Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - Recap Of Oilers/Flames + Frank Seravalli Joins The Show | FN Barn Burner - April 8th 2024

Episode Date: April 8, 2024

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Oh, my goodness. First solar eclipse to pass through North America in seven years, and the next one will not be seen from the contiguous U.S. until August 23rd, 2044, according to NASA. According to NASA, happy eclipse day, Rhett. It's the contiguous. Deciduous? Coniferous? Oh, I like coniferous.

Amphibious? Mepidxtrous. No, it throws me off. Don't like lefties. look who's back in Buffalo look who's back doesn't like lefties still back from his vacation feeling great

I don't know if I'm feeling great I've got a rib out my back I've got an ear I can't hear out of the rib sucks because it's just it's kind of this lingering pain that's it doesn't go away till it's gone and then the ear thing it's just like half your heads in a fish tank it doesn't feel right

yeah it's great just a little bit off doesn't hurt you. And if that didn't make matters more difficult, you've already got to deal with clouds, potentially ruining Eclipse Day in Western New York. Let's have a look. Let's go live to the RET cam. Ooh, it looks overcast-ish. Yesterday, when we got back Saturday, clearest of blue skies. Yesterday, stunning blue skies. Yeah.

Today, typical buffalo. gray gray gray gray gray uh you know how you know America is is the entrepreneur's country you want to make some dough you got to find a trend jump on it people are making t-shirts they're excited about this I'm sure people are selling these eclipse sunglasses they're probably not even real eclipse sunglasses they're just you know hotels are filled up restaurants are backed up eclipse special uh the craze the fever has caught you I'm sure I actually should get my, hang on, I could get my glasses on maybe.

Do you have an eclipse glass? Do you have glasses for the eclipse? Yeah, glasses. Hang on, I'll text someone. Yeah. Because someone made a T-shirt, Jack. I don't know if, uh, because Buffalo's got a longstanding history of,

oh shit. Wide right. No goal. Cloudy Eclipse. Why can't we have nice things? I honestly thought it this morning. I'm, because of yesterday and the day before, I'm like, well, this is,

this is Buffalo. We're not allowed to win. Yeah. Have everything lined up? Very unique spot on the, on the map. Mm-hmm. At the whole, the three and a half minutes of blacked out. Oh, yeah.

Well, hmm. It's not a doubt. Not at them. But the good news is if you're running a restaurant or hotel, the people will still be there in Buffalo. They're just not going to have anything to look at. And the other good news for me,

personally, I really don't give a shit. Yes. You have not, there's many things where you have been, you've caught the fever. This is not one. I don't get the sense. You would have been happy to stay in Florida and miss this, I think. I believe, uh, I've, yeah, it's, it, although I was thinking when I was down in Florida and had a few drinks that I should get an eclipse tattoo. Oh, really? Just a black circle. I was, wonder what that would look like. I would not be great. How good would How big do you want it to be? Is it a period? Is it a planet?

People would be like, what in the F is that? You mean? We're like, well, I did live in Buffalo and the Eclips. How was it? I was in Florida vacationing. I got this tattoo in honor of it. How's the family? The boys enjoyed the ocean.

Everyone survived the crocodiles and snakes of Florida. You know what? I was going to have the conversation off air, but. Yeah. Here we are. I'm going south. return to north. You're going back.

How long? No, like, I'm going to buy a house there and just move. You're moving. Are you bringing your wife and children with you? I don't care. Yeah, okay. That's irrelevant. The day we left Saturday. To you, it might be irrelevant. I think to them it's quite relevant. We baby these people for too long. They've got to figure shit out for themselves here. You know what? When things get quiet

and the hockey of the sports slow down. I think we've got to have some, I don't know what to call it, but like life instruction programming that we can provide for people out there. We're babying these. Figure it out. So I explain to me how you moving south

will curb this babying of your wife and children. It might not curb their babying, but if they don't come along, they're going to have to deal with some stuff. They don't come along. If I get a one-bedroom apartment. Yeah, this is my place, guys. Didn't you?

I know a real estate agent, if you like, that could help. If I know when you were coming, we could have got to, we could have asked for a deal. I got a two or a three, even a four-bedroom home. Yeah. So are you going to Fort Lauderdale? Where are you going? And you know what else? No, Fort Lauderdale's too busy.

I want to go somewhere. We're going to have a fire on the beach. Okay. And where is that? I don't know yet, but we'll find it. I can find it. Did you get to the, the way I'll deal with the children,

just shuffle them off to those boarding schools. There's all kinds. Oh, there's there's America. All kinds of boarding schools. They go home for a week at a time. It's like that easy. And if only your kids had an athletic endeavor of sorts, then you could enroll them in that sort of curriculum

and play that sport at said boarding school. Listen, kids, off you go. Pickleball? It's huge. Go play. It's huge. Pickleball scullies just falling out of the sky like eclipses. My girl, Jeannie won some pickleball event. Really? Is she playing pickleball? I'm in love again. That's amazing.

Yes. Ah, Jeannie. The one that got away, Rhett, I really didn't think about my life. I can't believe it happened. How was your weekend, Pender? Did you do anything? Skied on Saturday. It was very nice. Spring skiing has been awesome.

It's a shitty skier for most people because they don't realize spring is the best. Don't ski when it's cold and dark. Ski when it's warm and there's lots of snow and it's beautiful and there's long, sunny days and the roads are dry the whole way. Come on. You go to Florida when it's cold and dark and snowy. At sea, now you're talking. Yes. For spring.

Love it. It was good. We had not skied all year until Easter weekend. We've now skied three of the last eight days. Perfect. Yeah. A couple more. We've hit the quota.

Keep it up. Flames and Oilers did play a game on the week. I'm told it was on. I thought it was entertaining. Watching. They worked hard and the Oilers did what you thought they'd do, which is one by two. And for the Calgary Flames, that's probably just perfect. Work hard.

Try a kid at Center Rice. Improve your trash talk. The fans were happy. Half of them were from Edmonton, but they were happy. The Edmonton fans certainly were happy. I saw someone in the comments earlier saying they were getting chirp, at the game because they're in a Genla jersey. That's inappropriate.

Respect your elders. That sounds a lot. You should have called Iggy to come down to tune that guy in. Yeah. We need some McGee around here. I had some nephews at the game. One in an Oilers jersey. One in a flames jersey.

Got a t-shirt from Harvey was absolutely ecstatic. Hell of a time. I'm okay with Harve. I don't know about this nephew of yours wearing oilers sulk. He's a weird kid. He's not going to succeed in life. Dropped as a child. What happens?

Yeah. He's the first child, trying to get attention, right? Yeah, yeah, I guess that's right. Let's get to our opening thoughts. It is for McLeod Law. Shaming. What's saying?

Thoughts. Do I keep saying thoughts? Yes. What the hell's going on? I don't know. I crack a beer here. Be lawyerly. All right, then.

If you're going to. Late in the day, I saw, mess up the rates. If you're going to. Oh, look, it arrived. Oh, I could arrive. Jack. Oh, if everybody's doing it.

Oh, my God. They travel well. Look at that. Actually, this one might not have traveled. Actually, that one's a little dinged up, yeah. I'm going to blame you, not the origin folks of that. Or your neighbor, Rob Ray was just elbow dropping those when you were in Florida. Yeah.

Let's get back to our opening statements from McLeod Law. Shane King's a partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group. They specialize in areas like employee rights. You've been laid off or terminated. It's not easy. In fact, that can be very hard. Shane can review your situation and make sure you've been treated fairly and as the law requires using a practical approach and plain language. No legal mumbo-jumbo.

It was the final battle of Alberta. They wore Blasty. It was the first battle of Alberta. They did not wear the outdoor jerseys. Connor's area was at center. They have some dinged-up demon. What else can I tell you? Andrew Manjipani still were waiting.

It's not there yet. And Jacob Markstrom finally played against the Oilers. It's been a long time. The Oilers fans said they've been hiding him. But judging from how he played, there's no need to hide Jacob Markstrom for the Oilers. He was quite good on Saturday. Jacob could play in the NHL. I think it's, yeah.

Go ahead. Yeah, I think last year he wasn't very good at hockey. And in that series, the whole team was dog shit. But the Oilers did indeed not break Jacob Markstrom, contrary to popular opinion. or they would have had more than three goals past him on the numerous scoring chances they amassed on the night. Let's actually get to my real statement about the loss to the Oilers on the weekend. Let's bring up our new favorite bookmarked website, Rhett.

Tankathon draft lottery simulator. And let's go for a spin and click the Sim Lottery button. We're sim lottery. We're going to see a bunch of logos spin around. I'm thinking ducks just got Celebrini. Flames stay at 8. Okay. Let's try it again, Jack.

You don't need to reset. You just press the simulator again, but that's fine. I think, at least. Oh, look at that. What the hell. Look at that. That's brutal, and the flames drop one to ninth. Jack, you can't end on that note.

Get out of here. Montreal. Is Chicago? Flames stay at 8. That's three spins. I mean, we could... It's a fun game. Yeah, is it...

It's funer when the flames move up into the top two. One more. One more. All right, sure. Come on, Flames. Ah, Ottawa. Boo. Yuck.

Let's go back to that. What do you've been shopping for on the old work computer here, Jack? Let's look at the, look at the ads that have been custom built. Go put it back up. Put it back up. What are you doing? Look at this. Oh, a little knightie for Jack.

Wow. Holy. Is that a teddy? What do we call that? Hey, look, Jack sometimes he's busy. He's got to get some stuff forward to the house before he leaves home. Whatever you need to do, buddy. You feel free to use our internet. It's a flat rate. We're not going to bill you extra for doing your shopping, okay?

By the way, if you have any photos to compare, I'd like to see, okay, this is what they said it looked like on the website. And this is what actually, you want to make. sure it's consistent. Rhett would like to make sure there's... Yeah, I'll do the visual confirmation, please. There are six games

left, and I'm very excited about where the flames are in the upside down standings. They remain at 8th, but they're suddenly a lot closer to 6th. Arizona's gone on a nice little run. The challenge,

Rhett, is that they've got two San Jose, one Anaheim and a coyote. I'm not intimidated by that at all. How's the record against these teams over the last year. I have two words, horse shit. That's how the record has been

against the worst teams in the league. It's been really, really bad. Don't let us down now, Flames. So they've got one loss against San Jose. They've gone win-win against Arizona. The coyotes they've actually done a number on because they were the Mollett Arena game we were at and then they were back in Calgary

to start that next homestown. They won both of those. They've split with the ducks, but recently just lost to the ducks. And again, the ducks actually pretty decent. They've split with the Kings, who they'll face on 30s. Thursday and they've won the first but lost the last two against the Canucks.

