Speaker 2: professional athlete.
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  Speaker 1: These guys are naked all the time, like they just
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  Speaker 1: we're just constantly naked with Peoplet's not even know exactly,
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  Speaker 1: just walk around naked to have the conversation. All right,
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  Speaker 1: let's get to the playoffs. It's that's some of year,
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  Speaker 1: so Lightning halves. I will go to Quebec. Date of
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  Speaker 1: Jason Demurz first first time these two teams meeting in
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs is twenty twenty one Cup final. Lightning won
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  Speaker 1: at four one to get their second straight Cup. The
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  Speaker 1: teams split their first four meetings of this season, Tampa
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  Speaker 1: wining the first two. In December, Montreal winning the last
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  Speaker 1: two late in the season. Dopson's out for Montreal. No
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  Speaker 1: update on Victor Hedman remains on leave from the team.
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  Speaker 1: I'm a voter along with Andy Petrilla for the awards,
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  Speaker 1: so I was going through I'm stuff to make my
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  Speaker 1: final picks. But I've got Kurt Suzuki potentially winning the Selkie.
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  Speaker 1: I got to potentially up for the Lady Bing. I
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  Speaker 1: got Dobish on my first team All Rookie team. They've
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  Speaker 1: had a great season, JD. I got the lightning when
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  Speaker 1: he get in six?
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  Speaker 2: How about you?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I will? I want to say seven. I want
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  Speaker 3: to give Montreal a chance because they're exciting Brandon hockey,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, you never know what a goalie can do,
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  Speaker 3: and that's just kind of my safety pick. But I
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  Speaker 3: just think with Dobson out and I don't know when
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  Speaker 3: he's returning, I think they have the return set for
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  Speaker 3: like eight Pril twenty six, that's about you know, four
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  Speaker 3: or five games in so but I just no Adoptson
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  Speaker 3: does everything for that team. I know they have David
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  Speaker 3: Reinbacher up trying to kind of maybe fill the role.
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  Speaker 3: They're going to see who comes in Arbajack guy maybe,
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  Speaker 3: but I just think it's too big of a loss
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  Speaker 3: on the back end, and that's so hard. He's he
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  Speaker 3: has done so much for that team. He plays both
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  Speaker 3: sides of the puck lane, is great at what he does.
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  Speaker 3: But there's no more complete defenseman on that team, I
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  Speaker 3: think than no Adopts and so for that reason, and
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  Speaker 3: I think the way Tampa's just built, the way Vasilevsky's
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  Speaker 3: playing right now Vezna like season, which I think he
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  Speaker 3: might steal it from Sorokin here late in the season
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  Speaker 3: the Vesna. But I gotta go Tampa in seven just
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  Speaker 3: to give Montreal the Bell Center fighting chance because it
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  Speaker 3: is so loud and incredibly insane in the best place
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  Speaker 3: to have a playoff games in Montreal. So I think
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  Speaker 3: they'll carry him to a couple wins. But I just
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  Speaker 3: think Tampa will be too much in the end.
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  Speaker 1: No better place to watch the playoff hockey game or
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  Speaker 1: watch a hockey game period of the Montreal Nate.
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  Speaker 2: What do you got?
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  Speaker 5: I got to my former teams, I got Tampa and
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  Speaker 5: seven as well. The big question mark for me for
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  Speaker 5: Montreal in this and as the season goes a series
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  Speaker 5: goes longer, is the depth of Montreal, like, is their
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  Speaker 5: depth gonna be as good as Tampa?
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  Speaker 4: Like?
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  Speaker 5: I trust Tampa's depth players more than I do Montreal
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  Speaker 5: because we've seen how much of a drop off there
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  Speaker 5: is between their first line and everyone else. So on
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  Speaker 5: Montreal that is. And I think the X factor and
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  Speaker 5: the biggest edge that Tampa has is what Jad said
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  Speaker 5: is Vasilevsky. I think that's the X factor at the
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  Speaker 5: end of the day. So Tampa and seven. But this
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  Speaker 5: is gonna be a knockout series. I think Montreal is
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  Speaker 5: going to be a tough out and that place is
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  Speaker 5: going to be rocking. I mean, I've played in Montreal
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  Speaker 5: in the playoffs four and it's second to none.
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  Speaker 2: Well said Flyers.
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  Speaker 1: Penguins perhaps the best rivalry when it comes to first
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  Speaker 1: round matches, Pennsylvania as they're calling it, cross state rivals
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  Speaker 1: beating for the first time Pennsilmania.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was credit Teut for that one.
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  Speaker 1: Penguins won by the way of the season series four
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  Speaker 1: to two way Storry back in twenty eighteen. The playoffs series,
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  Speaker 1: they split their four games this season, and Philly won
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  Speaker 1: both their games in the shootout thanks to Trevor Zegers
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  Speaker 1: again Pittsburgh's firstlayoff appearance in four years.
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  Speaker 2: It's Phillies first since twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Nate, It's been a great story for the Flyers again
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  Speaker 1: as there were nine points out obviously went on a
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  Speaker 1: great run.
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  Speaker 2: Porter Martone has been a real story for them.
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  Speaker 1: The nineteen year old rookie Tyson Forster they missed greatly,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps their best goal scoring prospect fifty plus games he
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  Speaker 1: was out. Added to that Zegras career season. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: you know what connecting me brings. Sanheimer's the line have
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  Speaker 1: been very good in the back end, but Pittsburgh Crosby
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  Speaker 1: back in the playoffs, Malcolm with him, and they've gotten
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  Speaker 1: good contributions from their supporting lineup as well, the Brian
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  Speaker 1: Russ and others. How do you see the shaping out?
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  Speaker 1: It feels like Penguins and six. I'm gonna go Flyers
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  Speaker 1: in seven.
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  Speaker 5: Though, Oh Flyers in seven, I'll go, I'll go Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 5: I'll go Pittsburgh in seven. I wasn't gonna say six.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm a former Flyer too, and I was watching
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  Speaker 5: that game against Carolina and I could kind of feel
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  Speaker 5: the you could feel the buzz in the excitement because
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  Speaker 5: I mean I was on that team in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 5: that was in the playoffs, the last time the Flyers
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  Speaker 5: in it. So I think they're playing with houses money
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  Speaker 5: right now, I really do. I think the way that
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  Speaker 5: they played down the stretch, all the young pieces they have,
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  Speaker 5: I mean Porter Martonami, he's like getting a deadline acquisition
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  Speaker 5: for Philly. He really has been so. But at the
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  Speaker 5: end of the day, I think that Pittsburgh with their
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  Speaker 5: depth how good and obviously the two headed monster, three
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  Speaker 5: headed monster, with all the guys they have, I think
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  Speaker 5: they finish him off in seven quick thought.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, on that shootout, jad, you saw that
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  Speaker 1: Rod Britnenmoor, former Flyer great may have gifted talk a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, did not put his top three guys by
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  Speaker 1: the way out on that shootout. So I think he
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  Speaker 1: was calling like, you know what, we got the point
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  Speaker 1: go ahead, Philly, wait in your in. Let's not get
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  Speaker 1: this down to Flyers and Aps, which the Flyers to
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  Speaker 1: beat the Aps anyways, but nice, nice job.
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  Speaker 2: I brought the butt go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: Jity, hey, Philly, there ain't no three on three and
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  Speaker 3: shootout in playoffs boys gets you ass is really? I
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  Speaker 3: tell you what I am only keeping this somewhat close
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  Speaker 3: because of Dan Ladar. Otherwise, this is an absolute boat
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  Speaker 3: race by Pittsburgh in round one. The only thing that
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  Speaker 3: could derail this is if goaltending Skinner or she Loves
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  Speaker 3: falls flat on their face.
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  Speaker 2: Because former teammates she loves Philly.
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  Speaker 3: Philly has the clear edge in goaltending. But that is
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  Speaker 3: where it stops. Everywhere else is going to be the
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  Speaker 3: battle tested, veteran group in Pittsburgh. A lot of guys
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  Speaker 3: on that Philly team do not have playoff experience. Mister mottone,
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  Speaker 3: mister potomatone, NHL seems easy to you. Wait till the
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  Speaker 3: fucking NHL playoffs, kid, Wait because now now everybody's clued
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  Speaker 3: in on you, now that you've gotten your seven games.
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  Speaker 3: He's very I love what he brings to this team,
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  Speaker 3: and I think he's a he's a he's a future
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  Speaker 3: top six for a long time in the NHL. He's
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  Speaker 3: a great player. But now that you've had these games
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  Speaker 3: and the NHL seems easy, and you're gonna go play
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  Speaker 3: a Sydney Crosby that's gonna bite your face off. Oh,
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna be very interesting. So I think they're gonna
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  Speaker 3: make it interesting. I think it's gonna be a good series,
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  Speaker 3: great rivalry. It's gonna be nasty, dirty. I expect a
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  Speaker 3: lot of fights in the first game and maybe bleeding
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  Speaker 3: into the second game. But there's just way more experience
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  Speaker 3: on that team, and I think in a seven game series,
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  Speaker 3: I think they will pull it out. And unless Dan
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  Speaker 3: Vladar stands on his head and gives us a historic
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  Speaker 3: first round playoff goaltending performance, I think it is Pittsburgh
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  Speaker 3: in six.
