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Simpsons Writer/Producer Mike Scully Has Jokes: Hand Kuch the Hart, McDavid Drama and Surging Sens. · NHL Unscripted with Virk and Demers

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  Speaker 1: NHL Unscripted is a production of the NHL and iHeart podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up on an NHL and Scripted were giving flowers
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  Speaker 1: to Paul Maurice. Plus that's so guest Mike Scully, that's right,
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  Speaker 1: former showrunner and writer of The Simpsons, a diehard Kings fan.
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  Speaker 1: He's got stories for days with hockey and involving the
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  Speaker 1: La Kings and the Simpsons. Plus Ovi's gold number one
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  Speaker 1: thousand and turning cough Please interesting story involving Cole Coughfield,
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  Speaker 1: and that would begin. Yeah, well that's kind of the
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  Speaker 1: reference I think that was making. Do you have a
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  Speaker 1: JD POV? I know it was a big hit last week?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe a pov out of the gate.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it was an enormous hit. I mean I it
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  Speaker 2: was an enormous hit. I have one of two, either
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  Speaker 2: Darren Radish getting paid and Darren Radish not being Just
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  Speaker 2: because he's playing with Kucherov doesn't mean Kutrov doesn't need
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  Speaker 2: Darren Radish, And if not for Darren Radish, Koutrov wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: be having the season he's having the fact that because
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  Speaker 2: not anybody can just play on a top power play
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  Speaker 2: unit and just be with the best players in the
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  Speaker 2: world and be like, oh yeah, it's just plug and
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  Speaker 2: play and it works. It's very difficult to play with
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  Speaker 2: those guys. I go back to his goal last game,
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  Speaker 2: picked it up off the left skate, beautiful top shelf shot.
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  Speaker 2: So fuck all you guys saying that Darren Radish doesn't
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  Speaker 2: deserve that money because he deserves the payper.
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  Speaker 3: All right, A good POV out of the gate.
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  Speaker 1: I just mentioned that I was at the Madison Square Guarden.
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  Speaker 1: The loan game on the schedule on Monday was the
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  Speaker 1: Ottawa Center's Face and the Rangers as a must win Nate.
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  Speaker 3: The Rangers put up nine shots.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's the fewest shots I had since Gump
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  Speaker 1: Worsley was playing in net Johnny Busick was back in
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  Speaker 1: the day in the nineteen fifties. So it was an
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  Speaker 1: awful game for the Rangers perspective. I am curious from
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  Speaker 1: your perspective, how did you like playing at the garden,
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  Speaker 1: because while we were there, I was staying to Chris
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  Speaker 1: Pronger john Ford's lison every time I come to MSG
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  Speaker 1: and it mainly go for Knicks games for my son.
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  Speaker 1: But I said, it's love it or hey, really, so
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  Speaker 1: I love it in some ways because I'm like, it
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  Speaker 1: is massive Square Guard and you feel the history.
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  Speaker 3: I love the open Bobb O'Riley hits, the Rangers come
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  Speaker 3: out like it's it's great entertainment.
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  Speaker 1: I do feel like I'm on Broadway, great anthem always,
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  Speaker 1: but at the same time, it's old.
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  Speaker 3: It's the crapit there's like one elevator. Who the hell?
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  Speaker 1: Where do you think an elevator go to an arena?
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  Speaker 1: Seats aren't as good decaying a little bit. Where are
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  Speaker 1: you at when you played at Madison Square Guard? Did
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  Speaker 1: you feel the chills or did you just say, eh, overrated?
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  Speaker 4: No chills. It's MSG.
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  Speaker 5: I there in Montreal are the two places that I
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  Speaker 5: love playing on the road. And I mean I scored
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  Speaker 5: my first NHL goal at MSG, so on on Hank
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  Speaker 5: So I mean that's yeah. The MSG's a special place.
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  Speaker 5: I mean when you go when you go in there,
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  Speaker 5: it feels like you're an auditorium.
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  Speaker 4: I mean you look up and it's showing.
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  Speaker 5: There's super and there's TV stars and I mean it's, uh,
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  Speaker 5: that place is a vibe.
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  Speaker 4: It's a great place to be.
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  Speaker 3: JD you with that. Do you like playing in New York?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 2: It's dark. It's yeah, the fans are far away. But
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  Speaker 2: that's just me. Nate. You're new here. I'm a hater,
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  Speaker 2: you know this. I hate on a lot of things.
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  Speaker 2: I love the I'll say this, the walk up the
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  Speaker 2: ramp does not disappoint. It is very iconic. There you
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  Speaker 2: go and the walk into the rink and when you
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  Speaker 2: walk up the ramp and then as you're turning the
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  Speaker 2: corner you see the zamboni doors and you walk out
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  Speaker 2: and you just go check the ice. That is a
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  Speaker 2: very cool, incredible moment. After that once around the ice
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  Speaker 2: after the first game, Yeah, stinks.
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  Speaker 3: It's just tauch. How many players could you say?
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  Speaker 1: You go into arena and you have to go to
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  Speaker 1: the elevator to floor five and then take a right
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  Speaker 1: and you go see the Zamboni's.
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  Speaker 3: And then floor ten is the press box and your
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  Speaker 3: way the hell up.
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  Speaker 2: There only New York, Yo, Frank, No, I'm not.
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  Speaker 3: Gonna do it right now. Let's let's hand coach the
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  Speaker 3: heart and your boy.
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  Speaker 1: All season long, we've been talking about McDavid McKinnon Celebrinia
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  Speaker 1: for the art. Nikita kucher Off has been listening the
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  Speaker 1: AHL's first start of the week, fourteen points in his
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  Speaker 1: last five games, now leads the league in points. Tuesday
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  Speaker 1: Night became just the eighth player in hockey history to
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  Speaker 1: record three straight one hundred and twenty points seasons, after McDavid, Gretz,
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  Speaker 1: Mario Lemue, Phillips, Posito, my guy, Marcel Dion, all time
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  Speaker 1: great La King, Gila Flora, and Paul Coffee. Even with
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  Speaker 1: injuries to Victor have been in braden Point, Koutrov has
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  Speaker 1: led TAMPAA one of the best records in the league.
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  Speaker 1: You've long said for years, now, Jad the Koutroff is underappreciated.
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  Speaker 1: Is this the year he gets his second Heart Trophy?
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  Speaker 2: If he doesn't get it, I stormed the capitol and
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  Speaker 2: I riot. It's a full riot. I don't know where
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna storm what capital where, but I'm storming something
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  Speaker 2: and I'm riding because too much disrespect on the name
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  Speaker 2: of Nikita Koutrov, people even putting other guys in the category.
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  Speaker 2: I get, you can, you can go to the Celebrini route.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a huge fan of Sealabrini. I get you can
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  Speaker 2: go to the McDavid route. But what he does at
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  Speaker 2: the winger position and what he has done this season
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  Speaker 2: is absolutely astonishing. The pace he's on. This team was
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  Speaker 2: missing every single player, it felt like, at the start
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  Speaker 2: of the year, and he was just chugging along. He
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  Speaker 2: gets he's very underappreciated, and I think he should have
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  Speaker 2: got it last year. I think he gets it this year.
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  Speaker 2: And if he doesn't, Nate, I'm I'm doing something to
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  Speaker 2: something somewhere. I don't know where. I'll figure it out
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  Speaker 2: when the time comes.
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  Speaker 5: I will join you. If that's the case. I'm not
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  Speaker 5: gonna hate on you on this one, because I agree
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  Speaker 5: he's the Yes, he has to be the MVP.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 5: Listen, I go back to my playing career and I
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  Speaker 5: was lucky enough for about five years to work with
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  Speaker 5: Adam Oates and Ots. You know, this is one of
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  Speaker 5: his guys, and you know the way that Cooch works
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  Speaker 5: on his game. The little things like the drills that
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  Speaker 5: we would do, you know, are very mundane. You know,
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  Speaker 5: simple things like rim around the boards. I'm sure you've
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  Speaker 5: heard he works on that rim around the boards constantly,
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  Speaker 5: over and over and over again. You know, OTS would
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  Speaker 5: use him as an example and talk about him and
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  Speaker 5: the way he adamotates a Hall of Famer talks about
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  Speaker 5: Nikhir Kutrov. He talks about him as one of the
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  Speaker 5: greats already and you know, coming from him and the
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  Speaker 5: way he talks about him, and he uses him in
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  Speaker 5: every drill he's as examples. I mean, how players want
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  Speaker 5: to watch him. He's he's a perfectionist. He is, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I saw it when he came up as a young
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  Speaker 5: guy when I was there, and this guy, I mean,
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  Speaker 5: he is, he is the MVP.
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  Speaker 4: The way he makes everyone better.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you mentioned Taylor.
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  Speaker 5: Radish JD and I agree with you on that, and
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  Speaker 5: I think part of that is Cooch is making these
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  Speaker 5: guys better. He's working with these guys after practice and
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  Speaker 5: working on these drills in certain scenarios. Yeah, you know
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  Speaker 5: he's doing that. So I think it's a credit to
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  Speaker 5: those guys. But you know, Nikita Kutrov, he makes everyone
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  Speaker 5: better around him.
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  Speaker 2: He's study I mean he sorry, he studies ad Man
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  Speaker 2: for a kick it to you. He studies the opposition's
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  Speaker 2: d for their tendencies before like every game. Like he
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  Speaker 2: is a freak hockey nerd.
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  Speaker 1: And unfortunately he's not gonna have Victor Hedmon with him.
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  Speaker 1: Thirty five or old last up year.
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  Speaker 3: During March nineteen sixty two win of.
