Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - FlamesNation Barn Burner: Flames Red Wings Game Day with Brent Krahn

Episode Date: February 16, 2023

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Another solid pre-show. Another solid pre-show. I think we probably need to start rolling on it and selling it. Lots of wisdom. Lots of kind words said about other people. Very caring group. Very caring group. Happy for others, good fortunes.

Right. Just always want. You're going to have to sign a waiver to listen, though. We need you to sign a waiver. Yeah. We'll have to, we can leave the swears. in, but now we have to edit the names out. How about that fucking guy?

Oh, the show's about to start. Oh, okay, here we go. Okay, good. Hey, look, everyone, it is, it's Boomer. It's Warner, but it's not Pinder today. It is the one and only Brent Cron. Good morning, guys. Sitting in the, sitting in the chair where Pinder usually sits,

you've got the big headphones, the big cans on today. You look good. How you, there it is, B at B-Kron 3-Kron. There it is on Twitter. You can follow him on social media. There will be no drinking today. I know that was probably when I said, hey, do you want to come in and do the show?

You probably just assume that every day we get blasted on this thing and drink, what, 19 drinks in one hour, not the case. I had a drink list coming in here. And I also have two cases of wine in my truck. So in case we get a little empty. we're not in a pinch. Last time you were here, it was our Christmas spirits show. I didn't eat before it either, too.

I really just let it all mix up down there without any. Did you have a base going in there, retro? I can't even remember. I think it mattered. I had enough calories from the eggnog and the cream. Yeah, yeah. I don't think I did. The poor eggnog took a rough ride.

I don't know if it'll be back. I feel like it has to be back because it's very much a Christmas thing, but, uh, there was a pink, like, grapefruit tequila thing there, too. Paloma. Yeah, that buried me right out. I mean, it didn't stop me, but I could start feeling things going just, just a rye immediately after that drink. It was just hard left.

The one I had the hardest time with was the beer. Oh. Just, it's a, it's a lot of beer. And it blows you up late. After you've been having some cocktails and some, uh, you know, lighter drinks to go and have a hearty ale was, uh, what I really liked is the, the bottle of rosé to close off the tent, right? That was really what...

Or the jello shots. The jellos shots, too, were really good. There's a lot of extra ones lying around here that we sucked up. Oh, man. No pinner today. It's the teacher's convention. So the kids are out of school. He has a couple of them apparently and is going to be with them.

So that's what he's up to. All those teachers go downtown. The convention's downtown. They just get pissed up at lunch and they just have a great time. You just see them. They have a... They're at this convention. for whatever, an hour or two,

and then they just go and just run up bar tabs and get piled for two days. Oh, look at this. Teacher. See, I was going to say, now, Croner, you're in the community, you've got your regular job. Yeah.

Doing something of whatever. Right. You know? Yeah. But you're still giving back. This was, how long ago was this? Look at you. A couple weeks ago, there was snow on the grounds.

It was an airdry. You know, I'm a very animated reader. I'm a good reader. Yeah. And I can really captivate an audience. I love that picture. Well, I think that teacher was trying to make us say Oilers.

And I was, I was having enough. I had enough of it. Yeah. I had enough. I put my foot down and I was basically indoctrinating these kids. So what did, what was your, for those that aren't, are just listening? There's, uh, Kroner reading to some young children. Yeah.

It's like reading. Yeah. Something like that, right? What are you reading? Uh, well, there's a, there was a book with no pictures. that I had to read whatever it said. And the kids thought it was pretty funny. The teacher put it in there that, you know, I love the Oilers.

He was just, you know, he was like that. It's hilarious. Yeah, so funny. And then, you know, went around to classroom to classroom, read two or three books. And the kids were very excited. I was very excited. I had to give one a little bit of a say, hey, settle down here.

I'm reading. Like, you just listen to here, big guy. Don't interrupt. Right? Shut the fuck up. Right. Right. Settle down, kiddo.

I'm in the chair here right now, not you. Yeah. And you will do what I say. And you shut your pot. hole. Right. They got lots of good shit to say. Yeah, that's how that was. Ask me for life advice too. I'll give you some. You know, Rhett is a big reader. Of what? What's your favorite novel? My favorite novel? Confederacy of Dunces. Whoa. That's over my head. Rhett can finish a book like that. Really? I can't, it's my, my brain, how it were. I just can't,

because it'll be, I'll start reading the book. And then about three seconds. sentence and saying, yeah. So I wonder what I'll do on the weekend. Am I going to, and your eyes are still going all the way down the page. Did I put that thing away? I wonder, she should get a new toaster. I'm tired of the toaster doesn't really work on the one side. It's always burnt on one side and not on the other.

Where's my phone? Did I get my phone? Fuck. And then you have to go back and start reading all over again. I can't do it. Warner has unbelievable. Now, I'm assuming because you go from the start of the book to the end of the book very quickly, I'm assuming you're retaining what you're reading, but you are a very good reader.

Did you read on the bus? Read it. Or the plane? I read Confederacy of Dunces. I remember the bookstore. I was on Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo, New York when I bought that book. Wow. So I read it on the plane, yeah.

Well, but you got to remember back in a day that there was no, like when I'm playing Junior in Saskatoon, we had our own bus, but then they had TVs. There was two of them, but. And then you hit a bump and then the DVD would skip and then it would redo the whole thing. and it would suck. Well, we didn't have DVDs. Oh, right. I don't think.

VHS. VHS at the time. So, and even started pro. There was no computers or handheld devices. So playing in Florida, he had two and a half hour flights everywhere. So, yeah. So.

Some Cosmos and some books. So now, Retro, you, as we all know, you're living away from Calgary right now. When's the last time you've seen at B-Cron 3-Kron? Do you miss your boy, our boy here? Always. Yeah. Always checking in on him because I want him to stay out of trouble,

which I make sure that he's got things going in the right direction. He looks good right now. Two feet firmly planted on the ground. Yeah. Right. I do remember last time I saw you. We were at the Flames hockey camp, and that's the day you told me that you moved to Buffalo.

And you said you're on your own for the last week session. because I'm moving. And I'm like, well, it's awesome. Where are you moving to Buffalo? When are you moving this afternoon? At 2 o'clock I'm flying out. I'm leaving now. Now, yeah.

I got to have to skip out early here. Yes. You got this? Yeah. Good, great. What are you doing there? Living? Yeah.

Perfect. Good seeing you. Now, we're joking about this. That's what happened. Exactly what happened. Yes. And I thought you were joking, but obviously you weren't. You were involved with the hockey school for what, the alumni.

and one day you just told them, I'm going to need you to do the rest of the stuff today because I'm leaving. And actually for the rest of the week and the rest of the camp, oh, where are you going? I'm moving to Buffalo. Is that more or less how that went?

Winter in Buffalo. Spend a winter in Buffalo. Yeah. Right. That's exactly how it went. I don't feel too bad because I think I did a good job of organizing. You know what you did?

And I have to say the program did change a little because we had Jamie McCowan come in and Colin Patterson and the whole dynamic of it just changed. It was just bag skates for the kids. It was, you know, crushers. What are you going to do with the guys? Say, ah, I got on the goal line, skate until we figure out the next drill. Boom, boom, boom.

And the parents are just loving it, too. That's great. Kids are dog tired. Yeah. It's doing the horseshoe, mountain climbers. Absolutely. Yeah. It was awesome. It was like my childhood being skated by guys that didn't know what they were doing.

It's just a bag the shit out of you. You're a stupid kid. Just a couple old drunks on the ice yelling at the kids. It's really well thought of. Yeah. Real good. Water bottles full of whiskey, swishing around. What does your breath smell?