That's the only other game on the schedule. I'm predicting two wins. You go two and four? I think you got a good shot at sixth or seventh overall. You're not going to lose them all. I just can't see that happening, but I think that it's possible that it's maybe just two wins. One would be nice, but I think there's two wins in there.

But I'm going to split with San Jose and then you slip on a banana peel and win one more. There, there, there you go. Oh, look at this. New man on town. Rhett is modeling his eclipse sunglasses. Oh, that's a perfect angle. Look at that. You can't see a damn thing. Yeah, you got a overcast. Not going to be good. Yeah. What, uh, they got the 30 goals for Sharon Govich. Congrats to Igor. That's a full win for Craig Conroy in the to Foley swap, correct? He got a third rounder.

That guy, Igor. Player. He plays the middle. Moving back to the wing. 30, man. That's not nothing. Woo! And then, what, McKenzie Weger still went away from 20.

One away from 20? Coleman? Away from 30. Hubertoe's just absolutely torched the league the second half of the year to get, he's got to maybe catch last year's total of the largest drop in actual history. He was pretty terrible on Saturday night.

Oh, boy. Yeah. Didn't like his game. Actually, maybe I did. You know what? I see where your head's at. He understands that if this team's going to turn things around, they need to get a better player.

Yeah, maybe he's the most committed to this process. He's got the longest, he's the leader with the most dough in this. He's got the most skin in the game. really does he's here the longest he knows how to what he needs he and weger here for the next seven years no one else in the organization has that kind of job security that's right no one else is that committed that's right that's why he was so horsh shit the first half of the year first two months brutal figure it out he knew he knew it was two months three months he had one point in december holy five

oh i thought the effort was fine again it's been totally fine yeah and look i i think everyone has this fear about a team and losing culture and the stretch and meaningless games and a team that's not going to make the playoffs, they've worked hard. Ryan Huska again deserves another feather in his cap, which now has many feathers in it for all his achievements this year. They've worked hard. They have not laid many eggs this season. There's been one or two against Chicago, one against San Jose, didn't love Anaheim last week, but generally speaking, they've come to work every night. And that was not something we could say about this club last year at all. No, last year was the exact opposite.

It was like, did you show up and try? Because if you did, you might make it. But this year, effort's good. It was actually, I thought the game was entertaining. I've got no issues with the game. Some of your key guys are playing well. Like how Sharon Govich is going. I mean, Uyghurs getting chances.

There's, yeah. Pospicil is going to pospicell. Pospicel. No, it was nice to see. we kept waiting and then there was no announcement. You're like, yeah, okay. So point of impact, clean hit, looked worse than it was. Yeah.

Yeah. Good. Those are our opening statements for McLeod Law. You know Peter Klein at McLeod Law is the personal injury guy, but he also is the go-to guy in Calgary for your disability insurance claim. If your long-term disability insurance company is refusing to pay insurance benefits to you, get Peter. He'll get you the disability benefits.

that you've paid for and deserve, never mind that peace of mind you'll get back, the peace of mind you paid for. Calgary people, community-oriented McLeod Law. Find out more at macloudashlaw.com or on social media at McLeod Law, LLP. Okay. We've got Frank joining us in about three minutes, but before we do that, let's hit up the old Wendy's Daily. face off survivor pool.

As you know, Monday, it's a brand new week and another chance to win prizes and points on the Wendy's app, et cetera. Monday, Jack's going to pull it up. We're going to take a look at what we got for choices. Only two games in the NHL tonight. Can we ambiggin that?

That's a word. I'm bigging. I've just decided that is. Thank you for making it. So we've got Vegas in Vancouver tonight. They're a little dinged up. Questions in net. Logan Thompson got her to practice.

Aiden Hill ain't right. Pinguino, massive game. Jack, I'm sorry. We've almost got to half pass. We haven't mentioned the Penguins game tonight. In Toronto, huge game for the Penguins, who I don't know if you saw it on Saturday, right, your travel day. We're up 4-1 on Tampa.

Jack is texting me like crazy. Wagon, Cup season, Sullivan back to Earth. They've taken them back from the sun. Very excited. They blew that 401 lead. Jack's losing his mind. and then they ended up netting the game winner with like seven minutes left in the third.

They win 5-4 over Tampa. Poor Jack's on the roller coaster here. When I got landed, I saw that they were up. I'm like, ooh, Jack's going to be excited. Then I got home and saw how close it was. I didn't, I watched some of the highlights. I'm happy. I'm with Jack.

I love Jared to Jackson. Honestly, if we have to pick one of those five dopey teams, or two of them, in fact, to get in. Pittsburgh, for sure. Everyone wants to see Sid get in one more time with this group. or at least back in. They missed last year by, well, can't say that. They missed by a very small amount last year.

They lost to Chicago in the last year. They missed by a loss to Chicago in the last year. Gross. Gross. So you just have to pick one of these events to be correct. And then you'll survive to get to Tuesday where you have another selection of items. I don't mind the Vancouver win tonight.

Vegas ain't quite right, not playing well. Injuries and net. So I might lean that way. today there's some other options in there as well, including the Crosby half goal. Jack, give us your Pittsburgh synopsis. How are the vibes? How was Saturday's experience? Well, Saturday was a roller coach, like you said, 4-1, and then I almost flew to Pittsburgh

at egged Mike Sullivan's house. I was so freaking mad. And then they pull it out. So all year they've lost those types of games, too, where they've been winning. You saw it here in Calgary, and then they just blow it and they lose. The season's over. but they come through. I'm feeling good tonight.

It's a must win against Toronto. Crosby over half a goal. Big stage. Love. Oh, he's locking it in. Click continue. Lock it in. The only thing sweeter than the taste of victory is starting your day with the new Cinebond pull apart from Wendy's, but there's no reason you can't have both.

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Top right corner. Wendy's Daily Survivor pool for more information there. How many people have you got at your house? Like you've rented out some rooms for the eclipse here. Your kids are selling lemonade and hamburgers on the streets. It's just the enthusiasm for the eclipse has upon awakening has plummeted greatly. It's petering out. And, wow, I don't know.

I drove around this morning. I guess it's nowhere close to, I wonder what the highways are like. It is apparently a big deal, as you said, but I don't know. It's going to be. Are people just needing things to get excited about or do we have this many like closeted astronomy nerds out there? Like, that really always loved stars and eclipses and planetary, this and that? I can't, like, let's be honest. If this was happening over Tokyo, Japan,

I'm not traveling to check it out. No, you're not. The fact that it's here, it's like, oh, I guess cool to see. Never in my life will I, that was my only upside was that I happened to be a location that was supposed to have a cool, and yet we won't see it at all. It would kind of be like if WrestleMania came to your city, and then that way you get caught up in it potentially, which we're expecting for our pal Frank's going to join us at any moment here.

We'll get an update from him. All right. So you're heading back south. This is a long term, medium term or short term thing. Oh, let's see forever thing because that's how I live, right? That is correct. Yeah.

But decisions and I don't make short term. Because you've also told us you're coming home at some point here, right? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Like, you know, we've got. The playoff draft is a week from Friday. I'm going to be there. Okay.

So Red is going to be back for the playoff draft, Jack, which is important. There's a few teams remaining. We are less than two weeks out. The regular season ends on Thursday, the 18th of April. On Friday the 19th, you can join us at the Grey Eagle Resort and Casino for the second annual Barnburner playoff draft. You know, with the real draft with the big tables and everyone comes to the podium and makes the selection. Same thing will happen on Friday the 19th.

We're going to open the doors at six, have a few cleansing ails to make sure that our minds are nimble or at and ready to select the best playoff players for your respective teams. Tables of eight are $1,500 and you'll get a tax receipt from the great folks at KidSport, Calgary. If you want to attend email Eden at Kidsportcalgory.ca, to register your team. It was an absolute banger of a game of an event, excuse me, last year. In fact, it was early in Jack's tenure here. and I remember him being absolutely dialed up at the Grey Eagle. He was loving life.

He had two or three drinks in each hand. It was quite impressive work. If Crosby doesn't go first, he'd be chucking drinks at whoever. That's right. Yeah. They can't get this close and knock it in. Can they?

Like, it would be disappointing. It would be disappointing for various reasons because, like, who else? Like, there's no one else that has any panash about getting in. No, I'm kind of curious. about like cane and de Brinket in Detroit, but not anywhere near these penguins that we thought were dead

that played the very wonderful guest for the retirement night and blew a lead in the third period here for Iggy Jersey night. But they're the most exciting team that we have left in the east that could potentially get in there. And yes, Jack will be lobbying for Crosby to go first overall at the Barber to playoff draft. On the 19th of April, again, at the Griego Resort and Casino,

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You can learn more at tellus.com slash gives back. It is the insider hotline and there is Frank Sarah Valley from Philadelphia. Always sunny in Philadelphia, but is it eclipsing today in Philadelphia?

We're not getting the whole thing. We're getting 80% or whatever that means. It's cloudy in Buffalo today though, no? Mm-hmm. Can we show Frank the T-shirt? Because I thought the T-shirt was funny. He'll like this. Like Buffalo just can't have

nice things, right? We know this. And so, of course, Rett's been telling us for weeks that hotels are sold out. You know, Buffalo's going to double in size. And right on Q, you can't have nice things, Buffalo. 100%. This is fact. And it was absolutely crystal clear blue skies yesterday, Frankie Boy. Just wonderful weather, exquisite weather. And you wake up today and you know you're in Buffalo.

Well, just like the Sabres. Can't see the, Can't see the sun. Now, the good news for the Sabres is that they will remain in Buffalo. Seeing your Twitter feed earlier today, I'm not sure we can say the same thing about the coyotes. And this is going to say, I've been saying that forever. I know. The coyotes fans all shit on me saying I have it out for the team and I'm not accurate or honest or whatever.

Like I have some agenda to try and strip the area. I can't believe you're trying to get them out of there, Frank. What's wrong? Like I have that power. like it would be unbelievable if I did. I'm just telling you what's happening behind the scenes and I've been telling you forever. Yeah. And you don't listen.

Hmm. Well, Frank, here's the thing. Sports fans are many things, but first and foremost, they're very logical. And they like to just observe and very, very patiently roll through information and make educated decisions. They wouldn't just, you know, yell things and be emotional and irrational, especially coyotes fans. I'll give you another example. I did our Vancouver neighbor shows, Saccharis and Price on Friday.

