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A Very Unscripted Christmas: Struggling Leafs, Surprising Sabres and Handing Out Some Christmas Gifts. · NHL Unscripted with Virk and Demers

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  Speaker 1: NHL Unscripted is a production of the NHL and iHeart
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  Speaker 1: podcasts Coming Up NHL Unscripted a special Christmas edition Citophil
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  Speaker 1: at sixty on Marty Supreme, Timmy Shallomy's new movie opening
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  Speaker 1: on Christmas Day, plus the Kid becomes a man giving
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  Speaker 1: him some love to Sid Crosby A part No Stra Demurz,
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  Speaker 1: part Secret Santa, and what's Kraka lacin as you focus
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  Speaker 1: on the Seattle Kracken as we are here on Christmas Eve, Jad,
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  Speaker 1: Good to see your buddy back here in Montreal. How
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  Speaker 1: are winter travels coming along? I'm sure he excited for Christmas?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean I was just in St. Pete, Florida,
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  Speaker 2: So I went from New York to Saint Pete. My
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  Speaker 2: wife does a very Broadway Christmas a show that is
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  Speaker 2: put on by two of her friends. So they sing
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  Speaker 2: all the holiday classics and it's a very intimate experience,
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  Speaker 2: very nice. They did it in Saint Pete and Sarasota
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  Speaker 2: sold out. Barn I was sitting right next to the
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  Speaker 2: tap dancing group from Sarasota. They were all in their
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  Speaker 2: eighties and there was a tap number in the show.
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  Speaker 2: So there are a couple octagenarians just lauding the tap
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  Speaker 2: dancing number that was going on and that we witnessed.
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  Speaker 2: So it was a lot of fun. And then they're like,
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  Speaker 2: who's your wife, you know, Sarah Sota. They all have
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  Speaker 2: a little so I was, you know, saying, this is
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  Speaker 2: my wife singing, and she sings about four numbers, and
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  Speaker 2: every time I say, they're like, oh, she's so great,
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  Speaker 2: she's so great, she's so powerful. And I was like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: thank you very much. I really appreciate it, thank you,
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  Speaker 2: and and so it was good times. So then I
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  Speaker 2: flew it into Montreal and and last night I landed
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  Speaker 2: at five and my brother's like, you're coming to skate
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  Speaker 2: with my daughter? So I went and skated with my niece,
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  Speaker 2: my nine year old niece, and it was a lot
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  Speaker 2: of fun. My brother, I had no hockey equipment. What's whoever?
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  Speaker 2: Socially say what was?
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  Speaker 1: What was the impetus that he wanted to get the
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  Speaker 1: skating right away? Was she'd taken less.
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  Speaker 2: Well the practice at six, so it was like their
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  Speaker 2: practice was at six. So he's like, you're coming out
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  Speaker 2: and I'm like, all right, sure, yeah, I'd love to.
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  Speaker 2: And it's so funny because I didn't bring anything. So
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  Speaker 2: he's like dressed. I mean, he's got like old he
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  Speaker 2: used to play hockey and and played, you know, he
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  Speaker 2: played like semi pro and some pro stuff like on
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  Speaker 2: the lower on the lower tiers. But yeah, he like
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  Speaker 2: brings out these skates, these absolute fucking relics that I
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  Speaker 2: don't even know. I was like, I told him, I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I can skate these today, Like they're
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  Speaker 2: like two sizes is too small. I felt like Paul
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  Speaker 2: Coffee I was wearing. He gave me some stick from
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  Speaker 2: the seventies. So I'm like, this is insanity. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: for all the fans out there, I can I in
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  Speaker 2: the terms of what was that movie wedding Crashers chat
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  Speaker 2: not chas Michael Michaels. But you know I played, I
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  Speaker 2: can make it rain out here. Just just give me
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  Speaker 2: the rock and I can make it rain. So I
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  Speaker 2: made to rain. Had two goals against a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: nine year olds.
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  Speaker 1: There you go like you feel good about yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah it was plus three. My niece whacked me, gave
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  Speaker 2: me a nice two hand right on the wrist. She's feisty.
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  Speaker 2: Oh she got all fire it up. And then they
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  Speaker 2: all chirped my autograph because they asked me for autographs,
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  Speaker 2: So this said, my autographs too, scrabbly wabbly.
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  Speaker 1: Come on, you can understand the jam. As long as
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  Speaker 1: there's a big Jane of big d you're fine. It's
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  Speaker 1: funny about skates. Blake Bolden was with me in Philadelphia
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  Speaker 1: at the Amazon Prime game, and we're going to Winnipeg
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  Speaker 1: next week. She's on the road a bunch doing PWHL games.
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  Speaker 1: So she goes, you know, apparently I might do a
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  Speaker 1: morning skates sit down with Josh Morrison. I'm like, great,
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  Speaker 1: She's the only problem is all of my skates. I'm
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  Speaker 1: like yeah, I'm like that's a dicey proposition. Ready, hockey
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  Speaker 1: put I just go skates out of the bag, no edgework,
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  Speaker 1: no sharpening. I'm like, yeah, that could be brutal. You
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  Speaker 1: know that first hand. People people who don't know hockey,
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  Speaker 1: just I just put the skates. I'm like, no, it
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  Speaker 1: does worn't that way. It's not like a boy the
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  Speaker 1: new pair of shoes.
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  Speaker 2: Right. Oh. You realize how coddled you are in the NHL,
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  Speaker 2: with like all the best tech and everything, and then
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  Speaker 2: you go out and you're playing with the you know,
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  Speaker 2: beer Ley guys, and you're having to fend for yourself
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  Speaker 2: and you're like, oh wow, these guys are actually pretty
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  Speaker 2: good that they can play with this stuff and skate
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  Speaker 2: in these skates. And I'm like, this is this is
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  Speaker 2: so painful. My toes are killing me this morning just
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  Speaker 2: from being in those fricking bricks. But it was fun.
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  Speaker 1: Two size is a small tell me to get out
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  Speaker 1: of the ice. Had a great time. Man, brought my
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  Speaker 1: kids to Philadelphia. The we're excited to go see Flyers Canucks.
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  Speaker 1: The Canucks have been on a roll, as you talked
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  Speaker 1: about four straight wins, but Philly stopped him. Quiet came
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  Speaker 1: the first two periods. Demco is excellent, but Philly erupted
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  Speaker 1: there in the third. We went at five to two.
