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Episode Date: January 18, 2023

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It is probably a good thing that we don't sell the pre-show. I think that you're completely wrong. I am worried about maybe some of the legal liability of the pre-show, but I think it would be an absolute hit and a goldmine of a advertising campaign for the right client. Yeah, today we would have lost one client, probably. It would have cost us a client today as opposed to maybe getting us another one. I can't be supporting these idiots.

This is ridiculous. But we learn a lot in the pre-show as we get ready. for the Wednesday edition, the Game Day edition of Barnbur here on the YouTube's and on your podcast, where if you get them on your Spotify, your Googles or your apples or whatever you're doing, get your helmet on Game Day, Avalanche in town. Lots to get to today. Retro, how are we feeling? You're another day closer to the Bills and Bengals. Are all the buttholes puckered out there in Buffalo? We're happy. It looks like the Bengals line is a little beat up, so that's helpful.

We're a lot. Or anxious. It doesn't look like, it doesn't look like the best of weather. You would think that would, through, I think. That should play into the bill's hands in a big picture sense of how you'd want to build a team in Buffalo. But I actually feel like with this Bill's team, it might not, because they haven't been great at running the ball and they kind of want to air it out of it, right?

So if the weather's not ideal, you'd think advantage Buffalo, maybe not since he's here. Cincinnati's not Bermuda exactly, but for sure. No, no, but I mean, they can run the ball better than the bills, right? You'd agree with that? Well, yeah. So that's my point, yeah. That's not hard to prove. You got mad at me when I told you the bills

couldn't run the ball well enough this year. No, I thought it was the defense. Wasn't that what it was? You got to be able to run and stop the run. Yeah, you said the defense was terrible and it was like, no, the defense is in the top five. No, run these. Well, we got a lot going on.

We're anxious. Yeah. Yeah, you should be. That's good. You need a little tension there, right? That makes the game big. So you're anxious. You'll be going to the game, obviously.

I am monitoring ticket costs on an ongoing basis. Some people, some people are debating whether to sit this one out because they're full of confidence. Oh, boy. And look forward to put all the money into the next game. A trip to Atlanta. Tickets, whether they be possibly hot Atlanta or some real. beauty seats here at home for the bills versus i don't even know who it would be it would have to be jackson bill the chiefs because jacksonville the chiefs jacksonville wins did jackson did jacksonville come in here

and beat the bills in the playoffs one year no oh i don't remember that i think a dud game a few they went to jacksonville late in the year and they lost six three or something horrible like that and they looked like dog shrieve jackson well wasn't it the titans that year but didn't they go to the final The last year, didn't they shock the Patriots? I thought it was the year the Eagles won. Was it then? No, they beat the Patriots in the final.

But yeah, I'll look. They did have a bit of a miracle run one year. And then it was dark as the defense. Yeah. I'm trying to remember the quarterback. Was it right? Bortles? Yeah, it was the last Blake Bortles.

And then they came back and he was dog shit again. And then they were bad for the next half decade. Until they came back from 27 nothing last week. shoot me in the face. Yeah. Oh, yeah, was that your... No, don't shoot,

punch you. But here's the thing. Wasn't it? It was shoot after 27-0-0, I'll tell you. It was the second biggest collapse. Not the biggest. Is that true?

You know, in my life probably, as an adult, the biggest. But, yeah. Kind of picking on it there. Third biggest, maybe. So you have stress,

retro. You have Buffalo Bills, ticket. Should I go? Should I stay stress? Yes. Pinder is scramp. Oh, man.

It is quite... Oh, he's not done anything. Dude, come on. It's all right. We're solving problems. It's very last minute, but we're going to pull this thing out of the fire. It's a lot of...

He's... Who are we talking to the other day about trying to put bubble gum into the springs in the dam? That's Pinder right now, trying to get all the fucking holes plugged up. As the wife and kids are home... Tomorrow morning, which sucks. Normally you arrive home at night,

but the morning is screwing everything up because that means I have to be done tonight, but we got abs tonight and afterburn of tonight. And I had to blow off a couple engagements today. I was going to be my last drinky poo afternoon. Nope, too busy. Got to build furniture. I was just on the horn of the cleaning company.

We can shoehorn them in between 8 and 11 tomorrow. The family would be coming in hot 1130. It's unbelievable. He's got the cleaners coming in. The thing is, though, in fairness, it's not as though you could have done this over the last two, three, four, five days. You didn't have this kind of time.

How flipping messy is it? It's not messy. It's just my wife. You know her a little. Dean knows her a little better. There's a standard that needs to be met. It's not a normal standard that most people would hold. And that's what makes her great.

And also sometimes difficult to share life with. Ryan, why is the house so dirty? I'm, babe, I was on mushrooms for three weeks. I can't be expected. Hey, sometimes on mushrooms, I'm more keen to clean to clean. Are you? Yeah. tune into Afterburn tonight.

So he is scrambling. We're here in the Tower Criesler Studios, Tower Criesler Dodge Jeep Ram, your favorite Tower Criesler Dodge Jeep Ram ever. Yeah. How's that point done? Of all the Tyler, or the Tower cries their dealers in town, they're the best. They're the, they're the

fucking best. So he's got himself worked into a tizzy. He's got other people freaking out as well with this pond hockey thing. That's good. He gets Mandeep from BK. Beaufort liquor. He gets him out of the weekend to skate on his own team. We got a pitcher him too.

Third place. Man deep. Oh, the handles. Yeah, yeah. Very impressive. There it is. Pond hockey tournament up in Jasper next weekend, 27, 28, 29. We still don't have a lot of details.

People are asking, so what day, what's, what time? What do we? More details tomorrow. I'll tell you that on the show. All right. For free. Very good. Now, Serge.

Our boy from Tower Chrysler. He, uh, you've got, you've got him worked up. Good. It's like, oh, why don't you come? Because the Wolverine, not good. You stress people out for a nice fun event. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

You should hear, because here's how it starts. You should come up to Jasper, bring your wife. Could we love to have you. Great to hang. It would be great. Why don't we do this? That sounds terrific. I would love that.

And then Pinder jumps in. If you're going to be playing on the team, You better be fucking good. No. It's basically the message It's not better to be good. It's just like we don't want someone skating for the first time. And we have no resume on,

I don't know if he's skated before. He was out buying new gear that scared me. Like you don't have gear? Who's this we BS? It's Flames Nation team. We all of it. Everywhere in the room. Flames Nation.

One dope in Buffalo. Wolverine. I said, Hey, Serge, you know, we'll sit by the fire, have some laughs.

It'll be a good time. Then there's the hockey and stuff. But there's so much. to go on and then Pinders in do you skate how old are your skates how's your gear have you skated when's the last time you skated I just want to know we can skit are you any good I don't want to see some guy like rupture his femur because it's his first time skating and he's trying to keep up in a three-on-three tournament so he's like Jesus well I kind of felt the pressure so I went and bought new skates we showed you the picture last week he got new gloves new skates an awful idea it's not

cold at all its feet are going to be just and he's been going out this is from last night look at look at poor surge here look at him going he's putting in some dry land here. Kind of a move is this. Is he praying? Look it. He's fit. He's getting ready. Is that a stretch?

Look at the helmet though. That is fire truck red. Look at that. That's a brand new bucket. He got that. Look at the skates. They're shooting pucks at him. I like people shooting pucks at him. Oh man. He's going to look good.

He's got people now coming up to him and saying, uh, you're in big trouble. Are you wearing a jock? Are you wearing shins? You got a helmet, right? It's a helmet. It's a pond hawk. Oh, you better get a helmet.

You've got everybody. You know what it is? You know what it is? I'm daryling this thing. He's Jacob Peltier, and if he gets on the ice, he's going to play his best damn game. It's going to be the best surge

you've ever seen in your life because he knows the coach is going to sit his ass down if he doesn't perform, all right? You get the day money, watch the pros train, and when you're in, you better be shot out of a cannon.

