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Jackie Redmond live from WrestleMania: Blackwood's big night, more playoff previews and JD's dad joins us. · NHL Unscripted with Virk and Demers

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Speaker 1: Two interview Talis looking us up our friend Jackie Redman,
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Speaker 1: who is joining us from WrestleMania. I mean, when tell
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Speaker 1: us we're gonna get JACKI and I said, good luck.
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Speaker 1: She's usually WrestleMania. My old buddy Nick con Leaf, fitting
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Speaker 1: Joe Tessitoora. They're busy right now. No, Jackie made time
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Speaker 1: first incredible, even after Cem Punk gave her the death
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Speaker 1: clare of all death players on Saturday Night. So Jackie's
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Speaker 1: great talking about her journey within hockey of course, doing
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Speaker 1: a great job on TNT and her origin story coming
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Speaker 1: back from the score.
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Speaker 2: And a big guest, Jason.
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Speaker 1: It's your dad, Darryl de Murr's HABS insider joining us
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Speaker 1: for the first time.
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Speaker 2: This has become a family affair.
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Speaker 3: Coming in he did. He wanted to get in and uh,
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Speaker 3: we're gonna let him on. We're gonna we're gonna give
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Speaker 3: him a test test, run, a little taste test, and
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Speaker 3: uh see if he can pull off a little moose Booh.
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Speaker 1: No, he killed it because I thought he was gonna
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Speaker 1: be more just like crazy, like you know, rabid inspired
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Speaker 1: Habs fan.
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Speaker 2: But he was like he's a coach.
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Speaker 1: I didn't realize that, Like he's yeah, he's a very
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Speaker 1: knowledgeable hockey fan.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you know.
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Speaker 3: I mean listen, every game I played growing up, I
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Speaker 3: called him afterwards, and even I mean he watched my
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Speaker 3: games and I was playing in San Jose's thing up
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Speaker 3: to like two in the morning. Yeah, and I'd call
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Speaker 3: him after every game and I'd get a little bit
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Speaker 3: of a uh a breakdown of what he did right
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Speaker 3: and what he did wrong. So and then I always
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Speaker 3: have my mom in the background being like, you did great,
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Speaker 3: played like shit, not your game. My dad would just
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Speaker 3: say you look tired kind of right, A little bit.
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Speaker 4: Of that true.
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Speaker 1: Today's Cinophile in sixty is a non to producer. Twel
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Speaker 1: He just directed a documentary with the Hartford Whaler.
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Speaker 2: So I watched that. That's gonna be my cno file.
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Speaker 1: Review This week Love the documentary I watched Why to
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Speaker 1: interview Toe but more Bully, I talk about my journeys
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Speaker 1: backron Amazon Prime that has been done now that has
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Speaker 1: ceased with the regular season over. You just came back
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Speaker 1: my friend from Portugal. Talk to me about Portugal.
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Speaker 4: Portugal.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we went to Lisbond and we stayed in Aljs
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Speaker 3: for three four days. We went quickly for with my
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Speaker 3: dad for his birthday. It's his birthday, was.
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Speaker 4: It yesterday's seventieth birthday? No? Sixty sixty four?
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Speaker 2: Oh man, young man.
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Speaker 3: Man, No, it's not a miletone young We just wanted
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Speaker 3: to go. We haven't really done a trip would just him,
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Speaker 3: me and my brother I think, you know, ever growing up,
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Speaker 3: and we did some little ones, you know, but nothing
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Speaker 3: overseas like that where it wasn't for me playing hockey like,
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Speaker 3: you know, because we did a trip in Switzerland and
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Speaker 3: all that when I was playing though, So this was
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Speaker 3: us just hanging out.
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Speaker 4: It was great.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I didn't expect to love Portugal as much
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Speaker 3: as I did. The food was absolutely incredible and funny enough.
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Speaker 3: There's a guy that lives there who my dad coached
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Speaker 3: growing up, who was my brother's age, so he was,
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Speaker 3: and he loved my dad as a coach so much
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Speaker 3: so he took a three hour train when he found
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Speaker 3: out we were in town. No, he did it and
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Speaker 3: came and took us around the city for two days.
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Speaker 3: So we like got went to all these like cool
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Speaker 3: little niche restaurants and high in spots. We went to Cappadoca,
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Speaker 3: the most western part of Europe. Beautiful country, beautiful city,
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Speaker 3: was amazing. Drank a lot of white wine and what
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Speaker 3: else did we drink? We drink all that we had
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Speaker 3: drink a lot, so it's good. But it was an
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Speaker 3: amazing city, amazing time. Loved it and made it back
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Speaker 3: in time for a New Jersey wedding, Not a New
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Speaker 3: Jersey wedding, a Bronx wedding. Last night, Wow landed and
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Speaker 3: went right to a Bronx wedding on the tits.
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Speaker 1: Well, eventually, hopefully I get out there just to see that.
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Speaker 1: In the meantime, Loan enjoy some hockey love with everybody else.
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Speaker 1: So we early impressions the Avalanche and the Stars, you
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Speaker 1: and I have said, you know, at least on paper,
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Speaker 1: it feels like it's gonna be the best series. The
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Speaker 1: opening round, Mackenzie Blackwood coming in the thought was going
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Speaker 1: to be hey first playoff action of his career. Would
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Speaker 1: he be able to quit himself? He stops twenty three
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Speaker 1: of twenty first shots. He looked excellent. For the Avalanche,
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Speaker 1: McKinnon has always was great, had a three point game.
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Speaker 1: And for the Stars, they've now lost game one each
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Speaker 1: of the last eight playoff series going back to twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty two, so in auspicious sign for them. But the Avalanche,
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Speaker 1: they did as advertised, took care of business against the Stars.
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Speaker 3: This is Mackenzie Blackwood's coming out party. This is his
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Speaker 3: Olympics audition. We will see him as most likely either
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Speaker 3: the one or two on Team Can in the Olympics
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Speaker 3: because of what people are gonna finally see and get
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Speaker 3: to realize. I mean, none the saves he made last game,
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Speaker 3: Like listen, Colorado twenty four shots, but they give up
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Speaker 3: Grade eight chances because they're so fast, so fast and
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Speaker 3: high octane on the transition that they will give up
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Speaker 3: stuff because they always throw d into the rush and everything.
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Speaker 3: They'll they'll sell the farm to get a scoring chance.
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Speaker 3: And I mean he made a save on Mason marchmant
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Speaker 3: off his hip that was I mean, he scored the
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Speaker 3: Marchman scores that goal, and it's a different game. I
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Speaker 3: think it was two to one at that time, and
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Speaker 3: then they went and scored that dagger. Devon Tave's up
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Speaker 3: a beautiful pass by Josh Manson. That pass was unbelievable
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Speaker 3: by the way, Yeah it was a great But what
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Speaker 3: scares me right now big time is here's the thing
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Speaker 3: with Dallas. They've now lost eight in a row. Miko
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Speaker 3: Ranton is nowhere to be seen. Uh, mira Hei skin
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Speaker 3: In hopefully can come back.
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Speaker 2: Most critical piece. If you can get him back, it's
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Speaker 2: a different.
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Speaker 3: He seems like he's skating. I think he's going to
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Speaker 3: be back. If they don't get him back, I mean,
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Speaker 3: I think if he's not back in game two, they'll
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Speaker 3: be two in the hole. And then it's tough. You're
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Speaker 3: going to You're going to ball Arena. That Colorado building
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Speaker 3: is no joke. It's it's gonna be tough to win
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Speaker 3: in that building. And I think Gave Landeskog will probably
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Speaker 3: they'll probably play him game three if he gets in
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Speaker 3: the lineup. That's what I think they do. They play
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Speaker 3: him at home in game three. I think it's the
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Speaker 3: best place to play him, but it was a great
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Speaker 3: I I you cannot if you're watching that. You know
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Speaker 3: in hockey, you tell people go watch a hockey game.
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Speaker 3: It's really fast in person and on TV doesn't do
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Speaker 3: a justice the Colorado Avalanche on TV or as fast
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Speaker 3: as in person. It is incredible to watch. They are
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Speaker 3: so fast, They're so quick up ice, the way they
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Speaker 3: move the puck, they move in sync, it's it's.
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Speaker 4: A sight to see.
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Speaker 3: So this team fully loaded with Mackenzie Blackwood. I mean,
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Speaker 3: this was my picks at the start of the playoffs
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Speaker 3: to win the Cup. And they looked at and know
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Speaker 3: no one more than McKinnon, who is a fucking beast.
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Speaker 4: Last night he.
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Speaker 1: Looked right out there, as I said, three point outing.
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Speaker 1: And generally, if I don't have a dog in the race,
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Speaker 1: I just want as much hockey as possible. So I
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Speaker 1: hope Dallas bounces back in game two makes it more
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Speaker 1: of a serious because you're right, if Colorado goes up
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Speaker 1: towo oh, they're not gonna relink with that lead.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: A very exciting Game one was Blues Jets because the
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Speaker 1: Jets getting braidlat with respect going in no gavel already
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Speaker 1: no Nikolai Eelers and the Blues dragging them into the fight.
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Speaker 1: This is a tight game for much of it. Connor
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Speaker 1: Hellibuck looked leaky. Three goals in seventeen shots. This is
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Speaker 1: playoff Helly again, he might win a heart trophy, but Buddy,
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Speaker 1: you better step up in the second season. Kyle Connor
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Speaker 1: gets the game winner ninety six seconds left. Felt like
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Speaker 1: a huge relief JD for the Jets to get this win.
