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Oh, well, look what we have here. It is a Thursday game day on Barnburner. What would our happy slim friend say, Rhett? Get your helmets on? That's right. Let's go. A huge one tonight is the Calgary Flames with a victory. Well, with a lot.

There's eight games left, right? Eight left. There are eight left. With a win or loss, they'll have seven. it left. Please hockey guys, deliver us to the end of the hockey season with things to talk about and a higher draft pick. Please, please, please, please, please, please. You, when I think about it, I thought about this last night, there would probably not have been a lot of lost years where you went down the stretch with 10 games to go with nothing to play for. I don't recall a lot of your Buffalo years,

but you had Hasick. Florida, you went to the cup final, your first full year there. And the team, since you got to Calgary, made the playoffs and was in every year. Do you remember years where you had to play out the string at all? One year, my last year in Florida. Well, but that doesn't count. We missed the playoffs my third year in Florida. Yeah, it was my third year in Florida. That was a year.

And we lost 13 in a row. And by January, it was like, this is going to be painful. And it was. that we finally got there, but I still say, I've said lots lately, I think that's easier in a way than losing out

like the flames have with a month ago, right? Like you were clearly done and you were going to have to find a way to finish the last 35 games. These guys stayed in it too long and then it falls off and it's hard to rebalance because you look at it and you go, I got like eight games, I just have to survive.

Yeah, I'm with you. I think when you look at Chicago and Anaheim, they're not beaten down and upset. They've been under the understanding that they're out of it since December. And it's like, all right, guys, time to go. Let's go ruin someone else's season. Like that's the whole embrace the underdog thing. The flames feel like they're still in licking their wounds phase of it where, you know, February 10th, I think the graphic was on the game the other night.

They were one point out of a playoff spot. That wasn't that long ago. And yet a lot's happened since then. move a second pair delete them you you know there's been some injuries there's a much different looking blue line and and the results have not been very good it's it's understandably when you have two to three n hl defensemen things are a lot harder out there yeah well you and it's we've said it lots too or we suspected all those guys were going to get moved they they did what you want and you've had epic seasons from Uyger,

even Cadre bounced back, Coleman's careers. Joevitt's great. Markstrom's been awesome. And you trade those guys and you fall out of it. You still were not in a playoff spot, even when you had all those guys playing quite well. So it speaks to how hard it is and maybe that there's still a lot of retooling that needs to be done. Yeah, the conversation that I had a lot in, I guess,

Feb March was like, people would be like, look, they're not that far out. Why don't, like, why aren't you guys talking about a playoff push? And it's like, if you are getting Vesna goaltending and you're still on the outside looking in, you're a long way away. Because goaltending can mask a lot of shit. But the way that Markstrom played basically from, I want to say about game 10 of the year, through the deadline was that, that probably threw an extra 10 to 15 points on the pie. And yeah, you can lament other things that didn't go perfectly,

but if there's one thing that can ruin a season or save a season, it's net mining. Look at the Panthers in the playoffs last year. Look at the Panthers in the regular season last year. Look at the Flames in the regular season last year, a better team with shitty goaltending. And look at them this year, a lesser team that, you know, hung around a long time because they were getting saves.

To me, if you're getting Vesna goaltending and you're not in the mix, you ain't close. No, exactly. And that's what flames got Vesna. a goaltending with Kipersoff and never went anywhere. It was just covering up warts. We all know that looking back, how it's easy to see at the time. You're stuck in it.

You're like, oh, yeah, we've got a chance. We've got Kippur and we're making the playoffs. You need it a lot more. And in a way, I think it's made it easier and more clear for Condorre. So I'm hoping long term that it's been a benefit. Okay, we'll get to tonight's game in a bit, but we can't go any further without getting back to it. Now, we, I was bugging boomer about this yesterday.

a banger or not a banger, the devils at the Rangers. You're like, well, the devils are kind of out of it. And they're hovering around 500. Rangers are trying to chase down first. It's good rivalry. And then it was like light bulb on. Ding, hang on. Last time these two clubs played,

Rempay was ejected. He wouldn't fight Curtis McDermott, who they traded for because he ran over Nathan Bastion earlier. And it was like, oh, this is a firm banger. No question about it. It didn't take long last night on Broadway. And look, if you ever get to one of the, these games, I would suggest you get your ass in your seat for puck drop. Here we go.

On the six-foot, seven-inch rookie Matt Rempey, bad hits on both Nation Batchin and Yonis Siegenthaler and a reluctance to fight Curtis McDermann back on March 11 that looks like we won't have to wait long for it, perhaps off the opening face-off here tonight. Well, one being a left winger, a defenseman turned left winger, the son of a former NHLer, and of course, Rempe being the big right-hand shot, they're facing each other right now. Uh-oh, here we go, Rhett. And I got the best seen in the house. It starts with a conversation,

which is joined by Gord Dwyer, the referee who will drop the puck. Madison Square Garden has seen its fair share of bouts on the canvas on the ice. No undercard tonight. Rempe and McDermid, the main event to open the hockey game. And it's not just one. It's five.

Madison Square. Oh. Remedy four officials, there's five fights. Try to break up what that can. Meanwhile, Rempey and McDermott's still throwing him. Yandre Miller got the better of John Marino down on the other end. As McDermin still feeding rights to Rempey, the other four are all done. Events still going.

This is unbelievable. Holy jump and want to start to this one right here, but McDermin's got it. Rempe, Rempe, that's what they're chanting. This is a marathon between. Rempe and McDermott. Rempies wiser down. He's so fiery. Oh, that was long.

So the first fight to go, the last to finish by like 30 seconds, and two monsters, McDermid and obviously the 6'7, 240-pound Calgary and Matt Rampé. My goodness. Fun times, rat, fun times. I'm more impressed with that

that Sabres' Leafs, gloves left on, altercation. So you think, hey? Yeah. Yeah. And banger, indeed it was. That was two seconds in. I don't know when they decided to blow the whistle. I mean, we knew it was before anything happened. They dropped the puck and they went. It was funny. Yesterday, we recorded Department of Discipline with Jay Rosso and we had Darcy Hortichuk on and Horty had just chatted with Rampi in Arizona. I think he was a scratch down in the desert and there was a photo of him sort of like engaging and showing how you could, you know, Rempe, you got to use your reach a little more.

He talked about the interaction. And look, I don't know what the future holds for the kid. He can move really well for a man of his size. He's huge. He's taking a lot of fights. But it's also like you've got to make a splash and you get into the league. But it's something the league's missed for a bit. And I don't know that everyone's going to go out and find him at Rempe.

I don't think there's 32 of them. But it's an element from the sport that was so prominent 15, 20 years ago that's almost gone now. And it's kind of refreshing to see a bit of it. We don't want to get back to the, every team has a guy that can't skate and stage fights off the draws. But that's fun. Well, I think it does go in cycles. And I think the cycle that we'd like to see is back to not Broad Street bullies, maybe where it was fighting. It was too many fights.

But we're guys are fighting because they're mad. And they're fighting against guys that could still play. And they're fighting because they're emotional. They're like, screw you. I'm going to get you. I don't mind those. But it's now we're hypocritical. Keep saying that to don't want anyone getting injured

And your chance of getting injured Probably goes up if you're scrapping And long term You think about the Implications of a kid like Rimpi Having to go scrap And Madison Square Guard Not having an option to kind of say no

His coach starts him Like he can't say no There's an emotional toll that it takes on you But You've got to ask the kid Yeah In the 80s you might say Oh this coach told

to fight and I didn't know about head injuries. Matt Rampi's going in eyes open. He understands the risks involved. He's not being asked to scrap by their head coach. And he also probably doesn't mind being a rock star in New York City working on Broadway at the age of 21. I think if he says door A or door B, he's picking the, I might scrap 10 times in the NHL in the second half of the year and become a star in New York. I think he understands that, you know, there's risk involved with that, but he's willing to take it. What door's not open to that guy last night at New York City? You kidding me?

