Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - Robyn Regehr (FULL INTERVIEW)

Episode Date: November 28, 2024

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Do we have our special guest already? Yeah. Rock and roll. All right, let's go. Let's say hello. I mean, we heard from him on Friday. We did hear from him on Friday. So it would be good to hear from him again.

I hope he's in, um, different locale. Situated differently at this point. Well, I see he's seated, so there's no telling. He is a, uh, cultural icon. There he is, ladies and gentlemen, former flames defenseman. L.A. King Great and, and, uh, Buffalo Sabre,

Stanley Cup champion, Robin Ruggier. I may have mixed some of those up, but there he is. I remember the puzzle. Not in that particular order, but I think all that's accurate. Redd, how we know? Especially the great part, boomer. Yeah. Yeah, that's, I mean, regardless of teams or accomplishments, the great never stops.

In my own mind, that's for sure. How are we doing? I'm doing pretty good. I'm a little, a little fatigue this morning. I played hockey games the last two days in a row. So that's a lot of hockey. for me. We played a alumni charity game on Tuesday. And then yesterday I played down at the dome in the ATB big league experience. And I'm happy to report that I gave the big league experience to a couple

gentlemen down at the dome. Oh, good. Yeah, one guy. One of them? Catch him with his head. Well, you know what? Like the guy, he was driving wide in the second period. And I was yelled at him to shoot so it could just be a friendly game but he decided to drop the shoulder and try to cut into the net and so i just gave him a little bump next thing you know he's on his ass and i've got the puck and i skated by their bench and said like come on guys who tries to drive wide on me at the dome ask alishemski is the longest the guys who have tried failed you add yourself to that list if you'd like so you know what it's it's up to me to give them the big league experience so I took that responsibility literally and I was happy to do it.

Is your body okay with it? Oh, it wasn't too. Red, I barely touched him and the guy. Oh, I'm talking about in general back-to-back games. Like, well, I definitely miss my, I don't have an afternoon nap anymore. So yeah, maybe that's why I'm so fatigued. Yeah, I saw it and it was, I think I saw one of the pictures on social media. It was really quite a athletic looking crew, at least in the alumni skates,

I guess on Monday or whatever it was. Well, and yeah, the one last night, though, there was some controversy down at the dome because Stagin was on the other team. We were up 6'5 with about 30 seconds left, and they come down and they're blatantly offside. So we're offside. Stage either he doesn't care or doesn't hear it. And he goes down and puts the puck, everyone's looking at him.

Like, what are you doing? He's like, well, I didn't hear anything. So now I'm calling him and his team the 2004 Tampa Bay Lightning as the officiating was very poor. Shottie. So do you enjoy still playing? Because I know a lot of guys, once they're done, they put that gear away. They, it's, that was then, this is now, it's, I can't do it. I don't play very much.

So I play in a few different events. So hockey helps a homeless. I always try to play in that one. A couple alumni games. Usually ATV has one or two as well. John Winwick is a great supporter of the alumni in the flame, so try to help him out. And then there's the Gordy Howe and a few like that,

but maybe on the ice eight or ten times. But life's getting busy. You know, our kids are doing their activities. He's, Wyatt's playing a lot of volleyball. So that's been fun to watch him kind of progress. And Shane's playing hockey with the North Stars. So, yeah, it just kind of life, life takes over a little bit and less and less hockey. And I've been more enjoying the racket sports, too.

So playing a little bit of badminton and tennis. Wow. Dean would like to put a challenge out to you. He has also bought a racket court membership place. And he's out there giving her so whenever you want to invite him, him down. He's he's up for some tennis. Actually, on the other side, I was thinking about this yesterday. I could probably make an announcement

right now because I've been cleaning a redge. I've been cleaning out the basement and the shed and all that just trying to get just too much stuff. And I came across something. It's like, do I keep it? And I just said, no. I'm officially retired from rollerblading. Oh, wow. That's a stunner. I've donated the rollerblades.

They're gone. My rollerblade career is over. Did you donate them to the dump? It's too soon. Okay. It's too soon. No, I think. It's tough. It's going to make a comeback.

Give it about 20 years. It's going to make it come back. That's the thing. You know, the sport, you know, the discipline may well be a thing once again. Remember when Barry Sanders retired right in his prime?

I feel like this is boom to us right now. You're giving up too soon, man. You're still a pro bowler. What are you doing? I can envision it right now, that hill kind of behind your place. Yeah. Zoom,

right? Like some of those tight shorts? You know. Oh, that's you. Tank top, no sleeves. You love rollerblading. It's not around shades. Yeah, yeah.

