Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - FlamesNation Barn Burner: Where are the Calgary Flames heading into the All-Star Break?

Episode Date: January 25, 2023

Live from the Tower Chrysler Studios in Marda Loop! FlamesNation Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener Wednesday January 25th, 2023 - 2 more games until the All-Star Break - Where are the Flames at right now? - Jasper Pond Hockey Tournament - Pinder Report for Village Honda Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Thanks. We're off. We're away here on Barn Burner. It's a little pre-show cry. No big deal here. No big deal. M.B.D. No big deal.

How are we looking? Are we looking good? Because remember we had the thing before where we weren't looking at the thing. I'm not looking at the thing. I'm seeing the pre-show thing. Proxy. Is that like something? No, as much as I want, like I'm seeing, I'm seeing Tan Man.

I'm seeing. That's what the audience is here. There we go. there it is. Is that what the audience? I don't know what the audience is seeing. What the audience is seen is... Oh, there we are.

Is Pinder with Bloodshot Eyes, which is not new. I was going to say, it must be a day that ends in why. Yeah. I've got bloodshadow. That's not new. But we've been trying to elevate our game here at the show.

We've been trying to be better, be ready, be prepared. And we started with the smelling salts. Now, you see these guys. on the guys in the bench. And it used to be kind of like tabs, right? Retro, they'd have tabs. You'd see them to kind of do that

and then they'd just a capsule. Fire them in the... They're real, right? This is no joke. Does it say on here anywhere? Oh, they work. Yeah, don't keep lid tightly sealed when not in use.

And Pinder took a big haul off of... I didn't know what I was doing because I kind of thought it was always wimpy. They're like, oh, yeah, yeah. On the T, when you see it on TV. So I got my schnauz right in there. Yeah, a bunch of whips.

And I almost fell over, to be honest. Yeah, it's good. It's on the Twitters, if you need it. It was near death. You don't need a deep breath. You don't need a deep breath. Just let a slight sniff. And you know, it's like this is, we got to learn our lessons in life.

I just realized you don't need a big whiff of those. No, you don't. Yeah. Someone could have told me that, but I was keen to show you how tough I was. Well, yeah, for sure. We'll maybe find that video later in the show. Welcome to the, uh, Tower Kreiser Studios. We'll talk with Tower Kreiser in a moment. I actually, I just remembered,

because I think I told you yesterday or the day before, they were doing, I think we were leaving at, uh, at the radio station. We were moving from the northeast to the downtown and the engineering department. They were doing a whole bunch of cleaning and stuff. And I don't know what it was, but they had these kind of swabs or whatever for, for cleaning the, whatever, control heads or whatever. Sounds gross. It was, but it was essentially the guys like, well, it's smelling salts. It's the same composition or whatever is smelling salt. So I figured I'm going to have some fun with this. So I walked into the studio.

Steinberg was on the air in a commercial break. So I did one of these so pretend this is the swab. It's not obviously. So I hold it up and I don't take a sniff. I'm like smells good. Paddy, you got to take a smell of this. The engineering guys had it. Take a whip. And he took a big haul on

it. He hit the floor. Literally hit the floor lying on the floor of the studio wailing it's quite something to have a smell put you on the floor yeah you saw me there we'll put it up on the show later yeah that was close and you knew it was coming he didn't it was really not a nice thing to do oh pat i'm sorry sorry pat sorry about that pat that's ignorant it's a bit ignorant for sure yeah a little bit ignorant now i know that uh our boy surge over at tower crieser he's getting ready for the jasper

Pondhawk, you turned him coming up on the weekend. He bought, he got a new lid, he got new skates and gloves. And he bought some of this stuff. Oh, good. So now you can be prepared. All right. So there'll be enough things making you pass out up there that aren't smelling salts. Don't let this also become one of those things. Well, I feel like if someone does pass out, this is how you bring them back. Yeah. Right. We're getting close to it now. We are. I'm now looking at weather reports and planning my departure. I'm excited for this drive. I have not done it since high school. So very excited. Yeah, I have never been, never been to Jasper. The Icefields Parkway, I believe it's called.

Mm-hmm. Sounds like a level on Mario Kart, but it's actually a real thing. Pond hockey tournament's full, but there's still plenty of reasons to check out Jasper. Jasper.js travel slash January is the website. You can go and see everything that's going on there. Looking forward to it. Looking forward to getting up there. Now you put together this, you have a starting, it's what, four on four?

Yep. Starting rosters you've put together? Yeah. I don't know if we start Princey, if that's kind of like torts starting McGraten, Westgarz, Blair Jones. Like I don't want necessarily to set that tone with the Oilers guys. So maybe we start with Princey on the second line, so no one thinks we're trying to start a brawl.

But I need you out there early before you lose your wind. So you're going to be out there first for sure. And then I think we need all deeper, Mandi, to be out there to tuck one on the first shift and set the tone. And then you're probably Mosser and myself. That's their starting for. Good. Yeah.

If you want to put somebody else in, I'm fine with that. I want to get you in early because I know you're going to quit later. Yeah, that's true. So. No, no, he's the secret weapon. Don't bring him out. He doesn't play. It will be a secret.

That is one thing that's true about that. Huge secret. Yeah. Real, real good one. And speaking of Serge, we showed the, he's been doing his, he's been on the ice. You got him doing pushups and shoveling and doing all this sort of thing. took a little day off from the training, apparently, yesterday, as the Tower Chrysler folks, among other hundreds of people, took part in the Calgary Flames charity poker tournament.

There you go. You were dearly, dearly missed, Rhett. Now, no one told me anything, no one said anything to me about it. They said they had too many bottles of rye. They were way overstocked. Yeah, I can only imagine that you were dearly missed. There's Serge, there's Big Earn, the big man. Daniel McGran, who was in there before that.

There's Looch. Looch trying to fit that, it's a big one. There's Dubay, Dylan Doobes. So him next to Dube, it's like, okay, those are normal sized humans. Go back to Luch. It looks like Surge is like a stuffed doll next to Luch. Look at this. This may be the depth of feel.

Maybe, I don't know, but Luch is a big man. Bad angle there. She's. Quite a beard on dubs. He does have the Roy Kent. He does. And then look at this here. I mean, if there's a guy that was not born to wear a cowboy hat,

Andrew Manjabani. Top five? It's really something. It's, he looks like, he looks like a bull rider. Does he? Okay.

All right. They're kind of lean. You know what? He looks like an authentic cowboy, not trying to impress the ladies as Stampede Cowboy. That's what that is. Yeah, he's beat the piss that guy.

He's good. Now what about Serge? Does he? He does not look like a cowboy. No? I'm sure he's got a lovely get-up for the 10 days, but that's, does know. He's happy, though, hey?

Cheer up, Serge. Geez. Mix in a smile once in a while. And you know what? There's nothing more confident than a dude wearing flowers on his shirt. I love it. That's a man's man right there. That's our secret weapon in Jasper right there.

The flowers. Yeah, there it is. That guy is ready. That guy's ready. Now, do you want to tell them about the, because it was the poker tournament. I remember we were at. I think we were obviously doing the show together.

I don't know if we were doing more. I don't know. But I know that we were there, retro. And you had to, to be stopped at the exit by our friend, Candace. No, I made it, well, I made it through one exit. I made it out the poker room exit, but not out the front door exit.

Casino exit, yeah. We were walking out, and I didn't know what was going on. And then Candice, Candice Gowdy with the Flames Foundation, she came out. That's right. She came running up. And it wasn't very much a, hey, did you happen to? it was a, hey, Rhett, we're going to need that iPad from your pants.

That's right. The one you've stuffed in your pants. Because they had the iPads to keep track of the buy-ins and all of this. And apparently where the iPads are, they had a good idea. Now, one of the years they switched on the silent auction from the sign your name on the sheet to these tablets that you would scroll through all the items. So there was just tablets strewn all over a banquet hall so that you could sift through. You get a login. in and then boom, no matter where you were, oh, I'm over here, I'll check this tablet, boom,

that bid went up, I'm going to jump on that. I'm sure you were just trying to stay abreast with what were some sort of a smoker or some sort of collection of fine wines was going, so it would alert you maybe if you were outbid. Is that why you had just slitted into your pants and were trying to exit the building? It fit in my boat, and it was perfect in size so I could walk around with it, and I had a lot of bids going that day. Right. Yeah.