Shut up. Just get in their lap. We're here in the Tower Chrysler Studios. I'll have, because of course, Surge and everybody down at Tower Chryser, they take good care of us. Tower Chrysor Studios here in the city of Calgary. A little bit later on when we do Ask Rett,

There is a Tower Chrysler kind of a twist angle to it and I'll I'll explain later. But you have some spaining to do retro is what it's going to come down to. Just hope you're ready for that. Ask Ret for Hope Street coming up in a little bit. We have a game today. It's a Flames game day. Get your helmet on Kroner. The Red Wings are in town. It was a week ago today. In fact, that the Detroit Red Wings beat the Calgary Flames 2 to 1 at Little Caesar's

arena the following day, we came on and basically said the franchise, the Flames franchise needs to fold and maybe play till the end of the season, but probably best they just wrap it up at the end of the month. We were quite, we were quite down on the fortunes of this hockey club. Is that fair retro? That was a tough one. I think it was, yeah, that's a fair assessment. They were never going to win again and they've done a piss poor job of existing was basically the gist of it. Yeah. Can't wait for tonight. Yeah, big game.

They haven't done much better since. Can't wait for the rematch. Well, you know, because, yeah, what happened after that? They did go and they played well and then not so well. And then there was Ottawa where they probably deserved the win. You had that lead to a goal lead late third period. Hang on to that for sure. The Red Wings were in Edmonton last night.

They defeated the Oilers in a shootout. Looking at their records, you know, this was one of those ones coming into the month. Well, who are the teams you need to beat if you're the flames? Those teams that are maybe below you in the standings. The flames have 25 wins. The Red Wings have 25 wins. That list of teams below you in standing is getting smaller.

Wow. That's brutal. I didn't know that. I didn't know they were that close because the flames are in a playoff spot, but to be tied with the Red Wings. Four game win streak for Detroit. The flames are in a spot based on, I think the flames are in a playoff spot.

Again, I'm going to see like I'm ripping on them again. Because the rest of the West is not that good. Yeah. They're not even that far behind Vegas. I mean, essentially, I think there's six or seven points behind them and you're like, what the fuck is going on here? Yeah, it's not a, which is, which is why it's hard people who listen to the show and they're like, why are you guys so hard?

Like they're right on the cusp of a playoff spot. If they get a save here or a goal there, they're probably in good shape. And you're like, I know, but they play like crap. They do. They lose to Columbus, Chicago, Ottawa. Like, I can't figure them out. And the whole, like, no matter if they're playing well, the whole game is still, you're not sure if it's going to go right or wrong. Like there's just one thing goes wrong

And the whole house of car just comes collapsing to the ground Markstrom will let in the bad goal Miss DZone coverage Haniffin will pass the pizza up the middle You know, it's just my lord There's no trust in this team whatsoever Hey have you ever seen defensemen play two on one's worse I'm kind of putting you on the spot

No it's it's embarrassing It's awful it's almost like you know what's going in The path you can pass across no problem One timer in the net the time they give Markstrom the shot, it goes short side or through his five holes. It's like nobody can do their job properly. If you knew, if you had the answers,

you should be working at the dome and being paid a lot of money. Yeah. But being that you, for your life as a goaltender, what are you seeing with Jacob Markstrom? Everyone's different. We don't know what's going on in here. He seems to be a guy that he's not injured.

He seems physically very capable to play best. better, but he is not. The winner in overtime was a... It just can't go in. What's happening the way you see it with Markstrom this year or even just the last month or so? Well, it's between the years. And for his size, he looks so small,

so you can tell he's got absolutely zero confidence. This guy can't play a huge boatload of games. He can't. He is moving into the realm of being a 1A, 1B guy. And I know that they're paying him like a number one guy, but he cannot handle the pressure. Like he really can't. It's just crazy.

Anytime they need one save, he can't make it. The flames finally turn the corner and they're playing well and a bad goal goes in. Or right off the start, they're fragile and they're down to nothing

before they can even figure out the hockey game has even started. And he's chasing pucks. He's small. He's getting mad. I know he's an emotional goaltender, but he's just, you can see,

his emotion just emanating from him. And when he skates on the ice, he just, there's zero confidence. I don't know what's going on with him, but I think, I don't think he's this bad, but I don't think the other side. He's not as good as we think he is, too. I think he's more of a middle, middle of the pack guy. We kind of talked about this. Oh, that's been my belief.

Go ahead. The last little bit is saying, trying to go back over the course of his career because the complaint was, well, you can't play him too much because if you play him too much, he gets tired, he doesn't play as well. He gets injured, too. And so I'm like, okay. Well, yeah, that's fine, I guess. But I don't think that's the problem.

I don't think it's games played. I think he can't handle pressure situations. And I haven't done a deep dive into it, and I won't because I'm lazy, but I guarantee you, you go look through his career, he hasn't let his team into the promised land ever, or taken him deep, or carried him on his back. It's always been, oh, well, he played too much so he's tired, and then he gives up. bad goals and he's no good anymore. I'm like, no, that's not it because he's not playing too much. He's had plenty of rest. He can't handle pressure. Well, Andy doesn't have a number one mentality.

You know, I think he's looking for a break. I said, you've played with some of the best goaltenders on the planet red. And you know, Hasick wanted to be in the net every night. Kippersoff wanted to be in the net every night. And even if they had a bad game, you knew it's like he's fine. With Markstrom, he steps on the ice, he's got a bad goal. He's not fine. He makes a save and he looks weird. It's not fine. There's nothing fine about him. You can't. seemed to get over that hump of that starter mentality. That's always for me when I played, that was always a hard thing for me to do

because when I didn't think about it, like if I didn't put any pressure on myself, I just went out and played. I remember Ryan McGill played me like 21 straight games. And he called me into the office, he's like, you need to fucking figure this out. He goes, you have the talent to do this, but you need to string a couple games going,

says you're playing every game down the stretch. So fucking get going or you're shit or get off the pot. Let's figure it out. And I think I played 19 of 21. And after a while, I mean, that didn't happen throughout my whole career, but it's like, it's a mentality. And I just don't think Markstrom has that number one mentality. I think he's, he's a guy that can get streaky.

He can play well. He's super talented. He's had a few good playoff series. He's done well at the tail end of his career in Vancouver. He looked like he could do it. But every time he's been on that stage to prove it, like last year, he was only good the first half of the season last year, right? He was on, he was lights out.

He was stealing games for him. And then he was, and then he tapered off and kind of settled down. And then he was garbage against the Oilers. He played phenomenal. against Dallas, which I was shocked because that's a very tough position for a goaltender to be. And when Ottinger is stealing the show every single night for Dallas, you know what you have to make one or two saves at the key time. And he was able to do that. And then he jumps into an even more pressure-packed situation, and he completely melts.

It's going to, whatever you want to call him now, 1A, 1B, that's got to be the way it's going to be, I think, moving forward. We are led to believe it will be Dan Vladar in the net tonight against the Detroit Red Wings. and Sutter was asked about it yesterday because earlier this season he talked about Markstrom's going to play and we'll try and get Vlodar in once a week, you know, how that math was going to work itself out. And he said yesterday that they had to, they adjusted that. They did a deep dive or they dug in on it and adjusted it. And they found that the goalies have been streaky.

And they have been. At the start of the year, Markstrom was good and then he tailed off and then Vlodar came in. And he doesn't get as much rope. No. Obviously, as Marks, does, but I think moving forward now because of how precarious the spot is for them. Vladar goes tonight, you win, you keep rolling, you start to sag. All right, Jacob, here's your turn.

I think we're officially past the starter backup situation, at least for this year, with Markstrom and Vladar. I hope so. I figured Markstrom would start against the Rangers after the All-Star break. That was a no-brainer. I didn't expect him to go back in against Detroit and then start in Buffalo and then play Monday against or Monday against Ottawa.

I didn't see that coming right out of the gate either. Marksum hasn't played phenomenal. Now Val-R gets a chance. You just hope that he can take advantage of it. Now maybe something said to him, hey, this is going to be your net. I don't think that they have done that yet.

