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Trick or Treat: OHL Edition + chat w/ Rangers voice Mike Farwell - The OHL in 60 Podcast · The Armchair GM's Sports Network

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  Speaker 1: O and 60 podcast. Brandon Kudo and Colin Ward with
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  Speaker 1: you for our Halloween episode. We're going to discuss trick
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  Speaker 1: or treat OHL team edition. We're going to get into
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  Speaker 1: what teams we think are for real and which ones are,
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  Speaker 1: I guess, the trick in that in that equation. We're
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  Speaker 1: also going to welcome on longtime Kitchener Rangers play by
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  Speaker 1: play voice Mike Farwell, also the host of the OHL podcast,
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  Speaker 1: friend of the show and friend of ours as well.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to join us in segment two, talking about
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  Speaker 1: the reigning defending Memorial cup champion Kitchener Rangers coming off
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  Speaker 1: of their championship season as well. We'll we've got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of headlines to go over Friday night, face off
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  Speaker 1: power rankings, players of the week, our stick taps, our
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  Speaker 1: personal teams and players that we thought deserved a shout
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  Speaker 1: out this week. And a central scouting list came out
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  Speaker 1: as well. So a lot of big stuff there, Memorial cup,
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  Speaker 1: potential changes coming there. We'll discuss all that on today's
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  Speaker 1: show for a special spooky edition of the OHL and
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  Speaker 1: 60 podcast. Colin, Before we get going, you know, it's
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  Speaker 1: an interesting week because obviously Halloween will be on a Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: which is always fun, right? Those are always the best.
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  Speaker 1: And it's projected to be good weather, so that's always
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  Speaker 1: a good thing because I feel like the last three
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  Speaker 1: years have been raining on Halloween. So you always want
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  Speaker 1: to see the kids out there trick-or-treating, getting the candy,
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  Speaker 1: getting the cavities, I guess. And, you know, it's always
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  Speaker 1: one of the best times of the year. The fall
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  Speaker 1: season's gorgeous out there. It's just a fun time to
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  Speaker 1: enjoy hockey as well.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. At least you don't have to go to the
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  Speaker 3: dentist on the Sunday. At least you have a day
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  Speaker 3: to prepare for the dentist. For those who have a
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  Speaker 3: dentist appointment on Monday, good luck. I mean, all the
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  Speaker 3: best to you there. It's always the worst.
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  Speaker 4: Is that the worst time of the year to have
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  Speaker 4: a dentist appointment or over Christmas break? Like that two
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  Speaker 4: weeks over Christmas is also brutal. But I feel like
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  Speaker 4: if you're going to have a dentist appointment, the worst
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  Speaker 4: day would be after Halloween.
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  Speaker 3: Because you're out all night. You get home.
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  Speaker 4: You're not going to break out in that stash of yours, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I used to love the stash. I used to
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  Speaker 3: take it to school.
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  Speaker 4: I used to take a couple of candies to school
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  Speaker 4: with me to my lunch every day when I was
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  Speaker 4: in school. And then I do that. And then I would,
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  Speaker 4: I just have a stash watching the game. Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 4: The full size chocolate bars are the best.
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  Speaker 1: Now when it's on a weekday, obviously the kids have
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  Speaker 1: to wait till after they get home from school and
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  Speaker 1: everything like that. And the parents to get home from work.
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  Speaker 1: So on a Saturday, like what is the time to
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  Speaker 1: go out trick or treating on a Saturday?
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  Speaker 3: Well, are we starting at three so then the adults
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  Speaker 3: can go out after?
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  Speaker 1: Are we starting at noon? How early should I have
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  Speaker 1: the candy out?
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  Speaker 3: If we got a kid. Yeah, I know.
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  Speaker 4: And you don't want to put the bowl out because
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  Speaker 4: it's gone by five on a weekend, right?
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  Speaker 3: So I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Honestly, I don't know what I would do. I feel
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  Speaker 4: like when it rains, it pours. That's what I think
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  Speaker 4: of it with Halloween. Once one kid's out, you got
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  Speaker 4: to set the tone. Who's going to set the tone
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  Speaker 4: this year? Who's going to be the first guy banging
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  Speaker 4: in the corner, getting on the defense, getting poxed in deep?
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  Speaker 4: Who's going to be the first one at the doorstep?
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  Speaker 4: It's always a big question, and do you want to
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  Speaker 4: be that person? Do you want to be that person
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  Speaker 4: who's the first one there? Me personally, if you love candy,
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  Speaker 4: I never really liked Halloween because it was always the first. Well,
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  Speaker 4: this is like the 31st, so obviously it's on a Saturday,
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  Speaker 4: but this year's Hockey Night in Canada.
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  Speaker 3: World Series is on.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure that when I was a kid, I used
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  Speaker 4: to never go for Halloween because either the World Series
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  Speaker 4: was on, Toronto Raptors usually had their home opener, one
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  Speaker 4: of their first games was around then, or the Red
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  Speaker 4: Wings played.
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  Speaker 3: It was always up in arms if I went out.
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  Speaker 4: I think I stopped going out at like 11 because
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  Speaker 4: I wanted to watch the Red Wings game or back
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  Speaker 4: when the Red Wings were good.
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  Speaker 1: How many sacks of candy did you have stashed in
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  Speaker 1: the house? When you ran out, did you go back
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  Speaker 1: and refill or empty it out so you could bring
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  Speaker 1: a whole new sack out there to fill up?
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  Speaker 4: So we'd get a box, put it in our... We'd
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  Speaker 4: come home, we'd get a box and... my sister and
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  Speaker 4: I would put it in a container, like in the
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  Speaker 4: box of all of our candy. And we would go
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  Speaker 4: through our subdivision. So it was always the best spot
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  Speaker 4: to go in the town of the, of the city
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  Speaker 4: of the Delhi, Ontario. So we'd go through the subdivision,
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  Speaker 4: create havoc. And then boom, it's go, we're going ham.
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  Speaker 4: And then on, before like we went through our subdivision,
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  Speaker 4: we'd go to my grandparents. We'd go to some family friends,
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  Speaker 4: like when we were kids. So we would go there
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  Speaker 4: and yeah, have some fun. I mean, Like I said,
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  Speaker 4: I would go– a lot of times– and this is
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  Speaker 4: a true story.
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  Speaker 3: So when my dad's listening to this, he'd be so
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  Speaker 3: mad if I didn't say this.
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  Speaker 4: So we'd go out– this is me. This is Colin
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  Speaker 4: for you, Brandon. And you'll know this for a fact.
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  Speaker 4: So we'd go out for Halloween, right? I'm not going.
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to watch the Red Wing game. My sister
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  Speaker 4: would come back full bags of candy. All of a sudden,
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  Speaker 4: here I am throwing on my Peyton Manning jersey, my
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  Speaker 4: Red Wing jersey, a Blue Jay jersey. one of my
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  Speaker 4: sports teams and all of a sudden I'm a player
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  Speaker 4: and I'm going out trick or treat in our subdivision.
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  Speaker 4: You see that all the time. So I say, I
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  Speaker 4: stopped winning it going out at 11, but then here
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  Speaker 4: I am. I see all the candy and I want
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  Speaker 4: to participate in the party and have some fun.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 4: So go through the subdivision, create havoc and get all
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  Speaker 4: the candy you can get.
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  Speaker 3: And obviously hear about how bad the Red Wings are
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  Speaker 3: and this and that. And it was great. I used
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  Speaker 3: to love it.
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  Speaker 1: Well, uh, before this, obviously having a baby face had its, uh,
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  Speaker 1: had its perks. I think I went out until I
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  Speaker 1: was in like grade 11 or 12. So, um, I
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  Speaker 1: was able to get up, up in the, up in
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  Speaker 1: the way until then. Cause I still look like I
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  Speaker 1: was in grade seven.
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  Speaker 3: So what was your go-to costume? Were you a big
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  Speaker 3: costume guy?
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  Speaker 1: I guess, but like, yeah, it was just easy to
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  Speaker 1: just throw on a Jersey, you know, but I had
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  Speaker 1: a couple of good ones, but.
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  Speaker 4: I got to find this. I got to find this picture. My, uh,
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  Speaker 4: Halloween costume. When I went to Superman, I had no
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  Speaker 4: front teeth.
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  Speaker 1: I wish you would have dressed up as Scorsese one year.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah. You imagine? Um, no.
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  Speaker 4: Shout out to Ryan Payette with the article on the
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  Speaker 4: one they call Scorsese too. A couple of years back,
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  Speaker 4: he wrote an article on Scorsese about it was a
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  Speaker 4: certain amount of years. He's been doing it with the
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  Speaker 4: Knights and it was a really cool, um, Scorsese used
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  Speaker 4: to scare me as a kid.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't like mascots as a kid. Um, but, uh,
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  Speaker 3: I was too focused trying.
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  Speaker 4: To get autographs and run around the new, uh, jlc
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  Speaker 4: at the time i was too busy trying to get autographs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah and that picture you and dale hunter that uh
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  Speaker 1: is one of mike farwell's favorites that we'll ask him
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  Speaker 1: about later because he sure loves when he gets to
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  Speaker 1: go to the vatican of junior hockey in london so.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah that was that was the hockey school the
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  Speaker 4: night's uh hockey.
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  Speaker 1: School absolutely we're gonna ask him uh probably a london
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  Speaker 1: knights question with his affiliation with the kitchen arrangers so
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  Speaker 1: stay tuned for that mike farwell play by play voice
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  Speaker 1: of the kitchen arrangers joining us in segment two today
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  Speaker 1: so let's uh Let's bang through these headlines here. Colin,
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  Speaker 1: central scouting list came out today or yesterday, if you're
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  Speaker 1: listening to this on the audio version. But 69 OHLers
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  Speaker 1: are listed on the central scouting list for the 2027
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  Speaker 1: NHL entry draft. And we've got some notable players here
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  Speaker 1: that I'm just going to pull up of guys that
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  Speaker 1: have A and B rankings. So an A ranking indicates
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  Speaker 1: a first round talent candidate and a B ranking indicates
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  Speaker 1: a second or third round candidate. Colin, just quickly. I'll
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  Speaker 1: read off these and then you can get your, I
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  Speaker 1: guess we can get your thoughts on it. Ryerson, Edgar,
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  Speaker 1: Levi Harper. Um, we got, uh, Kazda, Kuhlman, McCaslin. I
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  Speaker 1: can't even read the thing. It's so small.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Yep. Yep.
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  Speaker 6: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Yep. Yep. Yep.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
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  Speaker 6: Yep. Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Farwell out in segment two. Yakko Wysik, Easton Wallace,
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  Speaker 1: Cooper McCaslin, Alex Kuhlman, Timo Kasda are the other ones
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  Speaker 1: that I couldn't read because I had it up too small.
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  Speaker 1: But call in there. We got the A's and the B's.
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  Speaker 1: Who sticks out to you there? I know we both
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  Speaker 1: talked about Jilkin and Wysik being our two candidates for
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  Speaker 1: that's going to go top, be the first one taken
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  Speaker 1: off the board from the OHL. But what are your
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  Speaker 1: thoughts on the guys ranked A and B right now?
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  Speaker 3: No, I think it's great. I mean, I think, and
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  Speaker 3: that's for skaters too.
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  Speaker 4: I think there's 18 in total AB rankers in the list.
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  Speaker 4: So that shows how deep the OHL draft is because
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  Speaker 4: those are first three rounds, right? And you have 18.
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  Speaker 4: That's a good year for the OHL in general. And
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  Speaker 4: you got a couple of goalies on there as well
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  Speaker 4: for the goalie department. I honestly, it's so early. I
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  Speaker 4: like Drew Roscoe in Saginaw. I like how he looks.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously Santola and Kitchener, When he's done, got to see
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  Speaker 4: him a little bit on the weekend.
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  Speaker 3: I thought he looked really good in the game against Guelph.
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  Speaker 3: on Sunday.
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  Speaker 4: You know, a few chances. It looked like he was
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  Speaker 4: buzzing a little bit. So, uh, those two kind of
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  Speaker 4: stand out for me in the bottom of the list.
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  Speaker 4: Brenner Lammon's obviously a local guy for me, um, from Langton, uh,
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  Speaker 4: 20 minutes away from the city, the capital of Norfolk, uh,
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  Speaker 4: where the big election is, uh, on Monday night. But, uh, um,
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  Speaker 4: Brenner Lemons to me and Sarnia is a big one.
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  Speaker 4: I think that he has a big year, a chance
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  Speaker 4: to prove himself right after last year and where the
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  Speaker 4: sting is. Everyone kind of gets a fresh start. They're
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  Speaker 4: kind of not very good right now. Sarnia, they got
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  Speaker 4: to find it again. But I think those three kind
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  Speaker 4: of stand out to me as a chance to kind
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  Speaker 4: of push for an A spot. What's Caden McGregor, right?
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  Speaker 4: First overall pick in the OHL by the Peterborough Peets,
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  Speaker 4: now Brantford Bulldogs, plays the top six role with the Bulldogs.
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  Speaker 4: Is he on the cusp of moving up If the
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  Speaker 4: Bulldogs have a strong season, right. Similar to Saginaw's Kitcheners.
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  Speaker 3: What is that? Right.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm very interested to see about those four where
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  Speaker 4: they can move up. I'm always attracted to the B
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  Speaker 4: ranked because every year we see a B ranked skater
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  Speaker 4: going the first round in this draft. And it almost,
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  Speaker 4: and for those who aren't ranked, it's almost as if
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  Speaker 4: it's okay. There's so many guys that we see Brandon
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  Speaker 4: on each given year where it's like, it can flip flop.
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  Speaker 4: We'll see somebody who's ranked in a now and they'll
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  Speaker 4: end up going to the second or third round in
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  Speaker 4: June or vice versa. We'll see someone who's ranked in
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  Speaker 4: the second or third round now, but they'll go in
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  Speaker 4: the first round. So I'm excited to see who's the
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  Speaker 4: riser this year. I always liked the risers on this
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  Speaker 4: Halloween week. So we'll see who rises this year. And
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  Speaker 4: I think those four guys have a chance to do so.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The initial ranking, it doesn't really mean anything at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day. It just is the first ranking
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  Speaker 1: of the season. But again, when you get to the
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  Speaker 1: final ranking, that's going to be obviously the the big one.
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  Speaker 1: And even the midterm, when we get to January ish,
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  Speaker 1: is when you really start to see, OK, these these
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  Speaker 1: are the ones to watch right now. But this radar
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  Speaker 1: could potentially change. As you mentioned, guys could be a
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  Speaker 1: W rank, which indicates a sixth or seventh round candidate
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  Speaker 1: or a C rank, which is a fourth or fifth
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  Speaker 1: round pick. And they end up becoming an A or
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  Speaker 1: B ranking, one that that I remember. fondly as Ethan
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  Speaker 1: Zada was a W potential six, seventh rounder. He went
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  Speaker 1: in the second round for the ice dog a few
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  Speaker 1: years ago for Tampa Bay. So anything can happen. And
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  Speaker 1: for those players out there, don't get discouraged. If you've
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  Speaker 1: got a low ranking, just use it as motivation. And
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  Speaker 1: maybe you can be an A or a B or
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  Speaker 1: who knows again, this doesn't necessarily mean that these guys
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  Speaker 1: are just guaranteed to be the top guys taken off
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  Speaker 1: the board. We always see at the NHL draft, some
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  Speaker 1: teams just go, go completely off the board and some
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  Speaker 1: people aren't even expecting that. So that's just the initial ranking,
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  Speaker 1: but giving you an idea of, Who to watch here
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  Speaker 1: going into the fall and winter for, I guess, the
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  Speaker 1: 2027 NHL draft prospects and the draft gurus out there
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  Speaker 1: in the thousand, you know, I guess, the mock drafts
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  Speaker 1: and everything like that. They'll be back in full force. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the the wannabe, I guess, NHL scouts out there. But
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of them and everybody's got an opinion
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  Speaker 1: on this draft board. But again, we're just here giving
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  Speaker 1: you the information. I don't claim to be. a draft
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  Speaker 1: expert whatsoever. So here we go. We're going to move
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  Speaker 1: into trades, Colin, and we'll start off with the big
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  Speaker 1: one of the week, which happened yesterday. Arvin Jaswal, goaltender
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  Speaker 1: from the Barry Colts, along with a sixth round pick,
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  Speaker 1: go to the London Knights for a second round pick,
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  Speaker 1: a third pair of third round picks and a fourth
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  Speaker 1: round pick. We saw Mark Hunter early in the year, Colin,
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  Speaker 1: in September, he was loading up on draft picks. He
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  Speaker 1: was trading away players for picks. We were wondering what
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  Speaker 1: types of players were going to be coming in. But
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  Speaker 1: they get a good young goaltender here in Arvin Jaswal,
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  Speaker 1: adding it to the mix of their three goalies. I
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  Speaker 1: did watch Mike Stubbs' little mini interview with Mark Harper
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  Speaker 1: today that you reposted that said Jaswal is going to
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  Speaker 1: be out for a couple more weeks recovering from an injury.
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  Speaker 1: But it looks like he's going to be right in
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  Speaker 1: the mix there with the Knights this season.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, absolutely. I think he's going to be right
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  Speaker 3: in the mix. I think London's going to kind of
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  Speaker 3: roll that three-guy race together. We'll see what's public though, right?
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  Speaker 3: That's what they say publicly.
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  Speaker 4: But I have a feeling you have two weeks here
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  Speaker 4: before Jaswell comes back. You don't have to rush him back.
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  Speaker 4: He's an 18-year-old goaltender. So you don't have to rush
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  Speaker 4: him back by any means. But I'm curious to see.
