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there was like I said last show,

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kids all over the hotel, Buffalo puts

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on great, like youth hockey tournaments, it's

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unreal. Then back to back, we went

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to Washington, flew out of there on

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Sunday after the game with the inauguration

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on Monday. Washington was a complete circus

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zoo, man, to see that. It was

2:45

insane. There was fencing all over every

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sidewalk when you get downtown or like

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streets closed everywhere, like just to get

2:51

to the rink was like insane. So

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that was wild and then the next

2:55

day flew all the way out to

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LA and were there for that first

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game where they honored their back off

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a five game road trip or the

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Kings and they honored all the firefighters

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and Los Angeles fire department new logo

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in front of their in the middle

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of their ice murals honoring all these

3:12

firefighters out on the ice fighting those

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crazy wildfires out here in California. It

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was awesome to be a part of

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and honor these. these like heroes like

3:20

rushing into this it's crazy out here

3:22

right now they there's still like fires

3:24

whipping around out here oh yeah some

3:27

new ones or something on the news

3:29

yeah there's some new ones popping up

3:31

and like video yesterday like I was

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heading to the game and like they're

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still fighting these things wins pick up

3:37

and I guess just crazy hard to

3:39

like control them but just cool to

3:41

be a part of that game no

3:43

question then buzz down here to Anaheim

3:45

pens played last night got the boots

3:47

laid to them didn't play awful but

3:50

just got down early and then couldn't

3:52

find a way back and but I

3:54

had some fun man I had a

3:56

lot of fun the other night because

3:58

we've been in Anaheim for a couple

4:00

days off I went out to Timo

4:02

Solani steak tavern You're living the life

4:04

out here. NHL, road trips, steak houses.

4:06

You know, I'm back here, I'm shoveling

4:08

snow every day, building snowmen, making lunches,

4:10

changing diapers. Yeah, you're a great,

4:12

you're, you're, I mean, you're a

4:15

great, like, homekeeper kind of guy,

4:17

you know, you're keeping it down,

4:20

you're locking it down, you're doing

4:22

the stuff I should be doing,

4:24

because in Pittsburgh, we're getting tons

4:27

of dough. Instead, my wife's shoveling

4:29

and like making sure the kids

4:31

are off to school and doing

4:34

all that stuff, buddy, and I'm going

4:36

to Timu Salani, is that how you say

4:38

it? Is it his kid? It's his oldest

4:40

son was there as the floor manager in

4:42

there so it was great to meet him

4:44

and Jared this guy that was working the

4:46

bar there if you go there this guy

4:48

was on pretty much ordered my meal for

4:50

me the guy was an absolute legend so

4:53

I went out there with intentions I had

4:55

it I wanted to see salani steak tavern

4:57

I want to check it out Timus Salani

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legend and had a steak had the whole

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deal did it up by myself the bar

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watching hockey chilling talking to the bartender meal

5:06

salani came over his oldest son I guess

5:08

he started at like the back of the

5:10

restaurant like doing the grunt work at

5:12

the bottom of the total pole and is

5:14

now in a suit he's now in a

5:17

suit like floor managing the restaurant and just

5:19

being a legend so you know good good

5:21

to see like you know salani just getting

5:23

his kids in there at least his son

5:25

anyways and from the ground up brick by

5:27

brick as Prez says as his I'll run

5:29

in the show in there. Such a nice

5:31

kid, good dude, and the food was awesome.

5:33

But the great, like the other thing I

5:35

did is why I went out there. I

5:37

wanted to do that, but I got

5:39

in touch with our boys murals, the netters,

5:42

the empty netters. Pray for you.

5:44

I prayed for you. Never easy hanging out with

5:46

those two guys. Oh no, they're full energy and

5:48

full of positively, but I caught an Uber from

5:51

Laguna Beach all the way back in LA to

5:53

the Toyota Center where they play beer league for

5:55

nine o'clock at night game. And I sat up

5:57

there and watched them play and had a couple

5:59

pops. them after post game. This is us

6:02

meeting up after so glad I did

6:04

it. It was so good to see

6:06

those guys. You know, we love those

6:08

guys. That night was the night. That

6:10

night was the night was the night.

6:12

But I spent like, you know, however

6:14

much a steakhouse is, right? Like you

6:16

said, like, live, think I'm living in

6:18

the shows. And then the Uber rides

6:20

were like, I mean, it was crazy,

6:22

it was like almost $300 there in

6:24

back, sacrifice for the buddies though, you

6:26

got to see the boys, you got

6:28

to see the netters. Great guys, check

6:31

them out. Got to see the play,

6:33

they lost a game. And so it

6:35

was a little tough, a little tough,

6:37

they couldn't score, it was like, Duane

6:39

Rollson was in the other net, this

6:41

guy was unbelievable. This is what I

6:43

need to get to you about and

6:45

those guys, compare each of them to

6:47

a type of them to a type

6:49

of them to a type of player,

6:51

type of player they are. What kind

6:53

of players Dan what kind of players

6:55

Chris are they they look like they're

6:57

just pure danglers No, they're both playing

6:59

defense and Buddy buddy. I love playing

7:02

D. It's the easiest position ever like

7:04

North's multiple North Trophy winner. I would

7:06

say this though I could not believe

7:08

murals the tri-hard ability of this LA

7:10

beer league Like these guys were like

7:12

pretty good these guys were pretty good

7:14

and then after their game there was

7:16

another game and there was like all

7:18

guys with like pro pants on like

7:20

the euro pants with all the patches

7:22

on them and shit like all that

7:24

stuff all these guys are wearing and

7:26

you could tell like some of them

7:28

have like beer league patience like unbelievable

7:30

they know how to play you know

7:33

so the quality of hockey was good

7:35

but these guys were going way too

7:37

hard bad like it was I was

7:39

I was blown away Dan has like

7:41

a cracked rib or something he's playing

7:43

with. So I'm on the bench. I

7:45

had a beer. I went down to

7:47

their bench to like, you know, like,

7:49

be a, like a coach. And Dan

7:51

comes off and he's like, oh, I'm

7:53

like, dude, are you okay? Are you

7:55

okay? Are you okay? He's like, I

7:57

got to go back out there because

7:59

the only of 10 guys is five

8:01

on five and the guy came off.

8:04

So he's jumping off. So he's jumping.

8:06

I got to say right away. Singsy's

8:08

birthday, so we gotta wish Singsy a

8:10

happy birthday. Oh, no way! Happy birthday,

8:12

Singsy. What's up, chat? Give Singsy happy

8:14

birthday chat. Let's go. And then I

8:16

got another issue in there. Zach Boy

8:18

Chuck is in the chat. I bet

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on Berlin yesterday and I said if

8:22

they don't win, then we're gonna

8:24

blame him. So what

8:26

the hell happened yesterday?

8:28

Yeah, let him speak for

8:31

yourself. Come on. Let's go

8:33

boy, Chuck. Be a beauty.

8:35

Tell us what happened. Was

8:37

it your fault? Was it

8:39

your fault? Was it your

8:42

fault? Come on. Sings. Singsee.

8:44

That's a family show here.

8:47

Singsee. He's got a little

8:49

birthday, BJ, and dinner as

8:51

usual. Pasha. What's going on

8:53

with you? I have not

8:55

seen you. But I did

8:57

see your work. Zach Boychak.

8:59

Can I read this? Can't

9:01

can't can't play me because

9:03

I didn't play. I was out.

9:06

I'm injured. So he wasn't in

9:08

the lineup didn't check the game.

9:10

No, Tom. You can still get the

9:12

boys going. You got to be in

9:15

the room. You got to be in

9:17

the room. You got to be doing

9:19

intangibles. You got to be in the

9:22

room. DJ. Get the ox court. Get

9:24

it. There's very well done.

9:26

Thank you. Very happy with how the piece

9:28

turned out. Very happy with how the piece

9:31

turned out. Yeah, Gomer's a character. You kind

9:33

of see he's just got that attitude,

9:35

that sense of humor. So it was great.

9:37

You know, the early comments have been, you

9:39

know, well received. I think people want to

9:42

see more of that stuff. But it was really

9:44

cool. They kind of see the process of

9:46

how the kids train. You know, you got

9:48

the video sessions of Gomes showing him just

9:50

teen up, Yogger, back door back door

9:53

back door passes or passes. That's

9:55

the third episode of Road Warriors.

9:57

We've done Road Warriors after Sean

9:59

Avery and... T.R. and T.R. Senior. So

10:01

there'll be more of that to come and

10:03

yeah, go check it out. Yeah, great job,

10:05

man. I thought Gomer was awesome. Him and

10:07

Mike motto were like a great. Yeah,

10:10

motto was great. Yeah. From the snippets

10:12

we saw the time you spent there

10:14

and like how he handles the kids

10:16

and the seriousness and the delivery of

10:19

good messages of things that matter and

10:21

team building and all that stuff. Like

10:23

I was I was impressed with Gomer.

10:25

I was impressed with Gomermer.

10:27

There. There. I'd imagine, right? That

10:29

would be wild, yeah. That's name

10:31

recognition. Yeah, did that come

10:34

up at all? Are they trying to

10:36

go to a higher level? Are they

10:38

happy to do it working with the

10:41

kids? Was there any talk of that?

10:43

Off the record? No, that wasn't discussed.

10:45

No, that wasn't discussed. Yeah. So you're

10:48

not giving us any inside that

10:50

we can't go find on YouTube

10:52

and watch ourselves? You got nothing?

10:54

I feel like there's a secret.

10:57

I feel like you're holding something

10:59

back like you know something. I'm

11:01

not holding anything back. I don't know.

11:03

It just seems sketchy. You're sketchy guy.

11:06

I don't know. It just seems sketchy.

11:08

You're sketchy guy. Oh, it seems

11:10

sketchy. Oh, you tell me. Oh, so I see here

11:12

in the chat. I see he goes, uh, did Biz

11:14

get laid in Surrey? Okay, here you go.

11:16

Here's your answer. Here's your answer. Here's

11:18

your answer. Here's your answer. Here's your

11:21

answer. and I get out of the

11:23

car and I kind of come around

11:25

to the driver's side and I look

11:27

at Biz and he's in the driver's

11:29

seat just on Riah looking at who's

11:31

around and who's around it. That goes

11:33

without saying in these days. Oh yeah,

11:35

Zach Boy Chuck in the chat, sketchy

11:38

Devils fan. Yeah, shocker Zach, Zach, Zach,

11:40

absolutely. I love it. Yeah, that was

11:42

a great video though, great insight on

11:44

on on the team and how they handle

11:46

the guys and how they handle the guys

11:48

and how they handle the. jumping in

11:51

there and doing that. Obviously motto, we

11:53

know him and his work in youth

11:55

hockey and coaching, but I think that's,

11:57

is that kind of fairly new for Gomer

11:59

to be the... head coach at least anyways, that's a

12:01

different animal from what he said of being an assistant

12:03

prior to that. And then getting in there. I know

12:05

he's done some work. I know he's

12:07

done some work at the NHL, right? And working with some

12:09

teams in the past and where was he

12:11

before? Was he? No, I thought he said that

12:13

he wasn't doing anything. And that's why he's like,

12:15

I got to go do something. I thought

12:17

he was like a special teams. I thought he

12:19

was like a special team advisor at one point

12:21

when he first with the Islanders. You're right. He

12:23

was with the Islanders. And I think he met

12:26

like the last couple years. He hadn't been doing

12:28

anything. Remember, he came out with us in chicklets.