He hasn't proven that he's been a long-term solution, but he's got to get an opportunity somewhere. And as long as Markstrom keeps tripping over himself, you got to stick with Wadar, if he can play well enough to get you in. It's never dull, right? I was thinking the other day, too, and this might be stupid,

but it's always dangerous when I get thinking. And I just say thinking not drinking. I like how this is starting. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Do you think maybe that they're playing the shit out of Markstrom

because they want to get rid of them and they want to bring up somebody else because they got that big contract? I was just thinking out loud, you know, to myself downstairs in the basement with a bottle of wine. I'm like, maybe, maybe. Maybe can get in a roll and we can gas them and get somebody else. But I might be a little bit too far ahead of him. Yeah.

The basement red wine. The cab. Yeah. Yeah. Out of a box. Yeah. To be the cab, yeah. It sounds like it's a reasonable thought,

but the thing is they're not in a position to not win games. And then if he is winning, well, he's the reason they're going to get in. So I think in the off season, absolutely they're going to listen to all options. Yeah. Because I think that wolf has played so well. But I keep saying, what is this team?

Like, they're in a playoff spot. I think it's based on terrible play by other teams for the most. Yes. But so they get in. I don't think they win a series because I think they end up probably right where they are now. I don't think they're catching Edmonton. So maybe Seattle or someone will start to crap themselves. So maybe they can do better.

But I don't think they beat a top team like Vegas or Dallas in a playoff series. And God forbid they don't make the playoffs. What are you left with if you don't make the playoffs this year? do you completely retool again, or are you comfortable going into next year with the same group that has struggled so much? Like I have no clue. I know what my philosophy would be,

but I don't know what's going to happen. This team flip-flops every year, though, too. One year they're really good and they get in and everything goes right in the next year. They're just dog shit with the same people. And as a GM, I don't know what you do there, because the answer should be in that room. You have a talented enough dressing room.

You do, you'd think. but once this year this this year's supposed to be there off here so now there's shit this year now what are we supposed to do next year yeah i think i think you'll you'll be left with what you can do given the amount of cap space you have and that money already spent right i think that you're gonna you're good i mean Oliver shillington you're going to have to replace him that that is not does not appear like it's going to come to any kind of a solution um those two new extensions kick in and that's what everybody, oh, Loochich money, the Luch each money. It's spent. It's spent. It's long gone. So I don't know. I don't know how I, because we've ripped them so hard here the last

week. I get, I get home or I get in my vehicle, get the nation Jeep and I drive, uh, were we, were we fair? Where we, were we, right? Or were we just kind of wound up and And Rhett got going and then, yeah, and then I got going. Yeah, you're right, Rhett. We all just kind of pile on. You look at the number of, and I don't think that's the case. I think that we, I think we're right, as you said, right. I think we're right.

But you look at the regulation losses. They have 18 of them. So to Seattle. So to the Kings. So does Vegas. Colorado has 19. The Jets have 19 regulation losses. And all of these over extra time.

Single points, if you get half of those, do we view this, even if the games are kind of the same games, not even saying they get the extra goal in regulation, but some of these shootouts are overtimes or spun the other way, are we looking at them differently even though they still are what they are, but their record is better. Well, you have to look at them differently because they're making the saves when you need it, right? Take the Ottawa game to get that extra point. Markstrom has to make a save.

So you go, oh, good on you. I think at 3-1 with two minutes left, we were all going to come on. You and I did the show after the game. We were ready to come on and go, great job by Markstrom there. I mean, shut the door. He gave up the breakaway goal,

but, you know, for the most part, he battled and made some good saves. What a game to build off of. Great job at the end of a trip. You're ready to give them up then. they give up three goals. Less than three minutes. Five minutes of hockey.

Right. One from an angle. One, he loses on a rebound. He loses the rebound. The second one is from the goal line. And you give credit to Brinkhead for making the shot. But still, I'm like, if I'm out there as a defender in the last minute of a game, that's the shot.

You're leaving it. I want to. Yeah, okay. Well, if he's going to shoot it from there, that's the one, right? Like, that's the one you give him. And the third goal and overtime is terrible. Oh, that's awful. Yeah, everything could change.

And we would give more praise if they had more of those points. But that's because they would have made those plays and they're not. I mean, DuBay's coming along. Coleman's been okay. Backland skates by the whole, every season Michael Backlons ever played. He has been okay. except for the one where it was him could chuck and frolic and you're like, holy,

this is phenomenal, these guys are awesome. And then they split him up again. And other than that, every season Michael Backlund's ever played has been like, yeah, he's pretty good. He's okay. Yeah. But he never takes a team on his back. It's forgettable too.

It's like, Huberdow's been terrible. Cadre has been fine. But a lot of their player, you know, Manjapani was no good for a long time. So, I mean, you've got a lot of reason to be down. And the other thing I was going to get to is what do you think they're how do you think they're talking about Minnesota right now? Do you think that the media in Minnesota is like man, they're right there.

This has been great. They got 28 wins and they're made it's really good. They're tight. They've got to just pull up. They're ripping them as well because Minnesota is expected to be in a playoffs. Calgary is not supposed to be fighting for a last ditch spot in the standings, right? Like that's not what we're being sold. It's just it's not where they are in the rotation of a team as far as age and salary, right?

They're a veteran team with a high salary cap. You're supposed to be performing if that's what you have, right? It's not only you got a bunch of young kids just coming in trying to find their way. This is a team that's supposed to be poised as a, I mean, did they win the whole conference last year? Oh boy, that's so long ago. A couple. And there's so much to it, and we can move on because I don't want to, that's the other thing I'm conscious of.

I don't want to do the same show day after day after day. Just be better tonight. The goaltending has to be better. And I don't know, it took me a long time to come around because I had said here, you watch the games and Markstrom seems like he's playing well. He's making some really great saves a lot of nights. And then you start to look at it's, well, you're plus, seven goals for and against and your goals four aren't as terrible maybe as we think they are a lot of

nights the floodgates open and they get five or seven but then there's the nights they get two but i don't know the road for everything i don't think yeah average i don't think they're as offensively challenged as maybe but you know they talk about shots too though boom right like oh hey they get a ton of shots we don't and we don't give up a ton of shots but the volume of shots isn't that big of a deal. It's quality. It's like they give up, they give up scoring chances and then and then, you know, Marks will make like two or three amazing saves and then he'll let him just bad ones. The ones that he's supposed to stop, he lets in and he mixes in a bunch of odd ones. And that team just throws pucks to the net for the most part, right? You look at them. They get a

ton of shots to go to the net, but they're not like, DeFollies got some nice ones. He's picked some corners, a goal scorer's goal. But it's a lot of junk. It's a lot of just throwing pucks to net and seeing what happens and trying to beat teams two one. And that's fine. if you're conditioned to win close games. And the flames have been in so many close games this season. Everybody talks, well, you know, it's playoff hockey, close hockey. But it only matters if you win those, right?

Your goal needs to make saves. Guys need to bear down. It's a full team effort, but it sucks when your goalie's struggling limping along, and it's really hard to watch. Tonight, after Burner, with myself and I think Brent Cron. I'm coming. I can't wait. Are you excited?

I'm very excited. Now when you say you're coming, where are you going? On my couch, but I'll be on the screen for everybody to view. Yes, I'll be there. Do we have the proper equipment for you to, okay? We don't. I do have a camera though. You told me to buy stuff and I said I would absolutely get on it that night.

And I just told you today that I didn't do any of that stuff. And it's coming now. It's what I'm used to. Yeah. Frankly, it's, it's all right. Yeah. So we'll figure out something for, for, for, after burner. You're used to living

with broken promises from people that you trust. Just broken hearts. Just broken hearts. So after burner tonight, we will be going live on the Facebook and the YouTube's and the Twitters and all of that. So here's hope.

