Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - FlamesNation Barn Burner: Calgary Flames Tampa Bay Lightning Saturday Matinee

Episode Date: January 20, 2023

Live from the Tower Chrysler Studios in Marda Loop! FlamesNation Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener Friday January 20th, 2023 - Flames Tampa Bay Game Preview - Ticket Giveaway for Mad Rose Pub - Pinder Report for Village Honda - Betway Bets of the Day Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oh, hey, it's a Friday. What, uh, we got a black square. It's, it's, it's, I'm Pinder, there's rats. Where's, uh, black square? Oh, you're muted, Rhett. People want to hear you. Lights are out at Dean's house? He usually comes to studio.

He's not his chair. We're going to empty chair here. He might be at home, but his lights are off. As Dean would say, there's no fat boy here today. Oh. He looks better like this. that one post game show was rough. I don't know about the others,

but the one, I was like, whoo, something about the lighting. I feel rough. How are you? You were a little grumpy yesterday. You had a big fiesta last night. I can only imagine how you're feeling. I was a quart low yesterday and a little edgy,

and today I just feel like crap. I am, I'm hurting. I'm very much hurting. You're still wrapping the bills, though. Manhattan's? Yeah. Is it man? Manhattan's, is that the drink or?

Yeah, Manhattan's. It's old fashioned. Oh. I think it was one or the other. Old fashions or Manhattan? The one with the big ice cube in a rocks glass is an old fashion. The one in a martini glass and I think it's pink, that's a Manhattan. No, no.

I was with the big rocks glass or whatever. And a huge ice cube. It was those. Old fashion. It was just straight booze, right? Yeah. Those will catch up. You have a few of those.

Well, that's what happened. right? I thought that they were just normal drinks and all of a sudden after eight, I'm like, whoa, big guy. The pores in the U.S. are not the same as Canada. We're a rather regulated country on earth. And it takes leaving this country to realize that, that things are very, we're very careful and we're worried at what everyone's safe. You want to protect everyone, right? So here you have to measure your shots and there's a certain amount you can put in. And there the bartender goes like this and talks about the weather and tells you his favorite football team. And I went to call it. here and then oh yeah i guess i'm done now like there's a difference isn't there so so i love it at the bills games i go up and you can only get two drinks okay because they don't want people per person right so i'm i said okay i'll get i'll get a double uh vodka and a beer and they're like well that technically is three drinks so how about just a single vodka and a beer and then they do that and then they give you that if i had a double of what you just poured it's just

spot it's a seven ounce splash of coke for color we were in boston we were in boston for the first bills game season opener okay and we're at a bills backer bar okay with my kids hockey team i'd be contentious by the celebrating we were everyone

oh bills backer bar and patriotic country we're gonna do it they're everywhere okay sorry interrupted keep going that's okay and so we're going to do a shot of crown because that's the thing that people do in in buffalo's crown royal shots not sure why or how this became a thing but it is so they ordered a shot a crown and honest to god it was well hang on hang on oh i think he's got this shot glass potentially it's not a shot glass but it was at least this big oh dear like it was

it was it was about a four ounce shot oh and it was like what am i supposed to do i can ruin your day that can ruin your day yeah can afford drinks and it can spread out over an hour or two and you can deal with that. But four shots into the gullet, just like that, something hits you quick. You can feel the body warm, I'm guessing, very soon after. Hits you hard. I've got something for you. We've got to pour their drinks, though.

We're going to talk some bills. We've got a couple sneaky guests that will appear on the show today. We got a lot to get to. We got tickets given away. We got more tickets to give away because it's Johnny Cheese Pizza Night coming up on Monday. We're off to Jasper in a week, getting jacked up about that. And we're live, obviously, at the Tower Studios. Tower cries or Dodge, ram, ram.

You see the nation's truck, take a photo, throw the hashtag out, put it on socials. We'll give you a little love on the show. How's that sound? Speaking of Tower, I've been concerned about surge because I'm not getting enough information. And as over-managing and really wanting to be the GM and annoying everyone about this pond hockey tournament we're going to in Jasper, I don't know that I've got a good scouting report on surge, but I'm continuing to get more and more data. We know he has new gear.

We didn't know if he could skate. We saw him doing some bad push-ups the other night on the rink. We've got more visuals from Surge from Tower regarding the Jasper Pondocky tournament. Sound up. Let's go. I think we have more visuals. Got the visuals? It's coming.

It'll happen. I think. Alex, do we have surge on the rink or not? If we don't, we'll just move right along. And we'll play it later. Here it is. Oh, he's got the big shovel out. Sound up.

What is a big one too, isn't it? He says, where's the shoveler? That's what he says. He says he goes by. So he's on the ODR. Shoveler couldn't. He's got the dupey red helmet. He couldn't handle that big shovel.

That's a big one. I think we kind of, we had to squish him wide to fill the screen. It's a big one. I don't know that big. But he's moving pretty good there. My, my concern. about his ability to skate have been quelled a little bit. They've calmed down.

So maybe less of a liability. I hope he turns out all right because he's, he's not going to like the wrath that you released on him. I look, I'm going to be supportive. I just, I wanted to know if he knew how to skate. He does know how to skate.

Feef, because I've had a look at Mandip. I know we're getting there. I have no idea what we're, have you ever seen boomer skate? Have you ever seen boom on blades? No, and I don't want,

like, I can't imagine he can. I honestly God, He does not look like how he gets his 20 years ago. He was like in Finland. How does he get his. How does he get his big hoof into the boot? He's just got a ski boot with a butcher's knife on the bottom. I don't know.

I don't know. He will be terrible. You are, he would be, you know what? For his own safety and everyone else's, probably best if he leaves the wheels off and just. Coach, get him one nice leather jacket. And all. Yeah, in all honesty, he'd be better at it. Okay.

Because he's going to get hurt. He's going to take someone else out. He's going to be ineffective. It's not going to be good. Prince, he's getting fired up. He's already talking about who he's going to cross-check first on Oilers Nation. It's, it's, it's, there's a lot of personalities I have to manage here as fake GM, rat. I don't know that you understand how much work's going into this.

How many fellas are on the squad? We got seven. We count it today seven. or were we six and we wanted Frank to be our seven? I think that's what it was. So we got myself, Boomer, who I think is going to be one shift and then coach. Surge, better vibes on Surge, Man Deep, Princey, myself. Six.

It wouldn't hurt you to have, you know, reach out to the women's Olympic team or something. Get some ladies out there because they would actually give you a good effort. That's a phenomenal idea. A quick anecdote for you. It was out to one of the ODRs here a month ago, and there was a gal on the ice wearing a B.U jersey. And we were like, oh, yeah. Bet you that's a real good player.

And we were playing three on three. And it was like, a lot of guys who played Junior B and like nothing great, but, you know, guys that can play. And it was like, everyone by the end was enchanted. Like, do you see the handles? Like, completely nutmeg me through the leg. Just everyone was, holy crap. That's who I need to recruit.

She played on the U18 team. it's like that's hey let's go I mean that was years ago she's probably late 20s but like when you are on the ODR with a chick that hauls ass on the ice it's it's a swoon Rhett it's swoon! Oh it is

I would you better try and get her signed up yeah well I never don't know how to yeah got nothing a little late it's next week speaking of next week you can still get up to Jasper you don't need to play in the tournament we got our schedule today that email came

out from the Wolverine. But you could go up skiing, cross-country skiing, snow-shoeing, ice skating, dog sledding, sleigh rides, wildlife tour by train, ice climbing. Does they send up helicopters? Did they send a medic? If I go, if I go cross-country skiing, can they send a medic behind me? What are those things where you rub together? It's a clear.

That's the Mikeys, I think they call it. They got them in all the arenas. The DFIP. The DFIP. We need one of those on a dog sled nearby. That's intense cardio. I feel like the end will be near for many of us. If we cross-country,

is not messing around. That's some serious cardio. For more information, go to jasper. Dot Travel. It's Canada's cabin capital. And it's gorgeous out there in the winter. We'll be up there next weekend. Very excited to be up at Vincent's High School for the Pondock Tournament

and then to check out all the other amazing things going on in Jasper. and you can find out more on their website. We need an update on your ticket situation. You want to go to Bills Spangles this weekend. It is the Sunday 1 p.m. Calgary time, 11 bills time, kickoff. Sunday's a few days away now. We're watching secondary prices. What is the update for Rett regarding Bill's game Sunday?

