Barn Burner: Boomer & Pinder with Rhett Warrener - Thursday Morning With Boomer & Rhett | FN Barn Burner - June 15th, 2023

Episode Date: June 15, 2023

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Well, hi, buddies. Welcome to the, to the podcast. Welcome to the show here on the YouTube's, in your earholes, whenever you're listening, however you're listening. We appreciate you getting into it today. No Ryan Pinder today. He is, I believe, golfing. He's golfing today. Didn't he say he was golfing today? And then on the weekend, and then he's golfing Monday. And now he's just, you know. He hasn't golf, though, he said. So all of a sudden he's decided it's golf season. Making up for you. Yeah, got to get out there, I guess. Got to make up for it. I don't know. Yeah. We are, here's the thing.

Now, on Monday, we're still trying to iron out things for the show because we have, it is the, I can never remember the fucking name of it. The Rotary Club. Anyway, Sheldon from over at Grey Eagle Casino, he's got, he's part of the, uh, the charity. And they've got their annual golf tournament. So we're going to be there. But here's the thing. And this is going to sound like BS because, oh, you hate golf.

You're trying to get out of it. I love, it's a bear's paw. It's beautiful. You love it, right? My hoof continues to be a bit of an issue. I would not be much fun or able to do a tournament, an 18-hole tournament, with my gout continuing to. to linger.

Do you have to? Do you have to? Do you have to let it linger? Is what I say every day. The cranberries? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. So not to change the subject. It's all right. Pat Coletta in East Aurora, New York on Saturday night. Sounds awesome. And they have this. It's actually a cool little town.

And they've got this big music festival where they got like 50 bands playing all over the town. Anyway, Pat Collette's. favorite song, Zombie. Really? Yeah. Went up to like every band.

Hey, could you play zombie? Like, what in the F are you? Do you mean Rob Zombie? No, no. Zombie, the cranberry. What? That's a weird. Isn't that because she passed away, right?

Is that Dolores O'Reardon? I don't know what her name was, but yeah. I found it extremely odd. It's a weird, yeah. You know what? If you were doing, like, if you were on a game show with Pat Coletta and it'd be, pick his favorite song,

you'd be there a while. Yeah. And apparently, like, if you go back to his house after the part bar or whatever, that song plays at an insane volume on repeat. Wow. Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. Is he, uh, does he got some, you know, I took punches back. Yeah. Tough guy.

I'm not going to call him. I do not need to fight Patrick. He did a lot of hitting and the odd scrapping. Yeah. Uh-huh. And from Buffalo. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Just south of Buffalo. So got to play at home. Lucky him. Lucky him. Yeah. No question. Yeah.

So anyway, the, so the golf thing's happening on Monday. You are likely unavailable. Is that suffice? I'm 100% unavailable. Yeah. Great. So, um, So I'll just sit here then on Monday.

And it'll look like this. You can just cut to a one shot there, Jack. You can just put me up there. This will be Monday's show. There's got to be a guest you can find. Tower Chrysler Studios, Tower Chrysler. Southern Alberta's favorite, Dodge, Ram, Jeep, Chrysler, that's so I look forward to that on Monday.

I will say something, but I don't know if it comes across as Putsi. Does it? There's a few people that are looking for things to do. That's Putsy. Okay. Yeah, that's not. I don't think it's not Putsy. It's actually, it's the truth.

Shitty day yesterday. And I know it's one of those things. Whenever, and social media is the worst, it's the worst, but it's kind of how a lot of people communicate and just kind of whatever. So yesterday, Bell Media slashes 1,300 media jobs, and beyond media, but just 1,300 jobs. They, in Edmonton, TSN, which used to be the team 1260, TSN 1260, they didn't just, and they aren't just taking these radio stations and changing formats. They're pulling the plug. Like, the infrastructure and the money that it takes, because you need to.

a tower and transmitters and you need all of the technology and they just, that's where it's at. And that's when people on Twitter or social, yeah, well, you know how many I was working here and I'm out of work. So suck it up, sweetheart. Well, I'm not saying, yes, if anyone is out of work, I feel for you. But this is just because this is what I've done, what we do, it's that sort of thing. I love the business.

I loved the radio. It was fun. It was exciting. It was all of that. And when people would say, oh, don't do it. There's no money in it and you can't do that. I was never that guy. It's like, if you find the right spot with the right group of people, it's the friggin best.

Every day is fun and you get paid to do it. But that's, man, it's a long time ago. So I feel for those guys because they were, you have the rights holder, which I actually worked for for a short amount of time at Edmonton, 630, Chen. Then you had these guys. And I mean, they were, they were doing it for the love of sport and the love of what they were doing. They were going to games and doing coverage and covering the Eskimos, the whole thing. And they did an unbelievable job.

And it sucks because it happened in Vancouver. It has nothing to do with ratings or the community or anything. It's just straight bottom line, pull the plug. Hey, sorry. And the way they do it, retro, you've probably heard about it. You just, they just tell, they walk in a room and, leave now. Give us your pass card.

You're out. We'll send you your shit. No thanks for the time. I don't know. Maybe that's how you have to do it. I don't know. But it's, it's a heartless shitty thing sometimes.

So yeah, I feel for everybody yesterday. Wow. Were you going to say something? Well, I was going to say that I love people on social media that. Yeah. Give you the tough. guy in response that

I lost my the hell's that got to do with anything I know it's no matter what you do no matter what what possible or potential positivity you may try to put on social media somebody will stick it right in your tukas

oh yeah doesn't matter what you that's that's angry Twitter guy yeah you didn't know I did you know that I do impression Probably didn't know that. I didn't know. Yeah, you didn't know that.

So have you made a final decision as to your travel plans? Because you were going to send kids, take kids, fly kids. Well, what day is it? Oh, boy. What day is it? Oh, today's Thursday. All right, lots of time then. Yeah.

Monday's not so Monday. Right. But if you're putting kids on an airplane. Okay, good. That's the day that the plane leaves. Yeah, yeah, suppose. So I need to leave for the airport at what time if we choose to do that? Not now.

Should we go this morning? Yeah. Okay. Let's go. Is that ever going to change, you figure? No, I don't want it to change. Too many times you make plans and then you've got to change them. Yeah.

I hate changing plans. Yeah. Yeah, it is. The only thing is the others around you that are in your orbit that then come to rely or plan their plans based on your plans. or lack there of it. It's hard. Yeah. You just got to make your own plans and kind of.

Right. Well, it's got their own lane. Just stay in it. Got it. Got it. So it's really just about the Ratt Star. That's hard to be about anyone else. That's true.

Yeah, yeah. Do you see something, you know, I'll get into it in the PIN. You know, I've got to do the Pinder report. Pinder's not here. It's, Jack, what are we doing for the Pinda report? It's like, I don't, Jack, I don't know, I don't know, man. Jack, relax. I don't know, Jack.

When the Pinder Report starts, we'll do it. So what are we doing for the Pinder Report? I don't know, Jack, we'll do something. But the, uh, the, uh, your four are Panteros. The Pantaros, they're, they're frigging banged up. I feel for them. Between that 10 day break and these injuries, there's going to be some guys that won't be ready for training camp from what we're hearing out of Florida.

Training camp. Yeah, but the problem. That's. I don't know how to word what I'm trying to say. When you play that late in a year and training camp starts in a couple months, if you have surgery, you're going to miss training camp. Yeah. That's,

it's a legitimate thing. I take cheap shots at guys like Gio or guys that have never had a long run and all. I got a thousand. No shit. You got a thousand games. Your body had six months to recover after every season. And it's, it's not geo.

