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Bill Zito Takes Charge: Crumbling Canucks, Sergei's Big Night and a Golden Globes recap. · 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 on NHL Unscripted.
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  Speaker 1: It's in in Thephile in sixty Golden Globes recap. A
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  Speaker 1: great knight for Pta and shot A May teach me
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  Speaker 1: how to Dougie Rumors swirling around Dougie Hamilton, Bill Zeno, Panthers,
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  Speaker 1: Jimill join us. A great story about Reggie Jackson, this
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  Speaker 1: time as the bat boy of the nineteen eighty two
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  Speaker 1: Milwaukee Brewmers and the toronom May Beliefs are rolling.
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  Speaker 2: I'm back from Montreal hometown. JD and Tal.
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  Speaker 1: Great knight for the Habs as they win six to three.
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  Speaker 1: The big news, though Ze Bulliam being scratched out of
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  Speaker 1: foot did not tell us that the boarding escape like
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  Speaker 1: what we're gonna really sell? Zee bullyam in this one
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  Speaker 1: now not playing tonight. Cannocks hung in there though, three
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  Speaker 1: all after forty all to though Vancouver or JD now
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  Speaker 1: one eight and two in their last eleven they have
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  Speaker 1: the worst record in hawk squarely in the leaf the
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  Speaker 1: top pick in the draft, which would likely mean adding
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  Speaker 1: Gavin McKenna or Evar Stenberg.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think of this? Canucks team the rest
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  Speaker 2: of the way just tank for McKenna.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there's no there's no chance here and
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  Speaker 3: I mean they don't look good at all. I think
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  Speaker 3: you want to keep that your demko as healthy as possible.
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  Speaker 4: And I mean, listen z bullyam.
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  Speaker 3: It comes with the growing pains of you know, becoming
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  Speaker 3: an NHL player defenseman, It's it's very it's a lot
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  Speaker 3: more fickle when you're trying to, you know, teach the
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  Speaker 3: young kids how to play the right way. And Adam Foot,
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  Speaker 3: who certainly played the right way for a long time
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  Speaker 3: in his career, I think there's no problems with telling
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  Speaker 3: him if you see if he's seeing his game slip
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  Speaker 3: a little bit. But yeah, I mean it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be more a question of what is their needs in
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  Speaker 3: the draft because you got you know, Verhoff, you got McKenna,
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  Speaker 3: and you got Stenberg, who when I watched the World
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  Speaker 3: World Juniors, great, I thought Stenberg was the best player
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  Speaker 3: of those three. Now, I mean, I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: Canada just didn't compete the way they should have. I
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  Speaker 3: knew McKenna is a facilitator and can you know, do
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  Speaker 3: amazing things and he's still kind of the overall number
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  Speaker 3: one pick no matter what happens. But you know, I
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  Speaker 3: never know. There could be kind of a weird shocking
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  Speaker 3: pick this year. I think for the number one, I
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  Speaker 3: think we'll see what Vancouver does. But it's more of
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  Speaker 3: a I mean, tell me if I'm wrong. Have you've
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  Speaker 3: seen a team that is kind of in the past
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  Speaker 3: three years just gone from great to dog shit just quickly,
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  Speaker 3: like you know, And I think it all started with Listen,
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  Speaker 3: I'm I'm a fan of JT.
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  Speaker 4: Miller, but when they picked JT.
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  Speaker 3: Miller over Bowl Horvat, I think that's where all the
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  Speaker 3: things started to kind of fall apart for them a
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  Speaker 3: little bit. You know, Bohoveat leaves, then after that JT.
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  Speaker 3: After that JT. Miller leaves, and then it's like it's
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  Speaker 3: just one after the other and all you're left with
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  Speaker 3: this EP forty Elias Petterson is your.
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  Speaker 1: Eleven and a half million dollars one of the worst
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  Speaker 1: contracts in hockey.
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  Speaker 4: Well you said it, not me. So when he comes
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  Speaker 4: for us, we have him on the show and he's
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  Speaker 4: he's not going.
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  Speaker 2: To come on the show.
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  Speaker 1: If you I've seen our guest list, We're not gonna
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  Speaker 1: getting least Betterson on the show.
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  Speaker 4: We can't get video let alone.
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  Speaker 3: Guess yeah, I think no, but I think it's yeah there,
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  Speaker 3: it's not going to be good for them. I just
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  Speaker 3: saw Jake Debrosk be like, I haven't lost as many
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  Speaker 3: games in my life.
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  Speaker 4: It's like, we'll get used to a buddy. There's more coming.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, not good times right now for Jake.
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  Speaker 1: Meantime, Everson out, Bonus in we're not talking about David Borrianis.
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  Speaker 2: We are talking about Bones. Though.
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  Speaker 1: The Columbus Blue Jackets fifth head coach in thirty months,
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  Speaker 1: got the news coming down right before the has Can
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  Speaker 1: Jody Shelley breaking the news Dean Everson gone along with
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  Speaker 1: his assistant Steve McCarthy and Rick Bonus, who retired as
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  Speaker 1: head coach the Jets in twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: It's tough to believe. John Forston told me it's his
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  Speaker 2: sixth decade of coach. Again said there's no way how
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  Speaker 2: old is this guy.
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  Speaker 1: But at the time of the change, Columbus said the
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  Speaker 1: worst record in the East. They win Bones' debut to
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  Speaker 1: jump ahead of the Rangers. They've managed to within striking
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  Speaker 1: distance of a playoffs spot. Columbus has six points behind
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  Speaker 1: Toronto for the tack a wildcard spot in the East.
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  Speaker 2: What do you make of the coaching change, JD.
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  Speaker 1: Is it too little, too late or is Columbus bond
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  Speaker 1: Rick Bonus gotta go to the playoffs?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean a change like this shows clearly that
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  Speaker 3: their hope is to make the playoffs like they want
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  Speaker 3: to in its playoffs or busts. So you know, I think, listen,
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  Speaker 3: this team is proven to be a close knit group.
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  Speaker 4: They love each other.
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  Speaker 3: You know, all the things that happened with Johnny Gudreau
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  Speaker 3: and you know, rest in peace with him and his family.
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  Speaker 3: And I think, you know, Meredith is there shooting the
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  Speaker 3: cannon there yesterday. But I think it's a team that
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  Speaker 3: has highestpirations and I think they're disappointed in their game.
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  Speaker 4: They have, you know, they have all the pieces.
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  Speaker 3: I just you know, goaltending has always been something that's
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  Speaker 3: been a little helter skelter for me. You got one
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  Speaker 3: of the best defensemen in the NHL and some great
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  Speaker 3: top six forwards, so there's no reason why they can't
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  Speaker 3: six points.
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  Speaker 4: At this point of the season.
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  Speaker 3: You kind of have that last you know, twelve ten
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  Speaker 3: game stint push before the break where you need to
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  Speaker 3: really get as close as possible. I feel like after
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  Speaker 3: the break, it's very hard to make up ground as
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  Speaker 3: all teams are coming back and you start seeing more
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  Speaker 3: overtimes and more loser points. You never want that to
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  Speaker 3: happen because typically the end of the season after the
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  Speaker 3: break is a lot more it's a lot more games
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  Speaker 3: against your division, and so that's when you get a
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  Speaker 3: lot of teams that play each other, they go to overtime,
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  Speaker 3: they end up getting a points.
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  Speaker 4: So it's very hard to make up ground.