Oddly enough, the phone here, looking at tickets, did you guys get any yet? we've got four in section 238 so we've been approached by another couple the shoveler and myself this is great news and then well then and i text the shoveler we got to pay for them i said how much do we want to spend on these things and the shoveler responded with the least amount possible for seats that are covered and heated okay and so these people have that That caliber of seat, right? This is the area you want to be in. And are they going to scalp them to you or offer you them at face?

No, no, no. They know someone and we're talking about going together. So we would purchase them as... Right, right, right. And go together. So you're, you may, it sounds like you're in the secondary market there, which is what it is. Yes. And I, to buy Mr. Pagula didn't offer me any last night when I saw it.

How is Mr. Pagula? I know you guys go way back. Great. Yes. Did you manage to. Did you insult him or compliment him or just none of the above? I was, I saw him and I was actually going to go up and reiterate my apology,

but I was so inebriated. I'm like, I'm only going to make it worse. You're too drunk. Do it sober when you can actually make sense and not sound like an ass. Why does that give me so much deja vu? I'm like, I really wish I could make things right,

but I'm so drunk right now. I should probably just let sleeping dogs lie. Damn it, Pender, why did you do this again? Now is not the time. Princey, do you want to get our boy a link there? Thank you. So we talked about Jasper. We've talked about your Sunday.

It sounds like you're in. I want to grant you a wish, Rhett, like genie and a bottle stuff. If you could have Greg from Bon Ton with a store in Buffalo, give me your top shelf, one-of-a-kind divisional weekend tailgate at Orchard Park this weekend.

Oh, so go and purchase my stuff from Bontan and take a tailgate. You might even, I'm allowing you to dream. You get, the genies granted you wishes. So maybe one of your wishes is like, Greg could actually be there with a smoker, barbecue, whatever you need. You might even be granted time to...

I need... Yeah. Actually, I would take the beef ribs from Bonton. on those things and and brag them up all around the Highmark Stadium. Like that would be king of swing if I had that. Yeah. You got, I had smash burgers earlier this year at the at a tailgate. Phenomenal.

So I would need some just, we're going to make some nice, simple smash burgers with grilled onions. Okay. You're in Buffalo, but nah, I don't want to do wings. Wings are too hard at a tailgate.

Well, and they're everywhere, right? Like if you're, Hey, I got wings. Cool. We're in Buffalo. Everyone has wings, right? You've got to be a little more unique. To me, that would be, that would be, this is, that's, I would do the beef ribs, smash burgers, and the potato salad.

Yes. I'm sorry. Yep. It has to be. But can you imagine you walk up to the, a party at the, your tailgate and walk up to this party and there's that potato salad, a big bowl that. You taste it. And you're like, holy shit. Yeah.

Like refill, refill. Let's go. Yeah. Those would be my three. People don't generally yearn for potato salad or like, oh boy, I love potato salad. Like it's kind of just a thing. But this bond on potato salad is different. And I may or may not have had to thank station number five, the fire hall there here in town for what may or may not have happened.

You know, community pillars and such with a huge tray of potato salad that they said, I've heard about this. Now I'm not much of a, I just did it. Just try it. And saw the fellows at the three-on-three tournament last weekend. Station 5 put a team in. And they were raving. They said, like, we had to have two bowls. We were not potato salad guys and we could not stop.

And it's life-changing stuff. It's the perfect amount of bacon, if not just too much bacon. It's beautiful. Yeah, that's the thing about that potato salad is I don't need potato salad every day. But when that's out, I can't pass it up. It can't stop. Different type of potato salad. It's way different.

Yeah. It is, I would not ever dare try something anywhere else. It's just, I've been ruined. They'll never have potato salad. Good. That's my moving potato salad. I don't do potato salad except for Bontan. So now, and the other thing, I guess, since we're talking about this, Bontan,

I would also wouldn't mind some pulled pork because I love the pulled pork mixed with the potato salad at Bonton. Nice soft buns, hey? I don't even use a bun. I just take a scoop of potatoes, a scoop of whole pork. I mean, you're going to want to share. I don't know how that's going to go over in Buffalo if you just got a huge serving spoon, but yeah, okay.

Don't care. I believe we have a special guest on the line here. I don't know if his mouth is sweating or not, but we, you know, he may not be listening, but I think we've got live from a huge sporting event. I think it's a rinkside reporter. Is that right, Alex? Do we have a rinkside reporter from someone?

Is it southern Alberta? I believe that. Look at this. Live on location. There is Dean Boomer Mulberg. Dean, what are you reporting on today? It's a big day, fellas. It's a big day here in Calgary.

It is the 73rd annual golden ring, ringet championship. Teams from far and wide. It's not the bus. Caw-a-a-low cup, but it's close. The excitement, you can, it's, it's tangible, the tension you can cut with a knife. You can use all of that stuff. It's really quite a start here. And apparently you're on chisling duty. You got the score sheet today, is that right? Yeah, well, not score sheet. I wish. Some extra apples in there, you know, but score clock, score clock, the timekeeper, which is, I hate that. You ever had to do that? It's stressful when

You got to do the clock and then the dumb refs start calling, calling penalties. And then you got to take them off. If there's a power play, it's a lot of numbers there. I don't know that's your wheelhouse, right? You know what? It's not my thing at all. But so far, so good, fellas. 7 a.m. this morning up at the Don Hartman pulled out a victory of some sort.

I forget what the score was, but it was, we were very, everyone was very sleepy, very tired. They'll be better here, game coming up in a few minutes. Are you? I was just going to say, we had breakfast at Denny's. We had breakfast at Denny's. Little Moons over my hammy. They pumped about 80 bucks into one of those machines with the claws to grab the things. They got some stuffed goat of some sort.

So the goat is, it's an omen, it's karma. Good. The championship is as good as ours. Okay. The girls are really feeling it today. Now, Dean doesn't have a lot of time. I believe this is 11 o'clock puck drop at Don Hartman. So really quickly, I wanted to have you here.

Oh. I was going to say that the last game was the right down of the wires. So flood's probably just starting to I've got a couple minutes. I've got a couple minutes for you. Good to hear. Okay.

So wanted to announce today our new partnership with the Grey Eagle Casino and Event Center super excited to be getting down with the Grigel. Now we've done some things with them in the past. We've all been to shows there, the incredible event center, the casino. And I looked, Anthrax is in this week. Are you an anthrax guy, D?

Oh, you know what? You got to be in. If you're in for intrastrax, you got to be all in. You don't just sort of like anthrax. It's the real deal. Didn't anthrax team up with a rap group? Like, bring the noise. Am I?

Is that the same? You could be right. It was honestly, it was a little heavier than old little Dean could handle. I was, I enjoyed Metallica and a little Judas Priest. Yeah. Now, but the anthrax, my buddy Carrie Emerson, who I think lives in medicine hat now, Emmer was a huge anthrax guy, long hair, tall, and big headbanger. He loved anthrax. Oh, I'll see him at the Grigel in the 22nd. That's good.

I'm seeing metal and thrash. That's the description. Thrash. Lots of, you know what? It's lots of face melters. Yeah. It's a lot of that. It's a lot of that. Get your tickets now at the Grieggle box office. Yeah. Get some anthrax in your life. Rhett, you wanted to jump in there. Well, I'm just, I can remember some of their songs.

Dan, dan, dan, dan, dan, nan, nan, they're awesome. I was listening to Metallica this morning. They dropped the, they got a new album coming out, and the new, the second single from the new album came out today. You guys might want to check it out. It's something about suicide. I don't, I forget what it's called. But it's Metallica.

Yeah. They have a sound. Also need to be all. in. But they do. Yeah. You got to be all in if you want some Italicum.

So Grey Eagle, going to be our home for upcoming events. We've got some sneaky things we're working on there. Some big games coming up on the calendar. Flames hit the road.

We're going to need somewhere to go, Dino. If we're going to, you know, have some food, some bevvvies, watch some game, things like that. So stay tuned.