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Speaker 1: Otherwise it could have been a real problem losing that
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Speaker 1: game at home.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think they would if they'd have lost that game,
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Speaker 3: and you could you could see the ernest effort by
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Speaker 3: the Blues. Everything was shooting high with traffic on hell
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Speaker 3: He gets deep in his net, he's back, he gets
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Speaker 3: a little bit two square, and he doesn't look for
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Speaker 3: the puck, and he did not look good early. But again,
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Speaker 3: I think this was more what we didn't see last
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Speaker 3: year versus this year, is they didn't really have the
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Speaker 3: team to hold on and hold into a team structure
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Speaker 3: to kind of bail him out a little bit, bail
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Speaker 3: out Hellibuck, and I thought they did that game. I mean,
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Speaker 3: the third period was one of the best periods I've
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Speaker 3: seen played by a team, and the Jets specifically, this
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Speaker 3: was their calling card all year. They didn't give up anything,
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Speaker 3: what two to four shots, They didn't give anything up
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Speaker 3: to Saint Louis, and they absolutely dominated him. Kyle Connor
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Speaker 3: specifically was was unbelievable. So I was a little worried
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Speaker 3: with Nikolai Eilers being out, and you know, I didn't
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Speaker 3: think I was in Gay Velardi as well. I was
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Speaker 3: a little nervous, and rightfully so. But listen, Hellibuck made
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Speaker 3: that save on Jordan Cayrou, which was probably it was
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Speaker 3: three to two Saint Louis and it was gonna be
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Speaker 3: probably game over there, and he makes that say so,
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Speaker 3: he made the same when it counted and he settled in.
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Speaker 3: But I think from here on out it's probably gonna
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Speaker 3: be Winnipeg most likely, They're gonna kind of be in
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Speaker 3: the driver's seat, and they just needed that win big time,
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Speaker 3: big time.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you.
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Speaker 1: You would think that all of a sudden, they go
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Speaker 1: that kind of gives him a push right now, that
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Speaker 1: kind of give him a little bit.
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Speaker 2: That's a relief.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the that's the deep sigh, that's like the
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Speaker 3: woo Like Okay, here we go and like we can relax.
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Speaker 3: I bet you, I bet you. Connor, Hellybuck is a
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Speaker 3: great game. Come game too. I think he's gonna be
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Speaker 3: really good.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: That's where you say to yourself, okay, like all of
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Speaker 1: a sudden, if he feels pretty good, then then, as
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Speaker 1: you said, it's relief and you don't play your best
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Speaker 1: but still.
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Speaker 2: Get the victory and from there you start to feel
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Speaker 2: a bit better.
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Speaker 1: Obviously, a great scene of Winnipeg, by the way, I
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Speaker 1: mean this, We're gonna be talk without these playff atmospheres
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Speaker 1: are unbelievable.
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Speaker 2: I mean the white out there Winnipeg. And I liked
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Speaker 2: your play.
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Speaker 1: But deep in the net I was watching He's not
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Speaker 1: quite Don Granado, but Tony Garnado was an NHL network
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Speaker 1: today and Tony kept saying, deep in his net that
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Speaker 1: was the problem with hell about you nailed it?
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Speaker 3: Not confident and was I breaking down there Kyle Connor goal,
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Speaker 3: there's set face off play by the.
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Speaker 2: Winter go ahead, do that's right, jdp I loved it, but.
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Speaker 3: They I just thought it was a great and it's funny.
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Speaker 3: I wanted to break it down little jdpov, But they
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Speaker 3: run this face off play where they send Mark Shiffley.
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Speaker 3: They only do it on the right side with Schifley's
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Speaker 3: line and when Josh Morrissey's on the ice. They did
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Speaker 3: it twice in the second period. We're off the draw,
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Speaker 3: they'll win it to the right side, so Scheiffer be
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Speaker 3: in his backhand and he'll win it to usually I
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Speaker 3: think Morrisey's with Peank, so.
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Speaker 4: He'll win it to Peank.
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Speaker 3: And then they go dd D quick and Shiffley just
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Speaker 3: sprints behind the net and comes out as fast as
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Speaker 3: he can and he comes so he just tries to
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Speaker 3: get lost and then Morrissey will find him basically a
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Speaker 3: low to high to low sorry, and then he either
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Speaker 3: looks for a one time or to Josh Morrissey or
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Speaker 3: which he tried and it didn't work. But then on
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Speaker 3: the second time they ran it, which was the game
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Speaker 3: tying goal. Was basically Schiffley took it. They kind of
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Speaker 3: took Morrissey away and he just hit the hole and
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Speaker 3: he saw Kyle Connor got lost in coverage. It's just
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Speaker 3: a beautifully set face off. I'm a huge fan of
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Speaker 3: set face offs, and that's kind of the game within
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Speaker 3: the game during playoffs, so obviously Saint Louis is going
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Speaker 3: to adjust to that. So now it's like, how do
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Speaker 3: they adjust and how does win? How does Winnipeg stay
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Speaker 3: one step ahead? But it's just an amazing set play
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Speaker 3: that they ran twice and ends up with a huge
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Speaker 3: goal for Kyle Connor there, but yeah, Connor.
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Speaker 4: That's JD's POV.
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Speaker 1: In our previous episode, we provided a preview of Kings, Oilers,
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Speaker 1: Devil's Hurricanes, Stars, Avalanche, Lightning, Panthers, and Senators May Beliefs.
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Speaker 1: If you want to revisit our take on those series,
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Speaker 1: check out that last episode that leaves us with three
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Speaker 1: series left to previews. So Jets and Blues, it doesn't
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Speaker 1: feel like a one versus eight, like, you know, the
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Speaker 1: Jets win the President Trophy at the Blues, we're so
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Speaker 1: good down the Strets. Jets did take three or four
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Speaker 1: against Saint Louis this year. Saint Louis had that great
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Speaker 1: twelve game winning stream. We kind of talked about it
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Speaker 1: in depth here right now, but it feels like with
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Speaker 1: Winnipeg winning that first game, you know, Jets are missing
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Speaker 1: a couple of key pieces I mentioned in Vallardian Eelers
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Speaker 1: Blues or mid out, Dylan Holloway should be stuggery pretty good.
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Speaker 2: But now you get that game one feels like Jets
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Speaker 2: and six.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, like they'll get some games in. You never know
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Speaker 3: what's gonna happen in game two. It that's that's a
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Speaker 3: big pivotal game. And but that Areno was rocking, and
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Speaker 3: man does Winnipeg show out the fans the original white out.
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Speaker 3: It's it's cool to see and listen. You know, Saint
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Speaker 3: Louis is missing a big piece in Dylan Holloway. I
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Speaker 3: think it's a different series if Holloway's in. Uh, he's
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Speaker 3: a catalyst for that team. So it's I'm anxious to
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Speaker 3: see kind of what happens in how this plays out,
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Speaker 3: but I can't. This is Winnipeg's chance.
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Speaker 4: They don't win.
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Speaker 3: It's everything's getting blown up. But I think they seem
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Speaker 3: more common understanding of what they need to do and
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Speaker 3: how they need to play. And to your point, Saint
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Speaker 3: Louis was dirty, they were cheap, they were running him,
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Speaker 3: and I think it was one of those moments where
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Speaker 3: last year Winnipeg might have taken their foot off the gas,
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Speaker 3: but now they brought there's a reason they brought in,
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Speaker 3: you know, Luke, Shan, Brandon tannef guys like that to
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Speaker 3: kind of mitigate that and kind of drag the guys
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Speaker 3: into the fight. And I think they did just that.
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Speaker 3: It was a dirty game. It was a great hockey
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Speaker 3: game to watch if you're a hockey fan. It just
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Speaker 3: was constant after the whistle, Shenanigans and tom foolery and
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Speaker 3: ballyhoo and a lot of face washes oh so much,
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Speaker 3: and just I just think it was a good tone
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Speaker 3: setter and Winnipeg didn't back down, which is huge.
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Speaker 1: And Tal just pointed as well in our group chat
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Speaker 1: Luke Shen knocking guys in the rastles all night, the
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Speaker 1: human eraserse.
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Speaker 2: He was known for years one of the great hitters
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Speaker 2: of all time.
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Speaker 3: Humana Raith Luke Shen loves to eat. Luke Schen loves
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Speaker 3: to eat, cross him on the pod.
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Speaker 1: And we have absolutely he's a good buddy a Thomas
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Speaker 1: Sickies as well. Golden Knight's Wild. Vegas won all three
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Speaker 1: matchups against the Wild this season, including a five and
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Speaker 1: win in Minnesota. March twenty fifth. Minnesota's healthy again. They
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Speaker 1: got Corolla Priest off back, Joel Erickson ech back, both
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Speaker 1: playing well. But Vegas has been a Legit Cup contender
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Speaker 1: all season long. I like the Wild stand a chance
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Speaker 1: against like Vegas is too good. I call Vegas in
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Speaker 1: five just for fun, and we keep saying six, I'll
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Speaker 1: say Vegas in five.
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Speaker 2: What do you got?
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Speaker 4: I have Vegas winning.
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Speaker 3: But if there was an upset, I kind of talked
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Speaker 3: about it the last couple of months, was Minnesota wild
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Speaker 3: if they would have got the Jets. I think it
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Speaker 3: was a possibility. But man, no one's really talked about
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Speaker 3: Vegas much this year and they've just had a ho
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Speaker 3: hum season again. They win the Pacific, they're healthy now,
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Speaker 3: and it's a team that's kind of battle tested. So
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Speaker 3: I think Minnesota is gonna make it a lot harder
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Speaker 3: than people think you do.
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Speaker 2: But coming back obviously it's huge.
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Speaker 4: One hundred percent.