And our record is not very good, Carroner. We only, we do this show on school nights. There's a lot of losses. There's a lot of losses. buddy. Well, they'll turn the tide tonight. I'm very confident in this hockey club.

After everything that we've said today, I feel better now. I feel better. They're just going to turn it around. Hey, retro chronner says it's going to be better. Yeah. That's real good. But then, wait, can I bring up one thing that's a fly in the ointment?

It's the first game back. I know. After a long road trip. First game back after a long road trip. No legs. I don't know. The first period might be a little. Optional skate this morning.

It was an optional. So they'll be, don't worry about it. It's all good. Let our NET, lines stay the same. And a bit of an update coming up in just a moment. So for tonight, this game, this hotly anticipated game, we have sent a winner, courtesy of Mad Rose Pub throughout the entire season. Mad Rose Pub is our ticket hookup for you, the Barnburner, viewer, and listener.

Tonight in the Madrose Pub seats at the dome, it'll be Carson Anklowitz. Anklowitz. Old Anklowitz. Is that a dinosaur? Did I say Cameron or Carson? I can't read my right. Cameron, I believe. Cam is going to the game tonight.

Thanks to Matt and everybody at Madrose Pub. Next chance to win tickets. I've got two more here in this little homestand. So we'll be kicking another pair out the door right quick. But congrats to Cameron on winning the first. these tickets tonight. That's awesome. Yeah. Big tilt. Have you been to Madros Pub? You know what? I went one day and it was closed

because it was like a holiday day. I think it was New Year's Day. I'm going to take you. Yeah, you should. I'd love to go. Don't you live in that? Neck of the woods? Sector. I do. They have pizza there, don't they? They do. I know. I looks really good. I'm staring at it right now and I'd like a giant wheel to stuff my face with. You know when they make that the sauce and the dough? Yeah. Fresh every day.

Oh, wow. Yeah. I'm excited. You're taking me? Yeah, I'll take you. Good. Or I'll meet you. Yeah. You don't have to come pick me up. Then I'll, then I can, because then I can leave. I'll Uber there.

Can we sit down and eat or does it take out? No, no, we'll sit down. Good. Nice up there. Nice. Yeah, it's real nice up there. I'll be doing the Pinder Report in a moment. But part of, and again, it's applicable to the game tonight.

It's the McLeod Law Injury Report. And it's looking like the injury report, some good news, courtesy of McLeod Law, as Rasmus Anderson skated in full today. Now optional, but skated, left. The extras stayed on for extra work, the presumed scratches. It's believed that Rasmus Anderson back in the lineup tonight. So that is great injury news as it... It was hit by a car.

Hit by a truck. You ever been hit by a truck? Or a car? Can't say that I have. Oh, I have. Yeah. Hey, Ratt. Have you, Dean?

Oh, yeah. What happened to you? I think that's why my hip is still, my hip is all buggered. Really? Yeah. That's why I can't walk right? It's why I'm hunched over and I got a hitch and my giddy up. Oh, I see that right now.

You know, kind of thing. The closest I've been to getting hit by cars watching my friend run into the side of a limousy and trying to catch football. And the car was stationary. That's about as close as I've come to. Is that right? Yeah. Was it an errant throw or just?

It was a bomb, actually. He didn't pick his head up. We were in Dallas watching a Cowboys game. and he ran straight into the side of the... Who is this person? I used to work with him. Yeah? Yeah.

In Dallas? Yeah. Well, we were in Calgary. I was done playing hockey and we wouldn't have a trip down there. I got you. I got you. A little bit of fun. As far as Rasmus Anderson concerned, retro, not insignificant.

We've talked a lot about Tanev and the record kind of speaks for itself. Rasmus doesn't, I think, get enough credit for the minutes and the role that he plays. He's consistently the top minute eater for the team. forward or defense, his points are pretty much always better than, than we recall. And probably most importantly, that power play, which has not been very good at all this year, really struggles without him as he's the guy on the point to try and get that thing going. So good news for old rass. And I mean, beyond that, beyond the hockey thing, guy got hit by a truck.

Yeah. We use that analogy all the time, but I never really actually get hit by a truck. I feel like I've been hit by a truck. but yeah he felt like he got hit by because he got hit by a truck yeah i wonder what happened to the three of us if we were struck by a pickup of any sort well for starters i'd have a hard time on the scooter because i'd probably be falling off the thing to begin with there's got to be some coordination i've not scootered a ton you know so i think probably there's going to be a scooter injury more self-inflicted than being hit by the truck i think i'd be a

okay. Yeah. Well, you're very bendy. I'm bendy. I bounce back really quick, too. I'm used to being injured, so I have an injured mentality, so I can just, I can deal with it quicker than most. Well, maybe you need a personal injury lawyer. If you ever need someone to, uh, to take, you know, be side by side with you and be there on your behalf. Take that stress off of your shoulders. Personal injury lawyers will help you navigate your legal, your insurance, and your medical claims. Extensive. Years and years of experience in just this field. There you see, Peter Klein. I do my best to give some help to the helpless and hope to the hopeless. Great guy. Peter Klein, P. Klein with a C, P. Klein at MacLeod-Dashlaw.com. And the number you can see it there, you can give a ring 403-254-3864.

Glasses. So bad. But great people over at McLeod Law. That will suffice for our injury report today. some great news, both hockey related and life related for Aswas Anderson. God, that's been scary. That would have been terrifying. I can't imagine. You're probably even paying attention, right? And the truck just comes out of nowhere. Like, I didn't hear this story. I just heard that you got hit by a truck. Is there more to it? Like, you'd want a piece of the guy. Yeah, absolutely. Who just can hit me? Yeah. I'm on a bloody scooter. What the, what the age? Right. You might need to start wearing chaps and like leather jackets when you go bombing around on scooters just you don't get road rash, right? Like it's, You know, like a motorcycle.

Like you in the sidecar with Joey Juno. The little skull cap. Yeah, I have my chaps on for sure. Yeah. Maybe, I don't know. Just throwing it out there, right? We've got to keep people safe. Kale McCar, again, with the injury report, that's going to do.

But Kail McCar still isn't playing. What's wrong with him? He got hitting the jaw by. Faker. Yeah. Jeff Carter. Kind of given one of these when he was skating by, you know, oh, hey, did I get you.

Jonathan Taves put on the IR. He has. a non-COVID-related illness. He's kind of been one of those guys, maybe he'll, everyone's talking Patrick Kane, maybe Jonathan Taves, maybe off to Winnipeg, maybe a guy in the trade, remember he missed what the entire season,

because he had some kind of a illness that he just could not get himself back to where he needed to be. So hopefully that is nothing serious, but I think they'd like that in Winnipeg? Old Johnny Taves coming back. They'd love it. The town would be set ablaze.

It would take Shevold Day off to actually do something. Yeah. But it'll be great for everybody involved. You want to do the Pinder Report? Yes, I'd love to. I don't really have it. I'll have to do it. I didn't really write it out for you.

I've cobbled it together. I scratched some things together myself last night in case you asked me this very question. Okay, standing by Brent Cron with the Pinder Report. It's for Village Honda. That's right, a little cobbling. delicious. Get ready for the all new 2023 Honda Accord. The all new generation redefined

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the Pinder report. This is my very first car. It was a Honda Accord. It was a white Honda Accord. I bought it in Winkler, Manitoba. It's probably still going. It's still going. My first car might have been a Honda. Reliable. Reliable. Yeah.

Unbelievable. A great jam, too. If you put the pedal to the metal on that thing, it was awesome. Standard? Just dump the clutch? No, no standard. Automatic. I'm a simple man.

Mine was a standard and they could steal it with, they could start it with, well. Screwdriver. A fingernail. Yeah, just kind of. We don't condone that. No. Yeah. We talked about the game.

