Empty Netters Podcast - Did Connor Bedard’s Injury Just Cost The Blackhawks The Playoffs and Him The Olympics?

Episode Date: December 16, 2025

So crushed for Bedard to pick up a freak injury in the middle of his career year! Can the Hawks survive? Can he still make the Olympics? The boys break down the Jarry Skinner trade, of course the Quinn Hughes trade, and check on some teams playoff hopes. Heated Rivalry Episode 2 Review is here and things are even steamier than before. The Shoresy Classic was incredible. Netters College Puck Drop saw some great action before the break. And of course a beer league hotline and blind ranking take you home. NEW EPISODES EVERY TUESDAY & THURSDAY! Watch full episodes, shorts, and clips on YouTube. Listen to the podcast on Spotify or anywhere you get your pods. Subscribe & follow Empty Netters everywhere: YouTube: / @emptynetters Instagram: @EmptyNetters TikTok: @EmptyNetters X: @EmptyNetters PRESENTED by BetMGM. Download the BETMGM app and use code “NETTERS” and enjoy up to $1500 in bonus bets if you lose your first wager! Thanks to our Sponsors! BetMGM: Use bonus code NETTERS when signing up to receive up to $1500 in bonus bets if your first bet loses. Aura Frames: Exclusive $35 off Carver Mat at https://on.auraframes.com/EMPTYNETTERS. Promo Code EMPTYNETTERS LUCY: Order your LUCY Today by going to https://www.lucy.co/Friday and use promo code FRIDAY for 20% off your first order Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER (Available in the US) 877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY) 1-800-327-5050 (MA), 1-800-NEXT-STEP (AZ), 1-800-BETS-OFF (IA), 1-800-981-0023 (PR) 21+ only. Please Gamble Responsibly. See BetMGM.com for Terms. First Bet Offer for new customers only. Subject to eligibility requirements. Bonus bets are non-withdrawable. In partnership with Kansas Crossing Casino and Hotel. This promotional offer is not available in New York, Nevada, Ontario, or Puerto Rico. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the Empty Netters podcast. Can you believe what this has become? There was a full 48 hours where I felt like I was like literally Superman. Jumbo loves playing Fortnite, so he gets on the sticks. Did TR show you the sauna cycle or was that all year? No, no, I invented that. Almost a year now that I haven't taken a body check. That's kind of nice.

Finish tonight with some chicken fingers and a few guineasas right into you guys. That's where this pod came to life. Ice is ready, and we are back with another episode of the Empty Netters. podcast brought to you by BetMGM, which is now available in Missouri. I'm your host, Dan Powers. I'm sick as a dog. We've got Buff Daddy over here on the sticks. To my left, a man who uses regular body lotion on his face like a plebeian, Chris Powers. As always. I discovered something. Are you sick, too? No, but I'm a shambles again. God damn it, dude, you got a problem. I discovered something about myself last night. Okay. You're going to share it with us? Yep.

Or I guess I discovered it this morning. Oh, God. I have insomnia and narcolepsy. I mean, I have insomnia at night and narcolepsy during the day. You're a narcoleptic insomniac. Yeah. That's a crazy combination. Dude, literally at night, I go, I guess.

You just stare at the ceiling. Yeah, and then during the day, we're at places. And you're asleep. And I'm like, us. And it's like, I'm, I gotta be playing hockey or like being social. Have you considered the fact that you're nocturnal? It sounds like you're describing being nocturnal. Oh, interesting.

And you're just, you're awake at night and then during the day because society norms tell you that you're supposed to be awake, you're trying to stay awake, but you're falling asleep. Because that's actually your sleep cycle. That's my, it's nighttime. Yeah, you're for me right now. Yeah, you're just a nocturnal man. Yeah, that's what's happening. Yeah.

What do you think, what is the coolest nocturnal animal, would you say? A bat. You're a Batman. We figured out out out. Chris is Batman. I'm Batman. That is actually awesome. I thought I had terrible news, and it turns out I had incredible news.

Turns out you are, in fact, the Cape Crusader. What's cool, too, is since you are an adult man with blonde hair, which makes you a bitch boy. Yeah. scientifically, you are at least your Val Kilmer Batman. That's a pretty cool Batman to be. Do you want to hear what the AI overview answered that Google search for me? What did you even type? What is the coolest nocturnal animal?

I think the AI is probably going to think that you mean coolest as in like cold. Oh, interesting. Well, yeah, some of these are cold, but I think they're also cool. It says... What is a cold animal? Like a polar bear? Cold-blooded, dude. I don't know that that makes them cold.

But yeah, reptilians, I suppose. Raccoon must be up there. Raccoon, which doesn't feel like a cool, like that feels like the worst on this list. Have you guys been? They make them sound awesome on this. It goes, here are the top contenders. And one of them says, raccoons, clever, adaptable masked bandits.

Masked bandits. The great descriptions of a raccoon of all time. I don't think that that's wrong. Have you guys seen these reports That raccoons are becoming more and more domesticated? No But I buy it It's in the U.S. apparently like a lot of people

And it's what happened to wolves, dude It's turning into a thing where you can just Yeah This is what happened to wolves You can like register them now As like pets Did you guys see the in the Daily Friday? Shout out Lawler

That raccoon that got fucked up You got drunk? In the liquor store Did you see this? Yeah yeah A raccoon broke into a liquor store and just started drinking the booze? And then...

What was he drinking? Oh, dude, everything. He mixed it up. No. Damn, yeah. Was he, like, drinking beer, or was he drinking actually everything? Booze. He was drinking liquor?

He was boozing. Yeah. And then he got so fucked up. He passed out in the liquor store bathroom next to the toilet. I'm glad raccoons are getting domesticated. That's so much more cooler than a cat. I also like how raccoons have little hands. Like, they'll just like picture.

Yeah. Like, they're not paused. Like, they've got hands. On Daily Friday, you go to watch it. Damn, that's great. See it. It also says bats, the only flying mammals using echolocation, and I will take that one. I am Batman. Owls, silent hunters with incredible vision. The owl must be chafed that they're third on that list behind a raccoon. They are actually second. It went bats, owls, blank raccoons. Okay. Other amazing choices include leopards, nightingales, and the spiky cute hedgehog. I didn't know hedgehogs were nocturnal.

Number three on the list is an I-I, a lemur with a unique foraging finger. Hasn't this come up on the pod before? By having deja vu, don't you remember this? I kind of do. Why the fuck do we ever talking about an I-I? The foraging finger. And his big finger. I swear to God, dude.

Someone in the comments, please, if you have been listening to the show for a long time, tell me if we have ever discussed. Remind me if at one point we have veered off of. hockey and started talking about an I-I-I-I-E-A-Y-E. A-Y-E. A-Y-E. A-Y-E. That is fucking nuts. That would be an I-I. If it came up because we were talking about nocturnal animals, then we're in big trouble. We have memory loss.

That would make sense. I'm an insomniac. We're in Zovniak. We're in Sovdiac. We're in Sambdiak. We're in both a couple of scumbags. I'm sick. You're banged up. This is terrible. Sean's the only good human on this podcast. We've got a great episode today.

We're about to jump into a ton of big time hot ice. We had a crazy week in the NHL. Heated rivalry episode two review. We're getting into Netters College puck drop, beer league hotline, all the good. So let's jump on into the hot ice. Big story of the week, Connor Bedard. Yeah, put on IR. Hate, hate, hate...

0.8 seconds left? 0.8 seconds left or 0.8 seconds left? 0.8 seconds left on a faceoff. has a face off, they're getting beat 4-0. Or not 4-0-0. They lost 4-0 to the Red Wings right before that, I think. But in a game against the Blues, losing, Connor Badaard goes into a meaningless face-off with Brayden Shen,

0.8 seconds left. Instantly, they get tangled up. Badar grabs his shoulder, they go down. It's terrible news. He has been shut down for the rest of the month. they're saying he's going to be re-evaluated early January. So he's done for about seven days automatically, but they're saying.

But the team has said. Yeah, week to week. He's done for at least the rest of the month. Blasheil said, this is what I want to talk about with this play. You hate to see this happen. You know, three-two loss, yeah, three-two loss. So, you know, let's be honest. It's a meaningless face-off.

It's in point eight makes it insane, but it's an ozone draw. Like they have, you know, there's a chain. You're trying to like win a shot on. Yeah, like it's not like, because otherwise I would agree with you where I'd go, why is he even taking the face off? Or why is he even trod like, why are they just like, the puck should have been dropped. Yeah. So, but in fairness to everyone, it's an ozone draw for the Hawks down a goal.

Like you're trying to, you're trying to make some magic happen. Yeah. That play happens and there were so, so many people in the comments. comments like when, you know, someone posted it right off the bat. People were in our DMs on Twitter asking us like, you know, what's your take on this? And a lot of Hawks fans were, were freaking out being like, shit. They want Shen's head on a spike. People were saying he should be suspended for this. I couldn't believe that. I don't think that this was bad at all. I think it was a really unlucky play. Jeff Blasheel, Blackhawks coach even was like, he was like,

Shen is a great player. That was a bizarre play. Conner's grabbing his shoulder even before they go down. Shen does like kind of give him a cross check at the end because Conner's falling and they're kind of all, I mean, it was a weird play. I don't think there was anything dirty in that at all. Me neither. And I really appreciate those comments from the coach. But I do want to say it was a weird draw. Like he literally, like it's all kind of one motion. Like he like pulls and is also like, get the fuck out of here, which is probably a good play with 0.8 seconds left because you're just like, I'm diffusing this face off.

Yeah, I think. I was like, whoa, dude. I think he's certainly not trying to hurt him, obviously, but it was like... I think he's trying to just make him not be able to get like a shooting motion off. Do anything. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, it was just one of those things where, you know, emotional fans, of course,

don't want to see your star player who's having a breakout season, get hurt, and now here we are. But there, people were like, that's a 10 game suspension. No, no, no. And I was like, guys, come on. So I appreciate J.B. saying that.

Agree. This is, this is tough for the Hawks because you obviously, you don't want to see Bedard get an injury. Also, an upper body injury like that, like a shoulder injury, really sucks because, you know, that, I don't want that for him. I don't want him dealing with a busted wing. Better than legs, dude. And, yeah, probably better than legs. Yeah, it's okay. And don't you think, maybe you don't think, but I don't think the Hawks were going to make the playoffs this year, even with a fully healthy Bedsie having a fucking incredible, like, top five player in the league season.

I still think they were going to miss. and if he is out till end of Jan, I think they're probably definitely going to miss. Yeah. And who cares? It doesn't matter. This is a, this season gravy, bro. This season gravy.

This season is gravy. You're fine. Just miss playoffs, get a better pick and then be good next year. What's interesting is the, to me, the wild card race, you know, 30, 34 games into the season. The wildcard race to me is Edmonton, Utah, sharks, hawks, jets, and that's it. I'm eliminating the blues, crack, and flames, predators, and conucks with the labs. Like, I'm eliminating them from the playoffs.

That is fucking awesome. Like, you're eliminated. And it might be true. I think those teams are eliminated. You've been eliminated. The Seattle fall off has been so frustrating to see. I know. you know what else I want to say to

and this is a ridiculous take I'm already I'm off the rails with this take but actually it's happening in the east as well but we had both picked Montreal to be like on the fringe which actually like they kind of

well they've been going up and down but my point is when I go like this the wild might finish seven they're like Montreal might finish six and everyone loses their shit every year a team that everyone thinks is the best team in the league is bad.