Is it right? It's a star. He's a bleeping star. He may be the quarterback of the Giants or Jets, but fuck them because they suck anyway. You're mad Rick. Exactly. He would be a bigger deal. He would get hugely supported.

And I don't want him to struggle with post career, but you're right. I talk to lots of guys that played his role in most of them, 99. to 9% of them would say, I wouldn't have changed it. I know. I got to do it. That's what I got to do to stick around. Yeah, it's a contact sport. You could talk about removing fighting,

but it's still not going to remove head injuries. There's significant risk, you know, if we see it with football players. But unless we're making it a not contact sport, the risk is not zero. And if Matt Rimpin wants to trade a little more risk for stardom in New York, I understand it because I'd do the same thing. Yeah. must be seven, I can't fight, and I'm a coward, but otherwise, very similar decision tree.

Aside from that. Yeah, those three things. So not big enough, not good at fighting and a coward. But if those things weren't there, I'd do it. It's not that much I'm missing, all right? I have two hands. He has two hands. What's funny, too.

I can wear a blue jersey. Yeah. That's what's funny. It's like, it's not funny, but. he's a star because he's scrapped and he's in New York City. Like that's across, you're huge everywhere. Like start an Instagram account and follow it up. It could be like, who knows where it goes.

Yeah, he's a rock star. And you know what? He's not one dimensional in the sense that yes, he's big and he can scrap. But he's impacted games with his shoulders and his legs. He can really move for someone that's six, seven. Like that game against Toronto, before he fought Reeves, he hammers Elyelio Lubbushkin done for the game. you're like, that's in the seven game series,

that's a weapon you can release. 100%. And I think, I think he's going about it a decent way. I think having some scraps is good. Eventually, if he's able to keep it up, you become,

you get to a point where you can do it or not. Totally. Sometimes. Every time someone comes to knock and you can go, no, I'm above, I don't have to do this because I'm going to go out here and play and I'm going to run that guy,

and there's nothing you can do about it. And if I decide to fight, it'll be on my terms when I want to. 100%. Hortichuk talked about it yesterday and that show, Jack, that'll drop tomorrow, I believe, our episode of Department of Discipline with Darcy Hortichuk, who's an absolute beauty.

We've had on this show is close to the mayor of Scottsdale, it feels like the guy's an absolute beauty. But he said, look, you've got to go in and make a name for yourself early, but once you're the big dog, you've got to start messing with people's heads. Don't fight on their terms. Say, you know what? We're down one.

I'm going at you now. Piss off their star players, you know, lean into guys that don't like fight. make the other team react to you, but don't you, someone asked you? No, my terms, buddy. And that's part of the evolution of becoming one of these feared players

is establish yourself. Then you can start dictating the terms of it and start messing with people's heads. Because a lot of it's right in here, right? Yeah, and I think that's part of the key, I don't know, the keys to it all are, but that's the difference between now and back then.

Back then, you had no choice. You fought. Like, Probert didn't turn down, many scraps. Domi didn't turn down many scraps. Rob Bray didn't turn down many scraps. It was like, I'm going to fight. Paul lost, but 30 some times my first year in Florida. His head's insane.

Right? Like, I'm not talking about that. You're not talking about that. You get eight to ten scraps a year and make them good and make you're leading the league if you get to that number. Yeah. Yes. Like that's, it's just not what it was. And, you know, that doesn't mean there's no risk. But I certainly, as someone that says, I'm being hypocritical.

I worry about head injuries for players, but I also like watching a fight. I think that an HL leader at 8 to 10 fights is healthier than 38. Oh, that's. Yeah. Like there's no question. Yeah. All right. Look, we can't all be stars on Broadway, but you can win a million bucks.

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I'm a millionaire. I'm a millionaire. Sir, you're not a millionaire anymore. You know what you want with the money. How's Florida? How's the family? What's going on? I know you're very scholastic and you're a massive proponent of education. How much school are the kids missing?

I know that's probably the, you're losing sleep over it. Well, actually, I think it's spring break. Sadly, as a father, I should probably know that. Not a lot of math being done here, Florida. Fatigue is setting up or starting to set it. And really? They woke up and started punching each other this morning. So that was fun.

So that's fatigue. Yeah. You could just tell that edge. There's not a lot of laughter. If someone pokes the other guy. Yeah. It's on. It's go time.

I notice in my house and it's twins, so it's a little different because there's just the pecking order has to be reestablished every single day. When someone's bored, they just generally poke the other one. Yeah. So if you don't have an activity, it's pretty much WrestleMania.

on mummy's nice furniture on the main floor. Like, get to the, get out of here. Go to the basement, you idiots? Yeah. Now, it's a little grayer today. It would be a perfect day to go fishing because the ocean's fairly calm. But I don't know. It's kind of nice to be out of the sun and not sweating.

And I hate to complain about it. But I'm happy to enjoy a little more cloud cover. Yeah, we have snow today. And it's still snowing. and it will continue to snow and it's snowing. The snow is sticking to the trees. It is, oh, you son of a bitch. You're right there, aren't you?

Oh, right there. Oh. Oh. Damn it! It's not snowing here, so I guess. Yeah, well, you're not skiing, I guess, huh? Yeah, you have to settle for the beach. Okay, fine.

You do you, Rhett. I'm getting the same sunburn because I got my shades on. That's right. You got your snow goacles or whatever. You get your big, what are the pit vipers going? Pit vipers. All the kids are pumped. They saw some game yesterday where you kind of like that clutch claw thing where they could get pit

fibers. Oh, yeah. They wanted to spend $800 trying to get those damn things. You're like, son, you could buy them for 20 on the beach. You don't need to pump it into this machine and end up with no sunglasses. Do you have flights back? Because I know, well, let's just say you like to live. more spontaneously than the general public.

We do have flights back, but I could be convinced there's lots of nice homes down here. Lovely people. Food's good. Another home, hey, that's what you need? I mean, it's not Buffalo. It sure isn't, Rhett. And yesterday, see this big monster of a man walking the, the, whatever, a sidewalk by the beach here. Yeah, boardwalk, whatever, sure.

Yeah, Mordwalk. That's where it was like. And he's got the sweatsuit on. What are they? The boxers wear, whatever. Like the jumpsuit over, yeah. Like the ones that, no, that they make you sweat. Like it's to drop weight.

Oh, shit, cutting weight. Okay. Yeah, you know what I mean? Then people are like, can I get a picture? I'm like, who is that guy? Yeah. Well, Dionne Dawkins from the Bills. No way.

Swatting a few pounds off. That's a boy, Dee. Yeah. Walking into the heat with one of those, I don't even know what they call. all of them anymore. So you don't have to put the garbage bags on and get the stationary bike into the sauna like Chellios would? Yeah, that's, you know, that was Big Dion.

He was out there getting ready for the season. So good on them. All right. So what, are we looking at a weekend, a week, 10 days? Saturday. I was going to go back and watch my nephew playing trail. They're in the playoffs at BCHL playoffs out this weekend. Exciting, yeah.

But I don't have a ride and I don't want to fly into trail because it's a pain in yeah. So I think it's back to Buffalo Saturday. Geek out on Monday with the Oh, the eclipse. The eclipse thing. Yes. And then find the next flight out of town. I got to get out of that place.

So are you right? Oh, really? Wow. Okay. That's a development. Jack, write that down. You're right in the dark band because there is a strip across North America. I'm going to see if I can find this for Jack that that shows where the full eclipse is. And if you're not on that, the further away you get from that diagonal strip across North America, the more mad the eclipses. You guys are right in the

thick of it or close? Right in the thick of it. Much like you were talking about Erie yesterday and they can't get hotel rooms, I would bet you'd have a hard time finding a hotel room in Buffalo right now. Yeah, that's crazy. Okay, I'm going to find this graphic. That's a link. I don't need that.

This is exactly what you want to do, is scroll your phone while you're doing a show. Jets tonight, Monaghan and To Foley back. How much money do you have down on Betway for both those cats to score? Oh, you got to combine those two. Partly, geez. Big dough and it's almost guaranteed. This is amazing.

