Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - Sabres Come To Town Ft. Rob Ray | FN Barn Burner - January 23rd, 2025

Episode Date: January 23, 2025

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This is a special one. Going back years and years and years now, back to the radio show, this guy would come on. He's been one of the most requested guests, most beloved guests, and is soon to become a Buffalo Sabres Hall of Famer. Take a look. Security has always been an interesting. issue for us here like any other company but since we've grown it's gotten tighter we're not

proud of it we don't brag about it you never know who the hell's gonna walk to the door i got a delivery just a seat some ID please well my hands are kind of full right now he said he wanted to see some ID smart car you don't know how crazy people can be out there it's dangerous next time has some ID hey Rob hey coach you can't be too careful You can check you. I'm all good down here, Dan. Just trying to clean my glasses up a little bit so I can put them on and see through them. Are you going to need stitches before we fly tomorrow?

It will be, but that's fine. But I can't use my page anymore that I have my notes on because it's kind of littered in blood. Yeah, we just kind of keep that to ourselves, but nonetheless, good to go. Normal guy would have been carried out of here. Yeah, there weren't any tears or any here. good bring back some memories did it yeah it felt good a fight going on with some fans oh my goodness they jumped over the glass some fan went right over the glass oh no all of them in the bench you know oh look at rob ray my god this guy sort of sat up there and he just sort of sat on top of

the glass and he never really said anything you just sort of sat there and he stared and he looked around and he stared and you know we're kind of wondering what's this guy going to do so you know we weren't going to really wait to give him the chance of, you know, who knows what he's going to do, you know, all those things that happen. Listen, when you work for a hockey organization, you have to trust that your teammates will have your back. Too, good. We're good.

No, it's all right, man. Hey, what are you doing? You don't touch Dan, okay? You don't touch him. Razor always understands the assignment. Congratulations to Round Ray. We look forward to a Hall of Fame induction later this season. Congratulations, Razor, family in the house, Julianne, Robert, and Jordan are here.

As is everybody for you. Well done, Robert. Pretty cool. Thank you. All the fame of Rob Ray. Yeah. See you again. Slow year.

Not at all. They didn't have much to choose from. Everybody else is dead. I don't know if that's accurate or not, but we've talked about it. It's like, that guy, it's a no brain slam dunk, Hall of Fame. You're one of a rare, you spent so much of your career there. You meant so much to the fan base. You're still there.

It's a pretty cool story. I know you're one to shrug it off and you're not going to kind of let it be a thing. But it's a pretty, it's very. I'm starting to cry. It's a very sweet thing. We're very happy for you. I'm teary-eyed, to be honest. There's some guys I was at supper with last night that would be the same thing.

You touched a lot of lives and we don't need to get. too emotional about it, but I know for a fact, guaranteed just watching this, seeing the family, being able to participate is the one that probably means the most. Yeah. Yeah, and you know what? You sit back and, yeah, we had a lot of good times. A lot of things happened. You did a lot of things over the years, but pretty much now that's pretty what it comes down to.

It's, you know, my wife and daughter and son, it's like, that's what it's all about. Yeah. And I always kid the day, the best thing I got out of hockey was. you know, being able to go to Buffalo, meet my wife. And, and, you know, that's our lives now. And you'd trade it all just to be in that situation without everything that came along with it. Keprosoff was put in, his number got retired last year. And it was one of those things, Kipper, that's the last thing he'd ever want or ask for.

Oh, I don't like this. But it's, you know what? His kids were there to be a part of that. That's the main point behind it. And just to see, Robert Jr. there getting teary eyed. That's awesome. He's just pissed. He's got to get a haircut for the end of the month.

And my daughter, she looked at me afterwards and she was like, oh, dad, this is great, but what did you do? Yeah. But that is part of it. She's made a smart ass about it.

Yeah, she's just like me. I love her. Some people's kid, they have kids young. Yeah. Your kids didn't get to watch you. I didn't because I didn't. I played one more year after I got married.

So, yeah, they were not around. But when my son was young, young, I tried to keep them around the room as much as possible and kind of see the environment and the guys and get to know them and just that love of the game.

So he got to experience a little bit other than, but since then I've had a few times when I've been able to play in, you know, charity games, alumni games, and, you know, you bring them out and play with you just so you have that chance to be on the ice at the same time with him. It's pretty cool. It's one of those things that I feel like we would say, you know, it would be cool is if they did this.

This is one of those things. because it's goals, points. Those, you know, it's the high scores. It's those guys that get it. But I guarantee if you were to go back through the course of your career, there will be Lafontein, McGill, there will be a lot of people. Their favorite player is going to be Rob Ray. You were, you, it was the right.

Most of the ladies. But, well, sure, yeah, that's right. But that, and that's the thing. You could have been the same style of player had the same numbers in a different city and it's maybe not the same. you and Buffalo the way you played and the way you defended your I think for a lot of guys maybe in my situation too moved around a lot yeah you never got the opportunity to stay in one spot yeah and you know I always joked that I was always the last guy in the team to get signed I got what was left and all that kind of thing and it's all true but I never had desire to explore to go somewhere else to see what it was going to be like and for me I was in a perfect situation I was three and a half hours from home. It was good. My family was always down, family and friends to be a part of it. It was just the Buffalo itself, the people there, the way we live, it just suited me perfectly,

you know, for who I was. And they were great. I still sit and say to guys, look, you can prolong your career by having the people on your side. And if they appreciate you and like you, they're going to support you. Organizations know that, that, uh, you know, you. You know, it's going to help you it's going to help you stay in a spot and so get involved do things you know be visible you know be somebody with the people because if they don't like you and they turn on you then you're not staying there now so yeah harder to get guys to do that nowadays like you're around the game and it's different i mean we did you're involved in a gazillion charities and funding and all this stuff is it a tougher sell for guys like i i don't know i mean i know guys are still

Guys still do it. Guys still get out and do things. I don't think they're at the level that maybe we did. Not as hands on. Yes. You know, it's more set up. It's all,

you know, they all have foundations and things like that. They do a few things individually and that. But not so much just for the organization in any, you know, charity that may need support or help. And, you know,

I think a big difference too. We were always, always out in the community, whether it was, you know, after games. Yeah, 57 West. You're at bars.

You're at, you're having beers. people you're and people look at you like they watch your play yeah but then you know an hour later they're they're hanging out with you and and i think that side of it is a little different now yeah for different reasons they're not as they're in the community you're not part of the community yes because i don't think the people have the same connection all the time to them because and and on the player's side you almost can't do it because you're no you're going to get it's a different part of it whereas when we were going through it it was like yeah be part of the

community. They loved you for it. What's it like, what do you remember getting into that room? You get traded there from Florida. Well, he's the typical dink that tries to, he wants to know where you're at, right? He's shooting pucks at you in practice. And you're like, well, did he just miss a pass?

Because he's not very good with the pucks. So the first couple, I was like, well, he's just bad at passing. He's not bad. But then it was like, he's shooting pucks at my feet. He's funny. So that you rip one back at him. You have to test. Yes.

You test people just to see how they react what they do, and then it's either they get in or they don't. Right. You got to get clear, clear the robbery. What are we dealing with here? And sometimes that first impression or first practice or first day, that'll, you carry that the rest of your time there. Like there's no getting away from it. You can really best the word dink. If you're a dink, then you're going to be a dink forever. Yeah. How, now, because at the end of the career, you go to Ottawa, prior to that, was there, were you close to leaving? Was there ever a time where you thought I might be done here? Yeah, I think because I had to sign so many times. I never had the luxury of having multi-year deals.

I signed two multi-year deals, and that was my very first one coming into pro hockey. It was, you know, a two-way deal that was a two-year and an option. And then I signed one midway through. I played the two years. And then they never picked up the option. And I signed a one-year deal after that. So I signed like seven contracts in my, in my, but it was always, hey, we want you back. And, you know, we're happy with everything and blah, blah, blah. But we got to sign this guy and we got to sign this guy. And, you know, we're good. We just.

And then all of a sudden, it's late August. You still haven't signed a contract. Hard not to be resentful. So it's kind of hard at that point to go somewhere else. I guess. And then you get the phone call. It's like, well, you know, we had to pay a little extra for this guy. And it costs a little more for this guy.

and we thought and you know this is what we got left what do you think and i'm like what am i going to do like you're no position at hey can you throw in a two thousand dollar plus minus i collected on one bonus in my whole career it was a plus minus and it was like 2 500 bucks but it was fine for me at the time a single guy just you know it didn't it's not as if i needed a lot to survive yeah and you know you were just content doing that so i was i was happy with it there's we're all getting all but it kept us yeah But in that case, too, it kept you hungry all the time. For the role you had to play, if you got content or you didn't do it, then, you know, you're going to be out of the game. You saw so many guys at that time in and out.