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  Speaker 1: Biggest concern for the Flyers, only the fourth team in
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  Speaker 1: the last twenty five years to make the playoffs, wile having.
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  Speaker 2: The league's worst power play.
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  Speaker 1: But to JD's point, this is why the Penguin are
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  Speaker 1: gonna lose their holes. They're goaltending team save percentage of
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  Speaker 1: eight eighty seven since the Olympic break depends three point
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  Speaker 1: five to six goals against per game is twenty sixth.
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  Speaker 2: Goaltending's leaky.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I think the Flyers will pull off the upisode.
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  Speaker 1: We continue as your NHL playoff preview Bruins and Sabers.
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  Speaker 1: Jady first playoff matchups is twenty ten. Boston won at
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  Speaker 1: four to two. Bruins won three or four meetings the season,
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  Speaker 1: two of them in overtime to the biggest surprise in
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  Speaker 1: the NHL. We didn't mention the Bruins, but I got
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  Speaker 1: who had thought one hundred points of this team. Marco
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  Speaker 1: Sturm a quick retol in the fly props from the
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  Speaker 1: entire Boston team postua ok to me, is a top
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  Speaker 1: five player at least for the Heart Trophy, perhaps the season,
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  Speaker 1: but no one can deny the mojo at Buffalo. I'm
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  Speaker 1: thinking you're going Sabers and six go ahead to Mers.
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  Speaker 3: Dude, I'm I honestly am going back and forth because
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  Speaker 3: the more I think about this and the more I
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  Speaker 3: kick this around. You got Jeremy Swayman, And here's how
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  Speaker 3: I evaluate her. I know I evaluate a series. I
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  Speaker 3: evaluate a series of like I go coaching. First. I
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  Speaker 3: think Boston Sea as the edge with Marcos Sterm over
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  Speaker 3: Lindy Rough. Say what you want, but I know some
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  Speaker 3: stuff inner workings about Lenny Rough from the Buffalo Sabers.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not going to get into it and I'm not
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  Speaker 3: going to talk about it because I don't want to
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  Speaker 3: throw anything anything under the bus. But I think Marc
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  Speaker 3: os Serm's a better coach, they have the better goalie
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  Speaker 3: I think in Jeremy Swaman, and Jeremy Swimming has that
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  Speaker 3: game stealing capabilities. I think Buffalo has the edge up front.
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  Speaker 3: I think Buffalo has the edge on the back end,
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  Speaker 3: but I just don't It's gonna make it very interesting,
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  Speaker 3: and I think Boston has some guys that have a
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  Speaker 3: lot of playoff experience, and they have some veteran guys
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  Speaker 3: that understand, and they play kind of a style that
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  Speaker 3: can frustrate Buffalo because Buffalo wants to free wheel and
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  Speaker 3: they're going to learn fairly quickly that you can't just
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  Speaker 3: freewheel in the playoffs. And again, Boston had the edge
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  Speaker 3: in season, but it's going to be a different game.
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  Speaker 3: I'm still going with the Sabers and seven, but I
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  Speaker 3: think it's going to be very interesting, and there might
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  Speaker 3: be a little bit of fear at one point in
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  Speaker 3: this playoff series where we're like, holy shit, Buffalo's down
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  Speaker 3: like three to two and they're going back home and
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  Speaker 3: they got to fucking wrangle this one back or they're sorry,
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  Speaker 3: They're they're going to Boston. They got a winning game
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  Speaker 3: in Boston, bring it back for seven, and they're fucking
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  Speaker 3: doing in seven.
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  Speaker 5: Donate Boston at seven. There it is maybe Boston and seven.
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  Speaker 5: And Jay kind of explained all the reasons why. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: you have swaymen, Marco Stern being the head coach, and
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  Speaker 5: I think the big thing is the difference between Buffalo
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  Speaker 5: and Boston is Buffalo, you know, and they had issues
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  Speaker 5: down the stretch. Was their identity as a team. Where
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  Speaker 5: Boston they know their identity, like they know exactly what
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  Speaker 5: they are, who they're going to be, how they're going
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  Speaker 5: to play. And I just think them bringing that and
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  Speaker 5: willing like bring bringing their game to Buffalo over the
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  Speaker 5: seven game series. I just think Buffalo, I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I just when I see both teams and I think
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  Speaker 5: of a playoff team, I think of a playoff upset.
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  Speaker 5: I think Boston is just it's prime to beat Buffalo
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  Speaker 5: in the first round because of that reason. Because of
• 15:01
  Speaker 5: those reasons, Yeah.
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: A lot of good vibes as Buffalo, but we'll see
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: Boston might indeed be the better team. Sends and Hurricanes
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: nate first of her playoff beating between these two franchises.
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: Carolina won two or three between the teams this season,
• 15:12
  Speaker 1: Ottawa winning the most recent matchup six three April fifth.
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: How about this story Brady could check committing he lost
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: his vision crazy momentarily after getting injured the other day
• 15:20
  Speaker 1: against the Andanders, but typical hockey player.
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: Good to go for the playoffs. I can't see, but
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: I think I can do it. It's interesting for Carolina
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: and Nate.
• 15:28
  Speaker 1: They've always been that team bb ploss and then come
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: playoff ten they can't send to the next level.
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: Is this year gonna be different? Rod Brindanmore's team, Bussy
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: and Nett, Freddie Anderson. We shall see.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: And with regards to Ottawa again, I love the Travis
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: Greens teams played with a ton of momentum. We've said
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: all year if they had mediocre goalten, they would have
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: been in the playoffs long ago. Stut's look at Chuck
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: making that push. Jake Sanderson, by the way, I was
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: looking at numbers potentially for a lady bing four penalty
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: minutes in seventy six games. That's unheard of for a defenseman.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: So a great job by Jake dew back of this team.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: I'd love to see Ottawa win it, but I think
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: it's Carolina and six.
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: What do you say, Nate, I'm going to Ottawa in
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: seven Yeah, two, I am. I know.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: JD laughed at me.
• 16:07
  Speaker 5: I know, but it's wow, Carolina, if they're playing anybody else,
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: I don't know. It's just when you have Ottawa's a
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: first round matchup, the way they've played the last month.
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: On top of that, I know that Allmark hasn't been
• 16:24
  Speaker 5: great in the playoffs, but I would take all Mark
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: over Bussy or Freddie Anderson in the playoffs when it
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: comes down to whoever's playing well. And I just I
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: look at the depth.
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: I look.
• 16:34
  Speaker 5: I look at matchups too. I look at you know,
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: I look at Stutsla going against different guys. I look
• 16:39
  Speaker 5: at those and I just see Ottawa edging them out
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: in a seven games series, just basically because I know
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: Audawa is going to try and punch him in the
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: mouth every single game. So I don't know if Carolina
• 16:50
  Speaker 5: can get over the hump. And I just think it's
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: just because of the nastiness. I just think Autawa is
• 16:54
  Speaker 5: going to bring that nastiness more than Carolina is and
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: that might be the difference.
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's tough, tough.
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: No.
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: You look at Carolina's you know, last couple of playoffs,
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: and you know, you know, probably them and Tampa benefit
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: the most from not having the Florida Panthers. But I
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: think like, if there's a moment and there's a series
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: where somebody can win a Cup and make it to
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: the Cup finals, it's it's it's there's one series that
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: tests you, and this is gonna be the Carolina series
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: right away, because I think after if they can get
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: through Ottawa, I think they handle Philly or Pittsburgh fairly easy,
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: and then I think they handle whoever comes out of
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: the East. It might be Tampa, might be a Buffalo
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: who knows or boss, you know, whoever it is. I
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: think they can take care of them and they'll have
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: momentum going downhill. But this is the test. This is
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: the tough one and all Mark five and ten career
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: playoffs eight and just sub nine hundred say percentages not
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: great in the playoffs. We know what's happened in his
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: history with mental health. I don't know if it gets
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: very stressful, if he can relieve the tension and be
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: able to get himself back if things go awry, the
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: Brady could chuck things. Scares the shit out of me too.
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: That's the only reason why I was on Nate's side
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: until this Brady could chuck I thing and I saw him.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: He snapped his head to the left and then his
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: eyesight went. So that's a neck thing. I think he's
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: got some weird head thing. I know he's gonna try
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: to play through it. We don't know how healthy he is,
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: and I know he's gonna be super excited. He might
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: get injured early on and then they're gonna be in trouble.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: So I don't think Ottawa is gonna be able to
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: sustain the constant pressure from Carolina over a seven games series.
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: But I do think if there is a team to
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: challenge Carolina, I think it's this team. So but I'm
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: going Carolina and seven.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: And arguably the best matchup of any playoffs series. This
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: is easy to be a Cup final matchup Dallas and
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Minnesota JD. It's gonna be unbelievable.