12:30

We did a sandbag or with him.

12:32

And he's a character, man. I wish I

12:34

could have played with him. I was in Montreal

12:36

that year, half lockout year. And they, they

12:39

like cut him or like sent him home, like

12:41

still paying him. And I didn't get

12:43

a chance. He was supposed to be on

12:45

my team that year, but just a character, just

12:47

a beauty. And I remember playing against him

12:49

two murals. Like he was just, he was a

12:51

human breakout. He would just do this cross.

12:53

him my whole life. He was a 79. So

12:55

I played against him growing up. We played

12:57

together in all the national camps, World Junior camps,

12:59

World Junior stuff. So I've known Gomer forever.

13:02

How about this story? He corrected me on

13:04

it because I thought he beat us in the

13:06

finals of the nationals, but it was the

13:08

semifinals. So I'm in and he proved

13:10

my, my, my good story. was like, Oh,

13:12

we lost in the national finals. He's like, No,

13:14

no, no, semi finals, bud. He remembers it all.

13:16

Good for him. Hey, I got to say

13:18

it to you. How about, how about biz? How

13:21

about the kid called out biz or maybe

13:23

it was you? Pasha? It was you

13:25

Pasha on, on like preparation. Oh, yeah. thought

13:27

motto was a defensive forward. Yeah,

13:31

exactly. Because motto was a

13:33

defenseman. What

13:35

a beauty. Text,

13:37

textbook biz. Yeah, we're

13:40

going to get more, more, more on biz

13:42

and wit and yans later and chicklets, chirps,

13:44

but we got to start talking the NHL.

13:47

Biggest story right now is these

13:49

Washington capitals. They're still holding on. Oh,

13:51

we got another goal last night.

13:53

He's within 20, 20 to go to

13:55

break the record. Arm dog. What

13:57

do you think? Think he gets it done

13:59

this year? going to have to wait for next year.

14:01

That's going to be tough for this year, I

14:03

think. I mean, what's everyone on? Almost 50 games?

14:05

There's like. you know, 30 some 32,

14:08

can you get 20 and

14:10

30? Yeah, he can. Fuck,

14:12

who am I kidding? How

14:14

many empty netters do you

14:16

think he's gonna get? Look

14:18

at this. Chasing Gretzki, unfortunately,

14:20

we're a long way away.

14:22

I mean, Gretzki has four

14:24

more goals than me. If you

14:27

can tell, they're eight, four, I have

14:29

eight, nine, so four. That's hilarious to

14:31

debate this. I love these little graphics.

14:33

That was his 60 second empty netter

14:36

and I wrote that on the Twitter

14:38

today and a guy asked me he's

14:40

like, do you think he will break

14:42

the record on an empty netter? Or

14:45

is that something if he gets in

14:47

that situation? He holds up and

14:49

he throws a dish or is that

14:51

dishonorable? I mean, when you score that

14:53

many walls, does it matter? Like when

14:55

you're at that level, like, does it

14:57

really matter? I don't know. I would like

14:59

to think that he's going to score

15:01

it with like his patented, you

15:04

know, shot from the side. One T,

15:06

yeah, just standing over there just letting

15:08

him rip, but you can't turn down or

15:10

that kind of record. You got to snap

15:12

it if you got it, you got it.

15:15

I think you can tie it for sure

15:17

with the empty netter, but I wouldn't want

15:19

to break it. Just like, all right, I

15:21

got it, I'm there, I'm tied with him,

15:23

I'm tied with him, I'm tired with him.

15:25

I feel like it would be a little week to break it

15:28

on the empty netter. Yeah, I wouldn't, I wouldn't

15:30

love it, but I would see how he could do it.

15:32

I mean, fuck, it is what it is, you know, when

15:34

you're scoring up any goals, 895 goals to break it, I

15:36

mean, who cares at the end of the day? At the

15:38

end of the day, but this team, this team is a

15:40

wagon murals. They don't go away, I keep waiting for them

15:42

to go away. They're the best. They're the number, they're

15:44

the number, they're the number, they're the

15:46

number, they're the number, they're the number,

15:48

they're the number, they're the number, they're the

15:50

number, they're the number, they're the number,

15:52

they're the number, they're the number, They just

15:54

keep winning games. They just keep slapping together

15:57

games hanging in there and winning. And I

15:59

looked out. their lineup and it's like Strom

16:01

leads their team in points. Produs has

16:03

20 goals last night. He scored his

16:05

20th. Uh, Wilson has 20, McMichael

16:07

17, Ovechkin 22, as we know. And

16:09

then they have it spread around

16:11

Chikrin 13 goals, but they, it's really

16:13

spread around and balanced. It's

16:16

amazing what they've, what they're doing right

16:18

now. They're goal tending to two undrafted guys.

16:21

Uh, Lindgren was out, came back, got a

16:23

win again right away. And, and, and this

16:25

team just battles and hangs around and, and

16:27

murals, I love their in the dressing room,

16:29

post game videos right now, and you can

16:31

see what Carberry has with these guys. Like

16:33

genuinely, he's like on, he's like a

16:36

player with the boys. And he's

16:38

always throwing it. And we were laughing about

16:40

this before we came on, like, he'll be

16:42

like, way to go, boys. Fucking rights. Yeah.

16:44

Look at Johnny over there and he, they

16:46

pan over to Johnny and it looks like

16:48

he got ran over by a semi. He's

16:50

like heads, his heads bleeding. It is like

16:52

legs are exploded and he's just sitting there

16:54

at the stall and he's cheering with the

16:57

boys. Like they have, they have this thing

16:59

going right now. Carberry's got the boys going.

17:01

I got a hand at two. I'm like,

17:03

this is a wagon right now. What they've

17:05

been able to do. And Pasha, you retorted

17:07

on me. What do you got under the

17:09

hood, Pasha? Well, no, I was just going

17:11

to say, can we talk about Jacob Chikrin

17:13

for a second? This guy's got 13 talks,

17:15

32 points. And what did they give up

17:17

from Nick Jensen in a second round pick?

17:19

You're telling me the Canucks couldn't have matched

17:21

that. Like Jacob Chikrin is exactly

17:23

what the Canucks need on that blue line

17:26

right now. A second to Nick Jensen.

17:28

Like how, how did not more teams not

17:30

pay more for that? What a, what a

17:32

trade for Washington. It's people like you though.

17:34

It's people like you that make that trade. It's

17:37

people like you that go Nick Jensen is

17:39

a good player. And I bet you if

17:41

you look under the hood at Nick Jensen,

17:43

I bet you his numbers are good. He's

17:45

a good skater. He eats good minutes. He

17:47

defends really well. He chips in better offensively

17:49

than most people think at times through his

17:51

career and has been, has been admired, admired

17:53

by the under the hood community, I'd imagine. I

17:56

don't know. I don't think so. And

17:59

I think Chik. is what his

18:01

health is an issue even though he's the

18:03

healthiest guy in the world yes he eats

18:05

duck livers and eats livers he's like

18:08

the liver king he's just jacked he

18:10

drinks grass water there's a lot of

18:12

teams that could have used him that's

18:15

for penguins comes to mind right away

18:17

I'm just shocked at that low low

18:19

price tag but good for him Yeah,

18:21

really happy to see him succeed. And he has a

18:23

bomb, hey, he can rip the puck. I mean, he

18:26

has an axe. So they put him on the power

18:28

play, they put him on that one side, they put

18:30

ovie on the other. And I mean, if you

18:32

take ovie away, this guy's just banging away over

18:34

there too. Like he can rip it and skate,

18:36

he skates, he smoothies. He's been a

18:39

good pickup for them and fit seamlessly

18:41

with like kind of their full body team

18:43

effort work. workman like tea I mean

18:45

it's been it's been pretty amazing to see

18:47

what these caps are doing murals like yeah

18:49

are they we had to make sure to

18:52

get them right at the start of the

18:54

show give them some props are they your

18:56

Stanley Cup favorite all things being said are

18:58

you still a Vegas guy Vegas Vegas

19:00

I'm all about Vegas still little little

19:03

dip before Pasha left if we're gonna

19:05

talk Vegas they lost what six out

19:07

of seven before they won last night

19:09

but Pasha has the term for it

19:11

just like the what is it during

19:13

the season when you lose a

19:16

couple games. Oh, ebbs and flows

19:18

of a long. Ebbs and flows.

19:20

It's just ebbs and flows at

19:23

Vegas, 18 to 1 to win

19:25

a cup, ebbs and flows right

19:27

now. They bounce back in St.

19:29

Louis last night and can't

19:31

stay hot the whole year, you

19:34

know, ebbs and flows. I'd rather,

19:36

you know, team struggle now than,

19:38

you know, in March, the

19:41

birthday disclaimer. But why we're talking about...

19:43

The following statements are about to be made

19:45

by deranged devil's fan. The views expressed are

19:47

his and his only. Take everything you hear

19:50

with a grain of salt because, remember,

19:52

he is a deranged devil's fan. The

19:54

greatest thing of our show is that. We're not

19:56

talking devils, but we gotta talk the Rangers. The

19:58

hottest team right now, they are back. They are

20:00

right in the mix of the playoffs

20:02

plus 105 right now to get into

20:04

the playoffs. I'm on board. I can't

20:06

get enough money on them right

20:08

now to make the playoffs. Igor,

20:10

did he have back-to-back shutouts in

20:12

this stretch? What is the odds?

20:14

What are the odds on them?

20:16

Rangers are plus 105. To make it

20:18

in with like eight other teams that are

20:21

battling right now? I think Posh can

20:23

bring up the standings for us

20:25

right now. We can look at that and

20:27

make it a little easier. to see and

20:29

while you're looking at these

20:31

standings we have Tampa Bay

20:33

is technically wild card one

20:35

at 53 points the Bruins

20:37

are in but they have 54 points

20:40

but have played four more games so

20:42

it's it's a lot different than

20:44

you see here but it's right

20:46

there Columbus 53 New York Rangers

20:48

52 Ottawa 52 Philly 50 don't

20:50

count out Detroit 49 I will

20:52

count out the penguins at 48 Don't

20:55

let this little hot street fool you this

20:57

flash in the pen. The rangers are still

20:59

frauds They still suck this team is like

21:01

I said I think last year a couple

21:03

weeks ago. This is perfect because they were

21:05

trending towards the top five top three pick

21:07

That's how bad they were now. They're gonna

21:10

miss playoffs and nestle into drafting 14. It's

21:12

perfect. Are they supposed to be that though?

21:14

They're not supposed to be like a team

21:16

like that's going they're not the team that's

21:18

gonna like be at like be at the

21:20

bottom They're not supposed to No, they

21:23

weren't supposed to be, but it was shocking.

21:25

They're sort of free fall. So I'm glad

21:27

that they got a few wins. Now they're

21:29

not going to be top three, top five

21:31

will pick 12th or 14th or whatever when

21:33

they miss playoffs. This is the same team

21:36

with Mika and Crider and perimeter Panarin. Nothing's

21:38

changed. Nothing's changed. They just racked up a

21:40

couple wins. I'm not worried about it whatsoever.

21:42

It's the same team that went to the

21:44

Eastern Conference finals last year. This whole, they

21:46

can do it. once they're getting together.

21:49

7-0-1-3 in their last 10. 7-0-1-3

21:51

in their last 10, they're rolling.

21:53

That's like caps. That's like the

21:55

caps are 8-0-2 in their last 10.