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  Speaker 3: Rumors are rumors.
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  Speaker 4: But I find it hard to believe a three-man race
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  Speaker 4: or a three-man tandem when you move four picks out
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  Speaker 4: to get Arvin Jaswell and you're going to play He's
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  Speaker 4: not going to be a healthy scratch, is he? You
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  Speaker 4: sent four picks, so you wouldn't think he's going to
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  Speaker 4: be a scratch. Medved has a drafted goaltender, so that
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  Speaker 4: means he's going to be the guy that gets scratched
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  Speaker 4: with Cook. So that's kind of what their scratches are
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  Speaker 4: going to be, right, between those two. So I don't
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  Speaker 4: think that's going to happen. When you think about it
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  Speaker 4: like that, I don't think it's going to happen for
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  Speaker 4: the long term. I think come deadline time, you can
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  Speaker 4: get a couple more picks, which I expect the London
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  Speaker 4: Knights to do. I think they will do that, and
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  Speaker 4: then they can acquire other talent to boost up their
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  Speaker 4: team because they're not consistent enough yet. They got a
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  Speaker 4: lot of issues there. For a London team, I know
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: it's early in the season. I know it's early. I
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: can't believe it's already six weeks into the season, Brandon.
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: But for London, when we saw their last championship teams,
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: and honestly, the year they lost to Saginaw, the Memorial Cup,
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: they were the best team in the league. They won
• 15:16
  Speaker 4: the OHL that year. And you can see those teams, right?
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: you could see them, they had that it factor. They
• 15:24
  Speaker 4: clicked right from the start. And obviously they never had
• 15:26
  Speaker 4: a 4-0 start before, as Mike said on the show.
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: But then you see these inconsistencies.
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: They take too many penalties. The discipline lacks at times
• 15:37
  Speaker 4: for them. And I think that those types of things
• 15:38
  Speaker 4: need to get cleaned up. They never had those issues
• 15:42
  Speaker 4: back a couple seasons ago when they won the Memorial Cup,
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: when they won an OHL title. They never had those issues. Yes,
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: they took penalties.
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: Yes, they had guys like Ryder Bolton, Sawyer Bolton.
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: Guys that played with an edge for on a hundred percent,
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: but they were good enough to outscore those problems. They
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: were good enough to outskill those problems right now.
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: There's just not there.
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: And obviously guys come back from NHL camps. You got
• 16:01
  Speaker 4: to get used to the flow of things. So that's
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: kind of where I think the Knights are at. This
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: is very interesting.
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: Arvin jazz.
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: Well, he's a great goaltender, great season last year with the,
• 16:10
  Speaker 4: with the Barry Colts, but I find it very interesting.
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: A three, a three man race in net. You're not
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: going to scratch Medvedev for a long time. Cause he's,
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: let's be honest, Brandon, how many times do we see
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: a drafted goaltender getting healthy scratched? A guy's not coming
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: from the States to be a healthy scratch as a
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: third goaltender.
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: My question to you is a second, two thirds and
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: a fourth for a goaltender. We just saw all the
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: controversy in the NHL about what a top goaltender in
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Connor Hellebuck is worth comparatively to skaters. Like, what do
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: you think about London giving up a second, two thirds
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: and a fourth year for a goaltender?
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: If you have the picks, use them. If you have
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: the picks, use them. London has the picks. They made
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: a lot of those deals. If we look back at
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: their trades that they made recently, right. When they moved
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: on some picks, a lot of those picks are off now.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: So I feel like now they're kind of back. They
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: still have some picks left from what they just moved, um,
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: before that. So I feel like they're okay.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: Um, he's a good goaltender.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: Obviously if your staff, if you're Mark Hunter and staff,
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: and you like this kid and he's obviously their guy,
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: this is obviously the guy they want. Then four picks
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: is nothing for a goaltender. Um, of the, of his caliber.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: So I feel like that's okay. I know it's a lot.
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: It is a lot for sure. But if the, if
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: London likes them and they think they can get multiple
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: years out of this kid, which they obviously do believe
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: in Arvin Joswell, I think it's.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Okay of a move.
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: I think it's fine, but I'm just very intrigued, man,
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: about this three, this three goalie race.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Like how, how is it going to, how is
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: it going to work?
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: My question, Brandon, for you is do they, and we're
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: not going to mention player names.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: But the writing's on the wall. The writing is on
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: the wall.
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: But if you have a drafted goaltender who obviously when
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: they acquired jazz wall, are they going to run both?
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: You're going to bring in an American goaltender and not
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: play him.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Well, it's almost like Guelph situation, right? With Jovanovsky and Harabic.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: And that's another question.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: And like I say, I start, I say this where, well,
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: if you have a drafted goaltender and if you're going
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: to scratch them, because you have a kid from the
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: States who came in, um, to dress, not be a scratch.
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: So are you going to trade your drafted goaltender and
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: get multiple picks back, which there's, if you trade four
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: picks and you get two back for another goal for
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: giving up on a goaltender, the steel doesn't look as bad,
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: but then on the flip side, do you trust the depth?
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: If you, if you roll with jazz wall, Medvedev, do you,
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: do you trust the depth against golf in a seven
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: game series?
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: Is this what we're seeing? Like, Do you trust it
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: against Saginaw? I know that division.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: I get too caught in that divisional race because Saginaw
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: is going to be there in the conference and possibly
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: Sue as well with the way they're playing. So I'm
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: very intrigued to see, is that one of these moves?
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: Our guy gets down.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Boom.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: We trust the process here because Guelph with the goaltending,
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: them saying, hey, we're not going to trade Jovanovski, which.
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Is the right move. which is the right move. Why
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: would you do that in Memorial Cup here?
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: It's just London saying, hey, we're going to have the
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: best goaltending. We want the best goaltending. We want the
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: best defense core. We want to outmatch them because we
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: know that's a team more than likely in our division,
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: more than likely we're going to have to go through
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: to get to where we want to go in the
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: end goal of winning an OHL championship and a Memorial
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: Cup berth. Is that what London's thinking in this trade?
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: Because if so, then it makes sense. But it's definitely
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: interesting to see where they're.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: Going to go.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: Yep, and Jaswal, he started 24 games for Barry Colt's
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: team that obviously had a lot of success. He was 18,
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: three and two with a 2.45 goals against average and
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: a nine 22 save percentage. So a really good season
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: for jazz wall as an 08 goaltender again, looking for
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: big things from him when he does come back from injury,
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: he's going to have to, you know, get caught up
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: to speed there in London, but a few weeks away
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: from his debut. But again, with Medvedev there and the
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: tandem they already have, it shouldn't be, should be fine
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: with London. But then when he comes back, then we
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: were probably, we might have to have another discussion on
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: this show about what they're going to do there. but
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Mark Hunter's always got something up his sleeve. And yeah,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: I mean, if there's some team out there that really
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: is in need of a goaltender, then I'm sure Mark
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: Hunter's phone's going to be ringing. So this one's going
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: to take a while for us to kind of see
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: how this plays out. We probably won't know until the
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: end of November how this one is really going to
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: play out. But we got another trade to talk about here, Colin,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: from your neck of the woods. Jack Torre forward goes
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: to the Erie Otters. Coming back to Brantford is a
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: second-round pick in 2028 and a fourth-round pick in 2030. Colin,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: we know Spencer Hyman's been very active this season already,
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: trading multiple players and bringing in multiple players and then
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: signing players that were American free agents and things like that.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: What can you tell us about this trade? And, you know,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: I guess for both sides, it looks like they got
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: what they wanted here.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know the Bulldogs want picks.
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: I think they want to give themselves an opportunity to
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: acquire picks and to possibly where they are in the standings, right,
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: to be able to add to this lineup. Um, and I,
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: I truly believe that's what they think they can do
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: in their front office. And, uh, rightly so when you're
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: right now in your tops in the conference, you're going
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: to think that way because another month from now, you're
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: kind of going to know where you are in the, uh,
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: in the.
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: Buyer sell range. So for them to acquire picks, um,
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: for Erie, you get a power forward, you get a
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: forward who can kill penalties, never played on the power
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: play in Brantford, but he will be able to kill penalties.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: You're going to be a depth player. Um, probably be
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: that top nine range, be your third line center. And, uh,
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: he's going to give you opportunity, right? You had seven
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: points in 11 games, the Bulldogs. Um, and we'll see
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: what happens, right? Uh, we'll see what happens in the area.
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: I mean, you get a big player, you can be hard.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Hopefully he fits in well in that group and it's
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: easy in the dressing room, but, uh, for him and
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: we'll see what happens. But, uh, For Jack, I think
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: he has a great opportunity in Erie, and I think
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: Erie will definitely use him.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's close to home, which is nice as well.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a PA native himself from Philadelphia. Just, I guess,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: the other side of Pennsylvania, but up there in Erie.
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: So I guess we'll have to wait and see how
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: that one progresses. But again, Spencer Hyman continues to stockpile
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: some draft picks, Colin, and I think it's an exciting
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: time in Brantford as well to see what's going to
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: happen there. I know Jason Moose is going to be
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: out a little bit for them right now, but again,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: they still... Look really good in that Eastern Conference right now. Last,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: I guess, trade that we should go over here. The
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Niagara Ice Dogs trading overage depth defenseman Liam Spencer to
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: the Sarnia Sting. Another former London Knight becomes a Sarnia
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Sting and vice versa. And the Ice Dogs get back
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: a sixth round pick. So good depth for Sarnia here.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: A guy that's reliable. A guy that is a defensive
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: stay-at-home defenseman. Big guy. And again, another guy that has
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: London Knights ties. which is just funny between those two organizations,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: how many, how many players have gone back and forth
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: between those two organizations. But triangle Niagara had, I think
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: eight or nine healthy defensemen. So somebody had to go here.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Unfortunately it was Liam Spencer, but you know, Dale de
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Grey picks up a sixth round pick in 27 and
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Sarnia gets himself some more depth on the backend.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, absolutely.
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, the OA situation played itself out Niagara
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: and yeah, that triangle continues London, Niagara, Sarnia, The trade
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: trees between those teams would be so intriguing over the
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: last five seasons and five years. So a 10-year span, Brandon,
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: the trade trees that we always see in the National
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: Hockey League would be crazy in junior. I mean, we
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: already see some players who turn out to be like,
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: you know, like the stars, and it's pretty neat to see.
• 23:42
  Speaker 4: Like when we saw Bonk turn out and Cowan that
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: draft when they had back-to-back picks. I think it was
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: an Ice Dogs pick too, one of the picks.
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: For one of those players.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: I forget who it was, but it's interesting to see
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: how those things turn out and like how the trades always,
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: when we look back, like what's that sixth round pick
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: going to be in this new age and era?
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: What's it going to be, right? Is it going to
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: be a hot shot from the States? What are we
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: going to get?
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: And then we've got some alumni news and some Jersey
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: retirements coming to the Ontario Hockey League. Niagara involved in
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: this as well. The Erie Otters also announced a few
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: weeks ago that Alex Debrinket and Ryan Stromer, or excuse me,
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Dylan Strom, are going to have their jerseys retired in
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: the EIA later in the, in 2027, which will be
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: really cool for those players, obviously winning an OHL championship
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: with the Otters. You know, that line was unbelievable. And
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: to think that McDavid could have been back with that
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: team that season as well, just an incredible couple of
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: years for the Erie Otters. So I forgot to mention
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: them as well, as we're going to quickly discuss on
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Niagara here, as they are going to retire the jurors,
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: their first retired jerseys. This is a little bit, I guess,
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: significant in that sense, Colin. Freddie and Dougie Hamilton are
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: going to be the first jerseys up there as Niagara
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Ice Dogs. I know they've got some other jerseys up
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: there from some of the other heritage teams that have
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: played in the St. Catharines area, but for the Ice
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: Dogs to finally get some players up there and some
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: banner retirements, I think, is well-deserved, and I think this
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: is going to be, I guess, a snowball effect for
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: about four or five other guys that probably could have
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: their jerseys retired in Niagara, but the Hamilton brothers made
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: a huge impact when Niagara, when they first moved relocated
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: from Mississauga to Niagara and the Hamiltons are remembered fondly
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: very well to this day. They're in St. Catherine's in
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: the Meridian center.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, absolutely. I mean, I remember the impact that
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: they had and it's cool, right?
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: When you come into Niagara and you, you know, you, you,
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: you're able to represent the ice dogs like that back
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: at the Jack and it's it's cool to see.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: It's cool to see that landscape brand. Who would you
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: say is next? Who's in this mix? obviously covering the
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: ice dogs before growing up in Niagara, who would be the,
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: who would be next?
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: There's a couple of candidates. I mean, Alex Petrangelo potentially
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: for the few years.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: He had there, he would have to be next, right?
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: Like he'd be, I don't know. I mean, there's, there's
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: so many guys you could list off Ryan Strom, Vince Dunn,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Akil Thomas for, I mean, we could go through a
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: whole decade of Niagara ice dog players. Yeah. I mean,
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Mark Byzantine, obviously. you've got, you know, Luca Caputi, the
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: first 50 goal scorer as well, but he wore number 13. So, uh, that's, uh,
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: most likely gone now that Freddie Hamilton's going to have it.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: But I think Doug, I think Dougie was right in
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: the conversation, uh, on the Mount Rushmore of Niagara ice dogs.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: So I understand why as the brothers, they would go
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: in together. So that's a really cool moment for their family, but, uh,
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: and obviously Dougie still playing with the New Jersey devils.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: So that's, uh, that's interesting there, but there's a lot
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: of guys in Niagara that could, potentially have their jerseys retired.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: But Dougie and Freddie, I think, is fitting in a
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: way because they're so synonymous with that area.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: Man, those jerseys are so cool. They got to bring
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: those jerseys back. The old Reebok days, I remember being
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: obsessed with Reebok goalie pads. Those are my favorite kind
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: of goalie pads growing up. And those jerseys were so
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: cool at Niagara. I wish they'd bring those back. For
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: the game, they should have those as a specialty jersey.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, there's so many guys that have played
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: that wore that jersey that I remember growing up and
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: nostalgic that I could think of. Even guys that played
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: five years as Ice Dogs, which is very rare that
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: we see in today's day and age with the NCAA
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: ruling and everything like that. There's a couple other guys
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: that may not be as well-known at the NHL level,
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: but at the OHL level and for the Ice Dogs,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: they were the heartbeat of those teams for all those years.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: It was nice to see Johnny Schaefer there on the weekend.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: Yep, Johnny Schaefer was there, obviously, with his brother playing,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Matthew Schaefer playing for the Erie Otters. And, and Johnny
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: playing for the ice dogs and Matt going into games,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: watching Johnny there at the Meridian center. So that was
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: cool to see him drop the puck for rivalry. We
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: calling quickly on that. What did you think of OHL
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: rivalry week? We saw a couple of the teams go
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: back and forth with some, some nice jabs there. Peterborough,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: Oshawa comes to mind. I know there were a couple
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: other teams that had some good ones. I Brantford with
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: the whole, you know, fishing rod with Brampton. There was
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: a lot of good stuff, but I'm glad we do this.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Cause I think the league needs it.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm not a fan of social media of
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: team social media is ripping each other after games.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: I'm not a fan of that.
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: Obviously rivalry weekend. I understand that for the weekend for sure.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: I love what a Flint, I think it was Flint
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: getting axing off the asses, like go to like what
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: the Ohio state does with the team up North. So
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: I think that's pretty cool. Like stuff like that. I
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: think that is really neat. And I honestly, like, I
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: understand it for this weekend.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: I think it's great for your eyes. I thought it,
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: in person watching games closely. I thought that it.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: Was one of the better weeks for attendance. I think
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: attendance was better.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: Um, obviously I have a little bit of beef from
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: last week, uh, Wednesday night game in Sarnia where tickets
• 28:37
  Speaker 4: cost $ 34 a ticket, um, for a middle of the
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: night or middle midweek game.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: I'm not a fan of that.
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: Um, I think that's, I don't, I mean, I'd rather
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: give tickets away and have a full building than making people,
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: Nickland dime people for $ 34 for to go to a
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: hockey game on a midweek. Um, So I'll leave that.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: But I love rivalry weekend. I think rivalry weekend is
• 29:00
  Speaker 4: really good for the league. I think it gives everybody
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: a chance to pack their bar. And I think it's
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: the most intrigue. It's a second last week of October.
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: I think that stuff's really intriguing to me.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: And I honestly, I love it. I think it's cool.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: I mean, I got one for you Saturday, Brant and
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: steelheads in town, obviously the Bulldogs, Brandon bruiser walks out
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: your guy with a, with a fishing net. I had
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: a fishing net. I was going to send you a picture,
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: but I didn't have time. But I was going to
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: send you a picture there. He had a fishing net.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: I was like, oh, no.
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: BC would be dying right now if he saw this. But,
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: uh no i think it's cool i like the mascot
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: play sudbury north bay did some good mascot social media
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: stuff uh which was really cool and i think it's
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: great i think we're every weekend's good i think those
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: little things like that go a long way i mean
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: obviously peterborough with the pucks with the shower head like
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: the bubble bath.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: They wanted for me i'm sorry.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: That's the top one yeah that's a top one by
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: far I was dying when I saw that. That was
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: so funny. Peter, bro.
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's the icing on the cake for robbery weekend.
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: That and the axes in Flint were my two favorites
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: from a rivalry weekend, social media.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: Those were unbelievable.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: I got to give a shout out to Erie too,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: with Tim Quinn going around the university and Erie asking
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: what everybody's thoughts were of the ice dogs. And then
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: nobody had any idea who they were. That was the best.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: That was, yeah, that one was good too. So I'm
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: glad the team's social, uh, social units get involved there
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: and even the broadcasters and everything like that. It was
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: a lot of fun to see it around the league.
