Empty Netters Podcast - The Canes Could Match The 85 Oilers With An 8-0 Start

Episode Date: May 8, 2026

It's your Friday morning LIVE talking about the Canes dominant 3-0 lead over the Flyers. Johnny Pacer joins the show to break down all things playoffs, as well as the Good Ol Canadian Boys to talk about Jarvy and the Canes. And we preview the two Friday night tilts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ice is ready, and we're back with another live episode of the MGM of the MG Notar's podcast brought to you by BetMGM coming at you on a Friday. And wouldn't you know it? CP got lost in the sauce again. I'm wearing the same clothes I was wearing. No one knew that. You didn't have to let them know. I'm literally everything I recorded in yesterday.

I am recording in today. We didn't record yesterday. Yes, we did. No, we didn't. Yes, we did an interview. We did an interview. We did an interview. We did do an interview.

But again, that interview is not out until Monday. But I wouldn't want people to think, why is he wearing on Monday? They would have never thought that. You have outed yourself for absolutely no reason. I'm literally wearing the same clothes I woke up in on Thursday morning. But, you know, we're always authentic, and I appreciate you being authentic. Oh, no, dear. That's a two Gatorade morning.

I saw that. When you came in with the deuce Gatorade pole, I was like, wow, Utah. Give me two. Give me two. Holy shit, dude. I appreciate the move by you. Holy shit. We had a little work session last night, folks.

We went out, went to Jameson here in Santa Monica, went out with the whole sports department, had a little celebratory hang. The boys were there, and the boys are not having two gaitos. Who do you blame for this? Yourself? Yeah. We were just fine.

Look at everyone here. It was Thursday. Everyone here is okay. What do you have to say for yourself? I blame myself. I blame the organization. I blame the organization. You blame the organization.

I blame the people that I surround myself with. And I blame locks because I did. I was sitting up bidding on Otani cards till 3 a.m. Eating takeout. But you got a few? I got three. I got three Otanis and I got a belly full of boneless wings. Yeah, that can't feel good.

And I want to die. That's got to be churning in there like laughy taffy. Not feeling good. I want to fucking die. Yeah. You're going to have ringsting on the way out. Oh, dude. Don't even fucking, don't even say that.

I can't hear you say that. It's coming for you, pal. Can't hear you say that. You know, and it's like when you hear a, uh, you know, the day after a big drinking day and someone says, like, literally just says the word tequila shot and you're like, yeah. That's what just did that. You just did that to me about food.

Yeah. Don't talk to me about food. It's rare that that happens with food. Usually it's a product of food poisoning, but this time it's just drunky. No, this was food poisoning. I've been poisoned. I think you poisoned yourself. I've been poisoned.

And then you added food on top of it. And that's not the food's fault. It's your fault. You, Chris got caught in the happy hour spin cycle. Yeah. Where they were like two for one drinks. Two for one. So every time the lovely server came by and she,

was like, can I get you anything? Chris was like, I'll do two Sun Cruisers. And you drank both. You could have given them to other people. But they- Also those peanut butter shots, too, you factor those in. There, I am so convinced. I love Jameson so much, but I am so convinced that there's nothing, there's no alcohol in there. Oh, yeah. It's just liquefied peanut butter. It's a blended peanut butter cup. It's fucking great. It's fucking great. I gave the boys, the boys. It's like, they need to stop marketing them as whiskey. They just need to be like this, want a little peanut butter pickup? Like, it's like when you go, you know when you go to university? and you get the butter beer.

Yeah. I'm always like, we need alcohol. How good is butter beer? It is, but dude, I can have like five sips and I'm like,

I'm out. Yeah, it's a lot. It is a lot. It's so much. You got to, but do you get the hot butter beer with some fire whiskey in it?

Yeah. Now we're cooking with gas. I've only had the cold because it was a hot-ass day. Yeah. It usually is up there in the valley. Dude, it's true.

You gave me a great idea that Jamesson should serve the peanut butter shot as a chaser to your actual shot. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's like a pickleback, but it's a butterback. Here's your fucking whiskey shot.

And then bag, here's your piggyback. It's a butterback. It's a butter back. That's really good. You get a shot of whiskey and then a shot of peanut butter. Zach, tell me that's not the best idea you ever heard. That sounds like a great idea. And low-key, those peanut butter shots were fantastic last night as well, though.

They're incredible. Oh, my God. But I don't think there's any booze in them. There isn't. There might not be. All right, folks, we had a bit. We only had one game last night. Cains go up 3-0 on the flyers.

Tough sledding for Philly. We've got two games tonight. We've got award stuff to discuss. It's some drinking stuff to discuss. Do you want to start with the drinking stuff? No, because I think we're still making the pictures. So we got to start with the awards. Just kidding.

That wasn't even an idea I was actually considering. Correct. Should we start with award stuff? Yes. All right, we're going to start with award talk, folks. We have the three Norris finalists that were announced. And then just this morning on the way in, Yeah.

This is why a 9 a.m. start on the West Coast is great because some news comes in. We got news. On the way in, we have our heart finalists that have been, that's the MVP for those who aren't paying attention at home. Let's talk Norris. The three Norris finalists, three unbelievable years. Kail McCar, I believe this is now his sixth Norris finalist. It might be seven, actually. That's good, Dan.

I didn't know that. Zach Werenskiy and Rasmus Dahlene. again, three unbelievable seasons out of this world. The big omission, the point leader for all defensemen, Evan Bouchard. We got to break it down. We got to discuss. I am shocked that he, I'm legitimately shocked. He's not a finalist based on how this award is usually handed out.

Now, I think that. I had said if he gets to mid-90s and no one else is even close, he will flat out win it. Yeah. And he finished. 92, right? No, 95, I think. It was 95? He finished with 95 points.

He was 95. 21 goals. And Zach Werensky was 81 in second, which is an incredible season for Z, by the way. Everyone keeps conveniently omitting the seven games less played. Everyone's like, he had 14 more points than the next guy. And I'm like, well, they all played seven games less. interesting, Chris, is Bush, Werensky, Kale

Yep, that's it. Are all over point per game. So when it is for both Kail and Werenski, they had seven games less, so you could assume that they would have had at least one point in those. So it would have only been about seven. If we're going to play that game,

we need to acknowledge that Kail and Wrenski played seven games less than Bush. And I think they don't do that enough for the forwards to like Kooch, played, I forget what it is, but like I think like seven less games than Connor, too. But you know what? I'm actually, I'm going to call myself out here because I've never thought about this because I feel like I always, when there's less games played, I'm always like, you got to factor that in. Maybe that's a detriment because of, uh, the best ability is

availability. And that means that they weren't available for seven games. And to bring it back, to. Bush was available for all 82. And to bring it back to the Eichel thing, when our first shrimp bet ever, you were like, I was like, he's going to have this many points. And then he didn't. But I was like, but Dan, he did because he was that point per game. And you were like, but he didn't. Yes. Because he wasn't available. And these guys had 14 less, they contributed to 14 less Blue Jackets goals. Yeah. Because. And if you want to really get nitty gritty for the Blue Jackets, I'm like, well, if he had played those seven games, I know, I know. Would they have made playoffs? So. And again, that's not his fault. Yeah. So I, uh, I had said he will win it.

The way they have handed out this award in the past, he will flat out win if he has a huge gap in points and finished mid mid 90s. Not only did he not win it, Dan, he's not even fucking a finalist. I know. Now, I said I'm shocked that the voters went that way. Me personally, I don't hate it though. Because it's not a point award. We've said this a million times. But, all right, I have a lot of takes here. And I think maybe some Edmonton fans are going to be surprised with how loving and sensitive I'm going to be about this. I think it is crazy town USA, crazy town Canada, population, Evan Bouchard, that he was not nominated. Because for the last 10 years at least, this has felt like a point award.

Oh my God. Dude, it literally feels like just who has the most points, just give it to him. It is felt, can you get up right now the last 10 Norris Trophy winners? Someone actually tweeted it recently. and it was like going through the last 10 Norris winners where they ranked on the points list for defensemen and it's actually not always number one. Shit, I wish I had saved that

because it was a fantastic tweet. I can do this. I can do this. I think it was Drew Livingston. God, Drew's so great. I love Drew's work. Okay, this is going to be slow and steady, but just let me work here. Last year winner,

Kale Point leader Kale Okay Oh wow You are you are gonna do this And it is gonna be slow and steady I appreciate this

Year before that winner Quinn Point leader Quinn Okay so Last two It's not this year hasn't been awarded yet So the last two were the point leaders

Year before that Eric Carlson Point leader Eric Carlson So three in a row 101 by the way Yeah that was crazy Which is dirty work

Yeah Winner before that, Kale McCar, point leader, Roman Yosey. There you go. And Kale was, what, two? Yeah. Okay. So it is, 96 to 86, though. Interesting. So it has either been first or second for four straight years. Yep. Year before that, point leader. Incredible. That is so good. Year before that, Adam Fox won. Tyson Barry, 48 points. I forgot he did that. Adam Fox 47. So only one

point off. One point off. Okay, so five years in a row, either first or second. Year before that, point leader, John Carlson, winner, Roman Yosey. And Yose was two. Okay. Six years in a row, either first or second. Yep, but that's three years in a row second. Yeah, true. Which is nice.

Year before that, Brent Burns. Come on, Bernsey. Year before that, Mike Giordano. He was. two. Okay. All right. You can stop. Four years in a row two. Three years in a row one. Last three have been one, four years before that second. So seven years, and we could have kept going on. For the purpose of the live show, we're going to keep it moving. Seven years in a row, it has either been first or second place in points. Now, what's interesting, Chris, is it might

still be that this year. If Kale wins, it will be, or if Zach wins, which I think Zach should win it, it'll be the second place guy so that'll be eight years in a row the fact that Bush is not nominated I think is crazy because

of how it has been given over the last 10 years it very much feels like a whoever is the flashiest biggest point guy whatever this is what's interesting about this

we have all of these saber metrics and deep analytics cards that people are pulling out on all these different websites, which are great. All these different sites. It's awesome. But a lot of these sites, I think, and I'm saying this with ignorance, because I'm not entirely sure.

I obviously look at a lot of these things. The win against replacement stuff, the defensive rating stuff, sometimes I am genuinely, I'm like, how are you measuring this? And it's obviously various calculations of like goals against when you're on the ice, high danger chances. But then there's always the question of like, what's a high danger? your chance and what's making this up what is a high danger chance and what's not i also think win against replacement is is kind of difficult team to team because i'm like i mean that that changes

team to team it changes who your opponents are this that and the other huge part of this is just i test say what you will a lot of um there's a weird rivalry between colorado fans and it used to be Vancouver fans now it's minnesota fans now it's minnesota fans now it's minnesota fans and Edmonton fans in the defensive space because you have Kail and Quinn, Bush had a major year, and everyone loves their guy. Yeah, that's not weird though, right? I think it's funny that there are rivalries between fan bases because of players. Well, it's like Sid and Ovi.

Like, I think people were like... Yeah, but they're in the same division. Sure. Minnesota, Colorado makes sense. But I think that would happen anywhere. I'm not saying it doesn't make sense. Yeah. I think it's maybe weird was the wrong word.

I think it's funny. Yeah. A lot of Colorado fans were popping online after Bush got snubbed, and they were doing the whole, they were like, he is a power play merchant, he's a secondary assist merchant, he lives off of Connor and Leon, and he would be a 50 point guy at most without those guys. We can never know if that's true so long as they were all in the same team. At the end of the day, he had the year he had and he had 95 fucking points. Not being nominated is crazy. If I had a vote, I would not vote for him to win. I think it is shocking that he's not in.

But then at the same time, I look at Werenski, Kale, and Dahlene, and I'm like, you guys were awesome. Like, I love those picks. And I think Dahlene's defensive game has stepped up so drastically this year. And clearly, they won the Atlantic in huge part because of that. And so I love that pick. I think Werenzky and Kale are two of the best. I think they are one, too, frankly, in my opinion, with Quinn being right in there as well

as like the best two-way overall defensemen in the league. And dude, it's a tricky. I mean, the whole award thing is tricky because you go... The fact that we had three defensemen with 20 goals is so sick. Yes, that is extremely sick. I love that. But it's a tricky thing because you go... Like, you know, Connor could win MVP every year.

if you want he's the best player but you're like well it matters to your team whatever and we are making such not we but people are making such a fuss about bouch just because he had 95 points not being named a norris finalist and i'm like queen hughes is arguably one of the best i know is arguably the best defenseman playing i know i know right theoretically most people are kind of saying that and i'm like he he's not nominated i know so i don't think you should should be making that much of a fuss, you should go, listen, there are, there are a great defenseman in the league right now. Quinn being a dash four, this year is shocking.