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  Speaker 3: Now you're playing against teams that aren't really in your division,
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  Speaker 3: you might have one or two, but you're playing against
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  Speaker 3: teams in the other conference. This is when you got
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  Speaker 3: to kind of get your points, get up, get move,
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  Speaker 3: and get as close as possible.
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  Speaker 1: Dean Evison, for whom the expression if luks could kill
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  Speaker 1: was invented, imagine firing that guy. I mean it just
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  Speaker 1: I would just send him a text. I'm like, let's
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  Speaker 1: just not do this in person, because Dean Everson might
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  Speaker 1: just murder you with those eyes.
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  Speaker 3: Oh he's he's a he's a scary man when he's looking.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how tough he is. If he like
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  Speaker 3: eats glass or anything like that. But did you see
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  Speaker 3: did you see Rick Bonus talk about how he got
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  Speaker 3: the call and was like he thought like the GM
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  Speaker 3: was calling him to give have advice about a player,
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  Speaker 3: like the guy did not want to coach at all
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  Speaker 3: or wasn't even thinking of it, And they're like, yep,
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  Speaker 3: you're coaching, Bud.
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  Speaker 4: Come on any there, Jesus Christ, here comes bones.
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  Speaker 2: Bones can't say no.
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  Speaker 1: Meantime, the Outawa Center is seven announcement to make, and
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  Speaker 1: note it's not about signing goldten er James Reimer, the
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  Speaker 1: former Leaf, to a one year contract and a move
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  Speaker 1: that stunned everybody. The Sins released the statement Friday denying
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  Speaker 1: completely fabricid and false stories that are spreading on social
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  Speaker 1: media a butt our hockey club. At this point, most
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  Speaker 1: people weren't even aware of what the rumors were, but
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  Speaker 1: apparently involving Goldtonerlenus ol Maark and his absence for the team.
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  Speaker 1: By trying to get ahead of the story, the Sins
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  Speaker 1: appear to make it even bigger, putting OUTAWUS players in
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  Speaker 1: the unfortunate position of having to answer questions about these rumors.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently lead us ome Maark again, as we know his
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  Speaker 1: way with the team for personal reasons. People speculating problems
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  Speaker 1: at home, infidelity, blah blah blah. Is this a massive
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  Speaker 1: pr blunder by this sense shady or is there a
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  Speaker 1: method to the madness?
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  Speaker 4: Uh?
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  Speaker 2: You know, you never.
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  Speaker 3: It's tough because when you're in a market like that
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  Speaker 3: in Canada and there's this burner account that comes out
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  Speaker 3: and says x y Z cheated, you know, and it
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  Speaker 3: catches wildfire like that, I can only imagine the amount
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  Speaker 3: of dms from people to the wives of the team,
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  Speaker 3: family members of the team, players of the team, and
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  Speaker 3: the noise gets like, you know, if this happens in
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  Speaker 3: a Columbus, or it happens in a San Jose or
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  Speaker 3: you know, a smaller market, there's none of this kind
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  Speaker 3: of blowback. But in Canada, you know, in a team
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  Speaker 3: like Ottawa and a franchise like this, it just I
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  Speaker 3: think the noise just got too loud and they had
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  Speaker 3: to address it because I can only imagine what like
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  Speaker 3: Lena Solmark's wife or girlfriend. It escapes me whichever one
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  Speaker 3: it is, But if she was getting text messages DMS
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  Speaker 3: from people being like, you know, your husband's a piece
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  Speaker 3: of shit x y Z and I just see that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, but I just you can you can understand
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  Speaker 3: where that comes from. Where it's like they probably had
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  Speaker 3: the knee jerk reaction. Maybe you don't want to address it,
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  Speaker 3: but he becomes so big that you have to. And
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  Speaker 3: I think, you know, Col talked about it as well
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  Speaker 3: and was like, you know, this is bullshit and disgraceful,
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  Speaker 3: and I just think, what, I can't believe a burner
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  Speaker 3: account got this much traction this quickly, Like I'd guys, we'd,
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  Speaker 3: you know, we'd our group chats being like is this
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  Speaker 3: shit real?
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  Speaker 4: Like is this actually real?
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  Speaker 3: And that's just tough when you're in the world we're
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  Speaker 3: in today, where it's like somebody can throw a tweet
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  Speaker 3: out and it potentially you know, disrail in a franchise
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  Speaker 3: and players and families and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 4: So I guess it comes with the job.
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  Speaker 3: It's not really a sexy part of being a professional
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  Speaker 3: athlete is if somebody wants to come out of the
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  Speaker 3: woodwork and kind of fuck you over or try to
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  Speaker 3: mess with you.
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  Speaker 4: But I don't know if it's true.
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  Speaker 3: I can't speculate on it, but all I know is
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  Speaker 3: that I feel like the way they reacted to it
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  Speaker 3: probably not true because if and I'm just gonna put
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  Speaker 3: my teammate hat on it, if lenas Olmark actually outed
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  Speaker 3: all the guys, he probably would not be with us
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  Speaker 3: anymore because he would have got jump by everybody.
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  Speaker 2: It would be like a full metal jacket situation. I'm
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  Speaker 2: just taking a bar of soap and towels just beating him.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, they would have tied him to the bed.
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  Speaker 4: They would have.
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  Speaker 1: If you get caught cheating by your partner and then
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  Speaker 1: you tell her, well, don't worry, x y Z here
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  Speaker 1: all cheating as well, and then that person then goes
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  Speaker 1: and tells all their wives of girlfriends.
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  Speaker 2: That's like the ultimate ultimate thing you can't do.
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  Speaker 3: JD I kind of you know when you think about it,
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  Speaker 3: like not that this didn't happen, but that's a hell
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  Speaker 3: of a move. Take everybody down with you at this point,
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  Speaker 3: you're like, if I'm fucking going down, Hey, no honor
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  Speaker 3: amongst thieves. At this point, I'm gonna try to I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna try to mitigate.
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  Speaker 4: He made me do it.
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  Speaker 5: He made me do it.
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  Speaker 2: All scum. It's not just me.
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  Speaker 4: It's not just me.
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  Speaker 2: I'm the least a bunch I was abriated.
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  Speaker 4: Uh No, I don't listen. I don't. I don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't take any kind of credence to it at all,
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  Speaker 3: and I don't. I don't think there's anything. There's anything there.
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  Speaker 3: I just think it's unfortunate that that happens. And if
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  Speaker 3: it did, if this that was the case, he wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: be on the team. He'd be off the team probably,
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  Speaker 3: and they would have put him on waivers, and you
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  Speaker 3: would there'd have been more signs than right now. They're
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  Speaker 3: all coming out and supporting them, so it's obviously right
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  Speaker 3: something that's not that.
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  Speaker 1: Good point worst news for Sens fans. The Leafs on
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  Speaker 1: a hater right now. They're back in a playoff spot.
• 10:19
  Speaker 1: They lost in Utah on Tuesday, but that was their
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  Speaker 1: first regulation loss in December twenty, first coming off and
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  Speaker 1: impressive OT win in Colorado that was eye opening. Austin
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  Speaker 1: Matthews seven goals is last seven games. Willie styalas your
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  Speaker 1: boy back in the lineup, got the OT winner against
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  Speaker 1: that powerhouse Avalanche team. Ten straight games the Leaves had
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  Speaker 1: a point until as I mentioned that loss against Utah.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like they got their mojo back Monday. Will
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  Speaker 1: have them on Prime against Quinn Hughes, the Minnesota whild
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  Speaker 1: your thoughts and the Leafs turning things around.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's tough to go in Colorado and then
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  Speaker 3: play the Lake game and then play Utah in the
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  Speaker 3: late game at elevation, back to back. I mean I
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  Speaker 3: could have that is the That is a gambler's delight. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that game last sight. I caught it too late.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you what, rappers delight to gambler's delight, that's
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  Speaker 1: what you're.