21:57

Six wins in a row. That's, I mean...

22:00

That is let me put it this way.

22:02

What would you say seven oh and

22:04

three that's seven oh and three in

22:06

their last 10? Yeah, so so they

22:08

went seven oh and three and they're

22:10

still not in the playoffs Are they

22:12

going to go seven oh and three

22:14

in the next 10 games? Highly unlikely.

22:16

They'll cool down a bit auto has

22:18

been ice cold. They'll heat up a

22:21

bit. Yeah, give me your two wild

22:23

cards before you take off then who's

22:25

gonna get the last two spots I

22:27

think it's going to be Columbus and

22:29

Detroit. Oh, you think they'll hang on and

22:31

they'll say, you know what, I got a, in this race, and

22:33

it stinks, go ahead, Bruce, go ahead, I'll get to. No, I'm

22:35

just going to give it to you. I want to hear your

22:37

two teams too. Oh, my two teams? Oh, my two teams? Oh,

22:40

I'll go with mine then. I'm going, I'm going, I'm going rangers.

22:42

I'm going rangers, I'm going rangers, I 100% on the

22:44

rangers, 100% on the rangers, on the rangers, on the

22:46

rangers, on the rangers, on the rangers, on the rangers,

22:48

on the rangers, on the rangers, on the rangers, on

22:50

the rangers, on the rangers, on the rangers, on the

22:53

rangers, on the rangers, on the rangers, on the rangers,

22:55

on the rangers, on the rangers, on the

22:57

and I don't I don't want the Bruins

22:59

to do it, but I think they do.

23:01

I think the Bruins find a way to

23:03

stay in there. So I'll do Bruins and

23:05

Rangers, assuming Tampa Bay is in

23:08

there. I would like, I don't think

23:10

it's serious, but swimming is hurt.

23:12

I would like to see, yeah, he is,

23:14

I would like to see Ottawa in there

23:16

as one of the teams. I want to

23:18

see Ottawa. They've been waiting, it's been

23:20

a long time coming, they got to

23:23

get their goalie healthy healthy too. Yeah,

23:25

everything's got to come together, but I

23:27

would love to see all, like we've

23:29

been waiting for one of these teams,

23:31

what like those three teams, right? Buffalo's

23:33

gone, see you later, but we're not allowed

23:35

to talk about them, that team, Buffalo, we

23:37

don't speak up. We wouldn't be here right

23:39

now. Zach Boy, Chuck, says Columbus is

23:42

going to fizzle out. He doesn't

23:44

believe, he doesn't believe in Columbus

23:46

in the chat. We wouldn't be here without

23:48

the Ranger sucking. We wouldn't be

23:50

here without Ottawa having a decent run.

23:52

Montreal pushing back into the picture. Detroit

23:54

waking up with a coach firing and

23:56

pushing back into the picture of Philly seems

23:59

to linger around. but you know there was

24:01

like three teams four teams that I had

24:03

three that did good and one that did

24:05

bad and and you know Boston can be

24:08

in there too too that haven't you know

24:10

performed up to expectations that have pushed themselves

24:12

into this gong show race that I think

24:15

for the chat I think for us and

24:17

I think for the hockey fans is

24:19

amazing for the NHL we have this we're

24:21

gonna have like I don't care if those

24:24

other teams are in the top okay they're

24:26

in they're all in their spots big spots

24:28

big deal Yeah, pillow fight of mediocrity.

24:30

Who's the best of all these

24:32

teams that can get in there?

24:35

Who's going to have the ebbs and

24:37

flows to the max and find a way

24:39

to get in there? because all these teams

24:41

can have strong decent stretches together but they've

24:43

all had horrible stretches as well so it's

24:46

gonna be so interesting to watch what will

24:48

be the difference maker is it someone's power

24:50

play absolutely on fire that is a difference

24:52

is a difference is a difference is a

24:55

goaltender that comes out an hour and catches

24:57

fire is you know it's gonna be something

24:59

like that we're gonna have a great story

25:01

by the end of the year boys we're gonna have a

25:04

great story I'm pumped about it this eastern

25:06

race Yeah, each night it seems like two

25:08

of them are playing each other at

25:10

least. So there's a game like, oh,

25:12

this is the four point game that

25:14

we're always talking about and it's just

25:17

making it. Well, even last night, right,

25:19

even last night, I'm sitting there getting

25:21

ready to do the Ducks pens because

25:23

the time change, you got, get Boston

25:25

against the Sands, Boston wins,

25:28

Montreal against the Red Wings,

25:30

Detroit wins, like those are, those

25:32

are four point games. These

25:34

are unbelievable. Flyers Rangers. beat

25:36

down by the Rangers. Then you have blue

25:38

jackets lost to the lost to the

25:40

canes, but blue jackets are in that

25:42

mix as well. And I mean, we're gonna

25:45

get that. Are we gonna get that

25:47

like every night? We're big time scoreboard

25:49

watching, but last night in particular with

25:51

the matchups, I was like, holy shit,

25:53

like these are like, we're game 49

25:55

and some teams 50, 48 and it's

25:57

already like must win. This is a

25:59

must. and that's what it's gonna be like the

26:01

rest of the year. I go into every pens

26:04

game boys and I'm like this is a must

26:06

win. This is like every game right now

26:08

is like like we're going to Seattle after

26:10

this I got to go jump on the

26:12

bird and go at the boys Seattle and

26:14

off licking their wounds off in Anaheim Ducks

26:16

loss after beating the kings at home on

26:18

like an emotional night. Yeah but it's

26:20

like it's like going in Seattle it's like

26:22

oh shit like this is this is everything.

26:24

Like you have to win this game, they're two and

26:26

two on this seven game road trip right now, and

26:28

this road trip is like a maker break, so they've

26:31

got to keep hanging in there. Every game is a

26:33

musket, it's unreal. I know, but they're in the mix,

26:35

they're in the mix, that's the thing, like, you string

26:37

five wins together and you're like up near the

26:39

top again and you're battling in there, and that's

26:41

what we're going to see the rest of the way

26:43

with all these teams, with all these teams, all these

26:45

teams, it's, it's, it, it's going, all these teams, it's

26:47

going to way with, all these teams, it, it, it's going to

26:50

the, all these teams, it's going, it's going, all

26:52

these teams, great summary on the east we

26:54

pop over now to the west it's a

26:56

little little cleaner but there is

26:58

still a battle i think just only

27:00

the western conference wild card two

27:03

spot you know i i i

27:05

figure Colorado they're safe to be in

27:07

there you got calgary 53 points you

27:09

think they stay there murre the

27:11

blues yeah they know they're in no

27:13

call no calgary oh Oh Calgary? No,

27:15

I mean, I think they planned on

27:17

a rebuild the whole year. Yeah, that's

27:19

53, Canucks 50, Blues 50, and I

27:21

cut it off with Utah at 49.

27:23

I'm sorry, Seattle. You just have too

27:25

many games played and you're too far

27:28

back. I got them out. Do you think

27:30

we see Calgary sell off again? They've been

27:32

selling off the last few years and surprisingly

27:34

done okay, they've got some younger guys in

27:36

their lineup and they're battling away, but like,

27:39

you know, the cadres, the Anderson, some of

27:41

these guys at the deadline or at the

27:43

double deadline, whatever you want to call it,

27:45

before for an issue, like what's going to

27:47

happen, right? Like, with them, I don't think so.

27:50

Do you believe in them to be a playoff team

27:52

though? Boys? I think they would by far be

27:54

the worst team in the playoffs, but I

27:56

have more faith in them than the Canucks,

27:58

like not to go in another rant. Knockes

28:00

are a joke. The fact Miller's still

28:02

on that team, they're in shambles. I

28:05

think if they can actually trade Miller,

28:07

ASAP, it'll change things up and they'll

28:09

take that spot, but if they keep them

28:11

in the room with the way things are

28:13

going, guys are just not good there, I

28:16

think the planes will hold on that spot

28:18

and then get nuked in the first

28:20

round. to play the Canucks on Saturday

28:22

night. And we'll get to that on

28:24

the weekend, but oh, that's gonna be.

28:27

That's gonna be. I'll give you a

28:29

few numbers here, Army, to help you

28:31

out here. They got Utah to make

28:33

the playoffs at plus 200 right now.

28:36

They got Calgary to make it at

28:38

plus 200. They got the Canucks at

28:40

plus 105. Ooh. And I think where the

28:42

money is, I know they've played more

28:45

games than them, the Blues. They have

28:47

them at plus 650. Yeah, they got

28:49

a couple games because they've played a

28:51

few extra games, but I think eight

28:53

of their next 10 games are at home

28:56

So this is like you talk about

28:58

the stretch that have to do it

29:00

the blues got to get something done

29:02

on this home stretch here if they want

29:04

to somehow stay in it But I thought

29:07

it was wild that they have to

29:09

do it the blues got to get

29:11

something done on this home stretch here

29:13

if they want to somehow stay in

29:15

it but I watch them like yeah

29:17

Why are we fooled by different jerseys

29:20

and new excitement? They're still the same.

29:22

They'll be in the mix. They're good

29:24

team. Blues 11, 11 and 1 on

29:26

home ice this year. If they've got

29:28

an eight game home stretch, they're

29:31

gonna have to improve their home

29:33

record, no question. You know,

29:35

obviously Monty fairly new still, I

29:37

would say, but like, can they build enough

29:40

then have a push enough to be good

29:42

enough to get in there? I believe in

29:44

them at plus 600. More than the other

29:46

teams in that mix for some reason

29:48

Yes, I do too. It's something just keeps drawing

29:51

me to them that they can do it

29:53

I know I'm a Monty guy. I'm the

29:55

steam guy, but Utah looked good last

29:57

night. I had the over Minnesota

29:59

Utah Utah goes up there and shuts

30:01

them out when Capri Zov was back. So

30:04

they they have been looking a lot better to me

30:06

too if I had a pick though if I had to

30:08

put a hundred bucks on one I am taking the

30:10

blues plus 650 Yes, I

30:12

agree. I think that's a huge play

30:14

and and the West yes, we'll see

30:16

how it sorts itself out It's not

30:18

as crazy as a dogfight down for

30:20

those wild card spots as the West

30:22

But we still got some races and some

30:25

mix right there with the points and

30:27

games played and the shakeout of teams

30:29

And the teams that we deem have

30:31

the ability to push into that and

30:33

I think I Like what you're

30:35

saying plus 650 blues. I'm down

30:37

with that too big time. You're

30:40

the you're the odds guy You love the big

30:42

odds. I do I get wrapped up in

30:44

it. I'm a psycho, bud I'm a psycho about

30:46

all of that. I love it. I

30:48

love it. All right. So that's a it's some

30:50

good races Like we said, it's so fun each

30:52

night. It's it's the best time of year football

30:54

is coming to an end We're gonna talk about

30:56

flow bills later in the show and this is

30:58

this is hockey This is when we take over.

