Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - Calgary Flames Game Day + Darcy Hordichuk Joins The Show | FN Barn Burner - December 14th, 2023

Episode Date: December 14, 2023

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And we are wheels up on another edition of Barn Burner. How we doing, everybody, Boomer and Pinder and Red Warner here on Thursday, the something of December. Yes. Merry ho-ho to everyone. 11 days. Damn it. 11 days. Taking the early December little vacay thing.

Hmm. Unless you have. your poop in a group, which I rarely do. Right. Not ideal. The runway is short. Yeah. I was told last night that there's a lot of things that haven't been accomplished.

And I said, well, that's going to continue because I ain't doing shit. Good luck to you. That's what you said. Well, you better get after it then. Yeah. But you know what? It's not as hard because we like to give you. We talked about Viena Nova yesterday.

It's not as hard as it. Not that hard. It's really not that hard. Because there's different ways of doing it. Oh. Now, I would say it's the gift that keeps on giving, but it can only give for a period of time. But the good thing is, there's plenty available. It is the barn burner blonde.

There it is. I mean, look how good those cans. Look. I checked in this morning with our boy, Mark. Yeah. They've already got a second batch brewing. This stuff is moving. Shit, yeah.

Isn't that cool? Second batch of brewing. No. Three drugs and drinking. Second batch of brewing. Yes, my pet. Why. I love you.

Yeah. And you know what these are? Headache proof. Hangover free. It says it, where is it on the... I didn't see that. They can't get approval to put that, but it's a personal guarantee. There you go.

Here's my guarantee to you. never stop drinking them, you won't get hung over. That's right. Can't do it. That's a great gift. You put that under the tree? Just make sure keep the dog away. Snots!

Keep Uncle Jim away from that too. No, give Jim that because Jim's painful when he's sober. Get him all wound up a little. Loosin up, Jim. Take that stick out of your hoop, would you? It's Christmas. Coming up a little bit later on on the show, Darcy Hortichuk. Former a lot of teams, Vancouver.

Is he calling to a intimidate me? Yes. Okay. Yeah. I reached out to him. Really, Rhett, don't feel like he's singling you out. We're all intimidated by Darcy.

But hey, yeah, why would, there is something coming up, isn't there? You and him. Got a big match tomorrow. Tomorrow. Junior Sabers versus the junior coyotes. Oh, baby in Detroit Rock City. Woo-hoo. I want to bring him on for a couple of different things.

Obviously, we are going on our Barnburner vacation in January, out to Phoenix, where he resides. He'll give us a little bit of intel what to expect. And if you haven't already done so, you talk about a trip to Phoenix in January. That's go. Yeah, let's do this thing. Details on that come up. And also the top shelf elf,

which I believe the auction comes to a close tomorrow. There is a unbelievable prize that has been donated by he and his company. Yes. Hole 16 at the waste management golf event, the Phoenix Open. It's unlike any other golf tournament in the world. and that hole is unlike any hole in the world. There you go. Canada to USA.com, the waste management open experience.

Four day passes on the 16th at TPC Scottsdale for the waste management open. And that's the thing you could, that's a TPC Scots. It is very fancy. Just not during that event. Yeah. Aside from the piles of vomit around the big open area there, it's rather fancy on the other 361 days. It's kind of a bucket list thing, which you don't just throw that around. But truly, to, that's something you want to see in your life.

You want to do that in your life. And here is a great opportunity to do so. It is up for auction right now at nationgear.ca in support of closer to home and their adopt a family for the Christmas season. All the money goes there. So you get a great experience and your money goes to a great cause. It's a win-win. So we're going to get them on to tell us a little bit about that and how,

We talked to, I guess, about a month, two months ago, about how he's tied into all of this. But just more about what to expect with this auction item, if indeed you are the winning bidder. So I texted them. I said, hey, uh, Dars, I get you on the show. It'll be great. He says, let's do it. My boy plays Warner's boy in Detroit this weekend. Tell him to keep his head up, lull.

Lull. That was not a real lull. I don't think he meant the lull. I think he meant what he said. Yeah. Well, you can laugh different ways. There can be the evil cackle. Maybe that's the whole.

That's right. His kids, you were saying, his kid's a bit of a player. Is that what we're led to believe? I don't. I've not. I've heard he's a shit disturber like the old man. I got to believe there's some trends that he follows. Yeah.

If I know tomorrow, I can let you know. I can let you know tomorrow afternoon. I look forward to the scouting report. Post game on that. It is a Calgary Flames the Game Day. Get your helmets on, gentlemen. It's the Minnesota Wild. And we were left so enthralled after the last Flames Wild meeting.

I'm sure we are champing at the bit. Didn't you leave the country? That's how bad it was? I couldn't stay. Wild on a Tuesday, 2-1. At least it's Thursday today. It is Thursday, big 17 to 2 today. Now, in fairness, I don't know who deserved more blame in that game for it.

being a stinker. Was it the Wilder or was it the Flames? Yeah, it wasn't the schedule maker. It was the flames. They were awful. Wildward looked back. That was what, game four for John Hines. They'd won three in a row coming in, if I'm correct. Ladar got the start. He got pulled after three on 16. Wolf came in, was marginally better.

They have been better, though. To your point, they I looked this morning. John Hines replaced Dean Eveson on November 27th. They started 5, 10, and 4. and since then have gone five and two. So much better. They're missing some bodies.

Brodine got crunched by Van der Kaine, who somehow avoided discipline on that one, face first into the end wall. He's out on LTIR. Spurgeon is out tonight as well. So you're going to see a greener blue line than usual. Gustafsin's been named your starter. There's the run under Heinz, by the way.

Win, win, win, win. loss loss, win. And again, you talk about sample sizes and it is small, but you look for, so what's changed aside from the wins and losses, obviously they're faring a little bit better in that department. Since the change, the wild lead the NHL in goals against, 1.57 goals against and a 942 team save percentage. Right, you got to write this down.

Because Rets can be a coach at some point, right? Just when you're ever having a bad run, just tell your goal either, he's play better. Hey, listen, we're not, the things aren't going well for us right now. As a team we're struggling, stop the fuck. Yeah.

That's what, that's the key, Dean, because apparently Dean Eveson told them not to stop the fuck, and now they are. Dean knows, he's got a goaltender in the house. He's got the stress of supporting this goaltenders. There's also,

uh, something to do with blocking shots. I think they're fifth in the league or something, but, uh, I was told by a kid yesterday on the team, that hurts too much. He didn't want to do it.

Yeah. That's good point. Never thought about that. Yeah, it's valid for sure. Maybe just take up the lane, screen the goalie, and not get hit? What response did he get from his coach? I can't use those words on the air. I figured it might be a gentle.

Well, okay. Well, we can consider that. Yeah, it probably does hurt, as you were. Something like that. I wouldn't want to get hurt. Flames coming off the overtime loss in Vegas on. Tuesday. I didn't, things happened quickly.

Flames scored nine goals in the last two games and got a loser point. Right. They, honestly, they were right there with the two last Stanley Cup champions, had leads going into the third and both. And while it stings if you're a fan that they didn't come away with four points, you love

the work ethic. It's, it was two really good games that they just ran into more talented clubs without question. They have a lot of guys individually playing well. The team has looked like you say, they've, they could have, they deserved or could have won, I don't know, deserve

necessarily, but I don't think it's deserved. They worked hard enough to win and they competed hard enough to have more points. And like we said, while you're away, it's perfect. Play hard, be entertaining and lose. Don't lose sight of the true objective here. Top five.

Yeah. Top five. It's too much to overcome it. We can talk about if you choose. You tell me. There's too many teams to pass. and there's too many good teams to overcome and there's too many guys you have to sign if you think you're going to keep them

and make the playoffs. Just keep. Yeah, and your... Eddie. Your best player probably slots in between the fifth and seventh best player on those two teams you just played. You don't have a stone,

you don't have an Ikel, you don't have a Petrangelo, you don't have a Chey Theodore, you don't have a Rantan, you don't have a McKinnon, you don't have a McCart. The list goes on. Dave's Byron.

Like, right? It's not... These are not teams in the same class as the Calgary Flames. So give them credit they were in position to win them. And don't be surprised that they didn't. Hmm. What? Were you looking for?

No, just. We've kind of, this has got to be in our take the whole time. I think this is many of our takes all summer guys. What do you mean? Yeah. No, I know. Yeah.

Who's going to score 30 on this team? Are we really believing there's a team that doesn't have a 30 goal score? What do you mean? What do you mean? That's fine. You get a microphone. For free to use it if you get, go on. Don't be timidine.

Don't be afraid. You're welcome here. This is a safe space. Yeah. It would just be nice if it, if it was made easy. It's never easy, right? This is the easy part.

They're entertaining games. If you're going to retool this thing, they could be shitty for years. This is as easy as it gets. These are entertaining games. Here's my concern. This is my concern. They're doing great.

They're playing wonderful hockey. Get your tickets, get out there, have some holiday cheer, attend a game. If they continue to work hard and lose, then they're going to dump guys, and they're going to bring in a bunch of kids, right? Isn't that kind of how it works? Usually circle of life. Those effing kids are going to screw it up because they don't have the same objectives as the old bastards and packing it in, right?

Not too worried about that blue line with young kids. Well, none of the less, Pinder. These youngsters will come out with pissing vinegar and start playing hard and winning games and screwing up a draft bet. They have one of the toughest two schedules to this point already played in the NHL. That means it gets a lot easier in terms of caliber of an opponent. So I'm going to recommend to Connie that you unload some good players pretty quickly here. You know what?

Give them a Christmas gifts. Get them out of you. Connie. When's the trade freeze? It's got to be soon. What is it a week? Yeah, it's going to be right away. Straddles Christmas, so it's...

Merry Christmas. You get to stay in Minnesota. and we'll take Brock Faber and Matt Boldie and Marco Rossi. I'm sure that No, no, no is how those conversations go. Yeah, I'm sure they would be up for that.

No, I know because truly, it's, it just feels like year after year. They, they go on a bit of a winning streak and they make you think and say, oh, geez, maybe, maybe. And then the trade deadline comes and it's, oh, well, you can't, what are you going to? How can you send the message to the guys?

You're really going to pull the rug? It would be nice. in a way if they just continued this. However, I just feel as January becomes February, all this, hey, it's been fun. I just don't know that you can play the final, whatever it's going to be.

Aren't they always terrible around the All-Star Break? Don't they go on the All-Star Break this team? They play well to the break. Yeah. And then it's like, shit, the break came at a terrible time because they were playing so well, and then they crater. Yeah, that's... Last year. the opposite they played well i could be yeah but yeah i mean the thing is is that what excites you about

this team isn't watching veterans play it's young guys coming in and so it's coronado's probably going to return in january or february and sorry not corinato uh pelche will come back right you will see the return of coronado i imagine when there's a little more wiggle room in the forward group where there's an injury in the top nine like you had possible out he came in you are going to see wolf get more and more if they address their goal tending, you know, three-headed situation. Like there's lots of reasons to watch this team, but most of them are young kids and thinking about the future. That doesn't stop in the new year.

Like they're under 500 years. It's not like this team's wowed everyone and it's like, oh, my God, let's go see. But they're working hard and they've overcome a shitty start, kind of. And their kids are playing. Playing well. Where does the kid line? Where is the kid line as far as the separation point? Who's a kid?

Rasmus Anderson is in last year of childhood. He's not a kid. He's a vet. So Rasmus is a... You've got to have to talk contract with Rasmus, not this summer, but next. Okay, I got to do... Rasmus is going to be 30 soon here. Which way to...

30? He's almost 30? He's almost 30? Can I use my phone? I got shit for using my phone near the day. I don't use your phone. How old is? That's not a problem.

So either way, Rasmus is what, 20? 627 right now. Maybe something like this. Kid. That I'll do it this way because that makes more sense. Okay. So if this is the kid line, Rasmus Anderson? Not a kid.

Is he right in here? I think he's not. How many years, Joe? I think it's a five year pro prior. Is it up to five kid? Prior. He's past that. Anderson's already.

27. Next year, definitely adult. He's last year of his deal. He'll be 30. Definitely adult. Sorry, I didn't know what I got there. He's up here. Andrew Mangapani. Old guy. He's a vet.

