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Jordan Schmaltz Goes There: Cup Finals Preview, Habs Breakdown and RIP Claude Lemieux. · NHL Unscripted with Virk and Demers

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  Speaker 1: NHL Unscripted is a production of the NHL and iHeart podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up on NHL Unscripted handing out flowers to Norway?
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  Speaker 2: What Norway Hockey? Are you kidding me? Beating Canada?
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  Speaker 3: God?
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  Speaker 2: This sucks to be Canadian.
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  Speaker 4: Right now, I'm logging off talking about this.
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  Speaker 5: I was told I was told this not this would
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  Speaker 5: not be talked about.
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  Speaker 1: Right Noway, talk right, tell your Canadian What the hell
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  Speaker 1: are you dictating what we're gonna talk about. We were
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  Speaker 1: all Canadian, with the exception of Nate, who's enjoying this
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  Speaker 1: victory lap of Canada losing to Norway.
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  Speaker 2: We'll also talk about just for Teal.
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  Speaker 1: Habs and hab nots, Montreal folding in five, could have
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  Speaker 1: win a game with them at home four straight games. God,
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  Speaker 1: that was awfulet Santrabelle. But the bottom line is JD.
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  Speaker 1: It is NHL and Scripted Finals time, baby, you and me.
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  Speaker 1: Later on today we're gonna be in Stout for media day,
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  Speaker 1: which is always fun. Here's Jack Eikele at the podium.
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  Speaker 1: Then we listen to him for five minutes. Hey, how great,
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  Speaker 1: Jack Eckle. Here's Mitch Barner at the podium. There's five
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  Speaker 1: minutes of that. The finals begins Tuesday. It should be
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  Speaker 1: a blast your thoughts if I'd said you two months ago, Carolina, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I can see that Vegas in the Cup final.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think the veg it's really when you start
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  Speaker 5: peeling back the layers on it.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 5: I had Graham McPhee, who's George McPhee's son, and he's
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  Speaker 5: an at he's an avid well he works for the
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  Speaker 5: Golden Knights, and he was just kind of telling me,
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  Speaker 5: he's like, we were talking about Vegas, and he's like,
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  Speaker 5: we were missing our two best players most of the year.
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  Speaker 5: Carter Hart was hurt most of the year. They kind
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  Speaker 5: of just were this underlying, decent team that floated through
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  Speaker 5: the season a lot like the I think it was Nay,
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  Speaker 5: you can correct me too if I'm wrong. I think
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  Speaker 5: it was the twenty twelve or the twenty fourteen La
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  Speaker 5: Kings where they came in his lost seed and they
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  Speaker 5: changed Darryl Sutter. Darryl Sutter came in mid season and
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  Speaker 5: then they hit the playoffs and it was like juggernaut
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  Speaker 5: and it was just like they were built for the playoffs.
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  Speaker 5: And I think we talk about Toronto and we shot
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  Speaker 5: on Toronto, Like that's what Toronto was trying to do,
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  Speaker 5: is they're trying to build this playoff type team that
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  Speaker 5: maybe wasn't the best jump off the page for a season,
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  Speaker 5: but come playoff time, they're incredible. And then listen, they
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  Speaker 5: also get William Carlson that comes back, and I think
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  Speaker 5: he is such an important piece. It slots everybody in
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  Speaker 5: the right position. And then you know, quickly on Carolina,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, they were not far off from every one
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  Speaker 5: of the best records in the NHL. So I think everybody,
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  Speaker 5: everybody just wants to hate on Carolina. I think everybody
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  Speaker 5: just has made it a point to hate that style
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  Speaker 5: and dislike that they play. They rim the puck and
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  Speaker 5: play simple and high flip and play fast. But fuck,
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  Speaker 5: they're an exciting team to watch, man, they really are.
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  Speaker 5: And I just think it's it's the two best teams
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  Speaker 5: at the you know, at the right time, and the
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  Speaker 5: two most deserved teams to be in these finals. And
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  Speaker 5: I mean they walked through the playoffs other than Vegas
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  Speaker 5: and Utah, they walked like Carolina. That's historic. Nate, like,
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  Speaker 5: one loss is fucking insane.
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  Speaker 1: But you mentioned the fact that they rim the PUCKA
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  Speaker 1: who the hell wants to watch a rim fest?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if it's a bunch of rim jobs in.
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  Speaker 1: The Cup five, hey, I'm now, I'm now the files.
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  Speaker 1: The reason why I mentioned this is the special guest
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  Speaker 1: today is Swishing. Swish's gonna get a little bit vulgar
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  Speaker 1: as well, just as we know Jordan's gonna be coming
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  Speaker 1: up a little bit later on.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, good luck with that one today. Diddy would good
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  Speaker 4: luck rating him in.
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  Speaker 1: But Nate temp to JD's point, I mean, god, I
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  Speaker 1: was in studio with our buddies Thomas Hika and Bruce
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  Speaker 1: Patroaux watching that game five, and I'm like, as all
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  Speaker 1: as there's no overtime, and with then two minutes, I'm like, well,
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  Speaker 1: there's not gonna ben overtime not show up in this game,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god.
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  Speaker 3: Carolina was all over.
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  Speaker 1: Them, and particularly with the Hurricanes pressure of the puck,
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  Speaker 1: it was crazy. I kept saying, if it was a
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  Speaker 1: football game and you start time of possession, he'd be
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  Speaker 1: like forty two, then it's to eighty, Like once should
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  Speaker 1: we get the puck for two seconds and they wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: shoot it, and then Carolin would get it and that's it.
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  Speaker 2: Turnover and the pressuring to me was just so impressive.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it is.
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  Speaker 7: And I'm one of those people, JD. I'm one of
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  Speaker 7: those people that's guilty of just continually to doubt this
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  Speaker 7: Carolina team. And I'm not gonna do it anymore. I'm
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  Speaker 7: not just because it's it's it's crazy.
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  Speaker 4: Take the nights nights and five.
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  Speaker 6: Mush of reverse mush.
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  Speaker 7: I just the way that they play and the way
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  Speaker 7: you said it, like they went They've they went through
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  Speaker 7: the first couple of rounds, first few rounds, I mean,
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  Speaker 7: one loss throughout the whole playoffs is just absurd, and
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  Speaker 7: and and the way that they play, and this year
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  Speaker 7: just seems different to me, just because obviously the play
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  Speaker 7: of Freddie Anderson, he's been incredible. You add that there D,
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  Speaker 7: you know, KeAndre Miller, he's playing like an elite, elite
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  Speaker 7: defenseman in this league right now, And then you add that,
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  Speaker 7: I mean, it's just different this year too as well,
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  Speaker 7: is because of their second life line, you know. And
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  Speaker 7: then I think too, you're starting to see, especially in
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  Speaker 7: the conference finals against Montreal, like that Aho Lion Jarvis
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  Speaker 7: Shshnakov started to get going a little bit started to
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  Speaker 7: play better. I don't know this this series is Razors thing.
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  Speaker 7: It's it's it's splitting hairs.
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  Speaker 6: It really is. I think it's that close.
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  Speaker 7: I actually watched it and I agree with you with
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  Speaker 7: you broke down at HL tonight about just the advantages
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  Speaker 7: for both teams and how I agree.
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  Speaker 6: I think it's so even on both.
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  Speaker 4: Sides because of fun that show.
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  Speaker 7: It looked fun, It looked fun with it did it
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  Speaker 7: did because it was a great breakdown for both of
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  Speaker 7: you guys.
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  Speaker 5: But it was like fun to like and for people
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  Speaker 5: didn't see it. We got to do it on NHL tonight,
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  Speaker 5: me and Stuke Grimson. You know, they just put the
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  Speaker 5: tangible you know, star power Forwards Defense Carolina. I mean
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  Speaker 5: we could do it even quickly here goaltending and experience.
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  Speaker 5: So like if I were to go to U three
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  Speaker 5: star power, who's got the edge Vegas or Carolina?
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  Speaker 4: In your mind? Vegas, Vegas?
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  Speaker 5: I think it's all we can all agree Vegas and
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  Speaker 5: you go forward group.
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  Speaker 4: Who's got the better forward group?
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  Speaker 6: Vegas? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I might go Carolina only because it's stank coming home.
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  Speaker 1: Blakeline has been so.
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  Speaker 5: Role players. Who would you give the edge to? Bottom
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  Speaker 5: six Carolina, Carolina. That's a razor thin though when you
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  Speaker 5: look at it.
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  Speaker 3: Her close, but it's close.
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  Speaker 6: But I like the role players better for Carolina.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, decor Carolina, Yeah Carolina.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, I mean KeAndre Miller is emerging as like a
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  Speaker 5: superstar right in front of our eyes, like crazy, like
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  Speaker 5: Rangers fans are are puking on themselves away. Goaltending is
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  Speaker 5: the interesting one Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going you're going Carter Hart, yes, because I'll tell
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  Speaker 1: you why. Because in the first round he was okay,
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  Speaker 1: but the last two rounds he's got hot, and I.
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  Speaker 2: Think he's a little bit shreaky when he gets hot.
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  Speaker 1: Watching I think slight edge of Freddy. Freddie Wood did
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  Speaker 1: not face a lot of shots in that Montreal series.
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  Speaker 1: I know he's been great, but I'm telling you now, playoff,
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  Speaker 1: Freddy might have merged.
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  Speaker 2: At some point. That's the thing. Everybody off Freddy might
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  Speaker 2: have merged at some point.
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  Speaker 6: I'm going Freddy.
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  Speaker 5: I'm Freddy too. And then experience, which is Vegas clearly.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, Vegas got what twelve cups.
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  Speaker 4: On that team.
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  Speaker 5: Yep, it'sn't a crazy I Evan Barbershev's one too. That
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  Speaker 5: is random and he's going for his third not anyway that,
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  Speaker 5: but it was it was a lot of fun to
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  Speaker 5: just kind of you can you can make a case
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  Speaker 5: for both teams.
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  Speaker 4: And I just think it's incredible.
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  Speaker 5: And I mean we're talking about the finals and we're
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  Speaker 5: going to be here two times a week, folks, Yes,
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  Speaker 5: all next two weeks ready, So I mean we could
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  Speaker 5: really chop this up. It's just like it's it's really
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  Speaker 5: gonna be an interesting battle these playoffs, I think, and
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  Speaker 5: how I think the adjustments and and for me, the
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  Speaker 5: most impressive thing to watch, impressive interesting thing to watch
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  Speaker 5: is how they're gonna match the Lions, you know, because
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  Speaker 5: like who who are you putting Marner, Carlson and Howden against?
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  Speaker 5: Like are you putting them? Like who who is Brendan work?
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  Speaker 5: Because obviously they're at Carolina is at home? Who are
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  Speaker 5: they gonna match up that stankove in line with like
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  Speaker 5: are they gonna go after Ikel? Are they going to
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  Speaker 5: go after you know? Are they gonna go after Marner?
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  Speaker 5: And same thing with the Aha line, like they're certain
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  Speaker 5: to get hot? Like do you give Aicel to Ah?
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  Speaker 5: And you know it's quite tough, man, It's gonna be
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  Speaker 5: a chess match.
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  Speaker 6: That is a major I mean I wonder too.
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  Speaker 7: I thought about that as well as like, because then
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  Speaker 7: I feel like you're I don't know, if you're matching
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  Speaker 7: too much, then you're taking away you know, the flow
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  Speaker 7: of the lines and have both teams roll fourth lines.
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  Speaker 7: I mean I could see both coaches being like, fuck it,
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  Speaker 7: just go whoever plays against anybody, let's go because it
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  Speaker 7: both both roll them, because these four lines where both
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  Speaker 7: teams can do that, and both coaches are not afraid
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  Speaker 7: to play every line against whoever.
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  Speaker 6: So I.
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  Speaker 7: Think this is so close, so close. I honestly think
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  Speaker 7: that each game could go into ot That's how close
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  Speaker 7: are it is. It's just these these teams are just
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  Speaker 7: built to win, built built, built so well defensively, I
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  Speaker 7: think that's what it is. I mean analytically, I know
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  Speaker 7: we can go in the numbers point to Carolina, but
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  Speaker 7: I think when you said like star power, I think
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  Speaker 7: that for Vegas that could be a difference as well.
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  Speaker 4: You know, Jack fucking Jack I called the best two
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  Speaker 4: hundred foot player in the game, apparently Adnan, but Mitch
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  Speaker 4: Martin is there.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's what I say. Martin and Ikeel ranking first
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  Speaker 2: and second of the playoff points.
