Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - FlamesNation Barn Burner: The Flames Head Into The Second Half of the Season

Episode Date: February 8, 2023

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We are rolling on a Wednesday. It is Barn burner here on flamesnation.ca. It's Boomer, it's Pinder, it's Rhett Warner, the Rettster at Rettster 44 on Twitter. There he is, got the Yankee hat on. You've abandoned the Bill's gear yesterday. It was Bill's hoodie kind of thing, Bill's Windbreaker and Hat. I've not abandoned because even this morning I opened a new, a new Bill's sweats

I tried it on. It's lovely. It's fancy. I look sharp. It's beautiful. I'm kind of dying to see it now. When do we change Booms handle, by the way, to the Boomcat? We can't, like that handles needs an update there. Yeah, that handle is. And if you're going to wear shades from now, we need to give you something here.

What are you going to change your thing? I don't know. Just keep it. Takes about six seconds. I feel like it's helpful. Oh, yeah, it does. Yeah. I don't know. I feel like

it's probably pissing somebody off. It's probably somebody that's like, pissing me off. Is it pissing you on? The boomcats, you know, that's what I like. Do the boom cat. I saw, I'm happy now. Yeah. I saw who was, it was Strickland and was Cam Jansson, right? Cam and Strick podcast.

I think they had the wide dog on. Yeah, the wide dog. We needed a wide dog visit. He came on during COVID. It was rough at the end with the wide dog. too because wide dog is friend of the show, but wide dog got to a point where it was so bad. We were having to... Well, bad for some.

Every single night, there was an atrocious... Oh, I thought you meant... You can't make that play in the league anymore. I thought you meant the official thing. No, I didn't. To the referee. I mean, no. I think he ended up winning that whole thing on an appeal

and the linesman owed him money. It was, uh, yeah. But either way, here we are. It's, uh, it's not a flames game day. So we have another, we want to go back and just spend another day bitching about that loss of the Rangers or we can not talk about it. I feel like we had the quota. We covered it, yeah. Hey, three out of four on this road trip so far, Dane.

I don't see any problems. That's right. Yeah, on the, uh, on this, uh, three week, four week. Yeah. Okay, Daryl. He's good at it. Listen, he's good at it. Daryl knows what he's doing.

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Oh, way better. Way better people. than us. Ret freshly back from Florida. Quistently or not rather grumpy two days ago. And I found a good excuse for you, Rhett, to get back to Florida. Because you're digging the vibes there, right?

You're like, you're feeling that whole live in Florida in the winter thing, right? Big on beaches and margaritas and all signs of sunshine. It's, yeah, I got this figured out. Okay, so next Wednesday, today's Wednesday, if I'm correct, a week from today, pitchers and catchers, New York Yankees, Tampa, Florida.

Matches your house. Actually, when I was down there last week, I was thinking how great it would be to go watch some ball. Greatest boondogel of all time, the Dunedin coverage that we used to do. Yeah. Used to. Well, a lot of things we used to do.

Maybe do it again, sure. Maybe do it again. Calendar's open. Find a way to get back down there, can't we? I think it's a very good idea. Now, this is a way you had talked about being in Florida and, you know, just getting back and being in the sun. It's a good enough time for me to just kind of segue in. Now, the shoveler has been sending photos.

I don't know if you saw last week we talked about outdoor dental. You're snoring. You're not getting any sleep. You're passing out in public. He wasn't he on the boardwalk? He was on the boardwalk there. Public place is embarrassing. I don't know.

You won't even know this picture exists. But again, you're not getting the sleep you need. Oh, geez. You fell, and you fell asleep out on the beach. Jesus, I mean, come on, dude. What's it going to take for you to go to outdoor dental and get this sleep apnea thing figured out? Holy crow. That's not a beer either.

That's not a charcutory board either. No. That looks could be maybe like a pink Whitney bottle. Does it have any tape or two? I'm not sure. But it's a two-six. Yeah, maybe a Chardonnay officer. Rett, come on, man.

I'm pleading with you already. I know. The shoveler keeps sending me these. Every single week, we've got more of them. If you got... Your shape is, like, look at this guy, though. Oh, yeah. Liening out.

Big shoulders. The climate's good for you. Broad shoulders. Who, unless you go and get tested for sleep apnea, you don't know. Do you have sleep apathy? I don't know.

Do you have the thing? Well, I don't, you got to go through the whole sleep process, that whole thing, and then you go see somebody else. Well, let's look at your chart here. You know if you snore, and you know if you're fatigued.

all the time. And your partner will know those things too. They, he, she are going to know better than anybody. Snoring treatments. Now, it's outdoor dental. We've talked about this for weeks now. They, of course, have all the latest technology for your dental work, lasers, no drills and all that sort of thing, but specifically for us here at Barnburner, because again, Dr. J. Patel said, I think maybe you have some listeners that would need snoring help. Our Lugans. Yeah, yeah, for sure. So the same laser that they use for the dental work, they can use on your soft palate in the back of your trote. Two 15-minute treatments increases the tension back there, and it's going to reduce the snoring. That's where it comes from.

Thanks, Sam. You think maybe it comes from in here, but it's... That's where it comes from. Non-surgical, pain-free, little topical thing on there. 15 minutes, come back again, and the snoring is gone, and you feel better. You get more rest. Your days are better. Your nights are better.

You feel better. The people around you are happier. and you don't pass out on the beach with a two six of wizers across your chest. That's not the shape of wiser. At least you don't snore when you pass out. That's true. Yeah, yeah. If you do pass out, then it's not.

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Oh, brutal. I know. I know. It's two hours ahead and he's awake before I am and I get up fairly early. so I get it. Yeah, I was up for about four hours when I saw you doing a retweet there this morning of the big game watch party. The Rettster had a retweet today. Oh, really? Yeah. You know watch party, right?

Yeah, he was good. Oh, it was good. So now, your homeschooling today, is that what it is? You got some book learning going on at the Warner household? Yeah, we had a sad event, so the kids had to stay home that something happened at their school. So anyway, two of them had to stay home and I'm trying to help with the homework. And I hate it. I hate it.

Gives me a headache. I don't understand it. I'm actually no help. And you're probably frustrated too. So just to cap it off. It's a detriment to everyone. It is, yeah, the kids are not impressed with my assistance. And I'm not impressed with the questions.

I don't even know what. to do. The struggle is real, though. Oh, yeah. You were talking about this, I want to say five years ago. I don't even know. Oh, we're using the rubric and these, these terms that they're taught. What are you, what are you talking about? Coson. No idea what they're talking about. My wife, she's, we get some, somebody's coming over to help, uh, old your daughter, whatever her name is with, uh, with their homework. Can you print out this sheet so that they have? Whatever her name is. And I printed us, like, which, which way is up? Like, what is? Like, what is? Like, what is. What is? What is. What is. What is? What is. No clue.

No, I just set it on the desk. There you go, sweetheart. Good luck with that. No help. So I feel like somehow, some way, Red has either got a more profound respect for teachers or are they just going to blame them and the hatred's even greater than others?

I'm wondering which way. Hate teachers. Because, I mean, if you do it eight hours a day, you'd go bonkers, but I think you'd probably blame the teachers for doing this. Well, first of all, they don't work for eight hours. They're there for eight hours. They're there for eight hours.

I don't know that Rett should be comparing workings. You know what? It goes without saying, but please, Red, continue. And the summer's off, right? It's crazy. Like you said, though, I have to learn the English language again because I don't un-

Rubric. It's like the cube, like the- Yeah, I had one I was a kid. Is that, yeah. I never could figure out how to finish that either. It's the rubric and all this. I got no clue. I'm excited.

