Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - Can the Calgary Flames still make the Playoffs? | FN Barn Burner

Episode Date: March 30, 2023

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All right. Let's go. It is Thursday. So if you say rabbit, rabbit on the first day, it's not the day. What do you say? You're early. But what do you say on the last day? It's isn't the last day either. You're way early. Tomorrow's the 31st. Yeah. There's a new month on Saturday. Okay. So it's neither the last nor the first. It's the penultimate day of the month. It is the penultimate day of the month. You're right. Well, The only reason I know, because I don't, like, some months of 30, some of 31, I know my birthday, I know my sister's birthday. The last days of the month, the other 10 months, no fucking clue.

You and your sister. God Almighty is just unbelievable. Last of the month. Her birthdays in two days. Tomorrow. So when you try to remember, if you're going through, so say it's the 30th, is that the last day, do you just immediate, what do you do to? The song.

Everyone does it. 30 days, half September. January, January, November. Right? That's what we do. I just don't know what the words are to the song. But I don't remember the months. 30 days, half, September, April, June, and November.

Yeah, sometimes this April, May. That's not correct. That song's no good. No. All the rest of 31, except February, that asshole, it can't even make up its mind. I can't figure it out. Wischy-washy. Oh, here we are.

Welcome to the show. It's a Rett-picking playoff series. Well, I really like the Bruins, but, you know, Tampa's pretty good. Tampa's... Was there a pick in there? Tampa's great. I do like Tampa. That's February.

Yeah, that's February. asshole. The Rettster we're expecting to be in at some point today. He is in transit. We don't know. In the Pinder report. There is great suspense surrounding his potential return to this country, the city, and potentially even the studio. Now, we don't really have great details on why he hasn't been in the country for as long as he hasn't. And I don't know that even if you arrive via a plane, you'll be allowed in. We don't know where he's crossing the border. be that Ontario and then flying from Ontario to wrecked, or if he's leaving from a Buffalo airport connecting through somewhere else,

there's not a Calgary Buffalo flight that I'm aware of. No. Yeah, details, as with most things. With Red. With Red. With Rette are extremely sketchy. Yeah. Limited. Scant.

And I don't know why. I think he likes having people just kind of in the dark as opposed to. I don't think he's organized at all. Yeah. He's kind of on that boomer plan where it's like, what have I got to do today? Don't screw it up. Tomorrow. Shit, I'll worry about that when I wake up tomorrow.

Yeah. That said, my plan doesn't have me leaving and moving to another country. No. 48 hours. You like to keep it close to the home front and he will go to Florida on two days notice. He'll fly to Phoenix for a stake on an hour's notice if the right flight price pops in there. But we have had communication with the Rettster today. He gave us the option.

He could pull over to the side of the road or. We could wait, and then when he gets to the airport, he'll chime in. Yeah, we unanimously agreed. Get his ass to the airport. We don't know which airport or where. See, because there again, he said something yesterday about the travel time, the drive. So I almost wonder, is he driving to Hamilton or Toronto to get on a plane? I know that there have been numerous Hamilton, Calgary daily flights.

I don't know where we're at with flight routes post-pandemic, but that's very close to Buffalo. It's a direct flight, if it's the case. or you would continue out to Toronto if you needed a direct flight and there wasn't one in Hamilton, I don't know where Buffalo connects through. It'd be a nightmare. Like he timed it.

What was it? Like 15 minutes this flight from Buffalo to Toronto? I've flown into Hamilton and it's a delight. The hammer. Yeah, nice easy airport. You get off the plane, you walk into a building

and then you walk out of the building. It's super easy. Yes. That's your classic Saskatoon Regina-sized airport. Colonna A.D.C. Yeah. Yeah. one that's kind of growing on you.

Palm Springs is great, eh? Isn't it the best? Not an awesome airport? Open air. Yeah. A little playground for kids there. So awesome. The one problem is just only one place to drink once you get through security and it's rammed and lined up.

I tried on Monday. I was pissed off. I would piss a guy on. It's like, I got to stand in line 20 minutes to get a goddamn drink. You're leaving money on the table, guys. Yeah, yeah. So we're awaiting retro. Flames practicing today.

We'll have some details maybe over the course of the program here. So what's going on? Off day yesterday. Yeah. Off day, yesterday. A game, game of the year on Friday until that one's done. And then it'll be Sunday. It'll be Sunday, Anaheim.

Afterburner of the year coming up Sunday after Anaheim. Yeah, for sure. Did you talk to any Flames fans yesterday? I always do. You know me. I'm a chatter. Yeah, you are a chatter. And people see me and they want to chat Flan, let's go.

Yeah. You know, does it bug you all day? And then people want to talk. No, this is why I do it. I love talking about sports. I got hot takes for you. Sit down. Grab a glass of water.

Jesus, what did I just get my sleep into? Let me tell you about the leftee on the second pair for the Wranglers. Let's some big issues here. I think, and we saw it with the Rettster yesterday, he has rejuvenated enthusiasm and hope and belief. I think there's a lot of people in the city that share it. I wish we had kept the most scathing, acidic, acidic, harsh and like flame throwery type takes Rets had throughout the season on how bad this team is. Because I think he's very good at sensing the vibe of the fan base even when he's not here.

But he also kind of goes a little over the top sometimes for effect. Like he literally in February, not, you know, two months ago was saying Jacob Markham's not a pressure goal. He's never been one. It's like, well, hang on. Like, were you studying this guy's tape in the bubble when he's played for Vancouver? Did you not see the Dallas? Well, it's one week.

And, you know, Marksson. was back to look like Markstrom. It was a shitty four months from Markstrom for sure. But like if we made a highlight reel of the hot, hot, hot, hot, hottest of takes from Red and then played that right next to yesterday's positivity, you'd swear it had to be different seasons, different teams, couldn't be the same squad you're talking about. And it's kind of been the fan base. Because I'm trying to remember.

Because we, it wouldn't be that hard because it hasn't been that long ago. I feel like it was around the new year when things really got sour. they had that very respectable run around Christmas where they had, I think, seven divisional foes in a row and they went five one and one. And it was like, okay, you took care of business against those bad California teams, la la, la. But then we started the new year with, okay,

you lost in Chicago, awful. You dropped one in St. Louis. You had a two-goal lead in. Awful. And all these bad losses started palling up. That was when you said Columbus come to town. February was a fucking nightmare. It was the worst month of the year for goaltending for the flames.

All those takes would be Jan Feb. I'm trying to remember which one it was. It was less than a week ago. He did an afterburner with me, and he was done. He was up in arms. They were dysfunctional. Fire everyone. Yeah.

He had had all that he needed to see. He was finished. He said that everything was bullshit. It was all bullshit. You can't even judge the team. It's so dysfunctional. We can't even make sense of what's up and down. Yeah.

And I suppose it's a testament to how, A, colossal the meltdown the Jets are having is, and B, you know, if this team is as incredibly dysfunctional as it's looked like at times, they're awfully skilled as well to be able to overcome that dysfunction and be two points out of a playoffs spot. It's just, it's amazing. What a season, like roller coaster of emotions for fans. I'm going to try and throw this in and see if it works for Alex. because... It's an afterburner clip or what?

Well, yeah, and I was not at all expecting or prepared for... The scorched earth? For what we got yesterday. Yeah. Because he was, oh, yeah, so it's pretty good. Yes, no, so problem. Wait a minute. They've won...

I guess, you know what? He must have read, because he brought it up that. It was the seven, three and two. Three and two or two and whatever the hell. No, seven, three and two. There's three regulation losses were Anaheim, Vegas, and L.A. Those are your three losses in your last 12. You've got points and everything else.

Two loser points and seven wins in regulation. So then he, uh, uh, I don't know, dude. And it's not like, okay, they've won him over. He's good. Like if they don't play well Friday, you know what I'll say on Monday. Well, yeah. This is the, it's the, it's like we're riding the Zadora. of roller coaster at the amusement park.