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  Speaker 1: So that's a compelling argumentoverson win the cons my score,
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  Speaker 1: Ifea and Howden type for the playoff lead ten goals each.
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  Speaker 1: But offensively for Carolina, it's pretty rare when your second
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  Speaker 1: line is that dominant. Stan Coben, Hall and Blake combined
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  Speaker 1: for nineteen goals in thirteen games in the postseason. I
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  Speaker 1: was saying Tom, like, it's one of the great second
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  Speaker 1: lines I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 5: In playoff history. Crazy, Yeah, it's been. You know, they're
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  Speaker 5: a second line. So I can't say that it's as
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  Speaker 5: impressive as the HPK line, but it's like has that feeling,
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  Speaker 5: you know, the HBK line, I says, somebody posts that
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  Speaker 5: the pictures of those three fucking goons Benino, Kessel and Cargaglen,
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  Speaker 5: but it has it's like a similar makeup, you know,
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  Speaker 5: and it's it's interesting.
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  Speaker 4: It's interesting to me.
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  Speaker 5: And the one thing that impresses me with Carolina is
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  Speaker 5: we we all were at fault. We were all making
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  Speaker 5: fun of Tulski and the brain trust here. You know,
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  Speaker 5: they lose out on Ranton and Gansel leaves marn Or
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  Speaker 5: veto's a trade.
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  Speaker 4: We're like, ah, they're a joke.
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  Speaker 5: They bring in Stankovin, Elers, Hall, KeAndre Miller, everybody, Sean Walker,
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  Speaker 5: everybody that they brought in through trade or free agency
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  Speaker 5: has been as fit perfectly, so like they understand the
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  Speaker 5: makeup of his team and like what Rod wants. But
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  Speaker 5: this line, like like Logan Stankovin is like in front
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  Speaker 5: of our eyes going to the center position after being
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  Speaker 5: a winger most of his career, and like the way
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  Speaker 5: they dominate.
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  Speaker 4: It's like they apsolutely. Just sit and watch.
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  Speaker 5: I implore all the viewers here sit and watch them.
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  Speaker 5: It is so fun to watch them play. How much
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  Speaker 5: skill compared with work ethic. Hall's been a beast in
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  Speaker 5: terms of his physicality. And I had said, if there's
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  Speaker 5: a line I'd put against Marner because I think Marner's
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  Speaker 5: kind of an X factor, and everybody's been talking about
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  Speaker 5: Marner's playoff Marner, no one's really tested him. Hall's been
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  Speaker 5: running the skill guys Taylor Hall in these playoffs. That's
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  Speaker 5: the line I'd match up William Carlson against, or I'd
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  Speaker 5: put Stankman against that William Carlson line and just see
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  Speaker 5: how it works.
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  Speaker 4: It'd be a great matchup. But yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know what else you see from them, Nate,
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  Speaker 5: But to me, like, who did I don't know if
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  Speaker 5: you thought this, but I think it was Stuart oh Ken.
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  Speaker 5: Danico looked at me, yes and goes, I didn't fucking know,
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  Speaker 5: you know, Dano, And I was like, breath, I tell
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  Speaker 5: you what, I didn't know this fucking Jackson Blake was
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  Speaker 5: that good, this skilled.
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  Speaker 4: And I was like, I didn't either, no idea.
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  Speaker 1: I want to make the point as well. Tell the
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  Speaker 1: Hurricanes this return they got for Ranton and go ahead.
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  Speaker 8: I'm just gonna say from Eric Telsky that the Mark
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  Speaker 8: Zuckerberg of the NHL.
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  Speaker 4: Nice because ratten In, because the rattin In trade.
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  Speaker 8: Was looked at as a fiasco for Carolina and then
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  Speaker 8: everyone kind of forgot about it. They got Hall as
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  Speaker 8: a throw in from Chicago in the first rattin In trade.
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  Speaker 8: Then of course they got stank and stankovin, and they
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  Speaker 8: got a first from Dallas, which they then flipped to
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  Speaker 8: the Rangers to get ca Andre Miller. So actually it
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  Speaker 8: was actually a nice little bit of voodoo from Eric
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  Speaker 8: Telsky with with this whole rattin In situation, and look
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  Speaker 8: where it's gotten them now. So that's just something I
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  Speaker 8: mentioned to AAV while we're talking about the rattin In
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  Speaker 8: trade and how it actually worked out.
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  Speaker 4: Pretty good police job.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they definitely took a lot of heap of the
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  Speaker 1: rant and stuff. With regards to the defense, it's amazing
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  Speaker 1: what Carolin has done. They tighten things up in this postseason.
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  Speaker 1: Best defense in the playoffs the line just one point
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  Speaker 1: six to two goals game. That includes along six goals
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  Speaker 1: in Game one of the Conference Final. Vegas up and
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  Speaker 1: down their defense, but they're done to two point three
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  Speaker 1: eight goals per game of the playoffs. They allowed just
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  Speaker 1: seven goals to Colorado in a four game sweep, So
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  Speaker 1: that's awfully impressive.
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  Speaker 3: Let me mention Heart and Freddy Anderson.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, that matchup in net special teams is something
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  Speaker 1: which is interesting. The main matchup Pears Vegas is power
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  Speaker 1: play twenty three point nine percent in the playoffs, Carolina's
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  Speaker 1: staunch pk and a half percent. Hurricanes power play has
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  Speaker 1: been a non factor, just twelve and a half percent ate.
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  Speaker 1: How could special teams impact this Cup final massively?
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  Speaker 7: And I think this could be an X factor, and
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  Speaker 7: especially for Vegas just because when I look at the
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  Speaker 7: special teams, I think Vegas has the upper hand just
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  Speaker 7: because of the power play and who they have for
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  Speaker 7: the personnel and the power play. I just think that,
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  Speaker 7: you know, and how good their PK has been too.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, I know we talk about how good Carolina's
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  Speaker 7: penalty kill has been the whole playoffs, but Vegas has
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  Speaker 7: been just as good on top of that. And I
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  Speaker 7: wonder too if for Carolina, like you know, last series,
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  Speaker 7: I thought they made some adjustments on the power play
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  Speaker 7: against Montreal and they started to get better looks, you know,
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  Speaker 7: getting those big guys on the board, Like, oh, you know,
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  Speaker 7: I look when I look at this series, I think
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  Speaker 7: this could be The special teams obviously could be a
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  Speaker 7: huge X factor and like I said, for for Vegas,
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  Speaker 7: especially just because you know, like I said, with with
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  Speaker 7: the people they have on their power play, that could
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  Speaker 7: be the difference.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's going to be interesting to see.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we mentioned all these guys and we still
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  Speaker 5: haven't even mentioned Jacob Slavin yet, which is crazy.
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  Speaker 4: That's when you show when you show how like.
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  Speaker 5: Someone so many big players and you could label him
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  Speaker 5: as a star player as well. He's gonna be big
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  Speaker 5: at power play versus penalty kill. I mean that PK
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  Speaker 5: for Carolina's is off the charts, so we'll see if
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  Speaker 5: they can they can kind of weather it and and
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  Speaker 5: see how discipline this stay.
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  Speaker 4: But I mean, I was kind of.
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  Speaker 5: Reaching out a little bit to a couple guys that
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: have won a bunch of Cups, And I talked to
• 15:13
  Speaker 5: Phil Kesseley yesterday and I was like, how, like, how
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  Speaker 5: hard is it?
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  Speaker 6: You know?
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  Speaker 5: I was like, how hard was it for you to
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  Speaker 5: get to the playoffs? Like how difficult was it? And
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: he was like, dude, he's like honestly, he's like the
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  Speaker 5: finals felt the easiest of all the series. And I said, well,
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  Speaker 5: why is that? I said, He goes, he goes, well,
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: we always had these tough divisional matchups early on. That's
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  Speaker 5: so emotion based, and he goes, by the time you
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: get to the finals, you're just trying to win it, right,
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: and you the relief, you're almost you're almost relieved that
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: you're there, so like you just go out and play.
• 15:47
  Speaker 6: You're kind of like an autopilot almost, is what you're saying.
• 15:49
  Speaker 4: By the time, right, Yeah, like you've you've kind of
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: figured out your game, right.
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Yeah, which still these teams have for sure at
• 15:56
  Speaker 6: this point.
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and like it's specifically like yeah, it's just it's
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: it's weird anyway, sorry to I think I just went
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: completely off.
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: The I love it.
• 16:05
  Speaker 9: No, Yeah, we're talking.
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: I think we're just derails it a little bit fun.
• 16:09
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we're talking this series.
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: No, Nate's giving a nice heartfelt thing about the p
• 16:14
  Speaker 5: K Pelly going.
• 16:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah, Phil Kessel, No, I love storytime. I mean one
• 16:20
  Speaker 6: of your no, I mean twe of your points.
• 16:22
  Speaker 7: I was thinking like the second line, Like I was
• 16:24
  Speaker 7: thinking that looking back on different teams like Boston twenty eleven.
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: Like they had that second line.
• 16:30
  Speaker 7: That feel like that was a difference like this for
• 16:32
  Speaker 7: for Carolina, it feels like this could be the difference
• 16:34
  Speaker 7: with their second line they haven't had in the past.
• 16:36
  Speaker 6: You know who was that line again, Creachy Horton.
• 16:41
  Speaker 7: Yeah, and they had first line too, but that second
• 16:45
  Speaker 7: line was almost better that.
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: He was good. Yeah.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: I meantime, the habs and the have nots, we're gonna
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: kick it to Tale. He can leave this one offal
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Capturing the imagination of hockey fans these playoffs, obviously was
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: fun to see those crowds were electives by the fact
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: they were into a buzz saw in Carolina Nelson.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: The good news is this, this team core is moving forward.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Phenomenal job by Jeff Gore, Kent Hughes had of course
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Martan sant Luis, but they just they ran out of
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: gas quite frankly against the Hurricanes.
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: Patrick Lone is a UFA.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: They've got a couple of restricted freedoms, but nobody major
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: as far as their key players are gonna be there.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: They're the youngest team in the playoffs.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: The course, signed long term and it looks like they
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: found their goalie in Yakub Doobich. So now the key
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: is tew do you trade Samuel Montambau.
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: What do you see here for the habs.
• 17:26
  Speaker 8: Well, Jeff Gordon and Ken Hughes have been active every
• 17:29
  Speaker 8: offseason They've They've made a significant trade every season or
• 17:32
  Speaker 8: every summer since they've been on the job. I'm assuming
• 17:35
  Speaker 8: they'll they'll do the same. If there's a big swing
• 17:38
  Speaker 8: to take, they're gonna make a change. Obviously, they had
• 17:41
  Speaker 8: Jake Evans as their second line center the entire playoffs.
• 17:44
  Speaker 8: I mean that's I like him as a player, but
• 17:46
  Speaker 8: he's not a second line center. Obviously, so the two
• 17:49
  Speaker 8: see discussion will continue this summer in Montreal. As far
• 17:52
  Speaker 8: as kind of breaking it all down, you know, like
• 17:56
  Speaker 8: you said, youngest team in the playoffs making it to
• 17:58
  Speaker 8: the conference final. I'm sure plenty of people all summer
• 18:01
  Speaker 8: will be calling them a fugezi because they got absolutely
• 18:04
  Speaker 8: dominated by Carolina.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: But yeah, Sabers would at least gone six.
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: No, I don't.
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: I don't think that.
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: I I no, no, I think I'm tal I'm with
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: you on the two c is enormous. But the one
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: thing is like I think and Nate, you had a
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: great tweet and I was thinking the exact same thing yesterday.
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: It was I was like, I was like, Montreal is
• 18:26
  Speaker 5: all the reason, and I think everybody in the league,
• 18:28
  Speaker 5: consensus wise, is like hold your head up high, like
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: youngest team in the league, like they they I Carolina
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: was just ready, Like Caroline was ready. Montreal sil is
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: a long way to go. And it's like the biggest
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: thing with Montreal is that if they it's kind of
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: like a little bit like Philly, where do not speed
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: up the rebuild like you're not there yet, but like
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: you you got you gained like invaluable experience you found
• 18:56
  Speaker 5: out that you got up, you got to stut on
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: the back end. You found out that you got a
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: couple of dogs. Up front, you might have some, you
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: might have some guys you need to think about down
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: the line. I know people are saying cold caw Field,
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: you can't win with them, but Cole Cawfield's making but
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: seven or eight million for the next seven years, so
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: that's nothing, and where the CAP's going. And then you
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: got a number one starter in yack Abdoba, So I
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: think you know, Michael Hage is eventually coming in. Who's
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: supposed to be their two c Aren't they getting another?