And we were talking about my Norris Trophy vote. And I just said, look, these have been two amazing seasons from Hughes and McCar. I'm torn. And I got some guy tweeting me yesterday repeatedly, if you're not voting for Quinn, you shouldn't have a vote. And it's just like, dude, it's really,

I promise you, it's not that simple. Do you see it as a close race? I see Quinn in the landslide personally. I think McCrace had a good year, but not a great year, and Quinn's had a great year. No, Quinn has had a great year. By McCar's standards, it hasn't been as good as he's previously been, but that doesn't mean that it's not just as good or close to Quinn. Yeah. Have you, I know one of the points in there is that a lot of McCar's Ice Time happens to be when the big lines out there. Yep. And I've, you know, and I did some more work on the defensive metrics and numbers over the weekend. are, you know, quite impressively in Quinn's, you know, favor.

I mean, I'm leaning towards Quinn Hughes at number one, but I'm not, it's not like, this isn't like, hey, I'm filling out my ballot and I don't have to think. Yeah, no, it's not Patrice Bergeron for the sake, right? It's, uh, yeah, and look, that's, that's you being a non-fan. You're being rational and rolling through information and making an informed decision, unlike coyote's fans who, uh, we've see a prospective next owner in the NHL in Salt City today on Twitter saying, hey, if we got an NHL team, what should we name them?

Wake up. I'm just like, honestly, wake up and listen to what I'm telling you. No one that's a prospective owner in the NHL gets a team without kissing the NHL's ring. You have to get on a knee and kiss the ring.

You have to play by Gary Betman's rules. And there is a, I'm telling you, a 0.0.0.0. percent chance that Ryan Smith, I'm not saying he overtly asked for permission, but he 100 percent advised the NHL that he would be putting out a survey today soliciting fans for potential NHL team names in Salt Lake City. Hmm.

Now the next question for our super sleuths is, why would a prospective NHL owner in Salt Lake City do it today? Huh. They're not getting, well, if they are getting an expansion team, they're not playing next season in solid. No, God, no. Yeah. So why on earth would you need to start soliciting names today?

Oh, wait. Is there a team that in Arizona doesn't have an NHL arena to play in? Correct. Correct. Correct. Hmm. Yeah. So then the next super sleuth question, as I hold your hand and walk you through this,

is so the coyotes send out renderings last week and say that they are committed to winning the Arizona state land auction. Yes. Fact. I would say that is 100% true. However, I would say that they're trying to win the land auction best as I can see for a coyote's expansion franchise to play in that arena. Whoa. Okay. So there's the ring to all I have.

Let's piece all that together. Let's smash it up and turn it into a nice, tasty, delicious sandwich for everyone. Yeah. Does that all make sense? I mean, the Phoenix thing makes more sense now. I just don't know why that ownership group would, if they got out of bed with them at the NHL offices,

why they'd want to get back into bed with those guys. Maybe it's under a very specific set of terms. maybe it's if you get an arena built, totally built, and if you present this price to pay us again, and if you, if, if, maybe he doesn't hit all those targets. Yeah, and so I think what's interesting about this whole equation is, I think most people paying attention that are watching this program would say, yeah, there's a really good chance the coyotes end up in Salt Lake City very soon.

How soon can it be is where things, get gray. No, it's not. So is it next year? 100%. Thank you. Okay. So that is where I was going.

And then if they are going to be there next year with a new owner, the, the, the, the, the, why else is he doing it today? I'm with you, Frank. I'm with you. Let me just walk. We're holding hands here. You were, you were walking in the school zone and you got right on the freeway. There's a lot in the middle there.

So, dude, I'm on the short bus. Just, I'm just telling you. Give yourself credit. You're an insider. You break a lot of news. You're very good at what you do. detangling the guys that own this team that are a bit of a problem in Arizona and getting this franchise into the hands of the guy in Salt Lake,

that's tricky for the league. And what you just said to us makes it less tricky. If you say to Alex Morello and his crew, look, we're taking this franchise, we're going to Salt Lake, but we still want you as an owner. Check all these boxes and we'll come back with an expansion team. Now all of a sudden you're not in a legal wrangling trying to get this guy, to sell to the Salt Lake guy.

Am I filling in the blanks appropriately? Not necessarily. That's one way you could potentially do it. Yeah. Another way you could do it would be to purely just have the league purchase the franchise from you. And so then you'd have to agree on a franchise price. Well, all of this is predicated on Alex Maruello not being a combatant.

And how's that been so far? It hadn't been good, but I think there might have been, and I don't know all the details and I'm not at the point yet where I can report anything. But I think it at least appears to me that the people that I'm talking to believe that there may have been a breakthrough. Okay. And so I guess the only thing I'm trying to bridge here is that he's been notoriously difficult to deal with. He still owes money to the city of Glendale. He immediately started renegotiating contracts with vendors when he bought the team.

He doesn't have a lot of goodwill in the community. Trust me. I've heard everything. Didn't send per diem or plan meals for the guys in the bubble in Edmonton. And we know all that shit. But if you dangle an expansion franchise, maybe that allows the league to extract this franchise from him more easily, I guess is where.

Yeah. And he may think that he's got it locked down that he may be getting another franchise. Maybe he is, maybe he isn't. Maybe whatever going back to Arizona is open for anyone to bid on. I have no clue. All I know is I agree with your premise that if the league had its choice, they probably would not be jumping back into bed with this guy.

And they also have a very real problem that's right in front of their face. That is, to your point, we need to get this franchise out of this guy's hands. Yeah. What is our avenue and machination for doing that? And then we'll deal with whatever damage comes from that after the fact. Because that to me is the trickiest part of the whole thing. People saying it's not an NHL ring to get a guy to Phoenix and look, there's a billionaire that wants to buy it.

That's the easy stuff. The heart is like, this guy's going to want a huge value for his franchise, and the league's going to want to go to the Salt Lake billionaire and extract a huge relocation fee. Yeah, and actually there's a bigger problem in between there. You're missing the middle piece, the cheese on this sandwich, which would be that all the NHL's other 29 owners, and I say 29 because Vegas and Seattle and obviously Arizona, they don't get a cut. Right.

they all want some of this relocation money. Totally. That it, they prop, this league propped up that franchise for a long time and invested significant capital throughout bankruptcies to do it. Those owners are like, okay, yeah, now time to pay us back for that.

And in addition to the lack of revenue that that situation has generated. So how do you get him to sell, you back the franchise and then charge Ryan Smith enough in Salt Lake to then the spread in between those two things gets slid to the owners. Yeah. And that's the great riddle. Does it make sense? I'm with you. Totally. And that's that's the, that's the, that's the chess game that Gary's trying to play right now. That's interesting. Okay. I never, saying anything. Have you ever seen a team release renderings and a staunch full-throated commitment to a market and then have the league say nothing?

Yeah, you're right. Have you ever seen Gary Beppin at All-Star? I've never seen him answer a question when asked about his faith in the Arizona franchise. He basically said, I tend to trust people unless given a reason not to.

And that was a really weird way of saying, like, hmm. It was the first time publicly that he'd wavered on his, like, he's been so steadfast in that being a market that they have to stay with. It was the first time publicly you'd seen Gary through all the shit they've been through all the bankruptcies, all the shitty owners, all the different arenas, all the moving around town. That was the first time publicly where you were like, yep, he's done here.

They're backed into a corner because they don't have a viable building. And the rest of the time throughout Glendale, they could have played there. Yep. They can't, they could continue on in Mullet Arena for three more years, but there's so much toxicity there. I don't know why that makes any sense when you could just. move them to a guy who is basically rolling out the red carpet for you, who also happens to be in one of the wealthiest and fastest growing cities in the U.S. Yeah.

Makes sense to me. So, okay, let's play Matchmaker. I'm Gary. You can be Alex. Hey, Alex, I'm going to give you a 600 million U.S. for that franchise. It's way more than that. Well, I mean, this is where it gets tricky, right? Because he wants the relocation fee to split with the owners more than the sale price.

Gary doesn't give a shit about the sale price. No, he has to give a shit about the sale price because if it's public, yeah. You have to get enough money from Meroello in order for him to walk. Right. Okay. So a team that's, that's may or may not be making money is worth $600 million, you're thinking. One billion. And then this is the problem with the franchises in general.

There's no number. There's no. Right. There's no earnings to build a price off of. Yeah. It's, it's, it's the price of joining the club. That's what we're talking about. One billion dollars.

I, I'd be shopping. if that team changes hands without Alex Maruello getting a billion dollars. Fuck. Even with that depressed franchise in that market, with no arena, with, with, I get all of that. Yeah. The question is what can you extract from Ryan Smith on the other end? Right. So maybe it's a $300 million relocation fee and for 1.3 he gets a franchise in Salt Lake.

Maybe I would have to think it's, yeah, it's at least that. Jays. And what was it, 75 for Winnipeg to move? Something like that. It was $150 million relocation? Who. And what was Morello in for here? Like 400?

Something like that? Three something? I think he paid three off the hop. Jeez. But I think he's written some really big checks. I think he's had a significant debt service that he's carried. Yeah. I think.

Well, yeah. There was a report from Forbes last year that they were revenue positive. I think that team has been hemorrhaging cash. Yeah. there's a whole pile of debt there when is a timeline that works for the NHL to get this done because this is obviously they'd love to be working on scheduling now an arena availability and all that shit

and if the team's going to be in Salt Lake or Phoenix and you don't know yet that makes it more difficult I'd be shocked if they are not drafting simultaneous schedules one with them in Arizona one with them in Salt Lake yeah um timeline wise some people are whispering that this announcement is coming as soon as the day after the coyote's last game of the season in Arizona. It makes sense. Could go all the way until May 31st.

What's that year, May 2-4 long weekend for us Memorial Day. That's sort of the drop dead date. And whatever happens after that in June with the land auction is really just a play of whoever wants to get the next NHL expansion. return in Arizona and apparently retaining the name of the team there. So do you believe that that site is the one that the NHL will be happy with? Is it a primo spot? I don't know any of the detail. I know where it's located.

I've heard mixed reviews. Some people say it's perfect. Some people say it's a little bit too far north from Scottsdale. Again, beggars can't be choosers. It's a small parcel of land relatively. five-ish acres and it seems to be at least a praise for a decent enough price at $68.5 million. Some believe that's way under market value. I don't know.

And by the way, can we just have like a quick brainstorm on like what the next Salt Lake team name should be? Yes, Rhett's muted. So let's unmute Rhett. My buddy Pete Blackburn has been calling for the Salt Lake City Soakers. I feel like there's some vague panty references there. We were going so well. Look, boom's not here. I mean, when the cats away, the mice will play.

