Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - The Final 4 Starts Now Ft. Jamie McLennan | FN Barn Burner - May 22nd, 2024

Episode Date: May 22, 2024

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another edition of Barn Burner. Where's the emphasis? Which syllable? Barn burner. Barn burner. Which one? Barne. Burn.

Burn. Burn burner. Barn burner. Barn burner. It's a barn burner. It's Barn Burn burner. Jack. Boss.

Hello? What is it? Barn burner. Okay. Barn burner. So start, start strong and then fade. Seems right. Seems about right. Sounds like a show. Ah, well, here we are.

We are, are we ready? Do we got to put helmets on for round two? Is that how this goes? How does this work? It's not a Canucks game. Certainly didn't need it last night. It's not a Canucks game day. It's not an oiler game day. It's game, uh. Red should be putting his helmet on or at least breaking out that weird cat,

trophy statue thing that he's got. That's right. Do people know we've shown it on the show a few times? Yeah, if only we've had a picture. It's, uh, you made it to the stand? What do you tell a story? You can kind of enlighten people. Well, about the cat?

Well, just about why, why there is a cat, how the cat came to be. Well, the thoughts behind getting a cat. I don't know. I would, when you go to the finals, you get my, or he went to the finals my rookie year and the rumor was the team would match the league's payment for every round you win. So you get a certain amount for winning or losing the first round, second round, third round. We went to the finals.

And so I'm like, who, this would be good. This would be a nice paycheck for the kid. I got a trophy. Truck, maybe. In fairness,

it's a, substantial trophy. It is significant. That would take up a lot of storage if you weren't. weren't going to. Oh, yeah, three feet tall on a pedestal thing that spins around. Oh, it's, it's very high end. And at this point in my life, I like it more than the 20 grand that I probably would have got. Oh, just, yeah, you had left that right in the beach. Just you may as well have just thrown it right into the ocean, because that's all that would have been. Uh, is a bronze. Would you,

would you say that's a bronze statue? Yeah. It comes across as bronze, but it's a cat who's kind of up. I've yet to do any mental urgey on it. Up on its haunches. Would you say it's kind of up on its haunches? It's the original cat. It's coming here. It's the logo. It's really coming at you with one of these.

Does it have a stick somewhere? Is there a stick? Yeah, it's broken. It's broken in its jowls and it's attacking from its haunches. And it's about three. Yeah, it's about three. And 100 pounds. No, not 100 pounds.

40. 40. The weight of the cup. Yeah, it's heavy. That's what we're told. Well, it wasn't cash. You would have just absolutely spent that. Oh, but I had a plan to go to pure platinum.

It was going to be wicked. Yeah, wicked. Would have been wicked. What's pure platinum, right? That's a sports bar. Yeah. If I win the lottery, I'm going to go to a sports bar. They have lunch buffets.

Yeah. It's the old lunch buffet. Oh, yeah. That is. quite a move. The open face. The old rip, the rip joint with or a steakhouse.

Or a steakhouse. A lot of them, not a lot, but some of them, high end steak sandwich. Yeah. I wonder how many, how many buffets or steak sandwiches do you think our next guest has had at the old rippers over the years? Because I feel like that's, that is quite a move

to go to the, for some adult entertainment and then just be hammering down some, some, some, some, some, some, with some mac and cheese. Lazia. Yeah, or something like that.

Jamie McLean from, of course, from TSN, from Overdrive, there he is. Noodles, good to see you, buddy.

I'm late to the conversation, but I picked up, so you're asking me if I've ever eaten at a strip club? Is that what you're asking? No, it was how many thousands

of meals has he had, I think was more than the time. We were not doubting. Okay, so I, my last, like, I'm not a big strip club guy,

but I do remember in Vegas, We went to the Spearmint Rhino, and I had the best grilled cheese I've ever had in my life. And it was about 4 o'clock in the morning. And I was with the lead singer of Theory of a Dead Man, Tyler Connolly. And I had had alcohol poisoning, I think, the night before where I don't remember getting home. And the next night, I was kind of just nursing my drink because I just, every time I took a sip of vodka, I could just, like, my body was shaking.

and we were doing three nights in Vegas, right? So it's a, but I, that, that grilled cheese was the greatest grill cheese I've ever tasted in my life. Now, it might have been situational based on what my body was up to and my body clock and all of that. But I wasn't a big guy who got into the buffet or anything like that. You had to wonder who was, you know, it's like the guy who's working the DJ booth is probably working the grill. Oh, yeah, multi-purpose is going. I you know if that wasn't where COVID started it might have been you know some of these places long long before the days of hand sanitizer being oh yeah readily available it was not

really that sort of thing there were a lot of things going back this is what built your immune system up back in the day that's what helped but sanitize with vodka right yeah exactly I will say this though when I played in Houston apparently there I lived right across the street like all the guys lived in this condo complex and across the street was a bar called the gentlemen's club which was a strip club and apparently their menu was the same as like high steakhouse like they're got the same stakes from the same butcher same type of everything so the guys would order like a steak to be delivered um you could order takeout from there so it was uh i have had takeout from the gentleman's club in Houston, Texas, which was very good.

But again, you've got to consider who's firing it up behind the closed doors. That's what concerns me. Who was that TV show? You can't do that on television. Who was the chef in the back, sloth or whatever it was? And he had the, that's all I can imagine is just some disgusting dude back there that shouldn't be near a kitchen serving. up all of the delicious foods.

The only other cook story I have for you guys is years ago, early 90s, I'm playing for the Capital District Islanders. And we played out of Troy, New York, the RPI College. So on a Friday night, the college would sell out, 6,000 fans. Saturday night, we would play like Adirondack, Detroit's Farm Team, get 1,200 people. But we used to hang out at a bar in downtown Troy, New York, like very big. very gritty. And one time we're sitting there, and we got to know the staff, I'm sorry, got to know the

chef, and he would bring us out chicken wings and beer and all of that. And excuse me, one day we're sitting there and the FBI storms the room. And he was on the America's Most Wanted, the chef from the bar that we hung out in New York, New York, well, not New York City, Troy, New York. So it turns out he was not a. a good dude. Good guy. I just met him.

Maybe had a disagreement with the FBI over something minor. Good guy. Oh, no. This guy was wanted like murder and all sorts of not good things, but he was hiding out as a cook in this bar in Troy, New York. So that was not good when we saw the guy's name was Steph and they yarded him out of there. And like there was, you know, 20 FBI agents that stormed the place and we're just sitting there

having a drink type of thing. And they didn't come looking for you. Because you're a shady looking character. You look like you're somebody who has been involved in some unsavory business. Back then, I had long hair. Yes, I mean, I couldn't grow a beard even to this day. But I was pretty shady looking back then in the day, for sure. You two, I got a little thing for you.

Not Eupender and not really for me, but for you two guys. A little this day in history. Are you ready for it? Yes. This day in history. May 22nd, 1964. Jesus. 60 years ago today, someone in your circle, your life was born.

Wow. Who's 60? It's not handling. He's 58. The one and only Jim Playfair. Jimmy Playfair. Jimmy P. turning 60 years today.

Look at this sweet boy. Look at the back. He's got a little length there. He has it. Yeah. Yeah. That's a. And there it is.

There's a whole use. Why I ought to. He's giving me a little look there. I talked to him. He was supposed to come in for Kippers thing. And he ended up, he couldn't get away from it. So he called me that morning, that Saturday morning and had a good chat. I've stayed in touch with Jimmy for years.

I mean, he's one of my favorite people. His kids are good guys. He's turned, you know, he's got an unbelievable family. So a lot of time for Jimmy Playfair. Are you sending the happy birthday text now retro? Like at this guy, hey man, happy birthday, bud. Who could forget your birthday? Not me, that's for sure.

Talking about you on Rett's podcast. Yeah, there it is. Well, keep it handy because there's another one you might want to send. Retro, now you've said, I know on the old show and you've been forthcoming, you feel like even at the later stages and later stages, like the last third of your career, Jimmy made you a better defenseman. Jimmy was the first coach. I ever had that looked at my game personally and worked with me on a personal,

these are the things you need to work on. To your strengths and weaknesses. Give us an example. Like what would be one of those little tricks of the trade or things that were custom to you? Well, there's always, like, you're always getting worked on with coaches back to junior even, but it was always just group work, right? Where you, okay, pull the line, forwards, backwards, shot. that, you know, pick it up off the wall, make a pass.

Standard, all things that are important, but not specific, where Jimmy would look at my game and go, okay, well, you're not closing the gap here. You're not scissoring this way. You need to work on taking a different angle at this puck. He would look at your game specifically, and then after practice, have a game plan for you. I'm sure he has more notes than anyone.

I don't know if I'm, he kept all kinds of notes and journals and stuff. I guarantee you he has books on noodles, myself, every player he's ever coached. He was very thorough. Yeah, very detail-oriented coach, you know, liked by the guys who worked for him. You know, it's funny. Even when he took over his head coach, I think that, you know, if he wanted to do over at some point, he had some darrell in him, but he also had his own coaching style,

and I think he wanted to emulate too much of Daryl instead of just being Jimmy. But I had a lot of respect for him. I laugh. I don't know if you remember this retro. We had our rookie party in St. Louis, and Jimmy was coaching,

and the next day we were skating. So I think we had our rookie party, we'll say on a Monday, and then Wednesday, we're playing in St. Louis. and the Tuesday we skate and you know Jimmy's like hey guys I know you had late night we got to get you know sweat some of this stuff out so at the end he lines us all up and he's like okay whoever came in after 2 a.m. last night down and back so everyone skates down you know everybody who came in after 3 a.m. down and back so some guys are like okay halfway there

everybody after four like me and kipper are skating you know anybody who was smoking last night down and back and me and kipper skate it was just like but he didn't want to say it loud enough obviously because there was media in the crowd so every time he would come and he just kind of whisper okay anybody who you know had a good time last night you know like that type of stuff it was so funny i i'll always remember that like he had a pretty good rapport as to a good feel on the also the other group. And I, you bring it up to the Daryl stuff.

I feel like that was almost the worst case scenario for him to take that job. He couldn't turn it down. He had to take it. It's a head coaching job in the NHL. What do you dumb? Walk away from it.

But it was a bad spot for him to walk into. And Daryl is still there. Yeah. Right? It's not like he's gone. So you're going to come in with a whole new ideology. You know, he's still there. And Daryl just had so much success.

doing it Daryl's way. Right. Yeah, that was the hardest part. I think Jimmy was kind of, there was Daryl and then there was Jimmy kind of good cop, bad cop. And then when Jimmy had to take the lead chair, it was kind of, I think he found it hard to kind of step back and be the hammer a little bit. So he, you know, he was trying to find his, like, his groove.