Flames, wings tonight. Wings, Victoria. from last night. They've been on a bit of a roll here. They won four in a row. Vili Huso has been terrific. He's made five straight saves. He's been very good against the flames. Will he go back to back? If not, it is Magnus Helberg. Look out. A name like that, you know he's good. He's got to be good. You better be good when you're Magnus Helberg. So that's the story there. And we do believe Rasmus Anderson will be in and Vladar will get the start in net. So that's the scope.

After Burner, you and me tonight. You and I. Potentially. NHL from last night, the Colorado Avalanche, you mentioned Minnesota, and I saved it till now retro. You said,

what do you think? Everything's just flying? Everything's all loosey-goosey. All great in Minnesota. Not so much. Colorado defeats Minnesota three to two. Does this sound familiar? Minnesota, Dean Everson,

afterwards, said, I like the way we played, felt like we deserved a better fate. Outshot the, outshot the abs, 4319, lose 3 to 2, wild have lost 5 of their last 6.

This is just me being sensitive, but you know, every time, and you can correct me if I'm wrong here, but any time a coach comes out and says, hey, you know, I thought we deserved to win tonight, could have been this, outshot the team, it's usually a passive aggressive little shot at the goaltender, you only had 19 shots, you let in three goals. Right?

Well, that's kind of true. Right, and I'm sure the conversation. I don't think that's you as a goaltender being over sensitive. No, okay, good. That's good. That's what I was picking up on. And you've seen Flurry this season, too, breaking sticks over the crossbar.

Usually he's jovial. He likes to be funny and goofy on the ice and does stupid shit all the time, and it pisses me off. He doesn't do any of that stuff now. He's just breaking sticks and losing his marbles and throwing his hands in the air like...

So you're happy now? Which makes you happy? You should be happy now that he's not... I'm happy now he's miserable. Yeah. Okay, good. Because when he's smiling and skating around the ice that just drives me nuts.

You're happy. That he's miserable. That he's miserable. That he's very... Kind of jerks smiling and laughing about this. Enjoying the game. This is hockey. Yeah.

Treat it seriously, Mark Andre. Stop smiling. I ran into him at the Kachina when they were, when Minnesota was here playing against Calgary. And I wheeled right up to him and I said, hey, Mark, I'm not sure if you remember me, but you played one of your first American hockey league games against me in Wilkesperian. I beat you, myself, 5'3. And what was his response? Hi, nice to meet you.

Security. Yeah, I don't remember who you are. Obviously, you can't have been a hockey player. I can see you now. You look terrible. Why are you drinking red wine out of that box? You're spitting on me. Please, please stop.

Your teeth are red. Go home. The New York Rangers, they continue to roll. It's now six in a row for the Rangers. They beat Vancouver, six to four. Hockey's fun. Hockey's fun for that. You talk about you got to have more fun.

You'd hate the Rangers right now because they're having a friggin ball. That barn is on fire, too. They just sing that song after every time they score a goal, and it's just bumping. And you got Schisturkin back there, too. Mm-hmm. Not a bad little pickup. Yeah, decent. Yeah.

Austin Matthews's back for the Leafs. scores, they beat Chicago. Chicago's having a tough go. But let's talk about the wild card situation. We kind of come back to it. With all the moaning and pissing and whining that you hear on this show, the Calgary Flames find themselves mathematically in a playoff spot. Minnesota played a game last night. The Flames did not. There you see it. Tide in points. Tide in points percentage are the Wild and the Flames. They played 54 games. They play each other coming up twice in about a four or five day span in early March.

Proverbibial four-point games. Perverbue. Big matchups. So ordinarily, you'd be like, I don't know, Wild are we going to go see the Wild? You might want to be taken in the Flames and the Wild here when they play in a few weeks. Because those used to be boring games to go watch. They were really bad. Yeah.

And now it's a... They were boring to play in for a long time. There you go. right? Yeah. Like you had Baxter a net for Minnesota and it was always like a

two one sleeper and it was like oh it's a Minnesota wild this is gross but now but now now they deserve a better fate they do

that's where they're at moving we'll move on like the trade deadline coming up rumors innuendo and all that Darren Dregor good guy on TSN Radio

out I think in Montreal was talking about Josh Anderson the big forward of the Montreal Canadiens. He says, this is, this is probably not new because Brad Trilliving has coveted this guy for a long time, but he continues to covet Hab Forward Josh Anderson. They were, he was potentially a flame when he was a blue jacket before he even got injured. So yeah, this, this one's been in the Trillivin backpack for a while. But the, the cost,

as Dregor had said on the radio hit, he said, you know, if Jacob Peltche is in that trade, that would probably get their attention. You know, he is sweet in the pot. He is French Canadian. They seem to like those in Montreal. Any deal? Have you seen enough out of Jacob Pellche that that's a non-starter for you, Red, if that's, it's just.

I think I've seen enough out of Josh Anderson. I think he's a decent enough player when he's healthy. I just don't rely on him being healthy all the time. and I'd rather give Belchay the runway than bring in another veteran. I mean, it's the problem. I think the flames have done a lot. And it hasn't always been guys they've picked, but they've moved a lot of picks and haven't stocked the cupboards

as much as they could have by going out and getting guys like that. And it's funny with Pelchay, because the story came out. I think people know this story. It was going back to whatever year it was, 2019 at the trade deadline. Zucker. was in Minnesota,

dealt to, eventually goes on to Pittsburgh. The Flames had a deal done involving a first-round pick and Michael Frolek, but there was a bit of a communication snuffu. They couldn't get a hold of the powers that be, aka the owner, to run the deal or just to kind of, you know, so Zooker to Calgary fell, it fell through the cracks. The first round pick that was going to Minnesota, the flames kept and used to select Jacob Peltje.

Wow. That little nugget of information. Yeah. Did the owner did not check his fax machine at night or what happened there? I don't know. Maybe he was up in the air. Yeah. Private jet jetting off somewhere.

A bird. A bunch of babes all around. Crushing it. Drinking that rosé. All day. Right? Oh, I hate that saying. Yeah.

Some sad news coming from, well, it's the Omaha Mavericks, NCAA men's hockey team. Paul Girard passing away at the age of 57. If the name rings a bell, it's because Paul Gerard was a assistant coach with the Calgary Flames over two years, 2016 to 18. He was with Glenn Gulletson for his two-year stint.

It was also in Dallas with Gulletson there when he was the head coach, had a long-term battle with cancer and passed away, as you see there at the age of 57. And you, before we started, did you hear about Gerard? Just, he's a terrific guy. Did you have, did you have any kind of run-ins, any interaction with him? It was kind of, yeah. I'm sure I said hi to him once or twice, but no, I don't think we ever really cross paths.

So that's the shits. Yeah. I love that guy. He was awesome. I had him for two years in the miners with when Gully and Polly were down there. And Polly was, it's crazy. He had such a personality, and he didn't get, he was kind of standoffish at the start, and then he'd be kind of sarcastic, and he'd be giving guys shots, and you know he was just

having a good time once you got to know him, and guys loved him. Coming to the rink, he was smiling, you know, you have a bad day or bad game, he'd come up to you, and he'd always just say the right thing. You understood the players he worked with really well, and he always had a tremendous amount of respect from, you know, the big, big club senior management, from the players to the training staff, to everybody. He was just a, it was an all-around good guy. and we made it to the Calder Cup final one year against Hershey.

And, you know, families were always a very big a part, big a part of everything that we did. He's got two daughters and, you know, great wife. And it's just, that's just, when I saw that this morning, too, I text some of my, my Texas Stars buddies that I played with. And had you heard the news because he's young, 57 years old, fucking sucks. Thoughts going out to the Gerard family, obviously, on that one. Still with hockey and, I guess, rumor innuendo, Pierre Dorian of the Ottawa. Senator says he is not trading Alex De Brinket.

Now De Brinkett scored a goal the other night you may recall. And Pinder earlier on in the days and what's up at the Brinket? Kind of an off year. 18 goals and 44 points in 53 games. He of course came over from Chicago. That was one of those moves that just almost felt like it was a shot at Patrick Kane, right? Those two were so good together and then you take that guy away from him. He's an RFA.