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  Speaker 1: The Conocks, he only played four forty four of ice
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  Speaker 1: time before the party with a reported illness six foot seven.
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  Speaker 3: He also missed the last three games with the ailments.
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  Speaker 1: So he's taking a temporary leave of absence from the
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  Speaker 1: team for personal reasons. No further details to be shared.
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  Speaker 1: The team asked has provacy be respected at this time.
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  Speaker 1: He's only appeared in thirty three games this season. He
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  Speaker 1: missed twelve games and then undisclosed injury November, another twenty
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  Speaker 1: two games undergoing elbow surgery in December again, and it's
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  Speaker 1: unfair to spect that exactly what's happening. But the bottom
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  Speaker 1: line is this is a significant absence. I know they've
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  Speaker 1: been very successful that in this season, there's second in
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  Speaker 1: the Atlantic Division, two points behind the Sabers, but no headman.
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  Speaker 3: That's concerning.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean he's their captain, he's their leader. I
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  Speaker 5: think he's their emotional leader as well, and whenever you
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  Speaker 5: don't have him in the lineup, it's it's it's going
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  Speaker 5: to be a missing piece that they that they need.
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  Speaker 4: But you know you said it.
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  Speaker 5: Though, they were able to sustain a pretty damn good
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  Speaker 5: record for a long time without some key guys, and
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  Speaker 5: their decore is I think one of the best in
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  Speaker 5: the league. And if there's a silver lining of this,
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  Speaker 5: and I hope everything's okay, I mean the Tampa Bay
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  Speaker 5: Lighting will get arrested Victor Hedman in the playoffs and
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  Speaker 5: I think that's a bonus.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it is the only thing. And again
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  Speaker 2: I hope he's okay, and you know, he's a great
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  Speaker 2: human being. But I don't know. My weird take is,
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  Speaker 2: does this does this Darren Radish season and JJ Moser?
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  Speaker 2: Does this make Headman a little expendable in terms of
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  Speaker 2: trading this offseason? You know Breezebaw has done it before
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  Speaker 2: with Stamcos emotional leader or not. I think, like you know,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm not saying that, like you know, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what he has going on, and hopefully he's healthy,
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  Speaker 2: and like I said, everything is I'm just putting on
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  Speaker 2: my GM hat for the end of the season. And
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  Speaker 2: you know they have a chance to win a Cup.
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  Speaker 2: But the season they've had in his absence is there.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you pay Radish or you let him walk?
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  Speaker 2: Do you maybe move Headman? I don't know, Just to
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  Speaker 2: kind of you know, put him in a place where
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  Speaker 2: he's he's happy and healthy again. I don't know. This
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  Speaker 2: is just me speculating. That's what I do.
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  Speaker 3: That's listen.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you think it's a little premature. JD had powerful
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  Speaker 1: the Lighting. This feels a little premature to deal them.
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  Speaker 1: It felt coming a little more.
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, premature ejaculation and premature takes. That's my thing. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: I mean that's stop.
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  Speaker 3: It's certainly one way of looking at it.
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  Speaker 2: Stop. I don't do that anymore anymore.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't an issue. We got to see Alice on
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  Speaker 1: the phone. Everything's okay now, Yeah, we're all right.
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  Speaker 4: Just breathe, just breathe.
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  Speaker 1: Meantime, McDavid mcdisappointed another likely heart filens this season. McDavid
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  Speaker 1: reached two filists in one like Tuesday against Utah, four
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  Speaker 1: hundred goals and twelve hundred points in the same game.
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  Speaker 3: That not all as well to Oilers Land.
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  Speaker 1: Following comments last week from McDavid referring to the Pacific
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  Speaker 1: Division race as a quote pillow fight and heaping praise
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  Speaker 1: on John Cooper and the Lightning for their perfect system,
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  Speaker 1: he later clarified he wasn't taking any shots to oilers
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  Speaker 1: with two years left in his current contract. Though, Dad,
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  Speaker 1: if you're an oiler's face, you look concern McDavid's popping
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  Speaker 1: off publicly.
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely, I think you. I think you for sure was
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  Speaker 5: was taking shots. I mean, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 5: they're they're on the clock. He's on the clock, everyone's
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  Speaker 5: on the clock. I mean he's only got you know,
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  Speaker 5: he signed a short term extension, and I think it's
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  Speaker 5: shots fired. It's hey, listen, like, look where Tampa is that.
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  Speaker 5: Look how they're coach. They're a well oiled machine and
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  Speaker 5: we're not. We're we're not doing that. We haven't made stride.
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  Speaker 5: So I don't know where you stand, JD, but this
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  Speaker 5: to me is definitely shots fired.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's tough because this team's always like you're
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  Speaker 2: always like, okay, they're this drama, there's the theatrics, and
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  Speaker 2: then they go and they they they're playing all of
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  Speaker 2: us and they run to the Stanley Cup finals and
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised if they do that again. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there seems to be the room's a little bit different
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  Speaker 2: than the this year than the years past. I think
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  Speaker 2: the Corey Perry apsence maybe leads to that, but I don't,
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  Speaker 2: you know. I listened back to it and I was like,
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  Speaker 2: he was heaping a ton of praise on Tampa. I
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  Speaker 2: think he's very He's been more critical and so is
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  Speaker 2: now Block and Right of this team than they've ever
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  Speaker 2: have been in the past few years. So there's obviously
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  Speaker 2: sending notes to each other or they're maybe trying to
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  Speaker 2: get no Block to take more ownership. But I mean,
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  Speaker 2: they've been to two finals together, so I'm like, I think,
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  Speaker 2: you know. And the other thing is like, if McDavid
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  Speaker 2: had these issues and I can't believe I'm agreeing with
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  Speaker 2: Craig Button. I heard him talk, but it's like he
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  Speaker 2: signed that to your deal. He signed that to your deal.
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  Speaker 2: He could have just not signed and walked if it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of this bad. So I feel like it was
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  Speaker 2: maybe taken out of context.
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  Speaker 3: But when now.
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  Speaker 1: Block got the job, or when said McDavid loves him,
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  Speaker 1: that's why they that's what he got.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So I just think it's kind of he's frustrated.
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  Speaker 2: I would be too, but they come out and you know,
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  Speaker 2: they've beat the brakes off of Utah and he comes
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  Speaker 2: out and he's great again. So I always feel like
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  Speaker 2: sometimes he's got like the little Jordan in him where
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  Speaker 2: he just got it. He's got to make he's got
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  Speaker 2: to kind of make get himself fired up. Him and
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  Speaker 2: Leon they gotta you know, it's just something weird going
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  Speaker 2: on in Eiler Land. And I never count him out
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  Speaker 2: because we'll probably be sitting here being like, oh, wow,
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  Speaker 2: they're in the Stanley Cup Finals again. Shocker. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, last year JD and Nate and I, well, last year,
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  Speaker 3: I should say Nate, j D and I kept calling
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  Speaker 3: against the Oiler. So we're not gonna make that mistake again.
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  Speaker 2: No, never again.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we'll have them going all the way just to appeal.
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  Speaker 4: We'll join you guys. It's hard to go.
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  Speaker 2: We You don't talk shit against the Oilers because you
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  Speaker 2: don't know bulletin board material.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's get to turn and cough. In addition to Kutrov,
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  Speaker 3: habsring Or Cole Coff, who was.
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  Speaker 1: In the league's third Star of the Week after collecting
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  Speaker 1: four goals eight points in three games, were coming the
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  Speaker 1: first Canadian to scored forty goals in a season since
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  Speaker 1: Vinnie Donfu's in ninety three ninety four. But the real
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  Speaker 1: story might be Montreal's top line Coffield, nick Suzuki and
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  Speaker 1: you're right Leftkowski.
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  Speaker 3: They don't have a nickname yet, maybe called Zukski.
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  Speaker 1: But the trio has combined for thirty three points in
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  Speaker 1: the last six games. Tell this is all you. This
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  Speaker 1: is clearly your bias and favoritism coming out. Is this
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  Speaker 1: right now the most dominant line in the NHL? Go ahead,
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  Speaker 1: tell you take it?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yes, wait, I might have left. It's not it's
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  Speaker 2: not boot cocky, it's slav cocky.
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  Speaker 3: Oh discussed.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not sure that's gonna take. But no, they've been
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  Speaker 6: carrying the team. They were separated for a long stretch
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  Speaker 6: this season, and they took a bit of a dip.
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  Speaker 6: They put Slak Slavkovski back on that top line.
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  Speaker 4: They've been incredible.
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  Speaker 6: They've been making like they're getting the number one defensive
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  Speaker 6: matchup every game.
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  Speaker 2: They don't have a second line.
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  Speaker 6: It's just these guys and they're putting up huge numbers
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  Speaker 6: night after night for the last two three weeks now
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  Speaker 6: and taking this team into the playoffs. I you know,
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  Speaker 6: you could say maybe that Nietzsche McKinnon lecanon line in
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  Speaker 6: Colorado is better, but they're a class of the league.
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  Speaker 6: The Canadians Yes, I'm biased. Yes, I may have you know,
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  Speaker 6: a little habs talk into the pod this week, but
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  Speaker 6: I know I can't find too many lines in the
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  Speaker 6: league that are doing more offensively than these guys right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, deservedly so, it deservedly so. The last eight nine games,
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  Speaker 2: they've been fantastic. I mean, Coffield scores missed a Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: He scores the more most goals in the league. He
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  Speaker 2: has right now when when his team is tied, so
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  Speaker 2: with the opposition he scores. He's clutch. He's clutched, so
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  Speaker 2: slav cocky. That line is, uh, is dynamic, and again
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  Speaker 2: it's a good mix of everything. I think Slavkovsky went
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  Speaker 2: to that second line try to lead his own line.