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: Aren't they getting a big pick this year too? Or
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: is that not? That's not them? But they got a
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: bunch of prospects. So it's like to me, I'm like
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: a lot of Yeah. To me, it's like it's shine
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: Brett like a diamond. But I appreciate it, Tal. I
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: love that you're fit. Were hurt because we wanted the
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: heavy Ton to win, but I thought they'd get swept.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: So even when they want one, I was like, fuck, four.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Straight losses at hometown, that's awful. It can't happen to
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: the playoffs in the Bell Center.
• 19:55
  Speaker 9: It was rough.
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: I mean, the only last thing I was going to say. Look,
• 19:58
  Speaker 8: Caroline has been working to this point for how.
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: Many years now eight?
• 20:01
  Speaker 8: You know, the core of this team has been at
• 20:03
  Speaker 8: it for a while aile, So I mean it's their
• 20:07
  Speaker 8: time clearly, you know. And that's that's a valuable lesson
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: for for the young core Montreal, like Carolina, they are
• 20:15
  Speaker 8: where this team wants to be, but they're obviously not
• 20:18
  Speaker 8: there yet. Lean Hudson said it after Game five, like
• 20:20
  Speaker 8: we're not there. We got a lot of work to do,
• 20:22
  Speaker 8: and and that's that's a good thing to know. I
• 20:24
  Speaker 8: think it would have been a problematic if maybe they
• 20:26
  Speaker 8: took two or three from Carolina and they think, oh, yeah,
• 20:29
  Speaker 8: we're on the same level as Carolina.
• 20:31
  Speaker 6: They're not.
• 20:32
  Speaker 8: And they got to figure out what they need to
• 20:33
  Speaker 8: do to get to that point. And that's what the
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: next two three years are going to be about for them.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: Question for you, for all you three, you think Trocheck's
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: a good guy to go after?
• 20:43
  Speaker 7: I like, I love I'm a huge Trocheck fan, huge,
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: always been a Trocheck fan. I think he would I mean, yeah,
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: I mean to get a second center like him, Yeah,
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: I mean that I mean, you imagine put you put
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: Vinnie Trocheck in their lineup, and it's certain with Suzuki.
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: With Suzuki, that changes a lot of things. I mean,
• 21:00
  Speaker 7: that's what they're missing. Though they can get a second
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: line center, maybe maybe a little more size two going
• 21:05
  Speaker 7: to wing. But I mean they have so many assets
• 21:08
  Speaker 7: and so many things. I wonder what Ken Hughes does,
• 21:10
  Speaker 7: you know, I used to talk about, you know, not
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: speeding up the rebuild, and I agree, but I wonder
• 21:15
  Speaker 7: if he, you know, is like, all right, we have
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: so many assets right now for the next couple of years,
• 21:19
  Speaker 7: we gotta you know, we gotta get a player, we
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: gotta get two players, whatever it may be. But yeah,
• 21:25
  Speaker 7: what you were saying to your point, JD, like they're
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: they're they're playing with house money right now. And on
• 21:29
  Speaker 7: top of that, the experience these guys got, like we know,
• 21:31
  Speaker 7: we've seen guys in the playoffs when they get this
• 21:34
  Speaker 7: is they get this h these reps that Marty talked about,
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: where they can you know, experience the playoffs in this
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: deep it's it's invaluable for them moving forward.
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: That's the story when it comes to the Montreal Canadians
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: tough losses though for the hockey world. Of world Dennis
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Hull five time. Also remember what the hockey's first family's
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: dying at the age of eighty four, But the hockey
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: world truly rocked by the news Thursday, the passing of
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: Claude lem You at age sixty. Lem Me was an
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: all time figure in the league, wing the Stanley Cup
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: four times, establishing himself as well the toughest agitators in
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: hockey history. Truly historic career, playing one two and fifteen
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: games over twenty one seasons, and after retiring as a player,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: enjoyed success as an agent, representing players like Freddie Anderson
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: and most satur you saw an emotional Freddie Anderson talking
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: to Jackie Redmond at the end of the game.
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: He made one final public appearance.
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Just three days before he died, when he carried out
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: the torch in Montreal before the Canadians hosted the Hurricanes
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: in Game three the playoffs. Yies, of course, we sent
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: all our thoughts and wishes to his family, but Jad,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: this is a really sad story to see.
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's it's you know, it's still tough thinking when
• 22:38
  Speaker 5: you you know, I got to see a couple of guys.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: I had dinner with Scott Gomez.
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: A the day a couple of days ago or I
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: can't remember when, but just to talk to him about it.
• 22:50
  Speaker 5: And I saw Candaniko and you know, I had him
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: for a brief stint when I started my career.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: So I was you know, I'm twenty twenty one years.
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: Old in Worcester, Massachusetts and Claude the mus making a comeback,
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: and you know, I've done a lot of kind of
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: more somber, you know, sad things. But the best story
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: I had with Claude the Mew is you know I had.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: I had lunch with them a ton that like month
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: or so that he was with us in the minors.
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: But we played a I'll never forget. We played a
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: you know you played Juice Boys, the shootout contest where
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: everybody goes into a shootout and if you the last
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: person standing that doesn't score has to get juice for everybody.
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: But the way we did it in the Ahl at
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: Woosters we did they wanted to do a strip tease
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: shootout contest. So every time you miss, so every time
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: you missed, you had to take a piece of your
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: equipment off. So cut to cut to twenty five minutes later,
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: I'm seeing Claude de Meu, multiple Stanley Cup champion, legend,
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: Hall of Famer, running down in flip flops, butt naked,
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: taking the final shootout because he lost it, and but
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: with his with his son on the bench like screaming
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: at him, laughing at him, Brendan, and I'll never forget that.
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: It was one of the funnier things and a guy
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: of that age and and that ilk to like do
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: that with the guys, you know what I mean, like essentially,
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: and it just it just warms my heart to think
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: of that. You know, it was really sad the last
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: couple of days, and I was just trying to think
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: it as brief a time I had with him. They're
• 24:35
  Speaker 5: all great moments and he was a great guy and
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: he was he was a sweet man, and and that's
• 24:39
  Speaker 5: what you see. And I think it's just sad, you know,
• 24:42
  Speaker 5: the when when we leave like that, it's it's the
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: people we leave behind, and and maybe the questions is tough,
• 24:50
  Speaker 5: but yeah, I just got good memories with him, So.
• 24:55
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean it's it's uh, it's tough because but
• 24:59
  Speaker 7: at the same time, and when you think of clothing
• 25:01
  Speaker 7: you I mean, I think of.
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: Playing.
• 25:04
  Speaker 7: I mean you think of playoffs and how much of
• 25:07
  Speaker 7: a polarizing figure he was in the playoffs and what
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: he did, what he accomplished, And you know I was
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: I had the pleasure of, you know, getting to know
• 25:13
  Speaker 7: him just a little bit just through Brendan.
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: You know, I trained with Brendan.
• 25:17
  Speaker 7: When he was with LA in the off season, and
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: you know, like like you said, just got to experience
• 25:23
  Speaker 7: a couple of lunches with him, and you know, he's
• 25:26
  Speaker 7: such an He's an intimidating looking guy and then you
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: talk to him and he's so soft spoken and you know,
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: almost a kind of a big teddy bear and just
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: you would never have thought that so just tough. But
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: like I said, like like you said, you know, just
• 25:43
  Speaker 7: uh yeah, I guess I don't really know what else
• 25:46
  Speaker 7: to say, just because it's been you know, we we
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: talked about a little bit. JD just uh, whenever this
• 25:52
  Speaker 7: happens in the hockey world, he rocks everyone, right. So,
• 25:54
  Speaker 7: and I'm glad you got to uh to hang out
• 25:56
  Speaker 7: with Gomer. He was a guy that I texted well
• 25:59
  Speaker 7: as well, knowing that he played with uh, he played
• 26:02
  Speaker 7: with Claude as well.
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: Well you said it, Nate, and I think it's good
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: for people to go see is is you know, check
• 26:09
  Speaker 5: on your teammates? Right, yeah, not just and I think
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: that applies to like just us as general as people
• 26:15
  Speaker 5: like we get so caught up in our own world
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: and our own in our own day to day life
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: when it's like there's so many other things going on,
• 26:24
  Speaker 5: and sometimes just a text goes a long way, you know,
• 26:27
  Speaker 5: like I had I posted a video for you guys
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: on the check on your teammates, and there's a lot
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: of guys people that reached out to me that I
• 26:34
  Speaker 5: didn't even know that, you know, we're kind of going
• 26:37
  Speaker 5: through some shit, and I was like, it's just like
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: you don't even realize it. So it's like always just
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: telling people just sometimes the text is all somebody needs.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: Hey, how you doing, what's going on? Everything? Good? Like
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: you good man.
• 26:50
  Speaker 5: That's that's where that's where it settles. And I think
• 26:53
  Speaker 5: it's important that that I'm glad you sent that to me, Nate,
• 26:55
  Speaker 5: and you kind of work with that great initiative because
• 26:58
  Speaker 5: I think it's so important to check on your teammates,
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: check on the your loved ones. Check on everybody around
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: you and try to help if he can.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: I guess right again, her thoughts and prayers, going after
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: those families as it has been real, really terrible news.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: There are the guards of claudel Meeu.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: And Dennis Sault.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: All right, time for quick break here in NHL and script,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: and we come back. Jordan Schmaltz aka Swishy as entertaining
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: as it gets, always off the cups. Don't worry, he's
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: gonna go. Schmaltzy's gonna love it. It's gonna come up
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: next here. It's all in the script. Jit, he's already left.
• 27:42
  Speaker 10: Our next guest was drafted in the first round twenty
• 27:44
  Speaker 10: fifth overall by the Saint Louis Blues in the twenty
• 27:47
  Speaker 10: twelve NHL draft. He played three seasons at the University
• 27:50
  Speaker 10: of North Dakota before shooting up for forty two games
• 27:53
  Speaker 10: with the Blues and then playing in Finland and Switzerland.
• 27:56
  Speaker 10: Since ending his playing career, he's become one of the
• 27:59
  Speaker 10: most hilarious voices in hockey media, particularly on the Home
• 28:03
  Speaker 10: by three podcast with Russ Up Gucci. It's Jay Swish,
• 28:06
  Speaker 10: Jordan Schmaltz.
• 28:07
  Speaker 11: Everybody fellas, thank you for having me. Uh Verki tom Er, JD, Baby,
• 28:13
  Speaker 11: what's up? What's happening? Finally I get the invite. I
• 28:15
  Speaker 11: was getting iced out a little bit, I was getting edged,
• 28:19
  Speaker 11: but nonetheless thanks for making the time for me.
• 28:22
  Speaker 9: I'm happy to be here, fellas so swishy.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: I wanted Tal to make the introduction because my introduction
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: to you was our shift together on HL tolight, which
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: of course nobody will ever forget, notably the censors in
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: this country, because I have to remind myself as the host.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: In some ways, I'm sitting in the tone, so listen.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: I know you're a funny guy. You're entertaining. You mentioned
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: that I looked like Cellyo's You mentioned the pod me
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: and JD. This guy seems a good people. And then
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: we discussed wrenches. I just discussed the fact that because
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: there was a Sean the Penguin's coach, Dan Muse, and
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: I said, JD calls him big Dick dan Muse because
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: he says with a deep voice like that, he must
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: have a big wrench. And then we came back out
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: of break and on television, on national television. I said
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: to you, Jordan, what do you think about the New
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: York calenders? In Matthew Shaffer's impact You go, guys. I
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: think he walked in holding his pants in the first
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: two of training camps, said here's my let's go. Did
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: you have any second thoughts after you said that.
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: When you said the look on Stuve Gribson's face.
• 29:11
  Speaker 9: No, you know to to be you know, truthful.
• 29:13
  Speaker 11: I wish I would lean more into the wrench shop, Urky,
• 29:16
  Speaker 11: just to seeing how much.
• 29:17
  Speaker 9: You were laughing as soon as you walked in.