That's been the flame season. The highs have been incredibly high and inspiring, and the lows have been just absolute troughs where you lose hope for humanity. Anyway, we're here in the Tower Chrysler Studios, Tower Chrysler, Consumer Choice Award winner, Calgary's favorite Chrys or Dodge dealer. Rett's already getting his fangs into Tower, you know that?

Is he? Oh, yeah. He'll have a set of wheels for the week. Settle down, retro. Settle down. Well, no, I told you I texted. I was texting with Surge. Yep.

They can do it. Positivity abounding at Tower Chrysler. If you go in there, is it a bound or abounding? Because bounding is the thing. Is it abounding a thing? I don't know. What did I say?

Is it abounding? Abounding? Positivity is abound, abounding? Let us know. Get to get us in the comments. Text the text line we don't have. But they're feeling it. I do.

I think there's a lot of people that now, and maybe it's because it's all of it. Markstrom's been better. You beat the Kings. Good team. Winnipeg struggles, Nashville struggles. So I think you put all that together, plus some head-to-heads, and there is some, there is some belief.

And I mean, what was Rett's point yesterday? Oh, you may as well be positive. Well, okay. Hasn't been as tact all year. Has not been anything close to this time. Oh, you know, this Uyghurs due for some regression. He wasn't saying that. No, there is, again, don't judge by what he says, just by what he says.

quiet night last night busy night tonight very quiet last night and an off day for the flames like it's actually rather quiet like putting together a Pender report we got a lot of baseball and wranglers because there was not a lot of

noteworthy NHL stuff there was an extension yesterday we will revisit the video that didn't work yesterday because it was good and we've got more lip reading for you in the Pinder report as well as I know you were showing off that new skill you added in the pandemic

Nashville at Pittsburgh tonight. Yeah, it's been a weird go for Pittsburgh. They're kind of doing Jets East, not as badly. But what is it, four losses in a row or something like that that they've had in an opportunity when they really could have just ran away with things? Or is that Florida before they win? I don't know.

Let's take a peek. Trying to figure this thing out here. You upload? Well, I want to upload something, but I don't know how it goes. A lot of photos. So the wild win last night, 4 to 2. Are you going to go through all of that in the Pinder report? There's only three fucking games,

and I don't really care for many of them. The Wild Ave's was clearly your marquee matchup. That's two teams vying for first place. If someone won in Reg, they get first place in the central. I just, I know we've kind of been on this. Good teams in the East, what a battle is going to be. First round is going to be amazing in the West. It could be anybody.

Yeah, I guess it could be anybody. West feels open, yeah. But the Minnesota Wild have points. in 20 of 21. Philip Gustafson had 42 saves last night, 11 game road point streak. The wild are not, they're not fucking around.

And the wild are doing it with what, 15 million of dead money on those suitor and Paris A buyouts? Like, if you want a lesson in, you know, how to manage, like they couldn't afford Fiala, they knew it.

They turned them into a first and was it Brock Faber or a defenseman that's going to sign? Like, there's a lot of tough decisions they've had to make there. But there they are. They could win that division. And I remember when we did after Burner, after the zero, zero into the shootout, after the overturned offside goal in overtime, flames in Minnesota, second game of 48 hours, Mark's best game of the year to that point, first and only shutout of the season.

And you're like, man, Markson was great tonight. And Minnesota is going to be a tough out. Minnesota is deep. They don't give you much. and Gustafson just looked absolutely dialed those two times they saw him in four days. They beat Calgary and then they went into Minnesota after playing in Dallas and he allowed zero goals through 65 minutes and lost in the shootout. Like Gustafson, when you add to the structure they already have in the depth,

it's like, who don't want them. Yeah. I still don't. You still sound about the wild. Huh? I just need to change their name. You'll get over it. Go back to the North Stars, you'll think they're funny.

You're right. It's just scar tissue for you. It's all PTSD. You know, it's the jerseys and just how boring. Did you know that it's also a river and a wolf's head? Yeah, got it. All right. There you see, Freddie Goodrope, two short-handed goals.

Two shorties. Two shorties. Jeez. Yeah. Georgiev. I don't know. I just don't know about the Avs. They're not healthy.

I know, but I don't know that I love their goal. And that, and goaltending means a lot in the playoffs. What's wrong with Gorgiev and Francesos? They don't. I mean, are they not Darcy Kemper-esque? Like, let's, if we're being honest. They don't blow the wind up my skirt. Did the, did the goal of the wind won the cup last year blow up the skirt?

Do you just have to be okay? But remember, Kemper, you were going to, Phoenix was going to trade him, you were going to get a first-round pick. This guy was, this guy was a sought-after commodity. for teams looking for a young. As was scored Georgiev, maybe not to the same degree, but he's like, oh, he's behind Chesterke, and he's probably the best backup in the league.

I don't know. Okay. You could be right. I'm not saying. He's got an 893 save percent. Yeah, I just look at, okay, so I think Byram's missed considerable time, Sam Girard's missed mega time,

McCar's missed time, Johnson, one of them has missed a bunch of time. Like, I'm trying to think, like Manson's missed a ton of time. I'm with, I understand that there's the injury. They would be top three, I would guess, in most man games is lost to injury. Not even man games, but like important players lost. Like if you lose Michael Stone for two months, but when it's Kail McCar, when it's Miko Ratan

or Landisog or whoever, like they have missed their best players as much or more than anyone else in this league. So them being within striking distance of first, like a win last night gets it. If they don't get goalied last night, they're in first. like, yeah, that's central. That central is going to be a slug fest. And yeah, here's your dead money for the wild. 12.74 million.

I just pulled it up. That's just Parisian suitor buyouts. Next year, 14.7, year after, 14.7. Two more years of nearly 15 million bucks of dead money after this one, and they're still good. So who is that that did all that? That's Billy Garon and his crew. Well, it's not him that, but he's got to deal with it. No, but he made the decision that.

But okay, the culture's wrong here. It's become a country club. These guys that got paid and want to live at their lake homes and, you know, work, but not really work. Like the kind of guys we put letters on and set the tone here, they have to go. Well, the problem is, Billy, we're going to have huge capits. Don't care. We'll deal with it. We need the culture to be right.

Yes, he did. I thought that was before. Because I was going to say. Was it fitting before that? Who's Billy Garin going to punch in the mouth? Well, you know what? I will verify that. With all this day.

Well, I mean, it's the contract signed that killed them. clearly. Yeah. Because you're either stuck with the guys that are not living up to the value of the deal or you have to live with the buyout. But yeah, in terms of who bought them out, I'll pull it up here.

But you remember that was a great, I was huge Minnesota here. You finally had two guys, American guys wanted to, they both want to play in Minnesota. Guys that want to be here. You need guys that want to be here. We can get both of them.

We'll sign them to, wasn't it even identical deals. It was the same day, the same off season, the whole thing. And then, yeah, it's just amazing.

It was July 2021, they were bought out. I think Garen's been there. Yeah, that's probably Billy Garen then. But yeah, they went in eyes open knowing they were going to be severely handicapped basically using what, 85, 80% of the cap? Like we talk about teams like, oh man, they got three million bucks dead money. Like, look at Edmonton.

They could add a top six winger and instead it's, you know, dead money on Neal and these other guys. 12.7 this year, 14.7 next year, 14.7 the year after. That is some magic they're pulling off. To be competitive with that going on? I got a text from our boy Greg Keller yesterday. He said he was very conflicted last night, watching the Leafs and Panthers.

Well, almost cheering for the Leafs. He loves Bennett, but I think he was done. He, I believe, was the one that Tard and Feathered Matthew Kachucks sent him out of town. Well, I think there were a few. He is of the mindset. I think if you're not with us, you're against us. You don't want to be here?

Okay, get the H out. Well, no, he was saying it before he left. Well, maybe, yeah. but kind of rooting on the least, but a huge win for Florida last night. They got a late goal from Sam Reinhardt and then a winner from Brandon Montour in OT. Montour assists on the tying goal,

gets the winner, three to two, huge, huge. This is, it's so huge for the Panthers because they kind of keep pace. They've played one more game than Pittsburgh, trail them by a single point. As we mentioned, Pittsburgh's got Nashville tonight, but they have not been, that was a four-game slide that the Panthers were on. They snap it with that victory, so huge for them to do that one on the road.