And you just got to try to figure out what it is. And looking at the 15, 15 and 1 Winnipeg Jets, when everyone is like, they're the president's trophy one seat again. But I'm like, dude, shit happens. Like weird shit happens. I also want to give us a pat on the back. We both kind of foresaw that. And we were like, they play Hallibuck too much and they lost Eilers and there's things

that can happen. And, yeah. So I think the Blackhawks. could have made playoffs. And if they did, it was going to be one of those situations where, great, you made playoffs, but you're not doing anything, but this is an awesome win. You're back and we've got playoff hockey in Chicago. Playoff experience matters.

Playoff experience matters, no doubt. It wouldn't have been, it wouldn't have been worthless for the Hawks to make it and losing the first round. Completely agree. No doubt. So I absolutely was not ruling them out of playoffs. This might, I do think Connor is a big, I mean, this is a big, big loss. And he makes this team go. So I think that this next month is going to be tough for the Hawks. Put that aside, this is also potentially bad for Olympics for him.

I don't know if Connor Bedard was making the team anyway, regardless of the fact that he's amongst the top in the league in points. It's a matter of what's the fit? What are they doing with the lines? What are they doing with his position? But now if he's out with a shoulder injury until mid-January, which, you know, hopefully it's earlier than that. But that will be a tough one when he was already kind of going to be like a bubble guy. Yeah. When they have to announce this team on the 31st of December, if he is still on IR, that will be a tough sell for Canada to be like,

Connor Bardard is coming. We don't know what you're going to be like when you come back from what looks like a dislocated shoulder. Right. Yeah. Yeah, man. It's tough. Like, is that the nail in the coffin for it? I know.

It blows. It really blows. Maybe. But I, God, I've flipped up on this so many times. but I am kind of like in the role he was going to be in, it was a harder sell for me anyway. I do feel a fool to be like, you know, if he's third in the league in points and I'm like,

dad, leave him home. It's crazy. It genuinely feels crazy to not take him when he is. Because I'm like, and Benny's been better, but I'm like, because I want Sam Bennett, who has 20 points, you know, and I'm like. He's literally fourth in the NHL in points. Yeah, I'm like, fuck.

And I'm like, what? So, yeah, I know. It's tough. But it is what, yeah, we're going to do our, we're going to do our roster predictions for the episodes next week. But you know what? You know what is funny is, as we talk about all the time, you know, he's a center. I'm not sure if you, I think he could play wing, but let's call it center.

If you are literally doing it just based on points, Nathan McKinnon, Connor McDavid, and Macklin-Cellibrini are one. two and three in points in the NHL. They are three Canadian centers. And you're like, is he going to play over Crosby? And where's, oh, oh, I think, yeah. Like, it's right. It's insane.

Bard would say no. He'd be like, I guess, no, no. Yeah, exactly. So it's a tough one for sure. So hate to see that for Bard. We'll keep an eye on what they say about that. But yeah, Blackhawks fans, we're here for you right now. This is going to be a frustrating end of the month.

But hopefully he gets back soon. Big trade news happened last week. It did? Big trade news. Quinn Hughes, traded to the Minnesota Wild. We already released our midform immediate reaction to that. Hopefully you watched and enjoyed that on YouTube. If you haven't, go watch it because we do a full breakdown.

We won't go as deep right now. Yes. So go to the YouTube page and listen to that immediately. Right now, we're not going to discuss the trade so much, but, you know, the trade happened. Quinn Hughes to Minnesota, Rossi, a first-round pick. Ogrin and Zeeve Boyam, other way to Vancouver. it finally happened. We've been talking about it for a while. Quinn had some great comments.

He showed all the respect in the world to Vancouver, and he was like, I just, I think it was time. And here he is in Minnesota. What we want to talk about now is what this does for Minnesota. Quinn Hughes scores a goal in his debut against the Bruins. Minnesota goes in, beats the wheels off Boston. Quinn gets the player of the game hat from Spurgeon in the locker room. great vibes in there. Bill Garan has already talked about it. I loved

the way Bill Garron was stroken off Minnesota. Yeah. He, did you hear that? Did you like that? Did you like that? It was sick. I liked it a lot. He was like, this is a fucking hockey town. And he called out. He was like, listen, you can go live in these great places. You can go live where the weather is great all the

time. No, you know, taxes are better. But the hockey has to be good. And the hockey is good here. This is a good hockey state. It's a good city. People love it. Our fans love it. And we're a good team. It was cool seeing Quinn get the game hat. And he's like, this team is sick. Let's keep going. He said he was like, I'm sure I deserve this one. A lot of people were flying around. Yeah. It's like, hell yeah. Awesome. But you love to see them get their first win. You love to team score in their first game.

Quinn has already said, which is one of these funny things that's like, no shit. He's going to say that. Someone immediately was like, are you open to signing here? And he was like, yeah, of course I'm open to signing here. What's he going to be like, no? No. I'm gone. But go to Jersey a year to half, you fucking idiot. Like, Jesus. We're not going to get into, you know, the whole trade thing. Because like we said, go watch that midform video on YouTube.

What I want to discuss is, can the wild go for it here? I had said in the midform that I was like, man, that first round, first two rounds is going to be crazy with the Wild and Dallas and Colorado. and now that one seed is even more important than it was anyway because you only want to play one of those two teams. You want two of them to beat each other's brains in for seven games and then you get the winner. And that is still true. My opinion of that is still true.

But I will say when the dust is settled and the emotions, the adrenaline has seeped out of your system, I still do think they're a step below Dallas and Colorado. Okay, so here's, I think you are right. Here's my take. The Wild are back to where I predicted them to be. Yeah. They are 7, 2, and 1 in their last 10.

They are on a four-game winning streak. They are right behind Dallas, and, you know, they're 10 points behind Colorado, because Colorado is such a waggoner. I was going to break the record. They've literally lost two games in regulation. It's insane. but Minnesota is good and the emergence of Walshsted has been

incredible incredible for this team and also ho-hum look who is tied for third in the NHL and goals krill caprize off yep so that's crazy that is crazy dude I think this team is one trade away

from being right on that same level Okay, yes, I like this take. I think that they need one top six. Keep wheeling, dude. I think they need one top six forward. And like a center, though, I think. Yeah, definitely. And I think they're going to go get it.

And you know who I love, dude? I said this to Tomer yesterday, and he was like, I fucking love that call. I think Alex Tuck fits perfectly in this Minnesota Wild Group. He's got a low cap hit. Yep. Buffalo needs to make some moves here. Alex Tuck playing with a guy like Caprize of, you're like, oh shit.

He goes right back to that season when him and Tage were buzzing around up there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And he's having a good year, too. He's having a great year. And it's funny to me, Chris, there's a lot of guys. Everyone wants to bring up the Ryan O'Reilly,

the Steve Stamcoast, these older guys who, you know, maybe put him in it. I don't think that's the move here for a minute. Minnesota. You've already got the insane performance of Mojo on this wild team. Like Mojo is having such a good season. I think if you can go out and find someone to add that is just like a, you know, maybe one year, maybe it's an expiring deal. Who knows? But a guy like Alex Tuck, just like that, who's like, oh, we don't need a bunch of perfect things to happen for you to click and be great. It's like Alex Tuck's going to be Alex Tuck. He's going to be

a great player no matter what. So that is the type of guy that I'm like, go get him. That would be sick. But I do, and I do think you're spot on that they need to do something to, to truly compete. Yep. They need to go get a guy. They need to go get a, again, a certified top six guy. I do think it's a center. But then you're in the mixer, dude. And by the way, dude, like we said, you swung. You swung with Quinn. So take another hack. Don't half hack, full hack. Get up there. Get a full hack. I love the move. And yeah, I think I want to see, whether it be soon, whether it be deadline, I want to see them make another move.

Yeah, deadline, I bet, to feel it out. Yeah. See, because things break certain ways, you know, but that's what I like a lot do now, Dan. That's exciting. Yeah. Other big trade, Edmonton made a goalie move. Yes, sir. Stuart Skinner traded to the Pittsburgh Penguins for Tristan Jari.

We talked about this over and over and over and over again. the emergence of Sheelovs with Pittsburgh made it clear that Jari was a guy who could be moved, but it came at the cost of Kulak and a second round pick. The question here is, and this has been all over Twitter, all over everyone in the hockey media world, does this move the needle for Edmonton? Everyone has been talking about how Skinner needed a new start, fresh start somewhere, he couldn't be the guy.

now they go and get Jari and if you look at Jari's having a good year I would say yes he is let me pull it up but he was having a surprisingly I said preseason they can't they can't get the puck out of the net and then he was Jari's having a good year yeah yeah 909-0-266 yeah 9-0-0-6 yeah on Shuddy but career stats

Skinner and Jari are pretty similar yeah pretty similar and I'm just curious if we think that this moves the needle for Edmonton. This was my, this is what I want, or this is the question. I think for the most part, everybody is going, the reaction online has been the Spider-Man meme. Literally everyone sent the Spider-Man meme. You just traded for the same guy. And I would say the reaction is Pitt won the trade because you traded for the same guy.

You got more back. Like if it been one-to-one, I think. people would have gone, yeah, okay, whatever. But you got more back for the same guy. And as you pointed out to me, Stuart Skinner, I've said many times, is the most fascinating dude in the NHL because he can go nuclear

and has been in two straight, Stanley Cups, has won two straight Western Conference finals. Dude. And I said, I mixed up Tristan and Matt Murray. And I go, I was like, didn't Tristan Jari win a cup? like when flower got hurt, and you were like, no, that was Matt Murray. Tristan Jury has never won a playoffs.

Yeah. Yeah, I was like, oh, damn. And that, so to me, if you go, guy who has been leaky, by the way, has been leaky and probably, you know, cost us in a way a championship here or there, but has been so nuclear that we got there, right? I gave you him and I got back a guy who's never won a playoff series and I also had to send you picks and players. That feels that feels kind of crazy to me. Yeah. If the Oilers overpaid, call this an overpay just for argument's sake, if the Oilers overpaid for a goalie that we all agreed, the hockey whole world agreed was going to make them more competitive, then all of us would go, good, pay whatever, overpay however you need to fix your biggest issue. theoretically and make Connor McDavid happy because you were on a two-year make or break your

franchise trial run and he's fucking screaming at people at practice and kicking sticks and like you know whatever so overpay for a goalie fine but hopefully it better be not hopefully it better be a goalie that's like here go Connor we've we've theoretically fixed it it can go wrong like dude perfect example if they had gone we overpaid for Gibson I would have gone the oilers are going to win the cup and then if Gibson played the way he's been playing which is underwhelming for him, I would go, fuck. That blew up in your face,

but that's not your fault. You overpaid for a guy we all thought was going to be a difference maker. This is a guy where you're going, and we just hope he plays better than he ever has. Yeah. So, listen, great rant. You're right on everything.

Tristan Jari career, 275 goals against 909 percentage. And I think Stu's is 274-904. That's exactly right. So, yeah, it's like, They are statistically very similar. Now, I think a lot of hopeful Edmonton fans would say, yeah, but think about how good Jari is going to be with this Edmonton team, with Connor and Leon and blah, blah, blah, blah. To that, I would say, well, I don't think Connor and Leon have ever been the issue.

I think it's the defense. And Jari's only played one game for Edmonton so far. they got a win, but he also gave up three goals and had an 8, 9, 9 3 save percentage or something like that. It's like, he didn't stand on his head. Yep. And he's also like, he played on, he's been on Pitt for his old career. Like, he was the starting goalie for Pitt. With Sidney Crosby. And like, like, in like peak. Like, yeah, it's the same team. He's on the same team. So I, I just, I'm so curious to see how this goes. Uh, you know, Jari is he's a good goaltender, but I also think Skinner is a good goaltender.