You know about the world-class casino? The event center is one of the icons of, you know, the music and arts, culture, comedy scene in Calgary. We're excited about this. Very excited. Thanks to Sheldon and everybody. Sheldon LaShawn, just a great guy.

See, is Sasker? I'm not sure. Anyway, good guy. Lived in Nashville, didn't he? We're pumped to be a part of it. Yeah, he worked in Nashville for a little bit. He's a very talented guy. You know what? He knows a good thing when he sees it.

So we're excited to be on board with the Griegel. Yeah, I love it. And I know you were at, we're at the meeting. Let's get to a point where if we're doing an event, you know it's at the Grey Eagle. We need to say, just meet us at the Grigel. We got rooms. We got rooms, we got the event center, we got concerts. It's awesome.

So we're pumped. Last question for you from me, Dean, before we leave you to this hotly contested game at the tournament, how's the goaltending been? Well, it was okay this morning. Again, a little sleepy, a little sleepy. The goalie didn't want to get out of bed this morning. She was because it was a 7 o'clock start. We have a half hour drive. So it was an early rise today.

Early rise, she was a little cranky. But we started cranking some Taylor Swift in the nation Jeep on the way up. We got the Swifty on, and that got us going. So looking for a better performance, but solid. Hey, one and all. Stop critique it wins, you, jerk. Want to know. That's right.

That's right. This is something else. Retro, I wish you could have this kind of emotion, you know, as a parent, you know, and your kids out on the ice and really feel it. feel for you. Try not to yell at the refs, Dean. Stay off the refs. Well, I was going to say, I was going to come on and say, yeah, I got thrown out of the

rank this morning just to see if struck up, conjured any memories for you. Yeah, it was a Trevor! I'm sure there's plenty of people getting booted lately because it's ESO as well. Oh, yeah. Going on. That's a lot. Minor hockey. That's what I'll be getting because I'm doing this.

Just third the clock, fat boy. Okay. Have fun. Thanks for joining us. And Johnny Cheese Pizza game on Monday. We'll say goodbye to you. We'll tell you where our first ticket winners are, right? Thanks, Dino. See ya.

Awesome. See you, boys. There is. How about that? Fat boy, start the clock. Don't be late. 7 a.m. And there was anthrax and public enemy joined up.

Flav of Flav. Bring the noise. Bring the noise. That is a banger. You can still use that for a warm-up in an NHL game. Hell yeah. 100% they should. Tickets for Monday, by the way.

We teased it there. We got multiple partners thrown out tickets for Johnny's return night. First off, Mandeep our boy at BK. Beaufort Liquor. We got a social media contest,

gave away the tickets this morning. Brandon Cubbit! You'll be Cabinsen at the Flames and Blue Jackets on Monday. Congratulations. He's got the pair from BK. Beaufort Liquor, one of our sponsors on Afterburner. Secondly,

if you missed out, well, you didn't miss out. Mad Rose still has a pair of tickets for Monday night. We're giving away. You know, Mad Rose, our friends up in the Northwest, kind of by Village, kind of by Bontan. It's the old, the vortex of the universe up there. We're overdue for a little drop-in with them, and we may have something up our sleeve for next week.

They've got tickets for Monday. You know the drill. Flames Nation's social media, Twitter, and Instagram. We will post tickets courtesy of Mad Rose. you're following Mad Rose both on Twitter and on Instagram. Tag the friend you want to take and our boy, Princey's going to sift through. And as long as you haven't been smirched his good name on the interwebs,

you're in the mix to win this thing, all right? And if you have, watch out. He'll slash you in the ankle. He'll find you. Don't bother sending in your application because you ain't winning. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Yeah. If you've blocked him on Twitter, you're not eligible to win these tickets, okay?

Don't be a jerk on the internet. It's funny. It is Johnny on Monday, and I suppose this is kind of, like, we'll talk about a Monday, but all of the conversations online is just like, Johnny Snake, throw snakes on the, I'm going to throw a jersey. I think he's going to get cheered. He was a really good flame. He earned the right to go to free agency.

They dragged their feet a bit on an extension. Things change. He's gone. Get over it. They're in last place. Nothing to be jealous of. Ryan Miller had his jersey retired last night. Yeah.

And it made me think about Johnny, actually, because. For sure, if he stays aflame and signs the extension in Calgary, his jersey would have went up in those rafters. No question. It's a conversation that Conroy had with us, you know, when they're talking extension. You knew that when you said, I'm leaving, that was going. He was going to be a leader in, you know, what points assists, games played for the franchise? That's incredible stuff. But, hey, it's not for everyone all the time.

And maybe it was for him at a different juncture. I wonder what that's worth, though. Like, I mean, I was never in that. Like, I could have played my whole life for a team and I wouldn't have got my jersey retired because it was no good. But for guys like dad, like watching Miller get that. I mean, that's, that's a forever thing. Yeah.

Right. And what it does is it cements you as an iconic personality in that city. And I don't know that there's going to be a statue of Johnny in Columbus and he's going to get paid X,000 dollars to sign his name on cards and be considered a fabric of the community when he's done there. He might, but you absolutely knew that would be the case if he stayed in Calgary. It's a conversation for Monday. Absolutely. Where are we at with our boy Kevin Woodley of Ingole magazine? Any update on that? Prince. C. We're kind of, we're working on it. All right. Kevin's going to try to join us. He's at Canucksgate. He's our goalie guru that we've chatted with a bunch over the years.

Want to get a little intel on Markstrom, not many better on Markstrom, given that Kevin's based out of Vancouver, where Jacob plied his trade for what, the last half decade before he signed in? Calgary and I think there's probably some cause for concern in Markstrom's game. There's been signs that he's turned it around. It's not like the team in front of him has been flawless and he's been the weak link, but you haven't had

him steal games at the rate that we saw last year and I think he had what nine shutouts last year? So yeah, it's dating the obvious, right? Yes, but I think they need that, sorry, this team they need him to steal some games or someone. If it's Darrell Hockey,

the formula includes a really good goal. right? Like look where he's had success and how it's happened. It's not with, you know, Brian Boucher and then this guy from the miners. Backbone, goaltender. And if they were, I mean, I don't know how far off his numbers are. But if he was 10% better, how many more points to the flames have, right? A lot. I mean, they've only played one goal games, it feels like.

So one more save, a lot of nights might get you a win in regulation versus a trip to overtime. They've been dog shitting overtimes. And to be fair, he's been really good in the final 40. Some games are hasn't been sharp early. But this team just isn't built to climb out of a lot of holes. And if they do, it's a lot of work. It's watching them fall down 3-0 to Colorado, it's like, man, some of those big saves, if they happen in the first, you wouldn't feel so deflated.

You wouldn't see guys after goals, right? Yes, exactly. You might feel like you have a chance. Yeah. Yeah. So we'll see if we can link up on that conversation with Kevin in the coming moments. Looks like we're ironing out some tech stuff. He's at the rink.

And Vancouver's an absolute shit show right now. Bo Horvatt maybe picked the best, certainly has picked the best time to have a career year. He's flirting with like a 50 goal pace. He's a captain. Everyone loves the guy. And they've given all the money to J.T. Miller. They don't want to pay him for the production he's had. this year. They can't screw up trading him at the deadline, right? Like this is too good of a player

to not get a haul for. Where is he going? I mean, how good would Boston look? Probably right. Do they have the assets? I mean, they have a first, so I feel like that's a starting point. Everyone has them. It's just how much of your future do you want to give away? And if you're the Bruins, why the hell not? You got Burz run right now? I don't know that the Bruins are good in four years, but they're good now. It's a window. Someone had mentioned Seattle. guys too where although they got to sign pastor next too

yeah there's well there's not a team out there that shouldn't want them everyone should be like yeah yeah i mean old horvatt please and one of the things he's done this year is tipping the puck and in tight on the net that's

that's something you always harp on like kachuk has become one of those guys horvatt this year a huge percentage of his goals have come from tips net front and I feel like that's that's a part of the flames game that I feel like could be better. It feels like when there is a rebound, there's not a guy there. And I don't know who you see in the lineup that, but it feels like they're missing that net front that Kachuk provided last year, amongst other skills he had.