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  Speaker 2: It worked for a little bit. They do have Oliver
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  Speaker 2: Kappanan who's had a great season for Rookietings at twenty
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  Speaker 2: one goals. But this is a team that's a little
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  Speaker 2: bit dangerous. I don't see them going far in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: But uh, this is a team that's kind of in
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  Speaker 2: the right it's going the right way. And I think
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  Speaker 2: I think Nate gets to fifty before him, but I
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  Speaker 2: see him getting fifty this year. He's getting fifty Wow.
• 14:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think they both get fifty for sure. I
• 14:48
  Speaker 5: agree with Tal. I think it's the best line in hockey.
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: I think that. I mean a big reason why is
• 14:53
  Speaker 5: Nick Suzuki. I feel like he's the kind of the
• 14:56
  Speaker 5: driver a little bit.
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: What what what's the face? JD.
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: He's just keep going. I just like sometimes he was
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: looking at tells make faces.
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: I'm like, best line in hockey.
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: I think they are.
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: I think that just because of the fact, like you
• 15:11
  Speaker 5: mentioned it, Jdy, it's the dynamic of how they all
• 15:14
  Speaker 5: compliment each other. And I think what you said, Tal,
• 15:18
  Speaker 5: I mean, I think with getting new hook back, it
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: made Marty Saint Louis think Okay, let's let's slot these
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: lines back together. This is what they were to begin
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: the season, and we need this first line to be going.
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: And they've done that. I mean, they've been all world.
• 15:34
  Speaker 3: Certainly happened. But then that gets to the other side
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: of the ledger, of which teams on the downswing? I
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: mentioned the Rangers, how about this, Jdy? They honored me
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: ka Zebnishad's one.
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: We're talking Rangers right now.
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: Just one one quick thought.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: The fact listen, you played seven hundred NHL games imagine
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: if before play, maybe they did before playing that game,
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: they honored you. That's what happened with Mika. He hadn't
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: played a game one thousand. Nobly you played the thousandth game.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: Then the next game they go by the way and
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: honor this achievement.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: He did it. They arned him before the game.
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: Now, I guess there's a little bit logical to playing
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: Autowie team that drafted him.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: But talk with the guy. Clearly was going hard the
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: last couple of games.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: Going into game one thousand, you're not gonna get hurt
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: knowing nine ninety eight, nine ninety nine, even one thousand
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: he was barely he was malliing him for much of
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: the game.
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: He's like, well, I can't get hurts one thousands of game.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: So yeah, let's talk about Matthew Shaeffer. Last game.
• 16:17
  Speaker 4: He was.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: Incredible. I mean, Matthew Schaeffer should get Norris votes and
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: heart votes right now, the heart votes if they make
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: it in the playoffs. You don't think.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: Islander aren't going to make the playoffs?
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: Is they?
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: Right now?
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: They might be a thirty two minute who said that
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: Pronger your friend?
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: No, I'm gonna say it right now I'm also gonna
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: say the Red Wings aren't gonna make it.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's low hanging fruit.
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: But this is another March collapse.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Three five into their last ten games, they've slipped on
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: the playoffs about they held for most of the season,
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: and Nate I talked to Tom McClellan in December and.
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: He was like, can't have another March issue. We've had
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: March Swon's lost.
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: It happening again, bed Wings or Eyes are playing year nine?
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: How many years have to wait? If I'm from hockey.
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: Town, I don't know. This is time.
• 16:59
  Speaker 5: I mean when Larkin went down, that was when it
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: was like inevitable for hers. It hurt him back, and
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: they all kind of you could feel their organization, even
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: on the outside looking at it felt like they were
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: all taking a big deep breath, knowing almost that March
• 17:12
  Speaker 5: was going to go bad for them, and it has.
• 17:14
  Speaker 5: I mean, they they're they're finding ways to lose right now,
• 17:17
  Speaker 5: and they're they're in hockey games. They're in the game
• 17:19
  Speaker 5: last night with with Ottawa, but they just they can't
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: find ways to win right now. And they're in a
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: tough spot because you have the other teams winning Ottawa
• 17:27
  Speaker 5: was Auto was moving up the ranks right now.
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: So what a story? Autawa is? What a story?
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: Has been a good team all season. They have thirty
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: second in save percentage.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: If they'd had Cooker Golton and they would easily be
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: topp through the Atlantic. Instead, they're fighting tooth and nail
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: for a wildcard spot. They're gonna make the playoffs as well. Columbus,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Columbus is unstoppable. Columbus is my highest ceiling. But Outawa
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: if they can get in, I mean, look at look
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: at their back end. Sanderson out, Shabbat out, Carter Yakham,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: Chuck Yeah, Zoo played twenty five, Clevin played twenty eight.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Good for Tyler Cleven Spence played twenty six.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Good. Good on them for I. That's a great story.
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: I think Detroit needs to miss again and just let's
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: blow the whole thing up and let's bring in a
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: new fresh voice. Because really, I don't know if it's
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: just the bright lights, but you know, I I like
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: the way Ottawa team plays better than Detroit. They're a
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: little I don't know, the little light for me.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: They defend well. Autawa defends well, don't they.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: Like it's so hard you're right, Travis Green shout out.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, tal this Ottawa team, listen, then they got star.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Part of JD's point, if you want to, Brady could
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: chuck him stuts on the playoffs, pull him for Ottawa
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: back to back years in the playoffs.
• 18:40
  Speaker 6: Well, let's let's be honest here. How many of you
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: guys counted out the Senators when Sanderson went down?
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: Absolutely?
• 18:47
  Speaker 6: You know, they've had so many injuries on that back
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: you were just talking about it, but.
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: The fact that they're no, I'm actually listened. When Shabbah
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: went down to I was like, well, they're not going
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: to win this and they go went back to back games. Yeah,
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: keep going.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Tell I believe there was seven and to tell us,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: I believe seven and two that Jake Sanderson one defenseman.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Go ahead.
• 19:05
  Speaker 6: I mean, who who picture that happened? What's been the obviously,
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: the goaltending has been the issue all season. That seems
• 19:11
  Speaker 6: to have tightened up, But just when they seem to
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: be rounding into form, they're ready to make a run
• 19:15
  Speaker 6: of the playoffs, and their top d man goes down
• 19:18
  Speaker 6: and they've just been having injury after injury on the
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: back end. I mean, what do you see has been
• 19:22
  Speaker 6: the key with all these injuries basically. Now, I mean
• 19:25
  Speaker 6: I I don't think anyone here has any doubt they're
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: making the playoffs. Like they have a full head of
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: team the postseason.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: They have a tough schedule, yeah, coming down the stretch.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: They have a tough tough schedule down the stretch.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Listen, I got Columbus third of the Metro and Boston
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Ottawa of the wild cards.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Oh, Columbus third of the I have Columbus is two
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: in the Metro for me. Nice, They're gonna be firmly
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: two nineteen wins for Bonus already he matched Everson's nineteen
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: wins Nate and Columbus is two for me. Pitt I
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: want to say Pits three. Yeah, and then I'm gonna go.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: It's a big game for Boston. Their next game here
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: against Boston tonight.
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: But yeah, I'm with you. I think it's gonna be
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: five Atlantic and three Metro. It's gonna be that exactly, Boston, Boston, Ottawa,
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: and Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Spot and Columbus no isles. I know
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: I hate saying that too.
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: But they're the worst defensive metrics hits.
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: Exactly, and watching last night against Chicago. I don't know.
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: I'm not a believer in them right now. I Columbus, Pittsburgh,
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: those teams, the way Columbus is playing right now, I mean,
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: once they get in they could go they can make
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: some hay like they could be going deep.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: You never know what to say.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: To Night's point, I like the teams that I know
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: can actually do something. If Columbus gets in there, they
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: could go on a run.
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: Ottawa could go.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: In a run. Yeah.
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: Islanders, No, they're not going in to run. They just
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: had what a slow start last game. God, they're gonna
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: be kicking themselves for that. They had was it? They
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: had like twenty inner slot shots to five for Chicago.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: It was, but they just bad start that'll kill you.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Took them lightly. You can't take them lightly, That's true.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Last here, then we'll get to our special guest Mike
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: Scully of The Simpsons, Alexander Ovechkin another day in the Milestone.
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: Just the second player in hockey history, Dwayne Gretzkin has
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: scored a thousand combined goals in the regular season in playoffs.
• 21:16
  Speaker 7: E J.
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: Raddick at the call with Kevin Weeks.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: He'll also finish the season, Obi will more than twenty
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: five goals, tying Gordy Howe for the all time record
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: twentieth twenty five goal season. And a fun little detail
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: about that historic goal against the Avs, set up by
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Washington defensive prospect Cole Hudson, who got his first career
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: assist on the play. I know it has n't been
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: a great season JD for Alexandervenchen. I know the Capitals
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: aren't going anywhere. I believe he'll retire after the season,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: But a thousand goals combined sick.
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: Hey, he's the greatest goal scorer of all time. I
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: just think it ends on that, and I like that
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: you finally come around. I did say Ovi was retiring
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: at the end of last year. After this year, he's
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: going back to Russia. I think he got his thousand.
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: You could see the elation when he got that one,
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Like it was kind I think it might have been
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: on his list. But you know, kudos to Washington for
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: seeing like what they had and being like, I don't
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: think we have enough in moving on from John Carlson
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: and kind of showing everybody this is the changing of
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: the guard. But ov Man, congratulations. I mean, he's he's
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: just he's the greatest goal sert of all time period
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: point exclamation.
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I second that.
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's just incredible that he's still able to.