The question is, are you a great goaltender? Can you get a team over the hump? And what is crazy to me, dude, is, yeah, I think Pitt won this trade with what they got back. I think it's insane that Edmonton lost a defenseman. Yeah. When we talk about the things that they need. And if this is Bowman's big move. Yeah.

And I don't know, man. We have Edmonton now in a wildcard spot. They're in the first wildcard spot with the sharks one point behind them. They lost last night. If Edmonton gets in the playoffs and loses in the first round and Jari is like, yeah, you know, I was good. I was fine. Yeah. This is one of those things where we talked about where McDavid looks at Bowman and is like,

Okay, my final thought on this is I have a question for you exactly. about that but listen to this first you know how hockey reference shows like the awards on the side and it shows where you finished because people we always hear about the top three but you can see where they finish yeah yeah uh jari jari finished seventh in vesna twice and i was looking at those years and the one year he finished seventh in venezna he also finished 17th in heart is it like he was getting heart votes and i was like oh wow and that year he played 31 games and had a 921 243 and i'm like who Who voted him for heart that year?

I think that year he was nasty. I do remember that, I mean, like, that 9-2-1 is, you know, that's great. It's great. And I do remember being like, damn, Charlie's balling. Actually, that was 2019, 2020, so we probably only played 70 games that year. And like, you know, so he played about half, but still, crazy. It's a wild heart vote. Okay, so here's my question to you.

Connor McDavid. You are Connor McDavid. Yeah. I go Connor Tering I have huge news Oh sorry Hello

Connor you there Hello Sorry what were you doing I was taking a shit Oh In a sauna Do you feel like you're always doing body Work all the time

You think I'm shitting in my sauna I think you have a bathroom in your sauna No no no Okay Do you have a bidet Yeah of course Okay good I have incredible news

Oh my God Than you having a bidet Come on And even better than Bedard being hurt, so now we have a free pass to the wild card. Do we make a trade? Yes, for a goalie. Come on. Skinner gone.

Did we get Soros? No. We get Tristan Jari. Connor, you there? Yeah, I'm still here. I think that's exactly how I went. Dude, so my question to you is if you are him, does he go, does this make him more mad? I'm genuinely asking, I think

Connor McDavid, deep down, has been frustrated about the Oilers goal-tending situation, and is frustrated about their roster construction and has gone, I am signing, which is why he signed a two-year deal at the number he signed, because he was like, I will fucking leave if we don't fix this. And I think if they didn't fix it, he would have been mad.

If they did fix it, he'd obviously be thrilled, and maybe stay, who knows. But I think there's a chance that this has made him even more mad because it's them going, Connor, look. Look what he did. And he's like, are you? Fucking insane.

Man, I, you know what? And this will be our last thing on this and we'll move on. I remember discussing this and people being like, what about Tristan Jari? And I said multiple times, I was like, I don't think that that's enough to make a move. If you're Edmonton, I don't. And listen, we'll see. Like, I'm not talking shit about Tristan Jari here. Clearly he has the ability to be a great goaltender.

And maybe this new change of scenery, maybe the pressure in Edmonton will be great for him. and he'll ball out. I said that this is not, I don't think that that is enough of an improvement to make the move. And then I also said, and if you're any team, you know how desperate they are

and you fucking fleece them. And like they kind of did. Yeah. Getting a second round pick and Kulak back too. I'm like, holy shit. Yep. So yeah, listen,

I don't think Connor's pissed. I think Connor's like, yeah, I'm just going to keep playing hockey. It's hilarious that we see. Like he's second in the league in points now all of a sudden. And he's like, only three back from me. Dude, I had that same thought last night.

He's three points back. He's playing an extra game. But still, I was like, are you fucking nuts? Dude. He had no goals for like 10 games. So he's just going to keep doing his thing, as he always does, where I think this could get spooky. Spooky is if they lose early. And like Jari's not playing that well.

If this, you know, before the last two. years. It was like first, second round exits for them. And Connor was always just like, what the fuck is going on? If we do that. Go back to that. Then I think he's mad. Also, sick, when you had asked me earlier, you were like, with the Penguins trade jari midseason, and I said, I wouldn't because they've got something cooking here and you want a good tandem. This is actually fine. Because I think stew outside of the chaos of Edmonton, you know, Stu's up here. I'm very excited for I think Stu could actually be fucking great. I'm very excited for Stu.

I think Stu, Dan, if the Penguins make the playoffs, I think Stu could go on one of those mini-stue runs and, like, steal around. Yeah, yeah. That'd be fucking electric for him. Talking about the Penguins, crazy game. Game of the week. Penguins lose to the Sharks in a crazy 6-5 comeback,

O-T winner for the Sharkies. They were down 5 to 1, I believe. Wanted to bring this up because the comeback was sparked by our boy Will Smith getting run into the boards by our boy Spoons. Yeah. Tough hit. Will goes down and Mac jumps in. Drops the Mitz, gets in a fight

defending his boy. You love to see it. It's incredible. It then, like we said, sparks this amazing comeback, such a crazy game. Toff game tangle. Yep. Two things I wanted to talk about. One, how much longer before Macklin is the captain of this team? And keep in mind, I'm literally asking the question. was not a hyperbolic question of like, because give it to him now. I think they should chill.

Oh. Um, I would, if I were the sharks, I would, and I know he's already wearing an A this year, I would do one more season of that. I would do one more season of everyone wearing A's, and then the season after, I would give it to him. so not next year the phone I would give it to him I just think there's something so strange about like these veteran locker rooms

and giving a 20 year old to see but it's but it's reasonably normal now not normal yeah no it's reasonably normal now you had you know say it obviously I like but but but Taze I think was crazy young Connor Connor like I think it happens and not that Mac would ever like take any disrespect if they did

didn't do it or question his role if they didn't do it. Yeah. But I think he's, he's, in my mind, he's next in the guys that they have done this to. Oh, it's, it's him. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? It's like, it's almost, you almost owe it to him to go, dude, here are the people that got named captain as a teenager, you know?

And I'm like, make him in that list, dude. So, but I hear, I would be fine either way because he knows. But I just think it's shit like this that I'm like, that's my dog. Yeah, I love it. It's so great. wanted to bring this up, however, because we have a Pittsburgh question. We sure do. Pitt blows that game.

They, like, blow a big lead. And then yesterday, they blow a big lead to Utah. Dan Muse was like, I don't know. I can't believe I'm sitting here. He literally said never in a million years, what I think that would be sitting here again. But Pittsburgh is four, two, and four in their last 10. They've got back-to-back OT losses. they have fallen out of a wild card spot,

but they're very close. They're very, very close. A couple games in hand, too, on Boston. Do we think Pittsburgh is in trouble? Was this a, oh, yeah, like, you know, some of the old boys were coming out hot to start the season, but now... Fall Malkin?

You know, now we're more than the third way through the season. Guys are getting a little tired, and they're starting to slip, losing some games, and are we now back into Pittsburgh? is out of the playoffs. I am... Real. Put it this way.

I am concerned. Yeah. Or I'm worried. Sure. But I don't... I'm not... I'm not ending their season yet because... Two things.

Three things. One, shout out Rutz. Back up to the big club. After fucking dominating the H.L., which is not easy, by the way. Like, Rutker got hurt. And then he goes, hey, I'm doing an HL stint. Pretty much scores every fucking game.

It has like two points a night, and they were like, all right, get up to the big club. He's back up to the penguins. Has an absolute nip the other night. That was sick. So that's great. New influx of talent. Two, I actually think their goalie play can save them. And obviously, like, it's been goalie and D was my concern going in.

And it reared its ugly head this weekend. But Shilob and Stu, like we were just talking about it. I'm like, I think this could change it. And three, they are two. close. I think Sid will literally will them over the finish line because they're this close. I think if they were worse, they would just be bad. He would never stop trying, obviously, but they would just be like, there's nothing one man can do. But I actually think there's a chance he will claw them into the playoffs because he can't miss again and not get traded. Yeah. Okay. I'll take that. I might be wrong, but I'm worried. I'm going to move on to our next topic because it, We can still talk about petting this. Bringing up the devils. Devils have been struggling without Jack.

They are three and seven in their last 10. They've been really slippery and lost two one to Vancouver last night. Yep. And now there are reports that Dougie Hamilton and Palat are on the trade board. My question is, what does a trade for those guys look like? are when you're thinking about trading those guys right now with what's going on in the devils with the devils are you going we are like reconfiguring here are you trying to trade and dougie hamilton for improvement pieces because you're going for it because at the

beginning of the year jack cruising devils in a top spot we were like all right like here This is your year, Devils. You got to try to win a cup here. Now, what are they doing? Like, if they're going, yeah, we're trading these guys. Are you going, we're trading these guys because we're trying to win a cup? Or are you going, we got another jack injury. So many fucking guys are on IR.

We're kind of retooling here. That sounds crazy to say. I know. But they're literally out of playoffs. They're not in a playoff spot. They have a minus six goal differential. Like, I don't know. Holy hell man.

If I'm a Devils fan, I'm so frustrated. But remember we posted or we did a segment on them being like, uh-oh, and they pretty much resoundingly in the comments, they were like, we're trading water, we know, but people are coming back and it's going to be fine. And they kind of won me over in that camp where I was like, all good. And I still think they are thinking that. And if they're going to move anybody, it's with that in mind.

They're going, we're trying to, you know, I don't know how you go. I'm trading Pallot for someone better because I'm like, that doesn't seem fair. They literally have the most injured team. ever seen. It's like more than Dallas somehow. So I think they're, they're just like any moves we might make are, or with this season in mind and going, we're down the road, we're going to be nasty. So I'm planning for that. Okay. So they're trying to win still. Yep. Is that is what you're thinking. Yeah. But we say this all the time, dude, where I go, you look at the fucking, I guess there's a few

question marks here, but like you look at the playoff breaks on as of right now. It's Monday morning. Tampa, Detroit, Montreal, Carolina Islanders caps. I'm Chris Powers is going Tampa and Carolina and the caps are definitely in for me. Yeah. Detroit, Montreal Islanders, I don't know. Likely for a few of them, I think, but question. And then Philly Boston. Massive, I don't know, I don't know.

Massive. Lurking, you have devils, Panthers. And I'll say Leif still. The Leafs are insane and I actually think they might miss playoffs, but like it'd be crazy to not think that they'll make a run at it. Even Ottawa, maybe, you know? And then I'm always dogging the Rangers, but I just don't think they are a playoff team.

So, you know, like a lot could happen, but am I going, is Pitt better than some of those teams? You know, the devils can they tread water so long that they're better than some of those teams? I don't know. So it does get, it does get complicated. It is, okay, so this is what I wanted to bring up. You just mentioned Tampa. News with Tampa is headman goes on IR. He's going to have a procedure, but they say no question about it.

He's going to be back for Olympics. But either way, Tampa you have at the top of the east right now, but tied in points with Detroit, one point ahead of Montreal and Boston and Philly. It's so tight there. So in talking about New Jersey here and talking about Tampa, talking about Pitt, the East is crazy. Yeah. It's crazy right now. When we look at the West, you've got Colorado with fucking 53 points, Dallas with 47, Minnesota with 43. the only team in the east right now that seems head and shoulders is Carolina and they only have 44 points and they've been hurt too so like think about how good they are. So what you just said like we've talked about in the Atlantic, one, two and three in the Atlantic

is Tampa, Detroit and Montreal. Four days ago Montreal was like fifth in Wildcard. Yeah, yeah. So that's how mental the east is. But what we keep talking about, the trends, this, that and the other, dude no one in the Atlantic literally no one to me is a lock for playoffs yeah the Atlantic is it is chaos dude Tampa Detroit Montreal and Boston

are all separated by one point and you're then telling me that Florida who's somehow only four points back from Boston and Montreal who's about to get back all of their guys and has played less games than both. Two less than Boston, one less in Montreal.