• 29:20
  Speaker 11: Now, so if you back it up that day too,
• 29:22
  Speaker 11: I mean you were an emergency call up. Tony Luffman
• 29:25
  Speaker 11: went down with the I don't know if it was
• 29:27
  Speaker 11: the swine flu or whatever, but shingles, Yeah, it was
• 29:31
  Speaker 11: something he couldn't fight. So you came in. You went
• 29:33
  Speaker 11: full David Ayres. You were the emergency back up. And
• 29:37
  Speaker 11: when we were talking in the green room, like all right,
• 29:38
  Speaker 11: this guy's good ship, he's gonna be good vibes. But
• 29:40
  Speaker 11: I do remember watching you, you know, when I was
• 29:42
  Speaker 11: a kid on on Baseball tonight. So we got in
• 29:45
  Speaker 11: there and the things I was saying you were you
• 29:47
  Speaker 11: were coming to customer, You're starting to laugh a little bit.
• 29:49
  Speaker 11: I was like, all right, I got to lean into
• 29:51
  Speaker 11: this because I want to break Verky every chance I get,
• 29:53
  Speaker 11: So that was my goal. The whole ship was was
• 29:55
  Speaker 11: to get you to giggle, gets you to laugh, and
• 29:58
  Speaker 11: it was a lot of fun, man, and we had
• 29:59
  Speaker 11: we had some good chemistry right up the hop.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: I agree a mission accomplished.
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: It was great.
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's any guy to have ken with because he's
• 30:07
  Speaker 5: he's just so so fun loving and everything. But swish,
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: you know, before we get to a lot about you
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: and what you're up to, and you know the musings
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: and the misings and everything that you got going on,
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: I want to ask you quickly, you know all wrench
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: talk aside the Stanley Cup Finals set Carolina Vegas. I
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: need to know because you do have a very good
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: insight into the game as well, all comedy jokes aside.
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: I think you're very intelligent on your hockey knowledge. So
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: what are you expecting from these series right now?
• 30:40
  Speaker 9: Well, JD, I appreciate that. Well.
• 30:41
  Speaker 11: I was boots on the ground for Game four. Was
• 30:44
  Speaker 11: I fifteen drinks deep in row five? Some may say
• 30:47
  Speaker 11: it's not on me to the side, I don't count
• 30:49
  Speaker 11: my drinks. I'm a true professional and a coxman of
• 30:51
  Speaker 11: the game. So, but when I was watching that game,
• 30:53
  Speaker 11: in game four, you get some Montreal Canadians Carolina. Look,
• 30:57
  Speaker 11: I've been crucial on Carolina. I've so they've been a
• 30:59
  Speaker 11: little bit boring over the last you know, five six years.
• 31:02
  Speaker 11: The way that they play can be I don't know,
• 31:05
  Speaker 11: it just can lull you to sleep a little bit.
• 31:06
  Speaker 11: But that game Game four, I've never seen a team
• 31:09
  Speaker 11: get the puck off the wall and get in the
• 31:11
  Speaker 11: middle of the ice better than the Carolina Hurricanes.
• 31:13
  Speaker 9: To me, JD They're the best team in this series.
• 31:17
  Speaker 11: Now, Vegas has the star power, they do have the defense,
• 31:20
  Speaker 11: this and that, maybe the goaltender. But I was amazed
• 31:22
  Speaker 11: at the Carolina Hurricanes, like the way that the wingers
• 31:24
  Speaker 11: were getting the puck off the yellow, off the boards
• 31:27
  Speaker 11: and getting into the middle of the ice like no look,
• 31:29
  Speaker 11: passes through the neutral zone, slashing across the ice. I mean,
• 31:33
  Speaker 11: they just fully exposed Montreal and then you can know
• 31:35
  Speaker 11: what they can do when they get in the their ozone.
• 31:37
  Speaker 9: And their shot volume.
• 31:38
  Speaker 11: So when I'm looking at this series, I'm looking in
• 31:41
  Speaker 11: Carolina play that game because Vegas has been the best
• 31:44
  Speaker 11: team throughout the playoffs of keeping everyone to the outside,
• 31:48
  Speaker 11: and I think Vegas was tested early with Utah in
• 31:51
  Speaker 11: terms of their speed. They were able to get adjusted
• 31:53
  Speaker 11: to that. They made adjustments against Anaheim and then just
• 31:56
  Speaker 11: steam rolled through Colorado. So Vegas's neutral zone since Tortorella
• 31:59
  Speaker 11: has been there has been their best thing.
• 32:01
  Speaker 9: That's been the biggest difference.
• 32:02
  Speaker 11: I think it's just how they've defended and pushed everyone
• 32:05
  Speaker 11: outside of the dots.
• 32:06
  Speaker 9: But in saying that, Carolina.
• 32:08
  Speaker 11: With with their cohesive unit and their skill set up front,
• 32:12
  Speaker 11: you know they're gonna challenge to me. I still lean Vegas.
• 32:15
  Speaker 11: I still lean with them. I'm thinking six games, but
• 32:19
  Speaker 11: I should never know. I'm like four and eighteen in
• 32:21
  Speaker 11: these playoffs right now with my picks. So stay hot,
• 32:24
  Speaker 11: Swishy Vegas.
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: It's a good pick, Swishy, go ahead.
• 32:27
  Speaker 9: Yeah yeah, yeah.
• 32:28
  Speaker 7: I took Carolina and seven, but my picks aren't goody there.
• 32:30
  Speaker 7: I mean I had Tampa winning the Cups. That didn't
• 32:32
  Speaker 7: work out too well. You know, we were just both
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: in Montreal leaving trail comes trail. Let me speak here,
• 32:39
  Speaker 7: let me start the Montreal leaving some breadcrumbs for each
• 32:43
  Speaker 7: other all over Montreal. We just missed it. How was
• 32:46
  Speaker 7: how was your time in Montreal with Home by three.
• 32:49
  Speaker 7: Little bit of business and pleasure, Yeah, a little bit.
• 32:53
  Speaker 6: I know.
• 32:53
  Speaker 11: I well that night Tom where we were text and
• 32:55
  Speaker 11: I shut it down that I was Thursday night because
• 32:58
  Speaker 11: I was out toll like, I don't know, it might
• 33:01
  Speaker 11: have been six, I don't know. I'm not sure the
• 33:02
  Speaker 11: night before. So I shut it down that night like
• 33:04
  Speaker 11: a troop pro. But it was good.
• 33:06
  Speaker 9: We did our.
• 33:07
  Speaker 11: There's these new things that the kids are doing, these
• 33:10
  Speaker 11: in real life streaming backpacks. So we basically had one
• 33:13
  Speaker 11: of those backpacks and a camera guy with us and
• 33:15
  Speaker 11: we're kind of just buzzing around before the game.
• 33:17
  Speaker 9: We did our should we go out?
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: Bit?
• 33:19
  Speaker 11: We did end up making it out then went to
• 33:21
  Speaker 11: the game obviously, but it was a lot of fun.
• 33:24
  Speaker 11: It's crazy just you know how much different it is
• 33:26
  Speaker 11: in a Canadian market when you when you go into
• 33:28
  Speaker 11: those rinks and the team ends up losing, like everyone
• 33:32
  Speaker 11: is just so sad they go home. I saw it
• 33:34
  Speaker 11: in Edmonton two a couple of years ago at the
• 33:37
  Speaker 11: Stanley Cup. It's just crazy that it's just it literally
• 33:40
  Speaker 11: is a religion up there versus you know down here. Obviously,
• 33:42
  Speaker 11: people they love hockey, but it's it's a little bit different.
• 33:44
  Speaker 11: I don't think it's gonna affect their night, you know,
• 33:47
  Speaker 11: going afterwards in terms of the game and stuff like that.
• 33:49
  Speaker 9: So it was a lot of fun. I just would
• 33:51
  Speaker 9: have wish. I wish Montreal would.
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: Have scored a goal, let alone win, but pissed the drop.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: That's basically I was speaking of scorings those small toy There
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: was a story the Montreal Strippers were gonna have a
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: walkout in time for the Grand Prix.
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: Did you see how the night was impacted?
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Was there less of that Tom Fillery or maybe it
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: was out on the streets rather than Shane Parie.
• 34:09
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I don't know if they're out.
• 34:10
  Speaker 11: They were coming in from Wanda's or they they had
• 34:12
  Speaker 11: them imported from a local new roum.
• 34:14
  Speaker 9: I'm not sure where they were working the half all there,
• 34:17
  Speaker 9: but I might have to hit that up. I don't know.
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: I had it had the makings of a new room.
• 34:23
  Speaker 9: It was yeah, full of oil, there was everything.
• 34:26
  Speaker 11: Yeah, but I was gonna say, you know, I love
• 34:30
  Speaker 11: the Yarrow Hallock walk out, but I was thinking maybe
• 34:32
  Speaker 11: for that must win game, they might have needed George's
• 34:35
  Speaker 11: Larac just just a stiff chin to walk out or
• 34:37
  Speaker 11: something like that. No disrespect Yarro Hallock obviously a great Canadian,
• 34:41
  Speaker 11: but something that just to wheel the boys into the fight.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: I would have liked with the Dobe shine, I know.
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: Uh yeah, it would have been tough, but a tough,
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: tough showing by the Canadians. But a young team. But
• 34:54
  Speaker 5: speaking of young Jordan Schmaltz is nice. You played at
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: No Dak. Talk to me about that experience played with
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: your brother, we both played with him, Big.
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: Nick Schmalls miss. Uh, just talk.
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: A little bit about that and and that experience that
• 35:11
  Speaker 5: the heritage, the history of Nodak hockey.
• 35:15
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean it was. It was great.
• 35:16
  Speaker 11: Like we ever we're doing our golf trip that we
• 35:19
  Speaker 11: don't golf on. It's hilarious.
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: That's the best thing ever you got to tell us
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: about that.
• 35:23
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 35:23
  Speaker 11: So that's this week coming up in Chicago. Is it's
• 35:25
  Speaker 11: all of our buddies that played at North Dakota. It's
• 35:27
  Speaker 11: probably from an era of the freshman class of twenty
• 35:30
  Speaker 11: twelve to twenty seventeen. So you got guys, you know,
• 35:33
  Speaker 11: I'm gonna name drop a little bit, but we got guys,
• 35:35
  Speaker 11: you know, Troy Stetchers, Brock, Besser, my brother Drake, Cajula,
• 35:40
  Speaker 11: guys still playing, guys that are finance guys, guys that
• 35:43
  Speaker 11: sell insurance. But we we all come together for one
• 35:46
  Speaker 11: weekend of the year and this is our tenth annual
• 35:48
  Speaker 11: trip coming up here in the guts of Chicago.
• 35:51
  Speaker 9: So I'm fired up for that.
• 35:52
  Speaker 11: We got a Cubs game on the slate, We're gonna
• 35:54
  Speaker 11: take a well, Chilly's gonna take us out on his
• 35:56
  Speaker 11: boat one day, so that'll be.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: Like, oh nice, I love that. I look forward to that.
• 36:00
  Speaker 9: Yeah, we're gonna do that. And then yeah, yeah, thanks Turky, Hey, Kelly, Yeah, the.
• 36:05
  Speaker 11: Greek god over there. But JD just kind of tied
• 36:07
  Speaker 11: it all together. I mean that that university is obviously
• 36:09
  Speaker 11: so special to me. My whole family is from the
• 36:12
  Speaker 11: city of or the town of Bismarck, North Dakota, which
• 36:15
  Speaker 11: is just three hours away from from Grand Forest, where
• 36:17
  Speaker 11: the university is. And the program's amazing, man. I mean,
• 36:20
  Speaker 11: I think now you're gonna even see more of it
• 36:22
  Speaker 11: because of how they're opening it up to the chl
• 36:26
  Speaker 11: kids coming down from you know, especially the Western League
• 36:28
  Speaker 11: to to North Dakota. There's been a big connection there
• 36:31
  Speaker 11: thus far, in the last two years, so.
• 36:32
  Speaker 9: It's a great university. Man. They got a really good
• 36:36
  Speaker 9: coach there.
• 36:37
  Speaker 11: The the other two coaches, the assistant coach, Dylan Simpson
• 36:40
  Speaker 11: was my d partner for two years, and then Bryn
• 36:42
  Speaker 11: Chiswick is the general manager. He was my roommate for
• 36:45
  Speaker 11: for three of those years there. He's is a really
• 36:46
  Speaker 11: close friend and a sharp hockey mind. So they're in
• 36:49
  Speaker 11: good hands there, man, And I can't wait to see
• 36:52
  Speaker 11: you kind of just moving forward with Dan Jackson, but
• 36:53
  Speaker 11: JD all you guys, I don't know if you've ever
• 36:56
  Speaker 11: been there. If if you're ever in that neck of
• 36:58
  Speaker 11: the woods, I don't know why you would be, But
• 37:00
  Speaker 11: to check out that arena is it's I think it's
• 37:03
  Speaker 11: the best in the world.