31:00

This is when it heats up. So we're real

31:03

excited rest of the season Other

31:05

news Gary Bettman may be retirement

31:07

is coming up. They're starting on

31:09

a succession plan I

31:11

like what this had to say that it

31:13

I got this I'm telling you I'm

31:15

one of the ones that started this healthcare

31:17

initiative for us alumni And I got

31:19

we got biz the most powerful man in

31:22

hockey talking about it last episode that

31:24

that will be Bettman's final thing It'll be

31:26

his Picasso or whatever he was

31:28

saying. It's swan song He'll he'll

31:30

do it for you. Hey cuz you were you

31:32

we had we had Glenn Healy on the live

31:34

show in Chicago And you

31:36

were all over them about the health care

31:38

thing. I loved it though. It was great

31:40

You were like you were like the watchdog

31:42

for the boys Just sold the rest of

31:44

the alumni know and the boys know murals

31:46

got your back He's beat that drum heels

31:48

knows though heels knows he wants to get

31:50

the deal done I know he's been working

31:52

on it with their committee They're at the

31:54

alumni association and with the league and so

31:56

that's that that could be

31:58

right business business probably bang on. I

32:00

loved a lot of the stuff Biz says

32:02

on this episode, this week's episode of

32:05

chicklets about certain takes on

32:07

hockey and obviously, obviously that

32:09

take right there as well. That would be

32:11

a feather in the cap of the commission

32:13

when he walked away to have that all

32:15

all in place, all set up health of

32:17

the NHL, financial health of the alumni players,

32:20

financial health of the salary cap

32:22

going up and everything working out.

32:24

Wouldn't that be something for the

32:26

commission for the commission. Feather in

32:28

his cap. No booing anymore for

32:31

old Betman if he pulls this one

32:33

off. Yeah, I love it. On to the Game

32:35

Notes team of the week. It's the meat

32:37

team of the week. So I mean, Connor

32:39

McDavid, he's getting a feather in his cap.

32:41

This is a type of team. I hope

32:44

never see him on again. But this

32:46

is a team we put together this week.

32:48

It was more about pimms and suspensions

32:50

than anything else. So first off, we

32:52

got to put Connor McDavid. three games

32:54

suspension had the other elbow to the

32:56

chin knocked the guy out he leaves

32:58

us off there with the three games

33:00

what did you think of that three?

33:02

Well I also once I said I

33:04

like what Biz said about that like

33:07

why did you bring the hammer down

33:09

on him so hard like Garland didn't

33:11

even go down I get it again

33:13

it was a hold he was getting

33:15

held just call the penalty and if

33:17

not okay fine he got the

33:19

suspension but like a game because

33:21

they played Vancouver last night and like

33:23

this says you want these players to be

33:26

in games like that we want the passion

33:28

emotion elevated in games that we don't want

33:30

players to get hurt McDavid said it you

33:32

know I think it was just like out

33:34

of frustration everything but I don't know if

33:37

that's a three gamer and then we missed

33:39

out on that match up right in the heat

33:41

of the battle separated by just a few days

33:43

we missed out on that as fans they

33:45

stole that from us because of this

33:47

crazy suspension one game fine fine in the

33:49

chat Liby mrsussi they're calling him

33:51

mix sussi Do you remember the one he took

33:54

last year where the guy cross-checked them from

33:56

behind into the other cross-check in the face?

33:58

Oh my God, that was always ridiculous. That

34:00

was ridiculous. People were comparing

34:02

the Austin Matthews when he

34:05

cross-checked on Daline, I think. You got

34:07

one game for that, I believe, too. This

34:09

guy gets three games for this? Like, give

34:11

me a break and then we missed out

34:13

on the matchup last night of these teams

34:15

going at it with those guys in the lineup.

34:17

I mean, that was crazy. Come on.

34:19

Let's make it. Let's get the passion

34:21

of motion back here. Speaking of that

34:23

Ryan Reeves. He had a few things

34:25

to say after... you know, a little tilt,

34:28

he tried to fight Jacki, no go, then

34:30

he gets his his match up with Olivier,

34:32

gives us some magic murals.

34:34

That was, they're saying it's the

34:36

fight of the year. I just couldn't

34:39

help when I was watching how

34:41

lucky we are. We used to get

34:43

to watch two or three of those

34:45

live every night in the AHL, those

34:48

kind of tilts, those tough of players,

34:50

every single night. That was just the

34:52

norm back then. David Kochi, fighting. Bonvie

34:54

or Gratton. It was those are the

34:57

kind of fights you saw all the

34:59

time. I gave Olivier the win on

35:01

the fight there. Matthews had

35:03

some strong comments for

35:06

Toronto afterwards. Yeah, what he said

35:08

he said it was rather quiet after that

35:10

big fight got our bench juiced We were

35:12

up on the bench. We're buzzing and then

35:14

the rink was like silent and then there

35:16

was that clip that came out of that

35:18

guy What's his name that super hardcore Leafs

35:20

fan like trying to get wake up the

35:23

suits of the yacht club down on the

35:25

bottom there and he got no love everyone's

35:27

just staring like sitting on their hands, you

35:29

know, you know, it's just like yeah, you're

35:31

an NHL game for the superpower of the

35:33

Leafs game for the Leafs the year And

35:35

those guys going at it and your

35:37

team trying to battle back, but Olivier

35:40

is one mean dude and he's next

35:42

on the list too, Merle's. He's next

35:44

in there for the win. Maybe they

35:46

were shocked, maybe the yacht club couldn't

35:48

handle it with Olivier, won the

35:50

fight of the year, just the bowl from

35:53

Biloxi, Biloxi Mississippi. This

35:55

guy looks like he's carrying around

35:57

luggage, he's so jack, they've seen

35:59

him. He's badass and the thing about

36:01

him that's badass. He's having a great

36:03

years like he's scoring goals But it's

36:05

like he has that look to

36:08

him like you remember like Randy

36:10

couture in the UFC No,

36:12

I don't like the old UFC guy like

36:14

back in the day Randy couture He

36:16

looked tough. He looked like a trucker, you

36:19

know, like he'd pop out of a truck He

36:21

had he had tough look to him but he had like

36:23

kind of like he was kind of like thin up

36:25

top on the hair like it just like and

36:28

Olivia to me looks like he has that

36:30

same kind of thing as Randy couture like

36:32

when he squared up with Reeves I was

36:34

like fuck this guy's a bad dude, man

36:36

This guy is a bad bad man And

36:38

that was a hell of a fight let

36:40

Reeves get up and then they just started

36:43

throwing them There was a tornado swirling there

36:45

for a while of fists. Just boom boom

36:47

just a lot of anger It was it

36:49

was it was a hell of a tilt Olivia

36:51

having a heck of a year for CBJ You know

36:53

if an old face -punching contest those

36:55

were just classic fight back in the

36:57

day Next guy

36:59

up go back to the suspensions

37:01

think Hoover Edmonton Tyler Myers got

37:03

the suspension 17 minutes and penalties

37:06

this week One game probably

37:08

more because it wasn't really part of

37:10

the play I feel like that's deserved

37:12

more games than McDavid McDavid's in the

37:14

heat of the battle Myers was just

37:16

blatantly after like not in the play

37:18

and you know how big he is But

37:21

he made me on the team we threw

37:23

him on the list for full belligerence in the

37:25

corner away from the pile Just cross -checking Bouchard

37:27

in the lips. I mean, how do you

37:30

not add him to the team when he does

37:32

it? I think you're right I think away

37:34

from the fight like that just off on the

37:36

side like you know nothing's happening Like no

37:38

one was even talking about that until like two

37:40

days later like a day later almost like

37:42

check out this up Above at the top of

37:44

the screen Everyone was all eyes on McDavid

37:46

Meanwhile, the big lanky Myers just

37:48

shredding a cross -check right down

37:50

the guts right down the

37:53

teeth highway And just pounded

37:55

Bouchard's face with it 17

37:57

minutes one game played you

37:59

make the Game notes, team of

38:01

the week, all meet team. Next guy

38:03

up, we had to have Arbor Jack Guy

38:05

on Montreal. He got in the fight

38:08

with Renpe and again, I don't know

38:10

if I'm a judge, a fight judge

38:12

like Miggs is in Vegas, but he

38:14

gave it to Renpe. He beat up

38:16

Renpe. He's tough man. He got him

38:19

in a little tough area there

38:21

and he started shredding a couple

38:23

little quick boomers like bam

38:25

bam bam. And he's tough kid

38:27

after waving off, waving off Reeves.

38:30

And then they hung six on him.

38:32

Is that what Reeve said? And we

38:34

hung six on him too bad, you

38:36

know? But he had the lead. I

38:38

think he made the right decision

38:40

not to fight Reeves in that

38:43

spot. They had the lead. You

38:45

don't want to spark the boys,

38:47

but ended up turning around on

38:49

them. So we got Jack Guy on

38:51

there though. He's a tough guy. He's

38:53

a tough guy. He's a tough guy.

38:55

He's a top cheddar, backhand, top cheese.

38:57

So. I don't know if we're going

38:59

to see any more Rampi fights. I

39:02

got his over. I had his over

39:04

two and a half goals. So he

39:06

finally got one. Steak in the chat.

39:08

Rampi can't fight. He's just tall. Like,

39:10

I mean, he's fighting. He's fought all

39:13

the tough guys in the league. Like,

39:15

it doesn't matter if he can't fight.

39:17

He's fought all the tough guys in

39:19

the league. Like, it doesn't matter if

39:21

he can't fight. He's the bang. He's

39:24

the bang bodies. He's the bang bodies.

39:26

He's been. for just playing his game.

39:28

Nidalkovich, the goalie. I never called

39:30

a goalie goal in Buffalo. After

39:32

we did game notes that night, NHL

39:35

record, goal and an assist in the

39:37

game and the goal also on top of

39:39

it after he scored, it was unbelievable.

39:41

Like a little slow ribmerals, you see

39:44

that skill level by Nidalkitch too. He

39:46

just takes it off his back end

39:48

one touch, pops it to his forehead.

39:51

does not dust it off and just rips it

39:53

right down the gut right down the middle of

39:55

the net. Great picture Crosby looking back before it

39:57

went in the net smiling like you know, like

39:59

you know, watch. to go in. It was

40:01

awesome and then he jumps and cellies

40:03

into the bench. A goal and an

40:05

assist, 40 save night from Dalkevich, that

40:07

was a record-setting night. I got to

40:10

call it. I was like literally stunned

40:12

and frozen. I didn't know what to

40:14

say or do to call it. I

40:16

didn't know what to say or do

40:18

to call a play like that or

40:20

a game like that or a record

40:23

like that or you know to witness

40:25

that in real life. Amazing to see

40:27

from Nadelkevich and he got hit really

40:29

hard there murals. He got roasted when

40:31

he shot it. Forget the kid's name

40:33

that came through. He used to play

40:36

for the pens. I don't know why

40:38

I'm blanking on his name. Hollidaysburg Pennsylvania

40:40

kid. He was in Chicago, was in

40:42

Lafferty, Sam Lafferty. He came through and...

40:44

Bared him with a shoulder he could

40:46

have got the Gordy Howley you're gonna

40:49

be sniping goals You should be able

40:51

to get hit. I think yeah I

40:53

think so too and take a hit

40:55

to make a play and our boy

40:57

from our from our pod from our

40:59

show in Chicago with the outdoor game

41:02

Reed Simpson texted me and he said

41:04

there was a chance for a record

41:06

that will never be broken is if

41:08

he took that hit, shred his mitz

41:10

and just started fighting and got a

41:12

Gordy Howe hat trick, I said, I'm

41:15

stealing that, I'm using that for the

41:17

show and he's right, that if you

41:19

really wanted to, that would have been

41:21

a record that would never ever ever

41:23

be touched. Congrats to the, I would

41:25

have been a record that would never

41:28

ever be touched. Congrats to the delkovich,

41:30

though, it was awesome to see, that

41:32

would have been a record that would

41:34

never ever ever ever be touchedched, Nope,

41:36

this guy goes out, makes 40 saves,

41:38

goal and assists to beat me, so

41:41

I was pathetic last week, down and

41:43

back for me there. Big time, you

41:45

want to do this rookie? Zacho, stop,

41:47

Chuck. Yeah, I found this guy, rookie,

41:49

I said, oh, we need some meat.