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: They last bet in the playoffs in twenty anymore well
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: the fact that Dallas won that series in six games
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: few years ago. They split their four meetings this season.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: Mira Hastens availability no update, and Rupe Hints is out
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: for at least the first two games I saw. Originally,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: I was saying wild and seven just because I love
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: Quinn Hughes so much and was hoping that Cariill, Caprice
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: and the great people of Minnesota would have a team
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: that go deep.
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: You don't think it's gonna be a great series now
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: because of those injuries.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Well, I think I think Miro I sent you guys
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: that clip yesterday. It looks like an mcl so depending
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: it happened what a week and a half ago. Usually
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: it's two weeks if he misses any kind of games,
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: and they got to rely on Thomas Harley again, I
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: just don't think. I know, they have the depth and
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: they have the they have the experience now the last
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: three years, and if Jake Ottinger comes out, and he's
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: usually usually round one, Ottinger is the best Jake Ottinger
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: and he gets progressively worse the as the playoffs get
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: go on. But I just think Mini might have the
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: better goaltending right now. I think Mini decour if they
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: can stay healthy, and I think they're heavy up front
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: with that addition of McCarran, the fucking Felino brothers and McCarran.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: You start them game one, shift one and you are
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: it is and they are gonna murder are people? Like,
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: just think like they are going to destroy some of
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: these guys on Dallas. So I just think without rupe
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Hints and without Hayskin in, they might be in an
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: O two hole early and I think it's gonna be
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: tough to get out of it, and especially if they
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: lose any at home. If they if they lose one
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: of the first two at home, I think they're in
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: big trouble. And I for that reason, I have to
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: go Mini and seven. Well.
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I went back and forth on this one too,
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: because I wanted to pick Dallas and and the more
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: I thought about it, so do.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: I I thought they winning the Cup?
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: No, the more I thought about losing both those guys,
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: which are probably the most influential guys in their lineup,
• 20:43
  Speaker 5: and rope Hints too, I mean, he's this guy's a horse,
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: he flies, he's big, he plays in every situation for
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: their team. So that's a massive loss. And I think
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: that JD's right. I mean, if if Ottinger doesn't go well,
• 20:59
  Speaker 5: then what you know, where many they have both guys,
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: Like if it doesn't go well for one of them, yeah,
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: they have another guy. So I have the Wild and seven.
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: I do I think that they they have a little
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: more depth now that Dallas has those injuries.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: Keep her going here.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: As far as the playoff preview is concerned, how about
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: the Avalanche and the Kings. We're not going to do
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: that one because again we don't really know the status
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: for the cards to some of these teams. Here just
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: just to let you know, we are recording this Wednesday
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: morning before officially the results been done. But the foreshadowing
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: about to say, but the Pillow fight JD. That is
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: the Pacific. I mean, it's exciting.
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: Now.
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Edmonton's thinking Cup. We do know Anaheim is in
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: the postseason first time. This is twenty eighteen, and the
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: John Tortorella boosts the Vegas Golden Knights. I know the
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: division has been a little blonkey, so to speak, But
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: what do you just make of it overall and how
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: things are gonna go down.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: I think Vegas will end up securing the top spot,
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: and I think it's gonna come down to it's on.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: I think it's gonna come down to Anaheim in LA
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: and if we get a goddamn Edmonton versus Los Angeles
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: Kings again, which I think is going to happen for
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: some weird reason. I think Ducks are gonna fall into
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: the wild card two spot. I am gonna fucking puke
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: my guts out, and I'm gonna go fist fight everybody
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: down at the NHL off.
• 22:11
  Speaker 8: You're gonna ken Holland specifically, you're gonna go after Oh
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: I just want, like, what this If this happens and
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: they play again for the fifth straight season, there needs
• 22:20
  Speaker 8: to be Me and Nate were talking about it before.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Either the points system needs to change or we need
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: to go we need to change the playoff form. And
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: I understand we want rivalries, but nobody wants this because
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Edmonton's gonna steam roll them again. And then we're gonna
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: end up being like, oh la, what is where does
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: l A go from here? Kope's retired. It's like, just
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: let it. But you know, in hindsight, when you look
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: at it, you're like, well, l A is either gonna
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: get They're either gonna get Colorado or they're gonna get Edmint.
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Nate and listen, we love the Kings Colorado, but Nate,
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: they're fucus fewest regulation wins in hockey history to make
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: the playoffs.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: That come on, dude.
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's gonna be that that points system.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: It's either points or the one through eight playoff format.
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: Because JD's right as much as much as funny as
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: it is that they're playing each other, that could be
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: playing each other again.
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: They want five years in a row, but let's let's
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: change it up.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I want Colorado. We don't want to I don't
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: want David.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's it's got to change.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: But I don't know.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: I I think when I look at this and I
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: see this division, I I mean, and who I think.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: Anaheim has Nashville last two playing so I mean, and
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: they're not playing well. So this for sure, this is
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: gonna happen to l A, LA Edmonton, l A Edmonton.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: Book it. If there's if Anaheim. If Anaheim gets Colorado,
• 23:43
  Speaker 3: that's kind of an interesting one. They're kind of like
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: a high flying free wheeling. That could be a tough
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: matchup for Colorado more so than l A. Because they're
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: not gonna so loose. Anaheim doesn't give a fuck. They're
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: just gonna go try to score seven goals and give
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: up eight and maybe get nine. I think it's gonna
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: be it's gonna be an exciting first round if it's
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: there and he can steal you games. He's been bad,
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: but he can if he picks it up. He looks tired,
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: but yeah, no, I'm with you. But I think it's
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: gonna be I think it's gonna be Vegas is gonna
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: get Utah, And I think I think it'll be Edmonton,
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: La Gosh so bad.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: Where if Vegas gets Utah, that's gonna be a sneaky,
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: really hot, serious tough suits.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I watched Utah last night. They look very good.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: They're so fast, they're humming. Yeah, and Vanelica's incredible.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: One thought of the oilers. By the way, Leon Drysalis
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: packs and not yet confirmed for the start of the series,
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: but we'll see what happens there, all right.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Guys like Nate Thompson Jason Murs are no strangers to
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: coaches who can be hard asses, who can be tough,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: who can be soft, et cetera. So when Rick Bonus
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: took over the Columbus Blue Jackets, you saw the Bonus bump.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: Clearly a guy who's been beloved in the game in
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: his early seventies, he got the call on his boats
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: that took him about ten seconds to say yes and Nate,
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: we saw the bump there. For Columbus team played much
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: better Harvard down the stretch. The last thirteen games is undeniable.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: The team was terrible, and Rick Bona buried his team
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: publicly called them out in a way that was very
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: unusual to see in professional sports, questioning their character.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: When he was asked what happened? Because what got hard?
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: And they didn't want to push through me because I
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: don't know if I'll be back next year, but I
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: would change the culture of this team.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: What do you make of him being that passionate and
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: that outspoken.
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: I loved it. I loved every second of it. I
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: thought it was I thought it was great. I think
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: the fact that he he he talks about how much
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: they don't hate to lose like that, that to me
• 25:35
  Speaker 5: jumped out, like you have to you have to be
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: so mad every time you lose, And he said, he
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: said it. He said that they just weren't they didn't
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: care enough about losing. And I know that sounds a
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: little confusing to some, but there is there. You You
• 25:47
  Speaker 5: you gotta hate to lose more than you like to win,
• 25:50
  Speaker 5: and that will get you somewhere, and I think for
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: the Columbus Blue Jackets, they realize that, all right, there
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: is another level to making the playoffs. You have to
• 25:59
  Speaker 5: reach another another, like I said, another level you have
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: to you have to dig in and and I loved
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: how emotional and how.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: I mean, I love how you mentioned they're lucky there
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: wasn't practice the next day too. I thought that was great.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: No, no group of guys has ever dodged a backskate
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: like the Columbus Blue Jackets did this year. And honestly,
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: you know, looking at that, I kind of laughed a
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: little bit last night when I watched it, because you know,
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: he's like kind of sniffling and like you can see
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: the emotion and oh yeah, and I do have that
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: when I get very angry and emotional, like it's like
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: hard to control bacteers because you you care so much,
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: but you're also like I'm giving you all. And that's
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: the one thing you hear about Rick Bonus is like
• 26:42
  Speaker 3: he loves his teammate, the team he's coaching, He loves
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: the guys. He wants to help, he wants to take
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: care of, he wants to make you better. But don't
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: fuck him because if you fuck him and you somebody
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: that's like that, like very empathetic, you can see he's
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: empathetic when you mess with somebody like that like myself,
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: and I recognize that it hurts ten times more than
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: anybody else. So he is so deeply hurt by that
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: that he wanted to like murder these guys and murder
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: him out of love. And if I'm the Toronto Maple Leafs,
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: I'm looking at that and I am calling him tomorrow.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: And if I am looking for a coach, I think
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: Rick Bonus is at the top of my list after
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: that speech, whether Columbus, anybody, I'm calling him because that
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: level of care from a coach to players. You got
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: to give that a shot in some respect because what
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: he did for this team. And you're right, Nate, it's it.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: And you know that having played in the playoffs and
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: you know, been in the NHL for a long time,
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: it is hard to win. And as you get closer
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: to the playoffs, it gets harder. It gets harder, it
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: gets harder, and you got to keep elevating your game
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: and then once the playoffs sit, you gott elevate your
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: game more. I go back to the Philly game last night.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: Garnet Hathaway. They're they're firmly in the playoffs. Garnet Hathaway,
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Nick Steeler. These guys are blocking one time, off the back,
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: off the stomach. That is buy and that is what
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: it takes to make the playoffs. When they're firmly and
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: they don't need to do anything. Brian Bouche is on
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: the call going like fucking stop blocking shots. He's yelling
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: on the call, what are these guys doing? Stop blocking shots?
