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- Jason Linkes: Coming up next on Back Checking the Bolts. How many Stanley Cup bridesmaids dresses does Corey Perry have in his career? Five or six now. He's the one year with the lightning where he didn't make it, but that's, think, the only time out of the last five years that he hasn't been there. Cause he did it with Dallas, he did it with Montreal, he did it with his first year in Tampa, and then he did it with Edmonton the last two years. When all is said and done in terms of playoff games played, he's going to be pretty high on top of that list. Welcome to Back Checking the Bolts. Back checking the bolts is your cup of coffee to get you the latest on the Tampa Bay Lightning. Join host Jason Linkus and the managing editor of Raw Charge, Justin Godfrey, as they break down the Lightning's most recent games and go beyond the highlights, telling you what the box scores didn't. It's time to drop the puck. Welcome to back checking the bolts. This is your Joe Reiki Alexander Sullivan off and Andre Schuster episode. And if you are a fan of goaltending, it's your Mark Andre Fleury episode. It's episode number 29 of back checking the bolts. Hi, I'm your host, Jason Lakers. It is always I'm joined by the managing editor of raw charge. He is Justin Godfrey. You can read him each and every day at www.rawcharge.com. Justin. 4-3 overtime win yesterday wasn't the most exciting game in the world, but what were your initial thoughts? Would have been nice to win in regulation, you know, hold up that hope for the Atlantic Division title, but they got the two points. They're in the playoffs. They know who they're going to be facing now. They got through it, I believe without injury. So that's always a nice thing. You're playing a team that's out of the playoffs, probably not at their top. The Lightning did struggle a bit, but they got the two points. We're moving on. one more game in the regular season and then, you know, the real fun begins. those people who don't know, it was the fact that the lightning one in overtime and not in regulation that eliminated them from the Atlantic division title. Correct. That in the fact that the Chicago block ops just decided to forget how to play hockey against the Savers last night. It's funny. I turned it on. was two to one. think when I turned it on, Chicago gets a five on three power play and I don't even know if they got a shot on goal and then it. Seemed like every time Buffalo went down the ice, they scored again. So that kind of deflated the victory a little bit for the Lightning. But again, they weren't really, you know, concerned about winning the title. I think it would have been nice. It's always nice to hang a banner. You know, they're in the playoffs, they're getting their game to where it needs to be. And like I said, just wanting to get through tonight's or last night's game and then tomorrow's game without injury. Hopefully they can do that. Get some of their regular spilling back. ⁓ one of the nice things about it is, yeah, he gave up three goals, but I thought Andre Vasileski played fantastic last night. made, ⁓ I mean, there was a lot of play in the lightning zone, especially in the third period, first period, the third period felt like it was almost all in the lightning zone. He made a lot of key stops, probably kept that from getting out of hand. So to see him kind of getting into that form where he could steal games is really nice. Got some depth scoring as well. There's some, some good things to draw out of, out of what was a, you know, kind of. Blush game. I have to ask you the lightning are up three to two late in the game and you expect their lightning just to put the defensive clamps down on the red wings and Then the trinkets a two on none with the worst possible people in the world Patrick Kane and the brink at what happened So that's kind of one of those things where Braden Colbert pointed it out at in the postgame Emila Lilliburg's play on his offhand So he's left handed defenseman playing on the right side. So his back is to the boards and he never saw Patrick Kane coming. And that's kind of one of those disadvantages. You know, he probably thought he had a little bit more time than he did. I don't think anybody let him know on the ice that Patrick Gain is doing what Patrick Kane has done for, I don't know, 50 years, however long he's been in the league. You know, he sneaks up on him, steals the puck, starts at two on one. So it's kind of one of those things that the drawback of playing on your offhand is sometimes you're just not in position to see a play coming. And that's what it was. You look a little bit, kind of got handcuffed by the past for McDonough. It's in his skates. He's trying to dig it out and Kane just comes out of nowhere. And then like you said, it's Kane and to break, they break it. Yeah. Yeah. mean, was a good effort by Vassie, but I do have to say if you're going to pick two guys on Detroit coming on a two on none, those are not the two. are not the guys you want to see coming down near through. I always wonder if the lightning just kind of have forgotten how to play with the lead a little bit. You know, it's been. a long time, you know, they, won in Boston, but it was a late goal that won it. ⁓ they hadn't played with the lead a lot in the third period. They've been pretty good this year