Jay Peltz or Serge. whoever, but you'll be, we'll let you play, but I'll be damned if I'm going to let you enjoy it. That's right. You better be scared shitless not to lose. Yeah, nice work, Lodar. We'll put you in another month. You better not lose. We're happy to have you, but you better not be having any fun. I'm taking notes here. He's a Hall of Famer, right? You are a fun sucker. That's true. Oh, the opposite. This is sponge. If you had to go to Jasper and said it would be more fun or less fun with Pinder, I know where you'd land on the ledger. Who's going to high kick in the bar?

It depends on the mode I'm in. Yes, but if it's festive. You can always leave. That's the thing. You got a lovely place at the JPL there. You can always be. Yeah. They'll ask you to leave.

They'll take a couple times. I'll be better. Talk about losing sponsors. What? We're on the YouTube. You can watch the show every day live, roughly 10 something. between 10 something and 12 something something something somebody's on the

depends where you live yeah it depends where you live somebody's asking the pictures that you have behind you on up on your wall we've talked about the color of your of your of your wall we've talked about the photos you put in a Christmas photo at one somebody's asking if the one over your right shoulder is it upside down oh that's art and if you don't understand art I'm sorry but we're big into art in our house and that's what we've got up. It's what the community is known for. You interpret it how you please.

People come from all over the world to take in Buffalo, New York's art scene. It's not upside down. It's whatever damn way you want to put it. That's good. I saw a margarita glass when I looked at it. I don't know what that means. What do you see Dean in a toilet? Yeah.

No, I see a body with no arms. Okay. I see somebody who's lost their limbs. That's a tragic accident. A Buffalo thing. That's like, that's a sore shoulder joint. Look at it right there. Speaking of Buffalo, you sent this story.

No cartilage. I'm not saying it's a, I'm not saying it to laugh or whatever, but the story that came out of Buffalo, or I guess out of Vegas about Robin Lennar, declaring bankruptcy. 50 Schmills, he's in the hole? Because of his exotic snake farm. And this resonates, if you've been a long time,

listener of this show. Back in the old show, we'd get Rob Ray on all the time. And we, we joked over the years because when Robin Leonard was there, he said, oh, he wants me to get into this snake breeding business and do some snakes and Robin love snakes. And we just kind of laughed it off. It's like, oh, that's, that's witty. That's funny. Taha. He, he. And it seems like, no, he's very much into snakes to the point that now he's, what, owes millions, allegedly. How do you? I don't understand. What are you talking about? Don't you pull the plug when you owe $1 million, never mind 50? Yeah.

The hell's going on here. I sure enjoy this, but oops, all my career earnings are gone. This has, it can't. I didn't even read the article, but. You know what it feels like? It feels like that Lion King thing where somebody owns a zoo and then they're getting screwed and somebody else. It feels like there's something. I will never recover financially from this.

That's right. That bitch, Carol basket. Yeah, that one, right? Yeah, Robin, it feels like Robin Leonard got Carol Baskin by somebody. Why are we laughing about it? This sucks for Robin. Well, it's because it's ridiculous. You got to really love snakes.

You do. Almost as much as Vander Cain, like gambling. Jesus. Snakes. Yeah, but you've heard of people kind of getting caught up in the gambling and you've also heard of people getting caught up in businesses. Sure. It's just the uniqueness of this business.

And the amount of money this bastard is made, right? Like it's like, oh, he made a million dollars and he lost it. Okay. Happens. That sucks. He's made a lot of dough. Yeah. Let me pull the career earnings here.

I hope he's bankrupt in his company and not in his personal side of things. Because that's the thing. There's layers to it. And I'm the same way. You don't want anybody to be out a bunch of money. But you think of, you hear the ex-athletes. I had a gold-plated bathtub. Ah, you know, the women and the booze and, ah, I bought a bunch of houses and boats.

I flew to Scottsdale to have steak once. So what took you down? Oh, you know, boa constrictors. Yeah. What the, exotic snakes? You talk about better life decisions? Jesus Christ, Robin. Snakes.

Career earnings, 30. I know what likes, they. 30? It's a lot of snakes. I'm with you, Red. I hope this isn't. How much is a snake? I think what they said...

I got a snake that lives in my house. It's very expensive. Well, where you're heading here soon? Oh, dear. That's not nice. Holy shit. You're going to Florida soon because you're going to try not to break a leg

in that Panthers All-Star, la-l-l-la. They say one of the big problems in the... If I get in... Yeah, okay. So talk to Tinkler, whatever. Tinkles, yeah. The Everglades, apparently the wildlife is nowhere near what it used to be

because people have these snakes that they think are fun. pets and then they get six feet long and they're like this thing is going to take my life and they just shoe it out the backyard and into the everglades and then these these breeds that are not native to florida from like southeast days you're just eating everything it's crazy they have like once a year they have snake hunting days where they'll pay you for snakes it's nuts remember the simpsons episode it's just like that they're hunting the snakes that's so there you go see they're kill on sight those things that's right they'll pay you for the pelt and they're massive yes and then i

saw today dean a dude in oregon made 70 grand last year year fishing really oh i saw this species fish wow about that he just fishes 70 grand for catching fish that they don't want in the whose dream job is that if all the people you know who would love that the most it's a big list in sasker rob ray jason weamer weems would love that yeah there's a lot of saskers i'll tell you what I'm not far removed from it. What's your uncle? I was just, I thought of you. Dean, I thought, Dean, I've seen him.

I've seen him. He's a masturbator. He's a great fisherman. He's out there. He can do it. Full of them today, hey? No? They're just, my ribs are sore from the laughter.

He's brought to the show today. What a start. You guys, Steve. What's the show about again? Are they still trying to, are they still? Are they still? Snakes and fish. Are they still paying people to get rid of the wild pigs and sass?

They're hard to get out. Yeah, there was another article about the wild pigs today. There's pigs everywhere in Canada. Bastards. I thought this was down in the States. Wasn't this a big thing? Another thing I've had to be a way for the past.

Pigs. Pigs and crabs. Do you ever get rid of those? See, can we restart, Alex? You want to pretend it's 1040? I play the abs tonight.

Yeah. You want to see, you know, here's the thing. Tonight, the Colorado Avalanche coming in. How much is too much for a ticket? No, wait, I'm asking now. Okay, well, give us a ballpark. So there's 75,000 seats. And if you wanted to get into the building for a regular season game this year,

when they're pretty good, what's that, $100 bucks? More? Yeah. And then if you wanted a good seat where you take the shoveler, maybe $250, $250, $200, you get a little VAT. I've been paying $250 for my, $2.50 for deceit, I think, is where we typically said it's $250. And then so last week you went to the wild card game and that probably would have been maybe double like $400 to $500 somewhere in there. Does that sound about right?

Not even. Not even. Okay, good. So that's good. 100 more. 100 more. So another hundred or? I would say anything under 500.

Five per? You're dropping G? Or you drop the caliber to go and see. frigging Joe Burroughs stick it in your took us it is a little early right it's not the Super Bowl it's not the AFC championship game but it's also it's football it's not like it's the quarter final series I'll go to game three I mean I thought you were a real fan I'm surprised we're even having this discussion

well maybe what you do is are you going with the shoveler for sure are you going to go with the pal remember you got boozed up with the pal last week now the shoveler and I got to go together we're good good luck at that. So I got to take her. So is she going to mix in with the, with the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the,

lot of the, no, no. I'm not sitting. The witch. Schmucks. No, no. And it's going to be cold out and wet, half rainy, is kind of, you need of. You need of. Yeah.

I got to be where we sit, we're covered. Yeah. And we got heaters. Oh, yeah, yeah. It's gorgeous. We got a private bathroom. We got, you know, it's like the platinum. club at the, at the dome.