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: But that's what it takes to Rick Bonus, kudos to you.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: I loved it. I love what he did. You see
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: the emotion, the raw intensity from him and just the
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: love that he has for his team. So I'd be
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: fucking calling him if I'm a team to bring him
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: on board. And there's a reason he's been a coach
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: for so long. But yeah, they survived the greatest bag
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: skate of all time because he would have Torrist strip
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: off them.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: One coaching thought, we don't need to get into but
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: just happy trails and good luck to Avalanche coach Jared
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: Bedner did not accompany the team for their season ending
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: road trip through Alberta. Puck to the face in the face,
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: suffering facial factors and a corneal aberration. Show us some
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: nice battle scars. When Colorado starts to playoffs, Chief had
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: that plate fall in his head. So we suck Greig
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: Brupie stuff, man, these coaches are pretty tough.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: Kid Bedner, Eh, he's ready speaking.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Of tough guys.
• 29:04
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  Speaker 1: and Leaves, which, as you know, is a meaningless game,
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: but something that was of meaning. We're seeing our buddy
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: Joe Bowen his final home game is the voice at
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: least forty four games emostly overcome a raucous ovation. We'll
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: get to the hockey in the plaids and all that,
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: but I want your best Joe Bowen story for me.
• 30:11
  Speaker 7: Oh gosh, best Joe Bowen story. I mean, listen, when
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: you're a journeyman like me, man.
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: You just suck up to everybody but Joe.
• 30:22
  Speaker 7: Joe Joe obviously you know from from my days of
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: starting at the NHL level and him already established and
• 30:30
  Speaker 7: calling the great rap around goal by Doug Gilmour on
• 30:35
  Speaker 7: Curtis Joseph. I mean, it's the one thing that you know,
• 30:39
  Speaker 7: especially in today's day and age, when you know you're
• 30:42
  Speaker 7: hard pressed to find a guy on the same team
• 30:45
  Speaker 7: for more than five seven years, ten years, to watch
• 30:49
  Speaker 7: Joe do it for forty plus years as a Toronto
• 30:51
  Speaker 7: may belief. Certainly not surprised at the accolades right now
• 30:58
  Speaker 7: going on for Joe and the Ovation that he had
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: the other night. From from your aim, Joe's a good
• 31:07
  Speaker 7: guy and he's a Leafer for life, and I think
• 31:10
  Speaker 7: it was great to see the fans recognize.
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: That amazing career by him. And Nick, you're in that
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: Toronto media market and you have some of the best
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: insight and knowledge. But for you, kind of what's your
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: impression right now with the Maple Leafs after this? You
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: know you can call a disaster season And I just
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: saw they hired a search party for the new GM three.
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: Keith Kelly, what do you make of all that? And
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: everything surrounding the Toronto.
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: Maple Leafs so well, Jason's quiet here. We might have
• 31:38
  Speaker 7: to sign up a search party to find the search
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: party right now. But all kidding aside, very unstable right
• 31:47
  Speaker 7: now in the organization from top to bottom, and they're
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: looking for a new leader. Brad Tree living out. Of course,
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: we don't know what's going to happen to Craig Breuby.
• 31:58
  Speaker 7: Lots of talk about Austin Matthews future and where he's
• 32:02
  Speaker 7: going to be in a couple of years and how
• 32:04
  Speaker 7: quickly does a new guy address it if not the
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: CEO Keith Pelly. A lot of questions right now that
• 32:12
  Speaker 7: people are asking that don't normally follow the end of
• 32:16
  Speaker 7: the season. So these are tough times for Toronto Maple Leafs,
• 32:20
  Speaker 7: the organization, but more importantly, they're fans who had to
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: endure a very frustrating season coming off less than twelve
• 32:29
  Speaker 7: months of winning an Atlantic Division title and contending for
• 32:34
  Speaker 7: a Stanley Cup.
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Nick, I mean they have they have their work
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: cutout for him, that's for sure. In this offseason, whoever
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: that may be that they hire with the playoffs looming,
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: Is there a team or teams you're looking forward to
• 32:49
  Speaker 5: watching and seeing what transpires as the playoffs is about
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: to start.
• 32:53
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I think there's obviously some great storylines, Nate. And
• 32:58
  Speaker 7: you know, however, we feel about Colorado or Tampa Bay.
• 33:07
  Speaker 7: When was the last time we could sit there and
• 33:09
  Speaker 7: look at sixteen teams in the Stanley Cup playoffs in
• 33:13
  Speaker 7: the first round and go, okay, how many could run
• 33:15
  Speaker 7: this thing?
• 33:16
  Speaker 6: Really?
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: I mean, do we really still believe it's three or four?
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: Or do we look at the goaltending right now and go,
• 33:22
  Speaker 7: oh whoa hold on for a second before we get
• 33:24
  Speaker 7: it to Colorado here or Vegas or Dallas. You know,
• 33:31
  Speaker 7: is Buffalo now in the mix legitimately, and I think
• 33:36
  Speaker 7: we can all answer yes, you know from my perspective. Anyways,
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: so we got seven eight teams. The Montreal Canadians. Could
• 33:44
  Speaker 7: they possibly be in a position like Patrick Wall was
• 33:49
  Speaker 7: many moons ago to win the Stanley Cup the last
• 33:52
  Speaker 7: time Canada won one in ninety three with their goaltending,
• 33:58
  Speaker 7: which looks pretty darn good right now as well. Listen,
• 34:03
  Speaker 7: it's white open. I think it's going to be a
• 34:07
  Speaker 7: great watch moving forward. The Boston Bruins I find very
• 34:11
  Speaker 7: intriguing because of course this is a team that should
• 34:15
  Speaker 7: be on the outside looking in. They got rid of
• 34:19
  Speaker 7: Brad Marsham. That was a turning point of rebuilding, and
• 34:23
  Speaker 7: it's like, hold on for a second. I mean, they're
• 34:26
  Speaker 7: in the they're in the mix here. Swainmon's had a
• 34:29
  Speaker 7: great rebound year, and some some kids that you didn't
• 34:33
  Speaker 7: necessarily thought you could could compete and contribute, like Minton
• 34:37
  Speaker 7: off the Leaf trade last year, all of a sudden
• 34:40
  Speaker 7: making some noise here. So it's gonna be a fun watch,
• 34:44
  Speaker 7: no question.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: That's just a memory lane right now.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: Kipper rookie season in Washington, the Capital's fire coach Brian
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: Murray replaced him with his brother Terry.
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: As a rookie too.
• 34:59
  Speaker 7: I think do the double take. You know, it's like,
• 35:04
  Speaker 7: you know, the crazy thing about it was that they're
• 35:10
  Speaker 7: very different guys, right, and Brian was like the motivator,
• 35:15
  Speaker 7: you know, the chirper that like, he was the ultimate
• 35:18
  Speaker 7: tough guy. If if there were coaches were allowed to
• 35:22
  Speaker 7: fight back, then I take Brian Murray, you know. And
• 35:27
  Speaker 7: I wouldn't take his brother Terry, for sure, he'd be
• 35:30
  Speaker 7: the last guy I picked. But Terry very methodical and
• 35:36
  Speaker 7: tactical and Brian Moore of a raw, raw raye, you know,
• 35:40
  Speaker 7: motivational guy. But like you know, we were asking, like,
• 35:46
  Speaker 7: you know, does your mom know about this, you know,
• 35:49
  Speaker 7: replacing you know, her other son with with yougiving right
• 35:54
  Speaker 7: giving it was. It was a strange one, but uh,
• 35:59
  Speaker 7: you know, we when Terry came in, we were able
• 36:01
  Speaker 7: to regroup there and we took the Washington Capitals to
• 36:05
  Speaker 7: their first conference final in their history. Some good times.
• 36:10
  Speaker 7: John Druce Drus on the loose. You guys are too
• 36:13
  Speaker 7: young to maybe remember that. Yeah, it was fun times
• 36:17
  Speaker 7: in Washington, and I like Washington. I know they didn't
• 36:20
  Speaker 7: make the playoffs.
• 36:21
  Speaker 3: This year, but five games.