I must have lost track. Yeah. Don't want to be outbid. You need all that stuff. In his defense, it's not necessarily the soberest of events that the force put on. No, it's not. And I mean, if just, I guess just a pro tip, as they say, if you're going to steal something, a casino is probably not the right place.

There's cameras everywhere. Everywhere. There's cameras retro. So just... I've actually been in the back room of a casino and it's quite amazing. Were they beating the shit out of you? Breaking your thumbs? No, no.

It was friendly. I was looking for someone that was gambling in the... In this, whatever, the casino. And they found that person in about half a second. Is this Miss May, 1992? Or what do we got here? It was someone special and I just wanted to say hello. I was a big fan, big fan.

Big fan. So can anybody just get into the back room, into the camera room? No, you can. Was she a published author, maybe a scientist who would, what, you know, lay in my medical devices. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Conspiracy theories, yeah, absolutely. The archaeologists, maybe.

The finer arts. Yeah. Or was it a different kind of ours? Yeah. Film. But raising a bunch of money. that one, the golf tournament, tons of dollars. I'm going to need to wipe my snitter.

I am too. I bet yesterday was big because everyone's been, you know, have they had that since coming back? I was just going to ask that. I don't know that last year we were out of the protocols at this time of year. We still had empty buildings. I remember Florida passed through early in the new year, and it was half crowd, no booze and food.

So I doubt they would have put the players in seats next to strangers within a two, three-month window of that. But then again, I mean, things changed quick for those two years. So the regulations of rules today weren't the rules and regulations necessarily in two weeks. So that's just a guess. And there's different types of people that go to the poker tournament. There's the, you know, philanthropists, giving money back, want to take part, have a good time for the kids, mix and mingle with some celebrities and pro athletes and that sort of thing.

And then there's the serious poker player. Like the pool player that shows up with his own pool cube sort of thing. They settle, make sure they got lots of food because they're staying there. It can be there all night. They're maxing out their, the bio, what is it? Buy in. Well, yeah, because you can rebis. There's rebis, but then there's also, like, you can top up until a certain time.

And there's certain thresholds you can top up. And, yeah, they're ready for the long haul here. This is all measured and calculated and part of the plant. Didn't Sarich make it to the final table? like a legit final table a few years ago. Stinking Wilson, you let it to that time. Yeah, there's usually there is though. Like Jimmy Playfair was the first year.

Dana Mersen has done it a couple times. Sarch, I think, made it. I won one, not the Flames one, but you just throw in. I'll just go all in all the time and get lucky. Yeah, that's all you need. Like the granite nuts. If everyone goes in all the time, somebody's going to win going all in the whole thing.

Yeah. It's some sort of theory. It's also good. It's also good to have a guy that doesn't give a rats early on and has lots of dough and is at your table and keeps rebying. You know damn well that he has nothing

and he's going all in all the time and you just, okay, fill your pockets. Thank you for your rebuy. I think there was a wisely. A Kids Miracle Wish Foundation event that the stamps were a part of. I want to say like four or five years ago and I was on mornings then, and it was like, twist in my arm.

I'm like, okay, I'll come, but I won't be any good. And I'll get out of here and I'll get a nice night's sleep. And then the drunkest man in Canada showed up with the big stack. I'm going to take this guy down. I'm not that good of poker, but this guy's fucking hammered. And next day it was 1 a.m. And I ended up in the sixth seat, I think the five paid. And I was like, what am I doing?

Yeah. Slow play until you get to five. But that's what happens. You get the big lush at your table, the big stack. You're in the mix. That's a bank machine at the table. So good on the Flames and the Flames Foundation. raising a bunch of money yesterday.

Was a Kipper? Kipper was one of those guys. He'd always just, I'm all in. Just as soon as he could give up that jersey and get out the better. Tree famously plays hands blind a lot, especially after about an hour when it's like, yeah, oh, whoops, I lost. Yeah. I can go work the fall on. Trade deadlines on them on.

That's the thing. It's, you know, everybody's different and has a different reason to be there. I think they're all there for charity, but some people aren't interested in trying to stick around for seven. seven hours. Yeah. It's enough. So what they, what they'll do is any sort of celebrity,

former athlete, alumni, current player, any other famous guests the Flamesbring in, they will have a jersey or a bounty of sorts. And if you knock them out, you'll get the jersey or bounty.

And typically that's what most guys are after. It's like if you could get the celebrity slash athlete at your tables, jersey or bounty, you got, there's the big one. Yeah. I don't need to be here until 2 a.m. So good on them.

Yeah. It's a great event. Way to go. Yeah. Good job. good job too search how'd you do bud yeah didn't notice that i saw all the pictures serge smiling yeah getting his face right next close to players but you know who would have been strutting around there yesterday roly seer yeah with this big handlebar mustache got the big mustache

with the whole uh what it was fu manchu whatever he's got going there he'd have been hey how's he got he's got some florrie sear yeah need more him need more roly in our lives yes if he went to the rink once in a while you dopes didn't go uh didn't get invited well i guess were on the naughty list or they just they sent the mail to the old address i don't know i'm sure that's what it was gotta be didn't have the new address can't think of anything else really although in fairness i was fairly routine non participant but i was the opposite so maybe they just were sick of my it would break there again you're here i'm here it all just kind of balances on even so yeah hey who you play oh i go who you got at your table i got chock i got dro who you got i don't know

some fat radio guy that's worth it Yeah, but the problem is you think you're actually supposed to be a celebrity and no one gives a damn. You could just be a person that's there. Or you might have someone that absolutely loves the damn show and make their day, but you won't allow yourself to think that's a possibility. I'm sure there are a lot of people who love the show. When do we get to go out with that Munson for dinner and remember the auctioning for this? Yeah, we got to do a lot of that. We've got to get some of the top shelf elf, all the prising and all the auction items.

We get all that figure out. Again, again, I feel like people are okay if you two don't. don't show up. I said that while the auction was going on. I still believe it. I don't. I, I, I, I, I, I, I question whether they'll actually reach out to include you. So, yeah, I would be okay that. Too bad. Well, we have the pricing. So they will probably want to reach out. Um, but if it's, I could deliver it or I'll meet you there or we'll send it to you. Probably the mail would be the way they would go. And that's what I'm telling you. It's, it's the whole thing. They, they don't, they don't. They, they don't. They don't,

want us there. Anything's better without us there. So negative. You talk to your pals, get some scoops. Talk to Darrell about what the snow packs looking like up by Viking. How's the land? Yeah. I don't know.

I don't really live. Yeah. I'll live a little. So the flames pokering yesterday, practicing today. We await some update. So with any luck on Chris. Well, the update today is he's not skating at practice, which is what we'd expect. Yeah.

And maybe after practice, they'll address the injury. Go ahead. Go ahead. What excuse presents itself after a day of poker? Excuse. Carpal tunnel? As far as performance. In terms of telling a coach or reality?

Because hungover is a good one. Well, no, the answer to the media, if we play crappy and lose to, isn't it Chicago? Oh, yeah, just don't do that. There's no excuse to lose Chicago this point. I'm sorry. I know they're playing better. I looked last night, and it was the first game for Rick Tockett in Vancouver retro. It was, I think, deep into the third period, or at least after 40. And Chicago'd mustered like 11 or 13 shots on what I think is the worst defensive club in the NHL.

I was 2-2. They were hanging. Vancouver's not great. No. It was all Vancouver. Yeah, and Vancouver's good at offense. They're a top-10 scoring team in the league, but they're absolutely nightmarish in terms of allowing chances and shots and Chicago couldn't get 15 when I was checking in. I can't believe you ass hats didn't have that on your...

I was honestly, I was going to do it yesterday. I was the first coach, new team, that whole thing. They were minus 250, I bet. They would have been huge favorites. No, they were, they were. Yeah, you know what? They were actually now that I think about it. There was no way anyone's going to be...

There was no value there to take Chicago. I was very close on my... Like Grand Salami yesterday. Very close. Just bent more. Get this. I had the passion act first goal. Nope, but four points.