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  Speaker 3: Touch your house on that one. Because back to back,
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  Speaker 3: back to back. I don't know if there's a betting
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  Speaker 3: we can get a betting sponsor here. We're not a
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  Speaker 3: loud sponsors on our show, no video those sponsors. But
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  Speaker 3: I think, uh, you know, they've been playing some great hockey.
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  Speaker 3: I mean Austin Matthews seems like he's found his mojo again,
• 11:25
  Speaker 3: which is which is awesome. You know, it's always fun.
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  Speaker 3: I love Austin Matthews the goal scorer. I love watching
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  Speaker 3: him just be so dominant. I think he gets such
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  Speaker 3: a bad rap around the league, you know, because everybody
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  Speaker 3: lumps him in with the McKinnon's and the McDavid's and
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  Speaker 3: you know these guys that I think are just untouchable
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  Speaker 3: up top, these top two or three guys that just
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  Speaker 3: there's just no one going to catch them. They're just
• 11:47
  Speaker 3: in a different world altogether. But he's been amazing for them.
• 11:50
  Speaker 3: Their team's looking more and more healthy. Joseph wol has
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  Speaker 3: been really playing some good hockey. And you know, having
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  Speaker 3: Willie Nelander come back and play the way he did
• 11:59
  Speaker 3: in Colorado is is pretty It's pretty spad. Everybody's kind
• 12:02
  Speaker 3: of worried how he would, you know, be sliding back
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  Speaker 3: into that roster and if you kind of disrupt some
• 12:06
  Speaker 3: things because they're in a little bit of a heater.
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  Speaker 4: But he's, uh, he looked really good.
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  Speaker 3: And I mean the one thing he's is he attempting
• 12:13
  Speaker 3: to get on season two of Heated Rivalry. Potentially every
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  Speaker 3: interview is like, is a crotch up, no shirt, sweating,
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  Speaker 3: and he's like and he's like, looks like he's oiled up.
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  Speaker 4: And I was going to tweet about.
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  Speaker 2: It, but I was like, is he should have tweeted
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  Speaker 2: about that?
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  Speaker 5: Just?
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  Speaker 3: I think, so, Hudson Williams, you got a season two
• 12:34
  Speaker 3: of Heated Rivalry. Willie Nilander has to make a cameo
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  Speaker 3: the little chest hair. I'm like Jesus Willy, slow down.
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  Speaker 3: He keeps them for the rest of us.
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  Speaker 4: Jesus slick.
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  Speaker 2: Look at a branch out a little bit that could
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  Speaker 2: be pretty good, by the way, talents a Hated Rivalry
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  Speaker 2: Golden Globe story first later, So that's coming up in
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  Speaker 2: set of sixty, just to tweet it.
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  Speaker 4: Which on the interview with Gail King talco ahead.
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  Speaker 2: No, Dal's got something else for us. No, I mean
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  Speaker 2: we can say quick now. I was gonna wait till later.
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  Speaker 6: I have a friend who was a DJ'd the CAA
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  Speaker 6: after party nice at the Globes, and apparently the two
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  Speaker 6: stars of Heated Rivalry recently signed a CAA and they
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  Speaker 6: showed up at the party and that was like everyone
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  Speaker 6: was buzzing, like it wasn't you know, it wasn't over
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  Speaker 6: a DiCaprio entrance or a Shalame entrance. The stars of
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  Speaker 6: Heated Rivalry came into the party and everyone was just
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  Speaker 6: like turning.
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  Speaker 2: It was they felt the presence of these two guys.
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  Speaker 6: They're definitely having a moment right now, which is which
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  Speaker 6: is fun to see.
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  Speaker 1: Good for hockey, whatever it takes you, all right, Teach
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  Speaker 1: me how to Dougie, Jack and Luke when the bow
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  Speaker 1: of the Hughes Brothers Monday Night, Devil's beat older brother
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  Speaker 1: Quinn Hughes in the wild five to two Monday Night
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  Speaker 1: defense from Dougie Hamilton back in the line after the win,
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  Speaker 1: after being a healthy scratch Sunday against Winnipeg, that absence
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  Speaker 1: leading to speculation that Hamilton could be traded. He's three
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  Speaker 1: seasons removed from that twenty two goals seventy four points season,
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  Speaker 1: two years left to this contract after this year. We're
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  Speaker 1: poorly blocking a trade to your Sharks over the summer.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think this is it for Dougie Hamilton?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we don't want him in San Jose, So
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  Speaker 3: go fuck yourself. You don't want to go to San Jose?
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  Speaker 2: Nice like?
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  Speaker 3: You know, that's a that's a that's my team, it's
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  Speaker 3: my squad. Uh No, I listen, Dougie Hamilton. You know
• 14:17
  Speaker 3: you gms are the ones that are at fault for
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  Speaker 3: giving guys no move clauses. You have every right to
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  Speaker 3: exercise it, but by or beware, if a team wants
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  Speaker 3: to get rid of you, they'll find a way to
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  Speaker 3: make you as uncomfortable as possible to waive that no
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  Speaker 3: move clause, so you know, he hasn't moved and this
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  Speaker 3: team's been kind of in a spiral. Wasn't a spiral.
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  Speaker 3: They kind of finally won one, but they were in
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: a spiral. You know, after all that Quinn Hughes nonsense
• 14:44
  Speaker 3: and Dougie Hamilton didn't want to wave his no move clause,
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: and you know, I think it's just from there, it's
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: kind of just started, you know, got out of control
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: a little bit and they're trying to wrangle this back,
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: so they scratch him. Goba Savage comes back. They lose it,
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: don't they, you know, drop a game to Winnipeg, and
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: then they win this next one. So do I think
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: he's gonna end up waving? You know, his agent came
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: out and kind of put some water on the on
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: the flames and the rumors, being like we're trying to
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: work with them, and you know, so now it's just
• 15:10
  Speaker 3: a posturing and positioning him who could make the other
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: side look worse. But you know, this Devil's team that
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: had high, high aspirations to win a Stanley Cup. I mean,
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: I don't think they can win without bringing something in.
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: And the only big trading piece is Dougie Hamilton. So
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: I did see somebody float out Dougie Hamilton for Darnell Nurse. Wow,
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: as like a one for one with the money swapped
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: the money lefty righty, you know if if Darnagh wasn't happy,
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: I don't think, you know. But that also frees up
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: cap space for the oil not doesn't free up castles
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: for the oilers, but it just brings in, you know,
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: another right shot to go behind Bouchard. So now they
• 15:54
  Speaker 3: have their one two punch, you know potential. I kind
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: of was like, oh, that's not a bad trade. It
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: solves their lefty righty and then for them they get
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: Darnell Nurse, who's a great defenseman and he's an they're lefties.
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: So it's I think it's, uh, that's just my little
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: you know, rumor millshit that I'm thrown out there. Hopefully
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: put some gasoline on the fire and I'll get called
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: into a couple spots for podcasts, for radio hits, because
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: radio hits.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: In Edmonton, New Jersey, that's what you're seeing right now.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: This I'm called radio hit in New Jersey, I mean
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: not New Jersey, but in uh in Edmonton. I mean,
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: I need something. You know, those sponsors know nothing. We
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: need something.