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Speaker 3: But I think Vegas has the best path to the
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Speaker 3: finals is definitely them. I have Colorado winning because they
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Speaker 3: just think they're so good. But I think Vegas has
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Speaker 3: the best path because you know, I think that you know,
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Speaker 3: La is really good, and I think they're probably gonna
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Speaker 3: beat the Oilers, but either way, I think wover comes
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Speaker 3: out of that probably won't get past uh Vegas. And
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Speaker 3: but again, listen, they have Zeeve William coming in. I
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Speaker 3: know a lot of people are like, oh, Kenny young
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Speaker 3: kid really impact the game as much as all over them.
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Speaker 3: I think he's going to be like a Kyle mccarr asked,
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Speaker 3: not that he's Cale mc, but he's going to have
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Speaker 3: an impact like Cale did when he came into the playoffs.
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Speaker 3: Like I don't think he's Cale mccarr. I think he's
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Speaker 3: a great defenseman. Uh and he's I think people are
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Speaker 3: gonna be really surprised. And they already have a really
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Speaker 3: stout decoor you know they got when they're healthy. They
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Speaker 3: got Spurge and Roadine favor a little small, but then
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Speaker 3: ze Bullyam you had him with Faber. It's a great,
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Speaker 3: great top four, you know. So I just think it's good.
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Speaker 3: And then you can have you know, the Jake Middleton's
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Speaker 3: and the and the Merrills and the and the bogot
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Speaker 3: You can have those guys the Bogosians down there and
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Speaker 3: can run around and be physical. So I just you know,
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Speaker 3: I think it's a team that is gonna give all
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Speaker 3: that Vegas can handle, but I think Vegas will handle him.
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Speaker 1: Zee buoyam. Now on the all name team, that's only
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Speaker 1: top of the fact you include a Vern Fidler. You
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Speaker 1: had a Vern Fiddler reference racing on an episode that
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Speaker 1: was in talking about Ray Shiro Fiddler on the roof.
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Speaker 2: All time great name.
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Speaker 4: There on the roof.
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Speaker 2: So it gets to the halves of the Capitals.
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Speaker 1: Listen, I'd love to you, know ingratiate myself further to
14:47
Speaker 1: the great people of Montreal and call Ahabs.
14:49
Speaker 2: Wait first plaif appearance is twenty twenty one, but I
14:52
Speaker 2: just don't see it now.
14:53
Speaker 1: I mean the Caps are without starting goaltender Logan Thompson protest,
14:56
Speaker 1: is it a great year? Is not in the lineup,
14:58
Speaker 1: So maybe Montreal has what it takes. But you just
14:59
Speaker 1: said in the previous episode, and watching what we all
15:02
Speaker 1: kind of limp towards the finish line, you go, hey,
15:04
Speaker 1: they'll but they're not gonna be able to make any magic.
15:06
Speaker 1: So I think you're skeptical they can actually pull off
15:08
Speaker 1: a series.
15:09
Speaker 3: I have Caps in like five. I think they I
15:12
Speaker 3: think the Bell I think the Bell Center gets them
15:14
Speaker 3: a win. I definitely think that, but I think everybody
15:17
Speaker 3: I think and listen, Marty Sanluis been there, done that.
15:20
Speaker 3: So they have a good coach to kind of get
15:22
Speaker 3: their minds reset. But this was one of those things
15:24
Speaker 3: where no one really expected them to to make the playoffs.
15:27
Speaker 3: They had this magical run near the end after four
15:30
Speaker 3: nations to kind of give them that push. But they're
15:32
Speaker 3: still like a minus twenty goal Differentially, they're they're really
15:36
Speaker 3: bad defensively. They take a lot of penalties. If their
15:40
Speaker 3: penalty penalty kill can hold up and Samuel Montinbau can
15:43
Speaker 3: steal a couple of games. But you know, the only
15:45
Speaker 3: thing that worries me with Capitals is their goaltending and
15:47
Speaker 3: can they can those goalies find their form that they
15:51
Speaker 3: had at the start of the season when they're on
15:52
Speaker 3: that run and I you know, it's going.
15:54
Speaker 4: To be interesting to see. Time will tell.
15:55
Speaker 3: But you know Montreal has that youthful exuberance as we
15:59
Speaker 3: call it, that they just don't care. They're just going
16:01
Speaker 3: to go out and play and say, you know, fit.
16:05
Speaker 2: And young, dumb full of combs that were trying to
16:07
Speaker 2: tell that's it.
16:09
Speaker 4: Yes, there he goes, don't you dare cut that tell. Yeah.
16:14
Speaker 3: But I think Washington, I think they're big physical. I
16:17
Speaker 3: think they're they're gonna impose the yeah, well, this will
16:23
Speaker 3: be stunned. I just think they're I think their coaching
16:26
Speaker 3: staff is too smart too. I think they have a
16:28
Speaker 3: they have a smart Kirk Muller's there, he knows, he understands,
16:31
Speaker 3: he's who was with these Canadians guys. I think they're
16:33
Speaker 3: gonna match up very well. And I think it's it's
16:37
Speaker 3: just a game where it'll be. It'll be a fun
16:40
Speaker 3: series to watch. I think it'll be high scoring and
16:42
Speaker 3: some drama filled moments. But if Washington can say out
16:45
Speaker 3: of the out of the penalty box, I think Montreal
16:48
Speaker 3: will be in trouble.
16:48
Speaker 1: Well by special request, who cares what me and Jason
16:51
Speaker 1: de Murse think about the Habs and the Capitals. I
16:53
Speaker 1: wanted a diehard Montreal Canadiens fan. I got who's been
16:56
Speaker 1: living and dying with us, who's been texting his son?
16:58
Speaker 1: How about the habs brings right now? The passions be
17:03
Speaker 1: coming through this podcast. Daryl, Jason's father joining us to
17:07
Speaker 1: stock cabs. There's no better hockey city than Montreal. There's
17:10
Speaker 1: no better feeling than Montreal's in the playoffs, breaking this
17:12
Speaker 1: four year run.
17:13
Speaker 2: Daryl, it's great to see you. Congratulations. How are you feeling.
17:17
Speaker 5: I'm so excited. I got tourista last night.
17:23
Speaker 2: Right out of the gate.
17:24
Speaker 4: Got the shits.
17:26
Speaker 5: Oh wow, we can use those words online.
17:28
Speaker 4: That's great. Yeah, I love it.
17:31
Speaker 5: I'm fired up, excited.
17:32
Speaker 6: Uh, it's it's like I think I told Jason over
17:36
Speaker 6: the last couple of months, since he's not playing, I
17:39
Speaker 6: don't really.
17:40
Speaker 5: Watch much hockey, but I'm a huge Diingard Habs fan.
17:43
Speaker 1: What is that vib like for those who explain what
17:45
Speaker 1: it's like his house from Montreal? Obviously Jason as well.
17:48
Speaker 1: But if somebody doesn't know it, I know it's announce there.
17:50
Speaker 1: You know, I grew up in Kingston, but like being
17:52
Speaker 1: in Montreal, what's that passionate like for someone who hasn't
17:54
Speaker 1: experienced it.
17:56
Speaker 5: I don't think it's anything like anybody's ever seen before.
17:59
Speaker 6: I was just driving down having breakfast with my with
18:02
Speaker 6: my wife this morning, and you see lags out of cars,
18:05
Speaker 6: I mean Canadian flies out of cars. Haven't haven't seen
18:09
Speaker 6: that in maybe ten years. People in this town are
18:16
Speaker 6: super excited about the the.
18:19
Speaker 5: Habs in their season they had.
18:21
Speaker 6: I think the fact that they just added Demidoff a
18:25
Speaker 6: week ago, the fact he didn't play much in the
18:28
Speaker 6: second game, only about nine and a half ten minutes.
18:31
Speaker 5: Now they're all saying the only reason he played nine
18:33
Speaker 5: and a half.
18:34
Speaker 6: Ten minutes, all the conspiracy theorists, it's the fact that
18:37
Speaker 6: they're going to play him a ton in the first
18:40
Speaker 6: two games. I this morning in practice, he was on
18:45
Speaker 6: the first power play line with Cawfield.
18:49
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, oh yeah.
18:51
Speaker 6: So you know, there was a lot of people, a
18:53
Speaker 6: lot of my friends asked me, why did he play
18:55
Speaker 6: much in that second game?
18:56
Speaker 5: And I didn't even know. I thought, okay, coach, he's
18:59
Speaker 5: got to earn his steps.
19:01
Speaker 6: I don't think it's that. I think they're going to
19:02
Speaker 6: play him a lot tomorrow night, a lot more. And
19:04
Speaker 6: people think, and I think.
19:05
Speaker 3: You got what do you got, Pops? What do you
19:08
Speaker 3: got Montreal's chances against Washington? How do you think this
19:12
Speaker 3: series plays out?
19:14
Speaker 2: Well?
19:15
Speaker 6: I think the first game is going to be important,
19:16
Speaker 6: That first five minutes is going to be important. The
19:18
Speaker 6: fact they're not playing here, uh, it gets I'm a
19:22
Speaker 6: little concerned about that. I think if we would have
19:24
Speaker 6: started at in the Bell Provence. Well, I think it
19:30
Speaker 6: would have been tough for Washington come out and match
19:32
Speaker 6: that fan energy. So and and as Jason would say,
19:38
Speaker 6: playing in Washington, it's kind of a weird rink. Even
19:41
Speaker 6: watching on TV, the lighting is weird, it seemed. I
19:44
Speaker 6: don't know what it's like live. I've never seen a
19:46
Speaker 6: game there, but it just looks dull, just a tad
19:49
Speaker 6: dell for me. So I think if we, if somehow
19:53
Speaker 6: we can put them asleep and sneak in game one,
19:57
Speaker 6: I think we win this in six.