And then we had, of course, Caprizov scored, but not points. Close. Four points are past it. You got to bet the Sabres to score four. When are you going to get on the wagon here? You were slow playing the Sabres all fall. And like, let's get it going here. I'm not slow playing the Sabres.

I think they're, They're fun to watch. Well, we know that. Everyone agrees on that. I'm waiting for a bold proclamation that they're going to chase someone down for a playoff spot like Pittsburgh or Washington or something like that. I want, I want,

they're better than Florida. They're making the playoffs. Ret Warner. I don't know because I don't think they're completely committed to making the playoffs. I think what's happening this year is excellent in the franchise is excited, but I think they have a plan and this exceeds probably with their expectations. And I don't know that they're ready to lose some of that, what they've built up to make the playoffs. Yeah, I'm not suggesting they go make a major addition at the deadline.

I would think that I agree with you there. I think that's probably, look, it's all house money here. You don't want to mess with what clearly feels like good culture. You certainly don't want to part with assets that could help you next year or the year after. But right now, I don't know that there's a team that has a forward as good as Tage Thompson and a defenseman as good as Rasmus Dahlane. I'm trying to think. Oh, that guy.

Tell us about Dahlane, because he's going to get some Norris votes this year. And Carlson's having this huge offensive season, which I think is maybe stealing a bit of his thunder. But as a D-Man, what do you see from, from I guess what, third or fourth-year player now, the former number one overall pick? Well, I was trying to think, too, how many years in is he? I don't think he's been, is he on his second deal?

It might be year one of a second three years or the last year was what are we talking about? Dahlene. Yeah, new deal. Okay. So it's year four then, I'm guessing. He is, he's a all kinds of minutes, all situations and actually has some bite to him. Like he's crushed a few guys this year too. And had a drink with him last week after the Miller thing.

Yeah. Solid dude. Like hearing that. Really good person. What are you doing the headshot? I'm just looking for my name drop. Well, you could have went to the Flames poker and talked about you talking to some of the Flames guys yesterday. See, I'm in this business and I'm trying to get out there.

Take some notes. Take some out to read on guys and sports. Yeah, you're out there. Some backstories. Way out there. Going to play a game next week. It's true, yeah. This is your five for a game next week.

Wow. Okay, and you know what, because I want to move on to that, but I was going to say, I was going to do maybe a little, hey, did you know, kind of a thing. But last night with the Sabres, a goal for Jeff Skinner gives him 20. The Sabres have four 20 goal guys at the 47 game mark. Cousins there? Nope.

I can't hear anything. Tage Thompson. Are you there? Have you got me? Checked. Somebody muted me. No, we can hear you. All right.

We can hear you. Have we got some, uh, maybe some technical issues? Do we want to take a break? Can Alex hear us? Let's see what Alex does. Give them a moment. So let's guess. So people listening can hear me and not them. I can hear you. It's a dream scenario working with me. Hi, everybody. I hear you. You know, talking to themselves. Oh, let's take a break. Dino can hear me. We'll take a break. So let's take a break. All right. We'll take a quick, uh, a quick one here. Go pee. It's kind of like that, what's that game, the charades. We're playing charades.

It's great, red. I got to interpret what teams. Go get a up. Salami sandwich. Try to show me what you want me to talk about. So good. Get your smelling salts. We'll be right back. Well, we're going to take a quick break. That's right.

We're sharing out the technical difficulties. And we'll be right back. It's amazing about Tage Thompson is just how incredibly tall he is. I noticed that when he's up to other players, the top of the helmet is just a, oh, are we? And you might think that it's just like one of those optical illusions. He's actually much taller than. most people. He's not closer to the camera. No. It's actually like through side.

Right, right. But when you sit there and have a drink with him, he doesn't seem that big. What is he sitting? Okay. So what was the last thing you heard me say? What was the last thing? And Alex Tucker. Alex Tuck is a hell of a guy because he was next to Tim Cohnley. He grew up next to Tim Connolly's house. Grow up loving Tim Connolly,

even though Tim Donnelly's a dud and a dumbass. Buffalo Saver talking this show. We have a lovely time. Yeah. I'm okay with that. I kind of feel like the sabers are like that beaten. They're like the bills. They're like the bill. They're from Buffalo for Christ's sakes. Like what are you going to? You don't like the sabers because they've just been blessed with such great luck and that's exactly it. They've been lovable losers for 10 years and you want to see them have some success.

So we could hear that goal horn a little more there. Yeah. We don't feel the same way about Phoenix. No, we don't. Or Columbus or fucking. They live in the sunshine. Every day of the year, they don't suffer rain or cold and it's nice out. Their taxes are good. The roads are wonderful. We're jealous of them. They don't have to go through de-icing when they leave or on a flight. Of course we don't cheer for Arizona.

It does make you wonder. Why anyone would move to Buffalo when you put it that way. Like who in their right mind would be identified as a blue collar hard worker? that today. What did he say? Joe and Chase said some people would consider that a punishment. Oh, Chaser. Chaser.

Okay, so what was the last thing I said to you before? Because I was saying there's four. You started to say something. Four. 20 goal guys right now in Buffalo. 47 games, four players at 20 or more. Last night, Skinner got there.

Victor Olifson, 22, tuck 23, Tage Thompson, 33. now the last time four sabers had they had this kind of a offense 0-607 at the end of the year breyer no brier not brier they have to have brier not brier not he didn't score 20 not at the 47 game mark drury drury had 23 yeah by 47 games in to have 20 so drury had 23 hey how'd they get him Thomas Vanek, 24, Maxifin again, of 21. Pommenville had, the mayor of Pondon.

Palmer was back in town. Palmer's great. Palmer. Jeez, listen to this guy. The Sabres talk. Bomber. Was he a good guy too? You have a Drake with Palmer.

Such a good guy. He's a normal guy. He's a normal guy. He's a normal down there and blue calling guys. He's a good guy. Goose was there. Gostad was there. Big goose.

Paul Gostad. I didn't play with him. I was going to say you met all of these guys for the first time. Look at what I've done for this organization. I took them to the Stanley Cup finals. I brought them Ryan, I brought them one of the retired jerseys, a

Buffalo Sabre Hall of Famer and retired jersey in Ryan Miller. There you go. And GM of the New York Rangers, Chris Drury. Like how much more, can you ask from a person? Well, and also, don't forget, you also hand-delivered Robin Regier when it was thought to be that there was a no-trade clause slash no movement clause that was getting in the way.

That's true. Don't you. That one's actually right. I forgot about that. Yeah, yeah. It was Red that took him to the final. I thought it was Dom. That's so weird.

Hasick, right? No, no, come on, Pinder. You asked Dom how big I was. They lost when I got hurt, remember? I don't, but that's okay. All right. Well, while we're doing this, Sabres, welcome to Sabers Hour. Only two players have had more goals by the 47 mark, 47 game mark in Buffalo history. Oh, I got a good guess of those two. Two guys had more.

Alex McGilney. Got to be. McGilney had 50 goals in 47 games. That had to be that the same year he and Timu put up the big numbers there. Holy 50 and 47. That's special. Yeah. I will take a stab. It's Patty Lafontaine.

Well done, buddy. 40. La La Fontein. Yeah, 40 goals in 47 games. Not to take anything away from 33 for Tage Thompson, but. I want to see a 50 for 50 chase. And we kind of almost had one last year in Austin Matthews, but we really didn't. Even if a guy doesn't get there, wouldn't it be amazing to have a lot of

a guy at like 40 through 40. But wasn't it his 50 games? Like there was time he missed like in his individual 50 games. It wasn't by the Austin, the team's. Yeah, no, he didn't get what I want a natural one. Like a start of the season team games and Austin missed a few with injured. The wrist was bugging him. But like I was saying, that wasn't even really a 50 and 50 chase. I want one where it's like let's go to like cut ins of the power play on hockey night just like it was the home run thing with bonds and McGuire and so-so. Like I think it would be so good. for the sport if you had one of these young superstars chasing 50 and 50? We might get it because there was another thing I saw this morning.

I was going to ask you about it retro because we know goals are up and we're seeing blown leads like never before. Last night, Pittsburgh erased three. Florida erased two. What deficits? Five game tying goals in there. Let's see if I can read this for you. It was 2-0, 2-2, 3-2.