You got to... Can't wait for that. Now you get to add... Now you get to add screens to the mix. So there's no... You don't just open a textbook. So the best grade I ever got in high school, I got kicked out of science class.

The teacher was like, you're a distraction. I don't want you in my room. You can take the class, but you have to sit outside, in the hallway, and here's the textbook. and every day he's like, this is the chapter. These are the questions.

Carry on. Get it. I got 80%. I got an 80 in that class. Yeah. But now there's not even a textbook to study from. So they give you binders with papers that just, you know, they all rip out and it falls apart.

So it's unorganized. It's an absolute shit show. And then you have videos. you have to watch, then click off of that and change the screen and find this. Holy F, just give me something to work on here. It takes me 20 minutes to figure out even the proper, okay, is it this video first? And then I do this question. And then I'm lost before I start.

And this is great four. Yeah, I just wait for someone to hit me over the head with the frying pan and just put me out of my misery. because it's the worst. Much more preferable. We've heard good in the room, but good in the hallway. That is a bit surprising, right? Oh, I spent a lot of time in the hallway.

What about you? You were probably, what was, what was? I think probably around junior high school, I figured out that I could be a dink and make people laughing class, and that was not good. To me, you would never shut up,

which I think would drive teachers crazy. So, Ryan, please, Ryan, Ryan, please. Uh-huh. Hallway. You're going to stay at lunch. Is that allowed?

Where's the rule, school manual? Shut up. I had one teacher, and it was always a battle to see who was going to get in the last word. Mr. Malberg, would you be quiet? Sure, I'll be quiet. I said, be quiet. I'm being quiet.

Why do you have to do it? I'm not doing anything. All right, go in the hallway. All right, fine. I'm having flashback to breakfast today with that. Close the door behind you. Yeah, I will. Thanks.

You're welcome. Good then. All right then. I actually kind of liked them. a game by the end, right? I think that there was that, that respect kind of between, it's like, that fucker. Yeah. Just won't go easy. Damn respect game. Yeah. I don't even remember what the hell of class that was. I was out in the hallway all year. Anyway, flames. Flames. Flames. I mean, Detroit. Flames? Whatever, flames. Flames are in Detroit. They'll play the Red

Wings tomorrow. And then Buffalo on Saturday. Matinee. In the Queen City. Must win games. I thought, can you stop for a second? I thought the Queen City was Regina. And Cincinnati too, I think. There's many Queen cities. That's the issue. The Queen apparently, zipping around, doing some things and some places.

Freddie Mercury. I'm not completely athletic. Because Rob Ray wrote back to the Queen City on the board when we were playing when I was playing here in Buffalo. And I'm like, we're going to Regina for a game. Go see Ryder's game, yeah!

Yes! Honestly, I was like, why in the after we're going to Regina? Like, come on, we don't need to go to Regina, do we? That's so good, man. Sorry about that. Well, and as Kelly Kirsch would tell you, of course, the Queen City kids, they're from Regina, yeah. Saw them at the pump in Saskatoon one time. Yeah.

So it's Detroit. I wondered if maybe they would hang in New York for a little. little bit, but it does not seem to be the case. Does this feel like a group that 51 games through the season deserves an extra day in New York? Back in the New York groove. No, get on the plane. Let's go. Get to Motor City. Tell us about Detroit, Red. I've never been. I hear it's, and for a long time, remember when the Red Wings were really, really good, you would get big name players who would go and live in Detroit. Ah, you know, there's parts of Detroit. There's parts of Detroit. There's parts that are really good. There's some other parts that are nice.

I don't know that I've seen video evidence of the nice parts. I've seen what looks to be the cold waterfront, dreary kind of run down parts of Detroit. Where would you guys stay? What would you do? Or was it one of those spots where you just be out, like in, do nothing and out right after? It was very Buffalo-esque. It was go in and play and don't leave the hotel and just, I mean, they, they, they, They built a casino downtown.

I think I went in there once. But my first trip to Detroit, I was playing for the Detroit Vipers, Ann Arbor, the palace at Auburn Hills. Malice at the Palace. We're on our taste. There you go. Just beautiful. So it's nice out there.

I got swamped or swept by Kansas City. It wasn't so good. They got a new. So part of the reason that I had to flee the country was that when I went to Detroit, me and my roommate, remember I told this story where I ran into that roommate in Vegas like five years later. Okay, start from the beginning because they won't remember. I don't remember. Let's go.

Well, but the problem is I have vague memories of it because it was Vegas. There was a lot of intoxication. Anyway, go to Detroit, get the season had ended in Saskatoon. And the Vipers had Jason Woolley on the team for most of the year. And the Panthers took Woolley. And so they felt obligated to give them a player in return. And, you know, I'm very Jason Woolley-esque, offensive-minded, power play kind of player. Yeah.

So I ended up in Detroit. Doug McLean came and saw me. Sure, you'd be keen to play more, too. Knowing Red, hey? Yeah. Just work. Can I get some extra icing? I know the season's over here, but can I find some?

Can you come, find me somewhere to play? Yeah. Yeah. Then my roommate, geez, I don't remember his name. Eric. Eric something. He was a tough guy in mind. In Dros.

Anyway, he was my roommate. So he wanted to go to Windsor and go to the casino. So I'm like, yeah, let's go. And I didn't realize I needed my. immigration papers. So we crossed the border into Canada. That was easy enough. But coming back, the U.S. customs and immigration,

excuse me, young sir, what is your reason for being in this fine city of ours? And I said, well, I'm playing hockey for the Vipers. I'm a pretty big deal here. Let's see those. Let's see those working papers then. I'm like, what's that? So my poor roommate that I knew for about two days had to drive all the way back to the, to the rental place we had and go shuffling through all my stuff to try and find my papers that I apparently was supposed to have on me while I sat at the border on the bridge in Windsor. Business documents, yeah.

So what year would this have been? Because I'm looking at just out of junior, right, at Jason Woolley. He played one year for the Vipes. I'm looking for an Eric. Are you sure it's Eric? My eyes are... No, I'm not sure it's there. I'll tell you what, there were a lot of guys

that went through the turnstiles there. A lot of ins and outs for the old Detroit Vipers that year. Man, a ton of guys. So, yeah, you'd have to take a look. The old IHL, huh? Because didn't... That was Sampsonoff and Radic Bonk? Did they both play?

I don't know about Bonk, but it was the Thornton der after Boston. And then picked one in eight. They take Thornton at one, and it probably wasn't ready to play. And Samsonov had come over and was playing with men in the eye. And I think also another Vipers tie-in was, I think they got Gordy Howe out there when he was 70 to make it five decades of pro hockey or something like that. It's crazy. A 19-year-old Miro Chatan.

Really? Played eight games that year for the Detroit Vipers. So, again, that ties in nicely to the Calgary Flames. Certainly. And the Detroit Red Wings coming up tomorrow. Dubtails, really. At the Little Caesar's Arena, which I've heard kind of a template. They like it here.

That the people here in town have been using to potentially build the new rink here. They really liked the Little Caesar's Rink. And I didn't see when that one was built. Anyone suggesting we pee in the sinks, which is what we saw out of Edmonton early. So I think there's probably some bottlenecks that they'll avoid if they go with the Detroit model. they're paying in the sinks? That was Edmonton, yeah. I see.

Yeah. Still? No, I think they converted some women's washrooms to men or more or something. Yeah. They also sold tickets to the concourse. People didn't have seats in the playoffs. It was a lot happening. Yeah.