He's making $6.4 million. and it's a lot of dough. He's going to get a raise. What's he worth? I don't know, but Dorian says he's keeping him. There are some other guys in Ottawa that potentially could be on the Derek Brassard or Travis Hammondock potentially.

But it feels like with Hamannock, there's always something he... There's always something going on. There's more to it. He'll only play in several spots. And I don't pretend, I'm not going to say, you know, it's fat, whatever. But did say, oddly enough, if he could add on the back end, he would do it. But I think that's probably more of a full, you know, big, big screen look, macro as opposed to micro.

Last couple of things here inside the Pinder report. Tomorrow night at 11 p.m., the 50-50 draw that's being put on right now, the Edmonton Oiler Community Foundation, along with the Stollary Children's Hospital in Edmonton, have they've been running this, it's kind of a province-wide and Alberta-wide. They're calling it a mega-50-50 draw. And it is in memory and in support of young Euler fan Ben Stelter. There's the Ben Stelter fun and, of course, the Stollary Children's Hospital is, it's an unbelievable place.

Miracles literally happened there. And they're inviting, obviously, they want everybody to get in. They invited Flames fans and everybody in Calgary and throughout the province to jump in and support this cause. You can do so. You'll find it on the Oilers website. If you can get yourself, palms, just type it in.

you find it, but you go to the, you go to the link, and I looked at it this morning, and there's a, there's a bunch of different things that, in addition to the cash prize, they've got different prizes, but the pot is already over two and a half million dollars. Edmonton likes them of 50-50. You jump on those every chance you get. They love it. So, now it ends at 11 p.m. If it's two and a half now, you feel probably doubled by the time we get to tomorrow night. but the most important part is great causes both of those and young Benny what a great kid love that kid so flames fans always fun when you you see that sometimes come out and support the opposition that'd be cool to jump in on that if you can uh chiefs had their super bowl parade

yesterday i i'm i don't know who was was ovechkin kind of the first guy to say john then Quick was really drunk when the Kings had their parade and their big kind of fan thing. Patrick Mahomes went to Disneyland. Remember, they always do that the day after. Yeah, I'm going to Disney World, Disneyland, or whatever it is. So he was, did media, had to go to Disney. It didn't have a whole lot of time to party. He's found time to party in the last 24 hours. This is him. They have those kind of the buses or whatever they are. You can, you can roll it there. old uh all the homes

he's in one he's kind of oh hey wona oh yeah I'm just going to kill this one yeah whammo he doesn't look

he couldn't keep up with us not a chance is that light beer there were a few videos swirling around speaking of Patrick Kane remember when he was on the back of the bus

didn't he puke off the back the bus. I think so. What else you're going to do, though, right? I mean, you got to, like, uh, let them have fun. Too, come on. Exactly.

Oh, I slam that down. And that beer looked like it was half drank, too. You know, there were still lots of fluid coming out of that. I picked up on. Yeah. Finish your beer. Ah, I love this. It tastes gross.

I hate it. Give me a Gatorade. Need to hydrate. There he is. What's he about 170 pounds? Smoking wet. Is he wearing a WWF championship belt? Yeah, the WWF.

We always give a belt to the heavyweight champions of the world. Yeah. Yeah, no. There's a cowboy behind him. Look at that. Yeah. Oh, yeah. That belt's been used for a lot of things over the years, too, in different circumstances.

And we will end the Pinder report. This, uh, it finds its way into my inbox two, three, four times a year. It happened earlier this year. I was going to, I was going to play the thing, but I didn't. But then it showed up on social media. Um, there is a fan. He's a professional fan. sporting teams will bring in this guy to rev up the crowd and he'll wear the jerseys and you think

you're just looking at some regular fan but then it's like oh look look at this guy he's he's really something um i was asked uh on social media is boomer going to be back from minnesota in time for the show son of a bitch look that guy clapping and he just got stood up for the high five too Watch him wheeled down here. Look at a high five. Bus, right by him. Another one here. Nope, no thanks.

See you later. Oh. He doesn't care about the fans. I'd love to be insulted about it. But it's a little uncanny, frankly. He's got the bald spot coming on the top. He's got the... There's no bum in those jeans.

They look like they're just painted on and they're just struggling to stay up. I think I've worn that shirt to blow. Old Bustin in the stampede. Yeah. I was not in Minnesota last night. That's true. Look at him.

Like nobody cares too. You know, like zero. Dude, there's so many videos. There's so many videos of this guy. And unfortunately. You see if kids? What do they think of them when they see this? We look the same in every goddamn one of them.

High five, you, me, no. Hey, let me hang him. Okay, all right, good times. Big Gulp's, see you later. It's the Pinder Report for Village Honda, your dealership for life. VillageHonda.com. The new CRV hybrid is in. The new Honda Passport Trail Sport is in.

We mentioned the Accord. It's going to be in if it isn't already. All the reasons to go and check them out at the Northwest Automall. Village Honda. How much is this guy getting paid to do these events? Because every team in the league is bringing this guy in to wind up the fans. Yeah.

I thought that's what Harvey was for. You'd think. Well, you can see the crowd was really into it. It really did spark the crowd. That one man gave him a standing ovation while he was doing it and got stood up twice for a high five. Hey, you guys know me. No, actually we don't. No, no idea.

Hey, but I'm like, surely you've seen me. Sorry, dude. I think he started at the Team Canada stuff, World Junior. stuff. Might have. I don't know. You have to be quite an athlete to do that stuff though, too. There's Harvey.

Put a shirt out. Yeah, I can see that. It's 2023. Get some clothes on, Harvard. Get a muscle shirt on or something like that. Get some clothes on. We're going to get to a, we're going to get to ask right here momentarily, Hope Street.

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We have a $100 gift card to give away to one of you lucky devils to go and have some of that grub. There you see it. Go to the social media. So Sunday at 5 p.m. I guess when we're going to wrap this thing up. Go to the Flames Nation account on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram. Like the post. Make sure you're following both Montana's and Flames Nation.

Tag a friend who you might be taken. And we'll pull the name out on Monday, which is actually Tuesday because of Family Day holiday. But on Tuesday, we will announce the winner of the gift card to Montana. Can you still color on the napkins? I remember going there and coloring. It was awesome. Oh, the tan man, we had to tell him to stop. The food was coming.

Right? He's like, can you put your crayons away? We've got to make room for the food. It's quite a distraction, actually. Oh, sorry, guys. X's and O's? Yeah. Hang man.

Hang man. Yeah. Crushing it. And you'd always make the word really bad. So you'd try to make somebody say at the table in front of your parents and you were a kid. Because the waitstaff, they end up writing their name upside down, right? They just like, hi, I'm Michelle. Holy shit.

Yeah, I know. Anyway. It's a Saturday. It's time for Ask Rat. I love it. It's a big day. It is a big day. Hope Street Property Management.

Managing tenants, finding those premium rental rates for the people who are looking to rent their spot, like you're at, right? You're, what do you call? You're kind of a squatter there, right? Did you, did you, did Hope Street get you that place in Buffalo? Did you just kind of, you looked in the mirrors? Oh, shit, nobody here. It looked like maybe somebody that works for our crew needed a Hope Street yesterday. Yeah.

Fancy new rental. Yeah, poor Wolverine. He's got a rental place here. And the old hot water tank decided to take a dump. Oh. That's the thing with the old hot water tank. It rarely gives you a heads up. It's not like a light or a button that comes on.

You want to not feeling too good. It doesn't give you one of those. And the best part is you spend a bunch of money to get it repaired only to really just get back to the same lifestyle you were in. Right. Just that I had hot water. I still have hot water. I'm out two grand.