Oh, yeah. Got your own bar. So once you got her, she's not going to drop below that standard. That's the next expectation. That's where the good luck is when she's sitting there. So you're looking at $800 to $1,000 to $1,000? I guess so. And the thing is, I check the tickets after the game on Sunday.

I'm like, should I buy them right now? A little high. They've dropped a lot. They come down a bit. They come down a bit. Yeah. Because again, there's a lot of people saying, I'll sell them if I can get this, but I'll just go if I can't sell them for X.

Now, isn't football the one sport where you can have lesser seats and you still, because the field's so big, you don't need to be super close? You wouldn't want to be the first 20 to 30 rows, I'd guess, if you really want a good seats. You can also fish in a fucking canoe, Dean, but I don't think we're doing that, are we? Let's go. Well, it depends if we're making 75 grand to do it. Let's go. Oregon? Is that where we're going? Let's go. Oregon, Dean. Oregon. Oregon.

Says it like that. Oregon. So you have. So these. Oregon and I'm sorry. So again, these seats, you're covered.

You have your own hoity tooty bathroom. So club seats. Is there food? There's guys giving away jerseys, remember? You buddy walked in, just gave them jersey. Yeah, yeah, that's right.

We got a nice tradition. Start out with a few IPAs, Pinder for you. And then into the double vodka coax. And then the people look at you when you order double vodka Coke's like, what? Vodka Coke, what that's wrong with you. Is that your thing?

You're not usually a vodka guy, are you? It's routine, Dean. But that's just the tradition, I guess. Well, the Coke has a little bit of caffeine in it, right? So it picks me up a notch, right? You've got to manage these things. Then we get a couple pieces of pepperoni. What's this here?

Is there audio with this here? Let's take a look. I don't know if this is a... Yeah, yeah. We're doing it. Oh, Ray, you're so happy. The shoulders aren't hurting at all. You get the general anesthetic flowing.

That looks good. Yeah, shoulders look good from here. Lember. Yeah. Yeah. We did it. Heard. See those seats in front of me?

You should have heard me tapping them. Oh, I'm playing the bongos. I love that he's falling. You have to go. You have to go. And I would wait until. Until Saturday. Come down.

Christ, you know what? Come to the game. Should have asked you like 10 years ago, should I go to this Bill's playoff game? The bills have been dog shit for your entire life. Dude. Yeah. And when they weren't dog shit for four years,

they lost in the biggest game in back to back to back to back years. Now you're, I don't know. Do I wait for the next game? Of course you're going. I think he's asking more. When's the time to buy? I'd keep an eye on that.

I wouldn't be too eager unless you see, something really pre-mole it and i'm not i'm not letting the shoveler bring me down the sneaky snake that she is and get me there at 1130 no like last weekend and i didn't get hardly any tailgating in and it was b to the s it's not happy and then she fell asleep but a car ride home oh what a champ it's a good shift so no tailgating and no tail it's tough sunday it's a bunch I can at least hope for the tailgating. Which would you prefer? All right, let's move on.

With flames and abs tonight. Get your helmet on. It's game day. What do we know about the aves? They're hurt. They're hurt? I feel like they had a good run last year. They seem to...

Do recall them winning a fair amount? They've got a couple cheat codes out there, two guys that can just put it in video game mode and do what they want. but they're missing significant pieces. So it's right out from under our noses here. She's traded up to get him. Land of Skog out still hasn't played a game this year.

Josh Manson's missed a ton of time. He's top pair of defense when he's right, or at least a big part of their top four. Bowen Byram, the young hot shot on the blue line, he's out. Darren Helm, good plumber. He's out. And Nachushkin just got back. So it says he's out,

but it also says he's on the second line. If you scroll back up, He's actually on the second line. He played, they, sorry, they beat Detroit 6th, 3 Monday night. He was back in. He missed nine games with an ankle injury, so he is back. Did you see the cadre hole, boys?

Take a look at that forward group. Do you see the cadre hole? JT. Confer is not a second line center for a cup winning team. No, but you get Landiscaug back. If you scroll down, you get Landis Gogg back in there, and look at their D. Don't out of center. Because that D-Corps looks okay,

and then you show the injuries, and aren't a couple of those kids that are injured? Boll and Bairam will come in, and Manson will play big minutes. Yeah. And then Hunt's not playing. Totally. That's a good blue line.

That would be like if Schillington came back to the flames. You're like, okay, we have five guys that can play four. I was going to say. Oh, of course, you got my car there. I'm just saying, like deep. Bowen Byram. Good player. Better than Shillington.

Correct. Yeah, I just mean in terms of like when they're right, they'll be deep. Just like if you could get stone in the press box here, you'd be deep, not as deepness. So you're of the belief then, Rhett, I'm assuming that if they can get away, and there's no guarantee

that they're all going to be healthy at the same time. But if they do, if you get those guys back, that this is still a team to be reckoned with. I would think they'll be very tough out. And they have, I don't know what their, I don't know what their cap situation is, but they have enough assets to make some moves to add. They'll add another center.

They will, because I don't know that that's where Landis Garland is. best fits necessarily. Right now, coming into this game tonight, they have 47 points, leaves them, what, four points out of the wild card where the flames sit. So it's a big one tonight, a proverbial four-pointer.

And if you think that they could get into the playoffs, if you think the best is yet to come, you're not alone. Darrell Sutter was at the microphone yesterday, and he was asked about Colorado, and he's of a similar mindset as you, Retro. Let's go out of Suts from yesterday. Does take a look at that.

Does the significance seem any different when that's a team that you're now pretty close with in the standings? Well, they're defending Stanley Cup champions, and they still got 40 games left, or whatever it is. So you start the year with 164 points. They'll still, I would bet on Colorado making the playoffs. And I'd bet on them being one of the three in their division. I think everyone would agree with that. It's not like they've been bad. They've been really, really dinged up.

I don't know what their goaltending story is, obviously. Different. You know, you make the change there in the offseason. Pavel Frantzose played the other night, made 26 saves. The flames beat them on the season opener, if you remember. Game one of the season, 5-3 at the dome. Franços was in that night, allowed five on 27. Georgiev is the guy they brought.

in a free agency when they lost Kemper or is it trade one of the other either way it's like okay I think they've got to sort out what they're going to do in net get someone hot for the postseason but they didn't really need elite goaltending they needed solid goaltending to win the cup that's so talented there when they're healthy they've got their first this year they don't have much else beyond their first but if they're into a spot by the deadline where you know that pick's not going to be a lottery pick and it's a very deep draft class I think that first will get you a very good player to come play 2C for the avalanche, maybe a Jonathan Taves type, or a Ryan O'Reilly type, or, you know, an expiring contract of someone that can bolster the center position on the second

line. Yeah, I can't disagree. Like, I see the center situation. There's not a lot of depth there. J.T. Confer, he's a fine player. None of them are second line centers. That's all. You like the players, but none of them are a two-see. You go put them in a series against other playoff teams, Everyone's second line setter is better than J.T. Confer. But if he's the third, it's like, okay, well, now you're good again. Yeah, if you're captain and Landiscaug is slotting back in. Well, Rodriguez will come down and Landiscagogo go to that wing. They need a center. Landiscag's aware.

You know, a goofy Rodriguez has fit in okay there. He's on a five game. He's got seven points or something in his last five games. He's been. He's been here to start the year with Penguins, I think. He's been pretty good with them. Lekan is, we know what he is. He's on a eater too. Almost under underrated.

And Nachushkin coming back. is big. He had an unreal year last year. He cashed in because of it. Phenomenal player. I mean, Miko Rantan is stud. What draft? We were looking at the draft last night. It was the Kachuk draft class. So again, we tried to, it was Matthews, Linae, Dubois, Yolevi, Pliarvi, Kachuk. Something like that, yeah. And at 10, it was Rantan to Colorado. you're like, fuck, that's a good pick. Pretty good. Not the Flames didn't have a great pick.