It's tons of, like it makes. a difference. Like, could you imagine Vegas even thinking about training right now? Florida even thinking about training right now? So even, so what, July 1st

comes around? Your body still exhaust and beat the piss and if you won, you got the, you're still drunk and if you lost, you're still depressed, blah, blah, blah. Yeah. There's no time. And if you go deep into the finals to recover and regain fitness.

I'm sure the odd, Marty Jellon, probably still maintained, but yeah, it is wearing on you. That's why guys like cellios and lids, guys that always went deep in the playoffs and still played 1,500 games. That's holy shit stuff, right? Like they are guys at 300 playoff games and 1,400 NHL games. That's tough.

Chellios is, I mean, that's freak of nature types. stuff. Yeah, he was notorious for, right? Do you hear all those stories about him on the frigging ex-in the sauna on the bike and the sauna and wearing garbage bags? But I mean, I think he's got some special genetics. Yeah, I was going to say, there's a lot of guys that could wheel a friggin' bike into a sauna and not be able to play as long as he did. That's, yeah, it's genetic freaks. But yeah, I just, I saw somebody, because the ratings came out and as you can imagine, they are shit. Um, about half of what you saw for the Leaf series in round one or round two or whatever it was. So, um, and it's not much better in the US.

We knew this was coming in. And unfortunately, there was little drama and they're not the last two rounds. Yeah. So I, that's just it. You lose a lot of momentum. Not only is it go real late. You got odd teams in there. And there was no drama in the third round.

like it was boring, to be quite honest with you. So a lot of people started shutting it off then. And then you got a 10 day break. Like it was a recipe for disaster. When do we start? Like October? Is that when the season starts? Usually it's in Canada, it's Thanksgiving weekend.

Yeah. Is there any value? Because I saw some guys talking about it again, social media. Because this, the series is over early. But as you even go historically, because I think it was yesterday, was the anniversary of the 94 game seven between the Canucks and the Rangers. You want to know how I would do it? Now, this is what will happen in five years.

Play the All-Star game in the summer or whenever. Why the F does it have to be in middle of the season and get rid of that stupid break? Yeah. Give the guys two more days of Christmas. That's about a halfway point. Give them a couple more days around the holidays. And to get rid of the week off for no freaking reason, they get mandatory days off now.

We never had days off. I mean, you'd get days off when you earned days off. And I'm not trying to be an old prick about it. But honestly, there's no, why can't you do the All-Star game like the NFL does the football? Go to Hawaii and have the, I don't care, do it at the draft, whatever you want. But why does it have to be mid-season?

Why are we pausing for, a three on three tournament. That's a decent point, retro. I've spent so little time invested in the All-Star thing anyway. It's a corporate thing. I understand the reasoning behind it, but it's the same as an outdoor game. It's for the city that the game is in. Sure.

We were there in Florida last year. They did a great job setting this shit up on the beach. You can do it whenever. Yeah. And not very often is it in Florida. So like it would literally. if you're doing it in Montreal, it'd be nicer to do it in July. I guess so, but now put your player, your player.

Well, for sure, the players aren't going to agree, but that's the problem is keeping everybody happy. It's a smarter idea. Pay them. If it's July, you'd probably have to pay, if it's July in the All-Star game, they're going to play it at the new building in Calgary. How tough a sell is that going to be for some guys league-wide who are spending time with their families and kids at summer to then take.

better part of a week to come to some city they don't have any attachment to to play a hockey game part of your deal yeah like i'm not trying to be no i know and the other thing is it's i have lots of unique things that i think about in my life as we do things just because and it's like why the do we do it this way well cause that's how we've done it it takes some getting used to that's all right like do you think the guys are pumped to go midseason? How many guys skip out on it midseason? Lots. Yeah, yeah.

Not lots, but guys do. Yeah. You might have better attendance. Right? Like, because I don't, it's not, it's not as though this series, it's not about this specific cup final. It would, it would be, it would be the same if we played at six weeks earlier or a month earlier or whatever.

But it just, it's too late. It's too long. It's too late. May is too long. A long weekend in Canada would be plenty. You don't have to start it. Started a little earlier. Started earlier.

Training camp doesn't like and again, I think a lot of it's changed since I played. I think it is shorter. You don't need three weeks of train nine games of eight or nine games. What the hell are we talking about? Yeah. Do the frickin' all star game then to kick that kick off to the season. All star game. Let's go.

That's another thing too, right? It's the players have to hate training camp. The management, they want time to assess their team. But I think how many teams are really still ringing their hands? Gosh, we've only had eight preseason games. I sure don't know what to do. Listen, there's a million ways of doing it. Have rookie camp a week earlier.

The kids that aren't making it don't need to go to main camp. and someone along, well, that's the experience then fucking earn it. Pardon my language. Right? Like, then make main camp. You get cut.

That's your own story. If you get cut, you're not good enough to be there. So don't have the main guys. There's so many guys. They end up splitting it in half anyway. Got two teams going all over to place and it's money for the owners. I get that part, but come on. And the thing about,

Christmas, there's a lot of times, the Christmas break almost isn't long enough. There's a lot of guys that don't get home for Christmas. You don't get any time for Christmas, and it's longer than it used to be. It's not, it's not a good break. Now, again, the dollar speaks to all of it. Yeah, yeah.

But I'm sure, I actually believe this. And we're talking out, talking as we think here. I, you know, the league wants those games at Christmas because people are off in this. Okay, that's, that's, That's fine. But one day, one more day, two more days, like, you're going to take a week off in January. That's a better option.

Like it doesn't, it doesn't make any sense. There's better ways of doing it. Yeah. But I, I like hockey. And I find every year, right about now, it's, yeah, I've, I, it's good. Enjoyed it. Oh, it's, it's, it's good. Well, you think about it.

Those 10 days, if this. series. Now, correct me from Ryan, it wasn't 10 days. It was 10 days for Florida. I think it was 10 for Florida. Yeah. But they could have almost sought it in half. Yeah. They could have saved four days. Even a week or earlier is a big deal, right? Early in June, I thought I remember playing into like the 20th. Like, I don't know what year it was, but I thought we played late into June. because there was a time and I'm trying to remember which cup it was. I think it was one of the Oilers runs where they won it in June. And I remember it was like, wow, they're playing into June now. And I think that was when round one was a best of five, which they then made a best of seven.

And I do like that because round one's often the best. And a best of seven just gives you a better opportunity to find, find a deserving winner, I suppose. But it's too late. It's too late. Every year we say this. No, it's too late. But they should rethink it. They're going to get numbers like this.

It's weird. I was sitting here doing nothing and usually I don't even look at social media, but I looked, I was on Twitter. And Dana White was ripping the NHL saying, these guys are idiots. A bunch of old pricks and suits. They don't have a clue what's going on with the new generation of viewers.

And I'm like, if someone would know, probably Dana White's on top of it. He seems to be doing okay with this stuff. Yeah. I like Dana White. I know what he is. And I understand why there's people that don't like him and he rubs people the wrong way and some of his behavior. And that isn't.

But he is, I just find him so refreshing and entertaining because he just, he's unapologetically, I think, honest or makes himself appear to be honest. I'll be honest. I am not a fan of his slap fight thing. Yeah, but I find it hard to watch. I don't like it either. I think it's stupid and dumb and I don't, I don't get it, but they're talking about hundreds of millions of views.

I think that's what he was referencing, was that the slap, whatever it's called, had more views than the finals. Yeah. Well, and he was, he's also,

he's like, the people that are against the slap fighter, that are trying to tear. They're the same people that tried to take down UFC. There would have been no UFC if these people had their say, or if this was the type of person that had any kind of sway or power back when the UFC was up and coming. I don't know. Maybe we're getting old and soft.