We just never got there as a group. you know, what do we lose to Detroit in the first or second round? First round. Yeah. And, you know, we were a good team. And I think we were a good group, like really tight group. I wish we could have got to that next level under Jimmy. And I, you know, I think his first kick of the can there, he was a really good coach in the minors in Abbotsford,

got an opportunity, worked under Darrell. You're going to take a lot of what worked for Darrell. But, you know, I'm probably in hindsight. he'd look back and go, there's some things he probably would have wanted to do differently. And, you know, maybe you'll get another chance. You never know. He's been an associate and her assistant ever since. He hasn't been a head coach in Sabinsford.

And I don't think you can question a guy's passion when he's worked in Phoenix in Edmonton and then goes and takes an associate job in Prince George when he's 59. Like that's, they had a great year. He clearly loves it. Yeah. Or he's been spending too much time with you gambling or something. I don't know why. I remember that at the end of that season.

right because it ends and then Daryl brings in Mike Keenan which yeah um I'll I'll say I'll go out in a limb and say it was a mistake uh I don't know that it really worked for anybody um but that year 43 29 and 10 and I just remember after the playoff ouster that you guys talk about the Detroit just talking to Jimmy and he was still he was kind of shell shocked by it he's like we worked so hard and we took so much pride in our home record led the league. I just went back to take a look, led the league and home ice wins, 39 and 2 that year on home ice. 30 wins.

That was fired. I mean, it's, or whatever you want to call it, he slid over to be an associate, but essentially, you know, the change was made. And then Mike's not going to take much input from anybody. He just became a glorified practice drill runner, I guess, for Mike is what it ends up being. Well, under Mike, you know, I went away that year. That was my Russia-Japan experience. And then I came back and joined the staff, right? And you're watching Mike.

So I played for Mike in St. Louis in Florida, then, you know, worked with him in Calgary and got an opportunity to watch Mike behind the scenes. He relied heavily on his assistant coaches and associate coaches because he's not, he wasn't a tactician. He was more a feel guy, rely on your top players. So Jimmy, Rob Cookson,

guys like that had big roles underneath him because they basically needed to run everything. Mike would come in and go, you know what? I got to feel, I'm not liking what I'm seeing here. Watch this. And he would run into the room

and start, you know, tear a strip off Dion and come back in and go, what do you think of that? And start laughing. Like he was, like Mike was a really, really a,

a different, he was a field coach where, you know, the assistant coaches, the associate coaches handled the day to day. Like, we need to work on the neutral zone. We need to work on a power play. Like, we need to work on our breakouts. They would design drills for Mike. So then, and Mike would say, we're on the ice 20 minutes today, no more. Like, he was really about rest.

And then, you know, Rhett, remember he was all about, like, games. Like he would play, you'd scrimmage during practice all the time. Like our line changes haven't been sharp. You know, we're going to. The line changes were always, yes. Yeah, he would, he was always on like weird things. But then, you know, he was hard on top players, but he, you know, a guy like Iggy'd be hard on, but he'd play him 26 minutes.

And he'd yell at Kipper and then he would play him, you know, 70 games or whatever. Like that's, that's what Mike was all about. But when you have coaches that are hammers like that, you really need a staff that can support, you know, the day to day running of the team. To say that he relied heavily upon his, that's a very nice way of you putting it, Jamie, that he relied heavily upon the input of his associate and assistant coaches. That's, yeah, I've heard it put differently, but for sure. Do you remember the Willie Mitchell thing with Mike, playing Vancouver and during a,

you never knew with Mike, with the media scrum. So we're in a media scrum, I think on a game day. And somebody talked about the Vancouver defense. Well, you know, you've this and that, whatever. Willie Mitchell back there. I mean, he's playing with an illegal stick. But other than that, you know, he's a very solid defender. Everyone knows this.

Yeah, it was going to legal stick. Okay. And then that night for a warm up, he had taken two sticks and taped them together. So we had like a 20 foot stick going through warm up. So frigging funny. I mean, good on him to get the joke to run with. it and I don't know if there was something behind the scenes if Mike was in on it or not. And he was asked one night about, or one day about the goaltender, who he was going to go in

net and he said something along the lines of, well, the goaltender spot is an important one. No one plays more minutes than the goaltender in a game. So it's an important decision. I mean, he's not wrong. He's right. At the end of the night, I don't know that any forward or defenseman is going to have had as many minutes played as either netminder.

But he, uh, he'd be. out there with his wooden stick, holding it in the wrong hand. Sometimes, as you say, he'd take over practice and do. We talk about it all the time, the Jim Van Damimir skipping. He had the stick on the ice. It would make Jimmy have to kind of jump over the stick, like hopscotch kind of a thing or skip rope. Unique.

Oh, and there again, felt for Jimmy to bring it back around that he had a very short crack at it. Yeah. And then had to kind of sit back and wonder what could have been. Mike, I mean, now Mike is running the Italian Ice Federation, is he not? Yeah, maybe. I swear to God, I, I found that out a couple months ago. He's running the Italian hockey situation.

I think for the Olympics, they, I believe. They just beat Q8, 49 to 1, so. They host winners in 26, I believe. Yeah, they're hosting it. Aren't they behind on building their rink and all that sounds like Italy, yeah. Yeah, sounds about right. So I just, side note,

I just bought Taylor Swift tickets last night in Milan. Because we're going to Italy this summer, and my daughter's a huge Taylor Swift. I'm not even going to say I'm embarrassed. I don't want to hear because I know what my brother sold his tickets for. Yeah, yeah. I just bought two last night online and just got taken to the woodshed. So I'm going to pick up a job, a side job here to try and supplement the income.

Cutting grass. Yeah, we're going to Italy this summer and I noticed that she was in Milan. I'm like, all right, that my daughter would love that. So how did you get just like secondary market or how did you even still? That's a big deal over there too. I'd be careful with secondary market in Europe. Well, yeah. You know, it's through the like the mainstream like stubs and, you know, vivid seats and all that.

but just ridiculous, ridiculous price. But it's a stadium of 80,000 people. So, and the tickets are, I'm sitting in the nose. I might be sitting in the parking lot, I think. I'm not even sure. It might be outside. I hope you're not sitting anywhere because are you going? No, I'm sending my wife and my daughter.

My little man and I will be hanging out in Milan pizza and enchilado. So sticking with the theme. Yeah. This date, May 22nd. 1952 on this date. Another connection of yours was born. He was on that bench alongside Jimmy for a little bit. Rico?

Rich Preston? The one and only. Rich Preston. Look at it. Same birthdays? Love it. Same birthdays. I had a good business.

There it is. Yeah, get the phone retro. Yeah, we're going to send him a note too. I had a good chat with Rico when he was in for Kippers thing. He was at the luncheon. And he's awesome. I'm a big fan of Rico. He was great.

He's really energy for a 100-year-old? Yeah, he really. So how old would he be? What's the map? 71. Wow. 71. 72.

He looks great, too. He was always in great shape. And when I was on that coaching staff there, I got, we'd play three on three. and he'd just be chipping away, like just grinding you. He was awesome. I love Rico. He's, uh, yeah, I guess, uh, Wikipedia is wrong. 71 would be, C, be 72.

Thank you, Ryan. Yeah, that's right. Always out of correct you. Thanks, Ryan. Um, always kind of on you. And also a, uh, an, uh, we talk about Winnipeg Jets 2.0 and 1.0. There's even the, like, the pre-Winepeg Jets. An Avco Cup champion is Rich Preston.

The last year in the, the World Hockey Association. He was on that with Lars Eric Schoberg and all those that great team and there was a story there's something about Tom McVee was their coach and at the end they stripped his jacket off of him and like tap

danced on it with their skates still on and tore his suit coat all the shit still a good story and and so one last there's we'll take a shot the two boys the two birthday boys together on the bench good times had by all there they are Okay, Rick, taking notes. There's Beetlejuice right there, number 20.

And Freeze. Just love it. Yeah. And Freezy, there's Damon Lanko, never with a smile on his face. Marcus Nielsen. I played with Lanks in the under 17s through junior, same draft year, played with them in Calgary, have spoken more with him in the last five years than I did prior to that. Really?

Yeah, because Chrissy stayed in touch. with his wife and when we went to Scottsdale for during COVID and hug out with them and wouldn't shut up. Really? Would not shut up. Sat there and drank a bunch of corona and he was like talking my ear off. I was like, what the? What is this guy?

What is going on here? Yeah. He would score a hat trick and Peter Hanlon would be waiting in the alley for him to do a media and he'd be so mad that he was going to be the one being interviewed. Like, you just scored a hat trick. And he'd be so, like, I love that guy. He was, him and Dion would fight like an old couple. They were awesome.

But, uh, um, I'm surprised that he's very chatty. His kid is a pretty good player. Played for the Vancouver Giants. Yeah, your buddy there, right? Well, uh, played for Mike Dick. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

And Mike is now with the Toronto Marley's. So, but, uh, yeah, he, Dickers had said that, uh, he goes, Lanks's boy is, is a, is a handful. he can fight and yeah oh nice pretty pretty tough kid yeah well that's i because i remember i mean we're way off it now just covering junior when lanko was playing in the western league i mean what a player right i mean this guy lit it up and it was always because he's going to be able to do at the next level right because he's a smaller guy but is he going to be and that was in the you had to be big if you were big you were going somewhere um and darcy tucker was kind of the same

thing too high scoring smaller forwards obviously Tucker did a little more on the feisty side but like out right to the end and we we talked about this that neck injury that he had that was a scary thing at the that was in Minnesota yeah when he got cross-checked in in front and he went down and he got hit and broke my drowdre or whatever that I remember that night because I was sitting up top I was on the coaching staff and it was me and Rob Cookson and right away you could tell something was not right that was very very scary like that should have ended his career i don't think it did though i think no he came back it played in phoenix yeah yeah he had one more year after that tough tough as nails he was one of the pound for

pound one of the toughest guys very tough yeah yeah very very tough on and off the ice big ufc guy oh yeah well he and yeah because he and dion they were buddies until they weren't buddies and then they'd be at each other. And then they were buddies again. Isn't that how that went? I actually, when I talked to Dion, Dion still talks to Lang's quite a bit. They're very close.

But they were just funny because Lanks was like a mentor to them, right? But Lanks wouldn't let Dion get away with anything. So, you know, Dion get ahead of himself and Lanks would tune him up. It was pretty good. I love, yeah. He'd reel them in a little bit. So it was good. Yeah.