He'd be right in there. I saw the sun dogs that would carry some of the legacy. I think you'd rather wipe all the legacy away. I'm telling you want no legacy, no colors. You don't ever want to be related to that pile of hot garbage that the coyotes have been. The Grizzlies carried a team name there for a long time in the ECHL and IHL, I believe that's correct. Salt Lake does have a pretty solid

hockey history, never mind the Olympic stuff. You could lean into a lot of different spots for it. What do you think? Soakers, get out of here. There's ice. Utah. I don't know. There's a million things.

Ice is the best thing you could come up with. I know. I'm not. You brought the question up and you had ice in the whole stuff. I really just wanted to talk about panty soakers. That was it. Let's be honest. Rhett?

I don't know. I hadn't spent a lot of time. It's all like booze hounds. What do we call them, eh? No, that wouldn't be it. No, that would be the Buffalo boozehounds. Right. Yeah, my bad. I don't care about the name. I don't. Yeah.

Well, I do. I want it to be lovely. Okay. Cracking. Is this guy just playing, being a smart businessman, going, you can have the franchise and pretending to go down the path of, oh, but I'm going to be in on. on an expansion team as a negotiating tool. That's what I would do.

I don't give a shit if I get another team. I don't know what the guy's worth, but if he's, if he's going to get a billion, a billion plus, even if he's into it and he's care, 600, if he's making a half of 500 million dollars, you're just going, thanks.

I'm not sinking that back into another franchise. League would love that. Enough to deal with this guy anymore? They would be doing cartwheels. Yes. Yeah. but you have to play nice until then, just like Ryan Smith has been playing nice.

Yeah, yeah. So you said 100%, they'll be there in Salt Lake next year. You want to walk that back a little, or what are you thinking here? 95%. There's a long, long way to go to get there. I'm just presenting to you and to everyone else

the machinations of what I believe is actually taking place behind the scenes. Yeah. Well, and I'd never put that expansion piece together with the new Phoenix property. I thought this was all just another, Tempe try, like another Hail Mary from this crew. So that's an interesting ad today.

And also that they can get there for next year and it's not too late. I know there's been a lot of. It's not even close to too late. Winnipeg didn't, didn't leave. That wasn't announced until May 31st. Yeah. Uh, okay. Lots there.

Rhett, what else are we got in mind? That's, uh, I want to talk about all things Philadelphia, Frank, the Philadelphia fanatic like, uh, oh man, torts. Torts. I was thinking more boo. and me being a restaurant. I was going to get into that. There's been earthquakes in your area.

Yeah, we heard you hug. You got the coat delivered earthquake. Jesus. Which topic is good. Hey, look, Boom has some video evidence, but he came in and I took him to my, the locals cheese steak place. And he was a little bit horrified that I get double meat on my sandwich. Like, he was like, dude, I don't know how I can put this one away, let alone the fact

that you got double meat. neat and he took he took some video and some photos but uh yeah i don't know that evidence seems to be incriminating and um yeah took him to a another local uh treat to get a got a water ice water ice as we would call it here it's uh kind of like a mix between like a slurpy and ice cream but it's flavored and there is ice cream in it okay water ice Italian ice. Does that not mean anything to you? Yeah, ice shave for sure, but you wouldn't put ice, anything dairy.

It's more soupy than the shave ice, if that makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. And I just want to say, I would be, I don't think that that's a knock on you at all, the double meat. I'm proud of you, buddy. I am as well. Yeah. Protein's good for you. Sometimes, it depends on what shop you go to,

but sometimes they get a little chinty. You get too much roll and not enough meat, and you're like, what am I? This is a waste of calories. Like, if I'm going to do it, like, I might as well at least dive in. That's why we love to smoke meat in Montreal. It's the bread to meat ratio is phenomenal. And look, I took him to this one special place because part of the allure, aside from the really good role, is their American cheese is of the liquid variety.

It's melted American cheese. And they just like take a ladle of it and just, yeah. And Rhett decided, or not Rhett, Boom decided after all that to get Wizz. On top. Added the WIS? He would, no, he, he bypassed the Liquid American. Oh. And went with Wiz.

God, you just got to trust locals in your travel. What the hell's he doing? You should be doing double meat and the liquid American cheese. He went single whiz, no onions, and then asked for a side of pickles. And I was like, whoa, you can't do pickles. What are you doing here? Who brought this guy in here? Look at it to get beat up.

Jeez. Yeah. It was really funny, though, like some tour bus pulled in right before us, some band. It might have been like Uncle Cracker or someone, like someone that's like on the casino circuit. They were all in front of us, you know, taking videos. And I took it for the right place. They found their way to the to the real local place, not the, you know, tourist spot. Did you get your jacket?

I did. Okay. now that it's spring. Yeah, see, I have serious. Serious problems with this photo. There's about nine chins there, not one. And it might have been the double meat that blended itself to that. If that was cropped a little higher, I wouldn't know what was happening.

I'd have a few guesses. Yeah, that's a little unfortunate, isn't it? As they said, an office space, that's the O face, that you've got, going off there. Yeah, I mean, just change out the background from gas station to church and we'd be dealing. Did you go to WrestleMania? I didn't. I went soft.

I know I got the jacket back, but I stood outside for two hours that morning at kids soccer games. And I was like, F this, there is zero chance that I am standing outside tonight with my nine-year-old for five hours with a bunch of weirdos. It's a grown-up decision. Dude, the real field temperature was like one degree. Yeah, this is what I was going to ask. So when you watched it, it didn't necessarily,

I mean, at least the small snippets I saw on social media, it didn't look like it wasn't an arena show. This was at Lincoln Financial, the football stadium, like 67,000 people. Yeah, the attendance was 73,000 both nights. Holy. If you noticed the ring, they had heat lamps at the top of the ring, so that part was at least heated.

Yeah. Dude, the winds were like 20 to 30 miles an hour. Like, boom, like, I know boom's like, dude, I can handle the cold. I'm like, I'm sure you can being from Calgary. I just, I'm not going to volunteer between the two nights to spend 10, 10 hours outside. I don't like it that much. And did you do okay in the secondary ticket market if you had to get rid of your seats? No, I lost money.

And I was like perfectly okay with that. To me, that was like a win. Well, I hope he's happy. look, I'm sure they had the time of their life when that Undertaker bell rang last night. Oh, that was good. I did send him one text throughout the weekend and any wrestling fan, because again, I'm not a big wrestling fan, but I did watch. And I texted him and I just said, Seth Rollins equals Pinder. That's all the thing said.

I don't know. You'll have to Google him. Sure, it's a compliment. Yeah. His name is actually Seth Freakin Rollins. Should I add that to my handle? Dude, it's you. I'm telling you, he even has like weird maneuvering like you.

Maneuvering? What are you talking about? I don't know, weird high leg kicks and weird shit. Twitchy and spazzy and over caffeinated? He's probably a maniacal drinker. Yeah, this could be fun. Dude, that is you. I love it.

I need a belt. Jack, get us a belt. Pittsburgh getting in, Frank. I know it's Pennsylvania. You probably hate those guys or Philly does, but that would be a hell of a story if Sid and the crew could get in. The math is slightly daunting, I would say. They've played really well.

And here's the thing is like you have a day like Sunday where just like the Red Wings kind of eke out a win. That's the one team I'm a little bit concerned about. They get them once. That's the good news. They get the Red Wings once, the Islanders once. And they have the tiebreaker, which is important. Which is Rao or regulation wins? Regulation wins, yep.

And so they do have the tiebreaker, so they're really one point back. I'd say they do get in and I would say that it is, I'd say it's going to be penguins and islanders, which is mind-blowing. Because they were way out of it a while ago. Just for perspective, like what we're talking about, is historic. The Penguins were nine points out with 10 games left. That has never happened in the salary cap era.

That's beyond Hamburgler. That's beyond St. Louis Blues last place in January to win the Stanley Cup. Really? It is absolutely incredible what Pittsburgh is trying to pull off. The thing is, they are picking up, piling up wins at a time when you need a perfect storm in the NHL standings. You need to get points while everyone else is getting zero. And the flyers and Islanders are sorry, the Flyers and caps are absolutely just fumbling the bag.

Yeah, no question. And the one thing I am excited about is I don't think there's a lot of juice with flyers or capitals or Islanders or wings necessarily. If you somehow got Sid on Broadway in round one, that one versus Wildcard, I'm totally in. I wouldn't have been in with any other team, maybe Philly, but, uh, dude, and where did Evgeny Malkin come from again? Russia? What are you talking about?

No, I mean, look, he's got six points in his last three games. Like, I mean, out of the blue sky, like this guy had a miserable season and has been a horse. Producer Jack is just absolutely fired up, huge pigments guy. He's making the O face. He is definitely making the O face. Frank, thanks for everything. We'll chat again soon. We do need some more boomer stories, but I figured to be.

better when we get him back for that. Yeah, I'm curious. I send him 20 places. Let's see, let's see what his waistline looks like when he comes back. Yeah, he'll show that. That's great.

Ratings, Bonanza. Thanks, Frank. There he goes. No goodbye. Just out of here. See ya. Frank, joined us on the Tellus Insider Hotline.

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the list. We could say we were there. It was a hell of an experience. We rocked the mullet at the mullet. And it's actually miserable to think that a team can't survive in Scottsdale, but it's never gone well. Well, and the thing is it's never really been in Scottsdale. That's the problem, right? You knew if you got a rink in the right spot of town with the right owner, that would be a home run. That could be Tampa. That could be the place everyone wants to go and take less than market value because it's a tax-free state and people love being in Scottsdale, but they've been in Glendale and they left downtown and now they're in a college arena with 5,000 bleeping seats. It's been a nightmare. Yeah, the old builder rink in the middle of nowhere,

it never works. No. Like Ottawa is finally going to fix that mistake in the next five years here. the new owner and Lars. Florida, they're for a top ranked team. And I've done better and it's, but they've been so long since they've been relevant. There were a lot of dim, dark, murky years there. Yeah. It wasn't a, it wasn't a sports move at all. It's a real estate play.

It's all hard. Yeah. And it was the same in Arizona. That was the guy wanted to make a massive real estate development. and to get the whole thing sexy, they build an arena, football stadium, and then massive real estate around that. Like massive.

It was never about the team. It was always real estate. It's still staggering to think that that that rink is sitting there. Yeah. Not having an anchor tenant. Collecting dust. I mean, it's a big city. You can do concerts in that,

but it's nice to have an anchor tenant that gives you the 40 to 50 dates a year, right? Yeah, that's pretty slim picking. if you're only running concerts through there, but maybe not. I don't know. Yeah. It's still a pain to go to for a concert, I guess. Yeah, it's not ideal.

