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Mike Rupp breaks it all down: First-round previews, Logan Couture says goodbye and Magazine Dreams. · NHL Unscripted with Virk and Demers

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  Speaker 1: NHL Unscripted is a production of the NHL and iHeart
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  Speaker 1: podcasts Massive News. Here in NHL Unscripted, that's right Milestone
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  Speaker 1: day as this is episode number twenty. But more importantly, JD.
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  Speaker 1: Much like an NHL player double shifting come playoff time
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  Speaker 1: short shifts, we're also double shifted. We're going to twice
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  Speaker 1: a week or at NHL Unscripted. Give it to me.
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  Speaker 1: name me a better James Hetfield. I'll hang up and listen.
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  Speaker 1: We are ready to rock. Come on Mondays and Thursdays. Buddy.
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  Speaker 1: This is gonna be awesome. And obviously we're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: locked in. Maybe not as many guests, that's fine. You know,
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  Speaker 1: players are actually busy in the NHL playoffs, but we'll
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  Speaker 1: have retired players and of course we'll have strong opinions,
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  Speaker 1: will be all over the hockey. This is gonna be great, man,
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna be locked in the next couple of months.
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  Speaker 1: Can't wait.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's gonna be so. I feel like it's
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  Speaker 2: such an exciting playoff this year because you know, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of the normal names that we typically see, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the Bruins, the Penguins they're all out. The Rangers they're gone,
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  Speaker 2: they out, So we're gonna have some new blood.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly, we're gonna talk with the playoff matchups that we
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  Speaker 1: do know on today's episode. Plus, the great Mike Rupple
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  Speaker 1: joined us. Rubbers one of our favorites obviously at NHL.
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  Speaker 1: Neverk He's a great guy, great storyteller. He'll tell us
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  Speaker 1: why he once told Jody Shelley he was irrelevant, Plus
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  Speaker 1: his thoughts on this NHL season. Rubber is always a
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  Speaker 1: good time. I gotta tell you Jady Edmonton's well, as
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  Speaker 1: you know having played there. It's an awesome arena. Rogers
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  Speaker 1: Place is awesome. It's a great place to watching him.
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  Speaker 1: The fans are awesome. But a snooze fest. I endured
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  Speaker 1: on the finale of the inaugural season of Pome Late
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  Speaker 1: at Hockey and just an awful game. Let's be honest,
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  Speaker 1: nine regulars missing it of Edmonton's line, including David Dryslottle,
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  Speaker 1: the Kings lock up home ice and as you look
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  Speaker 1: at this series specifically, I'm gonna be honest me, I
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  Speaker 1: kind of I'm kind of leaning Kings to win this series.
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  Speaker 1: Fourth time. Perhaps is a charm. What do you got?
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, this is tough. And you know, somebody just
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  Speaker 2: asked me and they're like, what do you guys think
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  Speaker 2: of you know, ask me, what did I think of
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  Speaker 2: the oilers and games ago? I said, probably they're going
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  Speaker 2: to be the Kings. Ever since then, it just just
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  Speaker 2: not felt right. Something feels off with not only the injuries,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, McDavid just came out and said, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're not a walking you know, medical unit or whatever
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  Speaker 2: he said, whatever the the phraseers. He says, we're gonna
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  Speaker 2: be ready to go. But it just doesn't The vibes
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  Speaker 2: are off. I've been saying it's been a couple of
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  Speaker 2: weeks now, the vibes do not feel right. The Kings
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  Speaker 2: look like they're primed to go better goaltending this year.
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  Speaker 2: This is the best defensive team in the league. If
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  Speaker 2: there's a team that can shut down Connor McDavid, Leon
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  Speaker 2: Drey said, you know, it's definitely the Kings. And now
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  Speaker 2: they got whole ice, the best home ice team in
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  Speaker 2: the league, and I just feel like they have so
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  Speaker 2: many things going for them to finally get over that hump.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what the Kings are gonna do after
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  Speaker 2: round one, but I think my pick is probably in.
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  Speaker 2: I think the Kings in seven, maybe six. You know,
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  Speaker 2: even if they get healthy the Oilers, and I think
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  Speaker 2: they will. This is a team that battles hard, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, they played through so many injuries last year.
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  Speaker 2: It just doesn't feel like there's enough going for them.
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  Speaker 2: Even in NATS too. They don't even know what their
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  Speaker 2: goaltending situation is going to be. Stuart Skinner was hurt
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  Speaker 2: for eight games, comes back, you know, kind of thrown
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  Speaker 2: to the Wolves their last game against the Kings, and
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  Speaker 2: you know.
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  Speaker 1: They Calvin Pickard played last night. Didn't take Piclary, Well.
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  Speaker 2: It was Pickard, Yeah, okay, it was Pickered last night. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't Skinner. I thought Skinner was in for the
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  Speaker 2: Kings game. My bad there, that's me watching too much hockey.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, uh, Stuart Skinner versus Calvin Pickard, who do
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  Speaker 2: you start? Chris Nablock came out and said, you know,
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  Speaker 2: whoever's going is going to get the start, and don't.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't know. It's just I think the King's
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  Speaker 2: got too much going for him, and maybe I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: look like an asshole here and you know Edmonton's gonna
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  Speaker 2: sweep him again. But I just don't think it. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think it's the case this year. I just think
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  Speaker 2: it's too many changes in the offseason. It's just they
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  Speaker 2: haven't found their groove for a long period of time
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  Speaker 2: and they don't have that magic that they had last year.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna say, yeah, Kings, and it's the King's time.
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  Speaker 1: I think it makes me think of the four NBA
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  Speaker 1: Finals the Pistons beat the Lakers. One of the best
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  Speaker 1: signs there. It said a full house beats a pair
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  Speaker 1: of vases. You know, back that it was Shaq and
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  Speaker 1: Kobe and the Pistons, which collectively Chauncy Bubbs for Pamplet
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  Speaker 1: et cetera, which is to say, the Kings have the
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  Speaker 1: collective better team. And I'm glad you mentioned Kemper. He's
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  Speaker 1: neck and neck right now at Hellibuck for goals against average.
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  Speaker 1: He's not gonna win the VESDA, but I think he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be a VESNA finalist. You mentioned the home I
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  Speaker 1: switch we've talked about, which I was talking to some
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  Speaker 1: of the Kings guys. They actually don't draw as well
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  Speaker 1: as you might think. Talnos is being in LA, they're
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  Speaker 1: actually like nineteenth or twentieth. Then tendants, I thought, oh,
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  Speaker 1: they've got this rock as home crowd, like now there's
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  Speaker 1: a twelve thousand Diarges. But they but they yeah, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not like a crazy home crowd. But they played
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  Speaker 1: exceptional on home, greater depth than Edmonton and particularly down
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  Speaker 1: the middle. Now, we did talk to Jason Strudwick, former Oiler,
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  Speaker 1: as you would appreciate an excellent defenseman six in our
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  Speaker 1: games we played seven hundred. He got a beat. But
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  Speaker 1: I asked Strutti, I said, what's the difference between this
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  Speaker 1: year's Oilers team In the last he goes that the
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  Speaker 1: previous Oilers teams were faster because they had more speed.
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  Speaker 1: This team's got a theoretically a little bit more toughness grit,
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  Speaker 1: he said, But we don't know if Frederick's gonna play.
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  Speaker 1: That comes out, which is massive because that coming up
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  Speaker 1: with the person one is massive, enormous. So he said,
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  Speaker 1: you're really you're really relying so have always topic, but
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  Speaker 1: it's even more so it's more pronounced. Expecting Drysal McDavid
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  Speaker 1: to carry them. Now, the guy which has had been
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  Speaker 1: injuries obviously the season Dujuen Hopkins. You know, six twenty
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  Speaker 1: goal season. He hasn't been a stud. So I'm with you.
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  Speaker 1: On paper, it feels like the Kings.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you said it. I forgot to mention at
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  Speaker 2: come being hurt for the first round is such a
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  Speaker 2: huge blow. Now you really got to rely on a
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  Speaker 2: Darnell Nurse who listen. I saw the video of that
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  Speaker 2: from they had the camera inside the net. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 2: it was not good. It wasn't good. But this just
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  Speaker 2: adds fuel to the fire. I tell you what. The
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  Speaker 2: one thing that this series is gonna be is gonna
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  Speaker 2: be dirty. It's gonna be tough.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I love what Denno said about you know, they dressed
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  Speaker 2: their B squad and then Corey Perry came out and
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  Speaker 2: was like, what fuck do you expect? She's like, what
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  Speaker 2: do you think? What do you think we can do?