Well, it ain't for me. Because I don't, again, I go, I don't like stupid things. And to me, that's stupid. Right. Like, I don't know why. Like, why is a boxing match better? I don't know. Because I'm stupid.

Well, stupid. Betman and the NHL. There's a lot of good ideas on this podcast here. Yeah, I saw a thing here. A lot of problems. Let me find it here because I took a shot of it. Adam Seaborne,

who works for Playmaker, which is our parent company. He analyzes a lot of media trends, ratings, sponsorships, and that sort of thing. And the numbers did come out about the ratings. 2.124 million viewers watched the Stanley Cup final game five, more than half less, 50% less than the Leafs and Bolts. worst viewing audience for a final game in the U.S. in 29 years. And some of that is due to the fact they left ESPN and went to T&T or whatever, you know, that, that whole thing. They were on ESPN, whatever.

He said, counterpoint, NHL team sponsorship revenue. Think helmets, jerseys, the little, you know, the sponsor logos on that, rose by 21% this year to 1.5%. $1.28 billion and outpaced growth in every other major league, including the NFL. His point being, TV ratings, not the only measure of success. So while people are saying, oh, look at your sports dying, your sports doesn't have anything, well, how's $1.28 billion for having a sticker on your helmet, Stacey? Yeah, I don't think the sports dying. I just think you have to be, and that's the most progressive thing I think the NHL did,

was allow that. Do you think that if the NFL said put some advertising on their helmet, what would it bring in? A gazillion dollars. Right? Like, and it's traditional old pricks like, oh, you can't do that. Well, you can.

And there's a whole whack of money to be made. Yeah. We go through this. You talk about there's the same thing. I can't believe they're putting ads on the boards. And I can't believe they're putting ads in all the boards. And then behind the bench and then on the ice houses. like you say it's just it's the way it's always been done doesn't mean it's right

somebody told me that the technology out there with the VR sets that they you you could buy a ticket for Madison Square Garden and sit whatever seat you wanted and watch the game like you were there yeah like this is where these things might even go I mean yes because Apple unveiled that thing last week yeah the VR stuff is is crazy um I like it because I feel like I'm every single day. I'm another day closer to not having to leave my house. Well, that's the objective, I think. Did you go to the game last night?

Yep. I was there. I met Unreal seats. It's in Manitoba and I met my buddy in Hong Kong and we went flyer, play the Rangers and that the spectrum. What a crowd, eh? Crowd was jumping last night. I couldn't believe it.

Yeah. That's good. Just why leave home? Why bother? We will do the Piddy Report in a bit. A tough customer is having a birthday today. We'll do that for McLeod Law. And we'll talk to you a little bit about St. Eugene.

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No. But no, you're at a wedding. I know. And then some idiot proposes and steals. Yeah. Yeah. Say, hey, like you say, stay in your lane. It's not about you right now.

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So when you come, so you're at some point coming back here. Is it summer in Calgary or do you have summer plans? These are things that all need to be discussed and organized, but yeah, we're going to come back and settle in and make use of that lake that we live on. Right. No plans in. the, uh, zero, the boomer house this year. Zero.

Zero. Not even a trip to the farm? You're not going to Saskatchewan? Well, uh, yeah, maybe there's a two or three day trip there for that one. Do the little kind of camping thing. But the boys are getting older. They got jobs. They got too much shit on to go.

I know. Kids are working and saw this stuff. I actually said that to the shoveler. I said, you know, if we were ever thinking of doing a summer trip. Probably this is the last year of available. Yes, sir. Yeah.

How, and how did that go over? Yeah. I got a nod. Oh, yeah. I'll get right on that. Well, she knows that she, like, I mean, if we can't plan, yeah, if we can't plan things when, when, and we don't even

live with you, I can't imagine what it must be like for the shoveler. I'm going to make a cup of tea. Is that okay? Or are we doing something between now and the next 90 seconds? You know what? She gets as mad about as anything? Supper.

Yeah. Because I can't choose supper until I know what I feel like. I know. Right? Like you can't be, okay, chicken, fish, steak, Monday, Tuesday. No. If I wake up and it's a taco day, we're having tacos. if I wake up and it's jumbalaya day what are you going to do?

I know. Make a meat loaf? My wife does the same thing. We'll be up at, you know, the houses. Everybody's getting ready for school and work and all this sort of thing. What should I take out, should I take something out of the freezer for dinner? What? It's eight in the morning.

It's like 7.15. How am I supposed to know what we're going to be eating? It's like 12 hours? from now. Could be dead in 12 hours from now. How am I supposed to know? We might be going out. We can't go out.

We might be skipping dishes or dashing to the door or who knows what we're going to be doing. And then it's really rough when things roll around and you're tired. I don't know what we're doing for supper. I didn't take anything out of the. I don't know. So are we like, are we ordering? I don't know. So then what do you want?

I don't know what I want. But now we have to order something. I don't know what we're going to have. He's a real problems, Rhett? Yeah, these are real problems. Keep battling. Yeah. Pinda Report, presentation of Village Honda.

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yesterday's show with Ryan Huska. I really encourage you to do it because he, and I think it caught, it didn't catch people off guard, but I think people were really surprised at just how open

and genuine and real he is, which is so rare, right? Yeah. Nothing scripted, honest answers. Yeah. Thorough answers. I felt bad because I don't know

if they expected, because Peter Hanlon was here as well, who's with the, of course, media department with the flames, some of just the best in, he and Sean Kelso and those guys, the best in the National Hockey League. I don't know if they expected us to be sitting down with Huska for an hour 20. Yeah, maybe thought come in to a quick 15. Probably, hey, good, ready for the season. Oh, so excited.

Yeah. How about Elias Lindholm? See, come back? Oh, we're sure I'd like to have them back if we could. Hour 20. but this is the time of year to do those you don't get that access in the winter you don't get that access very often regardless you think he's coming back in and October not likely but it was not lost on me and not lost on us that an NHL head coach came to our studio and sat down for over an hour and and answered all the questions it's a you know what we're finding and I know that as this show and just Flames nation everything moves and evolves who knows what any of this is going to look like in a year or two or three down the road.

But man, everyone's got a story, don't they? It doesn't matter who you. Have a seat. And let's chat for a bit. Someone's got an amazing story or some part of their life professionally or personally that will just kind of make you sit back and be like, wow, I had no idea that you had that experience. We've got to keep getting guys in to have these long, to have these stories. come out because you think you're right.

Like we've done a few of them now. As of any, I mean, there's not been a disappointment. There hasn't been close. You want to call it a dud or whatever? Not close. Not close. They've been really great.

And I love it. I love just what just that. When you get to that point of a little vulnerability comes in, that's, that's what I appreciate. because so much of sports is I have no emotion

I do not fear losing I have no doubt in myself I have no doubt in my T's okay well that's good all right thanks I knew that Huska had won three cups as a player he's one of four guys and you know what I meant to go at he's one of four guys ever to win three

Memorial Cups as a player and played and didn't win one year. He had four years, one in three, and then they missed. Could have won four. But as he, like, as he was saying, how many total does he have? Didn't he win some coaching? Yeah, he has, is it five?

Because he had the one win as an assistant with Habshide. Was it with Habshide or Truitt? Anyway, but yeah, it's remarkable, decent. One of the toughest trophies to win. it is and now let me ask you this because so too is a league championship you go through the rigors of winning a western hockey let's just say western hockey league because that's your what three four rounds and then you go to the memorial cup and it's a tournament in one week you could lose a couple games and you're hooped which i guess that makes it harder you have the smaller margin for error but some will always say there's a little bit more satisfaction in what you need to do to win the championship to get there.