Okay, I found one image. That's good. Yeah, we'll wait for Jack to upload that one. And then another one look good, too. Still doing the eclipse thing, right? Well, I just think it's like, until I saw the image, I really didn't understand exactly what people meant by this. Everywhere you go down there, not everywhere.

as soon as people hear eclipse glasses, apparently they go line up for the damn things. Really? So we got a couple pairs of them. And I put them on at the house the other day and I'm yelling at a shoveler. I said, these things are just terrible. I can't see shit. She's like, go look at the sun, you idiot. That's the point.

So I go look at the sun and I'm like, oh, okay, I get it now. You can look right at the sun. Okay. I think it was early in Trump's presidency. There was like an eclipse or something. And it was like all we heard was like two weeks of like, don't look directly sun and he comes out there. He's like,

da-da-da-da-de-de-de-de. Like, no sunglasses. This guy's doing it in his own way. This is falling anyone's rules. Okay, so on vacation, what's the sleeping arrangement? So are you two queens and five people? You've got multiple rooms. Queens and a king.

We got two bedrooms. Oh, baby. Nice little setup. We don't mess around. I don't like being crowded. So you don't need the hostile vibes now that you're, you know, family room. No good.

So it would be you in one room and then shoveler in the boys and the others so that your snoring doesn't wake them up, right? The rest of them can do it and actually the oldest had the sniffles the first day he was here. I almost went and bought himself his own room again because I hate colds and I'm like, get him away. Yeah, you are. If someone's got a sniffles, you're just like, get away. It drives me nuts. I don't know if you know, but I, I don't know.

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You go to the high end stuff there. Yeah, that guy out of the back of the woodworking shop with the saw? No. No need. Brand new dental office, happy people. Oh, here it is. Look at right. So this diagonal line, if you're watching on YouTube, is going over North America.

that is the path of total eclipse. Bum, bum, bum. And so it looks like St. John's. Is that Newfoundland? St. John, your Brunswick, St. John's, Newfoundland. Buffalo is in there. Dallas looks like it's in a good setup. Okay.

Very good. And then you see in Vancouver, it's going to be very mad. Just a tiny little piece of the sun missing. That's it. Yeah, no, it's going to be big in Buffalo. People are pumped. Huge. Just huge.

State of emergency. I think I've said already. on the show. Yeah, and that's nutty to me. I know Eclipse would do that. Oh, look at this. NASA's weighing in. What up, NASA?

You don't know in space. NASA does. And yeah, there it is. We'll pass over northern Mexico all the way through the U.S. to the Maritimes. Can't get a hotel anywhere that's shaded there. Any of those dark spots?

You're screwed. Wild. Absolutely crazy. Yeah, we talked about it on the show yesterday. Hunter Bristevich plays for the kitchen arrangers. Their O.HL series has literally altered their if necessary game six and sevens because you can't get a hotel in Erie. Never mind the traffic.

Never mind trying to eat. A city of 100,000 and 200,000 people are supposed to be in Erie. Good luck getting a meal, never mind a hotel room. Yeah, no, it's going to be a mess. And like you said, I think the traffic, they're saying stay off the roads. Yeah. Didn't see that one coming. Probably, well, it'll be partial while the show's on.

Can we get rid of? the barn murder during the eclipse. No, this is a good question. Do you know what time of day it is and how long it lasts? I think it starts at three. So that's one our time. That's a little late. We might have to go a special show.

I think it's a live stream, yeah, for sure. I know you'll be set up there for that. Oh, I rock. Yeah. Point that camera rate at the sun. We'll figure something out. All right. Now, listen, when you proposed to the shoveler,

was it full eclipse? Was it Haley's Comet? What were you on the Everest? World's collided. Worlds collided, Ryan. There was worlds colliding. Where did you drop to a knee? Was it?

You could have been anywhere. Some dumpy ass movie theater that I could rent out private. A truck stop outside of Prince Albert. Jesus, Red. Okay, a theater. So you made a big production of this? People were there? No, nobody else was there.

Wow. It was a matinee show. Like I said, in a little dive theater downtown Buffalo. And we just traveled the world. And I'd made my own video. Wow. Oh, my God. No way.

See, he's so romantic, Jack. Are you taking notes, Jack? Come on. Come on, Jack. There's only like so many years for your life. You have to be romantic. And then you make a mistake or whatever. But like at this point, you should be taking notes from red.

That's a honey dropper move right there. It's a big time. Jack. You can use it if you want. Yeah, he's been taking lots of notes. Okay. So lay this out for you. You travel the world during the lockout and then you made a video that you showed

her in the movie theater. Yeah. Yeah. We had her own. And she didn't know, obviously. It wasn't. It was a surprise that nobody else was in the theater. She was actually quite annoyed.

Yeah. She's like, because she was hot. What are we doing here? It's because she was hung right over. And it was mad that we're going to this. movie. She's like, I don't want to see this movie. It was the Russell Crowe. He was boxing.

Oh, yeah. Do you remember that show? I kind of do. There was a run for Russell Crow there where he was like the male action flick star. Anyway, I want to go see this movie. Oh, do we have to? Yes.

So Jack, you don't have access necessarily to a dingy movie theater in Buffalo, but you do have Vina Nova here in Calgary. If you're going to make that decision, I'd suggest you head down to Calgary's lab grown specialists. It's the only store in Calgary that specializes exclusively in lab grown diamonds. And so you've got this massive selection of loose lab grown diamonds, jewelry and savings from lab grown diamonds, Jack, up to 80% for the

exact same composition. It's just compressed carbon. Why go dig them out of the earth the other side of the con? You can make them an elaborate here just maybe even more imperfections than the earthmined diamonds. Check them out atveno Nova.com. or go see their downtown showroom on the second level of Stephen Avenue place. And then, you know, you might not have a video done like rat, but you can still be a romantic. The asking is the easy part. Go to Vina Nova and get the real shit figured out.

Yes, Justin's going to take care of you there. He knows what's up. So no matter if you're like, I'm an idiot. I don't know anything. He's like, perfect. Sit right here. I'll walk you through this. Way we go.

Way we go. Big shout out to Justin and our pals at Viena Nova. Jack. he's just nodding his head. He doesn't want to talk about it. I just realized like, you know, it's a girlfriend. He doesn't have that same. Yeah, we don't need to.

Let's not get in. Are you common law? I can really pry here. We can talk about how long you've lit together. Oh, we're good. Okay. Fine. Fine, Jack.

We get our lawyers involved, Jack. What do you do? All right there. We teased a little there. The Jets not been going great of lately, but a very good season for the Jets. I think sometimes we over, analyze the runs, teams run heading into the playoffs rather than, oh yeah, playoffs are a little different.

Let's see you go. But the challenge for the Jets is they play in the Central Division. So they've got Dallas and Colorado in there. They will play one of those two in round one. They get the flames tonight. It is to Foley. It is Monaghan against their old teams. Calgary boy, Josh Morrissey, Summers in Calgary for Shifley as well often these days.

This is one of the best goalies in the league and Connor Hellebuck. should he go tonight? If not, it's a Flames drafted player. And Loren Prasua has been a great backup around the league for a while. Flames should have their hands full here against a Jets club that I think is looking to get right and has been on a tough run. Yeah, this is not going to be a team that comes in and makes it easy on you to play. Yeah.

I got to feel the Jets are going to play with purpose and some urgency. And a month ago, I'd have probably, I'd have had a hard time not picking them as one of the top, were one of my favorites to come out of the West. They're pretty damn good. And you don't want the recency bias and maybe falling off and hitting the skids a bit affects that, but it's still a tough out, I think, for any team in the league. Yeah, that division is just a murderer show.

