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Kucherov For Quinn Trade Needed, Latest Power Outage Rankings, A-I Don't Think So, and Doggy Bag Predictions (Show 19) · Biscuit Breakdown

• 0:00
  SPEAKER_00: It's time for biscuit breakdown, where hockey is the only thing on the menu.
• 0:29
  SPEAKER_00: And welcome back, everyone, whoever you root for, wherever you live, whenever it is.
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• 0:57
  SPEAKER_00: We are going to dive into the Fresh Out the Oven segment because I've got the trade of the century.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_00: Alright, so on Friday evening, the news broke that Nikita Kucherov, the reigning MVP of the National Hockey League, would like a trade away from the Tampa Bay Lightning.
• 1:22
  SPEAKER_00: I could not believe my eyes when I read that ESPN notification on Friday.
• 1:28
  SPEAKER_00: Very shocking.
• 1:29
  SPEAKER_00: It shook the hockey world to its core.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_00: No one expected this.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_00: But we are loving the drama.
• 1:38
  SPEAKER_00: So with that being said, basically it seems like he feels disrespected and feels like it was a slap in the face, the offer that the Lightning gave to him.
• 1:51
  SPEAKER_00: Originally they said that they would give him, I think it was five years, thirteen million a year, and he was disrespected by that, evidently, considering the other salaries that the perennial all-stars of this league are now getting.
• 2:07
  SPEAKER_00: So then they said, Alright, we'll give you 15 million a year, and reportedly Kucherov wants six years, twenty million a year, and the Lightning are like, no, we're not doing that.
• 2:20
  SPEAKER_00: So they basically came to you know an impasse, and now he is asking for a trade away from the Lightning.
• 2:30
  SPEAKER_00: Um so we will obviously see what happens here because the Tampa Bay GM says he will not trade him, and you know it's a tough situation because if he doesn't trade him and then he just signs somewhere else, then you're losing the league MVP for nothing.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: Um or if you trade him, you know for a fact that you're basically not going to get anything back that is of equal value.
• 2:56
  SPEAKER_00: Um so you're kind of in a lose-lose situation.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_00: You're between a lightning bolt and a hard place, so to speak.
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  SPEAKER_00: But but there's a player out there by the name of Quinn Hughes, and if you've been listening to these episodes recently, I talked about how basically Quinn Hughes is going to become a New Jersey devil either at the trade deadline this year or in July over the summer.
• 3:24
  SPEAKER_00: He's gonna join his brothers in New Jersey.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_00: They got Connor Hellibuck now, the gold tender that they won the Olympic gold with back in February.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that is a pretty much done deal, in my opinion.
• 3:35
  SPEAKER_00: I would say 99% chance he's going to Jersey.
• 3:38
  SPEAKER_00: So Bill Garin, the GM of the wild, and Julian Brisbois, the GM of the Lightning, should dial up the phone to each other, do a little ring ring, and say, hey, I got a player that is an all-star caliber player, dynamic as hell, helps our power play be one of the best in the league.
• 4:02
  SPEAKER_00: Why don't we do a little swapsies for the end of the year?
• 4:05
  SPEAKER_00: You know, I scratch your back, you scratch mine situation.
• 4:10
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and I talked about this, I think it was two episodes ago.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_00: I said, I think the wild should trade Quinn Hughes to an Eastern Conference contender and get back something of equal value, and now Nikita Kucherov just dropped into their lap potentially.
• 4:27
  SPEAKER_00: So Minnesota trades Quinn Hughes to Tampa, and Tampa trades Nikita Kucherov to the Wild.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're trading their All-Star player out of their conference, so they can't come back to bite them in the ass in the playoffs unless they get there to the very end against each other, and wouldn't that be a s hell of a story?
• 4:47
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but that's unlikely that they would meet in the Stanley Cup final, but you never know.
• 4:51
  SPEAKER_00: I guess it's a chance.
• 4:52
  SPEAKER_00: But to me, this is a slam dunk trade.
• 4:55
  SPEAKER_00: You got two all-stars trading places.