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  Speaker 1: But the whole cause, of course, is gritty. I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: there's there's more excitement or gritty than any other mascot
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  Speaker 1: in hockey. And so when we were talking to Flyers,
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  Speaker 1: pr like here, you want to get on this, I'm like,
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  Speaker 1: we just have to get gritty. Like you know, we
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  Speaker 1: get ask for Paul Holgrin or Pobby Clark, but we
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  Speaker 1: really just want gritty. So he was great. He pops
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  Speaker 1: up prongs at the story he was talking about wearing
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  Speaker 1: Cooper rolls back in the day. I'm like, wait a second.
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  Speaker 1: He's like yeah, because I had them in Dryden, Ontario
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  Speaker 1: growing up, like the long pant Cooper roles. I'm like yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and Gritty just pops up. He gets all stilly and
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  Speaker 1: goofy and stuff. Got a gritty calendar. But like, my
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  Speaker 1: kids were so fired up and they're asking me like
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  Speaker 1: what's Like, what's the genesis of gritty? Like what is gritty?
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, he's been around for I think ten years.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like they wanted something tough, so that's what they
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  Speaker 1: call him gritties again, but he's not tough, Like, well,
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  Speaker 1: he's a mascot. He don't want to be scary, but
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  Speaker 1: it like, what actually is gritty? Like, I have no idea,
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  Speaker 1: but I can't think with other mascots, Jada. If you
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  Speaker 1: just think of like in different sports like Philadelphia, you
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  Speaker 1: know the Philly fanatic in baseball football, you just think
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  Speaker 1: a cheerleaders don't get mascots, but you pe in the
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  Speaker 1: Expos you piece a great one. Yeah, you piece a
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  Speaker 1: great one. Like baseball, they've got their maskot, but in hockey.
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  Speaker 1: Like if you said to me the Lightning mascot, I'm like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I can picture that fur ay thing. But like Gritty,
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  Speaker 1: amazing how he's taken on a life of its own.
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  Speaker 1: Tal What do you think about Gritty?
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  Speaker 3: I you know, first off, I'm very pro mascot. I
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  Speaker 3: have to say, I love mascots. I'm a big fan
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  Speaker 3: of him. Yeah, And as much as it pains me
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  Speaker 3: to say anything positive about a team from Philadelphia, sorry,
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  Speaker 3: they knocked it out of the park with Gritty. I'm
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  Speaker 3: Gritty's great. I from the moment he came in, and
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  Speaker 3: you know what the key is. He looks great, the
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  Speaker 3: design is great. Whoever's underneath the big floppy head does
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  Speaker 3: a great job. Yes, he's got a little bit of
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  Speaker 3: Philly dirt bag.
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  Speaker 1: In him, you know, and it works.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like, the single most endearing thing the Philly
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  Speaker 3: sports universe has done for I think, you know, most
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  Speaker 3: of the sports world that maybe doesn't like philidelp Philly
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  Speaker 3: fans as much.
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  Speaker 1: It's Gritty.
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  Speaker 2: Gritty.
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  Speaker 4: Gritty's a big hit with me for sure.
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  Speaker 1: That's a great point. Even people who hate the Flyers
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  Speaker 1: or hate Philly fans because as you said, what their
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  Speaker 1: images are personing on God Gritty is awesome. He's a great,
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  Speaker 1: great mascot. Go ahead, Jadieu.
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  Speaker 2: No what I was saying before, and I'm working with
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  Speaker 2: some tough internet connection today. But uh no, I saw
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  Speaker 2: you took a picture with my You had your kids
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  Speaker 2: take a picture with my sworn enemy and he had
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  Speaker 2: a picture with Rick Tockett, And yes, I fucking I
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  Speaker 2: almost fell out of my chair. I sworn at it
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  Speaker 2: my enemy. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
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  Speaker 1: The time. And we've talked about Rick talk as a coach.
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  Speaker 1: You're like, listen, I'm just saying, look at the one
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  Speaker 1: lost record, Like this guy gets these big lavish contracts,
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  Speaker 1: Like what has he done?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, no, listen, it's uh he's a nice guy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure your kids loved him. He's a nice guy
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  Speaker 2: and very personable. I have my own personal stuff. I
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  Speaker 2: just thought it was a funny little quip for the show,
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  Speaker 2: me being like this motherfucker, how was going? Sure talking,
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  Speaker 2: how's gonna DM? You'd be like you would Judas judases.
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  Speaker 1: No, Scarborough, Ontario, goy, we started talking Scarborough. He was great,
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  Speaker 1: very personal to the kids.
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  Speaker 2: You guys Acarborough on terarioips what a dump Scarborough is?
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  Speaker 1: Kevin Weeks of Scarborough?
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  Speaker 2: Guy, Come on, oh, he's the only good thing to
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  Speaker 2: come out of Scarborough.
• 7:57
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about the GTA and everyone in Leafland right
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  Speaker 1: now are pretty rough stretch for the Leafs six three
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  Speaker 1: win over the struggling Penguins on two day two four,
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  Speaker 1: and won their last seven the rest around the bottom
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  Speaker 1: of the Eastern Conference. Willie Nilander had two goals and
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  Speaker 1: two assists after coming into the game no goals in
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  Speaker 1: his previous eleven slick Willie, as you call him, Austin
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  Speaker 1: Matthews your boy, one goal in his last six games
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  Speaker 1: for heading into the Christmas break, head coach Craig Bruby
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  Speaker 1: calling out his leadership and the team responds by firing
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  Speaker 1: assistant coach Mark Savard and the teams You know. That
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  Speaker 1: was on Monday, eighteen months after they hired him. One
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  Speaker 1: of his main responsibilities had been the power play last
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  Speaker 1: in the league thirteen percent reports a GM Bradshaw living
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  Speaker 1: and head coach Bruby are safe. What can they do
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  Speaker 1: to turn this thing around?
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  Speaker 2: What a what a way to you know, It's kind
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  Speaker 2: of like you just walk into the building and you
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  Speaker 2: just execute one person and just walk out. Say figure
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  Speaker 2: it out, guys, just get dragon Mark Savard's body out
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  Speaker 2: of there, his limp body. Three days before the break
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  Speaker 2: butt your point.