Watching it, it was, and we got some stuff in the Pender report. Palmer is losing his mind after a goal came back for Toronto. Yeah. Not like, hey, boys, we got one, but like, here's a chance for me to lay into you. And it didn't really work right away. But when they needed a game-time goal on a power play late, they get it, went in overtime, and instead of zero points. That's two big ones in the standings.

Montour's having a year, hey? 63 points? Eighth in defense scoring. Yeah, Akplad's looking up to him. Like, he's their best D right now. There you have it there. Your points percentage. But yeah, Florida needed that one in a big way.

And here are the penguins. They've lost six of eight. Oof. So if you're 500 there, you're four and four. Like, look at that race. It's not really close. You're comfy. And the friggin' islanders.

The team that no one wants in there. Oh, maybe Florida, maybe Pittsburgh, maybe Buffalo, not the Islanders. They're in good shape. Happy for Bo Horvatt because, you know, ink in there right away. They're like, who've, how many playoff rents is he going to get? That's an old core. But they've got a goalie.

They've got some structure and they really couldn't score, but have more with him arriving. Yeah. So they've got 87 points. Then Pittsburgh's got 82, Florida 81. So they got a six point bulge on those pants. Huge. It is huge. And, I mean, you mentioned Sorokin, 25 saves in this one last night.

He's been good. He's going to be a Vesna finalist. Guarantee it. I think so? 100%. I don't even know who you put with him. I mean, O'Markr has to be there, doesn't he? Olmark's going to win it, you're right. It'll be Sorokin, Olmerk, and somebody else.

That's a hot take village. No, but Sorokin's in that class, is what I'm saying. Yeah, Sorokin is in that class. You're right. Of course, Allmark's going to run away with it. Now, from that game, the Washington game, last night. I saw this one last night. He's doing it again. Now, the caps don't win it, but Kuznetsov in the shootout does this thing, and I think we've actually got the video. It's really something to watch. The speed, there's a stick twirl along the way he gets over the,

he gets over the blue line, he kind of gives it one of these, it kind of comes in, and he's barely moving. To the point, I almost wonder if at one of these board of governors or these GM meetings, if they look at and say, you know, this is BS. This is not in this spirit of the rule. Here he is here. Let's see. Whatever his first name, Kuznetsov. Gennie.

Yeah, that's right. I'm going with Andre. But watch this. He's going to grab it. This is not going to be fast. Give him the old twirleroo. He looks like a timbet skater there for a second. Slow, slow, slow, slow.

Low blocker. You know what my boy Barry Brested do. He'd come out there with a full steady head of steam and take out the guy's knees. And he maybe scores, maybe he doesn't. But he won't be doing that again because he'll be in a hospital. because he'll be in a hospital bed. Foop, foop, foop. I'm kidding.

Three stick twirls. That's an awful tape job, too. Look at that. Comes in, comes in. Blocker. Worst tape in the league. Wow. And he's done that numerous times this season.

I've got another, I found another one online. I just went this morning to find it. I don't know if it's four, five, six times. He's doing the same thing. And each time he's going blocker's side. Yeah, a little blocker. Which I guess if it's working,

right, remember when Rasmus had that thing going, it was going. So, yeah, I think this is, uh, yeah, this is, I mean, it's decent. Jeez, is that any good. Yeah. So this was, this was against the Leafs. And he did the stick twirl there and a zing. I tweeted it when it happened. The flames were in a shootout against Minnesota.

We referenced that game already. It was the zero zero into the shootout game, Markstrom's only shadow of the year. Freddie Goddrow, I think is like top three active shootout guys. I bet you because Netzov with that percentage would be as well. Active players in terms of success rate shootout. Now, in fairness, it's not as though every guy can do this. This is, it's slow and it's kind of silly, but there is a lot of skill that this takes.

I think, yeah, the key thing is like, is he breaking the rules or does it annoy you? He's not breaking the rules. It annoys you. But if everyone could do it, everyone would. If you could send Milan Lutche, you should do that move and score every time, he'd be out there scoring in the shootout all the time. And this is the only guy that can do this.

Look at the speed here. This is, he's coming in a hot. Why did you have to pick Luchich? What are you picking on Luch for? I'm just saying, you know, it's a skill move. Suggesting that Luchich is clearly a very skilled guy. He goes on the brakes. A nice out and wide.

Look at the Smith. He's like, how for Christ. Look how far he stuck out there now. What is he doing? Okay, great. It's the same move every time. Well, and he makes the goal to make the first move there. That's kind of the thing.

There you go. So that's whatever his first name is because Netssoff. Who did you misname yesterday? I was turning current. Did I? Oh, horrible one. Yeah.

Yeah, I don't know. Magnus Arvidson, you said, instead of Victor for the Kings game. Magnus was like a senator. Oh, I know.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. 12 to 6 there, six to 12 when you heard that one. Yeah, yeah. Well, I'm an old fuck. Your brain's dying on you? You got some CT in there? It's not only that my face did you have in the league.

It's not only that my brain is dying. It's that I have a lot of, like, like my scope is, is wide. I know who Magnus Arvinson is. I want, You know, it's very much in my, yeah, but it's...

I still think I'm at a fairly decent clip for... Yeah. For accuracy on some of that. I just heard Magnus and I'm like, whoa, that's a blast. So why don't you say something? I did. Rather than let me wallow in... You can watch show. I said twice.

Did you? There's three of us and there's a delay with Rett. I don't want to be that dick that halts the train to stop 50 times a show. I try to keep it to 30. All right. I was going to say, hard be it for you to jump in. Now, I believe we have the video.

Now, yesterday, and again, if you missed yesterday's show, Rhett came in and was extremely positive. Just farting out some rainbows. He was unbelievable. You know what? I know a lot's happened this season, but they got seven games left.

Just let's be good the next seven. Let's get into the playoffs. Let's go, boys. Just kind of getting, it's always getting like, you know, tickled on the balls underneath the desk. It was the Vegas game. I knew it. So this is Afterburn earlier this year.

Yeah. So this is earliest year. Last week. Less than a week ago. Yesterday, Sunshine Rainbow's positivity. This was like two games ago on Afterburn. Literally a week ago. I'm to the point where I hate saying it. Like I already said, I don't want to say I don't care.

But I don't care what they do next year. I don't care. I'm bored of it already. Like, if you come back with this horse shit, you're going to take until January to get me to buy you in. And you're going to have to be like 30 and 10. Then maybe I'll go, okay, well, I was wrong on that one. But if this ball of muck shows up in September,

uh-uh. I'll watch the, what's that, the nine minutes, speed up version game yeah j's and 30 or whatever it is like I don't I don't need to sit here and and watch that unfold again you want to bring the coach back well great go ahead

you want to bring the same guys back go ahead you're gonna have a hard time get me to buy in yeah yeah laughing just because I know that's that's the clip that they'll be using on social.

You bring back this horseshit. You're going to have a hard time getting me back. A week later. About two more wins. Yeah. I'm a couple wins. Two wins in a row. I'm back, baby.

It's just seven games. That's all you need, boys. Let's go. Positivity. Now, if I can go pull the curtain back a little bit, that was a Thursday night later game. Rhett that day said, do you need me for afterburner? We'd kind of written them off for any 7 o'clock local starts

because that's nine Sabres time. And by the time the game's over, you're like, geez, it's almost midnight out there for the poor bastard. We won't do it. But I was down south and he said, you know what? Actually, if you could do it, like you're still asking, like if you're free, we could use you on Afterburner. And he said, okay, cool, but I'm pretty high right now.

So maybe that was it. Wasn't that it? He was on companies or something? Yeah, I doubt I can't confirm. I don't know what that is. I need to... It's hammered, I don't know. We need to send him a link.