• 37:03
  Speaker 5: To be honest, I might have to do a live
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: stream from there on script.
• 37:07
  Speaker 9: Yeah you should.
• 37:08
  Speaker 11: I mean, if you're if you're in the like Vegas
• 37:10
  Speaker 11: of the North, if you're in Winnipeg, you can slide down.
• 37:12
  Speaker 9: It's only two hours.
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah, catch catch a CFL game.
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: Oh great, there you go.
• 37:18
  Speaker 9: The gray man. I'm trying to. I'm actually trying to.
• 37:22
  Speaker 11: I don't know if they're gonna allow me on the
• 37:24
  Speaker 11: on the panel because they'll probably see two of my
• 37:25
  Speaker 11: tweets and be like this, guys, uh, we might have
• 37:28
  Speaker 11: to say no, But I'm trying to get on a
• 37:29
  Speaker 11: panel for a Great Cup game this year with my buddy.
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah, talk about we joked before, talk about your love
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: for the CFL and how it's the greatest trophy in sports,
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: and also how you were at the last Great Cup.
• 37:43
  Speaker 6: I think I was.
• 37:44
  Speaker 11: I was, I was boots on the ground, I was
• 37:46
  Speaker 11: on the field. I was the one hundred and thirteenth
• 37:47
  Speaker 11: edition Live Where it was Where it was, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
• 37:51
  Speaker 9: Yeah, Princess Otto Stadium.
• 37:52
  Speaker 11: It's it's a great stadium by the way, it's I
• 37:54
  Speaker 11: would say it's a top thousand stadium in the world.
• 37:58
  Speaker 11: But the the my love for the CFL is I
• 38:01
  Speaker 11: mean it runs deep.
• 38:02
  Speaker 6: Man.
• 38:02
  Speaker 9: It's the hardest nine team league in the world.
• 38:04
  Speaker 11: The fact that you only get three downs, you're playing
• 38:06
  Speaker 11: with like glorified watermelon for a ball. Like, there's so
• 38:09
  Speaker 11: many just different nuances of the game that I truly love.
• 38:12
  Speaker 11: And it actually goes back to North Dakota. One of
• 38:15
  Speaker 11: my my freshman year roommate, Colton Sanderson, was from Moose
• 38:18
  Speaker 11: Jaw and he would he loved the rough Riders. So
• 38:20
  Speaker 11: I was all in on the rough Riders from from
• 38:23
  Speaker 11: day one when I showed up on campus, partially because
• 38:25
  Speaker 11: I thought it was hilarious that he actually took this
• 38:27
  Speaker 11: league seriously, and.
• 38:28
  Speaker 9: Then I came accustomed to it.
• 38:30
  Speaker 11: And the fact that too, that like you could go
• 38:33
  Speaker 11: hypothetically like two and seventeen through the whole year and
• 38:37
  Speaker 11: you can still make the playoffs, playing the crossover game,
• 38:39
  Speaker 11: going to the Hambleton, win a game, steal one on
• 38:42
  Speaker 11: the road, and the next thing you know, you're playing
• 38:44
  Speaker 11: the Alouettes and hey, we're playing for a gray baby.
• 38:46
  Speaker 11: So you're never out of the fight in the CFL,
• 38:48
  Speaker 11: which I truly do love and I don't know if
• 38:51
  Speaker 11: you guys, just seeing the game.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Come on that's all the best.
• 38:57
  Speaker 11: And the fact that too, back in the day, there
• 38:59
  Speaker 11: was nine teams in the league and two of them
• 39:01
  Speaker 11: had the same name. They're the Outawa rough Riders the
• 39:04
  Speaker 11: Saskatchewan rough Riders.
• 39:05
  Speaker 9: I mean, that's just creativity.
• 39:07
  Speaker 6: That's fine. At fellas, you forgot to make I forgot
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: to mention.
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: Who's your favorite?
• 39:13
  Speaker 11: Yeah, you know, Verky, I like Fluty, but I was
• 39:18
  Speaker 11: always a Ricky Ray guy sticky sticky and uh, you know.
• 39:24
  Speaker 9: God bless him. I mean that guy.
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: Mechanic.
• 39:30
  Speaker 9: I mean, do you guys.
• 39:32
  Speaker 11: Know that he had six Tommy John surgeries and he
• 39:34
  Speaker 11: still battled through it.
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: I didn't know that forever.
• 39:39
  Speaker 11: I just made that up. But he was an absolute gunslayer.
• 39:42
  Speaker 11: He was like Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite. He could
• 39:44
  Speaker 11: throw all over that quarter mile.
• 39:48
  Speaker 7: Yes, honestly he forgot about the running start too.
• 39:55
  Speaker 6: They get a running yet. About that running start, I.
• 39:58
  Speaker 9: Mean those guys run a forty yard dash before the start.
• 40:00
  Speaker 6: Yeah, exactly.
• 40:02
  Speaker 9: It's crazy. It's like, fellow, what do you clock him?
• 40:06
  Speaker 9: Are you off four two? You play on a practice squad,
• 40:10
  Speaker 9: got hands like feet, but sign.
• 40:12
  Speaker 6: Them speaking speaking a big moments.
• 40:15
  Speaker 7: So I'm gonna go back and talk to me about
• 40:18
  Speaker 7: your first call up twenty seventeen. Petangelo gets hurt. Tell
• 40:22
  Speaker 7: us through that to talk to us through that story
• 40:24
  Speaker 7: right there.
• 40:25
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean the Blues were so loaded on the
• 40:28
  Speaker 11: back end like they were. I mean, hindsight's always twenty twenty.
• 40:31
  Speaker 11: Maybe I play another year at North Dakota and just
• 40:33
  Speaker 11: signed as a free agent. But they were loaded.
• 40:35
  Speaker 6: Man.
• 40:36
  Speaker 11: They had Shatton Kirk, they had Petro Perako had just
• 40:38
  Speaker 11: came in Porto was there, so they had a great decour.
• 40:41
  Speaker 11: Obviously they were on a cups of you know, winning
• 40:44
  Speaker 11: almost every year.
• 40:44
  Speaker 9: But I just remember that game was it was in Colorado.
• 40:47
  Speaker 11: Colorado at the time was not great, and there was
• 40:50
  Speaker 11: a face off play.
• 40:51
  Speaker 9: I think I played like sixteen minutes.
• 40:53
  Speaker 11: Maybe you have to check the game notes on that,
• 40:54
  Speaker 11: but I think it was like fifteen or sixteen minutes.
• 40:56
  Speaker 9: And it was later in the year.
• 40:58
  Speaker 11: They had just gotten rid of Shattonkirk, they had trade
• 41:01
  Speaker 11: him to Washington, so there was a little bit of
• 41:03
  Speaker 11: a spot. Petro goes down. I step in play a
• 41:06
  Speaker 11: game and I was just I was out there with
• 41:08
  Speaker 11: the fourth line obviously, and it was Upshall, Brodziak and Reeves.
• 41:12
  Speaker 9: So I'm playing with these guys.
• 41:13
  Speaker 11: There's a face off on the right side in the
• 41:16
  Speaker 11: offensive zone and not playing the right point, and we
• 41:18
  Speaker 11: kind of run like a set face off play. And
• 41:19
  Speaker 11: you guys know those set face off plays.
• 41:21
  Speaker 9: Like rarely do they work.
• 41:22
  Speaker 11: Like you know, you drop it up, You're like, yeah, yeah,
• 41:24
  Speaker 11: I just win the fucking face off.
• 41:26
  Speaker 4: Let's do that first. And annexation of Puerto Rico. We're
• 41:29
  Speaker 4: gonna get him here, boys.
• 41:30
  Speaker 11: Right, and the fact that I'm maybe even gonna touch
• 41:33
  Speaker 11: the puck on this play, like all right, whatever, So
• 41:34
  Speaker 11: they actually Brodziak snaps it back. He was good to
• 41:37
  Speaker 11: Dot and it was a play where I kind of
• 41:39
  Speaker 11: just walked to the middle of the ice, right around
• 41:41
  Speaker 11: you know, the neutral zone. Dot sent it to Upshall,
• 41:43
  Speaker 11: who was on the half wall, and it was kind
• 41:45
  Speaker 11: of like a just like a slap play to the
• 41:47
  Speaker 11: net and Revo ended up scoring and uppyst celebration on
• 41:52
  Speaker 11: that play for an assist. I got a second assist,
• 41:55
  Speaker 11: but Uppy celebration on that place you'd have thought he
• 41:57
  Speaker 11: won the Stanley Cup, Like he like looked to the
• 41:59
  Speaker 11: sky and like, what did you do last night? Why
• 42:01
  Speaker 11: are you celebrating so bad? But yeah, it was it
• 42:05
  Speaker 11: was pretty cool. I mean it was such a veteran
• 42:06
  Speaker 11: group and so many good guys. I just remember, like
• 42:09
  Speaker 11: alex Steen was was always the best guy to.
• 42:11
  Speaker 9: Me, and j Bowmeister and nice you know, real good dudes.
• 42:14
  Speaker 11: So that's always it's always been an old school organization,
• 42:17
  Speaker 11: but even more so then.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's talk more about that time with the Blue swishing,
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: you know, playing on the team of Jayden Schwartz. How
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: often was it confusing Jordan Schmalls and Jaden Schwartz.
• 42:26
  Speaker 11: Yeah, well that's what all the media guys would always say.
• 42:28
  Speaker 11: They would be like, you know, they get their tongues twisted.
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 42:31
  Speaker 11: Verkey he's a he's a movie buff himself. Like Schwartz,
• 42:33
  Speaker 11: he's a low profile guy. Nice if you're talking one liners,
• 42:37
  Speaker 11: he's one of the best.
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: He's up there, he is.
• 42:40
  Speaker 9: Yeah, he really is.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: I was gonna see with the name like Jayden Schwartz,
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: I think of spaceballs. Schwartz is as big as mind.
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: Let's see how you handle it.
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, like he was.
• 42:47
  Speaker 11: He was always the guy walking in the in the
• 42:49
  Speaker 11: locker room or maybe like you know, get into a
• 42:51
  Speaker 11: restaurant in a bar like shame was O'Toole, I'm ready
• 42:55
  Speaker 11: to get drunk.
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 42:57
  Speaker 11: He was like wedding crasher lines and old school. Yeah,
• 43:00
  Speaker 11: he's witty for sure. Sasky guy, right.
• 43:02
  Speaker 5: Nice Sasky guy. You know, you play some HL hockey,
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: play with some big names, you end up over in
• 43:10
  Speaker 5: Europe and you know you I think at one point
• 43:16
  Speaker 5: I played at during the lockout in the not the
• 43:20
  Speaker 5: Swedish League, but the Finnish League, and I was dubbed
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: the king of all of Finland. But I'd heard from
• 43:26
  Speaker 5: some friends of mine that you became the king of
• 43:28
  Speaker 5: Helsinki when you went there. Talk to me about your
• 43:31
  Speaker 5: time in Europe. What's your favorite story or fondest memory
• 43:36
  Speaker 5: of being over there in the last couple of years.
• 43:38
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I actually, JD. I never wanted to leave Finland,
• 43:41
  Speaker 11: to be honest. It was just neither did I the organization.
• 43:45
  Speaker 11: I mean a lot, yes, a lot of saunas. Speaking
• 43:48
  Speaker 11: of wrench out, yeah's heavy wrench fellas.
• 43:52
  Speaker 9: Are we gonna go hang out at the bar here, you.
• 43:54
  Speaker 11: Know other people or just want to chill in the
• 43:57
  Speaker 11: sun and stare at each other?
• 43:59
  Speaker 9: But yeah, hell sink.
• 44:01
  Speaker 11: You get over the fact that it gets dark at
• 44:03
  Speaker 11: two pm, You're like, I can't go to the bar yet.
• 44:06
  Speaker 11: Once you get over that, amazing people JD. Like you
• 44:09
  Speaker 11: know you were you were up in Olu, which is crazy.
• 44:11
  Speaker 11: You were almost at the Arctic Circle, Like.