Not enough, as it turns out, or it seems at that time. Maybe it needed a few other guys to be on D. on watch in in calgary so riko happy birthday and you know what riko we saw him what a year ago at that dinner still as wiry as ever oh yeah he's a tough s ob that riko yeah lots of i've got lots of time for him and you know jimmy play for he just i sent him a note he wrote me back he goes i'm going to have to listen now so i said all right you got to listen so lots of love for those guys it's funny we talk about hockey in such a small community everybody knows each other and everybody's got a story like you know i i hadn't seen ricko in a long time and he showed up for the the luncheon

for kippers thing there had a great visit with him and he couldn't stay i think for the saturday but he was there the friday right and uh it's just nice you know you don't see somebody for a while but you feel like you just pick up right where you left off so good stuff safe to say he was the good cop to the darrell bad cop yeah riko never the only time i ever saw riko get upset i i think him and Dave Lowry and Iggy and they all got into it over a power play setup or something and it got heated like Drome Drome was a guy who did he pushed back right and and same thing and it was it was a pretty big argument I think it was about our power play was struggling and Rico wanted he wanted this setup he wanted something and and Iggy was pushing back and they got into a pretty

good like you know F you type of thing and but neither one of them was given an inch and I'll give, I'll give RICO credit. You know, usually you back off when it gets pretty worked up and he doubled down on it. And in the end, I, you know, I think they did what, they executed what Rico wanted, which was, which was

good, you know, you need your, you need your coach to push buttons. Well, I'll fire one more this date, and I saw it this morning. Not a birthday, but an event, I suppose. It was May 22nd, 2004. Tampa Bay, Game 7,

against the Philadelphia Flyers, beat them two to one to advance to the cup final. Retro and I mean, noodles, we know that you were with the team, but it moved on. Yeah. If it's Philadelphia retro and not Tampa Bay, do you feel like the result is different? I wanted Philly because Philly's goaltending wasn't as good. And I was really, Philly was clearly good. Primo was unbelievable that year in the playoffs. But I can still remember watching.

and it's not, you can, not to say we win against Philly, but I, my preference was to play the Philly team and strictly based on the fact that the goaltending wasn't as good. I mean, Tampa had Habiboulin

and he was fricking awesome. Who was Phillies? Was it Boucher or was it that Czech manic? It was Robert. There was Robert Esch. Oh, Esch. Jeff, Jacket, Sean, there was, I mean, it was a handbook. That's what I mean. The goaltending was,

A hole. I know that Czechmanich just passed away recently, but I remember Iggy scoring a goal, scoring a goal on him in the Saddle Dome. It was one of the worst goals I've ever seen. And believe me, I allowed a bunch of bad goals. And I remember thinking, that's a terrible goal. Iggy went to dump it in.

Why? Check Manick, who didn't play the puck at all very well, went out to stop it, and ended up dropping his stick by accident, and it hit his stick and went, like, around him into the net. Like, I think he was on the bench when, like, the goal went in the net. And that guy, Checkmanic, I believe, was one of, in modern day, one of the fastest goaltenders to ever get to 25 shutouts.

It was under hitch. And Philly was just so good defensively. But that check manic, I remember, like, Philly's goaltending, it was always a problem. There was Hexie and then a bunch of, of goalies and then actually went back there and then you know they had sean burke and i feel like and taro nitamaki and yeah like nita i'm a bunch of goleys that played there but never kind of like toronto you know toronto has had you know eddie belfort and felix poppin and then there's

just been a bunch of goleys that kind of play through taskola was there for a bit right yeah i mean Raycroft gets traded. Like it just, it's nonsense. Some of the organizations, and you bring it back to goaltending, like now, maybe this is an outlier, but you look at it, if there's been something in the playoffs, this season that I've focused on, is good goalies are the ones getting them through.

Now, Evanton might be the outlier. Yeah, three or four. But you could argue, but you look at three or four of them are rock stars. Special teams too, right? That's the other thing we've seen a lot of. Rangers, stars, and Oilers have three of the top four power plays in the playoffs. Panthers are eight. Yeah.

Yeah. So it would be interesting to see. You know, I would argue, we were talking about this yesterday, I would argue that probably Toronto, New Jersey, L.A., those three stand out for me. Like, they should all be in the, you know, Colin Connie and San Carolina. Carolina would be another. Detroit, Ottawa. Ottawa.

You know, Detroit, you're right. Now, Allmark's going to be available. I think Soros potentially, Markstrom, potentially, like, these are top tier names that you'd want to add into your mix. And, you know, it would be interesting to see if this happens at the draft or maybe this summer. Why is Saros? Askerov.

I know, but, I mean, Soros is. Ascarov, I don't know if I was telling you guys this story, maybe a week ago or a couple weeks ago, I was talking about him. This kid seems like he's really special. I'm cursed. I've never watched him play good. Like I watch every time I watch this guy, he's a disaster in the net. And I've watched him five or six times over the years, World Juniors and in Milwaukee. I ended up watching a game Milwaukee play and he was terrible. But then you see the highlights and this guy's dominating at the HL level. You know, I think he will push Soros out eventually. But I Saros is careful what you wish for.

He's a top-class goalie for me. The challenge of Saros is like he's a UFA in a year, right? So he says I'm top six in Vesna voting four years in a row. I deserve $8 million. Now you start to see it a little more because you believe in Ascroft. You drafted him in the first round. He's done everything you can do at the American League level. You know, he's...

But I would, you'd love to piggyback for a few years. That's how Saros got his feet wet, right? Yeah. under under rene but i i would think yeah you got to do something with him because of the contract exactly but i just i don't know he's that he's that good i really think he's that's that's why he's going to ask for a tough number but i mean is it a tough number that Nashville was paying ryan mcdonough 6.5 you can't you can't pay the goalie 8 million like that's i think the goalie is way more important than you're you're

number three defensemen, your number two, I guess. What was McDonough, two behind the OSE? Three? I don't know. Yeah, and I guess the question is, if you think Askro's better in three years, this is tough. Yeah. If Saros is your guy, like, shit, like, what, there's no rush to call? Aren't there a lot of teams, the flames being one?

The Sabres last year were ready to hand off to Devin Levi, and that didn't turn out. Like, there's still some learning curve stuff. Soros had to do it for years behind Renee. like there's i get that the contract and stuff might be yeah burdensome but boy abandoning you know what else is burdensome letting sorrows walk and missing the playoffs for the next couple of years till this kid's ready to well but that this is where you go and you go and you you trade sorrows for a damn good piece like i know right now with it's all a fire here in Toronto, right? With McDonough's money being moved out, that links Marner to Nashville for Saros,

because- Wouldn't that be unreal? What a deal? It would be. It would be a hell of a deal for both organizations, really, because they would, Toronto would get a number one goalie if they can extend him and, you know, have somebody, they, and they would also have some cap flexibility, too. Totally. So you could add another player in that mix. And, you know, Nashville's been dying for marquee people up front. I think that evangelista kid's going to be a player. You know, Forsberg is good. You got Ryan O'Reilly.

You got some players there that sneakily are better than we think. But Marner's a marquee player that would really help them a lot of different levels. So I'm not starting rumors. That's not my thing. But that was literally. It was everywhere. That's been the narrative the last 24 hours, really. Yeah, there's only a few spots that Martyr would fit in.

in terms of the cap and then what would they be moving out? That's a, that it makes sense in the sense that we hear Nashville is at least keeping their ears open on Saros and that, you know, Toronto would want to move to that. Yeah, they're okay, sure. Yeah. Why not, right?

Well, you got to, you got to do something. You got the coach in there now that the Ruby's there. He's going to fill out his staff. But it's more about, I think it's figuring out what this team's going to look like moving forward. They might end up having to take a step back this year to get forward. you know, within a couple years because Tavares's 11 million will come off the books in a year. Unless they find something for them this year.

That's 22, 23 million bucks that suddenly appears in like, you know, 14 months versus today. That's, that's, they could do whatever they want at that point. You can go chase dry-sail or something. Well, also, too, what you do is you've got Brody's money is coming off the books, which is $5 million. You've got, like, they've got some flexibility, but they got to, you got, uh, Burtuzi's $5 million, Domi's money, but you've got to fill out the roster. So there is money to play with there, but you got to choose the right players and have the right mix because the mix hasn't worked for them.

And it's funny, everyone thinks that Dry Sidel's leaving. Like I think, I told people in Toronto yesterday, you should be, you should be cheering for the Edmonton Oilers to win because I think if they win, all bets are off. But I still believe those two are going to stay in Edmonton until they do win. We talked about it. And you could sell it either way. It's either look at what they've surrounded us with for a decade. And I could get better GMing elsewhere.

And certainly when you put up the last eight years, like it's not been elite management. They're not good with the cap. They don't have any data department. They've never given them a real number one goalie. The D's been weak the whole time. But then the other side is, yeah, if you win, now you can leave. Like, no one's going to be mad at you.

Like, you could really spin it both ways. You think a win would get them out of there? I think 97 would look at things. things differently if they won. He filled his obligations. Right. I don't think those guys are leaving until they win. And I don't think their team's far off from being, like, they're pretty damn good team.

But, okay, sorry, not I interrupted you there, but one of the issues I see, and you don't feel too bad for anyone making $8, 9, 10, $12, $14 million. But those two guys have taken, I won't say, they've taken. less to stay there to have the GM spend it on shit. Like, in my opinion, right? Like there's a lot of money that they, those guys earned and deserve and they said,

I don't know if they deliberately said it, but they left money on the table so the team could maybe operate more. And the team has taken that money and shuffled it into. Well, there's been wins there too. Zach Hyman could be the best contract in the league. Yeah, but I mean, Based on what though, I did, I disagree.

Anson Carter was, Anson Carter came on our show when I first started on the radio and told us how fucking good he was compared to the Sadiens. Well, I'm sorry, once Anson Carter was off the Sadeens line, he was pretty average. So.

Yeah, okay, so Ryan Nugent Hopkins gets 100 points at 5.2 million. Like those, like those guys, and you could just say, yeah, it's down 40 from that this year,

but yeah. But my point being is those guys, they're value contracts and they're good contracts. Now, eventually there'll be bad contracts by the end of them. But when you're in McDavid and Drysidal's wheelhouse, yeah, the nurse contract, it's not great. But keep in mind, guess who's best friend nurse is, 97. And he signs that deal after Nurse played 60 minutes that night against Winnipeg in the playoffs. Like Darnell nurse is you can point to that and say, yeah, it's not a great contract, obviously. But nurse isn't a $4 million defenseman.

It's probably a $6 or $7 million defenseman. Yeah. So, you know, like I think they've got, if you go through all of their contracts. This is my problem with all of it. And I'm going to interrupt you again is that I think, and I don't know how you draw the line. But I'm sure Iggy had some say, maybe. And I'm sure Gretzky had say. and I'm sure mess had say,

and I'm sure elite players on every team have always had say. Does it not feel like this kid might have a little too much say? Why is Connor Brown there making a bunch of money? Why does this agent? Yeah, like, why, again, the coach might be really good, but at some point, this is, it's, it won't work. Because Connor is not a hockey genius.