But for me, I think it was good because it kept you going. Yeah, you may not have liked it or appreciated at the time. The extra money would have been nice or having some security, but in the big picture was probably, yeah, worked out of your life. Longevity, it was way better. You don't strike me as a guy that was going to get fat and sassy, though, whether they get a two or three-year-d-d-old. on 70 pounds after I was done playing. But I mean, I know I'd just go home for my wife and daughter. That's sassy.

Yeah. But no. I was just, I was. There would be some guys like I'm going out there. Like a lot of you guys, 1,200 people. What was I going to do? Like was I going to say, oh, I'm done. I'm not going to accept this.

I'm going to go home. What the hell was I going to do there? Go work on the farm. Go sell farm machinery with my old man. It's easy. It's easy to say that. but then you feel almost like they're taking, they're taking advantage of my good nature.

So I, yeah, but you know what? They take advantage of good nature. I try to get pointed across to people at times. You live in a fantasy world. Like you're playing hockey. Like you're playing a game you grew up loving. And you get,

whatever you get paid, it's too much, honestly. In reality, it's too much. And so if it's a little less or a lot less than the next guy, who cares? You know, he was good at not spending it too. Yeah, really excelled.

Ever or just? Ever, ever. No, I have a house full of mattresses. He's got a few houses full of mattresses and skeletons. Lindy had some nice things to say when the announcement was made about how you, just how much you met to those teams and how every guy maybe felt a little bigger, just felt a little bit more safer. It was just nice knowing that you had a guy like you.

Who was that guy when you came in? Or did you just have to step into that role right from day one? No, when I got drafted, I got drafted after my third year junior. So for me, it was like a bonus. Hey, I got drafted to the NHL. I'm going to go to a training camp. And this will be the end of my hockey career type thing. And when I got drafted, I went to the training camp and then went to Rochester

because I was 19, 20 years old at the time. And John Van Baxman said, hey, this is what they're looking for up there? Are you willing to try and do it? I'm like, hell, yeah. Like, whatever. And that was, at the time, there was Mike Hartman and Kevin McGuire were the two guys in Buffalo. And so I'm like, and John Van Boxman was the coach. And Boxing probably never got in a fight his whole career.

But I'm like, show me, teach me. And that year in the minors, I think I had 46 fighting majors, 440-some minutes of penalties. And, you know, you never saw out of your eyes from October until, you know, 8. when it was over. You were swollen shot your hands, whatever. But it was the greatest time in my life. You're making 20 grand in the miners and before taxes. And it was, you're loving life. It was the greatest thing ever. But, and then I got my chance to the next year. So to sit there and he probably, he said to me, he goes, you know what? Skill wise, whatever, he goes, you play, you play, you might get a shot, you might not. But your chances are going to go way up if you try to do this,

play this game. And I'm like, I'm doing it. And it. And it was, worked like the November of the next year I got my first opportunity and we had him played who was your who I forget his name oh he's still in Rochester you lived with him when you started oh Scott Medcoff yeah yeah yeah I played on a line with Scott medcalf and Kevin Kerr and the three of us lived together we played as a line together and it was just chaos every night we're on the ice because these guys could play they could fight they could so it made it a little bit easier but they were they were nuts like they were like Scott McKay I remember one in Halifax. We're in front of the Halifax bench. All three of us are fighting whomever. And like we're all tight together. And Meadors trying to have a conversation with me.

Well, he's fighting somebody. I'm fighting somebody in front of the man. Hey, Razor, when we get home? When we get home from this trip, we got to get some milk. We're out of bread, man. The cereal's almost gone. And I can remember, going, look at him going, what the hell are you talking? And I remember looking at the Halifax bench and they're like,

what is this show going on in front of us right now but that's just the way it was and it was so much fun but it made it it made it a lot easier with those guys to to you know kind of figure it out along the way would you say that's one of the for guys in your type of role the harder things to do because there are guys that i mean it's it's it's a tough gig and there are lots of guys that battled it and battled it post and some of what i'm getting at is being able to keep but this is just what we do so just like don't take it too serious like you said let's just go i i think that you have to everybody says oh you can't just go and turn a switch on and go play or do whatever you have to do i i think that's not true i because there's nights you would sit there sometimes for two periods and all of a sudden you get the look from the coach or the pat from the coach and you knew exactly what you know you had to go do so you instantly had to go from staring at broads in the crowd and seeing what's going on to going out and getting in a fight. So it was like, okay, all of a sudden you had to get yourself in that mindset to go do it. After a while, it got easy.

It got really easy. I don't, I think if you go into a situation when you play it, if you're mad and you're angry and you're not thinking your way through it, you had to slow down. And I think and that's something I learned as the older I got, slow down and think your way through this instead of just going and wailing like a idiot and burning yourself out and getting a hell. Yeah. Was it a thing where you afternoon nap, you can't sleep if you know, well, we're Detroit tonight, it's fucking Probert, I guess. Great. Like, did you get to that point ever, or was that part of it along the way where you're thinking, I'd just assume not have to do this tonight?

Well, you always thought, I'd assume not to do it. But, yeah, you thought about it at times because I think back then, too, that it was such a big part of the game that even, after morning skate when there would be meaty around, that question would come up. Hey, are you fighting, don't. Hey, you and Domey going to lock, you're whatever going to get. So that's kind of when it started. It starts putting it in your mind a little bit and you're thinking about it. But I never really worried about it too much because just figured if it was going to happen, it was going to happen. I was confident enough by the time

after a few years that it didn't matter who it was. I didn't think I was ever going to get knocked out. But, you know, you might at least do what you had to do. Yeah. So, no, I never really sat there and let it eat me up and eat me up. And you were, I guess it helps that you were really good at it. You didn't lose many. Yeah, but I didn't get, I wasn't good at the beginning, man. It was like, like I talked to that miners in that 46 fights.

If I came out on top on six of them, you know, I can remember one day in Binghamton, like literally holding on the ankle of Al Tour because that's all, I was like, just grasping. And that's. So I, in the. miners, I think, was tougher than when you got to the NHL. The miners, all those... Littered with guys. And those guys, like, they're 30-plus years old, and their families, and they're

fighting for their livelihood. You know, they were fighting to survive for the next year, so it was way tougher. And more guys. Once you got to the NHL, you know, there's one guy in each team or a couple of guys back then, you know, maybe two, three, that you really had to worry about. And that was it. So I thought it got a little easier, the farther you went. but there was some guys that you had to be careful.

There was not a lot of guys could goad and really hurt you. You knew going in after you experienced it. There was a handful of guys that could hurt you. So you had to be a little more careful. The rest, like that Vial fight, you knew when you're going in with Vial or Domi, you just lock and load, just keep throwing and throwing and throwing and throwing.

And where are you going to get hurt? I doubt you were going to get knocked out or anything like that. But it was all maybe show a lot of the time too. and putting, hey, it's an entertainment business. We got to entertain the fans. Watching you fight takes me. I remember my dad, his, you know, his big, here's how. If you ever get into one, like you probably don't want to.

If you can avoid it, just try your best. But if you get in, just do not stop swinging. Don't look up to see how you're doing. Don't think about it. Am I winning? Bad advice. Just keep throwing. Because you start throwing and then you open yourself up sometimes.

Sometimes. You know, to, you got to slow down and think about it. Is that my getting, am I getting? Let the guy throw the first couple maybe and get them and then wait until he opens up. I got my nose broke. But back then, it's different now. It would be easy now because you have video advice. You know, you could punch it up on whatever, you know.

Back then it's like you're going in. There's some kid on the other team and hey, do you know who this guy is? Is he a left ear or righty? You know, that's the information you had going into it. So you had no idea. And there was so many guys coming through it. Some teams every time you'd play them, there was a different person that, you know, may have to go against. So that's what you had.

It was very limited. And I think that was good because you didn't have time to, you know, think about it or think about it too much. Being a dad now, you think back. What if your son is 20 playing in the American League, fighting 30-year-olds every night? About 46 fights, winning about six of them. Like, it must have been hard for a lot.

No, my dad, when I signed a contract, I called him and I go, dad. And I signed my first contract the night of my first game in the American League. And Joe Crozier came in and he's got a paper and he goes, sign it. I'm like, what is it? It's a contract. You want to play, don't you? And I'm like, hell yeah, I signed it. I didn't know

if it was for a dollar or $5 million and, you know, find out the next day. But when I called my dad, I go, sign a contract. He goes, what? I go, yeah, I, you know, it was for this. And he goes, seriously? They're paying you to

play? And I'm like, yeah. And he was like, what a beautiful world this is. Yeah. That was the reaction you got. So, no, it was, you know, I think they had just as much fun with the whole thing as I did because they enjoyed coming and watching them. I can remember lots of nights. They'd drive to Rod, drive wherever, you know, to watch you play. And I remember one night I played one shift, got off, got in a fight, got kicked out, and they had drove like three hours to come watch me play and I might have got a minute in yeah but that's part of it they knew yeah you ever get tired of talk because whenever you sit down to do these things are hey so tell me about the do me time i get pumped up my heart's actually going right now some not every guy's the excitement i've had in a long

time there's some guys who made their simulation that way who they just they don't really want to talk about it uh maybe those guys didn't do well i'm kidding no i'm joan i don't mind it it was such a part and it's part of, you know, yourself and your career history. That was the point I was saying earlier was that he didn't take it. Obviously, you took it seriously. It was your job and you knew this is what I need to do to be able to play in the NHL. But the approach that Razor always had was, it was just because dad said, they're paying me to.