It was all over the place early. Those are two teams not equipped to protect a league. Same thing. I was thinking about the same thing last night. And before I forget, the savers are terrible in their own end. But I'm going to get a coaching job just because they don't, there's no defending of any sorts in any NHL game. How's that going to affect the show?

Are you going to be able to put a camera in the coach's office? I could do lots of things. Are you kidding me? Yeah. It's very skilled. So last night, the penguins came back. And I will pender. On behalf of Pinder, I, I will talk to the guys at the NHL All-Star.

game and mention that you would like a 50 and 50. Yeah, yeah. If you could encourage them. Step it up a little. If you see like Zabinajad or, you know, Tage. Because I was invited to the NHL All-Star event in Florida. I don't know. Are you guys?

No. No, God, no. Oh. No, we have zero games played for the Panthers. So we didn't. Did you take those guys to the final two or just Buffalo? No, he took them too. Oh, wait.

Yes. Did you? I might have. Huh. Oh, yeah. First I've heard. Did he kill the rat as well? Also, we finally lost when I got hurt.

So there's a bit of a trend we're seeing here. Right now. If you ever get hurt, the show is in the shitter. Like, we got to wrap this guy and bubble wrap. Well, that's about five days away because I have to play some effing game in Florida. And that's a guaranteed injury. I'm going to be chasing a puck. Why are you playing?

I thought you said you would go, but you weren't going to play. Are they going to put him up if he doesn't play? I feel like they're bringing him into play. I was going anyway. I was going anyway. Because the dopey kid has a tournament. And then this came up and I'm like, I got to be part of this.

Go see Ray Chapard. A big Pistol Pete Worell. Oh, Peter Worell. Spooky tough. Who is right. Could he skate backwards? I heard some stories. No, no, no.

No. Can you believe this team? I know. In the NHL. No. He was scary because he would get going forward and just look out like a blammo. I remember him running Craig Barubi in like, we were on the East Coast like Nova Scotia or Halifah. I don't even know what town we were in.

I'm not, I wasn't playing some preseason big pizza rookie out there. And he's trying to make a name for himself. and we're playing Washington, and he is just flying around the ice. He's not really getting full contact on anyone because he can hear him coming from a mile away. But man, did he shake the boards? Ho! Smack. How long did you overlap with them? Then he could fight.

Oh, he could fight. Just a year. His first full year was my last year in Florida. Okay. Ray Shepherd. and I'm just looking at it here because I wanted to remember what it was. It was one of my favorite kind of trivia questions. It's like name a player who had a 20-goal season with six different teams.

Six, geez. And Ray Shepard was the guy, and then I think it was Bill Garon, who joined him as the only guys. 20 in Buffalo, Detroit, the Rangers, the Sharks, the Panthers, and the Carolina Hurricanes for Ray Shepard. He had sweet mitts, and he would get so pissed off at me. Reto, don't jump too early. You're already through the score.

Like I'm like, well, dude, I'm doing my best here. Like, I, I, he wants the top of the triangle higher up as the joining the rush. I don't have an offensive read in my body. So excuse me for getting through the scoring zone before you can get the puck to me. Okay. So what it is, Garin actually now is. I actually think he assisted on my first ever goal. Really?

Dave Lowry and Ray Shep, I could be wrong. We could effort that data. Can we? I mean, do we care? I could try. Billy Garen, 20 goals with seven teams. So that's what it was. He took that away from Shepard.

He had 20. He cares about Billy Garon. I don't know. Devils Oilers, Bruins, Dallas, St. Louis, the Islanders, and then had 21 in his last year with Pittsburgh. It's not a bad final year.

79 games, 21 goals. 78 games, 21 goals. Billy Garon. Won the NHL All-Star MVP one year, Billy. Yeah. His Minnesota Wild, I believe, fell out of the playoff picture last night, thanks to Colorado Avalanche. Are you serious?

They slid out of the, at least out of the top three in the division. Oh, yeah. Colorado is a steamroller. They're coming. Yep, they are a absolute six in a row now. I think it was, what, 0.700. Oh, boy, you're right. They're eighth in the West.

by points percentage. Calgary's ninth. And yeah, they've, they had a tough road swing. I was looking last night. It was Carolina, Tampa and Florida, not necessarily in that order. The old Southeast division swing, lost, loss, loss. And I think they're okay, but it's the teams around you. They went, I had to look this morning because I saw the stat when they made the Ryan Reeves trade. They went 11 and 3 right after. Yeah, they were real good. Just okay sense. Yeah. 6.5-2. Yeah. Right? Well, I think it's lots to do with Minnesota.

And to your point, more to do with Colorado finally hit in stride here, as we knew they would at some point. And they don't even have Landisog or Byron back. Yeah, we saw it last week. It was last week's show. If you want to hear that shit, you got download last week's show. Hey, tomorrow, Flames back in action against the Chicago Blackhawks.

We've got tickets to give away. The Chicago's. The Chicagos are in town. Do they play here again, or is this it? They have one more game. I'm not sure where it is, but there's one, the third game of the season series. So the Taves.

Cain, possibly the final visit to the dome. Well, if it's after the deadline, if it's not, it's the penultimate visit potentially. Penultimate. Cain is their hawk. They are in, they host Chicago, April 4th. That's the final eight days of the regular season. So I would imagine that Cain and Taves,

there's a strong probability. Neither are hawks at that point. I think they both get moved. I don't think that's crazy hot take. You? Not since Tave. basically came out and said it would be maybe for the best. I just think how could it not be for these guys?

It'll be weird. Well, be a weird one. It's a little bit, I was going to say it's like Gajot, but it's a little bit different than Gadroo because your jersey's probably going to the rafters anyway. Oh, yeah. Yeah, those two are going up in Chicago. There's no doubt.

They're already Black Hawk folklore. Yeah. So tickets, we'll have it on social media today. have a winner in time for tomorrow as we got those great seats to go and see the Hawks and the flames over at the dome. It's a big game. It is.

The homestand has eight points. They've got four so far. You want to grab six? That'd be great, considering you shut your pants against Colorado that first game back. Yeah, don't lose this one. Take care of business and you know what's going to be tough in Seattle. It's the same setup they had on the backside of the Christmas break where they played at home and then the next day in Seattle.

I believe it was Edmonton at home. the 27th, Seattle and 28. So you got travel. They're a good team. Um, that's going to be a tough game on Friday. By all means, go get two points on Thursday. So watch on Twitter, watching Instagram, Flames Nation accounts, the Mad Rose accounts. We'll have a little bit of love there for, for all you, a little tagging, a little mention of friend, all that sort of thing. We'll send somebody off. And we've had great reaction. The people that go, I love it. Send the view from their seats. Hey, Mad Rose, thanks for the seats. And I think, brah, what we really need to do is start getting and pictures of how they're spending those 50 bucks in Mad Rose.

There's some options. It's true. I always forget. You're getting a $50 gift card up to Mad Rose. Come on. Did you only eat cheese pizza or did they drop off a whole load? I only had the cheese pizza, the one that you saw. I did.

Because you're watching. There was something else you had. I was going to, you didn't, again, like always, you didn't let me finish. I only had the cheese pizza. There was others, so I don't know exactly what it was. But there was, I believe, like a lemon, pepper or salt and pepper and dill pickle wings. The dill picklers take a knee.

God damn. So good. I'm a dill pickle guy. Love dill pickle chips. That whole thing. But still, delicious. Yeah,

the other pizza that we had a filly cheese steak one, which is really good. And then they had something that had jalapinos on the top that I really liked. You know what? René Bork, I stopped at his house when we were playing together in Calgary. How many name drops in one? It's a record.

A new record. Holy cow. Listen, I've never had. You were in the bish. Until this point in my life, I had never had a pepperoni, jalapeno pizza.

And Rennie Bork introduced it to me, and it was stunningly good. Not just good, like once a month, kind of like René. It was like every time you had it, it was good. Oh.

Pender, you love spice. I think it would be great. Right up your alley. I'm in. I you know my buddy beef his thing he loved getting the pepperoni and onion it's like pepperoni onion name drop name drop it's beef is beef and name drop

no wow ray shepherd bill garrin and beef what it's a who's who on the show today but his uh we'd be working the afternoons I'd be on uh 1150 kicks he'd be on KX 96 kicks in 96 maybe let's get some what the hell is this guy not done in his life This beef guy has been everywhere.