I think that that's so overlooked. It's weird because all of us old bastards were talking. I went out with a bunch of guys that I played with the Buffalo last night. And we're all talking about how the game has changed. and they teach kids to hang on to the puck way too long. And it's like, yeah, they got lots of skill, but they don't think the game as well. And another day we talked about,

no one goes to the front of that and parks their ass and says, try to move me. I'm going to tip everything that comes by. Dino Cicerole, Dave Anderchuk, Tim Kerr, guys that have hundreds of goals in the NHL. They knew if I go here, it might hurt, but I'm going to get rewarded, right? And I don't even think it's like it's,

It's nastier in front now. Like, geez, all the price is too high to pay. I think it's easy to get to front of that in theory, isn't it? There's no hatchers in the league anymore. 100% easier. You think of me back of the day when Chris Pronger was slashing you and hacking you in front of it. Like, you know, hatchers, like, you can't even do it anymore.

It's, it's, you're either going to, you'll get to the front or you'll draw a penalty. Yeah. Because if the D is playing the way they did back in the day, they're going to get called. So anyway, it seems like a simple thing or an easy thing, but nobody does it as much. And to be fair. They'll still handle the piss out of that puck in practice, but they won't go stand in front of the net and tip puck. We've complimented Manjapani and rounding in the forum. That's one of the areas you've noticed them more, is that net front, pushing D-Men,

shoves after whistles, being around the cage. That seemed to be missing in the first 20 games for him, I thought. In the last 20, 25, we've seen more of it. Now, it hasn't translated into 35-goal pace, but, it's certainly been a welcome sign to see him around it a little more. He's engaged in it at least. Yes. So.

Princey, what do we know? Are we pulling shoot or we working? Still waiting. Okay. Say that again? Who won Tampa last night? Well, you know what? We had to highlight the Pinda report.

Should we go there? Should we do Pinda report while we sort this out? Yeah. Okay. Sure. Let's do that. So last night, we were at Village. Honda.

Village presents the Pinda Report. We love that every day, the nonsensical topics of the sports universe. Before we get into the news, let's take you live to Village last night for the unveil. Boomer and I were there with the Wolverine. They got a big crowd in to see the unveiling of the new 2023 CRV hybrid special night. Pretty cool car. Let's roll the video.

See what we got. Let's we're up in the northwest. Holy. You ready for this? So there's, there are the pictures. There's Jason on the right on the mic talking about it. That's after it was unveiled,

and they actually wheeled it out underneath that curtain. And yeah, there's, I still want the motorbike. That motorbike looks good. I got some 1970. Honda motorcycle. They're like, please don't get on that, sir. I kept just pretending to be on it. They also thought I was homeless, so I get that.

It's not their fault. We had a good time last night. Good to see Anthony and the gang up there. and yeah, the new CRV. Here's the deeds on it. Eight till six, today and tomorrow, you want to check out the new CRV hybrid. Get up to Village Honda, check it out.

Yeah, they're really excited about it. The Honda brand's obviously a very strong on a good one. And this hybrid, big things happening, a couple off the block last night. Get up there. Check them out. Okay, where do we start in the PIN report? How about the Calgary Flames and Tampa Bay Lightning?

It was an off day yesterday for the Flames. and I have bad news to report, Rett, Daryl has gone back to the old lines at practice today, Luchich with Cadry and Eubertoe on the second line. I believe the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Sure, they got some decent results early against bad teams like San Jose and Anaheim.

I don't like this line and I haven't liked them for a while. It just, you look at that lineup and you can go the fourth line, you go okay whatever i mean most fourth lines aren't you know they they serve a purpose but they're not your focal point and then you go up there oh backland coleman man absolutely i love that line great line really good you go to the top line lindholm to foley dubay i actually like that line that's sounds like a good line and then you have cadre huberto and luch and it just doesn't doesn't make sense to me. I don't get it.

I don't understand it. But it's, is Daryl making a point? It's painful. Or is Daryl saying, I don't think he, I don't, I think he believes it,

Ryan. I think he believes it. I think he believes that this is what he has to do. There's obviously something going on there where he feels like he's got to put those guys together. Maybe he thinks, Luch, I don't know.

I don't know. Wyatt, they're slotted in this way, but he believes it. And he has a plan for it. And I don't know what, what's going on behind the scenes to make them want to do this. Yeah. Clearly he's committed. It's just odd because he healthy Luch at times this year. Luch has had some turnover problems early.

And I'm not saying take him out of the lineup. I'm just saying that's not the right spot for him in the lineup. Like, would it be such a huge travesty if Walker Durer fell out of this lineup and Luch slid on to the left side of that fourth line? Would that really be too much? I just, these think tank pieces out there, where is the room for Jacob Peltier? Like, oh, I don't know.

Where do you aim the hammer? On the nail? Like, there's one place for him in this lineup. It's really simple. Daryl doesn't want to do it. Well, and it seems odd because I'm with you. And to be quite honest, you know, they're all the organization,

they're going to want Peltje, who's who we're talking about, to be protected somewhat as well, right? Yeah. Well, if Codry and Huberto, carry a kid then then they shouldn't be getting paid what they're getting paid right yeah like to be honest with you that should be an easy spot for that kid to go perfect spot yeah and he's not heavy enough he's too young parents maybe they think all the expectation maybe they think the expectations

will be too high and blah blah blah it's like why why is we always say put a kid in a spot where they can succeed yeah and if coddrey and huberto can't first of all if he can't you can't keep up with them then he's not a fourth line guy so you don't want him in a lineup to kill penalties and and play five minutes you want him in a point producing role yeah cadre and huberto and pelche should be a point producing line and he doesn't have to carry the mail like those other two should be carrying the kid he should be a nice supplement to them i for the life of me i would revamp the whole thing i know that darrell it's easy for me to say and I know that Darrell likes his veterans, but I would have Luchich and Lewis out of there.

I'd have that big Russian down middle. I'd put Rizitschka on the other wing, and I would put Peltche on that cadre, Hubertel line. I do not need to see veterans anymore. Veterans have got you to barely playoff position. That's a good point. Actually, I think we're not in playoff position, right? So all of this BS and bullshit about, well, they got rings and they know how to win,

they ain't, they ain't effing doing it. They're not winning. not leading your team and they're not showing the way it's b s now throw it out the window and go with something else give it a try if that fails how hard is it to go back to luchich and lewis like it's a great point it's easy snip snip play that on social today like that's that's exactly the rant oh you the veterans you trust so much have got you where below average net minding not enough scoring in a team that really seems to be lost at the wheel in terms of energy and motivation. Sorry.

Yeah. You think you're putting a bunch of young kids. You, we were and don't you. The story from the, the dome is always the same BS too. Oh, no. The guys are excited. They're old. They're such a tight room. Love each other. Yeah. Kiss my, you know what. All right, red. I like some young kids in put some young kids in there with some bloody energy. Go watch. Again, I'm here so it rings true to me. Go watch the Buffalo Sabers. They got a bunch of young kids that are flying around the ice, piss and vinegar everywhere. Maybe that's what Cadre and Huberto need is a young kid to come in and get them. Holy shit.

This is awesome. Oh, my God. You guys, this is great. Come on guys. Right? Like, feed off of that. Do you think Luchich and Kodji are like, hey, let's really ramp up the energy? The night.

No. Right. Like, no. Okay. We'll move. We need the kids in there. We got to keep rolling. Quick glance at the time.

Tampa line. Great rant. Love it. It's been a lot of that around Calgary. I'm sure you've missed it. That's a team that looks like everyone's slotted properly. Yep, that's a good hockey club. There's Corey Perry on the fourth line. That'd be fun. That goes tomorrow, one o'clock start from the dome. Here's a look at your divisional standings. I think, without question, Dallas, Winnipeg, Minnesota, and Colorado are playoff teams. I think they're all in. That means you've got to get in the top four in the Pacific. Here's how the Pacific looks today after an Oilers victory last night over the lake. Lightning. Flam's going to have to catch one of these teams. Luckily, okay, the Oilers win, but LA lost, they got pumped by Dallas. Hmm, things to consider in the Pacific Division.

Vaselowski, a big save on McDavid last night. Ret, I've got plans for you in Florida. That's where I want to go next. You see my shirt? This is tropical. This is beachwear. My wife brought it back from Australia. I'll be right, Mike. I'm going to loan this to you. Here's what you're going to be doing in Florida because you're heading down for All-Star weekend. They got a beach party for the Rettster. Are you down with a good beach party? As long as it's fully nude. Well, it's brought to you by truly, not nude, but so be it.