Chuck was a phenomenal pick there. Imagine seeing at 10. You hear Brian Burke always used to talk about the tiers or the shelves or whatever. It's like, oh, man, if we only could have got into the top seven or the top three or whatever. You did okay at 10. I worry about them a little, I worry about for the flames. I worry about the avalanche. They've won back-to-back games.

They had lost seven of eight prior to that, but now they're getting a little bit. They're putting up some big numbers against bad teams. like when they're healthy they're they're the best team in the league i believe that they're just not it's funny because you say that it's like they're putting up numbers against bad teams and it's like well we just played bad teams and we didn't no they didn't you're right and that's the difference is they put a seven spot on detroit the other day i think but they also lost to chicago just like the flames did in the last week and a half so it's like it's a mixed bag for them right now and i do think they're trying to sort out what they're going to do in net here. Not that they'll make changes,

but like, where are we at? Has there been enough solid play in front of these guys to say they're good enough or not good enough? McKinnon has 11 points in his last five. McCarr is rolling. He's got nine in his last six. Both of those guys. McKinnon and McCarr had two goals each. Just put them down each for a point and then start from there. Yeah. That's containing them. It's kind of like the dry saddle McDavid thing. So yeah, there's tonight, the micro, and then there's the season, the macro. And I think if they get those guys back, even without cadre and without Kemper,

I hard to debate that they're a playoff team. As for the flames, tender, please, yeah. I was looking this because they, of course, they lose in Nashville in regulation. And you go back and we've talked about, you get your points and all of that. It's kind of, I mean, what is it in golf?

The crooked number or whatever. You try and avoid those losing streaks. Their longest losing. streak of the season was seven games. But lots O.T points in there. But as far as regulation losses, their longest is three straight. And that was part of the first three of that seven game. Then they had two games in there mixed in that were overtime shootout. And then two on the back end. The last time that they lost in regulation was October or, sorry, November 25th, 26, Washington, Carolina on that road trip. Sorry, sorry. Last time they were three in a row or two in a row? Two in a row. So they've lost two in a row.

twice and three once. That's it. Outside of that, they have been able to, by some, you know, doesn't mean a win. Yeah. But they haven't strung regulation losses together. And this is another one of those things where we bitch and complain and we point and it was like, what, these, yeah, no good, got better.

And then you look at the points. Well, they found a way to get points. Flipside is they won four in a row this year, right? Yeah. And this is what's been so haunting about this team. It feels like every single game minus two or three, it's been a one goal game and you're like, damn it, we're a play away.

And it's always like, that's why we're so focused on goaltending and why we talk about post because it's like, man, if that one thing went in or it's like someone misses an empty net, like all these games are so fucking close. Like how many, they've been blown out what? Two, three times, Buffalo,

St. Louis at home. And there was one other one recently that was a little stinky and that was it. The whole season, they've been in every damn game. Even the teams at first place in the league of a couple where they get hammered. Like, they just haven't been. It's weird. Somebody was texting or sending it in.

It was, uh, Rantan was 10th in the McDavid, not the, uh, the reviews. We did a lot of that last night. We were, you know, how I hate to do it. How I hate to do it. I'm saying sure about that. I'm not sure about that. I'm not. You're right.

Strom went at three. Oh, you're right. We did look at that. Mitch Marner, four. And then Noah Hannifin, top five pick to the Carolina. hurricanes. And then that evil Ivan Proverov went seventh to Philly. He's accepting of everyone, Ivan Proverov.

Yeah, he's very... Except you and you and you and you. But everyone. Anyway. Starters in net, we got Markstrom going for the flames is confirmed. Getting them ready for those string of games, Rhett. Getting Markstrom ready. We heard it after the game the other night.

Yeah, he's going to get the string, I guess. And I get it for big pitcher for Daryl. If he wants the challenge is number one. Okay, we've got the two cup finalists when we get home. Be ready for those. You're going to go. I don't think Daryl's at the point where he's going to cut bait on Markstrom yet as much as we wanted to see Fla Dara get a little run.

And he might get another run. He did sort of, what, early December? But like for all the moaning and groaning, he allowed two and hasn't been getting much run support last month. What's Flaar at for games played? Like, is he averaging? I don't know Darrell had this plan. 16.

Markstrom has 31. Dan Vlodar 16. And they're about halfway through. I think you said there was 26 weeks. So he's probably a couple over the once a week average. But really, it was less than once a week. And then he started, what, 7 of 9 or played in 7 of 9? So that sort of inflated the numbers.

And then it's back to kind of a little less than once a week. It was obvious. It's going to start. It's an afternoon. Yeah. Lidar with the 2.73 goals against 907 save percentage. and for Markstrom, it's still a, it's a struggle. 2.81, goals against 894 save percentage.

Yeah, the same percentage is the big gap. The goals against is almost the same. And the run support hasn't been similar either. You feel for him. Let our 7-0 and 3 in his last 10 and getting some goals. Markstrom's getting 2.8 goals a game when he's in net this year. And that's... Veal for him, but also feel like he's supposed to be...

He's supposed to be the difference maker. Agreed. Yeah, he hasn't been helped, but he hasn't done it himself. and if you're an elite netminder, you're going to win some on your own. I don't feel like there's many nights. You're like, well, if they didn't have Markstrom,

they're going to lose that one. No. He's been solid a fair amount, and he's had some stinkers. It hasn't been like, who, first star Jacob Markstrom. That hasn't happened much this year. We talk about it every once in a while,

how the power play can, it can either mask a lot of your problems or it can be, like right now, don't you feel like? Decline. decline it they have the 25th ranked power play and i don't i mean i look at the highlights i look at game sheets and all that i just are should they have the 25th overall power play 19.4% which would have been a okay number 10 years ago but we got a lot of teams around 25% now you look at their

weaponry just on skill set they have everything you'd want Anderson has got a bomb at the point who won hardest shot in the American League when he was there. You've got an elite distributor in Euberto, who doesn't look right, but is an elite distributor his whole career. You get the right-handed shot in To Foley. You get a good net front in cadre. Like, what are you missing here? Those are all the ingredients you'd want for a good power play.

I think they've had a tougher time on zone entries. But even when they're in there, it's not like fief. Now we're going to score. Isn't that what it, almost what it comes down to, I think? Zone entries? Half the time it's getting in there. Yeah. That's where they, do they miss.

Goodro? Of course they do. maybe nowhere more than on the power play and getting the pocket over the blue. People griped about that drop pass so much. Like, look, you don't have to like it. I understand it works. No, I didn't. Christ.

It worked. Enough with the bump back already. I'm tired of the bump back. Christ. I gripe about the, but I only gripe about it because it's, it's relentless. Yeah.

You got to mix it up. Predictable. Yeah. Yeah. Mix it up. Exactly. It's, it's not about the bump.

It's about, well, shouldn't you make the other team adapt to you a little bit? Wasn't it? Lindholm on the four on three. He kind of drove in the zone as if he was going to curl and set up and then blasted wide right around, I think it was McDunna.

And then there was a clear break right in front. Probably their best scoring chance of the night, you could argue. And that they didn't score there and then eventually did and it got called back. But it's mostly on cadre now. Yeah. And you need, I think, to Rhett's point to not be predictable. Yes, the bump back works.

But if you do it every single time, it's easier to defend. If it's only two thirds of the time, He's like, oh, boy, I got to watch out because he'll fake and you might go. You can't be predictable, right? Giving, yeah, and given the other, you know, the guy that's bumping the puck back, the option to make a read on it, because there are times where you see the bump back and it's like, you could have just crossed the blue line. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. You had the zone entry. Just take it in, right? Like, oh, no, we got to bump it back. Oh, okay. And you hear all the chance to reattack it. Yeah. So I was going to say, you hear.

all the time about what we didn't have time to practice, well, we couldn't get practice, we're on the road, we know we're not going to be practicing. I often wonder about what the validity of that. I do wonder if there is merit for a power play that's struggling. If you could have some practice time, maybe you work on that. How, let, what are, what are options for entry? If, if they're loading up on this side, what do we do? What can we try and do specifically on the power play?