Yeah, but that was probably a lot of Vancouver. Ooh. That is so funny to think about. We need to find that. Like, what was his plus minus his last day in Vancouver? Yeah. That is so funny to think about. Good point.

But, I mean, listen, I, I'm thrilled. with the three finalists, I think Bush got done done. Me too. I think he been dumbed. Me too. But I mean, at the end of the day, we talked about it in playoffs. I think in that series, Evan Bouchard had the second

worst defensive rating of anyone on the ice. And like that's what people always point at. Dude, I think that shit matters. They always go, playoffs don't matter to the voters. And maybe they vote before and they just announced this now, but I swear to God, they're like, playoffs don't matter. It doesn't got. Dude, it's like

in a courtroom when a lawyer will be like, this thing that is completely defending my client, but completely illegal. And the judge, the other attorney is like, objection. And the judge is like, yes. It's called inadmissible evidence. Yeah. And they're like, jury, jury, you didn't see that. Pretend you didn't see that. I'm like, well, they saw it. I know her to the back. Yeah. I have a new take on this. We've talked about this so many times that we need a Norris trophy and we need a Bobby Orchard trophy. You give one to the best defensive defenseman, one to the best offensive defenseman. I have a long time. I've been in support of that. And I'm now just realizing I, yes, Brennan, I don't think I want that anymore. What's interesting is we kind of have that

for forwards, right? You have the Selkie. But you don't. You don't. You don't. You don't. have a best offensive forward award, right? Unless you're going to call the rocket that. Yeah, I guess you probably are calling the rocket that. You could call it that. And then also the points leader award. Yeah. Is like, the Ross.

The Ross is that. So maybe we do have that. I guess we do have it. Okay. So my argument is if I were a guy like Kale or Werenski this year, and you had the oar. and the Norris, I would be like, fuck that,

I'm the best overall defenseman. Like, I should, because if you, if you're gonna make the, the ore, then I would hear the argument that like, and then you also need a best overall.

Yeah, because you're, you wouldn't want to go just because I won, is the point one? Is that what you're saying? Yes. If you, you wouldn't want to go,

just because I won the oar, now I can't win the Norris. Yeah, exactly. I don't think they, well, I guess they could just give you both. But I,

well, I, think there's a world where that would happen sometimes. But it's like this year you could make the argument that if you had the Bobby Orr, you had the Norris, and then you have like the Nick Lidsstrom. Yeah. And you go, and the Lidstrom is the best overall. You could be like, okay, Bouchard wins the ore.

The Norris goes to, I don't even know if it'd be one of these guys. It might be like, I mean, Slavin didn't play enough this year. But like, you give it to the best defenseman and then the best overall is Werencky. But the argument is like, if you're going to win best overall, you must have to win one of the other two, right? Dude, I think it actually would be cool to just have the Norris and then one of them is the Art Ross for D. Like literally, and it's not even a vote for thing. It's just like. That is, that is the answer.

You were the highest scoring defenseman this year. Here's your trophy. That is absolutely the answer. There's no voting. Pull over CP. Just here you go. How about that, Ev? What?

Yes. Yeah. Do you like it? I was definitely paying attention. We institute the Bobby Orr Award. Yeah. But it's not the best offensive defenseman. It's just the art Ross for defense.

This takes the voting out of it. You had the most points. Right. So it's like the defense of the highest points gets that award. Gets the Bobby Orr trophy. And it's not voted. It's just like, yeah, we're going to now acknowledge whichever defenseman had the most points.

Because that shouldn't mean you are the Norris winner. That will take that away. But it should mean congratulations. Exactly. Because like the year Carlson had 101, the guy was like dash 37. Yep. I think it might have been worse. Can you find, you just found that. Scroll to the year that he had the most points. Who? Eric Carlson. The year he won the Norris as the best defenseman in the NHL.

When he had 101 points, which was remarkable, playing for the sharks, his plus minus was like, you can do it. his plus minus was dash 26. Dash 26. Like you had 101 points yourself and you were still a dash 26. I don't think that that can be the best defenseman of the year. But it would have been great if that year they won, you win the Oar trophy because you had 100 points. That was amazing.

Now we will give the Norris to who was the best defenseman of the year. Yes. That's how we figured us out. We cracked the case. So somebody in the chat, Brennan, Quinn was, he ended Van Quint. Hoover dash 10 and was plus six with the wild. Dash 10? Yep.

Brendan, by the way, fuck yeah, you're the man. What a fine. Thank you for that. That's, yeah, I like it. That checks out. That checks out. Yeah, checks out. Okay.

Does Pacer want to talk the game? Pacer will talk anything. Okay, so I think, Dan, then we go, because some people in the chat are, I mean, there's no Philly fans in the chat probably today, but the Keynes fans in the chat, want the game ASAP. So maybe we bring in Pacer or we just go and then Pacer can join later. But let's give them some game and then we'll come back for heart and drinking. Okay. And when do you want Pacer to join in? If he wants to talk game, he can come right now. Let's get Pacer into talk game. And if he doesn't want to talk game, he don't have to. We can do,

we can talk game and then he can come in. Or actually, do the boys want to talk game. The boys can't come on until 10. Oh yeah, yeah. So I mean, if we got, If the Keynes fans are frothed at the mouth already. They are. They are. Let's get Pacer in now, then. We're going to bring Pacer in now. Then we'll get the boys on.

Listen. Oh, I also got some text from JP about this, too. The Carolina Hurricanes are a wagon. Juggernaut. They are the juggernaut. Remember, remember that moment in time when the fucking G.I. Joe cartoons. G.I. Joe! This is like before memes.

but they were memes. And the juggernaut. The juggernaut, there's no way that was before memes. Dude, it kind of was. Everybody was like making juggernaut jokes. They even did that in the movie. Remember that thing that was like,

I'm the juggernaut, bitch? I'm the juggernaut, bitch. And then he says it in the movie. That was an X-Men. Yeah, he says it in the movie, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's insane. But why did you just make an X-Men reference

when we're talking G.I. Joe? Well, those G.I. Joe videos were like, nice catch, Blanco Niño Niño. I don't think those are memes, though. That's what I'm saying. Those were like the four memes. Yeah. Yeah.

That was like the days of like break.com and YouTube. Yeah. Like that was that. That was when we were watching like executions online and like really, really weird shit. I used to work at break.com for a little. Are you fucking kidding me? Yeah. It was a horrible job.

It must have been hilarious. It was, it was, we did this prank where we like. That is, that is crazy town. We did this prank. We got kicked out of a hotel because we did this prank where we were like pretending to like on one side we had these people that were doing a presentation for like house cleaners that you can like bring over from foreign countries and then we like zoomed into a hotel where we played these Russian people with like two women scantily clad and everybody in the focus group is

like is this just human trafficking and we're like no no no no no what you do is you pay for this person to live in your house and do your cleaning and they're like that's human trafficking that was the whole prank that was maybe the only funny thing we did yeah that's classic comedy That's a pretty dark. Classic comedy. So yeah, dude, the Keynesburg Zaggonaut because Philly felt like damn near should have won game two for their chances in overtime. Yeah. Now you're coming home.

So seriously doesn't start total home team loses. All they got to do is win a couple games and you're right in the mixer. Yeah. They're playing a good first period. And. Yes. Pacer. Wait, hold on.

I got to put my headphones on. Oh, yeah. Pacer, can you hear me? Okay, I'm just going to keep talking. So, chat, you can hear me. We are going to be joined here by Johnny Pace, our dear buddy, one of the hockey guys who looks utterly fantastic right now in his Blue Jays cap. Yeah, so anyway.

I see a muted button there for us, Zach. Is that why he can't hear me? Cain's absolutely, no, the Philly plays a great first period. Kane's got a late power play, bang, Jordan Stahl. And, dude, I think that makes... Can you hear us now, Pacer? You'll be able to hear it like two seconds. Okay.

Hold on one second, Pacer. We're just, we're getting your audio through our headphones in two seconds, and then I'll be able to hear you. But I don't know, you can hear me now. I was just talking, you look fantastic. Oh, you boys are too cock. Are you kidding me? Dude.

Those are the best looking guys in the game. You got the black Jay's cap on with the black hoodie. It's just the backdrops fantastic. Where are you right now? I'm at my parents' house right now, actually. You know what? Based on the China cabinet, I was going to guess you were at Mom and Dad's house

for being honest. Oh, yeah. We got some prized possessions back here, boys. We got some stuff from Italy. I don't know. I'm not allowed to touch any of that shit, though. Oh, yeah, no chance, dude. If you got caught eating on that stuff,

you'd be skinned alive. That's my favorite part about the nice china pieceer. That's my favorite part about the nice china pieceer. No one ever eats off of it. Like, it just sits in the cabinet the whole time. You can't use it. 100%. I'd be buried under the pool if I touched it.

Oh, God. All right. Pacer, we brought you in. We're talking Keynes Flyers right now. Cains obviously go up 3-0. I don't know if you're aware of this stat. I was actually getting curious. First time someone's gone 7-0 in the playoffs since 94

when the Rangers did it. Oh, wow. And then I believe, I don't know if it's the only time, but the last time someone has gone 8-0, back-to-back sweeps, round 1-2, was 85 oilers. Yeah, the 85 oilers. So the canes got a chance. Here's my question for you, dude. Are you, are you viving with the canes like I am?

Like, do you think this is real? Do you think they're different than they've been in the past? I kind of am, boys, because I just think they've been a wagon for, like, the last three years or so. And they've never kind of got what they deserve. and now I think it's finally paying off for them and I will give some credit to Philly like Philly has a great team

Tip it's still out Am I right? Yep Believe so Yeah tips are working And I did love at the end of the game You know you're down 3-0 You start a little line brawl

I kind of love that You know you're going down swinging Going down with a little dignity there But I got to give it to the Cains Like those guys Those guys are fucking worried years like honestly it's i i dude i couldn't agree more like i i kept saying to cp in the ottawa series it felt like the canes were just kind i i i i keep using the term playing with

their food and that's i don't i don't think that that's quite accurate i think that's a little harsh for the for the senators but they just like always kept it close and then when ottawa would score or show a little fight, the canes would turn it up a notch and be like, okay, go away and just put them to bed. And it's like, it felt like the same in this game. It was like they score first on that peeper that was unbelievable. I want to talk about that power play because I'll have more to say about that later, but they score. Philly ties it, nice eager school. Then they pretty quickly get the lead back on a shorthy. And then it was just like, you know, letting Philly kind of stay alive for a bit in the third and then they were like and let's just step on the throat now and i was like

jesus christ this is crazy and i think that's so important when a team knows how to respond like that the next shift after a goal against is the most important thing and the canes know know how to take advantage of that like all right boys yeah they got one whatever let's respond and that's what they've been doing it's been pretty evident dude here's my question i was trying to cruise through the seasons. The canes, my only concern about the canes is in these last few years, because Paco, you were just saying they've been so good, but they haven't quite got what they've deserved, which would be a finals appearance and, you know, a Stanley Cup, certainly. It does feel like as I go through their seasons, though, they have these dominant playoff performances right until they hit

the good team. Yeah. And then they immediately lose. And with respect to Ottawa, who I I thought would give them a bit. Who did give them a fight? Because those were close games. But then at Philly, who kind of upset the penguins, I am worried that we're doing the same dance with this team. They feel different to me, but I'm just worried we're doing the same dance where they go, wow, we swept Ottawa. We swept Philly. Yep. And then you catch Buffalo or Montreal, who looks like a fucking good team, who, by the way, was like three or five points less than them, maybe in the regular season. And then they're going to lose. And then everyone's going to go, oh, my God, I can't believe it got tricked again. That's my concern. Dude,

sir, my question for you is, because like, great point by CP. And I was doing one of our hockey talks last Sunday and someone said, which I thought was a great question. I mentioned this on a live episode, like on Wednesday or something. Someone was like, is this Kane's team actually good or have they not played that great of competition yet? Which is fair. I mean, it's like you look at Ottawa, they were a wildcard team, they swept them. You look at Philly. They were third in the Met, but close to a wildcard team, they're up 3-0. They certainly haven't played the competition that Montreal, Buffalo have faced. But at the same time, there's a part of me that's like when you're fucking sweeping teams,

I don't give a shit when you're playing. Like a sweeps a sweep. A second round sweep, which hasn't happened yet, but it's looking like it, is a second round sweep. And my thing has been, was Brandon Bussie the answer all along, dude? because while he hasn't played in the playoffs, I think something that's happened in the third round with this Kane's team over the last few years is Freddie Anderson gets tired.