There you go. You can't do this in Winnipeger Calgary, hey? The old January slash February beach party. There is something neat about Miami. Last couple notes of Pinda Report. Brooke Henderson, four birdies to start the day. She's in first place at the first LPGA. event of the year. That's pretty good. Wow. She's my favorite Canadian athlete. She's phenomenal.

She's really good. And I think we have a live look at the leaderboard. Is that right, Tamman? Or do we not have that? We don't have it. Okay. So she's kicking ass. She's in first place at last check. Have you seen the travel the LPGA has to do? Have you seen this before? Okay. This is, this is their whole world tour in a globe graphic. Watch this. They start in Florida. Let's just watch this. Oh yeah, all the way over the globe to Thailand. Yeah. Good. Okay, now we're going to Singapore, up to China, all the way back. Yeah, okay, looks like your southern states. Yeah.

Oh, California. Back over Hawaii. Now all the way back, okay, Texas, back to California. Okay, northern California, all the way back over to the east coast, back towards the west, back to the east, down the coast of the east. Midwest, back to the east coast, back to California. Like, who designs this shit? This is a nightmare.

Oh, now we're going to go over to France. Yeah. Oh, now the UK. You want to talk about a five-game road trip coming back being groggy. They're back to North America now. Look at this shit. Are you kidding me? No, Spain.

How many miles? And they're back to Asia. Look at this. Now Japan, South Korea. Oh, my gosh. Hockey players are never allowed to whine about travel to someone. one that plays in the LPGA. Look at this.

Back to Florida where they started. Good work, guys. How many miles is that? It's like you couldn't pick a more circuitous route to circle the globe. But tip of the cap to the ladies and to Brooke, who's having a great start to her season in tournament one. We got some video of your indoor soccer league, Brett.

We know you're a big rec soccer guy. Let's take a peek. You looked like you were in trouble in net here, but my goodness, somehow, some way. You got the white jersey on on the left. Let's have a look. nice to play it away good work there uh-oh wide opening oh you swing and a miss oh oh no not in back of friend oh gosh post that's how you do it right you need a little puck luck the posts that is you guys

in jasper oh please don't be please don't be let us go to boomer is right there look at them oh you had it boom You had off. Oh. Also, Stefan Diggs of the Bills, the wide receiver, he was watching TV in bed the other night and happened to come across the slapping world championships. Let's have a watch.

Oh, my God. Have you seen these? These are vicious. They right here smacking the shit out of these things. Watch this right here. Oh. My gosh. There's some new shit.

shit on TV. Oh shit. Look at Joe. They try and get the famous shit off the smack and shit off someone. There's somebody hits in the NFL, Red, but this is next level. This is Joe right here, and he's going to get the famous. Let me see some. Let me see what Joe got. Hold up.

This guy that looks like Big Earn. I feel like he can take it, Red. He ain't really bringing no power of the situation. Let me see. Oh, all right, tighten up. Yeah, all right. Look at your leg, but I don't say you're getting famous. Oh, I don't know how people do this, right?

Get it together. Get it together. Oh, I'm giving you the platform. Here he is. Let me see. Look at his cheeks already blown up. Oh, got him. That's a hit.

Out. That's your Pender Report today. Get up, Craig. For Village Honda. Get up, Craig. It's easier to get up to Village Honda. it is to do well in the slapping world championships. Check out the new CRV hybrid, the 2023.

Yikes. And their faces just blow up like balloons immediately. It takes a lot to get famous, I guess, to these days. Does it? Well, I mean, does it take a lot or you just have to be stupid? Well, if taking a slap to the face is a lot, it does. But you're right. Yeah, if you're just an idiot and you don't mind getting hit in the face, it's easy, I guess.

I believe we have Kevin Woodley's gone. You gone? Yeah, too much. Timmy didn't work. That's all right. We'll try them next week. That's fine. No sweat.

I do have one more piece of video then, if that's the case for the Pinda Report. You know that deer, elk, moose, carab, they shed the antlers, right? I don't know when or why, but you can find them on the ground somewhere sometime. There's a guy in New Brunswick that has a drone and actually got footage of a moose shaking the antlers. Let's have a look here. I thought you'd like this, your big mountaineer and stuff. So this is a drone from above. We're looking down at a moose here.

Just a little boogie, a little shimmy shake. Whoop. That crazy? I actually saw a video of this from a, a, like a doorbell cam. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. They saw.

But yeah, they do just a big shake and off they go. Yeah. And there is. That's a nice set for the, of the fireplace there, right? Cool. Sell those things. things too people that's a lot of people go out and tramp through the woods and look for antlers

he found him because he had the drone watching that's easy yeah he just said i just followed the moose prints and it was there cool do you have any uh taxidermy any antlers at any of your numerous vacation abodes you got to have something in northern sasker above the fire i love it every time you go fishing that you catch a fish oh you should get that mountain that'll be Oh, that's a real amazing. I've never seen one that big. Shut up. Spent $8,000 to get some stupid shark put on my wall.

No thanks. Yeah. Well, next time I see antlers, I'll think you. I know your folks might enjoy that up at the cabin, hey? What does it cost to get a fish put up? I feel like it's like the fishing trip might be just as expensive as getting one of those things put on a wall. I think it's expensive and then try getting the thing home.

Yeah. Well, if it's real big, if it's something in a little, but then you don't want to frame it. Yeah, so what are you doing it for? What are you doing it for? You know what that gets me thinking about, though? Cabins and the outdoors and rustic places, tannas.

You missed a good night the other night. Did you see the video when we brought the tan man, Boom and I did a little... Did the tan man attack the food? He was very polite and he waited for us to eat, but let's have a look. you'll get some visuals here. So this is, oh, yeah, that's the, that's the, that's the, the dip.

Hey, no double dips. No double dips, Dino. Look how happy he is, hey? Is he it? Is he a pint? He's got a pint to his left hand, right? Yeah. We were there on Tuesday, which is Taco Tuesday.

Now, I don't know if you remember the last time you and I had tacos. We'll have a listen here. Hot sauce was in Mexico, and he was gone for about 12 hours. We didn't know where he was. I couldn't leave a bathroom. Spoiler alert, I was on the toilet. Yeah, we laid the hot sauce on. That was a fun night.

I'm going in. I loved that night. But I can remember being in Mexico knocking on your door because we couldn't find you. And I was actually starting to go. I couldn't take 10 steps. I had to stay close, if you know what I mean. And as the story went, we're out in Porto Vallerta. And we're going to a taco place, but it's very popular, very busy.

of gringoes there. So it's lined up a bit. It's okay. We're like, we're on our way. There's a little street taco station on like some dirty little alley just a block away.

And I'm like, rat, like this is as authentic as it gets. You want, you want the real Mexican taco experience. My treat. My treat. These are cheap ones. I'm gonna, I got the pesos out.

I got it, Rhett. Don't even worry. Get a couple of them. You do the old fake bite. Throw it on the ground. I eat mine. And I'm like,

rat. And he's like, dude, come on. I can't get sick. I'm like, what are you talking about? Like, this is, this is legit food here. And Rhett wasn't on the toilet the next two days and I was. I did that in China once.

I bought something from a street vendor and it went poorly. Yeah. They're probably doing their best. I don't know that it's their fault, but yeah, the fancy Gringo place was so much better. I'm sure it's not deliberate, but. Nonetheless, be smart. Ramifications. Yeah, so here's what you need to know about Montana's.

They got their daily deals, right? So there's a drink deal every night. Tuesday was the day. We were there. Tuesdays is Taco Tuesday. We know Wednesday. All you can eat ribs. Monday, half-price wings.