It's business. I'm getting paid to play hockey like this. Jesus, I better stop complaining. Like, life ain't all that bad. Hey, that first year. that I got all those fights and penalty minutes. And you're talking about pay with my signing bonus and my year's salary.

I made 13 grand. It's not a lot. I could sit at home now and get unemployment or whatever else they give away now that make more than that. Yeah. So you did it for the love. You just did it because it was awesome. Yeah.

I think it's cool that this is happening because there's just going to be a generation. They know you as the guy on TV. You're the color guy. Oh, the kids now. Yeah, you used to fight back in the, there will be so many of your classics that will now be coming up leading up to the Hall of Fame.

I think even if a guy like, oh, yeah, Rob, right, he was a fight. Okay, that's a different, that's different than fighting in today's day and age. I would think the little different. People are going to have a bit of a new appreciation for you. Well, there was probably more fight, a thrift is thrown in that myself and Denny Vial than there has all season on our team. Probably. You know, we're in game, you know,

40 something. Yeah. It just doesn't happen anymore. It's just not. And when you see it, everybody, it's like, oh my God, you see that fight last night? And it's great when it happens. Because it is part of the game. And I go back to the entertainment side. We're in an entertainment business. You know, all of a

sudden it changed to the coaching and that changed it to win's losses. Oh, we got to win. We've got to win. Even as the most boring game in the world, if we won two to one or one- Nothing. It's great. This is a fantastic night. Well, not really because the 18,000 people and the stands are going on. This is boring as heck. I saw that you and Ty had to sit down. Yeah. Leading up to this. Yeah. Obviously, now we know, again, this is a couple years ago. No, we did a few years ago with Ty. And we did it in the summertime, and we dropped the Jumbotron

down in the building with couches and Andrew Peters, and we sat. We went through all 13 fights that Ty and I had in the NHL and talked about each one of them. And it was really cool. Yeah. Really cool. There again, it helps that you didn't take it too serious. There might be some guys. I don't need to sit down with him and talk about our 13 fights.

I don't, you know what? I think all the fights I get in over 234, whatever it was in the, I don't think I really hate anybody. There's nobody. I walked away from the game hating a handful of teammates more than guys that I, fought. You want to name, name? No. It's not worth it.

There's a couple still in the business. But, no, you don't, you didn't hate people. Yeah. I don't hate anybody. So what? Like, Ty, like now I talk, text Ty, talk them all the time.

He comes in when he comes in and watches his kids play. Yeah. You know, it's, hey, I'm going to be at the game tonight. You know, you hook up, shoot the shit for a while and see what's going on. We've done for stuff for each other over the years. And, but people think we hate each other because we fought each other. Like, well, Maybe you disliked them a little bit at the time, but now, no.

Yeah. That, I mean, it really was, was a crazy, crazy setup with you, too. I, I've never got, had a chance to watch it. I've seen clips from it and seen you guys were at least cordial with each other and that. But it was, it was kind of like domy and proberd when, when these two teams would meet. And for you, you know, Ontario, home, going into Maple Leaf Gardens and stuff like that. It was awesome for you, I would think. Oh, you know, the one of the best things when we had a chance to play is you were able to play in the old Maple Leaf Gardens, the old Montreal form, the old Boston Gardens.

The odd places. The odd was awesome. Like it was rat infested. It was falling apart, but it was awesome to go play in. Boston, the same thing. You know, rats running across the floor in the middle of the dressing room. It's just like, oh, well, you know, nobody cared. It was just getting out in that environment.

It was just unbelievable. Yeah. Now, I think you told the story on the radio show about you and Ty before the draft. Yeah. How does that go again? We had the same agent at the time, Raleigh Thompson. And it was always in Montreal back then. And Ty lived in Toronto and Rory was up there.

And so literally, the car pulls into my driveway and heading to the draft all excited, not kind of knowing what's going on. and roll you drive and Danny Dow who was in the front seat. Ty was in the back seat. I opened the door and I'm like, oh, here we go. So because we had played junior.

I was just saying, so you're in Peterborough. I was in Cornwall. So you kind of, you had that kind of conflict early before you even got to the NHL. And Ty never shut up the whole time from my house to Montreal. It was about a three-hour drive. And it was just like,

you're just sitting there and you just shut up. You just wanted to. Anyways, we end up going to, of the draft. We shared a hotel room. We got in a little scuffle in the room as soon as we got in there. And I kind of banged his head off the nightstand. And he got clipped a little bit. And we're like, so we stopped instantly and calling rolling, going, oh, my God, this is what happened. And we got to take care of, you know, the next day, he gets drafted. I get drafted. You know, you have a cool night in Montreal. You drive home the next day, you know,

pull into my driveway. I get out. See you guys later. you know and you know the next time we really saw each other was he was in winnipeg and we were gotten a fight first time on the ice and and that was it and it went from there like if that's bad planning putting you two in the same hotel room well it didn't last long like he's like we fought 13 times that would have been 14 times plus what we did in junior and uh he's uh one and 13 So it actually worked out. It was fine. I was happy to give him one.

You're quite the scorekeeper. Yeah. It's good. Yeah, it's good. And the night he got me was when the tie down change. We were talking this last night. I always wore a goalie jersey because I like the bigger arms.

Or go naked. Yeah. But all of a sudden you had to tie down. And I'm like, well, if I got a tie down on the back and we're thinking about lifting the jersey up and all that kind of thing. And I'm like, Georgie, tie me down on the front too. So they can't. So I had a tie down.

down on the front and the back. So it was going, went from coming off to going nowhere. Right. But the problem we didn't think about was it was a little too long still on the front. So Ty, lifted my jersey up, swung it over, and my head was in my arm like this. And I'm like, son of it, I could see him because through the jersey, but I couldn't hit him. So this was an exhibition and I actually go off the ice and Georgie standing there and I'll, and the trainer, and I lose it on him. It wasn't his fault, but I lose it on him. And he goes down and I'm kicking him and he's getting up.

And he's throwing sticks at me. And, you know, five minutes later, we're like, we're sitting there together. We're like, we better fix this. Yeah. You know, and that was, so it went from tight on front and back. And from there it was no problem. Georgia Babcock has been there. Longer than you?

No, no. George, he worked at Sabreland. When I first got there, he helped clean the ice and that. Then he started taking the equipment from the practice rink to the plane. and then he started working. So I've been there 36 years. So Georgia's probably 34. Right in there.

Yeah. Do you think that the tie-down stuff came in? You had a big part of that? Because you... I think that I, from what I understand, a lot of general managers at the time, we're bitching because when the Jersey come off, you had nothing to hang on to.

And it's an unfair advantage. It's unfair advantage. Well, maybe I was smarter than the rest of you. That's what they said. Dummy on your team. But anyways, we figured it out. And yeah, it's kind of cool when they kind of half-ass referred to as the Rob Ray rule.

Do you think you had any influence? Yeah, all the influence. Because I think you think back to all of them. You more than anybody else would be skating to the box or off to the dressing room with maybe your shoulder pads on. Yeah, because I, there was a lot of experimenting going on in that time of how to do it. You know, especially in the miners, guys were spraying stuff on so you couldn't hang on. They had Velcro inside their arms. So you grab on and the Velcro comes off so you could still use your arms.

Some had them. The whole sleeve came off. So there was a lot of things. And Jim Pete's Telly, our trainer, we called him the fight doctor. And he was every day, I was like, let's try this. Let's try this. So there was always something new. It just came to about when the jersey came off the one time because I wore big.

And then all they had was the shoulder pads. I'm like, well, if they got the shoulder pad still, so I cut all the straps off the shoulder pads, put Velcro on the cup. on the cups here. And so it stuck to the jersey. So boom, as soon as, and it was extra large jersey, so it's gone. And then, you know, there'd be night shooting in a fight. And the guy would be like, doing good.

And all of a sudden it's like, he looks and he's got the jersey in his hand. And it's like, uh-oh, now what do I do? You know, in his eyes and then you go at it. So. But then there's the odd guy that, you know, the jersey would come up, Dave Brown. I remember the fight with Dave Brown in Philly. And Dave at the time, I was like, oh, my God, this guy is. unbelievable. Getting a fight.