He says he's... Hang on. Can I copy this? I don't know. I'll try and send it to him here. We'll find out where he's at and when he's getting to town and what he needs.

I noticed that my phone has rang a lot more in the last week. Yeah, from Rutt probably. Yeah, it's weird, right? And now that he needs stuff and he's back in town. You can't get a hold of him. that sort of thing.

And then in the days leading up, I'm going to need a ride. Can you get me? I'm going to need that. I don't have a vehicle when I'm there. What about could you get some? I need some milk. Is it eggs?

Can you get some eggs in the fridge? Kids like eggs. So yeah, that's what we're dealing with. Imagine the shop he has to do to fill that fridge, even if it was just for a couple of weeks, like just to load it up for that herd. Oh, well, at least he'll be spending Canadian dollars on Canadian dollars. Like that's the other thing.

He's been living down there. Canadian in the bank spending U.S. freight the entire time. I mean, everything's cheaper there, but yes. I think it's... But I don't think that's the case anymore. That's what he's been bitching about. He bitches about everything. Everything's more expensive everywhere.

But I think it used to be... What savings? I had to say I bought a dozen eggs for $6. You know, you got to talk to it's people lived on the border. They'll tell you. They can shop both sides. They'll tell you what's cheap. All right.

Ryan. Outdoor dental. Maybe when he's here, we're going to get him to talk to Dr. Jay Patel. Outdoor. Dot Dental is the website. Enough's enough. We've seen all the videos. We've seen him snoring and falling asleep and drooling and dropping his laptop and laying around, fell asleep on the ice fishing, had third degree ice burns or whatever you get from that. Plaint tricks on him in the shop there. Terrible. Terrible. It's because he's snoring. He's snoring all the time. He's not getting enough quality sleep. Then during the course of the day, he feels like a bag of whatever's. Richards. Yeah. And can't stay awake and he's irritable. The poor shoveler, his kids can't put up with him. All he needs to do. Why wouldn't you just go to outdoor dental, visit Dr. Jay, and get one of

these snoring treatments. They have the solea laser that they use for their dental work. That is in place of your, you know, the drill in that. It's also used. I wonder how they're, I wonder how got to like it's smart right it's like what else so not just we've got this laser yeah just the forward thinking what else can we do with this laser it's the technology what else can we do with it soft palate treatment tightens up the back of uh of your neck in the soft palate cure snoring if you have sleep apnea if you want to be if you just i would get us going have an assessment and let them take a look and see if you are indeed a candidate and we're led to believe that most people are the tension in the soft palate it reduces your snoring non-surgical pain

Pain free two appointments, 15 minutes each, and truly, your quality of life can be drastically improved. So you're telling me that for half an hour and no pain, I can solve this problem that not only is my problem, but my wife's problem. Wife, co-workers, everybody. She's got a birthday come out. Maybe that's a good thing. Outdoor.dental is the website. And in the addition to that, obviously all the dentistry needs, all of that. I've been on their social media and they've been showing some of the

because they have the 3D printers in that making crowns and all that sort of thing the way that you chances are if the way you know dentistry to be is archaic and out of date outdoor dental is the way to do it visit them online outdoor dot dental level up let's go

level up indeed level up indeed more drills and hammers and that one guy was doing shoe repair you were visiting wasn't he that's right oh yeah yeah yeah you got the when they're using a hammer and plates and drills and stuff. Come on now, you deserve better. Look at this. We got out of your visitor here.

So there he is. It's the Rettster. We were just saying how bad your sleep's been. When you're in town, we're going to hook you up with Dr. Jay. Get you in there, get your snoring, figure it out. I'm looking forward to getting back. Are you? Well, there's been a lot of complaining at my house,

so apparently I need all the help I can get. So you're leaving them behind. And you're going to have a nice. quiet time for a few weeks, is that right? No. Oh, okay. They're here. So the complainers are still there with you.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The dead weight is accompanying me. So, that's heavy. So where are you flying out of? Because we got, you mentioned it briefly yesterday, and you were talking about how long the drive was,

which led me to believe, well, he must not be flying out of. There can't be a Buffalo. Is it Hamilton? Is it Toronto? are you doing? We're in Hamilton, the home of Big Earn, aka Brian McGratton. I should have looked them up.

Got an escort. Yeah. Hamilton's easy. Toronto you can get out of. It's not that much further, but you got to you always worry about the traffic going all the way to Toronto. Pearson's a nightmare too. I was saying to Ryan, I've flown into Hamilton. It is a delight.

It's a tiny little airport. You walk in the door and you walk out the other door. You're gone. It's awesome. it's a hidden gem and I'd like to keep it that way. Yeah, well, it's good. We're not talking about it. Good, we're not talking about it. So everyone is, everyone's coming with.

The boys are done all of their sports and everything. So you're, everything's good to go. What are they going to, what are they going to? Yeah, they're excited. I don't, they're pumped. The littlest guy is absolutely jacked up. I don't know what he expects is going to happen. Like, he's acting like we're going to Disney.

And I'm like, dude, I don't know what you're going to get up to, but sure. He's got old pals, no? You're going to see your friends. Yeah, he's got no. He's a mean bastard. He's got no friends. No friends. Yeah, yeah.

But they'll be back their old, they'll have their own bedroom again, all their old stuff. The lake, you can't go skating on the lake, I don't imagine anymore. But, you know, be back at home. I think the lake is done. I don't know what it's like there for snow. maybe they could go to toboggin. I don't know about that either. Getting a little smart.

No, there, they're jacked. They got back in January for a couple days, but apparently not long enough. I'm sure they'll be busy. And your legal or criminal affairs, your comfy crossing the border is all right? Yeah, I dealt with all of my legal affairs. I shouldn't have to worry about being arrested.

You just never know. Some of the life decisions a guy makes. Maybe it'll come. up, but my extradition has been canceled. That's a big word. Yeah, whatever it is.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, so you haven't crossed the border yet? Or are you over? Oh, yeah. No, I'm across. You parked at Hammer? I'm sitting in the airport. I'm sitting in the Hammers Airport.

Yeah. Yeah. They didn't find those bags of Shne taped up under your fender wells. You got through all right? No, we did a good job there. we get a real professional that installs it. Yeah.

It was good. Mike Erman Trout. Hide it right in the plane. That's right. He's a good guy to know. You know, we were talking about it, maybe I'll play this for you. Alex, we just played it, but you know what? Why wouldn't, we can play it again.

It's a clip that we dug up not that long ago. But we're, like a lot of people, we're really inspired by your positivity on the show yesterday, how excited you are and ready for the, it's seven games. Just put everything else. in the back, in the back, uh, toss it. Just get rid of it. Burn the tape. Put in the background, move on, seven games.

Play, like you've been playing. Get into the playoffs. And I think there's a lot of people who are really thankful and really appreciative of that spirit because they're now feeling it. It's a clean slate, Dean. Yeah. But it did feel a little, yeah, go ahead. It just felt a little strange because it, it feels like that's a new, that's a relatively new take for you.

It's the new red. well we moaned and complained all year that they didn't play well enough and it's true they shouldn't be in this position but i'll be damned if this is in a better position then sitting here talking about we should lose five more so that we can drop and get a better draft pick this is much preferable yeah so let's so i found this clip just to see how long this ride of positivity has been going this is from after burner last thursday last thursday last thursday a week ago following the three two loss to Vegas. I'm to the point where I hate saying it. Like I already said, I don't want to say I don't care, but I don't care what they do next year. I don't care. I'm bored of it already.

Like, if you come back with this horse shit, you're going to take until January to get me to buy in. And you're going to have to be like, 30 and 10 then maybe I'll go okay well I was wrong on that one but if this ball of muck shows up in September

I'll watch what's that the nine minutes speed up version game the J's and 30 or whatever it is I don't I don't need to sit here and watch that unfold again do you want to bring the coach back

well, great, go ahead. You want to bring the same guys back? Go ahead. You're going to have a hard time getting me to buy in. You're going to have a hard time. That is my favorite part. Thanks, Alex. It's going to be real tough.