He's up here. 27, again. Igor Sharon Govich. Kid. He is right on the line for me. He's 25. He's on the line. Okay. So, but he's getting

a. Dylan Duby. vet, even though he's younger than Sharon Govich. I was going to say, is, uh, is 25 is my cut up. I lied. He's a month older. So he's a kid. He's drafted seven years ago, no?

But if Sharon Govitch is a kid, I didn't say he was a kid. You just didn't listen to me. I said he's not a kid. He's 25. What's your kid line then, Pinder? You can't be a 25 year old kid. I'm sorry.

Like you are kind of are what you are at 25, most NHL players. Guys come out of college. He loves college. guys, hey, pre-agent college guys? They're coming out of 23. Oh, okay. You're not a kid. Come on. This is his fourth year in the NHL

and he didn't arrive here as a pup. Does games played or does that affect whether you're a kid or a bet? This is your game. You tell us the rules. It's not my game. I'm just asking. I'm truly. He's just, I don't know he's a kid. He's 25.

So is 25 the line or is it below that? I mean, I don't like, so we're calling someone a kid and now what? Like it's, it, boom. He's clearly a guy that's like, boom. What do we do? Shush, Ryan, shush. Jack attack.

Can you mic, or mute him for just two seconds? Don't play this with him around. Please. It turns into a shit show. He gets wound up. He actually, it causes him anxiety to try and pretend and have fun. It's not his strength. Let's do it when he's on vacation.

We can play the what if games. Okay. All right. Jack, go ahead. Sorry, guys. What was that? Nothing. No, we were just,

candlesticks make a great gift. Because I know that he's, he's become very much a forgotten guy, Dylan Dubay. It is one, he's 13 game goal is drought. He has one point, one assist in 13 games.

Now his ice time has, if he's at 10 minutes, if he's north of 10 minutes, It's been a great night. That's what he has been relegated to. And he hasn't earned more. I was going to say, I don't know that he's played his way down there. It's a bit of a chicken and the egg.

Now, how do you earn more? If not by injuries to somebody else, it's tough to earn more time. He started on the top line this year. Like he played with Lindel like he's dug his own hole. He's put himself there. It's not, yeah, it's, I don't think he was, I don't think the, I don't think the coach was withholding opportunity for Dylan Dube.

I don't think Dylan Dube was doing anything with the opportunity. And this is not the first season that that's played out. Right? Like, let's not forget. I feel like Dylan Dubay has been considered the next.

He's going to elevate into a guaranteed top six, kind of that second line winger situation, maybe two, three, depending on how much depth he got in the wing. He's done none of that. And let's think about it. Like 13 games at one point, I put that big money that Rizitschka and Greer have more points than that. They're on the fourth line.

Yeah, Greer's. The only guy that you could argue he's been better than is Huberto. And putting Huberto on a fourth line, it's like, okay, well, that's an even bigger mess than what you're dealing with now. Like, go ahead and earn it. And he's, he got some looks in Colorado on the top line. They put him with Sharon Govich and he's got no touch. He's got no finish.

He's never been to Europe. He's never been no confidence right. This is bad as you can look, right? This is as bad as you can look. He's never been to Scandinavia portions of the globe. He doesn't know how to finish at all. Is that a Swedish touch joke? What are we doing here?

Baltic region. The point I was, I guess, to now get to, how do you best maximize your Dylan Dubase stock? Is it trade? Is it you just write out the contract? What do you do with this player? Because he has been, he's been passed over. And when you've got Coronado who's sitting there and he's passed them.

And you've got Pelche, who I think has also passed him when he comes back. Sorry, I'm jumping on you there a little bit. But isn't the approach if I'm Conroy, they're all for sale. Anyone that's out of entry level and affordable deals is old because they cost money and it's expensive to keep them around. And their due raises like Manjapani, Dubay, any of these guys, you're taking calls on if people are interested. Absolutely. dobe is an RFA with Arbrites with a $2.3 million qualifying offer. Would you pay $2.3 million for a fourth line winger?

No. So understanding the decisions are faced with this summer should impact how you view the asset heading into the deadline. Move him. How old is he? 25. Because on paper, if I was to say to you, and I don't know, I'm with you guys in this, I'm But if on paper, I said to you, coming up, there's a guy, he's 25. I don't think he's going to be qualified.

But he had back-to-back 18 goal seasons. And he's had a down year this year. Would that be a player that the flames should look at and be interested in? And I think the answer would be, yeah, we'll definitely be interested in that's the type of player. Okay. But I also believe that movement for a player, we all think of it as you're getting screwed. but if the guy can't perform anymore under your system and in your

scenario and your team, sometimes you just have to move him. Like, there's, Bennett's a guy. He had to move. Totally. You weren't going to get Sam Bennett playing Sam Bennett Panther hockey in Calgary. This is Sam Bennett Light. It's the exact same situation. It's a guy that's bounced around. We haven't seen a clearly defined role.

You know there's more in there. You can't seem to get it. And all of a sudden, it's really crowded with guys that you want to get an opportunity for. Get some sort of asset and return and let him go and try and resurrect his career. Sometimes, you know, here's another thing is teams now, it's you've got to maximize all your assets and get squeezed every. Maybe you should be revered around the league.

I don't know if that's the word I'm looking for, but respected around the league as the team that allows the player to have success. Guess what? It's not happening here. We're going to give you a chance to go somewhere else. and we're not going to try and get a first rounder for you and just let you flounder. And just hang on until we drag you through the mud. Now nobody effing wants you because we've forced you through three years of not playing well.

Right? Like move them. Maybe they would qualify him this summer. Maybe they wouldn't. But I think the point is, is that on paper, people still know he has back-to-back 18 goal seasons. And some teams have needs in their bottom half of their forward group. The flames don't. The flames have lots of options for bottom six forwards.

They don't have top six forwards. But if you go looking around, Dubay ain't going to be one. And Dubay is not that. That is fair to say. I don't know that he'll score 20 in his career, maybe, but this year he's going to have to get on a heater to get to 10. Point being, there are teams looking for like who can come in

and penalty kill and play with pace. And they don't need to score. They just need to come in and have a motor. Dubet's a great guy for that. you're not asking to come on the power play kill penalties run around at full speed and fresh start like teams wouldn't be like he's going to bad they're just like oh he's having a bad year and you know they're they're they want to get their kids in and he's going to be a better player on a playoff team a hundred percent it just is yeah roles to find games you're totally you put him on

a top six with a star perhaps he can produce more but you're not going to get that here no it's happening so it feels like the ship's sales right and it could change in the second half but there's just too many bodies around like when pelche comes back that's another guy when coronado's up that's another guy he doesn't bring the physicality that greer does he doesn't seem to play center better than adam rizichka it's like and they're all interconnected it's not a there's only one thing to deal with as in it's dube if you can move huberto and two other guys and get seven first rounders guess what hang on to dill and dube then that's fine we've got a spot for him now yeah and because

he doesn't have room here doesn't mean he's not a third or fourth line or another organizations. Like flames don't need what he brings them right now. That doesn't mean other teams don't have value there. Like I think you could get a fourth for him. I don't think that's crazy. Yeah.

Just looking at it this morning because we know it's been such a I mean, it's just such a. He can't be enjoying it anymore either. No. I'm from here. The local want to be here. This is great. That could bite you in the ask. Ask for a trade and get out of here. And the only fly in the ointment here is that that 2018 investigation's not done.

And I just wonder if any GM is going to trade for any guy that was on that team until the air is cleared. And they know who's in trouble and who isn't because we don't know. Fourth or fifth round pick. Yeah. No, because I wondered where you guys were at on him. Obviously, everyone's and he is disappointed more than anybody else. But what do you? Second round pick, right?

He was picked out of Colonna, second rounder. He's good. He's played 300 games. he's played and he's played well at times but he doesn't look anything close to the player i just wondered is is he a guy that you would worry maybe comes back to bite you in the ass and he could be a 15 20 goal guy per i don't think he is and even if he is it's like it doesn't matter like you can go all we shouldn't have traded that you're not trading salani no if you can't find a 15 goal winger for your bottom six like that's what you're trying to replace here right like they're fine and and and to your point

right, Rhett, like win deals, lose deals. For sure, you want to make your team better, but also put Dylan Duby in a spot where he can help. The flames don't need another left shot guy playing on the right. They got a fucking billion of them, especially a guy on a down year. Spilled. Do you have a drippy pants there? Spilled. Son of buck.

Yeah, fire it. One of those freaking days, you know? Yeah, I hear you. Yeah, I hear you. Yeah. So often, man. Yeah. So often more than you'd even imagine.

Sillie, what's, what's, are you ever? going to get your your mic arm thing back or is it going to just your it's getting annoying actually it's odd you bring that up about 20 minutes ago i was like it would be really really good have the break yes did you lose it what happened to do i have to pay can i send to the bill can i send the bill into the bosses just sure why not because i like how it's become kind of one of these things so you've got your microphone you can't really tell because of the color of my shirt but it just now it's this and it just kind of sits on your chest Well, I'll tell you, they got to play the kids more.

These kids. No, I like you. That's very. You know, because I'm here, you know, here are Buffalo. They got to, you know, Rob Ray took a puck in the head. And, you know, they got to play, play the kids. They need better goaltending here. It's like the little shelf there.

It's like that your chest has become your mic stand. It's true. I can put a beer on there or a mic on there or what. Bowl of corn. Yeah. Friday to do all those things. Oh, poor Dill says shit. I'm sorry, Dylan. I, you know, I tried.

Oh, you're doing a good thing for the kid. That's just it. We all think if he gets traded, the life as any, what if he ends up in fucking, pardon my language, Florida. And the taxes are good and he's on a good team and his son's out and you get vitamin D. Why is this a negative? What would Sam Bennett say about it, the whole experience? Welcome to, you'd say, welcome to Florida, kid. You're going to love it.

It was the best thing to happen to me. And it wasn't that claims was bad, but it was change of scenery time. And it feels like to do it. Oh, okay, but I got my Craig Conroy hat. I'm thinking, well, so what do we? Yeah. I don't just want to, I mean, and maybe just getting cap space back is enough. Maybe that's what I was just going to say, 2.5 million in cap space.

Right. It wouldn't be that much, but you know what I mean? Dump that and now you can eat more on somebody else. Delicious. Eat more. Chess, Dean. Chess, not checkers. You say chess, that's where your mic is? What?

chest Dean simply the chest that be a great shirt it's chest not checkers chest not checkers chest not yeah far alley

uh more back boom cat's got a shelf too I go yeah it's uh about shelving you know what we need

is hold it up there I need the cover that cover the the beer label thing yeah

on my bank I need it on my microphone. Guys, I got some news about Origin, by the way. Right? Because my mic's about the same size as the beer. Yeah. Well, I got something even better for you. I was talking with Mark from Origin today.

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Somehow, I think turning a profit, but boy, it's more of a passion project. It's a lot of family around there. So, oh, this is my daughter's husband and this is my son and this is my son's daughter and cousin's brother's aunt. Holy cow. All right. Just flats of beer going out the back door.

Okay. All right, Sterling. You tell me you seem to know what you're doing. But anyway, we talked. Well, you go buy the Barnburner blonde. You take a photo. You put it on Soche. Put on the show.

Let's take a look. What have we got? Look at this. A little bit. Hey, Barn burner, guys. Cheers to you. And cheers to anyone who has to work away from their families during the holidays. Tis the season.

There you go. I do have a pointer. I've seen this video. You got a critique is poor. I don't need to say anything. Everyone will see it. That's all good. Let that sit.

They got it. That's jazzy. Outer boy, Kelly. Nice Christmas buddies. Made it to BK. liquor to pick up some Barberter blonde. Appreciate you. And how about this?

Someone was in Strathmore strictly just to go by the Sutter and the Barnburner beer. And who happened to be there? That's the least surprising thing that a Sutter is sitting in the bar in a small time. I got the backstores. though, I got the back story. Apparently Dog was down there. He wanted to get a flat for Darrell who hasn't been down to Strathmore. So he was going to run a flat back to Darrell

for the holidays. Love that. Yeah, it's fine at a bar that doesn't have a sutter in it. And then he had one and decided to hang around for a while. Then he's posing for photos. Like, well, I'm already here. I mean, there's Mr. Huntler. There's Jeff. Daddy, can I feed you beer?