And the city of Glendale is the real victims here because, you know, they're the ones that have to pay for that thing. Subsidize it. They're like closing libraries and not mowing soccer lawns and shutting down playgrounds and shit. Like, it's a disaster. That's public money shouldn't be doing that. Focus on the things that matter for, don't be part of a real estate play for some billionaire. Get out of here. It's my soapbox.

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We give them the late nights because they got a, they get salty languages. They talk like sailors. So Saturday late night against the greasiers from Edmonton, perfect for the In the Dome Boys. This is a one and a billion chance to get the two. we can get both Eginla brothers. Can you fucking imagine? Can you imagine? Dude,

2027 comes around and it's Teage and Joel. You look at how cool it is. The Hughes brothers are in New Jersey, and they have no tie to that team. Imagine the Iggy Bros. Imagine the new arena. We've got the Iggy Bros. We signed Kail McCar in the summer of 2027.

The vibes would be so maculous. So much we just have to remember that being a fan is about having fun. And this would be really fun. Gee. Is it? It would be an absolute travesty if the flames passed on Teesja Ginla because like some like bullshit about like, oh, we just don't want to look like we're picking him because of his name.

It would be a travesty if Tees turns into a solid NHL player or even a star and we pass on him. Like we'd look back on that and just be like, that's such a mistake. What would be worse? Passing on Tees to becomes a stud or going for Tees and he doesn't become a stud? Yeah. The former is worse. Oh, that's Dreamland on Saturday. Nice. Again, LeBros, new rank,

Kail McCarron Free Agency. Connie, hire these guys. They were up late. Holy smack. I like it, though. That would be awesome. Well hydrated for that show. I'm hoping for the fellas,

Mike and Jordan there. It's going to be interesting because Teage is not going in the top eight in most mock drafts, but he's continuing to heat up and have a great draft season. Like he scored again last night. Another three-point game, I believe. We'll get to it in a moment.

and there are the flames. There's your inverse standings, retro. That red line is the top five. Arizona's on a bit of a heater. Now Montreal's squeaked into a top five slot. Ottawa one point ahead of the flames. The tragedy is flames have a game in hand here. So you're going to be very careful with that game in hand.

But I'm telling you, this is a good player coming to the Calgary Flames, whether that's one of five very good defensemen we expect to go in the top 10, whether that's one of two or three centermen we expect to go in the top 10, one of a couple dynamic huge wingers. and is it too early for Teage? That's a question that Craig Conner and his scouts will have to ask. They make their list. He was asked about it on after hours with Scott Oak following the Oilers game.

How do you approach, you know, the possibility of drafting Teage's? We just make the list of the players. We put them from best to worst and top guy on our list to we draft. You can't overcomplicate it. You can't get romantic. But they also will have great intel on the human. I feel like they know some people that know them well. Yeah.

I think they're going to be, I like the idea of it. I just, I just, I get scared looking at the roster and they don't have defense. And a center. They don't have a center either. And he's not a center. Like the greatest need is at center and defense. Now that doesn't mean, T. can't be the best player available.

And if he is, I say go get it. But if you're trying to squint and say, ah, like, he has to be the best guy on the border. It's a mistake. I'm sorry. It just has to be that. If it lines up and it's the right pick. Or maybe you trade down. Or maybe you package that Vancouver pick was some other things and we'll get another top

dozen pick, top 15 pick, Jacob Marsh from the summer. Let's go. Come on. Come on, come on. Anyway, we'll see. It won't be boring. And you can see where the, the conversation shifted. The afterburner had nothing to do with the game, the clip.

I did notice it wasn't. Our opening statement was the draft lottery simulation. later. Like, it's that time of you're right? I saw another clip from the fellas. Yeah. Talking about Zeri or Zari. Yeah. Getting sad.

That was a few games ago. Yeah. Yeah, I kind of feel a couple of ways about it if you want to revisit it. Like, it was one game. He wasn't playing great. He's been quite quiet since we're coming back from injury. And Husk said, just because you're young doesn't mean you stay in the lineup, as if to say you're not getting preferential treatment.

But my counter argument to Husk, to Huska would be Jonathan Hubertos played much worse hockey this year and has not been sad. And so is that preferential treatment for vets? Like does he not get the benefit of the doubt with this incredible seasons there he's put together for a couple of games or he's a little pedestrian? I don't, I'm not going to fight to the death. I think both sides have some validity to them, but. I think the important thing to recognize and this is, because I thought about it at first too. And I'm like, yeah, that's stupid.

Just play the kid. Who cares? But then I thought about it for a while. I'm like, no, you don't want him to be just a plight. player. You know he's made the team next year. You've established that. What you're sending is a message of, we don't need you to be average. We don't need a third liner. We're teaching you. Every game matters. You have to be a driver for our organization. And I, like I said, at first I was of the opinion, yeah, put him in there. And then I'm like, no, he's already in there. He's made it. It's not

about finding out what he is. It's now about extracting and making him realize, he needs to be a star. We don't want you to be a real good first round pick. We want you to be a stud in the league. And you've proven you can be. And you don't get to take nights off. This is their standard. This is where we want you.

And if you dip below it, that's not okay. Just because you're new and these are meaningless games, doesn't mean you get to play. I'm with that with Huska. I also think that's the same logic applied to veterans. And you'd seen some different lineups earlier this year as well. So, I mean, I, I, and you know what, here's the thing. They put him at center.

He came back. He had a good game. That's huge for this organization if he's a center. And it's late in the year. This is absolutely the time to try it. And if you needed to sit him to get his attention and his best efforts. And now you've responded by saying, okay, now here's the carrot. And he played well at center.

Okay, you've got my attention now. This is going to be an interesting development. If he and or pospical can play center ice, it changes a lot of things about how this roster can be constructed. If you can get Sharon Govich back to the wing where he scores more, case in point Saturday, I like that a lot. Does you say possible?

Possible thinks he's a center. Connie told us that when we're in Toronto. He's not heavy, but he's bigger than Zeri. And he's, he moves very well. I'd love to see it. I don't know that because he thinks he's a center. He is a center.

but we're talking about six games in a meaningless April here, right? Like, why not give it a try? Let's see it. Let's see it. Let's go to the schedule. Here's what we're looking at. Three-game California Rode for the Calgary Flames. This is Boomer's nightmare at the old job.

8.30 puck drop on a Tuesday. 8.30 puck drop on a Thursday. I have gone and staffed after Burner without our jovial ray of Sunshine, pal. this week. Is that going to go over okay? I've got all four of those games covered with no boomer this week. Is everyone going to be okay with that? That's knowing your crowd. That's well, conceived on your part. Thank you. Yes. And thank you to all those that are going to be covering the afterburners. Tomorrow night, I've got Kent Wilson and Mike Gold, the couple of the writers at Flames Nation past and present. So that will be Tuesday, Thursday, Pike and myself.

Friday, pike and gold and Sunday the In the Dome Boys, we like them late on weekends where they can curse freely, like sailors arriving in port to vats of whiskey. Rum. Sailors like rum. They do, yes. Yeah, did I say whiskey? I meant rum.

It's like the opening statements versus thoughts. It's clearly rum. Sailors love rum. Let's take a look at what the playoffs would be. Actually, you know, we got some flames news. What's going on here? We got a recall. They're all dinged up on the back in.

A Hoich, I thought, has struggled in recent. outings mightily, Hanley's dinged up. Gilbert came in, but I mean, love Dennis Gilbert's being the best Dennis Gilbert can be. You got a kid here. Sloviav that has not been up since I think probably late 23,

like I want to say November, December, maybe when Tanna got nicked up, big, interesting, young, why not? Six games, just like everything else. Why not? Take a look. Take a look. You want to bring up Jan Kuznetsov for another look, too,

on the back end? I'm okay with that. and yeah, there's going to be an interesting battle at camp next year with all these guys that profile is third pair defensemen. I might have a Buffalo bias. Yep. Gilberts is good, if not better than some of these guys. Yeah, I mean, I don't think he looked at necessarily on Saturday, but yeah, yeah. When he's right, he adds an element of physicality.

He's scrappy, he's simple, but he hasn't played a lot of late and he had an injury midseason. I thought his best hockey was earlier. this year, yeah. But I don't mind him as your 6-7 next year, 7-8. It comes nice time, Husk. Let's go. On Husk? A lot of D all of a sudden. A lot of D. A lot of D. Slovia, all back. Let's go to the playoffs. What would they look like if it happened

tonight? Oh, banger or no. We got Dallas, Vegas. I'm calling that a bangerette. Top left. Colorado, Winnipeg. Oh, boy, Jets fans. I'm sorry. Although, Colorado in a spot. McKinnon. up, ranting, maybe a concussion on the weekend.

Georgievs not look great. Justice Annenin's been the better of the two net minors. A little speed wobble from the abs down the stretch here. I wouldn't think that their biggest concern is the goalie still, but. Yeah. They did win a cup with Kemper. And that's not a shot at Kemper, but it's, it kind of feels like their Chicago teams. Exactly. Yeah, me, Crawford, like make a big save here or there.

You don't have to be the best goal in the league. Don't screw us. Yes. Just make the saves you're supposed to make. place. Vancouver, Nashville has got chaos written all over it. I don't know that that tops my list, but I just have a feeling it would be zany. You've got the hottest team of the last month and a half against the team that was the best in the NHL for the first half of the year. And then Kings and Oilers will continue to sign up for because those have been great series. It'd be the third year in a row.

Oilers have won both of them and come down from what, 3-1 or 2-0. There's been some deficits recovered from by the Oilers. Out east, love it. Tampa, Boston, that's a divisional rivalry. Florida, Toronto, rematch from last year. Love that as well. Rangers and wings. We'll sub in Pittsburgh there, please. Yeah.

I guess Kane on Broadway would kind of be interesting. And then Kane's Islanders, this news button, sweep them, and we'll see you in the second round, Carolina. That's going to be held in first round. Well, you've got 16 teams that are really good. You should have some good matchups. Yeah, or 14, but sure, yeah. I think we're almost at 16.

I don't know that the Islanders are going to get. Oh, I see what you were saying that are, yeah, gotcha, got you. But you should have, I think, of the eight opening round series, six should be like, holy crap, these are awesome. Yeah. Okay. Art Ross race is getting spicy. Let's have a look at the point totals in games remaining. It is a three horse race, but maybe two if McKinnon's out for a bit.