He's the best player ever. He's not a hockey genius. I agree, but at some point, you're still trying to keep these guys happy. And that's, you know, McDavid, like this could have gone sideways, 20 different ways. At the start of it, you fire Woodcroft and you go, we're going to pluck a guy that was Connor's junior coach. Now, that being said, Chris Knoblock had a good reputation as being a guy who was going to be a coach in the NHL at some point.

So he had interviewed, he'd been on people's radar. and I talked to a few managers around the league going, yeah, that guy's really sharp. So they think, I don't know if you think outside the box or it's just Jeff Jackson. All of a sudden, McDavid's agent is in the mix too. So yes, obviously Paul Coffey comes from the stands. Like it comes from the press box. You're our new defensive coach.

If that, if they crashed and burned this year and just didn't make the playoffs or, are, you know, fizzled out in the first round and like they're probably, would be massive carnage there. But it could be. I think there's, I mean, if they lose this round, why would there be carnage? Well, I just think Holland's gone. But Holland's gone regardless, his deals up.

Yeah. And so then July 1, Leon Drysettled does or doesn't sign, and that's when the grip or does or doesn't begin. Or maybe he does the pastur, and says, I'll play through. Like, this is the one thing in Canada we focus on. You have to sign July 1st.

Why? Sam Reinhart playing on an expired contract, just got 57 goals. David Pasternak played through it. God, look at what the Toronto Maple Leafs just did. They went and overspend on William Neelander because Neelander had an unbelievable start of the season and was on pace for 126 points. He ended up with 97. Not that that's a bad year, but at a lot of, at the start of the season,

everyone's talking about maybe it's a $9 million player because he got 40 goals. and that's what Team O'Meyer got. That's what other 40 goals scorers got. And all of a sudden, halfway that's through the season, you got to give them 11 and a half. Like it just sometimes I'm of the other, like if dry salt doesn't sign July 1st, so what? I'm just saying that's when the sweat will begin in the family.

Well, yeah, but I guess in the Canadian market, that's where people are talking about it. I don't know. I didn't hear much about it in Florida every day about Ryan Hart's. Because it's Florida. Yeah. Yeah. It's not going to get paid, but how much is he's going to get paid?

What would Sam Reinhardt's contract be worth? Where if he's staying in a tax-free state or if he's going to market? If he's just going to a market. 12 million bucks. So you're like that's an overpay for me. I mean the caps is what, 88 million next year? What percentage of the cap of that? That's in line with a lot of guys that get over 50 goals.

But, but he's only done it once. Like that's the thing. this might be the this might be the nasm cadre deal where it's like hey you got what a cadry get 82 points or whatever and then and now he's back down to 60 or 55 or so he's 12 million you're talking about him you're talking about him being the highest paid player in the league yeah so it would be an overpay to what extent the highest paid player in the league come on not even close like you know masks more than 12 million what you're talking about well McDavid makes 12 and a half matthews what's past to make it right around there like

Yeah, but we're talking about a handful of people. Like what I'm saying is if he literally just said top dollar, I'll go anywhere, I think he could flirt with 12. A place like Chicago is like we got fucking 50 million bucks. Go play with Connerner. Utah needs to spend real money this year. I'm not going to say it's a value deal. Of course not. But we're saying, but we're saying top of market.

That's all he was saying is that it would be an overpay. He's not Austin Matthews or Connor McDavid. Right. He's got one 50 goal. He's got one 50 goal season. Yeah. I mean, maybe it's. It depends on where you.

play too so for example if sam ryanhart goes and signs in what what market where you're talking about chicago chicago does he get 50 again playing with bada i bet she does or he gets close at least yeah like he's a 40 to 55 goal guy i would say under 50 but it's you know you're right they're going to spend the money but it's just i guess my it comes back to you know everyone's afraid that if dry Seidel doesn't sign first, he's not going to do it. I think there's more flexibility there than you think about, but it all depends on how this works out. Yes.

Like right now, I saw of a sport logic that they have the Oilers as a favorite over Dallas. A lot of data models do, yeah. Yeah, 54%. I don't know if that's true or not, but I know that the two best players in that series play for Evanton. That's what I know. Yeah, the challenge is the two best players in every series. the oilers have been in for five years have been there two guys and they haven't got a win beyond the

second round right like that's that's where we're at this is two superstars against balance and depth well but now the oilers have balance and depth too do they well are you worried about james how's their bottom six forwards how's the cc nurse pair where's their goal tenant compared oughtinger well ottinger is i mean they're going to be worse no matter what but i i i would argue that that the top 12 forwards, if you lay them on top of each other, Edmonton's top 12 are better than Dallas's top 12. Because Hince isn't going to play, correct? I don't know where Hince is at.

Yeah, I mean, it's... I would lay the forwards on top of each other and say Edmonton's got just as good at depth, if not better. Yeah, there's no question that the third and fourth lines are much better at Dallas. But of course, you've got two of the best forwards in the world on one side and a guy that played 50 riding shotgun with the best player in the world. Like, yeah, of course, that's a... Yeah, but...

Okay, so your fourth line washes each other. Sam Steele and Craig Smith doesn't scare anybody. And just like Sam Carrick and Derek Ryan and all that. To me, they just wash each other. Now you're looking at top nine. Like Tyler Sagan and Dandenoff versus Marchman versus what? McLeod. Versus like a Fogel, Ryan, like cloud.

Those things. I mean, Corey Perry. Yeah. Hallway. Yeah. Hallaway, who's moved up. and then you go and to me Robertson, Ben, Johnston, Stan Kovin, Dushan, Pabelsky, I take the top six in Abington every day of the week.

No question, the top six in Evan. So then, but, you know, where you beat, like the thing is, it's funny, Evan Bouchard doesn't get enough love because they think everyone just thinks he's an offensive guy. I thought he played really well defensively. It's a great pair, right? He had a great, a great senior. And Echholm. C.C. and Nurse had to be brought.

broken up and, you know, they got piled on. But I got nurse played really good in game six and seven. And then day or a is just being asked to do too much if you ask me. But I don't think it's as big of mismatch as people are making it out to be. There's some who have, and again, what did the media know? But I'm kind of surprised there's some people, you know, given their check, check marks, who's got the edge that feel that the Edmonton blue line, the Edmonton defense is better than the Dallas defense, which strikes me as a bit odd with how much you hear about how much of a tire, fire, nurse, and CCR. I wouldn't give them a checkmark. I'd give Dallas's defense a checkmark over Edmontons because Hayskinin is a, I mean, he's, for me, he's the best

defenseman in the series. And now you're going to, you're going to say that Bouchard, who's got 21 points, but Hayskinin is a 30-minute guy. Harley is, Harley's had a good year. I don't, you know, I don't know enough about him. That Lindell and Tanna pairing is really impressive. Suter and Petrovic, I mean, Petrovic was in the minors a week ago. So that's, you know, that is, and Suter is Rets age. So, you know, that's concerning. Great conditioning.

Great conditioning. And I like, I actually love Ryan Suter too. Yeah, and Hock and Paz day to day. We don't know if he'll be back or not. That would be a lovely get to put. to put Alec Petrovic back where he belongs. That hawkenpaw is a mutant. He's huge. Yeah.

That guy's a mutant. No, I guess the way I feel about noodles, he correct me if I'm wrong, I don't know that Emmington would have beaten Vegas, and I don't know that Emmettin would have beaten Colorado. Dallas has proven those things, and I wouldn't have worried about Dallas against L.A. or Vancouver. Yeah, I mean, you're right. I think Colorado, I mean, that Nachushkin,

I would launch him to the moon as far as having him back on my team. that's two years in a row he's jammed them up in the playoffs big time and he's a hell of a player but he's got personal problems and that needs to be sorted out you always feel bad for that but jack johnson didn't feel bad in his comments basically said you know you know i'm paraphrasing he said guy made his own decisions made his own bed um i really thought that derailed colorado like i i'm brutal in game four after they just didn't look right after that and and to me, Vegas had a weird year. Like I, yes, they win the cup and then they start like gangbusters, but then, you know,

you talk about goaltending. Like they had to play Logan Thompson because Aiden Hill wasn't doing the job. Like eventually, you know, you look in there and go, well, that's Aiden Hill. That's not, you know, it's a Stanley Cup winner, but it's also not Oattinger, not Chasturkin, not, you know, rock star golden and Bob. So I just something, when I watch Vegas and I watched them a lot, they didn't look like world beaters. They'd won the cup, but they didn't look like world beaters this year. And, you know, eventually Dallas just leaned on them and they couldn't punch through.

They had injuries. Their D didn't look great. Like I just, something wasn't right. Maybe almost too much turnover. Force feeding hurdle in there. Like, you know, hey, Stone doesn't play. Okay, you can jump on a moving train. and scores the first goal of the playoffs

and everyone's like, okay, Mark Stone, but he wasn't as dominant as we saw Mark Stone because you're like, hey, you got to do this every night. And you haven't been conditioned to do that because you've been sitting out for three months. It just didn't look right for me for Vegas. I don't know how you guys felt, but going through aesthetically,

going through Vegas and going through Colorado, yes, Dallas should be favored for me. But I look at Edmonton, I don't think it's a mismatch. I think it's a pick up for me. That's where I was going with that. Who do you have coming on to these two series? I chose the Rangers right at the start of the playoffs.

And I did it to be defiant because I hadn't seen it's been, I can't remember the year, but Dallas, like whoever's won the president's trophy never wins. And I think it went back to, I want, it's Detroit that did it or Chicago. I can't be of Chicago. I think it was 12 or something. But it like it's so I thought the Rangers were going to make it through the whole way.

I'm going to stick with that even though I think Florida could beat the hell out of them. Like I the Rangers. That should be fun. That's going to be a great series. I'm looking forward to it. But I had in my finals the Rangers in Colorado, obviously I'm wrong. So I don't know. It's a coin flip for me between Evanton and Dallas.

Like, I feel like, man, I feel like Dallas has had the tougher pathway. But do I bet against the special teams of Edmonton? You know, that's really where it is. And then you go, can Stuart Skinner hold up? You know, really. Golly. Yeah. He's got a, you know, the other, every series he plays, if he, you know,

even next series, if they make it through, he's going to be second as far as the best goalie in the series. And it's not like Audinger has a decade under his belt either, right? Good year. He didn't, Ottinger didn't have a good year statistically, but he's been good in the playoffs. Yeah, he had that monster year against Calgary two years ago that was,

what, he was 970 or something insane. And he's been really good, what I think, in the second round against Colorado, given all their firepower. But he's, yeah, the regular season numbers were nothing special at all. They weren't. But I, again, what does it matter? It's matter what you do in the playoffs.

that Ottinger's been really good. And Skinner's been, I thought he was shaky in game six, but Vancouver didn't test him. And I thought he was really solid in game seven. And it got hairy near the end. But Ryan McLeod just did his best to try and hand it back. Like, I don't know what the hell he was doing that night.