We start the fight. We're squaring off. And all I can hear is John Muckler on the bench. And he's screaming at me. Razor, don't do it. Don't do it. I'm like, too late now. I'm fucking radio. And so we got it and got him good. And both of our jerseys ended up coming off. I caught him at the end.

And he just kind of came in. And it was like, oh, you know, so it was. But so when you got in a situation when the other guy's jersey came off too, because then they thought they were going to try to do the same thing. but it didn't work the same way sometimes. There were still something you could grab. They always want to wear a T-shirt, you know, because they weren't as a good shape as I was.

I was like, you know, come off and and then I started doing a couple times. I did a couple companies back home when they're like, hey, wear my T-shirt underneath. So when the jersey come off and the T-shirts on underneath, and I did it for Lenova a couple of times and Joey Todaro, and it was awesome. The league could go whiney with you probably.

Yeah, yeah, can't be doing that. we were saying the other day watching Fitzpatrick at the Bills game doing the thing taking his shirt off so we should get Rob Ray should be doing that he'd get the fans just like they've seen you without your shirt so off I still at this point even though I put on a lot of weight still look better than he does he's a hairy bastard hey I only got like three or four right here and a couple around my nipples that's it that's uh bills are doing okay it's yeah they're doing good are they paying attention in Buffalo it's kind of a big deal Yeah, it's kind of a big deal. But you know what they deserve it.

They're doing well. Josh is sick. And Josh is a person, great guy. You know, he does everything. He's a perfect guy for our town. Yeah, with it, that's the bills, it's, the other day, it's sub-zero weather. You know, the place is packed. My kids were there.

It was like, it's the greatest sporting event going when they're doing well in the playoffs like that. So, you know, fingers crossed. It keeps going. It's hard not even for people that don't maybe have a rooting interest to look at. So Daniel's, you're going to, you got a lot of time. You're going to, you're just a rookie. You're going to have a lot of time maybe to win. And Chiefs, we've seen you win.

And Eagles, you just won a few years ago. It's got to be the bills. It's got to be the bills this year. But for anybody that's never gone, you've been, it's everything leading up to the game. Like my neighbor, my neighbor, if it's a one o'clock, he's leaving our neighborhood at four o'clock in the morning. Like, they're getting there, getting their spot, getting it set up.

It's the whole pregame, the party before. So probably 70% of those people are bombed before the game even starts. And then once they get in, they just go. They're professional. They are. They're good at it. And it's a lot. Like, you could go there and not even go into the building.

And we've done it before when we're just playing. And go just for the tailgate. And I remember one day we had this band thing that had a TV in it. And Grant Fuhr and I are looking at each other. We're going, do you really want to go in and mess with all that? No. We sat there. We had it on TV in this little van.

We had our whole thing set up outside. You had to take a leak. Oh, yeah. You want to go get something to eat. The barbecue is right there. And everybody else was in. That was one of the greatest days watching the game ever. Open up the door when they'd score.

You'd hear the building that you'd hear all the cheers come like you were in there. Shut it again. Get warm. Yeah, yeah. So are you a big deal when you're walking through the tailgazing? I don't have a bear. I don't go to the games. I don't go.

Because I wouldn't be able to enjoy it because it would be like the Beatles, man. Like they couldn't. go anywhere. Sadly, it's not even that far off. I don't know if it's the Beatles, but people do it. But it would be. Raise her, raise a, right? Come up Sunday. Come up, Sunday. Come and you what. Yeah, I let my kids go do it themselves. Then they can go and join it. Yeah. If they go with me, it's not fun. So what's the vibe? Because I think we were talking about it for a guy like Kevin Adams. So, well, teams in Buffalo can do well. Okay, Sabers, when are you guys good? I just think that's probably got to be some of the sentiment. Is that, is it motivating? Is it

good for the Sabres to see that winning can happen here. It can be done, that sort of thing. I think it's good for the player to see how excited and crazy people get over the bills right now. And that that can be them as well. That, you know, if you do well. And that some stars are real happy to be in Buffalo. And they want to be there.

They can go anywhere and be the. No, I think it's great. It helps out a lot. And for guys, I know the guys, friends with a lot of those guys, they interact because the same ownership, so there's a lot of interaction between them, which is great. And I think, but on the other hand, too, the bills went 17 years, never made the playoffs, and then they got it going, and now, you know, you're riding it. So there's, it shows them, too, that, hey, you get to that point, it can be very, very good here.

And when it's tough, it's tough. The good thing is the bills are doing really well right now. So all the attention is on them. So the second the bills are done, it doesn't matter if you're doing well or not, all that attention will turn to you eventually, either after the Super Bowl or after this weekend or whenever it may be, you better be ready to go by that time that comes. Because instead of having one radio guy there and one newspaper guy and maybe somebody, one other person, you'll have 30 people there from that point when they're finished

until the end of the year instead of having three. He's on the fence. Where are you at with New Orleans? I mean, if they go on to the game? No, I'm. I lean towards not going only because I heard that Super Bowls aren't that much fun anywhere. And it's expensive. Why would you want to go to a Super Bowl?

If your team's in it? So what? Okay. You go to the Super Bowl. I'd rather go to Buffalo and watch. I would rather sit in Buffalo in the middle if they're in the Super Bowl with all the people. Yes. Instead of a handful.

Well, they open. Because you go to the Super Bowl, how many actually Buffalo people are there? I have half the building is Buffalo people. The rest are half whoever. in corporate people. Maybe 20% Yeah. So they're not, it's, you want to be where the people are. I would, I would rather be with, or men of the people. You are men of the people. Like if you don't think that they're the Super Bowl that,

even if the arena at the Bill Stadium playing on the big, won't they? I was going to ask. Yeah, I would imagine so. Absolutely. They'd do it for, yeah. They would sell it on a second. Very for no. People would all just be there, be like a regular game day other than watching it on the board. Yeah. Because they're all together. You buy into all this, uh, referee stuff with the chiefs.

Is it real? Was it just people why? Yeah, people bitch about referee and at every pro sports and ours too. And come on. Just hope it doesn't happen this weekend. Just out of battle through it. If it happens, it happens. There's nothing.

The buffalo curse or whatever, it's not a curse, but the fact that the, the way the sabers and, and bills have lost championships and how's it going to get worse no wide right no goal yeah four in a row like i'll tell you what if if the bills or the sabers ever do win i i don't care where you live in this country or states go to buffalo for the party because it would be a month long but i would be scared i feel like that city would melt like it would just melt in there there are buffalo's different they're mature they know what's all they're not going to be that'd be like vancouver turning over cars lighting thing on fire you know all the kind of stuff no we would appreciate yeah you said that what what would a parade look like pull in buffalo i don't know

i don't even know where they'd have it where would they have it's what would it look like i don't know yeah never thought of it really but who cares yeah it's at the end of the parade where you'd want to be. Sure. To sit there and wait for, to get there. I, we went to the finals in 99.

Okay, we lose. We go, like a day or so later, right in the middle of town, they had a state set up and we're all like down and out and like, yeah, we got to go to this thing.

The town, the city wants to put the, how many people are there? 30 plus thousand people for us. We had just lost and, you know, the guys were up down and out. We're like,

what the? Like, I mean, you couldn't fit. more people in this area. It was 30 plus thousand people. That's how excited they were and we lost. It's a cool thing about that city is you hear, oh, Detroit's Hockey Town, you see all these.

Buffalo hasn't had a chance to flex how great they are. We see them going through tables. We hear about the heartbreak, but you've never been able to see them truly enjoy a championship. It's either going to be off the charts or there won't be a person on the street because they won't know how to act. I was said at the dinner last Sunday said that I don't think they make the playoffs this year, the Sabres. But when that team makes the playoffs again, just to make the playoffs. That building is going to go wild.

Like that will be an intimidating place for another team to play. Absolutely. That building will be crazy. We've experienced it. It's, it's, there's times it doesn't matter. If you get there, man, they're there. So why is it taking so long? I thought when Tuck came in, he's like, hey, I'm, this is where I want to be.

I want to be a saber. It's like this team, they're starting to turn the corner and they just haven't gotten there yet. And it doesn't look like this year's the year either, potentially. You know, you got a lot of younger guys, you know, it's, there's, don't give me that bullshit. I'm doing. Why don't put me in this book? Brett, why hasn't it happened? What's the...