20:00
Speaker 3: I think, wow, talk in the Caps rink unbelievable.
20:05
Speaker 6: I do really. I just think that they were super tired.
20:09
Speaker 6: I was nervous the last four games of the year,
20:12
Speaker 6: being out shot, absolutely annihilated on the shot clock. I
20:17
Speaker 6: just think the kids got tired, just really tired. Hudson
20:21
Speaker 6: was tired. But I saw I was watching uh stippets
20:24
Speaker 6: of the practice this morning, and I'm telling you, they
20:28
Speaker 6: were flying. And if Silkowski decides he wants to play
20:32
Speaker 6: tomorrow night, he wants to bang some guys around. My
20:35
Speaker 6: concern with Jane and I talked about it last week.
20:38
Speaker 6: It's the Wilson factor. It's the Vshkan factor. If they
20:41
Speaker 6: if they're banging tomorrow night on that d, I think
20:45
Speaker 6: we're in trouble.
20:46
Speaker 2: When's the last week were this excited about a rookie
20:48
Speaker 2: in latee Hudson.
20:50
Speaker 5: Man, I'm telling you, I don't even it.
20:52
Speaker 4: Was the last time that yeah, because.
20:55
Speaker 6: Yeah, I was gonna say Steffan. I think Stefan riche
20:58
Speaker 6: was probably I couldn't believe it, like when he was
21:01
Speaker 6: playing and how hard that shot was and Hudson. But
21:06
Speaker 6: then I watched, you know, Demodoff. I couldn't believe his start,
21:11
Speaker 6: his first three shifts. He was doing stuff in practice
21:15
Speaker 6: this morning, like watching some of the plays. He goes
21:18
Speaker 6: around defensemen like they're nothing. Now it's practice, doesn't mean anything.
21:22
Speaker 2: But still your son buried him for his lack of backchecking.
21:26
Speaker 4: Well that third goal on that Yeah, he's right, No,
21:29
Speaker 4: he's right, he's right.
21:30
Speaker 6: But I think when you're superstar level. I've set the
21:33
Speaker 6: jay a million times. There's two NHLs. There's the A
21:36
Speaker 6: Division and the B Division, So A players can pretty
21:41
Speaker 6: much get away with anything. B players can't. And I
21:46
Speaker 6: think Demodoff is an A player that was bad what
21:49
Speaker 6: he did, But you got to take. He's coming back
21:51
Speaker 6: on jet lag.
21:53
Speaker 5: I heard his.
21:55
Speaker 6: You know how long it took him to get back.
21:57
Speaker 6: It took him two days of flying from Turkey. So
22:01
Speaker 6: I don't know, I can't wait. I'm fired up.
22:05
Speaker 5: I'm so fired up. I don't know what else to say.
22:08
Speaker 6: Like I said, I got tourista yesterday, and I think
22:10
Speaker 6: it was all due to the Canadians.
22:13
Speaker 2: Well, honestly, Darryl, I love the fact you're so passionate.
22:15
Speaker 1: I did not realize you were so involved in Jason's
22:18
Speaker 1: career as a coach, so clearly you o kudos from
22:20
Speaker 1: anybody who's a fan of Jason Burs not only forty
22:22
Speaker 1: he did as a player, but as a person. Obviously
22:23
Speaker 1: loved the fact you're listening to pod and most importantly,
22:26
Speaker 1: go Habs Go. Thank you for the time. We'll have
22:27
Speaker 1: you back again with the Habs upset the capitals.
22:29
Speaker 5: In six beautiful. Thank you very much.
22:32
Speaker 1: All right, keep it eye with my cousin San Lazarre
22:34
Speaker 1: as well. It's Darld Demers. Lots of more coming up
22:35
Speaker 1: here in NHL and scripted after this. Our next guest, celebrator, broadcaster,
22:52
Speaker 1: and reporter who has covered the NHL from every angle.
22:55
Speaker 1: She can currently be seen on TNT covering the NHL.
22:58
Speaker 1: She is also front and center covering WWE and coming
23:01
Speaker 1: to us from WrestleMania. Of course, she's a dear friend
23:03
Speaker 1: of me and Jay's from her time at H Network,
23:05
Speaker 1: and I dearly miss the fact. Nothing better than being
23:07
Speaker 1: at the gym pretending to work out while gossiping with
23:09
Speaker 1: my friend Jackie Redmand who joins us now.
23:11
Speaker 2: Jackie, it is great to see you and prove of
23:13
Speaker 2: what a good person you are.
23:14
Speaker 1: You're joining us in the midst of the day wrestlingia
23:16
Speaker 1: the biggest sports medical world.
23:17
Speaker 2: That you're giving us twenty minutes. You're amazing.
23:19
Speaker 7: You know why, because I got nothing but love for
23:21
Speaker 7: you guys, and I love that. I love the intro
23:23
Speaker 7: because not a not a second of that was fabricated.
23:27
Speaker 7: Like if I was working out at the NHL Network
23:29
Speaker 7: gym and I saw a v stroll in, I just
23:32
Speaker 7: start taking the pods out now because we're having a
23:34
Speaker 7: forty five minute conversation, like forget the pump, it's over,
23:39
Speaker 7: it's no longer happening. We are gonna shoot the shit,
23:42
Speaker 7: as they say, and share some tea with each other.
23:47
Speaker 1: The best would be like you'd like one more thing
23:48
Speaker 1: that I gotta pump some iroy and then the one
23:50
Speaker 1: five more things?
23:51
Speaker 2: Were you?
23:52
Speaker 4: Now?
23:52
Speaker 8: For shoot?
23:53
Speaker 5: Were you?
23:53
Speaker 4: It was adding in a suit when he was going there?
23:56
Speaker 7: Never never, it was casual admin, casual admin.
24:00
Speaker 1: Uh, listen, we're gonna get to hockey if I want to
24:02
Speaker 1: start with wrestling because we're talking about listen, see him Punk, unbelievable.
24:06
Speaker 2: I watched the video that wtweeted out.
24:08
Speaker 1: I mean it is tough, Jack when a situation like that,
24:11
Speaker 1: God bless you. You just you went there, but you
24:13
Speaker 1: looked at me borderline betterfied asking what happened?
24:17
Speaker 7: Well, you know what, you know what it is is
24:19
Speaker 7: and you know this av like c M. Punk is
24:22
Speaker 7: such a huge hockey fan, and I've known him for years,
24:25
Speaker 7: years before I worked for WWE through hockey because he's
24:28
Speaker 7: such a legitimate fan of the sport, and so I
24:32
Speaker 7: knew when he was coming out of gorilla as we
24:34
Speaker 7: call it in this world, I'm like, this guy is
24:37
Speaker 7: going to be so dejected from what has happened, Like
24:40
Speaker 7: he is, I knew what this night meant to him
24:42
Speaker 7: to finally main event Mania. But of course, because I
24:45
Speaker 7: have such a great friendship with him. They were like,
24:48
Speaker 7: you have to be the one to go ask him, like,
24:49
Speaker 7: if he's going to stop for for someone, No, big dal,
24:51
Speaker 7: I am sort of punk. My entires right here. But
24:53
Speaker 7: if he's going to stop for someone, it's going to
24:55
Speaker 7: be you. And he did stop. But anyone that's been
24:59
Speaker 7: around Punk, No, he's never short of words. Like the
25:01
Speaker 7: man loves to talk and say what he thinks. And
25:04
Speaker 7: he just had nothing to say. And I just in
25:07
Speaker 7: that moment, I'm just looking in Phil's eyes and I'm
25:10
Speaker 7: just like he this man is lost for words right now.
25:14
Speaker 7: It was. I haven't watched it back to see what
25:16
Speaker 7: I look like, but apparently I look like a deer
25:18
Speaker 7: in headlights. Just I'm not sure what was gonna happen,
25:22
Speaker 7: But yeah, I still can't believe that he was betrayed
25:27
Speaker 7: to the level that he was. I mean, you can
25:29
Speaker 7: never trust anyone in this business, and certainly not Paul
25:32
Speaker 7: Hayman of.
25:33
Speaker 4: All people the Double.
25:36
Speaker 7: Cross, but like the Double Cross, and to end up
25:41
Speaker 7: standing next to a man in seth Rawlins, who has
25:45
Speaker 7: been more vocal than anyone since Sampunk returned about his
25:49
Speaker 7: displeasure him and Drew McIntyre probably the top two. To
25:53
Speaker 7: be betrayed is one thing to be betrayed and then
25:55
Speaker 7: watch that person join forces with your arch nemesis.
26:00
Speaker 9: Even worse, even worse, Oh my god, it would be
26:05
Speaker 9: like it would be like Sidney Crosby leaving the Penguins
26:09
Speaker 9: and playing for the effing Capitals, Like the Pensmans would
26:12
Speaker 9: just be.
26:13
Speaker 7: Like, what are we doing? You can't go there?
26:18
Speaker 4: Can't.
26:19
Speaker 3: I mean, how how was it backstage after you? I
26:22
Speaker 3: know you talked about cmpunk, but like, just how was
26:24
Speaker 3: everybody the vibes and even going in today? Because that
26:28
Speaker 3: was just cataclysmic what Paul Hayman did last night.
26:32
Speaker 7: I mean it was a lot of people were similar
26:35
Speaker 7: to Punk in the sense that they just it was
26:37
Speaker 7: just jaws on the floor. Can't believe what we just witnessed?
26:41
Speaker 7: And what does it mean?
26:42
Speaker 2: Right?