Oh, I guess so sweetheart. Serious parenting. God bless you. It's like you have a daughter. You can't say no. You can't say no. He's got two of them, two beautiful girls.

The Christmas trees off. That's a no look pass. Look at that. She's not even looking. That's unbelievable. Yeah. She's, uh, that's,

you know what? Solid parenting. That's some 10 out of 10 dadding right there. Well done. And I think he's got an old flames hat on. Lord, that's good stuff there. That is excellent.

And then, look at this. The ship. Yes. they've got the pea flour sour. The pea flour plum sour is on the tap at the ship. That's our boy at the ship too. He's been there forever.

And then they're at the end of the garage where Rhett used to get banged up and play billiards. They got the Barnburner blonde on tap. Boom, you remember Chuck, don't you? I do remember Chuck. The garage. The garage, I know. Thankfully. Love it.

Thanks to Mark and his team. You can enjoy a delicious pioneer IPA or Barnburner blonde on tap. at the garage. So I've got the inside skinny on this one. There's a rotating tap there. Blonde went onto the rotator. So it's like, oh, we'll spend something through. First few days, so good.

Staple now. No, it's off rotator. Dedicated tap. And where is this? At the garage. Are you kidding, Mace? Oh, those people are loving this beer. Fellas.

Oh, love it. Got some other places in the works. It's now into the old provincial central distribution center things are happening. Wow. Now if, and if you have,

if you've purchased the barn burner blonde, if you've gone to BK, if you've gone to work, or if you're going to your liquor store, hey, you got that barn burner blonde? No, what are you talking about? Hey, come on. Give your head a shake. Origin brewing.

Barn burner blonde, let's go. I want it. Or I'm taking my business elsewhere. That's right. Gee, damn it. and then make them get their poop in a group. And the same thing with the local establishment. If you go in there, maybe they don't have it on tap.

Maybe they got the cat. You don't have the barn burner blonde? I'm out of here. I'm going to the ship. I'm going to whatever it is. I'm going to the garage. That's right. That's how we're taking over.

Well, he keeps on. You keep sending a set out of his hoop. Come on, beer wench. David, that's right. David, yes. Is the garage that joint in O'Clair? Yeah, you go swimming after. You go right in the river.

There it is. Watch up with the geese. I was going to say, is there an indoor pool at O'Clair? There is, the Y's right there. Yeah. So there you go. Origin Bruin.

Barnburner blonde, appreciate you. Send on your, keep sending those photos. We'll put them on the show. We'll put them on the show. Ah, I got a pike bomb. He sent a photo last night. We're going to add that one too. Oh, is that right.

Yeah. Always have time for a pike bomb. That's right. Pike bomb. We'll add that to the stack for the next unload of photos. down. All right. Good stuff. Speaking of pubs,

Madrose Pub, I was thinking about this. It's a six o'clock start tonight for the Calgary Flames in the Minnesota Wild. That might be one of the ones where you say, you know what? I'm going straight to Mad Rose instead of going home. It's a Thursday night,

six o'clock game. I'm just going to call, hey, you know what? I'm just, I'm meeting some guys at Madrose. We're going to have some wheel. We're going to have some wings. We're going to watch the game. There's been over by a, It will be over by 8.30.

I'll be home by midnight. So that's what's up. But Dee, what if they want to watch the Thursday football game as well, though? It'll also be on. It's on there as well. I have multiple streets.

Okay. Madrose pub, Royal Oak, 20 beers on tap. Have we got to, if we've been doing the, I know we had to do a little work there, but,

uh, I'd have to flex a little, Dean. I'll have to flex my considerable muscle. kid friendly Saturday, Sunday and Monday Mad Rose great food

we've told you about it for over a year now that's another thing you go to Mad Rose and have some of that great food send the pictures put you on the damn show I'm gonna put you on the show

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or as I say Stop in. 15 Royal Vista Place. And the last time I was there, the place was bumping. Yes, it was. That was with our boy Mark, wasn't it? Yes. If we're going to put all these people on the show,

can we just have them do the show? It kind of is helping with that, right? Yeah. Some content for sure. Yeah. And while you're here, would you like to talk about Joel Erickson Eck for about 15 minutes? Doe.

What's the return? for Dylan. Oh, I'm sore. You won't have to be a pro photographer. You don't have to be Instagram famous. Like all your pictures are going to look exactly like the pizza on the website. You should send some of those little blondes

to your only fans account, some of those people that you sponsor. What do you say about the blonde on only fans? She'd love a barn burner. Yeah. There's a lot of blondes. What's your budget? Joel Erickson-Eck leads the

Minnesota Wild in goals with 14. Puckhog. He's been great. 14 goals. And do you know who leads them in scoring? The old fart. Matt's, Zuccarello.

He's been so good. He's been so good. 28 points and 26 games. 28 and 26? Yes. The Norwegians out of his goddamn mind. The thing with him is they just took him off Caprizo's line,

but those guys have been making magic. Yor de hooty ha. Doody ha. Isn't that what it was? Yeah. Yaddy. Houdi. Houdi. Is that Oliver Ekman? Or is that? That was Sven, right? Where's Sven from? Sven Berci. Yeah. Switzerland, yeah.

Damn it. And where is this guy from? Uh, which one? Zuccarello, Norway, Norway. Eck, Sweden. Zuccarello's from Norway? It's one of the only ones. Yeah. It was an American. I think Emilio Pedersen, who's in the flame system. He's another.

He is, yes. That's great. Not many. And there was a famous Norwegian. Who was the Norwegian to play for the oilers back in the like

That was a shit. I know. Some of the oil or honks in the show. Shlemcat. Sure. It's not the Shlemm cat. I'm going to sit here until I remember it.

Oh God. No. I got to go. I can't. I got a two o'clock. This isn't going to work. Oh, what's his name? I'm Norwegian.

Ufta. shit was not his name. No, it was a Taylor, Ta, Torson, Patrick Thorson. Patrick Thorson. Houdi ha.

Hootie Hootooee ho. He's, ho, ho, ho, ho, de ho, de ho. Oh, shit. That's the Swiss. Not the Norwegian song.

I feel like Dean thinks those might be the same country. It's okay. We don't need to ruin this dancing song. I spilled coffee. See, if you had it on your chest, you wouldn't spill. Damn it.

Okay, listen, we got some stuff to talk about. Oh, boy. Listen to me? Oh, yeah. Top shelf elf. Ends tomorrow. Yeah. Ends tomorrow.

And we have some great prizes. But it's not about the prizes. It's about the money that's going to be raised. That's right. Closer to home, local charity. And every year, they take the money that is raised, and they have their adoptive family. campaign. We've told you about this and it's, you just assume that all things, it's charity. So of course,

they're doing, they're doing good things. And I think that's, yeah, that's the case. But this, I think this is something for us being fathers and we love, who doesn't love Christmas, the whole thing, to be a parent and not be able to give a Christmas gift to a child, your child, I think would be, devastating. And this is one of those things. things where that's what this is about. The prizes are great. You're going to have fun all of it. But a year ago, and I mentioned this, I think it was last week, we got the cards and letters from the kids who got things at Christmas, who otherwise wouldn't have. And it's emotional. It's, it's heartwarming, it's heart wrenching at the same time. And I think as I also said, what they do

is they don't just come and drop off gifts and a tree and all that. They get gifts. gift cards and provide those to the families, they then go out and do the shopping themselves. So they get to pick the individual, they know what the kids want. They know what dad, mom wants that whole thing. Because that is also part of it. The joy of watching somebody else open the gift that you have selected for them and to see their reactions. It's such a great idea and we love it.

And we need some support. We want to get these. There's some prizes here that are really great. and the bids are fine, but I know they need to go up in a big way. Let's take a look now at some of the stuff that we have online. Nationgear.ca is the website where you can go, and you put your info in there, you click your bid, bidding ends tomorrow, and then next week we're going to fire the money over to,

well, probably even by the end of day tomorrow, fire the money over to closer to home so that they can process that and get the gift cards into the hands of the families. Now this one, we mentioned it on the show yesterday, It is now live at Nation Gear. We did this a year ago. It's back once again. It is the swing hard package.

Launchpad golf, the windmill group. Three hours of sweet time at Launchpad at the Heritage Point location. Awesome. Up to four people. You'll play with myself and Pinder. Maybe retro will be great if he'd be around. Oh. A little bit of food, a little bit of bevy.

Four swag bags, which last year they were awesome. They put all kinds of stuff in there with. launch pad gear plus a round for four at Mickelson National Golf Course and Heritage Point golf course. So two rounds at two unbelievable courses in the area and a day at launchpad with myself and Pinder and some drinks. So we had a great time last year. Some real degenerates bought it last year. Yeah, it was good. Yeah.

Total loose. Our guys. Perfect stuff. Yeah. Some real winners bought it last year. And no, we had a great time. I actually ran into one of them. Come on. I think it was at the day our day at the ponies there. Of course. That does fit. That's exactly right. Yeah. Like I said, Degenerates. So

that one is up now and we had a great time. And to clarify, that's a foursome at Herod's point and a for some at Mickelson. Like that's With carts because I ain't Walker. That's right. No. That's awesome. What a great package. Now this one here, we announced a week ago

and you try and come up with some things that are experiences, life experiences, and this is one, you're not buying this online anywhere else. No. The day of game, whichever game on the schedule is, is going to be, we're going to coordinate with you, the auction winner, and the general manager, Craig Conroy, because what it is, you're going to a Flames game at the dome,

four premium tickets to a Flames home game in the new year, and you'll start the day. I'll meet you at the rink on game day. We'll go inside and sit down and watch morning skate with Craig Conroy Flames General Manager. Cool. And that's, it's, we kind of take it for granted for so many years,

but I know for me is getting into the business when I first started, that was one of the coolest things, is to see the interactions with the coaches and see them, you know, go, it's just very cool. you don't get it everywhere. And of course, to talk to Craig,

he's just one of the nicest guys on the planet. And very nice of him to do this for us. So the bidding continues four tickets. Just think now about, you're going to go online, you're going to buy four high-end seats, four of the best seats in the building. What is that?

And then throw this on top. So that is probably, it's got to be our number one, I would think. Let's get the bids going on that for sure before tomorrow it ends. I'll tell you what game I'd go to. Calgary Stampeders, or did you want to? March 12th.

First game after the trade deadline. Connie will have some stories at morning's Oh, I see. Yeah, yeah. So again, and that, that is if, if Craig is around. We'll make it work, yeah. It'll take a little bit of massaging, but we're going to make that work. Now, the Stampedeters did this one last year. They're doing it again. It's four tickets to the home opener. You're going to get a tailgate parking pass. you're going to get onto the field. Pregame field access before,

obviously pre-games before the game. I don't know if you do. And a signed stampeter jersey. Thank you, Calgary Stampeders, for jumping back in again with that. Our buddy John Bender bought it last year. And were you part of the, do you snivel your way in on that one?

Not on the home opener. Multiple other games, yes. Yes. Yeah, weaselma, I went into about three to four a year. Yeah. But I remember John was taking photos and he put him up on his social media. And it's a great time.

To get on the sidelines team, we were talking about this with the other day. Like to see the size of the humans that play this sport. Like everything from a distance on TV and the stands like, oh yeah, these big guys. Go stand next to a line, man. Yeah. Are you kidding me?

Stand next to one of the middle linebackers or one of the edge guys. So you're coming after the quarterback. Hmm. Good then. I'm not going to be a quarterback ever. So that's, do they wear diapers, the quarterbacks? Because I know how I would behave. Thank you, Stam Peters.

That is a great one as well that you won't be able to get anywhere else. And we'll talk about this one coming up. So we'll kind of, we'll just kind of cruise, but it's four day passes to the 16th at the waste management open. If you know, as they say, if you know, you know, you know, this is an unbelievable prize. It's four passes to the 16th. Canada to USA.com.