We'll see. There's not really a timetable that I've seen with McKinnon, but it's to say he's not 100%. He's got 133 points and the fewest number of games remaining with four. McDavid's at 130. He's six-back of Kucherov with six games. games remaining. And Cooch has got the six point belge on Connor with only five games remaining. Fat chance.

No one's catching Cooch. Except that is McDavid. He could just have a five point night like this week. And you're like, yeah, I think Cocherov's good enough this year that he might go do it too. Yeah, he had another three pointer. It's like every night he's got three down the stretch here. It's been something. Fun.

Kind of cool to see these totals. I didn't know we'd ever see these again. Mm-hmm. Like Jamie Ben won the year at Ross when you were like 87 points. I'm not joking. I never thought we'd get back to these totals. It's pretty fun. Three guys over 130 points.

It's actually, obviously those are the best of the best. But it is surprising there are that many only because goaltending is so good. Yeah. Yeah. Like they have learned that they have to put it into these spots. And they can do it. That's ridiculous. Yeah.

It's a great point because it's not like the games are eight seven like they were in the 80s when we saw Gretzky putting up crazy numbers. It's still a 4-3 league a lot of nights. 3-2. We saw the Salt Lake News. This is what we were talking about with Frank. If you missed it, there's Ryan Smith, the gazillionaire from Salt Lake,

who has already expressed interest in a quote expansion franchise, but of course, you could just change the name and relocate a franchise. Hmm. Fill out this survey and send us your ideas. Yeah. They're not being very subtle about this, are they? And the league knows to Frank's point.

This is not some guy going rogue. This is clearly all paving the way to the coyotes moving there as soon as next year. Tonight, just two games. I would suggest we've got a couple bangers, Rhett. You got Pittsburgh scrapping for their lives. Game of the year, Jack? Is it a game of the year? Yes, it is.

Until they win it. And then the next game will be. Also the game of the year. And then after they win that one, it'll be the game of the year. Oh, my God. They got game of the years left. That's all they got left. Love it.

And then Vegas limps into Vancouver, who have not been quite right down the stretch here. That one could be a first-round matchup, but more likely not. Don't mind it. Good little double header there. The Savannah bananas are our favorite baseball team that we don't really care whether they win or lose

because they just do fun things, and they remind us that minor league baseball is even more ridiculous than professional baseball or major leagues. So first off, let's re-frame here. Outfits, no sleeves, like army camel bat, fluorescent things, like vests. Like we are having fun. We're dressing up and playing baseball.

And it gets better. Screw J. Trying to strike out the side. He won't get it. Dior Meadows throws away his glove. Backflips. Catches the ball. Are you kidding me?

Mr. Meadows, you've gone mad. The only way to do the backflip catch better is to do it with the bare hand in D.R. Meadows. The king of the backflip catch in the outfield nails the trick play for the bananas. What a play. One of the greatest trick plays of all time. Really is. And Rhett, that's tough for you. You lose that title of the king of the backfield catch in the outflip.

But he out did you there. You got to tip your cap. Oh, you're muted. That's why we can't hear you. What is this baseball? Because I've seen... I don't know. We need to find out more.

Jack, can you do some research on the Savannah bananas? Please. Like they had a time clock going. Like, I don't know that they play nine innings. They just,

they have a certain time limit. There's always crazy things going on. We saw an inflatable, floaty behind the mound. Yeah. I, we need to make it, we need to do some research. We need a road trip.

Savannah. Georgia. Let's go. Why not? Be close to Florida. It's on the way, Rhett. Easy trip for me. Yeah.

You won't even need a moving van just for that one bedroom. You just need a couple boxes. Let's go. Okay. Into the nonsense portion of the program. We don't do that without, oh, you skipped all the WHL stuff. Oh my gosh, that's right. Okay, because we got to, you're right.

We got to go back. I was actually going to suggest you off air that perhaps some other playoff hockey could be mentioned. Yes. And so we will do that right now and we were ready for it. But I got too excited about the Savannah bananas. So let's get back to it. We are into the second round. These teams have all advanced,

PG through, Colonna, through, Portland, through, Everett, through. That's your Western Conference in the WHL out east. The one seed blades against the rebels who beat the very young and skilled Medicine Hat Tigers in round one. And Moose Jaw Swift Current.

All right. Sasky battle there. That's a nice travel for those guys, Moose John Swift. How far is that? Not far at all. Like hour, two? Yeah, within within two hours. gravy.

Yeah. Sast two and Red Deer a little further. A little further. You're probably talking five and a half. Five? I've never found a bus go. Drive within the limits, please. Thank you.

Now, how to Cologne get through? You're asking yourself, Red, because they were in round one. Well, in fact, they did this. And Regan Bartel tells us about it. They're buzzing. Something's coming. And they'll puck down low right corner.

Here's Ward. Ward being hit on the play by Gendlin. Nice steel. Chance in from wrist shot. Save. Cheechic Chats side. And it's T-Jic. Franchise record.

His eighth of this playoff series, he moves into a tie with Jordan Woodrick for most goals in a playoff series. One of the series, Eighth of the series. I like that. Franchise record. The Kona Rockets are not new. They do play playoffs a lot.

Let's, yeah, let's watch it again. And sound up. It's Rikin Bartow. It's not scores or something. courts. I'm excited about it. But what is that defenseman doing? And a puck down low right corner. Here's Ward. Ward being hit on the play by Gandalon.

Nice steel. Chance in front of my shot. That is a chicken shit of play. Goad. Scott. Yeah. Too much. So they said too much.

Yeah. He's afraid there. You still don't have a job coaching junior? I mean, I feel like you're just lazy. There's got to be people offering you. Watching the shit we're seeing, you need to be employed here. I'd have to give up your passion of podcasting, but still, they could use it. Kids do not know how to play hockey.

They know how to make plays. There's just skills, skill, skill, skill, skill, skill, skill, skill, skill, skill, skill, skill, skill, skill, they don't play out. Now the million dollar question, where is the defensive zone? Never heard of it. Don't know. Dee. Ooh. Defensive.

Again, one goal, two helpers plus two. Another three point night for Teage, who is picking a good year to have his after year. 47 bingoes and then the playoffs. Oh, you couldn't get 50, eh? Franchise record, he's 17, right? Next year, you pencilman for 70. Winger that can score.

When was the last one? The last which? Winger that could score on Congress. Yeah. It's dead probably. Oh. I mean, they did 35. 50?

52 52 he's good we talked about it a lot we won't stop talking about it again and the flames will get a little more information draft lottery slated for the second round looks like the first week of May

they've not given us a date or a time yet that'll be announced pretty soon here and not to bring up any negative energy at all concerning we could have already had all three showing up if they draft them we could have had all three showing up in the city next year.

Yes, the Calgarymen did not select Joe again, Lott. And the kid they did select a very good player has committed to Michigan. Where his dad played college hockey and also the front office for the Hitman since has been evaporated. It's a tough one there. Now, does the family want the kid to have to wear that name bar at the age of 16 in Calgary? I don't know.

But nonetheless, the guy they took is not going to play in the Western League at all. So it's a mistake either way. Ouch. We're going to go ahead and give Rhett the checkmark on that take from a while ago. Okay, into the dumb shit. We started off with our boy Tim Dot Naki, our blackjack pal in Calgary. He's on a heater, Rhett.

Can he keep it going? Day 61, going to Blackjack and betting 10 cents every Instagram follower of God. There is an enormous 560,000 of your legends in here now. That's a whopping 46,000 extra on top of yesterday. single day growth so far 56,000 dollar bet coming right up all fucking right even day 61 brings about a 56,000 dollar bet for the 560,000 legends of you in with us now we're gonna do 54,000 on the button 1,000 each of the side bets now this guy looks like he definitely drinks banana milk I need this man to go well for me ace go 10 yes yes you

want to fucking read about it! not read about it! You would not read about it! You would not fucking read about it! Could not be scripted! Get Steven Spielberg on the line! We need a director for the upcoming movie! Holy shit! It's Blackjack 61! Two big wins on the trot! I will see you tomorrow! Because you better fucking believe I'm gonna be betting even more! Oh! Star! I love him! Is it like, Some people say, like, if you ever meet your heroes, it could be, like, disappointing. I almost am afraid that I might run into this guy because I've just, I've got him on this pedestal,

one of the greatest humans that lives in the whole city. Yeah. It doesn't do fuck all, apparently, but. Oh, he does everything. He does everything we all want to do. He gets, he makes a scene about some Ozzy. He hardly doesn't work. Doesn't work for the man.

You see him at the pub and he goes out to the hills and he skis when the snow is good. What the hell are you talking about? We've got to get this guy of Barnburner Blonde. Live on the dream. We do need to get this guy for a pack. Let's go. Okay, we're into the dumb shit now. A guy went fishing.

I think he's down south somewhere. Something went wrong. Let's go. Y'all want to know how big of a fucking dumbass? The boy is. So I'm here. Fishing, correct? Really?

He's trying to. I go to open my night crawlers. My night crawlers? I accidentally brought gravy. Fuck. I mean, he can. still have fun with the gravy. I just don't know what he's going to fish with. It's not the worst thing.

Yeah, it could have been like Siziki that's gone bad. I don't know. At least it's gravy. You got gravy in the wilderness. It's not the worst. Baseball kid. That's what this one's called. Everyone dreams as a kid, Rhett. Dream big. Yeah. Oh, that sound is good. If you are listening, not watching, that is the sound of an aluminum bat being bat tossed after a home run.

in this man. For a fake home run. An imaginary home run for the young man. And the bat flip then promptly lands on his skull. Ah! We've got an event coming. It is eclipse today. I think we're within minutes of the eclipse, Red.

Should give us the live look. Is it still overcast as hell? It's gloomy. So is it just going to go dim? Like, what's going to happen? I don't even know what happens if, like, You got the glasses? I didn't even go outside. That looks like a waste of time. Sorry, Red. So sorry. But you got another chance. There's another massive event coming. Now, are you familiar with cicatus or cicatus? How do I say it?

Oh, the locusts. Yes, locusts are like flying cockroaches kind of and they make that e-e-e-e-e-ey-ne noise that you hear in the rainforest. Gross. Now, some of them come out like every 10 years, every 30, every 3rd. 13 years, every 17 years, and they, like, they feed on tree sap, and then they all come out at the same time. And it's like, what are they called a locusts or whatever? Apparently this, this year in the eastern states, two separate broods. So they've got the every 13 year and the every 17 year matching up on the same year. The last time this happened, Thomas Jefferson was present. It's a while ago, I'm told. So you'll have at least this to live through, Rhett. And that But this is what? It's not of the apocalypse, right?