You are going to have a hard time getting me back on board. As you wearing the same outfit, too, the red shirt, gray hat, the fuck's happening here. Is this your Thursday outfit? Jesus. No, no, those are my PJs. That's my PJ shirt. It is a different hat, but they're both gray. So I'll say this, congratulations to the flames.

Yeah. They've done a hell of a job in getting you back in such a short amount of time. More importantly, the Winnipeg Jets you're doing, it's a Jets occurrence. It really is. As much as anything. So let's celebrate all things Winnipeg as well while we're at it. Man. and it's just the anguish and the puckering and the the gray storm clouds over those guys

when they walk into the rink when they're driving to the rink when they're at practice. Like you can see it with the jets. It's not like, hey, it's a new day. Let's go get him. It's, oh my God, we can't blow this. And you said yesterday, it's not like where the flames are coming from, not even in the hunted hunter thing. the Jets were at the top of their division. Yes, we're talking home ice in the west, right?

The flames haven't, it's not like the flames were there and then have slid. This, not that it's great either way, but they have underperformed and now you feel like maybe they're coming back. You had it. Eler's his third line. Shifley has been awful. Connor's not scoring. Wheeler, it's been a very rough end of that contract. We knew it was going to be that way when he signed it in the age.

but it's the core guys that they're getting called to the carpet from bonus and the shines come off. He was absolutely a Jack Adams guy if he asked people in January because they were a fucking first in the division. I thought when Eilers came back, they were going to. Yes. That was going to be their big ad at the deadline if you want to call it that. Even when they went and added what, Nieder Rider at the. Needle. At the deadlines.

Yeah, that's a good fit. That's all right. Has not worked. It's not worked. It's not worked. I know Frank was talking about it on Daily Faceoff today. To your point, the mood, not ideal in Winnipe. Yeah, yeah, not ideal.

Oh, and one follow-up on that. Were you high as a kite for that show? I'm trying to remember. That was a Thursday. It was a late game where you hammered. Like, the mood was different. I don't do, I don't work under the influence. Oh, okay.

I bet. Drugs or alcohol. Maybe just a sugar high. I don't know. High in life. I don't know why you guys are, Why are you got to beat up? I feel like you're maybe taking a shot at me here.

I'm just because I want the team to do well and I'm the only person that can find some positivity in the room. Like, what's you guys issue? No, it's infectious. We're all on board. I'm just glad that we're all on the same page. No, and to be fair, I'm watching the fan base do this. It feels like there's been four losses in the last month

where people are like, fuck it, I'm done with these guys. I'm done, I'm done, I'm done. And the same people are like, one more and they're only a point out. Like, this has been the experience this year. It's been an infuriating season to be a fan of this team. Just watching people around town. It's like people are trying to like go cold turkey off this team. They can't quit them.

They get their hopes built up. And then they get crushed again and try to quit. It's wild. Just imagine how I can flip-flop back on Monday if they lose. I was just saying, If they shit the bed in Vancouver, that Monday show, we've done six, seven times in the last month. Yes, it'll be great. Just repeat.

Do you know what the chick trying kombucha memes? Yes, yes. It's this girl, she takes a sip and she's kind of like, do I like it? No. Well, maybe. No, I don't like it. Well, she kind of goes, that's okay. Toronto, let's just look at the month.

Toronto 2-1 win at home over the flames, a home loss. They didn't generate shit. the third period down one with what felt like a monster game on a homestand. Saturday night at the dome, Minnesota, 3-0-0 wild. Awful. This is brutal. Just brutal. On the road.

And the wild were beat up still. Then you go on the road, tight turn. Home game, road in Dallas for Monday, 5-4 to Foley, final seconds of regulation scores. But they blow two, two-goal leads in that game. Two-nothing and five, three, four-two. So it's like you're like, yes, they got the win. But like, holy fuck, could we wrap one of these things up

and not have to bite your nails off and go to O.T.? Holy. But it's like, you know what? That's a pretty good team right there. It's a pretty good team. And yeah, all right. Awesome. The next night, you mentioned it.

Horrible. Minnesota, you get the break in overtime. Oh, they play whatever the hell it was offside. Shootout. Flames win. Wow. That's fast to back. Holy cow, two good teams.

Best game of the year for Markstrom. Only shoutout of the year. and Tofoli again finds five hole and gust of sin in the shootout. And that's what you guys are doing. They're not fucking dead.

They're not fucking dead. And Rhett's point was I remember. So you've got one against Dallas. So you've got two in a row. Then you got Anaheim, Ottawa, and Arizona. You make it five in a row. Yeah, there's your five. Now we're talking.

Yeah, five in a row and we're back in. Friday at home to Anaheim, three one loss to the dots. Shift the bed. I'm out. One nothing early. Anaheim ties it seemingly the shift later. And then it was like all the energy got sucked out of that building.

Fast forward to Sunday. Ottawa. You got to be careful with this Ottawa team. That's the game you got to worry about. 5-1 win. Fairly a routine. That's what you expect. It's a thorough victory.

Well, you've won three out of four. That Anaheim just still that one's things. Anyway, move on. Arizona. You can still, you get a win against Arizona here. Loss an OT to the Arizona Coyotes. Can't take care of Arizona? It's not happening.

Going into Vegas? If you can't beat Arizona and Anaheim, you got... Yeah, there's your five-game winning streak. You fucked it up. You got one point against Arizona, and you somehow lost to a shitty ducks team that's so bad, they're probably going to get badard. So now you lost at the ducks,

and you got only a point against the coyotes. Now are you going into Vegas? You're going to get rolled up. You've never won in Vegas. Ever. Flames win, 7-2. Look at it. Uh-huh. Come home against Dallas.

Hey, we've beaten, had a great run against Dallas. Six-five loss in overtime. Two goals that tied the game when the wave was going. Sit the fuck down section two-twiles. Quick little California trip. Yeah. L.A. They're pretty good, we think.

We think they're pretty good. But hang with Dallas, just beat Vegas, feeling good. That's a copply kid. I don't know what they're doing. I think. 8-2 loss Mother I'm out

Long gone Forget it Can't hang Anaheim you can't lose 5-1 win Finally they're beating the bad teams now Too late Blowing it

Vegas You just beat Vegas Yeah right Just beat Vegas Three two loss Son of a bitch And then you beat the sharks And then you beat the king

So that's You understand If fans have been, I think they can do it to, there's no chance they can do this. I'm done with these guys. They might still make it. I'm done with these guys. Now there's kind of a chance. I'm done with these guys.

Combucha meme. It is. Yeah. So, like, we, we, we play the clip, but it's, red isn't on an island, some weirdo here. That is the fan base. How many times people throw in their hands up and said, screw it. These guys aren't doing it this year, only to be sucked back in a week

later. And even going through that list of games, you just want to bang your head against, well, it's against my windshield because I'm in my vehicle. But it's like, all you had to do is beat Anaheim once more or Phoenix. You're in a playoff spot if you have those three points. Now, yeah. And you're in control of, yeah. Like there's just been so many circumstances where it's like, oh, for Christ'sakes.

If you can't do this, then you don't deserve to be there. But thank you know, the great gratitude has to go out to the Jets and their fan base and how badly they're shit in their pants. And it is wonderful to see because nobody wants to go to Manitoba. And nobody wants to play playoff hockey in Manitoba. They want to come to Alberta. So it's good. It's all good. The scary part is that the pattern would be since everyone's back in.

And Vancouver is a dangerous team right now, not to suggest that any of these teams, teams aren't, but under Talket, it's, it's been in a much improved defensive environment. They've got Demko back now. So negative. Because Menko has scored a ton. This guy's so negative. If this is sticking to the script, it ain't winning three in a row because they haven't done that since December.

Oh, Ryan. So please break the script. You know what that, you know what that prick talk is telling his team tomorrow? Oh, yeah. And their season. These guys a kick. Yeah, you get. Yeah, let's give these guys a kick in the nerds here.