It's kind of like the Atlantic where you're going to have like a Boston, Florida, Toronto series, two of those three teams will play. It's going to be Colorado, Dallas, Winnipeg, two of those three teams playing in round one. And I know people moan about the first round, but it's just good hockey. You're going to get it in a one,

through eight either way there's just 10 contenders this year it feels like there's not two or three heavyweights yeah and I think that the opinion that you're losing too many good teams in the first round is it can happen but I just think that's so the

depth of competition is so good that somebody's got to lose like you're yeah there's not four bad teams in each conference getting in they get to get beat up there might be okay let's say Philly or Pittsburgh or Washington or Detroit like two of those teams of the islanders two of those teams get in. Okay. Those are two softer matchups. In the West, who do you want to face?

Like you got L.A. in a wild card. They can be a nightmare. And Nashville's been the hottest team in the league since what, the start of March? Like, what are we talking about here? There's no soft touches anywhere. I don't care how you rejig it. One through 16, one through eight. The divisional playoff. Like, good teams are going to play good teams here. Yeah, you have to win against good teams. That's playoff hockey. So I, you're, I think out east you are right. there's probably a couple softer matchups, but you watch, you're going to pick the first team overall out east. The Rangers probably right now and be damned if there's not an upset in that first round. Well, and think about it.

Last year, the greatest regular season we've seen in our lives was the Boston Bruins. And a team that had one fewer point than the Calgary Flames faced them in round one. How'd that go? It started all right for the Bruins. wins. And then 3-1 series lead and then even in game seven, but boy, that's nervous. Well, at least you have a lead late. That's no problem.

You're inside a minute of moving on. Yeah. Hang on. Then that team runs to the finals. Yeah. Yeah. Crazy. And look, we all say, oh, no, Florida was different.

But it's like, well, they played 82 games and needed Pittsburgh to lose to Chicago just to get in. Like, this wasn't a team of destiny. This was a lot of lucky breaks. And then, Bobrovsky, who had been so bad down the stretch. they were starting Alex bleeping lion. Yeah, he played. He suddenly something clicks and he's 950 for a month.

Yeah. And Lion had to play poorly enough that they were going to change the goal to get Bob's skin, right? Like if Lion plays even better a little bit, they probably don't even go to Bobbombober. Yeah. Get them in there, right? Like, anyway, it's playoff hockey. It's why we love the tournament. Crazy things happen.

And a best of seven in this sport is just something special. so we are officially Thursday, two weeks from the finale of the regular season and that means we're two weeks and two days from playoff hockey.

They were going to start on a Monday. I think it was a couple weeks ago. They said, we're bumping it up to Saturday, which I like. The year the Flames played the Oilers, it was kind of weird,

I guess two summers ago. You're like, oh, you're the top seed. Away you go. And then it was like a Monday, Wednesday. And then the lower seed gets to go home for two weekend games,

like a Thursday, Sunday, or a Saturday. and geez like that doesn't seem huh no but starting at home upper seed weekend big matchups round one I'm jacked about it and the beauty of what we've got coming up the it is our second annual

Dean says there's no second annuals is it third that it goes to an annual it's inaugural second annual is it not yeah I don't know we need a linguist around here we need someone that has got strong command of the English language Jack can't read.

AI. Ask AI, Jack. Could you do that? It is our playoff draft happening on the 19th of April. It's the perfect day. The regular season ends the night before. The day after, we are off to the races with Round 1. There's one day window to get your perfectly timed draft, and this is it. It's presented by our good friends at McLeod Law,

as well as in support of Kidsport, Calgary. Another couple teams off the board yesterday, Red. We're getting into the final few. Talk to your buddies, get your heads together. Imagine the NHL draft. You're on the floor. You've got your own table. You've got your lanyards.

There's eight of you at a table. It is $1,500 for a table. Divide that by eight. You're getting an amazing tax receipt from the good folks at Kidsport, Calgary for all the good work. They do getting the less fortunate kids into sport, which, of course, we can all get behind. What a great cause that is the life lessons that sport teach us.

And we're going to have a bunch of fun. we will see who earns the right to select first overall. We'll have some picks on the floor, and then Boom and I will be on the mics mocking the selections of people and making them donate to charity when they select players that have already been taken. Defending champs are Village Honda, and if you want to secure your team before they're gone,

and I can't emphasize this enough, there are very few remaining teams. Email Eden, E-D-E-N at Kidsportcagree.com. you don't have to have all eight there, but the vibes around the tables are very good. And you get some back and forth. Last year, the local 403 table became the villains. It was a good time.

Got over. Have a few pops, feel good about things, raise some money for a good cause. And then the next day, park your ass on your couch. Yes. Take in game one. Wall to wall.

I think we'll probably have four series rolling on that Saturday, which will be an absolute blast. Eden at Kitsportcadry. dot CA for more. It's Friday April 19th at the Grey Eagle Resort and casino limited slots available. Get in there quick before they're gone. And yeah, like, I mean, come on. You don't need a team building thing with a tax rate off. It's a ton of fun. That's a good idea. That's going to be wearing a sequin blazer. What are you talking about it? And it's not just a one day thing. You can follow it for the whole playoffs. That's right. Everybody engaged. We get the outdoor.

Sorry. We get the updates throughout the round by round from the folks of kidsport. They run pool. It's good stuff. Okay. Let's get to a Pinda report. We do that for Village Honda, the defending champs of the playoff draft. They had a bunch of Vegas guys. There's no other way that happened, right? I don't think they meant to do it. It just happened.

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Check out the 2024 Honda Corde at Village Honda. Let's get into the Pender report. New Flame signing alert. It is that season. It's the NCAA free agent frenzy. The Wranglers have added 25-year-old right-shot center, David Sillier, on an ATO, which essentially means he's got a deal for next year, but he's going to play on a tryout for the remainder of this year

before his deal for next year kicks in. This is the minutia of the H.L. And college free agents, just completed a senior year at Wisconsin. It's a third school. played at. He started did I say Cornell earlier? I read off to you because it was it's wild. The transfer portals really changed

things. I don't know that that's something that necessarily hockey fans in Canada are talking about, but Clarkson to Mancato, which is Minnesota State for two years and then graduates from University of Wisconsin. Alternate Captain of the Badgers. That's a big program, rats. Well, you know why he signed. Clarkson. Just say the word Clarkson. We went to Clarkson. That's Connie.

former Penticton v. I mean, I got a new favorite Wrangler now, Red. And that's the second BCHO they've snapped up in College for Agency because Hank Horton, Sam Morton, who's been on a nice little run, he played in the BC League as well, I believe. Well, didn't that other kid, too,

that we drafted last year, played Penticton in the third round? Yeah, Idaar Sunnih, who was at UMass and had a very nice freshman season. They were in the tournament. They got beaten in the first round, but a pretty good debut season for Sunniyev. and that was the third round

that they got in the Topholi deal. Yeah, college hockey, big down here, I'll tell you. Is that right? Not as big as the basketball, but still lots of coverage. Yeah, that is fair. And I'm looking at it. I think this weekend we have the frozen four,

like the four left teams, and it is BC on one side of the rack of B.U. on the other. If you had an all Boston championship, that would be absolute bananas. I'd text Brendan Morrison yesterday to see what he thought of his chances. He said, I think they play either way.

They play one of the Boston teams. He's like, those boys are stacked. It's going to be a tough, tough matchup. I haven't, I didn't follow it super closely, but they were one, two in the rankings for like a considerable portion of the season. Certainly down the stretches, we started to see the field whittled down for the 16 teams that make the tournament. So there it is, newcomer for the Wranglers. And, uh, yeah, all right.

We'll see how it goes. Inverse standings. Here's what we're looking at. Uh, Calgary Flames. If the draft were tonight, they would. would be sitting in eighth position before the lottery balls start bouncing. That's not bad, Rhett, but it is a tight little pack. At the top of your screen, the Montreal Canadians and Ottawa senators,

they are just a couple games under 500. Flames would love to reel them in. Seattle is exactly at 500. The devils are exactly at 500. This pack of five is not separated by a ton. I would love to say it's imperative for the flames not to win. That would be lying. They can beat the Oilers on Saturday,

but please lose the other seven. That's the other seven. I don't want to be too greedy. Schedule looks like this for April. Eight games left. There are five on the road. They've already played in and of course. There are three left at home.