But Bussie played a lot this year. Yeah. Maybe Freddie is fresh because of Bussie. Honestly, I could see that. I agree with you. Actually, it's funny. Me and my boys were making the jokes here because Freddy's been playing unbelievable, by the way.

And we were making the jokes. If he was wearing a blue sweater like he used to, I think those goals would have gone. to be honest. We're so pissed. They're like, are you kidding me? It's just the classic tale

of any leaf that leaves is they have just so much more success anywhere else. It's true. But no, a fresh goalie, you know, when you're, and that's all coaching too.

Like, you got to know how to use your guys and when you're, when you know you're making the playoffs, when you know you're making this run, rest up your guys. And I think that's so important. And I think that's why Freddie's kicking.

Well, dude, just a little stat guy, stat guy CP for you guys. Come on. Give me some stats. Freddie, dude, 9-557-102 performance with two shutters. 957 percentage, 1.02 goals against, which is fucking insane and would not be happening in a Maple Leafs jersey. No, no, it wouldn't. You made this one save in the first round. And literally the boys and I are at the bar and we're watching and are like, oh, yeah, that's a goal in the leave soon.

for him for sure. Like, doesn't not. Ridiculous. But Dan, listen to this. Regular season games played by Freddie this year.

This year, yeah. 35. That's what I'm saying, dude. Incredible. Regular season games played by Freddie last year.

Don't say it. 22. Fuck. Regular season games played by Freddie the year before that. 16. Yeah.

Like, he's been, this is the most tired the man has ever been in his life. No, but he was battling crazy injuries. I'm just telling you. Yes.

This is the most tired he's ever been. No, no, no, no, no, no. He's as good as dead in the next round. You're wrong because... He might fall asleep in the crease. He literally might be asleep. You're wrong because when he was missing all those games, he was never healthy. He was battling injury, and it's tiring battling injury.

Oh, true. This year, he was healthy while Bussie was carrying the torch for a while, so he was able to rest. He slept peacefully. He has never had this peaceful rest because he's never had... This good of a teammate. No offense to Piotr Kachetkoff. He goes, I love Bussie. Busy is his best friend.

Yep. Okay. It's unbelievable. I think that he looks awesome and the Keynes, you said it, Pacer, the Cains look, they always look smothering, but they just look so unfazed. Like when Philly scores that goal, they're not like, uh-oh, everything seems fine in Carolina, where in the past, it's been like there are times. when I think they have chances. I look back to that Ranger series a couple years ago and they lost in

the second round where I'm like, oh my God, you had so many chances and the dude just weren't getting the bounces. This time it's the exact opposite. Oh, oh, Philly gets a power play with the tie game. Bang, here's a shorty down your throat. All those moments I have felt like have been lacking in the past where now they do feel like killers. And I got to say, another Eler's goal fired me up so much because we were like, is this guy, again, not I'm saying he's a mega star, but is this guy enough of a star to be the difference? Dude, Pacer, you and I talked about this this summer when shout out me. I broke the Nikolai Eilers signing with Carolina News.

But we always talk about how the canes, a big knock on them has been like they don't have a star. But what do you think about the shape of this team with how many, when you look at guys like Ajo, guys like Jarvie, guys like Eilers now joining. that group and then you also have these like perennial playoff performers like stall martinook all these guys and they're great defense do you think it's like who gives a shit if they don't have a clear worldly superstar because they are so deep yeah i think it goes back to the old saying and i i believe it was uh way back uh her brook said you know we're not looking for the best players we're looking for the right ones and i think they have the right ones and i think it starts at the top and brendamore is not letting these guys hit the panes and i'm

button when something was wrong. Hockey, in the NHL especially, teams capitalize on mistakes. You're bound to make mistakes. That happens. The fact that they're just playing it cool right after and responding the right way, they don't have these egos.

They don't have these superstars. They don't have the Crosby's, the McDavid's, the McKinnons. Nowhere even near that, but they have the right players and it's so evident in their play. Dude, I think that's so well said. and something that points exactly to that,

Svetnikov scored his first goal of the playoffs last night. I was right about to say that, Dan. Jarvie scored his first goal of the playoffs in game two, I believe it was. Yes, it was two. And you don't hear that same shit that's like when these other teams, like, you know, threw a couple games against L.A., when people were like, oh, my God, Nate and Kale don't have a point yet. They were winning, and we were here and all that.

when Connor's not scoring in Edmonton all that all you hear about is Connor Connor Connor you never hear that with this team it's like Jarvie Svech ahoh eelers like all these guys none of them have five six goals I think Stank is leading the team with four goals oh yeah five for sure and it's like that's what's beautiful when you have this fucking phenomenal of roster composition and you're this deep it doesn't fall on one guy And we are seeing the benefits of that with exactly what Pacer just said of like the pressure, the noise, the panic button. It's not really being hit. And obviously when you're when you've won seven games of seven games, there's not a lot of panic. But it's like the in game stuff. No one's freaking out when Svetch didn't have a goal yet. Well, it's a luxury, right? Svech, I think Jarvie had 32. Svetch had 31. Those they were your leading goal scores on the team. And Laura in the chat just said Svetch getting one was so huge, finally getting on the board. Yeah. It is a luxury. it is a luxury in the playoffs when your team goes

hey we can and they're contributing I know Jarvis has a bunch of assists but we can pick you up we can keep winning because I know you will you will get going because you are that good whereas Dan maybe a Boston Bruins team goes hey Posternak if you're not scoring we are out

period yeah yeah so but the canes get to go hey Jarvie hey Svech you had 31 tucks this year you have not scored in playoffs yeah don't worry we we won't panic because we will win we will keep winning, but get going. And then now you get the luxury of Jarvie and Svetch getting going.

And now they become even scarier, right, Pacer, if those guys are cooking now? 100%. And winning teams have depth. And that's what it comes down to. If your third and fourth lines aren't going and picking up the slack, you're in a lot of trouble there. 100%, dude. All right, I have this question for you. We are having this conversation with someone in the organization.

And I thought it was one of the smartest things I've heard in a long time. Carolina has been the butt of the joke for the last several years with their Eastern Conference final losses. The whole, they got swept. Rod says that didn't feel like a sweep. Blah, blah, blah, all that shit. There is a argument here from someone in the organization, which I loved, that they have a great GM. They have a great roster with phenomenal. I don't think there's any better contract construction in the league than Carolina.

Dallas, maybe. Maybe. But like even with Dallas, you've got big contracts with rant and, you know. So the argument is there is a semblance of luck that is needed to win a Stanley Cup. You obviously need a good team. You need good players. You need a good coach. But you need luck along the way, whether it be guys not getting injured, puck luck in games.

Every team that has won a Stanley Cup has had luck along the way. And for the last several years, Carolina hasn't had that luck. But what other teams do when you have a good coach and good GM and you don't get that luck is sometimes they panic and they fire GMs. They fire coaches. And the next thing you know, you lose in the first round where you don't even make playoffs. Like look at Toronto. They were one win away from beating. Not picking on Toronto, but like one win away last year from beating Florida.

And then they freak out. out, they fire people, they do, you know, they let guys go. Carolina has just stayed the course over these last seven or so years. Everyone talks every year. It's like, do you have to fire Rod? We've said it. And they are just like, no, we're obviously not doing that. And do you think, I know I'm rambling here, but it's like, do you think that there's a lot

of truth in that? And when you look at this Carolina team, obviously there's way more work to be done. But if they even get to a cup, getting to a cup is an achievement. I think it's a testament to like, yeah, dude, don't. Don't panic. Like, if you have good people at the helm, all the players love Rod. Everyone loves Tulski. Like, do you just go, like, yeah, I'm just, we're going to stick with it here.

Yeah, I think if you look at two ends of the spectrum there, there's two extremes. Well, I wouldn't necessarily call Carolina an extreme, but look at what you said, what they're doing. They're sticking with their guys. They're trusting the process. And look at the success they've had the last few years. Okay, look at the success having right now. And then you look at a team like Toronto, if they don't win the first five games of the fucking season, they're already talking about cleaning house.

Yeah, right? It's so true. It's the most ridiculous thing of all time. And it's like I feel like we've said it quite a few times here, but hitting that panic button. And like that that's not going to solve the issue immediately is just swapping guys swapping them out. Also though, like I feel like Carolina, like with Rod Brennamore, like he's won a Stanley Cup. He's been a part of that organization. He's been a part of an amazing culture there when he played and now as he's coaching.

And I give a lot of credit to that organization for trusting him, trusting the process, trusting how he's coaching and the players that they're picking up. Completely agree. All right. Pacer, before we let you go, can you give us, we've got Buffalo, Montreal tonight? We've got Vegas, Anaheim tonight. Who are you feeling in both those games? I'm feeling Buffalo. Buffalo is right now, in my opinion, Buffalo and Colorado,

two most exciting teams to watch. I love that. Yeah, dude, I think you're right. I think you're right. If you told me two years ago that I'd be saying Buffalo is an exciting team to watch, I would laugh in your face. They are electric out there.

I love the way that Benson's playing. I love that guy. He is just on fire. and for the role he plays out there he's like kind of undercover silky like I see the moves that pulls off in front of the net the dishes he's making like it's such good hockey to watch

and then Colorado they're they're just electric like they're really proving Nate and McCar like they're proving that they are truly the best as you know you see some other

superstars in that series. Like, he was like, he's an amazing defenseman, but you can see the fatigue of how much he gets played throughout the regular season and the playoffs. And they're just taking full advantage of that. But to the Vegas-Anneheim series,

I'm going to go with Vegas. I haven't been paying too much attention to that series, but I want to see Marner have some success. Dude, he's been buzzing. Dude, he has been buzzing, and I actually like hearing that from you, because I know some people don't want to lose that divorce, you know? And they're like, I hope Martin sucks. But, but it's

actually cool to hear because I feel the same, I mean, I'm obviously neutral in this case, but I feel the same way where I thought it was awesome when, when Jack, when Jack get to got out of Buffalo, because it wasn't working for him, right? And then to have him go see success. These guys are too good to not want to see them do well. But Pacer, we watch that game, though, because the ducks have been flying, bro. Like, I actually think there should be up to, oh, it's been nuts. Yeah. They're such a sick team and they had such a great year too. But even, you know, back to Ike's. I know like that's your boy and I've said it to you guys a million times.

Every time I've got to see that guy play, whether it was in Four Nations or in the Olympics this year, like he to me is the smoothest skater in the league. Yes, dude. Thank you, Pacer. He is flawless. I am such a Jack Eichael fan. He is flawless out there. I've never seen a guy. I completely

obviously like we we joked about this like I got screamed at by some Oilers fans being like how do you think he's better and I was like I think McDavid is faster yeah but Jack is the smoothest skater in the league it's like genuinely a tutorial on how to skate and end in two

strides yeah it's unbelievable oh it's like the put super stick it's unreal pacer we'll let you get back to your day but thanks for popping on but before you go tell everyone where they can find you what you're up to what's going on. Yeah, just grinding away with the hockey guys.

You could find me on Instagram, TikTok, at Johnny Pace 44, or on the hockey guys at the hockey guys. And hopefully we're going to be out to a few games this year. We're trying to get something going here for the playoffs. And hopefully we're going to be seeing you boys wherever the finals are. Not Florida this year, though. So no outdoor room for the first time. devastating.

We're going to have to find, I mean, we will be, there will be no shortage of great bars in any of the places left. So we're going to be fine. We're going to be fine.

Hey, and if there is, then we'll make it one, okay? Yeah, damn right, dude. We'll turn our Airbnb

into the best bar in the city. Yeah, we're turning that place and we'll Boston Pito, okay. Fucking right. You got a deal. Oh my God.

All right. So, you're the best. For the best. Thank you so much. Love you, buddy. Later, buddy.