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  Speaker 1: When Bruby was asked for company, ask those guys like
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  Speaker 1: once it coaches that git He like, okay, now, now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah there is It's not good there. I'm worried. I
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  Speaker 2: did say on I've hedged my bet multiple times. So
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  Speaker 2: whichever however this shakes out, I'll be right. But I
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  Speaker 2: was on first shift and I said, I don't think
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  Speaker 2: they'll make the playoffs. I was kind of I said,
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  Speaker 2: if they do make the playoffs, they have a team
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  Speaker 2: that's more kind of suited to go in a deeper run.
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  Speaker 2: But they got to get there. And you know, the
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  Speaker 2: power play has been atrocious, a lot of injuries at
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  Speaker 2: inopportune times. Matthews clearly something's going on. You know, five
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  Speaker 2: points in his last ten games. I mean, that's not
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  Speaker 2: going to cut up for a team that's trying to
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  Speaker 2: make the playoffs. So you know, it's what do they do?
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  Speaker 2: Do you make it? Blockbuster moved? Do you maybe? I
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  Speaker 2: was listening to Nick Kiprios the other day talking about,
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  Speaker 2: you know, exploring the option of trading Austin Matthews, but
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  Speaker 2: he has a no move clause. They have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of guys that have no clue move clauses. But clearly
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  Speaker 2: something's not going on the messages and syncing up between
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  Speaker 2: coaches and players and any time that happens, you know,
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  Speaker 2: do I think this team is a team that was,
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  Speaker 2: you know, designed to kind of play under coach Berube.
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  Speaker 2: I just think his message might have gotten stale early,
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  Speaker 2: because again, it's a lot of skill guys that are
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  Speaker 2: trying to play a defensive game and they just don't
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  Speaker 2: seem to be clicking with it. And I don't know
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  Speaker 2: if Berube is malleable enough to kind of make an
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  Speaker 2: adjustment for the guys, and I don't think the guys
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  Speaker 2: are going to adjust to him. So it's like, it's
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  Speaker 2: this weird thing. They want to play a defensive style,
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  Speaker 2: defensive brand of hockey, but yet they're one of the
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  Speaker 2: worst teams defensively in the league. So it's like you're
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  Speaker 2: not really it's just not and now you're not scoring,
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  Speaker 2: so it's it's it's tough. I I don't know where
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  Speaker 2: they go from here. They seem to always kind of
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  Speaker 2: pull it out of the fire a little bit like Edmonton.
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  Speaker 2: But I just don't know if they have the horses
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  Speaker 2: like they've had in the past. Their goaltending has been injured.
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  Speaker 2: You know that you had all the stolars stuff, you know.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Joseph wall comes in. The back end is little.
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  Speaker 2: It's just there's too much going wrong and there's too
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  Speaker 2: much noise, and the noise with the media is only
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  Speaker 2: gonna get louder. So I don't know if they can
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  Speaker 2: actually yank this one back off the rails.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I asked Michael doz Outaba playing for Barrubi said, listen,
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  Speaker 1: I love chief like, but but he's gonna demand accountability
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  Speaker 1: and he'll go at guys and like he'll use the
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  Speaker 1: media to use his message if he needs to. But like,
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  Speaker 1: he is a good coach, but there is somebody to
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  Speaker 1: be said for. Sometimes personnel doesn't match up with the coach. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if he's lost the room because I'm
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  Speaker 1: not there. I can't speak to that. But they look frustrated.
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  Speaker 1: And to your point, I don't think firing him would
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  Speaker 1: turn the season around.
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  Speaker 2: No, I if you're gonna do it, you should have
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  Speaker 2: did when you you blew marks of Vard's brains out
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  Speaker 2: all over the goddamn coaches locker room.
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  Speaker 1: Just merry Christmas.
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  Speaker 2: Mark, It's just very Christmas, you son of a bitch.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I have a question off of that. Would
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  Speaker 2: you rather get fired before Christmas? Or the day you
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  Speaker 2: get back from Christmas?
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  Speaker 1: The day you get back? Let me just enjoy Christal Come,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, what I wish you told me?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm like, rather have I If you're gonna send
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  Speaker 2: me on a break, send me on a break during Christmas?
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  Speaker 1: Were not gone for a while, Now that's a good point.
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  Speaker 1: Then I don't have to come back.
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  Speaker 2: You would three days and you walk back into the room,
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  Speaker 2: You're like, You're like, yes, I'm rejuvenated, spend time with
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  Speaker 2: my family. Handsome Egno, I worked up. You're going to
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  Speaker 2: the GM's room. Hey, hey, Tree, I just figured it out.
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  Speaker 2: I figured out what's wrong with the power play. Hey.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, Mark, you're gone, You're fired.
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  Speaker 1: But how did you do this to me? Like I
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  Speaker 1: had the seventy two hours, I needed that reset. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like I'm gonna show you what I'm thinking. So
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  Speaker 1: you're fired to go high low. I got a new
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  Speaker 1: guy in the bumper slot, like nore, you're done to
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  Speaker 1: get out of here, get your stuff, like the beach
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  Speaker 1: should not tell me for Christmas? Yeah, tow, what do
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  Speaker 1: you think then you're ruining Christmas. I don't want it,
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  Speaker 1: don't ruin mil Let me just enjoy the time of
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  Speaker 1: my family. But Jad's point is also noted, which is
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  Speaker 1: that I don't have to go back in the building.
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  Speaker 1: Generally you want bad news first, Yeah, go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: It could go either well, well, first of all, of
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  Speaker 3: clarify for those of us who are never in the league.
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  Speaker 3: So is there's nothing going on during the holiday break, right?
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  Speaker 3: The teams are not obviously they're not practicing, Like maybe
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  Speaker 3: some of the guys are meeting up for dinner or
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  Speaker 3: something like that.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, hey, everybody, most guys, most guys will go
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  Speaker 2: home if they can or families come in, and then
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  Speaker 2: if you kind of one of those guys that you
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  Speaker 2: can't make your way home, you'll host the guys that
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  Speaker 2: are by themselves and stuff like that. Nice.
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  Speaker 3: Right, So my point is there's nothing going on with
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  Speaker 3: the team, So you're basically if you're waiting until after
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  Speaker 3: the break, you're just letting the guy enjoy his holiday.
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  Speaker 2: Correct.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but yeah, so you might as well just get
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  Speaker 3: rid of him before, I you know, you know, let
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  Speaker 3: him know before. Just make it, you know, band Aid's style,
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  Speaker 3: quick and painful, and then just move on.
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  Speaker 2: Slip the throat and move on.