• 22:26
  Speaker 5: I mean, he's still scoring this many goals every year
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: and the way he does it, And I mean, the
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: best part about it is what I love about Ovi
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: is even now when he scores, he still gets excited,
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: is as excited as he did when.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: He first scored his very first goal. It's the same
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: reaction and I love that, and.
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: It is it's it's almost a little sad in a
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: way because you know, Washington with caps. You just think
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: of Carlson and Ov and all these guys and now,
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: like like Jad said, it's a changing of the guard.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Still to cout Mike Scully of The Simpsons, He's got
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: stories about Krusty the Clown, Lisa on Ice, and about
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: running for some of the most popular shows in the universe.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: That's Mike Scully. Noady Kings Fan coming up next this
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: on NHL and scripted Our Next Guest, a legendary TV
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: writer and producer, served as executive producer and show warning
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: for The Simpsons from nineteen ninety seven to two thousand
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: and one and worked in other classic shows like Everyone
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Loves Raymond and Parks and Recreation. He is also co
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: creator of Duncanville and co developed the Napoleon Dynamite animated
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: series and as Other credits include Shifting Gears, Rail, The
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Carmichael Show, The Pits, and The New Normal. More important,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: he is a diehard Kings fan. It is Mike Scully, Mike, welcome, unscripted.
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: Great to see you, Hey, nice to see all you guys.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Let's start with the important stuff. You're taking the Kings
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: this season? And where do they go? Once Andree Copetar
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: rides the zamboni into the sunset.
• 23:58
  Speaker 7: Where do they go?
• 24:02
  Speaker 8: Maybe into the first round after he's gone.
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: I think it's panerent tine man.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this year, the like you said, it is probably
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: a fifty to fifty year a playoff team.
• 24:14
  Speaker 8: You feel like, honestly it's not looking great, you know,
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: but the whole division though, so it's it's you couldn't
• 24:22
  Speaker 8: you couldn't ask for like a more of a contest
• 24:24
  Speaker 8: to deliberately lose something. Uh so they might still squeak in,
• 24:29
  Speaker 8: but I don't know beyond that, it doesn't look good.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: It's it's been coined a pillow fight, which is uh
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: was definitely uh it was. It was well categorized. But
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: I want to ask you last week, our colleague here,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Nate Thompson said, without hesitation, mind you, and with the
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: biggest balls I've ever seen, said that Count Copeatar was
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: the greatest king of all time. Where do you stand
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: on that? And give me some Copeitar memories?
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Just blasphemous, by the way, to Marcel Dion, Go ahead, Mike.
• 25:03
  Speaker 7: First of all, I think I would agree with Nate
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: on that.
• 25:06
  Speaker 8: Whoa yeah, yeah, you know, over like the scope of
• 25:11
  Speaker 8: a twenty years. Yeah, in terms of what he meant
• 25:14
  Speaker 8: to the team. I remember actually seeing him at his
• 25:18
  Speaker 8: first camp and I didn't know anything about him, and
• 25:21
  Speaker 8: I just saw him out in the ice without knowing
• 25:24
  Speaker 8: who he was, and I asked the guy sitting next
• 25:26
  Speaker 8: to me. He's like, who's that kid out there? He's
• 25:28
  Speaker 8: really good, and he explained to me who he was.
• 25:33
  Speaker 8: But it didn't seem like he was a lock to
• 25:35
  Speaker 8: make the team the first year, if I'm not mistaken.
• 25:39
  Speaker 8: But yeah, he's meant so much to the team. I
• 25:42
  Speaker 8: think just the kind of quiet leadership and class and
• 25:46
  Speaker 8: you know that he plays that very like Patrice bergeron
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: game and you know he's been kind of a just
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: a steady, calming influence on the team. You know, has
• 25:56
  Speaker 8: there been flash year that have come and gone. Probably,
• 25:59
  Speaker 8: but you know, the Ziggi Palfy years were certainly a
• 26:02
  Speaker 8: lot of fun.
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Nice.
• 26:05
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 26:05
  Speaker 8: Well, every time they need to touch the puck man,
• 26:07
  Speaker 8: the fucking place would just jump out of their seats,
• 26:10
  Speaker 8: because you always knew something could happen.
• 26:14
  Speaker 5: You know, going back to your love for hockey, like,
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: where did that originate?
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: Where did that start?
• 26:19
  Speaker 5: You know you mentioned to JD and I before the
• 26:21
  Speaker 5: show being from Springfield, mass You know where and when
• 26:26
  Speaker 5: did your love for the Kings start? You know, how
• 26:28
  Speaker 5: did how did this all culminate for you?
• 26:31
  Speaker 7: Uh?
• 26:31
  Speaker 8: Well, yeah, I grew up in Springfield, Mass and we
• 26:34
  Speaker 8: had an AHL team there that at that time. When
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: I get into it, they they used to be the
• 26:39
  Speaker 8: Springfield Indians. Then they became the farm team for the
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: LA Kings, so they became the Springfield Kings. So I
• 26:48
  Speaker 8: kind of felt this, you know, a little little you know,
• 26:51
  Speaker 8: thread connection to this team three thousand miles away because
• 26:55
  Speaker 8: we would see some of the players coming through and
• 26:57
  Speaker 8: going up to the big team or or they'd come
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: down for a while for you know, a conditioning thing
• 27:03
  Speaker 8: or something. So always felt that connection.
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: And we'll we.
• 27:08
  Speaker 8: Like, particularly like the nineteen sixty nine to seventy season,
• 27:12
  Speaker 8: we had Butch Goring uh there for the second half
• 27:16
  Speaker 8: of the season. He had had like he had had Buch.
• 27:19
  Speaker 8: He was up with La but he had mono or something.
• 27:22
  Speaker 8: He was having health problems and he just didn't have energy.
• 27:25
  Speaker 8: So they finally sent him down to Springfield for a while,
• 27:27
  Speaker 8: and he fucking like not only like dominates the league,
• 27:32
  Speaker 8: but I mean he just takes over the series the
• 27:35
  Speaker 8: second half of the season, and literally I don't even
• 27:37
  Speaker 8: know if he knows what he meant to that whole
• 27:41
  Speaker 8: Springfield area, Like it was kind of a depressed area
• 27:44
  Speaker 8: in general economically and things like that and incomes. Butch
• 27:48
  Speaker 8: Goring at like maybe nineteen years old, with the you know,
• 27:53
  Speaker 8: eight layers of paint on his helmet and just he
• 27:58
  Speaker 8: and and and Billy Smith and goal was an unbelievable combination.
• 28:05
  Speaker 8: And so that that's kind of where you know, I
• 28:07
  Speaker 8: got in that point. And I used to like the
• 28:10
  Speaker 8: arena was like ten minutes from my house, so I
• 28:12
  Speaker 8: could walk over there and see games.
• 28:14
  Speaker 7: I was a rink rat.
• 28:15
  Speaker 8: I was there every Saturday morning for practices to watch Beau.
• 28:20
  Speaker 8: And they'd be out there practicing, these highly trained professional athletes,
• 28:25
  Speaker 8: and they'd be like rows of beer cans lined up
• 28:28
  Speaker 8: on the box with a lit cigarette on each one
• 28:31
  Speaker 8: of these.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: However, in the starting in Springfield, right to the arena.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Like going back to the Yeah, exactly, back to the Simpsons.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: You famously wrote the classic episode Lisa on Ice, in
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: which Lisa and Bart Simpson go head to head on
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: the ice. How important was it if you'd write a
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: hockey episode at least once for the Simpsons?
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: It was really important because when I got there, it
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: was like near the end of the fourth season and
• 29:01
  Speaker 8: they had already done several sports episodes. So you know,
• 29:08
  Speaker 8: I said, you guys haven't done anything with hockey. So
• 29:10
  Speaker 8: I sold him on a hockey story kind of partially
• 29:14
  Speaker 8: based on my experiences like playing, but also at the
• 29:19
  Speaker 8: Eastern States Coliseum with the you know, watching the Kings
• 29:22
  Speaker 8: and the scene with Millhouse and goal where he's like
• 29:26
  Speaker 8: strapped to the posts and yeah, because Eddie Shore used
• 29:30
  Speaker 8: to own the Springfield Kings and he didn't like his
• 29:34
  Speaker 8: goalies to flop on the ice, so he would tie.
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: Their arms to the post.
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: No, we wouldn't.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: Yes, he.
• 29:43
  Speaker 7: Was nuts.
• 29:45
  Speaker 8: I'm sure a great player, but he was insane, Like
• 29:47
  Speaker 8: he would come down. If a puck went out during
• 29:50
  Speaker 8: practice and it got shot up into the seats, we go,
• 29:53
  Speaker 8: you know, the kids, We would go running up to
• 29:55
  Speaker 8: get the puck. He fucking he would take off running
• 29:58
  Speaker 8: and we were racing this, you know, seventy five eighty
• 30:01
  Speaker 8: year old man to get to this puck first, because
• 30:04
  Speaker 8: he didn't want us to get because everything was money,
• 30:07
  Speaker 8: you know, it was all about those pucks cost money,
• 30:09
  Speaker 8: those broken sticks cost money. Anything that you know, he
• 30:12
  Speaker 8: thought he could make. So he was always and he
• 30:15
  Speaker 8: chased us out of the arena and shit like that.
• 30:17
  Speaker 7: But it was a lot of fun.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: Eddie's shore chasing you out of the rink, that's that's so,
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: that's amazing. But you know, going back to the Simpsons,
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: you know I kind of heard when you were a
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: showrunner for them you adjusted production schedule around the King's
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: game schedule? Is that true? And how did that work out?