at, you know, shutting teams down, kind of got away from a little bit. The lightning just can't win to make everybody happy this year. You know, none of their wins, they've won 50 games this year and everyone's complained about pretty much 47 of them, I feel like. So it's just been kind of one of those years where everything's been a struggle. ⁓ but Hey, know, 50 wins is 50 wins. That's something to be proud about, Only the fifth time in franchise history that they've won 50. They're a good team. They're going to be one of the top teams in the East, you know, go out against the Rangers. think there is still a little bit to play for. You're still playing for home ice advantage. Yes, Montreal. Um, so it'll be interesting to see how they, they do. if I'm not mistaken, Montreal plays tonight. Am I right about that? Montreal plays at Philadelphia tonight. And neither team will have much to play for Montreal trying to get into the second position in the Atlantic, but Philadelphia clinched. They are going to be playing the Pittsburgh penguins. So that's where they're at. So Philadelphia doesn't have to worry about playing anybody tonight if they don't want to. they have a chance to catch the penguins or? No, no, penguins on all the tiebreakers. Okay. So that was one of the, that was one of the reasons why you saw the penguins rest Crosby and Malkin on Saturday. They're locked into that two seed. for them, especially as old as their roster is. It was a chance for them to rest up some players. one of the few teams older than the Lightning it seems like. But that being said, you that's probably a certainty. It's going to be interesting to see how it goes. If, if say Montreal loses tonight, you know, you could probably see a B B-level roster from the Lightning against the Rangers. If they win, you know, does Cooper try to go for it? Cagle status is kind of in the air right now. I know when they did the ESPN game. against Boston, the SBN crew had kind of said that, yeah, Hagel's going to play against Boston, but he may not play the last two games. He just kind of wanted to see where he was in terms of his fitness. He didn't play against Detroit. Does he play against New York? Could a lot, a lot could depend on what happens tonight with Montreal. If they do lose and the Lightning are going to clinch that second spot. So we'll see how it goes. I'm just going to play doubles advocate there with Hagel. You played him against Boston, but then you. sat him out against Detroit. Why even risk it now? You had a good season, whatever you're dinged up with, we want you to wait till game one. I think they wanted to see how he recovered from a day's action. know, maybe it's, can he play two nights in a row? Can he, you know, how bad does he feel the day after playing in a game? If he goes on the ice, he's going to go 100%. You saw it in the Boston game. He took two or three pretty awkward falls actually in that game, got back up and kept playing. So I think it's kind of more of a recovery thing. Hey, how's... So you played 20 minutes against Boston. How do you feel the day after for all intents and purposes? know, Cooper was kind of, ⁓ vague about if he's going to play, he said he was going to miss the game against Detroit, but hopefully that would be the last game he missed for the season. So we'll see if he plays against New York. ⁓ and again, Vasileski you'll probably go, especially if you're handsome still hurt. we talked a little bit about the Hagel injury, but Get us up to date on where the lightning are health wise. It's been a storyline throughout the season and really for the last month, the lightning had been extremely banged up. It's a time for them to play some of the guys from Syracuse, get some of the guys you've been scratching some minutes heading into the playoffs. Give us a, get, get us up to date on the lightning injury situation. it sounds like the one really long-term injury is going to be Ponce's Holmberg. Again, referencing back to that game against Boston. ⁓ ESPN had pretty much said that it looks like Homburg's out through the first round is what they're hearing, possibly more. So whatever that shoulder injury that he's dealing with, upper body injury is going to keep him out for a while. Status on Victor Hedman is unknown. ⁓ I think Emily Kaplan put it as maybe even Hedman doesn't know when he's coming back. So that remains a mystery. ⁓ other than that, it sounds like pretty much your other players that have been banged up. should be ready to go for the playoffs. Dominic James, Max Crozier have both been skating, participating in practices, not expected to be back for the regular season. That being said, you know, maybe the New York game is something where we see James and Crozier come back and just to see how they're doing. Zemges Gergensen did come back. He had missed the Boston game, I believe, and but was back out there against Detroit. And so Hagel looks like he's going to be good to go for the playoffs. So. You know, Brandon points probably still dealing with something. I thought he looked a little bit better against Detroit. He saw some of those moves where he was cutting towards the net. He was starting to skate a little bit better. So it looks like he's good to go. so Raleigh's played the last few games, so he should be good to go. Declan Carlisle has been back in. So it looks like pretty much all the banged up