No, you didn't, did you ever play for the guy person? There it is. Eric Levine. There you go. Is he on that list? Five games. No, I didn't even get to play. Because you never, yeah, you never played.

Oh, there. That's why. Okay. Christoff. Olawa was on the team. I was going to say. Holy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

So they just brought you in and you watched them play. For how long? Yeah. Like two, three weeks? Only for, yeah. I don't even know if I saw a regular season game. It was mostly playoffs and there was only five of them. So it wasn't a long stint.

When we did the roast, wasn't there a Vipra's jersey in that collection that got auctioned off? I believe there was. I think there was. It was a false advertisement. Yeah. It was pretty good. There was obviously a team Canada, Blades, Florida, Buffalo.

What else was there? They played to HL Carolina. That was that quick spell. You got, what, rookie year? No. Yeah, rookie year. Yeah, yeah. Nine games.

Yeah, someone there too, if I remember. Anyway, there's nothing to do in Detroit. There's nothing to do in Detroit. There's still lots of people that live there. I think it's one of those, it is one of those places like Buffalo where suburbs are nice. They're fans of their team, for sure.

Big supporters. So I don't know. I think Morrison actually just moved back there, didn't he, Brendan? Did he? Really? And that was a team for, again, now that I'm old as dirt.

Because you remembered when they were so good and winning Stanley Cups, you had to tell younger, there was a time. when Detroit was really quite bad. Steve Eisenman, they got him because they were so bad. And then they started to draft guys and Lidstrom came in and now they're very, very good. But there actually was a time where they were awful. Now you almost have to remind people, remember how good this team was.

It's hard to recall that. It's been a long time. It was that slow decline where they had that playoff run and that probably justifies some decisions you shouldn't have made, but you wanted to keep that streak of a quarter century alive. Ken Holland's best work, was not the tail end of his time in Detroit with the abdocator helm Weiss type deals. And yeah, I think Steve Isman's done a good job, but he's not fast-tracking this thing. He's taking his time. Because they had the Eisenman, Shanahan, Brett Hall, that growth, right? And then they moved on.

And then it was on to Zetterberg and Datzook. And those guys are never going to win or just give them a couple more years. Because that was the whole thing. We're missing the Russians, too. We're going to leave them in the American League. We're going to let our prospects cook. We're not bringing them up. and because the team was so good,

you didn't have room for them anyway. And because there wasn't a salary cap, you weren't incentive to play young players. You could let them cook. You didn't worry about, oh, we've, like, they spent a huge amount of money. Yes, they were good GMs

and yes, they did good work. But they spent more on their hockey team than probably any team in the league not named the Rangers or Leafs. Like, they were an absolute, you know, Goliath out there in terms of what they were spending on talent. But even near the end of that stretch, retro, I remember at the other place.

We would, we would, you'd go and you'd watch them. play. And it was just, it was beautiful to sit up high and watch how they would move the puck, how Lidstrom could skate, like you say, Fedorov and how, I guess Fedorov probably would have been gone, but just Pavel Datsuk so good, Lidstrom, so good. And everybody else around them just looked so good because they were out there. It was almost like they were playing a different game as they transported the puck up the ice. You think of some teams that, like we watch now, that can't get in the zone and the power play and chop it square. Not that team. Their innovators is,

well. That five-man Russian unit. We saw Fedorov move back to the blue line occasionally. And you also saw them be the first team in the NHL to say, we're not going to carry a goon. Like that was pretty, whoa, like you're going to get beat up. And that's not to say, like, look how great there. But they were trying things, right? It wasn't just spend lots of money. They were, they were forward thinking. And you look at the, I guess, in football, you talk about coaching trees. Look at the GM tree. Like Jim Nill is still, killing it in the draft. He's just doing it for Dallas now. And Ken Holland was a good GM. His best were probably pre-cap. But like there's some legacy out of that that franchise. They were open-minded enough, I think, is the key, right? They allowed that Russian style or system.

Then they embraced it. They didn't bring the Russians over and try and turn them into North American type players. They were like, no, let's let these guys do their thing because it's pretty impressive. And I think they integrated that a lot. Izerman being the captain, he sought and he must have liked it. So I think it was an open-minded and a belief that

oh, we could play this game differently and it might help. To Eisenman, there's the other part of the tree. He goes to Tampa. Doesn't it feel right that he's in Detroit? Yeah. And I think when he left Tampa, it was confusing. And then you're like, oh, the family, he was still living in Michigan? Jeez, like, yeah, okay. And it's like, Ken Holland, you've been great. But like,

Everyone in the room knew, including Ken, what do you have to do at that point? It's like, yeah, I'm going to get out of the way here. This is Steve's turn. Although I remember at first, you know, I'm the GM of this team. That's great that Steve's coming back, but no, I'm the GM. And then retirement turned into a five-year deal with Edmonton. Yarr, yeah, yeah. I was just doing the math and you know I love doing the math.

You sure do. We talked about it already today. Cowus. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven Norris trophies for Nick Liddstrom. Just, hey? Crazy. No one made the game look easier, right? And you watch Kail McCarred today,

electrifying skater. Nick Lidsstrom, an unbelievable skater, but so different. His edgework, it was almost like Mario in a way, how he would take some strides, and then he was just able to kind of glide and still be picking up speed without just turning up the ice.

Unreal to watch him play. What I, so I coach kids, right? I'm around kids a lot. I think I told the story about Rob Blake. Then they're like, who? Yeah. I've mentioned Lidstrom in practices. Blank stairs.

We're seeing the Pantheon for DMA. Stairs. It's like a top 5D of all time probably? Top 5. Yeah. I think he has to be. But that's just, he's so underrated. I never knew he won 7 Norris.

It felt like an annual event. I remember thinking like they just like it should be named after him really seven norris's and a con smith plus the cups obviously on the international stage you'd have some triple gold guy probably there yeah would have won uh with sweden and italy toronto six right and yeah the wings so good for so long and now i feel like they're on that uptick again i think you watch lucas raymond and mo cider and some of these young guys and Now, how don't you have faith in Eisenman that he's going to be able to pull the right strings and do the right things there?

Now, they signed Dylan Larkin to a big deal. I mean, he's the captain. He's up for a big deal now. He's free agent. Did they not sign him this week? I don't think it's done yet. That's what everyone's waiting for. He was talking about it at the All-Star break.

And, hey, Dylan, how are things going on? What's everyone talking about? They're talking about things aren't done yet. We're working towards it. Oh, I see. Because I saw a terms of like, oh, okay, they're in, they're in on Dylan Larkin. But either way, you just feel like it's a matter of time. Yeah.

And we'll be talking about, if you haven't paid attention to Moe Sider, Moritz Sider, the defenseman for the Detroit Red Wings, he is a monster. He's not quite as mean as Chris Pronger, not quite as big of the dick. Always big and physical. I don't think his pronger was. Nobody was, yeah. But big and physical and strong.

And for a while, it was, well, he's not going to have that offensive ability that a pronger had. The points are coming. The points are starting to come for cider. They've had some bad luck in the draft lottery as well in terms of having bad, bad teams and picking like third and fourth instead of first and second. It's interesting what he's had to do with, what was it, Nadelcovich and Verana, both guys that he signed have been on waivers this year. Philip Peronics having a really nice breakout year offensively in the back end for them. I think they're going to be good. The problem is that leap in division.