And like, you're telling me that they're not obviously just going to come back and make playoffs. And then, yeah, Toronto is insane to me. I'm like, are you guys fucking joking? What a disaster. Are you joking with what you're currently doing? But. Tampa plus 21 gold.

If they're automatically, they're in. Yeah. So given that, our last, or my last point on hot ice, given all of that is if you're in the east, right now, if you're a team like fucking the New York. Islanders who are on a three-game heater. And God bless them, dude, after Paul Mary. I was like, oh, man. I'm like, go to the cup, dude.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go to the cup. Like, I'm very... Wide open. I'm like, the West is winning the Cup this year. It's how I feel. Uh-huh. Because none of these teams in the East feel like, I'm like, you're a fucking, you're a

lock, you're a great team. Like, you're a top... Unless the Panthers come all. Legitimately, unless they get everyone back. Bark off returns for the Cup finals against the abs. Can you imagine? McKinnon two hands bark off in the knee. It's crazy.

It's like Washington and Carol, and it's so funny, I'm saying Washington, the islanders are ahead of Washington. But I'm like, I think Washington is so stronger. That's how crazy it is. It's absolutely fucking. Also, apologies to Tampa fans after I stroked them on air, and then they went one, five, and one in December.

Vassie missed six games had been heard. It's fine. You're fine. But apologies. That's hot ice. We're going to take a quick ad break, and then we will come back and get into episode two of heated rivalry. Get your towels ready. It's going to get horny.

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I am like so emotionally invested now. And I'm like, this is just a tragic romance that these guys are. Shakespeare. We're getting just like years of, you know, know, these guys, I feel like their careers are flashing before our eyes. We're only getting like choice encounters and meetups. And it's like, oh my God. I could not believe the, because there's like a misconnection vibe between them. Dude, it's crazy. I wish I'd read the book so badly after reading a lot of comments. But I also love experiencing it this way. I'm glad

nothing spoiled and whatever it's been fun. But dude, the watch. some of those texts go through. So again, I knew there was misconnection stuff coming, but I didn't expect to be so sad about it. I thought it was going to be like, oh, yeah, they just, you know, they're always like playing cheeky. And the first one, when he goes, what's a lonely girl supposed to do in Montreal?

And it just gets ghosted. Ghosted. I was like, oh, my God. I was actually so upset. I'm telling you. I was so upset. It was heartbreaking. I also, I want to jump in and say to all of the viewers,

and people kind of figured this out in the comments. which by the way, I love all of you for all of the comments and how fun this has been, we have not read the books and nor are we going to. So like the three of us are just watching this show. So when there's stuff that we say and you guys in the comments have so fun and passionately been like, well, no, it's because of this and that. Keep doing that. But like we're not, it's not like we're not paying attention or not doing our homework.

We want to watch the show blind. So we're not doing any book research. So anyway, we get this great. texting montage, showing like how they're maintaining their relationship, how they're chatting, but really not seeing each other. And the way the tone of the show and like the smut and the sex always comes out, even in these emotional moments, like the text that says, I still want that asshole. Yeah, yeah. Incredible. And then I was, I did have to laugh. The names in the phones, what is it, Jane and Lily, is Jane and Lily? Is Jane and Lily being in the phones,

at the same time as sending dick picks and referencing like nine inch cocks. I was like, guys, we're not getting away with anything here. Like we can't be talking like that with the fake names. Like someone's going to see that and be like, this is a man. They need a full, they need a full document of coded encryption. You know, like, tits means my asshole. Yeah. Like I want you to come all over my tits.

You know, and I'm like, okay. Like, I want Shane to pull out the encryption. And he's like, okay, yep, I got it. We need a cipher. We need a cipher on the Jane and Lily text. Yeah, need to use the enigma code. Yeah, 100% dude. And I loved, I like, they do a great job with their different voices.

Yeah. Like, Shane is so, like, sweet, you know, and Ely is like, want to come while you're in Boston. And he's like, that doesn't make any sense. Your English sucks. And he's like, read it again. Read it again. I'm like, so. Good.

Question for the team. because then the dick pick hit you know the dick pick was awesome what a what a pick too like that's the that's the proper angle dude he's that was the correct that was the correct I know you paused I know you paused I know you paused have a good look did you kidding me well especially he's fucking chirping about nine goals nine inches bro and I'm like I gotta go back and let's look at the dick pick to fucking see if that was that was bullshit dude yeah that was the hype train or not no so it's a great horn

he's a great horn so uh and so here's my question for the team when the first year jumped, and it ended up jumping like three years, but when the first year went by, I wrote, I was like, they didn't hook up all year. And my question for you to is, are they smashing other ass during that year? Shane absolutely is not. I agree. So Shane has not been laid for three years. Yeah, I think he is a, and I believe someone said in the comments that Shane's a virgin. until Ilya And I yeah I think Shane is you know I'llia says first guy So we know it's first guy

But I don't know if he's But I know I'm saying I think book readers told us that in the books Like Shane is a version Like flat out Interesting interesting interesting So Shane's gold star Yeah Ooh well

Yeah not platinum Platinum is C section right So gold star gays are you've never Had sex with a girl ever You never touched a vagina You've only touched dudes Platinum star gays are gay guys that have done that, but we're also

C-section baby, so they never even exited. They've never even... Isn't that the funniest name ever? It's incredible. That's insane. It's incredible. No, Shane, we cannot confirm platinum, but we can confirm Gold Star.

Yeah. So Shane has done nothing for a year, for three years. Yeah. But Elia has been smashing. I love... Okay, so I'm starting to pick up on... Where's Fetlana at, dude? Where's Fetlana at those three years?

I bet. in the mix. Yeah, I mean, later on they say like, oh, like they've been Ryan since childhood. Like, so they're clearly like family friends as well. So I'm guessing she's been at birthdays and stuff, but maybe not drama. Commenters helped with that too.

They were like, they're not dating. They're just like friends who have like hooked up here and there. Friends with benefits. Friends with benefits, I think. Yep, that was great. The pregame text. Yes. And watching Shane like delete, type out, delete, type out.

That was when we're talking about the show being like heartbreaking. That was one of the early scenes in this episode for me where I'm like, genuinely I'm emotionally invested. Because that was a scene for me that was getting us in Shane's head. Like this is also new to him. Yeah. He's like not great at like the banter. You can tell he's kind of emotionally invested in this, but he's like, I don't know if Elia like loves me. Right. Or if this is just fun for him. And like how many times have we all been there?

Of like the bubbles gone? Yeah. Like got something I want to say. No, I don't want to say this. And then what he comes with is just hilarious. Bro, I don't know twice. I laughed. I laughed out loud. I often say this. Sometimes in TV, if something is funny, I don't laugh because I go like, oh, that was fun.

I acknowledge it was funny instead of just laughing because I'm impressed by the joke. Yeah. And laugh out loud is another level. And I laughed out loud at the television when he goes, he's like, we're about to play a game. Delete. Are you trying to fuck me before this game? Delete. I don't know twice.

also such a reasonable answer he's like I don't know maybe twice like he's like not getting ahead of himself he's not going to be like 10 times bro he's like maybe twice maybe two times

and Rosie's like too pussy like have a little fun you're horrible at sexting so so and then Shane goes who taught you that word and I was like God this is good this is good banter it was amazing fucking amazing then we get a meetup yep

and Race up the stairs. Adorable. I loved the race up the stairs. How cute was the race up the stairs? Like, it was, again, just a great way to show that, like, they are competitive with each other

in this fun and, you know, cute way. They're heated rivals, dude. They're heated rivals. And it's like, even stuff like that. They're like, I'm racing you up the stairs. That was just a great little moment. I really love the mom dynamics in here.

When they're chatting and, like, Ely would say anything about his mom. And Shane is like, that's not funny or whatever. And I was like, like, kind of laying in stuff like his complicated, or not complicated, but. He's a mama's boy. He's a mama's boy. And she's, you know, she's demanding. And that comes out there too.

She's the boss, dude. Dad doesn't even hurt a YouTube. Dad doesn't know YouTube, dude. The mom's running that house. Right? So then we get our first sex scene. Really? Right?

Like, you know, we've had hookups. Didn't they try in F1? I think so. And he was like, no, don't want to do it here with the guy. next door. Oh yeah, yeah, with Hunter next door. Yeah, yeah, that's right. So we get our first sex scene, romantic as hell, that scene. Romantic is one word for it. But like the music, you know, like they, it was like, that was a romance. Oh, that was cinematic, Sean. Yeah, the music is what I was taking away from that scene. I was like, the music is really taking all my attention here.

Yeah. I mean, listen, they, like these, they're, they're, those are, these are horny scenes. Yep. A couple of things before you get into the, the, the horniness of the scene. Yeah. Um, loved chirping the throw pillows on the bed by Ilya loved it that's such a real thing I hate throw pillow Sandra has a million fucking pillows on the bed I don't need that shit and that was amazing uh two I think it did jump far enough that Shane would be off his rookie deal yes he was either in the last year of his rookie deal or are in year one of a new deal which would be a fat ticket because he's the captain and MVP but he's got big he's got big deal he's got the Rolex rebuke but yeah I was loving real estate mogul shane

Yeah. He's like, I got this huge place here. I'm going to blow out the wall. Think about it, though. He's a smart kid, dude. He's not, you think he's spending money on cars and shit? No, no, no, no. He's investing in real estate. That was awesome. Shane is smart. I also, guys, I want to point out here, Elia is a consent king. Yes, you love that, dude. Oh, my God. That's fucked too, bro. Alex. Alex is always like every time. He's like, is this okay? Is this okay? A lot. Just check-ins left and right. Elya being like, do you like that? Is this good? I wonder if that's it. everything. Like these are our two experiences, Pockton this, and it's everything. So I wonder if like all the smut is very I bet it makes sense. Consent,

consent, dude, hey. Consent king. When was this written actually? I think it's like when the show is set. I think she wrote this in like 2008. Gentlemen, heated rivalry published 2019. So she wrote, she retroactively wrote this. Yeah, she loves Crosby and Ovi. Yeah, it's just

the Crosby and Ovi out. Period piece. Fuck yeah, Rachel. Yeah. That's awesome. published October 22nd, 2019. Takes place in 2008, because we're going to get up to present day in this show. It's crazy that 2008's like a period now. Yeah, I'm like, oh, my God, God, damn it, we're old. Love that sex scene. Now we get to the Olympics.

Oh, sorry, I have a question about the sex scene now. Go, go, go, go, go. One, was that, and this, forgive my ignorance, because I'm genuinely asking. Yeah. And please, in the comments, like, I'm asking the comments, actually right now. Or I guess the first one I'm asking you guys, and I'm pretty sure I know, but that was the, the heavy roll, the reverse crunch, that was, that was ass eating, correct? I felt so.

Yes. Because like, usually every time he's gone down there, I'm like, oh, he's blowing him. But then there was like, there was like an extra roll. And I was like, I think we're ass eating. I think, I thought we were eating ass. Okay. Great. Because during that scene, Dan, I told this to you already.