Dan, I want to tee you up for something because I did want to talk about, because I was talking to JP a lot about about this game. And, you know, he was just pulling his hair out as a Flyers fan because he's like, he's like, dude, first of all, I have an idea, Philly at practice. Why don't you practice breakaways all day? And if we could score one, we'd be up in this series 2-1, not down 03 with our fucking, we're now getting hummed in four and it's over. Like, so as a Flyers fan, legitimately you are fuming about the missed opportunity. Totally. I am going to bring in our next guest. So boys, be ready. All right. And Keynes fans, you're going to be very familiar with these fellas. It's multiple guests. And they're going to be a great time. Since we're still on this series, it's a perfect time.

We're going to be talking about Carolina. Because I wanted to talk about the special teams. Because, I mean, and by the way, we said Philly had to muck it up. That's exactly what they did to Evans, Penguins. And we said that might be a way to get forward. Yeah. And they have mucked it up. There's a million fucking penalties every game. but it just isn't working. Because Carolina is that good. And Carolina is two for nine on the power play last night, which is fucking ridiculous.

I know, it was just such a shit show of a game. It's like when you're getting multiple penalties, like you have a power play and then you take a penalty and now it's four and four. It's like that's still counted

it as power play. So you go over it. And it just felt like, yeah, it was a muckup fest last night. So it was just like, uh, whatever.

Yep. But credit to the Canes P. Because Philly 0 for 5 again. And like these are the huge difference makers. Dude, I did. Talk about that power play.

Yeah, I did pop on, yeah, I mentioned I wanted to talk about that first power play. I mentioned this on X. I sent a post out. That first power play for Carolina that they scored on, the Jordan Stahl level, was a masterclass in how effective it is to get shots on that. They were snapping it around, but there was no more than two passes before a shot. And that gets the other team. Obviously, you got to get a little bit lucky with the rebounds.

But like when you get the defensive team, spinning, moving around, getting ready to block a shot, and then bang, the pucks, they're like, they're going to be tired. They're not going to be on that puck. And it's like, I need the Minnesota Wild to watch tape of that power play, because we keep talking about them. They're doing one too many passes every time they're looking for the perfect seam every time. That Carolina power play was genuinely a perfect example of spray pucks at the net, jump on rebounds, keep snapping it around, and one will go in. And why it's such a great example is it went in off the boards. We shoot it, goes off the end wall, the rebound bounces right out to stall and he stuffs it in.

Because everyone's spinning like a top. Sometimes you just got a fucking spray, dude, buckshot. Dude, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping, ping. I will even argue the Philly goal. And I was actually, I was happy to see Zegris get one. But the Philly goal was a delayed penalty. So it doesn't count as a power play goal, but they had an extra guy out there. And all they did was get it on Cage and it kicked out to Zegris.

And he had actually a really great tough angle talk. But I'm so with you where we said this the other app where I'm just, I'm drunk on finding that perfect pass. But to your point, just sometimes, man. And, dude, how many fucking goals have we seen go off the fucking end boards and pop out these playoffs? So it's like just fire when ready, dude. Ready Torpedo 1 launch. And that's all we need.

100%. I think the, as we've said, all playoffs long, we're not going to complain about refs. It's not what we do here. It's not what we do on this show. It's not effective. it happens every single year we freak out about it it gets nothing done

I I there were a lot of calls last night oh my god there were a lot of calls and that's two games in a row where I'm like Jesus Christ there were a lot of calls

but also by the way every time it cuts to Chris's camera your shorts are riding up and this purple Gatorade bottle it looks like it's covering up your piece and it's fantastic Are you guys familiar with the term catching print

that's awesome no I don't know catching print is when you can see someone's bulge and I got to say on the couches, people are going to be catching a lot of print. Yeah, the couches do. That's what they're here for.

Straight cockshot right down the barrel. That's what they're here for. That's podcasting on couches, baby. Yeah, I mean, listen, this is the game, babe. You're welcome. We're talking about break.com. We're talking about porn. I mean, it's unbelievable.

But I am going to take these off until the boys jump on. Yeah, you don't need it. What's that? No, not yet, right? No, yeah. Oh, here we go. Oh, Jesus.

Boys, can you hear us? Okay, hold on. Hold on one second, fellas. All right, so for the chat, I don't know if they can see the fellas just yet, but we are joined by some of our favorite fellas in the game. Boys, give me a thumbs up if you can hear us. Oh, God, clear.

Jesus. That was the most in-unis-unis-in-unis-thumbs-up. I've ever fucking seen in my life. We've got the good old Canadian boys here joining us. The Seth Jarvis crew. Where are you guys right now? Well, we were in an Airbnb, but we messed up and booked it for not enough days. So now we're crashing Jarvis South as well.

He's gone. That is fucking perfect, dude. That is the most perfect story I've ever heard in my whole life. I hope you're chucking the football around in the yard or something. That's amazing. Boys, we're thrilled to have you on. We're live on the show. We've got the fellas here.

You guys were at game two. Is that correct? Yeah. Game two, Jarvie potted one. Cut to the fellows. I laughed my ass off. How difficult was it this time getting all the boys together down in Raleigh for that game? Honestly, so maybe they had to extend a few days,

but it was kind of auto that we were going to end up here at some point. Yeah. So it wasn't that difficult at all of them being honest. Okay. There you go. Well, how about this though? Because I remember we had, what did we do before Utah? I can't remember.

But a couple times, guys, the teams will bring us out to the game to do a video or whatever. And it's so fun. But I find there's a lot of pressure. Oh, it was the ducks take flight. We did the take flight. That's right. I find there's a lot of pressure when the team brings you out and you do the pregame thing to get a dub for the boys.

And I saw the game and you guys are cranking the fucking Parmesan cheese greater getting the storm siren going. And then the fucking flyers scored twice. It's the first time Philly scored in the first period all playoffs. It's the first time the canes have been losing all playoffs. And I was like, oh no, this is going to feel fucking terrible.

So were you guys tweaking when it was damp? Do you feel that pressure when you're there? Because like, you got to bring vibes when you're there. I don't know. We actually felt the pressure, but then I went on Twitter and Twitter was just like bang and it's like, these jarred boys, like, You know, they were pumping up the siren they go down to all right over like, come on

this is brutal. It's not on us. They're like the boys are fucking distracting Jarvie out there. This is bullshit. But then you totally delivered because Jarvie gets one. Oh, yeah. And then you get the dub. So that was massive.

Did you guys go nuts? Oh, yeah. Crazy. The guy in the green have back at last this tarpe off. Yeah, yeah. Tarps off. I mean, listen, you got to do it. You stepped up to the bar.

That's what you need to do. Obviously, guys. We're riding for our boy here. We're going to root for Jarve all the time no matter what. But you're all hockey guys. You all played. Some of you are still playing, still coaching. How do you feel about the canes this year?

Be real. Give us the true skinny on what you think about this team and their chances. What's your coach's opinion? Yeah. Come on, coach. No, they're a wagon. They're a wagon, right? You got four lines that can play.

I mean, like your fourth line can play over 10 minutes a game. That's huge. and you got three deep pairing. So it's unreal. And Freddy's playing unreal. Yeah. Freddy's hot. Freddie is extremely scorching hot.

Freddie is scorching hot. We were actually just talking about that before you guys popped on. I keep saying, Chris actually went down regular season games played over the last three years, and this is actually the most he's played in the last three years. But those two years prior, he was battling crazy injury, health complications, things like that.

I am of the opinion that Bussie being so good and reliable all regular season actually allowed Freddy to rest both physically and mentally and that's why he's so dialed. What do you guys think about that? For sure, especially just taking a little bit of that regular season pressure off too.

Definitely. Yeah. Definitely. So we're on the same page. Cains are a wagon this year. They've got the juice. Is there a team in the Montreal Buffalo series that you would rather see?

Or do you guys think it's like a who gives a shit this team's going to roll no matter what. I mean, one of these guys is a Canadians fan. Yeah. I think it'd be kind of cool to watch JAR play against them. Is that going to be complicated for you, though? No, I'll cheer for JARV no matter what. There you match.

Good, good, good. He says from his house. Hey, who accidentally booked the Airbnb for a short day so you could crash with Seth? Like who, yeah, there we go. But you're by mistake. By mistake. That's the accountability that we need, dude. I get it.

We've been in there. Boys, we've got some questions from the chat. Some people want to know what's their favorite thing you've done in Raleigh on the trip besides go to the game. Ooh. We golfed. We went to Prestonwood. It's a nice course down here. There was even a couple more buddies that we had down here.

So we all went and there was maybe like 10 of us on Jarv, Jarvis' brother. and none of us really played that well, but it was a sick course, beauty day. It was a good time. It's all about just having fun. It's all about a beauty day. With 10,

how did you guys do that? Do you do two foursums and then, or are you just jamming five in there? We had two, three sums, and then a four sum. So we had three T times. Fucking beautiful. Love it when the fellas just take over a course.

I know, dude. We all meet up on 18, 10 people Tee and off on 18. I'm like, fuck it, whatever. And then, did you, guys hit the, was there a tailgate before the game?

Or like, what was the pregame festivities game too? Tailgate, yeah. Tailgate, yeah, we ripped around a tailgate. Not as long as I wasn't hoping for. I wish you got out there a little earlier. Got a few more. Got a few more pops in. Yeah, yeah.

See, that's good intel for us, because if and when the canes make it to the final, we got to know, we got to get there earlier for the tailgate. I wanted to get there. They had like a backup siren, but they had on wheels. We were buzzing around with this backup, like the siren. getting fans to crank the siren and it was fun to interact with them and kind of just see what they're all.

That's incredible. I didn't know there was a second siren, dude. That's amazing. So you guys got warmed up. Who cranked the siren at the game? Actually, I can't remember. Okay, okay. And you guys were going crazy in the background though, which I know is a hard job, right? Because the camera pants to you and you're like, what do you want me to do? You just

get a scream your face off. Yeah, that was sick. So who was cranking it at the tailgate? Did everyone get a touch? No, he was warming up. Oh, okay. Good, smart actually. You can't get a shoulder injury otherwise. You can't go in there.

You can't go in there tired either. Hey, how long are you guys, how long are you guys staying? Until Sunday. Yeah. Okay, sick. We should watch game four around and then we leave on Sunday morning. There you go. And then Wednesday's game five if there is one?

I'm actually not sure. Is that Monday? Okay, Monday makes sense. And correct me if I'm wrong. Aren't a few of you going back to school on Monday? Yeah, that's up too. God, Jesus Christ, boys.

Hey, the commitment is commendable. Yeah, it's really unbelievable. I'm proud of you guys. When are we done? I have a class all the way up until August. No. What? Summer school.

I mean, your professors better be aware that if this team makes it to the cup, you're going to be missing time because we're going to need you there in Raleigh. I missed the first weekend my professor. pretty lenient on it. I remember some exams getting pushed when we were in the lawn together. I remember some emails going out like, hey, I'm not going to also, got to give the boys credit yet again.

We asked for the professor's name because we were prepared to sewer the professor if he gave him any shit. I didn't do it. They protected their guys and I respect that. It's really impressive. What's the watch party game four plan? Where are the boys watching? I think that's still up in the air. We're figuring something that we might go to

to a friend's house we made over here. or head out to the bar. We'll see. We'll see where. Is this a new friend you just made? New friend, friend. Yeah, it was the guy with, it was the guy with the backup siren.

Do you guys feel like you're, you know the lay of the land of Raleigh at this point? I mean, you've been there enough times. Like, you must, you must have some sense of the area. It's pretty spread out, but I mean, like, the areas, we're familiar with the bars.

Around the... The importance. The important stuff. Exactly. Oh, that's fantastic. Okay, well, if you guys go to a bar, you've got to post it on your socials because there are chats, but all the Raleigh fans in the chat are going crazy right now. Like, where are the boys going for Game 4?

So make sure, if you don't go to your new boys' house, make sure you get something dialed in at a sick bar and post it because people want to join you and experience the madness, get the tarps off action goals. I mean, seriously, fellas, you got to advertise the watch party. I mean, like, that nothing rallies the troops more than someone, the energy you bring. that's going to bring Keynes fans in. It's going to will a win on the road. Like that's big stuff.

You've got to let them know for sure. Totally. Big time. All right. So this is what we got to know, boys. You know, in addition to that, obviously, a couple of you going back to school. But give us the rundown.

We always love checking in with you guys. What's going on? What are you all up to? Where can people find you? What's the latest with everything you've got going on? I mean, I know, like, we want to do a sandbagger or maybe start a YouTube channel, so that's maybe something to stay tuned for.