26:43
Speaker 7: Like, I think everyone is wondering what this means? A
26:46
Speaker 7: Seth rawlins Paul Haman alliance? Where does that go? What
26:51
Speaker 7: is that? It is disgusting. I was just starting to
26:54
Speaker 7: like Seth. Me and Seth had some good banter, and
26:56
Speaker 7: now I'm like, oh, now now I don't like you
26:59
Speaker 7: anymore because you're not a good human.
27:04
Speaker 1: How about the Hall of Fame ceremony yesterday started in
27:07
Speaker 1: like one Eastern and at like two am Pacific.
27:10
Speaker 7: The Hall of Fame Ceremony. I learned in my rookie
27:13
Speaker 7: year here that you can't speaking of trust, you can't
27:17
Speaker 7: trust what anyone says about the run time of the
27:20
Speaker 7: Hall of Fame ceremony because you gotta take me over,
27:23
Speaker 7: like we're going over. It's just a matter of how
27:26
Speaker 7: over are we going? Yeah, I'm not gonna lie. I
27:30
Speaker 7: did the Red Carpet Show, and I probably shouldn't admit this,
27:33
Speaker 7: but I will because who cares. I watched the ceremony
27:36
Speaker 7: from the hotel I wastel Listen, Love, I Love, love you,
27:42
Speaker 7: Hunter Love everybody to got inducted a huge honor. I
27:47
Speaker 7: don't think my presence was missed. And I had a
27:49
Speaker 7: big show. I had a big show the next day,
27:51
Speaker 7: so I was like, I gotta get my z's you
27:53
Speaker 7: know the same thing. No, Byron, Byron. Byron's a good
27:58
Speaker 7: company man, he says, for the whole thing. He's a
28:03
Speaker 7: good company man. And I, on the other hand, you know,
28:05
Speaker 7: every once in a while, I make the selfish choice.
28:09
Speaker 4: It's the smart, the smart Jackie.
28:13
Speaker 3: I want to ask you like you've been doing you know,
28:15
Speaker 3: live TV for a long time now, and you know,
28:19
Speaker 3: things happen, like you just mentioned off script things, things
28:22
Speaker 3: that you have to adapt to on the fly. Do
28:23
Speaker 3: you have any moment that stands out where something was
28:26
Speaker 3: so unpredictable that you just kind of were so stunned
28:29
Speaker 3: but had to adapt.
28:31
Speaker 7: I would say one of the more shocking ones. And
28:34
Speaker 7: there's there's a section of the of the WWE fans
28:37
Speaker 7: that won't even believe this, but it's the truth. And
28:39
Speaker 7: it was the WrestleMania kickoff show. A couple of years ago.
28:43
Speaker 7: We did a big event, in a big press event
28:45
Speaker 7: in Las Vegas, and it was it was the one
28:49
Speaker 7: where Rock came out and had the whole bloodline tree
28:52
Speaker 7: and Cody was there and the infamous slap that happened
28:55
Speaker 7: on stage, all that goodness.
28:57
Speaker 4: And.
28:59
Speaker 7: I halfway through the show, I'm told, hey, we want
29:02
Speaker 7: you to interview Triple H at the end of this event,
29:05
Speaker 7: just about what's happened at the event, and if anything
29:08
Speaker 7: happens at the end, just his reaction. But that's it.
29:11
Speaker 7: It's just gonna be a very straightforward, you know button
29:15
Speaker 7: on the evening and then of course, the slap happens,
29:18
Speaker 7: and now I know, okay, well there's something juicy to
29:19
Speaker 7: talk about. But still it's just gonna be you and
29:22
Speaker 7: Hunter backstage. And so when the Rock rolls up and
29:27
Speaker 7: starts dropping f bombs, yelling at Triple H two guys
29:31
Speaker 7: who in the attitude era, like like preteen Jackie is
29:34
Speaker 7: like watching them in feuds and stuff, and I'm like,
29:37
Speaker 7: are we are we running it back right now? Like
29:40
Speaker 7: are troopleated? And the Rock about to throw down and
29:43
Speaker 7: the Rock is swearing and we're on live television, Like
29:45
Speaker 7: my like truly jaw like hit the floor. I was
29:49
Speaker 7: just like you said the bad word on the TV,
29:52
Speaker 7: like what is happening? Like? That was a truly unexpected
29:56
Speaker 7: one And adapting that moment, I mean, I don't know
29:59
Speaker 7: if I adapted well. I just held the mic out
30:01
Speaker 7: and tried to capture whatever was happening. I didn't say anything,
30:05
Speaker 7: you know, like Roman showed up next, and I just
30:08
Speaker 7: kind of tried to make sure I captured the moment.
30:10
Speaker 7: But that was certainly one. I'm trying to think of
30:13
Speaker 7: a hockey one that's happened to me.
30:16
Speaker 2: Well that deals with hockey.
30:18
Speaker 1: I was gonna say you know, you do such a
30:20
Speaker 1: great job on Turner and being with an exact no,
30:22
Speaker 1: it's absolutely true. And I was talking to Andy Bachillo
30:24
Speaker 1: about this, and Andy knows, like when you're a reporter
30:26
Speaker 1: in the game, it is very challenging. You only get
30:28
Speaker 1: a few hits per game. You're bugging the producer trying
30:30
Speaker 1: to jump in. Maybe there's two in the booth, maybe
30:32
Speaker 1: there's a ring CT reporter as well, Like.
30:33
Speaker 2: It's very hard to get.
30:34
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I find it's always, you know, critically, you go, okay,
30:36
Speaker 1: maybe I can get three or four hits and let
30:38
Speaker 1: me give you some information, something that's interesting, something I
30:40
Speaker 1: got from morning Skate, and then of course the interviews
30:41
Speaker 1: of the coaches, which.
30:42
Speaker 2: Leads me to this.
30:43
Speaker 1: Having done last year, you do start to develop a
30:46
Speaker 1: rapport with certain coaches.
30:47
Speaker 2: And I find you the same as me.
30:48
Speaker 1: I know you're Leaves fan, but you end up rooting
30:50
Speaker 1: for people rather than teams R because.
30:52
Speaker 7: You hate totally.
30:52
Speaker 1: To me, that's a great story, et cetera. So with
30:54
Speaker 1: that being said, I found this show. I mean rooting
30:56
Speaker 1: for the Flames. I like Ryan Huska so much, or
30:58
Speaker 1: I root for the LEAs because Craig Ruby was good.
31:00
Speaker 1: Who is the coach that you were particularly fond of?
31:02
Speaker 1: And if you want to answer it, a coach that
31:03
Speaker 1: was a little great Popovich.
31:05
Speaker 7: Ask, okay, so I'll start with the first one. And
31:11
Speaker 7: he has since won a Cup. But you know I
31:13
Speaker 7: covered the Panthers on their first run to the Cup final,
31:17
Speaker 7: and you know, Paul Maurice was so good to me,
31:20
Speaker 7: like an absolute pleasure, gave me so much time, not
31:24
Speaker 7: just like what people don't understand, and to part of
31:26
Speaker 7: what you were talking about, Adnan, is the prep work
31:29
Speaker 7: for everyone on a broadcast, but for us, you know,
31:31
Speaker 7: ringside reporter. I put together like fifteen twenty ideas before
31:37
Speaker 7: the game, knowing that I might get one or two
31:40
Speaker 7: in and then if the game completely dictates something else,
31:42
Speaker 7: I'm trying to think of stuff during the game that
31:44
Speaker 7: I can do, right, I'm like scouring the internet looking
31:47
Speaker 7: at stats, you know, figuring out what I can pitch.
31:50
Speaker 7: And so the meetings that we have with the coaches
31:52
Speaker 7: on game days are so crucial to what I do.
31:55
Speaker 7: Like if I have a nugget or a stat on
31:58
Speaker 7: a line or a player, if I can get some
32:00
Speaker 7: insight from the coach on that very thing, or the
32:03
Speaker 7: power play or whatever. It makes what I'm saying more
32:06
Speaker 7: credible the point that I'm trying to make in the report.
32:08
Speaker 7: And Paul Maurice, you know, his son has been involved
32:12
Speaker 7: in the media a little bit, and I think because
32:13
Speaker 7: of that, he has a newfound respect for what we do.
32:16
Speaker 7: You know, he told me multiple times during that run,
32:19
Speaker 7: anything you need, let me know, any question you have, like,
32:22
Speaker 7: because you know how it is like the media scrumbs there,
32:26
Speaker 7: you got all the big wigs are there, and like,
32:28
Speaker 7: you know, I feel like I'm just I'm just a
32:30
Speaker 7: ringside reporter. I'm relatively new at this particular thing. Like
32:34
Speaker 7: I'm not asking the first question, and sometimes there's twenty
32:37
Speaker 7: questions asked, and I'm like, oh, it's okay, Like if
32:39
Speaker 7: you don't have time, like I'll hit your next game.