• 30:36
  Speaker 8: Well? Yeah, that would happen because I had season tickets
• 30:39
  Speaker 8: to go to the Kings games. So yeah, if there's
• 30:43
  Speaker 8: ever like if, because sometimes we would have to work
• 30:45
  Speaker 8: at night and get things done. So I would always
• 30:48
  Speaker 8: look ahead that week of like which nights I knew
• 30:51
  Speaker 8: we were going to have up, and I would tell
• 30:53
  Speaker 8: the staff, We're not going to be working, you know,
• 30:55
  Speaker 8: Monday night, Thursday night.
• 30:57
  Speaker 7: Don't worry about. Make plans with your family if you want.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: That's what I was going to say. You get the wife.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: The wife being like, kay, honey, we have the Kings
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: are playing on Thursday. We're going to dinner. Because I
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: know Mike's gonna say, we ain't working right exactly.
• 31:12
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, so we did that, but uh yeah, And
• 31:15
  Speaker 8: the Lisa on Ice episode, there was also and that
• 31:19
  Speaker 8: there was a little the way Lisa played Gold was
• 31:22
  Speaker 8: kind of a direct tribute to Billy Smith.
• 31:25
  Speaker 7: They hack the bone stuff like that.
• 31:29
  Speaker 8: Fox had made these promotional pucks at the time for
• 31:32
  Speaker 8: the episode. I've had matc Ranning drew on it and
• 31:37
  Speaker 8: signed it. But uh, I've had this now for like
• 31:40
  Speaker 8: thirty thirty five years something like that.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: That's cool, that's amazing, Mike.
• 31:46
  Speaker 5: I have some buddies from home back to Alaska that
• 31:48
  Speaker 5: they killed me by the nastas and they're huge Simpsons
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: fans and speak of a excuse me speaking of Lisa
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: on Ice. You know, the Simpsons are known for, you know,
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: their famous predictions, and you know there's different episodes and
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: and I look some of these up and I saw
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: some of these up remembered, and it's like Lisa's wedding,
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: like the video call where now you know they're spacetime right,
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: their video calling each other and Lisa's on even Lisa
• 32:12
  Speaker 5: on Ice, you know, they're Newton's typing or I think
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: he says beat up Martin, but it says eat up
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: Martha Yestead, right because autocorrect. Yeah, is this was this
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: a thought product? Like I guess just take me behind
• 32:25
  Speaker 5: the thought process of how you guys predict the future.
• 32:29
  Speaker 8: Ah, yeah, it's well, I'd love to say time travel,
• 32:33
  Speaker 8: time travel. Yeah, we're just we you know, we're dropping
• 32:36
  Speaker 8: a shitload of acid in that room. So no, I
• 32:44
  Speaker 8: mean a lot of it is just kind of like
• 32:46
  Speaker 8: stuff that maybe is just kind of in the ether
• 32:48
  Speaker 8: at the time. Like probably the biggest prediction we made
• 32:52
  Speaker 8: was the you know, Trump becoming president, and we did
• 32:56
  Speaker 8: that around I think around nineteen ninety nine.
• 32:59
  Speaker 7: We did that. We just needed a joke.
• 33:02
  Speaker 8: It was a future fantasy episod, so where Lisa's president
• 33:05
  Speaker 8: in the United States, and we had a joke set
• 33:08
  Speaker 8: up of okay, we're you know, we're I'm taking over
• 33:11
  Speaker 8: an economic mess from President Blank, and we just started
• 33:15
  Speaker 8: pitching names. And for a while it was going to
• 33:19
  Speaker 8: be President Johnny Depp, so nice, and then somebody mentioned
• 33:24
  Speaker 8: Trump because he had floated a couple times around that
• 33:28
  Speaker 8: time that someday he might run for president, actually as
• 33:31
  Speaker 8: a Democrat, but he mentioned it, and then it kind
• 33:36
  Speaker 8: of it just kind of became all right, who would
• 33:38
  Speaker 8: be like the stupidest person America could elect president? And
• 33:42
  Speaker 8: Trump won. So but yeah, there's a lot of those
• 33:45
  Speaker 8: kind of like usually if you trace it all the
• 33:48
  Speaker 8: way back, there was something in the ether, you know,
• 33:51
  Speaker 8: something in the zeitgeist going on, and then it wind up,
• 33:54
  Speaker 8: you know, winds up not happening for ten or twenty years,
• 33:58
  Speaker 8: Like the US winning gold medal and curling, you know
• 34:04
  Speaker 8: that happened after we did it on the show. You know,
• 34:07
  Speaker 8: stuff like that Fox buying our Disney buying Fox, because
• 34:12
  Speaker 8: it was around the time Disney was buying Up they
• 34:16
  Speaker 8: had bought the California Angels baseball team they bought. They
• 34:20
  Speaker 8: had the Mighty Ducks or just the Ducks team at
• 34:24
  Speaker 8: the time, and so they just seemed to be buying
• 34:26
  Speaker 8: a lot of stuff. So we needed a joke on
• 34:28
  Speaker 8: a sign for like the entrance to Fox, So we
• 34:32
  Speaker 8: did twentieth Century Fox. And then somebody pitched a division
• 34:35
  Speaker 8: of the Walt Disney Corporation, so we stuck that on
• 34:38
  Speaker 8: as the joke, and then twenty years later we were
• 34:41
  Speaker 8: all working for Disney.
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: Go ahead, and then well, it's one of those things.
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: Mike.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: It's interesting when you look at some of your career
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: and it's like you've worked on so many different things.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: You worked on a pair of iconic shows in Raymond
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: and Parks and rec I mean, obviously The Simpsons is
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: the headliner in this case, but working on those shows
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: as well, I mean, what were your memories of those shows.
• 35:03
  Speaker 8: Yeah, No, got very lucky. I've been lucky working on
• 35:06
  Speaker 8: some some good shows. And I appreciate you that you're
• 35:08
  Speaker 8: skipping over the ship once.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Uh come on now shift, Yeah, you know Duncan Pville.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: It's amazing.
• 35:17
  Speaker 8: No, No, actually, Duncan Bill, I loved Actually, we had
• 35:20
  Speaker 8: a great time on that, But yeah, Raymond, I was
• 35:26
  Speaker 8: lucky to get over there for a couple of seasons.
• 35:30
  Speaker 7: Phil Rose, Yeah, created a show.
• 35:33
  Speaker 8: He had called me up and said that they had
• 35:35
  Speaker 8: an opening and would I be interested in joining the
• 35:39
  Speaker 8: staff that he so I was already a big fan
• 35:43
  Speaker 8: of the show. I think, like ray is super funny.
• 35:45
  Speaker 8: That whole cast was so good, Peter Boyle and Brad
• 35:48
  Speaker 8: Garrett and Patty Heaton. So that one was, you know,
• 35:51
  Speaker 8: kind of a no brainer for me to go over
• 35:54
  Speaker 8: there for a couple of years. And then Parks and Rec.
• 35:57
  Speaker 8: There was Greg Daniels who worked on The Simpsons, was
• 36:01
  Speaker 8: a co creator of Parks and Rec and they were
• 36:03
  Speaker 8: trying to get the show off the ground the first season,
• 36:06
  Speaker 8: and he called me up to see, you know, what
• 36:08
  Speaker 8: I was up to, and I wound up going over
• 36:11
  Speaker 8: there and instantly kind of clicked with Amy Poehler, who
• 36:15
  Speaker 8: was a fellow masshole.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: My I want to just ask you quickly about you know,
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: all these shows you've worked on and being in these
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: writers rooms, and you know, we equated a lot. I
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: always try to compare things to being in hockey and
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: being in a locker room, and it's very it's very
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: family oriented and everybody's kind of got their role, and
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: there's leaders, and there's there's the guy, you know, the
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: lead by example, the lead by you know, yelling and
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: raw raw like for you what what what are some
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: of your fondest memories of being in the writer's room
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: and what does it mean to kind of for you
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: to be in there.
• 36:53
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's well, when I first got there, I'll be
• 36:56
  Speaker 8: very honest, I was fucking terrified. There's like there was like,
• 37:01
  Speaker 8: you know, nineteen writers in there, all Harvard graduates, and
• 37:05
  Speaker 8: I went to community college for one day. Technically it
• 37:13
  Speaker 8: was a half day. You had to quit in the
• 37:14
  Speaker 8: first twenty four hours to get your money back, So
• 37:19
  Speaker 8: that was very intimidating. And so when I got there,
• 37:23
  Speaker 8: actually my first day there was the day that Conan
• 37:27
  Speaker 8: O'Brien was still on staff at The Simpsons, but it
• 37:31
  Speaker 8: was the day he got the phone call that NBC
• 37:34
  Speaker 8: was hiring him as their new late night host. So
• 37:37
  Speaker 8: we never actually got to work together. We shook hands,
• 37:39
  Speaker 8: said hello, and then he got a phone call and
• 37:42
  Speaker 8: he was gone, Wow, But you're right, I mean, there
• 37:45
  Speaker 8: is kind of a locker room vibe in that there's
• 37:48
  Speaker 8: a lot of different personalities kind of all there to
• 37:51
  Speaker 8: try to accomplish the same thing, you know, and it's
• 37:54
  Speaker 8: blending those personalities is the tricky part. And you want
• 37:59
  Speaker 8: to take advantage of pull from everybody's everybody's background and
• 38:03
  Speaker 8: like what they're childhoods were like, and you know what
• 38:06
  Speaker 8: their interests are and stories.
• 38:08
  Speaker 7: From their life.
• 38:09
  Speaker 8: So it's it's a lot of like a lot of
• 38:12
  Speaker 8: mutual respect in there, and some people shine at something,
• 38:16
  Speaker 8: you know, once in a while. You know, it gets
• 38:17
  Speaker 8: a little heated every once in a while, but very rarely.