Because they haven't... They don't play hard enough. And they, the goaltending is, you don't know what. Like, the Ocupuka was unbelievable. The second half last year, wasn't he? Yeah, you did from January. I'll just say that in the league,

you needed exceptional goaltender. I think the Sabres offensively have good players, but don't have, they're kind of like the flames where you don't have a McKinnon or one guy, that two guys that just go, I don't care. We're going to. win tonight. I'll just hang on to the puck the whole game and take over. I think they've got

really good players, but they don't have a superstar. I think in the back end, Dahlene is as close to a superstar as they have, but it's tougher to have that influence. And powers isn't where he needs to be yet. And so power, power, whatever. Sorry, sorry, get it right. It would be interesting in those years that they have that top pick if it's not a D man. What if it's one of those what if it's badard or what if it's a out of like a generational forward well i go was supposed to be that mc david was supposed to be that that's the other thing right people of buffalo or nchl fans everyone forgets that they lost the fricking lottery yeah like they have mac david the whole situation go back to crosbie yeah it's completely sure buffalo see it's a buffalo thing they're gonna

figure it out yeah i think they're coming they're comments they they've got to I would say this. Part of the problem with the Sabres is, what's their identity? It's not super skill. It's not defensive. It's not goaltending. You're right? Like, they don't have a strong identity.

So how does that start? Who starts that? Is it the coach? Is it a veteran? The coach can only say and do so much. The team has to adopt. Do you think Robre was a Buflonia? There was an identity.

there. There was a type of... But we played, you know, there was years we, we, we struggled a little bit, but you were considered the hardest working team in hockey. You were going to battle. You were going to the odd. Every night, you're going to go. It didn't matter, you know, winner lose. You were going to go. You know, but I think it's something across the league now. It's, you know, where you struggle with it. But you talk to so many people in every team, and it's like they're trying to figure it up that the player have changed so much. And doesn't it seem, you got kids. that are good players and you talk to them. And I know you talk to him because your kids play.

And if you just go and finish checks in the offensive zone and chip pucks in and stop. The game has changed so much. It's all 1B1 now and it's all skill. And it's like, you know, you talk to guys out there. What do you look for when,

you know, college guys. Gooduner. Hey, you know, everybody's so cookie cutter now. They're all small fast and you just hope when you pick a kid, you get the right personality that he fits into a situation.

I go, What if you got a big kid, you know, strong hits, goes to front of the net, responsible defensively, maybe kill penalties, physical. We'd be lining up to sign them. They're not out there. So that's the situation. The whole hockey environment has changed from minor hockey all the way up through. So when you go to look for these kids, there's very few of them that can do it.

It's tough seeing guys like Eichel move on with a cup, Reinhart. Yeah, you can go back to, you know, in those cases, there's a lot of, For so many years, there was so many different coaches, general managers. There was a couple general manager along the way that we had a pretty big board chest. And next thing, you know, they're doing stuff and you got nothing left and nothing to show for it. Yeah. Maybe trying to be a little too overaggressive or, you know, trying to. So, yeah, I don't know.

I've never been in that situation to sit and try to figure out what's the best way to do or how to do it. But it's just, I think, a lot of trial and error until you get that right person. And you got to remember, the league is so much younger now, too. Yes. Okay, we're one of the youngest teams in the league. I think average age, like 26 or something like that. You know, there's those 35 plus year guys that you would, in the past, would lean on to be your leaders, to be the guys that show the way, you know, maybe, you know, ice time and that going down a little bit,

but they're respected, they've been unsuccessful. They're not out there anymore. So a lot of these guys are trying to figure it out on their own. and if you don't have that super, super leadership or those guys that have been there did it, it's hard sometimes because they got it's through trial and error. You think it's still a situation for free agents where Buffalo is just a no-fly zone. No. Because I wonder if it's maybe I'm off.

I don't think it's, but if, I think it's more not, sorry, it has less to do with Buffalo and more to do with not being in the playoffs. that would be the harder sell for a player, I think, is, I'm fine signing in Buffalo. Give me, how are we getting to the playoffs? Like, are we playing into the playoffs this year? Because I'm not going to Buffalo, unless I'm getting way overpaid, just, you know what I mean?

I think most players would probably like, I'll go to Buffalo, but there better be some direction here. Do I believe in the direction they're going as far as free agency? Yeah, it depends on the age of the player, you know, situation of the player. but, you know, okay, Winnipeg. No, I know.

There's a lot of places. I don't even care. Some places that are nice weather, they're not a team I'd want to play for, you know, but guys, if they're getting a contract, they're getting just what they feel. They'll go anywhere and play.

Yeah. Because I was, what I was going to say is if, if some of Bill's mania, if guys see, like, that town is frigging crazy. if they can see what kind of fans there are and that it's got to rub off and you're right it's got to be winning at some point and everybody's different you got guys that want to be in a big city but that's not everyone there's guys that's not a big contract guys that just want to be on a winning team there's guys that want to go somewhere because their wife doesn't want to go they want to go somewhere quiet it's whatever there's so many variables to it that just to point at one thing and all because you don't have this because Detroit's not a beautiful city necessarily, but guys were pretty happy to go there for a long time with a chance to win.

You know what I found around the league, everybody that's got a city that's tagged as, oh, not a great place to be? Any city you go into the city city, 90% of them suck. Well, some of these big cities aren't so great. No, and you walk outside five minutes, 10 minutes, 20 minutes outside of town, it's the most amazing place you ever been. And I think that's, that's the park. Like, you guys come into Buffalo, they get on the airport, they come down the 33 in the city.

They don't see anything. No. They don't even see. You know, you can go 10 minutes to any direction. And you're the middle of the country. You're totally different world. Got the lakes. It's unbelievable.

And it's like that anywhere. It's like that in any city. So what about this year's Sabres? They're here tonight. Yeah, gone tomorrow. They were Bigwin in Vancouver the other night. How much of that was on the Canucks? Sounds like there's some stuff going on in Vancouver.

Yeah, but I heard. in Vancouver too a lot of that's being blown out of proportion a little bit so what do you really know i don't know they're not winning a ton no seven wins the last 23 games i think for the canucks that's right that yesterday but what have we been we had a little tough stretch there um no our guys i'll tell you what when our guys are on and they play fast they play the pressure game of pressure down low pressure on the walls pressure everywhere awesome If you're not being aggressive and winning those battles along the walls, and your goaltending is not up to par,

then they can have some problems. But when they're going, it's like, holy, this is great. When it's not, sometimes it can be, oh, my goodness, what just happened? Casey Middlestad for Bowen Byron. Do it all. Bowen Byron's awesome. Casey Middlestad, what, do they want to move them again? They're talking about not happy with him.

Bowen Byron's an awesome guy. awesome player just a just an old boy that just loves the outdoors hunting fishing and and plays hard every night plays through stuff nothing bothers them another name that's been out there trade wise is cousins and i don't know if that's really true if it's been out there me i think because it's a big center and because people want not putting up the numbers that but he's he's he's so skilled he's so fast he's i think as dylan cousins is gets a little bit more, I want to say hockey mature, not personally mature, hockey mature, that he's going to be a really good player because he's got a lot.

He'll get Zab. And he wants to, and he's hungry and he's eager. And he wants to be good. He wants to win. You know, sometimes young guys like this get big deals and it carries an awful lot of pressure. Sure. And until somebody else signs that next deal, then you kind of forget about that guy. Then he can settle in and play his game.

Is he a guy that is a, if he reaches or gets, you know, that's, that's who Dylan Cousin should be, like Max's potential kind of thing. Is he a big score? Is he, oh, he can score. Yeah. Yeah, I know he can score because he's got a great shot. Very good pounny killer defensively like that. He does a good job with this. But offensively, yeah, you know, he's big enough.

He can take the puck to the net. He goes to the front of the net. The guy, he's said a good shot. No, he's got all the tools. Does he remind you of anybody? it's always hard I'd heard somebody to talk about a guy like Gabriel Landisg

play in all situations guy can score big leadership qualities all that sort of thing I don't know Landisog really well to compare it to that but I mean he won a cop so that's what is

I got lots of guys that won a cup I never have on my team so this guy bought dinner last night or how that? I don't know who bought dinner but I know I didn't have to buy it. Kenny Sutton was there. Jeff Sanders, Sandler, Polly Cruz.

About the entertainment, Georgie Babcock. We really need to have Georgie come on one day. Oh, my goodness. We don't have to talk. You just get him. Just ask him one question. And two hours later, you'd be like shutting her down. It's awesome.

This is a guy, like we talked about coming in. But he's so passionate about the game. he loves to say everything about it. He would do anything for any guy in that room, and he has. He's done for both of us. And never expect anything. Just, I'll do it. Whatever, if it, this makes things good, then I will do it.