You can do all summer. Did you have, did you have the break on the back of the roller blade that you had to actually put your heel down to stop? Or did you actually take it off like, like all of us that are real men, hey? And actually, no, no, it was there. Take the break off. I'd have to replace it because it would wear it down. Just leaning. You're getting shin splints on the front of your.

He! Ow! Yeah, not good. Do you guys remember when that pro roller league was around? Like what was that the rads were in Calgary and there was teams on the beach in L.A. It was so cool. But didn't some of the guys that played in that actually get pro contracts? I'm sure there was some of the other two, like lower level guys.

Burroughs, right? Yeah. I don't the rolling blade. Didn't a guy like, I thought Pavel Burry in his rookie card had he, he was like on a, on a fence or on a beach like somewhere. with roller blades or sitting like it was his shorts and like that was his neon rookie card or something like that's upper deck rookie card yeah that's why that's right that's right it was so anyway not to steal your thunder i just thought i'd get that out there while we're talking about it uh it's good always good to have you we've always got time for you whenever you want

to come by but i have a feeling it's not just to uh shoot the shit well you've already wished him happy birthday right appreciate that appreciate that by the way um you have a good boomer today How'd you? You know what? It was actually below average. I'm sorry. It's just too bad. Yeah.

That's what came to my mind. Like that was the first thing that came to my mind. So I just thought I'd throw it out there. It was really loving. I quite enjoyed it. Hey, tell us about the original series. This is hockey. We all think of hockey in cold weather countries and Russia, Canada, USA, Finland, Sweden,

Czech Republic, all that. Apparently in South America, there's people playing hockey. I did not know this. Yeah, so I was quite surprised to hear from the Brazilian Ice Hockey Federation. Yes, there is one. And the NHL International Growth Fund. So the NHL International Growth Fund just focuses on non-traditional hockey markets. And they said, we're going to places like Colombia, Brazil, Jamaica, just to name a few.

I think they went to Argentina as well. and they were shooting all this content, and they were going to come up with the show. So I was very excited. It was a really good reason for Christina and I to head back down there. It's a heck of a trip down there. It's a long, long ways.

But we had a lot of fun. We went last March and had a great time in Sao Paulo there. They've got a, I wouldn't call it a full ice rink. It would be about a half, half or three-quarter sheet compared to what we're used to, but it's there. It's all year round and lots of people showing up and playing and enjoying it. So really, really good to see. And, you know, hockey for them doesn't look like hockey for us in a traditional market.

But they have excitement. They have passion for it. And they're hoping to grow the game. So I was happy to be part of that. What did you do while you were down there? Just get on the ice. Did you bring some people out? or like they they had all the people showing up so they had different different groups one one group was

more kid kid focused and and another one was a little bit more adults and then there was a kind of a mixed group too but you got to remember um in salpolo like it's it's a city uh with surrounding area of about 20-ish million people so it is a nightmare to get around there like the traffic is is just insane. So, you know, like we have, we have here four o'clock practices, like Shane has four o'clock practice out in the northeast at Don Hartman. I can pick them up from school and get them out there by 3.30s on the ice at four. There's no way these people can do that there. So they do have the ice, but they're limited on when they can get there. So a lot of the kids are actually practicing at 7, 8, 9 o'clock at night because

the traffic is just horrendous. But, you know, as a lot of South Americans, they're very passionate about what they do. There's a lot of excitement with that. And they have a good little group of people that are playing hockey. And if you look at the population, if you can continue to grow hockey in Brazil, it's well over 200 million people.

Yeah, they're limited on infrastructure and things like that. they're willing to grow the sport, which is really, really exciting. And, you know, the other thing we did was we traveled a little bit down there, too. So we did end up spending a few days in Sao Paulo. We went to Rio after that. And Rio, if you've never been there, is a beautiful, beautiful city. Like, it's as nice as you see it on some of the postcard pictures. So you just have to watch out where you go.

You have to travel with some common sense. you know, not have a lot of jewelry or any jewelry on, not be not be drunk out of your mind stumbling around in the middle of the night and some of these, but you know, things, things like that. Just be, be careful. And, and it's a lot of, the beaches were amazing. The people, the food, we really enjoyed it. And then probably the highlight of the trip was we went to a small community right on the coast. So it's, it's spelled P-A-R-A-T-Y, but it's, but it's pronounced peta chi and it's an old coastal community and it's protected and it was an old port and a really really cool spot where that was where i think our favorite place because smaller

setting a lot of walking getting a chance to meet people and get a little bit better feel rather than being in two very very big cities like saupolo and r but that was it it was just a week a week trip. It was pretty quick. And we were back. It was right after Kippersing, wasn't it? It was. Yeah, I left the next day. We left the next morning, actually, first thing in the morning. So, yeah.