Lots behind the scenes that we've got to figure out with that. But I think that's something as a group, at least we want to try and do throughout the summer and push out some more stuff. There we go. You're going to peg and sling the sticks with us or something. Oh, dude, I was about to say, boys, summertime is big time golf stuff for us,

so we're going to have to collab on that for sure. I want to get up there, too. What do they have in the Winnipeg, like the windiest street or something? Yeah, isn't that true, boys? There's like the windiest corner in the world is in Winterpeg? I don't know that. It's a portage, isn't it? Yeah, Portage in Maine.

I don't know. I don't know. There's only one way to find out. It's scary. Yeah. Okay, we'll go investigate together. And, dude, summertime in Winnipeg. That sounds incredibly gorgeous. Sun's probably up all day.

The sunsets at midnight. It's amazing. It's incredible. Well, we'll definitely get linked up on that. We'll definitely get linked up on that. And again, we got to keep the canes buzz in here because that's going to mean a reunion for all of us and inevitably fun shit.

Do you guys have any plans like for round three? I mean, I don't want to get ahead of ourselves. No jinx. Do you have any plans to come back or not yet? Honestly, I think we're kind of just playing it by year. We don't want to jinx anything. We don't want to get ahead of ourselves. But I know for sure if they continue this run up, we'll be back.

Yeah. I mean, someone's going to sound the soundly siren, dude. I love it. I love it. No doubt. Hey, what's the most annoying thing Jarvie makes you do around the house? We just got here. I need to know, fellas, other than what you're sitting on,

is there any furniture in that house? Like, I could just see Jarvie having nothing going on. He's got it pretty set up. We were here earlier, like after he got the house recently, and it was pretty bare. But now he's actually, he's got a bad here. I can't high. Okay.

He's adulting. All right. There you go, JARF. I love that. I love to hear that. I don't know if it's actually him doing all the furnishing, but regardless of it. Fair. Yeah.

I love it. All right. Well, boys, it's fucking great to see you. You're bringing the vibes. Everyone needs that. Do us a favor. Tell everyone where they can find you, what you guys are doing, any of the social pages, all that stuff. Yeah.

No, really good old Canadian boys. You can find us on Instagram. And we got to tell you. TikTok and then stay tuned for a YouTube channel coming up. Come on. There we go.

And then I'm telling you, when you figure out where you're doing the watch party for the next game, seriously. Make sure to post it. We'll repost it because everyone's going to want to

join you. That's going to be a blast. And boys, the last chat says, if you want your best Raleigh sandwich, hit up lunchbox deli or Oakwood deli.

So if you guys are hungry today, one of those two, one of those two is a Raleigh staple. Fucking right. Hey, you guys are fucking beauties in it. We're not jinxing it,

But if they keep going and you guys keep going, let's all link up because that would be a blast. 100%. Oh, yeah. Let's run up. All right, boys. Great to see you. We'll talk to you soon. All right.

Thank you. See you, fellas. Later, fellas. They are the best dudes. Unreal, dude. Best dudes in the world. Legends. It's incredible.

Oh, God. We got to keep this train running for the canes here because everyone needs more of that. There's no doubt about it. Okay, Dan. So, uh... Hold on. Philibuster for me. Oh, okay.

That is a classic bathroom break. Question? Hit me. Do you want a taco or a breakfast burrito? Oh, my God. We got them in from the... Hell, yeah, I want a breakfast taco. Dude, on Friday mornings at almost Friday, we get breakfasts.

Look at this, dude. Incredible. Oh, yeah. This is an edge staple. This is edge bag work. Everybody go follow the Canadian boys if you're not. They are an absolute delight, a breath of fresh air on the internet, which can be crazy.

crazy work, but those guys are legitimately special, so fun, so nice, talented, unreal dudes. And they, hey, listen, they get Jarvie going. Everyone has an entourage, you know? All the greats have a great entourage, and Jarvie's got one absolutely cooking. And dude, I don't believe them for a second that they weren't tweaking when the Keynes went down to when they were in the building. I don't believe that for a second. I would have been nervous. I would have been shitting myself, dude. Like, oh, great, here we fucking go. I'm here. We're getting killed. So, but I'm glad they pulled that one. Was that OT? It was, right?

What? Game two? Wasn't that O.T? I don't think so. Maybe they just scored in regulation. It was fucking tough one, though. Let's see. Yeah, no, it was.

That was O.T. Fuck. That was a sweat. Yeah, because Halsey on his knees, remember? That was a sweat. Okay, Dan. I'm trying to think what else I had on that game. I was pumped Ziegres scored,

the power play cook and Eler's breakaway. I said that. I wanted to shout out. Montcouturier, but I did that last step too, but just, man, credit to him because they're going to go down swinging here, but he's just been awesome. And I love that he gets to hang his hat on this and say, I was there. I did my job. Penalties are crazy. I had my guy. I had my guy. You know, it's funny, dude, JP's texting me and he was like, the canes are beatable, man, but that's a Philly fan talking, who's down 03. But I know, I see his point, but just, you know, but the canes are going, though. I don't, here's the thing. I don't think they're beatable for the Phillies. For the flyers. You can get a game. Yeah.

Sure. But Carolina is a wagon. And, you know, the boys just said it and they said it right. We keep talking about Colorado. Whenever Colorado gets in this situation, we said Minnesota has to win game three because this Colorado team is incapable of losing four games in a row. Yeah, correct. This team is incapable of losing four in a row.

So here's the thing. This series is over. Yep. can Philly get a win? Yeah. I think they could, especially at home. But I don't think this Kane's team has shown that they're beatable. And I don't mean in a game, I mean in a series. Like they, the way they handle pressure and adversity, look at game two, down to a quick win.

Yep. And there was no panic ever. So I think that they're too strong. And I don't think Philly gets one, to be honest with you now. Like I think this is probably. Me neither. I do think I have loved. everything about Trevor Zegris this season.

Me too. It's been amazing. He obviously gets a good goal last night. His body language, and this is not a knock on Z because I love Z the player. I think his body language was showing how disheveling this series is. He's like, man, they're fresh. That's not, I'm not saying like he had bad body language. I think he had understandable body language.

It was just like, fuck me, dude. Like this team is just like hard to play against. And it's like that's, that's, uh, you saw it in talk too. He was getting frustrated with some of the calls. getting frustrated with some of the rate of play. And it's like, dude, this is just this team knows how to win. Oh, yeah. They, they, again, this, well, you know what sucks, dude, for Keynes, for Keynes fans and the team?

They, 1,000 percent are in a, honestly, what we would always say with the Pats, with Brady, where it was like, literally nothing matters to the AFC championship. Yeah. Like any cool win you have in the regular season or in an early playoff round, fucking wake me up when we're in the AFC championship game. For sure. And then our entire season hinges on these two games. For sure.

For sure. For sure. For better or worse, their entire season hinges on the Eastern Conference finals performance. Yep. Because none of this matters. You've done this dance all the time. It's true. It's like, this is great and you're playing great.

And you'd rather sweep two rounds than be like, oh, shit, we're choking it early. But I'm telling you, that's the stigma. And that's the weight of as good as you've been. That's where your situation is. Correct. Wake me up in the Eastern Conference Finals. and then we'll see how we can grade this season. All right, you want to get into these a quick, just brushing on the other series

and then get into award stuff, then get into beer stuff? Yes, that sounds great. All right, let's quickly jump it to Buffalo, Montreal. Just a quick little rundown. We've got these games tonight. Sabres at home, game two, Montreal. How are you feeling? I'm so pumped for this series.

I saw a lot of comments on, I forget, whenever we posted that, that was like, like, oh, boo-hoo, the habs are tired. Game 7, shut the fuck up. I was like, well, you know, they probably were tired. They're definitely going to give you a good punch tonight. But I'm super pumped for that series because, like I said, Alex Lyon looked awesome. He looked awesome. And Dobish looked solved a little bit, you know?

Not solved. That means it very ridiculous. But like, they got a few past him after he had stifled Tampa. Yeah. I have some scary thoughts to say, but I'm not going to say until I see the results of game two. Just remind me about this. but I think the Canadians aren't dead if they lose this game

some teams are dead if you lose to you I think Canadians are dead because they can go home and get that atmosphere and win two games and it doesn't matter but they want the split our dear friend Vap texted us huge Haps guy he's the mayor of Montreal he texted us getting a fucking early morning pump from the gym getting his sweat on

before the sun comes up and he says tell your second cousin-in-law or uncle-in-law and your mom side or whatever he is that we ain't leaving Buffalo without a split. I was like, uh-oh, Hugh. We got vape, we got vape versus Hugh. He's fired up. Yeah, he's fired. He's fired. He's fired. He's fired up. So that one's going to be a great one. I'm really excited for that game. I would probably bet. I'd probably bet Montreal gets a split. Yeah. I, listen, I, I was a big one on saying, I remember I related it to Nick's Sixers game one. I was like, Montreal is kind of coming out of a battle.

Exactly. Them losing game one made sense. But didn't Knicks win game two as well? Sure did. Close. So interesting stuff. Here's what I like. I like that our boy Wyatt Russell's in the building.

Me too. I forgot about that. That's going to be huge for Buffalo. I like the way Buffalo's playing. I like the vibes. Did you see Zach Benson in the press conference not even paying attention? He was with Greenway and like Greenway was like, take it away, Benner. And he was like, I didn't listen to the question at all.

Like they're just feeling great. I think goal one. is very important in this game. Yeah, agree. I think if Buffalo gets up early, I don't think that they lose this game. I think if they score the first goal, this game's over.

So I think Montreal wants to break the ice first. I also need Cole to get on. They need Cole to get going. We are officially at the point here where I'm like, dude, playoffs are a different game. Now you got people talking, you've got the stupid memes,

you got the this, that, the other. He's a 50 goal score. This guy is a great player. Need you to get on the score sheet tonight. Yep. Need it. I'm with you on that. Vegas Ducks.

I think Buffalo wins. Oh, okay. Wow, 2-0. Is my pick. All right, Vegas Ducks. We're down in Honda tonight. Yeah. Down in Honda tonight for game three. Series is tied.

Ducky's got the split on the road. You want that. And you want to roll it into a win here. And I think they get it, which scares me because... I'm on the Ducks tonight as we're trying to go Sunday. And if the Ducks win tonight, I think you're going to get Vegas' best punch Sunday, and I don't want that.

I agree. I hope Vegas wins tonight, so then I can go, come on, Ducks. We've got to get this one. I agree. But they've been the better team twice, I think. I think legitimately the Ducks have been the better team twice.

Yeah. Carter Hart's been good, though. I hear that. Carter Hart has been good, but that, I mean, that game two, Game two was an emphatic Ducks win.

And we keep putting the, we keep pointing out emphatic wins because I think it does tell the tale of a series. Dude, the last one, last one left in the chat just said this. I've never heard this before. The last one left in the chat?

That's their screen name. Oh. There's one person left. Last one left just said, Ponda. Ponda Center. I don't know if anyone's ever said that before, but that is one of the great comments of all times.

That is fantastic. And Dan... A Ponda Center. I literally... How is that? How am I just hearing that for the first time? That's incredible. I'm furious, right?

That's incredible. That I'm just hearing that for the first time. Ponda, dude. What, you guys, you guys haven't driven the Ponda Accord? Yeah, dude. Like, literally, we need a full rebrand. Like, the entire thing. It's the car that can go in water.

Yeah. It's like a boat and a car. The Pondackord, dude. Is that a real thing? Well, that's, well, I mean, the military had cars that could go in water. That's true, right. An amphibian. There's been a lot of Ponda Accords in the water, though.

If you get drunk, yeah, if you get drunk enough, any cars that goes in the pond. That's true. I can turn any car in terms. an amphibian. That is fucking incredible. Just give me enough. Don't, we don't.

We don't, don't. Don't condone that. This is the lake. This is the lake. You can't do that. Can't turn here. I, I, yeah,

I like the duckies tonight. I think, I think through two games, I haven't really seen the, the Vegas that we've all been scared of. We haven't seen game six, Mammoth Vegas.

We have not seen, or five. Yeah. We have not seen game five or six against Mammoth Vegas so far in this series. Now, it's only been two games.

and we all, we saw how good Vegas was with their backs against the wall. I don't think their back is against the wall yet. But I think that this is a, this is a game where if they don't turn it on and play how we've seen them play, I think the duckies take advantage. The duckeys are, they're dumb, dude. Yes, they are. They got dumb confidence. They're just, they're running out there and they're just playing hockey. Which is great.

