Empty Netters Podcast - The Hurricanes Love and OT Win!

Episode Date: June 5, 2026

The Canes are the first team in over 80 years to come back from a multi-goal deficit in the last 10 mins of regulation to win in a SCF game. Seth Jarvis gets on the board and calls game with his boys in the building! In shocking news, Dylan Larkin has requested a trade out of Detroit. Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 1:58 - Recapping Game 2 1:13:25 - Larkin Asks for Trade 1:34:05 - Surprise Pokemon Card Rip PRESENTED by BetMGM. Download the BETMGM app and use code “NETTERS” and enjoy up to $1500 in bonus bets if you lose your first wager! Thanks to our Sponsors! BetMGM: Use bonus code NETTERS when signing up to receive up to $1500 in bonus bets if your first bet loses. Gambling problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER (Available in the US) 877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY) 1-800-327-5050 (MA), 1-800-NEXT-STEP (AZ), 1-800-BETS-OFF (IA), 1-800-981-0023 (PR) 21+ only. Please Gamble Responsibly. See BetMGM.com for Terms. First Bet Offer for new customers only. Subject to eligibility requirements. Bonus bets are non-withdrawable. In partnership with Kansas Crossing Casino and Hotel. This promotional offer is not available in New York, Nevada, Ontario, or Puerto Rico.Find LUCY near you at lucy.co/stores, or save 20% on your first online order at lucy.co/NETTERS with promo code NETTERS. GLD. For a limited time only, new customers are getting an insane deal. Use code NETTERS to get 40% Off at https://GLD.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Stanley Cup Final, the final series, the final handshake line, the final chance to have your heartbroken. Or watch your team make history. For the next few weeks, nothing else matters. No work, no sleeve, tons of group chat meltdowns after every goal. It comes down to two teams, the Carolina Hurricanes chasing their first Stanley Cup in 20 years. And the Vegas Golden Knights, the young franchise going for their second cup in nine years. Two fan bases, two cities, one cup. And while the rest of the hockey world watches from home, we're hitting the road.

From opening puck drop to the moment the Stanley Cup has raised, every city, every game, every unforgettable moment. We'll be here. Outside the arenas, inside the arenas. With Hurricanes fans who have waited years for this run. Golden Knights fans ready to turn Vegas into the center of the hockey universe once again. Nobody does the playoffs like hockey fans. Nobody travels like hockey fans, and nobody loses their minds quite like hockey fans. So whether you're chasing your first cup or adding another banner to the rafters,

we've got you covered. Miles on the road, voice is nearly gone, probably a few terrible decisions along the road. Exactly how the Stanley Cup final should be. One trophy, one champion, one last push. The Stanley Cup final starts now. An empty netters is coming with. about that intro and we are back. We are live after game two of the Stanley Cup final.

This is the empty netters podcast brought to by BetMGM. And let me tell you what, folks, that was one of the best hockey games I have ever seen in my life. Dude, and 50 minutes in, it was horrible. It was horrible for the Keynes and horrible for Keynes fans. Even for, I mean, Vegas fans were having a hoot, but for any neutral or Cains fan, for 50 minutes, I was like, this game stinks. Yeah.

What a minute. This game stinks. And then it was just to the moon. Yeah. To the moon. It was so funny. I was all over the under-all game and I was right up until about four minutes left. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. And I couldn't be happier that that one didn't hit because that game, that third period into overtime, that electricity in the Lenny was out of control. He did. It was out of control. It was out. of control. We keep talking about how

loud that barn is. It's two games. My voice has already lost. Oh, smoked. People were going nuts. We had rally tarps off all over that arena. Jarvie said after the game, he was like, it's not, it's cold in here. It's not warm in here. All those guys up in the stands

are going tarps off. Unbelievable. Unbelievable stuff, man. Dude, how many rounds? One of the Keynes, I've got so much to say, but one of the Keynes fans was like, oh, we go to OT every game too. Have they gone to overtime game two of every series. I feel like they have.

Flyers, yes. It was... Flyers, yes. Ottawa, I can't forget. I can't forget. Ottawa, I can't remember. Flyers yes, Habs yes, now Vegas. Ottawa feels like the Martinuk game. I feel like that was game two and we were in fucking Tampa. It might have been.

Look that up if you can. But either way, if it's four for four or three for four. Can Canadians was Oatian game two. Yep. No, no, Ottawa. Round one. Oh. That was the one we can't remember. but I think it was. It was 2.

So they've, they're 4 and 0 in all four rounds game 2 overtime. Unbelievable. I guess that means they're going to win the series. Yeah,

they want every series. Unbelievable. Folks. There's so much to get into in this game and our day are like last couple of days here in Raleigh which is just like,

I'm having a blast. I'm having a blast. We've had some unbelievable food. We've had some unbelievable interactions. We've got breaking news. Dylan Larkin requests a trade reportedly was requesting a trade out of Detroit. We're going to get into that at the end of the episode

because right now we've got to talk about the game. But we have so many amazing fan interactions, so many incredible moments, a lot of shoutouts. And I do have to say shout out my boy, Ryan. Yeah. Because he found me. My guy found me.

First guy to find me at Stanley Cup Live on the NHL YouTube pregame show. He got me some rips, dude. So I'm going to be at the end of this episode. There you go, I'm going to be at the end of this episode. going to be ripping some nice Pokemon cards at the end of this one.

It's going to be fantastic. Stick around. So, CP, where do you want to start on this one? Okay, man. Let's get some of the early stuff out of the way because all the great action came late. Came late. Also, shout out that girl

that had the great action pendant. Dude. Okay, yeah, that's part of the shoutouts. That was Charlie. Charlie. Her name's Charlie. She plays hockey. She's a right wing, but she shoots left. Incredible. That's how all the greats do it. That's how all the greats do it. That's some reverse ovies shit.

Shout out to Kristen who brought her and got pictures with us and was super cool and built those great action necklaces. I mean, Charlie came up. Charlie must have been what, like seven or eight years old. And she had a custom made great action medallion on. I'll tell you what, man. There are a lot of moments in this gig, which is like, who has it better than us? Yeah. That get me legitimately emotional. Seeing Charlie, seeing young Charlie wearing that necklace

with a great action pendant on it, I almost got Tierra on live television. That was great. Yeah, because we were live on Stanley Cup live. And I turned around and I thought I was just a fan. I was like, let's go. And then she goes, great action. So good.

By the way. Yeah. Great action. Yeah. Boom. She also told a story about this. She wanted to tell. I've got this guy named Archie.

I think it's her brother, if I'm remembering, who literally had his thumbs cut off by a saw. and the 2001-2002 playoffs that the canes were going against Detroit, I believe. Yeah. And the doctor was like, you have to get this reattached, but they were going to go to, like, I think it was game one of that series. And he's like, I can't miss this game. I want to go to this game. Yeah.

So he just had him cut his thumb off. They were like, just don't reattach it. Literally sacrificed his thumb. So Kristen's brother, Archie just has no thumb. Well, he has half a thumb. He has no, yeah. Like the tip of it was cut. He's got, he's lost his thumb tip.

Commitment. Commitment. He's, that's a caniac. They said he gives a four and a half, five. Yeah. His, the, the era of, the era of, would, the era of the iPhone button must have been a nightmare for him. Oh.

Yeah. A nightmare. Before we move to, better, you better learn to use the other hand. Before we move to full face time, it must, or face, face unlock. It must have been a nightmare. Um, okay. So here's the only things from the beginning for me. McNab takes one off the beak.

Yeah. NAB did not. turn. No, he did not. Eighty-seven mile an hour slap shot. Yeah, that was brutal. That was one of those plays. That happened. It hits NABber. Jordan Stahl was like the first, I think, to be like, oh, oh, everyone in the ice kind of stopped everything. It looks like it caught a bit of visor. Thank goodness. I hope, dude. But it does look like it hit the beak. And I'm going to be honest, listen, there's a lot of orbital stuff going on down there. So you hope nothing there is

affected. But I'm wondering if maybe dodged a bullet there, no pun intended, with a headshot. but if that hit his mouth, jaw, we could have a Macavoy situation. Done for you. That could have been, you know, at least two, three weeks. He would have been out for the series. We'll wait to see on that. But obviously, anytime you see someone get hurt, it's no fun, bad news. So sending our thoughts to Nabor.

Hopefully he's fine. Okay, couple people in the chat are saying he and Connor, shout out, dude. I'm so sorry you drove 12 hours to the wrong game, but still. But Connor, your sacrifice got that. Your sacrifice got this win. And thank you for your service. But a bunch of people, Connor included saying he went to the hospital. and then Ryan says

Kaplan said on the broadcast he was seen leaving the arena in flip flops I think that means like he was walking around fine Oh yeah But I mean like that's We can never know with that I mean it's good that at least maybe it sounds like he wasn't too concussed Yeah yeah yeah yeah

Either way you're gonna have to get Ryan says she felt the need to specify the flip flops Yeah Shout out I love you guys If you're really bad the doctors do not let you wear Correct yeah Definitely not You're putting on sketches if it's real bad

Shape up I did it with flip flops, like, kind of what they give you in the hospital anyways? Well, no, he was leaving the rink. He was leaving the rink. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you got grippy socks in there, too. Yeah. So he could be back, he could be back with a cage or a bubble or whatever.