So we talk about with Buffalo all the time. Ottawa as well, Montreal. It's great. You got young kids, you're going to be better. You just let us know when Boston, Toronto, Tampa, and Florida are going to be bad. But, hey, if you're going to win in that division, you're going to have to do it the right way. They are. I just killed it.

I know what's to talk after that. No, it's good. I'm just kind of checking things out. Still weird for me to see them as an Eastern Conference team. Because that was always the thing they were. What year did they switch? Jesus. You'd hear it.

Every time the GMs would meet. It's like, is there any chance? Because it was Columbus and Detroit. Do you realize where we are as a Western conference team and what our travel is like and what other? Basically at Toronto. The other Eastern teams have it so easy as compared to what we have in the West. There you go.

You get to Seattle, you get to Vegas and Bob's your uncle. Yeah, and Nashville's in the West. That makes sense, right? Coming up on Sunday, we are going to be just down the road over at the Grey Eagle Resort and Casino. And I don't want to get people too excited. We want you to come. Now, there's no reserved seating. It's rush seating, whatever you want to call it.

Get there early. There's all kinds of stuff on, you know, the pregame show to the pregame show and all that sort of thing. I think the tan man is coming. I'm excited about this. To be at our VIP table. Well, it wouldn't be a VIP table if he wasn't there. The tan man has given us a verbal thumbs up and commitment for Sunday.

He's RSVPed, Rhett. It's waiting on you. Is thumbs up verbal? I don't know. Oh, he did both, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah. He gave us one of those.

Sorry, yeah, I think I could do that. Sorry, guys, yeah, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, you can also sit at our VIP table, but you're going to have to win the little contest that we got going. We want to see what you're, give us your giddy up. What are you wearing? What are you throwing on your frame? We want to see your Super Bowl outfits.

Let's go. Go out for Super Bowl and really get after it. You can go to my Instagram at Boomer Morning, which is a little like to probably change it too. Any of either of the Flames Nation on Twitter or Instagram, these social medias, give us the photos, let us know what you're wearing,

and then later this week, we'll pick one of you, you and a guest, going to join Pinder and me and the Tan Man at Grey Eagle stagebar big game watch party. Subbaid, a big game.

That's right. On Sunday afternoon. Getting ready for it. We've said it. We'll keep saying it. $12, pitcher of beer and a plate of wings. $12, beer and wings is the, it's all you need to know. I'm sure there's other stuff on the menu, but what are you doing?

As well, there are going to be four draws for $100 of free slot play, and then the grand prize draw will make it right after the game finale, the big trophy presentation to the owner of the team, which stinks. Yeah, congrats. A 65-inch Samsung TV and a 3rd. soundbar you can enter that day only you show up name in the draw somebody that's there is winning that pretty good odds i would suggest yeah by the way it was nine years ago they moved to the east 13 14 yeah i'm old for for me that's like whatever dog years that's like two years ago that's like

uh the year that uh you and i began working together what a pleasure that was odd that it feels like it was so long ago times move slow since then no reserved seating so get the there early. Let's go. Hang out. We're going to be over at the Grey Eagle Resort and Casino. I want to see you there. Let's go. Some guys are going to sit at our table. We're going to be mixing a boat. We're going to be chopping it up. We wear your jerseys too. You don't have to be a Chiefs or Eagles fan. You could be a football fan. Let's go. Is that how it goes? Because I don't know the etiquette. If you wear a jersey, certainly in hockey, it would be weird. To a game where those two teams aren't playing, you get. It's a jersey foul.

You get smashed. The big game is different. I would suggest that the big game, Not like if you're going to it, that would be weird. But if you're watching it, you've got to rep your team and be like, imagine the joy we would have in the future if this jersey would ever get their shit together and show up in this game. So would you wear your Jim Kelly jersey to Eagles Chiefs at a pub? Thermat Thomas. Alex Van Pelt.

Ooh. Didn't see that one coming. No. No, didn't see that one coming. What about Bruce Smith? I feel like that's your boy, isn't it? Big tree. Bruce would be good.

I like Bruce. Bruce is good. But I had it. A.V. P jersey, Oxfam Pelt, my man, coach. Is he? All right. There you have it.

He ate all my pain killers after I had surgery on my shoulder. Eight all your pain killers. Is that what you do? You eat them. Yeah. Him and his buddies were. Let's try some of these. I don't even know what they were.

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Flamesland. They don't play tonight. They didn't play last night. They did practice yesterday in Detroit. They'll practice again today. In fact, if you're live on YouTube, on the ice right now in Detroit Rock City. How about that? Let's have peak of the standings. There was a little bit of movement last night in the NHL with Nashville in action, Edmonton in action, Colorado in action. Generally speaking, a good night for the Calgary Flames. Predators fall in regulation. The Aves blew a late lead. Only scored one on Casey to Smith, who I MFed yesterday. had his best night of the year. You can't write this shit. Still got it. Yeah. 41 of 42. How much of a civ he's been all year?

And you were yipping him right from the start. Yes. You had the jinks he pants on shortly. Betway, I was all in on Kale McCar. Yeah. And we'll get to Kail McCar. Casey to stink. I would more like it.

Casey to shit your pan. Yeah. Okay. Well, that didn't go so well. Anyway, there's your standings. Outside looking in. They're going to need to get on a run here, Rhett. They're not going to, you know,

fall into a playoff spot here with someone, you know, hitting the skids. I see Colorado and Edmonton his taillights here. You're going to have to reel off five of six, you know, make it eight of ten. They've got to get her going here. Now, they've got the whole loser point thing and don't lose in regulation thing figured out. Stringing some ws together are going to be a necessary at some point. String them. Yeah.

I don't know if he's frozen or didn't deep thought there. Yeah. Five out of six. Isn't that what I said on this road trip? We're going to, on the remainder? Are we included in Seattle? I don't even know. Of the course you are, Brian.

Flames came up in Elliot's 32 thoughts this week. And to nobody's surprise, the worst kept secret, the Flames, geez, even after publicly acknowledging it via their head coach, some interest in Luke Shen, who plays right side defense for the bad Vancouver Canucks. And article up on Flames Nation, if you want more on that. I think there's good reason to be concerned and excited about Luke Shen as a trade target for the Calgary Flames. The concern would be paying a premium price for Luke Shen. The positive would be where he slots in your roster would be exactly what you need,

someone that can push Michael Stone into the seven hole, not make him play top six minutes. And I don't know where the price is on Shen. This is a draft class that GMs really, really like. And I think they're going to be very hesitant to move high in picks. is this a Fantenberg foreboard aisle, or is this going to be the overpay for Ben Chirot aisle? I don't know which. The truth's probably somewhere in the middle.

More on Flames Nation there. Yeah, the... He's not Ben Chirot, is he? No, he's not. And he's league minimum, but they're going to ask more because it's a good cap hit, right? I'll give you the stuff from Elliott from Sportsnet.com. The Flames are believed to be in on Shen,

although they might wait to see if it makes sense for them in the standings. You can see the possibility because of Chris Tanev's injury. he's a big gamer, but even he can't overcome everything. There's been a push from some inside the Canucks organization to keep Shen. I think it depends what's offered. If Vancouver deems it too low, they won't move. But the Bruins are believed to be in on Shen, as are some other teams which will only push the price north.

Yeah, and I don't know that Shen is so shenny. There's no one else that can do Luke Shen, i.e. play the right side of a third pair. so maybe it's the caffeine diet. Do they feel like they're a Luke Shen away? I certainly like upgrading that third pair, but they're not a Luke Shen away. Save your picks.