You know what? He might be in Europe right now. Where are you? I'm in Romania watching some kids play hockey. What the hell you do? He's right up there with the world's most interesting man. It's like, what's happening today? I'm in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

I got to look at some goalie skates. Yeah, there's some kids here in Sarajevo that need some new jets. So we're here dropping some gear. They're working on this new rinkboard technology in Bangladesh. I just wanted to make sure. You're doing that for sure. It's not Silicon Valley. Closer to home, another good guy.

And you talk about things that are delicious and eating. Now I feel bad because I know our buddy Greg up at Bontan was very excited. Today's the day and you ruined it. Today is the day and I ruined it. And I'm going to, I'm sorry. You, we're, I'm, look, look, look, listen. You can be so good when you get engaged with people and you get out and, you know, project some positivity.

and then now I'm just going to shut everything around. I'm just going to just going to be a nothing. Like, come on. Have a bite of haggis. You ruin this for me. Today is Robbie Burns Day. And it's about whiskey and haggis and tatties and neaps or whatever the hell it is. Terrible.

No, it's the neaps. You like the tatties with the big neaps? The best. Now, this is not Greg, but this is. That's not Greg. This is. That's the guy talking about diabetes. Mattes on TV. He said Wilford Brimley. This is Wilford Brimley holding up a haggis that was

I have a feeling was going to be sent our way. But I just said I wasn't going to like no. Alex can you no don't do that. Yes. Do it. Zoom in. If boom pukes will go viral anyway. What I'm what what I want to say is at Bon Ton, it's we've said this for years and it's no BS. It's the highest quality of ingredients, the highest quality of food and the, the, preparation at all of that. You're not going to beat it. If Hagas is your thing, if it's Robbie Burns Day and you're all in today, you go to Bon Ton and get one because they are making them on site and they will have the best ones that you will have. I will not be having Haggis. Am I a wimp? Yes, did I ruin it for Pinder? I guess so. It just, you know, it would have been good for the show.

That's all. You had to put yourself in front of the show. And this boomocracy is over. You've been voted out. This, eat that. haggis boom boom eat the haggis and do something good for yourself and pender think about pinder

for once yeah seriously can someone please think about me a little more now the question I have is if right if you were here

like it's it's all nice to be in Buffalo acting all brave if that came in today would you have sampled it and eaten it 100%

I'm with him I think he would I'm not I would absolutely sample it am I going to gorge on it no I mean you'll have to try it

if you if you If you like it, I might. Do they have to put it in a stomach? Like, can you not cook it some other way in a, like in a pan? Then it wouldn't be haggis. That's part of what haggis is. I'm sorry. Come on, Scott.

Scott's. Like, again, at what point is the animal given all it can give? Like, you've taken the hooves and the ears and the eyeballs and all this. Like, well, let's take that. Circle of life, you got to use everything. It's better than throwing wasting. Stuff some meat into that stomach and broiling up. What's wrong?

with you. You're an ignorant man. Bon Ton meat market. The main ingredients are the sheep's heart, liver, lungs, and stomach. I don't like the lung thing because I had a dog once and we used to buy a stupid

snacks. You ate the dog. We're in Korea. It was awful. There was very gaming. Lung pieces and it's ugh. Nest. Okay, I was walking over you. What did you do? It's dog snacks.

Gross lung. Dog snacks. We're lung chunks. Ugh. Nasty. Yeah, we're not getting to eat dog food on the show. I'm not a proponent of that per se. Yeah, I don't care what you feed your dog.

No, but lung is included in Hagus. Yeah, I know. So it's chopped in there. I got a feeling whether it, right? I'm trying to really pump up Bontan with a... I think this would be delicious. And I think you've got an issue, like this whole ignorance is bliss thing where you don't care what's in a hot dog,

but you suddenly do care what's in Hagus. Like, where are these arbitrary lines on what you're willing to try and whatnot? Well, they're arbitrary. because of that. That's right. Bontan Meat Market opened its doors in 1921. They treat everyone like family. You walk in that door and you're not going to get better service anywhere.

You have questions on, here's how many people I have. I don't just want to do something. What else can we do? How would you prepare that? What goes with it? This is what Bon Tonne Meat Market is all about. You can go to the website. It's fine.

You have to go up there and see it and smell it and experience it yourself. 28 crowfoot circle northwest bonton meatmarket.com Calgary Consumer Choice Award winner for best deli meat market pretty much every single year. It's like going back in time, Dean. They get the bow ties, the white. It's the bow ties and as... Me and my buddy Camuson, our favorite part, it's the paper. They wrap it in the paper.

And then the string, the butcher string, throwback. Parchment stuff. Love it. Love it. And thank you for not sending that stuff over. I could have been drinking whiskey and eating stomach and liver and liver and Down with the Chevy by the levee. We are going to do the Pinder report coming up here in a little bit. We'll do our betwebets of the day. We got some other things.

We got a lot to get to. It's looking like we won't have a show Friday. Well, I know we're busy on the weekend. And then I think Friday's part of that. Yeah. I'm not busy. That's BS. Cool.

Do a show. That'd be great. So Rett. Not work when I'm not busy. That's going to do the show. Yeah. So Pinder and I will not be on Friday. RET will be much like this show earlier today, where RET was on and you couldn't hear anybody else.

Yeah. Just free form retro. I'll send you the list of the sponsors and the reeds. And I'll much like- We'll get into some, I'll deep dive into some medical stuff, some diet stuff. I'll reaffirm my prognosis on the vitamin D and the absorption above the 30th meridian. Yeah, the meridian. and 100th meridian.

Maybe talk some real estate. Yeah. And what to do in Florida for a week. We could rename it. What do you want to call it like wing nut hour? The Joe Rogan experience. That's what it would be. Get your neon sign up on the wall behind you and start talking about your vitamins and your COVID conspiracies and stuff.

It'll be great. Now, I'll take it in afterwards. I can't do it. I can't do it. Would you take the 200 million? I'd take the 200 million. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. If you would like to buy this show for 200 million, contact the Wolverine place. Whatever it is.com. You know who came by the other day? Because you went on with Walker on his wildly successful, The Hedge podcast. It certainly is a podcast.

It felt very serious, you guys. I don't know. I want to talk about we're talking hockey and hard hitting Hoobie Doobie. I thought that's what's thing. It's because they're two, they're both idiots and they want to outsmart each other. They both are cut from the same cloth.

They have to be the smart guy in the room and have the deeper insight. I'd like to fight him on this, but he's making some good points. I'm not sure Phoenix Copley's safe percentage is going to remain where it is if the L.A. Kings are going to be able to, now Kevin Fial is a fine player, but I'm not sure about it. Wox is like one of the greatest, like,

villains you could put on as the show as like, not the main character, but as a supporting cast guy. And he was just so good at that. And then he wants to play the straight man. I'm like, he's not a straight man. Stop playing the straight man.

Can I share something with you? Yeah. And with everyone watching and listening. Okay. Here's what I've learned in 30 plus years in the business. There's roles. Yeah. On air.

And to back up Ryan's point, there's this chair, which they could, whatever, the host chair. Then there would be chair, co-host, whatever it is. And sitting in this chair is different than that chair. And if you've ever watched the show when I'm not here and Ryan is here,

Ryan is not Pinder. Pinder sits there. That's right. Much like Walker. Walker is great there, I think. He's good here, but he's great there. I don't know that he knows he's best here. And you know what?

You're the same guy. I know. That's why I'm not trying to be in that chair. You're one of the best. sitting there right that's that's your sweet spot that's what we're supposed to do right there yeah and walks is the same guy i know so salty only a few of us that can do both that's right retro there's only a few they can put up with us turds too take artists just cutting truth bombs cutting through all of the how many people would have quit radio having to work with walk and i you two are a stalwart

oh i i don't know how you two would have ever coexisted i just mean like that both of you put up with us for almost 15 years. At the same time, you guys both put up with me. What do we got going up? Love, happy day. Oh, my goodness. Love is in the air. Is this a birthday?

Well, Valentine's is on the way. Right? You got to get ready for Valentine's. And it's a snowstorm here in Buffalo, which is real good. You mentioned the Wolverine. Like those. Has he set us up with a sex store for Valentine's Day? Like we did that one year?