Yeah. But yeah, that looked catastrophic. The way he got off, scary was scary because you're like, oh. It was great that he popped up and skated off. I mean, it's terrible when you pop up and you immediately go to the gate. Yeah. Because you're like, oh, get me out of here. But that fucking popped it, man. It was crazy, dude.

The slow-mo is a nightmare. Okay, then Howden scores on Vegas only gets two shots in the first. It was another first period where I went, okay, here we go again. It's ridiculous. I don't want to say nightmare first for the Keynes. Go ahead. But it wasn't nightmare, right? Nightmare first is.

I could think of four other scenarios where it's a nightmare. Frustrating as hell first. You really, I thought the canes totally outplayed them in that first period. They were really all over them. They were dominating them in shots. and then just a weird play that started with a brilliant clear. I need people to watch back that goal. Howden is red hot.

We were talking to him at Media Day pregame, talking about how he's scoring at will. The guy is so horned up out there. It's unbelievable. But that play starts with the D-Zone clearance. I don't know who spooned that out. But that was it Mitch? Fucking, of course.

Insane. Mitch Marner gets that puck in a high-tension situation for Vegas. And he gets the puck on his backhand. And the ability to under pressure there, to have the presence of mind to up and over loft that out on your backhand, not an icing, and give your forward who has a bit of jump and a bit of juice a chance to chase it down. Those are game-breaking place. Yes. Those are cons my place. So go back and watch that goal and appreciate that that was made by Marner's skill to be able to do that.

But then Howden just chases it down, makes it enough of a headache for the D-Man. and scores touch right now. Second shot of the game for Vegas and it goes barring in essentially or it's in that same spot. We keep talking about the seven hole. And it's just tough for Freddie because it's easy to get on Freddie there

but you said it perfectly. It's like what was that? 15 minutes in or something like that? Yeah, 12, 13 minutes in. The guy has seen one fucking biscuit. And then all of a sudden, boom, break away from the hottest goal score on the team. That is an absolute dick kick.

That's what I was going to say. I said to you in the game, I was like, this is so legitimately, you know, I always do my thing where I'm like, if you go up to nothing, you're to stop scoring. Stop scoring. It's too much. I legitimately think the canes should give up more shots. I think it is actually detrimental to their goalie that he faces no shots. Somebody in this beaked me the other day that, or they weren't chirping me actually, but I had just said, you can't win a series by not shooting. Yeah.

Because that's what Montreal just proved. And they were like, dude, the cats, the cats sweat. dust by getting 15 shots a game. And I was like, you're probably right. I haven't gone back and looked. But it's because there's, Freddie goes 12 minutes of game time without seeing Pucks. And then all of a sudden he's like, oh yeah.

Like legitimately, I think they should give up more shots because it is an impossible task. It's insane. It's a really, I think we're seeing it a lot, these playoffs. I think it's become more of a trend. We kind of did this on the show earlier this season where we were kind of looking at the shots per season. Yeah.

But I think anyone can see. there's been a lot of low shooting games these playoffs. And yeah, we're seeing, I mean, we had a bunch of examples of teams that get up early and they kind of second period, beginning of the third, they're up and they turn it off because they're like,

just protect the game. And it's not sitting back. It's just kind of like protect the game. And we're golden. And that was happening a lot. But man, it's like that is just such a brutal way to give up the first goal if you're Freddie.

Yes, exactly. And that you took to piggyback on your frustrating right after that there was an insanely good Kane's chance that Carter Hart made a save on There was a couple doorstep things. They just they felt like they were all around the net got absolutely nothing you go to the break Down one yeah then we go into the second and howden again on a pretty good pass he makes a good cut and that's a good pass to get him by Yeah, but then he like just I felt like that I don't know how that happened I like the move yeah I I whenever a puck gets right on top of the goal tender like that. It's almost like a PK and soccer.

Yeah. You're almost, I don't want to say you're guessing, but you do kind of have to commit one way or the other. And it was just, again, goal scores touch right now. Howdy is out of control.

13, 13 goals. And I thought it was a good, good finish. And then yeah, you're up to nothing. We head into the third. And it's like, shit.

So yeah, that's the first two periods, you know, again, it was a bit of a slog. That's when we ran into Kelly again. And Kelly, not to chirp you here on the live, Kelly but you Kelly said you know if hopefully hopefully I see you on game five but I

and I and I said I said don't talk like that in front of me don't you dare don't you dare don't you dare don't say that to me there were there are children there too put your hand out don't say that to me don't say that to me don't say that he's he's paralyzed from from the waist down say that listen there were children there Kelly and we can we need to be setting an example for the children they are our future they are our future and we cannot be nayser so we were We were shooting a lot of life in the Canes fan. Just a couple of goals, all we did was one. All we need was one.

We just needed one. And I said, there was another guy I saw it. And I said, well, we'll get to that. We'll get to that. So listen. Hey, hey, but hold on, before we get into the third period. Yep. Were you about to jump into the third?

I was about to jump into an ad break. Well, before we jump into that's, hey, we're fucking synced up right now. Sick. Because before you jump into the third, I want to talk about sub dogs and then let's get into an ad book. Oh, okay. Yeah. I just want to give a quick shout out because we're talking Kelly.

Yeah. beautiful, unbelievable human being Kelly, our new best friend, game one gave us that list of things to do. And we failed too much of it. We just didn't get a lot of it that we knew was going to take a couple of games. We went to Subdog today and anyone, Kane's fans, obviously you're aware of Subdog, anyone who is not aware of Subdog.

Apparently there's one in Chapel Hill, there's one in like Asheville. Someone said that. Greenboro. Greenboro. Yeah. Zach? That's a thing. Greensboro is a place.

Greensboro is a place. in North Carolina. Yeah. Okay. So I think there's one in Chapel Hill. There's one in Greensboro. And there is one in Lenovo Center. Hey, buddy.

We're hot dog guys. Yeah. Big time hot dog guys. We are from the hometown of the greatest hot dog in the United States and the world flows. It's apparently it's Greenville. Greenville. Well, Greensboro is a thing. Probably.

It's Greenville. Yeah, yeah. Yep. But that was a fucking delicious hot dog. I sucked that thing down. My gullet. Like it was your last meal on earth. It was my J-O-B.

You three-bit. Get gif of like a bunch of hot dogs hitting a dog in the face. That was me. If we weren't there working, I was prepared to go back to a sup dog and go, give me four more thans right now. It was delicious.

The bun was so soft and melty. The dog was juicy and voluptuous. The chili was perfectly crafted. The perfect consistency. Yes. Consistency Dan, Yeah. It was layered on the dog.

I got the slaw dog. There was chili on top of it and then slaw on top of that. I didn't spill one sack. Yeah, you didn't. Look at that. I ate a chili dog and didn't have a single drop of spillage. Did you,

what was on your guys? Because you just got the sub dog. We got the regular. Oh, yeah, sorry, we got to turn the mic on. We got the regular plane. Yeah. The classic.

So what was that? Hey, don't call that regular. Don't call that plane. It's classic. Well, no, it was good. It was very good. Nothing regular about it.

Yeah. I think it was just a dog with the chili, the chili, and then there was some kind of a white sauce. There was a nice sauce on there. I had no idea what it was. Okay. But I ate it too fast to even register in my head what it was. Yeah. Could have been anything.

Yeah, it really could have been. So basically the sub dog is a chili dog and then there are variations. Yours had swat on it. Mine had bacon on it. Yeah. And then I got a crush. I got a cremicle crush. Yeah, those were great too.

And it was tremendous. But the crushes were special. I think I said in the video that Zach was, as Zach and Evan were making, I was like, sometimes there's novelty things at games and you're like you get it, you eat it and you're like, yeah, that's good. You know, it's kind of a arena, stadium novelty that's like, I kind of feel like

shit now. Yeah. Buddy, I'm telling you, Jesus Christ, we're going to get a great Oh, yeah, dude. Lizzie Goblin. This might be my favorite picture of Dan ever. This is a special moment, everybody. Hey, also, let me tell you what. That was a special moment. Let me tell you what. I've got

TMJ after I broke my jaw. I fucking unlatched that thing like it was a suitcase so I could stuff that down my throat. Look at that bite. It's unbelievable. It was necessary. It was necessary. So shout out Sup Dog and shout out all the amazing gals.

They were working. They were so nice and so amazing. But this is my... Yeah, shout out Holly. Yeah, shout out Holly. I think that was Holly. Holly was delightful. If you are going to game five and you have not had Sup Dog,

get your buns. Here's the question, though. Here's an important question. Okay. Can anyone get in there? I don't know. I actually think subdog is like reserved for the upper class. Like I think if you.