Like, you take the double minor on the high sticking penalty. And then, you know, McLeod is a guy who has, to me, a lot of ability. But, man, he, he played some of those games like it was a November Tuesday game where no physicality,

no digging in. He's good defensively away from the puck, but they need more from him. Like that's where I, you know, when you talk about depth, they haven't gotten it from Perry, healthy stratch

who looked, the pace looked overwhelming for him. McLeod and Fogel who were guys who had really good regular seasons, they were non-existent in that series. And they needed against

Dallas. And one thing they got was an opportunity to play because they're not at home right now. So we'll see what they respond to. And it'll be interesting to see, too, the young kids for Dallas at Stan Kovin, Johnston, like now they're getting deeper into the playoffs, getting challenged a little bit. That Stancovin is, I mean, he's the size of Peter Marr. He's like a tiny little guy. Stealing the puck from Mark Stone and round one. Come on. I know. But, you know, but, you know, Peter Marr, I love him to death, the tiny guy, right? Like, that Stankhoven's like 5-8 or something, right? Is it?

5-8, like a buck-fifty type. A lot of teams passed on them, it was they might want them right now. I'll tell you that. That wasn't that long ago he went in the second round. Hell of a player. How about Jim Nill's drafting record? Unbelievable. Unbelievable.

And you go back to Detroit and you're like, he was a big part of that. Yeah, big part of that. But you look at it. These teams, I think it'll be a good series. Like, I think it'll be, it might be higher scoring that we think. I don't think it's going to be the two one. I think we're going to see some goals. If it's not, I like Edmondson. There's been, yeah, and you know, it's fine. And we'll let you

get out of here because we've been talking to you for. Oh yeah, geez, I got to get going. We were talking, uh, we'll let you go. Let's finish it off. I know, I was just going to say, because you're a movie guy. Barry Trots, he's going to, with every time you show up, Ascarov's the shits, he's going to start pulling your media credentials. You're like, William H. Macy and the cooler. We're going to get you the hell out of here because you're just every, every time you show up, the tables go cold. eventually I will be there for a dominant performance. I watched one online,

but then it was the replay of when he got a shutout, and then I think he had a fight and he had a score goal. Like, but what it was is he was this high, high profile goaltender coming out of the K, and I got to see him live at the World Juniors. And I was like, my God, this guy is so overactive in the net.

He might as well just skate out and chase the puck at the blue line. Like instead of letting it come to him, he was just so, so overactive. Obviously, you get more experience. You use your size through your bandage, slow your game down. He's done that. But early on, I was like, man, this guy looks like he's got all the tools. He's just got to put it together.

Obviously, he'll put it together. At 21. Yeah, young kid. He's going to be a good player. But I don't know if Nashville puts all their eggs right in that basket right now. This is the perfect contract negotiation piece from Trots. We realize that, right? That we're all talking about.

Saros being moved. He's like it here. What do we talk? Okay, maybe I will take a little less. Well, and two, what about if you look at Wolf, same thing in Calgary. You know, his kids had, he's too good for the A and he's got. Size is the only difference. Otherwise, yeah. Yeah, you're right. But he's more like Saros. That's what I mean. It's size. But he needs to, like he's got to play in the NHL. And Ascroft has to play in the NHL. But, you know, do they play with veterans? veteran guys in Saros and Markstrom, or do you move those guys out of the way and just let them play?

That's the multi-million dollar question for Trots and for Connie. Did I see you giggling on your radio show yesterday? Did you guys get the kick? Was that yesterday? Yeah. Like this, O'Dog's talking about a guy he golfs with named Mike Krapman. A crapper, wasn't it? Well, I just, yeah, but Mike Krapman.

I golfed with this guy named Mike Krapman. And I was like, did he just say Krapman? And then we started giggling and then we couldn't, you know, and we're 10 years old because he's used to do crap men. And Hayes tried to spin out of it. And I was just going to spinning out of it. We're laughing because the guy's name's crapman. Yeah. What it is.

Yeah. You know, and I all like to think about was that Seinfeld episode where remember the library police guy was name was Bookman or whatever. Yeah. Joe Bookman. Yeah. Well, anyways, we made asses of ourselves and, you know, we're good at that. Good stuff. Appreciate your noodles. Have a great day. We'll talk to you next week. Have a good one. We'll try it later.

Add a boy. There's Jamie McClennan. A little overtime with with Jamie today. Always good stuff. The guy in Saskatchewan that came on Letterman wasn't, didn't he have a nice? That was Dick Assman. Dick Asman. Worked at the gas station in Regina, right in the number one highway. A regular on Letterman. And how couldn't he be? Yeah. And then it was a big deal. People were stopping in. It was an issue. Traffic problems. People wanted to come in and see Dick Ass man.

They had the signs up on the side of the road. Dick, the dick ass man. This is here. Yeah. Good stuff. Yeah. I saw their clip yesterday.

I mean, we've all been there when you're kind of tired and punchy and then something stupid happens and they just could not reel it in. It was just giggles across the board. And what's the problem with that? Like, I think that's when the listener is like, yes.

I think so. Yeah. Get this back on the rails now, please. Like, I'm just trying to, like, who's actually upset when that happens?

Everyone loves it. Yeah, nobody. Nobody. That's who. So there you go. It's good talking to James. What do you think he spent on those tickets? God. Well, what would, okay, so if I wanted to go to Toronto to go see Swift, was it this summer or something like that, this fall? When is it? November. What would it cost? Five K a seat? But here's a thing. Did you get them when they went? Were you lucky enough to get them? No, I mean like secondary market. He's buying. So if you went today, what would they cost? Yeah, I have honestly, I don't know. I honestly don't know.

You're taking a look? No, why not? I mean, like, it's, we thought concerts got expensive after COVID, and then Taylor Swift became the most popular artist in the world. And it was like, oh, no, never mind, add a zero. If you thought it was expensive before. 500 a seat.

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That's crazy, right? Well, that's $1,000 for receipt. You can almost rationalize a thousand bucks. I just know what my brother sold his for, no, significantly more. Now, these are not ideal seats. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, anyway. Yeah. God damn.

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Marty Pospicill, as Jack says, toast. Mm. Shoulder-ish-looking thing. Not ideal. And I feel like... Did he have a shoulder-ish thing?

Well, you got crunched pretty good on the wall is what I believe I read yesterday. GMs hate this tournament. Yeah, unless they're the GMs that are like, oh, come play for team Canada. It's a nightmare. And it means more to a country like Slovakia, be held in its neighboring country.

You know, the tournament means more in Europe. We know that. You can actually see the games in prime time. That sucks. He's having a great tournament. And he only played a minute and a half yesterday. Left didn't come back.

Tournament over. This is going to be a Marty Possible thing. And it has been, I think, stretching back to his USHL days. It's like suspensions, injuries, and if not those, you love them. But the others are plentiful and, you know, he's not incredibly durable. And the way he goes about playing the game,

you have to admire even more, given the injury track record. But to your point, Richel, not, that would not be a good update for Craig Conroy. No. No. On his mobile phone. How many months till camp? So instead of, you know, working out and getting stronger and rehab, lean, it's going to be in the pool.

You missed a big moment in Flint's history today. You went through what eight birthdays and events. How about the guy kissing strangers in the stands lifting the cup as the coach? Terry Chris Pired in this day in 1987, retro. Sweet boy. One of the best. Not boring. Great guy.

Legend. Rett's not saying anything. What have got in the back there? We got, uh, Beast, we got Beast, Big Al and is that bearizant? I don't know. What's that saying?

Absolutely. Barry Barazan in the, in the background there. Kenneth is wearing his helmet like it's a visor of a hat. Odd they wear their team jersey for practice. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Team photo day maybe. Jeez. How about that? If it's team photo day, then Crispy should just chill the F out and stop yelling. He's wound up. What's right of you guys just hauled in the cops at 4 a.m. I got a call

about that. Well, and now see, because here's the other thing. The Beast is going on his white socks, I think. It's practice. We're wearing dark socks and what are we doing? Who's the equipment guy? How'd you forget the practice jersey? We assume that they had practice jerseys. Was that the case?

I have no idea. I think so. This was such a mom and pop shop in the 80s. 8788? It's a long time ago. Like, yeah, you played in the corral with how many thousand seats? Like, yeah, This was not the same league. Although I guess Arizona played in something similar with this year.

Let's move. I got a little trivia for you because you guys love it. There's four teams left. On those four teams, we have six players who've won the Stanley Cup before. That's it. Holy Toledo! Jumping! So let's, I can give you some clues.

There's a few that will make some sense. Two on Florida, two on the Rangers, one on Dallas, one on Edmonton. Barkley, Goodrow. Goodrow for the Rangers is one. Absolutely. He was part of that third line with Coleman and Yonigord for the Tampa Lighting. Gord. Man, I'm a court low here.

That's all right. Because all I know is there's all the emphasis of the Pavelsky and Souter, how many games they've played and have not won the cup. Nope. It was a young guy jettisoned from a veteran team that has the cup in Dallas, and he's now an old guy in Dallas. you'd be top two or three in salary. Second? That's correct. Bingo.

Right. Boston. There's one more in New York. Let's finish that up. Well, traveled all of a sudden, but a central figure in two Kings Cups. Oh, quick, back up. Yeah. Jeff Carter.

Oilers, we just talked about them, healthy Scratchville. Cory Perry. Cory Perry. Florida trade deadline. Ocoposo. Ottawa. Okposa. He's not Kyle Akiposo. The tank. Teresenko won with the blues in what,

2018, 2019? I'm sure he did. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the hardest one that I couldn't figure out had to hunt this morning. Carter Verheaggie played eight games in the postseason in 2000. That would have been the bubble bolts before he bolted to the Panthers. How about it? Clutch. So that's Segan, Teresanko, Geri, Verhege, Perry, Quick. Good jury. Yeah.

Someone's getting some. And some of them will actually play. Yep. That's quick comparey. Who knows? Yeah. The others, I like their chances. Yeah. Let's go to first action of round three tonight. What are we looking at? We're looking at Kachuk. We're looking at Panarin.

We are looking at two of the teams that in the east, boy, they look good at times. Boy, have they felt like teams that have all the right pieces. Boy, have they felt like maybe this is their year. I looked it up. Noodles referenced it. The 1213 Blackhawks, the last president's trophy team to win a cup. that's the weight the Rangers are carrying around. That's over a decade, by my math. Meanwhile, Mathukuk and the Panthers

had a miserable regular season last year, but didn't care, got into the playoffs with less points than the flames, barf, and went all the way to the final. They feel like a team that, well, they've learned some things along the way. And there's some dirt under the nails of the Panthers. This could, I think they want an alley fight,

even if there is Rempe on the other side. It's, again, we've caught ourselves. This is going to be a great series. This should be a tremendous series. It really should. Yeah. So that's tonight. Looking forward to that. Should be a ton of fun. We had a trade in the NHL yesterday, fellas. I don't know if you saw this one or not. We referenced it. Ryan McDonough back to Tampa. Now we say it. It's these markets with good weather, great atmosphere, no taxes. Players don't want to go there. Winning

culture. I mean, get me out of here. You asked? That's odd. What's Tampa doing? Still good, so I don't mind that for them. Two more years at 6.75. It was great this year. He was great. Yeah, really good season for McDonough.