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: Holding a sponsors, We got a market That's our marketing
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: tactic is is Rai's rampant speculation.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: They're getting radio hit money. That's what you're telling me
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: right now.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: That's our That's the only way we can market for
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: this is on radio or an audio.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: We'll take it. That's what that's what that's to Bels,
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: We'll take it.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: Big Knight, take anything, Big Knight for number ninety one
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: special season Detroit made even more special seeing Surrogey Federalf
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: still looks great, by the way, thirteen seasons in Detroit,
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: when three Stanley Cups scored four hundred goals nin hundred
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: fifty four points, won the Heart Trophy in nineteen ninety four,
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: sign with him and O three.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: And then it was just bizarre.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Played with Columbus in Washington before finishing his career in Russia.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: At the ceremony, what was notable was Federoff admitted going
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: to Anaheim was a mistake.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: He's not wrong.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: Detroit won the Cup five years later. You could make
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: the case he would have won more. You got Nick Linstrom,
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: pabl Datsu, Kenrick Zenderberg, Thomas Holmestrom, Johann Franz. And it
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: makes you think JD one of the great what ifs.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: Of all time? What if Federoff had not gone to Anaheim?
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: Loved him in Detroit.
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: He was a great player to watch, and you think
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: of the Russian wave and all those players coming over.
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: The guy was silky smooth, an absolute stud. Never should
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: have left.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, sometimes the grass isn't always greener, but I'm sure
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: he says that. But he enjoyed the sand there for
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: a little bit in the beach and yeah, but yeah,
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: I think he. I mean, he was so good. I
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: love those skates. I need to get a pair of those.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: While all the guys were in his his skates and
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: warm ups and it's cool.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: I mean, he was one of the.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Great you know, he could he played both sides of
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: the puck ford and defense. Uh you know, played at
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: times as a defenseman. Always also sup fort amy. He
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: was silky smooth, slick, you know, just a wizard with
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: the puck. And yeah, to have those guys back together
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: and staying there in Detroit would have been just cinema
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: to have them continue there run. But you know, sometimes
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: it's just you don't know a good thing until it's gone,
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: and you don't you know, you wish you knew you
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: were in the good times. Yea, when you were in
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: him so well, said life coach or andany Bernard would
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: say from the office, very good.
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: Good reference still to come here.
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: In NHL inscripted, Bill Zito, Stanley Cup winning general manager
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: of the Florida Panthers. He's got stories not just about
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: how he acquire Brad Marsham motivation there, but also his
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: former client Tim Thomas making his day on the ice
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: back in twenty eleven.
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: That's coming up after this. You're an NHL in scripted
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: Our next guest played collegiately.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: At Yale before starting ACME World Sports in nineteen ninety
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: five and building into a top agency representing NHL All Stars.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: From there, he worked in the Columbus Blue Jackets organization
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: for seven seasons, serving as assistant general manager and vice
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: president of hockey operations. In twenty twenty, he was named
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: general manager of the Florida Panthers. Since then, the Panthers
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: have played in three straight Stanley Cup Finals, winning the
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: last two. He's also part of the management group for
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: USA Hockey's Olympic team and the founder, along with his
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: wife Julie, of Panthers on the Prow, a fundraising campaign
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: to raise money for cancer research. Bill's you know, thanks
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: mich for giving us a few minutes here on Anchel
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: in scripted.
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: Good morning, good morning, Thanks for having them.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Of course, it's been a unique season for you, phil Ke,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: Sorry I say that again.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: It looks like a little then I get that all
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: the time. You know.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: I was actually in Buffalo and Craig Muni was calling
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: out to me and I go, hey, how are you?
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: And I didn't recognize it was He goes, it's Craig
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Muniy my Cay. He goes, Shelley, It's great to see
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: you again. So I had to pretend I was Christian
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: tell you this for correct Munty. It was great, good
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: looking guys.
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: So you're in good shape.
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: I appreciate it's a good comp But thank you, Bill.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: It's certainly been a unique season for you, you know,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: so many key players being in another lineup and if
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: the team is still there. You obviously had a very
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: successful event with reguards to Winter Classic.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: What's been like for you navigating this season?
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: Uh, just just day to day, right, It's probably no
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: different than anybody else. The years you don't have any injuries,
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: you thank your lucky stars when you get to the
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: rink every morning, and then other days you just have
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: to react and everybody goes through it. It's a little
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: more time consuming as you sit down every day and
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: do the what ifs. Well, if we have this player
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: on this day, then I'll do this trying to yeah,
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: just keep things afloat and be pragmatic in our approach
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: to to our roster every day.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: How you know, bill for you as a GM when
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: you have all these you know, injuries to key players, Like,
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: how hard is it as a GM to kind of
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: stay patient when you know you're probably taking in a
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: lot of information from a lot of different people and
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: just being the ability and having the ability to kind
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: of stay in the pocket, so to speak.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: I think it's it's probably easier than you think in
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: so far as there's nothing you can do. So there's
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: so many, so many parts to this job that I
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: would get frustrated with, and through the the kindness and
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: guidance of other people who have encouraged me, and not
• 21:43
  Speaker 5: just me, probably any other people who come into this
• 21:46
  Speaker 5: job worry about the stuff you can control. Just there's
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: no don't even doesn't even phase you. If you control
• 21:54
  Speaker 5: it and you you position your brain the right way,
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: then you worry about the things you can and the
• 21:59
  Speaker 5: other stuff happens like nothing you can do about it.
• 22:03
  Speaker 5: So now that the confusing part is well, maybe I
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: could do something about it, right if the if the
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: food was better, would they not get sick? If we
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: slept an hour later and we've practice later where Joe
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: blow and not have gotten hurt asle You know, you
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: can take that to a pretty ridiculous degree. But at
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: least we do, I guess have a little more a
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: little more confusion, you know, every day just making sure listen,
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: control the things we can and don't worry about the
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: things we can.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: It's a good rule of thumb in life.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: But you're right, you can make yourself neurotic if you
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: start worrying with every single detail.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: There's no question about it.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: And Matthew, you can shock is such a special player, Bill,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: Obviously he's nearing a return. What can you tell us
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: about a potential time of when he could be back
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: and what kind of an impact you'll have on this team?
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: Not a thing, No, he's a pretty good hockey player.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: So I think he's kind of in the final weeks
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: of his of his rehab. I kind of leave him alone,
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: and when he's back, he's back. It's just it's just
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: like what we just talked about, right, when someone tells
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: me he's playing, he's playing, and you know he his
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: impact is obviously on the ice, right, he's a world
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: class player, but also in our room with the guys,
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: his energy is it's unique and it would be great
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: to have him back in the mix. And I think
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: he'll bring an energy and enthusiasm to our room and
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: to the boys that the probably only he can bring.
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: Bill.
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: You know, he's going to be part of the Olympic roster,
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: you know, God willing if he's fully healthy. But you know,
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: for you being a part of that, and since that
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: roster has been announced, you know, the best part about
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: the NHL and the fans is they love dissecting any list,
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: any roster, anything of that capacity. So for like so
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: many elite players to choose from, for you guys, what
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: was the selection process like for everyone in the management
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: team and was it kind of smooth sailing or is
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: it kind of similar to what we talked about before
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: of like there's it's a lot of taking guidance and
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: really weighing all the options.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: It was fascinating for me and I'm very grateful to
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: be a part of it. And Billy Garon, who's the
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: general manager, did a wonderful job of conflict with love
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: maybe where the conversations were open, honest and hard without
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: being personal or or negative. You could disagree with somebody's opinion,
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: but you know, you didn't disagree or disrespect them, So
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: it was a very very healthy way. He's very, very
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: thorough and No, I'm very appreciative to be a part
• 25:01
  Speaker 5: of it and very impressed with how that selection, how
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: our processes worked, and probably steal a few things and
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: implement them on our.