But I had, we had a little, we had a chaotic day yesterday. And I get home and I ordered food. and it wasn't there when I got home and it was supposed to be and I was like, whatever and it would, but it showed me the guy was like still at the restaurant

and it's just like late, late, and eventually a guy calls me and he's like, hey dude, I'm at the restaurant and you've seen it's changed drivers a bunch right? And I was like, yep. And he's like, the restaurant says they already gave it to a driver

and he dropped, you know, to take it to you. And I've been home and never had it. So he was like, all right, so yeah, someone, the driver stole it. This happens all the time. And I was like, God damn it, dude.

So he's like, I'm going to get them to refire the order and then I will bring you the food. Thank you, sir, very much. He does all that. I had said, just leave it at my door, but he knocked on the door to assure that I got it because he was the man, actually.

Shout out, Omar. But, so he knocks on the door, and I get the food. I open the door, and he's like, hey, I'm like, Omar, thank you so much, dude. I really appreciate it. And we have a quick chat, three-minute chat. And I accept the food.

And I'm like, all right, thanks, dude. Have a great night, drive safe. And you've been at my place. You are in the living room. Like, you open that door, and I'm like, boom. Here's my house. Sit on the couch.

with me. Yeah. So I'm like, bye Omar, have a great night. And I closed the door and, like, turn back into the living room. And the ass eating scene is happening. I had paused. He did rivalry when he arrived. And it is, I forget which one, but, like, Ilya is, like, rolled over onto his back

with his ass being eaten. And Omar was like, have a great night, sir. Omar knew you were having a great night. He's like, this guy is going deep on Sunday night. Yeah. Like, I think he was looking like this. That dude is watching porn on his. screen on his living room TV and ordering a Euro bowl. Yeah. Yes. That's exactly what happened.

That's exactly what happened. So anyway, second question, and this is, this is legitimately me asking the comment section, can you do missionary? It appeared they were doing missionary. Yeah, I didn't know that that angle was possible. I mean, I'm saying, yeah, like I know, but yeah, I think so. With nine inches, anything's possible. Damn right, dude. That's so. That's so. true shock from across the fucking room guys got a pool noodle he can you can bend and shape that thing any way he wants that was crazy to me i was like oh my god i didn't i didn't know that was in the cards don't forget the throw pillows they can probably use those for leverage and and you know get you're right there knocking your look at this too this is this is this is leah that's elya's cock

yeah anything is possible uh but you mentioned they have that sex and we are kind of as the audience being like is this what you know how many times is this and then the worth the weight line another one Dan I wrote I wanted adorable I had flagged a note early that I was bummed

with all the time jumps that I was like damn I was hoping that they would have banged a bunch of times by now and then I deleted that or I drew it

a strike through that note because I was like you know what when Rosenoff said worth the weight I was like oh and now and I was like

you know what this was actually perfect they did they played this perfectly yeah also how about the Rosie you went from Rosanoff to Rosie

I like Rosie me too yeah it's a good great nickname Like that way more. So as I mentioned, now we're in Sochi. We're at the Olympics. It was sick they actually did Sochi.

I thought it was going to be like, oh, here's the fake. They even referenced the, do you remember the black mold thing? Oh yeah. They referenced it. Yeah. It was like real Sochi 2024 Olympics. That was so crazy. Yeah.

That was a, I was like, okay. Yeah. Good job, guys. I wanted an Oshi moment. I wanted there to be like a little, just like whisper of like, oh, Ilya, like you guys law like that american kid's had a million shootout goals and i was going to be like yes yeah um i will say my one hang up i didn't love the USA and Canada boys hanging around with each other but they're teammates though i know i just dude we saw it for i can't speak to it i wasn't at

the sochi olympics and i you know but and obviously these guys will talk but like at four nations yeah yeah they were like i am not fucking talking to my teammates yeah we have those stories of you know like juice and do do we do we do we have those stories of you know like juice and do we on the plane together. We're like, I'm not speaking to you. Like, we are playing an international tournament. That's not the sportsmanship

of the Olympics. Yeah, Olympics is all about. And that is a great. Bringing the world together. That is fair. And listen, I get it. We need it for the scene. But I was like, this is,

this feels crazy that USA and Canada guys would be like, let's get lunch. They're eating like fucking. They kind of have like an asai bowl or like frozen yogurt. Was that in the Olympic Village? It looked like they were in a mall food court. It kind of looked like they were in like a mall food court. But maybe that's what the Olympic village is like, oh, yeah, what up.

And it's, again, it's fine. It's not a complaint. I was just like, oh. But then, dude, we get our USA player another tolerant king moment. Yeah. I loved that, the mention of, like, he was like, it's brave of these guys. Like, because he was talking about Shane's figure skating boy. Yeah.

And he was like, good for him, dude, being in Russia and, like, being gay. And, like, I assume he's gay. And that's very brave of him. Dude, I couldn't tell you. if they wanted that to be Shane, like, I couldn't tell if they wanted that scene to have it be like, oh, Shane being like, oh, I'm uncomfortable because they're chirping

gay people. Yeah. But I kind of read it that. I was like, I thought he's being, I thought he's being nice. I think he was being nice. I don't think it was a chirp. And like, I looked at it from Shane's perspective and like his reaction of kind of clocking like, he was like, yeah, true. And I thought it was, I thought it was a line less so about like Shane being like, oh yeah, like, I can't let anyone know and more so about Shane considering Elia and being like, oh, he's like,

he's Russian and he is, you know, he's gay or by and he has been dealing with this his whole life living here. That was good. I thought it was a cool moment of Shane being like, fuck, like I'm thinking about Elia now, because we then get the, he goes, he sees him watching the figure skating and goes and talks to him. And Elia being a bitch, dude. Well, did you see Scott Hunter's reaction when they talk about the gay figure skier?

I'm telling you, did I not say, I was hawking. Scott Hunter knows. I was hawking Scott Hunter knows for sure. Scott Hunter knows for sure. Also in that scene, or the scene before that, Shane and Elya, Shane going, I've been dreaming of this my whole life. And Elya goes, dreaming of what, bronze medal? Yeah, it's great chirp. Elite, great chirp.

Also, man in the crease pod. Not a school of a name is ours. Not a school of a name. Man in the crease? You're in the fucking crease, dude. What are you the goalie? It's a goalie's pod. Did you watch that and you're like, are they making fun of us?

Yeah. I was like, okay. I was like, come on, Jacob. What did we do? Okay, and then, all right, so keep going, because I've got some shit later. Well, I mean, we're just, we're at the Olympics here now. Russia humiliates themselves.

Russia loses, brutal. They get clapped. Dude, ricochet at Lafia. You lost to Lafia. Not great. I was like, okay. They got She-Loffs in that, dude. Exactly.

Come on. The fucking spider. Yeah. So that was brutal. but we now get a little bit of an insight into Elya and what he's dealing with with his This whole next section

This whole next like 10 minutes of the show is incredible Yeah so Elya's dad is like Putin's Putin I couldn't believe it Elya's Putin's son I mean like if he's Is he literally the president or like is he just like a fucking general The KHL propaganda from Putin He was like this you go off to the play of the shit league in America

Now you're worse Yes keep The home grown talent here. He's literally an MVP finalist. And he's like, you stink that. Poole and son, dude. But his dad is an asshole. He's like a general, a war general.

He's got the medals on and all that. And we finally, we're dealing with, you know, his dad's being an asshole. He's making all these demands. And also, if he is this much of like a politician in Russia, like how do they have money problems? Good point. Very good.

It's corrupt as fuck, dude. This is crazy. Get some money. But we get Svetlana. Svetti's back. Okay, was that her? Yeah, that was her. Yeah, she was all dressed up.

And dude, fucking, she's the goat. I love Svetlana. Dude, so same. And, oh, actually, I'll save that for later. But the dad thing real quick, that threw me with the, like, memory stuff. The dementia or whatever. Like he goes, he goes, your mom, and he was like, mom's dead. Remember?

And I was like, oh, whatever, that's a nothing line. But then he was like, remember, I'm at the gala? the minister and I was like, oh shit. Like that actually was way more intense than I thought. So that was an interesting dynamic. I'm really liking that. Me too. Like his family stuff.

And then real quick, when he was talking to the minister, there's, I don't know if this was loud enough. Sandra has subtitles on so I can sometimes, I always tell you this. I can see shit that he's like, but he goes, they bring up some Russian dude in the, in the NHL named Kitchoff. And he goes, he's like, we lost because we did Kitchov's not here. He's chasing all the, he's resting, he's resting, chasing. the American prizes. So I was like, hold on. There's another Russian in the NHL who's dominating

and didn't come. Who the fuck is he, dude? Crazy work to not come. Yeah, absolutely crazy work to not come. Okay. And Svetlana's dad is a minister. Is the minister? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he's Putin's son. She's the minister's daughter. Yeah. This is like Romeo and Juliet, dude. Oh my God, dude. I need him to, I needed him to marry Shane. I now didn't even have to marry her. But this is insane. Sveti is the goat. And I love the familiarity. they establish with the fact that she's able to step in and like pull him away from his dad and be like, fuck you, dude. And who was Sasha?

Just another one of their friends who I believe. And again, guys, we've not read the books. I believe. That's not trying to figure out. I believe Svetlana. Was she like, hey? No, no, no. Well, maybe.

I believe that she knows that he is by and will, is kind of experimenting with anyone. And he's like, yeah, you're my boy. I've hooked up with you. It's all cool. And obviously we have an establishment that Sasha is someone. that Elia has hooked up with before. But we meet him. Sasha clearly bad influence.

Yeah, that guy. Like, I think he is like a Russian oligarch who's, you know, he's always just like doing drugs. The first frame we see of him is him snorting like a 12-inch line of Coke. Big line of coke. And then lounging the bathtub. That line of Coke was even bigger than Elias Cock. Yeah, which is hard to do.

Which is hard to achieve. So impressive. Dude, when Svetlana was talking puck, I have to tell. you two and the listeners, I was extremely turned on. She was like, the Cups wide open this year. I just started like doing, she's dropping team games. Deep NHL breakdown. I was like, yo.

Like that is my dog, dude. Holy shit. That was awesome. So that was your horniest moment? Yeah, bro. It might have been. Might have been. Two things here that I blew my mind.

In this conversation in the bathroom, at one point, Elia says, fuck these games. Crazy. Crazy. You would never say that. And that's not a knock on the show. It's a knock on Elia. He's clearly dealing with it.

I'm like, you don't care about the Olympics, dude. Like, what's going on? In Sochi. What's going on in your head? Yeah. Like, fuck these games. These are the most important things ever. Crazy.

Sasha makes a move on Elia. And he says, back off. Well, he also says, not here, which I thought was rich coming from him. Well, I thought that was rich. coming from you, Rosie, who are fucking blowing dudes at the award show. But dude, he's in Russia, like his dad's right outside. Yeah, yeah.

But also, whether it be that's why, or he was thinking about Shane. And he was like, no, dude, I don't want to hook up with you. Yes, I love that. That made me very happy. I was like, this is cool. So, if you have nothing more from Olympics. No, no. Now we're in the fucking Elya era.

We're in the Elya era. We're at towards the end of the Major League hockey season. and we get a Elia is the captain Yeah, which is sick. They're both captain, which I thought was awesome. Both captains make sense, Ovi and Sid.