32:41
Speaker 7: And he really made an effort to be like, no,
32:43
Speaker 7: what do you need. I know I've already been talking
32:45
Speaker 7: to the media for twenty minutes, but like, whatever you need,
32:48
Speaker 7: like let me help you out, like you know. And
32:51
Speaker 7: and so I have a huge amount of respect for
32:54
Speaker 7: Paul just in his you know, things that he has
32:57
Speaker 7: done for me in the time that he's made and
32:59
Speaker 7: so when he won the Cup. I was very very
33:02
Speaker 7: happy for him. I shot him a text thanked him
33:04
Speaker 7: for everything, and he once told me, you know, he
33:06
Speaker 7: remembers being a brand new coach in the league and
33:08
Speaker 7: not always being given time by people or taken seriously,
33:12
Speaker 7: and so he really makes an effort to make sure
33:14
Speaker 7: people feel like they can do their job. And so
33:18
Speaker 7: that's one person that I really really wanted to see
33:20
Speaker 7: when and he did, and so I'm so I'm forever
33:23
Speaker 7: happy for him. Plus he's just fun. I mean the
33:26
Speaker 7: number of like one liners this guy will give you
33:28
Speaker 7: mid game too, and you're just like it's the middle
33:30
Speaker 7: of the game and you're like joking around. I got
33:33
Speaker 7: a playoff game, no less. So he's great. And then
33:36
Speaker 7: the other one, like no one's ever been like rude
33:41
Speaker 7: or like or anything like that. But there's a couple
33:45
Speaker 7: people where I'm a little bit more nervous, Like I
33:50
Speaker 7: don't know what it is about Dean Ebison, but like
33:56
Speaker 7: the first time, the first time I had to do
33:59
Speaker 7: like an on the bench interview with him, and we
34:01
Speaker 7: didn't hadn't really crossed paths that much, we didn't know
34:04
Speaker 7: each other that well.
34:05
Speaker 4: Like I was.
34:06
Speaker 7: Legitimately shaken in my boot. So I was like, don't
34:09
Speaker 7: ask something stupid. Redmand like, don't let this guy bury
34:13
Speaker 7: you on team. I was so afraid. And it went fine,
34:16
Speaker 7: but and he was he was totally fine, but I
34:19
Speaker 7: remember being very intimidated by him.
34:22
Speaker 4: Is there ah?
34:23
Speaker 3: You know you tak Paul Maurice is probably your best
34:26
Speaker 3: coach interview, but do you have a player in the
34:28
Speaker 3: league right now? That's like, I know Seth Jarvis is
34:30
Speaker 3: the talk of the town in terms of handed answers,
34:34
Speaker 3: but anybody that sticks out to you, You're like, Okay,
34:36
Speaker 3: this is gonna be a good interview. I'm kind of
34:38
Speaker 3: in the clear and not having to, you know, pull
34:41
Speaker 3: through some of these guys.
34:43
Speaker 7: I mean, I think there's a few guys that that
34:45
Speaker 7: are pretty good. I mean, I know he's retiring now,
34:48
Speaker 7: but Pat Maroon was always amazing on all those runs
34:52
Speaker 7: to the Cup finals. He was always great. Brad mar
34:55
Speaker 7: Shan is always like I always know it's going to
34:57
Speaker 7: be easy work with him. Even when he is serious
35:00
Speaker 7: and maybe he's not joking around, it's like he understands
35:03
Speaker 7: the assignment. Like he's not giving you some like cliche
35:08
Speaker 7: answer that's not even he's not even thinking about your question.
35:11
Speaker 7: Like to me, you don't always have to be like
35:13
Speaker 7: fun and like mister personality. But if you just actually
35:16
Speaker 7: listen to the question and give me like an engaged
35:19
Speaker 7: response to me, that's worth just as much as a
35:21
Speaker 7: guy like telling a joke or whatever. So Brad, Brad's
35:25
Speaker 7: always been good. Steven Stamcos is always amazing. He's actually
35:30
Speaker 7: he's got a great personality too. Then I'm not sure
35:32
Speaker 7: that the league has tapped into as full as they could.
35:36
Speaker 7: You know, whose personality I would love to see more
35:39
Speaker 7: that you don't see in media, but that actually is
35:42
Speaker 7: is awesome. Lean Drysidel like he gets a little he
35:46
Speaker 7: gets a little curmudgeony, like he's a little bit of
35:49
Speaker 7: a grump when it comes to the media. Hopefully he
35:51
Speaker 7: won't hate me saying that if he ever sees this.
35:53
Speaker 7: But like when the cameras aren't on and he's just
35:56
Speaker 7: in the rink or at practice, or like you run
35:58
Speaker 7: into him at the lobby at the whole like he's great,
36:02
Speaker 7: He's got so much person he's so funny. So I
36:05
Speaker 7: wish we could get that out there a little bit more.
36:08
Speaker 2: His teammate Conor mc David not nearly his upbeat. I
36:10
Speaker 2: AI interviewing Jackie.
36:12
Speaker 4: They're both dry though they're both dry.
36:15
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, player, I want to ask.
36:23
Speaker 1: You about the Jackie Rebmind Show on the NHL's YouTube.
36:26
Speaker 1: This is awesome because I remember one of those conversations
36:28
Speaker 1: in the gym we would have is you were reluctant
36:30
Speaker 1: to leave NHL Network because the fact you are opinion
36:32
Speaker 1: it and it's been great what you've done. Yes, you know,
36:34
Speaker 1: there's so many hosts who are not We're naturally deferential,
36:37
Speaker 1: past first point cards, all the rest of it. But
36:39
Speaker 1: you're like, no, I watch hockey, I haven't opinion, I
36:41
Speaker 1: have stuff to say. So I thought one thing you
36:43
Speaker 1: were worried about leaving NHL networking, go, if I'm on
36:45
Speaker 1: turno oid doing these quick hits, I won't give a
36:46
Speaker 1: chance to have that voice.
36:48
Speaker 2: How Yeah, to have this point now with the Jackie
36:50
Speaker 2: Rebmind Show.
36:51
Speaker 7: Yeah, you know, it's so funny. And by the way,
36:53
Speaker 7: like credit to the to the NHL Network and all
36:55
Speaker 7: of you guys working there to like allow me to
36:58
Speaker 7: have the space to feel comfortable to be a part
37:00
Speaker 7: of the conversation, because like the truth is that's not
37:03
Speaker 7: always the case right like that, it's just like that's facts.
37:06
Speaker 7: But everyone, like both of you, everyone that EJ. Raddick obviously,
37:11
Speaker 7: Mike rought, Mike Johnson, like all of you guys were
37:14
Speaker 7: so good about it. Because it's one thing for like
37:17
Speaker 7: producers to say, hey, Jackie's gonna like have an opinion
37:20
Speaker 7: on this one, but for the talent to also be like, yeah,
37:22
Speaker 7: we're cool with that, or like hey, no, your role
37:24
Speaker 7: you're a host, you know, it is really nice. So
37:27
Speaker 7: that was always something that I'll always make sure I
37:30
Speaker 7: say about the network and you guys there as well.
37:33
Speaker 7: And then in terms of like I still do miss
37:35
Speaker 7: the network because you know, two hours four to six
37:38
Speaker 7: heading til now, like that was a lot of that
37:40
Speaker 7: was a lot of.
37:41
Speaker 2: Lee sh a V.
37:42
Speaker 7: Like I could just go off. I don't quite have
37:45
Speaker 7: that with the Jackie Redman Show. We've kind of made
37:48
Speaker 7: it a little bit more into sort of an interview
37:51
Speaker 7: special if you will, but it does give me a
37:54
Speaker 7: little bit of that as well. And so I still
37:57
Speaker 7: miss I still miss the network days though I got
38:00
Speaker 7: to come back there more.
38:01
Speaker 4: Jackie.
38:02
Speaker 3: You know, you go from winning to let drafted to
38:04
Speaker 3: all these things you're doing now and you work so
38:06
Speaker 3: hard in this industry, But was there ever a moment,
38:08
Speaker 3: because no one's paths really linear in this industry, is
38:12
Speaker 3: there a moment that kind of tested your resilience and
38:15
Speaker 3: and you were kind of like, uh, is this gonna happen?
38:18
Speaker 3: Am I going to get to this level that you're
38:20
Speaker 3: at now?
38:21
Speaker 7: Yeah? One hundred percent. And that happened when I was
38:24
Speaker 7: still living and working in Toronto, right. I was working
38:27
Speaker 7: at sports Net shout out the Score where I got
38:29
Speaker 7: my start av NOS and so, you know, I was
38:34
Speaker 7: working in Toronto at sports Net, and you know, I
38:36
Speaker 7: was doing well for myself. I was doing a lot
38:37
Speaker 7: of things. I was hosting countdown shows. I was doing
38:41
Speaker 7: sports at Central, which is like you know, the Canadian
38:44
Speaker 7: version of Sports Center Highlight Show on the weekends, and
38:47
Speaker 7: like things were good, but hockey was always what I wanted,
38:50
Speaker 7: Like that was my dream and I was trying to
38:53
Speaker 7: sort of break in there at sports Net for a
38:56
Speaker 7: long time, and I did you know, I did some
38:57
Speaker 7: American Hockey League games. I did some Canadian college hockey
39:01
Speaker 7: games listen. I had a great time doing that. Like
39:05
Speaker 7: I went out east to cover like the CIS Championships
39:08
Speaker 7: college hockey had an absolute blast, partied with all the
39:12
Speaker 7: guys after, like it was amazing. Those are my younger years.
39:15
Speaker 7: But you know, I really wanted to cover the NHL,
39:18
Speaker 7: and I got to a point at sports Net where
39:21
Speaker 7: I just felt like I wasn't going to be given
39:24
Speaker 7: that particular shot. They did a lot for me, they
39:26
Speaker 7: get you know, Greg Santoni gave me so much opportunity
39:28
Speaker 7: to do so many other things. So I don't want
39:30
Speaker 7: it to come off like they didn't see it in me.