41:51

I find this guy in Ottawa, got

41:54

his first career goal, and he had

41:56

a fight with Castilek on the Bruins,

41:58

who's a real tough customer. So, Zach

42:00

Austin, so you got me, Army.

42:02

What is it? Zach, Austin,

42:04

you got it. A stopchuck?

42:06

As, Austin, Chuck. A stopchuck.

42:09

A stopchuck. I like

42:11

how you try to do

42:13

names. You're brutal at names,

42:15

but Zach, stop, Chuck. Exactly.

42:17

Stop, you try to do

42:19

names. You're brutal at names,

42:21

but Zach, stop, Ottawa. Yeah,

42:23

so, good, good, kitty, I

42:26

think, where this kid's from, too,

42:28

because I mean. All good Western

42:30

Boy, sounds like a good Western

42:32

Boy. St. Albert, Alberta. Good Western

42:34

Boy, Zacho, Stopchak. I love it.

42:37

What a beauty. Vancouver Giants product.

42:39

Second round pick by the Ottawa

42:41

Senators. Good Western leaguers. Buddy got

42:44

hit. He came in there against

42:46

a tough kid. Castellic and he

42:48

stepped in there and Stellic is

42:51

strong. He's built like Thorman. He's

42:53

absolutely shredded. He's been, you know, he

42:55

can handle himself. This kid just steps in

42:57

there. Boom, boom, boom with him. I loved

42:59

it. Way to go buddy. I love that.

43:01

You know the boys love that too. Yeah, that

43:03

was a fun team to put together.

43:05

We said that when this started. It

43:08

won't always be about goals and assists.

43:10

We're gonna look at intangibles. We're gonna

43:12

look at thousand game guys. And then

43:14

this one, you came up with it.

43:16

The all meet team this week because

43:18

there was just so much going on.

43:20

Fighting is back in the league and

43:22

then when the best player in the

43:24

league gets a suspension, we had to

43:26

bring some notice to him in that

43:28

team. So thanks to Max for that

43:30

graphic for that graphic. I

43:37

forgot about our graphic game. Is that from

43:39

the bubble hockey game? You know, when you

43:42

hit the button on bubble hockey and it

43:44

boo. Oh yeah, yeah, I should have got

43:46

booed because I tried to talk when we

43:48

rolled the thing again and I always seem

43:50

to do that for a graphic. I know, I

43:53

always do that. My show this week is

43:55

Austin at the Pendry Hotel here in

43:57

Newport. Beautiful Hotel, first

43:59

of all. We get in here the other night

44:01

from Washington, or from LA, drive down after

44:03

the game, get in here. I met him

44:06

last year and shortly after we were there,

44:08

like a week to 10 days later, the

44:10

Chiklets guys came out for like a pink

44:12

Whitney like appearance type of thing. And so

44:14

they stayed here too and I put G

44:16

in touch with this Austin, the Pendry and

44:18

how nice it is out here and where

44:20

they were doing it and this Austin guy,

44:22

massive, he's like the manager here or something,

44:25

massive, massive Chiklets fan. and just a hell

44:27

of a guy just all class all world

44:29

but I check in and I'm I see

44:31

him at the front when I get in

44:33

that night I'm like hey I'm like hey

44:35

did I talk to you last year he's

44:37

like yeah I'm like okay he's like Austin

44:39

good to see you again he's like welcome

44:42

back I'm like thanks a lot buddy yeah

44:44

so just start chatting with him but I

44:46

go I check into my room I get

44:48

up to my room buddy I'm in like

44:50

Mac daddy sweet I'm in a MacDaddy suite

44:52

and he pipped me with a letter. Welcome

44:54

back to the Pendry Newport Beach. Thrilled to

44:56

welcome you back. I hope you have a

44:59

wonderful state. Don't hesitate to let me know

45:01

if there's anything. My team or I can

45:03

do just guys just a stud to make

45:05

your stay more enjoyable little bucket of beers

45:07

on ice a fruit bowl and Pasha when

45:09

they stayed here he said he had a

45:11

shakoo to report in his room like this

45:13

Austin guy here at the pantry shout out

45:15

you're all show great service amazing treatment amazing

45:18

care I texted him like hey how's the

45:20

internet in this joint like am I gonna

45:22

have good internet because you know how I

45:24

stress about the internet the chat always chat

45:26

loves to get on us So I was

45:28

like he's like don't worry about it for

45:30

internet's not good. We'll line you up We'll

45:32

create like a separate Wi-Fi connector for you.

45:35

So it's strong and good, but I'm dialed

45:37

right now I'm dialed in and shout out

45:39

to Austin at the pantry took care of

45:41

the boys last year Come down for that

45:43

pink Whitney thing took care of me here

45:45

when I popped in I did not expect

45:47

that I did not need that it is

45:49

I'm thankful for it I had a great

45:51

stay here for three three and half days

45:54

murals days murals thank you I got a

45:56

question for you. How far is that hotel

45:58

from downtown LA say? 40 minutes. 45 minutes.

46:00

45 minutes. is out there this year. With

46:02

no traffic, that could be a hot for

46:04

us, but that would be too far. With

46:06

no traffic, buddy. That's like saying something though.

46:08

You gotta go at night or like probably

46:11

early or else you get. It doesn't really

46:13

sound like my kind of spot. I'm

46:15

more of a courtyard Marriott type guy.

46:17

You're a beers in that little cubby

46:19

store in the lobby kind of guy,

46:21

right? Yeah, like in Japan we used

46:23

to at hotels in Japan at a

46:26

vending machine of beer. Just go down

46:28

and hit that and comes out. I'm

46:30

nice, nice and easy. Simple

46:32

guy. Pasha, I know you're, you're

46:35

more of a pantry hotel guy.

46:37

What do you got for the

46:39

show this week? Beautiful property. I'll

46:42

stick with the Austin theme for

46:44

the show. Austin theme for the,

46:46

for the show, Austin Matthews. A

46:48

couple of things he did, I

46:51

really liked. The first one was

46:53

him and Merzleekins get tangled

46:55

up. probably knowing full well he's going

46:58

to get a penalty which I actually think

47:00

is bullshit like Mersleaking grabs his stick what's

47:02

he supposed to do so they both got

47:04

penalties I believe but I just thought that

47:07

was hilarious and then also Matthews calling

47:09

out the Toronto crowd calling out the yacht club

47:11

saying that you know he needs more energy good

47:13

for him I love it when players speak their

47:15

mind you know a lot of guys wouldn't say

47:17

that but Matthews did he calls out the crowd

47:19

so good for him and yeah to two great plays

47:22

for Matthews Yeah, that actually brings up

47:24

something I wanted to ask you

47:26

army I meant to ask you

47:28

earlier It's about penalties that maybe

47:30

shouldn't be called it was I

47:32

think it was in Buffalo Malcolm

47:34

got a high-sticking penalty, but

47:36

the guy's head He was he was

47:38

really bent over so his head was

47:41

almost below Malcolm's waist Yeah,

47:43

stick hit him in the face

47:45

It's not high-sticking the guys the guy's

47:47

face is below his waist Whereas the

47:49

guy's responsibility not to believe in a

47:51

business. Yeah, they they call it a

47:54

careless stick That's what they say. He's

47:56

careless with a stick. You know like and

47:58

people will fight that and say it's still

48:00

high sticking. I've seen a guy get a

48:02

high sticking penalty when he was down on

48:04

the ground and the guy came through with

48:06

a stick to get the pocket and he

48:09

hit the guy in the head and got

48:11

a high sticking. I was last year. I

48:13

was like, how the hell do you figure

48:15

that? It sticks in the proper position. And

48:17

yeah, he got him in the head. But

48:19

so I agree with that. We've seen some

48:22

crazy. It looked like it might have been

48:24

hazy or boy hazy. And They put Thomas,

48:26

so Hayes is 13, they put Thomasino in

48:28

the box for holding, or I think it

48:30

was maybe hooking or interference or something. They

48:32

put him in the box, he's 53, then

48:34

they're going to drop the puck, and just

48:37

before they dropped him, they blow the whistle

48:39

quickly, then the penalty box swings open, and

48:41

refs come over there talking, and they pull

48:43

Thomasino out of the bench, and they send

48:45

him to the bench, and then they bring

48:47

over P.O Joseph, 73. 1353 73 someone with

48:50

a three they went through every freaking option

48:52

and then they finally through B.O. Joe it

48:54

was crazy I love that move Thomasino knows

48:56

he's not a PK guy maybe puts himself

48:58

in the box that's a move we used

49:00

to do it all through youth hockey yeah

49:03

you got to scam that if you can

49:05

yeah you'll take it you'll serve it they

49:07

maybe get a breakaway when you come out

49:09

absolutely 100% but like. We've seen Brady could

49:11

chuck wave off a high sticking penalty, snapped

49:13

his head back. We see all these things

49:16

where, you know, the refs have rescinded. I

49:18

saw rescinded penalty this year. They called a

49:20

penalty, then they looked at it or they

49:22

couldn't, you know, had a conversation or they

49:24

couldn't, you know, had a conversation or they

49:26

couldn't, you know, had a conversation, the refs,

49:28

and then they, they looked at it or

49:31

they couldn't, you know, had a conversation, and

49:33

goes on the sticking, and goes out, and

49:35

goes out, and goes out, and goes out,

49:37

and goes out, and goes out, and goes

49:39

out, and goes out, and goes out, and

49:41

goes out, and goes out, and goes on

49:44

the ice penalty, and goes on the ice

49:46

penalty, It was Sid was going for a

49:48

line change, the linesman got in his way

49:50

on the exchange, so Sid had to go

49:52

around the linesman to get to the box,

49:54

and in that time Malkin had jumped on,

49:57

and it kind of messed up the timing

49:59

of the change. So they called too many

50:01

men and then they met afterwards and

50:03

then they rescinded the penalty and then

50:05

no call because of the lines been

50:07

getting in the way. It was crazy.

50:10

So like, so we are seeing some

50:12

crazy things, Merles, with these penalty calls.

50:14

And that is a beautiful picture of

50:17

Austin Matthews holding a beautiful picture of

50:19

Austin Matthews holding a goalie holding a

50:21

goalie stick, before finally dropping it, like

50:24

putting his hands in the air, like what

50:26

the hell's going on, he has stick, I held

50:28

it, and then to that game. before

50:30

we went off on the

50:32

penalty tangent. And I got

50:34

Fantilly going to the show

50:36

with his hat trick in

50:38

his hometown, but the real

50:41

show was his mom. His mom

50:43

takes the hat off before the

50:45

pucks even in the net. She

50:47

throws the hat on the ice.

50:49

I think he had 70 people

50:52

there watching him there watching

50:54

him that year. So. His mom

50:56

is called up to the show for knowing he

50:58

was going to bury that empty netter. I love

51:00

that. That reminds me when I was a little

51:02

kid I had six goals in one game. I'll

51:05

never forget it. Dunder and Saskatchewan rink.

51:07

Cold as hell. Cold like, you

51:09

know, chain link fence for glass.