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: We'll move on. Jack is back, Tate McCray in the
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  Speaker 1: stands Canadian superstar, and Jack Hughes comes back to the
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  Speaker 1: New Jersey Devil's lineup on Sunday, missing eighteen games with
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  Speaker 1: a hand injury, sustaining a bizarre mishappen a restaurant. Brutal
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  Speaker 1: Jack didn't waste any time, scoring less than nine minutes
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  Speaker 1: in the game against the Sabers. The Jersey went eight
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  Speaker 1: and ten without Jack Hues, but the remaining the thick
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  Speaker 1: of the cluttered Eastern Conference. Jack Here's is back. He's
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: dating Taate McCray allegedly. What's going on in Jersey?
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: JD just stuffing Tate McCray. What a guy? Uh Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I don't really like I've never heard one of Tate
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  Speaker 2: mccray's songs. I don't know if she's like an industry
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  Speaker 2: plan or whatever. She seems nice, you know, nice enough,
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  Speaker 2: and they seem like a cute little little couple and
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  Speaker 2: so it's nice. I mean, listen, hockey's hot right now,
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  Speaker 2: we're hot. And Tate McCray, she's a girl. She could
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  Speaker 2: ever picked the literacy, didn't. She date cole Cylinger for
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: a bit too, So she's got small, skilled forwards. She
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: likes guys with good hands. Tate, who's next? Yeah, you
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: know Tom Wilson. No, Tom Wilson's married to the kids.
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: He can't do that. Yeah, I listened. They they missed him.
• 14:59
  Speaker 2: I mean they've lost two games since he's been back,
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: and they haven't really been scoring either, so it's not
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: really like he unlocked something. He had that beautiful goal
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: in the first game, but you know they've they've scored
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: two goals in two games. So I don't know Jerseys.
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: Jersey's missing a lot. I think, you know, the Jack
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: Hughes of it all. Everybody's like, yes, he's obviously your
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: best player, you need him, but they're missing a lot
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: more than just him. Like, I just I don't know
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: if they're you know, their back ends good, but it's
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: always a little bit injured and banged up. Mark Strom's
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: kind of was supposed to be there guy, and he's
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: been better as of late, but Jake Allen kind of
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: almost usurped the net and then I just I just
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: don't know if they're big enough up front, Like I
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: just they're just a little bit smaller and it's just
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: hasn't been working. So but typically in Sheldon Keith fashion,
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: a lot of his teams tend to do this where
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: they go in these big lulls. They had that in
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: Toronto as well, and then they're going to kind of
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: go in this little bit of a run. So maybe
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: I think the break comes at a perfect time for them.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: Jack Hughes got two games, let him go relax, go
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: of a little dinner in New York City with Hate Enjoy,
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: Gift Exchange chestnuts roasting on an open flame, and Tate
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: McCrae in a and then they'll come back flying. So
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: I think I do still think they're gonna make it.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: I think they had enough of a good start that
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: they're gonna kind of they'll get back into the hunt.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: But I mean, this Eastern Conference is a fucking log jam.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, you win two games and you're in the playoffs.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: Look at look at the look at the sobbers Man.
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: They won seventh straight. So That's what I got for you.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: Listen, right, that's the about Well there's been more talk
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: about that, Tala. Do you want to get in the
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: heat the rivalry, Now.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: I couldn't. I couldn't get through. I couldn't get through,
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: you know, listen, I'm all for you know my affinities
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: for Gratuda's sex. You know I do not like that
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: in TV shows and movies. You know that. So I
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: preface that by saying that I'm like, I'm watching porn.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: Or I was gonna say, you don't have an affinity
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: for it, you have even aversion to it.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: I have an aversion to it. Yes, sorry, apologies, I
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: had a couple of gronies last night. Yeah, I have
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: an aversion to it. Doesn't matter, Sidney Sweeney, I don't
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: give a ship. It's porn. Is porn, all right, but
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: continue to Apparently apparently kneway housemate is is naked in it,
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: But that's not Oh really, are are we shocked that
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: she's doing a sex scene again.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Catching him while she can play the hits meantime, shout
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: to my buddy John Forestland. The cracking are just brutal.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: I mean, you're gonna be the voice of the crack
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: and then you go, no, this is the team We're
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: gonna go on straight. Well, they acquired Mason marsh from
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: the Stars last summer. Six months later, marred in a
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: one nine and one slump, they trade him to the
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Blue Jackets a couple of draft picks. March with three
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: goals his first two games of Columbus, but looks at
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: Seattle might be waving the white flag on the season.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: Brandon monts out four weeks of the hand injury. They
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: got off to a six two and four start. I
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: remember talking Lane Lambert NHL networking about their defensive style.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Joey Decord pretty good to court, great with handling the puck.
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: I always love going that can handle the puck. Is
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: the court's awesomatize one of the best in the hockey.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: But you said early on the the start was not sustainable.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: What are the Kraken Do You got a good fan
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: base with the team stinks?
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they've won three straight since the Marchmen trade,
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: so it's not too bad. I mean it's all by
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: all accounts. I do think that the West the wild
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: card spots are fully up for grabs. I don't think
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: I think the you know, Anaheim, Vegas and Edmonton will
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: run away in the Pacific and then we know the
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: central that's set those three teams. So but there's room.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: And I mean they're not Listen, they're three points out
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: of a playoff spot and they have or sorry they're Yeah,
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: they're three points out and they got four games in
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: hand on on Utah. So uh, I'm not I don't
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: think they're a great team. I just think they're bleh.
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: They just have a lot of the same player they
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: have no really superstars. Are just nothing that stands out
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: for me ever for this team. But they're hanging in there.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: And I mean, if they do make it, I don't
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: want them to make it because I just don't love
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: the brand of hockey they play. But that's Lane Lambert
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: for you. And he's a great uh strategist and he
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: designs a good system that kind of keeps you in
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: hockey games. So but yeah, a lot of you don't.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Think the Marshman You don't think the Marshman trade was
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: waving the white flag. It was just a retool wasn't
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: working out.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just I think it was more Columbus wanted
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: a needed somebody like Mason Marschman, and I think they
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: just offered, you know, a pick for him. He was
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: kind of struggling there in Seattle and it just didn't fit.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: Sometimes it just doesn't fit, and you I don't mind
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: when I don't mind a gunslinger GM. When something's not working,
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: you just say pull the fucking trigger. Yeah, trigger bank bank.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Speaking of moves, how about the Montreal Canadians, your boy
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Philip too from the LA King's second round pick. They
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: got mcclumbus in the Patrick line a trade, so didn't
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: play five full seasons in Montreal, but four, signing a
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: five year contract the Kings. In twenty twenty one LA
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: playing time going down, no goals, five assists of thirty games.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: The Kings this year a veteran center, youngest team in
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: the league. Penalty kill ranks twenty second. How about the
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: the bl Blong.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Rouge A little bit well, always talking Buntreal. I mean
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: they got Jacob Fowler, they got the goat as they say,
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: is there, they got their goalie. Man. This the I
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: I think within five years, I think they win a
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: Stanley Cup. I do. I don't think it's this year,
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: but I think in the next five years. There's just
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: there's something in Montreal. We need it. But I think
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: in the next five years, all the moves they're doing
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: are are are very just too long.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: Await what about three years? Uh?