• 4:58
  SPEAKER_00: Um both fan bases are still gaining a dynamic player, and they both know that they're most likely going to have to wave ta-ta to that player come July 1st, but hey, it could be a hell of a fun spring.
• 5:13
  SPEAKER_00: So I say they do it and uh, you know, make this league have even more drama.
• 5:20
  SPEAKER_00: Alright, some other hockey news here that happened this week.
• 5:24
  SPEAKER_00: We had Matthew Schaefer, the second year defenseman on the New York Islanders, play the entire five-minute overtime against Nashville the other night.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was the first time any player had ever played the full five minutes in overtime, and they are playing three on three in overtime, so there is a shitload of skating involved, especially for a defenseman of his caliber who's really just all over the ice.
• 5:51
  SPEAKER_00: So tremendous display of cardiorespiratory endurance there for Matthew Schaefer, couple of stick taps for him.
• 5:58
  SPEAKER_00: We have Jack Hughes of the New Jersey Devils, who lost another tooth on October 27th, then returned to that same very game and scored a goal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, and that is the third time that has happened in his career.
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  SPEAKER_00: He lost a tooth in the gold medal game back in February when it was USA versus Canada, and he scored the overtime winner there.
• 6:20
  SPEAKER_00: And then back on May 7th, 2023, it says he also lost a tooth and came back and scored a goal in that game.
• 6:29
  SPEAKER_00: So basically, if Jack Hughes is losing a chiclet, he may not be able to find it on the ice, but he's definitely gonna find the back of the net.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it works out for him and he's more aerodynamic with one less tooth in his mouth.
• 6:44
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
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  SPEAKER_00: But seems to be a trend that you can count on.
• 6:50
  SPEAKER_00: Another thing that happened late last week that I thought was gonna be one of the bigger news stories of the week before the whole Kucherov thing happened was that Dylan Larkin decided he's no longer gonna play for the Red Wings and he's just gonna sit out.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they suspended him without pay, and now he's sitting at home playing Sudoku or something and losing forty-one thousand dollars a day.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is not a place you want to be in.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um and now that Nikita Kutrov wants a trade, he is the biggest fish out there on the open market, so there might be even less teams that are willing to trade for Larkin right now, so his whole situation is a complete mess.
• 7:32
  SPEAKER_00: It's not good for the Red Wings, it's not good for him, it's not good for their fans, and it's not good for the league because we want to see this guy back in action playing somewhere.
• 7:41
  SPEAKER_00: Um so we'll see what happens over the next couple weeks.
• 7:44
  SPEAKER_00: I'm assuming that within a month or so he will be traded, but that is a lot of lost money.
• 7:50
  SPEAKER_00: Not that he should be hurting for money as long as he's smart with it, but you never know with athletes because sadly sometimes they don't spend it right.
• 7:58
  SPEAKER_00: I actually just saw today that Paul Pierce, one of the great NBA players of recent history, made over two hundred million in his career.
• 8:09
  SPEAKER_00: It's reported that he only has three hundred thousand dollars left.
• 8:13
  SPEAKER_00: That is sad for sure, but also somewhere along the line, or actually many times along the line, he did not make smart choices with all of that money.
• 8:27
  SPEAKER_00: Alright, next up on the list, Pyotr Kochekov, the goalie for the Carolina Hurricanes, is white hot.
• 8:35
  SPEAKER_00: He is a cat five nightmare of a goalie right now for the Hurricanes.
• 8:41
  SPEAKER_00: He is currently on a 10-game winning streak with a 1.49 goals against average and a 929 save percentage.
• 8:50
  SPEAKER_00: So he is a big reason why the Carolina Hurricanes are playing with their hair on fire to start out the season.
• 8:57
  SPEAKER_00: It looks like they have not missed a step at all.
• 9:00
  SPEAKER_00: There has been zero Stanley Cup hangover for them so far, um, which is not really surprising because their coach, Rod Brendermore, he is a very intense guy, and he was not going to let them just sit back on their laurels and bask in the Stanley Cup victory any longer than the summer.
• 9:21
  SPEAKER_00: So they are straight back to business and currently atop the NHL standings because of Piotr Kochekov and all other players who have come out ripping and firing so far this season.