51:11

And my dad and parents were

51:13

all up in this top balcony

51:15

looking down over. I scored six,

51:17

my six goal. And one of the

51:19

dads took my dad's hat and threw

51:21

it on the ice. I was like,

51:23

you know, I was like nine years

51:25

old or seven years old or something

51:27

like that. But I'll never forget that

51:29

like double hat trick, but the hat

51:31

trick but the hat coming on the

51:33

hat coming on. 70s yeah yeah yeah you

51:35

just pulled a biz I just had it

51:37

oh did yeah yeah 70 people and and

51:39

his mom that that must be just ultimate

51:42

for your parents to see that and then

51:44

throw it on the ice and shout out

51:46

to him he's playing lights out man he

51:48

was on the third line a little while

51:50

ago Monaghan goes down with like a wrist

51:52

injury and he stepped up on that big

51:54

boy line with those Russians and he's been

51:56

lighting it up man he's been on fire

51:58

so big night in Toronto for the kid.

52:00

Love it. And I think you can segue

52:02

right to your mindsies from the

52:05

tour from Toronto. I've got two

52:07

mindsies. I got two mindsies today.

52:09

First of all, I got to

52:11

send the go train in Toronto

52:13

to the mindsies. I saw this

52:15

story of Tommy Gorlek, 10 year

52:17

old from Kitchener Ontario. It was

52:20

his first NHL game. He plays

52:22

for the under 11, the U11

52:24

Kitchener Junior Rangers. I saw this,

52:26

this kid, his parents got gifted

52:28

or they gifted some kind of

52:30

tickets. It was going to be

52:32

his first NHL game and he

52:34

tried to take the train to get

52:36

downtown to go there. I guess this

52:38

go train is nightmare. It's a, see

52:40

it there, go train, go train is

52:42

nightmare. It's a, see it there, go

52:45

train, night, it's a nightmare, it's hard

52:47

to get tickets as we know. Plus

52:49

it's really expensive. and then not being

52:51

able to drive because traffic is like

52:53

the devil in Toronto, maybe the worst

52:55

place in the world. And so this

52:57

freaking go train, which should be easy

52:59

to get in and out, I guess

53:01

it's breaking down, there's issues all the

53:03

time, and this probably is like a

53:05

political thing or something, I don't know

53:07

if it is, but you're going to the

53:10

Mindsies go train messing up this kid's first

53:12

NHL game, and I've got some news to

53:14

report to make this story right. Max

53:16

Patch, you're ready. I've been informed is

53:18

getting tickets for this kid and their

53:20

family to come to the game against

53:22

the wild coming up So congratulations to Tommy

53:25

and his family and and way to

53:27

go Max Way to make the go train

53:29

issue to the minors. They're still in the

53:31

minors fuck to go train. They're done and

53:33

shout out to Max Petrotti stand up

53:35

guy got the tickets for the kid and

53:37

it's going to make it right and have

53:40

a good experience for this guy and maybe don't

53:42

Don't take the go trade and come to

53:44

that game if Max is getting your tickets

53:46

too. Yeah, we're gonna know what we're gonna

53:48

do is take Max Patrick ready in that

53:50

game to score a goal. You know, good

53:52

karma, good guy. You might be hurt right

53:54

now. Was he still out? Yeah, I think he's

53:56

hurt right now. I will not take him. I

53:58

know. Jeremiah what the F. At least I

54:00

don't lose the bet. It's just

54:03

a no bet. That's good. Jeremiah,

54:05

what the F is going on

54:07

in Canada right now? I know

54:09

I saw a picture on social

54:12

before we started the show.

54:14

Trudeau came down to like

54:16

threaten the US and it

54:18

had a sweater on backwards.

54:20

Like. Oh. Oh. I thought he

54:22

resigned. What's he going on? What's

54:24

going on? It's like a fake

54:26

resign? Yeah, I don't know. I

54:29

guess. I don't know. My second

54:31

Mindsies, though, is the beer league. I gotta

54:33

go back to the beer league. So

54:35

I showed up there. I don't know,

54:37

Pasha. I think I sent the picture.

54:39

The one team. Hold on, hold on,

54:41

we got Peer League segments at the

54:44

end. We have Peer League heroes at

54:46

the end. We got to make the

54:48

people stick around to the end for

54:50

the Beer League heroes. Okay, okay, I

54:52

forgot, I forgot on the run. And

54:54

also, we've had a great segues in

54:56

this show, Minezies, we can stay right

54:59

in the province of Ontario for

55:01

Pasha's Minezi. Yeah, my Minezies is

55:03

this claw juror story. This is it

55:05

right here. His car was stolen again,

55:07

I think like three months apart.

55:10

What is going on here in Ottawa? Like

55:12

what neighborhood does he live in? Is he

55:14

just leaving the car running with the keys

55:16

in the driveway? Like, what is happening

55:18

here? And then this really funny graphic,

55:20

someone made cherue, dude, where's my

55:23

car? Oh my God. Whoever's stealing his

55:25

cars in Ottawa sent to the Mindeez.

55:27

He got his car stolen, and then

55:29

he had like a leased rental car

55:31

or something right now, like another car,

55:33

and they stole that. That's what I

55:35

was reading. I think they saw a guy

55:38

with a sweater on backward stealing it. He

55:40

had a sweater on back there. Some random

55:42

guy. Wild story there. My minds,

55:44

he's finish up, brutal news. Pasha, sorry

55:46

to hear, Markstrom's going to be out.

55:49

But I'm real upset about it

55:51

because him and Carlson are both going

55:53

to be out for Sweden at the Four

55:55

Nations. When I come on, when I

55:57

came on here and gave my picks

55:59

for Sweden. Sweden, that was my biggest

56:01

strength was their goal tending in

56:04

the centerman that Sweden has to

56:06

go up against these big dogs.

56:08

Like Willie Carlson was going to be

56:10

able to shut down McKinnon or

56:12

McDavid or Crosby. And it's just,

56:14

it's brutal for Sweden, lose both

56:16

of them. Mine's ease for these injuries happen

56:18

at the wrong times of these guys. So

56:20

all Mark, will he be back in time

56:23

or is that a question mark? I

56:25

believe that he's a question mark,

56:27

but I know for sure,

56:29

Mark Sherman Carlson are out.

56:31

Yeah, Gustafson, I would, yeah, Gustafson,

56:33

I would guess, Harrison, would maybe,

56:36

is he the next best Swedish

56:38

goalie right now? Forsberg in

56:41

Ottawa, Soda Blum, in Chicago,

56:43

I couldn't think any other

56:45

Swedish goalies, but I think

56:47

Harrison's got to be the

56:49

best one, right? And maybe your

56:51

guy, Rickel, he's been playing well, maybe he

56:53

gets a shot for Sweden now, or

56:56

I would say maybe Backlin. I had Backlin

56:58

on my original team just as a Swiss

57:00

Army knife, die, veteran guy. So I think

57:02

Rickel, since being snubbed, has one of

57:04

the best point producers right now. He's

57:06

been, I call him the, I call

57:08

him the junk yard dog here in

57:10

Pittsburgh. He's a forechecking body on pux

57:12

and making things happen. He has silky

57:15

sweet hands and has like. kind of

57:17

a sloppiness I would say it was I

57:19

shouldn't say that but it kind of is

57:21

like he has like a like you know

57:23

Datsu had that like wormy body yeah he

57:25

has that ability with like his hands and

57:27

his body to be so deceptive that it

57:29

looks like he's you can't get a beat

57:32

on this guy when he's got the puck

57:34

and he's got this back he pulls a

57:36

puck back and flings it and he's he's

57:38

lightened it up right now he's having a

57:40

great season a great season so he's getting

57:42

a good on the outside of that

57:44

team, looking in and has been

57:46

highly motivated since then. So good

57:48

call. Sweet and oh, tough breaks

57:50

for Sweden for four nations coming

57:52

up. Yeah, brutal, brutal. All

57:54

right. All right, boy, oh, Minzies. It's time

57:57

to do some picks. Yep. It's

57:59

Friday, Friday. we got four games

58:01

on Friday tonight, buddy boy, and it

58:03

looks like you may be on three

58:05

of them, three plays, three picks, four

58:07

games. Yeah, I gotta put the hand

58:10

up. Meg's told me last night, take

58:12

Detroit Red Wings. I did not want

58:14

to listen to them. I did not

58:16

want to listen to them. I had

58:18

to change the vibes a little bit.

58:21

So Friday night, I'm going just

58:23

for points. I'm just looking

58:25

for players points tonight. And

58:27

the first one I'm doing is

58:29

Vegas. hurdle over a half point

58:31

minus 115. He's currently on a

58:33

seven game point streak. He's he's

58:35

lethal on the power play plays in

58:37

the bumper. So I look for him

58:39

to just get a point. My next

58:42

one up is Utah. We've been talking

58:44

about Utah. This is a tough game in

58:46

Winnipeg. But Schmaltzi over half a

58:48

point minus 125. He's on a

58:50

seven game heater. Yeah. So I'm

58:52

trying not to ruin these guys.

58:55

And the last one, I'm

58:57

doing the big trade talk.

58:59

Nelson over a half a

59:01

point minus 142 for the

59:03

New York Islanders at home

59:05

versus Philly. Philly's

59:07

probably gonna play

59:09

the backup because everything

59:11

got lit up last night.

59:13

So there's my three picks.

59:16

I'm trying not to ruin

59:18

these guys, he says. And

59:20

I just picked her back to

59:22

your tweet a week ago

59:24

that that ruined the NHL.

59:26

to have this much control over guys'

59:29

careers in team seasons. Love the point

59:31

getters, Cody Pux, shout out to Cody

59:33

Pux in the chat. Great little

59:35

theme here tonight, little fun cheering

59:38

for these guys, keeping these point

59:40

streaks going too. I like that,

59:42

Merle's, at a boy, at a baby.

59:44

And I picked the last one kind

59:46

of on purpose, but I do like

59:48

him to get one tonight to segue

59:51

into the chicklet's chirps because this last

59:53

episode, it just popped right out to

59:55

me. They're talking about Brock Nelson

59:57

getting traded and G's saying all.

1:00:00

he's going to get traded

1:00:02

before the four nations. A

1:00:04

lot of guys are going

1:00:06

to get traded before the

1:00:08

four nations. Whitt, Biz,

1:00:10

Yance, I don't know, what is

1:00:12

they got? 1,500 NHL games between

1:00:15

them. They couldn't think of

1:00:17

one other guy. They can't

1:00:19

think of one other guy.

1:00:21

They can't think of one

1:00:23

other guy. They're like, oh,

1:00:25

that's it. That's the only

1:00:28

guy in the four nations. Yeah,

1:00:30

let me finish. I'll go one more

1:00:32

rant on these chiklets boys. I don't

1:00:34

know if J.T. Miller has pictures of

1:00:36

them three doing stuff together or something,

1:00:38

but they giving him the like

1:00:41

the backhanded wrist or so much

1:00:43

they'd even mention him as trade

1:00:45

beat because they love him so much.

1:00:47

They don't think he should be traded

1:00:49

for anything, but J. T. Miller is on

1:00:51

the trade trade. What do you call it?