• 44:13
  Speaker 5: Hey, yeah, it wasn't two pm. Some went down, It
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: was like ten am.
• 44:18
  Speaker 9: That's it never came up.
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: Where were you never ca It just hovered it just
• 44:23
  Speaker 5: like hovered halfway up and you're like, what the what's
• 44:25
  Speaker 5: going on over here?
• 44:26
  Speaker 11: But yeah, yeah, but I loved it, man. I mean
• 44:28
  Speaker 11: that rink and Helsinki, that old school rink is eighty
• 44:31
  Speaker 11: two hundred people sold out pretty much every night and
• 44:34
  Speaker 11: around town. I mean I was known as the Fella,
• 44:37
  Speaker 11: that's what they would call me. So it was I
• 44:39
  Speaker 11: had a lot of fun there. I never wanted to
• 44:41
  Speaker 11: leave with just the U. The organization kind of after
• 44:44
  Speaker 11: we lost out in the first round went a different
• 44:46
  Speaker 11: direction and I ended up in Switzerland. But yeah, Finland
• 44:50
  Speaker 11: will always have a soft spot in my heart. I
• 44:52
  Speaker 11: love that place. Great people and as you know JD,
• 44:56
  Speaker 11: none of them talk. They're like military soldiers and then
• 44:58
  Speaker 11: you get them on the piss and they don't shut up.
• 45:01
  Speaker 9: They like know every little thing about you.
• 45:02
  Speaker 11: It's like, dude, I didn't even know if you knew
• 45:04
  Speaker 11: I was on this team, but then they knew, like
• 45:06
  Speaker 11: your history, where you're from, they you know your blood type.
• 45:10
  Speaker 11: Yeah exactly. It's they're crazy, man.
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: So did you where'd you go?
• 45:14
  Speaker 5: Like, because you always have those international breaks. Yeah, which
• 45:18
  Speaker 5: was my favorite when I was there because I was
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: like I got to go visit a bunch of countries
• 45:21
  Speaker 5: and did you go anywhere special avenue good? Did you
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: link up with any of the other imports?
• 45:27
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I I Alex Broadhurst was on my team who
• 45:30
  Speaker 11: played a little bit in Columbus now he's in the KHL.
• 45:32
  Speaker 11: I played with him all the way growing up and
• 45:34
  Speaker 11: then in junior, so we we had a little.
• 45:36
  Speaker 9: Bit of a at a gall at the time.
• 45:37
  Speaker 11: So we had a nice little Freddie couple's thing going
• 45:40
  Speaker 11: on where we could kind of travel with them and
• 45:41
  Speaker 11: do them some things. But honestly, Copenhagen was was the
• 45:46
  Speaker 11: coolest place that we win. I love that city. You know,
• 45:48
  Speaker 11: I've been to a decent amount of spots. I'm not
• 45:50
  Speaker 11: Johnny Europe, but I've been to a decent amount of
• 45:52
  Speaker 11: spots over there.
• 45:52
  Speaker 9: Copenhagen, JD. That was my favorite.
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: I love that city to jump in swishy.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: If you look at the Happiness Index every year, Denmark
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: always ranks number one happiest people on Earth.
• 46:02
  Speaker 11: Oddly enough that I heard that they all just go
• 46:04
  Speaker 11: of the pubs and just ride their bikes half licked, like,
• 46:12
  Speaker 11: get on a bike, man, it's whatever, fine getting your
• 46:15
  Speaker 11: ten speed.
• 46:15
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I like that city a lot. It's clean, really
• 46:18
  Speaker 9: good restaurants.
• 46:19
  Speaker 11: I mean, if you're like into the Michelin star stuff,
• 46:21
  Speaker 11: there's a ton of those there. I think it might
• 46:23
  Speaker 11: be per capital of the most. But I just love
• 46:25
  Speaker 11: the pub culture and the people are great.
• 46:28
  Speaker 6: A lot more thc over there to everyone's happy all
• 46:30
  Speaker 6: the time.
• 46:31
  Speaker 9: Yeah, smoking if you got them?
• 46:35
  Speaker 7: So after I got to ask you, so after the
• 46:37
  Speaker 7: gold medal game Canada US, you had a pretty important
• 46:41
  Speaker 7: FaceTime with some of the.
• 46:42
  Speaker 6: Fellas from the plane. How did that come about? Yea?
• 46:47
  Speaker 6: And who? And who was the most banged up that
• 46:49
  Speaker 6: you were talking to?
• 46:51
  Speaker 11: The most banged up for sure was I think it
• 46:54
  Speaker 11: was probably Millsy on there because he was sleeping. They're
• 46:57
  Speaker 11: like they were trying to wake them up on camera.
• 46:59
  Speaker 11: I would say it was the Ka Chucks probably they
• 47:03
  Speaker 11: were half licked.
• 47:04
  Speaker 9: Acavoy was going.
• 47:05
  Speaker 11: But the reason it all started was was Clayton Keller
• 47:08
  Speaker 11: had texted us. He actually texted a friend of ours,
• 47:11
  Speaker 11: jd you know or Coach Darr and he's like, hey,
• 47:14
  Speaker 11: do these guys have a producer? Like, no, they don't
• 47:18
  Speaker 11: have a producer, Like what do you mean? Like it's
• 47:20
  Speaker 11: a it's home by three?
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: You guys are soup to Nuts.
• 47:23
  Speaker 11: Yeah exactly, we're Nuts and Bolts over to.
• 47:26
  Speaker 9: Do we have a producer?
• 47:28
  Speaker 11: So he texted Dar that and it's like because I
• 47:31
  Speaker 11: want to surprise him on the on the you know,
• 47:33
  Speaker 11: jumping in on their they're live right now. They just
• 47:36
  Speaker 11: happen to be live and we're flying to the White House,
• 47:37
  Speaker 11: like we want to jump in. Uh So Jar was like, no,
• 47:41
  Speaker 11: they don't, they don't have a producer. You just text them.
• 47:43
  Speaker 11: And we get a text from Kel's and the groups
• 47:45
  Speaker 11: like yo, send us to link and we're like what like.
• 47:48
  Speaker 5: And then and for everybody at home, Kel's just sends
• 47:50
  Speaker 5: a text to you that says yo, literally yes, and
• 47:53
  Speaker 5: then you're like what that was it just yo, He'll
• 47:56
  Speaker 5: send that to you random and you're like, yes, yeah exactly, Like.
• 48:01
  Speaker 11: Yeah, so we're live, we're live on just a normal
• 48:03
  Speaker 11: day on Home by three, probably talk about the Epstein files.
• 48:06
  Speaker 9: And then we're just from real.
• 48:09
  Speaker 11: Yeah, get a text from Kelsey's like yo, let us
• 48:12
  Speaker 11: on send us the links and we're like, what are
• 48:14
  Speaker 11: you talking about?
• 48:15
  Speaker 9: They're like, we want to call in.
• 48:16
  Speaker 11: So they called in. They're on Air Force two and
• 48:19
  Speaker 11: it was pretty funny. They were they were literally just
• 48:21
  Speaker 11: coming off a night probably two hours of sleep maybe
• 48:24
  Speaker 11: if that, from eleven in Miami and they call in.
• 48:28
  Speaker 9: Amatz was on there, so it was cool.
• 48:30
  Speaker 11: You know, those those pretty special for them to call
• 48:33
  Speaker 11: in and you know, we I don't like to you guys. Know,
• 48:36
  Speaker 11: it's hard to beg guys to come on and different
• 48:38
  Speaker 11: things like that throughout the year, and it just so
• 48:40
  Speaker 11: worked out that, you know, the timing was great, and
• 48:44
  Speaker 11: you know, I really appreciated those boys, especially the ka
• 48:47
  Speaker 11: Chuck's just yelling that's baseball the entire time.
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: Last one for me Swishing Coyotes twenty twenty and get
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: to read it with your brother.
• 48:54
  Speaker 4: How cool was that?
• 48:56
  Speaker 9: Yeah? That was That was a training camp I went to.
• 48:59
  Speaker 11: It was the that was like it was a nuts time,
• 49:04
  Speaker 11: like just in terms of the Coyotes, like Chika had
• 49:06
  Speaker 11: just stepped down, Billy was coming in.
• 49:10
  Speaker 9: They had not hired him yet. Sullivan was like the
• 49:13
  Speaker 9: interim GM.
• 49:14
  Speaker 11: So I went into that camp and I was like, Okay, well,
• 49:17
  Speaker 11: you know it's close to home here where I'm living.
• 49:19
  Speaker 11: I don't really I had some other places I can
• 49:21
  Speaker 11: maybe have signed a two way or something like that,
• 49:23
  Speaker 11: but I'm like, I want to go like, this is
• 49:24
  Speaker 11: my last kick at the can to maybe try to
• 49:26
  Speaker 11: play with Nick, like I want to do it. So
• 49:29
  Speaker 11: it didn't end up working out how I wanted it to.
• 49:32
  Speaker 11: I was down in the Dirty Tea and Tucson going
• 49:35
  Speaker 11: to dollar beer nights at Gentle Bends.
• 49:36
  Speaker 9: But it was it was cool.
• 49:39
  Speaker 11: It was a lot of fun. Yeah, that place is
• 49:44
  Speaker 11: it's not perfect. So I was playing. I played that
• 49:46
  Speaker 11: majority of the year down there in Tucson, but I
• 49:50
  Speaker 11: was I was hoping they were just going to give
• 49:51
  Speaker 11: us a game because the Coyotes weren't, you know, very
• 49:54
  Speaker 11: good at the time. They're they're okay, you know, veteran group.
• 49:56
  Speaker 11: But yeah, it was cool. We got to play against
• 49:58
  Speaker 11: each other twice I think in the NHL maybe three times,
• 50:00
  Speaker 11: so that that was probably the most special kind of
• 50:03
  Speaker 11: thing about that.
• 50:03
  Speaker 5: So yeah, yeah, listen, uh Switch, you had a great
• 50:07
  Speaker 5: career and and you know, and your transition and media
• 50:12
  Speaker 5: and what you've done is pretty pretty impressive. You guys
• 50:15
  Speaker 5: start with Hockey Night in Scottsdale. Yep, you also have
• 50:19
  Speaker 5: Live and five, You've you've so many different things going on,
• 50:21
  Speaker 5: but Hockey Knight Scottsdale gets going, had some big time
• 50:25
  Speaker 5: acclaim you had bus nasty coming on for these live streams.
• 50:29
  Speaker 5: Something happens, somebody gets upset in the in the Canada.
• 50:33
  Speaker 5: I don't know if you legally can talk about it.
• 50:34
  Speaker 5: You can maybe bleep out the words or goal. But
• 50:37
  Speaker 5: how did that come about? And then from there spawned
• 50:41
  Speaker 5: the starting of Home by three? So take us through
• 50:43
  Speaker 5: that kind of that timeline and how you go from
• 50:47
  Speaker 5: Hockey Knight in Scottsdale. I think I had sat with
• 50:49
  Speaker 5: you at dinner and you were going through the ship
• 50:51
  Speaker 5: with with the with Hockey Night in Canada, and now
• 50:54
  Speaker 5: you're doing Home by three and thriving. So just take
• 50:58
  Speaker 5: us through that.
• 50:58
  Speaker 9: Yeah, I was last year at the Cup.
• 51:00
  Speaker 11: I was after game five or six or whatever, Florida one,
• 51:05
  Speaker 11: and we're sitting there in Fort Lauderdale and like logging
• 51:10
  Speaker 11: onto YouTube or whatever. Our entire show is shut down,
• 51:13
  Speaker 11: like what is going on here? Like what's going on?
• 51:16
  Speaker 11: And like we had a bunch of good sixty nine
• 51:18
  Speaker 11: or sixty seventy copyright infringements on our all of our
• 51:22
  Speaker 11: videos that we had put up, Like what is going on?
• 51:24
  Speaker 11: And then we get an emails from CBC and this
• 51:27
  Speaker 11: is where I kind of got to dance the line,
• 51:28
  Speaker 11: but more or less we're like, you know, guys, got
• 51:30
  Speaker 11: to change your name. They worked with us in good
• 51:32
  Speaker 11: faith with their lawyers and things like that, but.
• 51:35
  Speaker 9: Had to change our name.
• 51:37
  Speaker 11: So we go from Hockey Night in Scottsdale to no
• 51:39
  Speaker 11: Name for probably four weeks, like we're trying to think,
• 51:43
  Speaker 11: what is our name gonna be?