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  Speaker 2: He's like, look at our injury list. He's like, we
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  Speaker 2: have to this is what we have to dress. And
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  Speaker 2: I think something like that's going to piss off that team.
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  Speaker 2: And so it's there's gonna be a lot on the line,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of hard a lot of uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a lot of pride in this series, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, Edmonton can't go out in the first round.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be devastating if they do. And the Kings can't
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  Speaker 2: go out in the first round or they blow this
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  Speaker 2: whole thing up.
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  Speaker 1: And it's interesting, you know with regards to this King's team,
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  Speaker 1: like I don't think Jack Adams talks to say what
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  Speaker 1: you're looking for today. But Jim Hiller is done a
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  Speaker 1: great job coaching the team. They might be in the
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  Speaker 1: mixing star has been a flows lots of great choices,
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  Speaker 1: obviously Huskepteen Evanson, Marty Saint Louis, the Habs, get In Carbery,
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  Speaker 1: obviously the Capitals. But I do think to your point
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  Speaker 1: with the Kings and Oilers, that sense of nastiness like that,
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  Speaker 1: that is something that is fun to think about because
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  Speaker 1: Oilers have had their numbers so many times, as you said,
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  Speaker 1: and when we ask Chris Knablock in the morning, what's
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  Speaker 1: the series, and that come down to you because probably
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  Speaker 1: special teams. This sounds like a made up statue d
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  Speaker 1: but Jack Jack Michael, who calls the Oilers game set
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  Speaker 1: it with authority. The Oiler's power play the last three
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  Speaker 1: years against the Kings is forty eight percent. That is unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: So if the Kings just have some semblance of a
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  Speaker 1: penalty kill, they should win this series.
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  Speaker 2: I remember, I think it was two years ago, their
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  Speaker 2: power play was clipping at like sixty over six percent,
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  Speaker 2: and you're like, and the games are all tight. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you could fucking keep one out. You're gonna they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: sweep them. So, you know, if I think they've known,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we've been saying it for like a month.
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  Speaker 2: They've known now that they're playing the Oilers, So they
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  Speaker 2: should be doing everything they can watching power play clips
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  Speaker 2: and figuring out to design some new sort of penalty
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  Speaker 2: kill that they can implement, because they just gotta. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they get through Edmonton and listen, it's they this is
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  Speaker 2: a big one for him. It's you know, it's funny
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  Speaker 2: you equate this. I'm not saying. I'm not saying that
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  Speaker 2: the Kings are anything close to the Chicago Bulls, but
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  Speaker 2: it was like Chicago Bulls Detroit Piston's era, but they
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  Speaker 2: just couldn't get past this one team. And I think
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  Speaker 2: that is the big reason why they're gonna get by him,
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  Speaker 2: is this means a lot more to them than it
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  Speaker 2: does the Oilers. Not to say that the oilers doesn't
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  Speaker 2: mean something to win a Cup, but this series, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of these guys that have went through these losses
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  Speaker 2: in these series are gonna be this is like, we
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  Speaker 2: cannot lose this boys, Like the belief that we finally
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  Speaker 2: got their number is going to be there. And I
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  Speaker 2: think there's just been too much always in Edmonton and
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  Speaker 2: it's just been a little too it's been too choppy.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the water's been choppy all year. You hear it.
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  Speaker 2: The the group just doesn't seem as tight as it
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  Speaker 2: was last year, Like it seems like a little bit
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  Speaker 2: of a distant group when you you you look at
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  Speaker 2: the underlying you know, guys talk, all the guys they
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  Speaker 2: brought and I just don't think it's geled. And and
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  Speaker 2: you know, my biggest thing is you need chemistry if
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  Speaker 2: you want to if you want to go far in
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs, you get to have a team that loves
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  Speaker 2: each other. And I just don't know if there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of love there.
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  Speaker 1: I'm with you. One last loot on Chris. Noblock tells
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  Speaker 1: buddy Elliott Freeman last year called him Comato's Chris, which
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  Speaker 1: he meant as a compliment because he's still calm, but
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  Speaker 1: when he's talking, that's all him envisional. I'm like this guy,
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  Speaker 1: his heartbeats at fifty five the entire time.
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  Speaker 2: He has zero. Now block does not have he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: have a pulse. He must just go in the room.
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  Speaker 2: He must just go in the room and like close
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  Speaker 2: the door and just be like you start screaming into
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  Speaker 2: a pill.
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  Speaker 1: Like he's that guy, like because he has no emotion,
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  Speaker 1: just like where where do you bear the body?
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  Speaker 2: Just where do you bear? You see him in a
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  Speaker 2: car in the parking lot after they get just shaking
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  Speaker 2: the wheel.
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  Speaker 1: His demeanor's hilarious. We're gonna go through these other stories.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be honest, I don't really care about the stories,
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  Speaker 1: So I'm giving you a one minute.
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  Speaker 2: To talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: Devils and Hurricanes, two teams, haven't met since a back
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  Speaker 1: to back December twenty seventh and twenty eighth. They've split
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: their four meetings this season. Now the team looks impressive.
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  Speaker 1: Devils are missing Jack Hughes. I really couldn't care less.
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  Speaker 1: What do you got? Knes and six?
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  Speaker 2: Here's the thing I was looking I was just looking
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  Speaker 2: at that before. Don't we went on New Jersey Devils
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  Speaker 2: have one of the better power plays in the NHL.
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  Speaker 2: With or without Jack Hughes. They're also top five in
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  Speaker 2: the league in goals against. Markstrom can steal a couple
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  Speaker 2: of games. This is gonna get super interesting. And I
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  Speaker 2: think there's a lot more pressure on the Carolina Hurricanes
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  Speaker 2: in the New Jersey Devils. I think everybody's been talking
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  Speaker 2: this is a hard matchup. This is a hard matchup.
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  Speaker 2: The Hurricanes have been known to dry up offensively. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm not just saying that. I listen. I root for
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  Speaker 2: Jordan Martinook. He's a fan of Unscripted. I want to win. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I want him to and I want that you know
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  Speaker 2: that team. I think there's some guys that are deserving
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  Speaker 2: to get past this, this Devil's team. But man, Devils
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  Speaker 2: are gonna take this game. This series is like Bolted.
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  Speaker 2: This whole series and the lead up is like ouh,
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  Speaker 2: they're done. It's gonna be over, I know, afterthought, afterthought,
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  Speaker 2: they go on to Carolina and they steal a game.
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  Speaker 2: It is gonna get super interesting. And if Jacob Markstrom
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  Speaker 2: can be the guy that they paid for, he can
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  Speaker 2: steal some games. I don't know him against Freddie Anderson.
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  Speaker 2: I listen at times that the Devils, Yeah, I do,
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  Speaker 2: and and honestly, I just think it's something interesting with
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  Speaker 2: that power play. Again, a lot of these playoffs, these
• 10:41
  Speaker 2: first rounds come down to special teams because there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of power plays early, because guys are excited, they're
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  Speaker 2: hitting the running round. I just feel like this is
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  Speaker 2: kind of one of those sneaky ones. I'm still gonna
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  Speaker 2: take Carolina to win, but I think it's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: a lot tighter than people think.
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  Speaker 1: Can I call an advantage for the Hurricanes the fact
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  Speaker 1: that Sheldon Keith is coaching the Devils for Carolina?
• 11:03
  Speaker 2: Wow, Spike, see for Sheldon. Keep you going after the
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  Speaker 2: coaches that I love it. No Block Star thinking of
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  Speaker 2: now is now Block in the car, shaking the wheel,
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  Speaker 2: punching a pillow. Use your words, Chris.
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  Speaker 1: Stars, Avalanche, I cannot wait. This is musty TV. If
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  Speaker 1: you're a hockey fan of any measure, this is unbelievable.