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Well, if I may give myself a little wiggle room,
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: you know it's gonna happen. But oh, I just love
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: I like their young core. I don't think they're there yet.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: I think they're just a little bit. They got to
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: mature into this. But you look at you they got
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: three goalies. You know, Mountain struggled obviously, but you got
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Dobees and Fowler. And Fowler's been just a revelation that
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: so far since he's been playing, I mean, he's he's
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: looked so good. So I just think when you have
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: these young goalies coming in and you kind of got
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: them on a good deal, you got them on a
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: rookie deal. I think he's on his rookie deal, so
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: it's you have time now to kind of go out
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: get some pieces. And Denot's a good fit. Denot's a
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: good bottom six guy. He doesn't worry about scoring goals.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: I know he can, but he's more thinking to shut
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: down and defend. And the one thing is Montreal gets
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: enough goals. They got enough goals from their top six,
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: so they need a guy like that to kind of
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: be a shut down somebody to kind of be a
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: little bit of Batman to Jake Evans and who Jake
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: Evans has kind of taken on that role. But I
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: can't wait to see those two playing together in the
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: penalty kill. A lots of like from that trade, I
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: mean Montreal, I mean Gordon and Hughes have been very
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: good coming into Montreal and really shaping this team into
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: the vision that they see that can you know, get
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: this team back to the glory multik.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: They send down? Do you think they send Faller down
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: to the HL after the holiday?
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: No?
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: So he's there, follows the man.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: I think he's there now. I mean he just won
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: last night too. I mean he's this kid's he's While
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: you set up the next thing, I'll find his stats
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: for you right now quickly.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Okay, good, So the last topic before we're gonna do
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: a little special segment coming up here. No guests this week,
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: by the way, Mary Christmas in the Ingram household as
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Connor Ingram, Christian Jarry gets hurt. Ingram gets the winning
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: goal for Edmonton first starts since February when he suited
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: up for the team then known as the Utah Hockey Club.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Twenty eight staves and Sunday Edmondson's fourth three and over Vegas.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: Jarry's out for a couple of weeks. Oil there's now
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: eight too and one in their last eleven. We talked
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: to McDavid. Youing me the last time we were on
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: NHL Network. He's got thirty one points on his last
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: eleven games. Drysedal is now twenty goal scorer by the
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: Christmas break, and Connor Ingram as helping the Oilers get
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: back on track.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Jacob Powler before I get into that, Jacob Powler,
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: Sure he's under what nine eighteen say percentage? He's wow,
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: five games, three one and one. This kid ain't going anywhere.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: He's here to state. Uh yeah, Ingram, big bodied goalie.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: I did say on the network. I have said on
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: here that they brought him in thinking that you know,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: he dealt with some mental health. I think in substance
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: abuse stuff. I don't want to speak so please, I
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: don't want to speak out of turn. But and when
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: he was having that year in Arizona when he played
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: fifty games. He was their starter. He was the guy
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: I got some injuries. They thought they'd maybe take a
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: flyer on him. He was the statistically the worst goalie
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: in the AHL before they called him up, which is
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: pretty goddamn funny. And now he's two and zero in Edmonton.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Well, as you said to me, different style of hockey
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: in the AHL, but go ahead.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: Yes, it's harder to play in the And I mean,
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: I think he was just getting his legs under it.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: And I don't think the Bakersfield Condors shout out to
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: my old team. I don't think they have. I just
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: don't think they're a great team. I don't think they
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: have much Edmonton in terms of depth in the minors.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: So he might just be on an island. But you know,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: moving along to this Edmonton Oilers team that we kind
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: of all said, well, you know, we're worried, but we're
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: not worried because they're gonna come flying out of the gates.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: It's just a matter of time before McDavid goes on
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: a side quest and says, ah, you know what, I'm
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: gonna start playing hockey again because now it's meaningful and
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: now I'm getting ready for the Olympics and whatnot. But
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: it's just amazing how much better he is than everybody else.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: And when he wants to, like actually turn on the
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: jets and skate as hard as he can, I mean
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: you can't. He could play like Connor McDavid could probably
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: play at half speed and still get eighty to ninety
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: points and just and like not even try like Cherry pick,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: not play hard, and he could probably still get eighty
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: to ninety points. Like he's he's a fucking he's an
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: enigma wrapped in a kerfuffle.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: A riddle wrapped in an enigma.
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, wrapped in a kerfuffle. Differently, okay, Yeah, rolled up
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: and do a quagmire, Like how do you figure him out?
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Sixty seven points in thirty eight games. He's a joke.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: I hate him.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Think one hundred, thirty hundred and forty points, like if
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: I want to do it, if not, it's fine.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: He's so good. He's like eh, he said, yeah, I'm
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: just gonna I'm gonna just pull this team back me
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: and Leon make it easy. He just what he ran
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: rough shot last night. He was a fucking It was
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: insane skating. He's skating so hard you can see the
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: difference too, when he skates as hard as he wants
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: versus versus just kind of when he's not coasting, but
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: like skating my speed, which is slow, he just he
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: lets people catch up with him. This league's a joking.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: McKinnon's second in the league, sixty one points, five assists.
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: Last night we're going to this breaker. The Avalanche have
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: lost two games. Unbelievable.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they've got the.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Most points of any team since the break started in
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: like seventy two to seventy three.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Ay, this team, but the Abs, I mean I'm saying insane. Yeah,
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: the Abs are not like this team is. Uh, do
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: you if you're a GM, do you touch them at
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: the deadline?
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Like, do you know?