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So I got, before we get into the Pinderport, I got a fucking bone to pick here with the Calgary Board of Education. Potentially Major League Baseball. When have we ever had spring break at the same time as opening day? Not since I've been a dad. Opening days when my kids have a nanny in school and I can go get bombed at 11 a.m. With my buddies. Everyone's out of town with their kids because it's spring break.

I'd go drink by myself at a bar. The hell's happening here? Can we get our spring break figured out and then opening day? We can't have the Venn diagram overlapping here. Separate. Wait, wait, wait. Can I argue that point? Because if you were on the ball,

you'd have been at a stadium somewhere with your boys. I don't have the 30 million career earnings. It's a good idea. But no, that's normally the spring break. is one thing, and the next week, or two weeks later even, is Major League Baseball opening day. And I feel like I've let people down. Because I usually put on quite a show today. And I got nothing.

On the other hand, on the other hand, I'm with you, these damn teachers, screw it over again. I think I had a photo of you from last opening day where you were asleep on a bar top. No, it's banging my head. It was good. Either way. No, that was two years ago. And that was at like midnight. That was 12 hours into the shift.

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All right, boys, we start with a very happy birthday. 30 years old Christmas. Chris Sutter, the most popular man of the Scotia Bank. Saddle Dome. Dancer extraordinaire. By Chris. Nobody gets to see a red rising like Chris Sutter. 30 years young fan favorite.

And he believed, Rhett. He didn't, it's been a lot of wavering in this fan base. People on this podcast included, the one guy that has not wavered, this guy's always believed. They're going to get it done. Chris Sutter, happy birthday. And whenever we talk to Daryl, he's always got, he's got any ideas you need. Chris has got them all. Chris is there to help.

Here's what you need for the power play. Here's what you got to do. The line combos. He's probably got the Blue Jays opening day lineup figured out. I hear he is a big Jays. I'm guessing he's okay with Manoa. I'm not sure, but he'd have. Well, Varsho hitting fourth cleanup.

That's interesting today. Yeah. Talk to Chris. Talk to Chris. He'll have it. That's a left-handed bats all of a sudden. Okay, so off day yesterday for the flames. Didn't even practice today.

They're on the ice, right about meow. And really not until a lot of talked about because it was a game day two days ago. Nothing happened yesterday. But the farm team was in action. the cavalry ranglers continue, the pile up deliess fellow. Five three over the Silver Knights. That's Vegas's farm team, of course. If you need to know, Rhett, goals number 33 and 34 for Matthew Phillips,

who ranks first in American League goal scoring. He done gone and done it again. 34 tucks on the season, Dino. And 20 minutes in the NFL. I'm just, it's, it's hard. Calgary kid? Bubba played in the, I mean, come on, I just, but he loves this guy.

I'm rooting for him, but it doesn't, it doesn't always translate. No, it's all seen it before. It's not a slam dunk. You know, it could be a Darren Haydard type, but he could also be an Andrew Mentioned bandit type. We don't know if you give him two games of limited minutes and that's it. We certainly don't know. He is a free agent at the end of the year.

but goodness, the lot eyes on the Wranglers all of a sudden. And more on our website, Flamesnation.ca, you can read a recap of last night's victory over the silver nights. Also, if you need to peek at the standings, fellows, don't look. Look up. Way up. And I'll call Rusty. Top of the division, top of the league. Look at that.

And a tidy, tidy mark. 46, 15, and 3. Look at the gold differential red. Jesus. You're talking like plus 80 almost on the goals. This is a good hockey club. And I don't know a ton about Mitch Love. Everywhere he's gone, they win.

Blades, a couple years with the Wranglers now. And before that, the Stockton Heat. This isn't something we're used to in this market. The HL team not just being competitive and having some prospects, but being very good. This is really, in the last 25 years, probably since 2004. when you're like, oh yeah, they're actually really good. Now, it also helps any of the best goal in the league too.

And you know what? They've been without Pellche for six, eight weeks, right? Yeah. And Gilbert's been missing a bunch. Kudos to the Wranglers. One more game, right? In the regular season, I think that's it. 66?

Is that right? Seven? 68. I think they had two against the Silver Nights to wrap up the season, if I was not mistaken. Looking good, fellas. And fellas. Hey. Doesn't that say games remaining seven?

at GR, unless it stands for... Must be the last two home games. I know it was something against... Ground rabbits? What does GR stand for? Okay. Either way. That's a look for the Wranglers.

Did you see? I don't give a fuck. Papa Kachuk firing up his son yesterday. Keith Kachuk, because of course you go to the center of the hockey universe, you know, all of a sudden anything you say or do, it's the amplifier, the magnifying glass. It's the most of the most of the... important quote you've ever had. Keith basically errating the Florida Panthers. It was a long rant, I believe it was on TSN radio and talked about how it's a team that just expects things

are going to happen for them. They don't work that hard. Paraphrasing, and here's the quote, they're a soft team and they're getting everything they deserve right now. This is ahead of their game with the Leafs in Toronto. Keith ate hold him back. And I don't know that he's alone feeling that way. As Paul Maurice, let's go to a live look on the bench, Toronto. Toronto. was down 1-0-0. They tied it at 1. Another goal gets called back. So it's still 1-1, not 2-1.

Now, Paul, you've just been gifted a free goal. How you feel it? Talk to the fellas. Son of a gun. We got a couple more minutes here, boys. Let's really try our very best. We just got a big break. Let's skate harder, boys.

Let's go. I'm proud of you. Hoof. I like the glasses. Are you seeing this rat? Yeah. He's red-faced there. Well, he had to take his glasses off for effect there

to really, really hammer that home. I think you're saying something about playing by the beaches. The beaches is a neighborhood in Toronto. You're playing like you're on the beaches. Something like that. It's, ooh. I don't, like, Paul Maurice is generally considered rather level-headed and you can get a spicy quote here or there,

but that's as animated as I can recall ever he's seeing him on the bed. Look his face. He takes the glasses off. Oh. Looks like Nick Ritchie at the end of a two-minute shift. Geez, the fans behind him. We're just loving it too. Look at Lomburg.

The Lomburgie is getting in your... They're all getting it. Yeah, watch Lomburg here. He's right in there too. Hi, yeah, hey, coach. Stahl's just like, there. Collecting former...

Yeah, that's right, coach. You tell him, coach. Didn't work right away, Rhett. It was... Toronto did have a lead late. And that was early on in the contest. like first half of the game. But a power play late.

Mark Giordano, a penalty to haul down a guy looking at an empty net to tie the game. Good penalty to take. Rhett probably would trade him for it, but either way, it was the Panthers power play in the last three minutes of the game. Zink, tipped in front, former Calgary Hitman killer

and Cootney Ice, Sam Reinhardt tipping in that Eckblad point shot. Tie game off to overtime. We go. Now, Florida, the context, guys. Outside looking in, lost four in a row, trying to reel in the penguins who've lost six of eight. Fellas staring at zero points. Now they've tied it.

We get to overtime. So Leif's turnover in the ozone and back the other way. It's a two-on-one. Barkov down the left. Fink shot drive wide. What a dish and it's Brandon Montour! The former duck. Went in overtime.

Former Sabre. Well, that too. Yeah. He's moved around a bit. Hang on to those guys. Great lacrosse player. Great lacrosse. And a phenomenal human, I'm told.

Like heart and solar. It's all right. People love Montour. Anyway, that's a big winner. 63 points. Brandemontour? Who's wearing his jersey? What the hell's good?

He's a good player? I look this one, 8th and D scoring having a hell of a year. Hell of a year. Like, we know he's a good D-Man. I didn't think it was like, oh, he's an offensive D-Man, look for about a point of game.

What? Yeah. Holy. What a season. Two points for the Pantaros red. They're not, they're not fucking dead. As the Penguins can tell. to skid and a big one tonight for both playoff races, Nashville in Pittsburgh.

Flames and Jets paying attention in the West. Pantaro's paying attention in the East. Game of the night potentially. There's a lot of them. Yeah. So there's tonight's games. No jets in action, if I'm correct. Correct.