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  Speaker 1: And I want to go against you because you called
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: the Avalanche like a month ago, and the Stars are
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: limping towards the playoffs. I've lost five straight, don't look great,
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  Speaker 1: but I think I hope they can flip a switch
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: and this will be a great series. Dallas Prickley defensively,
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  Speaker 1: JD's been issued, looked at their numbers, gave no pick
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  Speaker 1: thirty two shots a game that's not going to cut
• 11:36
  Speaker 1: it against Colorado, but it is the Ransom and Bowl.
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: What kind of reception is you're gonna get in Colorado
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  Speaker 1: in this series? And it feels like in some ways
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  Speaker 1: the winner this series could be the favorite to when
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  Speaker 1: the Stanley Cup. That's how good a first round this is.
• 11:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Landiskog's coming back to on top of that, just
• 11:51
  Speaker 2: announced his.
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: Ropper's not crazy about that pick. More than that lie,
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  Speaker 1: I know it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but if you if he watched he doesn't watch
• 11:57
  Speaker 2: HL games, but if you saw any of those games,
• 11:59
  Speaker 2: he looked very good. He looked fantastic. I've another inside
• 12:04
  Speaker 2: the Kremlin. Jason de Murz.
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: By the way, the Devildovs Scottie report was unbelievable.
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: How great was that I hit it? Are even we're
• 12:12
  Speaker 2: not gonna touch on that. We'll touch on that after,
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  Speaker 2: but I fucking hit that one out of the park.
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  Speaker 2: But no that I talked to some people within Colorado
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  Speaker 2: Avalanche and again within the organization, and they just said
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  Speaker 2: the same thing. He is gonna play if he wants
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  Speaker 2: to play. Bet Nurse came out and said as much.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't. He's not playing twenty minutes a night. He's
• 12:30
  Speaker 2: gonna play ten, eleven, twelve. He might end up getting
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: some power play time in that net front position, which
• 12:36
  Speaker 2: he does so good, and again he stirs shit up.
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  Speaker 2: There's videos of him in those games with the Colorado Eagles.
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  Speaker 2: He's grabbing guys, He's literally has him in a choke hold.
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  Speaker 2: He's just ready to go, and I think you're seeing
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  Speaker 2: all the emotion come out of him of how long
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  Speaker 2: he battled. This is just gonna be something that's gonna
• 12:54
  Speaker 2: be very, very fun to watch. And I just think
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  Speaker 2: Colorado has much too much around him to not be
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: the team to come out ahead. And I just feel
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  Speaker 2: like I don't think the Dallas Stars can pull this off.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think Pete Debora unless it goes to Game seven,
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  Speaker 2: which he is a magician in GAVE seven. I just
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  Speaker 2: think this is kind of the time for the Colorado Avalanche.
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  Speaker 2: There's so much, so many good storylines. Nathan McKinnon's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be healthy, Cale mccarr is gonna be healthy. The resurgence, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we'll call it the resurgence of Marty Nachiz. Then you
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  Speaker 2: got Valon the Shushkin's gonna be here for a full
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  Speaker 2: playoff front. Look the fuck out Dallas Stars, and I
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  Speaker 2: think they getting I just don't know they're not healthy enough.
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  Speaker 2: Mira Heiskin's got to come back and be herculean.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And now you're right. It went from like a
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  Speaker 1: month gonna be like, oh my god, heavyweight matchup it
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: could see stars and seven abs and seven five star
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: stars to this thing around here like the ad Lite's
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: look like a runaway freight tran and Dallas is not
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: running into form can playoff time. So I think I
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: go six or seven I do. I agree with that
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: the Avalanche is gonna win this series. Now, Lightning Panthers Florida,
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: when two of the three matchups this season entering the
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: game twos and Tampa Bay has to be the favorite,
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: though in some ways against the defending champions, they look
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: like a jugging out. The past few weeks, the Panthers
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: haven't been healthy, as you and I have talked about,
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: maybe play a little bit of ropodope, haven't used their
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: full lineup, Aaron Akbla still serving his suspension, Matthew could
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: Chuck hasn't played since February eighth. It's so tough Jad
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: to make the Stanley Cup final three straight years, and
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: I love Palm reest On pulling for them. I'm gonna
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: call the Panthers to win this series, but on paper,
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: I feel like I should go lightning you.
• 14:27
  Speaker 2: I just think that decor and Vassilevsky on Tampa Bay
• 14:31
  Speaker 2: is going to be too much. I think they're really
• 14:33
  Speaker 2: going to do a good job. You know, they made
• 14:35
  Speaker 2: a lot of solid pickups, springing guys in Ryan McDonough
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: leading the league and plus minus and rightfully so, he
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: is just the eliminator of all things, you know, defensive plays, breakouts.
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: He's been so good for this team. JJ mosers but
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: was hurt a little bit this year, but he's underrated.
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: Pick up Victor Headman. Then you have Andre Vasilevski in
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: the back, and you know we're not talking about I
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: think I think this team is healthy. Finally, I think
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: they have some depth. Obviously, I think they're fourth nine
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: is a little bit light, but those top nine forwards
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: are just fantastical, and I think They're gonna really give
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: some problems to the Florida Panthers. Now the Florida Panthers
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: with Brad Marsha, Seth Jones, Aaron Eckbod's coming back. I
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: think after game one, correct he's missing the first game
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: of the first game of the playoffs, that's gonna be
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: interesting game one. If they can hold on Florida, they
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: can make it an interesting series. I think Aaron Neckbid
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: is a way bigger piece than people think. I know
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: people are hard on him as a player, but I
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: think he just bounces out that decoor. So if he
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: can come in and be healthy, if Kachuk's fully healthy,
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, they've I think they have a chance,
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: but it's it's gonna be tough, and I think they're
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: gonna have to rely on a lot of their depth
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: pieces in Florida. But I just feel like Tampa Bay,
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: they got something going on right now, and and kut
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: ROV's pissed off. He's gonna get robbed of the heart again,
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: and I think he's gonna go and just shove it
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: up everybody's tushy.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: Oh Chase, Now the revenge to revenge too, I love it.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: Jason newars is all over. After game two, you'll see
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: x plaed back. I don't like the passing reference of
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: plus minus in today's era of analytics. A lot of
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: guys discount plus minus like it's kind of an overrat
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: It doesn't mean much. McDonald leading a plus minus. That's
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: a good nugget by you. Yeah forty four, says Battle
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: of Ontario, first time since so forth. This is gonna
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: be unbelievable. Ottawa swept the season series three games to none.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: They're looking to play upstart first playoff appearance for the
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: Sins in eight years. Leaves have looked formidable, looking to
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: get out of the second round for the first time
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: since two thousand and two. Of course they did win
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: around the stretch was they had won around since two
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: thousand and four, but they said they won a round
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: over that stretch. But I feel like oster GEDI kind
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: of your point with the Kings, like, if they don't
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: beat the others this year, dude, Fourth Street ear must
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: just pack up shop like Luke Robertie. It's been fun.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: Similarly for the Leafs. If you can't beat the Sentators
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: and you can't get of the first round. Brendan Shanahan
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: lates like it's if ever there's a time you got
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Burubi here. I love Chief. The defense feels beefed up.
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: Still not timered percent soul in still Art's wool, but hey,
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: Martyr's in a great year, Tavera is reborn, Matthews has
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: done Oh if you don't beat the Senators, Buddy say, y.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is this is it of them. But man,
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: this is not an easy draw. Like correct, listen, everybody's like,
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: you know, Toronto, you gotta get away from the Florida's.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: I mean the Ottawa Senators are a team that are
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: on a mission. And Brady Kuchuk who has just been
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: resting so we could run around trying to kill people.
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: I just I don't know. That was probably my toughest
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: series to gauge. It's gonna go seven. I don't know
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: where I'm leaning yet because there's a few things I
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: look at. I think, goaltending. If Olmark is.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: On and seven say it now cents and seven omar.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: Mark, I Paul Mark is on, They're in trouble, I think.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: But you look on the other side, Wall and Stolars
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: has been a really good one two touch on the
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: back end. Then I look who's got the back end advantage.
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: You got Jake Sanderson, You've got Thomas Schabbad who's playing
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: some good hockey. I think the leaves are a little
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: bit deeper and a little bit bigger on the back end.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: But then you look up front, man, they got some
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: depth pieces that are playing really good. It's gonna come
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: down to the third and fourth lines. I think for
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: the Ottawa centers, can they be a effective and can
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: they disrupt enough and score some goals. So it's going
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: to be kind of that battle in the trenches is
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: where it's going to be fought. But I think it's
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: this is going to be a great series. I mean
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: the Mausoleum, that is, the Canadian Entire Center is going
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: to be rocking. The people going to say the lower bowl,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: oh no, yeah, well no, it's the battle of the
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: museums right now.