That is the business that Darcy Hortichuk is involved with. We'll talk to Hortich in about 20 minutes about this one specifically. ATB financial, Johnny Winwick, not many give like ATB financial do. They're very tied into the local sporting scene. And this is a cool one. Now there's two of them. This is the first one, March 16th versus Montreal. That's the Kenadier.

Kennedy. Le Habitat, 25 tickets. Yes, you're reading this. Right. It's 25 tickets to a game. So there's two of them. The first one is against Montreal. This is in April against San Jose. I believe that's the season finale. Yes.

And there are two separate auction items. One is the Montreal game. One is the San Jose game. You get 25 tickets plus food and drink vouchers for 25. So pop and hot dogs, that sort of thing. So it's great for your kids, sporting team, group. whatever it is or you're off. What the hell? Yeah.

So that I look at Bachelor party. I think it was about two, 300 bucks for 25 tickets. You're kidding me. Let's go. We need some more love on on these ones for sure. But thanks to ATB for jumping in there. This one here.

The event is sold out. So not only can you not get this package. You can't get in at all. Cody Snyder's Bull Bustin. It is, to me, it's one of the, whatever you want to call it. It's a flagpole event in the city in a calendar year. There's nothing else like it. They bring the bull riding experience to the parking lot at the Grey Eagle Casino.

And it's now been expanded by a day. It's, if you've never been, it's awesome. This is four VIP passes. You're going to get a parking pass. You're going to get access to the pre-party and the post- party inside the event center at the Grey Eagle. The post party, they got live bands every single day. That's awesome. Yeah. Uh, VIP seating, you'll be in the Cody Snyder section. Some food and drink vouchers and a meet and greet with Cody Snyder. We had a busy guy last year, you know, yeah. And if the

weather's not perfect, you hop in and watch on the screen for a bit and then the rain's gone to get back out there. Like it's, you cannot lose. There is no way to ruin this. It's a phenomenal night. Yeah. And like I say, it's, and they're not flexing at all. all on this, but they're sold out. You can't buy tickets to it. They've been very fortunate with the support that they've gotten, but they put on such an unbelievable event. This is a world-class event and you get four VIP passes to it. So that is also up for auction.

I think it was our number one. I think it was our number one earner last year. And then there's this one. Most of these things are really, really unique and awesome. And others, I just wonder whose idea this was. I brought this up last year. I said, do we even do, do we do this? Does anyone going to want to do this?

And it actually did okay. It's the barn burner experience. Put on your barn clothes. We'll get you in studio. Watch us do a show live, a barn burner live in studio. We'll have some barn burner merchandise for you, some Flames Nation merchandise. And then after the show, we'll swing out and we're going to have a little,

enjoy a private lunch with the guys. Yeah, that's what it's going to. to be. You'll get to watch me eat and listen to Pinder Talk. That's quite an experience. That's what that will be. But now we'll go out and have some lunch after the show. So that is, that's kind of a unique thing as well that we've thrown together as part of, and there's more of these. The surge have come through, Cavalry FC. We'll talk about Bonton coming up because we're going to do some ass fret in a little bit.

Nationgear.ca would love to see it. And I'm going to, again, because, and it's, a lot of this is on me and I feel badly about it, but I got a text not long ago. And I'm just going to go with it because Justin is such a great guy. Also one of the auction items in there from Vina Nova, his and her Tiso watches. You win both of them if you win. He's also, you talk about good people.

He texts in. How are things going? I would like to add a draw prize if I can. I'll find something from Vina Nova and anyone who enters or anyone who makes a donation will be entered into that draw. So you see there on the screen

when you go to nationgear.ca and you click on the top shelf elf auction page, there is a donation link. Whatever you can give, we'll take it and we'll pass it right along. There you see it, five, whatever it is. You put it in there and we're going to make sure that it gets to closer to home and then they can fire out some gift cards to families for Christmas.

And everyone that puts in a donation of any denomination will be entered into a draw to win something from Vina Nova, courtesy of Justin. And honestly, we got four of those gift packs from Rhodeszie as well. If you want to follow Hearing Loss Clinic, maybe we mix in a couple of those jerseys in there as well. Bad idea, good idea? We got four. Talk about it.

Yeah, we'll talk about it. And I want to, I don't. We'll share some of the stuff when we get it. Usually in the new year, the cards and letters show up. It hit home for me. And I just, I hope you believe me when I tell you. It's, it really made the whole thing worthwhile because, as you know, we started this dumb podcast in October, late October last year. And we were scrambling.

I said, do we even do this? I guess, what if we don't raise any money? What if we raise $500 and it'll be embarrassing and there'll be nothing? and there'll be nothing. And we didn't. We raised a nice number. It was $20,000 last year. And even if it was $500,

that was going to go a long way for even one family that wouldn't have had something. So to see, there it was. That was a year ago. So we're hoping to. It's a big check. It is. Dude, it's a huge check.

Buddy. there you go. So we're going to cut another big check and we love your support. Oh, good. It's a belly grooming equipment for Christmas or at? That's right.

Everyone needs to get for me. Let's go. Yeah. There you go. It's a lot of dough. I'm just going to have some water. Don't spell it. When are you going to Detroit?

In 45 minutes. Oh, boy. Oh, it's going to move. Got a lot to do. It's got a lot to do. Kind of like Christmas. You've got to get this done. This is Chris.

All right. What was that? We'll do a little bit of askeret here for you. Let's do it. We'll do a little bit of ascarat every. Oh, but now you're out of focus. No, you got to go back to the other screen. No, you put McLeod Law back.

Top shelf Lelf presented by McLeod Law. I don't want to, because you talk about people that jump in. and see. So what is the deal? You're doing this that we need to be. That's right of lines with what we are all about. It's giving back. It's giving to people in our community.

McLeod Law was in with both feet. Is that what you would do? Sure. They were all in. Anyway, when they heard that we were doing this to give back, they said we would love to partner with you on that. And they've been great partners of us in general.

So top shelf, L, giving back closer to home as a charity, a presentation of McLeodlaw. Wanted to get that in. I would be remiss if I didn't. One of the other auction items. Bontan meets. Bontan presents.

Ask Brett. They are also going to present you with a hind of beef if you win the auction. Hind? Craig sent me a picture of what a hind looks like. I put it up there. Did you?

Yeah. We were gone. think we had it. I sent it over to Jack Attack. Yeah. So where would you hang that? Is that, because is that what shows up at your house? It's just kind of. Yeah, you slice it off as you need it. Just kind of, yeah, yeah. It's like one of those kebab things that just turns as you know. That's right. Put it in a spit. Ooh. Yeah. This is delicious. No, I think, I think probably you'd cut it into smaller sections, smaller chunks. Probably Greg would be kind enough to help you with those decisions. That's right.

So when you're looking at the top shelf items in there is a hind of beef, a quarter of a, of a thing. Quark? That's right. And yes, Greg will take care of you with that one. He'll also bring you, Ask Rhett, the original Bontan meat market opened back in 1921, and they've been going strong ever since.

Why? Well, it's because they give out, uh, hand out shoddy product and treat people like shit. No, Dean. No? No? That's their slogan. Oh, is it not? Not that. Oh, it's the other, no, it's the best product and they treat people like family.

That's how you stay in business and thrive for that long. 28 crowfoot circle in the northwest, bontanmeatmarket.com is the website. And if you don't win the auction, you can go and get your own hind. I got my brother's getting a delivery tomorrow. Well, there it is. Oh, yeah. Whoa. You could be like rocky.

maybe you're like rocking. You just want to punch things. Just want to punch it. Oh, it makes me so hungry. I just want to eat that. Oh, my dog would love it. My dog would love it. Which one?

The big one. The neighborhooded like that. The big animal. Ten dogs on that. He's going to bring that up with you. What the hell did you do with my dog while you were gone? Just let it sit, like, babysit itself. You better not be putting a no home.

Yeah, Rett's really concerned. about this dog. That's the one consistent right from the get-go. Yeah. Well-being of the dog has been top of his priority list. It's like family to me, man. You and this love that you have for your dog. Yeah.

Something I deal with. I thought it was your kids that really love the dog, and it was their hearts you broke. I might be off. They are scarred. They are scar. Jesus. You can't go back in time, Dean.

What are you going to do? Make a decision you live with them. Kelly with regret, Rhett, you can only put your best foot forward today. I'm moving forward. All right. Shut the hell. You damn whining. Is it regret for sure?

Is it something that there's some scarring? No, I know you're not. I've never lost. I've never lost one eighth of a second of sleep over it, but the others have definitely carried it with them. What was the animal in the Wizard of Oz? The character with no heart. It was just like they were,

was it the tin man? Or was it the lion? Sorry, just an aside. Don't worry. Yeah, the lion was afraid. And then you only had a brain was the straw man. Yeah, it was the tin man.

No heart. Yeah. Anyway, back to the show. Which one had, which one was like the huge asshole in wizard? That was the wizard. It's been a long time. I don't really remember.

But what you need, you know, what you should get. dude. And what did Dorothy do? She just gave Toto to like with the bad guys. Isn't that how that worked? Yeah, yeah. I'm going to talk. Shut up. Dogs, damn dog won't stop barking. Yeah. Yeah. They're on to you. And that's the thing. His dog, it doesn't bark.

Like, you had a good dog. Great dog. That's not my first. I was going to say, you know what you do to win Christmas is you get an older dog. Get a dog that's about a year, year and a half. Do you have a rest? Because, well, I do, but I'm, I want to keep them. Because I'm kind of fun. What if you gave that one back?

No. It's so good. No, I, I would be very unpopular. I had to deal with you. You should have to deal with it. Man up. Buster. Buster, changed his name. Buster. Come here, bud. He'll be, he's asleep on the, there's no moving him. He's asleep on the beanbag in front of the fireplace. It's a spot.

Come here, boy. You should get an older dog because I think probably what it was. You're not a dog guy. It had nothing to do with the dog. It had the fact that I was going to go around the world trip and the dog wasn't going to hold me back. I should have thought of the trip before I thought of the dog. I just did it in reverse. I had to deal with what was happening.

Yeah. But it's easier when you get a rescue or whatever. you find somebody that needs to re-home their dog and then you go, you don't have to worry about the puppy stuff and it's easier. That's just all I'm saying because I, you, boys should grow up with the dog. They got to fish.

There's some ass crap. Three fish, by the way. It's from Tyler. From Bontan meets. Rat. How many times have you played guilty and it actually worked? Oh.

It worked more often than it didn't work. I'll tell you that. So when people here are playing guilty, what does that mean? Maybe you didn't prepare properly or take care of your body and mind and physical side of things prior to a game. So you went out the night before? And then you wake up and you have the booze blues and you go, you're a loser. and you've got a great thing going, you better not F it up.

And so then you put forth a 110% effort. Right. So 90% of my guilty games were successful. Because if you can't show up, oh, man, I had a lot to drink last night. I had a hell of a time last night and I shouldn't have done it. I'm too tired to play. I'm just going to take it easy.

You know, half ass it tonight, boys. You understand, right? Because I was really hammered. that doesn't work during a team slump did the whole team ever get after it and then all play guilty

no because there were guys that didn't drink so you can't say the whole team but we've had large portions when I started it had nothing to do with being in a slump everyone out went out You just did it. You were young.

Where are we? Oh, we're in Columbus. Okay, well, let's meet here. Where do we go in Columbus? Truck your bags and let's go. You go here. It was nothing now. They hang out in the room and they stretch and they ride the bike, which is awesome.

It leads some quality hockey players. Less fun. I remember Jeff Glass had come back from Russia and worked his way back up to the NHL. He's like, oh, my God, shit is different. now they're like asking the concierge for extra TV so they can set up like a land party in a banquet room and play video games. Like what the hell is going on here?

It's a different world. Yeah. Well, you're a gamer though. Maybe if you were young now. Diablo. I don't think Dean was here for the Diablo. Were you here for the Diablo? No. It's the first game. I was a I wasn't a rookie because

they weren't computers in second or third year in Florida. There wasn't computers then. You know, ancient you sound? So I would take my car There was definitely not a computer in every home No you're right There were no portable computers

These shit sounds like Jack could be like spinning in his chairs Like there wasn't computers when Rhett was no internet Shut right jack No it was a big thing to have a Sega Genesis Right that was That was awesome Genesis I still have one Legit

That thing Or NBA jam and Tyler has a second one. Or no, this is. Did you put your glasses on your glasses? No, the email is from, I won't, don't, doesn't matter. Tyler blank 15 at Gmail.