Because it's still about hockey sense and reading how they're, how they're playing you. But it's still, it's a five on. for in the zone. And you can, whether it's the pass below the goal line to the guy in the slot for a shot or however you want to set it up, I wonder if that's one area that they, that they do miss. I've been on teams where it's a, I've been on teams where the power play is no good.

And I mean, I wasn't practicing the power play, but the rest of the team was. And I don't know. You know the gist of what you're supposed to be doing and you can practice it. And isn't that? But a power play practice. is so different, right? You're not shooting the puck when you should. Or if you've got killers out there,

they know what you're doing on your team, so they cheat a little bit. Or they're trying to get out of the way. Or you're not trying to hit them with a shot. So you're not setting up the one-timer. Or if you are setting up the one-timer, it typically means that the rest of the penalty killers aren't out there, right?

So it's kind of lame and you're throwing it around. There's no one to hit. It's not effective anyway. So I think there's a reason to practice it, but it comes down to execution in a game. I think Mike Keenan famously said with that Rangers team that won the cup, like we never practiced the power play and it was a ringer. And I feel like good power plays don't need to practice.

I feel like practicing the power plays trying to get your confidence up because it sucks. I also heard Mike Keenan tell us. It might not have been true, but he did say that. When Mike Keenan was here as the coach and the power play was struggling, and we were at the dome every day watching practice in the morning and it's like about practicing, you should practice a power play

do you guys think about, we practice the power play every day. And we don't. And it was complete bullshit. Yeah, because no, you don't. That's a lie. Actually, that's not true. Do you?

Anyway, maybe your buddy tonight, McKenzie Weeger will be inspired. Wigs. Wigs? Memorial Cup champion, if you may recall, with the Halifax Mooseheads back in an incredible year. Jonathan Druan was on that team, I believe, and of course, Nate McKinnon, former teammates from the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. So maybe Weigs is going to want to, like, Jesus, you know what, I can take a run at old 29. Big deal.

McKinnon, you're no hot stuff. Get a load of me. You think? I hope so. I hope Wiggs goes out after him and lays him out. Who got him? It looked like they hit him, but it was a stick. Remember that with McKinnon?

Is that when he flipped out? Somebody hit him and call it. Yes. Yeah. Yes. He got drilled in the face. They went at something. Anyway, rat him.

Take him off his game. There's a lot. Yeah, go and well. Go get him. Take that, Randon. That's the first game of the year. Look at that. Have a seat.

Mackenzie Uighur was first star. First game of the year. In the first game of the year. What about that? So look for him to have a big one tonight, Red. It's too for a big one, right? A big one. Especially with you shit talking.

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they're not going to Costco and hauling it out of a box. Sauce are you going with. I'm kind of traditional. I just, you know what it is, though? It's all you can eat. It may as well try each sauce.

I don't want it too sweet, but you got to have a little bit of, you know, brown sugar in there with your, uh, with your, you know, just go,

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You got to dine in, Red. You got to dine in. Oh. Yeah. Oh, would you look at this. Look at this. Oh, what? What?

Oh, he ate a carrot. Yeah. Get the hell out of here with your carrot. I'm very healthy. Yes, that's right. I have to have links tonight. Oh, dude. Just because of that.

Yeah, there it is. Stupid carrot. Oh, dude. Did we go to Montana's last night? That's weird. Jeez. Don't I feel like you're just in some log cabin? Right?

Does that not look comfy, retro? Right. Lay down one of those bearskin rugs on the floor, pass out after a few rooms. That's looking across the table at me. Maybe if that mug isn't there, I'd be very happy. Can I get a seat in the lounge, please?

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It's the Pinder Report. All right, fellows, Calgary Flames game day. Where do we start? Well, let's take a little peek at, well, the standings. This is a big one tonight for the aves and the flames. As there you have it. see the red circles. It's,

do not stare into those rear of your mirrors and think that things are that far away. They're actually, objects are closer than they appear, Dean. That's how that goes, yeah. I would think a single victory would have the abs ahead of the flames

in points percentage if it was in regulation, and the flames would be on the outside of the playoffs looking in, trying to chase down last year's defending champs and a suddenly inspired and more cohesive looking Edmonton club. That's not ideal.

Big game. and some of the comments from the Flames dressing room yesterday echoed that as well in terms of talking about, okay, good measuring stick. We're ready to go. I believe it was Blake Coleman, part of two Stanley Cup championship teams in the last three years, talking about a big game that he was looking forward to. We'll take a peek at the lines very quickly for the flames, same as you came to expect on the second half of the road trip. Welcome to dear!

On that right side of the fourth line. Still no Jay Peltz, our boy. Poor bastard. Sit and watching. Good popcorn tonight. at least hey rat you love that dome popcorn you're muted how do you mute yourself he does it the popcorn at well sometimes they yawn and i right do stuff so the popcorn at the dome is way better than it is here even my middle kid said he's done with the popcorn get to it down at the savers

games he needs the dome popcorn the extra butter all the toppings please you got to march into baguola's office sort slam in the desk it's popcorn's dog shit we need best or popcorn. Call Murray Edwards now. Get your popcorn sorted. Got J. Peltz up there. He'll tell you a good popcorn. Jay Peltz. Yeah. Speaking of which, here's Daryl on, hey, sure we have a first rounder who's oh, you know, around a point per game at 100 HL games. It's only 21 and playing great and looks like a real good fine in the draft class, but can't just put him in. Come on. Yep, he's excited to be there, be here. And at the end of the day, I want to be

I want to get them in, but you know what? We're not 10 up and we're not 10 out. So that's that's the way it works. Is it? I know it's the way it works around here. I told you that. We all knew it. No one's really surprised. By the way, how about the wardrobe from

from Daz there, retro? Love it. Beauty. I got jacket like that. I wish I had one of those. Yeah, I call that a BC dinner. jacket or a garage tuxedo. Oh, gross. Get out of here. Yeah, I don't want one of those.

No, no. Loser, Phil. Okay, so that's Daryl. You're not going to see Peltje. We weren't surprised when the lines came out today. Melchie ain't playing. Okay, so could I ask, though, then send him back down now? I think that might not be something that's crazy at all.

I think if you're not going to use him, it probably is better served for his development. he's had two weeks or a week and a half to get a taste, go back and keep playing. If you're 21, you don't need to be sitting. You need to be playing, right? You'd also like to be making that. They're right there. They're not Stockton, that big league money. Oh, I understand the financials,

but I think Jacob Pellche is not going to look back at 20 days a day money versus actually making the NHL. And I think you'd understand, continue to play well at the American League level, is going to get him a full-time job eventually. If Jacob Pellche doesn't end up with money, that's his own fault. in the 20 days or 25 days instead of 20 isn't. No, I agree. Hope he doesn't like snakes.

Stay away. Stay away for exotic farms. The other thing too is you, and who knows the health of the team if there's somebody who's kind of, you know, if something's nagging, then he's going to stick around. Boy, if Luch had a sore hammy, wouldn't you love to? Also, the All-Star break. There's an extended break coming up starting next Friday. Yeah. So he will go down for that, obviously.

Usually teams will dispatch their kids to the American League. And I think they're staggered weekends. I think it's this weekend. Because where, boy, what, my gold is heading down to LaValle or up? I don't know which way LaValle is. Right, left. Order. East.

Order. There are your clippings. Here's the Ave's schedule. Dan, I note. Dan, I note, everyone. Here's, look at what the abs have been doing. Mixed bag of results. You lose to Chicago in regulation.