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: Set as you should.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting, Bill, going back to your agency days,
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: you had Tim Thomas, two Karascus clients when they're both
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: fighting for the net in Boston.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: How complicated did that get?
• 25:23
  Speaker 5: It was? Uh, you know, I reflect back on it now,
• 25:26
  Speaker 5: I'm not sure today I could have done it. But
• 25:30
  Speaker 5: they were really both really gracious and kind to me.
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: They understood, and it was we were very open and honest.
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: And do you guys have a problem with this Billy,
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: you know, do you know, I'm fine, you know, and
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: I think I think that they understood that play was
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: based on merit and I wasn't the kosher I wasn't
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: the team. I couldn't. I could just help them with
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: their contracts and their careers, and it I think the
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: situation helped that timmy one of the cons mic. So
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: it wasn't like Tuca was sitting there saying, well, jeez,
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: I can't understand why this guy is playing. I think
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: he understood, and it was. It was a great experience
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: for me and two really really good guys who both
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: of them did a lot for me, what.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: Billy for you?
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: You know, Tim Thomas is such a colorful personality, and
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: I'm sure you've had some amazing phone calls with him.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: Is there any kind of story that sticks out with
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: you about Tim Thomas' character who he is as a guy,
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: because the things you hear are just amazing.
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: So when Boston wanted in Vancouver, I was there. Yeah,
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: and you see, now you know, the whole world goes
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: on the ice, right the peanut venters on the ice
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: of it. And this was like twenty ten. I Melissa's
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: wife said, you know as you want to go. No, no,
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: Asians don't go, it's not appropriate. And I was standing
• 27:05
  Speaker 5: in the hallway kind of underneath in Vancouver by myself,
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: like security guards were out, like everyone was watching the
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: Stanley Cup. And he came off the ice and got
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: me and brought me back and said, we've been through
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: a lot together. I can't you're gonna be here with me?
• 27:23
  Speaker 5: And then I stood at center ice with him, and
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: I was so touched, and I saw Peter Schirelli, who
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: gave him his chance and who believed in it. You
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: have to understand that for eight or nine years with
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: Tim Thomas, people made fun of me, like where you're
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: gonna sell Tim Thomas again? And it was he never
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: bailed on me. You know, he probably could have said
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: it was my agent and I wouldn't have blamed him.
• 27:52
  Speaker 5: So that was something that showed me his level of
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: integrity and grace. And it was funny because then it
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: became a fun interesting moment because then Tuca came over.
• 28:03
  Speaker 5: It was kind of laughing at us. You guys are dorks,
• 28:06
  Speaker 5: right like, and then someone from PR someone came to
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: Timmy and said, come on, we gotta go. I don't
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: think he had he had been awarded the trophy yet
• 28:17
  Speaker 5: the consmiat. So those two guys skated away and I'm
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: standing literally at center ice by myself, realizing you're not
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: a part of this, you have nothing to do with this.
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: And I walked off the ice and I went to
• 28:33
  Speaker 5: my hotel, grabbed my bag, took the subway to the airport.
• 28:36
  Speaker 5: Remember they had all the all the stuff in the
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: street and everything. Took the stubway, then got out and
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: took found a cab, went to the airport, got on
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: the next flight, went home, and I was really like,
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: it was one of the things that made me really
• 28:50
  Speaker 5: want to investigate the next opportunity to get to the
• 28:53
  Speaker 5: league side, because it was it was really sad like
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: for me. Yeah, but pretty special.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: That's a unique story.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: It's it's also greatly to been doing Billy, You and
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: your wife Julian incredible work raising funds for Panthers on
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: the prow again raising money for cancer research.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: Where did that idea first stem from?
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: Well, it's a hybrid. It was Julie's idea. But I
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: don't know if you guys were around at Chicago around
• 29:20
  Speaker 5: two thousand and two thousand and five, they had these
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: life sized cows out on Michigan Avenue and it was
• 29:25
  Speaker 5: called I think Cows on Parade and it started as
• 29:28
  Speaker 5: an art exhibit and then became a tourist exhibit. So
• 29:31
  Speaker 5: like out in front of the Italian Place, you know,
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: the cow was painted like a chef, and then American
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: Airlines had you know, wings on theirs or whatever. It was, right,
• 29:40
  Speaker 5: but it was it was so special and so interesting
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: that people would come as tourists just to see the cows.
• 29:47
  Speaker 5: And someone had given us life size panther statues, and
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: Julie thought, why don't we Why don't we sell if
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: you will, or you know, get donations for the panthers.
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: People can individualize them and personalize them. And the fun
• 29:59
  Speaker 5: part is it can be anything for anyone. So could
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: be really poignant, it could be sad like, it could
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: be you can honor someone, or it could just be
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: silly and fun like. So the response has been phenomenal.
• 30:15
  Speaker 5: And then uh, a local artist, Romero Brito, said, why
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: don't you auction mine? You'll get a considerable you know
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: some for that. So we did that and now we're
• 30:26
  Speaker 5: we're in the auction stage and we have some some
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: pretty special Panthers, so very very optimistic about reaching our
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: goal on now.
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: One is the one from the artist?
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: Is that kind of your favorite one or do you
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: have one that is kind of closest to you?
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: I gotta tell you, Michael Bubla did one wow. And
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: I think he did it with his niece whose name
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: escapes me in the moment. And and I know his
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: son had some vision issues with uh, I think with
• 30:57
  Speaker 5: the chemotherapy or with his cancer. And it's in Braille
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: and it's one of the most powerful things that are seeing.
• 31:04
  Speaker 5: Like when you see it at you, it gives you pause.
• 31:08
  Speaker 5: It's beautiful and then aesthetically like it's a it's like
• 31:11
  Speaker 5: a leopard print with a deep blues and purple. It's
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: really subtle. It's really cool.
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: That is awesome. It's obviously a fasting life you've led. Bill.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: I want to take you way back as a baseball fan.
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: You were the bat boy for the Brewers team made
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: it all the way to the World Series in nineteen eight.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Are you kidding me? You've got stories of Robin the
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: l Paul malder See. So Cooper, what do you got?
• 31:32
  Speaker 5: It was the guys you don't have enough time? Oh,
• 31:36
  Speaker 5: we do.
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: This is a career highlight.
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Now it was the most special. I you know,
• 31:43
  Speaker 5: I look at my son and I think, this kid's
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: the prince. He's the luckiest kid in the world. Right,
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: it comes to the rink and watches hockey, and but
• 31:53
  Speaker 5: that opportunity for me. The guys were so gracious, so kind,
• 31:58
  Speaker 5: they understood, so helpful, and I mean we had it down.
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: We would get there early. We would we would do
• 32:08
  Speaker 5: the laundry, clean the shoes, to our chores, and then
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: we could go play. We'd go to batting practice and
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: shag balls or you know, we go and take batting
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: practice or we go like whatever. It was. It was
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: like a playground with all of these future Hall of famers.
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: Just a great, great experience.