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Is the is the that's the headline night of the museum.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Ben Stillertia Bank, Scotia Scotia Bank.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: I see, I don't even I hate them. They always
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: change these core team was better. Well the Scotia Bank
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: and Canadian Tire Center just two museums out there battling
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: it out for who could be the quietest dur in
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: the playoff series. So at least we The good thing
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: is you'll get all the Ottawa fans buying the Toronto
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: tickets and all the Toronto fans buying the Autawa tickets.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: It will be home and home. But I think it's
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: gonna be It's great to see the Ottawa centers back
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: in the playoffs. Big fan of this team. You know,
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: we all were kind of rooting for him this season.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: We wanted to see some new blood and you know
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: it's see Brady could chuck in the playoffs. Oh, I mean,
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: it would have been nice to see him against Matthew
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: in the first round, see how that played out. But
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: this is gonna be fully full. Brady could chuck unleash.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: I agree, man, He's one of the breakout stars this year,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: the way he played for four nations, especially here in
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: the USA.
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: Tell give me something, sens and seven let's go. I mean,
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: I think Leaves take this series. But I think it's
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: gonna be fun. It's gonna be fun. These teams are
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: gonna they're gonna.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Grind it out.
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: You know, we're gonna have Chris Neil and Darcy Tucker
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: touching each other in the face as an underg good reference.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: I mean, but that's what everyone's gonna be talking about
• 19:42
  Speaker 5: about some of these awesome playoff series they had in
• 19:45
  Speaker 5: the past. Now, granted, the Leafs have the upper hand
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: and all those series eighty years ago whenever it was,
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: But I think it'll be fun. I think Kannada will
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: feel a bit like a Leaf's home game. That's my
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: only concern. I mean, that's how many how many Leafs
• 20:02
  Speaker 5: fans are gonna be coming out to those Sens home games,
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: not a series, so they're not going to really have
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: much of an advantage at home, and I think that's
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: gonna really play into the you know, the advantage.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: For the Leafs.
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: On top of the fact that who on the Senators
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: has won a playoff series in their career? Anyone or
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: even played in the playoffs for the who the center
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: the center? How many guys at playff experience Who's played for?
• 20:24
  Speaker 5: Who's played in the playoffs or at least won a series.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: David Pan has a coup Nick else Nick Cousins as.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: A cup kissing Cousins.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: This is what it comes to, kissing Nick Cousins. They
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: got some depth guys that have have some juice and
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: and no I I but I mean if you look
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: towards Toronto, it's much of the same couple guys. It's
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: two teams battling for playoff dominance. But you know that
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: brings him a point. I wish teams, especially like Ottawa.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: I don't know what they're gonna do, but if they
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: would limit ticket sales to you have to live within
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: the city, because I don't love obviously, I like fans
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: that can't otherwise afford playoff tickets because Toronto just absolutely
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: gouges people to be able to go watch it somewhere.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Like I wish they would just keep it within the city.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: I know people are re selling their tickets making a
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: quick buck. I mean, good for you, get your paper booboo.
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: But I just think they should team should limit you
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: have to live in the city or you at least
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: can't be a Leafs fan and go, because it just
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: takes away from it a little bit. I feel like, but.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I mean if that crowd in Ottawa starts
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: chanting go, leaves go, and then the first one to go,
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: this sucks, Like what are we doing in Canada?
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: Yeah, burn the stadium near the ground. That happens all.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Right, coming up next year an NHL and script, We'll
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: talk to our friend Mike Rupp, that's right, Stanley Cup
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: champion back of the New Jersey Devils. He'll tell us
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: about chirping Jody Shelley, also the Yager salut in front
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: of Flyers fans, and what he's enjoyed most for this
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: NHL season. That's coming up after this break. Our next guest.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Drafted in the third round of the two thousand NHL
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: Draft by the New Jersey Devils, with whom he scored
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: the Cup clinching goal in two thousand and three. Before
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: hoisting the Stanley Cup, you would go on to also
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: play for the Fittest Coyotes, Columbus Bluejackets, Pittsburgh Penguins, New
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: York Rangers, and Minnesota Wild and now can be seen
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: him breaking down the game on NHL Network and Sports
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: at Pittsburgh. He's one of our favorites, a teammate, a friend,
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: a colleague. Mike Rupp, Ropper, how do we do a
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: big man?
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: Hey, I love you guys, I'm glad to get on
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: here with you guys. But Adnan, dude, I was drafted
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: in the first round. I know I went back in
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: the draft and got drafted the third round, but you
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: gonna strip that for me, so I was never drafted
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: in the first round. I don't even get that acknowledgement anymore.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: Remember one time I gave you extra props on air.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: I said to you, like, didn't you score two goals?
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: And hopefully you go, No, you go. You know you're
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: not the only one that thinks that. I it was
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: so rare.
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: That's fair. I know you, I know you're I know
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: you're a good teammates. So I'll let that one go.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: He doesn't do his research, Adnan, No, exactly.
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: You're grinding right now, Ruppers. We're getting towards the end
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: of the season. But I think this is an amazing
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: final stretch of the playoffs right around the corner. Is
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: there something that you're most excited about we were talking earlier.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: I mean that the fact that Habs are going to
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: make the playoffs is unbelievable. There's been some great races.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: What is it for you?
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: Oh man, there's so many. I think the Ottawa Senators
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: I've been I've been kind of on that train for
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: a couple of years. Now and I've gotten burnt every
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: single time. So I love the fact that we're getting
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: getting to the point now where this team. Man, they
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: they they kept it going. They didn't have that big
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: drop off. They found ways to push back when they
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: when they would lose some games. And I'm excited because
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: I think, I think this is a better league when
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: you're gonna have a guy like Brady could Chuck in
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: the playoffs, and I can't wait to see what he brings.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: But Oddoy is probably the one storyline that I'm It
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: probably intrigues me the most. But you mentioned Montreal, man,
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: I mean, are you kidding me? I never ever, ever,
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: ever would have thought that they were gonna make it
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: this year.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Alexandro Vetchkin. Obviously, it's been an incredible story Ruppery has
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: been able to do with a great chase. You had
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: some spirited matchups one on one against him, right, What
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: was it like facing ov?
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: Oh man? Oh Ovi? Was? I remember one time and
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: it only was one time that I got out there
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: on the PK against him, and all I was thinking
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: to myself is we all know and that's what makes
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: Ovi great? And I think of I'm a big Michael
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: Jordan guy. That's what made MJ great. Everybody in the building,
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: everybody in the world knew who's getting the last shot,
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: and he would still He's still bury it right. That
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: to me, that's greatness. Ovi's on the ice, you know
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: in situations, who they're looking for, what they're going to do.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: I mean, he's getting that shot from that era of
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: the ice and he could stare down in the whites
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: of the eyes of a goaltender and blow the puck
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: past him. That is greatness anyway. So I'm out there
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: on the penalty kill and I'm thinking to myself, Man,
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: all I know is Ovi's not scoring on this one,
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: all right. I cheated so much over to Ovi to
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: take away that one tiber that I left the guy
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: right open in the slot, just wired one bar down.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: Never saw the PK again out there. But I like, hey,
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: Obi didn't score. That was the starter report watching out
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: for a Betchkin over there. He didn't get it.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: I love the fact you were not gonna let a
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: Betsan scored that goal. Specific memories for your upper twenty
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: twelve Winter class. You're playing for the Rangers against the Flyers.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: You score a goal and then give a little yarmier
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: yoger styles salute, which leaves plenty of fans from the
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Flyers being upset with you do Flyers fans still give
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: you a heart time about them. Does that get brought up?