And then he puts Ryan at the end of his email. That's his burner. I like that. He's got a burner. Brilliant. So get these hard hitting questions in. Rhett, the second one, do you really think Huberto gets a,

fake injury and gets put on LTIR forever. Eventually. Oh, at some point for sure. Yeah, this doesn't last seven and a half years. Yeah, he becomes immovable and he's 33 years. It's already immovable. Yeah, it's 100%. I saw that clip from when I was away.

You were doing Afterburner with Cammy Pinder. You really have Sauerd on Jonathan Huberdell. I mean, what do we have to judge? 100 games plus in a Flames uniform? What does it look like? It looks like a replacement level HL forward playing the wing. Next time, just rely on me. You don't have to wait 100 games.

You were right on Hubey. Thank you. There's no doubt. And it's just, it's another stretch where you just don't notice him unless it's a turnover. He did have a nice one in the last game. Zero points his last six, one goal in his last 13. Like, it's, you know what? Is that no what you'd get from Austin Zarnik back in the day?

I keep name dropping Austin. Is that not what you'd expect that of a fourth line? H. call up. Yeah, it's a little backpack. I like Austin. Good guy.

Well, who was, who was Retro's guy? Oh, Alan Quine. Yeah, this is Alan Quine level production. That's right.

You can't find that's just way cheap. Way cheaper. Al Quine, very efficient, cap-wise compared to Yubes. And it's not like he's not getting minutes.

It's all like it's a guy you've, you know, here's the biggest question about Hubert. Okay, we can take it that he's horse poop. Is he making others worse, is my concern? Slightly. So what I would say is if Huberto was effective

and you didn't have to hunt so hard to find a spot where he isn't dreadful, I think Manjapan, he's having a better year because he's still with Coleman and Backlin, and those three just hummed together, and they always have. So because you have to babysit Huberto on that line, now we've got to find a spot for Madge,

and now it's like, Lindholm's not left with the two best guys so much as whatever pieces are left, because we don't want to break up Cadre and Zeri and now either. And it's like, man, if this guy just could play, anyone it'd be great you know what else i'd be phrasing this huska guy with all this great moves get your head out of your hoop here deal with this huberted guy i thought you're all kumbaya buddies and we were going to have lots of fun and he's ready to go as the best get him going that's your job yeah if you were the coach walk us through that one how does that go there's an elevator

it's a shitty elevator i'm to watch it's granted it's a shitty elevator i can see what why you don't want to use it. In Calgary or in mini? In Calgary. He's no slow. He's in many. Newer building, great elevators. You know what? You're right. Use it in mini, good elevator and great, great grub.

Good night to watch. Great seat. Great food. Great elevator. Happy times ahead. And see, we've talked about this. Not to derail the second. But what is that, what is the end result going to be?

If you bail in them upstairs. No worse. I'm with you. You don't need to. It's an embarrassment and it doesn't go anywhere from there because he ain't coming back playing better. They've tried everything. Patrick Linae, example one. Same scenario.

So it's not going to help anything. You make the move when you're ready to leave them there. You know what it helps. To a young 44. Make the move and then you can just stay there. This isn't a rookie thing, though. It's such a hard sell. And you saw it used to be benched for the third, the body language.

That was like he was defeated. What a rookie thing. No, like if you put a rookie in the rafters or a first or a second. It's not a rookie thing at all. It's a, you're done. Yeah. It's tough to spin into a positive. It's, oh, you know, from up there, you can see how much space.

No, the fucker's been in the league for 10 years. You know so much space there is. It doesn't need, no. Like, it's not. Oh, wow. Look at all the time I have. I'm going to come down and be a star. No, this isn't a fresh-faced rookie.

Put magic panty back on that line. That'll help him. I know that. Other than that, it's not like, oh, now we're a playoff team. We've benched the $10.5 million worst contract in NHL history. It's not going well. No. No, it's going worse than last year, which is remarkable.

But I'll tell you, if those... A nice bounce back, a really nice bounce back, but there's been no bounce back from from Eberd. Can Husky walk in and go, you three? Is there three of them? Let's say, Dubay, Huberdow, We need one more. You're all horseshit and you're lucky I'm playing.

Listen, you're lucky I'm playing you. If you want to continue to play in this league, I'm going to put you three idiots together. Go get her done. Is this what you do with your kids team? Yes. I think he just does this with his kids. He says, you three idiots.

You three idiots are horses shit. You see me get rid of the dog? I can get rid of three of you too. Yeah. You know what? With that in mind, we'll put a just a quick time out from Ascrette to welcome our next guest who I believe

might be on his way to Detroit, Michigan. Darcy Hornichuk joins us from the road. Dars, how are we doing? Good. How are you guys doing? We're awesome. We're doing great here. Yeah, I'm smarter than that to go to Detroit. My wife said she never gets to go on road trips.

So she actually gets she drew the short straw. She gets to go to Detroit. Yeah. I was wondering why you got the button down. I'm like, it looks too nice to be Detroit. I'm going golfing right now. That's how you do it.

Yeah. Well, hey, that's very nice to you. What do they say? I was bored at night, but not last night. Yeah. Well, I get to go from Buffalo to Detroit. So we're not. It's not exactly a downgrade.

So, Rat, how funny is this? I think our boys play the first game. Tomorrow, I believe. I think it's Buffalo against the Phoenix Jr. Coyotes. So we might have to do a little side wager. And I think we should get four to one odds because we're playing a Buffalo team. And you guys are playing an Arizona team. But it'll be interesting to see what happens.

4 to 1. 10.15 a.m. 10.15 a.m. Check it out on Live Barn. It'll be great. Yeah, yeah. I love it. And is Brown's kid on that? team too with you guys?

No. No, he's not. Lunger and older. Yeah. Okay, okay. But you have some other Sabre alumni on that team. Great Rob Ray's boys on the team.

Yeah. Oh, I like it. I like it. Well, we'll tell Braden avoid that kid, too. Did you see Razor get one in the head the other day? No, I didn't. He sits between the benches and does the games.

Oh, no. Oh, geez. You had one of those things you wrap up and slide up your schnaws when it's leaking in a divot in the center of his forehead. It was unbelievable. Well, that's one of the faces you're like, you know what, it looks like you've been cut about 55 times and hit with about 20 pucks in your life. So I don't think it'll make a difference.

Yeah, no. You feel bad for the puck. Yeah, exactly. Well, I guess a couple of things we wanted to talk to you about. And let's start with this. And we're doing our, it's, we're calling it's the top shelf elf Christmas auction. All the money that's raised is going to an adopt-a-family Christmas campaign from a local charity. and it was a few months ago we had you on and you were good enough to

donate some one of a kind I mean it's such a unique prize that we said let's let's hang on to it until Christmas and let's do it this way. So from your camp company and we'll get some details on that as well. Canada to USA.com

four passes to the 16th hole at the waste management open. Goodness. Now this is one of those things I said earlier. If you know you know, but this is the party hole. This is the waste management hole,

but this is the party event on the calendar. There's nowhere else that seems to get away with this or quite does it this way. Nobody calls. This is truly Darcy without overstay. This is a bucket list kind of thing. Yeah, you know what? Like, it's funny.

I'm not even a golf fan. I've been to the Masters before I've been to a few different tournaments. And then, you know, just kind of comparing our tournament against all the other ones, it's not even comparable. And, you know, people always say, I don't know if I like golf, but I'm like, in the last 10 years, I've watched four holes of golf. So this is just one of a kind of experience, and it's such a cool event. And what's cool about the Wednesday where we're going to give away four tickets to the 16th hole,

which, by the way, there's a 10-year waiting list and, you know, probably about 400 people on the list. And I'm actually one of them. I was just lucky enough to get tickets, even though I've been part of the group for eight years. Yeah, it's just, it's going to be cool. you're going to see guys like Michael Phelps. You know, we had before Allen, the quarterback from Buffalo, the bills there shooting on this hole. We had dude perfect guys.

So yeah, they get to golf with kind of some of the professional players. And then at the end of the day, we all go on 16. And they shoot for a million bucks, and it goes towards their charity. So Wednesday's a really cool day to come. And from there, basically the tournament gets started. and after that it's the bird's nest, which we're going to have hearty playing right across the street. So it's kind of a combination of golf meets, you know,

a little bit of country fest, you know, whether it's the Craven or Dauphin Country Fest. So it's one of a kind experience. And people are like always like, I don't want to come. But it's funny. I just got a call from my buddy Vern Fiddler. And he's like, hey, Tom Gilarty wants to come to this golf tournament. And, you know, so I get all these NHL guys.

Delzano just called. And he's like, I want to come to this. So it's, you know, people have heard from other ex-players how awesome it is. And yeah, we actually got quite a few Canadians that have been here. And now they're bringing all their friends. So it'll be a fun experience, whoever wins this package. There you go. So four day passes to hole 16 at the Waste Management Open,

courtesy of Darcy Hortichuk and Canada to USA.com. The first time we had you on, you kind of told us what the company was about. and I just kind of run us through it again for the Canada to USA.com. Yeah, the concept was like, you know, when you're a player, you get traded to a new city and you're trying to figure out the rope. So with Canada to USA, we're just making it easier for Canadians to move to the USA. We have different, you know, Canadian real estate agents throughout the country. So if you want to do real estate, we partnered with OFX to get the best currency exchange prices

so that, you know, if you're bringing your currency exchange over. So basically, you know, it's like being a Costco. We do so much volume with so many Canadians. We just want to pass the discounts on to everybody. And yeah, now we're doing travel insurance. So we've kind of figured out with, you know, we probably have about 100,000 people in our database that, you know, hit us up every day for something.

They're part of our membership program. So we just want to make that experience for Canadians kind of coming to the U.S. a little bit easier. And, yeah, it's been great. And it's been a fun experience to help Canadians, you know, kind of get past that roadblock, how tough it is to move to the U.S. It's kind of one of those neat ideas where you don't know what's a thing

until you kind of put it all together, right? And then once it's put together, you think, how has no one done this? Because it's so convenient and helpful. 100%. Like people say, well, you know what, we can't get credit in the USA. We've worked with some private banks that will do lending for Canadians. I mean, most banks think that, okay, you know, like Canadians, you know, live in eglues

and that, you know, there's no credit. So it's fun that we've been able to say, no, no, no, like, listen, you know, half these Canadians, you know, kept the economy going five years ago when the downturn happened. So, you know, it's just we want to be that trusted source. And then what we get out of the deal is, you know, we refer the deals because we're going to have our own real estate brokerage. We just, we get 25% of the referral fee. So just like any other deal, it's not coming out of your pocket. It's just, you know, we're referring you with another Canadian that, you know, maybe if you're in Texas, you want to buy a place. We have, you know, Vern Fiddler,

who's a real estate agent. If you're in charge, you're in charge. Chicago we have. So we all know these people that we're sending and kind of handing them off. And Canadians don't realize this, but there's FERTA. There's so many little hurdles before you buy the property that we protect you to say, hey, this is what's going to happen when you sell the property because you're Canadian. By the way, you're in the U.S. You're probably going to get sued if somebody falls in your pool. So put it in an LLP. Like we're just trying to guide because we've seen it all happen. And yeah, the company's definitely blowing up. We've had success. and actually one of our investors that sold two companies to Walmart is one of our biggest investors, and he's helped kind of launch this thing, and our goal is to help as many Canadians as we can. So sign up for the member login.

You'll get travel discounts. It's free. Yeah. And we'd love to have as many Canadians join as possible. And just to be clear, it's not just for people that are looking to move there full-time. If you're a snowbird or going down three to six months at a time, that's still helpful? Anything, yeah. No, you're going to need travel insurance.

you know go on our website you're going to get a quote from medicoat you know and uh what we're just trying to do is say hey listen there's a hundred options out there we've narrowed it down to the top five you know stop wasting your time listening to your buddy that's been down here once and thinks he knows it you know just come through our site and if you like it great and you know people say hey listen i got a better rate from this bank and i'm like there's probably not a good chance because we're working not only with the nchl we're working with oafx which is one of the biggest dealers and they want to make sure that we get the best rate. They'll beat any of the rates. They want to compete.