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: And I'm glad they continue to bring this back every week.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: Cause it's a, it's a cool little, little in season,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: I guess, bragging rights that, that happens throughout. Right.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: So I love it.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: Mike far was going to join us in about 10
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: minutes here, Colin. So we'll get through our last headline here.
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: And I know you got a lot of thoughts on it,
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: so we might as well start with it. Potential changes
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: coming to the Memorial cup tournament after the year, 2028.
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: We know that the Quebec ramparts are going to host the,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: the 2028 tournament. But after that, we got some interesting
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: comments from CHL Commissioner Dan McKenzie about potentially some changes
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: coming to how the format of the tournament works. Maybe
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: eight teams, maybe double elimination instead of single game elimination. Colin,
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: what are your thoughts on it? And I'm going to
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: pull up a little bit of, I guess, thoughts that
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: a friend of the show, Josh Brown, had a chat
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: with Dan McKenzie, I believe, at the Memorial Cup that
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: just passed. about what he would like to see potentially
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: change if it were to, uh, obviously, you know, get,
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: get amended here, but what are your thoughts on it? I, uh,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: first off, I want the moral cup to stay as is.
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: Um, I love the way the moral cup is. I
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: think it makes it special. I think it's the hardest league.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: I think it's the hardest trophy to win in sport. Um,
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: and I don't think it's even anywhere close.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: So you have a host team obviously who could be
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: winning their championship and going the hard way that hasn't
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: happened in a while, but, You have a host team
• 31:53
  Speaker 4: that probably has a series, possibly two series off. So
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: obviously they're kind of favored a little bit. And then
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: you have the three champions from the league. And I
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: think the coolest part of the CHL championship is the
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: interviews after the Memorial cup gets handed out in the
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: interviews with the players about how hard those two weeks
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: are the 10, 11 days we're in Kelowna for the
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: Kitchener Rangers, you know, like, hearing Mike Stubbs talk about
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: a lot of nights in Rimouski where they lost the
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: medicine hat. And it's like, well, you know, here we go.
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: And those are the stories that make our trophy, the
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: hardest trophy to win in all a sport. And it
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: is the hardest to win in all a sport. It's
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: harder to win than the Stanley cup. Cause if you
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: want the Stanley cup, okay, then now go play in
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: a tournament against the other three champions around the world.
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: You're right. It's a, it's a hard trophy to win.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: It's the hardest trophy to win.
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: And I think for that point, That's why I don't
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: want it to be changed. But I obviously had to
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: come up, Brandon, with an idea if it does get changed.
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: And my thought process is, one, I know we're going
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: in a landscape right now with the NCAA and the
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: way we're moving, it reminds me a lot of the
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: national championship in college football. And it's fine, but the
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: games don't mean anything in college football. You're going to
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: have nine and three teams get in possibly this season
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: with just an eight with just a 12 team playoff.
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: Now they go to 24 and that's banana lands for me. I, I,
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: I don't understand that at all, but you're going to
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: have teams like Michigan get in and lose 50 to
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: nothing in the first game. And thanks for coming out boys.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: But they're not even ranked. So they won't even get
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: a chance at that. They'll be in the Fiesta.
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: Bowl or the pop tart bowl. But I think my
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: idea is for this, if you're going to do, I
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: like the six teams.
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: If you're going to change it, do six teams. Champions go, obviously.
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: Champions go. I would like to see the regular season
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: champion get an opportunity. So I'd like to see the
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: regular season champion get an opportunity to go as well.
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: So obviously those could overlap.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: Because make the regular season important, right? Make it important
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: to teams. Because last year, could you imagine if we had.
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: Prince Albert in the, in the Memorial cup, in the
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: Memorial cup, along with, uh, Kelowna, or if we had, uh,
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: Brantford along with Kitchener, that would be kind of, that
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: would be cool. Um, I think that would be really
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: neat to see those teams, like to have those extra
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: teams go, because you're going to have the max value.
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: Look at the prospects on those teams that obviously in
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: the right format, I'm going to say the right format
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: because it is the right format, the current format. But, um,
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: if it, if obviously if it's not the right format,
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: we're going to have to, uh, have teams come in.
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: And I think that's kind of where I like, I
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: like the regular season champions come in because if you
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: have the regular season champions come in, you get an
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: opportunity to, it's hard to do, right? It's hard to
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: win a regular season title. It's hard to win the spectator.
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: So I would like to see the regular season champions
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: go in. So there's possible three. Like I say, you
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: got to win it anyway. And then I would like
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: to see the, and then also replaces the finals. It
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: also replaces the finals. And that's how, Because let's be honest, Brandon,
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: we see it all the time on social media since
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: this article's come out. And what's the one thing we saw? Well,
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: now the finals isn't going to mean anything, right? Like
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: now if you go to the finals and both teams
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: get in, what does that mean? Well, no, I want
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: to make the finals mean something. So if you win,
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: you're in. And then the finalists, it's up to a
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: wild card. And this is where I think it gets interesting.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: I want the wild card teams. There's two wild cards
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: across the whole CHL.
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: And I want them to get voted in by National
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: Hockey League teams to benefit with the NHL-CHL partnership that
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: they have. I want to kind of tap into that
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: a little bit more. Just because if you can tap
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: into that, Brandon, in this new landscape, it's big for recruiting.
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: It's big for guys moving up for the draft. And
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: that in foremost, right, with the scouts and everything. So
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: maybe that, like a wild card. So right now I.
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: See regular season champions getting in. league champions getting in.
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: If that's six, that's six.
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: If there, if it's not, then it goes up for
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: a wildcard debate at a panel or NHL officials would
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: make that vote. But I would love to see that
• 36:26
  Speaker 4: kind of take place because one, it keeps it exciting.
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: And two, it makes your league championships mean something like
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: you're still going to buy to win the regular season.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: But if you don't win the regular season, well, here
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: we go.
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: There's only, if you win, let's say you win the
• 36:40
  Speaker 4: regular season, And then you go and you finish second place.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: In the regular season. You still got to work your
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: way there. You still have to work your way there, right?
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: And even if you do win the regular.
• 36:53
  Speaker 4: Season, it's not a lock to make the Memorial Cup,
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: which it just gives you an opportunity at the wildcard spot.
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: I would put it at that. You still got to
• 36:59
  Speaker 4: win your division. But, and you have to have the
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: best record in the postseason as well to earn a
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: wildcard spot if you win the regular season. But you
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: have a good shot at making it. I'd say your
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: chances are like 70% instead of zero, instead of, You
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: got to win the rounds. But that's kind of the
• 37:14
  Speaker 4: way I look at it. I would like to see
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: more pressure on winning a championship. More teams would buy
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: and have an opportunity, right? So that's kind of where
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: I look at it. I would like to see a
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: wild card. I think that would be really cool to see.
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: And on the same time, you're making your team win
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: a championship to mean something. If you go to the
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: finals and lose, you're not still in, right? It makes
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: our finals valuable. It makes our J-Ross valuable. Because just
• 37:41
  Speaker 4: because if you win the OHL championship and you get
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: beat out in the second round and you're the number
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: one team, doesn't mean you're going to the Memorial Cup.
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: So I think that's kind of, it puts pressure on
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: you to win, at least get to the conference final,
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: get to the finals, to even have a chance at
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: a wild card. So I kind of think that's the
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: way I kind of think of the thought process on this,
• 38:01
  Speaker 4: if they're going to adapt, but I really hope they
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: keep it the right way. I love the way our
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: championship is right now, the Memorial Cup. It's a long
• 38:09
  Speaker 4: season in, to be honest, the best team every year
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: wins Memorial cup. I know Saginaw, I know St. John
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: when they were hosts, but they won, they won. And
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: that's kind of what I think. That's what I kind
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: of think of the, where this landscape's at right now.
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: It'd be interesting to see what Mike thinks when he,
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: when he joins us, we'll have to ask him this question, Brandon,
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: what he thinks of this, because I'm so fascinated with it.
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: And hopefully you heard my example of, But I really
• 38:38
  Speaker 4: hope they don't switch the process. I like it the
• 38:40
  Speaker 4: right way it is now, but I really hope if
• 38:45
  Speaker 4: they're going to change it, make the championships mean something.
• 38:50
  Speaker 3: That's all I ask.
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: I don't want teams that make the finals just get
• 38:53
  Speaker 4: in because they made the finals.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to welcome in on our guests now, and
• 41:02
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  Speaker 1: Voice on now 98.5 CKWR that would be the one
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  Speaker 1: and the only Mike Farwell Mike also the host of
• 41:26
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• 41:30
  Speaker 1: ours that we Colin and I have been on as
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: guests as well a lot of fun with him and
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: Dan Meager as well so Mike really appreciate the time
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: tonight I'm sure and I think you already did talk
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: about this a little bit on your Fridays with Farwell
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: the Memorial Cup tournament and potentially expanding after 2028, uh,
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: first welcome. And I guess you can kind of join
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: in on your thoughts on that whole situation.
• 41:52
  Speaker 5: Thank you. Thank you for having me. Uh, it's always
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: great to be with you guys as an active participant
• 41:59
  Speaker 5: instead of just a passive listener. So nice to be
• 42:02
  Speaker 5: a part of the show. And I hate to start
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: this way. Like I hate it, but I'm going to
• 42:06
  Speaker 5: agree completely with Wardy here. Like what's going on if
• 42:09
  Speaker 5: Colin and I are same page in it here on
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: the OHL and 60, but I'm with you, Colin. I
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: know that the current format for the Memorial Cup is imperfect,
• 42:23
  Speaker 5: just like division alignment in the Ontario Hockey League is imperfect.
• 42:27
  Speaker 5: We need to see each other more. Exactly. Believe it
• 42:31
  Speaker 5: or not. There will always be these little imperfections, but
• 42:37
  Speaker 5: I'm with you big time on the meaningfulness of the
• 42:41
  Speaker 5: championships in each league. I've heard arguments that say, well,
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: you can't possibly water down a championship where you have
• 42:49
  Speaker 5: to go through 68 regular season games and then four
• 42:52
  Speaker 5: rounds of playoffs. And I understand that argument, but if
• 42:55
  Speaker 5: you're just letting the runner up kind of waltz in
• 42:58
  Speaker 5: with you, the reward for winning the championship is getting
• 43:02
  Speaker 5: to that tournament. And then that team that waltzes into
• 43:05
  Speaker 5: that tournament with you has the same champs at the
• 43:08
  Speaker 5: ultimate prize as you do. And I don't love that.
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: So is there room to tweak the format?
• 43:17
  Speaker 3: Maybe.
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: I'll tell you one thing that I'm really open to,
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: and I talked about this last week on the OHL podcast,
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: and it may be sacrilege in some areas, but just
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: having been to Kelowna for the Memorial Cup last May,
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: find me a better place in this country, truly. I mean,
• 43:33
  Speaker 5: Quebec City's pretty damn nice too, I'll give you that.
• 43:36
  Speaker 5: And there are other places, but even if I say
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: this as a Kitchener guy. Let's just say Kitchener had
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: won that bid, not Guelph for 2027, because I'm not
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: trying to knock Guelph. But neither Kitchener nor Guelph can
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: live up to Kelowna as a destination, as a site
• 43:51
  Speaker 5: for the Memorial Cup. So if there was a tweak
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: I was interested in, how about finding five, six, seven
• 43:58
  Speaker 5: different sites that just kind of rotate so that when
• 44:01
  Speaker 5: you go to the Memorial Cup, you have the kinds
• 44:04
  Speaker 5: of things to do outside the hockey that you had
• 44:06
  Speaker 5: to do in Kelowna, just a simply breathtaking place becomes
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: a tourist destination, all kinds of different things. It really
• 44:13
  Speaker 5: did add to the tournament itself, but I don't know
• 44:16
  Speaker 5: if I want to start adding more teams in here,
• 44:18
  Speaker 5: which you made a great point call in where I
• 44:20
  Speaker 5: agree with you a hundred percent again, isn't the season
• 44:23
  Speaker 5: long enough already. And we still go for this 10
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: day tournament, right? So, I don't know. I'm cautious when
• 44:31
  Speaker 5: it comes to tweaking the format. I know it's not perfect,
• 44:34
  Speaker 5: but I don't know that we're going to make it
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: a whole lot better with what's being proposed out there
• 44:38
  Speaker 5: right now.
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: How about with your host cities? Even if the host
• 44:42
  Speaker 4: doesn't play in the tournament, we have one extra wild card.
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: So it's like three teams, the three champions, and then
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: it's voted on by a panel of the CHL. I
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: mentioned the NHL beforehand. And the best fourth team, you
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: could say, fourth place, gets in to the tournament and
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: it rotates the cities as well. So let's say if
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: the host city doesn't have a good team, you still
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: have an opportunity to explore that city if you're the
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: CHL and have a host bubble type tournament for the
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: Memorial Cup there. What would you think of that if
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: you had like a wild card for that fourth city?
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: So let's say the host every seven years, if they
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: don't have an opportunity to have a successful roster on
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: the ice, they still have a chance to financially host
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: a tournament in a beautiful city like you mentioned Kelowna.
• 45:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think we're on to something there. I don't
• 45:27
  Speaker 5: mind the wildcard idea and your suggestion that the NHL
• 45:32
  Speaker 5: sort of be a part of the selection committee for
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: that wildcard is interesting for the reasons that you mentioned.
• 45:37
  Speaker 5: Recruiting the new hockey landscape, et cetera, makes it a
• 45:40
  Speaker 5: pretty attractive place to be if the NHL is paying
• 45:43
  Speaker 5: this much attention to major junior hockey in Canada, right?
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: One of the imperfections of the Memorial Cup, and you
• 45:50
  Speaker 5: mentioned Saginaw, we can go back to Windsor, you talked
• 45:53
  Speaker 5: about St. John's, the host team in and of itself
• 45:57
  Speaker 5: makes it imperfect, but I just don't know how we
• 45:59
  Speaker 5: get around that because if you don't have a host team,
• 46:03
  Speaker 5: you've lost 50, 60, 70% of your interest in the games, right?
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: Your ticket sales. Yeah.
• 46:09
  Speaker 5: It's a hundred percent with the building.
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: Like we see what the, we see what the games
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: are like when it's the queue in the other dub
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: team here in Guelph, let's say for this year, we're
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: going to see those, that game.
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: And, It'll be interesting to see the attendance, right? Like
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: that's the one thing that's on the flip side.
• 46:25
  Speaker 5: And I will tell anybody who wants to listen to
• 46:27
  Speaker 5: this again, having just been there and maybe there's a
• 46:29
  Speaker 5: bias because I sort of had a horse in the
• 46:32
  Speaker 5: race in so far as the team I was covering
• 46:34
  Speaker 5: was a part of the tournament, but I was at
• 46:36
  Speaker 5: every game every night and it was fantastic. Like Kelowna
• 46:40
  Speaker 5: put on a great show. Prospera place put on a
• 46:42
  Speaker 5: good show. The committee that ran the whole thing in
• 46:45
  Speaker 5: Kelowna put on, a terrific show. I'm sure Guelph will
• 46:48
  Speaker 5: as well. Anybody, if you're a junior hockey fan, don't,
• 46:51
  Speaker 5: don't pick and choose your package. Get in there and
• 46:53
  Speaker 5: enjoy every game. Cause this is the best hockey likely
• 46:58
  Speaker 5: you're going to see all season long. Right? So it's
• 47:01
  Speaker 5: well worth it from where I'm sitting.
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: Hey, we say it all the time. Don't watch these
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: kids play now for $ 30 because, and you got to
• 47:08
  Speaker 4: pay 200 and something to go to an NHL game.
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: Look at Matthew Schaefer, for instance, with the Erie, right?
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: Like you see a lot of good players in the league.
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: and you pay $ 30 now, but it's going to be
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: double that triple that quadruple that in the coming years
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: for sure.
• 47:24
  Speaker 5: Absolutely. I've, I've been hearing that argument for 20 plus
• 47:27
  Speaker 5: years in this league and it still makes sense since
• 47:30
  Speaker 5: Cody Hodgson and Matt Duchesne were playing for the Brampton battalion.
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 47:35
  Speaker 5: That's when I started.
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah.
• 47:37
  Speaker 5: You could see him for 25 bucks in Brampton tonight
• 47:40
  Speaker 5: or 250 bucks in Toronto tomorrow. So take your pick.
• 47:43
  Speaker 5: It is, it is tremendous value for your dollar. And
• 47:46
  Speaker 5: I'm not here to carry water for the league. I'm
• 47:48
  Speaker 5: really not, but it's, it's really tough to beat that.
• 47:50
  Speaker 5: It's really tough to beat.
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: We had to fix the OHL at one point in
• 47:53
  Speaker 3: this episode. Oh, we had to.
• 47:56
  Speaker 5: Our job, our job here is done, Wardy.
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: We're good.
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: All right, BC, I'm muting. Yeah.
• 48:03
  Speaker 1: We had quite the discussion on the OHL podcast with,
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: with Mike Farr. We'll give him another plug there, but
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: we'll give you, we'll give you a plug at the end, Mike,
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: to talk about the great stuff you do and, And
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: we have great love between us all.