And if you win the Memorial Cup, it's a bonus, but you don't take that loss necessarily as hard. Jay McKee said it to me last because they lost them the final. He goes, you know, I told the boys, we won the, we won a championship lost tournament. Yeah. It's maybe when you lose. Yeah, so you got to have some sort of.

Yeah. Yeah. Not a big deal. Hey guys, don't even worry about it. Don't worry about it. But it's on our YouTube channel. it's on wherever you get your podcasts. Now, is it standalone, Jack, or is it part of just yesterday's show?

No, I cut it up and we have a standalone as well. All right. So you'll find the interview because he came in. We had our show and then he came in for the second hour. And yeah, very highly recommend it if you're a Flames fan, if you're just a hockey fan or a guy that has an amazing story because that was up until I guess it was that London Knights team, who was on that team? That was Corey Perry.

I think Prust was on that team. Rob Schramp on that team where their record was bananas. But you can still argue, if you want to talk about a team of Destiny Dynasty to make three M-Cups in four years is incredible. And that one team, as he said, they were building towards that and won a couple of Memorial Cups along the way. Not bad. Flukes. Yeah. How did you know the question, because you guys got them to game soon.

of the Western League Championship, right? That in 95? How did you get them to game seven? We had a great team. Clearly, because that team is one of the best ever. And you got to, now you got thumped in game seven, but you got it to seven. Yeah, I mean, we won game six, I think, in overtime.

So we had to win game six to even get to game seven. But I don't like, it was a two, three, two. I actually think they won the first two there. Then we won one. Or maybe we had to win two in Saskatoon. So we won two in Saskatoon. They went back and won game six. It was tough hockey.

Who got that overtime winner? Mark Watton, I think. Wow. Mark Watton or Derek Tibitz. I think it was Watt. We won a draw on their end. I can't remember if Tibby tipped it in or if it went straight in. Either way, Fox were in Manitoba celebrating with that.

Well, represented. Yeah, for sure. And then 8-1. Yeah. And it was weird because when I was kind of doing the work on that, I think it was the first Memorial Cup. They beat Saskatoon in the Western League final that, and it was 8-0 in game 7.

Exactly same scenario. Right? So Saskatoon just getting real close. Cold sweats. Yeah. And they played taking care of business every time they scored a goal. Dada, only eight times.

Quiet bus ride home? No. No. Old school bus ride home. Yeah. And then what was your summer that year? Because you were getting ready to go to the show, weren't you? That must have been my draft year.

95? 94 spring of 94 95 we played by last year in junior 95 96 first year pro so yeah I think we're ready to go to the draft yeah just trying to graduate high school dean you know yeah so as that series ended I really really focused in on my grades I may not want to go to cam loops for these games because I've got this cam exam yeah I'm really I And I really need to dig in on it. I've got an 82, but I know I can really bump that up if I nail this final exam.

That's why I think a lot of the team got distracted game seven, because when we got, you know, I had the seven-hour bus right home and we're all thinking about how much study and we could get in. That's right. Yeah, I'm sure that that's what it would have been. We talked to, again, the injuries for the Florida Panthers, your Florida Panthers, they are done.

they are celebrating in Vegas. There's not, from what I can see, not a lot of stones being left on turn. They're hitting all of the spots in Vegas, as you would and as you should. Meanwhile, for the Panthers, Aaron Eckblad.

Now, Paul Maurice came out. He had a post-game interview. I talked about yesterday. It was really kind of a cool interview with Jackie Redmond. They were doing their year-end stuff today, and he didn't want to get into who needs surgery and all of this, because in a lot of cases, they don't know yet.

But Aaron Eckblatt, as we knew coming in, he had broken his foot. He had a torn oblique and his shoulder had gone in and out a couple of times. He's going to have shoulder surgery and won't be ready for the start of training camp. The rest they feel probably will, but they don't know about Kachuk because he's got the broken sternum. And I don't know. You don't put a cast on your sternum. Do you put your upper body into a cast? No, you just suffer.

Yeah. Because noodles had that, right? Noodles had it. Brian, uh, Scroodlin had it when I was in Florida. He was dying. Like it just lingers forever. It feels like that'd be something if you're, you know, jacking around with your buddies. You could aggravate that thing. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Talking, and Kachuk talked about it, how he, his brother, obviously, Brady was staying with them, had, helping him get out of bed, helping him get dressed at the rink. They had to tie his skates. for him and get him in and out of gear. You knew it had to be bad when he doesn't play in an elimination game, but, and hockey players get this a lot at this time of year.

The I can't believe you guys play through all of this, but it is, there's no other sport that does it. Like football is probably close, right? There's a lot of guys you'll hear broken ribs or whatever. The stories are, but I don't think there's any sport that does it, like hockey does it.

I actually worry about it because guys, when you're in that much pain, you're probably pounding back in Advil or more. Right. And shit sends to go sideways, right? Like, you don't want to hear about guys down the road dealing with issues. Yeah. Loosterainen had a broken tibia. It was a high ankle sprain for Radco Gudis, who also got rocked in that one game.

So the, the, uh, the Panthers, not a lot, not. fun off season because you are close closer than you've been in so long and now you're banged up and you've got to just come back and do it again. Do they look to you like a team that's going to be able to pick right back up?

I think they've got a really good team. I suspect there I always find that the team that Kenny goes one of those unexpected runs the next year is difficult. We were like that. It was always all three times. it was difficult to rekindle that emotion a little bit.

Because for that team to have that, I mean, what's Bobrovsky going to do? To me, that's the key, right? He's not going to play 950. I'll tell you that. Now, I think they've been a good team for quite a while, and I think they've got a good nucleus and a good base, and I think they've got options moving forward, blah, blah, blah.

I just think that emotionally, well, two things. I don't think Bobrovsky is going to be as good as he was in a short, playoff run and the emotional drain on going late and not winning can be tough to overcome yeah so congrats to Vegas congrats to Vegas getting it done that's got to be because that the Saturday is there parade how do you parade in Vegas the boulevard like I think they're going I would think this trip yeah wow first ever first ever that'll be okay like that's worth flying down to

yeah yeah whether you're a fan or not I love you guys this is great uh Alex de brinkett of the Ottawa senators told us we've between Bruce Gary Ock

and Pierre Lebrun they've been covering this story and uh Mr. Debrinkett does not want to be a long term on Ottawa Ottawaian Ottawa Ottawa

Ottawa a twat what um so anyway he says not going to sign here long term so you may as well trade me here's a list of teams that i'd probably go to i'd sign long term here so they get into that process now the same thing happened here with matthew kachuk now i think it happened or it never maybe it never got to that point but the team can file for salary arbitration on the player because of the rfa and what that can do is give you a discount if in fact, because it's funny, Kachukia was going to be that one year, $9 million, if he came back. Same for DeBrickit. It would be a one year $9 million. Now, it's just $9 million by coincidence.

But the team that takes them to salary arbitration, you get it, I think it's like a 15% discount on that one year deal. So it's, now the team, the players don't like it. Because what if you don't trade me, then I get my one year, but then you're saving money.

And then it's, when they want out, they want out. And I think he will get out, but that's kind of the latest on the De Brinket thing. The draft is, what is today, Thursday? The draft is less than two weeks away. I know that when we had Frank on the other day, he talked about Elias Lindholm. He said, there's a very real chance.