39:33
Speaker 7: But it's hard, right. Hockey is like the golden ticket
39:35
Speaker 7: in Canada, and there's not really unless someone leaves, there's
39:39
Speaker 7: no new spot, you know what I mean. It's like shah, yes,
39:43
Speaker 7: as they should, as they should. And so it was
39:46
Speaker 7: one of those things where, you know, when I had
39:48
Speaker 7: the opportunity to go to NHL Network, I was afraid
39:52
Speaker 7: because I was doing well at sports Net and I
39:55
Speaker 7: had success, and I knew I had people there that
39:56
Speaker 7: believed in me. But I really wanted hockey. And anytime that,
40:00
Speaker 7: you you know, move your life and you go do
40:02
Speaker 7: this show, you have no idea if you're going to
40:05
Speaker 7: be good at it, right, Like I had not hosted
40:06
Speaker 7: a two hour live talk show in my life, and
40:09
Speaker 7: I was going to go do it, and I remember
40:11
Speaker 7: asking my dad like, I don't know, maybe I should
40:13
Speaker 7: stay here, stay in Toronto. I'm doing well, like I
40:16
Speaker 7: don't know what this road is or if I'll be
40:19
Speaker 7: good at it or what the actual show is. And
40:22
Speaker 7: you know, I'll never forget my dad just saying to
40:24
Speaker 7: be like, listen, if you and you know to be fair.
40:29
Speaker 7: During my time in Toronto, someone once told me that
40:31
Speaker 7: I didn't stay in the box enough to cover the NHL,
40:35
Speaker 7: that I was a little too lucy Gussie. We've come
40:38
Speaker 7: a long way in like fifteen years with like personalities
40:41
Speaker 7: and like the Paul Bissonettes of the world, but back
40:44
Speaker 7: then it was like, listen, you got to stay in
40:46
Speaker 7: your lane, you got to stay in the box, and
40:48
Speaker 7: you don't really do that. And so I just felt
40:52
Speaker 7: like I wasn't going to break through that and I
40:54
Speaker 7: didn't know what to do. And I remember my dad
40:56
Speaker 7: telling me, well, listen, you can start staying in the
40:59
Speaker 7: box and not being yourself and maybe you'll get some
41:02
Speaker 7: success eventually years down the road, but you could also
41:06
Speaker 7: wake up two years from now and being your exact same. Yeah,
41:16
Speaker 7: can you guys still hear me.
41:18
Speaker 10: Yeah, So anyways to wrap that up inside along with
41:23
Speaker 10: an answer, is that orror you can't said on yourself,
41:27
Speaker 10: go Nytel, that work, that's screw.
41:29
Speaker 7: That you belong in the hops world. And if it
41:32
Speaker 7: doesn't work.
41:33
Speaker 11: Out, at least you know you went down swaying like
41:35
Speaker 11: you went for it. You didn't like to play scared,
41:38
Speaker 11: and so I said, you know what, I can't play
41:40
Speaker 11: scared in life. So I'm going to go do this
41:43
Speaker 11: show and I'm either gonna stink or I'm gonna swim.
41:46
Speaker 11: And luckily, you know I had water wings up start,
41:49
Speaker 11: and then.
41:50
Speaker 2: I made it.
41:50
Speaker 7: I'm able to swim.
41:52
Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, last question round up by the music.
42:03
Speaker 1: You're beloved me beliefs Jackie. If ever there's a ton
42:05
Speaker 1: the Leaves are gonna go deep, it's this they get
42:07
Speaker 1: to avoid the Panthers and Lightning. They win the Division
42:09
Speaker 1: Battle Ontario first round. How are you feeling about the buds?
42:12
Speaker 7: You know, you know who you know who would be
42:15
Speaker 7: cheered up immediately if the Leafs lost Game one today?
42:19
Speaker 7: See him punk like I would not hear the end
42:21
Speaker 7: of it. Aside from being aside from being able to
42:28
Speaker 7: beat up Paul Hayman. Nothing would nothing would make see
42:34
Speaker 7: them punk happier than the Toronto may Police losing today.
42:38
Speaker 7: So he could just blow me up like he would
42:41
Speaker 7: just love that. He would love it. Let's hope that
42:45
Speaker 7: doesn't happen him and with it the spectacular brought him
42:49
Speaker 7: back around, brought it back around.
42:51
Speaker 2: That's a real host. You can catch that. Cant all
42:53
Speaker 2: playoff go ahead.
42:55
Speaker 7: One last thing I'm gonna say, if I don't see
42:57
Speaker 7: the sends, ride in the bike right after the game
43:00
Speaker 7: doing the postgame like like Elf back in the day,
43:04
Speaker 7: Like you're not missed opportunity, like you need Brady and Chuck.
43:08
Speaker 7: You need to be on the bike doing your post game.
43:12
Speaker 2: Could score post game.
43:13
Speaker 7: He just.
43:15
Speaker 2: Wade interviews.
43:20
Speaker 7: It's so good.
43:21
Speaker 1: Amazing cat you can catch on w W at Wrestle Media.
43:25
Speaker 2: Phenomenal job. We love and miss your NHL network. This
43:27
Speaker 2: is awesome. Jack. You're the just celebrated birthday, by the way,
43:29
Speaker 2: so happy thirty three. We'll talk to you.
43:31
Speaker 7: Yay, Yes, Amy, love you guys, Thanks for having me on.
43:35
Speaker 7: Miss you both and I love seeing that you guys
43:37
Speaker 7: both continue to crush. So enjoy the playoffs.
43:48
Speaker 2: Apologies but honestly stop on the sixties.
43:50
Speaker 1: Waned a little bit post to Oscars, but I got
43:52
Speaker 1: more than a few DMSPO want to know more about
43:53
Speaker 1: Magazine Dreams, So I gotta read a couple of quick
43:55
Speaker 1: blurbs here about the movie, and I'm gonna get the
43:57
Speaker 1: Twels movie, which he directed, because our producer is also director.
43:59
Speaker 1: But this was from Carlos Agiir of the Rap What
44:02
Speaker 1: Majors does the writer director Elijah bud his Magazine Dreams
44:05
Speaker 1: is Killian Maddocks, an alarmingly single minded bodybuilder stirring straight
44:09
Speaker 1: into the abyss of his own despair. Is the kind
44:11
Speaker 1: of earth shattering showcase that turns an actor into a legend.
44:14
Speaker 1: His unclassifiable potency leaves us the audience to grapple with
44:18
Speaker 1: the fearlessness on display. And one of the ones for you,
44:20
Speaker 1: Owen Gliberman here, who's a long term career entertainment week
44:22
Speaker 1: one of my favorites.
44:23
Speaker 2: You race for variety.
44:24
Speaker 1: At certain points, Killian goes crazy, yet Major's brilliant performance
44:27
Speaker 1: cues us to the grander note of despair that's always
44:29
Speaker 1: driving the explosion. Travis Bicklin taxi driver was crazy too,
44:33
Speaker 1: but the beauty of that movie is that his disconnected,
44:35
Speaker 1: pent up fury expressed something that's there in all of us.
44:38
Speaker 1: Magazine Dreams creates a character haunting in its extremity, but
44:41
Speaker 1: his dream becomes ours, as does the heartbreaking prospect of
44:45
Speaker 1: being stuffed before our eyes. Check out Magazine Dreams wherever
44:47
Speaker 1: you can on bod right now sounds great. I mean
44:49
Speaker 1: you got to see, dude, You're gonna love it. Passion
44:51
Speaker 1: right there, speaking of being locked in our man, tal
44:54
Speaker 1: Pinchewski co directed the Way New Documentaries I watched on
44:58
Speaker 1: S and Y fantastic.
44:59
Speaker 2: I mean, listen, I lived in Connecticut for nine years.
45:02
Speaker 1: When I got the job at the ESPN, I said
45:03
Speaker 1: to my wife, a Ki, I went to live in Hartford,
45:05
Speaker 1: I said, growing up the Whalers. And I got Randy Latiser,
45:07
Speaker 1: are you kidding? And then the first thing I talked
45:09
Speaker 1: to my buddy David Ambery, he said, you're not living
45:10
Speaker 1: in Harford. I know what I got to know, Civic Center.
45:12
Speaker 1: I'm gonna live right there.
45:12
Speaker 2: I'm gonna think about old Samuelson.
45:14
Speaker 1: Every day because no, no West Harford or Avon, that's
45:16
Speaker 1: where all the ESPN guys live.
45:17
Speaker 2: Okay, Well, Harper Hartford's terrible.
45:19
Speaker 1: Now we got relocated to Harford right down Temper two
45:21
Speaker 1: much when it came from Toronto, And he's right, it's
45:23
Speaker 1: a nine to five town.
45:24
Speaker 2: The city shuts it after five.
45:25
Speaker 1: I couldn't believe him is coming from Toronto, where I
45:28
Speaker 1: lived in North York for years. There's you know, rabbos
45:30
Speaker 1: twenty four to seven. Here, there's nothing open after five. Dude,
45:34
Speaker 1: it's horrible to get groceries to go to the gas station.
45:36
Speaker 1: Where the hell am I Hartford has gone? It's gone
45:38
Speaker 1: to shit. Having said that, tallis documentary, very nostalgic, but
45:42
Speaker 1: at a time where people loved Harper and they were
45:43
Speaker 1: mentioned cities which of course I knew.
45:45
Speaker 2: They mentioned Avon, they mentioned Farmington West. Harper is a
45:47
Speaker 2: community area.
45:48
Speaker 4: Yeah.
45:48
Speaker 1: The Whalers were the best part of it. I texted
45:50
Speaker 1: John Fords in the media group text. There's a there's
45:52
Speaker 1: a shot of Forestland the final game. He goes on
45:54
Speaker 1: a meaningless night, a night that has such meaning. I'm like, yes, talent,
45:57
Speaker 1: including Forestland. He goes the final light here for a
45:59
Speaker 1: Whaler's game.
46:00
Speaker 2: It really hits you.