• 9:35
  SPEAKER_00: Alright, we've also had more McDavid news.
• 9:38
  SPEAKER_00: He broke a Wayne Gretzky record, another one, let me repeat, he broke another Wayne Gretzky record.
• 9:44
  SPEAKER_00: He is the fastest player to ever record 30 assists in a season.
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  SPEAKER_00: He has just dominated, obviously, and taken his amazing level of play to a level that we never even thought was possible, even.
• 10:00
  SPEAKER_00: He's still on pace for over 200 points this season.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_00: It's completely ridiculous what he's doing, and he's a treat to watch night in and night out.
• 10:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um sorry to my wife who doesn't like McDavid, um, but I'm gonna keep praising him on here because he is a truly legendary, and uh we all just gotta sit back and enjoy what we're seeing on a nightly basis.
• 10:22
  SPEAKER_00: Another crazy thing that I saw this week that is not exactly hockey related, but um there was a post that said number eleven, and then it has a picture of Jordan Stahl, number eleven on the Carolina Hurricanes, Jalen Brunson, number eleven on the New York Knicks, Jackson Smith and Jigba, number eleven on the Seattle Seahawks, and Jackson Churio, number eleven on the Milwaukee Brewers.
• 10:57
  SPEAKER_00: They all were a huge factor and reason why their teams won the championship um this season.
• 11:06
  SPEAKER_00: So basically pretty crazy how it was all four number eleven rising to the occasion and helping their team win the championship.
• 11:17
  SPEAKER_00: So I just thought that that was a uh a fun stat to include.
• 11:22
  SPEAKER_00: Alright, our last topic for the Fresh Out the Oven segment is an update about the hometown remix jerseys.
• 11:29
  SPEAKER_00: All thirty-two jerseys dropped, I think, two days ago at time of recording, and I'm here to provide an update on some of my thoughts regarding those.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_00: I still really like the Anaheim Ducks one, I still really like the Minnesota Wild, I still really like the Senators jerseys, even though they are a little different from what was uh originally uploaded last week, they're still pretty cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: Other jerseys that we recently saw for the first time that I wanted to give a shout out to were the Columbus blue jackets.
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  SPEAKER_00: I like those.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're white with dark gray and light blue, and they have a big image of a cannon on the front of it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um what else here?
• 12:13
  SPEAKER_00: New Jersey Devils, that one's pretty cool.
• 12:15
  SPEAKER_00: I mean it's basic, they didn't really do anything, you know, original with it.
• 12:20
  SPEAKER_00: It's still the fucking boring ass NJ in the middle, but I like the black with just red as the logo and two stripes on the sleeve.
• 12:31
  SPEAKER_00: The Seattle Kraken one is really cool, I think.
• 12:34
  SPEAKER_00: It's got a good color scheme and a picture of an anchor.
• 12:39
  SPEAKER_00: And another one that surprised me that I actually really liked was the Tampa Bay Lightning.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's black with darkish metallic blue.
• 12:50
  SPEAKER_00: It's got a skull in the middle, and then swords, you know, for like a pirate theme, and then the stripes on the arm are actually like lightning bolts.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I thought those were actually really cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: The only thing I would switch about that is that I would make the blue like a little bit lighter, so there's a little bit more contrast with the black of the jersey.
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  SPEAKER_00: But otherwise, I thought that was a really awesome design.
• 13:13
  SPEAKER_00: Um, if you would like to share your thoughts, I'm always here to listen and um gather feedback so you can reach out on Instagram, Twitter, or Gmail.
• 13:28
  SPEAKER_00: Alright, it's that time again to get into our power outage rankings, where we rank the bottom five teams of the league and talk about who is the captain of the poo-poo canoe.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um so I'm gonna talk about the teams that are really up Schitz Creek, and we'll start from five to one, so basically the twenty-seventh place team, twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth, thirtieth, thirty-first, and thirty-second team in the league.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the number five spot on the canoe is the Los Angeles Kings.
• 14:06
  SPEAKER_00: The Kings are currently four, seven, and two for ten points in the standings, and have scored thirty-six goals and have forty-five goals against for a negative nine goal differential.