• 48:13
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: There's no animosity between the two shows. We're not going
• 48:16
  Speaker 1: at it here. We love each other. You know, there, there's,
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: there's no bad blood here. So, um, you know, we,
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: and maybe people would want that, but again, we're not
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: going to give them the, the, the entertainment for that. So, uh,
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: with that, Mike, I mean, talking about Kelowna, that was
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: sort of where I wanted to go with my first
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: question for you, because obviously that was a special run
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: last year for the Kitchener Rangers. Uh, and again, winning
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: the OHL championship last season, uh, was big in and
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: of itself and and you're you know being involved with
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: that and and being able to have that final call
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: I'm sure it was a lifelong you know dream for
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: you you know obviously with everything Don Cameron did as
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: the voice of the Rangers before obviously you you got
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: that opportunity so that was special but also what was
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: that whole experience of going out to Kelowna and you
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: mentioned just the theatrics of it and and you know
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: just the I guess the whole city of in and
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: of itself but When you look back on it now
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: in October, looking back to the end of May and
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: early June there, I'm sure despite not having much sleep,
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: it was probably a special moment, not just because Kitchener
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: ended up winning the Memorial Cup tournament, but as a whole.
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: like what are your biggest memories or takeaways from that
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: that two weeks you were there well i'll.
• 49:25
  Speaker 5: I'll kind of add on to something that you mentioned
• 49:27
  Speaker 5: when you talked about there not being any beef between
• 49:31
  Speaker 5: these two podcasts we all want to see each other
• 49:33
  Speaker 5: succeed although if you want to manufacture something like i'm
• 49:35
  Speaker 5: here for it i'll play your heel anytime you guys
• 49:38
  Speaker 5: want okay but I've said this so many times since May,
• 49:41
  Speaker 5: and this is where it connects to what you said about,
• 49:44
  Speaker 5: you know, the two podcasts can coexist and we can
• 49:46
  Speaker 5: all get along. I hope, and I mean this sincerely,
• 49:50
  Speaker 5: I hope every one of my colleagues in this league,
• 49:53
  Speaker 5: and we know that it's second nature for Mike Stubbs
• 49:57
  Speaker 5: in London, okay, because he does this every three or
• 49:59
  Speaker 5: four years, right? But I want every one of my
• 50:02
  Speaker 5: colleagues that covers this league to get the chance to
• 50:05
  Speaker 5: be a part of a Memorial cup. So Dylan Baker,
• 50:08
  Speaker 5: I've been teasing him in Guelph all since last year.
• 50:10
  Speaker 5: Cause he's a, he's a newbie and in a second
• 50:12
  Speaker 5: year in the league, he's going to get to have
• 50:14
  Speaker 5: a Memorial cup as the storm being host, but it
• 50:17
  Speaker 5: is really a special experience. You guys love this league.
• 50:20
  Speaker 5: I could hear the passion and Colin's voice talking about
• 50:23
  Speaker 5: the proposed changes to the Memorial cup and all these
• 50:25
  Speaker 5: different things, the 30 bucks today or 300 bucks tomorrow.
• 50:28
  Speaker 5: We love this league. And, To be in that Memorial Cup,
• 50:32
  Speaker 5: to be a part of that experience, embedded in it,
• 50:35
  Speaker 5: in that city for 10 days, it really is incredible stuff.
• 50:40
  Speaker 5: You mentioned Don Cameron the number of times I thought
• 50:43
  Speaker 5: back about my time with him when he would have
• 50:46
  Speaker 5: been calling those Memorial Cups back in 82, in 2003, 2008.
• 50:49
  Speaker 5: I thought about every one of them, every bit of it.
• 50:59
  Speaker 5: And the experience itself is, it's just terrific. If I
• 51:04
  Speaker 5: had a complaint, the only complaint that I had, and
• 51:07
  Speaker 5: I mentioned this to the team, they put it away
• 51:10
  Speaker 5: too early. There was no drama left by the end, right?
• 51:13
  Speaker 5: The Rangers are up. They get a late second period goal.
• 51:16
  Speaker 5: So they're up 3-1 going to the third. Not a
• 51:19
  Speaker 5: runaway by any stretch. But they started the third with
• 51:22
  Speaker 5: a five on three power play. Bang, bang. It's 5-1
• 51:26
  Speaker 5: just over a minute into the third period.
• 51:28
  Speaker 3: I knew.
• 51:29
  Speaker 5: I think everybody knew this one's done. It's toast. So
• 51:32
  Speaker 5: all of a sudden I've got 19 minutes to just
• 51:35
  Speaker 5: wait for the, like the clock could not have run
• 51:38
  Speaker 5: any slower. I'm like, can we please just, and so
• 51:41
  Speaker 5: it was a little bit anticlimactic that way. And I
• 51:43
  Speaker 5: talked to Jack Pridham about it afterwards, who scored one
• 51:46
  Speaker 5: of those third period power play goals. And he said,
• 51:49
  Speaker 5: that was, that was the plan at intermission. Like we've
• 51:51
  Speaker 5: got this opportunity, go out and put the final nail
• 51:54
  Speaker 5: in Everett's coffin. And that's not to take away from
• 51:56
  Speaker 5: the silver tips. They had a great team. a great tournament.
• 51:59
  Speaker 5: They're a great organization, but the Rangers just, they were
• 52:02
  Speaker 5: the better team and they pounded those two goals in
• 52:04
  Speaker 5: so quickly in the third period that it was just
• 52:07
  Speaker 5: watching the clock. And then I'm like, well, like there
• 52:09
  Speaker 5: was just, there was no added drama to it whatsoever.
• 52:12
  Speaker 5: But I think that just shows how dominant the team was.
• 52:15
  Speaker 5: And it certainly just gave me a chance to drink
• 52:18
  Speaker 5: it all in because by seven minutes left, you're just
• 52:22
  Speaker 5: starting to tell stories, right? It was our 90th game,
• 52:25
  Speaker 5: not including preseason and, 90th game of the season, right?
• 52:28
  Speaker 5: Things had happened along the way. Just start getting into
• 52:31
  Speaker 5: story time, and then you count down the clock with
• 52:33
  Speaker 5: the fans that you know were listening back home, and
• 52:36
  Speaker 5: you celebrate the third Memorial Cup in Kitchener Rangers history.
• 52:39
  Speaker 5: Phenomenal stuff. I really do hope everybody gets to experience it.
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: Kitchener Rangers radio play-by-play voice Mike Farr was with us. Colin,
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: go ahead.
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: Got goosebumps hearing that, Mike. I mean, I got to
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: mention this to you. I mean, speaking with the.
• 52:50
  Speaker 4: Global ambassador, Josh Brown, I'm not paying– he doesn't pay
• 52:55
  Speaker 4: us anything– It doesn't slide in a fiver or whatever.
• 52:59
  Speaker 5: He better start. You guys, listen, let me tell you
• 53:02
  Speaker 5: about that guy. I've been on press row with that
• 53:03
  Speaker 5: guy for about 15 years now, okay? He does not
• 53:06
  Speaker 5: deserve all of the love he gets from you knuckleheads.
• 53:09
  Speaker 5: Stop it already. No, I'm kidding.
• 53:10
  Speaker 3: There's a rivalry. There you go.
• 53:13
  Speaker 5: You want beef, come to the press box in Kitchener.
• 53:15
  Speaker 3: I'll see you in a couple months. A couple months,
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: I'll be there.
• 53:19
  Speaker 4: You know, that team had so much character last year.
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: The deadline, you make a deal with the dreaded London Knights.
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: and it's sam.
• 53:26
  Speaker 4: O'reilly and jared woolley coming over the impact sam o'reilly
• 53:31
  Speaker 4: had right from the get-go was the massive on the
• 53:34
  Speaker 4: rangers i mean that looking back at it that's the
• 53:36
  Speaker 4: championship move every year gm makes a deal and that's
• 53:39
  Speaker 4: when you look back hey that's why we one of
• 53:41
  Speaker 4: the main reasons why we won and that felt like
• 53:43
  Speaker 4: the championship move last year what was it like when
• 53:46
  Speaker 4: he came in did you kind of get a sense
• 53:48
  Speaker 4: that hey things are happening here like you saw the change.
• 53:53
  Speaker 5: Yes, but not right away because I was reluctant and
• 53:58
  Speaker 5: once bitten, twice shy or twice bitten, three times shy.
• 54:01
  Speaker 5: Take your pick. I have PTSD from Rangers trades with
• 54:06
  Speaker 5: the London Knights.
• 54:07
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 54:07
  Speaker 5: It goes back to the 08 championship that we were
• 54:10
  Speaker 5: hosting in Kitchener and made the trade for Steve Mason.
• 54:14
  Speaker 5: And there were rumblings that Mason was, you know, had
• 54:17
  Speaker 5: tweaked something at the world juniors that year, but everything
• 54:20
  Speaker 5: was going to be fine. And Pete DeBoer, rarely makes
• 54:22
  Speaker 5: a misstep that was the guy he wanted and of
• 54:25
  Speaker 5: course steve mason the injury kept him out of the
• 54:29
  Speaker 5: memorial cup and and would it have been different for
• 54:33
  Speaker 5: the kitchener rangers in 08 some years later the rangers
• 54:37
  Speaker 5: a young rangers team makes a trade with the london
• 54:40
  Speaker 5: knights for paxton larue because this young rangers team needs
• 54:44
  Speaker 5: a heavyweight to just kind of keep things on an
• 54:47
  Speaker 5: even keel. Now, everybody knew LaRue had been battling some injuries,
• 54:51
  Speaker 5: but he got a clean bill of health and his
• 54:52
  Speaker 5: first shift with the Kitch-Air Rangers, it's like he blows
• 54:56
  Speaker 5: out the shoulder and that's it. So, yeah, Sam O'Reilly,
• 55:01
  Speaker 5: Jared Woolley, Guys with back-to-back Ontario Hockey League championships. Why
• 55:07
  Speaker 5: wouldn't you want them? But I'm like, oh my gosh,
• 55:09
  Speaker 5: what's going to happen? What injury is going to emerge here?
• 55:13
  Speaker 5: It took me about three games to get over that,
• 55:15
  Speaker 5: just watching the way Sam O'Reilly went about business. And
• 55:18
  Speaker 5: that's on the ice and off the ice. And I'll
• 55:22
  Speaker 5: tie this into the Guelph Storm. Look, I got a
• 55:24
  Speaker 5: lot of time for George Burnett. This guy has built
• 55:27
  Speaker 5: winners before. He's building one again right now. We all
• 55:31
  Speaker 5: know he's not yet done but the players that he
• 55:34
  Speaker 5: has brought in one of the missing ingredients and in
• 55:37
  Speaker 5: fairness these players don't grow on trees when you want
• 55:39
  Speaker 5: to go on to the trade market but they don't
• 55:42
  Speaker 5: have the championship experience these guys Sam O'Reilly and Jared
• 55:47
  Speaker 5: Woolley might as well have walked into the Kitchener Memorial
• 55:50
  Speaker 5: Auditorium carrying the J. Ross Robertson trophy with them because
• 55:54
  Speaker 5: that's just the that's the presence that they had and
• 55:57
  Speaker 5: and the influence on the team is really hard to
• 56:01
  Speaker 5: put into words. But having that championship experience, then we knew.
• 56:05
  Speaker 5: We all knew, like, okay, the deal, first of all,
• 56:07
  Speaker 5: with the arch rival, division foe, the London Knights, and
• 56:11
  Speaker 5: the caliber of players, you're like, man, Mike McKenzie, he's
• 56:15
  Speaker 5: meant it before, he really means it this time. Absolutely.
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Mike, and just everything that went into that season,
• 56:23
  Speaker 1: obviously winning an OHL championship and a Memorial Cup, was
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: massive that was your first time obviously being able to
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: call a championship like that and and just everything that
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: came with that moment uh just you know when you
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: look back on what last season will be i'm sure
• 56:37
  Speaker 1: you'll remember for the rest of your life but just
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: personally for you you know growing up you know bleeding
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: kitchener blue like how special was that for you and
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: just everybody involved in your your circle about uh just
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: that whole experience of what last season was So if
• 56:53
  Speaker 1: I may, I'll.
• 56:54
  Speaker 5: Start with a quick Don Cameron story that is related.
• 56:58
  Speaker 5: I was working OHL in Guelph when the Rangers won
• 57:03
  Speaker 5: in 03. Guelph went to the Memorial Cup in 04.
• 57:08
  Speaker 5: I was working in Guelph then. And after that season,
• 57:11
  Speaker 5: Guelph didn't win a game at that Memorial Cup in Kelowna,
• 57:14
  Speaker 5: of all places. And then after that season, I came
• 57:17
  Speaker 5: to my hometown of Kitchener, started broadcasting Kitchener Rangers hockey.
• 57:20
  Speaker 5: So I was in the booth. with Don Cameron for
• 57:24
  Speaker 5: the 08 Memorial Cup. Obviously, Don is the guy that
• 57:29
  Speaker 5: called those games. But that's the year that Spokane won
• 57:34
  Speaker 5: and the trophy broke. And Don, if you knew anything
• 57:39
  Speaker 5: about him, he always talked on a Sunday game, you know,
• 57:42
  Speaker 5: we've been to the church of our choice and now
• 57:44
  Speaker 5: we're going to play some hockey. That was kind of
• 57:46
  Speaker 5: a Sunday phrase of Don's, the church of your choice.
• 57:49
  Speaker 5: And he was a devout man. never missed a Sunday service.
• 57:53
  Speaker 5: Even on the road, he'd find a church to go
• 57:55
  Speaker 5: to near the hotel we were staying. So the trophy
• 57:59
  Speaker 5: breaks and out of the devout Don Cameron's mouth comes,
• 58:05
  Speaker 5: oh my God, they broke the trophy. And for Don saying,
• 58:09
  Speaker 5: oh my God, live on the air, was a bridge
• 58:12
  Speaker 5: too far. Now, I mean, you listen to my mouth sometimes,
• 58:14
  Speaker 5: not just on the podcast, but on the air. I'm like,
• 58:17
  Speaker 5: it's technically, I'm doing post-game shows. I'm calling people dumbass.
• 58:20
  Speaker 5: You know, it's like, it's 10 o'clock on a Friday night.
• 58:22
  Speaker 5: Who cares? AM radio, blah, blah. Anyway, Don had to
• 58:26
  Speaker 5: draw himself back and apologize. He apologized on the air
• 58:30
  Speaker 5: for his outburst because he said, oh my God, Don,
• 58:33
  Speaker 5: the trophy just broke before our very eyes. Like this,
• 58:37
  Speaker 5: it's okay that you uttered those words. To get around
• 58:41
  Speaker 5: directly to your question, Brandon, it was something that when
• 58:45
  Speaker 5: I woke up on Sunday, May the 31st, the day
• 58:49
  Speaker 5: of the final, I had all this nervous energy. I
• 58:53
  Speaker 5: was up early. I still hadn't really adjusted to the
• 58:56
  Speaker 5: time change, but whatever. I got up early. I took
• 58:58
  Speaker 5: a hike up a mountain near the hotel. Again, I'll
• 59:01
  Speaker 5: just come back to please put Memorial Cups in places
• 59:04
  Speaker 5: like Kelowna. Like you go hike a mountain before you
• 59:07
  Speaker 5: go to the final game of the Memorial Cup, right?
• 59:10
  Speaker 5: It was fantastic.
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: What's that?
• 59:12
  Speaker 3: The hocus was with you pregame.
• 59:14
  Speaker 5: No, no. Listen, you think I can keep up with
• 59:17
  Speaker 5: that guy? Not a chance. He's an animal. He's a
• 59:23
  Speaker 5: complete freak of nature. No, I was all by myself
• 59:26
  Speaker 5: with my own thoughts and my own anxiety that was
• 59:30
  Speaker 5: starting to build because all I could think about was
• 59:34
  Speaker 5: the 89 games as a team that we had played
• 59:38
  Speaker 5: so far, going back to the beginning of the season,
• 59:41
  Speaker 5: the playoff run, the three games of the round robin
• 59:44
  Speaker 5: that the Rangers won every one of at the Memorial Cup.
• 59:48
  Speaker 5: And in my mind, I just kept thinking, but what if?
• 59:52
  Speaker 5: what if they, they have an off night? What if
• 59:55
  Speaker 5: Sam O'Reilly isn't Superman? He's just kind of Batman for
• 59:58
  Speaker 5: the night. And then it just doesn't work out, you know,
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 5: whatever it was. And I'm just like, then it's all,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 5: it's all for naught. And of course the game turned
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 5: out the way that the game turned out. But from that,
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 5: from that morning, all through the day, I was just
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 5: thinking about the history of the franchise, the opportunity that
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 5: I'd been given to call games for my hometown team,
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 5: work with a legend, like Don Cameron, all of these
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 5: things were going through my mind. Brian Bellows, like I
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 5: grew up in Kitchener. I was going to the Kitchener
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 5: Memorial Auditorium when Al McInnes and Scott Stevens were on
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 5: the blue line. Don Beaupre was in goal. Like I'm just,
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 5: all of these things are like the weight of all
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 5: of this, the franchise's history on my shoulders. The game
• 1:00:40
  Speaker 5: couldn't start soon enough for me. And as much as
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 5: I joked earlier about the anticlimactic finish, I'll take it, baby.
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 5: I'll take 19 minutes of just breathing on the air
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 5: and being allowed to tell some stories about the season.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 3: Absolutely. I mean, it's special.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 4: And Mike, definitely well-deserved not to call the game like that.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 4: You've worked your butt off for that. So definitely really
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 4: cool to be able to hear your call like that.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 4: And it's cool to hear these stories about building up
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 4: the energy. But I got to get to this year.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 4: Rivalry weekend this week. I think it's a great initiative
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 4: by the OHL to have a rivalry weekend. I think
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 4: it's better than these ch these quebec ohl games these
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 4: out of conference game preseason games i think rivalry weekend
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 4: is the one of the best weekends in the regular
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 4: season and the rangers had one with the guelph storm
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 4: it felt like it felt like sunday was two games
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 4: in one where the rangers are down next thing you
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 4: know they're back next thing you know it's all over
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 4: the map what's been your impressions one with the rangers
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 4: season so far two what's your thoughts on rivalry weekend.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 5: First of all, are you trying to get me going
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 5: by talking about those cross league games? Because if you
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 5: want to talk, what's that?