46:01
Speaker 1: Jay again, not being from Hartford but having lived in
46:02
Speaker 1: Connecticut nine years. You know the hash we have as
46:05
Speaker 1: hockey fans, the sports fans to have a team where
46:08
Speaker 1: he had no other major sports team, to have it
46:10
Speaker 1: and then lose it. I mean, I appreciate the film
46:12
Speaker 1: because it made me appreciate what the fans were like.
46:14
Speaker 1: But it may be upset again what it must have
46:15
Speaker 1: been like to lose a hockey team in the Whalers,
46:17
Speaker 1: because it's never been the same in Connecticut.
46:19
Speaker 4: Well, sequel for tal Quebec City, Yes, nice tow. I'm
46:25
Speaker 4: just saying.
46:26
Speaker 3: The Nordiaks have Darryl de Merce who is still wrought
46:30
Speaker 3: with pain that they were ripped from the hands Barcelo
46:34
Speaker 3: bu My dad works for a wholesale mirror and glass
46:37
Speaker 3: company and they basically built the videotron center that was
46:41
Speaker 3: gonna supposed to house the Nordiaks.
46:43
Speaker 2: Oh so that that.
46:44
Speaker 3: Building that the junior team plays in now is this
46:47
Speaker 3: incredible building that does not have an NHL team in it, so.
46:52
Speaker 4: Needed up upgrading, right, yeah, upgrade yees. So they did
46:55
Speaker 4: the videotron the s.
46:57
Speaker 2: But as far as well, here's the craziest thing. I mean,
46:59
Speaker 2: you were importuately you didn't have a chance to watch
47:01
Speaker 2: it yet.
47:01
Speaker 1: But the best part, Tell, Tell, the best part was
47:03
Speaker 1: when you should these celebrities there who are supporting the Whalers.
47:06
Speaker 1: Roger Staubach, the great quarterback. Here's the best was a
47:09
Speaker 1: tennis guy, Evon Lendall. Talk to me about that. Include
47:12
Speaker 1: that video.
47:12
Speaker 8: Ev Yeah, so that was pretty fascinating.
47:16
Speaker 12: So after Howard Baldwin, the founder of the team, sold
47:19
Speaker 12: them to a different group, they brought in basically a
47:23
Speaker 12: celebrity board that included Staubach, Bobby or Ivan Lendel.
47:28
Speaker 2: Oh.
47:29
Speaker 12: Yeah, basically they were all kind of buddies of the
47:32
Speaker 12: new ownership group and they needed they wanted some names
47:34
Speaker 12: to bring in because they didn't really have names on
47:36
Speaker 12: the ice help prop up the team. And so they
47:39
Speaker 12: did these commercials for the Whalers, which we have in
47:43
Speaker 12: the film, and it's a little surreal, like you see that,
47:46
Speaker 12: you know, Ivan Lendell wearing the full whaler's gear and then.
47:49
Speaker 8: Going whenever I'm in Hartford, I always go to see
47:52
Speaker 8: the Whalers.
47:53
Speaker 12: Or Roger Staubach, who knows a Stabach actually made it
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Speaker 12: out to a Whaler's game, but he did a commercial
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Speaker 12: selling tickets for the Whalers, saying whenever I'm in Hartford.
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Speaker 12: I always go to see the way it was a
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Speaker 12: you know that the team was sold and moved not
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Speaker 12: long after that period, but uh yeah, there's just there's
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Speaker 12: a lot of fun, strange moments like that in the
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Speaker 12: history of this franchise, and we tried to tap into
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Speaker 12: all of them.
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Speaker 1: Best interviews obviously, I mean Larry Plow great accent, Olf
48:21
Speaker 1: Samuelson very good.
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Speaker 12: But my guy Chris Berman, he is fantastic and we
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Speaker 12: we we interviewed over thirty people for the film, including players, coaches,
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Speaker 12: ownership executives.
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Speaker 2: Howard Baldens your guy, he's bald guy and.
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Speaker 12: Was a great, great advocate for the film. He lives
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Speaker 12: out here in Los Angeles. He's actually a neighbor of
48:42
Speaker 12: mine and we've talked.
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Speaker 2: You gave him a special thanks at the end. He
48:44
Speaker 2: had like his own car.
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Speaker 12: He was fantastic. He was a tremendous advocate for the project.
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Speaker 12: But you know, we Jackie Redmond mentioned Paul Maurice and uh,
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Speaker 12: you know, we we got him.
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Speaker 2: She Stu Grimson was great.
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Speaker 12: We got Dean Evisman, we got Stuve Grimson, we got
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Speaker 12: Brian Burke, I mean we we uh you know, we
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Speaker 12: got a lot of great people.
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Speaker 2: Cause I mentioned the one that was glaring missing, Ron Francis.
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Speaker 12: Yeah, so Ron Francis, we were told by the crack
49:09
Speaker 12: and we would get him. They had they then had
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Speaker 12: a year. Yeah, and then well yeah that was towards
49:16
Speaker 12: the middle of the city and they had turnover. Well yeah, exactly.
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Speaker 12: Then they had turnover in their communications department, so he
49:24
Speaker 12: had new people to deal with, and then their season
49:28
Speaker 12: just fell off a cliff. And once that happened, it
49:30
Speaker 12: obviously got much harder to get him. So we're still
49:34
Speaker 12: working on it. But yeah, that was obviously a glaring omission.
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Speaker 12: I think it's my understanding is it's not a topic
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Speaker 12: he really cares to talk about that much.
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Speaker 4: Was fantastic, Yeah, I think, yeah, Ron Ron really doesn't
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Speaker 4: want to talk about that. I wonder why.
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Speaker 12: That's something that I mean, maybe it's because he gets
49:54
Speaker 12: asked about it and has been asked about it so much,
49:56
Speaker 12: and he wants to be maybe known more as an
49:59
Speaker 12: They make himself.
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Speaker 2: Like a god like Boomer goes he could run for governor,
50:02
Speaker 2: I mean he is.
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Speaker 3: Why wouldn't he maybe take the Rangers gig we can
50:10
Speaker 3: get We can get into that later in this episode.
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Speaker 8: But yeah, but he was he was one glaring omission.
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Speaker 12: But we really were able to get pretty much everyone
50:18
Speaker 12: else wanted to talk whalers, which was a lot of fun.
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Speaker 8: And appreciate you checking it out.
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Speaker 3: Of course, send me the link because I I will
50:27
Speaker 3: harbor I have the whalers a couple of things, and
50:29
Speaker 3: you gotta say. They have a music video they put
50:30
Speaker 3: out about the whalers. There was a song they would
50:32
Speaker 3: play was Verbacon. To tell them, hey, listen, he told
50:34
Speaker 3: Brookie Goes, stop playing the song. The guys don't like
50:36
Speaker 3: it feels like Mickey Mouse here, like, okay, we'll stop
50:38
Speaker 3: playing the song.
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Speaker 4: We had. Yeah, we it was like holiday sweater in
50:41
Speaker 4: San Jose holidays.
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Speaker 1: But the best part about is this. This is the
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Speaker 1: single best part. As we know every year they lose
50:49
Speaker 1: the bruins of the HAPs as far as they told me.
50:51
Speaker 1: I asked me because dude, there was one year we
50:52
Speaker 1: had the seventh best record in hockey and we were
50:54
Speaker 1: fourth in our division. Like it was brutal every year,
50:57
Speaker 1: but this is the best part. To out, there was
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Speaker 1: a parade after they won one round. There was a
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Speaker 1: joke and to check out, they had a parade at
51:05
Speaker 1: Harper they won one round.
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Speaker 12: I love that tho incredible and in a weird way,
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Speaker 12: it's like uniquely Hartford. They lost to Montreal in the
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Speaker 12: second round in eighty six. Montreal went on to win
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Speaker 12: the Cup that summer. That the you know, the contention
51:20
Speaker 12: around Hartford was, well, if they had just beaten Montreal
51:23
Speaker 12: in game seven, that was the Claude Lemieux overtime goal.
51:26
Speaker 12: If they just find a way to win that game,
51:27
Speaker 12: they maybe they go all the way and then Hartford
51:30
Speaker 12: wins the Cup and that there's this universe where they're
51:33
Speaker 12: a Cup winner and the team still they have prayed
51:36
Speaker 12: for losing the parade for winning a playoff series.
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Speaker 8: Yep, they did.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's unreal. I gotta watch that.
51:42
Speaker 1: No, definitely check it out. And honestly, the coolest thing.
51:44
Speaker 1: I love people watch the logo. Like to this date,
51:47
Speaker 1: it's still well the highest selling memorabillage. And the guy
51:49
Speaker 1: who defined the look, I think this is Peter Good.
51:51
Speaker 1: He does a great stray but out the whale. Every
51:53
Speaker 1: think it was really really cool stuff.
51:54
Speaker 2: All right.
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Speaker 8: He passed away not long after we interviewed him.
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Speaker 2: Actually you mentioned the credits he passed We were.
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Speaker 12: Really grateful to be able to get him and talk
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Speaker 12: to him. And yeah, it's airs not a.
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Speaker 2: Hockey guy, not even logo he did, Yeah, not at all.
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Speaker 12: It's airing on some regional sports networks right now in
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Speaker 12: the US. I'll keep you guys posted as far as
52:11
Speaker 12: where people can catch it next.
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Speaker 2: Please do.
52:14
Speaker 4: Yeah, check out Titty Pinchewski.
52:17
Speaker 1: She's just taken that nickname and run with it. Thanks
52:19
Speaker 1: so much to Darreld Demers and Jackie Raven and the
52:21
Speaker 1: entire crew. Thank you for listening to NHL Unscripted. We'll
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Speaker 1: see later this week twice a week.
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Speaker 2: Let's go Yeah.
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