guys. Uh, Darren Radish has missed the last couple of games. Um, no real word on what his injury is, but he kind of have that feeling. Maybe it's one of those, Hey, if this was a playoff game, he'd be playing kind of things that he's dealing with. it'll be interesting to see. ⁓ if he comes back for New York, the New York game, or if they keep them out for the playoffs. Justin, I want to talk about the absence of radish and you saw it yesterday in the Detroit game on the power play. The bolts looked a little bit lost on the power play. They're so used to having that big one-timer from the point. You saw Moser who's a left-handed shot and there's nothing he can do when you're taking the passes from Kucharoff, but you can see there's a little awkwardness there. It gives the other team a chance to regroup and get in front of Moser before he decides on what to do. Tell me about that loss of Radish and what it truly means right now to this Bolts team. Yeah, you pretty much take away the two strongest parts of their power play. It's the Radish one-timer from the point and then him being able to feed it back to Kutcher off fairly easily. The left side of the power play has been probably their weakest side. They've kind of gone through, cycled through some stuff. They were hoping Bjorkstrand with the one timer could be, you know, the team you team move version of Stanco's over there. Hasn't quite worked out. Brandon Hagel has been over there. They bumped point out there a few times. I Corey Perry's had a chance out there. It just hasn't worked out. Everything kind of cycles through Radish and Kuturov. Either Radish taking the big blast or him moving the puck right back to Kuturov. Uh, to set up a, you know, the past to point in the slot. It's struggling. The power play struggling at it's one for it's whatever. I don't know if they're in the thirties now or something like that. It's close. Yeah. Part of me wonders that maybe Cooper doesn't want to show too much right now. Um, you know, against the Montreal, against Montreal, had kind of some interesting lineups. Corey Perry was out there. think Charles Edward de stew was out there a little bit. How much film do you want to give your opponent this time of year? So maybe you just try some other things. Don't really worry about scoring on the power play. You know, Kuturov is going to be Kuturov in the playoffs. You know, points can be back in that bumper spot. So at this point, I don't know how serious they're taking the power play in the games. You know, you don't want to take a game off or anything like that, but sometimes, hey, discretion is a better part of valor. And you just kind of don't give, you know, teams tape on what they want to see. So we'll see if Radish is back for the playoffs. You know, they should be back to that unit that has been fairly successful if. if somewhat streaky throughout the season. Justin, one of the players that you had mentioned earlier was Victor Hedman. Now, Hedman's been out for quite some time. If he comes back, does he just come right back into the lineup? Is he going to practice for a while? What is your thought on Hedman and his availability to the Lightning? That's a really good question. Information is a complete lockdown on, whatever the situation is. You know, again, it's not an injury designation that he has. It is, he's away for ⁓ personal reasons. ⁓ As far as I know, he hasn't been in any of the practices. It hasn't been skating or anything like that. So there could be some ramp up time. He is a veteran. He's not going to let himself get out of shape if it's, you not anything physical that he's dealing with. As long as he's been getting on the ice at some point, you know, it could be a quick ramp up period. think if he comes back and plays, you're looking at kind of what they did when he came back from his elbow surgery, which is third line minutes, probably second power play unit. It's kind of hard to break up some of the pairings that you have right now between Radish and Moser and then Cherneck and McDonough. So you don't want to break up those two top pairs right now. He's played pretty well with the Stu, ⁓ on the few, in the few minutes they've played together. So I would think that would be your third parry. But we'll see how they deal with it. know, eventually it's going to come out what, what he's dealing with and, ⁓ let's see how goes from there. Let's go back to recent history. How was John Cooper handled situations where someone has been out long term and all of a sudden is available for the playoffs. Now we're making a hypothetical that Victor Hedman will be available for the playoffs. He might not be around until next season, but that being said, When Cooper's been in these situations, is he willing to throw someone right back in the lineup? Does he wait for an injury? Does he make them earn their way back? Depends on the player. Most of the time, if it's one of his top line guys, know, like Braiden Point was out for quite a while this year, you know, they get thrown right back in. And I think it's, it's very situational. It's, it's what they're dealing with it. If it's an injury that's kept them off of the ice, you know, he has been known to ease them back in, let them skate for a while. I think you've seen that kind of with Dominic James right now. And on Max Crozier, they're probably good to go. mean, they could probably