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  Speaker 3: I'm not a fan.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 5: Oh, you, you want to talk about things we need
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 5: to fix in this damn league. Like let's go. Hey, Mr. Crawford, Oh, Wardy.
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  Speaker 5: And I've got one meeting, one meeting. Well, you can't,
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 5: you can't let some teams, you can't let some teams
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  Speaker 5: play the Quebec league and everybody else. Anyway, we got
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 5: to have a meeting with exactly. It's all we need.
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  Speaker 5: The camera in a meeting. maybe after 10 on am
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  Speaker 5: i even better because we can we can call him
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  Speaker 5: a dumb ass if we want to i don't know
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  Speaker 5: i mean i don't know if that's i know i
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  Speaker 5: don't know if that's proper language to use for the
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  Speaker 5: commissioner but we can use that kind of language back
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  Speaker 5: and forth croft you can come at us like that
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 5: too for sure uh i love rivalry week i absolutely
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  Speaker 5: love it i i said last season when i i
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 5: didn't really think much of it until it had come
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  Speaker 5: and gone and i loved it and i said The
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 5: OHL gave us the idea of the thing that we
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 5: didn't know we needed or whatever it was. I feel
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 5: that way again this year. I was actually looking forward
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 5: to it because I enjoyed it so much last year.
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  Speaker 5: Huge win for the OHL. Great idea.
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  Speaker 3: Keep that.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 5: Get rid of the cross-league games, please and thank you.
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 5: And what did I think of the Rangers this weekend? Listen,
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 5: if it's one thing we've said from... day one, I
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 5: can think of, I think it was the fourth or
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 5: fifth game. I'm going to forget the opponent, but one
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 5: time in the first 10 games or so, you would
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 5: look at the Ranger team and say, they didn't give
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 5: you the effort that they had been giving in those
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 5: other games. Look, there are ponies in the stable as
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 5: opposed to thoroughbreds this year. We all understand that. And
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 5: when you go on a run, like the Rangers went
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 5: on last year, you get a whole lot of grace
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 5: from the fans. I think anyway, you certainly get grace
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 5: from the broadcasters. Cause I'm like, ah, these guys are
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 5: out there. They're working their tails off. You win some,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 5: you lose some.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 5: But I'll tell you that, that work ethic has again,
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 5: maybe one game where you didn't see it for the
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 5: full 60. Other than that, 14 out of 15, they're
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 5: playing their tails off. And, and all of a sudden
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 5: it seems they're getting rewarded for it. I actually said
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 5: this to a buddy just the other day. I hope
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 5: this past weekend for Kitchener, doesn't go to their heads.
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 5: I mean, you want to see hard work get rewarded
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 5: and the Rangers are working hard without getting rewarded, right?
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 5: They were on a five game skid, a game they
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 5: lost in the Sioux in overtime. They shouldn't have lost,
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 5: but a bad bounce cost them. They have a shootout
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 5: loss to the London Knights, five straight losses. And you're
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 5: starting to kind of marinate in your own stink a
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 5: little bit here thinking we're working hard. We're not getting rewarded.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 5: All of a sudden now you've got points in five
• 1:04:26
  Speaker 5: straight games and you went toe to toe with with
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 5: the CHL's top ranked team for a weekend. And the
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 5: best part for me, you talk about two games in
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 5: one on that Sunday afternoon at the Sleeman Center. Agreed.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 5: I mean, it's a tight game through one. The Storms
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 5: score early like they did on Friday night in Kitchener.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 5: They have a one goal lead after one. And then
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 5: in the second, bang, bang, two shorties, nine seconds apart,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 5: 4-1 Guelph. And you think, well, that's it. This Ranger
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 5: team is just going to fold up and go home.
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 5: And next thing you know, It's 5-5 with a late
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 5: goal by the Rangers, and you're going to overtime. This
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 5: team doesn't quit. And some of the players that have
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 5: been a part of this team for a few years
• 1:05:04
  Speaker 5: and gained that valuable experience last season with the run,
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 5: Tanner Lamb, Luca Romano, Cameron Arquette, are starting to carry
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 5: some mail here for the Kitchener Rangers, and they're getting
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 5: rewarded for the effort. I think it's great to see.
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 5: I'm not promising... an ohl championship or another run at
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 5: a memorial cup this year but the the culture that
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 5: was established over the past three years under uc hocus
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 5: continues to pay dividends today with the kitchener rangers at
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 5: least from my viewpoint.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah mike you mentioned seven of a possible eight points
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: over their last four games and they're sitting right in
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: the middle of that western conference right now fifth place
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: you know as you mentioned coming off of a of
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 1: an ohl championship there it doesn't look like they're having
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: much of a hangover with it right obviously a high
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 1: roster turnover, you know, new head coach at the helm.
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: A lot of players graduated onto the pros last this season.
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 1: So a brand new Kitchener Rangers team with some of
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 1: those leftovers, as you mentioned with the Tanner Lambs and
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 1: the Luca Romanos, but you know, just after you go
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 1: through a process like that, where you're the best team
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: in the Ontario hockey league, and then you have to
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 1: sort of rebuild and restock a little bit. I know
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: the NCAA agreement has helped with be able to sign some,
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 1: some college free agents or guys that have commitments to
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 1: colleges and and things like that to maybe try to
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: make yourself a little bit more competitive. But like, is
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 1: this a little bit maybe ahead of schedule of where
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: you thought the Rangers would be coming off of the
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 1: OHL championship? Or do you think that, you know, a
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 1: four to six seating in the Western conference would be
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: a successful season for them?
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 5: True story. I had them right in that range. I
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 5: didn't think they would be as high as four to
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 5: start the playoffs on home ice, but sixth would have
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 5: been the low end for me coming into the season. Now, Again,
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 5: we're not even quite a quarter of the way through yet.
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 5: And I will add that this weekend coming is going
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 5: to be a little bit of an equalizer, if you will,
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 5: because the Rangers have currently played more games than any
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 5: other team in this Ontario Hockey League. This weekend coming,
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 5: the Rangers play just once, and it's not an easy team.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 5: They've got the Flint Firebirds in town. But other teams
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 5: will start to catch up in the number of games played.
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 5: And if they, of course, are successful with those quote-unquote
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 5: games in hand, we'll see what the standings look like
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 5: another week and a half to two weeks from now
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 5: as the rest of the league begins catching up in
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 5: terms of the number of games. But would I say
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 5: this is ahead of schedule? No. But you touched on something, Brandon,
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 5: when you talked about the ability to recruit players out
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 5: of the United States. Charlie Puglisi would be an example.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 5: He's signed by Nashville now, or not signed yet, but
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 5: drafted by Nashville. You know, you've got a guy like
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 5: Hayden Ellis that is sticking around this league and some others.
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 5: But going back to that 08 championship that I referenced
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 5: earlier when the Rangers lost the Memorial Cup final on
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 5: home ice, that was Pete DeBoer's last year in Kitchener
• 1:07:56
  Speaker 5: as the head coach and general manager. And believe you me,
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 5: he left the cupboards empty. So I've watched this team
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 5: go through a year like the 08-09 season when There
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 5: was very little hope. I saw them go through it
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 5: again just after Steve Spot left when he loaded up
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 5: and the Rangers didn't get all the way in 2012-13.
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 5: And then they had a really down year. And I
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 5: mean down years. I think the 0-9 team had 22 wins?
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 3: Something.
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 5: Anyway, this team I don't think was ever going to
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 5: be that. They're not going to be world beaters, although
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 5: they looked like it this past weekend. But let's see
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 5: how the standings kind of settle in. after the other
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 5: teams start catching up in terms of games played. And
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 5: don't forget the opportunity that the Rangers do have. They've
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 5: only got one overager on their team. And there are
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 5: a few guys out there playing in other places right
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 5: now that could come back to the Ontario Hockey League, right?
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 5: Gabe Sherratt's out in the American Hockey League with Abbotsford.
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 5: You got Luke Ellenis with the Belleville Sens. Heck, Jared
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 5: Woolley could. I mean, it's very, very unlikely. But, you know,
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 5: so there's room on the Ranger roster for some returnees
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 5: that could make things even more interesting in Kitchener.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you get a little bit of a boost.
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 4: And it's funny, you mentioned there's a core there right
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 4: now that experienced last year's winning season. And it carries
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 4: momentum into this season. alexander belecky with the offseason he
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 4: had his his development and i mean that's the beauty
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 4: of our league when you see a kid come in
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 4: like that and show promise and get an opportunity i'm
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 4: sure it was like sitting right in the middle of
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 4: the dressing room last year you got your defensive core
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 4: cameron reed you got all these superstars on the back
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 4: end and then you look at the forwards that come
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 4: in every day at practice you're going up against sam
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 4: o'reilly What's that story been like for you watching his
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 4: developments and coming into the league? I mean, he's got
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 4: 14 points and 13 games already. Like he's been incredible
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 4: and his development just continues to trend upwards.
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 5: So because of something you just said, I'm going to
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 5: add another name in and then go deeper on Bilecki.
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 5: But Caden Schneider is a guy that's just been kind
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 5: of hanging around. Great teammate, rarely saw ice. You look
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 5: at him this year with more ice time and more
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 5: responsibility and you cannot convince me that playing against or
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 5: practicing against the Sam O'Reillys of the world last season
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 5: didn't do wonders for Caden Schneider, a guy that we
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 5: thought might have been a bubble player for this league.
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 5: The development in his game, the leap he has taken,
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 5: must have had something to do with practicing against guys
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 5: like O'Reilly and all those other high-end players the Rangers
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 5: had last season. On Bilecki, which is the point of
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 5: your question, I'll be honest with you, when the rankings
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 5: came out, the rankings from Central Scouting, mid last season
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 5: and had Bilecki in and around the third round. I thought, yep,
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 5: that's about right for this guy that we've seen now
• 1:10:54
  Speaker 5: for a year, a season and a half in Kitchener.
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 5: But it was almost like when those rankings came out,
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 5: Bilecki wanted to prove them wrong. But because the, the,
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 5: the change or the trajectory that he went on from
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 5: there was pretty incredible. And again, he's, he's with a
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 5: pretty deep blue line, right? You got the Cameron Reeds,
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 5: you got the Jared Woolies, you got the Matt Andonofskis,
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 5: et cetera. So he has a great opportunity to learn
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 5: from these guys, quarterback power play number two, et cetera,
• 1:11:25
  Speaker 5: practice with these guys. But the trajectory was pretty incredible.
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 5: And all of a sudden I'm around rinks and the
• 1:11:30
  Speaker 5: playoffs are going on and people are starting to talk.
• 1:11:33
  Speaker 5: I talked to one scout. I remember vividly saying, ah,
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 5: we're picking late in the second round. I don't think
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 5: he's still going to be there.
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 3: I'm like, really?
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 5: Alexander Bilecki, who like six weeks ago was projected kind
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 5: of mid-pack third round guy. And now you're saying late second,
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 5: he's not going to be there, but that, and that's
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 5: not me talking. That's the, that's the buzz around the
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 5: rink when you're talking to scouts and obviously fully deserving.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 5: How much do I love it that he ended up
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 5: with my Leafs? Let me tell you all about that
• 1:11:58
  Speaker 5: for sure. But watching, I know I'm sorry, BC, but.
• 1:12:01
  Speaker 5: Four in a row, baby.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 3: Four in a row.
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 5: And, Wardy, I heard you last week. I heard you
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 5: running down. Oh, leaves, falling leaves, falling leaves.
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 3: And what did you say?
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 5: Four in a row. That's fine.
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 3: That's fine. Hey, hey, hey. They should be thanking me.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 3: Keep it up. They should be thanking me.
• 1:12:13
  Speaker 5: Exactly.
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 5: Thank you.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 5: Bilecki has been an absolute treat. And it's funny. I
• 1:12:21
  Speaker 5: joked with him on Sunday before the game that I
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 5: had money on the board for him Friday night to score.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 5: It was a friendly wager up in the broadcast booth.
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 5: But I said, this guy's due. He's doing everything but score.
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 5: And he must have had three, four glorious chances, including
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 5: a crossbar. And so I saw him on Sunday. I said, Billsy,
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 5: you cost.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 3: Me on Friday.
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 5: I had money on the board for you. I said,
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 5: I thought you're finally going to get your first. He said, yeah,
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 5: but you know, I had chances and it's going to
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 5: come eventually. And what did he do? Went out on
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 5: Sunday and scored the first goal. He's been, he's been terrific.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 4: The maturity on that answer too is impressive. Like to
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 4: say that while I'm getting my chances, a lot of
• 1:12:57
  Speaker 4: kids at that age, like they're not, they get in chances,
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 4: but they're not going in for the first time in
• 1:13:02
  Speaker 4: their lives. Cause they're always superstars wherever they come from.
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 4: And for the first time in their lives, you're just
• 1:13:06
  Speaker 4: not going in. And then all of a sudden it's like, Oh,
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 4: you know, it's a maturity of that answer.
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 3: That's really impressive too.
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 1: So, Mike, the last Rangers-related question I have for you
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 1: is the goaltending. Jason Schaubel, obviously, Jeff Kurzak must trust
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: him with what he's done so far this season. But,
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, when you look at it, you're replacing Christian
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: Kirsch last season and the year before that with Jackson Parsons.
• 1:13:31
  Speaker 1: It's quite the shoes to fill within the Rangers' net
• 1:13:34
  Speaker 1: over the last few seasons. How do you think Schaubel
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 1: has kind of been up to that challenge so far?
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: 12 games this season, 6-3, 2-1 record. And, you know,
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 1: I guess, is that... Is that something that the Rangers
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 1: expected from him to be the guy that carries the
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 1: load here this season? Or I guess what has been
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 1: the thoughts from the Rangers goaltending so far this year?
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 5: This guy, Jason Schaubel, was ready to be the starter
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 5: midway through last season. He might have even been ready
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 5: to be the starter in his first season. And you
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 5: guys know goalies as well as anyone else. They have
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 5: to carry a certain amount of swagger and a certain
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 5: amount of confidence, right? You cannot, you cannot play the
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 5: position without that, at least in my opinion, but also
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 5: a terrific teammate. So he knew his role was to
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 5: be there when it was time for the number one
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 5: guy to get a night off and to be a
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 5: sponge and learn from these guys and, and the opportunity
• 1:14:29
  Speaker 5: along the way, not just learning from the other goaltenders,
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 5: but Jordan to court, the goaltending coach, Jake Patterson in
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 5: now as the goaltending coach, but Shabba was absolutely ready
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 5: for this. And I think you need to look no
• 1:14:41
  Speaker 5: further than than this past Friday night against the Guelph
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 5: Storm when Jason Schaubel put on as good a goaltending
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 5: performance as you will see in the league this season.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 5: I don't think that's being Homer. I think that's just
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 5: a fact. 34 saves on 37 shots against. But of
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 5: those 34 saves, 6, 7, 8, 10 bell saves by
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 5: this guy, including the highlight of the night that I'm
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 5: sure everybody has seen by now, lunging back to steal
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 5: a sure goal from the Storm. The numbers are not
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 5: going to tell the whole story here because... Jackson Parsons
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 5: and Christian Kirsch benefited from a much differently constructed Kitchener
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 5: Rangers team. You've got a younger blue line right now
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 5: with Andrew McNeil out of the Rangers lineup. We talked
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 5: about Alexander Bilecki a moment ago and that's it. It's
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 5: Alexander Bilecki and a bunch of strangers out there with
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 5: very little OHL experience on the blue line. That's a hard,
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 5: it's a hard league to play in the older you
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 5: get much less guys that, don't even have 30 games
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 5: of OHL experience. So the numbers I don't think from
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 5: Schaubel will tell the entire story because it's a different
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 5: team that he's playing behind. But this guy has proven
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 5: that he can do it even with this team. And
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 5: he's just going to get better as the seasons go on.
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 5: Absolutely ready to carry the mail for the Kitchener Rangers
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 5: this year and in the next year too.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 3: Perfect.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 4: Mike, my last question for you. I appreciate you taking
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 4: the time. Congrats, by the way, again, on all the success.
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 4: you had broadcasting that past this past season in your
• 1:16:10
  Speaker 4: career so far.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 3: I mean, you've been great to listen to.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 4: I always look forward to hearing your podcast, hearing your
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 4: calls and obviously Bulldogs Rangers games are always, it's a
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 4: great part. You and seeing Josh Brown, obviously it's always
• 1:16:23
  Speaker 4: a blast. And I hope, I hope you can get
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 4: me that a Bulldogs thing in the media room, the
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 4: little glass or silver statue that they had, like the plaques.
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 4: Those things are sweet. And I remember last year, joking
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 4: with Josh, I want that so badly. If the Bulldogs
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 4: one never goes missing, I got it.
• 1:16:40
  Speaker 3: They're great in the job.
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 4: But I got to ask you, because something that I
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 4: think you do really well is how you manage your
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 4: social media. And social media in the OHL is a jungle.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 4: There's a lot that goes on. What's your biggest piece
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 4: of advice on how to manage social media in this
• 1:16:58
  Speaker 4: day and age? Because a lot of people in our
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 4: league struggle with it. And there's obviously a lot of
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 4: different opinions now in the league on social media. how
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 4: do you handle that? And what's your biggest piece of advice?