You're going to have an extension or a trade done before the draft. I wonder if there's a number of these guys. There's some big names, three of them in Winnipeg, with Hellebuck, Dubois, Shifley, De Brinkett, obviously, Ottawa. There could be a bunch of stuff happened here in the next two weeks. Yeah, I hope there is. Gossomick stirring and excitement around the league. I mean, is a team like Chicago go from zero to 100?

And don't drag it into July because we want some time off. Like, look at Chicago's draft picks. Mm-hmm. And cap space. Yeah. it's a decent place to be it's a decent place to be and how long do you need to suffer for with that sort of stockpile yeah you know what that would be you you'd you'd have to have as excited as you are and you look at it if

you're with kyle davidson's GM it's just the whole brain let's have just a little bit of patience let's not be young boomer when he's like 10 years old and dad doesn't have anything else but a 20 to give to him to go to the corner store that's not blow the whole 20 because chances are you don't you're not going to like everything that you buy and you don't need everything that you buy there will have there would be

and I would there be a lot of teams that would be looking at Chicago hey we got this player yeah it's a big cap hit but you know he's a good player and you got all the space in the world and it won't cost you much to get them there will be a lot of teams that'll be humping their leg to take on some players and some salary but I think they're in a position

I mean it's Chicago which I think people think is a great place to play. Maybe it's not. There's a lot of shit going on in Chicago. But I think people would love to go play in Chicago. They did for a long time.

You have Badaard, right? Like there's going to be an attraction to somebody going, you know, I can go play with Badaard. He's going to be pretty good. Like how long before they're good? Like, honestly, they have six picks in the first two rounds. Two in the first, four in a second. The next year they have four in the first two rounds.

The next year they have two in the first round. You have to spend some of those off for players now, don't you? And is it a good year to do it? Pinder would be better at this because he would understand the cap. He would talk loud. He'd loud talk and convince you that he knows. Tell me I'm stupid again. But if the cap's not going up, is this the year to try and use it to your leverage, right?

Like next year, the cap's going up. then the teams maybe have more leeway to do things. I don't know. It's, yeah, you know, it could probably go both ways. If you've got a deal that makes really good sense this year, you do it. They're in an absolute no lose situation because they can, they can stay the course and fill the cupboards chock full of players. Like, they can just keep doing what they're doing, stockpiling and stockpiling young talent.

Or this makes a lot of sense. Yeah, we'll take. lend home for you can have our second whatever. And in addition to that, you don't need to worry about losing your fan base with a long rebuild because they're jacked about having Badaard. Yeah. Because they all bought season tickets again. But that's what I've said about it in Calgary.

I hope they, you know, management and ownership can recognize that is that I don't think your fans are going to be abandoning you if you, because the Chicago, hockey fan can see, yes, last year sucked. But, boy, sure looks good two years from now. Right? Like, there's, and again, there's no guarantee you're going to win, but damn, they're going to, if they F this up, then they're in trouble. Do you think that, and I don't know, because Buffalo got dragged for how they tried to,

tank if you want to call it. They sold off a bunch of shit to try and get the McDavid lottery. Is it going to be the same in Chicago? Because the Blackhawks didn't do it a lot different. They failed, but this is the thing. They failed in a bingo. Yeah. That's the only thing that Buffalo failed at,

it would be a completely different world if the bingo ball had come out different, right? That's it. They failed in one thing. They had a plan. They went for. you can disrespect it all you want blah blah blah the bingo ball

some i 17 son of a bee yeah i17 right like it's all they failed in they would have mac david if it played out the way it was supposed to and the whole world would be different

yeah it would be yeah it would be yeah for a lot of people it would be very different be so different so i don't I mean, I don't like tanking, but damn it, if you're going to be horse shit, go for it. Right? Like, don't fake it. I've, I've never had a problem with it. I would, I guess I would if you had a chance, if you had a decent team and you just decided,

no, we're not going to. They're a bad team. They're bad at the right time. Cheap. I don't like cheap. Right. Like, Kane's in his final year of a deal. You trade them.

If you have guys with expense trade them for sure you got young guys hey play them play them I don't know What else? I guess that's probably about it there's a lot of stuff and we'll keep an eye on things as far as that trade I I'm there I haven't talked to anybody I am wondering what the the boot is in Winnipeg Because good you you can't be happy you're gonna have to that's the guy that has to stick handle the most isn't it? I think so Because he's going to be under the microscope fan-wise with the lack of success. Two years in a row, a coach leaving and then a coach saying after a playoff, these guys don't try hard, whatever, how can you win?

Right? Like, that's basically what he said. Coach before said, ah, I tried. These guys aren't going to get, I'm out, thanks. Right? like and now you've got a bunch of guys wanting to walk and I think even if you're a dyed in the wool jet's fan out there you have to

almost see you hate that Dubois wants to leave and now Hellebuck says he's not signing there you hate it you may not like it but you have to almost recognize why it's the case they went they went there especially Heleback he played there a long time yes he played his his balls off there I don't think that

Dubois was a little up and down but that's kind of who he is. I don't know. It sucks because that's you've talked about a lot. We don't need to. But you need everything to fall into place there. You need to be healthy and you need to draft well

and you need your trades to work out and you need guys not to hate it to the point that they quit on you and demand trades and all that shit. You've got to find guys that want to be Winnipeg Jets are comfortable being Winnipeg Jets. I think that I loved the Dububleau. Bois trade when they made it because the year before he'd played so hard in that

playoff series against Toronto and stuff. I was like, this guy's turning into a stud. But I think you knew he wasn't going to want to be a Winnipeg jet. And so it's weird. I don't forget who I was talking to, and I wouldn't name names anyway, but yesterday, or two days ago, I was at the rink here in Buffalo. And I think the draft was here the year Dubois got picked. and he was down there working,

he said he's the only guy that was a bit of a dick. Yeah. The only guy that stood out as a putz or I forget the wording he used, but so there's a bit of stink to it. Now, is that before he had his name called by Columbus or after? Yeah, we've been before. Yeah.

But if the, you know, kids are down there doing all the workouts, the interviews, all, I guess they weren't doing, workouts at the draft, but anyway, that was the word I heard the other day, oddly enough. Look at you. Yeah. Insider. Yeah. Dig and deep.

Dig and deep. U.S. Open Golf is underway at the Los Angeles Country Club. You ever played the Los Angeles Country Club? No, I didn't fit in in L.A. No way. With your jean shorts, your jeans. Saskatchewan, Tuxedo.

Yeah. I was sure. Could you put your shirt back on, please? It was so hot. It is very warm. It's Los Angeles, but it is the country club. If you could put your shirt back on, that would be great. What do they got?

Seven Canadians going at this thing? Spenson and Sloan and Connors and Hadwin and Pendrith. I hope Adam Hadwin's okay after taking that vicious body shot from the security guard. What's he going to sue that guy for? Like big money. Yeah, big though. He's Canadian. I don't shucks man, don't worry about it.

No, no, I'm a buddy. I'm a buddy. I'm a buddy. Sorry. I know him. I know him. Sorry, man. Yeah, it's okay. It's okay. Stamps, Calgary Stampeters, they lose week one to BC. They are in Ottawa. De Brinkett hates it there, and I bet you Dickinson hates it there too. Get me the hell out of Ottawa. Nation's capital, my ass.