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: How how nerve wracking was it early on to the
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: shack of the bats and make sure you're getting back
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: in time like like that's it's such a It's an
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: underrated gig, I think for kids, because there's a lot
• 32:41
  Speaker 3: that goes into it potentially that maybe I don't see
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: from afar, but it seems like at times it could
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: be you don't want to be in the way and
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: you kind of want to be a side but Joseph
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: want to make sure you're getting in and out quickly.
• 32:52
  Speaker 5: Right, there's a great story and all tality in a moment.
• 32:57
  Speaker 5: This was night in the early eighties. Right. We had
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: one security guard, uncle Wally, who slept in front of
• 33:03
  Speaker 5: the door. Anybody could have come in and in fact,
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: like when it rained, like on those types of nights,
• 33:10
  Speaker 5: I'd call my buddies and have them come down and
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: just help clean, right, because everything's money, you're doing laundry
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: during the game, you're cleaning. Like. There was all kinds
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: of things that would happen where it was just sort
• 33:25
  Speaker 5: of a free for all, but it worked. But there
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: was one situation when I first started. I was down
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: the right field line. You know that the kids will
• 33:33
  Speaker 5: get the foul balls, and yeah, well they play catch.
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: One of them plays catch with the odd man out
• 33:38
  Speaker 5: in the outfield. So Reggie Jackson was in the right
• 33:42
  Speaker 5: field and the center fielder was playing with the left
• 33:44
  Speaker 5: field and he comes and I'm looking. He's pretty far,
• 33:49
  Speaker 5: so he fires the laser beam at me. I managed
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: to catch it. My arms about to fall and I
• 33:56
  Speaker 5: get it and it goes sailing over his head. The
• 34:01
  Speaker 5: right field fans go nuts. Right right. So he trots
• 34:05
  Speaker 5: back and gets it. Then he throws another one. I
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: throw another one over his head. So this happens a
• 34:12
  Speaker 5: couple of times. The game starts, I mean the inning starts.
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: He comes out for the next inning, and I ran
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: out there and I said, listen, could you could you
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: play with the center fielder. I can't get it to you?
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: He said, can't get it to me, threw it over
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: my head. You can get it to me. I'm here
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: all night. We're going to get this down. You're fine.
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: I on mind, We're fine, and and help me. And
• 34:35
  Speaker 5: then you know, maybe by two more innings we were
• 34:37
  Speaker 5: playing catch and like at that time he was ready,
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: like he had a candy bar right. So special, so great.
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: I got goose bumps right now that.
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: It was that kind of Uh, I don't know. I
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: used that word around here a lot grace. That Brewers
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: team reminds me a lot of our guys.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: That's awesome.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: Uh, you know, speaking of special jobs, you were a
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: GM of the Lake Erie Monsters, the Columbus Hlfhill you
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: guys want to call their cup in twenty sixteen, I
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: mean co tenants with the Cuocking Loans at the Quicker
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: Loans Arena with the Cleveland Cavaliers first time they win
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: an NBA championship. Lebron's around, But like, talk about that
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: experience in Lake Erie and just taking that team.
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: I mean, you had some youd I was looking at
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: the roster.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: You did good cast of character zach O Wrensky's first
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: year as well, So just talk about that whole experience.
• 35:36
  Speaker 5: It was phenomenal and I learned so much from from Yarmol,
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: you know, going through it and serving serving as an
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: advisor and helping and explaining and nudging me on players
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: and on Jared Bednar, who I disagreed with when I
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: first came in on a lot of things and then
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: figured out maybe this I knows what he's doing. It
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: was great And one one kind of fun fact is,
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: and I have pictures on my phone if you go
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: to the parade that they held for the Monsters, it's
• 36:21
  Speaker 5: like one point five million people there. Well I neglected
• 36:26
  Speaker 5: to share with you that it was also the parade
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: for the Calves, so we were all in the same parade.
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: But it was nuts. I mean it was it was
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: so much fun, just a great great Actually hockey.
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: Town, did you cross paths with Lebron at all.
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: Once in the hallway. Once in the hallway, he must
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: have been getting treatment or something. We were rarely there
• 36:54
  Speaker 5: at the same time as them. I think the guys
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: probably did right. But that setup is outstanding. It's a
• 37:01
  Speaker 5: great arena. I mean, you're in the you're in the
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: minor leagues trying to make it to the NHL, and
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: you're playing in the same house as Lebron. That's pretty cool.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very cool.
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Also very cool is the play of Brad Barshan, who
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: has just been an absolute stuff for you guys for
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: a good reason. Bill, you we have been widely acclaimed
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: for those types of moves and making that trade last season.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: Can you just walk us through that process.
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: How you identified he'd be such a key piece for you,
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: not only last season but also this year.
• 37:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it goes to his character and whatever.
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: I mean as far as the move, I don't know,
• 37:34
  Speaker 5: you want you want Brad marsh on your team, Okay,
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: I don't. I don't think that's a great uh accomplishment
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: To understand, he's a pretty bad hogging player. But but
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: as a person, like the fun thing for me was
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: to see that infectious energy that he has. I talked
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: a little bit about Matthew earlier, but then you know,
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: you watch Brad on the ice when you play against
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: him and you can't stand him. But that is but
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: it's real, it's it's not it's how he is. It's NonStop,
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: it's all the time, and it's wonderful. And I think
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: we all have friends like that. Maybe we don't play
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: in the NHL, but there's that one guy who was
• 38:15
  Speaker 5: just has energy like where does he get it? And
• 38:18
  Speaker 5: so that's really helped our team on top of what
• 38:22
  Speaker 5: a special hockey player he is.
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: And you get you get a bunch on that team
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: in Florida, you know, Sam Bennett being one of them.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: You know, my last one for me is you know
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: him being left off the roster for Team Canada. But
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: I mean with the Canend's schedule, you never know what
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: can happen with injuries and stuff like that. But as
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: somebody that's working with Team USA, do you have to
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: field calls from the other gms around the you know,
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: the other countries and is that how do those conversations go?
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: Because they calling you like how's he looking, how's he feeling?
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: Do you have to disclose kind of all the information
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: if they contact you.
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: I don't know what you have to do. I certainly would,
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: and I think, look, there is is obviously hippa, and
• 39:05
  Speaker 5: there is information that you have to keep tight, and
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: there's there's legal and professional guidelines and morality. At the
• 39:13
  Speaker 5: same time, you know, we're all in the same sport
• 39:16
  Speaker 5: our Our Olympics is a celebration for all of us
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: of this wonderful game. So I think just being helpful
• 39:25
  Speaker 5: and being a good neighbor wherever we can, and pretty much,
• 39:29
  Speaker 5: you know, having having done the World Championships before, Uh,
• 39:32
  Speaker 5: certainly that's how every general manager treated me. So yeah,
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: it's it's a it's a hard process, but I think
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: overall it'll work out for everyone in the end.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: Hey, Bill, I just had one for you as well.
• 39:50
  Speaker 6: We've mentioned three guys who you brought to Florida, and
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: Bennett Marshaw and Kit Chuck.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: They all have that same kind of quality.
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: Call them pests, call them agitators, call them whatever you
• 40:00
  Speaker 6: want to call them. But is that a quality that
• 40:03
  Speaker 6: when you got to Florida you identified as something you
• 40:06
  Speaker 6: specifically wanted to bring to that team.
• 40:11
  Speaker 5: If I reflect back when we first got here, it
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: seems like decades ago. The compete, the love of the
• 40:19
  Speaker 5: game and the compete where that was paramount. So you know,
• 40:28
  Speaker 5: we we brought other guys. Sam Reinhard, I wouldn't call
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: him a past unless you don't like to get scored on.