But to, and he gets, he's got a great feel for when things are tough and they need to be loosened up a little bit. He'll do something so crazy off the wall that it's like, you forget about everything is going on. You're like, what the hell does you? this happened from lighting his hair on fire to you know smashing stuff to you know hurting himself to it's just awesome like you couldn't have a better guy in a dress he's all in he's all in and anything you're talking team guy he's an ultimate team guy how's being on the road because we the road's nice now you weren't you were very happy not being on the road you were not looking

forward to having to travel i had a little time off there over Christmas and it was nice. So you give me a little chance to kind of recharge. I got a little time there. So I took three or four years off. You'll be fine with going on the road once the younger kid is out of the house and you're not driving to my hockey. I'm guessing that you still miss. I miss this. My kid got hurt and over just before Christmas. So he punctured his spleen skiing. So we're in the hospital, whatever. So I took the time off. And it was a great week because I, a kid that our kids, right and I's kid played with. his mom passed away. They go to their funeral.

Right after funeral, my wife drives to Ellicaville, gets rear-ended turning into Tim Hortons, tears a bumper off her barren new truck. Drives from Tim Hortons, drops my kid off at the ski hill and goes to our house. 20 minutes later, she gets a call that he punctured his spleen. We spent the next week in Children's Hospital with him. We're going for Christmas. My daughter goes to Hawaii. She's not around. And then my wife has to go to Roswell, which is a cancer hospital on the 26, has a procedure, comes out. And I'm like, great.

holiday. This is an awesome. And it was like, we were heading to St. Louis, Vegas. I don't know what it was. And I'm like, get me the hell out here. I got to get on the road. I was never so happy to get back on the road again. So, recharged. I just threw something into the drive there. I'm not sure, because obviously your boy's not playing, but somebody just got out, sometimes out of the woodwork things show up.

So what's the boy going to see, is he going to make the show? Start skating again? Start skating on Tuesday. Yeah. He's got to start skating. The show. Yeah. No, no.

Our ultimate big plan is find a rich girl. Like, if hockey, whatever, you know, we have fun playing hockey. Yeah. But we're really, really, it's coming to the point 16 now, driving. It's like, dude, we're going to start finding one here. Even if you, even if you'll get hooked up with her now, just be friends that, you know, in mid-20s that, no, you got to marry money. That's 16. Find one in the mid-20s. If you wait.

If you wait too long, all your other buddies have gone through that and you don't want to go to something that. And so you got to kind of just keep it on the side. Sure. So for you, you got married at the end of your career? I was like 35, 44. So were you guys together a long time? Is she a Buffalo girl? Yeah.

So she. So this is Rob Ray. No, she had no idea. really she really has no idea when i came home and i said and when i came home and said hey i'm done playing i'm finished she goes she never said oh that's great she goes does that mean i don't have to go to the rink anymore and i go yep she's like that's awesome and so and then it's only been the last year that she actually figured out hockey watching our kid as long as she has that now she's turned into like the ultimate hockey mom knows everything about it a lot of opinion

because that's pretty rare i would think to live in this city like buffalo and not be into hockey or not have a... I found a sheltered one. Yeah. She found something, though. No, this is the luckiest girl in town. Yeah, she found. I tell her that every day.

This got dropped off yesterday. I don't know if this, this may not even be the same team, but I'm supposed to share this with at least you, retro. You can play it, Jack. There is play-by-play underneath it, but this looks like it's some overtime. Comes in. This is the junior coyotes and the junior safety. Now they play it back to him.

I'm mistaken. By one Darcy Hordachuk. James has it. No. We were playing against them. So this must have been... Was this last weekend? Maybe in...

Shot. High over the net. What was it in Scots? Bring it in. I wasn't there. So if we lose, it's because... Yeah! He gets bad coach.

Whoever was on the bench that day for this group. It was just bad coach. Yeah, Horvichick says, from losing to these guys 9-1 to beating them this weekend, tell Warner the coyotes are back. The coyotes are back. Well, there was no Warner and there was no Ray in that lineup. So that's maybe why he got the upper hand. Is that his boy shit? You know what?

Hey, you know who you listening to back home, your biggest fans? Georgie Sweet. Oh, Georgie, he's text. George's Sweetland. I told him yesterday that was going to dinner and then doing this. He's like, oh, tell a rat. I said a wall. Yeah.

We got to get. I think Georgie's one of the few fellows that has researched and brought. Some of our origin here. Maybe I should take some home. We should. We can set you up. We can set you up. He's a beautiful man.

So do you miss Rett, be having read around? Oh, yeah. Not really. The guy that moved into the house that he was in is actually hooking me up with a few things that. Some medical procedures. procedures that could help along the way. So it was nice. But the guy that moved in, he's got this dog.

And it's really crippled up and it's blind. And so I didn't know who the guy was when he first moved in. I'm watching this dog. And he was trying to go up the little three stairs and get up to and fall back down. Go up, fall back down. I'm like, something wrong? Like what? So I just, the guy was out there.

And I'm like, hey, dude, you better help this dog get up the stair. And he, and we got talking. But it's blind. and crippled. But the poor thing was trying to get up. I go, I'll come over and I'll build a ramp for you. So it'll come up and you'll be able to get on the deck. So I was feeling bad.

Not a big dog lover, but I was, I felt bad. He had dogs. Your dogs. I got one now. I got one now. Yeah, we last one. Yeah. That was about a $20,000.

His kids swimming in a bull? No, they're really, they moved. They just moved in. So it's kind of. There's Georgie. There's Georgie there. Messaging in right there. Is he?

Georgie, I bet you. George Miss Redd. Yeah. Well, George, I haven't seen you in a month either. We'll see. Maybe he misses you too. Because it was good we'd get the old Rob Ray update. You'd be like shoveling his sidewalk or cutting lawn or whatever with your tarp off,

just kind of keeping us in the, in the loop as far as what you were up to back there. It was nice. Well, that's the problem with, well, when he was a part of it, too. These guys, I snow blow, I caught grass, I take care of it. And not one does anybody ever say, hey, here's five gallons of gas, you know, keep going. Or here's a cigar or here's a drink. You know, it's like, you just do it. You know, you just do it.

Michelle, I just enjoyed watching your barbecue and your gitch. So that was the- I don't mind going outside of my underwear. My son will walk by three bathrooms in the house to go to the front or back door to take a leak. And like, why you do that? I just like it. Yeah, but it walks past it. Like, so you never know what you're going to see around there.

I seem to remember there is a kind of, you think it'd be bad if we showed Robert in his, yeah, probably, probably shouldn't put that on the internet, Rob, barbecue and no, because somebody would get that and add to it. Very excited. Well, we'll take a break.

I was waiting for a break. Sorry, just. Hey, we don't get, we don't get you often. And, you know, again, this is emotional. Very happy for you, very deserving. Am I done now? You don't need to be, whatever you want to do. Okay.

But we're happy for you. We talked about it for a long time. You know what they should do is they should put Razor in the Hall of Fame. And now you and RJ are there, and that is awesome. Yep. Very cool. Thank you. What, do you know, have what the, because it's next weekend, right?

Yeah, Friday. Do I have a plan? Or what, do you know what? doing or i still have to work that night i got five minutes say what i got to say and and go over to get in between the benches and go to work who's going to replace you they can't it's such they tried marty did those games that i was talking about terrible couldn't understand the word he was so how is marty marty's great yeah marty's beautiful everyone loves marty everybody guys all the women love party because of his eyes got like those cat eyes those really funny colored eyes yeah and they don't even listen to them they just

his eyes, like, put him in a trance or something like that. Yeah, I saw him. Tell us. And you can only, and talk. Yeah. You read his stuff on Twitter and you only hear it in his voice. Tell me what you think, the best Rob Ray memories, that, that whole thing. Yeah. And then he'll ask me again today. He'll say, oh, we went on Twitter and, you know, this is what they say. And I'm like, okay, yeah, whatever. And I never tells me ahead of time. So I'm like, react.

Yeah. You just got to react to it. And it's like, okay, yeah, that was great. I don't appreciate talking about myself too much. I try to at home and my wife and kids put me down so bad that I've just learned a lesson just to shut up. So are you going back for Razor Night? Yep. As long as I get to talk.

I want to say a few words. Do you? No. No. Mazy's doing it. Brad is. Oh, well, he's. We're going to ask Barney, but we're afraid of what he might say. So it's tough.

At least Maze you can. control him a little bit more. He's a little bit more responsible. Yeah, I saw Barney on on X or Twitter. It's a good thing. I don't work for the team like Razor because I don't know if I'd be able to hold it in anymore. He needs well. He's a good man. He's a good boy. All right. We'll take a quick, just a quick break. We'll be right back. When you look at Rob is from a playing career standpoint, he's the one guy that was there for everybody. He's the one guy that I use this line, created a safe working environment. for everybody.

And everybody enjoys that, right? So, you know, your skill guys have this guy that creates this safe working environment, which makes it a lot better for everybody. There you go. Lindy Ruff, two terms of Lindy in Buffalo for Rob Ray. A safe working environment. Everyone deserves it, don't they? I could still, I can find a clip where I had to stick up for him.