• 36:24
  Speaker 7: I like where they're headed, and I like their goaltending
• 36:27
  Speaker 7: led by by Logan.
• 36:30
  Speaker 3: Five more games and I think Washington made it in
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: the playoffs there, I think if they had a little
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: bit more time. But I want to talk about you
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: winning the Cup ninety four. You mentioned it before how
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: the cup kind of got lost and that's how Phil
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: Pritchard ended up becoming the keeper of the Cup. Have
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: you ever talked to Phil Pritchard about that and and
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: what kind of exactly happened.
• 36:53
  Speaker 7: Yeah, in that in that moment, Jase, there's there's like
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: there's three or four different stories on how the real one.
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: Here, give us, give us the juicy to the best
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: job ever.
• 37:05
  Speaker 7: The worst one was Joey Kosher welding the cup back
• 37:09
  Speaker 7: on the base, you know, I mean, Joey, I don't know.
• 37:13
  Speaker 7: I don't know what what grade you got in industrial
• 37:17
  Speaker 7: arts in grade seven or if you even were paying
• 37:20
  Speaker 7: attention in a welding class. But you can't send the
• 37:24
  Speaker 7: cup back home to Montreal with like air bubbles all
• 37:29
  Speaker 7: over it.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: You know you can't.
• 37:33
  Speaker 7: So you know, that's when the Hockey Hall of Fame
• 37:36
  Speaker 7: and the NHL and that I don't know. There was
• 37:39
  Speaker 7: like a guy like one hundred years old who's been
• 37:42
  Speaker 7: you know, maintaining the cup, and he almost had a
• 37:45
  Speaker 7: heart attack. We killed the poor guy almost, you know,
• 37:48
  Speaker 7: when he saw the cup come back. But that's that
• 37:51
  Speaker 7: was the last year that it went unsupervised. And and
• 37:56
  Speaker 7: you know, Phil should be thanking me because we gave
• 37:58
  Speaker 7: him a job for life, you know after that. But
• 38:03
  Speaker 7: fun times for sure. Uh, the biggest chick magnet in
• 38:07
  Speaker 7: the history of the world is that Stanley Cup. I
• 38:12
  Speaker 7: wasn't married at the time, so I took full advantage.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: Yes, after dark, that's the stories we did. Go ahead.
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: All I have is a visual of Joey Kosher welding
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: the cup together. Yeah, yeah, goggles the whole thing.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: That's that's so good.
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: I want to go back again. You win the Cup
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: with the Rangers ninety four and Mike Keenan's a head coach,
• 38:39
  Speaker 5: and I'm sure you have a million Mike Keenan stories.
• 38:43
  Speaker 5: But he leaves for Saint Louis after you guys wins.
• 38:45
  Speaker 5: How how crazy did things get after that?
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: Really crazy for sure.
• 38:54
  Speaker 7: But you know, both of you guys have been around
• 38:57
  Speaker 7: the game long enough that like, you know, whether you're
• 39:00
  Speaker 7: in a market like New York or l A, you know,
• 39:03
  Speaker 7: Florida or whatever the case is, that you know there's
• 39:08
  Speaker 7: outside noises and in some markets bigger than others. In
• 39:11
  Speaker 7: this particular instance in New York, the noise was just
• 39:15
  Speaker 7: off the charts, like Dephanie, and you just had to
• 39:20
  Speaker 7: shut it out at the time. And this was still
• 39:22
  Speaker 7: while we were trying to win the Stanley Cup. This
• 39:24
  Speaker 7: wasn't after. This was before when we heard all types
• 39:29
  Speaker 7: of noise about Keenan negotiating a contract with Detroit and
• 39:34
  Speaker 7: the fighting between our current general manager at the time
• 39:38
  Speaker 7: was Neil Smith and Mike and how the ownership at
• 39:44
  Speaker 7: the time, which I believe was paramount, was all involved
• 39:48
  Speaker 7: in all of this. And we had to stay on
• 39:51
  Speaker 7: the straight and narrow because we know that there's distractions.
• 39:55
  Speaker 7: You guys have lived it right, and it could come
• 39:58
  Speaker 7: from one individual in the room, It could come from
• 40:03
  Speaker 7: the manager jurial side, it could come from you know,
• 40:07
  Speaker 7: all all walks of life here. You got to you
• 40:09
  Speaker 7: gotta find a way to keep it together. And thank
• 40:11
  Speaker 7: god we had guys like Mark Messler Kevin Lowe to
• 40:14
  Speaker 7: sit there and go, don't worry about that. What matters
• 40:18
  Speaker 7: is how we control our behavior on and off the ice.
• 40:23
  Speaker 6: But you know, it was nuts.
• 40:25
  Speaker 7: It was nuts, and I think it's, you know, a
• 40:28
  Speaker 7: reminder that you know, just control what you can control.
• 40:33
  Speaker 7: And that's what I think most of us as pros
• 40:36
  Speaker 7: have tried to live by and some do it better
• 40:38
  Speaker 7: than others. And you know, for that there might be
• 40:42
  Speaker 7: more longevity as long as your head's in the right place.
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: But it was absolutely nuts then, and Keenan liked it
• 40:50
  Speaker 6: that way.
• 40:50
  Speaker 7: Like you know, he brought a lot of it upon himself,
• 40:55
  Speaker 7: and I think he was okay with that because he
• 40:58
  Speaker 7: thought that it brought edge out of people. You know,
• 41:01
  Speaker 7: it brought it can bring out the best, it can
• 41:04
  Speaker 7: bring out the worst of you. But he was lucky
• 41:07
  Speaker 7: he had great character. You know, we had great character
• 41:10
  Speaker 7: from top to bottom. And you guys have been on
• 41:12
  Speaker 7: successful teams and when you have great character, it can
• 41:16
  Speaker 7: come over, It can overcome a lot of things. And
• 41:21
  Speaker 7: I'm just still blessed. It's been over thirty years, you
• 41:24
  Speaker 7: win the cup, it still feels like yesterday. I'm gonna
• 41:26
  Speaker 7: watch the cup be presented as you guys will, and
• 41:30
  Speaker 7: it's a great feeling knowing exactly how that feels when
• 41:34
  Speaker 7: you see someone lifted this spring again.
• 41:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the camaraderie when you win those kind of things
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: is just lifelong. And you mentioned mess and Moose and
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: you know what, an amazing leader but also one of
• 41:47
  Speaker 3: the dirtiest motherfuckers around. Yeah, you had a tunnel penalty minutes,
• 41:51
  Speaker 3: but you're probably looking down the bench and being like
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: this guy just he's getting thrown roses at him. But
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: he is a dirty guy in the ice. And I
• 41:59
  Speaker 3: say that in the most endearing way because he played
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: the game hard. Like, at what point did you realize, like,
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: oh man, this guy, the edge that he has in
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: dragging the team into the fight is just next level.
• 42:13
  Speaker 7: So I go back to one night in Dallas and
• 42:19
  Speaker 7: it's getting goofy and greasy out there, and there's Me,
• 42:22
  Speaker 7: Joey Kosher, Jeff bu Ka Boom, and there's a few
• 42:25
  Speaker 7: of us, and like, I'm like, I gotta fight. I
• 42:30
  Speaker 7: gotta fight one of the big monkeys out here for sure, right,
• 42:35
  Speaker 7: and like messed up steps up and he goes, Okay,
• 42:39
  Speaker 7: stop it. We're not going after those guys. Let's go
• 42:44
  Speaker 7: after they're good players, Okay. One of the first shifts
• 42:52
  Speaker 7: he goes back out there, he catches Mike Madano, one
• 42:56
  Speaker 7: of the greatest American hockey players ever to play the game.
• 43:02
  Speaker 7: He catches him straddling the blue line, knocks him out
• 43:07
  Speaker 7: cold out, and we're like.
• 43:12
  Speaker 6: Did he just do that? And it's like, Yep, he
• 43:15
  Speaker 6: just did that. He just walked the walk.
• 43:17
  Speaker 7: Don't go after those guys that play four minutes a night,
• 43:21
  Speaker 7: go after their best player. And guess what I'm gonna
• 43:25
  Speaker 7: do it. So, I don't know if you've ever seen that.
• 43:27
  Speaker 7: The video of Mike Madado being stretched out of the
• 43:33
  Speaker 7: game and then getting put into an ambulance and the
• 43:37
  Speaker 7: camera on the jumbo tron is following through the zamboni.
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: And then they go to lift them up and they
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: drop them. He's got a neck guard on, he's barely
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: moved and he just just they.
• 43:54
  Speaker 6: Just drop them.
• 43:56
  Speaker 7: And it's like, you know, now you've been dropped twice,
• 43:59
  Speaker 7: one by Mark Messier and the other one by by
• 44:02
  Speaker 7: an ambulance.
• 44:04
  Speaker 6: You know, guy, So I mean, that's that's Mark. That's Mark.