You've got clearly massive former flame battle, Goodrow and Good Branson against Forbort there, the top one. That's Columbus, Boston. Rossi could still wrap up the President's trophy. They're going to have a few chances. Half away. And, yeah, I guess all lies will be at the PPG paints arena. All right.

Big slate red. So there you go. We talked about a couple days ago. Morale in Winnipeg, no Bueno. This was post-game after their 3-0 lost to the sharks. We didn't have the video. It didn't work. So we're going to try it again.

It probably won't work. But here's Rick Bonas after the game with some less than, colorful and positive vibes about his core players. Inconsistencies of some of our players is hurting us. You know, some of these guys think they're giving us everything in their tank. They're dreaming. I bet you don't do some lip reading with him on the bench. Look at his face.

How many hours of sleep is that guy getting a night, Rhett? You had first place in his division two months ago. He's dealing with it differently than Paul Maurice, but he's feeling the same emotion. Paul resigned. But Paul wasn't in first place last year. Jeez. Vibes, boys. No good in Winnipeg.

And they still control their fate. They're still better than a coin toss. It's just the morale. Couldn't be more night and day between what Nashville's feeling, what the flames are feeling. And then, oh, yeah, the team that's actually in the playoff spot, just hating their lives.

Puckered. Huckered. All right. All right. Do you say snare drum? Oh, like, yeah, like a freaking golf ball. Like your calves. Right tight.

Yeah. Hammies. Philip Heedle gets a new deal with the New York Rangers yesterday. He's been the centerpiece of that kid line that's been really good this year. And it's awfully nice when you're going to have LaFranier and Capocco and him as a third line because it means you've got lots of players above them in the lineup. But they've been great this year. Maybe not the eye-popping numbers you expect from a number two and number one overall.

But it's been a big part of the team success. Four years, 4.4.43 million. on pace to score 25 goals this year and he's just 23 years old, big body. Rangers, a pretty good shape. I like that guy. Again, I don't watch religiously, but whenever I'm watching either, if a game's on at the highlight pack, that guy's in it all the time. You're right, that line's been real good for them.

And it felt like Kako was maybe a wasted pick there for a while. And look, he might not be like ever flirting with, you know, statistical goal scoring and points things. but it's not like he's an unhelpful player. It's just, you know, you get picked second. It's, oh, but Bobby Ryan is pick second. He won an Art Ross. Like, that's the kind of expectation it comes with things, right?

Did Bobby Ryan win him at Rott Ross? I think you got one. Anahom. Bobby? Am I crazy? Yep. Alex said no. Was it Perry that got it?

One of them got an Art Ross. It was Perry. Either way. High expectations. Am I drinking already? Because it's opening day in Major League Baseball. You know what? You're riffing.

You're freelance and it's hard sometimes. I should be. I should be. The goddamn board of education. Briggins teachers. There it is. 15 games. Can't be trusted.

All 31 teams read in the league playing. Something like that. The Canada's Lone Squad, the Blue Jays will start in St. Louis. Bush State, apparently legendary venue. Never been. No. Retro, you been? St. Lou?

Ballpark? No, never been. Supposed to be good. It's a baseball there. The NFL. FL ripped away. They did not have NBA. They loved their blues when Brett Hulls singing at parades,

but that is a baseball town. And Blue Jays opening day starter, Alec Manoa, should be fun. Baseball's back feels early. Still snow drifts in my backyard. Yeah. Does kind of feel early. All right.

Let's have some fun. Did you get into a draft or anything? You're doing anything? I don't do fantasy baseball. I feel like it's much too consuming because you got started a rotation guy every five days and set in lineups. I'll tell you what, though. You want to know about baseball?

You try in a fantasy league. That'll eat your life. Right, you used to do one with a buddy. Didn't you and, like, Brian Campbell used to get split a team? I've did fantasy baseball for three years or so right when I first retired. I was on vacation in Hawaii getting up at three in the morning to check the waiver wires. It's too much. It's awesome.

It's too much. But again, you knew a fuck ton about baseball those three years, I bet. Oh, I was. dialed in, absolutely. You're like, oh, this, this, Palo Alcarus. Yeah. They're going to call them up in June. I've been watching them on the wire.

Went three for three at AAA yesterday. Oh, wow, really, Rhett, you're a big baseball guy. Here are your AL East odds. Boom's the big Yankees fan. Rett's a turncoat. He's cheered for the socks, Yankees, and Blue Jays in playoff games. That's an impressive feat. 60% of the ALE East.

Can't confirm the raise. Not sure about the Orioles, but we know for three playoff games. He's dressed. up at home silks in the division. There's the look. Yankees slight favorites over Toronto, both of them better than even money. Rays always seem to fall in this slot of like,

yeah, third best, fourth best, and they're always first or second in the goddamn division. They're the geniuses with no budget and a shitty stadium and no fans that always are competitive. Red Sox, it's been a tough slog. Zander gone. Poor Wolverine. It's going to be a long year for that cat.

I saw they renovated their club. Clubhouse, though, at Fenway, looks unbelievable. That's worth at least one win. I'm going to watch. I'm going to watch the Jay's in New York on the 22nd of April if you guys want to do. Oh, and it's not too hot in April in New York? That's going to be great, Red. Oh, it's going to be awesome.

Because you go like July, August. It's like, oh, boy, New York. That's not the best time to go. Humidity. Stinky. Sticky. Just pits and ass sweat. You'd hate it, boom.

New York in the summer. It's no good. So that's your AL East Odds. And World Series, we'll zoom out a bit. Houston favored slightly over the LA Dodgers. That feels like a perennial thing now, doesn't it? Just Dodgers Astros at the top. Met's getting some love and why not all the dough they've spent under Cohen the last few years,

even without their closer, Tommy Trumpet or whoever's name is there. That's still up there. Yankees coming in slightly ahead of the Blue Jays with the Padres and Braves there. all sort of nine to 10 to 1. And look at that. Atlanta Braves, 10 to 1. Our boy Mike Soroka update on him. Had a bit of a hammy issue in camp.

It's going to start at AAA. They're building them up. So we'll keep an eye on him and we'll let you know when he's up on the Major League roster. Come on, Mike. Big things for our boy, the Calgary kid this year. But two years without baseball. No one's persevered and stuck with it more than that guy. If it's about karma and deserving things, he's having a monster year.

That's the one thing I want to do is if we, if he gets the call and we know he's going. Let's go to Wrigley and watch a play. Or wherever they are. Colorado, San Diego, NL. venues, let's go. Atlanta's a little far to go. Atlanta's a little far.

That's why direct flights all the ones I mentioned. Yeah, that's true. So, Mike, we're maybe going to be there. It's about you. Kind of a little bit about us, but mostly about. It's a little about you. You might be there. Mostly about convenience.

It's probably about us. If you know, tickets, if you can find some tickets for us, that'd help. And I don't know if Rhett's pulling the wool over our eyes. Last piece here for the, last piece here for the. the Pinned report. Yeah. Because he said he's traveling today, but evidence is mounting.

He's already in Calgary. Is that right? Because I was doing a little grocery shopping the other day. And look what I saw. And if this isn't a sign that Rett's already here, I don't know what is. So there's the tray where you pull out. Like, what the fuck are you doing, Red?

No one else does that. That's a classic Rett move. I don't want the whole one. I just want to bite. Bill me for 40 cents. If you need to, I'm only having a bite. Don't need the whole thing.

I don't love sweets. See, I know you go fishing through the bulk, you know, bulk jubies and his hands, chocolate covered raisins and stuff like that. That's another level. That's a huge foul and that's a sign that Rhett's here already. Confirm or deny. I'm going to have a funny story for you tomorrow because I'm getting text messages from the shoveler about something that's happening in the airport. Okay. Is it time to go? Oh, that's good, man. That's good. Hey, Village Honda presents the Pinder Report. Turn your vehicle into cash today during the million dollar buy an event.