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: Do you fondle them? Do you do you bring somebody in?
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: Do you bring it? Do you make the trade?
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: No fonneling, No, nothing, Just dude, it's cooking like you.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Gotta like, I guess you got to bring like a
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: depth piece or a couple of depth pieces just in case.
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: The defense, I could always use an extra penalty killer.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: I could always use right a fourth line winger. Fine
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: if it doesn't cock, But the main horses, we're all.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Just yeah, it's this fucking team does not have a
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: absolute deficiency anywhere has nothing. They're so good, it's so good.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: We can the Metros. Yeah, Metro definitely better than that.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Expected still to come hereologized. I am stars wild, We're good.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: We're good.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: The Metro is a crapy.
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: Okay, nobody's lest thing. It's fine.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: You don't think so. This is Christmas Eve. You only
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: people are just.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: People are Yeah, people are just snuggled up next to
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: the fireplane scrabble listen and unscripted. They're going, Oh, hang on, boy,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: I got unscripted with Nurse for the kids. That's what
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: you get.
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: A new episode just in time from Santa, speaking of
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: Little Secret Santa coming up doing our best year. To
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: tell you what each team and just different areas of
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: fandom could use. It's coming up next here on unscripted
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: after this, all right, no guests this week here and unscripted.
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: We just had so many great choices. I like, you know,
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: just take Christmas break off.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: Its all good.
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: We're gonna hand out special Christmas gifts around the NHL's
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: we celebrate the holiday's unscripted style. So here's the concept.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: We hand out gifts to different people and teams across
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: the hockey sphere. Gives me think they could potentially enjoin
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. It's part Nors, part Secret Santa So
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Sabers fans, as JD alluded to earlier, they're playing better hockey.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: There's no doubt about it, Yarmol, let's go meaningful games
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: that we're looking for in preperate March. I'm not even
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: gonna say playoffs. Haven't made the playoffs for fourteen years.
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: They're making them meaningful. Wow, they're seven in a row,
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: two points on the wildcart spot. What do you think
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: they could use now just to put them in the playoffs,
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: because you're already calling it right now, which I love.
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: If I'm so for me, I think they're making the playoffs,
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: but one thing needs to happen. You can reference my
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: Instagram page because I did say it on the network
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: two and a half weeks ago before they went on
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: this six game run. And so you know they're by
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: the fire, you know. Oh you know, here, Yarmo, Kickolin,
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: and here's your present for you for your Buffalo Sabers team.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: And it is a it is band aids, and it
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: is pain killers, and it is raps and all the stuff.
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: A medkit for Josh Norris to keep him healthy, because
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: if Josh Norris is healthy, this team is in the playoffs.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: I guarantee it he is. Since he's been back, I mean,
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: he has been a catalyst for them, and they look
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: like a playoff team and they are playing some very
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: good hockey right now. So that is what I'm giving them,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: is a med kit for Josh Norris. Bubble wrap this
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: son of a bitch and get him to the playoffs.
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: There's no doubt when healthy he can be a terror.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: And it's not like Cousins has lit it up for Ottawa,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: so you're right. Hopefully he'll be healthy contributing to this
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Buffalo team. For the Panthers, they just a fully healthy lot.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: They're without Ko, Chuck and Barkoff. They head into Christmas
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: holding out a playoff spot. No up did in bark
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Up Ka Chuck skating with the team on track for return.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: You and I speckling last week. He'll show up Winter Classic.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: If you can get these players back in the playoffs,
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: the Panthers three peat is that still in play? What
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: could Florida use to go back over the top of
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: a year ago course Bills, you know, makes a trade.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Brad Marshaan, what are you expecting this time around for Florida?
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: Uh, you know, obviously so many injuries to key players,
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: you know, cool cough. I don't know cool cops timeline,
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: but I would say defenseman, they need a depth defenseman.
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: I think that is that would be the need for them.
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: I like their bottom six up front, and obviously when
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: you get Barkoff, that's the thing is they just need
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: the boys healthy. It's it's this. It's the same thing
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: as a trade. You know. It's the exact same thing
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: as a trade is getting Barkoff and could Chuck back,
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: especially for the Winter Classic. This is like them making
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: a blockbuster trade because they haven't had them. They're in
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: a playoff position and now they get this guy back,
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: it's another boost. So they just kind of need time.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: I'm giving them an hour class hour glass. That's excellent,
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: the sands of time. They just need an hourglass just
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: to get themselves healthy.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: Very creative. All right, for all.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: This has gone pretty well.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Actually better than I will thought. I'm being honest. A
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Canada US gold medal game in the Malan Olympics, that's
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: what we want here. It seems fitting the four nations
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: face off was a prelude to a gold medal matchup
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: the two best teams in the upcoming Winter Olympics. So
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: let's up the sticks. If Canada wins, the US cancels
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: all tariffs, well what's it going to take for Canada?
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: If you look at the best players of role JD
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Canadian right, McKinnon, McDavid mccarr. But thought I would argue
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: the US depth is particularly impressive. There's not much of
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: a drop off from their you know, let's say their
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: player two to player eight, Ichl to hughes Etctera. Goaltending wise,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: is gonna be a hot topic of conversation. They got
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Ali Buck Ottinger, we got Bennington, Logan Thompson, maybe Wedgewood Blackwood.
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: What's Canada need? I think they're the favorite, but it's
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: a slight favorite.
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: They need goalies. I think one of their goalies needs
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: to take the reins here. So because I don't think
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: any of them is really you know, it was Logan Thompson. Thompson,
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: but for some reason, the team Canada brass doesn't seem
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: to like him. I don't know what he's done or
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: who's cheerios. He's pissed in, but he just doesn't seem
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: to be in the good graces of the Team Canada brass.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: So I don't. Yeah, I it would be a goalie,
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: but you know, and then I just feel like Canada's
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: more decisions to make. You know, they have a lot
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: of players that weren't at four Nations that I would
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: have on the Team Canada. Team. But again, there's a
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: lot of chemistry that needs to happen and they need to,
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: you know, Cooper needs to find the right for the
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: right formula. So for Team Canada, would be a bunch
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: of beakers and erln Meyer flasks and a Bunsen burner
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: to kind of create a nice chemical concoction that will
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: lead to a winning recipe. You're welcome, fucking next.