• 44:10
  Speaker 6: It's like, just don't say it, do it if you
• 44:13
  Speaker 6: have to. Yeah.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: It certainly was a great leader, as was Doug Gilmour,
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: who we had on at Amazon Prime of Money for
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: the finale of course you're with Dougie in ninety three.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: And I asked Killer, I said, you know, is ever
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: a day go by? Pel though mentioned ninety three, He's like, Nope,
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: at some point somebody.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: Will see me, like hey, wrap around on Cooze. I'll
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: never forget it.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: What I want to ask you about, though, is you
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: love talking movies, films, TV. The early days of HBO,
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: Nick was Larry Standers show in OZ and you appear
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: on the show artless.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: I want your best Robert wools stories.
• 44:42
  Speaker 7: Yeah, like really good guy, really good guy, and uh,
• 44:47
  Speaker 7: you know they had called I don't know if they
• 44:50
  Speaker 7: called the least or someone got a hold of somebody,
• 44:53
  Speaker 7: but they called me up and said would you be
• 44:54
  Speaker 7: interesting coming down and and uh and having a short
• 44:59
  Speaker 7: uh cameo on the show. We'll put you on the ice,
• 45:03
  Speaker 7: We'll have Robert represent you. And I'm like, sure, no problem.
• 45:08
  Speaker 7: But I absolutely like loved it. Like, you know, if
• 45:12
  Speaker 7: they would have called again, you know, no problem. I
• 45:16
  Speaker 7: would have tried to be a movie star at that point.
• 45:20
  Speaker 6: Of my career. But they were really good.
• 45:24
  Speaker 7: It was an episode that also featured the late Kobe
• 45:27
  Speaker 7: Bryant as well, So I mean we're linked in some capacity,
• 45:32
  Speaker 7: which is amazing. Apparently I did my my my on
• 45:37
  Speaker 7: I scene so well. They they made another scene at
• 45:40
  Speaker 7: the back end before me in a in a off
• 45:44
  Speaker 7: off my press conference, but apparently not good enough. The show,
• 45:49
  Speaker 7: I don't know, lasted three or four seasons. You know,
• 45:53
  Speaker 7: did I help cancel it?
• 45:54
  Speaker 5: I don't know. I'm a big HBO guys, So that's
• 46:04
  Speaker 5: and I remember that. I remember the show Are List.
• 46:06
  Speaker 5: I didn't watch it a lot, but I watched a
• 46:08
  Speaker 5: little bit. Your last season in Toronto was the same
• 46:13
  Speaker 5: season Dougie Gilmour was traded out of there. What was
• 46:17
  Speaker 5: the mood in Toronto after that? Because I know how
• 46:20
  Speaker 5: much everyone loves Doug Gilmore.
• 46:22
  Speaker 7: Yeah, kind of similar to Nate to to what movie
• 46:27
  Speaker 7: fans are thinking and feeling today, is that, you know,
• 46:30
  Speaker 7: once you trade Doug Gilmour, once he got moved to
• 46:34
  Speaker 7: New Jersey, it was like, Okay, what's next? Starting over?
• 46:39
  Speaker 7: You know, how far is the rebuild going to be?
• 46:44
  Speaker 7: You know, it wasn't just Doug Gilmore, it was Dave Ellett,
• 46:47
  Speaker 7: it was Kirk Muller, it was Dave done Like We
• 46:51
  Speaker 7: had a veteran laden team back then and they had
• 46:55
  Speaker 7: great success of course in conference finals earlier against Vancouver
• 47:02
  Speaker 7: and Los Angeles. The famous Gretzky hat trick in Maple
• 47:06
  Speaker 7: Leaf Gardens that that knocked them out, and that was
• 47:09
  Speaker 7: the difference between a Toronto Montreal final or not. But
• 47:15
  Speaker 7: you know, Doug's another guy right that was can walk
• 47:19
  Speaker 7: the walk, willing to say something and be the first
• 47:22
  Speaker 7: guy to want to go out there and.
• 47:24
  Speaker 6: Do it himself.
• 47:27
  Speaker 7: And well, it was kind of it was kind of tough.
• 47:31
  Speaker 7: They didn't want to pay him. Uh, there was a
• 47:34
  Speaker 7: changing of the guard and ownership Steve Stavros as well.
• 47:38
  Speaker 7: They had to cut cut the budget down to reflect
• 47:42
  Speaker 7: certain criterias on selling the team. You know, it's the
• 47:48
  Speaker 7: business side of it. Unfortunately as players we have to
• 47:52
  Speaker 7: see sometimes and deal with it. But that's that's life
• 47:56
  Speaker 7: a professional hockey, right.
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it certainly is. And you know you talk about
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: legacy and guys that jumping back into the current NHL
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: with Connor McDavid, you know, entering these playoffs signs that
• 48:08
  Speaker 3: to your extension and we might have talked about it
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: when I was on your show about just the clock
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: starting now. For them, and do you kind of is
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: this a make or break year for them? Do they
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: have to win it? Or do you think it's still
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: one of those things where there's a couple of years
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: and where do you see that outlook with him and
• 48:26
  Speaker 3: the Edmonton Oilers.
• 48:27
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, I don't know about just make or break
• 48:32
  Speaker 7: win the Stanley Cup or bust. Like I get the
• 48:35
  Speaker 7: theory of it, and I get the the type of
• 48:39
  Speaker 7: cliche it is right now, but I'm also a believer
• 48:43
  Speaker 7: of just not if you lose, but how you lose
• 48:47
  Speaker 7: and whether or not you can still hang your hat
• 48:49
  Speaker 7: on certain things of how close we were and we
• 48:54
  Speaker 7: know where that line is sometimes between winning and losing,
• 48:58
  Speaker 7: and it's I don't know if people can truly understand,
• 49:01
  Speaker 7: like what a redirect, the puck spinning the other way,
• 49:07
  Speaker 7: Like there's so many factors of outside of whether you
• 49:10
  Speaker 7: deserve to win or lose. I mean, there is just
• 49:13
  Speaker 7: fate sometimes and the bounce of a puckh redirect, you
• 49:21
  Speaker 7: name it. But like, if it doesn't appear to be
• 49:24
  Speaker 7: that type of loss for the Edmonton Oilers and one
• 49:27
  Speaker 7: that says that they are truly trending in the wrong direction,
• 49:33
  Speaker 7: then these guys like Connor McDavid, Austin Matthews, Quinn Hughes,
• 49:39
  Speaker 7: they have so much power and they know they have power.
• 49:44
  Speaker 7: And even in my day guys when we talk about
• 49:47
  Speaker 7: Messier's and Gilmore's and like, they knew they had power,
• 49:54
  Speaker 7: but not the power that they could just really dictate
• 49:59
  Speaker 7: like and even if they did have power came much
• 50:01
  Speaker 7: later in their careers. These guys are twenty five, twenty six,
• 50:04
  Speaker 7: twenty seven. They can completely control their fate. Quinn Hughes like,
• 50:10
  Speaker 7: come on the way he way the way he just
• 50:15
  Speaker 7: totally you know, I don't want to say ran Vancouver Show,
• 50:20
  Speaker 7: but put.
• 50:20
  Speaker 6: It in their court. You know I'm not coming back.
• 50:24
  Speaker 7: You know I'm not resigning. You got you can hang
• 50:28
  Speaker 7: me around here for two more years. But the pitcher
• 50:31
  Speaker 7: is not going to get any better.
• 50:34
  Speaker 6: What do they do? They move him right away.
• 50:37
  Speaker 7: So Connor could be in that position if he doesn't
• 50:41
  Speaker 7: like what he sees, if he feels like it's not
• 50:43
  Speaker 7: trending by the end of this season in the right direction,
• 50:47
  Speaker 7: he will have that power to say, boys, move me now,
• 50:52
  Speaker 7: move me later, but you're gonna move me.
• 50:54
  Speaker 6: And Austin's in the same situation.
• 50:56
  Speaker 5: Guys here in Toronto, kipper, where do you I mean,
• 51:01
  Speaker 5: touch on a quip? Where do you think that Connor
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: McDavid or Austin Matthews should end up if they don't
• 51:07
  Speaker 5: end up with their teams?
• 51:08
  Speaker 6: Like where where they at?
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: You know what he wants you to say, l A.
• 51:16
  Speaker 7: I think I think all those places are possible. And
• 51:20
  Speaker 7: to sit there definitively say one or the other. You know,
• 51:23
  Speaker 7: it's just us guessing or for some people hoping.
• 51:27
  Speaker 6: But you know they.
• 51:30
  Speaker 7: They study now right, they look. They'll look at how
• 51:34
  Speaker 7: many assets you have. They'll look at what kind of
• 51:36
  Speaker 7: help there is once I get there, They'll see where
• 51:39
  Speaker 7: the trajectory is are they you know, where's Drew Dowdy?
• 51:42
  Speaker 7: If it's la where is Drew Dowdy?
• 51:45
  Speaker 6: And all of this?
• 51:46
  Speaker 7: Uh Rank Clark is a is a great defenseman? Is
• 51:50
  Speaker 7: he the guy that's going to help me?
• 51:52
  Speaker 6: Now? With a Stanley cup?