I guess still chasing it. I guess they're still chasing. For sure they are, man. Yeah, absolutely there. And they'll watch, they'll sign Stamco's and they'll still say we got to. How much money do they get? At some point, there's got to be some sort of a financial crunch.

Isn't there? So I talked to someone today that suggested that, with Stamcoast, they might just give them a seven-year deal and say, like, you're playing until you're 43 and you're going to be hurt for the last three years anyway and we'll keep an AAV incredibly low. And I'm like, that actually makes a ton of sense because like, yeah, like that's what that's the move. You keep the AAB low. You stay competitive now. You don't lose one of your players. Are they competitive now?

Yes, they are. I believe they are. They had, how many months without Vasilevsky this year? They had them into playoffs. Yeah, and they lost a good team. I mean. I think they're a good team still, yeah, I do. Are they as good as Florida?

Not this year. Well, you're not competitive if you're not as good as it seems you have to beat. Yeah, sure. But I mean, does that mean that's not the final four just doesn't try next year? Because we're not better than the other teams. Those other teams are going back to the same well. Like Chicago's not getting Perry back to help them get. Anaheim's not going after Corey Perry because there's, you know, my point,

like they're retooling with the same guys that they sure had success with, but that aren't having success anymore with. I get it if he's a free agent and they bring him back for 1.5 or something, but he's got two years left at north of six. It just, I, they had that, but it felt like,

yeah, the issue that, the issue that comes up is when you chase, right? I, yeah, if you don't think they can win and, and you don't think these guys are good.

anymore, then you should probably start tearing it down. I mean, they still have an MVP caliber forward. Two guys that scored 40 plus, not named him, a Vezna candidate, net, and one of the game's best defensemen. I don't quit on this group yet. I'm just looking at their blue line. I mean, they got a surgachev, headman, Chernack. Yeah, if they have Sergachev, they look different.

He's quietly a very important piece there. So depending, you're paying McDonough, 675 to be your four. Hey, what do I don't have a cup ring. It's worked there before with him. I don't know what he's got left. I have no idea, but he was good this year with Nashville. Whatever that's worth. We'll move.

Jim Hiller is going to hang around. Oh, hang on. Yeah. So let's, okay, let's do this. Jim, Jim, Jim, Hiller re-up by the L.A. This was an interim. Plug the hole after Todd McClellan got run, probably because Pierluge DuBois drove him nuts. Okay.

Per Kevin Weeks. A big head of his. Breaking news. What does that mean? Multi-year. You know how he breaks in the years of the video? Oh, I see. Yeah.

Oh, it's a camera's right. Actually, it was Rhett that said he's out. Got big head. Big ego? I've never said. Physically large. Are you talking about weeks a year? Nope.

Big brain. I said we were old teammates. Never. How is it? Defend your old teammate? Interim. Tag gone, hey? So.

Multi-year per week. Was a hot commodity? I feel like a lot to get coaches in LA. I feel like a lot of these gms are taking the convenient way out. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong. It feels like more of a Travis Greenhrier than a Craig Barabay, doesn't it? Sure it does.

What's the other example? Sure it does. Bannister in St. Louis. So if I interview coaches, do I have to be here to do it? It's almost June. I've got that lake house. I've got to get up there. I'm going to be ready for the draft.

and I want some time, downtime. More interesting to me, guys, is that Rob Blake clearly made this decision. So is the book closed? Like, if you're going to run Rob Blake, you don't let him do this, right? Rob Blake, sir, they'd have fired him. And I think he should be, but there was talk all year

about what if, what if, what if. Is this the vote of confidence for Rob Blake? I think they're effing it up royally as far as, and the fact that they came out and said that Dubois stuff, like he's, no, we're not buying him out. I think, that's a mistake. But again, these guys are closer to it.

Yeah. We're a long ways away. But both of those, it just kind of seems like, hmm. So are you better? So you're stuck with it. So you're just going to carry on?

Yeah. I would bring. I'm not happy here, Dubois that scores 28 goals and plays center physically. Can I get Todd McClellan back? Because I feel I'd rather, I think I'd rather do that than Jim Wheeler.

Or how much of the formula is, you know, Rob, you are spending on McClain and still. So we're not going to let you spend that again on somebody else. He's not here. That happened here. Don't be surprised that it was.

It's often. Ward and Gulletson that followed guys who had big contracts that were still on the books. Yeah, I don't know what that environment there is fiscally for the other things. Yeah. Maybe you just have a budget. And they're like, well, shit for until that one rolls off the books, we'll be over the budget. Well, congrats, Jim. It feels like we're kind of shitting on you.

But hey. Oh, hey, jealous. You got the vote of conference from Rob Blake, who's widely respected. Good for you. Beat the Oilers in round one next year. I was going to say, it's next year's your chance for the Oilers. I really feel it coming. The fourth time's the charm they say.

That's what they say. Before you signed, did you tell your GM to get a gold tinder? They have one. They signed Riddick. One year, one million. Did you tell your GM to get a gold tuned? They got the Cal Pickert slot covered. Their number three is good.

still going to need two guys better than Redick. Dave. It's a big safe day. It was big Ontario rain Dave for most of the year until there was injuries. Oilers and Stars tomorrow. Boy, this is a rivalry from what? I would say the late 90s early 00s. Dean, you would have been right around the thick of this in your... Todd Marshall.

Marchand, Horkoff. This is some good stuff here. They met many, many times. And then this, I think this is. is this year. Jamie Ben's a dink. And Zachheim's like, really? Are we going to do that?

And he's like, yeah, we are. And guess what else we're doing? You puke? I heard your kids, your parents paid you for you to be on good teams, you jerk. How much money do your parents have? Yeah.

Give me some. Got a 20? The stars and oilers have played six times in the playoffs. The stars winning the past five. That's true. They met six times in a seven year span from 97 to 03.

So yeah, there was some history there. You like that move from Ben, don't you, Rhett? Well, Ben is not bounced around. He's only played in Dallas. He's a star. He's a captain. He doesn't give a shit about having friends on other teams. I was actually stunned at the start of this.

And I forgot that this happened. I'm like, there you go. That's good. You're picking up. Oh, no. Are you picking up your stick? What happened? Oh, you're a chicken shit.

Are you? How about someone happened? Oh, you dropped your stick again. Pick it up. Your dad's personal security can't get on the ice. I got you now. What do you got butter on your? Hey, butterfingers?

Hold on your, and stick. That was a good one. I don't know how we found that, well, that was good. It's going to be a lot of, a lot of rooting for Dallas coming up here.

Big Dallas stars fans. Dean, it's hard. And you said it when the Canucks were up three, two. Wouldn't it be better for the storylines, for the narrative, for this show if Edmonton moved on?

And I really tried to fight you, but deep down inside, it's like, yes, of course the villain needs to move on. I'm starting to get to where that can be. We can start to drift away from that. Like how much smoke and rubble and like sirens are there if they get pumped here like they did Colorado two years ago in round three? Are we okay with that? Can that be the ending? I don't need to see this go much longer, Dean.

Yeah, I'm pretty good from here on in. Okay. Thank you. What I don't like. What I don't like and Noodle referenced it. and we talked about yesterday you brought up again is there's some models there's some people out there that do like the oilers here that there may be now as you said

not sure about the opponents they faced that's not their fault they didn't get to handpick LA LA and uh whoever the fuck they played Vancouver but um okay it's yeah I'm starting to I'm pulling back a little bit on the we need the black hat you gotta get them I'm in the final four good for the black hat I feel sorry go ahead with Well, I was just going to say, I'm concerned. I kept hearing that maybe there was a bit of a flu bug that had gone through the Oilers locker room as well. That you can make excuses, but maybe they're coming out of that and are going to start to feel better and start to play even better, which is not ideal in my world.

I would certainly think that it's a group down three, two, and round two that found a way to come back and win. They're feeling good. And they've solved some problems in terms of like that CC nurse pair was just absolutely atrocious the first half of that series. But they addressed it. And, you know, Skinner wasn't great. They addressed that. It's a scarier oiler team than the one safe to say it was down three, two in this series and two one in the series of Vancouver. And on the Dallas side, and we can talk more about this tomorrow. Yeah. Okay. Good. Yeah. Sorry. I thought you're going to finish the thought. No. Well, last night Canadian Championship, Cavalry. FC in Vancouver to take on it's not fair dean they're an MLS team you know they're flirting with 10 million bucks on payroll you think Calvary's spent a 10 million bucks on players not even fair how can

you compete with someone with like 10 times the payroll not even fair oh calvary go oh cows it won't be well the edge on away goals they'll always need a second but the first step has been taken okay I'm going to show you all the rest of the goals I can't there are no more Calvary wins one nil B. I. Against the white caps. And this is where we get into the screwy rules of this tournament. Because the white caps scored two away goals in Calgary.

And the cavalry scored one away goal in Vancouver. No overtime, no kicks. White caps move on. Damn. God damn, indeed. Okay. There's a lot of, but they lost?

There's a lot. Won that game. It was a two games. Tried in the aggregate. Tied two, two and aggregate. I feel like this is not the calves fault or the white caps fault. This is a really, really stupid decision by soccer and whoever's in charge of this. Yeah, the people that invented soccer millions of years ago, whatever it is, 10,000, thousands,

they have liked this rule for a long time, but it started to go away the last decade. Champions League doesn't do this anymore. Be better. Have a shootout or extra time or. be better. Just be better. Clean it up. Second time in their six-year history

that Calvary has won a game against the white caps in Vancouver, by the way. That's incredible stuff. Incredible. Congrats to Tommy, who, by the way, was one of the finalists to the National Men's coaching job as they have Copa America coming up this summer

and the World Cup in two summers. So Tommy getting some looks for the national team spot. It did not go to him. It went to Jesse Marsh, a prominent American coach that was open over in Europe for a long time. lead. But Tommy's in the mix, fellas. That's good work, Cavs. Right in the mix. Right in the mixer. Other local sports, let's go to a record setting night at the Scotian Bank Sadowdown last night.

12,227 at the Sattledone with a surge. God damn. Nice. God damn is right. That is goddamn. That was the good news. God damn. In a symphony or an orchestra out there.

They had this crazy music introducing all the players, red lights. It was chaotic. It was amazing. Great crowd. Kind of got pumped by the stingers of Edmonton. It was not their best effort. What?