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 5: Oh, that is, that is a great question. And I
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 5: really appreciate you saying how well I handle it because
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 5: it's hard. I don't think that's all it, but that,
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 5: and that hasn't always been the case. I I'll be
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 5: the first to admit that if the history is on
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 5: the internet, you can go, I don't delete anything. If
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 5: I put it out there, I put it out there.
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 5: So have at it. But I like to think that
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 5: I have found a happy place if you will, when
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 5: it comes to, To my social media for the OHL.
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 5: And there's two pieces of advice that I will give
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 5: anyone who is interested in listening. The question was asked,
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 5: number one, be yourself because you're the best person at
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 5: being that person, right? Just be who you are. Don't
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 5: try to be a shock jock. Don't try to be
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 5: somebody that you're not. Unless you are a Don Cherry,
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 5: then go ahead and be Don Cherry. But be yourself,
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 5: number one. And number two, it might be a 1A.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 5: following directly behind Be Yourself, don't. Just don't go into
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 5: the muck. It's not worth it. Even if we can
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 5: go 280 characters at a time now, it doesn't matter.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 5: Don't go into the muck. So just be yourself and
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 5: don't go into the muck. I like now, in my older, wiser,
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 5: more mature times, and by that I mean I'm just
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 5: too damn old to get involved anymore, right? But I
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 5: absolutely love this league. I really do. And I want
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 5: to do anything that I do. I want to promote
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 5: the league and the players that are playing within it.
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 5: These are young men. I can't even tell you. The
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 5: older I get, the more I feel like I'm hanging
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 5: out with my kids on every road trip. and i
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 5: i love these guys and i want i want to
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 5: set a good example for them i want them to
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 5: do well i want them to maybe take a little
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 5: piece away from me as to how i carry myself
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 5: online and elsewhere so i i just i try to
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 5: think about that I want to promote the league. I
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 5: really do. Is hockey perfect? Absolutely not. We all know that.
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 5: But is this a great game at a great level
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 5: with a great age group of young men? Yes. And
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 5: I want to be a part of building that up.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 5: So I stay right the hell out of the muck.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 5: And my track record online for years now has absolutely
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 5: borne that out. I've got no time for it anymore.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: Well, Mike, we've got, I guess, I got like two
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 1: more just quick rapid fire questions for you, but we've
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 1: got our friend of the show, Josh Brown, wanted us
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 1: to ask you, with it being election night municipally tonight,
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: when are you going to run for mayor of Kitchener?
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 5: Have I made it clear on this podcast how much
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 5: I love Josh Brown? Because anything I said kind about
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 5: him before this, I take it all back. What a
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 5: muckety muck this guy is.
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 3: Here's my e-transfer, Josh.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 5: It's funny you bring that up, though, because I was
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 5: going to give you guys a hard time for taking
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 5: me away from election results to do this podcast with you.
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 5: And that's a true story. I am such a geek
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 5: when it comes to politics. I really am, especially local politics.
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 5: But your audience doesn't want to hear me complain about
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 5: missing the municipal election results. So pretend I didn't say that.
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 5: The answer to Brownie's question is never. And don't ever
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 5: ask another question from him to me anymore. Please and
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 5: thank you. What a guy.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 3: I was going to ask if he needed the new arena.
• 1:20:33
  Speaker 3: He's been all over the new arena. What new arena?
• 1:20:36
  Speaker 3: He wants a new arena in Kitchener. Last year when
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 3: he was on, he wants a new arena.
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 5: So he wants me to be the mayor because he
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 5: thinks that if I'm the mayor, we're going to get
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 5: this big fancy new arena in Kitchener. He'll run for council.
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Okay.
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 5: That's it. Josh Brown will be running mates for Kitchener
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 5: Council 2030. And our campaign promise will be a brand
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 5: new arena. Like it'll put the new arena in Brantford
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 5: to shame, even though we have no money for it,
• 1:21:02
  Speaker 5: but don't worry about that details. It's just a campaign promise.
• 1:21:05
  Speaker 1: Nobody cares. I don't think Kitchener is going to be
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 1: happy with Josh Brown because it sounds like he wants
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 1: to be the one to demolish the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium. So, um,
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 1: you know, he won't be a popular guy in Kitchener
• 1:21:15
  Speaker 1: with all the memories in that building, but, uh, Mike,
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 1: with it being Halloween, this is a two-parter. One, what's
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 1: your favorite Halloween candy? And what's your favorite costume?
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 5: Favorite Halloween candy. Are they just called bats? Or are
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 5: they ba-ba-ba-ba-bats? You know the things on a stick? It's
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 5: like a little toffee thing. They get B-B-B-B bats or
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 5: something like that. It's orange wrapper on there. It's like
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 5: some kind of molasses. It's delicious. They're the best things.
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 5: I heard you guys talk about this last week. I'm
• 1:21:42
  Speaker 5: just going to throw this in there because I want
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 5: it on every record I possibly can. rockets should be
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 5: put into a rocket ship, send them to Elon Musk,
• 1:21:50
  Speaker 5: and blast them off into outer space. If you give
• 1:21:53
  Speaker 5: kids on your street rockets for Halloween candy, they should
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 5: egg your windows. And kids, egg the windows. If somebody
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 5: gives you those stupid rockets, egg their house. That's the
• 1:22:04
  Speaker 5: worst candy ever. Worst candy ever. But the best candy,
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 5: the b-b-b-b-bats. I don't know what they're, I think they're
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 5: just bats. Whatever. You know the ones I'm talking about.
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 5: It's on a stick. Yeah, you got them there. There
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 5: you go.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:22:16
  Speaker 5: That's what we need. 100%. Find those. And my favorite costume.
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 1: Gosh, okay.
• 1:22:24
  Speaker 5: Listen, this is how it is, guys, when you have
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 5: me on, okay? You're going to get the straight goods.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 2: Oh, no.
• 1:22:28
  Speaker 3: Always.
• 1:22:29
  Speaker 5: And you've met me in person. If you saw the
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 5: video that Dylan Baker posted Friday night from The Odd,
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 5: he and I together on his pregame video, I look
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 5: like I'm standing in a manhole. So I bring this
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 5: up because I am not... I am not the tallest
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 5: human being.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 5: I'm not even sure. Like, I don't know if I
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 5: got stunted somewhere along the way. Cause I, I, I
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 5: could pass. I really could without the wrinkles for somebody
• 1:22:56
  Speaker 5: in grade eight, probably. So answer to the question, favorite
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 5: costume is Spider-Man true story because you know, I'm not,
• 1:23:05
  Speaker 5: I have a, I have a Spider-Man like full onesie
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 5: costume that I could like, I, it, Well, it doesn't
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 5: fit around the waist as well as it used to,
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 5: but because it's my size, because I'm like a child.
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 5: I'm the size of a child. I've got the mouth
• 1:23:18
  Speaker 5: of an adult. And sometimes I curse like a sailor.
• 1:23:21
  Speaker 5: Big mouth, small body. Spider-Man's the best costume. And I
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 5: could put on my Spider-Man onesie. I mean, maybe Mrs.
• 1:23:28
  Speaker 5: Farwell's in the mood for that tonight. I'll go find
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 5: out when I'm off with you guys. We're watching election results.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: So watch out for a Spider-Man costume running around on Saturday.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 1: It could be Mike Farwell getting some candy.
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 5: Only if, and I'm going to bring eggs, because if
• 1:23:40
  Speaker 5: you hand out those damn rockets, forget it. I am good.
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 5: I'm so egging your house. I am so egging it.
• 1:23:45
  Speaker 1: For our American listeners, they're known as Smarties down there,
• 1:23:48
  Speaker 1: which is a whole other conversation.
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 5: No, not the Smarties. Those little cellophane-wrapped things that taste
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 5: like powder.
• 1:23:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're called Smarties in the States.
• 1:23:58
  Speaker 5: You're serious? I thought you meant like our chocolate Smarties.
• 1:24:01
  Speaker 1: That's why when people ask us about, like, our Smarties
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: are like M & Ms. They're like, what are you
• 1:24:04
  Speaker 1: talking about? Because their Smarties are... or their rockets are smarties.
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 1: That's what they're called.
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 5: You are a smart guy. You're much smarter than me.
• 1:24:11
  Speaker 5: I should shut up. Don't, Hey, Hey, Buffalo, don't give
• 1:24:14
  Speaker 5: out smarties to the kids. They should egg your house.
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 5: If you do.
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: I like that. Uh, Mike, before we let you go,
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: we're going to give you an opportunity here. Obviously new
• 1:24:21
  Speaker 1: radio station this year. We're so happy to have you back, uh,
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: calling Rangers games and everything like that. Uh, we knew
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 1: it was only a matter of time. We're so happy
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: that everything worked out for you being able to be
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: back with the voice of the Rangers. Where can people find, uh,
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: find the broadcast this season and also go ahead and, and, uh,
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: you know, uh, I guess, promote what you and Dan
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: Meager are doing over at the OHL podcast.
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 5: I'm glad that you knew everything was going to work out, BC,
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 5: because let me tell you, the first two weeks of
• 1:24:46
  Speaker 5: this season were frigging killing me. But I'm so glad
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 5: that everything did. The stars aligned, and we are now
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 5: on FM 98.5 in the region of Waterloo. So if
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 5: you're driving through, it really does sound good on FM,
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 5: the broadcast. And you can get us anywhere in the
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 5: world at CKWR.com. So check out a broadcast some night.
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 5: We're happy to have long distance listeners with us. We
• 1:25:11
  Speaker 5: always give them a little bit of love. And yes,
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 5: my buddy Dan and I do a thing once a week,
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 5: a lot like this thing. We call ours the OHL podcast.
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 5: It's just another way, just like you guys do. And
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 5: it's the reason that I love the work that you do.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 5: And we'll never call ourselves competitors. We're cooperators is what
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 5: we really are. It's coopetition. The OHL podcast, Dan and
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 5: I do, we release it every Tuesday. This week's going
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 5: to be late. Our buddy who produces it's in the
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 5: Peruvian jungle somewhere. Don't ask. We might get out on
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 5: Wednesday this week, but usually it's a Tuesday morning release.
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 5: And we just want to talk about the things going
• 1:25:46
  Speaker 5: on in this league. And we do on the OHL podcast.
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: Mike, it's always a pleasure to have you on. Always
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 1: enjoy our chats at the Kitchener Memorial Auditorium and other
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: away rinks. Again, Mike Farwell, the longtime voice of the
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: Kitchener Rangers team. home and away every single game. Mike, again,
• 1:26:02
  Speaker 1: congratulations on everything that happened last season, OHL Championship, Memorial
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 1: Cup Championship, and being back as the voice of the Rangers.
• 1:26:09
  Speaker 1: Colin and I are big fans and supporters of you,
• 1:26:11
  Speaker 1: and also I think I speak on behalf of a
• 1:26:14
  Speaker 1: lot of the media colleagues here in the Ontario Hockey League.
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 1: We're happy that you're back in the saddle with the Rangers.
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 1: So I hope to have you on again at some
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: point later in the year, but really appreciate you taking
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 1: the time tonight away from your municipal election geeking out.
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 5: BC, I'm only ever a text away. I love what
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 5: you guys are doing, so thanks for having me here. And, Wardy,
• 1:26:33
  Speaker 5: next time we're disagreeing, man. Like, this is way too
• 1:26:36
  Speaker 5: much getting along, okay?
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 3: In person. In person. In person.
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 4: Well, hey, we still got to see each other two times.
• 1:26:41
  Speaker 4: We haven't even faced each other, and we should be
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 4: in the same division. So anytime, and also anytime, we
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 4: can set up a call. We can call Sweetland.
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 3: Let's get an interview going with Commissioner Crawford. Let's settle this.
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 5: All we're asking for, Josh Sweetland, is a camera, And
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 5: a meeting. That's all Warty and I want. Those two things. Okay.
• 1:26:58
  Speaker 3: Simple. Let's go.
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: I might need to be Brian Crawford security for that episode. Awesome.
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: Thanks so much, Mike. Have a great night. We'll talk soon.
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 5: Thanks guys. Look forward to the next time.
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: There's the one and only Mike Farwell voice of the
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: kitchen arrangers again, Colin, just, you know, great to have
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 1: him back in the booth. Obviously I missed the first
• 1:27:20
  Speaker 1: couple of games of the season, but everything worked itself
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 1: out and, being back with the Rangers and being able to,
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: you know, call the games every single game. And again,
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: what he went through last season with OHL Championship Memorial Cup,
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 1: what a run, you know, I'm sure it's just an
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 1: amazing time there right now. And for him to be
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 1: back in the booth full time, you know, there wouldn't
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: be anybody else that we'd rather see, obviously, you know,
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 1: Don Cameron, God rest his soul, but Mike Farwell, you know,
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: synonymous with the Kitchener Rangers.
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, absolutely. I mean, Mike's a beauty.
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 4: I honestly I enjoy I look forward to being able
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 4: to chat with him it's too bad it's only twice
• 1:27:55
  Speaker 4: a year it's unfortunate but it's always nice when we
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 4: went on to his show last summer and then tonight
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 4: obviously him with us like it's always a treat to
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 4: be able to talk to Mike it's nice to pick
• 1:28:06
  Speaker 4: his brain the guy's a great role model for anyone
• 1:28:09
  Speaker 4: that wants to get into the OHL media side broadcasting
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 4: side the guy's one of one I mean he's great
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 4: and that's why I had to ask him Brandon about
• 1:28:18
  Speaker 4: the social media I had to because in a day
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 4: of age with social media, I had to ask him
• 1:28:24
  Speaker 4: because the OHL is so all over the map with
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 4: what's credible and what's not. So I had to ask
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 4: him that question. And to me, he's a beauty. And
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 4: it's a treat to listen to him call a game.
• 1:28:36
  Speaker 4: There's no one more deserving last year to call that one.
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 3: Cup final in the OHL than Mike Farwell.
• 1:28:42
  Speaker 4: He's more than paid his dues to be able to
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 4: have that call. And obviously knowing how important that is
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 4: for broadcasters. So it's really cool for him to be
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 4: able to be the voice of the champions last year.
• 1:28:52
  Speaker 4: And that's really cool.
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: Maybe we need to manufacture some sort of a friendly
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: rivalry with the OHL podcast. We'll have to wait and
• 1:28:59
  Speaker 1: see if we can come up with some, some interesting
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: stuff there. Almost like you and Reese had with that
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: show that doesn't exist anymore back in the day.
• 1:29:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: You don't even mention them cause they don't exist anymore.
• 1:29:09
  Speaker 1: So it doesn't even matter now, but you put them
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 1: out of business. So that's all that matters.
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 4: Honestly, it's great. Like I enjoy listening to Mike and Dan.
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 4: I enjoy, and like what, like what Mike says, it's,
• 1:29:21
  Speaker 4: you know, it's real, it's really neat.
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 3: The league needs more. The league needs that, you know, like, yep.
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 3: I say a lot of dumb things. Mike doesn't.
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 4: So it's always great. It's like, you say a lot
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 4: of smart things. I say a lot of dumb things.
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 4: So it's nice to have multiple opinions on the league.
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 4: The more opinions in this case, I think could be
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 4: the better.
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 3: So I think, I think it's very important. And I,
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 3: and I hope honestly, there's more like.
• 1:29:45
  Speaker 4: I think that the league needs this and that, you know,
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 4: that the new landscape, there's a lot of angles people
• 1:29:50
  Speaker 4: can take. So to be able to have a platform
• 1:29:52
  Speaker 4: and to be able to grow a platform, it's important
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 4: in this day and age.
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 1: Absolutely. So let's, let's move on to our next segment here, Colin.
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: And again, we went a little bit long on this
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: week's episode, but it is what it is. We had
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 1: a great guest on and we had a lot of
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: fun stories and the things to chat with Mike Farwell about.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll move on to our, trick or treat segment.
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  Speaker 1: And we've actually got a nice little background there on
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: the video version. And we got a little bit of
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 1: background Halloween music playing for you guys too. So, uh,
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  Speaker 1: this segment again, trick or treat. So we're going to
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: just mention, I'm going to rattle off five teams within
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: the Ontario hockey league, uh, from all different parts of
• 1:30:30
  Speaker 1: the standings. And Colin's going to let me know if
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  Speaker 1: they're a trick, which means that he's not buying what they're,
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  Speaker 1: what they've got so far this year, or if they're
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  Speaker 1: a treat, if he's going to, he's a goodbye and,
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  Speaker 1: and open that chocolate bar to that, to that team
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  Speaker 1: because he thinks that they're going to do a good thing.
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  Speaker 1: So this is our trick or treat segment, a fun
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  Speaker 1: one here on the OHL and 60 podcast. We continue
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 1: our trend here, Colin first team, Flint Firebirds trick or treat. I,
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  Speaker 1: I think this team, I mean, they're definitely having a
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 1: good start and I feel bad.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't mention them in the Western conference. When I
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 4: was talking about London, I mentioned Sue and not Flint.
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  Speaker 4: That's impossible to do. I feel like that should be legal.
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  Speaker 4: I should be fine for that. So I'm going to say,
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  Speaker 4: I'm going to say right now. Oh, I wish it
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  Speaker 4: could be on the fence, but I can't take the
• 1:31:14
  Speaker 4: high road here. I can't take the middle. I got
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  Speaker 4: to pick a side. I'm going to say trick. I'm
• 1:31:20
  Speaker 4: going to say trick, but I so badly want to
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  Speaker 4: say treat, obviously. So I'm going to say trick.
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  Speaker 3: My apologies, Flint.
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  Speaker 4: I know Flint fans can get a little ruthless online.
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  Speaker 4: So I experienced that before. So I'm expecting it.