And we get an Elia speech firing up the boys. And this was my one, what is happening. Actually, this is probably my what the fuck are we doing here award. In his speech,

he screams, I want to fuck San Francisco. Yeah. And I was like, I was like He almost has fucked everything So why not start with cities now? Dude

Dude I Sean I couldn't tell if that was like a broken English thing Or if that was just a weird choice Wasn't there a line Earlier on in the episode as well In the Montreal Changing Room and somebody says Was the Swedish character or something

Somebody says what broken English We're gonna fuck them And then someone like makes fun of them Because like oh no It's Rosenoff too I think he's like, you're gonna, you're gonna fuck Rosenoff? And he's like, you mean fuck with Rosenoff? Like the dude

invites into dinner, you know? And I'm like, there's a lot of those where they keep being like, you call me gay? Yeah, yeah, yeah. No. He's like, no, relax. But yeah, I mean, this was just, I was dying. I was dying when he says, I want to fuck San Francisco. I hate this speech.

And then I wrote, actually it got better. But at the beginning, it's like so him. Yeah, he's like, I don't care how many. I have to win. And I was like, dude, this is not how you would ever, especially being like a team, or I guess they're probably 21 or two now. But being that young captain, you would be like, and hockey players especially are just like, the boy, yeah.

So I was like, this speech sucks. So yeah, that was kind of funny. But I was like, but I actually like, yeah, or keep going, keep going. No, no, it was just like the speech was just, it was, again, I loved it. It made me laugh out loud. I was like, I want to fuck Sam. I'm going to say that every time we play something. I want to fuck this team.

Yeah. It was amazing. So we then see Elya and Boston. Dude, things are turning up in Boston. First they were flying jet blue. Now they're winning the cup. Who called it, Stetlana, dude? Come on, you win the cup this year.

That is wide open. Did you like the cup? Yes. I thought it was a cool interpretation of the cup. Me too. Like it was not a metal cup. It was more of a traditional trophy with like wood and plaques on it.

But it looked like the cup. And you presume that that was with the teams or on the side. Yeah, yeah, I was in. I dug it. My favorite moment of the episode. here. We see the Montreal boys watching at someone's house, watching

them win. It was, it did appear to be like broad daylight and I was like, midday. What time is this game being played? That's neither here nor there. I thought the zoom in on Shane's face after Ilya is lifting the cup. Best acting of the show. Oh, nice. Dude, this, that actor,

fuck, I know his name. The, the everything on his face. It was like, pride seeing his a guy that clearly has feelings for winning achieving his dream there was a bit of jealousy in there there was a bit of competition in there but there was also joy like it was it was it was fucking a masterclass of physical acting how about right before that when they go um there's like three minutes left and they cut to him and then his teammate goes like i can't believe rosanoff's gonna win a cup and Shane goes he's like he's probably the best he's the best you know and i'm like damn yeah yeah but that's like that's a big line from him

dude, they fucking love each other. Like, and as competitors, too, and as hockey players. But I just thought that the look on Shane's face, I was like, fuck, yeah, dude. Like, that was just great acting. And I felt it. I was like, I'm feeling what the boys are going through right now. It's amazing. So then we get the award show.

Yep. I love awards. And I'm like, they've been nominated the last couple years. I'm actually sad that we've been robbed of three years of awards because it's fucking fireworks every year at the award show. So, like, what's been happening? What have you been missing? We get the award show.

Nice step up to. It felt like episode one the award show was happening in like a TGI Friday's. And this one is at a nice banquet hall. And I was like, hell, yeah, here we go. And we get the bathroom. Bathroom Felicia. Well, first we get the ass grab.

Yes. During the presentation of the... Did we see it go? I didn't think I saw it. It's like lower back. Yeah, it was more of like a high tension back trace. You know that sense.

Shivers down Shane's fine. You know, your on stage. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Yeah. So, yeah, now we're in the bathroom. Oh, sorry, I wanted to see, I wanted Rosie to do this.

He goes, you know how they did the bit? They did the stand-up bit. Yeah. Let's get selfie because we were good friends here. And he actually took one. Yeah. You could see him. That's right.

I wanted him, because that's not front-facing. That's just the two of them. I wanted it to be the dick pick. Like, I wanted him to just be showing, like, like this to shade and I was like oh that's going to be an all time all time moment yeah that felt very rosent off yes it sure did so we get them in the bathroom there's a bit of a Shane's like dude like you haven't talked to me in six months kind of rattled me I was like what do you mean dude this is like the this is where I'm talking about the heartbreaking element of this show is the Olympics weren't

that long ago those moments like linds are in February this is June yeah whatever I after after episode one I was like the timelines whatever don't make sense and it's Doesn't matter. Maybe he doesn't count seeing him up on the, when they go to the figure skating. Yeah. He goes up, he sees Rosie by himself. So Shane goes up, tries to talk to him. And for, just because Rosie's having pressure, he's now taking it out on Shane being like, fuck off, go back to your, no, I didn't answer your boring text.

Yeah, right. And I guess he didn't answer the text. Yeah. Yeah. That's the six months, I guess. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

So they're in the bathroom. Rosenoff is like, ask me nicely to get on this filthy bathroom for and something. your dick. That was just... Bro. Guys, the risque nature that these two, the charge

it adds to the show is remarkable. I have three things about that scene. One, Shane, and dude, I feel for the kid. Because he goes on emotional roller coasters where he is so upset at the beginning of that scene

where he's like, dude, what is your fucking problem? You haven't spoken to answer a text in six months. And then he's like, please suck my dad. And I'm like, oh, fuck. Like, we are all the way back. He's like, I hate you.

I never want to speak to you again. Actually, I'm so deeply in love with you that I will risk it all right here in this bathroom. I'm telling you, dude, this show is a Shakespearean tragedy. Two, incredible restraint from the writers and Rosenoff in this scene. Because for me, even in the chaos of the show, I was like, you cannot be blowing him in your tuxedo at the bathroom at awards right here. Correct.

This is fucking outrageous. And then he was like, no. maybe in the hotel room. And I was like, yes. Nice. Great. Perfect. And then my third takeaway, Rosenoff, is incredible.

This kid is a shining star. Oh, in every sense of the word. Dude, I was fucking, when he's like, when he's doing like the lean in, like, ask nicely shit, I was like, dude, this guy is, he's a young Heath Ledger. When he was dressed up in Russia in the tucks, I was like, this is a young Heath Ledger. This kid is a fucking megastard. Dude, the hair slick back. I love it.

Oh, my God. And when was broke back mountain in Heath Ledger? Ledgers. I think it was like right after... Was it early? He did like 10 things ahead about you and then... No, I think it was like after a knight's tail. Okay, so he was already pretty big.

Yeah. But this kid is on the Heath Ledger Arctic. He does the big gay thing and then now he's gonna be a fucking... Yeah, he's an absolute star. So we... Yes, we now meet in the penthouse, meet in the hotel, loved the lot of windows line. Dude, Rosie, like, unbuttoned. Unbuttoned.

Isn't he smoking a dart? He's going to pick a vodka and smoking. Oh, yeah. He's drinking vodka. And he spoke it. I was like this fucking guy, dude. Holy shit. What a vibe.

Dude, he's an absolute stud. So he goes up there. I love the windows line. Like Shane's like a lot of windows in here. Yeah, that was good. That was really good. I don't care, dude. So throws him on the bed.

And he's like, take off your fucking clothes. And he's like, I want to watch you jerk off. They do that. Shane takes off his briefs and throws them at Elia. Massive missed opportunity. to sniff the underwear. Agriah said the same thing. I can't believe he didn't. I cannot believe he didn't.

I couldn't believe he didn't put it in his mouth. Yeah. Everything I know about Elyle, he's also drinking vodka. He'd be flossing with those. Dude. I couldn't believe that there was no brief sniff there. Also, one thing I wanted to note, when Shane gets undressed, he folds his clothes again. Oh, that's awesome. I didn't notice that.

And I don't know if you guys saw someone in the comments was like, man, and again, the commenters, please help us here. I think someone mentioned in the books that Shane is autistic, which would, like, check out with some of his behavioral traveling. That's a crazy leaveout. Well, maybe we'll get there. Oh, oh, okay. And again, I don't know if that was someone's interpretation or if that is in the book.

So commenters, help us with that and tell us. But those are little ticks, because he did that in episode one, too, like watching him fold his clothes nicely before a hookup. I'm like, I fucking love this guy. Like, he's so particular. It's amazing. But, yeah, they, uh, we get that moment. I can't believe there's no box or sniff, just, you know, brutal. But the, I felt it was unfair.

It was a great flirty line about the vodka being a reward. Yeah. But I feel like Shane did deserve some vodka before cracking stick in front of him. Yeah, a little courage, let's get on a glass of vodka. And he goes, no. And I'm like, come on. You've got to get a little, just give him a fucking sweat the beak. Yeah.

And then he can go. That felt rude. Also, when he started going. And Ely goes, oh, Hollander, do you know what it feels like holding the cup? Unbelievable. Dude, he's, he's just, he's like, fuck you. He's just, and yeah, I love how Shane responds. Oh, dude, that was like, my favorite lines for the whole episode.

He's just always, he's a shitster. He's always stirring shit up. And then are you, I think this is true, but are you always a top or a bottom? Like, is that kind of how that. Because I just want Shane to get a turn and I'm like, I was talking to someone about the show and they pointed something out to me that I can't don't see now. The Montreal Metro logo on the jersey looks like an ass. Dude, the Boston, it's a canon. The Boston Raiders looks like a cock. I actually heard, I think Jacob said something that some other team had to like take out because it was too,

it was like squirting something. Yes. They were like, hey, get rid of that one. Well, Jacob, the director, or director, creator, has said, yeah, showrunner has said that all of the logos are sexual innuendos, which is fucking brilliant. Amazing. Absolutely brilliant. So, yeah. So Shane with the M metaphor of being a bottom. A bottom. And the cannons, Elya, the cannon's nine inches long. He's a nine inch hard top. It's great.

So, yeah, so that's how, like, Shane. I think traditionally you are one or the other. And then he just gets blown after, theoretically. Yeah, or you do, you know. Or do you come, does it work for you? Wasn't this, like, an always sunny episode? Like, well, it's a power bottom. Yeah, yeah, Shane's, I could say Shane being power bottom.

Yeah, yeah. MVP finals. I mean, MVP final. Elya could be a power bottom, too. with that ass. Yeah, holy fuck. He actually probably couldn't be a bottom

because you need a 20-inch dick to get it in his butthole because his ass is so huge. God. Fucking relax. You're not getting monetized. It's just a lot of romance here. God.

So we get hook up another, you know, horned up montage scene. But it, But here we finish our episode just with more of the heartbreak. Dude. Shane, credit to Shane trying to connect here. He's like asking him about how things are going with Russia and his parents and his dad and this and that.

Ely is not really having it. They leave and then, you know, we get the episode end with the just the heartbreaking text thing. I mean, see you next season. delete, delete, delete, into we didn't even kiss. Shattering. I wrote, not sending C.U. next season,

broke my heart. Like, I saw him type that, and I was like, oh, my God. I literally wrote, that just broke my heart. And then he went, we didn't even kiss. That destroyed me. I'm being dead assed. I was like, oh, my God.

It was heartbreaking. It's awful. It was actually heartbreaking. But episode end, great run. We got Olympic. we got someone winning the cup. I don't know who won

MVP. Did they say that? I wrote this. I was like, who won? Because they did their little bet. And also missed opportunity early in the episode. He goes, if you, like, they were texting.

Yeah. And he goes, if you do this, this happens. And Shane goes, what if the other thing happens? I forget what it was. And Romanov goes, same thing, Kiss Face. Rosenov.