The red blacks, I believe. is the team they'll be facing. Yeah, well, if you're out there, you don't want to play the black and reds. No, you don't. Cadeem Cary out for the stampaters, 530 mountain time start. And I saw a thing on the old Soshe,

Matt Dunnigan. Everybody loves Matt Dunnigan. He said the one regret he had from a CFL career is he never played for the Saskatchewan Rough Riders, which is interesting because he was a long time bomber, right? And you'd think you'd have that kind of rivalry, I hate those guys. But I would think that's probably one of those things for a lot of players.

If you're going to play in the Canadian Football League, why not be cheered by that fan base as opposed to, you know, sworn at by it. Matt Dunnigan was, I remember working a training camp. They would have their training camp in Brandon at the University, Brandon University at the campus there. and this was this was peak done again it was like it was like watching sean michael's the heartbreak kid

oh yeah at the height of his career it was the long flowing blonde locks tight shirts like the biceps just busting out going to go into what if houston's or what the unwinder at night after it was quite a show i remember being at oh oh think it's the national bar now but it was a different bar at the time in calgary and the hip was playing yeah okay and dunnigan was there and i was so gooned i'm like come over here matt and he's like no i'm good you might know me yeah i'm sask too i'm sure it was the year i think it was the lockout year and so i was like well he'd have watched me playing the playoffs last year.

I don't need you to buy me a drink, you loser. I'm good. All right, fine. Drunk. Now, Jack, Jack, RJ and Pinder went to watch the Calgary Surge last night over at Winsport. Good game. Jack, give me, let's have, this is your Calgary Surge update with Jack. was actually a lot of fun. Like I'm a pretty big basketball fan. I follow the NBA, but I wasn't

expecting a lot, but it was actually a good time. And they were down big heading into the fourth, and then they cut it within six, I think. And then they do that after at the end of the, yeah, yeah. They do that target score thing, kind of crawl back and then they lost right at the end there. But the highlight of the night was RJ because he didn't know. Now, RJ is one of our about basketball. Jack is one of our guys and RJ is one of our guys. These guys are working behind the scenes. There's a lot of stuff that goes on here. So our, RJ's not big into the hardwoods? No, no idea. And before he went, he told me that he's never watched a basketball game in his life besides high school. And like, you'd assume like you'd sort

to know the game. Like, I mean, he lives in red deer, I guess. Whatever. Yeah, like, I had to start writing down quotes. He said, I'm assuming they don't change on the fly. And everything, he would just try to relate it to hockey and the flames. Like, he was saying this coach is very Daryl Sutter-like, just like the flames this year, shot quantity, not quality.

he was very confused about the coaches being on the floor. He didn't like that at all. He suggested that they put up boards. To keep the coaches off the floor. They call time out the players. They're all running onto the floor celebrating. Doesn't like it. He didn't know anything.

Was he shocked with how surprisingly not slippery the ice was? They were able to run up and down in their shoes without falling down? Yeah. a million penalties, penalty shots. Yeah, like not fouls. They were penalties. It's, you know what,

Rhett, it's heartwarming and it's a good feeling to know when you've got the right people working around. But you've got the right kind of guys who've got your back. I wish you were there because you would have laid into him. Now, is it possible he was playing, playing it up for you?

Maybe, but like I said, he said he'd never watched a game. So he couldn't name three NBA players. Lots of tough. I mean, we're going to have to re-evaluate because, I mean, Rhett and I are huge basketball guys. I'm not sure.

And you are muted, Rhett. I'm not sure if I can handle it. If I can't tolerate it. I can't wait to get back and go see some surge. Yeah. It was a good time. I really enjoyed it. 82.77, they lose to Vancouver.

They will host the Montreal Alliance on Friday. The Alliance. Yeah, don't lose to Vancouver. Don't do that. And you know what? This I'm going to bring in, it's not so much a news item as it is just kind of a, just kind of a note. I meant to tell you, I didn't tell you, Jack, it's in the, there's three things in the folder.

The one is a tweet. And I saw this. And I was just going to bring it up in regular conversation, but I was like, no, this, this has enough to it that it's all, it's kind of a news item that we should share. Um, you like soup, eh? Had soup last night. Ministro. Your, and your soup intake has gone up.

Skyrocketed. Skyrocketed. Love the soup. It's how you're wedding. My new favorite soup. Thalia wedding. You were talking about this. What is the green stuff in it?

The, the, the leaf is like spinach. It's not, is it. Is it spinach? I don't know. I think so. There's meatballs. It just meatballs and, and, and, and what's the, tiny meat Just a little tiny.

Tiny little tiny meatballs. What's the, is it like a barley or is it, what's the, it's a pastina, I think. Pastina, yeah. So it's, well, well, Mama Mia. Yeah, Mamma Mia. I saw this tweet come up yesterday.

And it just, it hit me like a hammer. Asian soup spoons are so much better for the task of soup. It's nuts. Western soup spoons are off. The West is clearly unserious about the way it consumes soup. I've never thought about

it's been in my head, but I love going for Vietnamese fa or having ramen and one of the best things is that spoon. And I've never really thought for it to

cross over into my everyday life. It's just one of those things that I enjoy while I'm having that sort of soup. Brett, your thoughts on the Asian versus ordinary soups? I would like to debate this with you. Certainly, you get more per scoop. It certainly handles the shakiness of a person's body. You get bumped.

You're going to keep it on in the scooper. I've always struggled with dribble with the Asian spoon. Where are we dribbling? well like I feel like I got a tip I really got to tip it to get it out and then it's all over you're not that's just that's you that's you possibly I'm not I'm not anything you anything you eat gets on you I've seen it happens true I had to go change my shirt I can't went upstairs the kids are going to bed and I had a bowl of taco dip and a white t-shirt on fail major fail I went upstairs and the boys saw me and they're like dad what the yeah you shouldn't own white t-shirts it should just not be in your your drip at all but i mean because you look at jack and now i've got the one the one there i took just the shot of the uh pull that up of the asian soup spoon because

you would think it's more conducive or less conducive to dribble because like rj would say you've got boards yeah but you got a tip and then you know some of those you know when you're pouring stuff if it's not the right lip that stuff dribbles over the side. But are you not almost doing the same with the regular spoon? I'm not saying, I'm not saying I'm right. And I, much like you,

I've never really sat down and put an hour or two into thinking through which soup spoon is better. But clearly I'm going to have to. I may need new cutlery. Because I don't like, right? Now, the one thing, and I,

because I saw people talking on, line. And I'm pointing at it like you can, I'm pointing at it like you can see, but you can't see. But I, it's the, it's the, the trench that exists on the handle. Yeah. That it, you may have some dribbledge go up the handle. I wonder if, no, I'm wondering if it's the angle of the handle, right? Like, you can't put that spoon is tougher to get in the drawer. So now you're, you're, it's above. So it's Maybe in my view will, I don't know. So if you're using that, are you going sideways or straight on? I think I'm attacking it at a 45.

Kind of a little bit, both. But maybe that's the issue. You need to go straight in. Dump truck. In and back up, yeah. You tip the Oriental spoon like a cup. So that'd be from the side. No.

from the front. Sideways to say. Okay. Okay. I'm on it. I'm going to go get some, I'm going to try this today. Yeah, I'm going to go. You got to be able to eat. I'm either going to go to a place or I'm going to

Jason D. You are correct. You are 100%. Correct. I don't know who's the higher seed coming into the tournament. But if, if that soup, spoon is ranked lower, we might be prime for an upset.

You know what? there is you can deep dive into this because my original thought sorry for listeners jason d just put in a text or message there that said we need a soup draft spoon spoon draft a soup what spoon draft he said i thought he said soup draft no he said spoon draft well i say screw the soup draft or the spoon draft and we do a soup draft because the soup draft is very debatable what's a soup it's like that whole chunk Is your Vietnamese that you just mentioned? Is that soup? Yes.