When we have trillions of cicadas all over the place? Gross. I hate those things. I would move quickly. That's this summer in the eastern United States. Two broods. Brood 19? And brood 13. I couldn't read those X's.

Yeah, I'm guessing there. If I'm wrong, I'm sorry, folks. Roman numerals, not necessarily what I'm fluent in. From Sakatas to snakes Well, I think it's snakes Or is it one snake? What do we got here? It looks like a snake's eating

Another snake, but that snake might be So All right. So today this king snake successfully swallowed himself. I don't know how long he's been like this.

He's still alive, but I'm just going to use some hand sanitizer and see if this will get him to undo. Let's see if this works, right? Done.

Oh, and there he is. Oh, that worked. Well done, guys. Holy! They do not like the taste of hand sanitizer, and that worked quite well. Hopefully. I'd have to agree, right?

That did seem to work. You didn't like that, eh? I don't like snakes. They just, they gross me out. How does snakes feel about you? One of the few things. Actually, not a fan of. sanitize your snake you see it in the comments good stuff uh crocodile time yeah now i'll give you

one gas rat one guess what happened it is a uh from his natty light can uh yeah i love that one better that's beautiful yeah i mean look life gives you lemons you make lemonade alligator bites off your finger you make uh alligator tattoo beautiful That is good stuff. Honestly, what a conversation starter, too, at the bar. Love it. It's an icebreaker. People love it.

Don't hide it. Draw attention to it. Yeah, what happened to your finger? It's self-deprecating, right? Fighting an alligator. I lost. It's horrible. People not hiding from their weaknesses, hey?

Brace it. Move on. Golf season around the corner. I know down in Florida where you were in full flight already. Masters this weekend. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. So there's my ball, middle of the fairway.

We got one problem, though. Oh. Look at the size of that bastard. Oh, my goodness, Jack. Now, this is a problem. If you're going to make Pender Pork, please start filming in landscape, not profile. That's Kiowa?

Holy, look at the size of that. That's got to be 15 feet. Oh, the width of the bunker. Huge crock. I think I played that course. How many stroke penalty is? that for not playing your ball. We got to go to the pros.

Call the pro from the pro shop. Come down and take a look at this. How do I handle this? Yeah, we need a rules official for sure. I'm with you on that. And finally, this one's called crocodile revenge, although I think it's gator. So we'll call it Gator revenge.

So this is apparently common in some of the suburbs down by the Everglades there. That's a great ride. And there, it's a pathway. through, you know, part of the everybody's there. This guy's just stammering into his phone. They could probably pan them down, Jack. And they'll be on the road. This gator has gotten into a neighborhood.

So they're kind of duct taped them up. This one guy's messing with him. They've got the essentially the equivalent of the zip ties for his legs. And look at this jackass. Is that what he's doing? He's messing with him. Dragging him on his belly.

Come on. What are we doing here? It's wonder. And so they're going to lift this guy into some sort of animal rescue vehicle here. And this poor gator, what's he done. Like, did, did he build a house in this suburb or did they build a suburb in, in his backyard? Like, what are we doing here? Oh, bomb. Got him with the tail red.

Ha! Don't be teasing him. Don't slap him in the face. Bang. Oh. See you. Good night, Jim Kay. Beautiful stuff. Is all right? Karma. On the Pinder report. You love to see it.

Jeez. Got him. Good. Don't be teasing animals, eh? that's his face, huh? Yeah, right in the face bone, right in the face meat. Sorry about that, sir. Don't tease the Gator. Come on now. Yeah, that's a lot of muscle in there.

I feel like they're quite strong. Yeah. Yeah. They don't need a belt to pull the pants up. Okay. I haven't thought about that. That's what I'm talking about. I can't even wear a belt.

It's gross. Belts don't work anymore, right? You're just constantly tugging it up or what? Yeah. I thought you'd be in shape coming back from Florida. You weren't running on the beach every day? I was staring on the beach. How was the,

were the views. It was great. The oceans were wonderful. Everyone was frolicking and enjoying splashing about. Yes, right. Yes. Did you get to the country music festival? I walked down there. Yeah. It looked like a fun event

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I should note, the Vancouver Giants were eliminated in Western Hockey League play, and with that elimination means, I think in the next couple of days, you'll see the arrival of Jordan Lepinski and Samuel Hansik to the Calgary Ranglers. Has Hansik is a special birthday or something? They're both late birthdays, in fact, or at least both 19-year-old seasons. So they are eligible to play in the American League next year. That could be it for Hansik and Lepinski. at the WHL level.

There may be some value putting guys back. I don't know. You'd love to see Hansaq dominating and move up a level. He'd just been dinged up. It's been a really tough and unfortunate year for him. It doesn't mean he's not going to be a good player, but it's not the type of draft plus one season you'd like a guy to have given how high you went,

the pedigree. Put him back. Or put him back. And you know what? Here's your free look at him, right? Bring him up to see how he looks and practice with these guys, maybe get him a game or two before the end of the HL's regular season. And if he's way out of his,

his depth. You know, he knows what to do over the off season. You know where to put him next year. Or if he's like, shit, this guy's, he's huge, he's strong. He can play with men. We'll see. So don't be surprised if you see the Wranglers bringing in Lopensky and Hansick in the coming days. I will imagine a locker clean out today or tomorrow for the Giants. It'll be a little bit exciting. Future's a little bit closer potentially. Another couple kids to look at. See how kids to look at? Okay. How was the travel? Did you get everyone a seat? Did you get everyone a seat? Did you get two seats?

Did all of your children have a seat on the plane? Short, simple flight, easy, peasy. Two and a half if you're home, it's good. It's basically like the, what you've got out east is our Arizona, Palm Springs. Like just straight south, warm weather, turn off winter, go. Yep. And it was amazing how many people from here are, well, it's the same. That's the exact same.

Snowbirds. Yeah. You're from Calgary. You go to Scotts, they look at Palm Springs. You're from northeastern states. You go to Florida or down into that panhandle somewhere. Yeah. I should also note today that we will hear the W.HL announced the exceptional status granted for Landon DuPont, son of Mickey DuPont.

Not there. Calgary flame at one point, who had a great career over in Europe. And I feel like a guy that in today's NHL would have been a really good NHL defenseman, but just played in the wrong era. He was not as good as water skiing and hooking and holding in the neutral zone as He wasn't playing hockey, which back then was a detriment. Damn it, I love your skill, but you're, you're not tall. You're too skilled.

How the hell can you not be tall, Mick? We're looking for a little more Neanderthal and a little less skill for this slot on the team. All this skating about. That's right. What do you know, how well do you know, Mickey? And what have you heard about the kid? I know Eric Francis wrote an article earlier this year that essentially forecasted this, that he's having that good of a season that he will be allowed.

exceptional status, which means he can play a full season as a 15-year-old in the Western League next year. He's next level. I've seen most 09 age kids play of all of the really good ones. And we've got kids down here that think they're really good. And it's a different level.

You can fold towels for this guy here. Yeah. You don't get to compare yourself because you're not in the same category. So. Exceptional, Exceptional. I mean, it's exceptional.

Defense men, 511, he's, I'm getting not fully grown, but certainly has grown a lot. Like he's not going to be 6.4. The old man's not huge. But size may or may not be a big issue at all.

But he's rather developed at 15. He's not going to be a boy out there. No, he's always been a bigger kid, I guess. I don't, I didn't watch them that much, but I've seen him play.

I just there's not a lot of holes right there's not a lot of things you think his edgework is unbelievable his skating's unbelievable his stick handling is unbelievable but his brain he sees

yeah he just sees the game so well he just sees it so well and the exceptional status group is an interesting one there's some megastars and there's some I actually found that like there's only that he's the ninth in history in the CHL.

We had the tweet a few weeks ago. Let me find it and send it to Jack, if you can. And so this would be, what, a year older than your eldest or same birth year? Same age. Same age. So you would have seen him a bit here in Calgary before you moved to Buffalo. Yeah, that's why I've seen all the kids that are in his same age group. Right.

And they just, I actually, loser dad, I watched the U.S. Nationals, 2009, group that Landon's age group the final was yesterday who was that all the hey who are the teams uh two schools down here uh mount st charles one they beat shattuck st mary's so wow yeah and where's that school from mounts near boston okay yeah very good school to a big hockey program i forget what i was getting at but you see the best players out there and landon but just he would, it'd be boring. It'd be boring for him. Is that good, eh?

Yeah. Interesting. Okay, I'm going to read you the Francis tweet here. I've just got to find it as we scroll through here. Hockey Canada and the Western League will formally announce the granting of exceptional status to 14-year-old Calgary and Landon DuPont on Monday. This is from last week. Ninth player in CHL history. Second in the dub.

Only Connor Bader has been granted the. exceptional status in the WHL. The other players that were prior, Connor McDavid, makes sense, megastar. John Tavares makes sense, star. Aaron Echblad, again, not a superstar, but a star. Shane Wright, we'll see. Weird draft class.

He kind of got, not kind of, he really got screwed by COVID. He didn't play in his draft year, a game. The O kept saying they were going to start, and then every day he got screwed badly there. He feel for him. He's just been called up by Seattle from Coachella Valley. Joe Villano, who definitely plays in the league for, I believe, the wings, a guy. And then Sean Day and Michael Mesa. Misa's not draft eligible until next year.

I don't know what I'm talking about Sean Day, but I imagine also younger there. So superstars mixed in with an average Joe, so to speak, not to crack on Joe Valeno, but he's not a superstar. I don't know. Weird list. You don't need to change the age groups, I guess, but everything's getting younger. Every kid's getting better, younger and younger. I thought I saw something in the league where before COVID, the average age was like 29 and now it's like 27 or something. In the NHO.

Yeah. Yeah. I believe that. Yeah. It just feels younger and younger all the time. So Joe Villano ended up getting drafted 30th overall in 2018 from exceptional status. That's a very, you're one of the best 30 players on earth. You're, you're drafted.

That's very impressive. You probably didn't need to go up. Oh, in hindsight, no. And look, maybe he was a man amongst boys and it made sense at the time, but he didn't prove to be a star NHL. The trajectory didn't continue. Yeah, yeah, that's fair. And someone in this comments is saying, Sean Day is a bust.

I don't know that that's accurate or fair. It might be 100% accurate. Let's take a look where he's at and where he's playing. This is part of the problem too, though. and we're completely talking about something that's probably boring for 99% of the people. Is that everyone tries to push, and I'm not saying Landon shouldn't. He is that good. Yeah, and the Western League doesn't do this very often.