They'll buy yours, even if you don't buy theirs. Sellers receive a tropical cruise for two. Are you hearing this, people? Tropical to tape to cruise. Exclusively at Village Honda, your dealership for life. They're not just handing out a lay and putting on Hawaiian music and drive around the parking lot. No, I don't think that's what it is. No, I don't think that's what it is.

Isn't this? It's the Bow River, isn't it? We're in the car washing, and you're just... Playing ukulele music. This isn't a tropical cruise. Isn't that big earn and hip waiters over there? Well, what do we? So can you give us a hint about what's going on?

We got security issues? Everyone's paperwork okay? Is it a kid related? Remember when we went up north to one of those forts? Oh, no. Did you book to the wrong city? I don't think it's the wrong city, but it's something to do with the booking issue. There's booking issues.

Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Well, so if one of the kids has to sleep in the airport for a day and catch tomorrow's flight, that's not a big deal. Here's 30 bucks and we'll see you tomorrow. It might not be that we have too few bookings. We may have too many books. You've done this before. An extra seat next to you is perfect.

This is your classic rent. You love extra seats. Legroom. Is your rental car, you're in Mason, your rental cars in Phoenix, or is it one of those sorts of things? Yeah, no, it's not one of those. Might have a whole, might have an extra row, a whole. extra row of bookets. Oh, my God.

How do these athletes spend all their money? They make millions and he's bankrupted at 50. What the hell are they? Oh, I accidentally bought half a plane. I only needed one seat. Wait a minute. You booked everybody's tickets? I booked everybody's tickets.

That's good stuff. Can you scalp them? Can you pawn them off? Does anyone in Hamilton want to come to Cal? I don't know. Who's buying, who's selling tickets? Y, Y, C. Leave them today.

Buy a hot dog. Get a ticket. Come on. Last couple of things I want to get in here. We'll do bet we betts of the day. We'll let you go and address that situation. St. Eugene Golf Resort and Casino. I know the Wolverine's been in contact with Michael out there.

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So you're, you're infuriated and you hate the sport, but then one good shot, you're like, man, I love this. Like, I could do this every day. Yeah. It's like watching the flames. It's like a lot of that. Yeah. Yeah.

I hate these guys. They fucking suck. Oh my gosh, they're so close. They're going to do it. And I want to talk to you about the Grey Eagle Resort and Casino. We, you know, we've partnered up. They are partners of ours. We have got the playoff draft coming up there.

More details on the people that ask us. So what's up? What's up? I promise. Details coming right quick. But at the event center, and I said yesterday, they have a whole list of events that are coming. I can't even go through them for you right now because we'd be here. And we're going to have some tickets to give away, which is the next thing.

On the 25th of April, Whitney Cummings, great stand-up comedian. We're going to have tickets for that. Hotel California, the Eagles tribute band, April 27th. Tickets to that into the month of May. Theory of a dead man. Wow. Rockers. You know who's going to love that Hotel California is our boy Gibby from Greenrock. Green Drop Gibby.

He fucking love them. He does. So we'll have tickets for all of those coming up. REO Speedwagon as we talk to you. Walk of the Earth Canadian Super Group. It's just, go to the website. Not stop, baby. Honest.

Go to the website. Great Eagle Resort and Casino. You've got the stage bar. We do that in, you know, we do that part. And then we do the event center. It's something for everyone. That's what I'm so impressed with. It's not like, oh, they do this one thing well.

They do everything. Yeah. It's fights. It's comedy. All the genres of music, love it. So be hanging out on Barnburner for your chance to win tickets, starting with Whitney Cummings, April 25th. We'll have a pair of tickets to that show to give away very, very soon.

All tickets available at ticketmaster.ca, by the way. You mention all of the different varying events. One spot to find those tickets, ticketmaster.ca. We'll do our Betway bets. We'll let you go and spread out on those extra seats, get on that flight in Hamilton. You're going horizontal. You're going to sleep the whole way, aren't?

Oh, yeah, so good. He's not there. He's frozen. He's frozen. It's all right. It's a good luck, though, at least. Probably just took off. Betway bets of the day, and when we'll call it a day.

Sure. How many games tonight, 11 games? It's a big slate. We showed it. It's a lot. All eyes on Pittsburgh, Nashville. It's a big one. 24 teams in action as we look at the betway bets of the day.

One of them, the L.A. Kings taking on the Edmonton Oilers. These are two of the hottest teams in the entire NHL and all of the hockey. Yeah, and you know what the kings are? Surly. Fucking wagon. They are surly. They should be. After what happened here the other night,

people like, oh, maybe the Kings aren't so good. Look what they did. They're like, well, you just wait. Buster, we're going to show you. And it could be a playoff preview as these two have been occupying

the two three seeds in the Pacific for quite some time now. It feels like they're kind of on a collision course as long as Vegas can wrap up top spot. The Oilers have been good too. But for the Kings to be, what was it, 11, 10, 12.

10.1.2 heading into Calgary. I'm getting plus money like that for the Kings. I'm going to give it a shot. Moneyline Kings win in Edmont. and plus 130. And then the Rangers at the Devils, the Devils were... Another collision course.

They were wagons at home there for October, November, into December. It slid a little bit. This is kind of either way. But again, a good team, not a lot of travel there, plus money. I'm going to take the Rangers money line

plus 110 at the Devils. I'm telling you, those are two potential playoff series. This is tone setting and message sending. And okay, we might see you for two weeks. Here's what we're about. True. Love those games.

Okay, I'm jumping on Boston at Columbus. Bruin's a little weird. Did they lay up against Nashville? Are they getting a little, cocky, getting their feet up? They're on pace to be the best team of all time. Why, I say they get back on track tonight against a Columbus team that has been, A, not good,

B, beaten up, and C sold at the deadline. So there's a lot of arrows pointing to Boston, huge favorites. Pasternak's cooled a little, but starting to turn the corner. Two plus goals, plus 400. big game hunting. And Tyler Batusies fit in there. It's a grimy, greasy bugger.

He fits right in. All those guys they brought in. Orlov, Hathaway, and Bertuzi, look like they were born to wear that sweater. Just Bruns. Just Bruns. And it's like that team got nastier, more physical, and more skilled at the deadline.

And they were already on pace to be the best team ever. So I say they hand the blue jackets of spanking tonight and pass as a big part of it. Those are my. that way, bats the day. There you have it. There you have it.

Well, safe travels to our buddy Rhett. He'll be on the show. He'll be, it's going to be an interesting day tomorrow. He's never been to the studio. We've never, the last time we did a show in the same room with one another was on the old show. St. Patrick's Day. March 17th of 2020, something, whatever was. Wasted that day.

Yeah, he did. He got buckled right up. He was a bomb by noon, like a mess. We were asked almost to leave a place. It was cool. Quite impressive. There he is. Because St. Patrick's Day, some of the places are like, everyone's in green.

We're doing the thing today. And other places are just people having lunch and they're on work break. We were doing the green thing in the lunch place for work people. And it was like, oh, there's another level over here. These guys are playing Mario World 8 level four. Everyone else is just having lunch on their, like, he's been drinking for four hours, five hours. I think he was where. That is his Thursday.

Oh, those were my jammies. I'm not sure. Same gear. It looks like very stoic there. So yeah, Warner are going to be in studio, we believe, tomorrow. Going to be a fun show. Good to be back. Baseball's back today.

Baseball's back. Another off day for the flames, but hey, predators, penguins tonight. And what are the jets got tomorrow? I guess they'll take a look here. They played Detroit, I believe. That's right. Detroit on a back-to-back because they're playing someone tonight. They got Carolina tonight.

Yeah. And it's the first of five in a row, if I'm correct, for the jets at home. and the flames one of those five teams on the homestand. It's, it's Puckerville, but they are at home for a bit, which I don't know if it will tell you in five games, whether that's a good thing or not. There you go. Subscribe to the channel.

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Something special happens next week. We're going to do something for that too, announced on Monday. Yes, sir. Lots coming. Barnburner. That's it for today. What would, RJ, what would Rh say to end the show? Boy, there's suck.

That is what he would suck. See you, buddies. Thank you.