I'm just saying, dude. No, that's what I'm saying. But it might not put it. But Zach, I think it's actually in that reserve level. Like, I don't think that's what I'm saying. Like, I don't think you can go in there without a ticket that gets you into that area. We need to free subdog. Get it to the people.

That's what I mean. I can't believe the choice. No, I'm a station choice with being a boogey piece of shit. Keeping a class system. Keeping a class system. That's sad. It's unbelievable. I don't think you guys.

I think Zup Dog is only, is only for the rich. Oh, dude. This is like the lounges at airports when we start letting everybody and it's not special anymore. When I, well, while we're talking about nice, classy people, there was a man named Rob. Okay. Came to us right before the game and unloaded three blue moons on us and was like, hey, I go. Oh, is that what we got those? Hell yeah.

I like, I like, thank you for the, he couldn't go to the game. He was just hanging out and he's like, I got to go home, take my daughter. What a legend. Shout on his daughter for the pronunciation as well. Of what? That was a different person. That was a different role.

That was the same one. Oh yeah, you're right. She said Schvetsnikov. Very clever. Oh, she's very Russian with it. Everybody's been so courteous and cool. Yeah. Oh, dude.

So give him suck dog is what I'm. Yeah, agree. Dude, move. Petition to move subdog to outside section 110. There we go. Please. Bring it to the people. Please.

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So I got to say, we were talking to a few people in the Concourse. Shout out, Chelsea. We saw going into the third, we saw a lot of people. Yeah, let's just do a general shout out of Evan just said it best. Everyone has been so lovely and welcoming and kind and grateful and generous. And we just can't say thank you enough. I believe it's called Southern Hospitality. Yeah, they have a term.

I mean, but it's real, man. The Southern hospitality here is through the roof. Everyone at the Caneval's out at the tailgate, our boy Michael. Everyone is just so wonderful. And I will add a special shout out to Bobby. that gentleman we met in course. I don't even need to get into the conversation we got in, but Bobby was one of the most enlightened people I've ever met.

Yeah, that was awesome. He had a conversation with us. I honestly, I almost started crying. Yeah. This guy's unbelievable. So we just love all of you so much. So we mooseyed back in and the vibes were incredibly well. Yeah, the vibes were low.

And that's not a knock, man. Like it's not like we had fans booing. It was just like they want to see their team win. They want to see their team win a game in the Stanley Cup final for the first time since 2006. Yep. And I was talking to, I won't say their name, but I was talking to somebody and we were both going, man, this stinks because the person I was talking to is very much rooting for Carolina. So they were saying it stinks for that reason. And I was just kind of saying it stinks because I was dialed for this to be an incredible series. And it just felt like, oh man,

this is, this could be cooked. This could be curtains for the whole shebang. Over and four. What a bummer. What a nightmare. Here comes the new. Hearst for Carolina, everything sucks. And then, and somebody in the chat, check me on this, but there was a flurry. And Zach, you will remember this because it will be in the hype video that we released from our trip here so far, where I looked at you and I said, there was like nine minutes left or nine 50 left. And I said, that was a great flurry.

And it's one of those flurries where you feel like you should have scored. So this either becomes, this flurry leads to the goal. or we completely wasted it and we're dead. I said that right into the camera. And I'm pretty sure, because I want to give them some credit, I'm pretty sure that was the first line. I'm pretty sure Ajo and Jarvie and Svetch were out there

and they were buzzing and they had a bunch of chances and they didn't score, but I'm telling you that shift, that like two minute run got the crowd into it again. That's when we were like, remember there was all the like, let's go little fuck.

Yeah, we started screaming, dude. And then that's when we were like, okay, let's see what you can do. with that flurry. And then the next shift is when Stank scored. So I'm, I'm pretty sure that's what happened. Now, the other vitally important, oh, nice, the guys, the couple with the shoot the damn puck are in the chat, legends. That was awesome. That was right. I have never, in all my days, seen, there's always in arena stuff. We're on the Kings thing. Go, Kings. There's always in arena stuff to get the crowd back.

I have never in all my days seen anything work like the tarps off thing tonight. Oh, tarps off dude. The tarps off rally was so instantaneously successful and contagious. It was literally

immediate. It was unbelievable. We took the tarps off. We took the tarps off and then everything, I told someone, the tarps came off and the whole series slipped on its head. You want to see Netters after dark. dude. Yeah. I'll take, I'll go Winnie the Pooh on here. I'll take bottoms off. Yeah, I was going to say, if they were down three goals, we're fully new. Yes, correct, dude. I'll pull out my horn in. That I will tell my grandchildren stories about the day the TARPs came off in game. And you know what I also want to say. Shout out the Lenny, because I have seen multiple times tarps come off in hockey games and the arena crew comes over and is like, hey, you got to put those. Yeah. I don't know why. I don't know what's offensive about that. What, tarps off?

Yeah. Nothing's offensive. Dude, I'm telling you, it happens often at NHL games. There's something, which is crazy because, like, at football games, that is very commonplace to have tarps off. Yeah. Yeah, I will say, actually, if we would have, this was an experience that I had where, like, so at Auburn, we would do this thing. Like, we tarps off and we showed on the video board back when I worked with them. Yeah.

That was a common thing. We'd encourage fans to it. But at Florida State, when I worked there, they would shut it down. Like, the moment. Interesting. came off, they were like, that's offensive. Yeah. So I think it's kind of a preference.

Hey, let me say this and you can come after me if you want. That is the fucking lamest shit I've ever heard. Yep. If you were offended by people at a sports game with their tarps off and like stuff painted on them, that is crazy. Don't go to a sports game. You know, I shouldn't know. Like that, that's one of those things where I'm like, if you're offended by that, okay. Don't go to a sports game.

That's crazy. I should have known right away because right before we went on Stanley Cup live, I had a different t-shirt on because we were walking to the rink and I was going to get sweaty and I was going to put this on for the show and I ducked in the rink sure and went to that bathroom right there and it was locked and I was like oh shoot all I was just going to do was change my shirt and it was locked and there was no one's in yet obviously but there's all the staff right there and one gentleman was like oh sorry let me unlock that for you sir I just could find the keys and I was like oh dude all good I don't even need to go in there because I was like I'm just going to change my shirt

and there's like three women working there right there and I was like do you guys care if I I'm like, no. Whatever. That's what you should have realized, dude. And yes, Evan or Zach, you answered, but someone in Ryan in the chat said, did Lenny's Tron have a tarps off graphic? And it sure did. Oh, dude, that was it.

That was an instruction. Not only did they say tarps off, we then got the tarps off guy to ring the siren to start OT. Yeah. And it literally said tarps off rally guy. Yeah, yeah. Dude, this is a regular thing. It's unbelievable, dude.

Like, Kane's admin, and then the people who work for the Keynes just embrace the nonsense so well, and I love it. Does they do that in the regular season? Or like maybe someone in the jacket, like, does the tarp off thing? Is that like a regular game? I don't know if that's a regular Keynes thing. I feel like I doubt it because it was such a meal of it. Like Cap was talking to Jarv about it after the game. I think that was a new thing.

Yeah, that was all time. I mean, it's not people are taking shirts off games. I'm not saying this the first time tarps came up. No, no, the instructions happened. But I believe that that was a moment and it was special. Okay, so dude, if you are, if, from my POV, I'm sitting here in the third with 10 minutes left and it's 2-0. And not only that, but you have another first period where you go, oh, the canes are in dictating play. And then it's like, psych, never mind, Vegas is nasty.

They completely dominate the second, or not dominate, but like they turn it all around. We're dead. And Carter Hart was looking great. He was looking great. And I was like, holy shit, dude, this is not good. So then Stank comes around the net, tries to Mishy. I don't know if everyone could see that on TV, but Stank tried to Mishy.

Just couldn't get the puck up, which would have been all time if that's how he scored. Did you imagine? Tries to Mishy. And to be fair, I want to say this, because a lot of people in this have been saying like, oh, stones went in off Slave in which. By the way, I'm going to call you,

I fucking hate when people say Mishie. That's lame of you. No, it's just, it's such a forced hot. It's the forced hawkification of terms. Every term should be hawkified. Like we just can say, we can just say Michigan. The one extra syllable is not a big deal. No, I'm with CP.

Yeah. I believe you are. Every term should be hawkified. I like hawkifying. No, you don't, Dan. It sounds like the nishi just sounds like that Gen Z bullshit. Fucking like, I'm such a hockey guy. Because you're, you know, this is how I know you're not a hockey guy.

Shit. I blew it. Yeah, correct. So, I've outed myself. I need to say, he snaps it around. and it goes in off, I think. It bounces all. Yeah, and I'm just trying to be fair,

because everyone in here is being like, oh my God, Stones winning off Slavin. I'm like, this win and off Luzon or whoever was. I forget it was out there. So this, but my point is I'm like, I said to all, and dude, maybe you have this, Evan. Shout out to all those guys who were with us.