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: Okay, great calling the beakers. Also for hockey fans and
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: all California playoff series, JD can attest this at least
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: one playoff series between two of the three Cali playoff
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: teams was guaranteed for years in the NHL, all three
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: teams in the thick of the playoff chase out West.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: How much fun for an all Cali matchup? What does
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: it have to take some sunscreen, lotion, umbrellas in the beach.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: What are we talking about here?
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: A banana hammock. They just need a nice banana hammock
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: and that's all they need now for cal Yeah, I mean,
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: you know, you got the King. It depends where the
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Ducks and the Kings will finish, but that would be
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: if they are the two to three spot. I think
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: the Kings are going to fall out of it a
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: little bit. I'm a little worried. I don't know what
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: they're doing. It seems like Jim ken Hollins been fairly active.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: They just haven't really performed at the way they can.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: I don't know if Jim Hiller's a hot seat candidate
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: as well. They might need Pete de Boor. That could
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: be a guy I think he's And I don't think
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: Pete de Boor wants to play anywhere that's not Canada,
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: so and I think he's worrying about Canada and worrying
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: about the Olympics and stuff like that. So, you know,
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: I for a Cali matchup, they just got to Yeah.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: I actually don't have a gift for them, just a
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: banana hands.
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: No banana Hammick is perfect because that brings us to
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: Pete de boor he needs to do NHL job.
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: He just replaced him.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: What team could be the best destination? I mean he's
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: taken four different teams the conference final in his last
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: eight seasons as a head coach, which in Dallas, Vegas
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: and San Jose. He's lost in the Western Conference final
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: six times. So a decina stream. I only Toronto. Chief's
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: not going anywhere. Buffalo, Lindy Ruff, Utah, maybe Nashville a
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: spot for Pete de boor what do you got?
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: Would? I think it would either be Toronto or Buffalo.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: But Buffalo is saving Lindy Ruff's job right now at
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: home rufles of the road, so but I think it
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: would in Toronto. They kind of just gave the vote
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: of confidence. But I think I think Pete's fine stand
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: in pat I think for him it's just a nice
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: bottle of whiskey. Just sit by the fire and get
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: warm and collect that paycheck from Dallas.
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: Mm I love it.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: Nothing like get fired early in the NHL and having
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: a nice paycheck with a good.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: Pedigree exactly dress sure, no problem at all. Tall Any
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: options you want to give for any of this was
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: your concepts. I want you to chime in any thoughts
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: you had.
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: Well again, I think Jad was kind of saying something
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: before he trailed off, but about how he wants does
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: he want to play in Canada? I mean he's Peter Bor. Yeah,
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: we're talking about to Bor. I just want to get
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: back to Bor because, like, the situation has to be
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: right for him.
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: He's going to get a job. It's not, it's not
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: if it's when?
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: So is this?
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: Does this have to be Canada? Does it have to
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: it has to be a winning team.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: I mean, you can't losing.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: I think he wants to be the final piece of
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: the puzzle. So maybe let's get him a puzzle, a
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: puzzle for Christmas, missing one piece, a one piece, just
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: a nice thousand set puzzle missing one piece, and he
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: is that piece. Yeah, he only wants to come in
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: if it's a finished product. I don't think he's gonna
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: want to do a rebuild.
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: All right, fair enough, And we were talking. I had
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: one other one I was since you asked Dad. Now
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: you know, we haven't talked about Gavin McKenna that much
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: this season so far, but he's having a nice freshman
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: season at Penn State.
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: Which team gets him?
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: You know this summer as the as the delayed Christmas
• 35:59
  Speaker 3: gift as the piece because I was talking with someone
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: that we were talking about, what is Chicago going to
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: get another It's.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: Gonna be Utah.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: Who could use no, I could use him most you
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: think Utah is gonna end that well, we don't know,
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: you know, with the odd stuff.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: I mean right now, it's I mean, I think Columbus
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: could use him. I think Columbus is you know, Columbus
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: is one. I mean Vancouver, you could see get him.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: I think they'll fall out of the race. I think
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: I think Quinn Hughes trade works if they get the
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: first overall pick and they get Gavin McKenna. I just
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: think it works for them. And you know, you're looking
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: also at a team that's absolute dog shit right now
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: and it's going the opposite way fast as the we
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: haven't even talked about it is the Winnipeg Jets, which
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: I said I was worried about him. It's getting late early,
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: but that's another team that could potentially steal that first
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: overall pick. Get Winnipeg.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: I've got Oilers and Jets. Amazon Prime next Monday, and
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: you're telling me this Winnipeg Jets team, you feel like
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: it's dead man walking right now.
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: And they stink too slow, one line, too.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Old, too slow, one line, one defenseman, one goalie.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this stink. And maybe you even got the Penguins
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: because the Penguins are in an absolute Dan muse. The
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: emmuz boosh is not working. They're in a big Dick
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: Dan music. Yeah, they're in a Tom Petty free fall.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Coming up next, the Kid becomes a man Sidney Crosby
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: another milestone plus JD looking ahead to Florida in the winter.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Clasica's coming up next after this unscripted All right, let's
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: do a couple of quick hits and call it a
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: day here On Christmas, Steve Cinephal and sixty Marty Supreme
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: is roaring into theaters on Christmas Day. It's from one
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: half of the Safte Brothers, Josh Saftie, not Benny Safty.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Benny struggled unfortunate with the Smashing Machine, an absolute flop
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: from the rock and they did get a Golden Globe
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: nomination as in Emily Blunt. But the good news is
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: this Safty brings it. Mart Dame is undeniably exhilarating, wildly unpredictable.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: As you know of the Safties they like to make
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: anxiety inducing films, which Uncut Gems is all about. But
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: it's an audacious piece of work and it really is
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: a bravura performance from Timothay Shallow. May I know he's
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: a guy who can be irritating. He's smashing Kylie Jenner,
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: he's doing all these weird social media things. He can
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: be a little bit full of himself, but it's a
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: hell of a performance. There's no denying the fact he's
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: a gifted actor. Perhaps should won an OSCRA for playing
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Bob Dylan. Well, this perhaps is his time to shine.
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: I encourage everyone to go see Marty Supreme, which could
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: be Martin Scorse says he's tagline, just walk around the
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: sweatshirt Marty Supreme. But it's about a nineteen fifties ping
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: pong champion. It's a fictional story, but it's wild, the original,
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: highly entertaining, and I can't imagine anyone not thinking it's
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: one of the best pictures of the year. You guys
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: are both gonna love Marty Supreme in theaters tomorrow.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: I love Ping Pong.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Oh there's some great ping punk scenes.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: I love Balls of Fury, one of the great movies
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: of all time.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: That's kind of an untapped market.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: Chato. Yeah, I know his his him saying like I've
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: just been putting up his interviews are interesting. Yeah, he's
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: putting out great work, consistently great work. I'm like, okay,
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: but he's I do love his acting. He's a good actor.