Did you guys see, Zach, you wouldn't have seen. but Evan, no offense. I just know you're not watching Ducks Vegas hockey. I actually was watching Were you? Yeah, yeah. Wow.

I keep both with it more than you guys think. Y'all think that I just... He's watching college football. Yeah, because look, Southern Boy does not watch hockey. These guys just watching Gamecox. Come on now. I watched a little hockey.

I've been to the Preds. I've been to the Hurricanes. I've been to Tampa. I've worked with all three. I've seen a little hockey my day. I tune in. That's true. You know what?

I apologize. They cut in that game to a miced-up, Troy Terry. Like, I'm watching the game. They're like this. All right, we got Troy Terry miced up. Let's kick it to that footage. And they played about like 45 seconds of Troy Terry miced up. He might have said four words.

Well, dude, I die. Genuinely, dude, at one point, you just heard him go, unreal. And then it was like, he's skating around. he's not talking. He gets to the bench. He says something like Adaboy, Cutter or something like that. And that was it. Dude, I die every time they have these mic'd up things because, and I assume people know this, but maybe I'm giving you a look behind the curtain. But they are just swearing and so much. Fucked up shit. They swear all the time. I have done way too many mic'dups over my day.

And I, like, there was one, I can't, there's a college football coach that I cannot name, but he's at a big school in the SEC. and he knew he was going to be miced up that day. So we dropped the F-bomb 102 times. Just so they couldn't use any footage? Yes. And can I guess how long this was recorded for? Three minutes.

Three minutes, exactly. No way. Yeah, you're no joke. Literally three minutes, 100 F-bombs. And we were like, all right, dude. Because you're monitoring the headset, you can hear them. We're like, all right, we just can't do this. Yeah, we can't use anything.

So, dude, when you cut to someone in the game and they're miced and they go, God, he's barely talking. I'm like, it's because these are literally the only usable sound bites that they have. You get them going like, yeah, somebody scores a goal and like, let's go boys, and that's it. I do think, that's all he said. I'm like, I do think with Troy, genuinely, it might actually be that because he doesn't talk about much. He's just silent. I think Troy is a man of a few words.

Dude, a couple years ago, I heard a story about Dahlene that he was miced and had a great game. So then he was like, hey, can I, I want to be miced? again because hockey guys are so weird with the superstitions and shit. So they were like, oh, okay. It's like they miced him again. And then he had another great game in one. And then they had to start fake micing him. Oh, they just give him like a placebo.

Yeah, they were like, oh, give you're miced again. Because he was like, great. They were like, dude, we are not micing. You know what I think would be like next level is if you get miced and then you just make all your chirps super PG. Yeah. Everyone's like, so corny. You're like, hey, what are you full of bologna over there?

Yeah, yeah. You ever saw Norm McDonnell, Norm McDonnell did the roast of Bob Sag? Yes, dude. Intentionally did these old-timey jokes just to fuck with everybody. Dude, that is one of the great videos of all time, dude. It is fucking perfect. Andy Sandberg kind of did it in the Franco one, like, did a bit like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Norm is fucking perfect. Yeah. But that'll be, I'm pumped for this game. Yeah, it's going to be a fantastic game. I think game two was way more fun than game one, but I think it shows that we've got a fun series ahead of us here. But the pond, panda, is going to be buzzing. Yes, it is. That's another why.

I feel like a lot of people, especially East Coast fans are, just because you've never seen it, are unaware of how fun Honda is. It's a great time. So I think they're going to be rocking down in Southern California. That's going to be fun. Let's get back into award talk and talk about the Hart Trophy. Heart finalist announced. What are your initial knee-jerk reactions?

My additional knee-jerk, and I actually maybe can't say this because people, I don't know if they publish votes. Like they do for the MLB Hall of Fame. You know, they're like, here's what this writer did. But the, so someone texted me who has a heart vote or who votes on this stuff. I'm just not sure if I'm

allowed to say who it is, so I won't. But their vote was Macklin, Nikita, and Nate Dogg with McDavid at the four. Oh, wow. And the McKinnon and Nate dog was debated. And

you know, he was a really tough call there. That's, I was kind of like, if I had a vote, which I do not, I think I put Connor in there because they, he won the Art Ross.

He did a ton without dry saddle. Like Leon missed a lot of that time at the end. And honestly, that's when Connor really took off. Like, Kooch had caught everybody by, and then Connor won the art Ross by eight points. Like,

it was crazy. Really took off. They were never, like about, to miss, but he comfortably got them into the two-seed and whatever, they missed the winning the Pacific by a point. So he's in for me, for there. I think Cooch is in because, again, it's playoffs tainted, but it's like, I think Cooch is in because he did his thing again. And just for me, dude, not having Mac is crazy. He set records as a 19-year-old. What do you finish with?

45 goals, 115 points. 15 points as a teenager. He's a 19-year-old. And yes, they missed. And I'm kind of with you. If they had made it, he should have fucking won it. Yes, they missed. But I'm like, oh, dude, that year deserves recognition. Yeah, I mean, it does. And yeah, it's crazy that he's like, he will get no hardware this year. Yeah, which I didn't want them to anyway. Once they missed, I was like, fine. No, no, no. But what I'm saying is being 19 and having 115 points and 44 goals, 45 goals, I'm like, you have to win something. And getting a Ted Lindsay finalist and not being if Hart finalists is... The Ted Lindsay finalist and not getting the heart

was surprising to me. Who were the Ted Lindsay finalist again? I believe Nate was left out. Yeah. Here's what I'll say. The more I think about it and the more I look at it, 53 goals for Nate, though, is crazy. It's crazy.

The more I think about it, the more I look at it. Connor, for me, Connor's the MVP. Yeah, I think he's going to win. And I think he should. Connor McDavid having 48 goals, 90 assists, and playing 82 games. That is the big one for me. Yes, dude, it's awesome.

This guy has been to the Stanley Cup final two years in a row, lost in seven, lost in six. That is so much hockey. So to come in here after two finals appearances in a row, winning a con smith in one of them. And pitching a 138 point season with 48 goals, that is unfucking believable. So Connor should win. He is my vote. Dude, and it's crazy, bro. Like, if you look at the, I know you're a plus minus guy.

Yeah. Nate led the league. But then it's the top, four of the top five are all abs just because they were so dominant. But number three, at plus 43 is cooge. Yeah, so here's my thing. That plus 43 is amazing. Connor, we talk about Macklin all the time in that why we think Macklin should have

been voted. A, he's 19, has 150 points. B, this Sharks team without him is like bottom four teams in the league. Yep. But I think what we just saw this, and what we heard from Leon and Connor, this oilish team was bad this year to their standard. They were bad. And Connor came in, he played every game in those early days when they were falling out

of playoffs, wildcard team. He never faltered. He never stopped playing. He never stopped humming. So I'm like, unbelievable job. I also love that Nate is a finalist. And frankly, dude, as a cooch guy, Nate is probably my second pick. Because someone pointed out, in my opinion, fairly, they were like, when we're talking about MVP, when we're talking about Norris, when we're talking about all this stuff, I think it was after the Lindsay's were announced. It was like, Nate doesn't get any attention because the abs team is too good. Kale doesn't get any attention. You know, it was after Vezna. It was like, Kail doesn't get any attention because the abs are too good. Wedgwood doesn't get any Vesna votes because the team in front of them is too good. At what point are we just going to be like, no, they're all nasty. Shouldn't it be Nate MVP, Kale?

Norris, Wedgwood, and he's not even nominated. Like, here's the best team. Who's the best forward defenseman and goalie on that team? They should probably get votes. And to that, I say, great point. Yep. As much as I'm like Mac should have been in there, the missing, that was what I said all year, right?

I was like, if they make playoffs, he's got to win. Now, they just missed playoffs, so shouldn't he still be nominated? He's four. He's everyone's four. Yeah, he's everyone's four. And it's just like, goddamn, brother. When we're in a day and age where we got guys having 138, 130, and 127 points, I'm like, yeah, I mean, it's amazing that Mack did what he did at 19, but it isn't a MVP and also take into consideration how young people are. It's like, no, it's where the most valuable. And I wonder, because a lot of people in the chat right now are saying, like, you know, what is the point of this trophy if not like what you said, where you are the most valuable to your team.

But is it though? It's not. Yeah. And that is the thing that I always try to remind because I'm so big on that. folks like I I am I'm with you chat whoever's saying that I'm like yeah but maclin is the most valuable if we if it was that I think it would go maclin one Connor two yeah and but that's not what the award is the award is most valuable player in the league yeah it's not most valuable to your team I think

that that's a factor you definitely think about yeah but it's not that and if it were that macklin would be in and probably win yeah but it is what it is okay but hell of a season mackle of a season macklin You're our MVP. Yeah, you love you. Damn right. All right, let's wrap this up, CP. You had some drinking stuff.

So we had talked about, do we have those picks ready? In our last episode, we had talked about, oh, fuck, I meant to ask the boys if they drank out of the fucking cup. Will you text them, the skate? Will you text them right now? They must have, but I meant to ask them that. We talked about the Carolina Hurricanes beer skate and the Buffalo Sabres beer saber. And someone in actually our YouTube comments, I should find these sent some really funny ones. but our boy Dylan, like, went down a fucking rabbit hole.

He's a graphic designer and was like cooking on some AI shit too, I think, to make, come up with ideas for each team. I've seen them. You haven't seen him yet, Dan. And Dylan, to his credit, he said, he said that he was like, dude, I'm fucking lost in the sauce right now. And you, he goes, he goes, he's like, roast me, roast me, whatever you want. You know, like. All right.

It was just for a laugh. So, Chad, I'm seeing these live for the first time, and I'm going to, and I love Dylan, but I'm going to give my dead ass honest opinion. Yeah, so, and chat, way in here. And some of them, I think, are incredible. And you've got to pay attention to the names, too, of the thing. And some of them are outrageous. Did he make one for every team?

Every team. We're not going through 32 of these. Just react. It'll take. Okay, all right, we'll be rapid, rapid fire. Okay, here we go. All right. Look at that transition.

It's amazing. The right to bear arms. Bear arms. Ten out of ten. absolutely 10 out of 10 that is fucking incredible but my big thing is I don't think we can see I need your hands to be able to go into the bare hands

yeah do they do they need to be like Hulk hands if my hands can fit into those bare hands that is a 10 out of 10 I don't know if anything's gonna beat that okay basic okay next one that was incredible well this is just yeah he said he said the saber he's a no notes no notes I love the saber yeah

okay It's designed, the motor mug designed like a piston in an engine. It is like a piston. Shit. Did you like it? Oh, that was quick. You don't have to go that fast. Yeah, hold on.

Go fucking relax. Go back to Detroit. Yeah, Jesus Christ. Go back to Detroit. Yeah, we need to give the wings there do. The motor mug designed like a car, a piston in an engine. Seven out of ten, these are rookie scores. I got to do decimals here.

Yep. Well, the 10 makes sense. I'm going to give this a system. 7.2 out of 10. I really like it. I love the piston. I don't think it is clear enough that it is a piston. It just looks very futuristic to me. Okay.

Okay, good good feedback. Okay, next one, we're going to the Panthers. This is the rat king. Absolutely hate this. It looks to... It looks disgusting. I don't know why this rat is so rabid and feral. He's got like open seeping wounds

all over him. This is what the people got on the cruise ship with a hauntavirus. Shouldn't he? Yeah, this is exactly how Haunted virus starts. You drink out of a rat skull. Shouldn't he be like a fun-looking rat? This looks so medieval. It's like this is the end vibes here.

I want this thing out of here immediately. I hate it. I hate it. I'm giving it a 1.4 out of 10. Okay, going to the habs. There we go. This one, Dan, is called the Bell Centerpiece. Ooh.

This is pretty cool. It's pretty cool. And they have so much history, you know? A lot of history is a little presumptuous. But the cabs are presumptuous. But I'm going to go 8.4. They're never going to like glass like that. Like how much glass are you going to break?

Well, it's plastic. Yeah, yeah, true. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Is it plastic? Is it plastic? If it's glass, that's a 9.3. Shout out 93.

I'm going to give that in 8.4. That's very classy. It's very cool. It's very Montreal. Okay. Ottawa senators. This is one is called the filibuster. Oh, wait, hold on.