And then he goes, in the bathroom, he goes, if you win MVP, or if I win MVP, I'll fuck you or whatever. Yeah, yeah. And then Shane goes, what if I win? And I was like, same thing.

Yeah. They took the callback joke and they didn't do it. And I was like, fuck. But anyway, I was like, who won? But when he walks up to the suite and he's in the window looking like James Bond. Like James Bond. Yeah. That's right. He did say that. Good catch. Good catch. Good catch. All right. So we'll get into our awards for the episode.

Starting up with the horned up award. Sean, horniest moment of the up. Oh, after the award ceremony, watching them. what's your phrase crack and stick yeah crack and stick fucking gnarly I felt bad for Shane during this scene even though it's like

he didn't get his vodka dude he didn't get his vodka I know and so it was that's and the power dynamic made it a little bit more horned up than the scenes previously which seemed more kind of like

100% same horned up for me watching him jerk off I was like this is fucking yep yeah I went horniest for me was Svetlana talking puck yeah

moment of the show was the ass eating. With that extra role, I was like, oh, whoa, dude. That was crazy. I fucking loved that. All right, next award, what are we doing? What the fuck are we doing here? What the fuck are we doing here? I have such a good one here.

Let me go last. Oh. All right. All right, I'll go first. Again, not necessarily a hockey thing, but I could not stop thinking about the fact that Shane has an iPhone in 2012 and a Blackberry in 2014. Bro, I'm fucking clocked that too.

That was insane. Dude, so funny. He went back to BlackBerry. He went back to BlackBerry. Maybe he got a deal. Maybe he's on a sponsorship or something. That is fucking hilarious. I was like,

what the fuck is going on? I noticed that too. Because in the first episode, with the YouTube stuff, I was like, what phones are these guys using? That is hilarious that you said that. Okay, Dan, what's yours?

What did I say earlier? I was like, that might be my what the fuck moment. Oh, yeah, you did. His speech. I won't do fuck. Yeah, I think that's probably it. I want to fuck San Francisco. Okay. Was my what?

Okay, here's mine, dude. This is insane. And again, this might be a subtitle thing, so tell me if you guys didn't even hear this. During the scene that you loved, I thought you were about to say this earlier, when Elia is lifting the cup and they're pushing in on Shane's face, you can hear the announcer still on TV. And I was getting it in subtitles. This is the line. Keep in mind, dude, Elia Rosenoff is just won the cup and is probably five. days away from winning MVP. And they said like, or before that, they're like, Rosenoff has 10 goals in six playoff games in the final or something,

which is like insane shot. Like that would be fucking lunatic. I could have said that as like the what are we doing here. Because these shows always go so intense. And I'm like, just fucking say he's good, dude. This says on TV and Rosenoff has won the cup. Quote, the captain did every, absolutely everything in these playoffs. He's the first line.

The captain did absolutely everything in these playoffs, leading his team in blocked shots and shots against. I'm like, literally, what are you talking about? Like, I don't even know, I don't even know what shots against means. Are you talking about the other team? I think it literally just means shots four. Do you mean shots four? It means shots. And also, so he is, he's leading the team in shots and block shots, which a center leading

to a team of block shots would be remarkable. Very remarkable. Also, like, how about gold? Did he score? Did he get points? Like, to highlight those two things, those two meaningless fucking things in the immediate cup celebration of the league MVP, I was like, that is the most batshit line written in a television show.

That was wild. It also comes back to the whole, like, oh, the player is the team. Yeah. I think we're no one else, like, goalies don't matter. Like, no one else matters. He cut the whole saves. Yeah, yeah. It's just the captains of each team is the only people care of.

Did he score goals? Wild. And then do I love this moment? For me, I harped on it a lot, was the Shane reaction to him winning. Yes. I just, again, thought the acting was great. I thought it made me, that was my moment of feeling the most, the connection between these two. And I was like, holy hell.

Mine was the ending. We didn't even kiss. Bro, that actually, I said that was the incredible ending. That was my favorite moment of. of the series, I've watched two episodes. That's my favorite moment of the series so far

and 100% my like, I want to keep watching this show. Yeah. Where I was like, oh, dude, that was devastating.

What do you got? To me, Rosie's the villain. I'm looking forward to, like the same thing. Like the next episode, I feel like the relationship is going to be exploited

by Rosie to help him get away with the additional pressure to start winning more. And now he's really, kind of putting his head into the game. So I'm excited for where that's going to, and I totally agree the ending for me made the entire episode with the, we didn't even kiss, because I think Shane's starting to realize, like, wait a minute, I might be on a different level to where Rosie is in how I'm thinking about this relationship. I'm worried about next step because in the bathroom

scene or one of the scenes Sandra was like, oh, they're going to get walked in on. And I was like, no, that feels like an F3 thing. Yeah, too early. Yeah. And so I'm scared. I'm scared for next step. I'm scared for Shane's heart. Yeah. You're so right, Sean. And again, I don't think Rosie's a bad guy, but I do think he's being too cavalier with Shane's heart. And that makes me scared.

So that's our reaction to episode two of heated rivalry. Unbelievable. We're going to just keep ripping this show. I can't wait. We'll do episode three next episode. Yeah. Fantastic. Let's take a quick ad break and jump on back in.

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The Buffalo Sabres, no, have fired GM, Kevin Adams. They finally did it. They brought in former Columbus Blue Jackets GM Yarmou Keckalinen. Interesting. As the new GM, Yarmot, great GM. Yeah, yeah. Kevin Adams has been kind of a public enemy number one from a lot of Sabres fans. So the fact that they finally ripped the Band-Aid off, I feel like it had to happen.

A lot has to happen. Finished 31st, 24th, 20th, 22nd, and 26th in Kevin Adams' five full seasons as GM. They're currently tied for 24th. Kind of had to happen. Damn. Wow, okay. Yeah. A lot more has to happen.

A lot more has to happen. A lot more has to happen, but definitely wanted to touch on that in this episode. Buffalo fans, the GM has to happen. been fired. I think Yarm was a great pick up. That's great. Okay, again, before we jump into college puck drop, I want to give a shout out to the Shorzie Classic. Shout out to Jared Kiso and the entire cast. Everyone involved with that. CP and I were able to play for the King's alumni team last night, Sunday in L.A. here doing the Shoresy Classic. Got a big win. 10-9. Made the boys take the tarps off, but I cannot believe how incredible that crew is.

Oh, dude. I said this to Kese. I said this to all the boys, Kigs. We were talking a lot. Yeah. What they have built is nothing short of astounding. I'm being completely serious. They think about it from Jared's POB where he goes, I play junior hockey.

I'm going to become an actor. And he had done theater and everything. He didn't just like decide he wanted to act. He had always been in that world. But he was like, I'm going to try to make it work in this business. And I think. a dream if you're an athlete as you go, yeah, I get to play a role.

Like, get me a movie. I get me a hockey movie. You know, like, how can I not get a role in Mighty Ducks or something? Imagine living that dream, but taking it so much further where you've created a property that is an absolute cult classic.

You are a social media icon that came from your brain. And now you have filled the entire production with people you care about who also have similar backgrounds. And on top of that, you're traveling the continent, playing in NHL Barnes against those NHL franchises alumni.

And the entire lower bowl is full and wearing jerseys of your TV show. Man, it was unbelievable. They did a whole event after. Like I said, we got to talk to a bunch of the cast. Obviously, TR is a good friend and is involved in that show. But the way everyone talks about Jared and how he just takes care of everybody, the fans that they have seeing them be able to do this

in Detroit, in New York, Toronto, now here in L.A. Boston, seeing all of these fans show it is, you said it best, Chris. It's like, it's truly remarkable what they have created. The roar at crypto yesterday. I was like, holy shit, dude.

This is insane. And yeah, it's just, it was remarkable. It was such an incredible experience. I'm so grateful to the Kings and to the cast and crew of Shorzi for a last. allowing us to be a part of it, but it was so much fucking fun.

And, yeah, I mean, to Jared, it's like, we were talking to him last night. Like, I'm desperate to work with him. Yeah. He's just, he's everything that you, you want in someone that you work with, a creator, and someone's mind. It's just remarkable. Oh, dude. They, they are doing everything right.

Yeah. It's truly, truly awesome. Speaking of awesome, college hockey is awesome. Let's quickly run down the week. big big is that the sad one that's sad right Dartmouth

has finally lost a hockey game they beat Army 3-0 on Friday but on Sunday they went to Durham where all all teams go to die apparently Dan dude New Hampshire Showdown

Yeah unbelievable The UNH Wildcats Clipped Dartmouth 3-2 in overtime Proud of the Wildcats Cats. Dartmouth beat Army 3-0 on Friday, but yeah, they went to Durham. And, dude, make UNH great again. Beating Dartmouth? Awesome.

Unbelievable. They finally get their first loss in UNH, dude, getting scrappy wins. Yeah, they love to see it. Crazy matchup with number 19 Colorado College in Miami, Ohio, tied them 4-4 and 3-3. Both teams sneaky good. Yeah, because Miami-Ohio had just been ranked, they'd just fallen out. This is a tough matchup and two ties. You're kind of, no blood really, and you're kind of like, yeah, both great teams.

Denver, number six. Denver beat St. Cloud 5, 1 on the road Friday, but on Saturday, St. Cloud, taking no prisoners, bitch. Or they are taking pioneer prisoners, I guess. That's how I should say that, because they beat them 4-3 after Denver was up 3-1 in the second period. Unbelievable. Careful, Denver. Careful. Careful, because you were doing this at the start of the year. And then you stopped, and now you're doing it again. Yep. Sharp action by you naming our game of the weekend, Duluth and Arizona State.

Number five, Duluth. They went in. They won 3-1 on Friday. then Arizona State on Saturday, 6-3-dub, dude. You called it out. If they could get one, that's a huge win. In Minnesota. Minnesota's surging. Yeah, they were in Minnesota. And ASU, big ranked team early in the season. They slipped early. But now they're getting some big wins. And that is a big win. This is my favorite storyline right now. If Arizona State, and gophers too, but if Arizona State can claw back into this, I will be, that will be awesome. Number four, no DAC beat Omaha, 4-1 in home on Friday and 3-1 again on Saturday. I say this. Every five. fucking week. No deck is consistent. And they don't fucking miss. They don't do shit like losing to Omaha by accident.

Correct. So, yeah, handling their business as always. Correct. You love to see it. Minnesota State. Fuck. I fucked this one. I fucked that. You totally did, dude. You got, on them. Yep. You were saying how hot they were. They go on the road to Augustana and lose three one and then tie four four. Just cannot have a weekend like that. Cannot have a weekend like that. 15 made beat Lyndidwood 5.0 at home on Saturday and 7-2 on Sunday. Important wins for Maine. Important wins for Maine?

Dude, you know how easy slip-up games those are? No, that's great for Maine. Great to have them at 15 and get two wins like that. And then a team that also needed a big win and a big upset. Number 20, BU goes in and upsets number 11, northeastern, at Northeastern, 4-3 Saturday win after going down 2-0 and 3-2. Really, really huge stuff from BU. and this is what we talked about with Cole.

Like, this is how you find it. Two goals. Down 3-2, score two in the last two minutes of the game to tie and win. That's electric. You know, it turns the whole week. It saves the whole weekend, frankly. Saves the whole weekend. All right.

Let's get into our new ranking, Chris. Nodak's got to be high. Yes, but I don't, I fear I can't punish the teams at the top for not playing. So unfortunately, and if Nodak could beat someone big, I maybe I could have punished someone, but I think I still have to go Michigan, Wisconsin, Michigan State, Nodak. Because I'm like... I think, because I'm a piece of shit.