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that the yog salute? Yeah, Philly was not happy
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: about that. Yeah. I don't know. I mean I still
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: hear things from time to time, but you know, I
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: think it was more like I grew up in I
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: pretty much played for every team and what is today's
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: Metro Division except the Flyers, and so it was like
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: embedded in me to hate the Flyers, And so I
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: always look at in some of my greatest memories. I
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: loved playing in Philly. It was a tough place to play,
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: it was an intimidating place to play, but I thought
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: that those environments were always something for a guy like
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: my size and the way I had to play would
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: would help me. And so that was one just kind
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: of throw some fuel on the fire, and that's kind
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: of my job, so I try to do it that day.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: What do you attribute the habs run to to this,
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: you know, kind of Cinderella story a little bit, and
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: you look at their team and is it one thing
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: or is it kind of you know, what have you
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: kind of attributed the whole run to.
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: It's funny because I don't know, like there's not it's
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: it's it's tough because I don't know if there is
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: one thing JD. They they have the it factor and
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: whatever that means, Like you look at some of the
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: games down the stretcher, they find ways to win. Yeah,
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: and I don't know if you can quantify that saying oh, well,
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: they're a good for checking team. They do X, Y
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: and Z, like they find ways to win and you know,
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: is as good as anybody in the NHL. Like that's
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: something and then that's value. And they're finding ways to
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: close out games. I'll say a couple of things. They
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: got some guys who can put the puck in the net.
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: We know this, but I also think not just not
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: even not even just Laane Hudson, like they Marty Saint
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: Louis and this this coaching staff, they all these guys
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: got the green light. I was breaking down some clip
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: a couple of weeks ago, and it's like, dude, I'm
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: seeing some guys like I'm seeing Arba Jai, I'm seeing
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: David Tavard, like these guys. These guys got the green
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: light to go all the time and they're allowed to
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: hang in there. So I think this is a team
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: that they can put the puck in the net at times.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: And I think it's because the defenseman that they're allowed
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: to go, and you don't have to be just an
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: offensive minded guy if it's the right opportunity, the right
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: time of the game, go And as a forward, I
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: love that. So now I can get some help in
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: the offensive zone from a defenseman jumping in. I mean
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: that that's been something I thought that they do pretty well.
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: A team that needs all the help in the world,
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: and you put a glorious tweet out about the New
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: York Rangers and a team that's finding ways to lose.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, what can you attribute this season too, especially
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: how they've let down Ego Schusterkin mainly.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, man, it goes back. Oh my gosh, this is
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: so much unpack here. I feel like because this story
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: was back in the summer, and I hate to always
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: go back there, whether it was you go back to
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: the bar, the good Row that Jacob Truba. I mean,
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: the season kind of started off not in the best way.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: I mean, you're coming off of President's Trophy season, you
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: would expect there to be a little more excitement. It
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: seemed like the cloud was kind of over this franchise
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: before the season started. You got this Just Shirkin contract
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: that was something there too, and then you get into
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: the season and I just find that this is a
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: team that they even when they won the President's Trophy
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: last year, they they didn't There's a lot of details
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: in their game that they weren't great, and most of
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: them are defensively and they don't have a lot of pushback.
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: They don't have a lot of lightning Rod type guys,
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: alpha guys, alpha dogs they should say, in their roster.
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: And I think all those things were evident this year.
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: And I think the biggest thing for me, it's like,
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: I don't know at what point I don't think there's
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: accountability there. There's just so many things, man Like. I
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: just find that this is a team that kind of
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: goes out there. They know they have a great goaltender
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: and they hope that they get score more goals than
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: the opponent. As dumb as that sounds like, that, that's
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: the way I see their games. And I kind of
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: made this analogy yesterday and I want to go back
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: to it because growing up in the Devil's organization, like
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: we had Marty and I think Marty Berdoor is the
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: best goalie to ever play the game. And some people
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: might have others, and that's fine, but you know a
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: lot of people say, well, Marty wasn't that great because
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: he had Scotti Stevens, Scott Neiedermayer, you had all these
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: guys playing in front of him. Like I mean, I'd
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: pump the brakes on that a little bit. Both things
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: worked hand in hand. But I do know for being
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: in that franchise and talking to Scotty Stevens on the
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: NHL Network side of things, the details talk to Ken
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: Danigo about it, that the details in that franchise, Larry
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: Robinson instilled it. You can go back to, you know,
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: the other Jacques Lamaire, I mean, the details. So your
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: strongest attribute was your goaltender. Man, We had a million
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: insurance policies on our goaltender because we defended in front
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: of them. You weren't getting a second chance opportunity against
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: the Devils. If here's a shot on net, we have
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: the best goal in the world, he's going to make
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: that safe. Guess what there's no shot too, because Scottie
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: Stevens is putting you on your rear end, Ken Dannago
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: is getting you under your hands, getting your stick up
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: in the air. You know it's Scott Edermeyers doing the same.
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: So that that's where that was at. And on the
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: flip side, you got the New York Rangers where it's
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: like Igor's got to make save one, save two, save three.
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: There's nobody getting putting on the rear put on the
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: rear end in front of the net. There's no sticks
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: getting lifted in the air. I mean, JD, you'd have
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: a field day breaking down some of that stuff with
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: the Rangers. Yeah, that's towards that to me. And so
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: you can say whatever you want. At the end of
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: the day, we're players. I'll stick out for players. Players
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: wear a lot of this. But there's also accountability. If
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: the players aren't getting it done, sit there s that
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: hasn't happened this year. You keep rolling it out there
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: and expect a different different I guess results and that
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: it just simply hasn't happened.
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: So another hot button topic issue between me and yourself
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: was today. And you know it's great when you get material.
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: That's just you know, you a lot of times in
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: this podcast world, and you know this rapper, you got
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: to like come up with stuff and but sometimes things
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: fall in your lap. And our battle between me you
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: and talking about Gabriel Landeskog, you know my my point
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: of view is I think, no matter what, a good
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: player will find a way. You know, two years, three years,
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: they'll find a way to be good. But you know
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: you kind of a little bit more skeptical and you
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: want them to be there. But you you have some
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: different thoughts than me, and I might have I might
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: have picked a little too much and poked the bear
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: too much. Day I was scared for my life for
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: a second.
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: Hey, I I will say, man, just to let you
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: in on the full transparency of the conversation, I did say, JD,
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: I'm going to kill you is what I said.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Even left the voice text. It won't put his voice,
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: not a text voice.
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: But j D, j D, you knew how to push ones.
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: But I love you, JD. I'm just messing. I might
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: check into the wall at the network, but so no,
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: I think here's the thing here, and I want to
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: make this very very very clear, So please don't chop
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: this up when you're putting things out there later on
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: and lead this out. I want to see one of
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: the greatest comeback stories ever. And I don't mean to
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: blow that up. I mean it's just for no one's
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: gone through what Gabe Landeskog is going through. I want
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: nothing more than seeing this guy hoist the cup. He's
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: one of my favorites because he's a throwback. He's old school,
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: and I think that's a dying breed and I love him.
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: I just think that with the time he's missed and
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: just from my experiences with seeing players that have certain injuries,
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: like I'm very curious how it's going to take. And yes,
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: having him in there, I mean I just to have
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: him on the bench is a huge boost for this
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: team and I think that's enormous and having them around.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: But I also I'm skeptical because I've been in a
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: similar situation in some regards at the end of my career,
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: where you fight and you're out so long and you
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: battle to get back, and that's that's the biggest hurdle
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: at the time you get back, but it's how you
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: feel the next day. And then for me, it took
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: me two weeks after my one day of being back
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: to get back to where I was before my first
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: game back, you know what I mean. So that's where
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: it becomes a slippery slope. Like my biggest concern is
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: after missing this much time to get ready for this moment,
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: is he gonna be able to play in forty eight
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: hours in the Stanley Cup playoffs again? You know what
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: I mean?
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: So every time, but yeah, but you got to imagine
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: he's going to be in a bottom six role and
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: then in that well.
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: You're still but JD, you're still leaving everything out there. Man.
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: Like I was a career I could barely walk in
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: the playoffs out.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: There, but that bottom six role has kind of been
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: like a merry go around a little bit for Colorado.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: So they might pull him in for game one, sit
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: him out for game two.
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know what I mean.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: I think I feel like the coaching staff to your point,
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: I agree with you on a lot of points, like
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: how effective is he going to be? Like can he recover?
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: But can the coaching staff, which I think is very
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: underrated in terms of their level, their aptitude and how
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: smart they are. Jared Bedner and this coaching staff to
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: not recognize that and kind of plug and play a bit.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know if that's more.