• 14:20
  SPEAKER_00: So they need to get their asses in gear, um, and they should, there shouldn't really be any excuses because they're an older team, they're a veteran team, they know how to win in this league, their coach is a veteran coach, so it's just a matter of getting out there and getting on a little bit of a hot streak.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the number four spot, we have the Columbus Blue Jackets, who are five and seven on the year for a total of ten points.
• 14:48
  SPEAKER_00: They have scored only twenty-nine goals and have given up thirty-nine for a negative ten goal differential.
• 14:55
  SPEAKER_00: Um, there's a lot of reports that their coach has been constantly yelling at them.
• 15:00
  SPEAKER_00: He's talking crap about them in the media.
• 15:04
  SPEAKER_00: Things are not going well there for Columbus.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_00: Um they are most likely going to trade Zach Werensky, their star defenseman, in my opinion, at the trade deadline, um, because they're in the middle of a rebuild.
• 15:16
  SPEAKER_00: They had the whole Kyrill Marchenko thing going on at the beginning of the year.
• 15:20
  SPEAKER_00: He wanted out, so they traded him.
• 15:22
  SPEAKER_00: He wasn't going to re-sign there.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_00: So they're going to have to trade their star defenseman and you know, build for the future, get picks, get young players, create a new core, and march into the future with a new direction, and Adam Fantilli as their centerpiece.
• 15:43
  SPEAKER_00: In the number three spot we have the Winnipeg Jets.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_00: There is not much at all going right for the Jets lately.
• 15:53
  SPEAKER_00: They are hungover from the whole Heritage Classic thing.
• 15:57
  SPEAKER_00: They traded their star goalie, Connor Hellibuck.
• 16:02
  SPEAKER_00: So that distraction's finally gone, but the winning seems to be gone as well.
• 16:09
  SPEAKER_00: They are 1 7 2 in their last ten games.
• 16:13
  SPEAKER_00: They are in a bit of a tailspin, pun intended.
• 16:17
  SPEAKER_00: So I don't know what the future is for this team.
• 16:20
  SPEAKER_00: In my predictions earlier in the season, I predicted that they would be in last place in the Central Division, and you know that might come true, sadly enough for them.
• 16:31
  SPEAKER_00: But time will tell, but right now things are not going well for the Jets.
• 16:36
  SPEAKER_00: And in the number two spot, the first mate on the Pooh Pooh Canoe is the Chicago Blackhawks.
• 16:44
  SPEAKER_00: They are an abysmal 4-10-1 for nine points on the season.
• 16:52
  SPEAKER_00: They have scored 33 goals and let in 58 for a negative 25 goal differential.
• 16:58
  SPEAKER_00: My God.
• 16:59
  SPEAKER_00: Things are not going well there.
• 17:01
  SPEAKER_00: They have um Connor Bedard and Anton Frondel as their exciting young forwards and not much else.
• 17:08
  SPEAKER_00: They have Spencer Knight, who is a young goalie trying to find his way and consistency, but it's hard to do that when you have a team that's playing like dog crap in front of you.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_00: Um Patrick Kane, he's a legendary player, but he's, you know, not putting up points at the pace where he was in his prime.
• 17:29
  SPEAKER_00: But we'll see, you know, if the Blackhawks can turn things around and maybe start chaining some wins together at least to become a competitive team.
• 17:38
  SPEAKER_00: But for right now, they are an easy out.
• 17:42
  SPEAKER_00: And the captain of the Pooh Poo Canoe is the Vancouver Canucks, who are a putrid 3-12-1 for seven points in the standings, and they have scored 47 goals, but they have let in 72 goals for a negative 25 goal differential as well.
• 18:03
  SPEAKER_00: Their defense is non-existent by that stat.
• 18:07
  SPEAKER_00: And there's just not much going for this team.
• 18:10
  SPEAKER_00: They are in the running for the first overall draft pick, obviously.