• 51:54
  Speaker 7: See you can sit there and you can talk about taxes,
• 51:57
  Speaker 7: and you can talk about cost of living, you could
• 52:00
  Speaker 7: talk about you know, community, But like Conradate McDavid right now,
• 52:06
  Speaker 7: he doesn't care about any of that. He didn't care
• 52:08
  Speaker 7: about getting a raise. All he cares about is not
• 52:13
  Speaker 7: being one of those best players in the world to
• 52:16
  Speaker 7: never win that. Yeah, that's all he cares about.
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: He is.
• 52:21
  Speaker 6: It's it keeps him up at night. You know.
• 52:25
  Speaker 7: It has to with his behavior, his mannerism, his body language,
• 52:32
  Speaker 7: the fact that he didn't take one dime. Tell me
• 52:35
  Speaker 7: what superstar on our planet in any form of business, medical, field, entertainment, sports,
• 52:46
  Speaker 7: in the prime of their careers doesn't get a raise.
• 52:51
  Speaker 7: It's crazy, nuts, it's nuts. And yet he said, I
• 52:58
  Speaker 7: want to win so badly. I'm leaving it all on
• 53:00
  Speaker 7: the table for you guys to make me better around me.
• 53:03
  Speaker 7: And if he doesn't see that happening after this season,
• 53:07
  Speaker 7: then it's it's up to him to decide.
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: Last thought, we'll let you get out of here.
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: I saw Steve Simmons back at the game on Monday
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: and he's I said, I let you know the office.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: He goes, well, I always come to the first in
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: the last game, and I said, oh, just in case
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: players want to take shots at you because something you
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: might have said about them. He said, well, they don't
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: read the papers anymore because these guys say they don't
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: even know.
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they do.
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: Because he goes back in the day they uston.
• 53:28
  Speaker 1: I said, well, give me the best example of a
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: player most confrontational.
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: Who's most upset? He said, Tye Domy. I would have
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: said it for you, Kipper, he said, tie Domey.
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: He wrote in the column, if you rearrange the letters
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: of his name, you get me idiot.
• 53:49
  Speaker 6: Hey, hey, good line.
• 53:52
  Speaker 7: Don't ever say that with him in the room. Buddy,
• 53:54
  Speaker 7: you're done, You're done, I'm telling you.
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: He said.
• 53:57
  Speaker 1: He walks in the next day and Darcy Tucker immediately
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: says he's here, and ty Doe he makes a b
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: line for Steve Simmons and immediately starts talking about the
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: etymology of his name Albanian descept blah blah.
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: And Steve goes to his credit. I listened.
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: I wren't because it ended up being a wonderful three
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: decade friendship ever since.
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: But it's a good lesson. Don't ever fuck with a
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: guy's name you don't know what it's about.
• 54:18
  Speaker 7: Right, listen, don't even don't even mess with Tye at all.
• 54:24
  Speaker 7: Just you know, unless you want to be in a
• 54:25
  Speaker 7: headlock for the next three hours. Okay, fun teammate, Uh,
• 54:32
  Speaker 7: just don't don't get into a pissing contest with him.
• 54:35
  Speaker 6: You will lose. I guarantee you you will lose.
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: Always.
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: Women listening to Nick Kippros, make sure to check out
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: Real Kipper and Board Sports that five nine in the
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: fan give my best adjustin.
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: It's great to reunite.
• 54:46
  Speaker 6: Man.
• 54:46
  Speaker 1: You've always been nice to be, always great voice when
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: it comes to hockey.
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: A wonderful career in fact, keep it going. Thanks so much.
• 54:51
  Speaker 7: They need no problem and Nate and Jason happy to
• 54:54
  Speaker 7: pass that media torch to you. Guys, I am this
• 54:58
  Speaker 7: close to retiring. Go get him, boys, go get.
• 55:02
  Speaker 3: Him the coffers. He's off riding offrom at the sunset.
• 55:07
  Speaker 3: Thanks buddy, all right, thanks.
• 55:17
  Speaker 1: Once again to Nick, Heiprio, Cinephile and sixty. Before I
• 55:19
  Speaker 1: get into it, Tuth, did you see the finale of
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: DTF Saint Louis And if so, what were your thoughts
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: on it?
• 55:24
  Speaker 9: Didn't love it? It was kind of I thought it.
• 55:26
  Speaker 9: It kind of was a letdown in the end. I
• 55:28
  Speaker 9: was totally taking the words.
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: Out of my mouth. I textedg erratic and I go
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: huge letdown. Goh yah, I was.
• 55:33
  Speaker 9: It was a letdown. I didn't like how it ended.
• 55:35
  Speaker 9: I felt like who the writer kind of didn't know
• 55:38
  Speaker 9: how to finish it up. And yeah, I mean it
• 55:42
  Speaker 9: had me for the first three four episodes and then
• 55:44
  Speaker 9: it kind of just got away from me.
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: But a for effort.
• 55:49
  Speaker 1: Episodes two and three outstanding. I just thought the final
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: episode completely devoid of humor. I mean, there was no
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: laughs to be had in that last episode, and when
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: it comes to a murder mystery ended up being a
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: real piffle as to what actually when I fall down.
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: I did think Jason Bateman.
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: Terrific performance, especially that last episode when they're dance together
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: in their underwear, him and David Harbor.
• 56:06
  Speaker 2: I did think that was pretty notable.
• 56:08
  Speaker 3: Great cast, great actor. Can I can I give you
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: a cinefin on sixty for.
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna save my because Tal's rushing us, So
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna save my bait on Amazon Prime for next time.
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: But go ahead and go ahead, can you go? Can
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: you go? I don't even know if I'm gonna get
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: the title right. We started. It's on season two. It's
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: the one with John Ham, your friend's neighbor, your friends
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: and neighbors, your friends and neighbor. Good good show.
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: You're liking it?
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, take a peek at its interesting, very interesting Apple
• 56:31
  Speaker 3: on Apple TV.
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: Well, listen, I have obviously my wife's in love of him.
• 56:34
  Speaker 1: I loved him on mad Man. He's a huge Saint
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: Louis Blues Fanmi, we gotta get him on the show.
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: What's it about? It looks like one of these dark
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: anti hero show.
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: But he just a guy loses his job. He's a
• 56:42
  Speaker 3: big finance guy, lives in the rich you know, a
• 56:44
  Speaker 3: little bit like Desperate Housewives. Lives in a rich neighborhood,
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: and then he starts stealing these high end items from
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: all of his neighbors to basically pay and keep himself afloat.
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: So he goes to becoming a thief and a and
• 56:59
  Speaker 3: a burglar, and then all these things kind of nice
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: coincide and fall apart. Him managing a Family's a very
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: good show.
• 57:05
  Speaker 6: I like it.
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: I like it interesting.
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: Add to the list. Pope Leo Flyers fan. Wait what
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: I know? He loves the White Sox. What's happening now?
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: That's right, the Flyers doom into a playoffs.
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: But we want to thank fan Mike Coolan, who recently
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: gifted Pope Leo a personalized Flyers jersey, perhaps hoping to
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: curb some divine favor with the top guy at the Vatican.
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: Coolan was on Italian vacation with his family.
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: When they joined the audience in Saint Peter Square or
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: March eighteenth, handed over the jersey again.
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: Pope Leo J D is a Chicago guy, very well docked.
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: He's a White Sox fan.
• 57:34
  Speaker 1: White Sox said, I can't see him being a huge
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: Dravis CONNECTI fan.
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe maybe maybe deep down on his
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: heart he loves Noah Kates. But what do you think?
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: Maybe the Flyers have what I'm over.
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: I think the Pope walked in with that jersey, said
• 57:47
  Speaker 3: thank you. He walked into his royal Vatican toilet and
• 57:51
  Speaker 3: he took a big old steaming dump on that Flyers.
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: Cheers, Rangers fans or Penguins fans would love.
• 57:57
  Speaker 3: And then he pissed on it too.
• 57:59
  Speaker 5: I think he lost the bet. I think he lost
• 58:01
  Speaker 5: the bet to one of his other buddies there, and
• 58:03
  Speaker 5: they're like, if the Flyers to get in, you gotta
• 58:05
  Speaker 5: you're you're getting a jersey. And then he's like, all right,
• 58:08
  Speaker 5: all right, I mean it makes sense.
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: The Chicago guy Blackhawks Flyers twenty ten Nate's right. Probably's
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: a buddy who's a Philly Dougy fs Win. Yeah, we're
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: getting your back.
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: He's got to be.
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: No, he's taking his dump on it all right.
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: Next up eachro Oh No.
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: Mariners fans in Seattle right to celebrate one of the
• 58:24
  Speaker 1: greatest hitters in baseball history of the team unveiled the
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: honorary statue for each rou on Saturday, but ceremony took
• 58:30
  Speaker 1: a turn.
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: The bat on the statue broke during the unveiling.