Like I all get their names. You see the guys behind us. Yeah. So there was a guy, I think he was making a bit out of it because every time they scored, he would run up into the middle of us and chug his yeah yeah

and then the overtime goal he came in with the beer stuff and I'm like he's heightening the game oh yeah that's how Dan that's how the beer got on the ceiling oh trust me I'm aware you were like dude

the second that guy came around I was like I will be covered in beer at some point whether out of celebration or frustration and I respect shout out the photo next to us too what a weapon what a weapon we were in a

proofed off postog area and these people were just going nuts and then the photo's like still getting gas photos Yeah. And then like didn't complain one. Showing him to us.

Yeah. Incredible. That guy's the man. I wish we got his name. Yeah, that was awesome. He'll be there at Game 5. Yeah. I have his Instagram.

Yeah. Yeah, we got his info. Oh, nice. Okay, so I was saying to all those guys there, and I said it to you, Grant, on the video, you just got to get one by, you know, you set timers. Teams do this. You go just, boys, get one before eight minutes. Get one before whatever.

And that one, ricocheting in in that moment, felt like there was plenty of time. There was so much game left. Everything's game by game. I actually didn't, while we were talking about vibes were low, because of course the fans, they wanted to see a win. For the team, I actually didn't feel, I wasn't feeling stressed for them. Interesting.

To me, it was only two nothing. And one was a very weird bouncy breakaway. And we already saw in game one, you got four goals past Carter Hart. You can score. I was like, they're probably sitting there going, just get one, dude. Yep.

Get one. and that's exactly what happened. I'm not saying that they were sitting there chilling. Of course they felt the heat. But I didn't think it was an overwhelming like we are in so much trouble here. And then that goal was like, oh, thank God. I felt like the goal was like fucking yes.

There it is. Keep going. Because they were all fucking over. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All over the big time. So then they right away, right? Like didn't, see how fast that goal was. 10, 20, 12, 46.

So you had two minutes and 26 seconds later. they kind of get their flip goal, right? Like I thought that was a mirror image of like, oh, wow, we flipped it out. And then, because like Robinson flipped it out. Carrie made a great play to stay on side. And by the way, credit him, because from the ice, he knocks that over to Janowski. But it was definitely just like a flip up. Vegas kind of fumbled it a little bit.

And then it was like bang, in the back of that. And a snipe. Fucking cheddar baked biscuit nip job. That was unbelievable. So place goes bat shit when that goes in, which was awesome. And it was such a cool. The second that went to Janikowski's stick, like we all. kind of grabbed each other.

That was one of those moments. Yeah. And ping. So then we get the... Because right now I'm like, oh my God, the canes might go crazy. But Vegas, man, is so fucking good. So they come back and then we get the Barbie play. And that was off an insane play by Slavin.

Did you remember that? Like, Slavin just had the puck and just like, dude, whiffed it or something. I was like, what the fuck? That was crazy. Barbie goes, is this it yet? Barbie has a shot at it and then Freddie

made some incredible plays honestly dude he's like no what are we doing you're showing the game tie and goal that's that's not what we're talking about here we're way ahead of schedule the uh Freddy like dove at that made a stick say well it was a I think it was a jam job by I thought it was Mitch

who tried that rap it wasn't Barbie Barbie did the whole it was Barbie yeah Barbie has that the near post Freddie kind of scrambles over there. Then he gets it around the net and it was like, oh, God. And then just, what a play. Yep. Freddie jumps over, gets a paddle on it.

But then, yeah, mayhem. And let's just take a pause here. Yes. That was a goal. Okay. In terms of a hockey play, no one stopped playing. No one thought the play was dead.

Yep. That was probably a goal. However, as things go, the whistle was blown and the play was dead. And like, I don't know those weird semantics in the rulebook. But for me, that's another one. When did this just happen?

Buffalo. Was that Buffalo? I thought it was Carolina, Montreal. Buffalo knocked one in. And I think that is right. I think it was Buffalo. I can't remember. It doesn't matter.

These plays happen. They suck. Yep. And for me, I'm like, that was blown dead. It is what it is. Like they lost the puck. Okay.

It's a bummer. As far as a hockey play, that probably should have been a goal, but it's blown dead, whatever, whatever. So, given that, I thought it was a fucking looney tunes challenge. Now,

Torts said after the game, he would challenge that 10 out of 10 times. Perfect answer. Yeah, correct. Perfect answer, but I would be a hypocrite. if I didn't say that had some Jim Hiller vibes because I flamed Jim Hiller last year when the Kings did that against Edmonton. And what I don't like about this challenge is it's a fucking tie ball game.

You just had a great scoring chance and you're kind of breathing on him now. And you go, I'm going to challenge this, which people need to remember when there's a call in the ice like this, it is, you got, you need a lot to overturn it. I know. You need a lot to overturn it. This isn't a goal interference challenge. This is like a, I'm really asking the refs to go, oh, yeah, no, like we didn't blow the whistle. There was something there. You need a lot to overturn it.

And you basically, if you're John Tortorella, you go, hey, Kane's power play, you fucking suck ass cheeks. I'm going to challenge this. And either we're going to get a goal and go up three, two, or I'm giving you a power play when you are red hot right now and have just tied the game with a chance to get the lead. you basically beg them to prove you wrong. And that happens. And we will get into why that's even worse because they get a power play goal here and take the lead and then they get a power play in overtime.

And so bang, back-to-back power play goals. Now their power plays awake, you could say, when it's been poop, poo. Pooh-po-po-po-po-po-po-po-po. So it's just a ballsy challenge, man. It's a ballsy challenge, and I respect the shit out of torts for doing it.

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And then also our boy, Saul is saying that it was goal interference. It wasn't blown dead. But I think it was blown dead, but it's on top of that at the same time. So I have some information. Yeah, yeah. I'm looking at this right now. Torz is saying that that's what Torch is saying. It was a goal interference.

So Booch says it was a great challenge. And you can see this shot. The puck is loose. Absolutely. And that's what we said. That's why I was like it's a goal. And this is, yeah, go ahead. And they go, it's Barbie stick in there.

He says it's a poor decision by the NFL situation. I'm shut up, Booch, for saying that. Well, dude, this is what we always talk about, Dave. Our boy, Dave. I'm like, someone fucking have the stones to be like, it's a bad call. It's a good call. Because I didn't even send you this. Booch goes, Vegas will lose this challenge.

And then two minutes later goes, there was interference. And then 15 minutes later goes, actually, this was a good challenge. That is a goal. That's a bad call by the NHL. Well, the question is, I need to see more of this view. Zach and Ev have it up on the screen right now. like if that stick hits his glove before the puck which that that photo does not show

I actually am going that is going to figure and I in my opinion because if that glove is about to cover the puck and then he waxes his glove out of the way that I mean I think it's soft but that has to be the definition of going in my opinion if you watch the replay he hits the puck

which moves it past that his glove like he hits the puck it's headed towards Freddie's body his follow through of his shot hits Freddy's glove because he's now shot and the puck's already past him anyway takes his chance away to move his glove back and get it though. No, it's already passed.

That's the argument. Doesn't matter. And a shot. Wasn't over the net. And a shot doesn't matter, though. We've confirmed this. Well, I mean, listen, I already said, I think this is soft. Yep. But if he hits that puck, then the follow-through hits his glove, and that puck is not across

the goal line yet, the argument could be made. Well, his glove has now been hit, and he doesn't have the opportunity to go get that puck. But the rule is a shot, falter doesn't matter. So, like, even if it does hit it. Well, didn't that just happen where that's not the case? No, because he didn't hit the puck. He whiffed it.

And we went, oh, he whiffed the shot, hit his glove. And that was in the Buffalo again. That's what you're talking. No, that he literally shot the puck. And then his stick hit him. He did hit that puck. That's why I think this is bonkers. Either way, this is 100% a good goal if the whistle didn't blow in my opinion.

I agree. I can't hear anything. But Barbie is in the box going, shaking his head going, that is a fucking goal. That's insane. Yeah. And that's, again, that's why I said at the top. I was like, that was a goal. Yep.

Again, the only thing we're talking about here is these challenges. given the penalty is very sketchy. That is the whole point. And that's why I said, I respect the challenge. Yep. I respect his statements. It is just,

it's a dangerous game. And dude, the interesting part is, even though the Kane's powerplay has been horrible, even if you get that kill, like Torts goes challenge, who cares?