Houston to South Paul? Are you like 16 hours on a plan or something like that? Yeah, overnight. So I think we were about, what, three and a half hours to, down to Houston, three and a half, four hours. And then your overnight, overnight flight into South Pole. So you get in a bit of a week. about 8 a.m.

That next morning. And most of those flights going down to South America are like that. You're overnight, regardless of if you're going through Toronto or wherever it is. Do they know the NHL? They know a little bit of the NHL. Yeah, they do. And, but it's, they're very, you know, still in the, in the basics of kind of understanding the game and the skill level and the kind of refinement.

but there was a there was a Czech younger Czech gentleman Christoph who's there helping coach the kids and he's he's on to some really good things right like you don't have to complicate things for for especially the kids it's about skating first and foremost can you skate and skating is very important and if you can't skate you're you have a hard time playing hockey so working a lot on skating a lot on edges and kind of understanding that and then from there slowly incorporating puck handling, passing things, but a lot of work with skating and being on the ice because, you know, they just don't have the ability to get on the ice for hours and hours like we do up here. Like for me when I grew up in Saskatchewan, like you come home from

school, you're on your backyard rink for the next three hours until mom yells at you to come in and eat some supper. And that was the way it was. But for them, they're very limited on the access to that ice sheet. Have you seen the episodes you're in? This is Hockey is on Prime Video in Canada, ESPN Plus in the States. Have you watched them? I did. And I actually was given a hard time.

I always hate watching myself on TV. But I did watch it. And you know what? I thought they did some really cool things with the show, with the camera, camera work and things like that. And, you know, you can kind of see a little bit of the excitement and passion of the Brazilian people in that show, which I'm glad they were able to capture that. What kind of a crew went with you, camera people, staff?

Yeah, so the crew came from the NHL based out of New York there with the International Growth Fund. And they had, there was four. of them that were that were there and they actually went to Colombia right after they were done there in in Brazil they continued on and they were they were going into some really interesting kind of countries and environments there were some political unrest there in Colombia that they were going to so you know you have to have a pretty open mind when you're going to to these countries because, you know, there's lots going on. And, you know, you just have to be aware that it's not going to be the same as Canada or the U.S.

where most of us are. Did you offer your services? You know, I see you're going to Puerto Rico and Jamaica and Mexico. If you need me to... Argentina, I'm right here. I got time. I'm here. No, I actually, we only had a week because with the boys being the,

the way they are. We wanted to get back. We actually missed two of the games of the city championships for Shane's team. So we wanted to quickly get back. And I think a week was enough of my mom and dad came in to Calgary when we were gone. And they were happy. They were really happy to do it. But, you know, a week was probably for them. They were happy to get back to Saskatchewan and kind of relax a little bit. Yeah, Rod and Edy. So, yeah, all of them are up and available for your viewing, your download or whatever.

Yeah, I would say for everyone to watch it, it's really cool to see the different kind of versions of hockey and what hockey is to different people in these different countries. And I think, you know, they've incorporated obviously some of the, the history of the countries and the different upbrings of the people. But for them to play hockey, a lot of it is not traditional hockey like we would see. So whether it's more ball hockey, as we talked about with rollerblades and things like that, or some places in South America do have ice.

Some have ice outside because they're pretty far south latitude. But hockey, just because it's a certain. certain way for us doesn't mean it's like that all all around the world. And I think that's, that's kind of the cool part of the show in that, you know, it's, it's, the common thread is hockey, but it's a huge variety to a bunch of different people. So are there crazy parents there? Always. There's always. There's always crazy parents. Yeah. Yeah. That's, that's a given. Yeah, there's certain things. Yeah. Why can't my kid get power play time? It's a huge gripe in Brazil. Coach Robin, you're not, he's the best player.

He's the best player. Why doesn't he get to play more? There's a lot of best players on every team, isn't there? Amazing. We're going to get to see you again next week. Next week. What's next week? December 3rd.

We'll see you there. People have plans for you, so don't worry. It'll be fine. Oh, you know what? I don't think I'm going to make it. Oh, you're going to make it. We appreciate it. Tell us that to be us.

I don't think so. If it's what I think it is, I'm not, I don't think we'll be there. Are you watching much of what's going on with your former flames? Very, a little bit here and there when I can. Like, one of the things that makes me really happy is it actually looks like everyone wants to be there this year and play hard. And whether that's Ryan Huska and the coaching staff doing a better job or maybe just better attitudes from the players.

But any games or periods that I've seen, I, you know, there are ones where I'm proud that the guys are playing hard, where last year it was obvious that there were certain players that didn't want to be around. And, you know, that kind of changed from game to game. But they're playing hard. And as a hockey fan now, I have respect for that. And I love to see that. It's true. The work ethic's been there almost every single night. And the last two years have been the exact opposite.