• 38:21
  Speaker 8: And but that's part of the fun is you know,
• 38:24
  Speaker 8: you just is that mix of personalities and when you
• 38:27
  Speaker 8: hear about somebody else's life, you think your life is unique.
• 38:31
  Speaker 8: And then you hear somebody else's crazy stories about their
• 38:34
  Speaker 8: dad and then next thing you know, they start finding
• 38:37
  Speaker 8: their way into the show. I mean, I got hockey
• 38:40
  Speaker 8: in and I got you know shit, I got you know,
• 38:45
  Speaker 8: arrested for shoplisting when I was thirteen. That's that's a
• 38:48
  Speaker 8: Simpsons episode. Yeah, So like all those things that traumatized
• 38:53
  Speaker 8: you as a kid, you can get paid for as
• 38:55
  Speaker 8: an adult if you can turn it into a TV show.
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: Well, you've you know, you've written I'm sure with so
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: many different you know, amazing writers of of course your
• 39:04
  Speaker 5: career and got to learn from so many. You know,
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: you've written for favorite award shows, including the Golden Globes.
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: You know, or is there a unique story or experience
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: or you know, and that's such a unique such a
• 39:22
  Speaker 5: unique job. Is there a certain story experience that you
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: can take away from that?
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 39:26
  Speaker 8: Man, uh ship, I know, right after I stopped talking you,
• 39:32
  Speaker 8: I'll think of a million of them.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: Take your time, just the you match?
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that that too.
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: It could be a you mentioned that up gets heated,
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: just a just a nice fuck you match in there.
• 39:48
  Speaker 7: Oh well, there was one, I mean there was one.
• 39:51
  Speaker 8: I won't name the writer, but it was one day
• 39:54
  Speaker 8: the sentence where this writer, you know something you got
• 39:56
  Speaker 8: to kind of like learn how to conduct yourself in
• 39:59
  Speaker 8: the room after a while, and you know, you pitched
• 40:02
  Speaker 8: jokes and sometimes you in your head it's super funny
• 40:05
  Speaker 8: and you can't wait to blurt it out, and you
• 40:08
  Speaker 8: you get it out and it's just dead silence, man,
• 40:11
  Speaker 8: just fucking crickets. And you even wonder for a second,
• 40:15
  Speaker 8: did they all not hear me? Should I say it again,
• 40:19
  Speaker 8: but there was a guy who he pitched his joke
• 40:22
  Speaker 8: and it just got nothing. And then we're all still thinking,
• 40:26
  Speaker 8: and there's a lot of quiet periods in the room too,
• 40:28
  Speaker 8: where everyone's thinking.
• 40:29
  Speaker 7: And then he pitches it again.
• 40:32
  Speaker 8: It's still like nothing, and we're still thinking, and he
• 40:36
  Speaker 8: pitches the same joke a third time, and the showrunner
• 40:40
  Speaker 8: at the time blows up. He goes, well, you shut
• 40:43
  Speaker 8: up with that fucking joke. It's not going in the show.
• 40:47
  Speaker 8: So the writer gets up and starts to storm out
• 40:51
  Speaker 8: of the room and he's kind of a big guy.
• 40:53
  Speaker 7: He's like walking, but he have to you.
• 40:55
  Speaker 8: Have to walk past twenty people to get out the room.
• 40:58
  Speaker 8: So he's on the way.
• 40:59
  Speaker 7: He goes, all right, already, but you know, you don't
• 41:02
  Speaker 7: have to be a jerk about it.
• 41:03
  Speaker 8: And when he's said jerk, his voice cracked, like you
• 41:07
  Speaker 8: don't have to be a jerk about it. And he
• 41:10
  Speaker 8: gets and he gets outside the door, and we didn't
• 41:13
  Speaker 8: even have the decency to let him get away from
• 41:16
  Speaker 8: the door a week where he couldn't hear us laughing
• 41:19
  Speaker 8: hysterically after he got It's it's that second you're outside
• 41:22
  Speaker 8: of a room and everyone in the room is laughing,
• 41:25
  Speaker 8: and you're.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: Always awkward to be in that person and you don't
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: want to be that guy. Yeah, the white character I
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: love one of than Mike was crushing the clown famously
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: or perhaps infamously based on David Letterman. You know, so
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: hysterical and manic, honor that offer, he's spoken, drigg, so depressed,
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: et cetera. Was it true that you guys gonna cease
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: and desist letter after a crush of the clown puped
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: in the cup?
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: Uh?
• 41:51
  Speaker 8: Yes, Actually I personally got that because because I was
• 41:54
  Speaker 8: the writer of the episode.
• 41:55
  Speaker 7: It came to me.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: Uh and.
• 42:00
  Speaker 8: Or was I running the show? I can't even remember,
• 42:02
  Speaker 8: but yeah, it was a seasoned desist. I was running
• 42:04
  Speaker 8: the show at the time. It's in a different episode,
• 42:06
  Speaker 8: and it was basically, you can't do this.
• 42:10
  Speaker 7: It's the Stanley Cup.
• 42:11
  Speaker 8: It's a trademark of the NHL, and you know, and
• 42:15
  Speaker 8: so I called the Fox lawyers, and the Fox lawyers
• 42:18
  Speaker 8: who normally are like, you know, they are like cautious
• 42:20
  Speaker 8: about this stuff, and they explained to me, like, ah,
• 42:23
  Speaker 8: you know, like don't worry about that. A seasoned desist
• 42:25
  Speaker 8: letter doesn't mean anything, just go ahead and do it.
• 42:29
  Speaker 8: So Fox actually backed us on it and then we
• 42:32
  Speaker 8: never heard any more about it. But I mean the
• 42:34
  Speaker 8: show has always been hockey friendly, you know, so we
• 42:38
  Speaker 8: felt like we were on pretty solid ground.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.
• 42:41
  Speaker 7: I had forgotten about that letter to bring about members.
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: I wish Fox Fox backing you though. I like that.
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Mike, Uh.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: You know, in all your years of being a you know,
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: an NHL fan and going to a lot of the games,
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: do you have a favorite interaction with an NHL player
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: throughout these years?
• 43:01
  Speaker 7: Oh?
• 43:01
  Speaker 8: Man, Uh, yeah, Well, actually one is like back when
• 43:04
  Speaker 8: I was fifteen years old, I went to Willie Marshall
• 43:10
  Speaker 8: Hockey School, which was like kids could go and you
• 43:14
  Speaker 8: train with you're taught by NHL players. And at the
• 43:19
  Speaker 8: year I went, it was Doug Harvey and Dennis Potvin
• 43:26
  Speaker 8: was I think eighteen he had just been drafted, and
• 43:31
  Speaker 8: Don Leaver from the Vancouver Canucks.
• 43:34
  Speaker 7: So they were like our staff. So we got for
• 43:36
  Speaker 7: two weeks.
• 43:37
  Speaker 8: You get a chance to really talk to these guys
• 43:40
  Speaker 8: and they were so nice and it was just fun
• 43:43
  Speaker 8: to see them in a different environment. If at one
• 43:46
  Speaker 8: day Doug Harvey did like we sat down at lunch
• 43:50
  Speaker 8: and they would do like Q and A with the
• 43:51
  Speaker 8: kids during lunchtimes, and Doug Harvey did it one day
• 43:56
  Speaker 8: and the kids said, you know, mister Harvey, my dad
• 43:59
  Speaker 8: said you're the greatest defenseman who ever played the game.
• 44:03
  Speaker 8: And Doug was like, oh, that's very nice of him
• 44:06
  Speaker 8: to say that. And he goes, but he said, you
• 44:08
  Speaker 8: played two years too long, and Harvey said, well, yeah,
• 44:18
  Speaker 8: there's he might have a point there, but you know,
• 44:20
  Speaker 8: sometimes you got to play a little too long to
• 44:23
  Speaker 8: know you're.
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: Past that time.
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah. I may have done that too. That's that's okay,
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: that happens.
• 44:30
  Speaker 3: I've been awesome.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: If Doug Harvey's like, tell your dad to go fuck himself.
• 44:33
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I'm at the point now where I've got I've
• 44:37
  Speaker 8: got writers telling me it's time to get out, you know.
• 44:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you know where the NHL is at now, Mike
• 44:44
  Speaker 5: is there? You know you talk about other players, past players.
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: Are there certain players that you watch or a certain
• 44:49
  Speaker 5: team besides the Kings that you you enjoy watching?
• 44:53
  Speaker 8: Uh?
• 44:54
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I still.
• 44:54
  Speaker 8: I mean I'm a sucker for the original six and
• 44:58
  Speaker 8: also so you know, I will watch Bruins and stuff,
• 45:02
  Speaker 8: but I do you know when there's somebody I knew.
• 45:04
  Speaker 8: Like this year, I've been trying to see more Sharks games.
• 45:08
  Speaker 8: I think, like Celebrini.
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: There you go.
• 45:11
  Speaker 8: It's so exciting to watch man. Uh, it's you can
• 45:15
  Speaker 8: just kind of see you know that it's you know,
• 45:18
  Speaker 8: he's a you know, generational talent and he's, you know,
• 45:21
  Speaker 8: barring injuries, he's going to be dominating the next twenty years.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: Do you uh were you watching Kings games when they
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: won the Cups? Those two Cups in twenty twelve and fourteen.
• 45:33
  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, I was at both of them.
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so that you were there when I got reverse
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: swept by the Kings.
• 45:39
  Speaker 8: Oh, I was secretly rooting for you guys. You know, Okay,
• 45:51
  Speaker 8: we're probably gonna meet someday.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. Did you go to any of the Cup
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: parties or got to be close to the cup or
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: anything like that.