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: Of a possibility, but yeah, and I mean, man, I
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: hope I'm dead wrong. I just think that what the
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: demanding part of the NHL Playoffs and the way the
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: game plays like, if Gabe's even in that bottom six,
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: so what are some of the attributes you're gonna have
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: to bring. You're gonna have to get on your horse
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: in the fore check. You have to get in there,
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: get hit, be hit. Can he handle that? I hope
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: to god he can. I want to see this happen.
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: I just think I just think anything. I don't have
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: any expectations in it, and I don't want anybody to
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: have expectations. I think that puts pressure on Gabe, and
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: I think we've seen it. It's been documented. I think
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: Gabe puts enough pressure on himself. So just let him
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: see how this works out. If he gets back in
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: there and he's able to be a part of it, man,
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: it's a huge boost for Colorado. But I'm not really
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: banking on that happen.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I can bet against you. I've
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: lost two bottles of camist to already oh for.
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: Twothing wrong on this one, though, I hope I'm wrong
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: on this one.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: Well, one thing you were definitely right about is fighting
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: back of the day, Rupper. You were a heavyweight during
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: a great era of Jay rose Hill, Sean Thornton, George
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Parrows is a very smart guy. And our buddy Jody Shelley, who,
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: as you know, I work with on Amazon of course
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: NHL network as well. There's a clip it says on
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: YouTube Mike Rupp calls Jody Shelley irrelevant. Talk to me
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: twenty ten you and Jody going ahead to head.
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: I hate did that clip made it out there?
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Man? I do? I do?
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: You know I too, because I was coaching my son
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: when I got done playing all these all these little
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: punk teenagers are playing in the locker room too. I'm like,
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: would you shut your phone off like it was your phone?
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: You know what I mean? They're playing this clip. So
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: let me give you a little backstory because I played
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: with Jody and Columbus, and you guys know Jody, well Jody.
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: I was on line with Jody. He's one of the
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: greatest teammates I played with in the NHL. I love Jody.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: It was the battle of the Rangers and the Flyers,
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: and in the heat of the moment, you do what
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: you things come out right, and I now did I
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: know so the full train experiency get of that. I
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: knew I was Might, I was Mike. Okay that Mike
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: was on me, and so I Mike. During this HBO
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: is covering the Road to the Winter Classic, this scrumb happens.
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: I'm going after I'm going after Tom Cistido and I'm
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: trying to fight him and Jody comes over and shoves me.
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: He's like, why are you going after the twenty two
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: year old? I'm basically because he's act like an idiot.
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: Jody's like, you know, asking me to fight, and so
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: I'm not thinking about being miked in that moment. I
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: say that. Postgame, I go up to our PR department
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: and I say, hey, I need to talk to we
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: need to talk to the HBO guys. I want that cut.
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: And so they go, all right, we'll talk to him,
• 36:43
  Speaker 4: we'll see and the HBO guys were like, well, let's
• 36:45
  Speaker 4: see what you're talking about. And they came back and
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: they said, we can't cut that, and I'm like, come on,
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: and they're go, we we need to leave that in.
• 36:54
  Speaker 4: So they left it in and so it's kind of
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: gotten this thing. And I feel bad because, like, you know,
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: Joey's a great dude. I've worked with them and whatever.
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: But I mean, I think Jody understands in the heat
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: of the moment. But yeah, man, that thing made its rounds.
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: And I hear that all the time.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: As you said, it's so frustrated too, like your kid
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: and his tea. Weik's looking up, like, but put your
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: phone away, okay. Like I love Jon, He's a great dude.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: It just came out. We've talked before with the Netflix
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: dock on the Danbury Trashers. I'm unbelievable. I mean that
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: people on Netflix love that. Your favorite story reminiscing about that?
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: Oh man, there's so many. My favorite story about the
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: Danbury Trashers was, I guess the best way of I
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: know some people explained it this way. It was basically
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: slap shot marrying the sopranos. I remember. I remember, so
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: I had to play ten regular season games to qualify
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: for the playoff roster. So I tried to. I played
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: every other weekend I played in. My former junior team
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: was Erie of the Ontario Hockey League. So I was
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: playing an Aria, living in an Aria, practice with the
• 37:54
  Speaker 4: Otters during the week. Every other weekend i'd go play
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: a couple of games. So I got till ten i'd
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: be able to play in the playoffs. So anyways, I'm
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: starting I'm there for a little bit. I'm starting to
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: see how things are kind of happening here. This is
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: a really tough team and to kind of seeing, oh, yeah,
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: this is this is a unique situation. And I remember
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: being on the bus and I was I was doing
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: a three and three in Michigan to bang out like
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: three games, and I was falling asleep on the bus
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: and I had my head against the window and right
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: behind me to see behind me is you guys know
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: John John Morasti so nasty. Marasti is a tough guy
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: on our team. And so what ends up happening is
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: Barry Melrose and Steve Levy they owned that or on
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: that team, and that's in the league. And Barry made
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: a comment to the media about Tony Soprano running the
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: Danburry trash as well. Our owner Jimmy Galante didn't like that,
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: and he said, we're gonna send a message next time
• 38:49
  Speaker 4: we play them that we were playing on the next weekend.
• 38:52
  Speaker 4: I was not scheduled to play that weekend. So I'm
• 38:55
  Speaker 4: sleeping against the window. Marasty's on the phone. He's making
• 38:59
  Speaker 4: a phone call to I think it was Chad Wagner
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: was his name, and he was I put this together later,
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: but this is the conversation. I'm here on one side too,
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: Hey buddy, it's me Nasty. What are you doing next weekend? Hey,
• 39:14
  Speaker 4: you want to come play some hockey make some money.
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: And I'm like, I'm like, I'm like sleeping. I'm like listen.
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: And he's like he's like, yeah, man, no, no, no,
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: I know you have no no, no, I know you haven't
• 39:24
  Speaker 4: played hockey in a few years. No, I know you're
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: not in shape. It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. No. Literally,
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: he wants you to come run around like a dumb
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: dumb and he's going to pay you two grand to
• 39:34
  Speaker 4: come out and play in the game. And it's like,
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: all right, well do you think about it? Let me know,
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: blah blah blah. Hangs up and I'm like, what just happened.
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: So when I left that road trip, I said to
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: some of the boys like, go hey, boys, keep me
• 39:45
  Speaker 4: posted what happens, because I think something's going down. Sure enough,
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: this Chad Wagner. He's been expelled from multiple leagues and
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: the like like proons, dude, yeah go look them up. Yes,
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: like five and forty one penalty minutes. He's been expelled
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: from all these places. He came in play. Yeah, he played.
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: He played one game he uh he ended up climbing
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: into at around X bench and pulled the coach by
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: his uh by his blazer and punched the coach got
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: expelled from the UHL. I'm like, wow, this is unbelievable.
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: But and there was also times where we'd just be
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: driving back or between games and you stop at a
• 40:26
  Speaker 4: truck stop and you hear the bus breaks, you know,
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: the doors would open. You're like waking up. You're like
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: what are we doing? And the lights would come on
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: and there'd just be some dude walk on the bus
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: and it'd be like Frank the Animal by A Lois.
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: We're just picking him up off the turn pike and
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: like what are we doing? I'm like, is that is
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: that Frank? Like is that by Frank BYO Lois? And
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: then like he goes playing a game and just beat
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: the wheels off people and then you'd stop and drop
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: them off at the truck stop on your way home.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: Literally, Sure, I started watching Shorty. It's literally sures. Fill
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: him in. Fill him in right there, Rutberg. Kind of lastly,
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: I wanted to ask you and and you know, if
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: you had any interactions with Ray Schera. We just found,
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: you know, sad day of hockey, and you know, he
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: was a great man. For everything I've heard is just
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: incredible stuff. And some of the stories I've heard about
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: him taking care of guys and really looking out for players.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: I don't know how close you were with him or
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: any good ray Shaw stories because we kind of doing
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: that with Johnny goodrou a little bit of you know,
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: gone but not forgotten.