This is the deal right here, fellas. Sunday. We'll take a little off the price for takeout. Yes, go try that burger and watch the football game. They're bringing back to watch party. They're bringing back the viewing party. Hey, you can take it out on Sunday for 15% offer. You can hang in.

bottle up at the bar. They'll have the game on. It's the place to be cheering on your favorite team while enjoying half-price wings on Monday. Yeah, all you can eat ribs on Wednesday, maybe just a nice cold beer. Gotta love it. And those $5 tacos when you get a beverage,

that was a move. I don't mind Tuesday on the old weekly calendar for that one. I'll tell you that right now. How hot is the hot sauce? It was good. I remember in Mexico, there was some hot. Yeah. I do like the greater,

the more varieties is good because then you can sort of figure where you're flying too close to the sun and then back it off a little. They had a Montana's sort of spicy barbecue sauce and then they had a couple other ones. And the Montana's one was really good. Nice flavor, not too hot.

Didn't send me to the washroom too quick. The new comfort menu is out right now. They got a pot rose soup, Chipotle Firecracker Burger, buttermilk fried chicken, mac and cheese from the Apple Crisp to finish. Do you want to guess who ordered the Apple Crisp? Give you one guess.

The boom. Do you want to guess how many spoons he asked for? Because there was three of us. One? He asked for three. Do you want to guess how many spoons got used? One? Yeah, that's correct.

Yeah. Two for three, not bad. Check it out. The new menu. My father-in-law would crush that. I would crush that. The apple crisp or all the above? I needed comfort food this morning when I woke up in my head

was about to, who, falling at church bell? It was bad. Yeah. Do you have any more details from last night? I know we talked a little bit about in the pre-show, but it was Ryan Miller retirement night. You weren't at the game or you weren't part of the ceremony,

but then you caught up with the after party. They were going to a bar afterwards, everyone. So I played with J.P. Dumont and Timmy Connolly, and there was a whole whack of guys. There's lots of guys there. So went down and met up with. those guys afterwards. Like I said, I didn't go to the game or the ceremony, but apparently it was really good. And also, I was talking to that Dylan Cousins. All the all the Sabres came over

afterwards, coaches. Nice. What a goal he scored. And what a kid. Everyone loves it. I just, I talked to him for five minutes. He's just one of those quality individuals. Yeah. Well, I remember we had Rob Ray at some point in his rookie season. And I think he went sort of three to five somewhere in they're in that draft class. What is he from Yukon? He's the first guy in the NHL from the Yukon, I believe. And Rob Ray is like, this is the guy. Like everyone loves this kid.

He doesn't need a letter. He's a leader. He could wear a letter, whatever. He's just one of those guys that you're like, this guy gets it, super down to earth, humble, works his tail off, does the little things. Like he was raving. And that was his rookie a couple years ago.

I think, you know, there's a lot of talk about Tage. There's a lot of talk about Dahlene and Powers and, you know, Jeff Skinner making. I think Cousins a really big part of that. He's one of those guys that he doesn't need the press clippings, but he's there every night doing the little things. That Dahlene's an awesome dude, too. Is he talked with him for a little bit.

Yeah. I feel like the vibes are good there, man. And it's been a while since I feel like the vibes are good there. The vibes are awesome. They have a good group and they're all on the same page. And I can tell you they are having fun. Mm-hmm. 100%.

Donnie Granato, hey? I spent all the money on Ralph Kruger. They've ripped through coaches there a ton, and there was Donnie right under their nose the whole time. Love it. It's a great vibe they have. And they've really bought into, we've got to be part of the fabric of the community.

And I think the bills are that way, and the savers are that way. And it's a pretty good scene, sports scene going on here in Buffalo right now. And I think, like you mentioned Pagulu, was there last night. I feel like they had a rough ride and you know, hey, was it

Darcy Reyear? No, it was Darcy the GM? Hey, here's all this money. Spend all this money. And it was Christian Airhoff and it was what, uh, Billy Alano, I want to say. Like it was huge to. Lano. Lano. Yeah, Billy Lano. The guy from Philly. And it was

like, geez, like Darcy's been with a budget for 10, 15 years or whatever, his whole career. And now you're telling him to blow his brains out. And then it was coaching change. And, of the fallout with Ikel and it just felt like it was geez these Pagulas maybe they aren't right for this but I feel like that they're getting some PR wins here well they haven't had since purchasing the team

they haven't had anything good happen yeah they didn't win the the lottery the they got Eichel not McDavid yeah season Ikel's an ass they had to get him out of there they did that didn't work out like it's been Tim Murray was no good uh what's his name oh the next GM after tim murray who's in pittsburgh the team canada or gold medals bottle that was no good that coach was it was it's been a shitty yeah tough decade or of ownership for this for this group for the pagulas and i think they were kind of getting fed up with it and now

it's turning the corner and i i hope and i hope and i think that they're starting to enjoy it i think they've always loved owning the bills that's been fun for them because it's NFL and it prints money so blah, blah, blah. But with the Sabres and having 6,000 people in the arena and you're probably losing money in certain ways, I'm sure they're not going broke, but it's just a bad vibe. And now this team has totally turned the corner and everyone loves them again. I feel like that team's coming. The only problem is I think Detroit's coming. I think Ottawa eventually will figure things out. I think Montreal is on the upswing.

and I still don't think Toronto's going away. Boston's going away. Tampa's going away. Florida's getting near the end of a tough cap spot. They'll have more money to spend. That division's the best in hockey. Like that's the, I hope they get in because everyone loves that market.

It's passionate fans. It's not the white collars strolling out halfway through the period because they're hanging at some sushi bar in the restaurant like it is Toronto. Everyone loves that building when it's rocking. And, you know, they're kind of flirting with the bubble this year, but I'm hoping next year they're in. This league is awesome when,

Buffalo, that building's rocking. Yeah, it is good. So, but you're right. There's too many good teams out here. It's like, just getting in is saying something. So this year's a success already. That Thompson deal, if he plays this way, is one hell of a deal. It makes up for what we thought was a horrible deal with Skinner, which actually turned out to be fine.

If Skinner's going to be a 30 goal guy, you can pay him that. and to be fair, if Thompson was coming up this summer as a U or like had Arbites, like he could be a $12 million guy. It's like, like wouldn't you pay him what you'd pay Pastornak or something in the same neighborhood? Like maybe the track record is not as long, but like explosive, he's younger. It's not as long. It's crazy.

You watch him and I was like, I was thinking about him yesterday and it was like, I'm like, how do you manage him? Because he's so big, he's awesome on a penalty kill. Oh, really? Okay. Like you have to give him, you have to play him on the penalty kill because he takes up so much ice. Why, and if you spring him, he's gone. Yeah.

Yeah. He's a first unit power play guy for sure. And you have to play the piss out of him five on five because he's so good. Like he's got to chew up a lot of ice this guy. Superstar problems. How do you do it, eh? Yes. I got to play this guy a lot.

He's really, really good at everything. Son of a, yeah. Yeah, okay. What do they got coming up? Are they on the road? Are they at home? You're going to a game soon here? I know you're Bill focused.

No, they have the, they have the four regulation win, Anaheim ducks coming to town Saturday afternoon, noon start. Oh, they got five now. Big change since yesterday. Who did they beat? It was rock bottom for a team as they lost in Anaheim last night. Do you want to have that?

I should. I'm going back to look last night. who were out partying all. Columbus, it was Columbus. It was Johnny Cheese Pizza. It's rock bottom for the Blue Jackets. They just surrendered the fifth regulation win in the entire league to Anaheim.

So, Rhett, watch out Monday. There is a lot of junk out there right now, too, isn't there? Like, you look at Vancouver and you laugh. Disaster. Anaheim, five wins. Well, poor Pat Verbeek. Columbus. You walk in and it's like,

my god here. Yeah. I will say this about Columbus. They're missing a lot of good players. And, but the problem is, is they're capped out and they're missing a lot of good players

and they're not good. We'll get to it in a moment. But yeah, I don't think anyone thought they'd be this bad. It's been rough. Goaltending, no. No, you don't,

you don't sign Godro. Yeah, if you think you're last. The rebuild, right? Like, no. We got a new partner on Barnburner, Retro. You excited? I would be more excited if I was there. McLeod Law is coming on board.

We're going to present an injury report once a week, and we're working on some other fun stuff with them as well. Stay tuned. I'm going to meet with them. Hopefully next week, we can get that ironed out. And it's a good segue talking about Columbus. They're in town Monday. Tampa's in tomorrow.