There are four playoff teams and there are four non-playoff teams. One back-to-back in there. That comes up next week. Thursday, Friday, they do the Tenciltown back-to-back. Kings, then Ducks from downtown L.A. Orange County. I imagine it's Wolf tonight, given that it was Mark Stram in on Tuesday,

and he did not win. And frankly, if you want to alternate the rest of the way or just let, you know, whoever's feeling good, keep going. That's fine by me. I would think that given where Dustin Wolf is from, he'll probably get the start in San Jose close to his hometown. Other than that, you'd probably split the back-to-backs.

Let a rip. Where is he from? I want to say Tustin, California or something like that. I didn't even know that. It's not far for, it's kind of greater Bay Area, if I'm correct. California, big hockey state, who know? Are these all in Mountain Time 830, 8. Yes.

Yes, they are, Jack, and we are actively booking after Burner for next week, understanding that Boomer, that's bedtime. I think he sleeps from 8 till midnight, and then he stews from midnight till the show. starts at 10 a.m. Especially after a big trip to Philly this weekend, there's no chance he's going to be able to stay up till 8.30. Yeah, no question. We do have a boomer video, don't we?

We'll save that. We'll save the boomer video for after the Pinned report. But that's the Flames Jets tonight. What do the Jets look like? Some familiar faces to be sure. This was a group that just did not look good at all the second half of last year. We forget they were in first in their division in the new year last year and then had that death spiral.

You could tell something was up in that. that room. Rick Bonas at the end of the year said some things. Players said things. Paul Maurice walked away from this group two years ago, I want to say. They move out Pierre-Luc de Bois. They buy out Wheeler who went to New York and is now done for the year with injury. And it's maybe not as talented a group, but certainly a much more cohesive group and more of a team. They're also getting another Vesnik caliber season from Connor Hellebuck. The familiar faces, Monaghan in the middle on the second line. He's playing with Connor and Perfetti. And Tyler, Foley with the Calgary and Adam Lowry.

Lots of Calgary connections on this team. To Foley Monaghan played here. Lowry, Shifley, and Morrissey spend a lot of their off-seasons here. I could root for this team, Rad. I got no problem with this. And Brennan, Dillon, friend of the show, he's a beauty, having a good year, heading into free agency. I can get behind these guys, for sure. I can't share for many of them to else out west.

And I can't share for many teams out east. So I got to. Yeah. I will say this. There's enough conditional picks to go around. You're going to be able to cheer for a team in almost every series in the West that involves a flames pick. Vegas win round one. Vancouver get to the conference final.

Dallas get to the Stanley Cup final. Connie, just like Scrooge McDuck, diving into a pool of picks. Well, no problem finding rooting interests there. Central Division looks like this for the Jets. They were winning this thing not long ago, but a six-game losing streak will do that to you. They're now nine back of Dallas who's already punched their ticket and beat the Oilers five-nothing. last night. Game was kind of close and then it kind of wasn't. Switched click. And Colorado will host Edmonton next. I don't know. Oilers, they flashed their record against

the top five teams in the league. It is not impressive. The flames have a better record against the top five teams in the league than the Oilers and it's not really close. How surprising is that? It would be a little surprising. Although when you think about it, that oilers have that high-end talent that can beat a crappy team all by itself. You don't have to be good for 60 minutes if you've got dry-sitle, McDavid, Hyman, Bouchard and company. And they did suck for what, a month and a half out of the gate. That's true. We were all very happy.

Yeah. If they want to do that again for the next month and a half, I'd be okay with that too. In fact, it probably wouldn't even last that long if they're not going to play well. We showed you the brawl from Madison Square Garden. This is a different angle, I think we have Jack. We're a fan actually got his camera out, and you can see all five fights at the same time. This is just, like, how often do we see a line bra? Like, not even once a year these days, I'd say.

No, not once a year. No, like, it's like an eclipse in Buffalo red. It's like people, if they knew this was happening, they would become wherever. So you can, this is a fan from the second deck that clearly you can see all five I love the last two fights. They're like, well, we might as well. All right, let's get at it.

Like, I don't know that we've had a five on five. Probably's been one I'm not thinking of, but the last one I remember, we had an anniversary for a couple months ago, it was the Canucks and the Flames. It was Tortorella and Hartley and that was like a decade ago. This is wild stuff. That is. And this

what we said it earlier, Renpe and McDermott is absolutely the title fight. And it starts first and everyone else is done already and they go for another 30 here. They are absolutely gasped by the end of this. I didn't realize that one guy from the devil's look to get

dinged there down in the Rangers zone. was that Keandre Miller beaten up John Marino or somebody else? Yeah, I couldn't tell who it was. Yeah.

When was Shisterkin trying to make things happen? I don't know what he? He laid down his blocker or his trapper, I want to say. And he was going to, is that an invite or like what is he doing there? But the one thing you don't see in the wide shot anywhere at any time is the New Jersey goaltender.

I don't know if it was Allen or Kackanen last night, but there's no goalie inside at the New Jersey. And you know, you have to leave, New York out the side tunnel. The backup sits in the corner. He might have just got, they went right to the gate.

I'm out. Say ya. Why the hell did they put John Marino out there? So the visiting team submits their lineup first. And you know John Marino because he's a former penguin, I'm guessing. But he actually was drafted by the Oilers and didn't sign there. God bless his soul. The visiting team essentially can dictate.

So when they throw Curtis McDermott's name on that, then it's over to the Rangers. It's like, okay, well, no point waiting around. Coach just had a few words with each other, too, or so. Yes, yeah, it was heated, which I also don't mind. Was it Laviolet and Travis Green? And Lavalette, I think, was asked afterwards what was happening. He said, well, he just came over here and started screaming at me.

I'm going to let you, I'm going to let you have it too if you're going to do that. But this is intriguing. I love where this rivalry is at, because. is not unlike Battle of Alberta or Battle of the State of Florida, which has gotten really good the last five years, or Boston, Toronto, or Toronto, Montreal, or Montreal, Boston. Devils Rangers, when it's good, can be amazing. This has heightened it.

And I already thought Islanders Rangers was pretty good of late as well. They played that outdoor game. Well, don't forget. Don't forget last year, Rangers are up by two. That's right. And they go and lose that series. No, you're right. It was 2-0.

and the Devils came back and it's like, okay, it's the devil's time. Sorry, Rangers. Now the devil's going to miss this year. So I love it. This is good for the sport. People hate these divisional playoffs sometimes, but it gives you the regional rivals in the playoffs more often. Awesome.

An Australian guy tried to figure out how hockey was invented, Rhett, and he did a little skit. I think he'll enjoy this. Machete boots, Jason. What? A new game with machete boots, Jason. I see. You're talking about ice skating.

I love ice skating, it's so elegant. Ice rugby. Sorry, what? You happy, Jason. Really? Well, where do they play this game? In an ice cage. A cage?

Yes, Jason. Like an icy coliseum. The Coliseum, right. Like where people used to fight lions. Exactly that, Jason. Ooh, and put a cute little soccer goal at each end. Okay. Make it be six players on each team, Jason. Five skaters and a goalie. Right, okay. And do they play with a ball?

No, Jason. What are you stupid? They whack a urinal cake around with a stick. What? A urinal cake from the men's urinal? Yeah, but make it black, Jason, so we can see it on the ice. Right, yeah, because that was the only problem with that. You said they whack it? Yeah, they whack it. With a stick?

Not a stick, Jason. An upside-down wizard staff. Of course, yeah, one of those. How long does this game go for? Because every single game in the world is either in halves or in quarters. Three periods, Jason. Three, no, no, no. Jason, the skaters score a goal by one.

whacking the urinal cake into the goal. Just call the black urinal cake something, please. Call it a fuck. A what? Ah, fuck. What? No, what? Why? Jason, when people hit it, it can fly at 170 kilometers an hour. And when it whizzes past you, you go, oh, f***.