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah. So I mean, obviously a legendary family in this
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: in the game of hockey. Ray I had him in
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: the GM in Pittsburgh. He brought me to Pittsburgh for
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: two years. You know, I had I had my best
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: two years of my career in Pittsburgh there, and it
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: was a lot of things. Is the culture that they
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: had there, things that they built. But I want to
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: say this though, and I don't want to I always
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: find this sometimes when you give an endorsement of someone else,
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: people take it as an indictment of other people. I'm
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: just saying, is a GM He was the most. He
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: was a great human. He was a family guy. The
• 42:07
  Speaker 4: way he went about things was different than I ever
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: saw at that time. It was refreshing. He was hard
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: and he was hard. I mean, he's a Stanley Cup
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: champ for a reason, the way he went about his business.
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: But he just he like a story of it is.
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: That was one of the first teams that I ever
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: heard of pregame skate. We'd bring our kids to the rink,
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: ray encourage it. He wanted them there. You know. There
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: was times like when we had our pregame meeting that
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: were watching before pregame skate. Of course the kids kind
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: of went in the in the weight room, we're kind
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: of running around, and but you brought him in there.
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: He wanted the kids in there. He wanted it to
• 42:43
  Speaker 4: be He understood what it was to be in the NHL,
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: and this is this is the greatest, this is all
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: of our dreams. Let's have fun doing it and make
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: your families be a part of it. I just find
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: that he was just an absolute class act one of
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: the good guys in our sport that that that ran
• 42:57
  Speaker 4: a tight ship, but also let you know that he
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: loved you and he cared about you. And that's the
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: biggest thing that sticks out to me. So man, I
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: all that today, like most people, just absolutely shocked and
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: very saddened.
• 43:09
  Speaker 1: My crop noted first round pick and a great guy
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: and obviously a big part.
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: That I didn't find I didn't. We have we have one.
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: We have one more for him because we said we
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: have to comment on the Canada flag behind him, and
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: we talked about it a little bit today.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: Do you're such a nice guy? By the way, people
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: actually think he's Canadian. I have to correct them sometimes.
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well he's he's he's a sweetheart till he says
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: he wants to kill you. But do you think this
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: is the year for a Canadian team to win the Cup?
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: JD. That's why I put in an audio message when
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: I say I want to kill you, because it's not
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: on paper. It's those things saved after you read it, it goes.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: That's how that's how a nepture in technology. If you
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: click on it, you see the transcript and I screenshoted
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: it's a life insurance policy.
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: So what Canadian team?
• 43:56
  Speaker 2: You know, do you think a Canadian team is this
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: the best chance they've had in you know, the past
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: five ten years?
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, I say the best chance, probably just
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: because you got five more teams more teams in. But
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: I would not be shocked if for some reason, I
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: just have this thing the Leafs. There's something about them.
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: I could totally see the Leafs going on a run
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: this year. But I will also say this, I think
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: Ottawa has the Cinderella story stamps right on their forehead.
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: Let's go set, Yeah, come on, Yeah, I mean.
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: I don't know Winnipeg. Winnipeg scares the hell out of
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: me because I think they're awesome, but I don't know
• 44:34
  Speaker 4: what I'm gonna get. So yeah, I mean I would
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: say this is the best chance, probably more so in
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: the Eastern Conference than the West. But man, this is uh,
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: it's exciting for Canada. You know, I'm an American, but
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: I'd love to I'd love to see a Canadian market
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: win the Stanley Cup. You know, it hasn't happened since
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: I was thirteen years old, and I'd like to see
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: it from this vantage point of like we were in
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: Edmonton last year, date JD incredible. I was like, this
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: place is like nothing I've seen before. I'd love to
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: see a Canadian market.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: Win Robert, you can catch them all the time NHL
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• 45:10
  Speaker 1: of course working with the Pegs as well. Buddy, you're
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• 45:14
  Speaker 1: to you soon. All right, man, all right, demodoff, DEMI good,
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: let's go. Ken Daniels had the call with Jody Shelley
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: on Amazon Prime. He becomes the third rookie ever in
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: the history the National Hockey League and his first period
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: he had a goal and an assist the other two
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: by the way of celebrating at Hubert Dough So it
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: was Awestome Mutch. I've be't demodov for that Montal crowd.
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: And again, if you're new to Unscripted, perhaps you missed
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: the previous episode. Jason Nimmers has played in Russia. He's
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: got Russian spots who told him this guy's gonna better
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: than meach Coop Flyers fans were appalled, like, what a
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: terrible take. So for a demodof the demo, God, what
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: do you got?
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: Tough fact check on the third goal Chicago, he just had.
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: A how do you lose? The Blackhawks fourth three to
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: shoot out winning Come on, Hal, Let's go town, let's.
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: Go ja they needed. He had a KHL like back
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: check on the third goal. He just stopped skating from
• 46:09
  Speaker 2: the red line. I was like, oh no, but he
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: was offensively in the offensive zone holely, shit, is he good?
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: And the way he's on it, He's so good on
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: his edges, He's got that wide base, the way he
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: protects the puck. I mean, he could have had probably
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: three goals early in the first and second, and then
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: he could have assisted on three of them. They were
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: just missing the open net. First first NHL game. I
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: was right again, it's just, you know, catching all these
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: wis is tough. But he was good. He was as advertised,
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: and I thought, he's he's going to have a bright
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: future and man. To play under those bright lights and
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: the fans cheering your name every time you jump over
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: the bench gave me chills. I was borderline in tears
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: at home because I was just like, it's such a
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: cool atmosphere and the way they support their players is
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: is like nothing else you'll see in the NHL and
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: most sports man. Honestly, like they're cheering his name and
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: he's like on the bench. I think he's mouthed. At
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: one point, you look, he was like holy holy f
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: And I know he was just like, whoa, my god.
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: When they announced his assists, they're cheering his name. People
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: are gonna standing. Oh so yeah, as advertised, good job,
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: a little bit better defensively. But you know, hey, Demi God,
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: Demerse Stradamus.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: I'm with you. It's good to have the Habs back
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: of the playoffs, and honestly, it's a different look first
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: time in hockey history the Rangers, Bruins, and Penguins all
• 47:31
  Speaker 1: missing the playoffs. Killer for original six American teams. But yeah,
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: if you want press blood away, we go speaking it,
• 47:36
  Speaker 1: beat it. You wouldn't be so crass towards this guy,
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: one of your buddies. San Jose Sharks captain Logan Couture
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: announcing he will not continue his playing career due to injury.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: Techley won't retire, He'll be on long term ir, but
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: not expected to play again. Three hundred and twenty three goals,
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: three hundred and seventy assists seven hundred and one career
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: points in nine hundred and three to three games, all
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: with the Sharks. At his peak a number one center,
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: understated Jimmy Fallon called the Croatian Tom cruise on The
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: Tonight Show.
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. It was like some weird you know
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: phuwbitis where essentially, like anytime you're the socket of your
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: hip moves and you're skating, it's like full on pain
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: and fluid. There's fluid build up. It's just it's it
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: sucks because it's something that as athletes like you always
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: think you can come back from an injury, a tear,
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: a knee tear, you know, a concussion, or a shoulder
• 48:25
  Speaker 2: surgery or back surgery. You're like, I have an opportunity
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: to come back, but this where you don't, and you're
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: just always waiting and waiting and waiting. And you know,
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: I saw him a little bit here and there. I
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: saw him at the Joe Thornton Jersey retirement, and you know,
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: I just felt for him. You know, it just didn't
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: look good mentally to be going through that, and he
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: just wanted to get to a point where he could,
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: you know, hang out with his family and hang out
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: with his kids and make sure they're taken care of.