• 51:44
  Speaker 9: What is this show? Eventually?
• 51:46
  Speaker 11: I think we wanted to get away from Hockey Night's
• 51:48
  Speaker 11: Scottsdale because it's pretty niche like Home by Three talks
• 51:51
  Speaker 11: a little bit about hockey, but as you know JD,
• 51:52
  Speaker 11: it's more of a comedy show.
• 51:54
  Speaker 9: So it was kind of a blessing.
• 51:55
  Speaker 11: In disguise where we were able to kind of take
• 51:58
  Speaker 11: that time, even though you know, we were going through
• 52:00
  Speaker 11: the mud and different things like that, to really make
• 52:03
  Speaker 11: it a pause and switch our name. And man, I
• 52:06
  Speaker 11: would be sitting there just all day thinking like what
• 52:08
  Speaker 11: is our name? I probably had a thousand names? I
• 52:11
  Speaker 11: shooted my Bob. We would be sitting down like what
• 52:13
  Speaker 11: do you think about this? And then it just kind
• 52:15
  Speaker 11: of came to me and you know, we were like, Wow,
• 52:17
  Speaker 11: this is it and we actually have it live on
• 52:19
  Speaker 11: camera because you was recording that day.
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: I've seen that video.
• 52:22
  Speaker 5: What was your what was the second closest name where
• 52:24
  Speaker 5: you were like almost because naming something's the hardest thing.
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it really is.
• 52:28
  Speaker 9: It was.
• 52:29
  Speaker 11: It was the second closest I would say was going
• 52:31
  Speaker 11: to be pardon my chin, but that was too close, yes,
• 52:35
  Speaker 11: or excuse my chin, but we felt that was too
• 52:38
  Speaker 11: close to pardon my take with bart or excuse my
• 52:41
  Speaker 11: chin kind of had the same amount of like, I
• 52:43
  Speaker 11: don't know what, I just have thought.
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: Jaye Leno was involved.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: Like I said, Leading with my chin was the title
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: of his books.
• 52:49
  Speaker 11: Yes, the oh yeah, talk about it that guy. I
• 52:51
  Speaker 11: mean you could land a seven forty seven on that chin.
• 52:54
  Speaker 11: That's a that's a stiff big chin there. That's it
• 52:56
  Speaker 11: if we're talking chins. But yeah, no, it was, it was.
• 52:59
  Speaker 11: It was how it worked out Jad was great and
• 53:02
  Speaker 11: just in terms of, you know, get into home by three,
• 53:06
  Speaker 11: it was hilarious. I mean, we were negotiating with a
• 53:09
  Speaker 11: billion dollar company's lawyer. The guy's like, hey, you guys
• 53:13
  Speaker 11: have any representation.
• 53:14
  Speaker 5: We're like, but that's to us, that's the impressive thing,
• 53:17
  Speaker 5: Like you got that doesn't just happen by accident, Like
• 53:21
  Speaker 5: you were doing such a great job on Hockey Night
• 53:23
  Speaker 5: in Scottsdale. And I remember when we were sitting at
• 53:26
  Speaker 5: a bar once, I think it was The Hot Chick,
• 53:27
  Speaker 5: and you were talking to me about this this idea,
• 53:30
  Speaker 5: and I was like, yeah, it's great, and I was
• 53:32
  Speaker 5: the think it was playing my last year. And then
• 53:34
  Speaker 5: but to get a company, a billion dollar company, to
• 53:36
  Speaker 5: come to you and be like hey, no, Like usually
• 53:39
  Speaker 5: they'll just think, yeah, whatever, it's it's their piss ants,
• 53:42
  Speaker 5: but we don't need to worry about them. But it's
• 53:43
  Speaker 5: crazy how you have to deal with that. It's just
• 53:46
  Speaker 5: it's an amazing story. How then it turns into Home
• 53:48
  Speaker 5: by three, which is a great name.
• 53:50
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 53:50
  Speaker 11: Yeah, And then the essence of Home by three for
• 53:52
  Speaker 11: people listening is is go for one, stay for two,
• 53:55
  Speaker 11: home by three. So that was kind of always the
• 53:57
  Speaker 11: saying we had, so we just we shortened it up,
• 54:00
  Speaker 11: we combed through it, and it's just Home by three.
• 54:02
  Speaker 11: So yeah, it's been a lot of fun, man. I mean,
• 54:04
  Speaker 11: we're announcing Tuesday our first theater show in Boston at
• 54:07
  Speaker 11: the Schubert Theater, which is big time. It's gonna be
• 54:09
  Speaker 11: sixteen hundred seats, so we're gonna have to make a
• 54:11
  Speaker 11: push for ticket sales. But that's gonna be kind of
• 54:13
  Speaker 11: like our first like real, we've done comedy clubs, but
• 54:16
  Speaker 11: that will be really sweet. I've been grinding at that
• 54:18
  Speaker 11: for a while now. So the theater show, it'll be
• 54:21
  Speaker 11: October third in Boston.
• 54:23
  Speaker 7: So be pretty sick now that you're into the comedy
• 54:26
  Speaker 7: side of it, swish. You know, who are some comedians
• 54:30
  Speaker 7: that have given you inspiration now that you're on the
• 54:32
  Speaker 7: side that you guys are doing comedy shows.
• 54:33
  Speaker 6: There any comedians that you've watched in the past.
• 54:36
  Speaker 11: Yeah, I mean like old school guys I know growing up.
• 54:39
  Speaker 11: I love like Roddy Dangerfield. I just think he's just.
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: A what do you say?
• 54:44
  Speaker 11: Yeah, one line like clinic, Like he's I think this
• 54:47
  Speaker 11: place is restricted winning, so don't tell him you a Jewish?
• 54:50
  Speaker 9: Okay, fine, I think what are you doing? It's a
• 54:55
  Speaker 9: parking lot. He was one of my favorites.
• 54:58
  Speaker 11: I would say, Dave Chappelle, Eddie Murphy, Kat Williams, all
• 55:03
  Speaker 11: those guys I draw really relation tube and then I
• 55:06
  Speaker 11: would say, like, currently, I love listening to Theo Vaughn.
• 55:09
  Speaker 9: I just think like he's one of those guys. I
• 55:11
  Speaker 9: just like you just you just let him go.
• 55:13
  Speaker 11: He just like runs like way far away from you
• 55:16
  Speaker 11: and also just throws like a dagger, like a zapper
• 55:18
  Speaker 11: right back in you. And then I think, and I
• 55:20
  Speaker 11: think the best one line guy out there right now
• 55:23
  Speaker 11: is Mark Norman.
• 55:24
  Speaker 9: I love him.
• 55:24
  Speaker 4: He's like, yeah, Mark Norman's great dark guy.
• 55:27
  Speaker 11: He oh he is. But he is surgical, like he
• 55:30
  Speaker 11: goes in there. It's like open heart surgery for a
• 55:32
  Speaker 11: tight twenty minutes of one liner after one liner after
• 55:34
  Speaker 11: one liner. I saw him in New York City like
• 55:37
  Speaker 11: a month ago when we did our hit piece on
• 55:40
  Speaker 11: NHL Network. I popped in the night before to go
• 55:42
  Speaker 11: see Norman at the Comedy Cellar. He was like the
• 55:45
  Speaker 11: tightest twenty I've ever seen. It was just like bang
• 55:47
  Speaker 11: bang bang bang, and then he's all right, I'm out
• 55:49
  Speaker 11: of here, Like holy fuck, that was insane. So I
• 55:52
  Speaker 11: love listening to him because the way he operates is
• 55:55
  Speaker 11: is kind of how hockey humor is. I think with
• 55:57
  Speaker 11: the one liners and being on your toes, Mark Norman
• 56:00
  Speaker 11: is probably my favorite right now.
• 56:02
  Speaker 4: I think.
• 56:02
  Speaker 5: As for a last one, we got tal Pinchevsky's wanted
• 56:05
  Speaker 5: to ask you a question our our producer.
• 56:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so he'll.
• 56:09
  Speaker 9: Put me up to this one.
• 56:10
  Speaker 6: I'm not gonna lie.
• 56:10
  Speaker 8: I'm not sure exactly what this means, but I said
• 56:13
  Speaker 8: I go for it.
• 56:14
  Speaker 10: So all I wanted to know is is this baseball
• 56:17
  Speaker 10: or is it porn?
• 56:19
  Speaker 9: Such a good question.
• 56:21
  Speaker 11: I mean, the crazy thing is there's so much overlap
• 56:24
  Speaker 11: between baseball and porn, you know what I mean. It's
• 56:26
  Speaker 11: what is baseball could be porn and what is porn
• 56:30
  Speaker 11: could be baseball. Like like you're sitting at the bar
• 56:32
  Speaker 11: right and like some guys just you know, draped over
• 56:36
  Speaker 11: a girl and he's not getting aggressive, he's getting really handsy,
• 56:39
  Speaker 11: Like that could be baseball. That could be porn too.
• 56:42
  Speaker 9: You know what I mean.
• 56:43
  Speaker 11: Like it's at the end of the day, like you
• 56:45
  Speaker 11: get to the batter's box and my third base coach
• 56:48
  Speaker 11: when I coached baseball was I was always looking down
• 56:51
  Speaker 11: at my guy as a choke and poke and spray
• 56:53
  Speaker 11: and praise. So they're all baseball. It's all porn, is
• 56:56
  Speaker 11: the definition I can give you.
• 56:57
  Speaker 6: There.
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: There's nothing better than scoring at home, especially this was awesome.
• 57:01
  Speaker 9: Buddy.
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: Hopefully well get your back on any cell network soon.
• 57:03
  Speaker 11: Yeah, no, appreciate I fella thank you for taking the
• 57:05
  Speaker 11: time for having me love the show.
• 57:14
  Speaker 1: So in the one fould sixty right now, horror movies
• 57:17
  Speaker 1: are having a moment I've been having for a couple
• 57:19
  Speaker 1: of years now. What's happened is that the movies that
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: get made by Hollywood are either these you know, crazy
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: huge ten pole movies as they're.
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: Called, or sequels, or a lot of horror movies.
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: And the horror movies makes sense because it's a low
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: budget and then they gross well, so like, great, we
• 57:31
  Speaker 1: can make this money for six million bucks, it makes
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: twenty five million dollars. We quadruple our prope. Everybody wins,
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: and now these movies are even more impressive.
• 57:38
  Speaker 2: And Obsession is a.
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: Film from a guy named Curry Barker, and this is
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: exceptionally rare in movies. The second weekend outgrossed the first weekend,
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: and approably, the third week really might outgross the second.
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: This never happened.
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, there's like five times in movie history.
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: There's something about Mary famously did that. It opened, Yeah,
• 57:54
  Speaker 1: and then the buzz was awesome. Gonna go see some
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: something right hangover movies like that, comedies. But that's the
• 57:59
  Speaker 1: kind of word of mouth right now is around this movie.
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: So my nephew is somebody. You gotta go see it.
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: Nothing worse than a forty seven year old man watching
• 58:05
  Speaker 1: the movie is surrounded by a bunch of teenagers in
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: a Friday afternoon. I'm looking around a bunch of seventeen
• 58:09
  Speaker 1: eighteen year old girls. I'm like, well, if this doesn't
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: look creepy, I'm just gonna go eat my milk DUTs. Okay, Okay,
• 58:14
  Speaker 1: that's fine, I'll just go watch my movie. But it's uh,
• 58:16
  Speaker 1: it's a move.
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: But a guy in love with a girl, Okay, that
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: works for teenagers. So he wishes that she'd be as
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: obsessed with.
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  Speaker 1: Him as he is with her. And then the lunacy begins,
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: and it is. It's batshit crazy. There's a couple of
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: scenes that are unforgettable. I enjoyed it a lot more
• 58:29
  Speaker 1: than I would. I'm normally not a horror movie a ficionado,
• 58:32
  Speaker 1: but obsession right now all the rage tell you've heard
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: the buzz around this movie.
• 58:37
  Speaker 8: Yeah, this is I mean, it's you know, obviously those
• 58:40
  Speaker 8: other films you mentioned were pre internet. This is one
• 58:42
  Speaker 8: that's just all over online, this one in his back rooms.
• 58:46
  Speaker 4: The other one I think it's four those two movies.
• 58:49
  Speaker 8: I mean, I'm not a big horror guy, but I
• 58:50
  Speaker 8: might have to check one of them out because they're
• 58:52
  Speaker 8: both all over my a'l go.