They want to give us the business. And they're doing it for everybody else out there, you know, all the Canadians. So, you know, we're working with the top companies and it's not, you know, some guy out of his back of his grads trying to do your currency exchange. It's legit companies. Do you have a lot of people flooding the market

trying to get to Buffalo? Warner's, hey, listen. If they want to go see you, right? Yeah, probably. I was going to say it's a hot spot. Josh Allen's about to turn the corner here. We're going to come alive. He's single that all the Canadian women want to come down. It's a hot spot now, right?

There you go. Now, I don't want to keep you for too much longer. Secondly, we are coming to, we're coming to Phoenix, January 11th to 13th. We're going to see the Flames and Coyotes play at the Mollett Arena. What are we in for when we get down there? Because we hear about the rink and the atmosphere, but I mean, you're close to it.

You know what? I think it's going to be a really good experience. You're going to see the lounge. You guys will get you into this little lounge and you get all your cocktails and you drinks. So you're kind of going between the seats and watching the hockey game. So it's fun.

You get a little bit of entertainment. But it's such a different feel because it's such a small arena that you're like on top of the ice. Like you can almost touch the players from anywhere in your seat because you're right on top. You hear everything. You see everything,

which is kind of a cool experience. And how long it lasts. I know the NHL doesn't like it probably because they, you know, are sharing revenue with the play. or the NHLPA doesn't like it, but it's for now, it's better than it was in Glendale because it's a great location. You know, you can leave the arena and be close to all the restaurants and kind of the action. But no, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised on how great it is.

And I'm glad that you guys are coming and I'm sure we'll cross past. Love it. What course are we at today? Where are we, what are we tearing? Right over here, just Mountain Shadows. It's a par three course. It's right next to the sanctuary by the Camelback. Yeah, so we got our charity event for the, for the Thunderbirds actually right now. Before our meeting, it's just kind of a little pow-wall get together and play a little bit of golf.

Yeah, sounds terrible. And looks terrible. I hope you find a way to somehow find a way to enjoy yourself today. She's having all the fun in Detroit. Yeah. You're really slogging back at home. Man, that's a good wife.

That's a good wife, boys, right there. You got to put a week. You're a guy that knows how to get a lot. get a deal done. That's very well done. Awesome. We'll let you get after it, Darcy. Hey, thank you for the donation. We'll let you know how it goes and that we will be in touch before we get to Phoenix and January. Awesome. And all the food and all the booze is included in that suite. So you can do and drink as much as you want to enjoy it. So appreciate you. Thanks, man. Talk to you. You bet. There you go.

Darcy Hornichuk. His website, Canada to USA.com. A good point by you, Pinder. Not a lot of people are looking to move permanently. But even if you're, hey, maybe there's, maybe we're in a spot. Yeah, get a little vacation spot, find a condo, do something. I, I would be that guy. Yes. Oh, wait a minute. I, uh, I needed that.

Oh. Shit. So before I did that, I should have done this. So I should have like a year and a bit ago. I should have. Yes. Should have reached out a year and a half ago to Darcy. But that's all.

There's always next cell phone. Hasn't it, Rhett? I mean, it's all. Uh, you. adversity. Got to have adversity. That's what you need. That is what you need for sure.

Or is it not? Okay. We'll do one more here. One for Ascrette. Still won't do an Ascrette. Here we go. Askret for Bontan meats. It's kind of a two-parter,

if you can handle it. How old were you when you had your first beer with your dad? And at what age will you share your first beer with your kids? Yeah, when was it when you had that glass of red? Can you get in trouble for this sort of story?

It's the internet. Pinder played a song with C-bombs in it yesterday. I was five, I think. Yeah, you might get in trouble for this. I wasn't expecting that, yeah. Five? Did they put a nipple on the OV bottle? E.G may have been in the sauce.

Oh, my God. Jesus. Five. Next question. Let's pretend this didn't happen. Just kidding. Oh, he's talking.

Oh, you stinker you. Constantly pulling my, oh, my ribs. You stop now. It's going to do it for Aspreth today. What is the drinking age in Saskatchewan and the state of New York? It's a European

subcontinent, and there's no drinking age. Right. Frontier. Subcontinent. Didn't see that going. Bon Ton meets. Christmas is coming.

It's not too late. Call, go visit. Get your, you know what, because I need to. I am doing Christmas Day for a bunch of people, apparently.

So I got some work to do. That's right. You've been told. On Tongue. No, it's going to be good. But Bon Tonne meets. Have a nice big family spread. You need some help.

No better place than Bontonton meets. on meat market since 1921, doing it the right way. Crowfoot Circle, 28 Crowfoot Circle, Northwest, stopped by and be treated like royalty. We haven't done a friggin Pinder report yet. You did start at 1225, so that's, we're going to 10.25. Oh, look at the time. It's time for the Pinda report. Brought you by Village Honda, your dealership.

for life, new inventory, new stuff arriving daily. New vehicle pricing is always MSRP. A proud sponsor of the Pinder report is Village Honda. Buckle up, fellas, it's game day in Minnesota. And if you're expecting Chris Tanna back, put down the crazy pills. He's in Calgary. Flee from Vegas. Got hurt, obviously the first shift in Denver, not in action tonight. So it is going to mean, you have three top six defensemen. Can I stop some... Sorry. He flew back when?

Well, they were in Vegas. So they were in Vegas for one day. That was Tuesday. And he flew back that from Vegas. Okay. So it's not like he went all the way to Minnesota and then flew home yesterday or last night. That's correct. Well, I mean, that was the Eric Francis report as of this morning.

Yeah. So that's what's being reported. We haven't been tracking the flights like we would for Showing Otani or... you know a shark tank douchebag to my point is i had to do this exact same thing and i was actually in minnesota with a broken foot and i went to montreal and played another game and then we went to minnesota had a bone scan oh it's broken oh really weird how he's been maybe mentioning that it hurts and then went to the casino pop got a phone call from the coach and said okay well, you can go home now.

Like, what? Like, yeah. So if you've ever had bad luck and you break your foot, it's probably a sign that your luck's going to turn and get on, hobble on down to the casino. Yeah. Why don't I just stay on the team flight? And no, we don't want you around the team.

Oh, oh, good. Well, I'm on a Baccarat heater, so give me a day. I'll see how this goes. And yeah, I guess I'll go home. No, Tanov. So we'll see if they use the Austerly Hanif. pairing or excuse me, the Austerly weaker pairing or if they go with the Gilbert or D. Simone elevated, maybe Solo gets back in old big red.

They got lots options. None of them looks like top 4D though. We'll see who starts in that as well. Okay. Standings look like this. Wildcard chase. It's a big one for Minnesota, fellas. The 462 points percentage better than the flames, but haven't played as many games.

Looks like you're going to have to be quite a bit over 500 to get in because the Oilers hold the second wild card by points percentage and they don't look like they're going to slow down anytime soon. Big one for the wild tier of 1-5-7 under their new coach. Gauntlet run looks like this. Great start to this tough stretch. It's been

tougher of late Dino loss against Vancouver. Loss against Minnesota. Win against the Canes. Three more losses have followed. Jersey, Colorado, Vegas. This is the finale of a three game and four-night road trip. You might see some bus likes tonight.

the visitors. A lot of hockey. A lot of travel. Yeah. And then don't worry. Once you get home, it gets easier with the Tampa Bay Lightning, who's won two of the last four Stanley Cups and the Panthers who were in the finals last year. Not a new. Moving on. Minnesota's lines. Look like yay. The second line wizard, Matt Zuckarrella, they split them up with Caprizo. I was telling you, that's new. And Erickson-Eck on the top line that's also new. Ryan Hartman's bounced around this

lineup a bunch. They got them in the fourth line. right now. Rossi and Boldy starting to play better. And this team humming right now as we were witnessed to a week ago. Marco Rossi second in rookie scoring with nine goals, second in points. He's got 16 points. And you mentioned Matt Boldy. He is a stud. Six goals and two assists in the seven games since the coaching change.

Yeah, you scored twice against the flames last week too. And Patrick Maroon, I don't know if you saw that game because you would have been traveling around then, Dino. we watched it. It was awful watch but break away from his own ring at line essentially. Dun dun da da da old speedy.

Yeah. Dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun he sounded like a tin man. There's aniffin back into the play. Oh. Whoa. He ain't intangibles Ryan.

Intangibles. Still punch your face, but I don't know. The wheels. They're square. Let's move on. Next. John Heinz, been good. Here's the run since he's taken over.

Goes like this. Ho win, win, win, ho win. Lost, close game. Lost, close game. Ho win. Bells are feeling good. Yeah, but it's the first game back after a road trip for these guys. That's right. Brett's Dennis Research, I see.

it's in Minnesota tonight. You knew that. It's true. We were just in Seattle. A little Hughes on Hughes crime. Didn't expect this version of it. They played each other last week, right? But this is, uh, oh no.

I don't like my brother either. Yeah. Trevor. Do any of our kids like their brothers? You have two that get along particularly well read or no? They love to battle. That's what they love about each other. Yeah.

Darnall, nurse. got chirped. I'm here for it. Let's have a listen. Gets into it with darnel nurse. There's a lot of jawing going on ice level before these teams leave the ice. He's got to clarify that. You can't be letting people just spread misinformation like that if you're down, Darnell nurse. He does not make nine million dollars. He makes nine in a quarter. It's not a quarter. Yeah. Greenway. You make nine million. You make nine million.

a year and don't do shit. I don't know if I'm upset by that if I'm nurse. Yeah, that's, I would take that chirp. If you're looking for a long. You got me. Ouch. Want to use my vacation home once? You can rent it.

How's your league minimum? Shit, dick. Did you see the shootout last night? No. 12 rounds. What? Montreal pit. Look at this.

Why? It starts out. goal, goal, goal, goal. And then we had eight shooters in a row stopped. And then Monaghan, of course, scores. But Eller scores right after. And then we go right back to eight in a row stopped. And finally, the love of Pete, we got a goal.

Look at me. So Zahornah got in there. Yeah, former flame great. Our boy. Yeah, the Dryden Hunt swap. And, yeah, at the very end, it was Harkin, Jerkin, Jerkin's lotion. Yorgon, Jerkin. And that's what the eighth longest?

I think the Merrick Malik one was even longer. That was the famous between the legs on Broadway. Maybe the greatest shootout moment in the history of the league. Habs had a two-goal lead. Let it slip. Habs are really doing this wrong, by the way. They had two high picks. They don't take Mishkov.

Slavkovsky looks like a guy, not a star. And they're just like in that flamesy ninth to 12th in the conference. That's stupid Marty St. Marty, they brought him at the wrong time. greet on this. Give them two years, bought them out a bit. Yeah. Yeah. Tonight, here's the slate. Some games.

Gamps. Gamps. Okay. Sweet. Let's move on. Dramont Green. There's eight of those, Ryan. If you say so, Dean. If you say so. We saw the whack that Dremont Green delivered to some guy yesterday.

He's been suspended indefinitely and has to work with the league through counseling. But he does have a new video game coming out, and we got the trailer. This looks pretty cool. Welcome to Draymond's Hall of Pain. Ladies and gentlemen, this is proof anything can happen in the World Wrestling Federation. Reed just plows right over Nurkich.

Now Green runs over Nurkich, and he'll be caught for the foul. They're going to take a look at this. A little five-knuckle shuffle there. He's cold scutters. Oh, that's easy. looks like a choke. Bring it up. I love this too, though.

So he grabs Tremont's leg right there. Now, Dremont steps on him. Oh, he threw a throat. Oh, he threw a punch to him. He threw a punch to a punch.

Wow. Oh, Stutter. That's an RK. I think that's an RKO. That is unreal. Yeah. Oh, wow.

I'm excited about this game. That's kind of cool. He's got his own game. and he got a flagrant for that? They had to check. They had to review if it was a flagrant. He's going to be working through the league. Maybe some branding stuff for his video game.