• 18:13
  SPEAKER_00: There's a whole conspiracy about them never getting it because it's Vancouver, and the NHL wants the number one pick and star players to go to more of a you know busy um city that's on either the East Coast or somewhere in the Central Division so that more people can watch the star players.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_00: Um so that's a theory, but who knows.
• 18:39
  SPEAKER_00: Either way, things are not good for the Canucks, and for their sake, I hope they do get the number one pick, and that way they can hopefully get a generational player and uh really turn their future around.
• 18:54
  SPEAKER_00: But as for right now, they're wearing the captain's hat on the poo-poo canoe.
• 19:02
  SPEAKER_00: Alright, it's now time for our AI don't think so segment.
• 19:06
  SPEAKER_00: Last week I chose the Calgary Flames to defeat the Seattle Kraken when Gemini chose the Kraken, and the Flames got the victory six to two, so I got my first victory against Gemini, and I am now one, two, and one if you're keeping track at home.
• 19:25
  SPEAKER_00: This week the game that I have chosen is the Minnesota Wild, who are hosting the San Jose Sharks on Friday, November 6th.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_00: And wouldn't you know, Gemini is choosing the Minnesota Wild who are favored.
• 19:38
  SPEAKER_00: Gemini is saying that the Wild will win because of their stark defensive disparity and goaltending superiority.
• 19:47
  SPEAKER_00: The Wild enter the game, boasting one of the stingiest defenses, allowing just two point three three goals against per game, which is third in the league right now.
• 19:57
  SPEAKER_00: Um they are off to a great start um with their goalie, who is eight, two, and three so far with a two point one four goals against and a nine sixteen save percentage.
• 20:10
  SPEAKER_00: And meanwhile, San Jose is giving up three point two nine goals per game.
• 20:16
  SPEAKER_00: So things are not looking great.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_00: Um they also said they have dynamic top end star power with Kirill Caprisov and Quinn Hughes, and lastly, they have played well so far this season.
• 20:29
  SPEAKER_00: The wild are 9-3-3 overall to start their campaign at um this point in the year, and San Jose has been kind of hot and cold and um struggling to find some consistency.
• 20:46
  SPEAKER_00: So for that reason, I am going to say, AI don't think so.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_00: I am gonna be swimming with sharks on Friday night, and the reasons being that the sharks have actually played slightly better on the road this season.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_00: Their penalty kill is slightly better than the wild's penalty kill, and their young game breakers are gonna show up.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_00: I just have a feeling I feel like they can steal this game against a good wild team on the road.
• 21:19
  SPEAKER_00: So give me the Sharks Friday night, November sixth, and we'll see who comes out victorious.
• 21:29
  SPEAKER_00: Alright, it's time for our final segment of the week, the doggy bag predictions, something you can take with you and hang your hat on.
• 21:36
  SPEAKER_00: And last week I almost had the call of the century.
• 21:40
  SPEAKER_00: I was on the edge of my seat.
• 21:43
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I made three picks.
• 21:45
  SPEAKER_00: I said Tage Thompson would score a goal against the Kings, he did.
• 21:50
  SPEAKER_00: I said Sidney Crosby would score a goal on Saturday against the Montreal Canadiens, he did.
• 21:57
  SPEAKER_00: And I said the Dallas Stars would shut out the Columbus Blue Jackets at home, and they gave up one goal.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_00: I was so close to an amazing call there, um three for three on the doggy bag predictions.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_00: I would have been so pumped, so close yet so far.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, kind of a bummer there.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_00: And I'm actually going to make four predictions for this Saturday, November seventh, for teams that I think will win by at least two goals.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_00: I think the New Jersey Devils will beat the New York Islanders by at least two goals.
• 22:37
  SPEAKER_00: I think the Carolina Hurricanes will beat the Chicago Blackhawks by at least two goals.
• 22:43
  SPEAKER_00: I think the Colorado Avalanche will defeat the Detroit Red Wings by at least two goals, and lastly, I think the Edmonton Oilers will put a pummeling to the Vancouver Canucks, the captain of the Pooh Poo Canoe Vancouver Canucks, by at least two goals.
• 23:03
  SPEAKER_00: So those are your doggy bag predictions of the week.
• 23:07
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• 23:23
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