Yep. If that's what a guy, I don't know. But that's not, but again, Hope Street. You don't need to worry about it. You don't have to worry about it. It's not your deal. Hope Street. CA. I mentioned earlier about I was going to bring in Tower Chrysler. You know, Serge, right? Our boy

Serge. Great guy. Got a set up in the nation truck and the nation Jeep and studio sponsor for us here. The ringer from the... Yeah, that's right, from the pond hockey. His wife is a teacher. Oh. And an avid viewer and listener of the show. And she's she's heard you, kind of making some disparaging comments about teachers over the last few weeks, months, years. Well, she can find, is there a question with this? Well, she just says, would you rather spend a day in a grade three classroom, math, social studies, recess supervision, lunch duty, correcting grammar, meeting with parents, or something

like pest control in Arizona? What would you rather do? Does that sound like something you'd want to, uh, Take part of. I'm scared of chemicals. So pest control doesn't sound fun. But can I just use, can I squish the pest? Can I just walk around with a stick or something?

You can shoot the squarsh them or do I got to? Well, I think she's, I think the point she's getting at is it may be. Either way, you're not giving a fair shake. I've got three kids and I don't like them. Well, she can take solace in the fact that my sister's a teacher, my brother-in-law is a teacher, my sister-in-law's a teacher. I've got about eight teachers that have surrounded me,

and I continue. I've ruined Christmas arguing with teachers, so I poke my fun and I take my cheap shots, but I love them all. Love them all. Christmas, hey? Oh, yeah. Absolutely.

Do you remember how did it start and how did it eventually come to an end? White wine. It started with two bottles of white wine that I was refused to share. It was Christmas Day, and my whole thing is I get, that's my thing, right? Once the gifts are open Christmas morning, I am duty-free. Yes. And allowed to do as I please. Yeah, so I went to my brothers, drank a couple bottles of wine, got into some rum,

and proceeded to inform these people to, they should change their ways and find a better way of doing their business. It's a bunch of BS. you're really just trying to help them out. Yeah, that's just that, Kronner, right? Like when we were playing and our coaches said, hey, you're a horse shit, what did we do? We got better at something, right? Yeah, you're terrible.

You suck at this. You might want to get out of hockey or figure it out real fast. And your sister-in-law... But you say that to a teacher and they just take offense. Oh, I know right away. You tell her that. Yeah.

She gets all wound up. My never. my nephews loved it I was shit talking her right at Christmas and they were younger that's still too young

to hear those words the way I was talking it was awesome Uncle Rat's the best You know what mom One of their favorite Christmases they said I'm sure it was

memorable at the very least Yeah Drunkle Rat was excellent Yeah old drunkle rat This one is from Jaden Hey Rat Born and Raised in Alberta

I have recently moved to Saskatchewan. Do you have any advice for me because it feels like I've gone back in time? Well, no. You will forever be stuck in the 80s in Saskatchewan. Like, you will never get out of it. There's no progress.

And the only thing, you have to embrace it and you have to buy some type of ATV snowmobile. You need to have a lake or camper. and that is how you can survive in Saskatchewan. You have to have outings and events to make your life worthwhile. See, in Manitoba's no different. That was always the thing. If ever we considered moving back, well, we're going to need a boat and a side by side or something like that,

you're going to have to curl, I guess, ice fish. Socials. You need a snow machine. You need all that stuff. That's the same as having cutlery living anywhere else. Otherwise, you're just, I don't even know what to do with myself. What else is there to do really? Which doesn't make you bad.

No, it doesn't. And you have to go into the city. That's a term you have to learn too. I have to go into the city for stuff when you need stuff. I'm going to, I love, well, my relatives didn't even go to the city. They went to town. They went to town. They went to town today.

are you going into town no no i'm not i loved it i'd stay at my uncle's place in the middle of nowhere middle of effing nowhere and he'd get mad that auntie was going to town where you go to town again for you're there we just went to town yeah what's in town what you got to go to town for you're right Jackson. I haven't seen another person. Yeah. 18 weeks, but what are you going to go to town for? We're going to go to town and I don't have a coffee.

We got coffee here. And they complain too about how far away everything is. There's a town six minutes over where I grew up. I grew up in a dry town, Minnetville, right, the old Winkler, Manitoba. And we go six minutes to Morton where there's a liquor store. And we would always complain, can you believe that drive to Morton? That's like basically three minutes.

It's out of town. I don't know if I can do this. don't know if I can do this. Is it still dry? Not anymore. Not anymore. I go back and went more frequently. There's a cabaret and climax this tonight, but I don't know.

That's a long way to get to there. A cabaret. Yeah. Social. You guys call it a social. It's a cabaret. It's a social. This means nothing to a lot of people, but to the people that they're getting it, they're

a lot of it. When I got into a social for the first time, I was underage. And I just, I get my shot of rum or whatever they gave me. And I was too scared to even go over to the, to the mix machine to go grab like pop or Sprite. So I just drank, just drank it straight. And I'm like, this is terrible. I'm going to have to, but if I wouldn't get drunk, this is the only way to do it. And I'll have to get another one.

I'm not, you'd buy a thousand tickets. Yeah. Because the line out, I'm not standing in the line again. Yep. You just empty your wallet for all the tickets. I'm standing in line for tickets. again. Want to make an idiot?

I'll have $900 worth of tickets, please. From Jackson, hey, Rhett, what's the limit on the amount of melted jalapeno cheese to take with your entree before it gets pigish at the Saskatoon Fuddruckers? Oh, I used to love. I would get my old, you know, the fries come in a little container or cup or holder thing. So the cheese, I would take another container cup, but just fill. the whole damn thing. That's what he says. One paper cup, three paper cups. What's, where do you feel like, okay, I'm abusing the system? No, no. You, yeah, two at least. I think they've probably

changed it from the last time I was there, but that Halapeno cheese at Fuddruckers is phenomenal. Phenomenal. Do you know the Fudruckers? I know the Fudruckers. I've never been to the one in Saskatoon. Because they had one in Winnipeg. Yeah. And then it shut down. Long, like, 50 years. Yeah, when I wasn't even born. Yeah, but it was, it was good. It's another Saskatchewa small town thing where it only survives in certain places. There was one, there was a Fuddruckers here in Buffalo when I played, and it is now gone. And oddly enough, it went into a guess what?

Wing joint. Oh, shocker. Yeah. Not enough of those. Can you describe to people what Fud Ruckers is that would not know? Fudrackers, well, I mean, I won't do it. all, probably as much justice as they would like, but it's just,

it's a burger joint. And you get, they, they grind their own meat, so they got kind of a little butcher shop in the front and they grind all that meat together and you can pick a quarter pound or a half pound burger and you get to pick whether you, how much rare you want it or

well done you want it. And then they got all the, it's like a condiment buffet, right? You could just put, you get your burger on a grilled bun and you can, You could go over and put on anything you want from lettuce, onions, sauteed onions, halapeno peppers, but they've got the best part about it is the big vats of cheese.

Yes. They got the pumps on there, and you just keep pumping the cheese onto your burger and fries and more and more and more. More and more and more. And they had like bison burgers too, right? And elk and ostrich and all that fun stuff. We stopped. We used to eat at Fudrackers.

after we'd beat the piss out of the pats in Regina. That's what was always our after game. Reward. Is that Jeff Freezing? Freezing and, yeah, was it Mickey? I want to say Mickey, I think it was DuPont, not Mickey Dumont. Brody. Anyway.

Right? Brody DuPont? No, he was hit. He was hit. By the way. No, I don't think so. Call Lou. Call Lou.

Lou's listening. Hey, Redster. I'm looking to add a pet to the household. Maybe something exotic. Any ideas or something that you would recommend? It's from Josh. That's exotic. I know Kroner will say fish are lovely.

I was thinking about it. Yep. Yeah. I hate snakes. We proved that yesterday. So that's right up there. It's no good. I had a bearded dragon.