• 45:59
  Speaker 7: Yeah, we did one of them.
• 46:02
  Speaker 8: I took a couple of my daughters went, we got
• 46:05
  Speaker 8: our pictures with the Cup. I've turned I have five daughters,
• 46:08
  Speaker 8: but I've managed to turn them all into hockey fans.
• 46:13
  Speaker 8: So we've had a lot of great nights at the games,
• 46:15
  Speaker 8: and and they've actually, uh, they actually complained about the
• 46:20
  Speaker 8: decrease in fighting over the years.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: Good daughters.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, five daughters, so Mike, Oh my god.
• 46:29
  Speaker 8: Yeah, Like Kyle Clifford was a favorite of theirs for
• 46:31
  Speaker 8: a long time, and I'm actually I'm sorry. I've also
• 46:40
  Speaker 8: showed them videos of remember the Bruins Rangers game where
• 46:43
  Speaker 8: the Bruins This is like way back when the Bruins
• 46:46
  Speaker 8: went up into the stands. Yeah, Mike, he's beating a
• 46:52
  Speaker 8: fan with his shoe. My daughters were probably like around
• 46:55
  Speaker 8: ten years old, and I'm showing.
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: That's pretty good.
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: NHL is a special animate of broadcas cast a live
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: NHL game coming up, featuring the characters from Inside Out,
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: the Great Animated Movie. Obviously, everyone's appreciating what those different
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: characters who represent sadness on we anxiety, et cetera. How
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: much you'd like to see a similar broadcast featuring Simpson's characters.
• 47:18
  Speaker 7: Oh, man, that that would actually be a lot of fun.
• 47:22
  Speaker 7: I would love that.
• 47:23
  Speaker 8: There's there are several hockey fans on staff. There's a
• 47:26
  Speaker 8: guy named Joel Cohen who's from Calgary originally, and he
• 47:31
  Speaker 8: wrote an episode called Top Goon uh and it had
• 47:35
  Speaker 8: we had Dave Schultz and Tiger Williams. Uh, we're guest
• 47:40
  Speaker 8: starers on the show, so there's several Canadian writers on
• 47:43
  Speaker 8: the show, but there's a lot of hockey fans.
• 47:45
  Speaker 7: Al Jean is a big one. So yeah, we'd love it.
• 47:50
  Speaker 5: Mike, since we're still well, I actually tell I think
• 47:53
  Speaker 5: I feel like you just had a question you wanted
• 47:54
  Speaker 5: to ask.
• 47:54
  Speaker 6: I had a quick one, like to He likes to
• 47:58
  Speaker 6: just one, just one for this week, to just one.
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  Speaker 6: We all have a million questions from so I want
• 48:05
  Speaker 6: to keep it short. He loved getting into film and
• 48:08
  Speaker 6: television and all the little urban myths and things like
• 48:11
  Speaker 6: that in the industry. And I noticed I was going
• 48:14
  Speaker 6: through your IMDb and I noticed that you were a
• 48:17
  Speaker 6: writer on The Royal Family, which was supposed to be
• 48:20
  Speaker 6: this huge comeback for the legendary Red Fox. And of
• 48:25
  Speaker 6: course he ended up dying during the first season of
• 48:28
  Speaker 6: the making of that show. I was just wondering if
• 48:30
  Speaker 6: there was any story you could share about how chaotic
• 48:33
  Speaker 6: that whole experience must have been.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, it was first, I shouldn't laugh at the way
• 48:39
  Speaker 8: he died, in a very funny way.
• 48:44
  Speaker 7: When he died.
• 48:44
  Speaker 8: He you've seen Sandford and Son, Remember, he was always
• 48:51
  Speaker 8: like pretending to have a heart attack and like I'm
• 48:53
  Speaker 8: coming to join you, Elizabeth, you know, like be kind
• 48:56
  Speaker 8: of staggering around the room pretending he was having a
• 48:59
  Speaker 8: heart attack. Well, on Royal Family, he was on stage
• 49:03
  Speaker 8: working and he clutched his chest and started staggering around,
• 49:08
  Speaker 8: and we weren't down there, but the crew was on
• 49:10
  Speaker 8: set and they're all cracking up, thinking he's doing Fred
• 49:14
  Speaker 8: Sandford for them, and then then he finally falls to
• 49:18
  Speaker 8: the floor and theyreize, oh shit. So he was interesting,
• 49:23
  Speaker 8: you know, he was a fascinating guy. The you know,
• 49:28
  Speaker 8: there's there's a lot of great Red Fox stories around.
• 49:31
  Speaker 8: Probably the most famous one was him playing Vegas like
• 49:35
  Speaker 8: like a midnight show at some casino and he comes
• 49:38
  Speaker 8: out and the band had the orders to, like when
• 49:42
  Speaker 8: he walks out, you play the Sandford in something, the
• 49:45
  Speaker 8: theme song, you know that, and when he's done with
• 49:49
  Speaker 8: the show and he walks off. So Red Fox walks
• 49:54
  Speaker 8: out one night to do a show and there's like
• 49:56
  Speaker 8: hardly anybody there, and he gets the he walks it
• 50:00
  Speaker 8: ladies and gentlemen, you know, Red Fox Dana, and he
• 50:04
  Speaker 8: walks out, gets to the microphone, looks out at the audience, goes,
• 50:07
  Speaker 8: I ain't doing a show for nine fucking people, drops
• 50:10
  Speaker 8: the mic and walks off stairs, and then that's great.
• 50:19
  Speaker 8: There's actually a tribute to that joke in some Simpsons
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  Speaker 8: episode that I'm forgetting right now.
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  Speaker 3: Stories for Days of Mike Skelly.
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: Mike have been an incredible career, obviously with the Simpsons,
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: parks and rec Everyone loves Raymond and so many others.
• 50:31
  Speaker 1: Really appreciate the stories, and good luck to the Kings
• 50:33
  Speaker 1: the rest of the way.
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  Speaker 8: Oh thanks, Lat's an honored beyond here. Guys love the podcast,
• 50:45
  Speaker 8: thanks to Mike Skelly.
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  Speaker 3: Once again.
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  Speaker 1: I normally like to stick to movies when it comes
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: us in a file, but it'll little squeeze a little
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  Speaker 1: TV here for a dt F. Saint Louis Is on HBO.
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: A friend of mine, my dear friend alphahel Onan says,
• 50:55
  Speaker 1: you gotta watch the show. I said, not only watch
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: my TV shows, you know, I said, I see eight episodes.
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: Three minutes, I go, you know, I could just watch
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: a couple of movies.
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: He's like, no, but you gotta watch this. Why sell
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: me on it?
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: Jason Bateman, I go, I love Arrest of Development, but
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: I have to watch every Jason Bateman show.
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: I'm tired of SmartLess David Harbor. I'm like, well, I
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: never watch Stranger Things.
• 51:10
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: He is, okay, fine, Linda Carlini. I go, now you
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: have my attention, because Linda's Linda Carlini. I'm gonna scait
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: right now. He goes, Laingerie episode two. I go, okay, well,
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: I could clearly give this a chance. You're gonna get
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: three episode one.
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: Clearly He's like, yeah, he goes, just give it a shock.
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: Very fine.
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: Now I go, wait, this isn't like a thirty minute show.
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: This is like a fifty five minutes This is like
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: a why are comedies an hour?
• 51:30
  Speaker 4: Now?
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: I like a thirty minute situation comedy as well.
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: It's it's HBO.
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: It's fifty minutes, it's an hour. Just get a shot,
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: fair enough. I watched the first episode Tallision as well.
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: It's dark, it's creepy, a little cringey, but.
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: I'm amused by this. It's definitely beautifully shot. As much
• 51:43
  Speaker 1: HBO shows has a certain style to it. The castume's intriguing.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: And then we get this episode two.
• 51:47
  Speaker 3: I'm like, oh my god, whoa daddy?
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: As JD would say, a lot of salacious content, but
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: I gotta tell you highly entertaining, terrific CASTI the actors
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: I mentioned would also tell the great Richard Jenkins, who
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: I loved in The Visitor, very good actor over the years,
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: playing one of the detectives. And it's a dark, dark
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: comedy emphasis on dark. It's not show, but it's a
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: pretty funny show. I don't want to give way too
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: much to the Fellas. I want Nate and GD to
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: give a chance at some point. It's got a bit
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: of a murder mystery to it. Unexpected to light right
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: now on HBO.
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  Speaker 4: D right now.
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: I really okay, you're gonna watch it.
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: What is as long as you say what DTF means.
• 52:17
  Speaker 2: I don't know what that is. It means down to
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: say it.
• 52:20
  Speaker 3: You say that's okay.
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: One of my voys is giving the the Fellas in
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: go ahead your thoughts on dt F, Saint Louis.
• 52:29
  Speaker 6: I just want to I enjoy the last episode I
• 52:32
  Speaker 6: wasn't huge on, but the first is very strong.
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: I just want to.
• 52:37
  Speaker 6: I just want to acknowledge that we're now on three
• 52:40
  Speaker 6: decades of Linda Cardlini and we've never and we've never
• 52:43
  Speaker 6: seen her like this, not that I've seen.
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: That's a great tea.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, my pretty ouphasite because never sex here Linda Carle
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: I loved her and freaks and geeks of course the
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: Great Judd Apatow Show, James Franco. She was in mad Men,
• 52:54
  Speaker 1: She's in Broke Back Mountain. But this is a career
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: turns for at fifty years old. Linda Curling is like,
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: you know what, She's gonna go for it here. She's
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: a good looking lady. So I can't wait to watch it.