That's even shittier than the flames loosening in overtime. I'm there. That one stung. Pantaro's got him, but you kind of, that was a wild game, actually. The Panthers were way up and hung on for dear life as the Azraeli back. Good game there. They do eke out an O.T. win against Edmonton, I believe it was what, Kiel Makara Nottie, sounds familiar?

Good Calgary boy. Shalak the Sends, shellac the wings. Those are two teams on the outside looking in. I don't know. They're certainly not fully themselves yet. And I kind of feel the same way about the flames, not necessarily by injury, but that I don't see the lineup the flames are using, be like, yeah, that's how they'd roll them for game one of a seven-game series. So we'll see how these two stack up.

And finally, just to get the juices flowing for tonight, this used to be an old divisional battle, Dino, Red. All right, yeah. The Northwest Division Throwdown. How about just, you know, back to the old divisional days where they played eight times against divisional foes? Let's remember what it was like to have heavies and rivalries in division. Here's Big Erne and Patrick Bordolo. Big bullets. punching each other.

Tail of the tape, Bordolo 6.6.225. Bigern 6.4. 235. Sound up if we got it. Look at Bigern. McGranton. And now he's set to go.

Bordolo McGranton and right by McGratton. Right by Borgle. Right by McGratin. Right by Borgle. Right by McGratin. Right by Borgle. Right by McGrat. Back and forth.

Right. Oh my goodness. What a fight. Right hand bombs. Being dropped by both the Grattan and Boralow. And finally they come in a little bit closer. Linesmen are letting this go. See if they separate and start.

Orlo's got the seatbelt on there. He's tired. Big time punches landed by both. Oh. That's two spooky tough dudes. Both those guys would be toughest guy in the league today. Maybe Reeves could give someone a decent go. Maybe not.

Do we miss that? It's just massive. I kind of do. Yes. And no. I miss seeing it. It's kind of hard to see it and not know that there's some damage happening, though. There's been a lot of former fighters that haven't looked great 10 years out of playing career health-wise.

It's tough. Yeah. They know the risk, I guess, but still. Oh, yeah. I get it. It's not like boxers have a union, right? I think I miss the fact that I don't need the big, both teams have a tough guy and they have to fight kind of. schedule, right? Like, oh, okay, it's the second period. So now we're out here together and we're

going to fight the scripted. Yeah, yeah, off the face off and nothing's happening. The emotion fight where we're cadre and someone his size on the other team are battling for a puck in front and you smack in all of a sudden there's a couple bunches throwing in the, you know, a little bit of bite. The Connie Sam Gagne tilt. Yes. Spur of the moment. Screw you. This is a heated. I don't normally do this, but you're ticking me off, Buster. It's hard because you're going to see it in Jasper between Man Deep and Pinder are going to go at it

because Pinder's going to be drunk and obnoxious and annoying everyone. We're homies. Man Deep's going to straighten them out. Well, I'll tell you what, though, Red, one thing you can rest assured that if we're playing some other team and somebody on the other side starts taking liberties with Ryan Pinder, you know who's got us back.

You know what's going to happen. They're going to get some chops in the back of the knees. I won't stand for any riffraff taking runs at my friend Ryan. We got Princey. He's the muscle on our squad. Decade younger, bigger, tall, or stronger. You just don't worry. You play comfortable, Ryan, and whatever you need to do out there, you do,

because I'm right there to support you at all times. Princey's got one leg in the box for the Oilers Nation, I feel like. You might jump ship. worried about the war. You know what? If there's one guy that might be swinging at Oilers Nation people, it might be present. That's what I'm saying. He's one.

This is our head. He's like, I don't need this guys. I've got kids. I'm most worried about this. I don't think we have to worry about him cranking up the intensity and being competitive. I think he's ready for it. Rhett, I can't fucking stand them. Whoever goes by the handle body by milk or whatever, Prince, he's taking you down, all right?

Bag milk. Tyler, your Remchuk. you're done Jay I'm coming right for you Seaborne's posing a picture of the cut above his head you're getting another one out of that's right so I can't see on their team too yeah guys are on the damn accidentally on purpose

accidentally on purpose oh geez I ain't touching big daddy Frank though I'll leave him alone don't know of those well I'm gonna jump you know I'm gonna barge my way into the Pinder or good it might look something like this it's the nine year anniversary of this event

that it was the flames and the Canucks. This could be Jasper. Oh, Oilers Nish, Flames Nation. Opening draw. Let's take a listen. Tarts. Tarts.

Tustito. Is he ever? He's looking directly at the Calgary Flames bench. Cistito. Oh, just. Look at these tots. Blair Jones is out there. West Gareth.

Near the Vancouver blue line Will Sostito and McGrath and go out and near the Calgary blue line. Kellyn Lane. His first NHL game, he gets tossed. His parents are in to watch his first game. Mr. Clare Jones.

Bratton just got the best of Sistito. I was still yelling of Bob Harley who's not even coming over to engage in a conversation. Kessler and Fudler. Oh, wow. I showed this vid to my kid about a month ago. He couldn't believe.

believe that this type of stuff in the NHL this isn't like what is what yeah right off the opening face off between the benches the conucks are over there burrows in his first game back with the shame o'briere out you missed that retro oh i'll mind that i'll get you into it it doesn't look like torts got anywhere near and look at hartley how close was it oh he was very close um if you're familiar like yourself with uh rogers arena um where the dentist chair is in the canucks home dressing room it leads right into the visiting room hallway. So I was in there.

I had a 10-minute misconduct. Me and Cassie and had a little disagreement at the end of the first. And I was in there taking my case. Oh, Mularchuk. I kind of saw Hartley when I'm walking in. I heard some commotion, so I stood up and looked back. And, you know, Torch was two steps away from getting his hands on Bob. And if it wasn't for Brian McGratton to get in there and step in his way,

I would have a front row seat for Torrella and Harley. And I would have no problem with that at the time. And I probably didn't even in Torch's corner cheering for him. So it was an old. school moment. Torts was losing his mind and he's yelling at me. He's yelling at everyone. I'm trying to explain. There's a Hawking Night Canada camera right there, Torch. But he didn't care at all. So, you know, that's how Torts is. He's a fiery guy and I'm glad to see he's doing one in Columbus now. There you go. Oh, my God. That was something. Nine years ago. Where was I for that? I'm trying

to remember. That was amazing. It was amazing. And imagine if you show it up and you're like, yeah, the anthem's just finished. I'm just going to quickly get a beer and you come down. You're like, what? Would I miss? And remember for torts, you had the debacle of the outdoor game where he didn't Yeah, lost the long go in. And then that happens. He got, what did he get for that? Like, suspended, obviously.

It was one year in Vancouver. He had a five-year deal. Yeah. It was $2 million a year. And I think he got half of remaining money if he was fired. So there was eight left. He got $6 million for one year. I think if you dig into that, there was some personal life issues going on with him at that time, too.

Also, he and Hartley went way back to the American League, and he talked, I don't like the way the guy does business. I don't like the way he goes about his, you know, this goes way back. I don't like him. Yeah. Wow, that was a little bonus treat. I like, thank you, Dean. Yeah, you're welcome.

Okay, we got things to move through. This is unfortunate. Ivan Provorov didn't wear jerseys on Pride Night for warm up in Philly last night. He did play. here's a tweet sort of encapsulating the evening here. This is his quote, I respect everyone, I respect everyone's choices.

You can pretty much, don't need to say anything after that usually, but now he's going to explain why he doesn't respect the pride jersey, whatever. Okay. I thought to me, and I'm not maybe the next one, I think pride is just being inclusive of everyone.

And so if you're saying I respect everyone, shouldn't he be on team pride? Is that not exactly what, if you really actually respect, everyone, you'd be a huge proponent of Pride Nights. Weird. And people are now getting that torts a bit here, Rhett, because he said if one of his players tried to avoid, didn't stand for the anthem, he'd bench him.

So people are now saying, oh, if Torz was going to bench you for that, but not for this. Oh, this doesn't go over the flyers. This is a PR mess. It's a nightmare. It's no good at all. So, nope. None of it's good.