We'll see. Calvary FC, draw was last night. We will hear from Mason Trafford. At the end of the show, he came in this morning. We had a little chit chat. It will be, cavalry. Look at all the teams. You got like Suriname down there, Central America, Jamaica, Mexico, USA,

and then way up at the left, there's Calgary and Vancouver. Wow. Cool. Who'd they draw? Orlando City. So the team from Orlando and MLS. First game will be in Calgary in February. Second leg back in Orlando. Get that cavalry Disney World double double knocked off your bucket list, Dean.

Let's go. There's the look. They'll take the one on the winner of Tigris, a massive Mexican club and white caps. Victoriaville. Love it. Dean, that was a stone cold stunter as it has been changed. The crotch turn around. Well, the Stone Cold stunter, usually you need the kick.

And then it's the chin facing forward and straight down. Randy Orton with the RKO, he'll come in and kind of he lays out. And the other guy goes, it's kind of one of these things. Whereas the stutter is more. Let's watch it again if we can, Jack. I thought it was a Stone Cold stunter too. I thought it was face forward. Because Stone Cold will drop down to his buttocks while holding the opponent's head on shoulder.

I want to see this again because. I don't want to spread misinformation. Whereas RKO, he'll kick his feet out. So they're bagged that. Yeah, I see what you're saying. The stutter is more of a straight drop. Straight down, more of a pile driver. Talks.

Yeah, okay. Very good. Yeah, the details. You excited about AEW coming this summer? Shit, yeah. See that announcement? You and your boy? Why not?

Father son, Bonnie. Yeah. One day a year. That's enough, right? That's an off right. One memory of here. Manning brothers, love the Manning cast, caught this one. Now, when you're a quarterback, what do you know about your center?

His buttocks. Put your hand in the oven. You get the ball. So they got around to talking about their longtime centers, buttoxes. Hey, you know how much you talk about the centers and you've got to be comfortable with the centers? I mean, y'all talk like they just bring you a guy from the bleachers for the backup center. And you're like, what's your name again? Like, y'all've never met him.

And the whole thing's off. We've met them. It's a comfort, it's a comfort area. You don't want to go around that area of too many people, you know? Yeah, you kind of want your hands to be for one set of butt cheeks, Nate, so you don't really want to, you know, share that with several. So you try to stay loyal. Could you blindfold?

and just have your hands under and tell who it is. Yeah, 100%. I could for sure. I need Jeff Saturday's butt cheeks as well as anybody. So, yeah, I mean, if you ever want to blind, you don't want to use blindfold and butt cheeks together very often. But I'm not saying the word butt cheeks. It's father.

Yeah, we can't. It's a hit. This show. Yeah. Well, remember when Josh Dobbs showed up in Minnesota, and they were practicing the snap on the side. sideline. It was Jason Kelsey on his

podcast. He was saying, listen, you got to get you, because he's a center. You got to get your hands in there. If I, if I got to feel you, I get in there. Because if I don't feel you, it's no good. So it's an intimate thing. Good job, Manning's. Good content, everyone.

Okay. I've got a clip called a hammered guy. I think this is Dean on his vacation to Prince Albert. Because there, you got the playground, you got the tarp off. And it looks like you're a little wobbly to start here. I'm fine. I'm fine.

Easy. Okay, here we go. See my chair. Oh, no. Oh, no. We're listening to. East West. North South.

Oh. Dino. Spilled drink. Got to play more north south. Not so much east west. You didn't see. You didn't need the rum runner on top. You took you over the, like,

Cadillac Margaritas. Windy. Windy. Very windy. Oh, we're going down. And spilled a drink, too. But do we like old bastards that fall over pissed? Or are we?

Yes. Oh, yeah. As long as they're not, you know, your father-in-law, things like that, I think it's great. Yeah. I'm not going to be age. I'm not going to discriminate, be an ageist. Yeah. You want to get drunk and fall down?

I got time for you. If the olds want to drink heavy to fall over, I got you on the show. I got their back. That's right. This has got some olds in it. These fellows weren't sure if this was candle. or mashed potatoes. Now, there's a quick test you can do to find out.

Let's have a look. A candle or mashed potatoes? Oh, fuck. A candle or mashed potatoes? Candle. Oh, fuck. Candle. Oh, fuck.

You know right away, right? That's not going to take long to figure out. I was going to say maybe it looks almost like scow potatoes. It's nice. And isn't that good cheese? It's a good cheese. They've gone to all the effort of putting the candles around it. It's going to keep the mashed potatoes warm.

Yeah. No. No. Finally, Rett's kid messing around on the internet, bought some glow sticks. That's okay. Used his own money, Rhett. You should be proud of him. But what he didn't realize is you can't microwave a glow stick.

Come here. No clue what to do with this. God, I told you not to mess with a choking hazard. I don't know what to do if it's in your eyes. Don't rub them. Yeah, no shit. I said, don't microwave it. Don't screw around.

What should you do? do with a beautiful shirt on and get it in your eyes. You seem fine. You're getting water. I didn't say but water. Falk, aquac with eye your skin may cause this temporary discomfort in case of of iron skin tucked flush with water for 15 minutes. Well, at least, you know, you learned.

That is way calmer than I would have been. Trust. Oh, my God. But you know, you know exactly where he's at. He's like, this is just another in a long. list of stupid things this dumb kid has done. This is not the first time this kid has done something stupid. Daughters don't do this.

Because he's just, there's no shock. It's just more like, oh, I knew you were going to do it. I told you not to. What the. So that is a dumb kid being helped by just a slightly less dumb dad. Yeah. That's so great. Good work, Rhett.

Yeah. That's your pinned report for whatever day it is today. That's beautiful stuff. That is beautiful stuff. You're welcome. Candle. Yeah. Camp, not candle.

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How long is that? Why don't you go to miss Hortichuk and get the Skinny on what's going on in Phoenix? Ryan, perverted bad. Why do you say stuff like this? Why don't you think before you tell you? I can't wait till you get to Phoenix.

Hortichuk gives us tickets for the waste management that you've got to talk about his wife and start talking about this shit. You know what happens on these parent trips. We'll have some tips for us. On these parent trips, when the parents go on the hockey kids road trips, you know what happened. What the hell's the matter with you?

Say hi for me. What's on the menu for DoorDash tonight, Ryan? We've got the Chargers and the Raiders. If you've ever wanted Aiden O'Connell and Easton Stick, fuck you. You got your wish. 6.15 tonight. And of course, Minnesota, Calgary.

That's a 6 o'clock mountain time start. It's a Thursday. The Wild and the Flames or the, uh, the Raiders and the chargers with, as you mentioned, Easton Stick. Yeah. At least, you know what, though? You can have some great chow while you watch it.

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See you. Adios. Good luck. Will we see you tomorrow or? I got to win the game. Dean, I can't focus on this until after I win the. again.

I've got to stay focused. I'm going to have to perform. Guilty. Can we do a five-minute post-game shitty media questions interview with you? I'm definitely going to be on to show. Good. Love it.

Just. Okay. So again, but you're not the head coach. I am. Or are you the head coach? I'm the head coach. He's outsourced a lot of his duties, as Rhett does.

He's a great delegator. A good coach includes, right? What the hell do you got a staff for? Like, hey? Yeah. What times curfew tonight? 10.

In bed, lights out at 10. Are we having a team dinner tonight? Are we getting together? I hate kids. I know, yeah. See you tomorrow. There's only one. There's only one.

What the hell's the matter with you, by the way? I just thought. Hartichik gives us all Friday off tickets and you're going to. Someone knows the city. Go to this restaurant. Top golf's like this. Because I feel like you do this on purpose. I really talk about.

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Whoa. Look at this. This is a night. This is one of those occasions where we just told you all the games. I don't know. This is how you ramp up a little bit of excitement for a game. With a little bit of responsible betway action for you. By the way,

tip of the cap to both of us for going two and two yesterday. Appreciate you. Who for two? I like it. I mentioned Matt Boldy. He's on a bit of a heater. He is scoring goals in bunches.

It's usually how it goes. Matt Boldy, an anytime goal pays plus money, but I'm going to kick it up a notch. As you say, we go big game hunting. A plus 1,000. for a Matt Boldy first goal of the night in the Wild Flames game. And what always happens after you fire a coach?

You win. It's the dead cat bounce. Say it loss at home to the Ottawa senators. Of course, they fired Craig Barubi. Some banister is behind the bench now. He's their new coach. It's not quite even money, but it's close to it. So I'll go with a blues money line at home over the senators minus 105.

And McLennan is just lining. up that, um, cred for Ruby contract to replace DJ Smith. Yeah, he's on it. I think we got a high scoring game. I don't know why. We're back to Vlodar. Even when he's playing well, it seems like there's lots of goals. The flames are awful against Minnesota last week. They'll have a better effort tonight. I don't know how much gas they have in the tank. They're a little loose defensively. So there's Connor Zeri plus 500 for two points. Seems like he's doing that once a week these days. And Igor Sharon Govich, stay hot sun, plus 250 for an anytime goal. He scored four in his last three, three in his last two.

Which one is it? It's both. Yeah. Yeah. Five points in his last four games. He's playing extremely well. Scored against Jersey, scored against Colorado, scored two against Vegas. I believe that to be accurate.

I believe you're right. Get the Betway up. Just listen to me. Get the Betway up and play along and bet the responsible way with our buddies. It's only Betway. why would you have you got options i guess but i don't know why you're talking about there you see it the barn burner vacation a few trips remain i think a lot of people as we said a few weeks ago there was a huge a swath of trips were bought i think guys finally got their act together okay

are we going we're going you're good you're good you go and they all came in and bought their tickets their uh their travel packages at the same time so christmas is coming you don't need a reason to do it. You heard from Hortichuk, we're going to have a hell of good time. I'm not sure that's what he said. It's going to be a great time. We're going to have fun.

There's, what did he say? There's drinks. They sell alcohol at the rink. It gets into a lounge, it sounds like. I love that. Yeah. I mean, why wouldn't you?

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Alberta Blue Cross Travel Insurance protects your memories and more wherever travel takes you. Visit ab.blucross.cross.ca slash travel for more information. Have you thought it all about that trip yet? A lot. I had to get the passport done. I finally did. It is ready for pickup, I believe, next week. Oh, boy. A little tighter than I'd like, but there's still probably three weeks between pickup date and travel. So we're good. Yeah, you'll be all right. I like it. I'm excited. I have not spent a lot of time in Phoenix. And I'm excited because we got Kami down there.

We got Horta Check down there. All of a sudden, it's like we got some people to know what the hell's going on. We're going to have a hell of a night Thursday at that tiny rink, which is incredible for fans and horrible for hockey-related revenue. And then Friday, it's have some fun. Scott's a hell of good time. Hey. Dun-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.

Is that the right song? Don't know which one that is. I don't know either. How's Jack doing? Jack has been working his tail off for the last 24 hours. Has he really? Department of Discipline yesterday. Right.

It's got all fine-tuned. It's going to drop. What is that, by the way? For people that don't know? Department of Disciplines show that we do on the Nation Network, Jay Rose Hill and myself. Lots of fights, suspensions, hits, people that don't know how to get hit.

Majors turned into minors. Fitching and moaning. Seven fights for Andreas England so far this year. All kinds of stuff like that. And you know, we've kind of been saying that. this show for and even the old show for a number of years the way the game is gone there's less hitting yeah so you're not as focused on absorbing hits and then if somebody decides this shift i'm really going to hit you yeah you're just not prepared for it because some matt barzel

two nights ago get absolutely destroyed by andreas england or three nights ago and england just it's like barzell takes a pass and looks behind him on his back hand points back here he's like oh just cut to the middle. You cuts to the middle. One hand on a stick. Looking behind where he's coming from, wango. Clean as can be. And then sure enough, Mitz. Let's go. Wow. How do you not know how to... Fellas. Fellas. Come on, fellas. Buddies. I was going to look here on the old... Good gear, by the way. The hockey fights gear has dropped on Nationgare.com. Oh, really? Really nice. New shirts. There's a good Christmas present.