We did a. And you were the, you know what? The worst part about that. Tinder was the old creep in the room with you. They all creeped right into it. Just purvin out. Like the guy sitting over. Pervin out.

Hey, what about this one? Oh, look at it. Who are you talking about? Dean. I'm talking about you. Me? Yes. Well, again, to bring back a throwback to the conference.

A host has certain duties and responsibilities to take care of the client. You may. Okay. You wouldn't engage with poor Greg from Bontan and the haggis. That's true. Not afraid of the new beings and all the other stuff. A two foot double ender. He wasn't afraid at all.

There's so many things I want to say right now, but I'm just not going to do it because the internet lives forever. God damn it. The best, did you leave with something that day or did you leave empty handed? No, I didn't leave with anything. Bullshit. I don't remember that.

Can we give you a hand Mr. Ward? No, I got it. We have one cart in the back. never needed it, but I'll bring the card out. I'm not sure. Where's the beams in here to hang the swing? I don't want to go just into the dry one. I want to see this thing in action before I get it home. Well, that was the best part. It was after the show was done, they had one of the, like the wedge pillow. Oh, yeah. And the gal who owned the place, she was, you know, here's, she was, again, owner of a business, proud of their business, is going to show. Next thing you know, all Peter Klein, he's laying down on

the ground with his back arched over the legs up in the air on the way. bench pillow and she's like, so you would get in there and you would kind of, you'd position yourself like this and then it would be, uh-huh. He's like, uh-huh, yeah? Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So good.

Pete buses are. I don't know that that's the. We'll be live in location on the 14th. No, but speaking. Contact to Wolverine. Speaking of Valentine's Day, talking to Justin from Vena Nova. The whole labgrown divans, venanova.com. Yeah, he was in here.

Had a bunch of, he came by to see the place. He wanted to say hi. And leading into Christmas was super busy. All the, all you guys, you guys went down. You took our word for it. You went down. You saw the product. You're like, yeah, this is the way to go for sure.

But because of how things get busy around Christmas and Valentine's Day, it can take a while to get the stuff that you want if it needs anything altered or that's fittings or whatever. So do it now. Vina Nova. Stephen Avenue Place. Second floor. Go in and take a look around.

They'll walk you through everything. It's so easy. And we should have seen the shovelers strutting around the other day in her get-up. Is that right? Not even a get-up in all of her fancy stuff getting, yeah, lots of attention. She's so spoiled, though. She had to exchange things because what she got, it was too big. Oh, it's doing too shy.

It's, uh, it's heavy on my ears. Yeah, you don't want to strain your earlobs. Yeah, a sensitive part of the body, aren't they? This diamond is too big. That's the problem with Vina Nova. It's a new problem for diamonds. Thank you, Justin, for giving us that. In some cases, 80% less than what you would pay for a fifth.

A fifth. A mine. That's crazy. Yeah. It's Viena Nova.com. Check it out. Get in there sooner than later. And take care of yourself because, well, this is it.

January's over. February is here. February, I think it's the 14th is Valentine's Day? Something like that. I can't. Every year changes or is it the same? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know either. Let's do the Pinder report right now. You want to do it? I guess we could. I'm not going to blow your socks off today. It was poker. It's good. It's fine. No, no. We got, we got.

We got a lot of things to. What about the cat with the microwave, red? The all-new CRV hybrid has arrived at Village Honda. You stop in, you road tested today. Get yourself lined up. It is a popular vehicle as we found out last week. Yeah. They moved a couple that day. I think four. Geez. Two hybrids, two non. No disrespect to, you know,

the great sales staff, but they almost sell themselves these vehicle. You sit and you look at it, you smell, so, oh yeah, this is pretty good.

CRV hybrid. It's like, it's all available at Village Honda. Go and see it today. Northwest Auto Mall. Go online, Village Honda. com.

Jason working there, missed his calling. He could do Bob Barker's job. Yeah, he was really good. Walked around the vehicle, talked about the features, you know, mixed in some nice.

You know, the Calgary Winters can be a little, and it's like, wow, This guy's killing it. Yeah, really good. If he ever wants our job, we're screwed. Better than the other guy on the mic that night for sure.

Okay, it was a little heavy. To your point. It's time for the Pinder report. Hi, Ryan. Hi, Dean. Flames Poker Day yesterday. You want proof? Here's a pitcher Milan Luchich.

Day after fighting a 25-year-old thug from the blue jackets. Instead here, folding a hello Calgary, which is the two and seven. You don't want that. There he is with our boy, Serge. Awkward party. gotta change up those shirts they've been wearing them for like years now come on it's either tradition or it's lazy right i mean it's all perspective right it's tradition right uh today is likely tan of news day we did get a little bit already that is he will not play before the all star break

which would make sense given that it's just Thursday and friday this week before they don't play again until feb sixth that's like a couple mondays away and we're only what when yeah it's like almost two weeks. Shoulder popped out. Dislocated? Popping back in then. Dislocated. Just do the old, what, Mel Gibson?

Are you the weapon? Our freedom? Popper right back in on the door jam. Get out there. I was thinking Scottish with the haggis. Isn't that what it looks like? I mean, I'm no medical expert. You are, though.

But you are. Wait till Friday's show. Pretend it. That's right. And if you choose some valetian, Aram route. Standings, let's have a look. Flames in, but not in.

Again, we're in familiar territory here. It's not by points percentage, but sitting in a wild card. Not ideal, but some other teams coming back to Earth wouldn't be the worst. And Minnesota is taking a turn. L.A., another stinking nail-biting victory over a dormat. Who do they think they are? The flames? They beat Chicago 2-1 on Sunday, and then in overtime, get Philly.

Close to loss. I'm not sure that Phoenix Copley is going to be able to keep up this. level of place. I think that when you look at the goals against average around the league, I'm not sure. Who do you think the flames could catch for a playoff spot? Advanced stats don't lie, right, Pinder? I mean, it's just data. I don't know.

It's not like cell curve. Sick data. Things that happen. Sick data. Let's go to the NHL. Gary Batman says this. Tanking. Ha!

I wouldn't even know what that is. It's no tanking. Right? And then he watched Chicago play for the first. time all year. He hadn't seen them yet. Here's the quote. Nobody tanks because we have a weighted lottery. You're not going to lose games to increase your odds by a couple percentage points. That's silly. And frankly, suggesting tanking, I believe, is inconsistent with the professionalism that our players and coaches have. Nobody tanks. Our players and our coaches do their best to win. And again,

just because you may finish with the worst record in the league, you've got something like, a 75% chance you're not going to get the first pick. And if you look in the last eight seasons, some of the lowest point totals we've ever seen were in 2015 when Connor McDavid and Jack Eichler won two, Buffalo 54, Arizona 56, Edmonton, 62. And this year Columbus is on pace for 54, Chicago 57, Anaheim 56.

Those are six of the worst eight seasons we'll see in a decade. Just coincidentally, in years, when there's a theoretical generational player at the top. There's no tanking. It's a coincidence. Listen, it's not tanking. It's just shitty teams. They've just, it's bad timing.

They're losing guys and injuries and capish. The guys that are playing aren't tanking. No, that's right. And I will agree with Gary on that. I don't think coaches and players are trying to lose, but I think Gary's also, you know, being a little coy and not talking about general managers, not trying to add talent to their teams.

Chicago could go out and get better players. They don't really have any. interest in doing it. In fact, they'll trade a lot of their better players like Athens C.U and Domi and others. All right. Shut up and let me make my point. There's zero incentive for a player to not play hard. Yeah. Like zero. It's actually, oh, so I'm going to play shitty because you want a top draft pick that's going to take my job. Oh, that works out well for me. Yeah. What about Luke Richardson? Same thing. Like, how's his coaching career going to go if Chicago doesn't work hard. We get it, but we're talking about

GM's building rosters when we're talking about tanking. We're not talking about coaches and players, Gary. So are you blaming Chicago for potentially trading Domi and Athenosae? Or are you praising them? What I'm saying is Gary is selling us another pile. Oh, fans resoundingly

love the new rink boards. No, they don't. They fucking suck. I don't know what the hell your point is. Gary's full of shit. That's my point. Yusovalamaki's got a new deal for next year, boys, in the desert. I know. It's a big deal. We got the teams that tanking and we've got to deal with. Like, what's he going to say?