Because immediately my mind went to chicken noodle has to be traditional good, can't be beat. But then you, what about the wanton? Okay, so where is the, is it, is it the thickness? Like, because you're going to get into a stew at some point. Yeah, you can't do it, jumbalaya. What about a bisque? Bisk, I think, is soup. It's a heavy cream.

I think bisque is okay. Lobster bisque is lovely. Because it's going to be tough. No, grief is stew is not a soup. Not at all. No, no, no, no. Because I was thinking about the contents. What do you have in stew?

A lot of times you'll have beef, but you can have that in soup. You'd have potatoes or carrots or different vegetables. But you can truly, you can have that in a in a soup, like a vegetable soup, obviously. And because a stew and a chili, those are different. Oh, Shill, I didn't think of it. Chowder. I think Chowder's in. You're going to, you know what you're going to have?

You're going to have a hell of a time when the stew people band together and are knocking on the door and they want some answers. Maybe, but, okay, well, you know what? Regardless, even if we allowed the stew in, the stew ain't in the top five no matter what. So what the hell the difference does it make? Not making a, you're not jumping from a stew all the way into the top three. you're not in metal contention. This is going to be a huge field. We're going to need like play in games.

Like March Madness, we're going to need some regionals and qualifiers because to get down to a bracket of at least a normal size. It's going to be tough. Now let me ask you this, though. At the end of the day, are you not going to have chicken noodle kind of being your number one seed and probably odds on favor. I would say it has to be,

but as my mind and brain bounce around and the side of my skull, there are numerous, numerous. Again, what's that place that Pinder took me over in Bridgeland? They have a ramen. Is a ramen soup? These are all really good questions.

You're going to find the, You're going to find some soups that are just going to, a split pea soup. They're going to be, no, I don't like that. Are there people that really just don't like chicken noodle? Because I wonder about who they're going to match up against. You're probably more apt to find people that will maybe not like the opponent and just be okay with chicken noodle and go chicken noodle, even though it may not be. You're right. That's why chicken noodle is going to be a tough out because it appeals to the masses.

so many in the let's say the North American sphere have grown up on chicken noodle soup it's a soother it's a medicine it's for your soul it's for your soul

there's books written about it so it's going to be tough but then you you put it up against the how do you say it the P.HO F so that or the ramen completely different work

world. Yeah. Right. What about the cream of mushroom? Like war wanton wanton wanton soup. Romani. You bring in, like I said, the, the, the chicken noodle feels like a, a can't lose North American style soup. Yeah. Whereas you bring in the globally, globally, I don't think it's going to be a hit globally, right? They're not, they didn't grow up with it. Yeah. And does ramen just get the benefit of being its own The broth in a ramen is. There's so many different variations of ramen where you may not like one, but you like the other, but you're going to vote ramen. We need a power ranking for sure. Listen, if there could be 20 F and donuts, there's easy 20 soups.

I think we kind of agree, though. Top 20. Well, you'd have 20 soups that are delicious and no one would argue with you. The donut thing, you don't need the last. page. We would just need to stress to people. And there again, you get the chicken noodle people pissed at you. If you're like, just really don't rush to judgment.

Yeah, think it through. Think it through. Maybe have, you know, sample both before you cast your vote. And I do love chicken noodle soup. I kind of just, I kind of just. All right. But again, with the soup, what noodle are you putting in it? Yeah, I know.

Look at some of the broccoli cheese. Broccoli cheddar is so good. French onion soup delicious beef noodle yeah you might have you know what though I worry about your Italian wedding personal favorite personal favorite I could be a personal favorite

the place I go has wonderful switches and they have Italian wedding so it's kind of a and try go out today yeah head out on the in the wilds and pick up a bowl of a Italian wedding. Tell me what you think.

Well, you know what? Today's a good soup day because it was really warm a couple days ago. We've had some cooler weather. There's a, my mom's addicted to it in Saskatoon, a lemon orzo soup at some restaurant, Saskatoon. Phenomenal. A buddy of mine, every time he goes to Vegas, he has to go to the one restaurant. It's in Aria for the lemon grass soup. Oh, yeah.

He loves it. I like lemon grass too. Yeah. Somebody asking, no love for tomato. If you're going to put grilled cheese beside it, absolutely. What is that one? French onion. French onion.

Yeah. Like, what do you? Now, I'll be honest, French onion without the melted cheese on top. I'm probably not going for it as often. A little amulagatani. All right. Well, that's a Pinder report. Brought to you by Pender.

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And for some reason, I can't figure out why. There seems to be a lot of maintenance needed on said vehicle. Today was another $500 hit for breaks, which can happen. Absolutely. it just seems like the comparison between the two people in the house one vehicle that one person drives

lots and lots of maintenance we'll just call it maintenance right the other vehicle starts runs and parks it's kind of need to be stuff put gas in it and yeah is the other vehicle is it of the age where maybe this is just It's kind of bad timing that every

Five years, five years, but it's not a new trend. Oh, I see. Know what I'm saying? Yeah, yeah. Uh-huh. Hmm. Because I brought it up today and it was ill-received. Is that right, hey?

Yeah. Like Pinder, I'm all about the facts and apparently I have the data here to support it. Yeah. That there is a lot of maintenance that needs to be done. Yeah, it's tough. My favorite is always, and you just don't bring it up. You'll be walking by the vehicle or whatever, and you look down and say,

there's a gouge out of the rim that wasn't there when we put the tires on in spring. Nothing we can do about it now. Just keep on walking. Fat boy, don't say a word. Oh, geez, that's nice. Can we back into something there? It's a white vehicle, but that's clearly black paint. maybe it was one of the kids

I'm sure that's probably what it was. All the kids take a lot of the heat. Yeah. Damn kids. I don't know what happened. Damn kids. Let's do for our buddies over at McLeod Law this day in flames history.

Sort of kind of this day in flames history. Peter Klein, one of the best, one of the best in the business, bar none, best in the city, best in the business. The premier personal injury guy, but he's also the go-to guy for your disability insurance claim. Basically, if you're getting the runaround

with your injury, your disability, that this is the guy you need on your side, the insurance company is refusing to pay that insurance benefit to you that you've paid for and deserve. Contact Peter, he's on your team, he'll get you those benefits and get you your peace of mind. MacLeod-law.com. There you see his contact info.

403-254-38-64. If I'm beating about the head, if I bring it up again, we were just talking, if I'm beating about the head, can I call Peter? Can he help me? We'd have to, because you were talking about it on the show, which makes it the workplace. Yeah. So it was an injury sustained while you were at work.

Peter's probably the guy to talk to about it. Well, there's a couple of things, the first one, on this date in history. And I'll just, I don't have the video or anything. I just, the one thing I'll say during the celebration, the other night, I was very happy for Kelly McCriman, who I know from my days covering the weekings back in the day, but also to have his family there. And of course, everybody loves Brad McCriman. And he and his brother, as brothers are, super close. And that would have been a real

cool thing for him. It was 33 years ago today that the flames traded away Brad McCriman to Detroit for a second round pick. And I can't imagine and I was, that's kind of, it's not that long ago, but I was not here. I can't imagine that went over real well because the man they call Beast, Brad McCrimmon, was

beloved by everybody and a hell of a hockey player and the flame selected David Harlock with the second round pick. No disrespect to Dave, but Hall of Famer.