What are they offer? Check it out. Check it out. If you... If you've got someone that, you know, likes the physicality, the rough stuff, the fisticuffs, Tom Fulery, the Ballyhoo, the, uh, the fracuses, get some here for them, Nationgear. Can we go to a full screen on boom anytime he goes double glasses? That's got to be a rule here. I was looking here. They have total power play. I'm on the bedway up for this game tonight. Total power play goals. I was just looking for. for a flames power play goal. You'll take the under or what?

Well, here's the thing. Okay. They are going to score one at some point. You're thinking it's tonight or you're not? Do you know what the Minnesota Wilde have? They have the 32nd ranked penalty kill. Yeah. I remember talking about that last week.

And that seems to pair nicely with the flames. It feels like a 30 second ranked power play. It does at times, yeah. Yeah. 28, 29 somewhere on there. Yeah. And I saw Pittsburgh kind of got theirs working, which is not a shock. It was a matter of time, you think.

Mickey Flames Power Play goal plus 850. I don't know if that's legit or if it's, No, there's no way it's that. Tug and cheek. 30 or something like that. Yeah. It's not been good. No, it's been awful.

It's killed them. They had power plays in the third period in Denver and in Vegas. And if you score on either of those, I feel like you probably leave a two points. and instead on both of them, I believe, you had shorthand of breakaways the other way. Like, what are we doing here, guys? What are we doing? Three shorthand of breakaways the last two games.

Hey, Ryan, tell people what they can do tonight after the game. Join us at the Grey Eagle Resort and Casino. We're going to be doing Afterburner from the stage bar. Dean's going to destroy a plate of those hot wings. Have a cold beverage as we watch the end of the third and then hop up on the stage. Two banger. High kick our way into Afterburner.

we'll be discussing the wild and flames on a Thursday. So that's the night. Afterburner, after the, after the game has come to its rightful conclusion. We will have Afterburner live from the Grey Eagle Resort and Casino. I was on there this morning looking at the event center, what they got going on. They got, I believe it's Trooper on New Year's Eve. They've got some great hair metal stuff coming up. Skid Row and Warrant and Quiet Riot and Bucket, oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, man.

Wheel of Fortune. Yeah. And oddly enough, there's a, it will mean nothing to anybody that's watching. But, and I didn't know that it existed, but it's the one thing more than anything else that I probably would want to go to. There's an Everly Brothers tribute.

Oh, that'd be cool. You know who the Everly brothers are? Ask Jack. That'll be a better answer. Oh, God. He'll think I'm saying. Jordan Everly's brother? Yeah, the Everly brothers, right?

Pat Beverly. No. Shut up, Jack. God. anyway, go and check out the website, Grey Eagle Resort and Casino.ca. For that, then you can look for yourself and see if there's something there. Maybe there's a Christmas

gift there waiting for you for somebody. Jeez my charit pie. Yeah, lead singer dead. Oh. Jenny Laney. T's and peas. Feel that one coming. And Skid Row's coming, but of course

Sebastian Bach and the other guys, they cannot get along. Freckin Sebastian Bach, transporting weed over the border on a train, Julian and Ricky going back to jail. Sad times. It's true. Fucking gets me every time. Sebastian Bach.

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I look forward to all of us finding out what this number. is going to be and then giving that money to closer to home to get some people ready for Christmas who probably today don't think that that is in their future plans to go out and do Christmas shopping. So that is awesome. Have a fine rest of your day. Join us for Afterburner tonight. We're back tomorrow. Darren Dregor will join us on the program. Not sure about the retro. We'll get a little retro sprinkled in from Motor City. I would think it's probably fair to say. An reminder, we chatted with Mason Trafford earlier today. It is Cavs in Orlando City in the Champions Cup Concaf meeting in February. So we can throw to that when we're done, Dana. And we're done.

Mason and I, hours ago, Wednesday night, Concaf did the draw for their Champions League. Mason Trafford is here from Calvary FC. The Cavs into the draw as winners of the regular season of the CPL this year. And Mason, you drew Orlando City, which is, is an MLS side, a team that you've actually as a player, been on the pitch against. What were your immediate reactions when you saw cavalry, Orlando City for the Conca Calfe Champions League first round? I think it's a bit of a mixed emotion, actually.

I think from a sporting side, it's an exciting one. We're playing in a market just down there in the States and Florida, a very controlled environment. A really strong team, obviously, in Orlando, a top 10 team on the continent. but one that I think if you had to say of all people like that's a that's a it is a winnable matchup it's it's David and Goliath for sure but we we can like again I beat them before as a player okay they are you were with Miami before they were an MLS side I was with Miami before we were an MLS side you know kind of a star-studded team that we had assembled but we beat them like three one or even

three-nill I think away at their stadium where we'll be playing so again like this is soccer i think that's what's so fun about this tournament is that yes there's some massive budget disparities between some of these clubs yeah but cavalry is built to win like let's be honest like our infrastructure yes we're way younger and yes we're you know less experienced but we've been built to win from day one right from our ownership group right to our infrastructure at acco field in the stadium and the fan base we think of ourselves as a big club and we've done it we beat the white caps before we went head to head with Montreal and Vancouver again in following years. So we're not going down there being like, oh, this is an exercise of preseason.

We're going down and they're trying to win because look who's on the other side of the draw too. And this is the tournament of champions. Like anything can happen? It's soccer. It's two legs. And let's get them up here and see how they fare in Galgary in February. So I was looking, Orlando City in 2022 spent about 12 million on players.

safe to say that's probably around 10 times what you guys would spend on players i know there's not a public figure but you guys do have caps in the cpl and it's sort of rumored to be around that million dollar mark uh but you've beaten an mLS side you noted it you've you've beaten the white caps in a two-legged event in the canadian championship i think was way back in your one or two of the franchise we've seen pacific fc beat the white caps as well we've seen forge put up some great battles against clubs from all kinds of different countries through the conca calf region you are going to be an underdog, but this, as you said, is the beauty of soccer. You often can see teams from lower leagues for one game or one two-legged stretch,

outplay or even maybe get outplay, but outscore another team and move on. It's exciting. Yeah, I think so. And I think soccer of all, of many sports, especially in the North American market, it's still young. It's still growing. Like all the talent has not been found. Right.

And we as Cavalry feel like we have some real talent, guys that could easily be playing in the MLS, but, you know, because of the nature of this ever-revolving landscape, they play for us right here in the backyard of Calvary. We're not there yet, but they will be. We've already seen you graduate a few players to MLS. Exactly.

Mo Farsi just won the MLS Cup. He wasn't even playing professional soccer a few years ago. You know, like Joel Waterman, all the guys that like we have to talk about, we need to talk about Calgarians, a lot of them too, that are playing in Europe for big, big teams playing in the MLS.

winning MLS Cup playing for Canada. Like, so it's, it is a bit of a David and Goliath story, 12 million to our budget, quite a large disparity. I mean, when I played Orlando, that was it would have been 2017 or 2018. Like they had caca. Sure. Like, he won the ball and door. He was the best player in the world like 10 years ago.

He was on Orlando City. Like that was the level that we played. But like, again, to be quite honest, we kind of smashed them up a little bit too. Like it was like a three one. It was like, again, we beat them like, it was like we put three. But again, I think for our players, for our club, it's a huge moment. This tournament is global. This tournament has the biggest teams in North America.

The winner of this tournament goes on to the FIFA Club World Cup. We'll play the likes of Byron Munich, Man City, whoever wins from the European version of this tournament. This is the biggest stage outside of your national team soccer, right? So it's really cool. And we'll go in there, swinging. We'll go in there swinging. Yeah. So tell us, we know it's February.

You're the lower-seated team. Orlando is really strong. I saw there were second overall in MLS standings. I mean, that's a really good side. You're not getting one of the minnows of MLS. No. I know rosters turn over a bit, but this is a challenge for sure. You will host the first leg and then Orlando the second.

It's February. This is absolutely an interesting talking point. I remember being in Edmonton for the World Cup Qualifier, Canada, Mexico, the ICE TECA. I feel like that's going to be a rallying cry around the CPL, the cavalry fans. And I think even for Orlando fans, there's a lot of interesting. about coming to Canada in February for a soccer match. Yeah, no, it's really cool.

Actually, I was poking around last night after the draw on on social media. And, like, Orlando's a really well-supported club. We're talking, like, half a million people on Instagram following them. So when we make this announcement, they tweeted about it saying, like, we'll see you in February, cavalry, which is fun to start seeing these, like, big, big clubs interact with us, even on, like, the social networks. But then you start to see the fans start chirping. Yeah.

You're right. Like, you know, the GIFs start appearing and like, what is this soccer in Alberta. But then you can also see a lot of people being like, oh, we're down. Like we're going to fly up. We want to go see Canada. We want to go see the city of Calgary. We want to watch our team. Adidas better be sending us some parkas for our players because I don't know how we're going to do this. So as a club, we're looking at all these options, how to pull this one off.

It's, you know, a bit of the nature of the beast. We're still young. Let's figure out how we're going to host a game and how that's going to go because it's certainly not easy. We have natural grass too. so it's a bit of an operational it's a challenge for sure yeah it's not uh going to be thawed if it's a normal february yeah so there's what do you do how do you address it what other options you have that'll all unfold over the next few weeks we don't have dates yet we will by maybe the end of the

week yeah next week yeah i conquer cast based in miami and that's sort of the hub for all these teams across north america and the Caribbean to they communicate with and we've been told friday or early next week so this could this could come out tomorrow of dates and locations we're uh we're in a bit of a whole pattern we're waiting on some news on that if you see the map it's pretty cool to see where all these teams are really is white caps and cavalry are this like island way out on the west and north of the corner the northern most team in the competition yeah and it wouldn't be close i mean there's vancouver and then after that everything else is like eastern side of the u.s and a lot in the caribbean even the northern tip of south america's got teams in the serenam yeah we have a team from serenam wild so

exciting times the other thing on the bracket we always wanted to see where miami turned out where is messy they're on your half of the bracket but not your quarter so you would have to win three legs to theoretically run into messy but it's still a possible yeah there's a semi final match up there and i think the important story for me right is of course we want to host messy in calgary that would be an unprecedented sporting moment for our city yeah i think you'd get people flying in from all over maybe all over the world surely but definitely all over canada in the u.s to come and watch that type of game i think you instantly would become alberta's team that's for sure everybody go on cavalry come i think we probably already are hopefully everybody all over the province is going

come on calves like get to the semis get to the semis let's get to the semis you know who knows right then maybe you host a game up at commonwealth or something and settle the place out with 70 000 people because it lets you dream right that's the message yeah it is is it probable no is it possible yes and it lets you dream on the sport and what it could be in this country which kind of fits with you know the world cup on the horizon in 2026 i'll put it this way We've said at the beginning, I think Orlando is a huge respected team and a fantastic, but it wouldn't be insane if we beat them. The MLS teams have lost the CPL teams on multiple occasions.

Who's next? Let's say Vancouver wins. We've already beaten them. Sure. Now we're one game away from Messy. Crazy. Right? So I love it.

I think the draw, like it is a bit fanciful, but stranger things have happened. Let's go on a bit of a fairy tale. Let's get the whole city, let's get the city province and probably the country rooting for us. I think if we get by Orlando, I think everybody starts going, Oh, my God. Alberta could host the goat. Like, we're talking goat maybe of sports, not even just of soccer, in my opinion.

Like, this guy is like, this is Jordan-level stuff to have in our backyard. It would be pretty insane. You had a cool story. The new goaltending coach, Jake Davis. Yeah. He happens to be dating in Orlando sports reporter. And they were somewhere on vacation at dinner watching the draw on their phone. Yeah, yeah.

And they just started laughing when they saw. my god it's orlando against calvary and as they're watching the draw you can see Tommy will and junior calling it's like it's Arlano it's pretty funny it's it's gonna be fun and it is it's a beautiful game man it's the beautiful game like everybody's connected with it all over the all over the continent in this case but all over the world even too so we'll look forward to more news from you guys i'd say stay tuned to those social channels and we'll be have more on the show when we know more about dates and venues and I'm excited to dig into in the new year what Orlando City cavalry looks like it's gonna be fun you need to get that Westjet

Disney World Cavs Orlando package on deck here so let's uh let'll be working on that in the next few weeks if you need an idiot that needs a haircut to come with you I know a guy let's do it thanks Mason we'll see you later man yeah thanks guys