You're going to suspend them and not give them a draft pick? I would love that, actually. That would be wicked. Look at what he just came up with. What's he going to do? Actually, I like that. I can't wait for Friday. Commissioner that is going to be so good on Friday.

Do not cross the commissioner because you could have your pick pulled. There you go. Use of Alamaki, a one-year extension with the oats. No, he's terrible. Get him out of here. I don't know how. how good he is, but if it's a $1 million extension, it's good enough to be in the NHL.

He's better than, he's better potential than Michael Stone, and you might need him right now. The ceiling's higher, I'll give you that. Maybe should I used them better? They wouldn't let Rick get near him. I don't know if that was smarter, dumb. Stone has a better shot, better power play threat, I would say. Boots touch heavier.

If those indeed. Potentially. Here's a little stat. I know where you guys love stats, especially Rhett. He's like, yeah, I played, but I want to see data. I want results. I want some numbers. You know who's shooting the shit out of the puck this year?

David Pasternak, who's going to get paid. And Timo Meyer, who also is going to get paid and is out there in trade speculation. We'll get to him in a moment. They're on pace for almost 400 shots. Here's the list of people, the highest seven shots, the season totals ever since 05. Well, well put. Ovechkin, Ovachkin, Ovachkin, Ovachkin, Ovachkin, Ovachkin.

the last 13 years. That's some bad math. Last 13, 18 years. Oh, that's just going to shoot in the puck. Have you seen Timo Myers' deal, Rhett? And boom, do you understand why this is a really interesting deadline piece? Is he good? It's really good.

Okay. Having a great year. He has a $10 million qualifying offer as an RFA. Similar to the Kachuk situation, right? I mean, it's a million more. I don't know that he's better than Kek. But all I'm saying is it was going to be a big. Cichick Chuck, I think, proved he was a $9 million player.

I'm not quite sure I'm there on Tim O'Meyer at 10. So if you got him, would you qualify him? Do teams have cap space? Do we even know what the cap is next year? I mean, I just find it intriguing how this is going to go because the player himself should be hugely coveted and he is under team control. But, but, but, but, but 10 million. Wild.

It's not nothing. Yeah. I know we love jerseys here. We're fashionistas. Calgary Ranglers, big win last night over the Ontario rain. We got some leakage. Leakage. Alternate jerseys for the Wranglers.

How do you like Blasty Jr.? The Second son of Blasty? Really? Next year, take a peek at this. It's Blasty side profile. You know how you do? The mug shots are at when you got, before the police realized in the NHELs.

It's like you look at the camera, then you turn and look sideways. This is side profile blast. He's been out on a bender in, maybe Milwaukee of the American League and they're taking photos there. So that's blasty look into his left. I don't mind that. I don't mind it.

The Wrangler's gear is actually really tight. Like the, I think they've done a great job with all that stuff. Like not big enough or? No, like phenomenal looks good. Oh, I see. It's a new style. I mean, not tight on me.

No more Mike Medano. They want it's getting tight. Tell them to. I don't know what size you wear. Don't like hang to dry. Don't put them in the dryer if that's the case. Speaking of jerseys, man, the Canucks can't do anything right. Hey, it just seems that way.

Well, And they finally kind of did something right. They had really cool lunar New Year jerseys. It had the rabbit on it. Some cool coloring. You're like, okay, well, maybe that's a win. Oh, 750 bucks. No, they even fucked that up to.

750? What? There's a lot of, hey, there's rich people in that city. Holy Spirit, they got a lot of money. You live there? Is there 20 of them? What's going on here? 750.

Jeez. Is that a Sadeen? On the right, it kind of looks like a Cedineon, but it's a Lius Pett. who I think might be a Cedine when we look that closely. Because that's Hughes on the left, right? There is Hughes on the left. It's Dickey Pete on the right. So, yeah, just when you think they've done something right,

they ask for $750 for an unsigned jersey of an NHL. Okay, yeah. A practice warm-up jersey, which I think looks pretty cool. Wonder what the sales are like. Knowing the Connoxas, I think they'll find a way to screw it up and yet still make money. I don't know how. Speaking of jerseys, you like Disco Night, right?

You ever play in a Disco night somewhere? Love disco. World's biggest disco in Buffalo every November. You guys are invited. Really? What kind of supplements do we have before that one? They are all kinds. That's good.

I want to be healthy for the dance party. Let's have a look at the San Diego Gulls. Disco Night Jersey here. Goals play in the American. Look at that. Maroon with a wave of orange, yellow. red and pink slash purple. Oh, my, that's beautiful.

It's got some boogie nights. It does. It's got some Ron Burgundy in there with the brown and yellow. I like that a lot. I like that we're having fun with the jerseys. Yes. This league has for so long been no fun and, oh, you can only have one third jersey.

At least you're having fun with the practice jerseys and it's the American League. Do what the hell you want. That's great. Awesome. Disco night. And I mean, that's you, Dean. You like having fun.

That's what you're all about. There's a poster boy for that. For leaving your house. and having fun. Hold on guys. Let's get out. Let's go and do something. I don't care what it is.

I just want to have fun. I'm ready for anything. Dollards? Gosh. I'm just going to drive around until I find people to talk to. Yeah, I know. I can't wait to get out of here

and go socialize. NFL, finalists for the MVP award. There's five of them. It really should just be called the Best Quarterback Award. John Lamar Jackson. No, it isn't. But Josh Allen got nominated,

which I found interesting. One of four quarterbacks, Jalen, I get that. Great season with the Eagles. Certainly Joe Burrow, I get that. Patty Mahomes, every goddamn year, of course. One non-quarterback, would anyone like to wager a guess

as to which NFL are a non-quarterback that was in the final five for the AP MVP? Offense or defense? Offense. Defense, everyone, is this damn thing. Tyreek? No. Justin Jeff's?

Yes. Yeah. JJ. Jeff Dogg. Sorry. I don't know why that was funny to me. Sawthing this morning. At 27 years of age, Mahomes is the oldest quarterback remaining this year.

In the Final Four. Jeez. Yeah, Hertz Young, Burrow Young, and Purdy, rookie. Yeah. It wasn't long ago. There was 40-something-year-olds with their supermodel wives playing in these games. Where's Joe Flacco? Where's Joe Flacco when you need them?

Yeah. By the way, NFL, big line movement in that. We talked about it a little bit off the air yesterday. Kansas City came out as a point-and-a-half favorite. it is now Cincinnati favored by a point of half. And in fact, it was Cincinnati minus two and a half until it sort of corrected back. So a lot of people probably worried about Mahomes' right leg

slash ankle that was so old. All these other young quarterbacks. So old. He's the oldest. Maybe he'll pass from old age during the game and that's worth at least a couple of points. I hope that's not the case. Me too. I've loved his contributions to society.

The other games stayed right where it started Philly minus two and a half at home to San Fran. our picks tomorrow because it's Thursday. And the Psycho Science Show, we're not on on Friday. Right. Yeah. Last one for you. Show Friday.

You mentioned Justin from Viena Nova. Always nice when people watch the show and, you know, bring some sort of here. It's a new spin on what we've done or maybe tie it into something famous from, you know, pop culture. Yeah. So Justin sent this in. he thought my hair looked like a bird on my head. I actually, I took a picture of you yesterday when we're,

because somebody texts me while we were doing the show. So I took a picture of the show and they're like, is that the macho man, Ray? Stop at your door, slim, Jim. And what's great is I see it in so many forms. I see it really unkempt. Is that how you're going? And then when it's up in a, you know, in a,

bun and nicely kind of quaffed. It's versatile. It's like I have four hairs, not one hairstyle. It's a lot, yeah, literally. And figure, no, just literally, okay. Yeah, this is a Pinda Report for Village Honda. Thank you, Dean. There you go.

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The big game is coming up on February 12th. Oh, yeah. That big game. I don't think we can, you know. It's a super sports extravagance. We were going to go to. Sabers Flames. Yeah.