And then we kill it again. Yeah. It's an NHL team's power play. It's just such unnecessary risk. When, I would argue, you're, like,

Dan, the Hiller, one, even though everyone, that is like the, and you're not wrong, but it's like the very common chirp is like, I can't believe he challenges that. I mean, I get to, I get to stand on business for the rest of my fucking life for that, for this stance because of what I did on Twitter in real time. With, with Hiller. Hiller challenged that and I went, Hiller just cost the Kings this series. Yeah. And then what happened? They never won again. Yeah. And they've not won in playoff since that moment. I know. That's so funny. But dude, what I was going to say is the kings in that game,

like, and I can never prove this, but I'm 100% positive. I'm right. The kings were 1,000% losing that game. If they did it challenge. I don't know. I am of that opinion. Because I was like, they're getting murdered. This is over. It's a tie game and they were up to nothing in the series. I know, but I was like, this is over. Whatever. In this game, if you're Vegas, I got to believe. you're like, we'll just score again. Like this isn't, we're fine. It's tied. See, the reason I disagree with that is because, well, first of all, absolutely they think that.

But I don't, you're saying that as if there was like crazy momentum. There was crazy momentum for Carolina. Agreed that was a one weird bounce where Vegas got in the zone. Like Carolina or yeah, Carolina was shit pumping them for the last five minutes. So I agree, Vegas is like, we can absolutely score. But you're, the way you're saying it, and correct me. if I'm wrong, you're saying it as if they were like, we're fucking all over them. We'll just score again.

Oh, oh, no. So I don't, I don't think that they're, like, they certainly weren't desperate enough to need to challenge, but I don't think that there was an overwhelming like, oh my God, dude, we're fucking pounding this team. We'll easily score. 100% they're not pounding them at all, but they were getting, Vegas was getting murdered in the first period and left it up one nothing.

They go, we can be getting murdered by this team and score whenever we feel like it, and they had kind of, like, it was a goal, goal, and then it was kind of five minutes of like, okay, where it's a bit settled. and it felt like if they don't score here, like if they just wiped the Barbie goal, then it was just going to go to overtime, it felt like. And then Vegas goes, now it's overtime.

We just reset. Like, just get to the locker and reset and we'll probably win an OT. Because don't forget, Vegas was also undefeated in overtime in these playoffs. So yeah, it just, it invited insanity to do that, which he got, unless he's so sure it was a goal, which is weird because I think if I'm,

and like obviously torts is being torts where he's like 10 out of 10, I do that again. But I don't blame him, because if I watch that video and I see what you, that overhead view where he just shoots it and it goes in. And again, I can't hear shit. But if I'm towards and I go,

did the whistle blow and the team goes, no, like I go, if I go, if I go, he goes, there was no whistle, then I go,

100% challenge. Well, this is what I, we have got to move off of this challenge. We have got so much to fucking talk about and it's so late. But what I don't get is no one went goal, right? Am I nuts? On the team?

No ref. Oh, no one right. He was going like this. the whole time. It felt like the whistle blue before. Yeah. So like I again, someone in the chat or like, you know.

But Sully's right. Sorry, we literally just walked out of the game. I'm sorry I haven't had any time to like look at replay. Yeah. Zach, you're, can't believe you're showing my feet for free on the internet right now. It's unbelievable, dude. No. We're going to make so.

Oh, wait. Yeah. I got you on, you're going to get on Wiki feet. That's awesome. So much money, dude. This is unbelievable. Um, I can't believe that I, like, I feel like I didn't see a, like, I didn't see like a, I didn't see like a that's a goal.

No one said no one said goal. That's why it's tough. You know what I mean? Like it's, I don't, it was I call. Ico went like this and he was like, yeah.

And like, but again, that doesn't fucking matter. Like anyone, any player can say go like these plays are just so fucked when it's like, if a ref doesn't go goal, it just feels like it's always impossible for them to overturn it. Like that I'd love to see the hit right on that.

When it's not called a goal on the ice in a situation like this, I bet it's less than 20% that it gets overturned to a goal. That'd be a goal. cool stat to look like I'd love to check that out. Definitely scenarios where the ref just didn't see it. Yeah. Which by the way, Dan, I'm actually very sure the ref didn't see that in this one.

Like that ref, and like I was, by the way, everyone was looking at Freddy's glove and shit and the ref was like, yeah, covered. That's why he was like whistle. Yeah. I was like, buddy. In the net. In the other side.

It's behind you, dude. Yeah, which is why he didn't see Barbie shoot it under Freddie and in. And he's like going like this, like no goal. And I'm like, buddy, he hit that. He shot it clean into the net. All right, we got to move on. We got to move on.

So, they get the power play immediate goal stall dude stall is the fucking band that was so awesome fucking phenomenal shit so we get the lead and it just feels feels viby in that arena and time's ticking down and it's like okay here we go here we go here we go captain fucking stall gets the power play goal and then we thought sGA was knocked out of the playoffs but it turns out he was on ice I was like what? Yeah. Because I fucking love Barbie.

Yep. I did not like this play. So here's what I... And listen, competitive advantage, right? Get everything you can. Yep. But that was a dive. That was a...

I thought Barbie initiated contact on this. He then went down and was like holding his face and lying on the ground. And listen, again, competitive advantage. Sell it, baby. Sell it. But like that, I was one result. I was like, oh, yikes. I didn't like that.

Here's what I don't like. Actually, I saw a couple tweets about this. I saw another replay. He is flying. And the tweet said this, but I tend to agree. He's flying at speed to a, he's on a path. Yeah. And I think maybe it was Blakey who clipped.

It was. 100% goes like this. And like 100% sticks his hip out at a flying Barbie. Careful. I don't like to stick his hip out because that's very close to a leg check. I think he pivoted and kind of put his ass out. out and was like, I'm getting in the way. Yeah, ass then, yeah.

I just, you know, I'm sensitive about that shit. I think, like, anything hip or thigh, like, it could start sounding or looking like any sort of hang. Hip is ass. There's no, there's no, if someone ever said he hit him with his hip and they went, that's a leg, Jack. The argument is 50-50. No, it's ass.

Hip is ass. Look at it. It's right here. But your hip bones probably connected to your leg. Like, if I ripped your leg off your body, my hip socket would be sitting right on my butt. Yeah, your socket would, but your hip bone is on the leg. Yeah, but that's my butt.

It's in my butt. It goes right up into the socket. Look at this. Look, here's the socket in my butt. And then, yeah, but you, listen, if you said he threw his hip socket out, you said hip.

Which is hip, that's hip. I think, well, it's part of it. That's why it's 50%. We got a socket and we got a bone. No, dude, it's ass. I think it's 50% ass,

50% leg. He popped his hip out, which means his ass. Hey, chat, get in this conversation. Is your hip? Chris says, I understood hip to mean ass.

Okay, you got one. How many people are going, it's obviously a leg. Don't fucking lie. I hit the word you just asked. Then give them a second. I think there's some people who would say, hips part of your leg.

And it's also part of your eye. Okay, Harry says hip is different from ass, but not leg. Your hip bone is on your leg. No, and then here, Laura, and you love Laura. Hip is ass. Laura, what the fuck? You're supposed to be my fucking girl. I wear her hats more than you.

Listen to be, let's be real honest here. I said 50-50 from the jump. Well, it's ass. It's 100% ass. Do you even know what an ass is? No, I don't have one. Hey, I'm looking at one right now, you fucking dip shit.

Either way. Either way. All right. Lakey bumps some body part out. No doubt. No doubt. In my opinion. But like that says hockey, it's Rubbins racing.

No. So in my opinion, at speed, when Barbie's going like that and gets clipped when he's on a line to make a play, I have no issue with that being an interference call. Do I think it's an egregious interference call? No. Can I interrupt? Yeah. Best comment ever. Blake M. 22 says anatomy class to the powers pros are 130 in the morning.

that hey that that is that's a fever dream like you read about yeah so I have no issue with on that being an interference penalty what I have extreme issue with is Barbie goes fucking flying yeah and then and I sometimes dude skating's weird like sometimes you get knocked off balance you kind of like helicopter like remember the kid oh my god dude you're going so fast right so like sometimes people go oh my god like he fucking flopped and I'm like well he got knocked off balance when he was skating on a tiny blade Okay. So I kind of give him a pass, kind of. Yeah.

But what I don't give him a pass at all for is the like immediate soccer level head grab. Yeah. Dude, live, I thought he got, I thought he got drilling in the face. Yeah, you kept saying to me, it went long after the fact, you were like, he got him with a stick. And I was like, dude, no, it wasn't even close. He got hit high. He got hit high. So that, that, I didn't like that at all.

And dude, they brought, they invented an embellishment penalty. Yeah. Like, I'm actually shocked. People with Vegas fans would have been fuming, but I'm actually shocked he didn't get pop for embellishment there. where they go, okay, that was interference, but you also were grabbing your face, which was insane. And then even weirder, Dan,

Barbie went to the locker room after that. Like, I thought I was like, man, something happened. But it was, it was a little bit longer. Yeah, it was. He was after. Because he, he, um, yeah, you're right. But it was like, one 30 left. He went to the locker and I was like, that was crazy.