I was surprised he actually played. That's the thing. If you knew that you had a player in your room That was going to take just take that Then you're out tonight yeah don't make a scene Hey Ivan's got a personal issue he's not playing it tonight Because meanwhile so they so he doesn't take warm up Then he plays why didn't he take warm up? Oh it's the jerseys

Meanwhile there was I forget which two was JVR and one other guy in the flyers They like in unveiled their new Pride initiative like yeah and all the other guys were put there said such a great day This is amazing we've got so many communities involved and around hockey. And that's, the NHL is, if there's one push on PR and marketing,

it's inclusivity, hockey's for everyone, spotlighting people from different backgrounds, joining the sport. Like, this is a nightmare for the league. And I wonder if Gary steps in to do something because it's just,

this is bad business for the league when all you talk about is inclusivity and hockey's for everyone. And I see a lot of stuff online. Oh, you woke this, woke that. It's not about being woke.

It's just about, just don't be ignorant. Like, just know, sometimes, is the right thing to do. Yeah. And I mean, if it's, I guess if it's your religion and that,

then what am I going to tell you, but I don't know. And what's not great, but what's fascinating to me is that Provrov does this, and his coach has to kind of defend the player, and his coach is Tortorella, who would absolutely be the last guy in the world who would have any time for this type of stuff. Now he's got to be out there,

like you said, answering about his past with the anthems and all this. Gosh. which is the surprising part of why he played. Sit him. The funny part. It's not right. And if he,

it's not right. And if he wants to do that, then say stay home. Fine. And don't. Right? And I feel like the Flyers. Having him there.

The Flyers organization would have been blindside for this or they would have had a plan. Because you don't, this isn't a plan you'd come up with, right? This is, um, oh crap. What happened?

That timeline would be interesting. When did they find out that he wasn't going to wear it? I feel like it would be just as they're coming out the tunnel. And it's like, oh, shit, this is too late for damage control. And by the way, I don't know if you can zoom in on that or not. That is Ivan Proverag's dog on Instagram posting a picture of gritty with rainbow butterfly wings on. So the dog's doing the healing here. ProVrox Pat.

I don't know, man. This is fucked. Okay. Let's get to actual hockey. Panthers were in Toronto last night. Big game. Panthers trying to get back into a playoffs. spot reds been rough for Paul Maurice and company.

They get a 4-2 lead in Toronto against a divisional foe four-point game. Officiating was not good per Paul Maurice. Leifes rally coming back. They lose an overtime. William Nealander has one off his helmet to tie and then scores the O.T. winner. And yeah, it's Maurice with the LeBron.

It's good stuff. I like it. What did you do? Do it? Anytime the Leaves benefit from refing, it just drives me nuts. Well, drove Paul Morris nuts too. I bet you when he was coaching there, though, they never got any breaks. It was probably the big bad leaves.

They're screwing us because we're Toronto. Now he's in Toronto. Visiting coach. Oh, Toronto always gets all the way that works. There's your final. Yeah, how about that? Willie Stiles are the big night. McDavid did it again.

It's almost mind-numbing that we have become, I guess, immune to feeling emotions now. If this was Dylan Dubay, we'd be yelling goal of the year. but instead it's a team that just is clinging on to a wild card, and he's on pace for like 160 points. Have a viewing here. Look at that DZone Apple, right from his own hash. Oh, wrong time to fall. Zink.

And when everyone tells me how the amazing offensive seasons, these wingers are having, that was a four-foot pass from your own hash mark in your own zone. That's an assist because McDavid did the rest. Watch how fast. No one can hang with him. The guy was shit his pants and tripped. He saw him coming in that quick.

I think they showed the angle from the end. Watch this. Watch how he, zip right there. He moves about six feet in with one side to side. Zoop. And then at full speed to put it in a tiny little hole top corner. As somebody who we sat with last night said, I wish I could cheer for this guy.

Yeah, we need to invest on best terms. If we could do like a world. He could play for Team Canada. It's something, Gary. Like a cheer for him for once in our live. Good news for the Ottawa senators. Our boy Alex. I mean, he...

Good news for the sense. It's like he's had eight coffees today. He's all fired up. Josh Norris could be back. And centering a line with some pretty good players here. You had to bring it in Giroux. He has missed 38 games. And this might get them out of like the bottom eight in the league.

Wouldn't that be incredible? Rebuild's over, guys. Habs are. rebuild's not over. They got a bunch of injuries too. There's a lot of, well, this will probably help, right? But our sweepstakes, so let's see, look at the injuries for the habs. Slavkovsky, though, first overall pick. That could be the rest of the year. He might not play again this year. That sucks. I don't know how you'd characterize his rookie year. He was getting his feet wet, I suppose. Not much more than that.

Is what? How do you do that three months off and no surgery? Holy. Yeah, that is a good question. Also, more injuries piling up. Don't expect Jonathan Duran back anytime soon. Jake Allen's a little long, a smaller injury. This is weird. Me is out. And there's one more of these, too. Like, so the next, next one as well, there's more guys. That right.

Goodness. Jeez. What a string. Jake Evans. And again, I guess that probably ties into, so, man, if they're going to finish near the bottom, what would that be good for again? Oh, there it is. Yeah, there's the, oh, really?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Top. You got to get in those top three. There's sixth right now. Hmm. All right.

It feels like they figured it out finally, though. Remember when they were winning games in the fall like a bunch of idiots? Yeah, I was going to say, they may have sewered themselves in the fall. They were playing too well. Way to go, Marty. And so, Badard will end up somewhere. How would he look in this jersey is my question? Because it's a new jersey, and it is a potential destination for Bard.

As the Yotes released this third jersey. They're going sort of with the Walmart pajama version of a cursive writing of the regional place. I like everything but the Arizona. I don't like any of them. I don't like any of it. I feel like if they were with the Arizona. The peyote-caote on there instead of the Arizona, I'd like it more.

It's a Kuchina or whatever they call it, right? It's awful. I don't mind the color. Yeah, color scheme's fine. Like that maroon, almost kind of a beigey thing. Yeah, it's deserty vibes, right? The logo is like, is not, and I don't know. It looks like, did you not fill in?

It looks like you have one of those paint by number things, and you didn't click the mouse on there to fill all the colors in. Interesting. Other news, let's quickly head down under, mate. As Felix Ozioli,

see him or Ali's from down two sets last night. This is an impressive performance. He's through. Chappo Valov's through, Andrescu's had a good tournament. Lili Ali Fernandez is going. We've got four Canadians rolling at the Ozzy Open. You got to love that, hey?

How about that? Good player. That is irrelevant. How are the boys? Are they surfing? Okay. Well, I'm glad, yes. Let's stay down under.

They are off to the airport as we speak, but in their final day in Australia, mate, in Melbourne, they went to Luna Park. You know what Luna Park is? It's in St. Kilda. And it is an old-fashioned amusement park with a wooden roller coaster. It is kind of like the Coney Island of Melbourne.

Have a look. They're going to get it clackety. Sound up for this. So there's seven. And this is the first time at a real amusement park. And they are jacked up beyond belief. Power surge. Yeah.

So look at this thing. It's just warming up. And you can turn the volume up because Ozzy Sheila has a good cackle about this. Yeah. If we have it. The roundy roundies. Now we're spinning. I think they're at the top right now.

Oh, there they are. No. Now it's spinning. Oh, yeah. Yep. Dean, this is. This is where your Tuesday tacos go flying out. Yeah, see, it doesn't frighten me, but I'm just at a point in my life where I'm just going to be spitting all over my shirt and people around me.

Yeah, you just hope you're at the bottom of that thing when you vomit. So you don't paint the rest of the people. That stuff. And those ones are the worst that twist you around and up and down. And you stand there and you look at it. That doesn't look like it's moving that fast. And then you get on, it's like, gee. It's moving this way, moving this way, going on that way.