Yeah, you're a rat. You can't do it. I'm gonna go Michigan, Wisconsin, no, Dac, Michigan State. You're a pig. I'm a rat pig. You are a pig. We need a little bit of change, though. Okay, fine. Um... Fine.

Okay. So then, like, dude, no one... The only teams in the top 10 that played are Denver, and they split to St. Cloud and fucking Duluth. Who lost to Arizona State. Yes. Who I'm excited about,

but I'm like, I want to get them in trouble. But then it kind of feels weird to bump someone up because I'm like, actually fuck it, dude. They're both getting pee-wacked. Part of me wants to bump up Dartmouth,

but then they lose to you and H. They lost. They lost. I know. So I'm going, watch this, dude. I'm going, Nodak, oh, you want Nodak 3,

Michigan State 4. We're going at 5. at five, we're going Western Michigan because they had a great weekend last weekend and they are being rewarded for not losing any games this week. Okay. Then, I think maybe we can just go Duluth

and Denver. Yes. So five, Western Michigan, six, Duluth, because Arizona State's actually pretty good. Seven Denver. Eight Dartmouth. Even with the UNH loss. Yes. Yes. Eight Dartmouth. I'm going, I still want

BC in here. I had BC last week. Okay. Yep. I want BC. Nine? Nine. And I think we had maybe Quinepiac 10 last week. Yeah. Because Northeastern lost.

Or do you want to put BU back into 10? That's too high. It's way too high. Because I don't want Penn State over Quinnipiac. No. So yeah. Quinnipiac 10. Quinnipiac 10.

Great. Fantastic. Boom. That is Naird's College puck drop. And this weekend, we've only got a couple of games. There's only one game on Friday and one game on Saturday in D1 College Hockey, Omaha at Augustana. and there's no way that's going to be on TV for any of you. So enjoy your Christmas break. Enjoy your Christmas break.

I'll see you after the holidays. There you go. Let's get into a Beer League hotline. All right. You're going to like this one. Okay. Middle of the season, an email comes out from the league that there has been a string of dressing room robberies.

An individual would go into the changing room before a team arrives and hides in the handicapped shower. Once the team would go on the ice, the shower bandit would make his move. Next day we get to the rink and decide to check the showers. Sure enough, there he is. The enforcer on the team grabs him and pins him against the wall. But our GM calms everyone down.

But during the murder prevention, the bandit sneaks away. I run after him in my jock, but he's the fastest kid alive. We drop the ball. What should the punishment be if we catch him again? What are you talking about? Is this real? Yes. This is unbelievable.

How do you let him go? Letting him slip away during the distraction is insane. I mean. And dude, we can, I don't know if this will, well, actually, I'll leave this in the pod. This probably won't make the clip. But there's, sometimes people send us, and this is a message for all the future beer league hotline submissions. People send novels sometimes. Oh, my God.

And I can only fit so much. the question. So part of this question was, or part of the submission was they, when they went into the showers, they go on a whim, because he hides in this handicapped shower, so you can't see him. Yeah. So they go in on a whim and they go, hey, can't be hiding in there, man, just guessing. And then the door opened and he was in there. And he just tried to walk out. He was like, oh, shit, shit, shit. And then the enforcer grabbed him and was like, bro, you're actually in there about to rob us. You're a thief. Yeah. And then the GM was like, yo, don't, kill him and then there was a distraction, there was chaos ensues, and then he got away.

He slipped out the door and then he chased him. Okay. Here's, all right, here's my take on this. First of all, I have such little patience. The seventh circle of hell is reserved for betrayers, mutineers, and thieves. I have such little patience for thievery. Yep. I'm talking, you break into my car.

and like steal my random cash in like the center console, death penalty. Death penalty. Stealing is the most pathetic, cowardly shit you can possibly do. Just you're a fucking rat scumbag. Drives me nuts. So to do that at Beer League, a place of sanctuary and peace, you are the worst kind of person. Is he, what is he doing there? Is he an employee of the race?

Is he a hockey player? I don't know. Is he just sniffed out opportunity? Yeah. Did he go? What if he was just a handicapped person looking for a bathroom? Wrong place, wrong time. Oh my God, Sean.

Dude. Okay, so there is a shower bandit, but it is not this man. That would be so bad. And he's also deaf. Because he doesn't have his hearing aids in, and they're going, ah, ha, ha, ha, ha, and he's like, I'm just going to walk out of this room because I don't know what's going on right now. So bad. If that, but we can't even live in that world.

So let's say this is the shower band. it. You're the worst type of person. Now, there's a part of me that wishes we could go back to the Wild Wild West where people could just get their asses kicked sometimes. But you can't beat the shit out of this guy because, you know, next thing you know, you're got, that's assault, brother. Yeah. But you can't let him get away. Dude, he, there's been a string of robberies. Yeah. So many teams are owed a debt. Also, this is brutal work by whatever rank this is. I know. You're just letting some random bandit in, sneaking into showers. If you catch him again, I think you need to...

Catch him again? Yeah. You think that this is going to possibly happen again? I think there's no way that the bandit shows up again. Really? So now he's in the wind. Yeah, he's found a new rink to terrorize. Fuck.

Okay, so the answer to this inquiry is you're fucked. You drop the ball to your own admission, and now he is free. And he will reap the benefits of all the money forever. Yeah. And now he'll terrorize a new. rink. I guess though we're answering it for the new rink. He will terrorize a new rink and then someone there will catch him. Yeah. What should they do? And I think you send him to jail for 50 years. I think he owes money. He owes retribution to people. He owes money to everyone. He's,

we got to put him on a payment plan and get his money back, get everyone's money back. It sucks when this happens because I, when I was in high school, I know this happened to you too. When I was in high school, I got robbed by a classmate. And when I was in gym class. Yeah. And they would go in and they would find my wallet in my shorts and they would steal my money. And I found out who it was. And I was like, give me my money back.

Yeah. And like he threw my wallet away. So I had to get a new ID and debit card. I'm like, what the fuck, dude? Yeah. And there's just no repercussions. Yeah. I think he got suspended.

And I'm like, great. Yeah. So I actually maybe it's maybe it's, maybe it's, maybe it's like, um, street justice. That's what I'm saying. It's wild wild west stuff. You should be able to beat the wheels off the sky. It's stealing from us?

Maybe it's like something, something broken. No, there goes college soccer. Yeah. Type situation. You tie him to the hockey net. Oh, okay. Yes.

We do that. We do either a Goldberg, Goldberg's no longer afraid of puck's situation. Yeah. But, man, I have a lot of pads. Maybe you do a mystery, Alaska yes

jock cup only ass slide across the rink yeah and then we're good and then we're fine

bloody ass and I go go go in good day locker room thief is that is as bad as it gets he's bad guy

you suck bad guy yeah you suck all right we're doing our current Bauer

hockey Christmas movie blind rankings yes sir believable that's the best it gets

because Bauer is the best of cats. Yes, sir. New pole stick is the best stick on the market. It's unbelievable. Revolutionizes your game. And I'm so thrilled that we're doing Christmas movie blind rankings. We had a great one last week. Last week we had Love Actually, Klaus, the Polar Express, spirited, and Home Alone. Yeah. And I think we did it perfectly. It went, Klaus, Home Alone, Love Actually, Polar Express, spirited. Yes. And I had wished it had been four or five had been flipped. Yeah. We will not reuse those five.

but every other Christmas movie is on the table. So, Blind Ranking Christmas Movies Part 2. A Christmas Story. See, it's so iconic. It's not my favorite of the Christmas movies, but it's so iconic that it sings Christmas so passionately. I hate how we agree on this. It would be better if we did it.

If someone loved it. It's great. I like it more than you. Yeah. I want to go too. Out of respect, I'm okay with that. that. I don't love this movie. I like this movie. I don't love this movie, though. There's nothing about it that I have, like, this big connection to. You know what I think is the biggest irony

of a Christmas story? It is so little of it is my Christmas experience at all. And I don't mean literally. Like I wanted to write. Just so much of it is like, what? It's a weird movie. Yeah, that I don't think it's as, I don't think it's as advertised. They're like, this is the typical Christmas. And I'm like, no, it isn't at all. This is insane. But there's just so many laugh-out loud parts and great characters. Great characters.

Two. I like it. Two. All right. Jingle all the way. Five. Really? I think this movie is...

Sean just gasped. Yeah. There's no way. I think this movie's bad. What? I watch it every year. But it's like... All right.

I'm turning off your mic. Yeah, that's insane. It's crazy, dude. I love Arnold. But it's insane. Dude. Yeah. I'm not sure I was going to have it much higher than that,

but I just can't believe the speed at which you fived it. Dude, again, I like jingle all the way, but I think it's like a bad movie. That's fucking, you're about to get, you're about to get lampooned. Check it on IMDB. You're about to get lampooned in the comments. Check it on IMDB. I think it's like a 5.8. I'm going to check it.

That's insane, dude. It's crazy, dude. I'll let you have it. I'll let you have it. Turbo man. Turbo man. Dude, you're right. It's exactly a 5.8.

on my MDV. It always does that. This movie is like, it's not a good movie. Jesus Christ. I enjoy it, but I mean. Okay, five. All right, here we go. Scrooged.

I like some of you a lot. I know. Bill Murray, so bad work. And this is actually one of, well, I guess, I don't want to spoil that movie, but this is a, one of my favorite interpretations of that story. Yeah.

But Christ, I might even have to go four. Oh, really? I was going to give you three, but I'm okay with four. Just because there's, like, I'm worried about some stuff where I'm like, oh, no. I like Scrooge. I like Scrooge it a lot, but as far as, like, Christmas movies, yeah, there's other that are way, way heavier hitters for me. Let's go four. Let's risk it.

Okay, yeah, four. All right. This one I would consider a Christmas movie, but I think some people might argue it in the comments, but the holdovers. Oh, my God. Bro, I want to go one. Probably one. That movie is fucking awesome. Yeah.

If you haven't seen that movie, the holdovers is. utterly phenomenal. Instant Christmas classic and just... I thought, I thought like Batman Returns was coming there when he's preamble. This is a Christmas, this is a Christmas. Oh, it's Christmas break. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I'm pretty sure like on the front cover, there's like Christmas, there's like Holly and stuff. Like, it is a Christmas movie, objectively. Holdover's wonderful. One. This, this eye. This is the one you should look at.

God, incredible. What a pull shot. Okay, so what's left? Three. Yes. elf are you happy thrilled because you don't like the elf that much no I do like elf I just don't I think there are a lot of people who go first of all I love all of these movies yeah yeah I think there are a lot of people who are like

elf is my number one Christmas movie and I just don't feel that way and the elf being behind the holdovers and Christmas story is perfection as far as I'm people are going to get mad about this yeah people love elf people think that should be one people are going to be like you have the holdovers. Well, anyone who says that has not seen the holdovers. I'm not that mad. I'm not that mad at

this list. I think people are going to be mad at this list. I'm not that. I love this list. People will be mad at this list. There are a lot of elf riders out there. Yeah, big time. Hardcore. Yeah. Good, good list. All right, that is our episode today, long one, but a lot of great stuff to get into. Shout out Taylor Kitch and Howler's Ridge. Shout out our boy. Got us great stuff. It's incredible. Guys, it's the holiday season. If you're not going to Empty Netters. Dot shop, great hats like this, the Skate Hard Hat. I'm rocking with the hoodie right now, the hockey club hoodie.

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