Yeah, let's not make a habit of this. If you're going to have kids that end up being drafted 30th, they don't need to move up. Yeah, yeah. And there's going to be circumstances where, look, development isn't linear. There's hiccups. There are guys that peak early and never become great pros. We see it all the time. I remember the year that my age group was at the band of draft.

It was Justin Mapletoff, who was an exceptional young player, but never really an NHL. That happens. And then the Sean Day went third round 81st overall in 2016, and he's currently in the American League. Like, it's just a guy, which is still, he's very good at hockey, just not a superstar in the NHL. Neither here nor there. I want to tell you about outdoor dental. I went to see Dr. Jay Patel down by the South Health Campus at Outdoor Denal. You can find out more about their clinic, their location at Outdoor. Dental.

And I had two 50-minute treatments done on the soft palate in the back of my yap. Why? Well, because not unlike many of us, I snore now and then, Rhett. And there we are at Outdoor Dental. I'm playing the video games in the waiting room. Look at the hair. Jesus. I did that for a while, huh?

And the lasers. 15-minute treatment. They spray a little topical thing on there, pain free, watch TV, lay back. And next thing you know, snoring significantly reduced to the point where my wife says it's disturbingly different that the person next to her is making so much less noise than I was prior. So if you are interested in that treatment or any other dental stuff, outdoor not dental is a place to go. Dr. J's the man. Say hi to him.

Let him know you heard it here on the barn burner. And yes, it's not just for you and the better quality of sleep you're going to get, but if there's someone next to you, you won't have this issue in your one-bedroom apartment in Florida, right? But I still would advise you to get the procedure done for your own benefits. Health, for your health. That's right. Sleep's important, hey?

So they say, I was up until 9.30 today, and it was wonderful. I keep telling my wife, dad, when she says, Ryan, get out of bed! I'm like, babe, sleep is very good for you. Why are you stomping on my health like this? Yeah, clearly you don't care about my health, honey. Don't you care about my health? Or just go to bed sooner, you dumbass.

That's probably what she said back in some sort of Australian action. I don't know that against you then. I'll just say my circadian rhythm doesn't allow it. The what rhythm? Yeah, that's right. Cicadas? Cicatus, the fruit? Yeah, the damn locusts.

My locust rhythm is off, babe. I need more sleep. Outdoor.dental for more information. All things dental, but yes, also on top of all things dental. the snort treatment. I love that. Right on. Thanks, Dr. Jay. Betway, we got some bangers today.

We talked about a couple of the games on the slate. And there's only two in the NHL. So why don't we see where we're at? Betway, our gaming partner, bet the responsible way, with Betway, Jacko, let's take a peek at what I've got today for our Betway bets of the day.

Boodle! Oh, Jackie. Oh, Jackie boy. Now listen. These are not probable events. When you see a plus by the odds, that means, well, it's not as likely to happen as it is to not happen. But if one of these two things happen tonight, Rhett,

I'm in great shape. I'm going to take the Penguins on a must win in Toronto in a spot where, I don't know how hungry Toronto is. They're kind of stuck at three a little bit. And look, Pittsburgh's been great. It's not just about, oh, this team's not good. The other team's better. Pittsburgh's rolling right now.

They're feeling good. Malkin back from the dead is. Frank noted. He and Crosby each had two. I think Caldubis might have, if they get in, he might have won that Gensel deal. Bunting had the big game winner on Saturday against Tampa Jack. I've got a Pittsburgh regulation victory plus two hunt.

Talk to me, Jack. I like that. Oh, yeah, I love it. Now, the night game, Vegas limps into Vancouver. They've got health issues in net. It sounds like Thomas Hurtle may be ready to return and play. I still like Vancouver at home. They've been just okay lately, but Vegas is limping in with injuries plus 190

for Vancouver to cover the puck line. That's minus one and a half, not the money line, which is just a win. I want them to win by two or more. This can be a one goal game with an empty netter, or maybe the Canucks just absolutely destroy the Golden Knights with mediocre goaltending tonight. We'll see one of these two hits. I'm in great shape, Brett. Really good shape.

Get them both, Bender. Let's go. Now you know my boy. Jack on a game day. He's not going to whiff on a chance to put a little wager down on the penguin. Let's see what he's done. You've got another big parlay here. Oh my God. Plus 1,000. Big game hot. Game Hutton. He loves the parlors to win. Penn's win. Over six and a half goals. Yeah. And Melkin to score. Like you said, Melkin's been hot the last three, four goals. Michael Bunting has brought him to life. Ooh, Bunting's unlocked Malkin. Who know? Yes, he has. Okay. So Penguins win over

six and a half and Malcolm to score plus 1,000. I like all those. It doesn't feel like low scoring with these two teams. Nadelcovich has come in and had the cape on for the penguins. Toronto's net mining has been very spotty this year. I like the over. I love Malkin hot. I like Penns to win.

Jack, you're a genius. Or he'll go 0 for three. Find out tomorrow on Barnburner. Now, here's the deal with Betway. If you've been thinking about maybe putting a little cash into a Betway account to have some fun. now is the time to do it. You can join the action by scanning that QR code on your screen. Why would you do that?

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Thanks that way. Two good games, Red. They will be good. I don't know if I could stay up that late out here. Well, and I've got some earlier stuff for you as well. And we also have the men's tournament. We've got baseball. Let's get right into it with our DoorDash.

What's on the menu? Here's the thing about DoorDash, Red. It's not just restaurants. It's pharmacies, grocery stores, flower shops, whatever you need. DoorDash has got you and will deliver it right to your door with their default contact list delivery. Ordering is easy. Open the app. Choose what you want from where you want. It's a beauty. You know, even better than that. Oh, you're muted, but I see you trying to talk. No, I'm not. Okay, sorry. DoorDash is really good at delivering Stinger subs at 10 o'clock on Saturday nights.

Really? On a travel day back from Florida even. got on the couch. I was going to watch my nephew play trail. Yeah. Big playoff game. A little snacky. Where are that? Did they get the split in Vernon?

Did not. They are tied 0-0 power play in the late in the third game one. Short-handed against. Oh, backbreaker. And then one-one into third in game two. Give up a four-banger. Oh, dear. That was a penguins on a Gindlinite type collapse, hey, Jack?

Wow, geez. They'll go back to trail, though that old rink will be bumping. They got the brewery in the corner they put in. I hear it's an awesome ring. Absolutely, you should go. It's hard to get to, though. It is. Maybe game six.

Give yourself a little time. You have to fly to Spokane and drive up. You get to Cranbrook through Calgary, yeah, or Vancouver, yeah, but then even get to Calgary. You need two flights from Buffalo. You're in trouble there from Buffalo, man. You need to live in a better airport city. I could drive to Toronto

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Rett I got four for you tonight You're going to be busy, but you've got multiple screens. And if you're not off halfway through the last game of the night, I'm okay with it because there's been a lot. I need you to really buckle up for tonight. 5 o'clock, Penguins in Toronto, 5.07. Mariners in Toronto, the Blue Jays are finally home after a miserable 10-game road trip to start the season. What if I just drove up, Karen?

Oh, you should go to the game. Oh, my God, you should go to the game. Luis Castillo's pitching. He was the jerk that pitched there in the wildcard game. It's very, very good at baseball. having a tough two starts of the year, Castillo back in. For the Jays, it should be Jose Burrios on the mound. What a terrible day to start your whole Monday.

I guess Seattle. I did not go. 720, Purdue, Connecticut, men's final four, the NCAA Collegiate Championship tonight. Are you a boiler maker or a husky? Or are you a husky boiler maker? They're great drinks that keep me up. Yes.

I hate dogs. This is a fat guy matchup. You get the boilers on one side and you get the huskies on the other. All right. And finally, the nightcap, 8 o'clock, Rhett, will allow you, we'll excuse you from this one. We'll have someone punch your time card for you so it looks like you watched it. Vegas in Vancouver, 8 o'clock puck drop on the left coast.

That's what's on the menu. What's on that Stinger Sub again? Remind us. Chicken fingers, mild, medium, or hot. and then like a chopped steak with cheese, blue cheese, mayo,

it's the blue cheese sauce that really, yeah. Now, if you'd ask me if I want blue cheese sauce on it, I'd say no, but if it's part of the signature, like it has to be, then yes, obviously.

But one I ordered was the, was the Jim's Blue stinger. Okay. And it was. So there's, we're now, we'd have different dialects

of the stinger, different families of the stingers. Yeah, 100%. 100%. And I got to say, I don't want to go back. Whatever the F boom was sinking with his pickles and his fucking cheese whiz, who get out of here. Wow. He did. You're with a professional like Frank and you're not going to, what are we talking about?

Come on now. When in Rome, Frank Saravalli, sitting beside you at his spot. Telling you how to order. puts it in order. You go with pickles? It's like, you're going to put a ketchup

on your hot dog in, at Wrigley Field? You can't do that. Show a little respect. Week. That's weak. This week. I'm surprised, Frank,

just drill it right there. Something to talk about tomorrow. Yeah, it's like, hey, I'm in Buffalo, Rhett. Where should I go for wings? Oh, I should go here. Nah, you know what?

I'm just going to go somewhere else. Yeah, I've got to get a chopped salad instead. You're in, Buffalo. Come on. DoorDash, promo code, Nation 25 for the 25% off your first start over 15 bucks and free delivery. And there's double dash two,

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I don't know. The shoveler disappeared. Did you miss it? Did it happen? Did we already miss it? the eclipse. Did it get dark out there for a moment? It was great. It was so good. I can't believe you didn't notice the lighting go down.

I think we're about an hour out. Wow, that was great. Okay. Going to ramas, we're grabbing ice cream when we're going to sit there and pretend that this is interesting. I'm sorry, I missed it. I'm going to fly to Romania

the next time it comes about. Sure. Yeah. Love the Romanians. Check it out there. Sure. Okay, we'll be back tomorrow. We will have Boomer regale us with the Tales of WrestleMania in Philadelphia at Lincoln Financial Field, or is apparently close to freezing. We will have a flames game tomorrow as they play one of their two games remaining against the sharks. Hoof, 8.30 start.

I'll be up for that one. Oh, for sure. Yeah. Yeah, that's a 10.30 Eastern puck drop, 1130 period two going 1215 in the morning. Yeah, you're definitely in for that. Can't wait for Afterburner. It's going to be wicked. We can live stream you on your couch falling asleep.

You're not cast on Afterburner. We've got different star actors for that one. And we will also, things go right. I have a very special guest. See you tomorrow, buddies. See you tomorrow.