I've watched it over and over. Is that right? send it to Jack. Can you walk us through it? Kenny Belanger. He's slash poor razor. Razor hurt his pinky and whipped out and I had to get beat up by him. It's no good. That was you coming, that was you fixing it? Yeah, that was me. I had to stick up for me.

Not nice of them? Very nice of them for sure. Welcome back. We'll get to the Pinder report in a moment. Who did buy dinner last night? It's a lot of guys. Oh, yeah. I've pulled them out of the fire once, too. Like literally. That a boy. Good for you. drank too much. Appreciate that.

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one game homestand before they head back to Winnipeg to stop at Minnesota on the way. A recall was in order today after Walker Durer was claimed by the San Jose Sharks yesterday. And so who, who could it be the? Oh, Bishop. Bishop. Bishop. The state charge is a dollar 25. Bishop.

He's having a very nice year for the Wranglers. 33 points in 39 games. The captain since spread. Sutter retired. Feels like a very Kirklandy guy. Certainly not young. He has played a few NHL games, but not for a while. And he's a guy that everyone raves about the character and a leadership.

And it feels like a reward for a guy that's led the Wranglers to a very impressive first, what, 60% of the season or whatever they're at. Nice. Also play center, which helps because, you know, Kevin Rooney's been, you know, not that gray. He's been Kevin Rooney. Need a stray for poor Kevin Rooney. It's just good for Clark Bishop.

I have the breaks there and we're excited about Clark Bishop. It also sets up a line with some intriguing playmakers of Karen, Sharon Govich and Kuzmenko. Okay. And it will now be a Pelche-Lomburg and Bishop is the fourth line tonight. Rooney watches Miramanov stays in, Hanley out. Tyson Barry hasn't played since 1982 and Wolf is your starter. It's a lot of not playing for sure for, for, uh, for Barry.

Yeah, which I hope he's okay with. Only a few more games than you and I this year. Yeah, that is true. As for the standings, Cogger Flings. Stay ready. Stay ready. Stay ready.

Stay ready. He's on the TVA program. He's ready to go. There's your wild card chase. It's the Flames with the Canucks and Blues in the rearview mirror. Games in hand on both of them. The Utahs are kind of lingering. I don't know.

And then, yeah, some teams that aren't going to hockey this year down below there, at the bottom. Speaking of their opponent, the Buffalo Sabres, sadly in a familiar spot down at the developmental end of the Eastern Conference standings. Here's how they line up tonight, or at least how they did in their last contest, as we look at Sabers' lines and pairs. Butyrka, Kulich, okay, Tage Thompson, the play in the wing, not center. Kozak, Kuzac, Kuzan, Tuk, Kulik, thank you.

Kulik. Mela Kaliki Makkah. It's a thing to say on a nice Hawaiian Christmas Day. Benson Krebs. Good, cow good boy, Peyton Crabs. Okotog, don't you know? Jack Quinn on the third line, Malenstein, Samuel. Lafferty, Daniel.

Lafferty, Samuel. Centering the fourth line and Nicholas Obay Kubel as well. Malinstein, former hitman, correct? That's right. There you go. Maybe cousins can just hang out. Just go down the hall. Yeah, sure.

I'm sure the Sabers would love to trade that guy. he's not good any potential dalene byram power samuelson your top four cona clifton double c and henry yoki haru you're a third pair you like that's a solid top four and rioki har you is the thing is the thing uh they're missing some guys uh large human jordan greenway speedster ryan mccloud and almost a flame for michael furlique and a first jason zucker he's out a good year right Zooker's been good. Yeah. Been a nice little ad for the same.

Pitch of Rob Ray's doing the Ratt Warner on that guy. He's the Warner. Doesn't that thing need a pillow? Warner pose. So you'd say Zucker's done more for the team than Devin Levi, the goaltender of the future the last three years who's not on this roster right now? Yeah, he was on the roster.

I played the other eye. Yeah, switching it out. There with Rime Dog is back. Rime Dogg. So there it is. There's the opponent. tonight. Last night, we had a hat trick in a Toronto

boy in Toronto. And I know that that warms your heart, Red. Always. As Rob Reyes as well, there's nothing quite soft spot for Toronto. You know, the good things for the Leafs. Oddo is a player scoring against them. Oh, it wasn't. Congrats to Adam Fantilli. He has some extra fans. His mom through the hat on the ice.

Exciting. Other NHL, what do we got? Oh, how about a heavyweight tilt? Ryan Reeves. Match you, Olivier. This is the first ever matchup. sweet a couple of the super heavyweights Ryan Reeves and Matthew Olivier.

Olivier's 10th front of the year it's the first for Reeves and Olivier has Reeves off balance but Ryan and Reeves going to fight back and what a tilt this is two large men Olivier's fortunate he's got him

at arm's length Olivia I don't know who's fortunate yeah they're both very fortunate because those are I would have Olivier and the flyers for Deloria is the top two in the game right now. It's scrapping. Olivia's a guy that absolutely handled Matt Rempay and dusted him up nicely last year. It's also scored at that.

These flurring with 10 goals. Poor Rampi. He scored the other night. Yeah. Great. He's figuring it out. Oh, yeah. Tonight's games, what do we got?

Let's take a look. Schedule. A lot of them, Dean. Oh, look at that. Which color you like tonight? You like the oranges? Yellow. You like the yellows?

Some yellows. No, I don't like the yellows. No. I don't like the yellows. Why? Funny thing about the yellows at first one, I saw a pal logo at the old workplace and gone and found all the Lysland Home love that's happening in all. Yeah, I bet.

Yeah. I wasn't around for Woodstock, but I'm sure it's a similar vibe. Just people making out. Love is in the air. Everyone just getting along great with Lindholm. Don't love the teal slash light blue. No. Don't like that. I like the gold, if you will.

I'm okay with the orange out on a bad night tonight against blue. That's fine. I mean, there's two of those. We'll revisit tomorrow. Yeah, we will also revisit in our bet three, six, five as well. It's not Friday. It's still. I don't know.

Take a day, right? You've been. It'd be good. We've got to Tilton the American League as well. Vincent Arsino, Dalton Smith. All right. Here we go. Smith and Arsono let's do it here this is a big boy bowed right here

don't know how I got in the algorithm but there's right after right uh do we're right now uh hey maker oh thank you don't got him there clear win for don't know how it got in the algorithm but there it is you could see another fight that's two fights in the Pender report today uh do we still know that Gavin McKenna's good at hockey or we're going to save that for tomorrow we got it okay so this is the 17 year old season and for Gavin McKenna's not draft eligible until next year, not even this summer.

Last 20 games, 44. A 20 game point streak? 17, 44 points in there. This guy's too good for this league. Send him somewhere else. Maybe that's the Sabres name. I think there's 32 teams that could use in Gavin McKenna. But not this year.

They won't be allowed to. You'll be able to take, like we'll take this year's first and next year's and slat them together. take next years. Would it be amazing if Connie got up to the podium and pulled that move? No one knew about it. I was just talking to Gary. Our next year's first and this year's first.

All the GMs started grabbing the CBA. So what did that Conroy? He pulled a fast. Oh dear. I had no idea you could do that. Damn you, Conroy. We've got conno confidence. That's happening.

I do have conno evidence for sure. Okay. Let's keep moving. Big game on the weekends. No pillow. Get him a pillow. You have a pillow. Pello, Jack, get him a pillow.

He's going back for another. Boy, he's left his mark in the studio. I'll say that. Let's get to football this weekend. Okay, so Paddy Mahomes, everyone thinks he's this innovator. It's all in the movie, Napoleon Dynamite. Watch some of these moves. He's stealing from Uncle Rico.

Sidearm action. What? Spin, spin, arm spread, turn, underhand pass. Look at this. Uncle Raco. Didn't connect the dots till just now. I'm watching that movie this week. I'll tell you that.

You are, you are. I am. Oh, yeah, vote for Pedro. That's a hell of a show right there. Okay. We'll keep moving. John Gruden now takes calls. He's got this thing with,

and this is like this, this is the apex of everything. The shred line. It's called the shred line. People are upset. They get to call in. Also, we get a wave comment, and it's Gruden,

like, which just so much we love. Here we go. I'm season ticket. holder here, sick to my stomach and barely fucking think. My shred is for the fans that were sitting near me. These fucking disgusting fucking people, we're down by 10 points. We're trying to play for a fucking NFC championship. You're trying to start the fucking wave and getting mad at people sitting around you

that they don't want to do the fucking wave right now because we're on offense. We're trying to fucking go get some points. You're trying to start the fucking wave. These disgusting other people sitting by me fucking cheering, dancing. People running the lions, too. They're playing all this upbeat music, getting people all fucking. fucking hyped up to then try and be dead silent for the offense to do their thing. All these dumb-ass people trying to start.