play in a game right now, but they are getting that ice time. You know, they are rafting things back up. We all know just the difference in speed between the regular season and the playoffs. So it's kind of hard to throw somebody, you know, say a Dominic James who's been out for two months or whatever. You know, Hey, congratulations rookie. It's thrown in against one of the fastest teams in the NHL and the Canadians. I find dealing with that. We'll see how he goes, you know, in his past, he's taken it situation by situation. He does listen to the medical staff a lot, the assistant coaches, and kind of goes with what the best track for the player is. Unfortunately, you're not going to have like a conditioning stint available for somebody coming out. know, they're not going to be able to get time, time in the EHL to play a couple of games. So it's going to be practice and then into a game at some point. So we'll see how they manage it. Now we know the playoff opponent, it's the Montreal Canadiens. It's been a tight season series. They've played two games within the last month. Both of those went to the Montreal Canadians, a 4-1 win in Tampa. And then in early April, a 2-1 win for Montreal up at the Bell Center. Justin, we know there's a lot of speed that they're going to have to deal with. What do you think is the secret ingredient for both teams to win this series? Montreal, it's going to be, can you get the type of goaltending you've been getting down the stretch? You know, he's dovish. going to be your number one? Is he going to make these key saves that he's made down the stretch? Can you get some production out of your third and fourth lines? I think that's what you're looking for for Montreal. I have a good feeling the top two lines are going to be a handful for anyone to deal with, especially that Nick Suzuki top line. They're just too good not to score. Justin real quick, want to talk about Nick Suzuki real quick. People forget how he got to Montreal. He was a part of the Max Patcher ready deal. When Max Patchouretti was, went to Vegas, was Tomas Tatar, Nick Suzuki. And I want to say a first round pick, or it was at least a draft pick that went to Montreal for Max Patchouretti. That deal for Montreal, they hit a home run. Yeah. Yeah. You know, sometimes, you know, you need your cornerstone big deals to help with a rebuild, which is what the, the Canadians were kind of doing, you know, in the post-Kerry Price era. It's. Not always that, you know, first round pick that is the sexiest thing. A lot of times it's either the second or third part of the deal that gets thrown in that, that becomes the biggest asset. Credit to Suzuki. think he's learned a lot playing for St. Louis. I think he's learned a lot playing, you know, just in Montreal in general. It's good to see him succeed. Probably one of the quietest, what, hundred point seasons you've ever heard. talking about hundred point seasons, that is the Canadian players first 100 point season since 1986. That is hard to believe with the history and this team has not been void of talent. They haven't had the top line player, but it's just hard to believe that it's been that long. was Matt's Nazlin and in 86, that was the year they won the Stanley cup. And you want to, you know, probably should get some hard attention. mean, and you know, without Suzuki, where are the, you know, where are the Canadians at? So he'll probably get some back ballot votes and stuff like that. You'll see some fourth and fifth place votes for him, but. Um, for the heart trophy, but yeah, he's been a big key him and Caulfield had formed that chemistry. And when you have it with younger players, if you're a Habs fan, you're like, man, these guys can be together for quite a while. We have some really good building blocks. Yeah. It's kind of like that, you know, Richard's LeCabier pairing early in for the, when you have those two guys and you're like, all right, we're going to be good for a little bit. So it's fun to watch. Yeah, Justin, I know I got you off track a little bit when I sort of jumped in there, but you were talking about the Canadian secret ingredient in this series. You mentioned it's their goaltending. What about the lightning? I think the lightning, you just got to be able to get the puck out of your zone. You got to be able to deal with the, with the four check that Montreal is going to have here and have to deal with their speed. The last two games I've thought the lightning have actually done pretty well against them. You know, they were both Canadian wins, but they were fairly close games with the Lightning not playing like a hundred percent of their game. So they were still able to keep Montreal within their sites, even when they weren't playing their best. So if you can get the puck out, if you can get through that trip, that neutral zone with a little bit of speed ⁓ and then push back on their defenders. I do still think that the Montreal defense has some holes in it. ⁓ I think you can take advantage of some of the, if you put pressure on them and if you drive them back with speed through the zone. think can create some chances. So that's what I'm be looking for from the Lightning just to have a little bit more flow to their game. It's something we haven't really seen probably since the Pittsburgh game, honestly, that flow through the neutral zone where they're getting the