170 kilometers. Well, okay, I'll just write down puck here, okay? Puck it is. Fine. Sorry, and you said the goalie has to stop this? Yes, Jason. But make all the players and the goalie wear helmets an armour and a little eye shield.

Oh thank goodness for protection from the puck. Yes Jason, but not the fights. Not the what? The fights. I don't understand. Jason, Jason, Jason. There will be players on each team that aren't very skillful at the game at all.

That defeats the purpose at what? But what they lack in skills they gain in being complete assholes. I don't think I follow. Jason, keep up the assholes and pick fights with the other team. Please tell me there's a referee to stop them. Of course there's a referee, Jason.

Fiu! Who will stand there and judge the fight? Judge it. Yeah. Oh, Jason. Jason, let's make... Why are you laughing? Let's make a full fight procedure.

I think you've had too much to drink. What? Gloves off. Accept the fight? Sir, no. Write this down, Jason. All other players then must leave the ice. And then...

The face punching begins. But you're not allowed to take your helmet off, Jason. Well, if it falls off during the fight, we'll allow it. No, no, sir, if you have a procedure, then it will always be part of the game. Exactly, Jason. But don't worry, after the fight, the referee will dish out a penalty. Finally, some sort of order to the game. They could probably get ejected for that.

No, Jason, it's not soccer. They just have to sit down for five minutes. Five minutes for punching an opponent in the face. When does this end? When one of them hits the ice. No, no, no, not the fight. I meant the entire game. It's the end of the three periods who ever scored the most goals, Jason.

What are you stupid? Of course. Anything else? Yes, Jason. The icy Coliseum cage will be surrounded by panes of glass, which occasionally will be smashed into a million pieces. No one can ever see the puck ever. Ooh, and front teeth. What about front teeth, sir?

The players will have none. No, sir, no. Ah, got to go, Jason, I'm empty. Call it ice hockey. Bye. There you go, Rett. If you ever wondered

about the origins of our favorite sports? I love the Ozzy. I got a little long there, but funny for a while. Well,

they, and what do you do break it down? You're like, oh, yeah. There's a lot of, it's a lot of other sports like it. Tonight, look at the slate.

What do we got? Jack, I'm saying you, the slate. We got the slate? Slate. Slate. Banger or no.

We can play that. game today. Right off the top, that's a banger. You got two playoff bound clubs, Boston and Carolina there. There's a couple other interesting ones. I thought this Penguins Capitals games would be total nonsense here. All of a sudden

it's got playoff ramifications. Jack, your penguins are three points out. Yes, they are. Talk to me. Ovi, Sid, but now playoff implications. This is the game of the year. Everything lays on this game. I think the penguins game of the year. They've turned

around. Like after Frank shit on them, you weren't here. Yeah, Frank just crushed them on. Beat the Rangers pretty easily. And then the Devils game, they're down three, one going into the third, 10 minutes left, Crosby two goals, Malcolm, two goals. Yeah. Ricky Racks, game winner.

I'm calling it. They're going to win tonight. They got to beat the Islanders, the Red Wings as well. And then I think they sneak in. If they went tonight, they're probably close to control in their own destiny, which would be quite something. We'll maybe revisit that in the Betway, Bats of the day later on.

And other contests of note, I don't think St. Louis has got a chance, but if they're going to, they better beat Nashville tonight, one of the two teams in the wild card who suddenly after that 18 game undefeated streak had dropped a pair. Anyway, a couple bangers in there, Rhett. Yeah, there's a few. That one's going to be good that on Pittsburgh. I hate getting on side with it because Jack loves it so. Yeah, I know. I didn't have any feelings towards the Steelers. Now I want them to fail just for the success of the show.

Absolutely. Just to have angry Jack with firing offensive coordinator. into the sun. Tough day in Toronto yesterday. I don't know if you saw this. Oh, geez. The Jay's first team in modern major league history since 1901. That's a while to be no hit and then have a one hitter within the first seven

games of the season. They've been one hit and no hit. Yikes. Not the best start. But on the same day, the Raptors did lose by 48. That's a franchise record. And then the Leafs lost to Tampa for one. So Toronto.

We the North. Wow, 48. It's a lot of points to lose by that. That's really thrown in a towel. S pumped. And they've lost 15 in a row, Jack, 14 in a row? They had a monster losing skit. Hard at me?

They've just been awful. Injuries, reloading, I don't know. I trust Maasai, but this is a lost year. Yeah. Yeah. Our new favorite friend, the Kiwi in Calgary that plays Blackjack. Let's go to Tim. Dot Nacki on Instagram.

He's got another game. Now, Rhett, are you familiar here? You've been in and out this week. No clue about this. So this guy's wandering around Calgary. He's a Kiwi. He's basically posting up in the pub, going skiing, and every day he plays one hand of blackjack.

How much he gambles is 10 cents for every follower on Instagram. At the day 57, going to blackjack, and betting 10 cents for every Instagram follower I've got. And what the fuck is going on? There is an extra 26,000 of you all aboard today. So for the 426,000 total of you in it? We have a $42,600 bet coming right up. Alrighty, day 57, $42,600 bet to do.

It's all going on the nose. Also, we don't get to choose male or female dealer anymore. There's literally only one table where you can bet over $40,000 a hand. So this is what we've got. We see nine, 20, 20 again! 20 again plays a queen! Thank God we didn't go side bets, would have got absolutely toasted. It is an easy stand call.

Just go low, give her 7, 8, 9 job done. please honey it's a push it's a bucket push 57 days it's the old cousin kiss of the Alabama special nothing gained nothing lost so I will see you tomorrow and we will be bidding even more I love this guy I'm gonna say you the link I'm addicted and I've reached out I'm like you got to come on the show and I don't know what the delay is from him recording to putting it up that's clearly not today in Calgary but it absolutely could have been yesterday So I expect tomorrow to see him with snowflakes in the background. Legend.

He went on this Kiwi show and they're like, Hey, mate, what are you doing up in Canada? And he's like, oh, I'm being the biggest pile of shit ever. I just play one game of blackjack drink and go skiing. I'm like, what this guy's my hero. I love the simple life. Oh, simple life. That's what's better than that?

My God, spring skiing. I got a stupid security. security thing coming up on my computer. All right. So that's how we start off the nonsense. Beer League action from Vancouver. Yes. Why would we show a beer league game?

Because idiots are in beer league. Here we go. There's a cross back to the face. And now we're, there's a line. Oh, swinging sticks. Good. Yes. Justin.

Holy shit. Oh. What? Look at the rap. He's just leaning on the boards. Yeah. I'll let these assholes sort it out. Wow.

Now, what do you do in that situation? First of all, I would never play. No. If I happen to be stuck out there and you're with some guys, you kind of know, and then the one idiot starts something, and then this happens, and you're down in the far end. I'm like that guy there walking off, but I'm just going right into the room. I don't know.

I feel like I'm a good teammate, but at the time. These stick swings are vicious. Yeah. Once Beer League starts, I am not sacrificing health and limbs and safety to stick up for my teammates in this event. Yeah, you're not allowed to set

foot on ice surfaces and league play after this, any of you. This is ridiculous. And I honestly think, call me like a whatever, but this has to be low level. Oh, yeah. People that have played any level of hockey understand that that's... Like, look at that guy on the bench, just... Like, on the bench,

swinging your stick. That is such a hard no. Well, look at his jersey. His number's not even real. Oh, and now he's going to walk away. Crazy. Idiotic even. And that also is a preview of what downtown Vancouver will look like should the Canucks losing round one. So just be good. Stay careful. Set your travel plans accordingly. Now, if they win, it's going to be great. So good. They'll be setting shit on fire and looting the bay. But if they lose swinging sticks at strangers, got it? Very stabby. Remember Little League World Series Big Al who liked to hit Diggers? Oh, yeah.

He's still around. Alfred Dalia, at home, they call me Big Al, and I hit Dangers. Hi, mine is Alfred Dalia. At home, they call me Big Out, and I hit Dangers. Big Al's leading out. What a beauty. Hi, my name is Alfred Dalia. At home, they call me Big Al, and I hit Dangers.