Keep your powder dry. What if it's a fourth conditional third? Like if they advance, they get a third. Are you okay with that price tag? Third rounder for Shen? No, I don't, no. Okay. That was what they basically paid for Forward.

Yeah, and keep your picks. Yeah, I think keep the picks, too. If it's a second or better, you've got to be crazy. A third I could be talked into. A second? Which would be nuts, right? For a league, minimum of a guy? Well, that's even more appetizing.

Look at the cap. You can even add another player at. They're going to charge him more because he's making less money. We'll see. I don't think he's a great player. I think he's a serviceable right side. I think he would fit in well here. From Saskatoon, that's his best, it's his best asset.

Colonna Rock. Was he known? That's the pipeline there. Yeah. So tune to Colon. His brother, uh, Wheat King and a blade.

How about that? Yeah. Uh, all right, we'll move along. He's so much info. And I love this talk about Vancouver. Like,

yeah, we might keep them, but sweet, good asset management. Keep rock in Vancouver. I'm sure he's going to re-up. Loves it there. It's been so awesome.

This is what you say when you're trying to get more than what people are offering. So, yeah. Keep him for sure. Vancouver and keep your jobs, GMs and presidents. That'd be good work. Arena news earlier this week for the flames. We'll stay there real quick. Ryan Pikes got an article on the city council meeting that was in camera on Monday. There were some high profile third party people that attended said meeting. Pike's the best on this stuff. We could try to summarize

it, but just go read it. It's better that way. And again, it's, things are going to happen. It's just, you know, we're going to go through this process. It's, I mean, you talk about kid math, making you glaze over. Can you imagine being in those meetings? I mean, not you, I can't imagine. That would be not ideal fit. God. Yeah.

I could put you on that. You'd be in for that? You want to go sit in those meetings? No, but if we had to pick one person to do it. Jesus. I feel like I'd have to wear that one. Retro. Retro's an idea guy.

Hey, you'd get in there, you start throwing some ideas around. Yeah. Leave, let everybody else, you know, kind of handle it. Hey, guys, I've been thinking about Airjury. I'm hungry. I'm out for lunch. Best of luck. Listen, I know the guy that came up with the three-on-three for the All-Star game.

Do we shoot them or do we like them? What's the story here? Oh, we love them. Three-on-three game is better than the game they used to pay, isn't it? I mean, they're all dog shit, but yeah. I kind of. I don't. Poor Pete.

It's like four games. games. We are idea, guys, and we would have great ideas, but nobody listens to our ideas. That's the problem. Or they get guys like,

Boom, that take you credit or take credit for your ideas. That's you, boom. Let's put beer in the water fountains and we can just take a shit wherever we want.

Sorry, guys, got to run. All right, what was that? Beer and... How is that going to work? Thanks, no washrooms?

Jesus. There's never a line for the washroom. No lines. I get shit all over your feet. wherever we are. Just drop your trow and let her buck. NHL last night. Let's get there. Big home game for the Isles

who had Bo Horvatt finally there. But before we get the bow, how about a shutout for really a Sorokan? This guy might win the business. You're frontrunner this year, fellas. Are you familiar? Are you up to speed on the season's Sorokans having?

It's probably the only reason I think Lou goes after Horvat. It's like if you have the goal, You've got a chance. Darrell knows that where he's coaching this league. And yeah, so what's that? Like one out of every eight games, he gets a shutout. That seems like a really nice career.

You know what? He's been that for a while. Well, that's what I mean. That's his career numbers. That's crazy. But that's enough on Sorokin. Let's get to Bo. He gets the shutout, and Bo gets his first as an Islander.

Bo? Probably nice to get it right out of the way, Pitch. What was it like for you when you got? Oh, here's Barzell. He's score. His first is... Made it for nothing. They loved it.

In fact, let's go to later in the game while play is ongoing, the Islanders fans chanting his name, which I don't know that he's had happened before. His first game is an Islander. Welcome to the island, fellas. That's decent, yeah. And then post game, he's a star, gets to talk with people, does the twirl, handing out the puck.

Big Lovin. That's how you want every one of those. big trades to work. New guy comes in. It is. You hear why he's wearing 14? Because he was 53 in a van. Thomas Hickey?

No, it's math. You're going to hate it because one plus four is five, but four minus one. It's three, 53. And Lou probably didn't allow him wear 53 nor grow a mustache that turd. 53 too high. All right, I guess you got to get razors and a lower. Why wouldn't he wear 53? That's a retired number of the Islanders, unless I'm completely out to lunch here.

It feels like an Islander rule, doesn't it? Wouldn't Lou be one of those guys? Numbers too high. What do you think you are a star? Oh, it is. And you know what? Brian Burke was that guy and he kind of loosened. Yes, he did.

That a little bit. Because what, Casey's Azquez is wearing a big number. He's loosened up a little bit, but it's still haircuts and shaved faces and low numbers. Shave their sideburns, Maddingly. 2023. How would you make out with Lou? Look at you. I'm not a little type.

No, that's not for me. Good thing I'd have to deal with those issues, hey, Rhett? Actually being so good at a sport that you'd have to accept the $50 million you'd need to shave your facial hair? Yeah. Yeah. Eric Carlson. You'll be fine. Thanks, buddy. Eric Carlson, I hate to be the bearer of bad news.

Reports of his demise are premature. It's almost as if we jinxed him. Look at this. Imagine if he gets a hundred plus. points this year. And we know he's not great defensively. When he's on the O, he's, they're outscoring opponents. It isn't the awful defensive season.

It's a middling defensive season, which is like all-star caliber defense for Eric Carlson. He is top five in scoring in the league. And oh, what about context? Here are the guys through 52 games that had more points. Coffee, coffee, coffee, coffee, once pot van. And they're awful. He's not passing it to Jumbo Joe in his prime. Jonathan Chichu ain't scoring 56 this year.

They're fucking brutal. They got two guys with more than 12 goals that he plays with. That's it. It's all EK 65. He's doing it himself. And I think there's something to what Rett was saying earlier. Like, it's probably easier for Carlson on a bad team. It would be, right?

But it's not like he isn't putting up the results. And when he's off the ice, they're a tire fire. Like, they're outscorer versus score. Like, when he's on, They're competitive. They're up a little bit. When he's off, it's you're the 30 second best team in the NHL. They're a team that I kind of wonder how long it's going to take for them.

Because they have, I mean, this is one contract and you've got to, you know, they re-signed hurdle. Now they got to figure out Team O'Meier and what they're doing there. But for so long, they were a good team, playoff team every single year. 16 to 17 years, I believe. Add guys. Add guys. Bring in, pay, pay, pay.

And I just wonder, it feels to your point, like they're a long, ways away. Yeah, well, they traded what? Two firsts for Carlson. One turned out to be Stutzeliff, I'm correct, really high. They traded another first for Ravander Kane. They traded another first on another deal I'm blanking on. Like, they've been shipping out first forever here.

So it's going to be a while and you're probably going to have to be really, really, really good at your pro scouting draft and develop. And they weren't bad at that, but I don't see a young star coming. And Tim O Meyer's going to be a nightmare wreck because he's got a $10 million QO this summer.

Wow, but you're bloody well lucky that Carlson's playing as well as he is for, you know, at least you're getting some value from him. And now for other teams must be calling an interested. Like, there's, there's got to be someone that's going, wow, if he's going to do this, we've got to get him. Mike Greer said a really high asking price, but he's now back in that spot to Rhett's point that he's dominant enough that teams are going to try to make room for him as the cap goes up in theory. these sharks

I'm just looking here I would rather have I'm not I'm not a big fan but I would still rather have Eric Carlson than Luke Shen yeah

whoa whoa ret bomb red bomb well it feels like a red bomb but like what would Darrell pick I do wonder sometimes yeah yeah yeah

it's true goals for flames and the sharks have the same number really oh goals four I thought you mean goals for yeah clear Really. Their goals against would be miles apart.