Let's go lines change. I hate the fucking fans that are in the stadium. They're all so fucking stupid. Most expensive play or most expensive game of all time outside of the Super Bowl. All these fucking rich people are fucking going to these games and don't give a fuck about what's happening on the field. I'm screaming at people around me. Are you watching the fucking game? I fucking hate people.

That's the greatest shred we've had in four weeks. He should go. He should go back to the COVID days where no fans go to the damn game. They can go watch it on a TV. It was. I think it was the most expensive play. If you get that, he can't have people doing the wave at a football game.

Finally, people coming around, Dean. Gruden's been so, he's great for Barstool. He's great for everything. Get that man in front of a camera. I almost sound like Jack.

When you go back, we don't need to do it now, but Jack sounded like that caller. Trying to watch the game. These people are doing the fucking wave. Yeah. Try to sit down. Congrats to a young Canadian golfer that did something quite impressive.

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I wonder, yeah. Maybe you are just grabbing it with the wrong. Could be. Wrong clubs. Yeah. New techniques in terms of how to get your cookies in. Let's get this. Don't waste time dunking your cookies in milk.

Instead, dunk your hand in milk. So when you eat your cookies, they're already covered in milk. Genius. That great time. doing it wrong this whole time. Yeah, yeah. Here's another thing. People, they see Jack's vehicle with the consoles and everyone wants to do it.

There's a special way you got to get it done. So that is a tutorial. Yes. On how to drench your car in milk. That's correct. Yeah. Anyone needing help. This video is their support.

That's Canadian milk. Get it in that fan vent as well. Beatrice? Make sure the electronics get their fair dose as well. This guy's kind of gone viral. He does these trick kicks. He must have been like a kicker in college. And, well, it'll all make sense in a moment.

I just need your attention. Okay, here we go. I blew up my slide on-site kicking. So we're going to rod dog, these ones barefoot. Here we go. These onsite kicks are great. This is true. Come on.

That's so good. There we go. Guys, unreal. He's got a highlight reals for days of this stuff. Brett, if you would just imagine. you've been focused. You've got to commit yourself, Dean. Or all those going 10 yards?

You got to commit yourself to a cause to get that good. I don't know if he had 10 yards in the apartment to work with, but I am assuming he can't get the 10 yards necessary for the on-site kick. And imagine it, because as he said, he was rod-dog in it. So what if he had a shoe on? Or even that busted-ass sandal. Yeah. Talented guy.

I guess heard of a snickle. Snicker? Snickle? No. To make a snickle, all you need to do is hollow out one of your pickles take your snickers bar place it right in there like that fold the top over if you're traveling with it hit it with that rubber band and then delicious and i always pre-make all my snickers for a week just take a three back for work works great listen to jack hey listen to them

listen to you we should we should make those on the show and try i'll try to snickle uh no people are got all these dumb videos at home hey i'm going to cook this i'm going to cook that check out my recipe there's one guy he tries to cook a meal while he lets a cow in his kitchen and it's it's pretty good stuff he's trying to make pancakes today here we go yeah anyway better than this guy anyway better look next time on this pet it's uh pancakes stuff go today I always wanted a cow yeah What if it's kind of big dumb and friendly hey they aren't though they're big and dumb big and dumb they can do not friendly what if it took a shit in your house that I don't know that's a major no I don't know you're not gonna you can't that has to be the last video like look you have tears

in your eyes from laughing well we're done with the food now yeah so you have to end now we're going serious no no we uh thoughts and prayers to uh Bill Terwilliger who passed well then I'll tell you what we got tomorrow. Rhett got busted for just some obscene plane fouls. You're flying there's certainly things you can't do. Also, big hippos working its way back in this program. And the shoveler's garage band is blown up. So you can look for it.

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That feels kind of domesticated kind of. Yeah, probably a relationship there with that cow. Yeah. Likes bananas. I didn't know. I think Cow just knew. Like this is, I've done this before and just any of I can get in my yaps going in.

Like including that. What do you call that thing there? Egg Peter. Thank you. Yeah. Whisk. Whisk. We are off to,

uh, tomorrow road trip. Coming? No. Jaspor. Jack's coming. Jack? Boy, Jack.

Come on. I'll be there. Nice. Head into Jasper. I see they got some. things planned, eh? Yeah, I did read through the old itiner there. It's a lot of Euler stuff.

Sure is, yeah. Hey, we're going to have a watch party for the Oilers game. And then it's the Oilers Pajama breakfast. And then we're going to have the oiler pom-pom lunch. We're going to have the Euler reach around at about 2.30. So good. Yeah, and then we're going to have the oilers shower off together. It's okay.

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Yeah, that dinner thing. Yeah, because I was in town. Bummer. And really got to get back Sunday morning, so probably going to miss whatever they got. I think we just have to check out Sunday morning. I'm still tempted to go to the, I said it the other day. I want to be in the mountains

watching the football. Well, they're going to lose if you don't. So I hope you do. figure that. That's my concern is that they didn't lose. Well, they're right over there. Mountains. Where?

Right there. Just a little west of here. Oh. Just right there. Yeah. We'll get you there. True. Yeah.

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tonight. Don't mind the habs of plus money the way that we, what was it, 13 and 3, the last 16. We talked to do that. And the senators had an incredible emotional comeback over Boston on the weekend. Great game. A bunch of fights. Prince played last night. So that's why the numbers are a lot side as they are. I don't mind to Ottawa here. I feel like

this is a group feeling good about themselves right now. Especially beat them a few days ago. Ottawa blanked in that game the other night. Yep. That's it. Totally. Yeah. Yep. Sure. Okay. Interesting. So if you like those or not, there's some options right there on two of the games tonight. We saw there was a whole bunch of games.

It's a ton of games out there. Yes, 100%. Yeah. And Leon did hit that four shot total a few nights for us. There's still no Connor. He's still going to be shooting it. Yeah. So that might be of interest to you as well. Pretty good player that, Leon. Pretty good player. I mean, it's probably that canoe paddle he's playing with.

It's not legal. Goals, points, assists. I'm going to bet on all the teams to start with B. Okay. So who's on your, who's on your parlaying or doing one-offs? Bruins and the Sabers and who? Bruins, Sabers, Blue jackets, blues. Good luck, Rhett.

Thanks. Thanks. Do you want to add a couple legs to that, Jack? I'm doing the puck lines. I'm getting one and a half. Yeah, all of them. Good. Bet 365, whatever the moment, it's never ordinary at Bet365.

So there you go. I mean, there's some options for you if you want. Have you seen any odds for the Jasper tournament yet? I know you were looking through the app because there's such a wide range of markets. No, I saw some player props. Really? Yeah. Your Renchuck, he's right up there for one of the scoring leaders.

Wasn't it he you busted him open? Yeah, I bludied him year one. beat them last year. Yeah. I mean, Rob, raise in the room. I'm going to pretend

I've actually heard the guy. There is no neutral in Pender's transmission. It's just overdrive all the time. Look, if we win that one game, I don't even need to skate the rest. We start with Oilers Friday night, 715.

Jack, Sharper your skates. Third reminder to sharpen your skates. If your skates are not sharpened, you're dead to me. I'm taking your key, you're out. Do you have a stone or one of those?

Not enough shit. No. give me one of those that's what you need all right for a guy so serious about his outdoor hockey play I don't just show up and play

I'm not that serious about it he was serious that one day we had a few yeah you're pushy actually ignorant come down to Prudis with me I'm like why are we we're hammered we're completely twisted and we're going to hop in a 40 minute car ride to go play outdoor hockey trapped in Prittis all hammered

and then how do I get back no huh His performance last year, the Saturday morning. Awful. It was the full jackometer experience. Like awful good, awful bad. Oh, he was so hungover.

So he was deathly ill. Furnace face. No good. Oh, Jack. Anytime he got on the ice, he did like two strides, turned back for change. Like, you can't do that. We have one spare. Like, give us a minute.

Just guzzling water. That's why I did dry January. Mm-hmm. Well, he's trying to fly with, uh, with Eagles tonight before. That didn't go so well. You can't do it. Again, overdrive. It's the only gear. So tomorrow show.

Early start. Just a heads up on that. I'm going to the game tonight. Nice. Really? Do I wear a Robin or gear Sabers jersey? Is it autograph? That's a lot of mixed messaging there. Yeah. I get an autographness. No, no. Afterburner

tonight? No, I'm not. I believe you have a cammy and a mic tonight? Either way. After the game? We do have afterwards tonight. If you're going to the game, where you're Rob Ray paraphernalia. Bring a sign. That's right. Bring a Rob Ray sign.

And I'm serious. Halford through the third period, rip off your top in honor of the great robin your chest. There you go. Start punching. Don't do that. Don't do that part. See you, buddies.