They don't have to tell you how close a team they are after another. Oh, we're such a tank. Robin. We're so close. We really like playing together. We love each other. What a great room. Yeah, it's that. So that's, that's what I like. And, you know, I've talked to some of them, you know, when I've seen them around at different events and things like that. And I think in Calgary, the message I tried to tell them is if you leave it all out there, if you work, and it's not always going to be great. Like there's going to be games or you're not feeling it, Matt, like in 82 games, that's the way it is. But if you're there and you're committed and you're working hard and you're just, you're really pushing, you're pushing.

And sometimes it's not going to go. And then, you know, you're a half decent person and you do some good things off the edge. you're involved with the community, people are going to give you the benefit of the doubt. But if you're only there half the time showing up for half the games, and you can see that you're making turnovers and don't really care and you're not working, and you're an asshole when it comes to interviews, people don't like you, and you're just kind of worried about yourself, people are going to get on you. And they're going to go ahead and they're going to give it to you.

And they're not going to give you the benefit of the doubt. So it's easy to say, but it's a little bit more difficult to do. It looks like they've all kind of bought in for the most part so far. I don't think they've had to face a tremendous amount of adversity yet. So that's one where, you know, there's going to be that, whether it's major injuries to a number of players or whatever it is, maybe a bit of a skid where, you know, it gets a little, a little tough and you've got to pull

back on and kind of get the nose up and pull out of it. That's when you really find out what these guys are made of character wise and you know attitude and things like that. But so far for the most part it's been great and

I think part of that is everyone had very low expectations outside of the team. I think anyone that I talked to had low expectations. So maybe that helped him. Maybe they said you know, we don't feel the pressure this year. We're going to go through a bit of a process here to get this team kind of back on track.

And Craig has been trying to work that through as best he can. And it's going to take time. But it's been a really good start to it this year. I feel. Have you been thrown out of any rinks yet with the young man? No. So I get... He's going to get into Rett right now and he's constantly getting tossed.

I left the bench. the other day it was late in the game where the trails west was trying to screw us over no wait glen lake was trying to screw us over in clare's home i had to raise my voice and the ref gave me a any more out of you mister and you're gonna get a penalty so i walk so i gave yourself a time out i removed myself from the equation it's good coaching and then we came back to win sorry uh glen like so you gave yourself a time out, your team responded by playing better while you were gone. No one's asking for a deep dive.

Maybe you should be. So, Robin's just laying out the facts is what happened. So I believe we call that in the hockey world, an addition by subtraction is usually a trade when someone has a very poor attitude and is an individual. You get rid of them.

and it's an addition by subtraction. Damn, reps, making all that money. Yeah, amateur, minor hockey refs. That cat, say, red. You know, believe it or not, I am fairly calm watching games. My favorite spot is actually to run the clock. I love running the clock. I like being in there.

I'm away from most of the parents that are crazy. while I'm in the, while I'm in the box there. And then you're involved in the game, too. You're watching the game. You're having fun. And time, time goes by really, really. A little tumbler there. No, no, not at all.

Chissel secondary assists for your son? Yeah. No, no, no. No, I just, I like doing that. That's actually my favorite spot to watch the game. 16 from 22. And 28. All right.

Sadd about 208. making that proud. He wasn't even on the ice. I mean, this has done that. Four point night, son. Out of it. Again. Shut up again.

Four point night. Congrats. Well, congrats on, I didn't, I didn't know that was happening. So I look forward to checking that out. And always good to see you, Paul. Yeah.

Thanks. Thanks for having me. And you guys enjoy it. Happy to the Christmas party. I, I don't think we're going to make it. I'm talking about this is a different one. This Christmas party.

Oh, that Christmas party. Remember last year? Remember when Rose Hill was sitting on your Christmas? Yeah, I do. I think he still feels bad about that. Oh, he knows. Yeah, he's very serious. Yeah, we got shortly shot him this year.

Yeah, I thought it was hilarious. And you know what? It's a compliment to Christa, too. Like, you know, it's a, but you guys, You guys can keep giving them a hard time. We keep calling you? I don't know if I think I'm going to be busy, though. I think if you're here.

Yeah, I feel like if you're here, they'll. You know why? Because I was so far behind you guys. Like it was not even funny. He pre-dranked the drinky show. That's the stupidest thing you can do, Jay. Yeah. What was he doing?

Amateur. Yeah, seriously. Thanks, Reg. Thanks, Red. Thanks, great. Thanks, guys. There you go. This is hockey on Prime Video.

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