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  Speaker 3: So here we go.
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  Speaker 1: They're 9-2-1 right now, and they're 7-2-1 in their last
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  Speaker 1: 10 games, Colin. We thought last year was the year
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: for Flint, right, when they went all in. They got
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: Kevin Heath, Jacob Bataglia. They look like a wagon with
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 1: Nathan Aspinall as well. We thought that Flint went out
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: a little bit earlier than they should have, really, but
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: they ran into that Windsor team, obviously. But, again, they're
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  Speaker 1: off to a good start this year. I think pleasantly
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  Speaker 1: surprised with the Flint Firebirds so far.
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  Speaker 3: And it's great for them. It's great to see the door, right?
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  Speaker 3: Meaningful games. How loud it gets in that building, right? Like, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I hope I'm wrong with this, Flint fans. I love
• 1:32:11
  Speaker 3: Flint when they're in a playoff run. I think that
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 3: building is one of the most electric buildings in the league.
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  Speaker 3: So I hope that that continues to bite me with
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 3: the tricks. Look at Owen Sound. Look at Owen Sound.
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  Speaker 4: They go get a couple wins since their rant last week.
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  Speaker 3: You're welcome, Gregory Cowan.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to have Greg Cowan from the Sun-Times
• 1:32:33
  Speaker 1: on at some point later this year. But we talked
• 1:32:37
  Speaker 1: a lot about the Owen Sound attack and Colin Erdode's grievances,
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: and they played well. And I've got more on the
• 1:32:41
  Speaker 1: attack later when we get to our stick taps. But
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  Speaker 1: next team, trick or treat, Colin, the Sioux Greyhounds.
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  Speaker 3: Trick.
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  Speaker 4: If I gave Flynn a trick, I'm giving Sioux a trick.
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  Speaker 4: Saginaw is going to win that division, in my opinion.
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 4: And I know they look at Saginaw right now in
• 1:32:58
  Speaker 4: the standings, but I believe Saginaw, has a decent team,
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  Speaker 4: and I think it all works out by December 1st.
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  Speaker 3: This month's huge. November's big.
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  Speaker 1: So you've got both tricks so far with the Sioux
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  Speaker 1: Greyhounds and the Flint Firebirds.
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  Speaker 3: I'm the humbug of Halloween.
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  Speaker 1: You are right now.
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  Speaker 5: I can't believe it.
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe it. Next team, we're going to go
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  Speaker 1: to the Eastern Conference, Colin, and I'm going to give
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: you the Oshawa Generals trick-or-treat.
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  Speaker 4: It's been a treat so far to start the season.
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  Speaker 4: So I'll say a treat because where they are right now,
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 4: I think this is their peak. This could also bite me.
• 1:33:35
  Speaker 4: This is kind of a bite me or push it
• 1:33:39
  Speaker 4: under the rug type segment over trick or treat. I
• 1:33:43
  Speaker 4: think that I think Oshawa similar to Niagara is having
• 1:33:46
  Speaker 4: their peak start. Obviously two teams don't make the playoffs
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 4: in the East. I think those two teams are kind
• 1:33:52
  Speaker 4: of cutting stone. they work hard and they battle, especially Brampton,
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  Speaker 4: but I'm going to say it right now.
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  Speaker 3: It's a treat.
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  Speaker 4: I think Oshawa makes the post season this year. So
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 4: I think that's a treat for generals fans after last season.
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  Speaker 3: It's a treat.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: So it's not a rocket treat.
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  Speaker 1: I know Jack Moore is going to love that, that you,
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 1: that you were, you were nice to the Oshawa generals there, even,
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 1: even within the, the East division there with the Bramford Bulldogs.
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  Speaker 1: So next one, Colin, a team that, Right now, it
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 1: looks to be a trick, but we had them as
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: a major treat coming into the year. The North Bay Battalion.
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  Speaker 4: Didn't they do this last season? Didn't they do this
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  Speaker 4: last season? So I'm going to say it's a trick
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 4: because they're tricking us. In the end of the year,
• 1:34:39
  Speaker 4: we'll be a treat for the North Bay Battalion.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're sitting, what, sixth place in the East right now?
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  Speaker 1: Not where we expect Ryan Ulhan's club to be. Seventh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Hasn't been a good start for them, obviously. But again,
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 1: that's a team that we were both high on going
• 1:34:53
  Speaker 1: into the year as potential, I guess, dark horses behind
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: Sudbury for that central division.
• 1:34:59
  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And right now the Niagara Ice Dogs are second in
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 1: the central division. So we got to give them them
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 1: a little bit of a shout out there. So my
• 1:35:06
  Speaker 1: last team in the trick or treat, Colin, we're going
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 1: to go back to the Western Conference and I'm going
• 1:35:11
  Speaker 1: to pick it out for you. We we wanted them.
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 1: We've been championing them. Sarnia Sting.
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 3: Sarnia. Owen sounds going to get back in that eighth spot.
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 3: And are you guys going to be the team to
• 1:35:27
  Speaker 3: fall to ninth and out of the playoff spot for
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 3: the fourth straight season, Brandon?
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to say a trick. I am sorry. Sorry.
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 4: But this team's too good to be a trick. It's
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 4: too good to be a trick. I want to say treat.
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 4: I want this team to make the playoffs. I want
• 1:35:42
  Speaker 4: them to make the playoffs. Then more of a backdoor
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 4: in team. You know, I want them to clinch and
• 1:35:48
  Speaker 4: have that last week of the season not mean anything
• 1:35:50
  Speaker 4: for them, not having to go down to game 68, right?
• 1:35:53
  Speaker 4: But this team, man, the lows of lows and the
• 1:35:57
  Speaker 4: highs of highs this year, and there's just been more
• 1:35:59
  Speaker 4: lows right now. And ever since last year, you know,
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 4: I mentioned Kitchener and Kitchener took off.
• 1:36:07
  Speaker 3: This year, it's just not working with Sarnia. And I
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 3: want it to work out. I want it to work out.
• 1:36:13
  Speaker 4: For this thing, but I don't know, something seems out
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 4: of sync this last couple weeks here. So hopefully they
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 4: get back on target here and they can have a
• 1:36:21
  Speaker 4: big weekend ahead.
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  Speaker 3: They turn into a treat, but right now I'm going
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 3: to say trick.
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  Speaker 1: So Colin, I'm going to give you last thoughts on it.
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  Speaker 1: What is your top treat to watch so far this season?
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  Speaker 1: Any team you want to give a shout out to?
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot of teams right now. You know what?
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 3: I like what Sudbury did trading for Tanner Adams. There
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 3: you go. I love that.
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  Speaker 4: No, I love it for both sides. I love Brampton saying, hey,
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  Speaker 4: you want them? This is what I want.
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  Speaker 1: They got a whole bag of candy.
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  Speaker 6: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Like the entire sack.
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  Speaker 3: They got all the BBB bats. They got all of them. Mike,
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  Speaker 3: go to Brampton. Trick or treating. Go to Brampton. They
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 3: got it all.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm going to say that was my favorite moment
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  Speaker 4: so far other than rivalry weekend. I know it's only five,
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 4: six weeks into the season, Brandon, but I got to
• 1:37:11
  Speaker 4: say it now. Sudbury saying, no, you know what? We
• 1:37:15
  Speaker 4: love Tanner Adams. We're going to give you 15 picks.
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  Speaker 4: I'm all for it. I'm all for the drama. I'm
• 1:37:21
  Speaker 4: all for it. And to me, I think it's one
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 4: of the biggest talking points of the season other than
• 1:37:27
  Speaker 4: the Memorial cup rant today.
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 3: But I think that I love that for the league, man.
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 3: It got attention. Everyone was talking about it. And you
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 3: know what? This new landscape, this new day and age, I,
• 1:37:40
  Speaker 3: You know, I love that the Wolves did that, to
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 3: be honest. I don't, like, I love it for the content.
• 1:37:44
  Speaker 3: I don't love it for the Wolves' future. For now,
• 1:37:47
  Speaker 3: I guess. Not really the future, because their future is
• 1:37:49
  Speaker 3: going to look good with him and Quaggia.
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 4: But I'm going to say I love that for the OHL,
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 4: because it gets all eyes on us, and it was
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 4: a treat to talk about. So I'm going to say
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 4: that trade has been the biggest treat so far this season.
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 4: Team-wise to watch, Brandon, I got to say right now,
• 1:38:07
  Speaker 4: the guelph storms seeing them be a memorial cup host
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 4: and watching guelph go through this process and have the
• 1:38:13
  Speaker 4: start and honestly seeing your boys brandon sata robrick playing
• 1:38:18
  Speaker 4: with this purpose for the first time in their careers
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 4: having you know not going to train a captain and
• 1:38:23
  Speaker 4: crap you know like i think that it's so it
• 1:38:27
  Speaker 4: looks like a breath of fresh air for those guys
• 1:38:29
  Speaker 4: and i think it you can see it in their
• 1:38:31
  Speaker 4: play so i'm going to say watching guelph as a
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 4: mem cup host has been unbelievable watching kitchener defend their
• 1:38:38
  Speaker 4: memorial cup championship i like their core kitchen i like
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 4: their top six i like their in general with the
• 1:38:43
  Speaker 4: blackies of the world you had mcneil's right the defenseman
• 1:38:47
  Speaker 4: I like Kitchener's roster as.
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 3: A repeating roster. Usually lose a lot of guys. They
• 1:38:51
  Speaker 3: bring six to seven guys back that are quality pieces.
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 3: You have a core there. I, I really like, I
• 1:38:57
  Speaker 3: really like where the league's going this season, but I'm
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 3: going to say Guelph a team like Kitchener's approach to, um,
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 3: as a defending CHL champions, Memorial cup champions.
• 1:39:07
  Speaker 4: And, um, yeah, those are my, those are my treats.
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 4: And I love that Sudbury and Brampton made that trade
• 1:39:12
  Speaker 4: because what would we be, what would we have talked
• 1:39:14
  Speaker 4: about if that trade didn't happen?
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 3: So, I love it.
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 1: We got one of the best rants early in the season,
• 1:39:20
  Speaker 1: and that's up on the YouTube channel. Just the Sudbury
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 1: rant from Colin.
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 3: That was our own show that week.
• 1:39:25
  Speaker 1: It was an all-timer, but who would have thought? He
• 1:39:27
  Speaker 1: came around on it, and maybe Ben Leeson, last week's guest,
• 1:39:30
  Speaker 1: the beat reporter of the Sudbury Wolves for the Sudbury Star,
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: maybe changed Colin's views on it a little bit.
• 1:39:36
  Speaker 3: I don't like the trade for Sudbury, but I love
• 1:39:39
  Speaker 3: that they did it. I love that they did it.
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  Speaker 5: Yep.
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: Rob Papano took a swing, and he sure as heck
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 1: hit a home run right now. We'll see. what happens
• 1:39:46
  Speaker 1: when he's trotting around the bases there without those picks. But, uh,
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: with that, that was our trick or treat segment for
• 1:39:51
  Speaker 1: the year. Love that. If we could have been eating
• 1:39:53
  Speaker 1: some candy on the air without, you know, looking like slobs, uh,
• 1:39:56
  Speaker 1: we probably could have done that too. But, uh, again,
• 1:39:58
  Speaker 1: for the, for the Halloween, uh, festivities, we had to
• 1:40:01
  Speaker 1: bring that segment back. It was, uh, it was a
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 1: great one. And, uh, and I enjoyed that a lot with,
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: hope you guys enjoyed the background music too. And, uh,
• 1:40:07
  Speaker 1: the little, a little layover I got, but, uh, let's
• 1:40:09
  Speaker 1: move forward here, Colin, before we get to our stick taps,
• 1:40:12
  Speaker 1: let's quickly go over, uh, the players of the week
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 1: in the Ontario Hockey League. Player of the week comes
• 1:40:17
  Speaker 1: from the Erie Otters. Michael Deck, what a week this
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: guy had. Three games, six goals, two assists, eight points,
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: plus five. Erie was in a three and three as well.
• 1:40:27
  Speaker 1: They played in Niagara. They played at home on Saturday
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: against Niagara again and then had to go to Brampton
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 1: on the Sunday. So a quick three and three, but
• 1:40:34
  Speaker 1: Michael Deck, he sure as heck got enough sleep. Player
• 1:40:37
  Speaker 1: of the week.
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I think for Michael Deck, this is unbelievable. um,
• 1:40:42
  Speaker 3: that trade last year, right.
• 1:40:43
  Speaker 4: We're seeing the benefit of those one for one, Jay.
• 1:40:45
  Speaker 4: And I think that Michael's deck, um, getting player of
• 1:40:48
  Speaker 4: the week, three and three, get eight points over that time.
• 1:40:51
  Speaker 3: Like you mentioned plus five. Um, that's impressive. I mean,
• 1:40:53
  Speaker 3: they peppered the ice dogs in those games. I mean,
• 1:40:57
  Speaker 3: they peppered Niagara and, uh, ended up getting a split
• 1:41:01
  Speaker 3: where the ice dogs are very lucky.
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 4: I would say in that robbery weekend, but For Michael,
• 1:41:05
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's great to see players have success in
• 1:41:07
  Speaker 4: that league.
• 1:41:08
  Speaker 3: It makes the league better.
• 1:41:09
  Speaker 4: And he has 22 points in 14 games. You're looking
• 1:41:11
  Speaker 4: at a trade last year that's really paying dividends now
• 1:41:14
  Speaker 4: for the Erie Otters side of things.
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely. Since coming over from the Owen Sound attack,
• 1:41:18
  Speaker 1: he's been a great fit there with the Erie Otters
• 1:41:20
  Speaker 1: and off to a great week or had a great
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 1: week there and was well deserving of OHL player of
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 1: the week. Let's go to goaltender of the week. And
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 1: that comes to us. From the Flint Firebirds, Trenton Bennett,
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 1: another former Owen Sound attack goaltender. 2-0 this week, 1.44
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 1: goals against average, a 9.55 save percentage, 64 saves and
• 1:41:41
  Speaker 1: a shutout. A great week for him in Flint and
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 1: a team that obviously, as we mentioned, sitting third place
• 1:41:46
  Speaker 1: right now, 7-2-1 their last 10. Trenton Bennett's been a
• 1:41:49
  Speaker 1: nice add for them.
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 3: No, you know, that's why I.
• 1:41:52
  Speaker 4: Wish I said a treat for the Flint Firebirds because
• 1:41:55
  Speaker 4: Trenton Bennett getting the opportunity, right, to say, hey, essentially
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 4: Owen Sound didn't want him.
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 3: Right? Like he was the first guy out.
• 1:42:03
  Speaker 4: I think to get that opportunity in Flint to have
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 4: that draft experience in the way he's played in three
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 4: games with the Firebirds early sample size, but he's looked
• 1:42:13
  Speaker 4: great and definitely for goaltender of the week. And you
• 1:42:15
  Speaker 4: look at the success that they've had in their last
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 4: 10 Flint goes hand in hand.
• 1:42:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah. And a guy that was drafted fourth round in
• 1:42:22
  Speaker 1: 2025 by the New Jersey Devils. See if he signs
• 1:42:24
  Speaker 1: an NHL entry level contract.
• 1:42:27
  Speaker 3: You can make the Brooklyn Nets six, eight. They need
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 3: a lot.
• 1:42:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, he's got the basketball player height for sure.
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 4: All basketball team in the OHL. We got to come
• 1:42:37
  Speaker 4: up with that. Karmadov, Bennett.
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it'd be wild. But moving on to Rookie of
• 1:42:44
  Speaker 1: the Week comes from the Sudbury Wolves, Cash Quaggia. Three
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 1: games played, three goals, one assist, four points plus four.
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 1: He's been one of the, obviously, you know, that bright
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 1: young core that Sudbury has. He's one of the pieces
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 1: of that, along with Tanner Adams, Colin Cash Quaggia. you know,
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 1: first round pick in the, in the OHL draft, a
• 1:43:02
  Speaker 1: lot of hype around this young man as well. And
• 1:43:04
  Speaker 1: a guy that the Sudbury is obviously happy to have,
• 1:43:07
  Speaker 1: and he's off to a good start.
• 1:43:08
  Speaker 3: Man. Silky, silky smooth. I'll touch on him again as
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 3: a little teaser. I, I mean like 15 points in
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 3: 13 games in his rookie season, right? Like it's a
• 1:43:19
  Speaker 3: younger league.
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 4: And I think back to Ben Leeson, his comment last
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 4: week on a cash, right? Where he's kind of guy
• 1:43:24
  Speaker 4: with the puck. He's got the flash to that line
• 1:43:26
  Speaker 4: where Tanner has more of a straight line.
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 3: And man, they compliment each other. Good.
• 1:43:30
  Speaker 4: Watching that game on Sunday, seeing cash in the shootout,
• 1:43:33
  Speaker 4: that penalty shot move. I mean the little fake, I
• 1:43:37
  Speaker 4: don't even know every year. These kids are so good
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 4: every year, every year, a kid comes up and it's like, Oh,
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 4: here's a new move. Remember in the Michigan was the thing.
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  Speaker 4: And now it's not like thing, but it's like, now
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  Speaker 4: there's these other, like these little like stutter steps and
• 1:43:51
  Speaker 4: then like a flick of the wrist and it's on
• 1:43:53
  Speaker 4: the far bar just underneath the bar and watching cash project, um,
• 1:43:57
  Speaker 4: Try that move. I mean, man, the shootout yesterday, he
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 4: beat Humphreys but hit the crossbar. And I watched that move,
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 4: and I'm thinking, if I did that, I'd fall on
• 1:44:07
  Speaker 4: my butt. And better yet, if I was in net
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 4: and that happened, I'd just leave the net and say, here, here,
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 4: I don't want to look dumb. So here, I'm just
• 1:44:15
  Speaker 4: going to give you an empty net. I mean, silky smooth.