Yeah, I know. And last year, defense was their calling card. They played the butter in the role of hot knife against butter last night. Oh, you don't want to be the butter? I think they'll last bit about 20.

What? What about the score thing at the end? A target score 96th, I think 81. It was not. Fuck! I know. Good news, though. Calgary and Matthew Camba,

the player of the game. Calgary boy. Oh, but Calgary. I'll give me a player the game and get your ass handed to you. Well, I don't know if each team gets to pick one or what. Man of the match. Number 21 for the Stingers couldn't be stopped. That big bastard just soft hands and good feet for a big man.

They had no answers for him defensively. Oh, and look at this. We were going to do an afterburner. There's Cammy who does work on the sidelines for the surge. Pike was there because Pike's Pike. And Mike Gold was on Twitter. wishing he was there with us, tweeting at us obnoxiously. And there's boys, look at that.

Fellas. Good fellas. Yes. And honestly, if you got those pitties, indoors, outdoors, doesn't matter. You do what you need to do. Yeah. Put the vibe out. Get him out.

Good time. Good stuff. To the nonsense, let's go. Now, it's been raining a lot here, Red. Miserable weather. I think six degrees, gray skies, no sun, wet. but the good news for Dean with his extensive surfing history

once being on the cover of Surf Magazine look what he's able to do at Fish Creek Park here. I just didn't account it was the last thing that I thought would happen. Yeah. It's tough because it just seemed like right in front of the jump. That's where the consistency changed. Really dug in there.

Did you lean forward? I'm telling you, that'll get you nine times out of 10 retro when it comes to surfing. You dip the tip. Just the tip. You dip the tip and you're fucked. We got some hybrid sports I want to tell you about. So this is called ice boxing.

This is in Russia. Stunner, I know. What are you seeing? Oh, yeah. Yeah, ice fights. There you are. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Ice fights. There you are. You know my buddy, Keith that fed Fido the hot dog?

He actually did the first, like the pay-per-view, ice-fighting thing, and it was held in Prince George. Ice gladiators or whatever? Yeah. He threw that or he was part of it? Mark Rader was part of it,

my old D-Partner. Yeah. Yeah. Former Saskatoon Blade. Who was, oh shit, I'm trying to remember. Who had that? Was that on St.

Ogers? Odgers. No. not Odgers. Link Gates. Link Gates once and then left. That was enough. Yeah, it was my buddy beef. Put it on and it was in Prince George

to a rowdy crowd. Pretty sure there was something in Edmonton last spring as well. Oh, I think it was, yeah. It spawned this sort of thing. There's actually a, anyway. Tennis baseball? Mm-hmm. Yep. Tennis baseball, the best new sport. There.

Screwball. Let's go fastball. There we go. And we'll go slatter for strike three. Get him at him. Got him. Strike three. Oh yeah, Rob.

Take your time all day, baby. Let's go, baby. Let's go. Let's go hit. How fun does this look red? You know what's, this is not even a joke. This is how I play baseball, but I use a bat. I can't throw.

So I have a glove on this hand, and I just drop it in my bat hand and hit it to my kids. Brilliant. Yeah, I can't throw a ball anymore. No, I can't throw a ball. Our baseball head coach, this is how he warms up the fellas before games. I don't know if he can use a real bad if he's not, I hand coordinator, tennis racket, yeah. Tennis racket makes two or six.

Baseball. Huh. With a tennis ball, right? Let me play with the real balls. He's hitting a hard ball with a tennis rack? Well, the whatever ball they're using at eight years of age, yeah. Like the soft, squishy. It's a little squishy next year.

It's hard. I mean, they missed their birthday cut up by 10 days. Okay, that's it for hybrid sports. Let's get to some, well, let's get to the down and the section of the program. Retro and Phaume. Go ahead. Go ahead. Judge by the language, this is an interesting part of Australia.

I've not been to it. Latin America. Oh, look, he's helping a boat. You're free, buddy. wait right here. Grab some, grab a paper and just scoot them out, scoot him out the door.

Yeah. And I'll be waiting. Oh, bam. Thanks, man. Lunch. See you tomorrow. We keep getting visuals from this honey job somewhere in Asia. What kind of job?

Honey. You're not. I. What's how you, Ben, you're going to be. He leaves me. That honeyworth, do you pay for that? Was it Mike Rowe or Dave Rowe?

Yeah, Dave Rowe. Shitty jobs. Shitty jobs with Dave Rowe. That's what it was. Great show. Going fast and turning left. Fat cats in City Hall. Ray City.

That is so inside. We all loving. Amusement rides. I know the stampede's coming soon, Dean. My young men are now of the age where they're at the right height to go on these things. Oh, nice. I always wonder where they go when they, you know, the warranty runs out and they're not quite up to snuff for the carnival rides. Yeah. Very safe places. Where do these amusement rides go to die?

The answer is third world countries. Oh. Oh. Holy shit. Not ideal. Yeah. The old slingshot. One of the elastic bands.

No days. I would say it could have been worse. Could have been worse. Yeah, that pole could have been a compromised threat. In fact, I think it might still be compromised. I would shut that thing down. It's all up for scrap. The fairs open or the amusement parks open on this weekend here.

Dary and Lake, look out. Can't wait. Oh, yeah. Are you a peaker on the rides? I don't do the rights. Dean, do you do the rides? I used to really like them, but I do find now I'm, uh, I've become a bit of a hurler. the old tum-tum it's not happy doing even like when we were at Disney did the teacups i'm like i got to get off this

bitch come on the teacups yeah you're doing ups and downs and rounds and rounds yeah we were there in november the californ adventures got a few that'll that'll get you that guardians of the galaxy oh see that one i was okay the cars right i thought was awesome but it's when you're doing this shit it's no bueno Is that centrifugal or centrifugal? What do we call that force? That's right. Got it.

Nails. The old Gravitron. Oh, yeah. Rett quit on his pilot's license. I do believe he has his boaters license. And I didn't realize he now has, you know, what class is it that you can drive a semi? 5A. He's got 5A here.

And, you know, you just try to kill time. Keep life busy. He only works two hours a day here. So let's see what else he's driving truck. Look what Rett skis on the roads. Oh, my God. That's train track and that's a huge ass tanker. Oh my God.

Oh, shit. Oh, my God. And the train wins. Oh, my God. Yeah, Rhett, you knew. I could tell by the 18, oh, my God, you laid out. You were worried about this truck. Yeah, train always wins, it seems like.

Trains the trump card. I'm just happy whatever was in that, it was empty. Because, yeah, that's a petroleum product. Buffalo would not be on the map anymore. Boy. now I got to get a new rig. Yeah, your Kenworth bit the dust there. All right, it's time for Dean's decision.

Dorn, the foodie dog, or the mystery box. Dorn, don't you. Okay, so Dorn's a kind of laid out for me. What is Dorn? Dorn is the black lab in Japan that eats meals and you get to listen to a meat. And then the mystery box is exactly that, Dean. We don't know what it's been. And yes, she was a little rough.

See, now I feel like I feel like I've been taking the mystery box. You've really been rolling hot on them despite. And it's been a, it's been the wrong choice every single time. Yeah, that's right. So with that in mind, I'll take the mystery box. All right. Give them the mystery box. Here we go.

Oh, it's so cute. That is, Dave. That's your mystery box today. Thanks for playing. That's your Pinder Report. There you go. I want one and five rising it is surprising a shock i'm still waiting i feel like there might be a snake somewhere that comes out and that cat disappears this is a cute kitten that's all it is just lunch

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Northwest Automall. Oh, yeah. our boy, Anthony. They're impressed with Dan Klomp, the Dutch defender for cavalry last night, Monster game. Might not be with Calvary long the way. He's playing friends. Oh, is that right?

Top shelf. Best game of his career. They called it on the broadcast. Really? Sell them to MLS. Make some money. Let's go, Dan Klomp. I guess just a couple of things. I saw this come up online.

Do you know the, because you go on planes and take trips, right? Like, I don't know what that is to, to leave the house and trip, you go do things. Right. And if you're a golfer, you go on a golf trip. Like you went to Pebble, Rhett, did you take your clubs with your own clubs down to Pebble? I did take my own clubs. Yeah, I think a lot of guys, a little girl, whoever, a lot of golfers like to do this. You take your club.

Like, you can rent. No, no, you take your clubs. But no one, those are my clubs. I'm a special bond. It's a field game. Yeah, between a golfer. They're going to charge a million dollars to run close. Come on now.

Special bond. Just feel that, that wedge. Just, I need that wedge. But things can go sideways. As the East Tennessee State men's golf team found out, on a Delta airline flight, they, of course, they're a golf team, so they take their golf clubs.

And as they are getting ready to, was it deplane? Is that how it is? If they're getting off, yeah. Yeah, one of the first things to come off, it looks like it's the golf clubs. Bags made it. Perfect. Yeah.

Our clubs made it, guys. It feels like dudes having the day. All these golf clubs. Who the hell's on them? I mean, my guess is those aren't some Kirkland brand irons in those bags. Yeah, they're probably decent. Well, that's a ping bag there.

Oh, boy. Could you send that into the airline? Yeah, I think they've drawn some attention. Yeah, you put that on the social. Oh, geez, we'd love to talk you about this. Please slide into our DMs and stop spamming the universe with our guys throwing your shit. We'd love to, we don't know what happened to dude. Maybe, you know, maybe he got some bad, maybe his wife is fooling around on him or something.

Maybe he's had something, some bad news. maybe he is a rough sore spot like some trauma tied to golf he just doesn't yeah maybe lost the ball sad tease and peace tease and peace um we'll talk about i know we could do it here the uh rangers and florida panthers get started tonight retro year of florida panther alum probably safe to say we we know where your heart is but who do you think uh who do you think takes this thing hoof i'm having a hard time with this one to be honest with you because I got to pick right now well I know you like picking after game one but it is tonight we're going to make you do it before because I picked the Rangers last series after game one they were up one can I wait ask do you want me ask Ryan and then come back don't wait to know after the game text oh Dean why you tell him who wins tonight and then he can make his pick I'm good at best of six is that how it is just give me that one game head start Now you would, so if you had taken Dallas or Vegas in round one. I'll go barber and the Panthers. Fine.

Why pressure me? You know, I'm picking the Panthers. I'm a panthero. Chick-Stag the Panteros. He's in Florida. He's on the road. You're on the road. Let's take a look at Shisterc and Bobber.

This is a marquee matchup here. This is the lights of Broadway. Who! Tidy numbers. Another thing I read, where was it here? Because, of course,

the Panthers, right? They're into round three last year. They went to round four. It's been a lot of games. Old Bobber has played more games. Where is it here? He's played 20, he's got 24 playoff wins since 2012, 22, 22 with a 2.59 and a 919 save percentage.