Yeah. So that was insane. Hold on real quick. Hey, is your mic on guys? Yeah, it is. We've been turning it on and off because the table is making weird sounds. Well, the people, every time he hits a button. The people want to hear you when you chat.

Okay. If you guys are okay with hearing this table this week, I'm sorry. Yeah. Well, I think you might have gotten rid of it. Did I hear? Yeah, I don't hear it anymore. I think we fixed it. Oh, wow.

We did it. I don't think I would have liked. Like, dude, I mean, I do that. I used to do that all the time. Like, you veer. Yep. Because, like, to me, for interference, like, I need a pick. It's like these pick penalties.

keep seeing we saw the one on cooch against anaheim when it's like i got or excuse me against montreal when you're kind of like floating the blue line and you get in someone's way yeah that yes that one to me like i hear you as far as like the literal definition is maybe interference but like it's it's it's rate of play it's not a blue line play it's it's blakey like just kind of veering like getting in getting the way a little bit i don't blame them making you work for the puck and and just the blow up i was like dude like come on here but Either way, penalty gets called. Carolina kills it off.

And that was huge. Which was massive, dude. Unbelieveable momentum. It was a great kill, too. A lot of great active sticks. Great possession play by Ajo, keeping the puck, chipping it down low, staying high pressure on the defenseman to not let him have an easy breakout so the change could be made.

It was really good hockey. And, man, let us take a quick minute to stroke off Vegas and just continue to tip caps to how unbelievable they are in duress. You get your power play deaded. We're in the vulnerable minute, but like it's not that bad of a situation. The puck's kind of pinned against the board. Blakey comes out of the box,

flies in, immediately takes the passing lane away on top of the point, gets down low, and then Doc Marner gets the puck and fucking throws one on that. Just feathers one. Perfect, perfect shot, just through traffic,

gets it onto the cage, gets it in a dangerous area, and then who is there? But Mark Stone, Captain Gold, response. Yes. Ties it up. And dude, fucking A, that got punched that was. That sucked.

But I felt a little life still. Man, that was low. That was low. It was low. But I felt the little life, dude. And you know that, you know, we then end regulation. We headed into OT. You know that everyone was kind of like, are you fucking kidding me?

But like there wasn't the like, oh, no, that took all the wind out of our cities. It was more of like a, come on. Yeah. Yes, it was. Like, you're making us do this. But then, dude, the chatter started. And they went, wait a minute. We have won an OT in game two every fucking game.

Every round. This is the script. So a couple things from the chat here. Dan, Chris says fucking pinball goal, but Chris, I need to remind you, this is what I was saying about the stank goal earlier. That was also a pinball goal, which he just fired into the front of the net behind the net. I also don't want us to get in the hat chat. I want us all to hold ourselves accountable and not let emotions take over. That's hockey, man.

Exactly. You get puckson in the net. Not every goal is going to be a Jankowski barred down Nipski. Not every goal is going to be a one. T. J.R. V. O. T. fucking. fucking. fucking. Sometimes they're greasy. And we like greasy goals. Let's not take greasy goals for granted. All goals are goals. Yep. Chris also said earlier, I feel like interference just happened so much that when it's called, we're like, oh, we call that one. And I completely agree with that.

That's great comment. Like, yes, it does happen all the time. A lot of great butt stuff, Dan. You got a few legs, to be fair. Thank you. Wait, did you just say a lot of great butt stuff? Yeah, a lot. Incredible butt stuff. incredible about stuff in the chat. Yep. Got it. Sorry.

I'm trying to remember the part of the game that involved the... The best was Kathy says hip is butt, not leg. And she sends the leg emoji and she goes, there is no socket on that emoji.

She's right. The emoji stops right when you would get to hip. Like the leg emoji goes like this and stops right here. I can't tell if you guys are joking. with me first of all who is that Kathy yes I said from the top the socket is on your but you should see the emoji the emoji I know I know the emoji fuck bag also Laura goes I'm done with Laura Laura you're in time out she goes no no this song is blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

this is important I don't want to hear the fucking nursery rhyme song about anatomy no it's not that do you think this I'm so glad you you just said that. I'm so glad you go, I don't want to hear some nursery rhyme song when I'm actually going to give you the hottest heat of all time from Shakira. And she goes, the hips don't lie. And that's not talking about 50% leg. Bitch. Dude. She didn't say bitch. I put that in there. If you did not say bitch, I put the bitch. If you think Shakira is talking about her ass in that song, you're all dumb. She's literally talking about her hips and the way she shakes her hips. Yeah. Half the time she dances to that, she's front facing us. We're looking at her hips.

Yeah, which makes her butt move. And you know what? Yes. Come on. We're going to get demonetized. No, we aren't. They can never even hear this. We've been talking about butt stuff for hours. We got demonetized a long time ago. Okay, and then also,

DeMuss has said this a bunch of times and I wanted to bring this up. He goes, he goes, Rod the Bod for MVP by changing up the lines with Martin Nook and Jarvis. Now, DeMuss, I want to talk about this. I'm not entirely sure. Because you mean they took Martin Nook

and put him up on the first line and took Jarvis off. we obviously are in the rank you don't get to see that when like the announcers are like oh they've changed the lines to me man I thought jarvie was the only good player on the first line didn't do fucking shit two games in a row and also didn't that didn't do anything like in the second period when they changed that it did fuck all I was like man the canes are dead because now they're jumbling the lines and they have martinook on the first line and it looks even worse than it did and stank scored a half wraparound style goal and then jankowski scored and then we got two power play goals like that that line jumbling did fuck So I now need to know what people think about that. Yeah, because Chris says I really didn't like the change lines. I hated it and I thought it didn't work. So I need somebody.

I said I hated it. You know, I'm saying I didn't hate it. I wouldn't have made that change. I like the idea of the change. You've got no goals. You know, like you're halfway through the game. You don't have any goals. Like you've got to do something.

How often do we get on coaches like Pete DeBore for not doing anything? Yeah. So like, do something. Again, I wouldn't have done that change. Yep. But yeah, I'm not going to sit here and act like that did anything. We didn't see a result from that move. Yeah.

Yeah, right. So I'm saying, I don't know. I don't know what people are saying, but or what, I don't know what de must, what you think. But I was like, man, I don't know. Yeah, well, he's saying, well, it was two nothing the other way. Fair enough. But I was like, I would basically put it this way. Well, well, actually, I mean, it was two one.

Again, like they still got scored on after those change. Oh, yeah, fair. It was three. It was three one. It was two nothing, Vegas. when the lines were they what they were. And then it finished 3-3, 4-3. But again, I don't count the power play goal.

Yeah, me neither. But yeah, so I would definitely not be going. If I'm a Keynes fan, I would not be going into game three going. I hope Jarvis is on the third line. Yeah, and I'm not spitting in the hand and tugging off Rod for that. Like, Rod's great. I love Rod. But I wanted to get back to the Stone goal to wrap that up.

And then we can wrap up the game. It's just like, dude, this isn't all. Carolina here, that was a great, just unbelievable response by Vegas yet again. Insane. When they're like, you know, tensions are on. You've got the goalie pulled and bang, you score. But obviously, we go to O.T. you and I are pretty sharp on that.

We were like, we got it in the first five. Yes, dude. Like we were like, we got, if you're Carolina, you got it, you got to score. You're not going to grind this one out and win in the last five minutes over time. You got to score early. Got a good, I thought that was absolutely a tripping penalty. 100%. And then the power play goes out and they look great.

And boom, 1T, Jarvie with the boys in the building. Then they played wagon wheel. They played wagon wheel. I mean, the Keynes know what they're doing, dude. They played wagon wheel. We post early before the game, us and Jarvis's boys, the good old Canadian boys, singing wagon wheel at karaoke last night at Tin Roof. And then Jarvis scores and they play a wagon wheel.

Like, dude, we don't know the Keynes admin personally, but we follow each other and talk to them all the time. And that is 1,000 percent. I mean, they're probably listening to this. And I want confirmation, but that is 1,000 percent. they put that song on because Jarvie scored and they knew we were all there viving which was awesome that came on I got so happy I was like you gotta be kidding me they said they were singing it it was insane sitting with Jarvis family uh dude that was a hundred percent a trip Dan and I want to say this Vegas um they had a couple times and I

don't want to call anybody out because I don't like doing that on the pod but they had a couple times where the puck was sitting on someone's tape and had a chance to come out of the zone and just didn't and that puck gets sent around to hurdle and it's like he's kind of off and running like they i was ready for Vegas to get a rush off of that yeah and then it was like whoops fumble whoops stalls behind you and he's like i'll just clamp down and then you trip them and i was like dude you got now you're sitting in the box on a hundred percent trip where you're like dude that was that is not a good play um and then to your point the power play gets going we Vegas is now oh for seven on the

power play in this series after having a really good power play coming in if one special teams gets hot in a series it can finish you it really can so Vegas has plenty of time to it out. Carolina could cool off again, but that looked awesome. Jarvie was wide open and had a hammer look. You know, like that was, that was great. It was great to, who fed him that? Ahio. It came from the top, I think. It did come to the top of the umbrella. And it was actually very interesting. I thought, coming around, I think it was, it was either Aho or Ghost. Yeah. No, I think it was Ajo. Okay. Because what, I think Ghost was on the opposite wall. Fed it to Aho up top, and Ajo walked.