Power surge. Power surge. See if you can spot them. They're together. I think one is barefoot. Up top there, there's Blake. Oh, boy. All right.

Right. Up top now. You see them? There's plates. Lots of screaming there, you know. Cruz is going to lose his mind. Oh, my God. They're missing me a lot.

Yeah, they're barely having down in us. They're really struggling without you. You know what? I know. You know what, Bender? They might stay. They might just hop that flight and stay there. This is probably the wild.

this one that's open right now. Because it's summer there. So they'll just start up school in a month or so. And they won't have skipped a beat. They'll be ahead of the class. Maybe that's the way to do it, Dean. When you go to these amusement parks with your kids, because you know it's going to be just a living hell for the next eight,

however many hours you're there. Take them to one of those rides and get them yakking and you're out of there within 30 minutes. Yeah. One ride, you can go. Time to go. Hey buddy, would you like nine hot dogs? All right. Let's go hit some rides, shall we?

You always said you wanted to try cola. Why not two? Our very funny, our producer, Alex, he's very funny. We take runs. He's taking a run. Oh, is that ride called the Zadorov? You know what the one behind it? That wouldn't roller goes.

That's the Zadorov. Kind of spins and goes in all directions. Yeah, it's a little hairy. Yeah. Make you want to puke. And finally, I've been looking for the perfect jersey to wear in the summer and I've found it courtesy someone I've never even knew was on Twitter on Twitter there's the penders drugs bleacher creature an old mascot I never knew existed

until I saw it this morning you need that I need it I've reached out someone knows them this is all happening this morning I would happily be ingesting fungus way up in the bleachers we were in that thing and it wouldn't be a far off description of where we're at. So is your family, did they own Pinders drugs? My grandfather back in the day had a part in it, yes. But I did not know that existed. That was pretty cool to see. So I'm going to go chase that down. Probably get one made up. I think the original will be pretty epic. Yeah, be all right. Anyway, that's Pinder Report. There you go. Pinder Report brought to you by Village Honda. Village Honda wants to buy your car. Sell it to them today. You'll get paid in 24 hours. No.

hassle. Get your no obligation appraisal today. Up in the Northwest Auto Mall, online village honda.com. CRV hybrid. See you soon. See you soon. There you go. Talk about see you soon. I threw this out. I guess it was last week. Doing it again. It is January 18th. We are under a month from Valentine's Day. Oh shit. And I know what just, oh, I got time. We can do the. What if, so again, Viena Nova is where I'm going. going with this. Venanova, Calgary's only 100% lab-grown diamond dealer. And they may not just have it sitting there on the rack, the one that you need, the size, or whatever. Maybe you got to get it its size. Maybe you got to get it brought in. Maybe you need to kind of do something. Get, just figure it

out. Give yourself some wiggle room. Don't leave it till the 13th, boys. Figure it out. Viena Nova, they took care of us for Christmas. Well, at least took care of the stress. It was done. Yeah, that's a great idea. Guys listening, you're like, holy crow. We talked about it, a bunch of our boys went in there, used that promo code and it was like, say, maybe you already had something sorted for Christmas, but now you need help on Valentine's Day.

Here you are. And if you happen to be foolish enough to be thinking of maybe I'll propose at Valentine's Day. If you're drunk on love. You know, if you're pinders, drugs, bleach your creature. Yeah. Then you go and you talk to Justin, you go and talk to the staff and figure out what it is, what's your budget,

they'll find a way to make it. work for you. Stephen Avenue Place, second level or online, vinanova.com. We are under a month until the big day. That's incredible. I'm excited. Tis. Tis indeed. Tomorrow on the program, we will have Ask Rett. Son of a bitch. I got to get this thing tightened. I got to because I've moved my microphone. Yeah, you did move the microphone. I moved the microphone. And I like it better over here. Yeah, you're right-handed. But I need the little. The little, the little, the little, nut, screw. Not a nut, the wrench, the little.

Oh, an Allen key. I need the Allen key. Okay. I don't know. Do you want me to hammer some way bets while you get that fixed up? I guess so. I bet it's because tomorrow's ask rent. Oh, that's right.

That's right. Get your questions in. Jesus. No, it's like tiny. That's a mountain. You get mad at him. How's he supposed to know? Apologize to the tan man.

It's good dude. He said sorry. You're the one that's supposed to say sorry. Tan Matt, honest, it's good, buddy. You're all good, brother. No, it's like, we've got two minutes left in the show. You're good. No, like it's about this.

It's about this big. You can't leave. You got asked Red tomorrow. Do you have any topics you'd like people to broach? Is there in an area of your life you feel like? I got to do with it. We could talk bills. We could talk food again.

Yeah. We can talk love. Oh, love. Love. Wow. You got a new side piece. What's happening here? It feels like I felt the love in the air there.

for the... I've enjoyed going to the gym lately. I don't know you that. What did he call her? The sneaky snake? Is that what he called earlier today? Goodness. Hope Street is right from day one. Taking care of Ask Ret.

They're happy to be on board. Shaman and the good folks. Askrette at Flamesnation.ca is the email address. Send them in that way. You can go... What if we don't have Twitter? Then just use your email. Ask Ret.

Yeah. At flamesnation. You can jump in, social, email, whatever you got to do. Hashtaget, whatever you want to do. Hopestry. Dot Cia. That's right. Canada's property manager of the year.

Vancouver, Ebenson, Calgary. It's all you need, right? It's all you need. You want second or third place? You want the champs. What if you, like, what if you have a huge home, a huge beautiful home? Like a mansion on a lake or something. That's just sitting there empty.

Why? Why is this costing me money? This should be making me money. Why would I not? But so just pulling any questions for us. Random out of thin air. All right. An interesting thought anyway.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Betway bets of the day before we get going. Flames tonight, as we know, taking on the... Bet the bills will. On the color has to... We got another show. That's right. Colorado Avalanche in town.

I do like, I just, I try and find plus. I want plus money. Kail McCar. One or more power play points. plus 115. I feel like if there's a power play, he's going to be on it. And if they get a goal,

he's going to be in on it. So I'm taking the plus 115 with a power play point or more. And then I'm shifting. The Bruins are at the Islanders. Islanders are mucking it a little bit. Bruins are the Bruins right now. They're a wagon.

So I'm going Boston minus one and a half plus 125. It's in New York. Do you think the Bruins care? I don't think so. I think they're scoring machines. I think the Islanders are struggling to score. I'm going to go with Boston by two or more.

Give me plus 125 for my bets of the day. Love it. I'm going to hang with the Bruins and Islanders as well. I got two bets on that game. It has been an absolute treat watching David Pasternak torch and scorched the earth. A Pasternak point. Okay. And the Bruins money line win.

So just a win at any point. Does not be regulation up by minus one? Just a win and a point for past a minus 118. That feels pretty safe. almost even money and getting a little balls here. How about his centerman, David Crati, who's coming off for three point night in game number 1,000, plus 350 for a couple points.

Just pass it to pasta. It's your betway bets the day. There you go. Betway bets of the day. Get the app. Be responsible. Be 19 years of age. Be an internet.

That whole thing. So tomorrow, yeah, busy Thursday show. Maybe some special guests in studio. We are working on that. We will have reaction from retro on this game coming up today. We will have Ask Redd. tonight after the flames game Pinder and I will have after burner do you want fear do you want terror my my kids and wife are on the way to the airport right now do I burn it can we just

I'm not sure it's money and get I don't know yeah how much for those tents where you have to put it over the whole house just to fumigate the whole thing that's what you need in like four hours if anybody can help pinder bug beds though I didn't that clean the house fumigating I don't know so big show coming on the way tomorrow join us for after burner tonight download that audio listen to it on the way to work, then tune us in. We'll be there for you. Have a good one, everybody. We'll see you tomorrow.

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