What? When I hear exotic and now, Okay, perv. Well, that's what? The bearded clown. What do you consider, what do you consider exotic? Because when I hear exotic, I think reptile.

Me too. But maybe it's a piranha or a shark. Or a parrot. Peralts are exotic. You got to fly them in. You know what else I think? When you get an exotic pet, you're probably an idiot.

Because like a dog is hard enough. right like but the dog likes you now you're gonna have a giant lizard that looks at you with just disdain and not like you're getting nothing in return this question should be is probably better suited for robin lennar you know him and his snake farm that he has with a bunch of millions you hear about that story i got oh yeah bankrupt robin lennon i don't know if that's a good question a parrot maybe a nice finch brent burns burns he's still in a lot stuff right one of those weasily things Oh, ferret. A ferret. Yes, they stink, though. Yeah. They stink. Or a tortoise.

Don't get a ferret. Yeah, but if you get the ferret, you can feed it to the snakes. That's true. Right. There's a lot of... We don't condone any of this behavior. If you're a pet owner, pets just don't. Hey, Rhett, this is from Ryan on Twitter.

Do you ever miss Southwest Sask? How did your upbringing their influence and shape the character that you are today? Well, do you ever miss it? My grandpa used to say when I was in Southwest Sask, the world don't owe you a living. It's true. Do you want to just end? I really don't want to end on that one.

No, I was the first thing that went through my mind. That's, somebody was asked deep. A lot of people, it'd take people a long time to go, whoa. Now, Nick has a very long question here. And your memory is very good for some things and not for another. So this is very random. 2004, round one, Canucks, Flames, Dome, you're on the ice. There's a scrum.

Scrum kind of comes to a close. Everybody's dispersing. Yarku Routu comes up alongside you, puts his arm around your shoulder and starts jabbering in your ear. Did you have any idea what he was saying? Could you understand Yarku Routu? Was he a good guy? Were you on the same page with this guy? Or were you resisting the urge to bop him right in the nose?

I don't recall what he would have said, but I hated the guy. Okay. It would have been nothing kind. Because I think a lot of people said, does Rhett like this guy? Is this guy a good guy? Red can't like this guy. Best buddies.

Grew up together. No, no, no. He was a shit disturber, him and his brother. Tuomo? Tuomo. Right. Assistant coach in Florida. I'm not good enough to assistant coach, alumni.

I don't know. Are you? Yeah, no, I don't. What I remember about, Yarkal Routu was when he absolutely steamrolled Byron Ritchie in an exhibition game. Like, one of the hardest hits I've seen. Just clobbered them. Ouch.

Those are fun to watch. They don't happen to you? To hear them, too, sitting on the bench, listening to them. And watching the person pick up the pieces where their arm used to be and just try to put it back into place and get back on the bench. That's something else. It's Askeret. It's a presentation of Hope Street Rental Property Management.

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Yeah, that's true. What is this one here? Did you guys get New Jersey's Dean? Yeah, those are, you know what those are? Those supplied by Travis over at the hearing clinic, hearing loss clinic. They sell jerseys? No, but he has some. And they're autographed and we're going to use him as potential problems.

I like that. Yeah, they don't sell jerseys. I'm trying. Fuck sakes. I've been going to the wrong place the whole time. You get jerseys? Yeah. What do you do here? I was going to grab a wigger.

Damn it. This was from Andrew. Hey, lads. I'll be off to the teacher's convention. First time in person for a number of years. Should I just hit a boozy breakfast and then some sessions? Or how should I approach it? Just lean right in.

to it. Should have started the night before. I say for sure, you boozy brunch it, then go to the event, sign your name down and just leave. Yeah. This is what 95% of the teachers do. I went to the convention. Yeah, I saw you at you.

You didn't leave your bar stool. They're absolutely banged up by 1.30 p.m. Oh, crushed. I'm a teacher. Look at the, what do you do? I'm not a teacher. I have to work today. I'm a new oil patch. So wait, but you're at the bar as well. Of course. Yeah, no, no. I've been there before they got there.

Yeah. All great, the teachers are coming in. That guy's a loser. He's here every day. I saw him here every day last week. Do our Betway bets of the day and we'll get out of here, flames and Red Wings tonight. Both of these have hit in the last few days, so it's not overly creative. I'm going to use one of mine, one of Pinders. To Foley, anytime goal, he hit it the other night in Ottawa, plus 162 for an anytime goal, five goals in his last five games. Mo Cider, one plus assists.

Now, Pinder, I think you used this one yesterday. He scored a goal, then scored in the shootout. But dude is legit. One assist, plus 140 for Morrit Cider in tonight's game. It's not a name. Have you seen, are you aware of? Mo cider? Yeah, I have aware of him, but that is, I haven't heard it said out loud in a long time.

Moritz. Moritz. Moritz. Hey. Moritz de cider. That's right. So you already kind of threw out the first game back after a long road trip. Are you?

What's your, what's your gut telling you, retro? I don't know. I mean, how do you make anything of this team? no you can't follow a projection right like it's there's no line that they've been following or it's been so random i i you can't deny that the first game back is a thing and it's especially for a thing for average teams and i think that's what the flames are so i would be very concerned that they're going to be a little bit flat to start. Does it help at all that this is a team you just played within the week

and you were not very good against? It helps that you weren't good against them, and it also helps that you shit the bed against Ottawa, so they should be motivated and have focus, but... Who knows? Lots of fodder for motivation to play well tonight. That's right. Yeah, yeah.

Croner, it's good to see you, buddy. Thanks for having me on. Also, we got to give Detroit credit. They are no pushover. No, they're not. That's going to be a good team. They're without Lucas Raymond, a recent first rounder, very good young player.

He's on the IR, but they brought up Jacob Vrana. Remember, he was brought over from Washington, had some substance issue, all that, kind of looked like he was not going to play again. Guy can score. He's a dangerous player. He's got some issues and some baggage away from the game, but the guy's a hell of a hockey player,

so it's not like they take a huge step back there. But no, you're right, retro, top to bottom. Steve Y is putting a good team together there. And again, 25 wins, 25 wins. Who's the favorite? Who should be looking at who? Oh, well, this is a winnable game. I think that you lose to Chicago

and you need overtime for Columbus and you lose against Ottawa. There's no more. Just wipe that hole. When they play to level their competition too, right? So it would be nice to see them blow one of these teams out. You're supposed to be better than them. Like you said, they're not.

No. Good point by you. Well done there. No big deal. That's what I do. That's right. Tonight, after Burner, Kron and myself, shortly after the final buzzer.

And then tomorrow. Because the teacher convention, because the teacher convention's still going and Pinder's not free. Okay. Yeah. Hey. And then tomorrow, this program, at least the part of it, the Tower Kreiser Studios,

taking them on the road. Where you going? We're doing the show tomorrow from the Great Eagle Resort and Casino. Great spot. Stage bar. We were there for the Super Bowl. I think I could say that now in hindsight, right?

We were there for Super Bowl on Sunday. And we're going back, we're going to sprinkle in a few dates here over the next few months. Do some barn burner, do some after burner, watching games there hanging out. Tomorrow, show number one from the stage bar. That's a big deal.

Sure is, buddy. What a great spot. Do you play blackjack? I like to play blackjack, yeah. So are you here tomorrow, Pinder? Or, I mean, Pinder. We haven't got that for you yet. Yeah, I don't know what Pindor's thing is.

Okay, good. I think he's, I think he's back tomorrow, but maybe we should just do this again. I'd be fine doing this. He's taking one of those, he's taking one of those J de Forest Wednesdays off. Yeah, just some weird middle of the week out of nowhere. Well, you always need a plan B. I've guarded a nickname or two, plan B.

I'm fine with that. So swing by the Greagle tomorrow. Split the eights, double down. 21. Yeah. At the Griegle. Have a great rest of your day, everybody. We'll see you tonight on Afterburner.

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