He has been a clutch playoff performer. So, so in the regular season. but he really he really cares in the playoffs the last two this year and last year he's been great yeah I mean I think they got the last appearance before that they got swept by the bolts but yeah like it's he's been nails and they've they've eased up in his workload they a lot of Alex lying there this year if I'm correct to allow Bob to do this

to might have been the secret sauce for Bob because he struggled the first half of that free agent contract there well you start cutting off the vodka around February March you start kind of weaning yourself off okay By the time April hits, you're right there. Bobber has allowed two goals or fewer in eight of 11, including five in a row and six of seven. You allow two or fewer, you're giving your team a hell of a chance to win.

Sure, our team. You're almost, you know what? You're almost daring them. Just get three fellas. Fellas. Can you get three? Because I bet you I can allow two or fewer. And I'd say you could get three, but not always on just Sturkin.

Yeah, that's true. It's a hell of a matchup. He faced the Shasturkin now in the Carolina series, an average of 37 shots a night, still put up a 2.8 and a 919 save percentage. Yeah, the old Carolina shot volume thing didn't get them. And remember at the start of the year, what's going on with, what's going on with Igor?

Igor's not as good as he had what happened. Because you remember that, right? They're losing them a lot. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. The date is February 9th, from February 9th on in the regular season, 17, 5, and 1

with a 2.20 goals against 930 save percentage 4 shutouts. And that's basically the all-star break. I think the odd All-Star break was like September. And then the rest of the season

once you've sobered up, you'd have a hell of a good time. It's that all-star break. Get him back and he's good. Just be ready by Feb-9. Yeah. Who do you like? Do I have to pick right now?

You can't do it tomorrow, as I told her out. It would be not fair for him to be able to pick tomorrow or you with the rest of us pick today. Do you want to ask Jack first? They've got, I mean, Kachuk is a former flame. Lomburg, former flame.

What kind of hockey analyst are you? Rangers have, you're just a fan. Calgary and Matt Rimpay. In fact, take a look at this here. If you don't already like Matt Rimpay of the Rangers, this was his quote to Mike Morialli. Now it's Panthers. Matt Rimpay on Matt Kachuk.

Plays with a lot of grit and edge, gets under your skin. Just mean. I can't say enough good things about him. I was a Calgary kid, and he played for Calgary. So it was a lot of fun watching him when he left. It broke my heart a little bit. Oh, Maddie. I'm sorry.

Poor fellow. Matt Rempe, 6-7, 6-8, but tender on the inside. Broken heart. Yeah, brokenhearted. Who did you take, right? You took the Panthers, eh? He always was going to take the Panthers. I have to.

Yeah, I need to. Jack, what do you? you doing? I can't take the Rangers. Come on now, fellas. Panthers. I like the Panthers too. Really? I think that makes your answer real easy, Dean. Tell me why, Ryan? Well, I mean, I certainly all year when you look at the way Florida plays and the type of character they have, you're like, that's built for playoffs, that's built for playoffs, that's built for playoffs. The Rangers just feel like a team that's very good and hot right now. And maybe they're the team of destiny, but there's just a lot of pricks on that Florida team.

And yeah, like I really like Florida here. I think the whole last year all the way to the final, unfinished business, stage isn't too bright. I like the Pantaros here. I feel like I need to go the other way just to have. You should pick up the points. Who did Jack? Panthers, Panthers so far.

He can't take the Rangers, he said. That's his. Jack. and idiots. Geez. Well, I agreed with you, so. God damn. I'll take the New York Rangers.

I, oh, okay, then I have to take the Panthers for sure. You've already made your pick, yeah. You already picked. Yeah, but if all three of you picked Panthers, there's no way. No, you were going to try to pick to both teams. I've seen this before. But boom's in the lead, so I have to go opposite. It was my thought process.

I see. Well, you're good. He can't lose if he just copycats us. So she should have. have to pick first. And I'm not that guy. Oh, you got to pay a

winning. It's about having a fair and even competition, men. I am worried a little bit about what happened with the Rangers near the end of that series

against the hurricanes. They didn't look real great. First real adversity, right? They did one with seven in a row. Looked a little disoriented, probably lucky that Shasturkin was real good.

And Florida is really good. And didn't make, I mean, they made Tampa, they made Tampa look like a run of the mill club and the they did kind of didn't break much of a sweat against boston so yeah it feels like this is a florida pick but i'll take the rangers but for the uh for the drama because i know

everybody that tunes in and listens and watches they don't want to see us singing in harmony like a bunch of choir boys i need some of this hey they need some of this on barn burner so that's what i'll do i guess fuck lebrowski two or less than 11 Jesus, good luck. Oh, yeah. We're going to do Dallas M to tomorrow? You want to do it today? We'll do a Dallas M tomorrow.

Yeah, sounds good. We've got a show tomorrow. We're going to do it tomorrow. You're all right with that? Sure. Cool with that. I got a bad way for us. Yeah.

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I raised my eyebrows as you were speaking because this just came across my Oh, you got a T-storm warning. Severe thunderstorm warning. Now that's for Buffalo or Calgary. Get us up to speed here. Buffalo. New York. You're talking about it.

Really? Well, T's and P's to you, sir. You and the shoveler better just kind of... Stay inside and snuggle. Yeah, hunker down in the old bomb shelter that I know you've got with some batteries and bottled water and some food rations downstairs. Because the world's destined to end at any moment. Who doesn't leave the house? Do you have a

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Potato, potato, potato. To each their own. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That way bets? Yeah, probably.

Yeah. I'm not happy with the, uh, oiler fans are really feeling it, eh? This is the problem with that damn organization. Yeah. They're really, they're running around like they invented this thing. This whole,

do you know how many Canadians are playing on this? How, What the hell was Frank? Was Frank in a mood on my? I think he was. He was traveled out. He said 26 out of 30 days. He'd been on the road.

We're going to grant Frank one of those. Okay. Then we'll be better next week. Because see, on one hand, if it were, if it were being, you know, a heel, I get that. When you, when you host a show or whatever, if there's something I know that's going to twist Pinder the wrong way or get, just because I know the reaction I'm going to get, Then I'll kind of, hey, what do you think? Is there any chance that you might cheer for the Oilers?

Like, it's on the surface, ridiculous. But I don't think he was trying to, I think he was sincere. Are people going to cheer in Cali? Do you think they'll cheer for the Oilers? Because look at all the Canadians they have. And he didn't like Pennsylvania. You didn't like the Pennsylvania analogy. Like, how is that any different?

Yeah, I don't know. Like, did Flyers fans don't cheer for the Penguins? I don't know if it's true for the flies. Why would we do this here? Frank. Come on, Frank. You better not. Frank.

Get some rest, Frank. What the age, Frank. Get a roast pork in you. Figure it out. With a red hot and something. Long hot. Yeah, long hot, right. With the broccoli rub.

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Because we hate Ontario. Apparently. Did we talk at all about Craig Barubi getting the leaf job? not really did it because Friday it wouldn't have broken yet and then it's a long week I don't even know when the hell it was yeah one day because I don't think we did I told you he was going there though so it does feel like it was the move they were going to make why hasn't Craig Baruby I feel like my he's not going to Winnipeg take there was that yeah yeah there was that

0% indeed we'll never know that okay those other outcomes here but you were right Now, maybe down the road, or do you just say lifetime of Craig Barubi, never a Jets head coach? I'm going to say never a Jets head coach. I heard even when Toronto goes there, he's going to stay at home and let the assistance run the bench. He hates Winnipeg that much. Yeah. So do you like it? I think we all like Barubi as a coach.

We have our questions about the Leafs. So Natural Living's got to shape the roster a bit. Yeah, I think it's a small piece of a lot of changes. I think Marner gets moved. because we saw Brad kind of tailor a roster to Daryl. Yep. You have to tailor to a certain extent. You got to have plans to play the style guy.

He also got to, you know, pick a coach that he thinks will help the group that he does have. So, yeah, there's a bit of both there. Burmese not, you're like, okay, I'm going to out X as an O's you. It's like I'm going to extract max value from my guys. It's kind of the rep. Like it's, if you have more to give, I'm going to get that out of you. It's another guy. I played.

I played hard. Yeah. And I expect you guys to play to a certain level. Totally. Crazy coaches. Crazy coaches. Now, the other question is, I think we all like Craig Barubi. Yeah.

Do we hope it works? Do you wish for good things to come to? I would rather see Toronto and fans in Toronto have success than the cultural capital of Alberta. Oh, yeah. That's not close. reframe it that way. It's an easy solution. Right?

So I don't know that it slides. I like Barubi. I've actually, I think a couple of years ago, when Geo first get there, I was kind of almost hoping for the Leafs. I don't know if Geo's going to be around. I like Trill Living. I think Leafs fans are, well, most teams that have true fans have good fans. So I would be oak. And it's a bit of a Yankees thing.

having the leafs in there is going to cause excitement one way or the other. Yeah, I would say, like, define success. I don't know that you ever want to see them win the cup, but boy, if they got close and got through the second round,

you never really believe they would win only to have their beating hearts ripped out and shown to them in front of their faces. Like, that's kind of where you want to go on this. Yeah, again, they could win. I'd rather have them win before the other guys. And I also just sort of feel for guys, it's like, well, those guys just aren't winners.

You can't win with those guys. Yeah, there's something about all. Austin Matthews, I don't know why. It's not like he's at a tough ride. But I feel like it would be cool, much like with Ovi. It's like, you know what? Stick it to all these guys and say you can't do. How many goddamn goals?

What else? How much do you have to do? Yeah. You scored 70 freaking goals. It does feel like Mariner wears a lot of it, though. Yeah. And then he's the guy that's all in his backyard for all his family members to manage. But yeah, that's, he needs a change of scenery.

Lightning. Oh. I hear there's a T-storm coming. Now, prior to Keefe, who I'm trying to go backwards. Because we had Randy Carlisle. Babs. Back then Babs. Or Babs.

Is there some one between Babs and Keith? However that worked. Wilson. I think so. Ronnie was. Babs to Keith. Is that what it was, eh? Yeah.

Keith was coaching the Marley's. You started like Junior 8 Ontario. Like that's a guy that literally coached his way right up to top. That's not a hay and, you know, come. You wore jerseys and. this league come coach for us. Like he literally started. Yeah.

So well, good teams in Toronto. I think they won an HL championship with him. I think. Did you look like you nodded like you were going to make a point there. No, I'm looking at, he's worried about the rain.

He's like, we got to end the show so I can go clean the eaves. Well, you know what? If his razor is still outside on his lawn lawnmower, get him inside. This morning. He had the weed whack a out.

Get him inside now. Get him in. Might fail. Although if there's a guy that could survive a lightning strike, I feel like it would be Rob Ray. You'll be just fine. Right to the top of the dome. Correct.

Yeah, like taking the puck in the head. Did you guys hear that? Jeez. All right. See you, buddies. Tip!