I think you skipped one. Yeah, we'll come back to that one. Okay. Which one's next for you? I got the lightning. Okay, the Tampa lighting. Bults, okay. Here, go bolts.

Yeah, go bolts. All right, bolts. God, these transitions are so good. Oh, my God, I love it. Isn't that awesome? I absolutely love it. I don't think that I need the handle, but I appreciate Dylan doing, like giving it something to stand on.

Yeah, because you. But I actually really like, when you drink out of a fucking horn, like a Viking horn, you can't put that shit down. Yeah, correct. And it's big on, like, finish your fucking beer, pal. My only note, I'm going to, give that a 9.1. Okay. And the only deductions here are because of the hand.

I want, I want you to have to finish your bolt. Oh, okay. Okay, I like that. That's really good. That is fantastic. I love it. We lose the hand, but otherwise it's perfect. Yeah. Okay, next is the Leafs. All right, yep. This is the maple brew. I like the name. Not, no, this isn't creative enough for, oh, wait, no, it's maple syrup.

It's incredible. It's maple syrup. It's incredible. It's maple syrup, folks. It's incredible, Dan. it's maple syrup um i'm gonna give it at an 8.9 my my one thing is you should only be able to drink an amber ale out of that so it looks so it looks like maple syrup yep i really like that dan i really like that that is it's a maple syrup bottle that's phenomenal and it is this this dude there are write-ups in these and this one is so good uh it says designed with a secure cap so you can tuck it into your coat for later. You know, just in case

you need something to sip on. Maybe this should be whiskey. Oh, interesting. Because then it's literally a flask and it's going to be actually the size of like a maple street jar. Yeah, you're a truck. Right in here.

Change this to whiskey and tuck it in like a flask and now we're talking. And it's perfect. We have the Ottawa one. Okay. Okay, let's move on to senators. This one is called the filibuster.

Oh, okay, no rush. He's putting it in order. There we go. And Dan, this one says it's perfect for watching a defensive grind where every inch matters and every minute feels earned. What do you think about this one?

I don't think I get it either. And forgive me, Ottawa, folks, if I don't get what this is a reference to. I like the spiral. Me too. This is too cumbersome. I don't like this. Too complex. 2.8.

It's two. No, there's multiple drinks at the bottom. Do you see where it's pouring several drinks? Oh, it's like a beer tower? Yeah, but it's like it's like it ends up being like an entire thing. Don't like it. Don't like it. I do like the reference of filibustering, though, in the Senate.

There you go. But 2.8. Not for me. Okay. Okay. So then it goes to the canes, which is just the beer skate. Okay, the beer skate's great.

We love the beer skate. No notes. We love the beer. We know. It's amazing. Beautiful. Okay, now we go to the blue jacket, Stan. Oh my God.

If this isn't a cannon, we've got issues. Oh, it's a cannon. The beer canon. Does it shoot beer into your face? The beer canon. And Dan, I think so. You load it up, you tilt it back, and you let it fucking pour.

Whether it's a big winner, one of those nights where you just need a little extra support, this thing's got your back, but sometimes you don't need anters. You just need a better way to drink your beer. I love this. I'm going to give it a 7.5. It's not higher because I would prefer it to be more traditionally shaped. Okay.

Interesting. I like the wheels, but I want more of a tapered shape on the canon. Yeah. Okay, fair enough. But that's great. At the Bruins still your leader? Yes. I mean, that thing is unbelievable.

Again, if my hands fit in like Hulk hands, that thing is perfect. Okay. New Jersey Devils. This is called The Brewing. hell mug, Dan. Very cool. That's pretty badass. Yep.

Looks like a delicate handle, though. That would be hard to hold. I like the horns and I like the bat wing. Yep. Horns of poke your eye out, man. Yeah, you got to be careful. Yeah, you got to be careful.

That turns into a weapon. But the handle, but the handle lends itself to not. With a bad loss, that thing turns into a weapon. Yeah, Jersey people. I don't want to get that jersey people. I like this. I'm going to go 6.9.

Nice. And you didn't go 6.66 here. 6.9. 6.6.6. This is cool. It's, it's, you know, goes to the lore, goes to the history. I might go more lore here, though. I might make this like a wooden mug, like a tavern thing.

We could have done something with a pitchfork here where the middle is a mug. That could have been interesting. You get a full pitchfork and there's just a mug in the middle there. I think that would be natural. The face is missing too. Like I'd want to see a demon face. Oh shit. I think you do Bloody Mary with a pitchpork holding like the pickles.

Yeah. Okay. Let's go. Okay. All right. Yeah. 6.9. That's cool, but we could have done better.

New York Islanders. Here we go. It's Billy Joel's head. Nope. Oh, that's great. The lighthouse. That's great. Okay.

Okay. I'm going to go, um, I'm going to go an 8.3 here. I love this, love the lighthouse. I would have preferred it to be more of a stine with the latch top, though. Like if you pull the thing, the top of the lighthouse opens. No, I don't think that we have a latch top on that, F. I need a laugh. Well, we must, because that's how we drink it, right?

Like, that top must come off. But I don't see a latch. I think it's probably a screw top. You just take it off. Screw top, that's bad. No, you're right, it is a screw top. So 8.3, because it needs to be a latch top. And when I latch it, I want the light to still be on.

I appreciate that we have a glowing light, though. That is the key. It does say built like a classic coastal icon and filled with golden beer, it's always shining when the game gets dark. Because whether it's smooth sailing or choppy waters, one thing's certain, the light's always on. Incredible. And you know what I would actually really like, though? If they did a remote configuration here where the light goes on of the lightning or of the Islander's score.

Yeah. Then it's a 10. Yeah, yeah. Then it is a 10. That turns into a 10 quick. That is incredible. Okay, move on. The next one's New York Rangers.

This is called the Brew Train. I was so ready to hate this I don't really get it though it might be hard to drink out of I think I you know what this is awesome yeah it looks cool it's a subway car it's a subway car it looks cool as hell that's awesome I don't really get the shape

where do you drink it from yeah like I'm looking down at the bottom and it looks like a sphere or a cylindrical opening but the top does not look like a cylinder whatsoever yeah right but the beer filling the windows But the beer filling the windows looks cool.

Phenomenal. Phenomenal, that's going to be an 8.1. I think you drink it. Okay, so it looks more like an oval. It's almost like a stadium shape. Oh, I see. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, nice. That's great.

8.1. Love it. Philadelphia Flyers. Dan, this is called the Gritty Gusler. I knew it was going to be gritty. That's haunting. That's haunting. Okay.

I'm going to give this. is 6.6. Okay. Look it in the eye. And that, you know what? I take it back. 7.4. That's great. The Gritty Gus. No need. Listen, that's something that you bring home and you put in your, in your cupboard and you drink out of that during game days when you're watching at home. I mean, that's great. That's great. Gritty Gusler. I would have loved maybe something.

Oh, here, here's my note. Make the Googly eyes. Yeah. Googly eyes. Googley eyes. Googly eyes. Googley eyes when you move it and you drink. and that goes up into the eights for sure. Okay. Pittsburgh Penguins. This is so fun.

These are incredible. I don't know if the chat is liking this. I hope they are because I love this. They hate thanks. They hate Gritty. This is called the keglu. This is awful. Oh, really?

This is awful. It's just a cooler. It's one of those mini kegs. It's an igloo. I mean, Dylan, you were right there. You had it with the igloo. This has just got to be like an igloo. That's what it is, I think.

That looks like a grenade. That doesn't look like an igloo. at all. Yeah, okay, it's not rounded enough. Yeah. It does have a little fake ice on the bottom, which I like a lot. As far as like, that's a beer, a beer tower again. Yeah, yeah, yeah, 64 ounces. That's cool.

If I'm at a Pittsburgh Penguins bar and that shows up and we ordered a beer tower, I'm happy. Yeah. But it's not iglooy enough. Yeah. Hard to drink as fast enough. This is a 3.9. Okay. Washington Capitals, this is called the Ovechstick.

A lot like the beer saver. It's like a beer saber. I love the name. The Ovechstick is great, but he's not going to be there forever, dude. Yeah, but his memory will be. His memory will be. If we will always have the Ovech stick, you can always drink out of it. He would appreciate that, like that. I would have preferred this to be a bag of Cheetos that you drink out of.

That is the homage to Ovechkin. I'm going to give this a 5.1. It's cool. It's like the saber. Yep. Yeah, I like that you can't put it down. Yep. but not a lot of inspiration here.

We could have done the Capitol building. Yeah. We could have done. We kind of did that with the awesome auto senators. What if we did? What if it was Lincoln? Well, if it was just the Lincoln Memorial,

drinking Lincoln. That's interesting. Yeah. Okay. The Chicago Black Ox. This is called the Chug a Hawk. Oh, my God. Now we are talking.

Another weapon. Yeah, yeah. Now, dude, you chug that and then you Tom a Hawk chop. No, not throw it. Yeah, don't throw it. Don't throw it. you just chug it and then tomahawk chop they gotta start doing that fs u thing i think this is an fs u i think this is also for the

braves too you just get the little oh yeah yes you just get that every time and jack think about it you got people absolutely gas and beers out of this and then they all have fucking tomahawks yeah yeah that's incredible nine point i'm giving uh 9.0 wow nine flat 9 flat incredible That is fantastic. Isn't that one awesome. And I really like the see-through vibes that we're doing here. It's like, because it's cool to see you look over at someone else who's got a chug a hawk. You see how much they have left and you look at you and you go like this chug and then you start fucking.

Do you know what I'm thinking too? Like St. Paddy's Day is huge for them. Yeah. Yeah. So it's huge for them. The green river, the whole thing. Imagine just everybody green beer like full out with the hawks.

Like that is nice. This is amazing. Chug a hawk. I love it. Okay. Before you flip this next one, it's the Avs, Dan.

It's called the St. Bernard Keg. And I just want you to know, it's a nod to the legendary rescue barrels carried through the mountains. I am aware of this, actually. Yep.

And it's made to be worn around the neck ready at a moment's notice. Now flip. I don't think it looks like a barrel enough. I was so ready to love this. Is that a shot, though? You're supposed to wear it around your neck. Yep.

It holds up to three shots of whiskey. Okay. Now we're talking. Now we're talking, Dan. Okay. Okay. The engine. ingenuity, amazing.

Yeah. The fact that we've gone into liquor. Amazing. Again, the Maple Leafs one should have been liquor. Yeah. I love, I absolutely love this. I'd love an avalanche whistle on there somewhere on the cap. Ooh, that would be sick.

I want it to be a barrel, though. More barrely. I want it to be a brown barrel because that's what the St. Bernard's were. I think it was like a wooden barrel. So right idea, more barrel. Yeah, more barrely. I'm still going to put this in the eight.

8.2 for ingenuity, liquor. Get me a whistle, get me more barrel, and I love that. Wait, can I pitch you on something, too? Yes, I honestly think this becomes like a certified hood classic at skiing. Like, I think everybody is wearing the skiing. I think it's a little dangerous because if you fall, it's around your neck. But it's okay. It's planned.

We're fine. I think that is a, on every, you know, in Colorado, it's everywhere. Couldn't agree more. To have the whistles. Yeah, you're so right. You go to an abs game, you get this, and then you bring it skiing with you. That's another fact. Such a good point.

And they're like, Apps fan, dude. I got that. Absolutely love. Absolutely love. Okay, the Dallas stars, this is called the long pour. Awesome.

Awesome. Awesome. That is awesome. I mean, you could have just gone the horn. Yeah. But that wouldn't feel Texas enough. Correct. Correct.

So the fact that it's the long horn, long pour skull that we're drinking out of, fantastic. I do think everything's bigger in Texas. I need this to be like three beers. It's 32 ounces. It holds up to 32 ounces. Poor long, poor proud.

You can't put it down though. That is going to be a 9.2. Over the hawk. I did a 9. No, that's going to be an 8.9 then. Okay, okay, 8. Because that's not over the hawk. Thank you for checking me on that.

But that is phenomenal. It looks like down at the nostril holes too, that's like you can get your hands there. You can get your hands in there. Yeah, yeah. That's really good. This one I think you're going to love. This is the Minnesota Wild.