Hi, mine is Alfred Dalia. At home, they call me Big Out, and I hit Dangers. Big Al's looking good. I'm proud of Big Al. I'll smash. Still playing. Love it. Yes.

Yes. This one is labeled C-T-E-S-P-N, which means there's probably a head injury here. Let's have a look. Where are we? What are we? Okay, we're in Pennsylvania.

I don't know what this machine is, Brett. Maybe that's how you separate animals in a pasture. It's at full speed here, and he's going to race it around. Oh. Look. Yeah, let's get free stream there. Oh dear.

That's a quick recoil of the head off that pole. Donk. Now, you love AI. Don't need school. You just need AI, right? Got it all. I know everything. Somebody asked AI to play out the,

who are these? Jake Paul and Mike Tyson. Mike Tyson and Jake Paul got a fight coming out. So this is the AI Sim. Here we go. It kind of looks like Jake Paul. Yeah. No, his brother's Logan.

He's in the WWE now. Yeah, these guys are shameless self-promoters. And there's that Mike looking young there. It looks like young Mike Tyson, right? If it's young Mike, this thing's over. Yeah, you don't want to mess with that guy. If it's 50-something-year-old Mike, I think you might have a chance. But who's to say?

So we'll see how long this one goes here. Oh, see you. Good night. That's what we all want to see happen, right? Yes, please. Right? Please. Please.

We love ladders on the Pinda Report. And we also love bouncy castles and we love parties. Luckily, this one clip. Has it all. Is that Scrolux? Amazing. And this guy's hamming it up. Look, he's like, check this out.

Wee. Oh, no. Oh. You ham it up on the top of a two-story ladder. That's what you get. Had to try to swing it and be the cool guy. He asked for it. buddy. Dumbass.

Yes. We found you that guy up in the northern territory in Australia that has the crocodile rescue. Matt, I want to say. And we found you a gal in Florida. She is all about crazy wildlife as well. I like her better already. You've heard a valve on a shelf. Now I give you Cayman and a cave.

While exploring a waterfall, we came across a small cave off to the side. That's right. We found a small caiman. Oh, cute. A little cayman. and it appears he has been eating the baths in the cave. Kamen's eating the bats. Awesome.

Circle of life, Rhett. Yeah. She also likes playing with the spiders and such. I know someone that I live with that would never be, well, they would be dead if they were in that cave because they would die of. Just fainting and then they came in and would eat you? What about the spider on them though?

No, there we go. That's hell from the shoveler right there. She would, this is the level she would be eliminated on, what was that old Joe Rogan show Fear Factor? Actually, yeah. She wouldn't go anywhere near that. That would be hell for her. Yeah, no, where is it?

Oh, it's on your neck. Perfect. Yeah, good. Awesome. Sweet. Then you should get it off your neck. That is a good place to have it off your neck, indeed. Finally, there was a bit of a dust up at the old community pool, and one guy went full Spider-Man mode and just beat the tar out of everyone. It's good stuff.

I got a bit of a kerfuffle here, Red. I don't know. Oh, there's one. Oh, my God. There's another. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. People coming in to help and others stand the back. They're like, cool. I only thought this was in the movies, right? Where are you, a guy could beat up like seven dudes.

Like, okay, well, now they got, well, maybe not. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I guess if you get into that spot, you better keep punching. Don't stop swinging. It's going to hit somebody when you're surrounded like that. Just keep swinging, you'll hit someone. Like a young Rett Warner and a Saskatoon bar.

Beautiful stuff. Big wind. Now I could strut around like a big peacock. Is that you actually at the hotel in Florida? Or was that young Rett in Miami? Wonder. I feel like your shoulders now. I wouldn't advise that behavior for you.

No. I got pushed yesterday by my kid and I nearly fainted. weak, very weak. Not unlike Matt Rempay. You understood the risks. You got it all. You made the trade. I'll probably do it again.

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Yeah. There's some fancy go-kart Grand Prix kind of racing things that you're thinking of doing. And then maybe my kid's favorite restaurant on the intercoastal. We're going to go to shooters and sit on the patio and watch the boats go back. Shooters. Now that sounds like an adult place.

But in Florida, are they allowed kids to drink or what do they do? Lots of kids. Everyone's going to have a shot. We went to Hooters already. So now we're going to upgrade. We're going to go. It's the cultural experience of a lifetime.

We could have taken you to Rome to see the Coliseum, but we went to Florida to see Hooters. Yeah. My youngest kid's like, what's Hooters, Dad? Well, keep your eyes peeled. son. Let's go check it out. I don't know. I don't know.

I don't know, son. Let's go check it out. I have questions as well. Let's explore. The original Hooters, I think, is in Clearwater, Florida. Yeah. Which is only about a 10 minute cab ride from Dunedin where I was fortunate enough to cover spring training for a few years.

And they still talk about David Wells. And spring training is very easy. You get in early. You get your work and get a sweat. Maybe you throw. Maybe you don't. If you play, it's two or three innings. You're gone.

They would have a huge pitcher filled with ice and beers ready for David Wells at noon every day at that Hooters. There you go, Mr. Wells. Lovely to see you. I believe that might have been the season. He threw a no hitter while hungover. Athlete. One of us. One of us.

One of us. Oh, you're an athlete. You can't go to work hungover. Not David Wells. Hero. Speaking of those go carts, I wonder if that. Go-car Place is a part of the Cal Tire Program they've got going now. Whether you're an owner-operator, I have a small fleet of trucks.

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going to that restaurant, we're going to have to have some sushi because that's what they love. What I was going to say is that you screwed me up yesterday. What was going on in Miami last night? Did the Panthers play last night? That soccer player. Oh, was Messi going? There were busfuls of people and were like, what's this all about? and I'm like, must be a soccer game.

Oh, my God. I didn't even go. Did he play? Because I heard he's been, uh, picking a spot. He did or didn't? I don't think he did. Yeah, so don't worry about it. Yeah.

Okay. But I was, at first I was upset. I'm like, no, we could have went there. How could you? What are we doing? Yeah. Anyway, sorry. No, you're good.

Uh, so can you order a door to the beach there? That'd be a move, wouldn't it? If I could, I would order Lasadas, and I should look it up because these subs are, like this big. There's massive. Like two feet. So good. It's just too far to walk.

But if I could door dash it, I might look it up right now. Love it. Okay. That's the move for you. If you do end up needing a little shade or the sun goes down, you want some sports. Boston Carolina, five o'clock puck drop. Penguins and Capitals,

Jack's going to be living and die in on every shift. Ovi and Sid with a playoff spot, very much swinging. in the balance. That's a 5 o'clock start and St. Louis Nashville at 6. Toronto Blue Jays, I'm guaranteeing no loss today. They're off. They start a four-game set in the Bronx tomorrow. I don't like how this is going. They're one game under 500. I know it's been miserable, but they're one game under 500. They really are just that. It's a tough, tough march. They're missing some players. If they can,

April, I should say, if they can get through April, near 500, I'm calling it a win. I, I, I don't know that that's going to happen, though. It was a miserable offseason. Sorry, I'm distracted by this. The sub. Tell me more. So how did you find out about them? Are they everywhere in Florida?

Is there just one? Yeah, when I first got down here, I was looking for a place to live. The realtor I was using goes, you got to try these subs. I had one. And Terry Karkner and I were addicted to it after that. We lived together and we would go twice, three times a week. They were phenomenal. Lasadas.

Hogi. Hogi. Yeah. So are they so big that you would cut them sideways and eat like a cross section rather than longwise? Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Okay.

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We'll get to you later. Calvary FC. I know it's snowing. We are not far from soccer season. Next week they're going to start their season against Stink and Forge. That means home games are coming up closer to the end of the month. There's also another tournament they're in the Canadian championship.