Harry says ghost with the feet, but I'm not sure. Oh, okay. So Ajo was that. Ghost, ghost. Yeah, it says ghost. Yeah. So Ajo was on the opposite wall. Fed it to Ghost.

Ghost walked and really opened up the pass back to Aho. And I, what a great play to give it to Jarvie. Like he, it's almost like he opened it and opened his hips to show back to Aho. Yeah. Which I think made Hart cheat. Yeah. He made the other lanes cheat. He was doing that.

Yeah. And then he just like kind of like shorthand through his body, fed it to Jarvie, put it in a. perfect spot. Yeah. Oh, you saw this earlier. Ryan just said ESPN just posted. Tonight's the first time since 1944.

Yeah. If you guys, if you guys look at the description of the episode, yeah. First time in over 80 years that someone has come down from a multi-gold deficit. Shout out Grinnell. I think Grinnell was sharp on that. Saw it. Sick.

Maybe ESPN got it from Grinnell. Yeah. Even if it's the other way, I'm going to give the credit to my fucking boy, Mike or Grinnell. That was an unbelievable shout. But let's talk this game now. Okay. Yep. Both teams down 2-0 and then one. Pretty sick. So sick. Yeah.

Oh, how the turn tables. Yep. I say that because... Interesting. I actually don't think that as much, but go ahead. Well, you're not... I don't think tables turn. You don't... You don't know where a hip or an ass is.

You don't know where you're hip from your ass. And you're not letting me tell you which tables turn. I already know which table. Which one do you think I'm talking about? This one. don't turn that table. Don't turn that table. You might knock my Pokemon cards off. Because it doesn't turn.

Got him. Boom. The tables don't turn. Don't roast it. Oh, how the turn tables in regards to the chatter. A lot of chatter after game one from various people going, this is over. Oh, yeah. Vegas is too much.

People who were like saying like Vegas and seven, people were being like this. Oh, Vegas and five. Like this is tough. This is toast. This is toast. And then obviously two nothing in the halfway through the third. And people were like, dude, this is a sweep.

Yeah, yeah. It was looking. Like, I'm not going to sewer anybody, but we had some people texting us being like, dude, this is a sweep. And then here you go. Cain's fucking snap back. Yep. Win it in overtime just like they have in round one, round two and round three.

And now round four. Kelly, there's popcorn in the Zamboni too. There's popcorn in the Zambonny. And you could make the argument. And this is what we always talk about, the narratives. the narratives you create for yourself as a team they're now sitting in that locker room and if I'm rawd I go

gentlemen just how last series went and as far as game two just how round two and round one won we are right on fucking script we are right on schedule so what's amazing is Carolina after that game had a lot of naysayers

being like uh oh Vegas is too much after two periods in this game people going oh they're way way too much now they have the juice and to spin the narrative and go, we're right back on track, dude, right back on track. Now, the thing I love for Vegas because obviously, tough loss for them.

You have a two-goal lead with 10 minutes left in the third period. You can't lose that game. Yeah. I think Vegas after game one, they went in and they go, great to get that one on the road. Yeah.

But they went into that locker room and I know for a fact, they went that was not our best game. Yeah, and we still won. We did not play our best game. We made a lot of mistakes that led to some of Carolina's goals there. Yeah, it's great that we got the win, but we shouldn't even been in that situation.

Now they have this game. They played great through two and a half periods. They kind of fell apart. They made it go to OT. That's great. But they're absolutely going in there. And they're not going, we got a fucking beat today, guys.

They did. But they're going, we did not play our best game in that one either. Okay. So now you get to go home and you got to remind yourselves, We took one on the road. We have home ice now. So we haven't played our best game yet.

Let's go back to Vegas and let's fucking beat the wheels off them. That's what you're saying if you're Vegas. And that for us, man, as fans, fucking hugh. Yeah, dude. Yeah. These have been too objectively. Unbelievable hockey games. Unbelievable hockey games to watch.

Dude, feed me. of those. And, dude, like, if we're just going to trade blows like this with just mayhem games, I'm going to come myself to death. Yeah, correct. You're going to be, you're going to be a raisin. You're going to turn into the thing you love the most. A raisin.

Scary movie one. Yeah. Finally has sex with Cindy. And then he just shrivels because it all comes out. That's going to be me. I'm going to look like Emo-Tep before he gets all the bodies in him. That's a mummy. That was a mummy reference. Left. Comey mummy. Evan incredible.

Yeah. Yeah. Is the mic on? Because I'll tell you what. Shout out our boy Sully. He was yelling at you, Zach, for not talking into the mic. Look at the boys. Oh, dude, they're the fellas.

Just going to town on wagon wheel. Rocking wagon wheel. That was amazing. Unbelievable. I mean, we were born for that moment. God, my point break shirt is so awesome. We were born for that moment, dude. I am with you, Dan.

I love the fellas so much. Oh, yeah. I love the fellas. Great times of all time. Oh, Dan, it's about hockey says it was scary movie two, I think. Is that scary movie two? That's what it's about hockey says. Damn.

I am with you, Dan. This is where I thought you, I was going to argue with your table turning. Vegas. That is not scary movie, too. It's about hockey. I'm calling you out. Check that. Check that.

Check that. It's about hockey. I'm asking you. Check that. Because I feel like scary movies, one is the one that very, very closely mimics scream. Yeah. That's very much a reference to screen.

Yeah. Scary Movie 2 is the one with a strong hang. Yeah, yeah. That's... It is scary movie too. Really? Yeah. That's crazy.

Damn. Hey, it's about hockey. I'm sorry. Yep. You're right. Vegas is... Is laughing right now. Like, well, they're laughing if they're up too, oh, but Vegas, in my opinion...

Oh, wait. Evan? He says, it's about hockey. He says... Is it called Jizz Cannon scene? He says it's in the freezer. No, it's the sea. when he finally has sex with Cindy and he sticks her to the ceiling with jiz.

I think that's the first one. I remember that and I feel like that's the first one. But I don't think he shrivels to death in that one. Yeah, he doesn't shrivel to Jeff, but he like gets really skinny because all the come is coming out of his body. This is awful, folks. I'm sorry. It is truly Nettors after Doe.

Yeah, we have hit Nettors after God. That's scary movie one. It is one. Yeah, that's one. Guys, these are wonderful movies. Maybe there's more than two. We're talking about true cinematic masterpiece moments here. And that's fantastic.

Zach, if I thought you were about to get a photo of Cindy stuck to the ceiling. Oh, wait. It's about hockey says, you're right. He says, yeah, you're right. He says, yeah, you're right. They're right. They gave up. We gave up ridiculous goals in game one and we still beat you.

And then in game two, we literally fell asleep for five minutes. Yeah. I don't think they're, I don't even want to say what I was going to say, because I know what you mean. Yeah. I think, you know what I think they're. I think they're E-Rod in the gym. life here. Like they're being like, like, if I look at Iikes right now and I go, how do you feel?

He goes, we're fine, dude. Especially, Dan, because, and I don't care who doesn't want to hear this from Carolina, this, they came out tonight going, we literally have to win, we need to play our best game we've ever played. And what that turned into was them, what did you find it? We have an amazing comment. Empty nutters. Empty nutters. This is empty nutters after dark. Yeah.

That's correct. So anyway, Carolina was coming out going like this. This has to be our best game. You know what? That is fucking creative as hell and funny. Yep. I love when people get mad at us because we're saying bad things about their team, and they call us empty headers.

Like it's the most creative joke. You know what you sound like when you say that? You sound like the teacher that sees me and met me and goes, any relation to Austin? And I'm like, you've got to be the wittiest fuck I've ever met, dude. But empty nutters, that is, Chris. Well, if she says that to you, you just got to go, yeah, baby.

Oh, I used to. Chris goes, monetization has officially left. Oh, monetization has left. the building a long time ago. Yeah, so Vegas goes, that's your best punch. Like, that was you coming out and going, we have to win this game no matter what at home. We go down and no two, we're losing,

and you were down to nothing with 10 minutes left. But see, I get... But I'm just saying, that's how they feel right now. Yes. And when we're saying all these hyperbolic things, this is the self-talk, right? You need to hype yourself up. You need to minimize the enemy.

Yep. That's what you're doing. That's not the reality of the situation. I don't think it's the reality. And again, why I was going, is because both teams are in a great situation. Yep. Like both of these teams know they can win the Stanley Cup.