• 53:04
  Speaker 4: I definitely in.
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: I can't wait for the reviews from both Layton, JD
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: DTF St louis currently on HBO in terms of actual
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: other stories than the ice just to get to Blue
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: Jackets and Petters.
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: Two teams that look cooked earlier this season are suddenly
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: in a playoff spot. Columbus we mentioned earlier.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: Nineteen nineteen and seven when they fired Dan Nevson under bonus,
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: they've gone nineteen three and four and Nashville had the
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: worst record in the late December nineteenth, they screaked into
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: a wildcard spot riding their current five game win streak,
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: and Stamcos has been an absolute terror. Two points in
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: his first fourteen games, thirty four goals, fifty six points
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: in fifty six games.
• 53:39
  Speaker 3: Since then, he leads the NHL with ten game winning goals.
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: Again, we talked aout Columbus earlier in ate the fact
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: that could be exciting your thoughts on this Nashville team,
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: the run they butt on and stam Cooast re energized.
• 53:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, another dangerous team.
• 53:51
  Speaker 5: I think that if they they get in, it's gonna
• 53:54
  Speaker 5: be a tough out too, because of some of the
• 53:56
  Speaker 5: veteran guys and game breakers they have. And you know,
• 53:59
  Speaker 5: Boiler and Rupper did a great job on Tape Room
• 54:02
  Speaker 5: about Steven sam Coast yesterday, and you know, I play
• 54:06
  Speaker 5: with stanmord. It's just impressive just because he's able to
• 54:09
  Speaker 5: reinvent himself and you know, when he's struggling or whatever happens,
• 54:13
  Speaker 5: he he goes out there and he does little things
• 54:16
  Speaker 5: and he scores goals in different ways. He's kind of
• 54:18
  Speaker 5: reinvented himself on the power play this year too, Like
• 54:21
  Speaker 5: he's you we're so used to seeing him in that
• 54:23
  Speaker 5: one timer spot, but you've seen him different replays where
• 54:25
  Speaker 5: he's ended up in front of the net and you know,
• 54:27
  Speaker 5: just different different places where he's just making himself, you know,
• 54:32
  Speaker 5: more of an all round player. So this this Nashville
• 54:34
  Speaker 5: team with you know, with other guys like Roan o'reiley,
• 54:37
  Speaker 5: how good he's been playing march as sool. I mean,
• 54:40
  Speaker 5: their their team is finally starting to kind of come
• 54:42
  Speaker 5: together at the right time, and it is good timing
• 54:45
  Speaker 5: for Nashville.
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: You've been known as no marriage JD.
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: Did you see the resurgence of Steven Stamco's coming after
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: last season?
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: Uh? Probably not. I didn't. I did say though last week.
• 54:58
  Speaker 2: This is probably twelve days ago, I said Nashville is
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: going to make the playoffs. Wow to people going no way,
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: and I said, we did a bracket and I said
• 55:07
  Speaker 2: Nashville's gonna make the playoffs. And everybody, now be careful
• 55:12
  Speaker 2: if you're a Utah Mammoth fan, because they were all
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: comfortable in that second wild that first wildcard spot, gonna
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: play the pillow Fight Division. I heard rumors that they
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: were like making jokes at the GM meetings. Bill Armstrong
• 55:26
  Speaker 2: was kind of I heard kind of something under the radar.
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: We'll keep this for the audio version that he was like, yeah,
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: we're in the you know, we're kind of locked in
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: the Pacific. Now all of a sudden, they might be
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: getting Colorado round one because Nashville is absolutely on fire
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: right now. They're they were in such a good spot
• 55:44
  Speaker 2: they play what's crazy to note before I get to
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: Stamcoast because there's not much money to add on that.
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: Also of note, Philip Forsberg has been a monster for
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: this team, and he's carrying them into the playoffs. But
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: they were our fourteen and zero against the Sharks in
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: the last fourteen games, and they play them two more times,
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: that's two, not three, two more times before the end
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: of the season. They have a pretty good schedule they're in.
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: Now do they pass Utah And he becomes a little
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: bit of a battle for that wild card spot to
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: miss Colorado Avalanche because he ever gets Colorado is getting
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: their walking papers after nine days. But that's what I
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: got for your bitch asses.
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: Well said with the course to the Nashville Predators and
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: Stevens Tama coach and.
• 56:28
  Speaker 1: One last thought flowers to Paul Maurice, legendary Panthers coach
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: made a history Tuesday Night coaching in his two thousandth
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: NHL game. The only other head coach reached that Mileson
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: is the great Scottie Bowman.
• 56:39
  Speaker 3: I assuming he comes back, and why wouldn't he.
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: Buffalo coach Lindy Roff should reach the mark next season,
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: Lindy at home, rough on the road.
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: I thought he's done that. I thought Lindy's done after
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: this year, after.
• 56:49
  Speaker 3: The season, he's gonna come back.
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: No, he's done, you think, so he's retiring. Joel Quentville exactly.
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: Joel Quinville should do the same the season after next.
• 56:58
  Speaker 1: But it's pretty impressive. Paul Maurice has done. And I
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: remember him as at twenty eight years of age coaching
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: the Hartford Whaler John Forzel on the call back.
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: There in Connecticut.
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: Now, all these years later when he won the Cup,
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: I was so happy for him. Obviously, had successful tenures
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: in Winnipeg in Toronto, wasn't able to win the big one. Nate,
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: your thoughts on Moe. He seems like a universally well
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: liked coach.
• 57:17
  Speaker 4: He's great. I know I played for him in Winnipeg
• 57:19
  Speaker 4: and I'm just an ultimate motivator. Just this guy can talk.
• 57:22
  Speaker 5: I mean you see it in his interview, his postgame
• 57:24
  Speaker 5: and this guys must watch when he can speak.
• 57:27
  Speaker 4: You listen and just he's just a good He always
• 57:31
  Speaker 4: has a good beat on the team.
• 57:32
  Speaker 5: He knows, you know, he knows how to motivate guys
• 57:36
  Speaker 5: and when to back off, and you know, he's he's
• 57:38
  Speaker 5: had a Hall of Fame career.
• 57:39
  Speaker 4: I think kudos to Paul. He's a great guy and
• 57:41
  Speaker 4: he's a great coach.
• 57:43
  Speaker 3: JD. Do you prefer an old man coach or a
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: younger one.
• 57:47
  Speaker 2: Well, all these recycled coaches are showing and proven to
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: us that recycling is good for you and good for
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: the planet, because they're all winning right now, Lindy Rouff winning.
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: You know, Paul Maurice is obviously not a recycled coach.
• 57:58
  Speaker 2: Rick bonus. But listen, if somebody very wise said, you know,
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: it's how you you know, everybody gives the same message,
• 58:07
  Speaker 2: but it's how you deliver the message and how it's
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: received by the players. And I think it's very wise.
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: I think as Barry Melroe said that, But it's Paul
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: Maurice just delivers the message to the guys in such
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: a great way and guys just are so receptive to it.
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: So to Nate's point, like, I just think he's one
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: of the great hockey minds and deserves respect and for
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: him to kind of have that mental breakdown so to
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: speak when he was in Winnipeg and pull himself out
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: and then come back in and be even better and
• 58:34
  Speaker 2: has improved on himself as just a testament to who
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: he is as a person. And when you interview him
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: and he's like he's so, he's just so engaged with
• 58:42
  Speaker 2: you and gives you insightful answers and cares so much. So, yeah,
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: kudos to him. Amazing. And then Bob that same night
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: climbs the all time wins list with that win. So
• 58:55
  Speaker 2: Bobrovski gives him a little a little ode to Paul.
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's trying to catch Ed Belfo on that list.
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: Now see the all time wins among goalies. Pebrovsky's certainly
• 59:03
  Speaker 1: got some of those guys within strike distance. And uh, yeah,
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: as you said, Paul Maurice, people thought he was done.
• 59:08
  Speaker 1: He thought he was done, and all of a sudden,
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: all right, Belzino drags him out there to Florida and
• 59:11
  Speaker 1: he changes his mind all of sudden. He's had a
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: great success there with the Panthers. Certainly been an awesome
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: run for Paul Mareice except for this season. Who knows
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: how they'll bounce back, but it also seems inevitable. Towel
• 59:20
  Speaker 1: last thought, he's gonna pas Scotty Bow when all the
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: time he wins, he's still a rout to the young man.
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: I don't be Palmres is even sixty years old, yet
• 59:25
  Speaker 1: he's gonna break the all time wins mark.
• 59:27
  Speaker 6: I was gonna ask, does anyone here know how old
• 59:30
  Speaker 6: Paul Maurice is, because I was seeing a shock when
• 59:32
  Speaker 6: I found out fifty six.
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna guess I think he's fifty four.
• 59:36
  Speaker 4: fIF wow, seven, he's fifty nine.
• 59:39
  Speaker 6: I assumed he was at least in his sixties.
• 59:41
  Speaker 4: He's that's how long he's been around. By the way,
• 59:44
  Speaker 4: jiu jitsu guy he is, Yeah.
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: Does he do jiu jitsu?
• 59:47
  Speaker 3: Jiu jitsu is gay?
• 59:49
  Speaker 4: Gee?
• 59:53
  Speaker 1: Well, once again props to uh listen. I know Nate
• 59:56
  Speaker 1: loves his martial arts. I appreciate the fact that Paul
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: Maurice gets down the jiu jitsu as well.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: Thanks once again to j D.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: Nate and tow for an extll episode, Mike Scully as well,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 1: and we closed again. We're trying to get new nicknames
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 1: out there so JD just love cocky. We'll see if
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 1: you can get that rolling.
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: In my love cocky.
• 1:00:26
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