1:00:53

The trade board block, trade block on the

1:00:55

block. You can see all the names there

1:00:58

if you want to read through. Yeah, hell

1:01:00

yeah, there's lots of guys there and all

1:01:02

these guys are in there and I mentioned

1:01:04

Rasmussen I think I think I think

1:01:06

I saw I think I saw Pasha shaking his

1:01:08

head like no way. No way. No way. I

1:01:10

mean, I don't know I don't know I think

1:01:13

all these guys that you have listed here are

1:01:15

all guys that have been brought up. What was

1:01:17

I doing? You're like you were shaking

1:01:19

your head. I was like interesting. Oh,

1:01:21

yeah. No. No, I'm just shaking my head

1:01:23

at what Merles is saying. I agree

1:01:25

with these guys. They're just constantly tire

1:01:28

pumping Miller and just ignoring his defense's

1:01:30

lapses and whatnot. But I digress, I

1:01:32

digress. You know what it is. Say

1:01:34

that for our show, but I'll read

1:01:37

the names for the people listening at

1:01:39

home from the US. You got J.T.

1:01:41

Miller, Chris Crider, and Brock Nelson, I

1:01:43

think are all available or are looking

1:01:45

to move. And typical those three guys,

1:01:48

the typical North Americans, nothing else happens,

1:01:50

from Sweden, he's been talked about. Gustav

1:01:52

Nyquist down in Nashville, even though they're starting

1:01:54

to win some games, they won't get back in

1:01:56

the race. Eric Carlson, who's been talked about the

1:01:58

whole season, and you're guy, Erasmus Anderson, and

1:02:01

then over in Finland, Mikhail Granlin might

1:02:03

be the number one guy people are

1:02:05

looking for from San Jose, Tivo Terra

1:02:07

Vinan in Chicago, somebody might want, Erasmus

1:02:09

Reese Delining down in Philly is going

1:02:12

to be available. And I threw Olimata

1:02:14

for Utah, even though Utah is starting

1:02:16

to make a run, he could become

1:02:18

available if they drop out. So all

1:02:21

those guys are playing in the Four

1:02:23

Nation, so down and back for Chiklets,

1:02:25

for thinking there was only one guy,

1:02:27

there was only one. Another one another

1:02:29

one that's a huge list of names

1:02:32

again. Yeah, that's the line. That's the

1:02:34

line I was looking for again. Good

1:02:36

job murals. Great. So that's my chicklets

1:02:38

chirps for the week. I don't know

1:02:41

if you've got any more on those

1:02:43

guys even though we love them. I

1:02:45

thought this week's episode was awesome. I

1:02:47

thought it was great great points made

1:02:49

as I mentioned before that it was

1:02:52

good show. If you haven't seen it.

1:02:54

Outstanding, yeah, he's pretty chill guy and

1:02:56

he freely was in conversation with the

1:02:58

boys as the boys have a knack

1:03:00

of doing that with their guests. So

1:03:03

it's good. Yeah, go check it out.

1:03:05

Yep. So let's move on, Ryan, the

1:03:07

bus. We'll go to the CHL rankings

1:03:09

first, get you talking about the CHL.

1:03:12

I know there was some other news

1:03:14

that came out about the CHL this

1:03:16

week. Yeah, absolutely. We see the rankings

1:03:18

here popping up. If Pasha can load

1:03:20

them up there, London Knights holding steadily

1:03:23

at the top, Ramuski, Oceanic at fourth,

1:03:25

they are hosting the Memorial Cup this

1:03:27

year. So good thing that they have

1:03:29

a team up there in the rankings,

1:03:31

standing and holding strong. And majority of

1:03:34

these teams just kind of flip-flop around

1:03:36

in there. I know monk that out

1:03:38

in the Quebec League is having a

1:03:40

real strong year. I touched on them

1:03:43

a few weeks ago and how good

1:03:45

they're playing. Looks like they moved up

1:03:47

a spot, but they've got Mickey DuPont's

1:03:49

kid in there land and DuPont That's

1:03:51

that phenom defenseman right now exempt status

1:03:54

playing this year and having a heck

1:03:56

of a year. So keep an eye

1:03:58

for them. We got to get up

1:04:00

to Ramuski for the for the memorable

1:04:02

would be fine would be nice. What

1:04:04

is that usually in May? Yeah,

1:04:07

it's a second round of the playoffs

1:04:09

usually like Memorial Day weekend in the

1:04:11

US. It might be. Yeah, I think

1:04:13

it is. Yeah, I think it is

1:04:15

the same kind of time. Yes, 100%.

1:04:17

100% following off of this top

1:04:19

10 ranking with the CHL. Also,

1:04:21

there was a, you know, there's

1:04:23

been reports of Youngstown phantoms. and

1:04:25

Muskegon in the USHL and they're trying

1:04:28

to join the OHL there was a

1:04:30

tweet I saw that was out there about

1:04:32

about these teams are lawyering up now in

1:04:34

their fight to try to separate from

1:04:36

these lead this league the USHL and

1:04:39

join us I think they've been blocked

1:04:41

maybe by the USHL or in fears

1:04:43

for the US program US development program

1:04:45

and all this stuff and having these

1:04:48

players and teams fleeing to the CHL

1:04:50

and now you know these these two

1:04:52

prominent teams that I think are pretty

1:04:55

successful. in the US Hockey League,

1:04:57

USHL, and wanting to join

1:04:59

the OHL. So this is

1:05:01

still ongoing. This is still

1:05:03

like something that no one

1:05:05

quite knows how everything's gonna

1:05:07

shake out. It's pretty crazy.

1:05:09

So stay tuned. USA Hockey

1:05:11

is saying no at

1:05:13

Armdog. Jeremiah Maxwell. They are

1:05:16

because. The USHL has worked extremely hard

1:05:18

to get where they are now, where

1:05:20

they are the number one feeder to

1:05:22

college and basically the only feeder. When

1:05:24

I was that age, you had the

1:05:26

prep schools in New England that were,

1:05:28

just as many guys were coming from,

1:05:31

the USHL, you had the Toronto leagues,

1:05:33

you had the BCHL which is huge,

1:05:35

you had the Minnesota High School, and

1:05:37

everybody would just go from all those

1:05:39

places right to college, and they somehow

1:05:41

switched the whole model where everybody basically

1:05:43

went to the USHL. and then from

1:05:46

the USHL out to college. So they've worked

1:05:48

hard and now they don't want to lose

1:05:50

that because now all these kids can go

1:05:52

to the CHL and so it's improved a

1:05:54

lot. I admit the USHL has proved a

1:05:56

lot. CHL is just way better. It's just,

1:05:58

it is, it's just. way better. It's improved

1:06:01

a lot, but you know forever because

1:06:03

of that, because of where you could play

1:06:05

and where your rights are held, you're

1:06:07

held hostage. So that's not the case

1:06:09

for players anymore. Players have never had

1:06:11

more freedom to make up their minds

1:06:13

on where they want to go and

1:06:15

where they want to play. And so

1:06:17

yes, that is a tough one for the

1:06:20

USHL because I think just overall the product

1:06:22

of CHL development players coming out of

1:06:24

there and the way they do it

1:06:26

is, has been superior and is superior

1:06:28

and now players are not held hostage.

1:06:30

So it'll be interesting to keep an

1:06:32

eye on this. I thought pretty interesting

1:06:34

message the other day I saw about

1:06:36

these teams getting lawyers and trying to

1:06:38

make a move for that. There's my CHL talk.

1:06:41

That's it and then we're talking college we

1:06:43

can go right to the college my new

1:06:45

top 10 we can pull that up it

1:06:47

was so crazy weekend a lot of teams

1:06:49

were splitting one one main main had a

1:06:51

little tink in the armor against Yukon

1:06:54

Benny says this Yukon team is good

1:06:56

they're legit they come at you hard

1:06:58

this weekend's even bigger who are

1:07:00

the matchups what matchups that I have

1:07:02

written down for this weekend it there's

1:07:04

some huge games BC and BU

1:07:06

play each other this week Minnesota's

1:07:08

at Michigan state Providence and

1:07:11

New Mass Lowell play each other. So

1:07:13

my rankings are there for this week.

1:07:15

They're not going to last long because

1:07:17

these big games tonight. I got BC1,

1:07:19

Michigan State 2, Western Michigan 3, Minnesota

1:07:21

4, Denver 5. I had to drop

1:07:24

Maine down to 6. I had to

1:07:26

drop Maine down to 6. So we don't

1:07:28

have to play to a disclaimer

1:07:30

this week. They're really hurting. They

1:07:32

had their captain get hurt over

1:07:34

Christmas. I was actually at that game

1:07:36

and at RPI. Michigan took a

1:07:39

game from the number one team so

1:07:41

they stay there Ohio State won the

1:07:43

football national championship so they stay there be

1:07:45

you I keep them there for wit I'll see

1:07:47

how they do this weekend against BC if

1:07:50

I want to keep them there I had

1:07:52

some others receiving votes this week RPI

1:07:54

in Yukon I will mention RPI plays

1:07:56

union on Saturday in Albany at the

1:07:58

big arena down there It's called the

1:08:00

Mayor's Cup, so it's always a big

1:08:02

game. The one year, the coaches were

1:08:05

on the ice fighting, the players were

1:08:07

fighting, so it can be a good

1:08:09

game if you're in Albany. Check that

1:08:11

out. Absolutely. And get in the chat,

1:08:13

get in the comments and roast me

1:08:15

for my picks. They're saying in the

1:08:17

chat, G won't be happy with where

1:08:19

you have Michigan. As you know, he's

1:08:21

a master of all these teams. because

1:08:23

I got paid to go on a

1:08:25

visit there and make your campus look

1:08:27

good. Great call. What was I going

1:08:29

to say about this? Oh, the bean

1:08:31

pot. When's the bean pot? That's coming

1:08:33

up in a few weeks, I think,

1:08:36

too. So you've got what? BC versus

1:08:38

B. You coming up and that'll be

1:08:40

something we'll see probably likely at that

1:08:42

bean pot as well. What teams are

1:08:44

in that? Yeah, it's well, it's B.C.B.U.

1:08:46

Harvard and Northeast are another four teams

1:08:48

every year and I'm not 100% how

1:08:50

the schedule always works, but they'll play

1:08:52

Tuesday night and then the winners will

1:08:54

play the next Tuesday all at TD

1:08:56

Garden. First two weeks around February. Yeah,

1:08:58

first two weeks in February. So that's

1:09:00

coming up too. So you want to

1:09:02

get a little sneak peek with these

1:09:04

games coming up as Merle's just mentioned

1:09:07

into the bean pot. tournament annual tournament

1:09:09

everyone talks about that we'll be covering

1:09:11

that on our show as well there's

1:09:13

no question you done with that murals

1:09:15

yep all right here let's go to

1:09:17

Saturday buddy we got a big night

1:09:19

Saturday night we got a lot of

1:09:21

action oh baby and oh I don't

1:09:23

know what you're gonna do what you're

1:09:25

gonna do when they come for you

1:09:27

EBR EBR what you're gonna do what

1:09:29

you're gonna do when they come for

1:09:31

you Well, first of all, I'm already,

1:09:33

I see, I see Mountfield's up to

1:09:35

nothing in the chat, so that's put

1:09:38

me in a good mood. Colorado at

1:09:40

Boston, everybody knows my EBR rule, Boston

1:09:42

day games, which has, has basically been

1:09:44

thrown out the window, although I brought

1:09:46

it back last week against the sharks.

1:09:48

I'm not going to touch that game

1:09:50

besides my guy Lekinin and score goal.

1:09:52

Anytime goal, he's usually around plus 200

1:09:54

plus 250. And of course, as a

1:09:56

mush I am, I just mentioned Mountfield

1:09:58

to nothing. to one. Thank you chat.