But even as you say, there's no one else scoring on that. No. No. Two guys with more than 12 goals, not named Carlson. It's got to be what, Meyer and Hurtle healthy enough? It's got to be, yeah. Good tour maybe, yeah. Oh, we could look.

You got computers here. You could probably just look. Jeff Carter. Dirty on our boy, Keelma Carr. Not just because we had him in our Betway bets and that he's a beauty Calgaryan and that he's the best of, defenseman since Carlson. But it's because, look, this hit, Red.

This is a little bit cheap. Standing still in front. Bunk. Oh. Like, I don't know that there's a tight lane there. He definitely goes right to the head. And he's, like, how's McCarre supposed to deal with that? It's the wrong way.

Now, I get this probably happened all the time when Rep played, but in today's NHL with all the emphasis they've placed on head contact, that just seems dirty. Left the game, Red, concussion spotter, chit-chat. Came back, did finish. McCart was not happy about it post-game. And that's no accident. That's not incidental contact.

There's lots of room to skate by and not clip a guy there. And Bednar said the same post-game. He was not happy with that play from Jeff Carter. Okay, last night, NBA history, LeBron James passes. is his sole possession now. He's the guy. He passed the captain last night. Here is your bucket to put, tie and go ahead.

All-time points in the NBA. Pink shoes, right? 38. Kareem Abdur Jabbar was there. Just pounding vodka cranberries in the front row. Yeah, he was doing all right. He didn't want to be there. He was cool as a cucumber,

and then they had him do the whole stage here, stand here, hand the ball there. Yeah, it was one of these retro, and he's like, I hope he does it tonight, because I don't want to be here tomorrow. You can tell LeBron was going to. He got on a heater. He's going to hit it. All right. Oh, fuck.

Out of his chair. Somebody come shake my hand so I can go home. I'm frigging tired. Yeah. His kids were on hand, and he's 38, Rhett. 20 years. Does it feel like that? Got a brace from his mother.

won some titles Miami, Cleveland, and L.A. And he wants to play with his boys, apparently. Those are his boys to his right, our left? Was it Bronny and Bryce? Can you just say, I want to play, he's probably good enough that he can just say my kid's going to play in the NBA? I don't know that his kids are old enough yet, but it sounds like their ballplay.

He's a football player, but he's still. He's got a great hand. I need him. It's unbelievable, yeah. So here's him post game talking with his boys. Cream is 75 years old. Holy. Yeah, let him go asleep.

Jeez. Let him have a phone. Frank. I'm trying to break my record. Three. It's going to be two and three. Me? Oh, yeah, I'll be two and three.

The one kid's like, I don't know about that, man. That's a lot of points in the NBA. That would be cool to see. Gordy, how did this, but it's spoiled rotten. You're not going to work like LeBronhead. They're good players. I mean, you're right. He grew up in Akron, not the son of a dude worth a billion, but they're good players.

Gordon How did this with his kids in the WHA? We never talk about it because it wasn't the NHL, right? That would be quite a thing. Obviously, Ken Griffey, Sr. and junior. I think we don't talk about it because it happened in the 70s. That too. And in fairness, Mark Howell was a, I mean, he was a good at HLer.

It's not as though they were just playing. because they were his kids. No, I mean, play together in the same team. That would be kind of cool to see. I feel like we'd celebrate it more if it wasn't the rival league. The NHL pretends doesn't exist, right? Because we never talked about those games he played either. And then Griffey's, obviously, pretty cool.

Right. But you're the only one that keeps that in a backpack. It is a backpack item for me. I'm not going to hide from that. It's really something. Another thing becoming a backpack. No one else cares. It's because you're getting mad at Pat Marlowe.

And I'd feel like the league could have. helped you there. Talk to Patty. Apologize. Did you? It's probably overdue. Take it back? Take that back.

I still wish Gordy had the record. I'm sorry. It's just how I feel. Don't make me bring up the WHA again. Another backpack item that's happening, Rhett, we saw one of the greats honoring the new king,

the new all-time points leader. The fuck is going on. 22. I know you're not staying up that late. Can't believe you're a party in Tuesday night or Wednesday night, 2.30 in the morning. The $2 highballs down south somewhere? That's why I got to wear the glasses, man.

I was up for a bit by that time. What do you do? It doesn't matter. I got to get you some weed gummies. Sleeped like a baby. I told you what I did last night. Stared at a wall. I did that accomplish.

Had a tough real life meeting. Real life sucks, Red. Real life. Red had one of those on Monday. You had one yesterday. Today is my turn for a real life. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Because, you know, it's that time of year, you know. It's kind of spring. We're getting tax time. What are we doing? Are we moving some, you know, get your income tax and your things, all your papers follow? Oh, geez. So you, you're not at that other job anymore. That's, oh.

Well, we're going to have to do something here. Here, not making any money. That's right. No, I'm not. Are you doing that for free? Yeah. Now, can I put these gift cards into the RESP? Or does it have to be actual real money?

So then when I come out of a cold sweat at 146 a.m. and start like, what the fuck have I done? What have I done? It was so stupid, just stupid. It was fucking, don't have you done. I do like that by 220 you moved away from that. Then I kind of got home. Yeah, I may as well check out on the NBA.

Oh, Libran, my boy. See what's on Twitter, I guess. That's your Pender Report. That's what I think about at 2.30 in the morning. What's Libra on up to? Check my social media. I wasn't getting back to sleep. And if you have a life, if you have a life meeting,

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Is there anything more you can share? Because you kind of dropped, that was a bit of a ret bomb, ret bomb yesterday about, you know, it might be, you know, I talked to the tax guy,

and we're not talking about hundreds. We're not talking about them. Can't do it. Don't feel like taxed. Tax talk is really Well, we're all in a topic that we need to get in. Yeah, it's a lot of math, tax talk. That's all I can say.

Feel a new podcast coming. No, okay. What did you say? You said something. I don't know. Who, me? Yeah. You said something an oddly pender walk on you.

Yeah. It's like he's in, he's in school again. He's just talking over the teachers. I'll be in the hallway. Here's some good news for all of us. Well, whether you have got a tax problem or not. You know who's here to help you? Montana's barbecue and bar.

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And really, I could walk through it. It's all there on that tweet and on that Instagram post. Tag your friends in the comments. You got to follow and like and do all that sort of stuff. And by the end of the week, $50 gift card, one of you lucky devils is going to win that thing. I was just, because as I stopped talking, there was like, what am I doing later?

Can I go have the ribs tonight? My kids on the ice. I got stuff. Maybe, maybe. Depends what that rink is. You might be able to drop off pickup. Maybe. All you can eat ribs.

Just add bib. Damn. Because, you know, we got to look for, we got to look for good value, right? Is that the move? Yep. Okay. Wherever there's a... When the tax guy tells you is there trouble, yeah.

That's why you want Luke Shen. Talk about value on that deal, Rhett. Low money. We're done the Zoom call. Okay, yeah, okay, thanks. This is what he says. Well, all right. Thanks, guys.

Yeah. Well, Dean. Go try and make some money. Thanks, man. Good talk. Go get them, champ. Fuck me. Oh, am I on still sorry, guys?