Injury report for McLeod Law. We're going to do it once a week. Calgary Flames, here's what you need to know. Brett Richie, undisclosed injury on IR, we know that. Oliver Shillington's still away for personal reasons, which remain personal reasons in Sweden. Sarah Valley chatted with us last week that he's skating. We don't know how regularly, but he's skating a little.

And the expectation is that not likely he'll be back this year, which is a shame because the flames sometimes less is more. And I feel that way about Michael Stone right now if you get my drift. Love you, Stoner, but yeah. Yeah. And look, he's the best Michael Stone he could be. This is a guy that hardly played for two years. He lost a whole season, those blood clots.

He's an asset to the organization. But I think ideally, he's your seventh defenseman, not number six. And, yeah, it feels like a shot at Stone. It's not. Four years ago, I was talking to him at the dome, and he was talking about what he was going to do at the end of the season after he retired. Yeah. Yeah.

Fair. The NHL. He's the best Michael Stone. it can be. That's what we're saying. Yeah. Um, so McLeod Law's on side for the injury report. That's the Calgary story. Tampa is in great shape. I don't know if, uh, I mean, they don't lose, they don't win in Emmettison last night, but rolling. I think they were the team that snapped that Seattle game winning streak. They throttled Vancouver, I think with their backup in the other night. Rudolph Bolsters is on a conditioning stint. They cleaned them off waivers earlier this year. Everyone

else is healthy. And that's not been the story with Tampa over the last three, four years. It's like, Oh, Stamco's gone. Cooch has gone. And it's allowed them to do some fun things with the cap. Oh, points playing on one leg. They're actually healthy now. Look out tomorrow at the Scotchemyk Saddle Dome. Monday, here's what I was alluding to for McLeodlaw.

The Columbus Blue Jackets, no Jacob Orichek, no Jake Beane, no Igor Chinikov, no Zach Wurinsky, who we think is done for the year. Alex Texier is in the personal assistance program of, sorts or the yeah, dealing with some off-ice issues, the PA in the league, helping him through that.

He's not playing. And somebody Danforth, who is apparently an NHL or is out as well. It's an ankle for Bean, by the way, and for Chinikov. Like, it's,

I'm not saying they're a playoff team, but that's six guys. Where are they? They're all hurt. And they're bottom three in the league. No, I mean, what bottom three in the league? Like,

it's them, Anaheim, and I, think Chicago is your Baderd heavyweights, which is not where you want to be. Is Johnny putting up points? I haven't even been. I think Johnny's been Johnny, but I mean,

he's playing with Boone Jenner and Gustav Nyquist, not Matthew Kuchuk and Elias Lindholm. So I don't think much has changed with Johnny. The coach paired back his minutes a couple of weeks ago and had some comments in the media, but he's still putting up points. Yeah, I feel like this could have worked out differently and better for both the flames and Johnny.

Oh, big time. Now, it's a seven-year commitment. They've got a good young system. I think everyone thinks the world of Yarmal or Yarko Kekalinen and his ability to draft and develop. But yeah, they're rough right now. And Eric Abranson is paid to be a top four guy. When he showed us last year, he's the perfect third pair guy.

And sometimes it's fit style and slotting. And I don't know that any of that's looking good. for Good Branson right now. Four years. No, I can't imagine, but I'm sure he's like Stone doing the best good Branson he can do. Yeah, yeah, exactly. So that's your entry report for McLeod Law equipped to succeed.

You can head to the website, check them out. And I'm excited to have McLeod Law on board a couple times a week here on Barnburner moving forward. How's Trev? How's your bro? Have you checked in with the family, how the folks? Can McLeod Law help me with my immigration? matters. Can you tell us what's happening here? Should I phone them? Does this have anything to do with your

bad mood yesterday? Did you get any bad news on the immigration front? No, no, no, okay. No, no, no, no. So how's my brother? Who cares? He's a dope. He's coming down here. He's bringing a crew down here to go to a Sabres game. Is it Flamesabers and? They play a lot of afternoon games here. Yeah. Last week they did. This weekend they are. That weekend they are. That weekend they are. They've had a few already. I like that. We don't get that in Calgary as often. Well, I feel two ways about it. As a parent, I like the afternoon games because there's not a lot to your point. So when you have one, you're like, well, I got to get tickets to those and take the kids. And I know already all this week, just, you know, I'm of that age now. A lot of buddies have kids.

It's like, hey, Saturday at one, who's taking kids? Where we're meeting, you know, do want to go really for warm up? The kids got a poster. It's always exciting when it's not way past your bedtime to go to a game. I also think the bean counters at the flames know they sell a lot more beer. at an 8 o'clock start on Saturday, then they do at 1 p.m. So I get it, and I think there's a fine balance. I really like what they've done with the Family Day game. I think it's a bunch of years now,

or the vast majority of that holiday Monday where they've had a matinee start. And this year, it's a 2 o'clock Monday against Philadelphia. But you're right. Some of these U.S. markets, like Philly especially, like they love, especially after NFL season, those weekend, you know, matinee or midday starts. But here it's like hockey nights kind of.

the vibe in the States, maybe it's just afternoon and fill the void that football's gone. I think you're right. It is, I never thought about it that way where it's like down here in the States, they seem to not be too, like NFL games, they sell plenty of beer. Oh yeah. Yeah, it's like we're getting dangerous. Maybe the people aren't as, yeah, let's have a few and we get to bed early here. That's right.

Yeah. Yeah. If you put me down at eight, so I'll be sober by 8. Bar is open till 4 a.m. It's just evil. It's evil and nasty, and I have to get that law changed. I never want to see the 4 o'clock ever.

So I feel two ways about it, because I'm always mad when they try to kick me out at 245. Like, Sir, last call was 45 minutes ago. The cleaners are here in 20 minutes. You need your ass out of here, and I know you ordered a table full of beers, but you have to leave now. And then I don't like the,

that they close at three and last calls at two. But then you go to places, like Buffalo and you're like, oh my God, like the sun's coming up. What have I done? I'm an idiot. So I feel like it's for our own safety, right? It's kind of like measuring the shots in a triple or double. But that's just it. Like when I woke up this morning after two short hours of sleep, it was like, oh, not good. This is maybe if I had been booted out at 245, I would, you know, another hour and a half of Shed I for the Redster. And less booze too, right? It's not like you started later because they're open later.

Yeah. How was the snoring last night? Did you have the old Huskerna out for the shoveler or what? I crashed on the couch. There's no way I was making it upstairs. And I know from the dry mouth I had that it would have been really epic snoring. Just top performance. That's a team player there because you know that that would not have been fun for the shoveler

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Now, we can tell people about the laser and people ever are getting more sleep. Thanks to your brother. It's just helping people. He's really helpful. He's very helpful. When is he coming down? Is it Flamesabbers or a different weekend?

Because I know the Flames set out there. What is it? I think they're actually, he always does, he does a trip with his dentist, but he's in there. I think they're going to Detroit and then to this flames game. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, so I'm looking, that's Fed 9, and they're in Detroit. That's a Thursday. And then Feb 11 is a Saturday. 12.30 start, Buffalo. Okay, so we had on Ask Rett yesterday. Super Bowl Sunday the next day. Oh, wow, what a weekend. Sunday the next day.

Jeez, that's perfect. Detroit, Buffalo, Super Bowl, a little rest day in the middle, travel day. So Ask Red for Hope Street was yesterday. Someone asked, Red, I'm going to Buffalo, like, build me the itinerary. What do I do? Where do I go? I think that was probably on the assumption that it's like, a later in the evening.

What do you do if the game starts at 1230 in Buffalo with your brother? Like, is it a big brunch with some mimosas and Caesars or Bloody Mary's? Well, give us your, your game day routine here. That's what I would, that's what I would think.

I would think you have a nice breakfast. Good base. Maybe, uh, yeah, I don't know if it's mimosas or Caesars, whatever floats your boat, really. You have a couple drinks.

Then you go for wings afterwards. You hit the party after the game. Oh, in bed by eight, like you said. get it rested up for Super Bowl. Exactly. For Super Bowl, exactly,

because the next day, if the bills are in it, it's going to be wild here. Did you see tickets went on sale for Kansas City, Buffalo if it happens? No, Kansas City has to be Jacksonville. In Atlanta.