They could see them line up against an MLS side. So stay tuned for that. But right now, we go to our Betway bets. Betway! Grab the app. Go get it on your phone. Bet the responsible way with Betway. I am focusing in on the Jets and the Flames tonight. You know what happens when former flames play the flames. Rets, we don't have to go through this. Sean Monaghan scored twice when this first game with the Jets against Calgary. He's got him again tonight. I'm going to jump on the plus 225 anytime goal. If you really want to get saucy, I think you're looking over a thousand plus 1,000 for the first goal of the game for Monaghan. Whatever you want to do there, I'm just. just going to jump on a Monahan goal. Maybe you want to put Defoli in there. Um, up to you. Monaghan's playing with Connor

and Perfetti. So there's some offensive weapon we're around them. They're going to load them in the ozone. And of course, power play monster as always. I also like Winnipeg minus one and a half. Sorry, flames. It's just you're at. Two and a half NHL defenseman right now. That's where you're at. Is what it is.

And you're going to get a better player if you lose tonight. I'm okay with Winnipeg minus one and a half. Jack, tell us what you got for Pittsburgh. You've got to be putting some dough down on the Penguino. I don't have a graphic, but I found a very nice pre-built bet here. Penguins to win. Yeah.

Crosby to score. Ovi to score. So a nice fun game. Stars show up. They both get the goals. Penguins win. Everyone goes home happy. What's the total number on that guy?

Plus 1,000. Oh, 10 to 1, Jackie. I love it. Oh, man. Plus 1,000. I might have to dance on that. That's a pre-built. I like that's a pre-built.

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We've got a guest wheeling into studio now, and we have to say hello to Sergio Camargo of Cavalry FC. Sergio, thanks for being here, man. Thanks for inviting me. 99 games in Cavalry Silks. This is an exciting milestone coming up. I don't know that people are aware that this is now a year. six of the CPL.

We kind of lost a season and a half with COVID. But take us back to your first game in Calgary, representing Calvary FC. First game was actually a lot like it is outside right now. That's right. Against York, we weren't expecting it, but the second half,

there was a snowfall. And we came out to one victors, and I'll always remember that moment. I think that was the moment that I realized Calgary has something in terms of a fan base and the interest in soccer. So that's kind of where my, I guess love started for the city.

Amazing. Five seasons in the books for Calvary FC, in the recent, I guess, a couple months, you've got to have a pair of games against an MLS side, and I think a pretty good one in Orlando City, who were second in the table last year in MLS. That was Conquit Calf Champions Play. What was that experience like?

And what does that do for this group heading into a month and change later, a Canadian championship tournament and your regular season? The experience was awesome. Orlando were amazing hosts and just fierce competitors. These guys really showed us what it means to fight for every inch of the ball, every inch of space. And you could just see, we could feel at times that we were playing with them, and that gave us confidence.

You could also see what they did differently that got them to the MLS and got them to that next level. And I think those two games that we had, one in Victoria, sadly, and then one in Orlando, gave us just so much confidence that we could bring that level of competitiveness to whatever game we play in the CPL or in Canada Cup. Yep. And I think we're going to be so much better off for it. Watching those two games, it was inspiring in some ways to see you hanging with Orlando. And then at the same time, it was like, when they got a chance, they were ruthless.

And that seemed to me to be like, okay, now their season probably, their training got started a little sooner than you guys, but they just didn't mess around. When there was a play to be made, they made it. I was quite impressed with their finishing. Exactly. There was no hesitancy. They knew what they wanted to do and they did it within five seconds. Yeah.

And that's this type of reps that we need to raise the level of the CPL. So you were in MLS before coming to Calvary FC, you were in the Toronto FC organization. How have you seen MLS grow in five years? And I guess similarly, what have you seen from the growth from the CPL in five years, this being your number six year, about? begin a bit different because when i started following the mLS they were already in a stage that we're we're still not at yeah uh and and in the last five years they've begun well not really five years where whenever beckham started coming that's yeah big got only galaxy yeah shooting up sky

sky words uh in in in amount of talent amount of investment that they put into their players um we're seeing that here little by little um but i do think we're miles ahead of where the mLS was six years into their season. So I think they started in the 90s. And I think we are the same, if not better. Yeah. And look, it's very different things. Everyone says, oh, does Calvary have a chance to go to MLS?

Okay. MLS is USA's Tier 1 league. And the CPL is Canada's Tier 1 league. And there's three exceptions to the rule. There are MLS franchises in Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver. You got the chance to play Orlando in the Conquitaph Champions League, which was, I think, a great experience, as you noted, despite the results. But you also have a stab at some MLMLS clubs potentially as soon as early May.

The regular season will start next weekend, next Saturday in Hamilton against Stink and Forge, your bitter rivals. Right back to it. And then Athletico on the road the following week, who apparently have loaded up had a really good offseason in Ottawa. And then you get into your Canadian championship tournament where you will face second year club Vancouver FC. should you get past them, and that shouldn't be, I guess, an assumption, you would then line up for another MLS contest with the white caps being in the Canadian championship bracket. Would that not be fun?

Because I know year one, you talked about the snowfall and first game ever. There was also an historic victory over the white caps in a two-leg matchup where you guys, I thought, just really sold the vision of the CPL in the sense that, yes, you can hang with these other leagues. This is not a joke. We're here to play. You embarrassed an MLS club because you guys outclass them, I thought, in about 180 minutes. That's got to be an exciting carrot.

But again, we can't look past the earlier opponents in the tournament. Yeah, exactly. I mean, you set it up perfect and you got me excited for this next month. But that goes to show, like, how much, how far we've come, where there's no easy game in the near future. Yeah. For our club. We get Forge, Ottawa, who are, like you said, stacked. and Vancouver, who have made a bunch of different signings this season that you could say they are contenders now for a playoff spot.

But this is what we want. We want every game to be hard. We want to be able to deserve the championship instead of like the first year where it was just forging us. Yeah, you guys are way ahead early. Exactly, yeah. But like you said, we can't look past Vancouver. It would be incredible to be able to face the white caps in a home and a way. way and I think we're coming off a confident camp that we just had in Mexico that gave us even

more a feeling of possibility of success this year because we haven't turned over much. Yeah, it's true. You return a lot of your core. Yeah, we have a strong core from last year and the pieces that we brought in have just made us stronger. Exciting stuff. On the road to start Canadian Championship. Then you start the home side of the regular season on the 28th but the there's lots in there and you talk about it i mean pacifics won the league athletico might be the most improved club forge is always uh in there for some sort of hardware and a canadian tournament your first five six matches could be huge looking forward to seeing everyone out there at echo field uh what what was your experience of the city of calgary

before you came here i guess almost six years ago there was no experience what what was what was what was the oh calgary like we were people on horses with cowboy heads like where were you thinking about the Toronto. Exactly. There was never thought of my mind about Calgary. Yeah. No, seriously, I, besides the flames being a hockey organization out in the west that I had never been to.

Yeah. I never once thought about Calgary and I hate to say it. But now I tell all my friends, like, you guys got to come out here, man. Like, it is insane. I got, I got a bunch of buddies buying real estate here because they want to come over and because they're getting sick of Toronto. I'm like, yeah, you guys are making the right move. It's an amazing city.

another conversion Toronto to Calgary Stampede doesn't hurt either that's right hey have a great season thanks for coming in and a huge congratulations 100 games you're going to hit here

mid-month that's that's impressive I don't know when you set foot out here to this wild west that you thought six years later you'd be hitting triple digits in games yeah it wasn't always a sure thing there's been a lot of setbacks but you think I should retire and just stay as Mr. 99

hell no 99's for hockey You go make a bigger one for soccer, man. That's true. Awesome, man. Thanks for being here, Sergio. Of course. Thank you. There is a look at the first half of the CPL schedule from this month. Yes, this snowy month of April, loll, all the way through till July. There will be obviously more beyond that.

But there it is. That's what you need to know. Home opener coming up. A couple on the road to start. Canadian Championship, not far away. And again, potentially the white caps at Akko Field, if they can get past Vancouver. F.C. Okay, final note before we close the show, friends,

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