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: And that's just such a tough thing as an athlete
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: to digest because you want to keep competing. And you know,
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: I've been lucky enough. I've told my story of getting
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: seven hundred games and after a back surgery and being
• 49:00
  Speaker 2: able to go out on your own accord. And you
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: look at the Gabriel Landeskog and the motion he's had
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: trying to get back and from something that's never happened before,
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: and you know, to not be able to close that
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: chapter your life sometimes it's very tough. So you know,
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: my heart goes out to him. You know, the memories
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: I have with him, was coming to the league together,
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: and you know, we kind of both came in a
• 49:19
  Speaker 2: little bit like you know, I came in as the
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: seventh rounder. He was a pretty pretty highly touted draft pick,
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: and we both had immediate success. We were in great teams,
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: We went to the playoffs. I remember his four goals
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: in that first playoff series we had. He was just
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: so clutch early on. He's a consummate pro. He leads
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: by example. You saw it early on. He battles every shift,
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: always took the most heat in terms of blocking shots,
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: taking hits to make plays, playing the hard minutes. And
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: you know, my memories I have, like I said, was
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: living in a rinky dink hotel room off the side
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: of I think it was Stevens Creek Boulevard in San
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: Jose and we were living next to the Garden City
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: Casino and we were just like two kids living in
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: a hotel with Jamie McGinn, just having fun playing hockey
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: and just being like, how look at the rocket ship
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: we're on right now. We're playing on this team that
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: it was just a contender every year, and you know,
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: we just felt so fortunate, but just had so much
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: fun with it. And you know, you kind of wish
• 50:18
  Speaker 2: those moments you recognize where you're in and the happy
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: times you're having, and you know, I just thought those
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: are the memories they take with Logan, And you know,
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: he went through some struggles in that organization, never never
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: wavered as a leader, and you know, got so close
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: so many times, and wish he got that cup and
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: had an opportunity to win. Obviously the year they had
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: that comeback against Vegas and then they go on to
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: win and go to the finals. I just think was
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: something so, you know, kind of led by him a
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: little bit, just because he's that kind of player. And yeah,
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: I wish him all the best, honestly, and I wish
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: he can find I hope he can find some happiness
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: and closure around his career and make sure him and
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: his family's good because he's from his NHL career. He's
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: got this beautiful family and beautiful wife, and I just
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: hope he takes it with him and is not too
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: too bummed at what happened, because it's it was out
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: of his control and there's nothing he could really do.
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: All time great Shark Jumbo Joe obviously, Patrick Marlow, Joe
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: Pavelski betting to backop Logan Coutur in that top five
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: absolute as far as the Great Sharks are concerned. Jason
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: Nuver's Ohill, I just off that list. Centophil and sixty
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: Magazine Dreams came out sunday As two years ago. Jonathan
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: Major's Talent to watch He's building in the Last Black
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: Man in San Francisco. Joe Talbot interviewed the director in Cinephile.
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: He's in Captain of Marvel Movies. He's he's in Lovecraft
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: County on HBO absolved actor. Yeah, and then the Creed
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: three is unbelievable. And then it's like, oh my god,
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: magazine dreams like clearly shades of taxi driver. Bodybuilder bulked
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: up like crazy. He put on I don't know how
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: much bust he put on, but it took him like
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: six months to get into Creed three shape. Then it
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: took Memo their eighteen months to get into bodybuilder shape.
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: And you know, this is an athlete bodybuilders, like he said,
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: for eighteen months, six thousand calories a day and just
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: lifted weights. It's all I did, six thousand colls. This
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: guy is so jacked in this movie. I'm like, there's
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: no CJI. This is Jonathan made looking like a bodybuilder.
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: This is not an act of doing it. And then
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: what happens, Oh my god. Arrested a lleged domestic assault.
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: He said she said his girlfriend said he strangled her.
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: He said, nothing happened. Eventually he goes to court, He's
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: convicted on a misdemeanor. One year of probation, no jail time.
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: Now it's two years. Jonathan Major's has been excommunicated, and
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: finally Briar Cliffe Entertainment's like, hey, that magazine dreams movie
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: will release it in theaters March twenty. First, I just
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: watched it on DIRECTORV He paid twenty bucks. It was
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: so powerful. I watched it twice and now major Sassima
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: advocates JD Form. Matthew McConaughey came out support of Michael B. Jordan.
• 52:36
  Speaker 1: Of course from Crete three, Woo Pee Goldbergs said, hey, listen,
• 52:38
  Speaker 1: whatever happened. He's served his punishment one year probation. Is
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: he not allowed to have a career. He can't ever
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: act again. This guy's a major, major talent. He's, you know,
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: graduated Yel Drama school. A quick thought on the movie
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: because I want tal to watch it. He's as hyped
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: as I am. Phenomenal film and an incredible performance. He's
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: a bodybuilder who's lonely and battling alienation. And one of
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: the great quotes that I read on the review said,
• 52:58
  Speaker 1: he drives a fine line between being pitiable and terrifying.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: Because this guy is massive and yet he's so awkward,
• 53:05
  Speaker 1: so you feel sorry for him. There's moments that anger
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: comes you go, oh my god, I will have a
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: friend of my watching because God they should just call
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: the tax driver too. But this, this director's clearly owing
• 53:13
  Speaker 1: a lot to Scorsese what he was doing a taxi drivering.
• 53:16
  Speaker 1: Clearly there's some parallels there the wrestler as well, Mickey
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: work playing a bulked up guy as well. But I
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: thought his performance was astonishing. He was a great actor. JD.
• 53:23
  Speaker 1: Your thoughts just on this whole concept of being canceled.
• 53:26
  Speaker 1: When can a guy come back? Is he allowed to
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: come back? Now? Am I allowed to say this is
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: a great performance? Is that okay? He's canceled, he's back.
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: Now never you're done? Never allowed back? Now. I listen,
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: he's a great actor.
• 53:39
  Speaker 4: He is.
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: But I don't wade into that kind of shit. I listen,
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: I stay on the fence. I make some outlandish takes,
• 53:46
  Speaker 2: but I listen. He paid the if, he paid his time,
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: and you know, he did the crime, paid his time,
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: and you know things are okay. I guess yeah. I mean,
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: I watched it. I'm just taking it from a movie perspective.
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: I watched the trailer and I'm I'm gonna probably go
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: watch it because it's a trailer.
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, great trailer.
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah it's a crazy you gotta be back in.
• 54:06
  Speaker 1: The trailers you mentioned, like, you know, I'm gonna watch
• 54:08
  Speaker 1: the way to watch the trailer. This is a trailer, right.
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: What I find crazy is is I watched him in
• 54:13
  Speaker 2: that trailer and and you know, he's in bodybuilding shape,
• 54:16
  Speaker 2: but just like a shout out to bodybuilders because he's
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: still like on the tiny, tiny version of a bodybuilder.
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: Like those guys, it's like their life is dedicated to
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: getting fat pig in that Jack. Then I know a
• 54:28
  Speaker 2: couple guys, the Chris Bumsteads of the world, and I
• 54:31
  Speaker 2: know his trainer that trains him, and he's you know,
• 54:35
  Speaker 2: a little jacked human, and it's crazy the workouts they do.
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: It is so hard and the way they have to
• 54:41
  Speaker 2: be regimented is I mean, you can't you can't find
• 54:45
  Speaker 2: discipline like that anywhere else unless you're a goddamn Navy seal.
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: So it's it's crazy crazy.
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: Your point. Major's character idolizes a bodybuilder. He's always writing
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: letters to him. Brad's a character's name in real life.
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: It's a four time mister universe. And again Matrix is
• 54:58
  Speaker 1: killing Maddox as Jack. You see this guy, go oh
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: my god, like he's like the terminator. It's guy Is Magazine.
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: Jew's premiered January of twenty twenty three at sun Dance.
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: And again, a friend of mine said, when he have
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: gotten an Oscar Macapps, are you kidding? The Academy loves
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: and actors transform themselves. DeNiro Raging Bull, Christian Bailed the Fighter,
• 55:16
  Speaker 1: Mickey Rourke the Wrestler Like. There's countless examples of when
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: guys bulk up, get bigger, or lose weight when they're rewarded.
• 55:21
  Speaker 1: And again, it's a remarkable performance if you can separate
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: art from the artists. Check out the film. It's a doozy.
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: More importantly, we've got two episodes coming every week. An
• 55:29
  Speaker 1: NHLNG script. My thanks for Jason Demurz to talpinchef's here,
• 55:32
  Speaker 1: by the way, I was fit to say our producer.
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: He's also a director, he said. A movie coming out
• 55:35
  Speaker 1: in The Whalers. Go check it out. Hell plug the movie,
• 55:37
  Speaker 1: come on plug it.
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: It's called The Whalers.
• 55:40
  Speaker 5: It premiered on NBC Sports Boston over the weekend. It'll
• 55:44
  Speaker 5: also be on s n Y in New York, as
• 55:47
  Speaker 5: well as a few other regional sports networks across the country.
• 55:52
  Speaker 5: Anyone who who enjoys the little Whaler's nostalgia. I think
• 55:55
  Speaker 5: you'll enjoy it.
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: I know I do.
• 55:58
  Speaker 1: Save the whale, Old Samuelson. Let's go.
• 56:01
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