Bye. No, that's great. Listen, we're just having fun. This is so great. It's awesome. Yeah. So good. So good. I had a little something here.

Did you guys get that sweater? You like? You dig? Which one? We got two here. Big cat. Big cats in town. Jay came down from.

go get this. It's like six degrees outside. They leave Edmonton this morning. Jesus, it was snowing and blowing. The roads were terrible. I thought the highway was going to be closed. Oh, really? Shitty weather in Edmonton.

First I've heard of it. Weird. No, but the, yeah, it's the, yeah, yeah. We got one for you. Just let us know when you're back. Come home and get it. Got one of these two.

This is one thing you're missing out on as well. It can't even. It's the mad rose. This is where I need the eye doctor. It's the Madrose pub. Fried and then baked. You're going to let those wings right, I'm telling you. Pizza's nails.

Or wanton. Feed me. Yeah, buddy. Feed me. I'm going to go here because I was just kind of pouring over stats, preparing for this show today. A lot of math on today's show. I'm telling you.

I mean, the flames must be scoring. You have to be on top of that if they've got the same amount of goals for as the same. That's right. Yeah. Juggernauts. It's hard to keep up.

Because there's some things right now. We talked about Boston, what, last week? Are they going to win the president's trophy? Are they going to win their division? There's some things that are a fatal complaint. Will the blue jackets make the playoffs? No. Connor McDavid, 93 points in 51 games.

Next closest is his pal Leon, 76 points. Oh. So the art Ross, barring, Injury. He's 17 points clear. Right? It's, he also has the goal lead with 41.

Next closest is... 41 already? David Pasternak with 38. He's going to hit 60 this year. Could he do the double deal? Could you win... Is he going to win the Rocket and the Art Ross? You're surprised if he didn't at this point, wouldn't you?

Two guys... And the heart? Yeah. Yeah, for sure. So two guys have won both the Rock. Rocket and the Art Ross since 1996 when Mario Lemieux did it.

So we're talking 25, 20, whatever it is, years. Two guys have done it. Scoring title, Art Ross. When Jerome hit 52, did he win the scoring title or no? Jerome McGinla, 0102. There you go. It 52 goals and what?

Almost 100, 98 points in my head? And then the next one is more recent, still quite a ways back. Rick Nash. Alex Ovechkin. OV. He won that point in the 0-7-08. Wow. Goals is not surprising, but did win the scoring.

That again the season was something, because I think the next highest scoring guy was like 42, and then there was a bunch of guys at like 38. There's two dudes who got 40 goals out. You're at 52. Like that is, you want to adjust for error? About that year was that he didn't win the

freaking MVP. Yeah, because some ass hat in Quebec, Left him off the fucking ballot. Never mind putting him second or third to Jose Tador. That was an absolute robbery. If that happened to Toronto, people would still be moaning about it like I am right now. So deep in the backpack.

God, that was just awful. You should lose your fucking papers for that shit. So deep. Yes, you should. You're not wrong. It's brutal.

Like that season was so special. And some loser Habs fan that writes for a living ruins it for a ginla. Come on. And not put him second. No, not even on the ballot. Didn't put him on the ballot. Oh,

they didn't make the playoffs. Oh, you're right. He must not be good then. The team around him was so deep. You're welcome. Good old pender, eh? That was a crime. Honestly, I bet you you'd put two pops into Jerome.

He'd tell you the same thing. For sure. Not that he's worried about his achievements, but that was robbery. Who could argue? The idiot in fucking Quebec. Even his, you know what, though, like you say, there's something.

He can't argue, because you never hear him talk about it. He ain't going to back it up. No. Check it shit. Yeah. It's not good. Less than a week away to Valentine's. Talked about it yesterday.

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Triple Decker. Huge hit. We don't have the easiest better haves to please. They have very, very high standards, Dean, and they were all thrilled. This was a, yeah, triple decker for sure. Hence. Yeah, and usually against, they chose us. Such real winners.

Yeah. Yeah, that's right. We duped three of them. Viena Nova, because it's lab grown diamonds, sometimes up to 80% off. Not across the board, but in some cases, you're going to save so much on essentially the same quality of stone. Or better.

Here's the thing. You could do, or. just get more diamonds, have the same budget. True. Now you're blinging, baby. Yeah. Bigger and better. Venanova.com and Justin said for anybody this week,

if you go on Venanova.com between now and the 14th, put in promo code Barnburner, one word. He's going to put in a little box of chocolates with your order as well. So then it's like, look at it. Double in. Or if you go in store, say, hey, I've heard the podcast. Guys in Barnburner were talking about it. We're here to look around.

All right. Let's help you out. We'll show you around. You will also get the chocolates. to your diamond purchase and, time permitting, going to have a ship for you as well. Nice. Little take care of it right to your door,

whether it be hand delivery, whatever. Justin is going to make it right. And we're not talking, like we said yesterday, about some dairy milk, some Jersey milk kind of BS chocolates, like high-end specialty.

The shoveler, yeah. What? Shoveler loaded up on chocolate. She had to drive to Detroit with the kids. So they had to go through Canada. Oh. Yeah.

Well, it just, it tastes so different. That's savvy. Everything. Yeah. I thought you were going to say, she loves Jersey milk.

She's like, no, she doesn't. Nobody loves Jersey milk. It's idiots. You can take the girl out of Buffalo. But no, you're right.

You go to the States. You have a Kit Kat. It's not a Kit Kat. No, God, no. It's Cadbury. Like, they don't do KitKat. But, man,

Cadbury chocolate. It's the best. And I don't think it'll be even better than Cagri. Yeah, a cavalry for Justin with Viena Nova. Dude, he's going high end here. Yeah.

Blow your doors off with some nice chocolate. I feel like maybe if there's a plus side to the meeting from last night, maybe a little less flack if Valentine's present isn't all whoopedie-do. Didn't you go like way over the top at Christmas too? Yeah. Classic Dean. Yeah, yeah. You're like, oh, yeah.

You know, here's our budget that we're going to work with. And this is what we're, oh, you know what? Why don't we make it three of those? Well, I'll just take the box like, hey, babe, could you? you just hand that back to me? Okay. Ah, here you go. You know what? I bet you it fits. Got it sized and everything.

Wow, thanks on me. Vena Nova.com. Tomorrow on the program, Thursday means ask Rett. Get your questions in. Ask Rett at Flamesnation.ca. It's, when we started doing it, you didn't, you were like no hockey questions.

Years ago, no hockey questions. I feel like everyone's learned. got very few hockey questions. And it's a lot about food and life and love and that sort of thing. Somebody was asking about... Drunken Chicago, things like that now. What was the one that you sent something about Daryl? You know, how did you handle Daryl back of the day if he was telling you?

I don't know, we still get a few of those, but it's not a lot. People want to know what kind of marinade you put your brisket in. Yeah. I'm going back to Chicago for St. Patrick's Day this year, by the way, fellas, if anyone wants to... I'm told the river's green. The river green. that's beautiful green too by the way bright yeah they're not tough assing that thing and how long does it take to filter that shit out i don't know it's a river it's moving it's out

of there pretty quick i just don't know where it goes like who's downstream well there's a big there's a big body of water i think that that chicago sits in they reverse that river though this was one of the great engineering feats of many moons ago they turned it backwards to stop running their sewage into the lake they lived on i may be wrong here we can an effort this, but I think that was quite a feedback in the day. It's a great town. It is a great town.

Good food, retro. Great food for city, or city for food. It's good food. That little ballparks. Yeah, sports town. Two baseball teams. You want to get mugged at one, get hammered in the outfield and the other.