Eagle Casino is the place you just want to be. It's not far from here. Just down the street. You know what we have not done is done a big event where our boys can come in and we can, you know, talk about ourselves a lot. Yeah. They can tell us how awesome we are. Two minute warning, second half, we can really start to kind of, no, but guys, you

should see. So the internet, how it works is it's like fiber that comes into the back of the bill. February 12th, you could at at Grey Eagle. They got the watch part. party. Wings and a pitcher, 12 bean. Are you, excuse me? In this economy? I'll have five of those. The Grey Eagles are going to go to business.

Yeah. Order a wings and a pitcher for 12 bucks. Also, you have a chance to win a 65 inch Samsung TV and a sound bar. They have all just like my house. That's right. This one will work. This is a brand new TV. Oh my God. Unlike the Warner Christmas. The Warner party. It's going to be a good one.

There's a chance we're going to be there. Detail it. You know what's good also about going to Grey Eagle? Instead of those places you mentioned, no de-icing. Yeah, you don't need to de-ice to get into the... It's been a buffalo a long time. It feels like you need to leave, right? Like he's ready for a trip.

Grey Eagle Resort and Casino. They got the Events Center. We'll tell you more about what's going on there this weekend, busy weekend over at the Events Center. But there you go. It's going to be the place to be on Big Game Sunday, February 12th. Wings at a picture. for 12 bucks.

I thought that was a typo. Like truly, how many would you have? Well, until I can't eat more. I can always drink more. How many hours is he there? He'd have, well, he'd have more than one pitcher per hour. Well, maybe not. A pitcher's a lot.

I'd get a pitcher for 12 bucks to crush. I know. He'd order one. I know. That's got to be a typo. And pivoting from there, how many of those would you have? It is Wednesday. And at Montana's, it's all you can eat ribs.

And I've asked you this before. how many of those retro could you eat? Oh dear. I'm a double rack. One, two, three, four, five, six. Two full racks. No, I think what they do, and I think it's smart is you, I shouldn't say. I'm kind of freelancing here, but I think you get the rack.

And then I think they, like, how much more do you kind of ask you, how much more do you want? They're not just going to bring you rack, rack, rack. Like four ribs, six. Do you want half a rack? How much more? So you would say. How many bones? Exactly.

So you would start with the full. And then you just say, just a, no. bring me one more full. What they'll probably do is for Rhett, they would move one of those big, like rubber made garbages, like the huge garbage can. And when the bones were overheeping,

it would be, yeah, sir, we're going to have to ask you to leave. Now, we've got the different sauces for that. You get to pick? Do they have two sauces? Yeah, bud. I think they're just going to, here's the sauce.

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You'll be here tomorrow. Right? What days tomorrow? Thursday. Thursday. Okay. I think that means yes. Okay.

Okay. Because we're going to need you at your best. We'll get you the smelling sauce. Oh, I'm here for, uh, for Ask Rett tomorrow. Can we get that queued up for the end of the show,

maybe, the, both of us to look up. She didn't reach out to me yesterday. Who? Did he? How's he doing? He said,

he's great. He's got something secret he wants to talk to him. So devious. I'd like to tell you guys what Shaman was talking to be. about it, but can't really do it. It's top secret. I shouldn't have. I've said too much. I've said too much. Hope Street rental property management. Shaming in the folks at Hope Street, they get it done for you. Canada. It's their property manager of the year locations Vancouver, Edmonton, and Calgary. And for these purposes, you want to ask Retro, the Rettster, you want some of, we've, we've gotten a lot from

Rett today. You want to have him to impart that wisdom on specific items in your life? Email. Ask at flamesnation.ca. Yeah. Send us an email and we'll fire them out to retro tomorrow. We've learned a lot. These guys cut me off

on a lot of things. So this is your time to ignore these two dopes. Yeah. That's right. And get to the heart of that. That's right. I do look forward to it.

Because it's especially if you're in a really bad mood or a really good mood. It's good stuff. I think he's been in a good mood. lately. Although Monday was rough. I got like three hours

of sleep last night. Is that the magic number? You've been great. My whoop said I was fully recovered. I'm like, well, this thing is clearly out to lunch. Are you moving? Your endorsement of the whoop?

I'm questioning the whoops ability to evaluate my sleep patterns. Are we going to have to explain this? Why were you, why did you only get three hours of sleep? I was pulling a boom.

Yeah. I was lying down in the sleeping position. And you were stressing about your new business and how you were going to make ends meet and whether you'd made a wise life decision and if you regret what you've done with your life. This is a lot of money to be. Oh, wait a minute. A lot of shit to go along with this. And I think I'll watch Seinfeld.

Yeah. Shuffler's like, I heard the TV on it two in the morning. Well, but do, but do, boop boob boob do boob do boob do boob do stupid do stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid. Stupid.

Seinfeld pace. Try to sleep here. Let's do our betway bets and we'll get out of here for the day. So flew by. What happened? I know. Look at that.

Let's do our science just filled the time. Poof, yeah. There it is. We saw Columbus here in town a couple nights ago. They were in Edmonton tonight. Boy. I'm going straight there. Blue Jackets at Oilers.

Oilers have won six in a row. I think that they are going to get sauteed, diced, fricasseed. They're no good. I'm going to just take a shot. First goal score, Leon Drysidle, plus 600. Why not? Let's go. And if I'm going for him to score.

Pinder, what do you call it? Big game hunting? This is big game hunting plus six hundred. Look at that. Woo! Yeah, it's kind of put down 100. Be responsible, right? Be right. Don't, don't go to it.

Understand what this is. This is a risk. I like you, you know, showing a little hot spot. Conne McDavid, Leon Drysettled, both to score goals. That's the stack. Plus 200. So, yeah. Was it six in a row for the Oilers?

Those two guys are in and all of it. So, yeah, we're going to take a roll of the dice here with our Betway bets. I see your confidence in the Oilers. I'm going to one-up you. I'm not just going Drysettled McDavid's stack, which usually plays plus. 250. I'm adding Zach Hyman

plus 550. That's how bad Columbus was that we've been completely inspired. I watched them like blank the oilers 2-0 and dry settles asleep the whole night on the bench or something. But they looked so bad defensively. I'm also jumping on the over 7 and a half

plus 165. That could be a team total for the years. I mean, if the oilers get six, that just leaves two for Columbus to get. Two guys. Just two. And with old McDude and Leon flying around and Blankenship or whatever on the back end there on the P.K. Good luck. Bundaberg Rum.

Yeah. The more penalties, the better too, guys. Let's make this a special team. Sure. Hey, don't go in their house and have them push you around. You stand up to those sons of guns. Cain and whoever the hell else they got up there. Cain's not playing.

He's at his bankruptcy hearing. Nugent Hopkins, you know, those thugs up there, don't let them push you around. You stand up to those guys. Tomorrow, ask Rhett, game day. Should probably make our Betway NFL picks for the weekend as well. Damn right. We'll do that tomorrow as well. And get you ready for our Jasper weekend.

I got to find my stuff. I don't even know where my stuff is. I found the skates. I don't know where my sticks or gloves. My wife is like, do you need to take stuff? I'm like, what do you mean? Yeah, she said, are you taking gear? And I thought she meant to do the show or whatever.

I said, well, no, we're just. Or create some video maybe. Yeah, we can do some video. No, no, like to play. Well, yeah, yeah, I think you need a helmet and gloves and stuff. Do you know where that is? No, I don't know where it is. I think it's in the garage up in the crawl space.

I think you're going to want elbow pads and shin pads as well. They do recommend them. Shins is going to make sense because you know how those oilers guys are going to take this way too seriously. Zipping knee high passes through the slot. Rattling shots off my shins. And if you're going to fall, your body's going to recover, upsupp, if it's an elbow. Then you're just effed. Those take forever to heal.

Iggy had to have surgery on his. It says they get a little bursusack thing going on there, the bone spur. Yeah. Oh, my buddy. One day just blows up. That happened to coach. I didn't a team. Remember when that happened to me?

Yes, I do actually. That's right. The big hot elbow. It was like someone put an air hose in. He was like, s, his elbow is going to blow.

Duck. He started sucking the juice out. And then it actually took a little piece of cartilage with it. Yeah. And then he put in a shock glass. I was going to say, and then you drank it. That's it, buddies. Thanks for watching, Barnberger, listening.

Be with you tomorrow. Have a good one. We'll see it. Soilers. That's right. It's almost to stand.