David Harlock No Did Beesk get in the Hall of Fame I don't think so I've told the story before I was in Plenty Saskatchewan he was there He was farming my friend was the His dad was the principal

I was out there I don't know what I was doing But there was grad going on And Brad McCrimmon was sitting in front of me And he had his arm around his wife And he was speaking and his Stanley Cup ring was on And I stared at it and stared at it and stared at it and he caught me staring at it.

So he said, here, kid, take a look. Is that right? Yeah. He was just one of the best. He really was. There were back, because I was doing the afternoon thing or whatever, I was at the rink every day, working with Kerr, working the afternoons and whatever.

So you'd be working the dressing rooms. And there were a few guys that you just wanted to hang around with. You know, Barry Trots was always good for after the microphone. or cameras or even when they were on. He was a good quote. But once it was done, he was going to hold court for a little while and shoot the shit and whatever. And even though Brad McCriman wasn't the head coach with Babcock in Detroit, he was kind of home for him. He'd been around the flames in Western Canada. So he'd always kind of, how are we doing boys? How are we doing? And then Beast would hold court for a little bit. And he was, he was awesome. So anyway, traded away on this date.

But happy birthday to a guy, he's one of those guys. He's one of those. guys that you didn't need you didn't need the game tape, you didn't need the game notes to know, don't mess with this, uh, with this fella. Five year flame turning 51,

Sandy McCarthy. Big, big dude. And could he throw him? And we've got a few, uh, a few of them. I, I went on it on the, uh, on the, on the hockey DB there, retro.

and yeah I'll have a lot of buddy um as the flames clear the puck we have a scrap between

McCarthy and Brent Thompson he spent a year with Salt Lake which would have been the uh the farm team David Strush played with him I wonder if he's got any stories

oh he does yeah 77 games 220 tims all four on the that team because it was a pack of lunch if you were going to take on that team cruiser was on that team as well i saw here i'll pull up his his data um just a ton of guys 172 pims 220 pins 267 255 Paul Cruz had 206 pims in 355 Paul Cruz had 206 pims in 355

games oh my lord it's a tough league boy jeez it's a tough league i mean not for the weak of hard retro oh god yeah i didn't like playing against him oh we hit him hard yeah cam russell there yeah it says six two twenty five but it feels like oh man and you know, you got to get dressed after that and get in a bus and then get on a plane. And it's a happy birthday. Hey, Sandy, happy birthday, sir, from all of us here at Barnburner. We'd like to wish you a happy 51st birthday. And everybody at McLeod Law as well.

Austin and Peter and all the staff at McLeod Law and all of us here at the Nation Network. Real big fans of your work and all the best. of today to you and yours. Cloud Law. Call Peter Klein. Also, you know, and the thing about, the thing we appreciate about McLeod Law, and we said this right from the first meeting we had is real people. There's, there's just no air of anything. It's not, I think sometimes you kind of get that, you know, kind of pretentious feel, zero with McLeod Law and Calgary. Calgary roots, big part of their longstanding relationships, like the communities that they serve, their team is varied, they're diverse, and committed to being a positive in this city of Calgary.

McLeod Law. This person in my home has lost their marbles. Is that right? Absolutely gone. Let's go to the Galleria next week. I want to buy you one of these for summer. Well, for those that aren't watching, what are we talking about? Is that a man bag?

Is that a purse? Don't. Either way, I feel like I've lived with this person. person for quite a while. And she should know I don't have a, I hardly carry a wallet. Maybe she's trying to tell you something. She's sent it to the wrong person.

But then that leads me to believe, who is she buying a purse for? She's very generous. Yeah. And thoughtful. How's the, is the Amazon thing still a thing? It has just a parade of Amazon delivery drivers. Listen, very sneaky here.

doesn't have our address. Grandma's 100 yards down the road here. It's not right. Yeah, yeah. The odd time I walk into grandmas, there's boxes and boxes piled on the bed. I'm like, hmm, why does it have your name on it? It's not the shovelers first go around, hey? No.

She's very well-versed on the, uh, The register. Very well. Very well. St. Eugene, Cranbrook, interestingly enough.

Our guest yesterday from Cranbrook. Oh, that's right. Yeah. And interestingly enough, a bunch of our deadbeat friends will be heading out there

probably today. You were saying, yeah. Acting like idiots and fighting. Not at our proud sponsors, would they be? Not at the St. Eugene Golfers and Cascino. I hope our proud sponsors

boot them off. Go home. him and get some sleep. I'll talk to Mike and see. Let me get them out of there. Championship golf course, a casino, a spa, restaurants, mountains in every direction, a beautiful place on the planet. It's time to discover or rediscover the St. Eugene Golf Resort and Casino.

Go to the website, st. eugene.ca, and you'll be able to do all of your booking on there, whether it's the golf, whether it's rooms, all of that. We would encourage you to stay. Get out there. and then just put the car keys away, put the phones away, and just start to enjoy and soak in everything that is St. Eugene, golf, resort, and casino in beautiful Cranbrook, British Columbia.

So high kicks in Cranbrook. We'll be able to put together a high kick montage at some point soon, because they come out often and in a lot of places. I'm waiting for him to hit an evening. where all of a sudden there's a snap. I pray every day. Every day. Because it's so,

the more, uh, the more, uh, the more beverages, the easier it becomes. It's like, it's like,

it's like, oh, you should go and, uh, pull that girl's hair. No, oh, I bet you won't do it.

Yeah, you're chicken. All right. It's the same thing with him. I bet you that guy can kick higher than you can. Yeah. What? What?

No, no. His legs aren't long enough. Oh, I think you're not from this angle. He could definitely kick higher than you. Because I saw you at the last one. I don't know. I think you're,

I don't think you're getting as high as he used to. It's on. High kicks. Look out. That's, I guess that's kind of the program for today. Reminder, get that Betway app in your phone. We're through with, you know what we need to do, retro.

And maybe we'll do this for tomorrow. We've got to find out who won our playoff draft. Oh, we had the Barnburner playoff draft over at the Grey Eagle in right before the start of the playoffs. And some teams did very well. Some teams not so well. I will be shocked if any one of them had Aden Hill on their team. We had 16 teams, 16 or 17 goalies. I think there was maybe a couple.

I think did both out of Minnesota get picked? I'm trying to remember. Anyway, I know that a Vegas goalie. was taken late and it wasn't brispois and it sure as hell wasn't aden hill maybe logan thompson was taken i'm trying to remember anyway uh so we'll uh we'll roll out the uh final and have some congratulations for that maybe coming up on the show tomorrow um are you off to the tire shop no already get some got some breaks is it rotors and uh the whole the whole deal pads rotors so just fix the damn thing would you

I'm sick of this. Do you trust them when you go in there? Hey, we were doing the 297 point inspection for free, and we found that your jibby watt fluid is looking a little dark. You don't want to ruin your jibby watts because they can be mighty expensive. I mean, it's up to you, but if you want to get that jibbywatt fluid, we can do that today. We have it here for $765. What's that?

Oh, we can do that right here for you today. So I have a six. Yeah, go ahead, I guess. Do the jibby watt fluid while we're here. Yeah, you don't want your jibby wot to burn out. Once the jibby watt goes. Soup and bologna. We've got our work cut out for us, Retro.

It'll be good to have you back in town so we can. We're up for the task, we're up to the task or for the task or around the task. We'll be shoulder to shoulder and really connecting with the listeners and the viewers of Barnberger over the next few months. So check out Ryan Huska. Yes. Watch it, listen to it, whatever, get it in, get it inside of you. Get it in you soon.

Ryan Huska head coach of the Calgary Flames was on the show yesterday. You can find it wherever you get your podcast or on our YouTube channel. Appreciate you, everybody. We will see you tomorrow. That's it.