It's beautiful. And what do they say about O'Hare? Only fly to Chicago if you're flying to Chicago. You'll be flying to Chicago. Because you're going to get laid up. Tough to miss your connection when you're already there. So Hope Street will have that for you tomorrow. That is Ask Ret.

There you see them. Hope Street Real Estate Corporation. They know what they're doing. They are Canada's property manager of the year. Locations in Vancouver, Edmonton, and Calgary. I actually saw one. I was on their, go follow their social media. They got a number of their listings and stuff on there.

It's kind of, it's impressive how much they do. for the people that bring them on board. They just do everything. Give us the keys. Will direct deposit works for you? Okay, perfect. And you don't do anything else. They're going to vet these people living in your home.

This is amazing. I don't have time for that crap. They'll manage tenants. Get to those premium rates. You sleep easy knowing that everything is safe and protected. You can book a virtual meeting at home street. C.A. That's coming up tomorrow.

You're singing or what? My idiot, brother's in Detroit. Can you imagine that's the trip you choose? to go on. Let's go to Detroit and Buffalo. In February. If you're going July and it's like, oh, we're going to go check the tigers and your favorite team. Sure.

Yeah. And Super Bowl's in Arizona. Detroit. Mm-hmm. Hmm. He must love you. Yeah, but Rhett doesn't live in Arizona. He lives in Buffalo.

Nope. That's not it. No? No, because he was expecting I would be in Arizona. Ah, yeah. And this was all the bills are going to be there. Yeah. Yeah.

Not though, hey. Boy, was he grump? You're talking about being grumpy. Was he grumpy that day? Yeah, that was the. Yikes. Anglese. Wasn't really close.

Was that the day he was yelling at his kids in the pre-show? Or was that a different day? It was a rough day. Yeah, it was a rough day. Oh, I didn't feel good that day. I was sick that day. You're hungover shit. You weren't, you hadn't got enough sleep.

You're sour at the bills. The whole reason you moved to Buffalo just got flushed. I felt for you. Next year, though, man. Kind of. Next year. It's their year. I don't know.

I'm worried about next year. Yeah. Sure. Kind of would be. Yeah. What to think. Let's do our bet we bets of the day and get out of here. Quiet night in the old national hockey league.

Who do we like to curse tonight? Reverse jinxed Casey to Smith yesterday. It's real good. Power is real. Real good. There you have the stars taking on the Wild, the stars are at home. Hmm, they've been good this year.

Minnesota beat Dallas with Wedgwood in net. Ottinger in net. They defeated the Wild. Give me a regulation win for Dallas on Home Ice plus 1.10. They are 2.0 and 3 in their last 5. The Wild have lost four straight on the road going into this one tonight. And then it's not quite Pinder, big game hunting, but... Oh, that's a big number.

Well, let's go. Let's go. They're going with, what was a Spencer Martin in net for Vancouver tonight? The Canucks are probably one of the easiest three or four teams

in the league to score on. At Madison Square Garden, we just saw the Rangers. So give me a Rangers money line win, total goals over six and a half and a goal for Mika Zabanajad plus 400.

Five two, Hadrick Sabinajad, you get paid, let's go. I've maybe got some New York Ranger bias having just watched them, but Sabanajad was all over the place. He was. There's lots of goals,

and I think they. meet the Canucks tonight. Those are my bets. Sweet. Similar vibes. I kind of like the points and things happening on Broadway with the Canucks, who put up a decent fight. First game back from break. I think they lost

an overtime to Jersey a couple nights ago. We're going to start the bottom one. There's Panarin and Pedersen both to get one assist. That's it. Plus 240. See that happening, right? Those are two great passers, two great setup, man. And then I kind of got one of these, only two games in the NHL tonight. Let's have a

a little bet special for the day. Caprisoff, Pedersen, Benarren. All superb players. All piling up points. All got a point tonight, plus 150. And some,

some peas in there. You were popping peas left and right. It's good. There you go. The bet way, Ben's of the day. Be 19. Get it on your phone.

Be responsible. Have fun with it. Be in Ontario. All that sort of thing. Now, I don't know if you caught it. You're on social media, right? you're all over the big time.

The Twitter. He's an influencer. Yeah, the tweeters and that. So you've probably seen, this won't be news to you. But to some people who follow Flames Nation on social media, a little bit of a nugget dropped on our social media last night involving maybe some new content coming here to Flames Nation.

Ratt, what are you doing? Well, I flee in the country again. What country are you fleeing to? In reverse. Yeah. Can you unflake? What's that? Flames Nation citizens.

Nation citizens. Yes, sir. Keep your eyes out. Go check it out at at Flames Nation. That's our social media. Look how happy she is. Fired up. There it is.

Look at that. There it is. What is that? Fella. Flames Nation Citizens with Michaela and Mark. Princey. Yeah. There he is.

I don't know Mark. I know Princey. He. He's also got that sweater. Yeah. We really got a... We got one waiting for a year. But yeah, the brand new podcast, it is going to...

Launch tonight, is that right? It's going to launch today tonight. Today, okay. From the Ouddle Noodle Studios. Oudanooda Studa. Yes. And for Michaela, great that she's on board, as Mark was saying. Very obvious that there's not a lot of female content here at Barclay.

Barn burner or at Flames Nation. Changing today. Changing today. She is going to keep Princey in line, and that'll be a weekly podcast that you'll get wherever you get your podcast, and of course, on the YouTube channel. He's called him some mark. Look at the mark.

What's a mark in there? It's got to be Prince, you know? Oh, you know. There's two M's. I got the alliteration there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right. You know who made that logo?

You? Tan Man. What? Yep. Oh, wow. Yep. The tan man. See, there's fire on one side?

There's a microphone on the other? microphone on the other and there's fire because and it's a hockey stick. Because it's hockey. I love guitar. And it's like. It does kind of look like the frets of the top there of the guitar. Yeah.

Is that the dome in the background? It's maybe like mountains or something. Either way. Unbelievable work. Looks like Calgary. I'm buying him a $12 pitcher of beer and wings on the weekend. Damn straight. That friggin tan man.

You better call your, you better call your tax man. at that price you can't afford not to. That's what I've been told. I don't know if that's right. It's costing me money not to. It's the inflation buster. He's got to get that in him.

Okay, buddies, tomorrow is Flames game day. A big one in Detroit. There's, it's February. The All-Star break is over. So are they all big moving forward? Like, they're all now considered big. You know what? If you'd beat the Rangers,

retro on Monday, I think maybe there's a little more wiggle room, but just getting one point there. We talked about it. It's six out eight. That's a really nice number. To get to that, you need two wins and an overtime. Don't be leaving yourself two games in

without a win on this thing. Let's go. And the Detroit team's not a easy out for the club. I put them in the same category of Buffalo. There could be tricky. You know what they are? They're plucky. They're plucky.

Plucky. 21, 20, and 8 is where they sit. probably a little offensively challenged. Okay. Right? But. They're missing Verana. He's dealing with some issues and on the farm right now.

You could argue, so too are the flames, a little offensively challenged. I don't even know that it's an argument. It seems like a fact. Or at least in terms of finishing offensive chances. Creating offensive chances that aren't from a mile away. Yeah. So that's coming up on the show tomorrow. Plus, ask Rett and a lot more.

Thanks for being a part of Barnburner, everybody. Metro, get that homework in. Get that homework done. I need to see your notes. I want to see your notes. Show your work. Show your work. So good.

See you tomorrow. Oilers suck. There it is. See you, buddies.