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: But so different types of players who might fit, but
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: all who who you know, we had hoped would compete.
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: That was the That was the biggest thing, more than
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: the sort of pest label. I think that's just an
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: added dimension to those three guys.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Still Kim Winnings manager Bill Sedo obviously having another fantastic
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: here the Panthers looking ahead to Timyo say, in the Olympics,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: and I gotta commend you, Bille. I was there in
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: Florida for six have been weekend and incredibly on that Saturday,
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: you guys won six seven seven six was the final.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: So that I don't know how you did it.
• 41:13
  Speaker 5: My kids they were the ones giving it to me
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: about it, And I did an ESPN one opening night
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: it wasn't startup Wizard Emily Kaplan and she said the
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: question was you know you want to I don't you
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: think you can win cups? Or something like that. I said,
• 41:27
  Speaker 5: I don't know if I think about that, but if
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna, I mean, I want to win. Six seven
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: some of those some of those are awesome. The kids
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: have so much fun. Oh, I think that's I think
• 41:40
  Speaker 5: that's over now. I've been told.
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: I hope it is.
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I've been I've been told I'm not cool. And
• 41:47
  Speaker 5: so we got to wait for the next one.
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, six seven officially dead, but the Panthers alive and well, Bill,
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: thanks so much of the time, Good.
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: Luck, Thanks guys, mm hmm, thanks.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: What's to Bills?
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: Great stuff there as far as Cinophile and sixties concerned.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: A Golden Globes recap. My favorite speech in the night,
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: the great jut Apatow. I love when he presented Best
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: Director because, as he said, if you're presenting this a war,
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: clearly you're as good as anybody here as far as
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: directors are concerned. Tugue in cheek and he's like, you know,
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: I know where to put the lenses and stuff. I'm
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: clearly on a part with Steven Spielberg. He then mentioned,
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: he goes, I've been snubbing the Golden Globes. I've even
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: here since train Wreck lost ten years ago. The film
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: I directed, starring Amy Schumer. It lost to the Martian.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: He's like noted comedic genius Ridley Scott who made such
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: really funny movies and Alien and Blade Runner. He's like, yeah,
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: one of the great comedic directors of our time. I
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: guess I've come back the Gold Globes after this appatow
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: is the best overall. Great night for Paul Thomas Anderson.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: I messed this for an eleven time Hoscar onmity. He's
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: never won. He's hitting everything. Now we have a flowers
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: segment coming up, potentially sponsored by one hundred flowers dot Com.
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: Everyone's giving their flowers to pt Anderson At the Globes.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: He wins for Best Screenplay, Best Director. One batt left
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: on their wins' Best Picture. I spilled that timidates shallow
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: May wins for Best Actress, Best Actress.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: Jesse Buckley. I got my wife to watch Hamden. She
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: loved it.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: I knew she would, and Buckley deservedly wins Best Actress.
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: So good race now actually for the Oscars with her
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: and Rose Byrne. Great title Tuttle the year. If I
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: had legs, I'd kick you because she also won Best
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: Actress that'll be a fun race. Oscar Races by the way,
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: coming out next Thursday. Your thoughts, jd Any aspect of
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: the globes, I.
• 43:28
  Speaker 3: Saw what I just saw the Rock just you know,
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: the Rock didn't win, So yeah, not surprised there, but
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: Asmashic he was. But he had a nice little thing
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: on his Instagram about his daughter the gift they gave
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: him with like, you know, little notes every day for
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: him to take and you know, stuff that's very wholesome,
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: and he kind of read it to the group being like,
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: you know, we're all winners still and being grateful and
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: stuff like that.
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: So that was cool. Uh, you know, Chala may ye.
• 43:55
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna see Marty Supreme Tale. I'm gonna watch it twice.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: You have to go.
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: I have to go. Maybe today. How's the hosting and
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: all that with Nikki?
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: I was watching football. I didn't see whuch the hosting tow
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: Can you speak to that? I was pissed the Eagles
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: loss and I watched by the charge that it was
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: much real. I went and got a bagel, go ahead,
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: some smoke.
• 44:10
  Speaker 6: I just wasn't watching. I was kind of sitting in
• 44:13
  Speaker 6: and out. I came in and out while my wife
• 44:15
  Speaker 6: was watching.
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: She thought she was funny. I thought it was funny
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: how some.
• 44:19
  Speaker 6: Of those winners had to walk pretty far to get
• 44:22
  Speaker 6: onto that stage. It was kind of amusing to see
• 44:24
  Speaker 6: them navigate their way to the stage, and the awards
• 44:27
  Speaker 6: looked much bigger. I remember feeling like the Golden goats
• 44:29
  Speaker 6: were very small, and now they look like freaking baseball
• 44:32
  Speaker 6: bats out there.
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: So well did we talk about all?
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: Speaking of baseball bats, the Hudson Williams interview with Gail King,
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: when he absolutely stunned her nod she wanted to take a.
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: Rocket ship to the moon.
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: When he was like, the show's like it's like we're jizzing,
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: and I'm like, oh, you gotta go watch it.
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: It's it's hilarious.
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: He talked of jizz to Gail King, and Gail King's
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: Gail King was as pale as me and all the
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: blood ran from her face.
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, definitely interview, she.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: Was like, oh my god.
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: She's like, I don't know about all that, but it's
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: a great show.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: Speaking of entertainment, the new Young Blood trailer coming down.
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: We've said this before. I was lobbying to try to
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: get Jad to play like a virulent racist because it's
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: an all black cast, But how can you forget the
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty six original starring Rob Lowe is Dean Youngblood
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: along side a young Patrick Swayzee and Canna Reeves. Now
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: we got our first look Ashton James playing young Blood.
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: I love Blair Underwood veteran actor Blair Underwood playing his father.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: And the hockey scenes coordinated by Chris Nelson The Devil's
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: Draft Picko previously worked on Miracle and Mighty Ducks Game Changers.
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: Jad, you're the athlete, what do you think of the trailer?
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: I mean the guy.
• 45:45
  Speaker 3: They can all skate, Ashton James Loo look good in
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: the trailer, and you know the hardest thing about doing
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: anything hockey related is how you need the cameraman to
• 45:56
  Speaker 3: be able to operate cameras on skates moving the way
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: they shoot it is the way that's kind of missed
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: in the past. So you know, I was kind of
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: looking at that a lot of like on the ice views,
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: I think was really good. But also it's that's always
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: the thing with with hockey and hockey movies in general,
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: is I want to see all the guys be good skaters,
• 46:18
  Speaker 3: like you want guys to be talented, you know, athletes
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: and hockey players, you know, and it's like bring in
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: old veteran guys and film them the right way and
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: also make sure your camera guys can all skate. So
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: it's like you want to really embody what.
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: Hockey is it.
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: It's fast paced, it's quick cuts and stuff like that.
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: So I just always, you know, if I'm putting on
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: my director lens, it's always something I look for.
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: When I'm watching a hockey movie.
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: Hockey show, you know, obviously not heated rivalry because it's
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: not really hockey related, but but it's it's there is
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: hockey elements. And they did show some good cuts which
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: I like. Even though the players, the main characters I
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: don't think are great skaters. They do a good job
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: of kaye hiding that. But this one, Ashton James, looks fantastic.
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: Looks like he you know, plays in a lower league
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: and East Coast or something like that and can kind
• 47:08
  Speaker 3: of move and grove, so I like it.