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: Nate, we hear the expression in baseball, you gotta take
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: your bat off the shoulder, but they don't mean this
• 58:37
  Speaker 1: when it comes to statues, Dwayne Wade's statue, Christiano Ronaldo
• 58:41
  Speaker 1: statues falling apart.
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: You're in LA, though, LA does it right.
• 58:43
  Speaker 1: You go, you got chick hern, you got all these
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: great Superstorty Gretzky out front.
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: I mean, LA does it right when it comes to
• 58:49
  Speaker 2: the statues.
• 58:50
  Speaker 5: Probably Copaitar soon to be Copaitar. Maybe, Yeah, they do.
• 58:54
  Speaker 5: They do it really well with the statues here. I'm
• 58:56
  Speaker 5: trying to think of bad statues I've seen that. I
• 58:58
  Speaker 5: can't think of any. I know the ones you mentioned
• 59:00
  Speaker 5: with Dwayne Wade. I've seen that one. That one's a.
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: Looks nothing like him at all.
• 59:09
  Speaker 5: Uh, it's pretty funny, JD.
• 59:11
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 59:12
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 59:12
  Speaker 5: You have you have any good statues that you've seen
• 59:14
  Speaker 5: that are terrible?
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: I mean no, I feel like they've all been awful recently. No. Yeah,
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: I feel like they can't get it right, and it's
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: like they're trying to go avant garde or abstract or whatever,
• 59:25
  Speaker 3: and it's just like, make make it look like the person.
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: I think the bobble heads too, it's just like, make
• 59:30
  Speaker 3: it look like the person that don't make it.
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, don't overthink.
• 59:33
  Speaker 3: I just don't understand how we've we were this far
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: advanced technologically, but we can't make a goddamn statue, right Amen.
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: Emotional cloning Sheep Here was an emotional.
• 59:45
  Speaker 1: Statue emotional night Saturday, the King's captain and coopatar, who
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: Nate just alluded to addressing the crowd following his final
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: regular season game in l a King's all time leader
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: in points assists in games, visibly emotional.
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: A nice send off for the Kings great again.
• 59:59
  Speaker 1: For me, It's always gonna be Dave Taylor Marceldi on
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: but eventually we're gonna get a statue of guitar, it'said
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: Crypto dot Com right and deservedly.
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 5: So I was at this game and it was a
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 5: great hockey game they played. I mean, LA played great.
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 5: But with Kobe, you know, I mean you saw his
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 5: speech after he got super emotional, just you know, like
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 5: I said, I think the best king of all time.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 5: I mean he just he just does everything the right way.
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 5: I mean even the last four face offs of the
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 5: game and the dize and he wins all four of them.
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 5: They're just big face offs. There's little things like that that.
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Mike Scully, Mike Scully ship talks me on Twitter?
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: Did he Mike Scully? That was awesome? Do you see that?
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: He fucking I was gonna, I'm gonna come kick your ass.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: I didn't see.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: I didn't see what he said.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 4: You.
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: I saw your response to him, which I I was like,
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: I'm sitting at all and what this is.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: I gotta be I gotta be honest. I was kind
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: of like I was like honored.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: So here it was Mike Scully, recent guest Simpsons writer
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: wrote still not sure copy all time best king and
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: at j D four straight six on five D's on
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 1: face stuff wins and the file Man that makes twenty
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: thousand people cry, turn in your podcasting license JD exclamation point,
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: but then give it a haha you respond, ha ha
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 1: ha ha Jesus Mike, coming from my head tonight, it's okay,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: wanton in thinking it bounced in the first round.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 3: And it's looking like they're gonna get bounced in the
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 3: first round again. And I'm going right back at Mike
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 3: Scully thought to turn in your podcast.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: Look, Mike, I was not expected.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 1: That was the first time we get is talking shit
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 1: after the event, like, Wow, I'm not even getting paid
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 1: for this, Mike Megan, give me a break here.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: It's five fifty, but it's not getting that Simpsons money.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 2: Well that's true.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: Last thought here, speaking statues, that's a crypto dot com
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: Copeitar's goaltender in the King's Cup wins, Jonathan Quick, calling
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: it a career, the Connecticut product, retiring as one of
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: the greatest goaltenders of his generation. Nineteen seasons with the
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 1: King's Golden Knights and Rangers, he won the Cup three
• 1:01:57
  Speaker 1: times when the William Jennings Trophy, twice finalist for the
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 1: Vesna in twenty sixteen four hundred and ten career wins,
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: ranking twelve all time. JD is Johnathan Quick the greatest
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 1: American born goalie.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: In hockey history. I'm going Mike Richtor at John Van Piastbrook, but.
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: Go ahead, Uh, I mean you gotta you gotta put Quick.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 3: He is the best. No, just I just think most wins,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: right for an American born goalie. Uh, yeah, one hundred percent.
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: I think he is a first ballot Hall of Famer.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 3: That that hug with Bobrovski was amazing. Hopefully they got it.
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 3: Hopefully Bruce Bennett, fan of the show, got a nice
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 3: picture of that. But yes, two first ballot Hall of Famers.
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 3: I mean the way he played, the style he played,
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 3: and also the human being he was and leader he was.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 3: I think is is just next level. So, you know,
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 3: congratulations to him in retirement, and I'm sure he's going
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: to handle it with uh the same dynamism that he
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: did when he played. That's a word. No, that was nice.
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 5: That was real nice. I echo what you said. J
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 5: He's yeah, I mean he is. He is the best
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 5: American goalie right now for sure. I mean I think
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 5: Hella Buck maybe have something to say with it at.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: The end of his career.
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 5: Possibly, but yeah, he's he's the man. I think that
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 5: he uh, you know, when you look at his career
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 5: and you see what he's he's done, he like, there's
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 5: no other goalie like him. He was kind of one
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 5: of the one of his own, you know, own kind
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 5: of style, you know, the way he was competitive and aggressive.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 5: So kudos to Quickie. I was lucky I got to
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 5: play with him and he could be him and Kopi
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 5: Inductor the Hall of Fame together at the same time,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 5: which would be awesome.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: I'd love to go more on this topic, but tal
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: has got a hard out, So you got two minutes, Shad,
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 1: and that's it. Ov sid finale a Veskan waving off
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: the handshake line, people burying him.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: I go, no, I don't think he knows.
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 1: He's not sure whether or not he's coming back here,
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: So why am I going to shake hands all this
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: pomp and circumstances. By the way, guys, I'm still coming back.
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: I worked at DeVante Smith Pelly and Bruce Boudreaux last week.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: Both those guys again caps ties they go. Honestly, I
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: don't think Ov knows he loves Bruce.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: Pudrocaus, he loves playing hockeyboll with anything.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: But as you guys know, nobody likes training camp, nobody
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: likes travel, nobody likes the other stuff.
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: So I don't think people are criticizing for waving up.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: Oh but he didn't know, how'd you take it?
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 3: I think Ovie's earned the right to if he wants
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 3: to leave in the middle of the night and not
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: to the Koche farewell tour, which again, Kope, you can
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: do whatever you want when you have that career. I
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 3: don't know if I kope doing a full year tour
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 3: of shaking hands and kissing babies the whole year is
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: a great thing, But does he earned the right to
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: do what he wants if the organization allows it. Same
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 3: thing with Ovi. I said at the start of the year,
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  Speaker 3: this is last year. I can't waiver. Now I think
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  Speaker 3: it's his last year. I got to die in my
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 3: sword as a podcaster, So I think he goes back
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  Speaker 3: to Russia one more year. But I think that was
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  Speaker 3: his last game in the NHL, and I just think
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  Speaker 3: that that would be perfect Ovie fashion to be like,
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 3: fuck you guys, am out of here, chewing gum thrushing
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  Speaker 3: bud lights and just be like, see you guys later,
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  Speaker 3: won a cup. We don't fucking suck.
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  Speaker 2: I swear god, I swear god. Nay, I think he
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: comes back for one more. What do you think? I
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 2: don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I don't have my podcast license, but I would say
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 5: that working on it, working on it, bender where you
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 5: are working on it. I still think there's a chance.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 5: I think there's a chance he comes back. I think
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 5: he's going back and forth. I I agree with those guys.
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  Speaker 5: I really think he doesn't know what he wants to do,
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  Speaker 5: and he sees where this team's going, like they're gonna
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 5: be good again next year, they're gonna be good.
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know he's gonna he's gonna balloon to
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 3: about two seventy. He's gonna go, all right, I'm gonna
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: come back. He's gonna jump on the bike for one
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 3: air dine and he's going, you know what, fuck this, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I'm done. I'm going to Russia and that'll be it, and.
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  Speaker 1: That will be a frushure. NHL unscripted. We'll try to
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  Speaker 1: get our podcast license. Apologies to Mike Scully. We'll try
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  Speaker 1: and do better next time. Thanks Nick, caprios for supporting
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: the cause. Playofs right around the corner. Thanks what you
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: for checking us out two a week right now once
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 1: the playoffs begin. Has that been confirmed? That's what we
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: did last year. We'll see if that is actually the case.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: Still up in the air, we'll see it next time.
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