puck out quickly, getting, getting through the neutral zone with speed and then attacking the opposing net. So if we could see that ⁓ a big line, it's going to be the top line, know, whoever Kuturov is playing with, with its point or if it's, you know, that's a Raleigh-Hagle line. I want to see them just pushing forward. It's the north to south game everybody talks about. When you're going from your zone to the offensive zone, you want to be moving in straight lines, straight down the ice. Um, so if they can do that, think they have a good chance. So I think they'd match up better than people think against the Canadians. saw a quick line. think the, the, bolts were minus two 80 in the series or something like that, which I thought was a little, you know, a little aggressive. think it's more of a corn flip. Uh, so it'll be interesting to see how, uh, once home ice is determined, if that line moves at all. When I was at the West gate, I saw the current betting lines for the Eastern conference. think Tampa might be plus two 30 Carolina was plus two 10, but it's basically the same. those who are the major front runners to win the East, but Justin, these two teams have a playoff history. They've met four times in the playoffs in 2004. The bolts were on their way to their first Stanley cup. It was a clean sweep, a pretty easy series for Tampa. Yeah. ⁓ I do remember that series. It's funny. Back in those days, ⁓ myself and a friend had actually mapped out the series to try and see a game in Montreal. And we were shooting for like game five or game six and, ⁓ didn't quite happen. ⁓ but still had a really fun weekend in Montreal. ⁓ we booked our tickets that flew up there and then the Lightning went and swept. ⁓ so I think we were shooting for game five, if I remember the series correctly. ⁓ but yeah, no, that was a fun series. That was kind of the series. Lightning were up two, nothing. And then in game three, Vinny scored late, really late. to tie it up, I believe. And then they win the game. And it's kind of the moment where you thought, Hey, this lightning team may be a little bit special. ⁓ you know, it's kind of, there's, was their second year in the playoffs in a row. They had, they'd lost to Jersey the first year. ⁓ they won the first round pretty easily. ⁓ hobby bowling was just an absolute stud, ⁓ throughout those first couple of rounds and you know, they win, they sweep and you're like, ⁓ this lightning team may have a little something, there's a little something special there. ⁓ so that's kind what I remember from that series. Vinny, I think had five goals in his first playoff series, ⁓ series in Montreal, you know, against his hometown team. So that was pretty special for him. I remember going into those playoffs. There was actually some questions about hobby pooling because if you went back to 2003, when they lost to the devils, it wasn't hobby pool and then net in the deciding game. was John Graham. Yeah. there was a question mark on whether happy pooling was the true go-to guy. Cause everyone was surprised that Tortorello went to Graham in New Jersey at game five. Remember, I think it was a triple overtime game that they lost. Yeah. Torch speed and torts, know, so, ⁓ finding ways to motivate people through, to push it. it worked. know, worked. Zombie Woolen was absolutely fantastic, especially those, ⁓ first two rounds. So it lit a fire under the guy and, yeah, it was a great year. So in Justin in 2014. These two teams met and it was the Carey Price show. was the story Montreal swept Tampa in for a pretty surprising result. Tampa came in as the favorite in that series and Montreal took it to him. And that was kind of a weird one because, um, a few games to go in the regular season, Ben Bishop had actually gotten hurt. Uh, I think it was against Toronto. Um, so he wasn't available for that series. It was the Anders Lindberg show. Coop got some, some flack at that time. on regards to how he had managed Ben Bishop down the stretch. But it was also, I also remember it was like the, the Canadian's third or fourth line. I was like the Dale Weasline just absolutely had a great series and then you put Price on top of it. And the Lightning were the favorites, but it felt like they, you know, after game one or game two, it felt like they just didn't have a chance, honestly. So yeah, they, kind of, uh, first two meetings were sweeps for, for one side or the other. So. then in 2015, they met again. This time it was the lightning victorious four games to two. And just like the, the season before when the lightning had goaltending injuries, Carrie price played game one and wasn't to be seen the rest of the series. then, ⁓ think the memorable moment from this one, Tyler Johnson scoring, ⁓ with a second to go in the, in, I think it was game three, ⁓ to win the game. He kind of had that feeling that this is the second round of the playoffs. Kind of start getting that feeling that maybe this is a little magical run. You know, the lightning weren't supposed to be there this year. You know, this was their, they're kind of surprising run to the Stanley cup final, but, uh, yeah, the triplets line was really good in that series. So again, you have some good memories on that series as well. the final series was in 2021 when, it or not folks, if you're, if you're a history to hockey, you'll probably won't see this again, the lightning