1:10:00

I am officially a mush, but I'm

1:10:02

gonna I'm gonna watch that game. It's

1:10:04

an early game. So I'm gonna take

1:10:06

leccanin any time goal. Also an earlier

1:10:09

game, Oilers three way against that team

1:10:11

from Western New York that I'm not

1:10:13

allowed to talk about anymore since they

1:10:15

lost a toilet ball. I will go

1:10:17

to blues money line plus one 50.

1:10:19

They're home against Dallas Dallas. Dallas will

1:10:21

be on a back to back traveling

1:10:23

up there. and as we talked about

1:10:25

earlier St. Louis has to make a

1:10:27

move here at home so I want to

1:10:30

be on board with them there and

1:10:32

then the other team we talked about

1:10:34

who's just the best team in the

1:10:36

league capitals money line minus 130 at

1:10:38

Vancouver we know all about Vancouver's

1:10:40

problems we don't have to talk

1:10:42

anymore about them I do have to

1:10:44

mention I just saw in the chat that

1:10:47

Saturday is hockey day in Minnesota so

1:10:49

add Minnesota wild to my card

1:10:51

for Saturday Wow, great addition, great pick

1:10:53

up. Couple games also to keep an

1:10:55

eye on Battle of Ontario, big game

1:10:57

there, Toronto against Ottawa, Toronto in Ottawa

1:11:00

to play, and then Tampa, Detroit, that's

1:11:02

another battle that we're gonna want to

1:11:04

keep an eye on those standings as

1:11:06

we went over at the top of

1:11:09

the show Saturday night, we're standings watching,

1:11:11

we're match up watching, we're game watching

1:11:13

and all the games Merle's mentioned also,

1:11:15

good job buddy. Yeah. Sunday, Sunday, Sunday,

1:11:18

we roll right along into Sunday.

1:11:20

Not as big of a card,

1:11:22

usually not. But here we go,

1:11:24

five games on yours. And are

1:11:26

you running the board? What are

1:11:28

you doing here? You know Sunday

1:11:31

is a very special day for

1:11:33

me. The Buffalo Bills are in

1:11:35

the AFC championship. But it's even

1:11:38

special day, more special day because

1:11:40

of a birthday. Can you guess

1:11:42

whose birthday is January 26th?

1:11:45

You need a hint. I do. He was

1:11:47

in one of our graphics earlier.

1:11:50

He's a legend You've been known

1:11:52

to have lobby beers with him.

1:11:55

Oh Grets Grets, so I want

1:11:57

to get a special happy birthday

1:11:59

to wing Gretzky on Sunday before

1:12:01

I give my picks. So happy birthday Wayne.

1:12:04

I'm gonna do Aves Rangers draw plus

1:12:06

300. Their last five games head to

1:12:08

head have gone to overtime. So I

1:12:10

think it's a fun spot to try

1:12:12

to take my Murli special there. I'm

1:12:14

also going Jets three way home

1:12:16

against Calgary. I think that's a

1:12:19

perfect spot for Winnipeg. And those

1:12:21

are just the appetizer just like

1:12:23

last week when I had a horrible week

1:12:25

with the pox. My team you see right

1:12:27

there. They took care of me, Josh Allen

1:12:29

took care of me, got all the

1:12:32

money back. I'm going Buffalo again. Buffalo

1:12:34

Bills, Moneyline, right now on Draft

1:12:36

Kings, it's Plus 105, and this

1:12:38

week I'm going with Cook to

1:12:40

score a touchdown plus 120. This

1:12:42

is our year. We're finally gonna get

1:12:45

back to the Super Bowls first time

1:12:47

since 94. I cannot wait big, big

1:12:49

game Sunday. Let's go Buffalo. What a

1:12:51

day, the great one's birthday. I'm going

1:12:53

to have to remind myself to shoot him

1:12:56

a text, no question on 99th birthday. Oh,

1:12:58

no big deal. You can send him

1:13:00

a text. Just shoot him a quick text.

1:13:02

We'll see if he responds, likely not. But

1:13:05

I will say, that's going to be huge,

1:13:07

the bills game. That I cannot wait to

1:13:09

watch that. That is going to be huge.

1:13:11

Maybe team of destiny. as Portland, I

1:13:13

says, America's team, Merles, it's in our,

1:13:15

it's our school's team now. I see

1:13:17

these guys, they made a, they made

1:13:19

a draft king special and they got

1:13:21

two guys on Kansas City scoring touchdowns.

1:13:23

I saw that. Our stool is a

1:13:25

Buffalo Bills company now. We're all

1:13:28

about the Buffalo Bills. Our president

1:13:30

can win six and a half

1:13:32

million dollars on the Buffalo Bills.

1:13:34

We don't even speak of the

1:13:36

chief. You definitely don't make a

1:13:38

prop bet of Chiefs touchdowns. We're bills,

1:13:40

bills, bills, bills, bills. That is unreal

1:13:42

that bet, by the way. If you didn't

1:13:45

see that video from Portnoy, unreal what

1:13:47

he did, like moving some money around

1:13:49

off another thing he won off of

1:13:51

a coin and I don't even know

1:13:53

how you do that, but he's on

1:13:55

fire and this is sitting there. It's

1:13:57

going to be huge. And I, I, I, I,

1:13:59

it's like, this. This is, this might be

1:14:01

it, this might be it, Merle's,

1:14:03

and we've, I've officially written it

1:14:06

into my wedding now because you

1:14:08

wrote it into your wedding agreement

1:14:10

that I wanna be hanging out

1:14:12

with you somewhere for this, for

1:14:14

this game if they can push

1:14:16

through to the final, the Super

1:14:19

Bowl, maybe, if they can push

1:14:21

through to the final, the Super

1:14:23

Bowl. Maybe we'll meet, maybe we'll

1:14:25

meet through, let's get through Sunday

1:14:27

before we make any plans. signs

1:14:29

by Jerry. Now we're on favorite segment. Save

1:14:32

it to the end. Make sure everybody stays

1:14:34

at the end. Beer League Heroes. We can

1:14:36

start with your one that I cut you

1:14:38

off from earlier. I'm glad you saved it

1:14:40

for me. I forgot we were going to

1:14:42

do this segment today. I was at the

1:14:44

empty netters, Beer League game, getting a

1:14:46

couple pops upstairs. Go over because it's like

1:14:49

a bar in the middle. Go over and

1:14:51

watch this other game. And. there's two

1:14:53

teams playing I'm like damn these

1:14:55

teams are going hard like I

1:14:57

was I was blown away at

1:14:59

how hard they're going and

1:15:02

anyways I'm talking to the boys

1:15:04

and I notice on the bench they

1:15:06

have a coach they have a god-dang

1:15:09

coach but I could not believe

1:15:11

they had a coach either is just

1:15:13

a Wednesday night that's just

1:15:15

a normal Wednesday night skate

1:15:17

It's not a tournament or anything, right?

1:15:19

No, it's just a league game. There's

1:15:22

like, I think there's like eight teams

1:15:24

and they've played against each other for

1:15:26

like years and years and years and

1:15:28

years and years and years. And so

1:15:30

these teams and they go hard. But

1:15:32

apparently this team, the whalers have a

1:15:35

coach, that's their coach behind the bench

1:15:37

in beer league. And they practice and shit

1:15:39

in beer league and they have a coach.

1:15:41

That was all I wanted to make it my

1:15:43

mindsies for one, but this is beer

1:15:45

league heroes to the Max right here. And

1:15:47

I know we've been criticizing for guys watching live barn

1:15:49

after their games and going over video and all

1:15:51

this crazy stuff and like you know people have

1:15:53

said like why are you chirping guys that just

1:15:55

want to get better and guys that just want

1:15:57

to do this and you know but it's like.

1:16:00

You guys got to go work tomorrow, you

1:16:02

know? Like, it's not a big deal. Like,

1:16:04

just go get a sweat. It's about the

1:16:06

camaraderie. It's about the boys. Like, winning is

1:16:08

great, but it's not the number one

1:16:10

thing when you're in beer league. It's the

1:16:12

greatest league of the world, because it

1:16:15

doesn't matter how good you are. We all

1:16:17

end up there. So, like, let's just take

1:16:19

it for what it is.

1:16:21

I'm glad the coaches in

1:16:23

the mix. It's fun, because

1:16:25

it's camaraderieuraderieuraderieuraderie. Yeah, on that note I

1:16:27

do I need to go back in

1:16:29

our original episodes with our rules for

1:16:31

beer league and get them all in

1:16:33

one spot because I do get a

1:16:35

bunch of stuff like all this and

1:16:37

that I'm like yeah, we already covered

1:16:39

that one We cover the don't be

1:16:41

a hard oh don't do this and don't

1:16:43

be a hard oh don't do this and

1:16:46

don't do this and don't do this and

1:16:48

don't want to repeat them but I do

1:16:50

have a repeat I didn't show you I

1:16:52

didn't hockey in Malaysia this guy's

1:16:54

using IKEa bag to save his,

1:16:56

to bring his gear. There's not

1:16:59

even room for his skates. He

1:17:01

has special rip ties on the side

1:17:03

for his, for his skates. And I

1:17:05

just thought, that's just another one,

1:17:07

an IKEA bag for your hockey bag,

1:17:09

which I like that better than a

1:17:11

storage bin. You know, it fits as

1:17:13

a backpack, but I'm still not down

1:17:15

with it. Go get a real hockey

1:17:17

bag. I mean I gotta hand it to this

1:17:20

guy I mean the storage bin is something

1:17:22

else that guy's knob I still don't get

1:17:24

I would love to talk to that guy

1:17:26

about his knob I know that sounds really

1:17:28

weird but that that was a tape job

1:17:30

I've never seen before last week this is

1:17:32

ingenuity look at the hooks he made for

1:17:34

his skates on the outside of that bag

1:17:36

look how confident he is wheeling in with

1:17:38

his gear in a backpack this we should

1:17:40

make we should make chiklets beer league equipment

1:17:42

in a bag like that you can throw

1:17:44

on your back for and it's all light like

1:17:46

lightweight not much padding so you don't need

1:17:48

it because you're not supposed to go hard like

1:17:50

these guys in LA out here do and you

1:17:53

could fit it all in there like that that

1:17:55

would be something else holy smokes I gotta actually

1:17:57

I gotta hand it to that guy not great

1:17:59

get a bad But like way to go.

1:18:01

Where was that again? Malaysia. Malaysia.

1:18:04

Wow. Army, the finisher, army

1:18:06

big knob guy in the

1:18:08

chat. So that's it. You

1:18:10

can hear my kids in the

1:18:12

background screaming to finish up.

1:18:14

We got to shut her

1:18:16

down. Got to thank you

1:18:18

to the chat. Great comments

1:18:21

as always. Thank you for

1:18:23

your help on everything. Mountfield

1:18:25

up two to one last I heard. I hope

1:18:27

I'm gonna make you guys some money for coming

1:18:30

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1:18:38

Yeah I know the chiklets guys are gonna

1:18:40

be in Florida this week they're gonna do

1:18:42

some sandbaggers and look for them in Orlando

1:18:45

if you're there there's pink Whitney night on

1:18:47

Tuesday the 28th I believe. Go get over

1:18:49

to that game check those guys out. I

1:18:51

was hoping G was going to be on

1:18:53

here to get some little teasers, some little

1:18:55

scoops, but we'll save them for the big

1:18:57

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