Buffalo has to be Cincinnati. Now, because of that game getting canceled between Cincinnati and Buffalo, it's played neutral site because that game would have determined in theory who would have had home field. So Atlanta's going to host,

brand new stadium, a couple years old, gorgeous, what, 70 plus thousand seats, Mercedes-Benz. Stadium in Atlanta. Apparently, they sold 50,000 seats in the first 24 hours. Your thoughts on a potential Atlanta trip to see the bills. Would that be up your alley or stay away, go to the Super Bowl? There's a direct flight and the big dope has a tournament in Detroit. I was hoping they'd go back to Detroit for a neutral site because then I could have tied it all together. But I'm probably home alone. So there's a good possibility I might find myself in Hot Atlanta purchasing

one of those 50,000 tickets. Well, they got to get through, I guess. They do. There's a big, a lot of the talk down here, and I know it's probably up there a little bit, but all the, you know, if you're not a Bill's fan, everyone else is like, why the hell are the bills having home field advantage?

Like, the way that Cincinnati Bill's game ended with, you know, the first quarter. A lot of people were saying this game should be neutral site as well. Interesting. makes sense. On that note, let's get to our Betway bets of the day.

We are going to focus it being Friday on the NFL divisional weekend. Here's the slate Saturday, Jacksonville, Kansas City, 2.30 Calgary time. That's followed by the Giants and Eagles. We noted that yesterday, three of the four teams in the NFC or NFC East teams. Giants, Eagles, Cowboys. So good year for the NFC East. So those are two Saturday games. The Sunday games are Cincinnati, Buffalo, 11 o'clock,

Bill's time, 1 p.m. Calgary time. Is it? No, 1 o'clock Calgary time, 11 o'clock. One o'clock Buffalo time, 11 o'clock Calgary time. Nailed it. And then 4.30, it's the Cowboys after the win over Tom Terrific in Tampa all the way to the other coast to face the Niners with Big Save Brock, who has that quarterback for San Fran. Let's take a look at the picks. We'll start with whichever board comes up first. All right, here's my picks. It's a lot of points for the Jaguars. Now, this line moved.

This was eight and a half this morning when you put your picks in. It's moved, and I'll check again. There's been a lot of back and forth on this between Kansas City and Jacksonville. I don't particularly like Jacksonville, but Kansas City sometimes wins by just enough. And in the playoffs, I kind of think we could have some tighter games. It's a lot of points to lay there. if you're with Kansas City. I'm going to refresh and make sure our odds are up to date.

But I'm going to take the Jaguars if they're getting nine and a half points to maybe lose by a touchdown. I think that's not crazy. I sure like to see those guys win, but I don't know if they can. Yeah, I think Bill's fans would love to see Trevor Lawrence in that long, flowing hair, move on to the AFC championship game. I'm with you on the Bills.

I don't like this line. I really thought it'd be three and a half. or two and a half. I think Cincinnati is a very good team, but I'm with you on the bill, solidarity, brother, and I'm going to take four and a half with the Cowboys,

who I don't know. I just, I feel like we got a close game here. We've had some good nail biters and the NFL never seems to disappoint in big spots. Just updating the lines right now. Do you remember last year's playoffs

in the NFL and how crazy good they were? The games were epic. Yeah, and we had some good ones on Wildcard Week that came down to the final drive. There's a couple that, weren't. I mean, Seattle, San Francisco looked like it was going to be great, and then they blew them out in the second

half. Nine and a half is the line for Kansas City. Buffalo is still five and a half, and it is still four and a half for the, I will take the Cowboys there. So those are my picks. Three of the four games there. We both stayed away from the Giants and the Eagles here, Rett's picks. So we're opposite George on the first and third here. Tell me about Kansas City, the team

you don't want to face if you're the bills next weekend. I say it all year and I'll say it again. The people that are doing the point spreads, they know better than I do. So I don't even, I can't, I don't take it into consideration. You just know, if you got, come on. I don't even,

but I don't want KC to win. Yeah. But I'll bet on them because they're better than the Jags. They certainly. And I actually really like San Fran. I think San Fran's a hell of a team. Yeah, there's been a lot of talk about how good that defense is every year,

no matter which coach leaves. They can seem to seemingly plug and play guys. he never heard of it running back to perform. And then they bring a Christian McCaffrey, who we all heard of and he's done really well. And to be fair, like they're on their third string quarterback. It doesn't really feel like that. They've, uh, Tray Lance gets hurt week one in a monsoon in Chicago.

Jimmy Garoppolo goes down. This, uh, Mr. Irrelevant, Brock Purdy's been pretty damn good. Does not look like a rook. When he got McCaffrey, you got that dumb ass kiddle that. Yeah, I'm tight in. He seems like he's real hard to shut down. He both Samuel, Iyuk, there's a lot of talent there. Cowboys D.

We'll see. There are any of some big plays. So you got the Niners covering four and a half. All right. Any final words for you, Retro? It's a matinee tomorrow. I have a weird hunch that I feel like the fan base is at its lowest mark on the flames.

That road trip was underwhelming. Really? They had a chance to make it a great road trip with eight points out of 10. They lose to Nashville. They didn't play bad. slow start against Colorado. They completely got big boyed by Colorado.

Coach is saying they're in a different division. I think people are very fatigued about where Luch is at. People would love to see more of Lidar, but they're expecting Markstrom. Like there's a lot of, Darrell Sure is stubborn type vibes around here. I wouldn't be surprised, given all that, if they came out and played really well tomorrow.

And that might not be enough against the Tampa team that's healthy and rolling, but I don't know. It's, I just have these weird vibes that, when everyone's really hot on this team, they've cooled off. They haven't really stretched out a winning streak.

When everyone's really cool on this team, they find a way to pick up more points and not string together losses in a row with great regularity. It's not going to be easy, but I actually think they might play well tomorrow. I would, well, they'll play better than they did against Colorado

because they won't be. You can't play worse. They'll have settled back into the being home. The issue being, I can't decide whether a early start is a benefit. Yeah. changes it up for them or if it's a detriment where it's, you know, we don't need any change. We need some routine and we got to.

And the other thing, like you said, it's Tampa Bay. You can have a hell of a game and still lose. It's a tough open to the homestand. You have the last three cup champions in two games. Colorado on, what was it, Wednesday. And then tomorrow it's, yeah, the team that they lost in the finals. But the two years before, they did win in the finals. And, oh, they've been to the Easter Conference final like six times in the last eight years or something.

It's a wagon. and it's going to take a Herculane effort from the flames. I think we'll see a good one. Let's hope they get some good goaltending. Sounds like hockey. Come on, Markstrom. Let's go. Crank it up.

Shut the door. Let's see if you got it. Good luck on the tickets. Enjoy the game. And hopefully we're talking about trying to book you a ticket to Atlanta and reserving you a seat at Magic City. Sound good? Hopefully I don't have to go to Atlanta.

Hopefully I could just buy a ticket right here at home. Oh, that's true. Because if Jacksonville wins. Oh, wow. That would be a real treat for the Redster. It's a big ask from the football. I got a bartend on Saturday after the Sabres game, too. So I got a tough weekend.

Oh, boy. Are you wearing that miniskirt from Cowboys or what are you doing? No. Okay. What's the event? You're bartending real quick? There's a charity that I was involved with when I played here. It's growing a lot.

It was called Carly's Club when I started, and it's now called The Courage of Carly. and there's a new IPA beer that's been brewed in honor of the charity. Charity bear. Love it. Yeah. Yeah. So we're going to go and sling some of those around tomorrow after the game.

I'm here. If anyone has charitable beer that needs to be drank, I'm here to help the kids. Okay. If your wife and kids hadn't been in Australia for the last three weeks, I was going to send you a ticket to come down and taking a bills game with the rest of it. But I didn't think, I didn't think Mama Bear would be too keen on old Papa Ryan saying, nice to see you. I'm out of here.

So my presence from Australia, I've got the Friday Hawaiian shirt, which is a lovely one, nice and thin. This will be good for summer. This is definitely Aussiewear. And I've got the press the button, Aussie slang button. Are you ready for one as we say goodbye on a Friday? Yeah. You beauty.

You beauty. Have a great weekend. We'll see you Monday. Johnny's back in town. Ret, enjoy the Bills game. Best luck. Boom, boom. Fat boy, he'll be here as well.

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