into Canadians in the Stanley cup finals. This was the COVID year. Everybody conferences didn't matter. The visions didn't matter. The lightning ended up playing the upstart Canadians and they beat them four games. The one to win the Stanley cup. Yeah. The Ross Colton gold. And the funny thing is like, was watching that goal this morning. The way they scored on that is the way the lightning kind of have to play against the Canadians this year. ⁓ it started with a board battle along the walls. think it was stamp coast was in there digging the puck out. Um, they win the puck battle. moved the puck around. Uh, David Savard drops down low as a kind of a clean look at the net, opts to kind of pass it. Ross Colton's right in front, taps it past, uh, Kerry Price for the only goal of the game. But it was kind of that, um, you know, rugged mentality where it's not going to be a lot of pretty goals. You're going to have to win those puck battles along the boards. Um, interesting enough, Corey Perry was on the ice for the Canadians, uh, on that goal. And one of his many, many ⁓ Stanley Cup losses. So it was kind of fun to see some of those, you old highlights go back to watch some of these series. many Stanley Cup bridesmaids dresses does Corey Perry have in his career? Five or six now? I think so. He's the one year with the Lightning where he didn't make it, but that's, think the only time out of the last five years that he hasn't been there. Cause he did it with Dallas. He did it with Montreal. He did it with his first year in Tampa. And then he did it with Edmonton the last two years, right? When all is said and done in terms of playoff games played, he's going to be pretty high on top of that list. Probably be up there playoff game losses too, which, know, it's kind of one of those dubious status, but you gotta realize you got to play a lot of rounds to rack up those, ⁓ those playoff losses as well. You know? So, ⁓ and he's just like, he's like the perfect playoff player. He's going to be just in front of the net doing things, you know, that you're like, And this man's how old and he's still winning puck battles in front of the net. He's still annoying defenders. He's still getting gold tenders off their game. So it'll be interesting to see how he does, you know, with the lady. He had that really good run last year for the Oilers. If he can duplicate that, it'll be a good year for the Bolts. Justin, I'm going to have you play general manager right now. Corey Perry comes to you after the season, wants to sign a very team friendly one year contract. You're JBB. You sign them? Probably. mean, I don't know. If you're going to get another fourth line player, that's going to do what Corey Perry does. And yeah, it's one of those things that if he does sign a team friendly deal, say it's a $1 million deal or something like that, then if he doesn't work out, you can always cut him. There's no loyalty in the NHL and know, JBB, was kind of funny. you, if you, uh, if you're a reader of the athletic, they pulled the agents and, just to talk about which front offices are easy to deal with and the lightning, I think we're number one or number two. Um, and basically the agent said. It's not that they're pushovers. It's just that they let you know exactly what they're going to do. And they're almost ruthless about the way they go about their business. I wouldn't be surprised to see them if they resigned him. And again, he struggles that they let him go, you know, Iserman cut Andrew Chuck in the middle of the year. That's the guy who's got a statue in front of the stadium. So that's who Breezeball learned from. So we'll see how it goes. Justin you have the game coming up tomorrow night against the New York Rangers. Tell us everything that's going on a raw charge Yeah, so now that we know who the opponent is definitely gonna start digging into some of the key matchups between the the lightning and the hams kind of do a position by position breakdown Hopefully to start post those pretty soon and then yeah, we'll go over the Rangers game Kind of touch base with the rest of the the playoff series do a brief preview on everything else that's going around the league. You know, a lot of new teams in there this year. So a lot of franchise bases that, ⁓ haven't been able to celebrate the playoff run in quite a while. we are going to be back on Friday. We're going to drop a podcast. It's going to be our playoff preview. We're going to examine all the playoff matchups throughout the league, but of course we're going to dig real deep into that Bolts Canadians matchup. Again, you can read Justin at www.rawcharge.com. I'm Jason Lekas. Thanks for joining us today. Please hit that like and subscribe button and go bolts. Go bolts. Thank you for listening to back checking the bolts. are free and available on all platforms, including Apple, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Amazon, YouTube, and Deezer. If you enjoyed it, please be sure to subscribe and leave a review. You can follow Justin on bluesky at rawcharge.com. You can follow the show on X at Tampa underscore bolts underscore pod and on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube at back checking the bolts. If you're interested in advertising on the show or partnering with us, you can find more information in the show notes or email Jason at back checking the bolts at Yahoo.com.