It's called the beer antler. That's great. That's great. So many ways to hold it, I, it's gonna be tough getting beer out of those, the points.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, right. How does it flow? I, it's not shaped like an antler enough for me. Okay. I wonder if we could have done

something with lakes here. Oh, we could have. You know? But I don't know, that might have been hard to. I feel like we're missing an opportunity.

with Lake Life. I feel like, I feel like we're missing an opportunity to sell this at like the Romantics erotic store.

There's something a little phallic about the bottom. I'm sorry. Yes, there sure is. That could be stuck into something.

Yeah. Yeah. Listen, I really dig this. I think we miss an opportunity with lakes. I think we

missed an opportunity with the Minnesota State Fair. Oh. Maybe it could have been a sweet, just a sweet Martha's cookie

bucket. Yeah, just a bucket of beer. No, it's got to be to the wild. I do, I would, I would have liked Lake Life in here, but this, this is solid. I'm going to go, I'm going to go a 7.9. Okay. Nashville Predators, you know what this one's going to be.

The Sabre Bruth. I don't like this. It had to be this, but it's, I disagree. I think you got to go, now, I think you got to go Broadway. This had to be musically, basically inspired. I could have also drank out of a catfish, just a dead cat. Yeah, okay. That's good, that's got to be, this, this needed to be musically inclined.

and also the saber bruth is a fucking great name. So for the name alone, we're going to get into the fives, and it's going to be a 5.9 shout out Roman Yosey. It's just there, it doesn't even look like a saber tooth. Yeah, you know, it's tricky. Yeah.

It's a tricky one. The name is phenomenal. The name's phenomenal. Okay, here you go, though, Dan. The St. Louis Blues, the beer trumpet. Here's your musical one. That is fucking fantastic. And that's to travel so far to get to your mouth.

That's good through all the two. Because you could have gone simple here and just done a note, a music note, but you went a full trumpet. Yeah, you drink. For intricacy alone, if those things work. Yeah. That's how you stop. Yeah, dude. Stop it.

Oh, if that closes like a valve. Yeah. Phenomenal. If you could play music. That's just a trumpet, dude. Yeah. For the intricacy alone and what it would take to create that. What was like the World Cup where they had the boobazella's?

Yeah. What if it just made a noise, too? Yeah. If that, oh my God. I'm going to go 8.8. For intricacy alone, that's phenomenal. Amazing. Okay, the mammoth, you know this one's going to be.

This is if tusks up, baby. Yeah, I mean. We're getting this shape a lot. Yeah, yeah, that's similar to the saber bruth. But the beer tusk. I think you had to do it. You had to do it. The only other one would have been cool is if it was a trunk.

Oh, okay. Oh, interesting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Could get phallic. Yep. Dude, they're all kind of a little, but that's, this is still a little phallic. This is, but the mammoths. Your guys' penises aren't that shape?

The manniths drink out of their trunks. Yeah, right. We should be drinking out of our trunks. It's true. Yeah. But the tusks up is great because you could then say, tusks up, and that means drink. What if it's just a book of Mormon,

you open up and there's a flask inside of it, like cut in the pages? I don't think we had any choice here. Yeah, our hands are tied. Yeah, I'm going to go 7.3. That was nice. Yeah. All right.

Winnipec Jets. I can't wait to hear the thoughts on this one. This one is insane. This is the beer helmet. you put it on you wear that you wear the head's 10th built like a fighter pilot helmet

and ready for takeoff this is hands free full send drinking at cruising altitude it's called jet fuel I didn't even see the name I was going to say I want this to be jet fuel and it straight up could have just been a can

like look like a can of petrol and it just says jet fuel on it that I would have given a good score like if everyone's got like a nice like gray steel tin that clearly looks Like, you know, it's shaped like an oil can and it just has jet fuel on it and people drinking out of oil cans. I would have given that in the nines.

This is insane. You can't see out of it until you drink at all. It says you have to drink fast or you are going to have to start redefining what beer goggles. So this is 32 ounces. You put on the helmet. Does that hose then like go up and under in your mouth? Yeah, I think so. Okay.

We have a phenomenal comment from at Jerry Backwood. He said gas mask for alcoholics. Yeah. That is amazing. Jerry. Gas masks for alcohol. That's correct. This is a 9.5.

The funny thing is this thing costs $200. Here's my favorite part about this. Anyone you see at the stadium also wearing one of these, you know fucks with you. You know, like you look across the intersection and his all the guy in another jet fuel helmet and you're like,

yeah, you're going to literally bump in it. You're like, let's fucking go, bro. Like you are so fired. You are so fired up to see that guy. That's incredible. Okay, 9-5, Dan? I mean, nine, five. Again, you have to charge $250.

for this, but I think when you buy it, you get free beer for the rest of the game. Yeah. But when you go up to get filled up, you have to have it on. Yes, correct. I got one more comment. At Caden, 937, said, talk about beer vision. Yeah, yeah, dude, exactly. Beer goggles for sure.

Holy shit. All right, what's the next one? Okay, the Anaheim ducks. This is the Wild Wing. Oh. What is that? I think you drink out of that little older. Dylan, I don't like this.

This is my least favorite one. I don't like this. the whole batch. It's like a cool figurine, but like, am I supposed to be drinking out of the horn he's wearing? And what is that? I don't know. He's got a horn and he's drinking out of the horn. It's a duck call, maybe?

Oh, maybe it's a duck call. That's kind of cool. But we could have done something with a bill here. Yeah. Maybe. I'm giving this a 1.2. Okay. Don't like him.

The wildling. He's filled with beer. Yeah, he is. Yeah, he's filled with beer. Yeah, I don't like it. One point two. One point two on the wildling. Okay.

Now we go to the Calgary Flames. This is called the fire hose. Other than the nozzle, it doesn't look like a fire hose. 2.2. Great idea. Great. Fire hose is brilliant. But doesn't that putting out the flames?

True. Interesting. Okay. We don't want to put the flames out. We got a lot of rodeo stuff here, bowl stuff here. We could have done more stuff with that. I do, again, I don't like that fire hoses are putting out flames. Yeah, that's an interesting.

thing. I really like that idea, but now you're bringing up a good point. Maybe it's, you know what this should be is the flame thrower. The flame thrower. Yeah. Just shoot a little beer out? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. 2.2. I don't like this. Okay. All right, now we go to the Edmonton Oilers. And this one, I did feel like our hands are tied, but this is the

oil drum. Give me an oil drum. It's not oil drum. It is in shape, though. You want it to be more rounded. Yeah, and all it is, yeah, it's too, it's too tall. And it's also trying to give you more beer, Dan. But the see-through doesn't work on this one. This needs to be a red oil drum with a literal screw top on the top. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I love the oil drum is the perfect name. This is the perfect idea. Well done, Dylan. The execution is not good. This is a 5.9, 5.8.

Okay. Okay. Okay. People, one more comment. Yeah, you monitor the chat. Yeah. At JD underscore 88 underscore gold for USA said, yeah, this is just not it. It's just a Stanley Cup. This is a worse Stanley Cup. There's no way to hold it. There ain't no way to. Grab it, nothing. It needs to be red. It needs to be a red oil drum. I want it to look dangerous. I like that, Dan. I like that.

Yeah. Okay. Or a rig. A royal rig. Yeah. Oil rig. Then we go to the Kings. The Kings beer scepter.

Nice. I was curious what we were going to do with the Kings. Obviously, it had to be royal. You could have done a very simple. Chalice. Chalice. That's the Montreal one, though. Yeah.

Yeah. But the, yeah. I think I like a scepter here. Me too. I like that there's a crown, if you will, at the top. We're going to go expansion and go six, seven. Hey. I don't, you did everything right.

The beer scepter is royal. Yep. It connects. I think you did everything right, Dylan. I just don't, I'm not loving what I'm looking at. Okay. So idea is there. Yeah, the idea is there.

The idea is there. The idea is there. Okay. San Jose sharks. This is called the Megalabir. Shark tooth. Megalibir is good. Megalibir is very good.

It is very good. Again, we were kind of pigeonholed. I think you had to do this. You have to do shark tooth. I'm going to say here on this one too, I don't like see-through. I don't have liked this to be accurately colored like a tooth. So it looks like a tooth.

Okay. So you want this to be white? Yeah. Yeah, okay. Well, if we're brushing our teeth. We hope sharks. Hope sharks. This could be a little more bone.

Maybe a little blood on there. Little blood on the end. Okay. That's how it gets. I would have liked this to be bone colored, little blood on there. Maybe like a crack in it. I also think like a shark mouth that you drink out of would be kind of cool. Oh, okay.

Like if the cup, hold on. I got it back. You got it. You got me there. I got it. Take notes from the abs. This has got to be a shark tooth necklace. Yeah. And a screw top on the tip of the tooth and you, and I want it to be big.

Oh, okay. I should use my fucking microphone. I want it to be big. I want it to be like a flave a flak clock. Yeah. Where you have to flip it upside down so the tip of the tooth is now facing your mouth, unscrew it, drink. It actually says on the bottom right there's a clip feature.

So maybe that is. Okay. That's interesting. That's interesting. I thought you were going to say, Dan, it's a shark tooth necklace. But there's a ton of them and each one is a shot. You know, you're like,

let's go, uh, let's go seven point four here. Okay, that's pretty good. That's pretty good. There's the clip. Yeah,

there's a clip. Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. All right. The Seattle Cracking. This is called the tenta keg. Very cool. Love it. Also, we were kind of pigeonholed here.

Tentacag is a good name. Kind of hard to hold. to hold, but I'm down, because it makes you drink your beer. Yeah, right, right. Fair enough. It feels like it would spill all over you, too. Yeah, that's my concern. But maybe that's part of the fun because it's, yeah.

But I guess you, but I guess, you know, you're in the sea. I think I like this. I'm not, I'm not going to go higher than sevens with things, like the sharks and like this where it's just like, it's kind of just the thing that you're now drinking out of. Yep. But this is cool. 7.1. Okay.

7.1 on the tenta keg. Now we go to the Vancouver Canucks. This is called the whale tail ale. Fantastic name. Fantastic name. IPA. Yeah. Yeah, right?

Dude, how do we not have that? They're busby. So this is kind of contradictory because I just said with the flames, we're putting out the flames. But I maybe would have liked like a harpoon here. Oh, damn. But that's like... We cannot be having...

We cannot be harpooning whales. We can't be harpooning whales. So the whale tail, could we have done something maybe with the blowhole? Oh. You're drinking out of a blowhole? Maybe. Maybe. This is cool, but in the same category.

We've got a lot of ocean creatures here in the Pacific. You don't realize. I guess Pacific Division. Seven, seven... This isn't better than the, the Cracken. Seven flat. Okay, 7.0. And the last one, Dan, the Vegas Golden N

Knights. This is called the nightcap. Holy shit. The budget that Vegas and Jets have is unbelievable. The nightcap is brilliant. I would have loved a Lance here.

Interesting. I would have loved, I'm not saying I don't like this. I would have loved a Lance here. I would have loved I mean, you get to wear a knight's helm. And it's an incredible name. this is great. 9.1.

9.1 for the nightcap. $250. Yes, unlimited beer. Again, $250. Unlimited beer if you go up and you're wearing it. Because let's be honest, guys, if we went to T-Mobile

and went to a Golden Knights game and saw someone wearing that, we would go, that is fucking incredible. Yes. I might have to buy it. That's a 9.1. Because it says, it says, welcome to Sin City out here.

There are no rules, no limits, no reason to take it slow. Yeah. And you put that, you put the night cap on. So I believe, Dan, unless you want to reevaluate, the winner is the Boston.

the Boston Bruins, the right to bear arms. The first one, I... I think the follow-up is the Chicago one. I think I got... Yeah, that one is sick. I think I got so horned up. I wasn't sure what to expect. But even looking back,

that is just awesome. Putting your hands... If you can put your hands in. I also, I want... They can't be rubber like whole cans. I do want fur on those hands. Yeah. Real fur.

Real fur. I mean, that is great. So that wins. And then second was the Tomahawk? I think, either that or the jet fuel. Or the jet fuel. Chicago was great. Because of what this provides, incredible effort.

What the Chuggahawk provides is, it would be amazing. Yeah. I could literally see that being made. Dude, I'm telling you right now, teams are going to steal these ideas. Yeah, yeah. Dylan. Your friend needs to get on this. Dude, you're going to start making product right now.

I mean, this is unbelievable. All right, let's get these images out of here. Shout out us. Hell of a performance. Hell of a performance, Dylan. That was fantastic. Thank you for providing us some content. That's going to be it for this episode.

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