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: I'm with you. Erican guy wouldn't say want to hangle
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: them like he's an Ericant guy. I kind of fold
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: this up, but I think he's a hell of an actor.
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: I do find and then I think in the movie
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: he's hysterical.
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: I love him in Last the Last King.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah two Actually, Big Last King guy, they're
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: gonna call me by your name, But that's a let's
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: get a different on. It's more heated rivalry. Speaking of
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: heated rivalry, tals now, seeing how many episodes you've seen
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: more than.
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: I am fully updated.
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: I've seen him out five gratuitous sex I couldn't get
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: through it.
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: I will say I I I did fast forward through
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: most of the sex scenes, not because I was because
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: they're they're long.
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: They're long. They're long. The first one I watched. In
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: the first episode, I was like, what I'm with my
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: next to my wife and I'm like, what is going
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: on right now?
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: But they're just making out. It's one thing. If he's
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: been in the guy over and it's taking five minutes,
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: you will come out. You really need this extend.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: We need to I know what's happening. I know what's
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: gonna happen. I understand. I'm an adults.
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: Just a little long as all. I'm not listen. I
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: I've I'm enjoying it.
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: I'm shocked at this actor who plays the Russian guy
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: is not Russian.
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: I was convinced he was actually.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's not Russian at all.
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: No, uh and uh listen. I if I.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: Will say, I if you're a hockey fan and you
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: hear about heated rivalry and you want to watch a
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: show that has a bunch of hockey action, and it'll
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: be oh, this will be like you know, slap shot.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: It'll be sure, there's very little hockey action. There's there's
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: a different kind of action.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: My wife says, it's it's just smut. It's hockey smut.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: That's like the thing right now, it's like the genre.
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: It's hockey smut, but apparently a huge hit right now,
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: So there's a market for hockey smut, which should not
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: be surprising.
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: Let's do the show and me and you on a podcast.
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: He did right just.
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: You're talking about gayborn. We'll just review episodes. That's what
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: So in the found sixty reviewing that let is gay porn,
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: and JD and I will break it down for you,
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: film strip by film strip, the kid becomes a man.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: Congrats to Sidney Crosby's Sunday night against Montreal. The kid
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: had a goal and an assist to pass Hockey I
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: can Mario Lemieux for the franchises all time scoring crown
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: one thousand, seven hundred and twenty fourth point. Crosby now
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: sits eighth on the all times scoring list one thousand,
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: seven hundred and twenty five Stevie Wise next he's seventh,
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: thirty ahead of sid Assuming he stays healthy keeps his
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: current scoring pace, he should pass fellow Penguin's legend Ron
• 41:46
  Speaker 1: Francis for fifth all time sometime next season, the last
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: year of his current contract. How far up the all
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: time lets will he go?
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: JD?
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: To be able to say you're a top five scorer
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: all time would be unbelievable, or maybe not unbelievable.
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: Maybe he's one of the top three to top five.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: I mean he's got to be up there. Do you
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: have him on the Mount Rushmore of hockey?
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: No, what Gratzky, Bobby Orr Lemieux. Okay, maybe he's fourth.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say messy it, but I might put
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: Crosby at a MESSI.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: Says the kid. Come on, you got Crosby man. Guys
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: amazing rocket no rocket, Yeah, he's been in the face
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: of hockey for for so long now, that'd be good
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: for him. He's it's amazing to watch him still doing
• 42:38
  Speaker 2: at his age, at his age and still wanting to win,
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: you know, still trying to drag this team into the playoffs. Yeah,
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: and I mean they need Malkin back. I think you know,
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: he's been banged up. They're missing that. He needs those
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: two guys when they're healthy. I mean, they're playing good
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: hockey and but yeah, it's just it's it's I'm marvel
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: at what he can do in his professionalism and how
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: he is as a human, how he is is an athlete.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: You know, what to have done, what he's done, the
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: way he's done it, and you know, just being a
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: class act throughout the whole thing is just such a
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: that's just the testament to who he is as a person,
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: as a player.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: So yeah, you're right about it, JD. He's been unbelievable. Well,
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: Demurs will be our man at the beach, rocking the
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: SPF thirty at the Winter Class for the next two
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: episodes will have plenty of coverage of the big game
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: from the man who kicks hear of the Florida Panthers Dynasty,
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: Jason neu Murg JD. Should be a ton of fun
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: man in Miami. An outdoor game. No one does it better.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: And hopefully listen, they're gonna they're gonna have the retractable roof.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: They got the refrigerators in there. Hopefully stays cold enough.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: It'll be a unique experience for you.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're bringing the I heard they're busting in these
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: refrigeration units. It's gonna be freezing cold. They're going to
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: open the top right before the game, so I can't wait.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: It's gonna be a lot of fun. I'm calling the
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: game for the It's like the World News Network, So yeah,
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: I'll have more. No one will hear me on in
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: the US and Canada. But if you want to travel
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: to Paris, France or Italy and listen to.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: Me, won't you, they'll hear you. Like in Stockholm. Well,
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: they're like Oslo.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: I'll have more combined people listening than ESPN and Canada.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: Like US and Canada combined, I'll have more people listening.
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: So it's fun. It's gonna be fun. I'm gonna call
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: the game, do a little color. Can't wait. It's gonna
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: be It's gonna be a good time. Rangers are playing
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: some some listen. The Rangers are right there and they're
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: playing some good hockey, just not being able to score.
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: They filled the net last game. But them and the Panthers,
• 44:34
  Speaker 2: it's gonna be a really, really good match. It's gonna
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: be a lot of fun to watch that game.
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: I agree. Rangers certainly been great on the road away
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: from MSG and Florida. As you said, turn the corner.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: Hopefully you'll be able to watch a little Matthew Cots
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: Shock Thanks is always supporting NHL unscripted. Merry Christmas, Happy holidays, everybody.
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: We will talk to you next week before New Year's Eve.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: We'll have plenty more coming up here on NHL Unscripted,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: peace Out.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: Merry Christmas.
• 45:12
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