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: Tell your thoughts on the trailer. I thought it looked good.
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: I thought it looked really good.
• 47:14
  Speaker 6: I you know, I don't know what how wide the
• 47:17
  Speaker 6: distribution will be for this thing.
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: But I'm definitely curious to check it out.
• 47:20
  Speaker 6: And actually, you know, we're working to get some people
• 47:22
  Speaker 6: from the film on the on the podcast.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: And interesting note from the publicity team. They the scenes.
• 47:28
  Speaker 6: The hockey scenes were coordinated by Chris Nelson, who previously
• 47:32
  Speaker 6: worked on Miracle and Mighty Ducks Game Changers.
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: Are you hearing an echo?
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah? Is there an echo? Hello? Hello? No, ad net.
• 47:44
  Speaker 2: He's just been a smart as.
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: We'll cut that out. No, keep that keep going, but
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: I will I'm not done.
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: It again, Chris Nelson? What is Where's Chris Salvin? He's
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: the Devil's draft pick.
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: Devil's draft pick.
• 47:57
  Speaker 7: And and I was going to say in nineteen ninety
• 48:02
  Speaker 7: he won a national championshi ship at the University of Wisconsin,
• 48:06
  Speaker 7: becoming the first black hockey player to win an NCAA
• 48:10
  Speaker 7: national championship.
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: That's a great tibut.
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: Now, how did you let me finish what I was saying?
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: Lead with that?
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: We would have got to that anyways, there it is.
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: I ask you you got to keep that any checked
• 48:25
  Speaker 4: with it.
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: If we had if we had video capabilities, that would
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: go that would go viral.
• 48:29
  Speaker 6: Well, you had echo before on your mic and That's
• 48:32
  Speaker 6: why I was wondering if you know we we did
• 48:34
  Speaker 6: have an echo.
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: I thought that's what sold the joke what JD said.
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: It was like, oh, there might be an echo, like
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: he actually watching you on video.
• 48:42
  Speaker 4: If we had a video element on YouTube like YouTube shorts.
• 48:44
  Speaker 4: If you're going like.
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  Speaker 2: YouTube shorts, would be great. Do you think that can
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  Speaker 2: happen for the podcast?
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  Speaker 6: No, I think it's possible. I think it's possible. What
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  Speaker 6: a fucking agitator you are, JDA. Anyways, yeah, call me
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  Speaker 6: the rat king.
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  Speaker 2: All right, a couple more heroes. We wrap up. Gerard
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  Speaker 2: Galant to step away. This is a serious stories.
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  Speaker 1: Former coach JD actually go it's oh what else we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna tell you? He's taking a leaf from hockey ten
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  Speaker 1: to medical issues. He coached in Florida, had stinted the
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: Blue Jackets, Golden Knights and ranges for a coaching the
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  Speaker 1: Shanghai Dragons the KHL. Obviously wishing the best in the recovery.
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  Speaker 1: Not a whole lock on out there, but just scary
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  Speaker 1: to think.
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  Speaker 2: About gd going from Shanghai to his home province a
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  Speaker 2: Prince Edward Island. Hopefully it's okay.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, wish him all the best. He's he's a great
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  Speaker 3: human being, salt of the earth, just an amazing guy,
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: and you know, I just wish him all the best
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: and hopefully speedy recovery. And hopefully that flight was we
• 49:34
  Speaker 3: were talking about that flight. That's gonna be difficult with
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: what happened, flying all the way from Shanghai to Prince
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  Speaker 3: Edder Island. Sure that's not direct either.
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  Speaker 1: No God, no geez a direct fledged Shanghai to Pei.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck again, Hopefully Jeroid Golant is okay, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: wrap things up again a segment hopefully at some point
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  Speaker 1: to be sponsored by one hundred flowers dot com. In
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: the meantime, let's hand out some flowers. Connor McDavid extends
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  Speaker 1: his point to twenty games. That's the longest of his career,
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  Speaker 1: longest in the NHL since Mitch Marta went twenty three
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  Speaker 1: straight in twenty twenty two. Second, your guy, Clayton Caller
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  Speaker 1: makes the US Olympic team Utah Manister, revealing after a
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  Speaker 1: selection that playing in the Olympics is a dream he
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  Speaker 1: shared with his dad, Brian, who passed unexpectedly on Thanksgiving.
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  Speaker 1: And Lastly, the lightning can't be stopped to one shootout
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  Speaker 1: winning Pittsburgh eleventh straight victory. That ties the longest streak
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  Speaker 1: in franchise history, longest win streak in the NHL this season,
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  Speaker 1: and it makes the lightning right now JD. The favorites
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  Speaker 1: in the Eastern Conference.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, all great flowers, all three of them. I had
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  Speaker 3: one to add the rose amongst the thorns. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: talking about Tampa historically, I'll just touch quickly on all
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  Speaker 3: of it.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Conor.
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  Speaker 3: McDavid's a freak, fucking freak. Uh, he doesn't even he
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: should have his own league by himself. Him and Nathan McKinnon.
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: Just play one on one and refilm it and broadcast
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  Speaker 3: it live, no goalies.
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  Speaker 4: Just then one on one.
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  Speaker 3: The Clayton Keller one that's, you know, heart wrenching and
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  Speaker 3: tough to listen to. He's a close friend and got
• 50:54
  Speaker 3: to see him when he was in New York. He
• 50:55
  Speaker 3: give them a hug and just a great kid, so,
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  Speaker 3: you know, well deserved, and you know, I'm sure his
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  Speaker 3: dad's smiling and and really just so proud of him
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  Speaker 3: and what he's done and his strength and through all this.
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  Speaker 3: So and then you know, thirdly, the Tampa Bay lightning.
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  Speaker 3: This is if not for the Florida Panthers. I mean
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  Speaker 3: this team would had could have won the last two years. Also,
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  Speaker 3: so this team is cooking again. They find a way
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  Speaker 3: every single year. It seems like the hockey is well.
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  Speaker 3: Florida is the state of hockey. It has been and
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: it has reigned supreme in the East. That's for damn
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  Speaker 3: fucking sure. So good for them. And then my lastly,
• 51:36
  Speaker 3: the Rose amongst the Thorns. You guys want a segment,
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: will give you a segment. This is Chasin emerged with
• 51:41
  Speaker 3: his Rose amongst the thorns, Leon Dreysidel against the Nashville
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: Predators all time in twenty games in his career played,
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: he has forty nine points, twenty seven goals and twenty
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  Speaker 3: two assists in twenty career games against the NASA repetters.
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  Speaker 3: That is fucking insanity. He had a goal and two
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  Speaker 3: assists against some last night death taxes and Leon Drysidel
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  Speaker 3: bending over the Nashville Jeez.
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  Speaker 2: Take that, David Boyle, take that, Becca Rena.
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  Speaker 3: Take it all, take it up and you are going
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  Speaker 3: to enjoy it. That is the Rose amongst the Thorns.
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  Speaker 1: It's a tough one, tough one for David Legwater jeez. Well,
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: hopefully we'll get a J. G. Pophy at some point
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  Speaker 1: down the line.
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  Speaker 2: But I want to thank once again Bill Zido, Stanley
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: Cup winning gem of the Panthers.
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  Speaker 1: He's obviously one of the kings of the hockey world.
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  Speaker 1: And the pregnant pause. No one loves a pregnant pause
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: like Bill Zedo. Great stuff from moving the entire crew.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you.
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  Speaker 2: Next time on NHL and Scripted.
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