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 4: I mean, to watch him play, he's the price of admission.
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 4: It's a treat to watch him and his hands go
• 1:44:22
  Speaker 4: to work.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. So let's get to our personal pick. players of
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  Speaker 1: first stick tap of the week is going to Pierce
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  Speaker 1: Bowie of the Owen Sound attack after, you know, what
• 1:45:00
  Speaker 1: was a tumultuous week last season. And we ranted about them,
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  Speaker 1: about how they were going to kind of get out
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  Speaker 1: of that rut that they were in. And they bounced
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  Speaker 1: back with a good performance. And Pierce Bowie was a
• 1:45:09
  Speaker 1: big part of that. The captain, he dropped the gloves
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  Speaker 1: against London, too. He was sticking up for his teammates.
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  Speaker 1: Three goals, three assists, plus four, 12 shots in three
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  Speaker 1: games for the Pittsburgh Penguins third rounder in this past draft.
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  Speaker 1: and a commitment to Penn State as well for the
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  Speaker 1: future if he doesn't sign his entry-level contract. So I've
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  Speaker 1: got to give a shout-out to Pierce Bowie here because
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  Speaker 1: I feel like he answered the bell with all the
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  Speaker 1: questions we had and the criticisms we had of his
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  Speaker 1: own sound attack team last week.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, I said if the team keeps it up,
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 4: he's going to be traded. And, you know, I think
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  Speaker 4: for Pierce, he's a phenomenal player in this league.
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  Speaker 3: He's a superstar. There's no doubt about it. And I
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  Speaker 3: think for him to have a weekend, Brandon, like you mentioned,
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  Speaker 3: to bounce back is huge.
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  Speaker 6: Huge.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. So Colin, who's your stick tap going to this week?
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  Speaker 3: Kaskawaja. Just mentioned him. You know, I think for the
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  Speaker 3: maturity level that this kid shows on a day in
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 3: and day out for Sudbury and he puts them over
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  Speaker 3: the hump.
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  Speaker 4: He's one of those players that when he's successful, the
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  Speaker 4: team's successful. As a young player, the league's a younger league.
• 1:46:13
  Speaker 4: And when Kaskawaja is successful, he's successful. And I watch
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  Speaker 4: the conference he plays with And like I mentioned, there's
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  Speaker 4: the opportunity in the shootout there on Sunday night. I
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  Speaker 4: think that those are the plays that I want to see.
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  Speaker 4: I want to see the confidence in a 16-year-old like that.
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  Speaker 4: So to watch him go to work, it's a blast.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm going to say Cash Kawaja, my stick tap
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  Speaker 4: of the week, just because of his development pace.
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  Speaker 1: Cash Kawaja, Colin Ward's stick tap of the week. And
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  Speaker 1: my second stick tap, and here come the eye rolls
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  Speaker 1: from the OHL social team and from all the fans
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 1: listening or watching. I'm sorry. but I have to give
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Robrick a shout out. Two games played, four goals,
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  Speaker 1: one power play goal, two shorthanded goals, 18 shots on
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 1: net in two games. Ryan Robrick has to get a
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  Speaker 1: shout out this week for his Patrick performance. And just again,
• 1:47:03
  Speaker 1: like what a stat line, a power play goal, two
• 1:47:04
  Speaker 1: shorthanded goals, 18 shots in two games. He's been firing
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  Speaker 1: in all cylinders, 18 points in 11 games for my boy,
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Robrick in Guelph.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have to ask him to shoot the puck.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have to ask him to shoot the puck, Brandon.
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  Speaker 4: That's what it's all about in Ryan Roebuck. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: he was great in the head-to-head with Kitchener. He was
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  Speaker 4: great to watch. And like I said earlier, Brandon, it's
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  Speaker 4: nice to see those guys, him and Ethan Zada, with
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  Speaker 4: their opportunities, right?
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  Speaker 3: Like, it's nice to see them, that breath of fresh air.
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  Speaker 3: You see that in their play.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. So, yes, Pierce Bowie, Ryan Roebuck, and Kash Khwaja
• 1:47:40
  Speaker 1: are our stick taps of the week brought to you
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  Speaker 1: by Butt Ends. So, Colin, I guess we'll move forward
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  Speaker 1: here with the power rankings, and I guess we'll just
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 1: quickly run through those. Again, this show has gone extensively long,
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 1: but we had a great guest on this week in
• 1:47:58
  Speaker 1: Mike Farwell, and again, we're going to give a programming
• 1:48:00
  Speaker 1: alert for next week, a little bit different of a
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  Speaker 1: show next week, but I'll touch on that later. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'll touch on that later, but here are the power
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  Speaker 1: rankings in the OHL this week. For you guys listening
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  Speaker 1: in audio, just quickly read them off from 16 to
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  Speaker 1: 1 and get Colin's quick thoughts on it. Niagara at 16.
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  Speaker 1: owens sound peterborough north bay erie saginaw or excuse me
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  Speaker 1: sarnia then saginaw at 10 9 the sioux greyhounds 8
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  Speaker 1: the kitchener rangers 7 the london knights who dropped two
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  Speaker 1: spots number 60 ottawa 67s who dropped three spots the
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  Speaker 1: branford bulldogs down one to five the sudbury wolves up
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  Speaker 1: two to four the kingston front necks and third guelph
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  Speaker 1: storm drop from one to two and going from two
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  Speaker 1: to one are the flint firebirds colin thoughts.
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  Speaker 4: You know i i like it i mean the power
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  Speaker 4: rankings are there for talking points they get old they
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  Speaker 4: and you know they're never a dull moment i guess
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  Speaker 4: there's some fans um flint deserves it they played a
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  Speaker 4: good week they had a good weekend guelph kind of
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  Speaker 4: i you know what guelph didn't even play that bad
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  Speaker 4: it was more kitchener played good So I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: cut the crap with that. It was more Kitchener played
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  Speaker 4: good for Guelph to drop. It's kind of nonsense. They
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  Speaker 4: are the best team in the league. My power rankings,
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  Speaker 4: I'd have Guelph one. So, but I'd also have Flint
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  Speaker 4: in the top five, probably top three, to be honest.
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  Speaker 1: And Guelph still got a point, right?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Like, yeah. So we're punishing teams like.
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  Speaker 1: For not, for not being perfect. I guess that that's
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  Speaker 1: what you get when you're the top ranked team.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not just saying that cause the Bulldogs are there
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  Speaker 4: next week and I might get an extra slice of
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  Speaker 4: pizza in the media room for saying good.
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  Speaker 3: Things about Guelph either.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. So yeah. Oh yeah. Oh, it's a great one.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, so there it is. There's the power rankings
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  Speaker 1: this week in the Ontario hockey league, Friday night face
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  Speaker 1: off Colin. We're a, we're three in one under your,
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: I guess, advisory board and we got to go back
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  Speaker 1: to our one, only the one that we lost. And
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 1: for some reason, this game, for the second time in
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  Speaker 1: four weeks in the exact same game, the exact same arena,
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  Speaker 1: the Peterborough Peets against the Kingston Frontenacs at Slush Puppy Place. Colin,
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  Speaker 1: we got our one loss from the Peets, picking them
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  Speaker 1: over the Fronts, who ended up losing that week.
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  Speaker 3: I got the tablet. I'm Dale Hunter in you.
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  Speaker 1: Are we going to the well once again with the Peets?
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  Speaker 1: We said they were cooked weeks ago, as much as
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  Speaker 1: we love them. You know, did we pick the Fronts here?
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  Speaker 1: Do we have to go back to the well and
• 1:50:25
  Speaker 1: pick the Peets again on the road?
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  Speaker 3: Man, so here we go, right? 7-3 in their last
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  Speaker 3: 10 of the Kingston Frontenacs, Brandon. The Peterborough Peets. The Peets.
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  Speaker 3: 5-5 in their last 10. Power plays. 30%. Penalty minutes, though.
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  Speaker 3: 120 for Kitchener.
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  Speaker 4: I'm talking power play 30% for the Peets.
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  Speaker 3: Power play for Kingston is 26.7%. Peets take 170 penalty
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  Speaker 3: minutes on the season they have. Kingston's not going to
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  Speaker 3: take penalties. Kingston's not going to take penalties. And look it,
• 1:51:04
  Speaker 3: I got the tablet. I'm Dale Hunter. And they got
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  Speaker 3: the rivalry contest too on the OHL website for those watching.
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  Speaker 3: That's cool. I'm taking the front next. You know what, Brandon?
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  Speaker 4: We can't get burnt this time. And I know I
• 1:51:19
  Speaker 4: picked this. And it's going to be like, and look
• 1:51:21
  Speaker 4: at the regular season record last season online for those
• 1:51:24
  Speaker 4: watching online. This year, Kingston's 2-0 against Peterborough. Are they
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  Speaker 4: going to go to 2-1 or 0-3, right?
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  Speaker 3: So this is tough. I'm going to say the front next.
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  Speaker 4: I'm scared to say it, though, because you know what's
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  Speaker 4: going to happen, Brandon. Going to get a text on
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  Speaker 4: Friday night and say, oh, Kingston. And then we're never
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  Speaker 4: going to have to see this matchup again, I hope,
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  Speaker 4: this season.
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  Speaker 1: I think because Adam Novotny is my Red Tilson candidate, Colin,
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  Speaker 1: I'm really torn to want to go with the Peets
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  Speaker 1: again and go back to the well.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just giving suggestions, man.
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  Speaker 1: I don't, I don't like this matchup at all. I
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  Speaker 1: really like, again, like I know Troy man, he's your
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 1: coach of the year pick at the beginning of the year.
• 1:52:05
  Speaker 1: You know what? I mean, you've only steered me wrong
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  Speaker 1: once and it was this matchup. So now I'm going
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  Speaker 1: the opposite.
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  Speaker 3: So take it at the grain of salt, Brandon.
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  Speaker 1: Forget it in honor of Jim Gilchrist. We're going with
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  Speaker 1: the fronts in honor of the great radio voice of
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  Speaker 1: the Kingston front. Next, Mr. Jimmy G. We're going with
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  Speaker 1: the fronts after what the Pete's did to us last time.
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  Speaker 1: So hopefully Kingston history repeats itself and they get it
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  Speaker 1: done and they don't hand us our second loss off
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  Speaker 1: this glorious matchup.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, if it happens, I'm calling an asterisk.
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 4: If, if Western Michigan had to take a loss to
• 1:52:40
  Speaker 4: Michigan and football and week, whatever week that was one
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 4: or two, then.
• 1:52:43
  Speaker 3: This is a, that I'm taking an asterisk. If they
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  Speaker 3: got an extra second, I get an extra game.
• 1:52:49
  Speaker 1: Kingston Frontenac against the Peterborough Peets in a rematch of
• 1:52:51
  Speaker 1: Friday Night Faceoff from three weeks ago. So Colin, that's
• 1:52:55
  Speaker 1: it for our extended episode here of the OHL in
• 1:52:58
  Speaker 1: 60 podcast. Again, we just want to give a quick
• 1:53:00
  Speaker 1: update on next week's show. I will be away at
• 1:53:03
  Speaker 1: the U-17s in Oakville covering Hockey Canada portion of that event.
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 1: So Colin is actually going to host next week's show
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 1: in audio only with Joel Vanderlaan, who does a great
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 1: job on a written portion of our content as well,
• 1:53:17
  Speaker 1: but he's also filled in on a couple of episodes.
• 1:53:19
  Speaker 1: He's going to be Colin's co-host next week. Again, that
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 1: episode will be out on Tuesday in audio only. So again,
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 1: we'll be back on the Monday, November the ninth for
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 1: our next video episode, but Colin will be recording an
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 1: OHL and 60 podcast in audio only next week. Uh, Colin,
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  Speaker 1: that'll be an interesting one, uh, with, uh, you have
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 1: Joel Vanderlaan, uh, in the co-host chair, but you stepping
• 1:53:43
  Speaker 1: into the host chair, you do it already in the
• 1:53:44
  Speaker 1: dog cast. So I know you do a great job.
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, it should be fun. Um, We'll see. We'll see.
• 1:53:50
  Speaker 4: It's going to be interesting who's going to control each
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 4: other's rants. Joel being the smart one, me being the
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 4: dumb one.
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 3: So it'll be fun. I can't wait.
• 1:54:00
  Speaker 4: I cannot wait to have a conversation with Joel. I
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 4: don't think it's going to be this long. It's not
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 4: going to be two hours long. I can tell you
• 1:54:05
  Speaker 4: that much, but we'll have fun. And it'll definitely be informative.
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 4: And yeah, we'll have some great discussions. And Brandon, we'll
• 1:54:10
  Speaker 4: miss you. And I know that you 17s don't care.
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 4: Work harder there. And that'll be a blast.
• 1:54:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then the week we get back, we're going
• 1:54:21
  Speaker 1: to have another interesting guest. Christian Simmons, GOHL, does a
• 1:54:25
  Speaker 1: great job covering the GOHL. He's going to give us
• 1:54:27
  Speaker 1: a prospect update, obviously, with the GOHL being an affiliate
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 1: league of the Ontario Hockey League. He's going to give
• 1:54:35
  Speaker 1: us– we're going to do our Scouting with Simmons segment.
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 1: He's going to give us some players that have OHL
• 1:54:40
  Speaker 1: affiliation to their name and a little bit of update there.
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 1: We're going to bring you on a bi-monthly basis here
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 1: on the show.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. Listen to his call on Sunday night.
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  Speaker 4: Um doing some bulldog work with the uh the titans
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 4: there and they were in uh well and i heard
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 4: his call on uh on flow so that was cool
• 1:54:57
  Speaker 4: i got to see uh cement so i forgot just
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 4: got the call up on monday today with the bulldogs
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 4: john canyo has played some games so it's cool to
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 4: see uh him call the game it's always nice there
• 1:55:07
  Speaker 4: with uh checking in on some bulldogs and the geo
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 4: and you see uh someone you know on the voice
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 4: so that was cool to see uh to hear christian's.
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 1: Call Yeah, it works with 519 sports. They do a
• 1:55:17
  Speaker 1: great job covering the GOHL. So again, when our next
• 1:55:20
  Speaker 1: video podcast, we'll be having Christian Simmons giving us a
• 1:55:24
  Speaker 1: GOHL update as the affiliate league of the Ontario Hockey
• 1:55:27
  Speaker 1: League with some great prospects playing down there. So Colin,
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 1: final thoughts. Again, Halloween this weekend. It's going to be
• 1:55:33
  Speaker 1: a lot of fun. We got a lot of great
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 1: OHL hockey. We got a couple of school day games
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 1: this week. Forgot to mention that. We got two on
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 1: the same day. The Steelheads are up in Ottawa for
• 1:55:43
  Speaker 1: a 10.30 start on Wednesday, as well as the Sarnia
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 1: Sting are in Owen Sound. So a couple of school
• 1:55:48
  Speaker 1: day games and Halloween later in the week. So it
• 1:55:51
  Speaker 1: should be fun.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I can't wait to see Greg Cowan's articles on
• 1:55:55
  Speaker 4: the school.
• 1:55:56
  Speaker 3: Day game at the Bayshore. That's going to be a blast.
• 1:55:58
  Speaker 3: What a treat to follow him on social media. I
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 3: love his stuff. He's a beauty. I'm a fan boy
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 3: of his work for sure.
• 1:56:07
  Speaker 4: And I think that, you know, school day games, you
• 1:56:09
  Speaker 4: know how I feel about those in the second half
• 1:56:12
  Speaker 4: of the season. I'm not a fan, but I think
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 4: that it's cool to get the kids out. Ottawa's school
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 4: day game is always a special one to see. It's
• 1:56:18
  Speaker 4: always a treat when you see the NHL ranked packed.
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 4: That's really cool. So, yeah, no, it'll be fun. And, yeah,
• 1:56:26
  Speaker 4: we'll see what happens. And I expect this week in
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 4: the OHL to be like a full-size chocolate bar on Halloween.
• 1:56:31
  Speaker 3: I expect it to be good. Yeah.
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 1: And, uh, the building's full, which is obviously a big
• 1:56:35
  Speaker 1: talking point right now, which will get good, uh, with again,
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 1: just a higher pitch and bring your earplugs for going
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 1: to those games with those, uh, those screaming kids in attendance.
• 1:56:43
  Speaker 1: And yes, those big chocolate bars or one of those
• 1:56:45
  Speaker 1: old school, uh, candy apples used to get from the, uh,
• 1:56:47
  Speaker 1: the old ladies walking up and down the streets there. Uh, uh,
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 1: they don't really do that anymore, but, uh, again, uh,
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: for safety reasons, but, uh, those are always some of
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 1: my favorites, uh, going back to my trick or treating days, but, uh,
• 1:56:59
  Speaker 1: With that said, that's going to wrap it up for
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 1: a spooky episode of the OHL in 60 podcast right
• 1:57:03
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• 1:57:05
  Speaker 1: again next week's episode will be an audio only with
• 1:57:09
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you again next week in audio only
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  Speaker 1: and back here on YouTube the following week on November 9th.
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  Speaker 1: So again, we'll chat again in seven days. Enjoy Halloween.
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  Speaker 1: Enjoy the week of the Ontario Hockey League. And this
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  Speaker 1: has been another episode of the OSHO on 60 podcast
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  Speaker 1: right here on the Armchair GM Sports Network. Have yourself
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  Speaker 1: a great night. You're listening to the Armchair GM Sports Network.