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  Speaker 1: Nate worre Are you when it comes to horror movies
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: you're a fan of like sitting up and watching The
• 58:57
  Speaker 1: Blair Witch Project.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not a horror movie guy. I'm not.
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  Speaker 7: And if I do watch a horror movie, I'm not
• 59:02
  Speaker 7: watching it by myself.
• 59:03
  Speaker 6: I'll tell you that an absolute just.
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  Speaker 3: Geter.
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  Speaker 11: Are you?
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: And Joe gonna watch Obsession.
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  Speaker 5: And they likes to cut onto the covers. That's when
• 59:12
  Speaker 5: he watches it the opening scenes.
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  Speaker 4: There's no more.
• 59:18
  Speaker 5: The opening scene is done and he's already got a
• 59:20
  Speaker 5: hook line and sinker, hey, dirty dog.
• 59:24
  Speaker 6: No, I hate movies.
• 59:27
  Speaker 5: I hate the min My mind just goes to what
• 59:32
  Speaker 5: sick fuck I could think of this?
• 59:36
  Speaker 4: I'm the just.
• 59:36
  Speaker 5: Deepest, darkest in his brain and like get some sadistic
• 59:41
  Speaker 5: pleasure out of it, and then people going to watch
• 59:43
  Speaker 5: it getting sadistic pleasure out of it.
• 59:45
  Speaker 4: I never understood it.
• 59:47
  Speaker 5: I'm like I do seem like a tough and rough,
• 59:50
  Speaker 5: tumbling guy, but like I love like rom coms.
• 59:53
  Speaker 4: I love like serendipity and like a big.
• 59:57
  Speaker 1: I love a nice chick flick kid get shedding a
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: t at A movie would.
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 6: Have been great. Roommates on the road.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what are you guys going to see? Thirteen? Going
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: on thirty?
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: Jennifer Garner?
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 4: Okay, that fun.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 1: Back to the Hockey We Go Cassidy's sounding off. Bruce
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 1: Casty was here as a guest an HLL in scripted.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 1: Then we got him the bump to go on TNT
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: after reports that both the Kings and Oilers were denied
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: by Vegas after a questioning an opportunity to interview their
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: former coach, Bruce Casty.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: Everyone's getting there, say. Castiy went up spitting chick lits.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: I wish he'd said this an ice shell in scripted,
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: but admitted it's upsetting not getting a chance to interview
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 1: for other jobs. He told the show, I want to
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 1: go to work. I'm a hockey coach Vegas yam. Kelly
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: mccrimin respond by saying it's only news because Edmonton leaked it.
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 2: JD, who saw do you on? Uh? Bruce aside? Let
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 2: the guy coach, Yeah you fired him.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: Let me go get a job now.
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 5: The media tour when you're making five million, I just
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 5: I just don't understand.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 4: I kind of I'm just like kinda I get it.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 5: But now I'm like to the point where I'm kind
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 5: of like okay, like like dude, like it's alright, Like
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 5: you're a great coach, you're winner, You're going to be back.
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 5: I'm just like, just go spend the five million, Just
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 5: blow it all on one big sex rump with your
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 5: wife or something.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 4: I don't know, Like, I don't know. You can understand
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 4: his frustrating.
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: He was a great player and man to you can't
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: go play like if not, you guys got rid of me?
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 3: I want to go play.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 4: Of course you do.
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 5: But like I'm also like, yeah, I I don't know.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 4: It's like wait till the season starts. I guess yeah,
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 4: But I.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 1: Mean Thompson got released by team that he couldn't go
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: play somewhere else.
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: He goes, this is worship. You guys got rid of me?
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 3: Go let me play.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I see both sides of it.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 5: I just think that Vegas is being a little tom petty,
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 5: and I think and I think Bruce is now I
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 5: think there's a lot more to this than meet Ci right, Yeah,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 5: go ahead.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 7: Yeah, No, I think there's a lot of I don't know,
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 7: bylaws or coaching rule or whatever there is that I
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 7: surely don't know. I could see, like I'm with JD
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 7: on this, I could see both sides. But I can
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 7: also see I guess like Vegas, I can see too,
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 7: because you think about the other coaches that got hired
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 7: from other teams, like the Board to Dallas.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 6: Like they don't want to get burned.
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 7: They don't want to get you know, like yeah, they
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 7: don't want that to happen to him, especially with with
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 7: Bruce Cassiause.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 6: He is a good coach. But you know, like like
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 6: Jad said, how bad can it be? Right now? Really?
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 4: You know, I'm like, dude, I just want to coach. Dude, Dude,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 4: I get it, you do.
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 5: I apologize for you and it sucks, but like five bananas,
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 5: I mean, I'm I'm I'm scrounging for five hundred and
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 5: fifty bucks here.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: There's an excellent point when you bring up our Now
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 4: I'm not that guy.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 5: I hate being that guy, but like I'm also just
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 5: like I'm like, dude, just take a breath, like let
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 5: the finals finish. Yeah, and like you're like mid finals
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 5: when you're the team you're coaching is in the finals,
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 5: Like I don't know if you're you're a good coach.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 4: Like it's they just peaked at the right time.
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 5: I'm like a nutless monkey could have done what John
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 5: Tortorella did.
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: Man just like wow, wow, five fifty you guys gotta
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: get it raised.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: Okay, double AHF change, what do you make.
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 4: Cheap?
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: I know you're a side deal and I wish potentially
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: massive news last week the International Ice Hockey Federation announcing
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: it is reversed it's been on Russian participation in its events.
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: Will decide the Russian involvement on an event by event basis. Yes,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: gend you played in Russia. How about Russia joined the
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: World Cup in twenty twenty eight. That's an NHL NHLPA event,
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: not a DOUBLEHF event. But should the NHL follow their lead,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: Let's let Russia back in for play international hockey.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 5: I mean, I think ninety nine percent of the guys
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 5: that play in Team Russia live in the States, right
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 5: or Canada, So it's kind of just like, I don't know,
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 5: I think punishing players that have no government tie too.
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 4: If we're talking anyway, I can't. I gotta be careful
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 4: with this one.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: What do you mean the Russian government's listenings go ahead.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 5: No, I'm trying to get my green card. So I'm good, No,
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 5: actually know what whatever the US sides, I'm I'm good with.
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 1: It, incredibly pass the side, just cow telling themistration let
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 1: me get my green card and then we're gonna let
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 1: them off and then.
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 6: Okay, and then we'll deep do a deep dive after.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 2: Fair point, Nate, do you want to see Russia playing
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 2: in the World Cup?
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 6: I do? I do? I do.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 7: I think now you're gonna get the true best on
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 7: best having having them, and then I mean, can you
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 7: imagine with their goaltending and their forwards, And I think
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 7: this is really what we want to see having them
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 7: in all the international play.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 6: I think that it's only good for the game.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 7: And uh, it's gonna make things a little bit harder
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 7: for Team Canada now.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: No question about it, all right. Regrettably have to hand
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 1: some flowers to Norway. A huge bone for the Norwegian
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: national team. On Sunday, Noah Stein's overtime winner over Canada
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: bronze medal game. Norwegian's their first ever medal in a
• 1:05:10
  Speaker 1: top level tournament. They came to the tournament just one
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 1: player who played in the NHL this year, Michael Branstick
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: Nygard played fourteen games in Detroit, pulling off a huge
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: upset over a stacked Canada team. Finland won gold while
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: Switzerland was shut out in the gold medal game for
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: the third straight year. It's a bronze medal game, a
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 1: bigger win for Norway or a bigger disappointment for Canada.
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: I'll answer that towel. It's the ladder Canada without a medal.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 1: We had Sydney Crosby there kidding, this is awful, towel.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 8: I decided, yeah, I'm gonna. I wasn't sure if you
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 8: were thrown to me there. I mean, it's it's not good.
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 8: I think some people, especially when Canada loses, people say, ah,
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 8: it's not that big a tournament.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 6: They don't have their best players.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 8: You know what, the team that roster was really strong,
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 8: and it was last.
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 4: Year and they didn't do that much of the tournament.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 8: So I hate to get into this whole state of
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 8: hockey thing in Canada and how we need some sort
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 8: of referendum on where.
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 6: We go from here.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 4: But it's not a great look. Not a great look
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 4: losing in.
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 6: Norway at the World Championships. But good congratulations in Norway.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 6: Good for that.
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 9: That's pretty brutal.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 5: It's been it's been tough. It's been tough for Team Canada.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 5: It really has been.
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 5: I mean, I would say it's bigger for Norway. I mean,
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 5: first metal, I mean that country incredible. Not to like
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 5: discount how much this sucks for Canada, but like credit
• 1:06:27
  Speaker 5: to Norway. Man like hung in that tournament and you
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 5: go in Pete, Canada, you win a bronze medal. I mean,
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 5: it's it's it's it's absolutely amazing. But you know, Canada
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 5: was also without Norris Trophy winning defenseman of Bouchard. So
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 5: he said, well not actually he like he got knocked
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 5: out and to change old tournament for them, they would
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 5: have won, they would have they would have walked it in.
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 5: But but it has been easy Evan Buchard Norris Trophy. No,
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 5: I yeah, it's it's it sucks. I'm ore going to
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 5: talk about just quickly, the fact that Sasha bar Cough
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 5: just the whole year and then goes and wins the
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 5: World Championships he's so good. Florida Panthers are back in
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 5: the finals next you.
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 2: Would predicted he'd be back for the Panthers.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 5: I said they're back in the I did, but one
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 5: series out of the playoffs.
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 4: I mean, listen, I'm wrong a lot. I say a lot, But.
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: Even throughout the plus you know he's still coming back,
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: no matter.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 4: I'm right a lot, but I'm wrong a lot too.
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 4: It's like fifty to fifty.
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: Talking because I clarify, I go throughout the plus plus,
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 1: you'll still play, no doubt he's playing.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 5: I go okay, But to be honest, like he could
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 5: have played before, played World champions. Maybe, So I just saying,
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 5: so I was right, I'll move the line.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 4: So I was right. I like it, But I mean,
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 4: Florida's back in the finals next year.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 3: No, God, here we go, all right, Hurricanes, enjoy while
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 3: you can not.
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 1: We gotta hand flowers to Samuel Riley, a quick bouquet
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: of the Tampa Bay Lightning prospect, and Kitchen, a Ranger
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: star who just became the fourth player ever to win
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 1: Ontario Hockey League regular season m v P, Playoff m
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 1: v P and Memorial Cup MVP.
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: The other three Brad Richards, Corey Perry.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 3: And Mitch Marner. That is unbelievable.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 4: Sam o'reiley just did all right.
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 1: Prediction time Nate Thompson, who wins the Stanley Cup Final
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 1: and then how many games?
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 7: I'm not picking against him this time. I'm taking the
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 7: Carolina Hurricanes in seven games.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 6: They they're gonna do it. This is the year.
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 7: I'm not doing it. I'm not going against him. I
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 7: went against him every single gets way too many times.
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 6: Not this year. Not this year.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 5: I think the Decorps will prove to be too much
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 5: in the end, and I think they will stifle him
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 5: just enough. And I think Freddie Anderson, yes, well does
• 1:08:45
  Speaker 5: it for his former agent called them you and they
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 5: kind of like galvanize around him as a team winning
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 5: for him.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 4: Really sad.
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 5: But I just think I think it's Carolina's time.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: Think Vegas and seven.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: As Mitch Marner sticks it to the Leafs and wins
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 1: the con smythe playoff playoff, Mitchie takes it to him
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: Vegas and seven.
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be great for leaf haters.
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 4: Go ahead, and not just leaf haters.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 5: If we lest we forget Mitchell Marner, veto to trade
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 5: to Carolina that's rights, and the players do not forget
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 5: because the players, the guys were pissed at that I
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 5: heard in that room.
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 4: So what do you got?
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 8: Vegas and seven but gonna be a fantastic It'll be fun.
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 8: I know that not everyone's thrilled to see Carolina Vegas
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 8: as a matchup, but it's gonna be a great series.
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 4: And I'm taking Vegas and seven.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 3: I like it.
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: Team tal Let's go Vegas and seven of this. Thanks
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: so much for checking out a script again. We're Mondays
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: and Thursdays for the Cup Final. Last year all playoffs
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: went twice a week. This time we saved our best
• 1:09:49
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• 1:09:51
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• 1:09:54
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