And that's when we get beautiful hockey. That's when we get a beautiful series. And dude, the Keynes now get to go. And people, a lot of people are saying, Kane's undefeated on the road. Cain's been better on the road. All true. I know it's like the stats gets cute

because you just sweep everybody. So it's like whatever. And I, sorry, going. But the Keynes get to go, dude, I know that this is going to be tough. But legitimately for after the way game won fell apart and 50 minutes of this game it legitimately started to feel like oh my god we don't even belong here this team is we completely underestimated them whatever the good news for the carolina

fans out there and this cane's team you fucking belong you have you have every possible ability to win this series and win this Stanley Cup you are right there you went down to nothing you could have rolled over you could have caved and you could have caved when markstone tied the fucking game with a minute left but you fucking won again and now you can go into Vegas and win because they they've lost some home games too it's completely fine and this we put on the thumbnail but like this series is fucking all the way on yeah now anyone that still that was on Vegas i'm sure still passionately believe this is going to win very passionately the canes people anyone that was on canes like in five i think you're crazy yeah probably crazy the first time but any canes in six or seven people

still feel fine so your ya is right because we have now reached a point in this series where we're like okay it's a fucking fight it's a it's fucking tom cruise and Maverick, it's a dogfight. Yep. And that's where we're at. It's absolutely beautiful. So, I mean, folks, getting a 1-1-1 split is the best because now we know we're traveling again.

I'm not talking for us. I mean, like, in a whole sense. That's automatically we got to gain Game 5 back in Carolina. Just two of the best games I've ever seen. Like, what an unbelievable start to this. It's awesome. It's amazing. Also, just a quick little, we're not being negative or being rude these days, but just

a quick one of these. like hey come on believe in it that stack came out most watched game one of stanley cup final since 2019 yeah so to all the people who are saying who cares about this series i hope you see that and go all right shit maybe this is pretty sick yeah so if you've dialed out and you're not checking in i can't imagine you're listening to us right now but if you are man this has been a blast turn it on yeah yeah um all right let's talk let's wrap up game two incredible amazing stuff we're going to close out this up. Little Natters after Dark. We're going to talk about the Dylan Larkin situation.

We're also going to rip these Pokemon cards. Should I do that now or at the very end? Very end. Okay. We'll very end Pokemon. Let's get into Dylan Larkin. So if anyone missed it, earlier today, Elliot Friedman posted in our article. Dylan Larkin has reportedly

requested a trade out of Detroit. Now, it's an interesting situation because Larkin has not commented, Larkin's agent has not commented, the team has not commented. So this is just a per sources situation. Obviously, we love Elliot, one of the most trusted guys in the world. It rarely gets things wrong. A lot of people have run with this. And usually when a lot of people run with it, they have either heard the same from sources or they're like, yeah, this one's legit.

We talked about this with our good buddy, Michael Delzado, who was at the end of our feature on Stanley Cup Live today. If you didn't see that, make sure you check those out. But we're just going to echo quickly something we said in there. you are not going to find me say a single bad word about Dylan Mark and you never will and if you want to turn this off right now. Yep. I love Dylan so much as a player. I love Dylan even more as a person.

He's one of the best guys I've ever met and he's such a remarkable teammate. And if you weren't paying attention, everyone who was unfamiliar with Larks before Olympics became familiar with him after. And the way all those USA teammates talk about him react to him, the leader, that he is, is remarkable. We said it with DZ, and we'll just echo it again here. I fucking love this. And I love this as a guy who loves the Detroit Red Wings.

Yeah. I love this as a guy who loves Steve Eisenman. This is something that I think players need to do more. And that might shake some trees. That might ruffle some feathers of fans of a team. And I've seen a bunch of stuff online. I saw some guy reactivate his Twitter to say something along the lines of if you're born in Michigan, you dream of wearing the winged wheel.

Dylan Larkin's a fucking pussy for this, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, listen, if that's your take, that's your take. I'm just here to say, I completely disagree. Dylan Larkin has given 10 years of his professional career to this team and say what you will. I personally believe this is Dan Power is talking, that Steve Eiserman has failed him in building a team around him that can compete and make playoffs. I've been saying that for years. You've been way harder on that.

And I think these players, I think Austin Matthews, I think Brady Kachuk, I think Connor McDavid, I think Leon Drysidal need to understand that not only is it your right after you have bled and performed all of those guys, performed year in and year out and dealt with the schick and the bullshit and your team is not succeeding for you, try something else. And that's not, when you go like this, hey, I want to trade. that's not you necessarily going fuck this team fuck this city it's you going i want to try something else you have so little in your control when it comes to your team when you're a professional athlete something like this is something you can do and we've just we've been stuck in this loop and i'm not

saying it's a bad thing but we've been stuck in this loop for 25 some odd years in the nchel where there's this idea that if you aren't loyal to the team that drafted you and just extend extend never test free agency never even get there yeah you're you're a bad guy you're a bad player you don't you're you're you're not wearing your heart on the jersey fuck that dude yes like if things aren't working go live in a new dylan larkin's been in michigan his whole whole life his whole life yeah try something else dude go check out down south go check out the west coast go check out new england do whatever you want but it's like these guys have earned the right and and again the narrative that and i'll shut up chris i'm sorry i know i'm just going

on and on and on. I just love Dylan. The narrative that like there, oh yeah, he's been there for two years and it didn't work and he's being like a diva receiver. Give me a fucking break, man. It's been a decade. Go, give it a go. Try something else. It's not working. Obviously, I'm with you.

1,000% Dylan Larkin is the fucking man. And I don't root for anyone harder than I root for that person. What I'm excited about, because I'm just echoing everything you said, but what I'm excited about is the wings fans in our fucking mentions and DMs that are like, it's Larkins fault.

We suck because Larkin stinks. Absolutely insane. I am actually salivating. I can't wait for this because right now they are literally happy. They're going, thank God, finally. Well, let's not paint them with the bad ones. Well, that's what I'm saying. There are ones that are going.

Yeah, I just don't want people to think that we're talking about Wings fans in general. Oh, no. I think the Wings fans that are going, we want Larkin out. They are, this is the best day of their life. They're going, amazing. Finally, we will be good. And I am so excited for. them to see what life is like without Dylan Marken. I am thrilled for you.

Congratulations. Merry Christmas. Yeah. And here's what I'll say. Again, we won't go too long on this because it's late. We know, that's actually more for us. Yeah. I think it's going to be a rude awakening for those wings fans. Yes. Because I'll be real with you folks. Dylan Larkin is far and away the best player on your team. Yep. I think the only conversation is Mo Cider. I don't even think that's a conversation. I love Bo. I think Mo Cider is a top D-Man in the league. But Dylan Larkin is the best player on your team.

He is the heartbeat on your team. And I'm sorry to tell you. And this goes into Stevie Y. You take Dylan off that roster. We saw what happened when he got a little banged up towards the end of the year. You free fell out of playoffs. Yep.

You take him off that roster. You're looking at Razor. You're looking at Cat. Cat. and you're looking at cider. And there's some great young pieces that I really like on that team. I like Finney.

I like Sandy Pelica. That's great. But like old caner, cop, Peron, you guys are closer to a full blowup rebuild than you are. Like there are a bunch of those guys

that you're talking about. They're thinking, oh, this is amazing. We're going to get some big one for one trade. I don't think so. Yeah. I think if you're...

Pieces. I think if you're Stevie Y and you keep you keep you. your job, which by the way, that is not a guarantee now. This moment might be a, we might have to fire Stevie Y. I know. Because here's the deal, right? If you're the president of this team and you're looking at this situation, you either go,

okay, Stevie Y has had the Eiser plan for what has it been now, seven years? Yeah. 19 he left? I can't remember. Oh, yeah, probably. seven, eight years. That's been too long. Process is over, dude.

And it didn't work. I told you. There is no Ezer plan. And they are now the longest drought, playoff drought in the in the NHL. Is that correct? No, oh, maybe. Eiser plan hasn't worked.

And you are now either going to go, okay, Steve, here are the keys to trading Dylan Larkin, using draft picks this year, and using whatever you get from that Larkin trade to keep going. Or you go, you're fired. Here's a new GM. Your first task is trading Dylan Larkin and we're going to give you that

because we now need you to build this in your image. Yeah. Because it feels crazy to go to the Izer plan was built around the cornerstone of Dylan Larkin and now he is going, I'd like to leave. I don't know how you let Steve work with that. Yeah. I don't want Steve to get fired, but I'm just saying that is a, that is a possibility. And I think it is way more realistic that Steve Iserman looks at a situation where he goes, okay trade give me picks and prospects like I would I would I would be so careful about trying to replace Dylan Larkin because you ain't win in that trade yep so I would rather go give me all your picks and prospects and give me a like four point something million dollar guy off the book so it works for you cap wise because Dylan's only 8.7 and it's also a like I need the picks baby

like we're starting to yeah yeah yeah and you wonder what is the windfall like who else gets moved because like dude you moved tillen you were not making playoffs next year yep so like are we restarting here how old's cat i think cat is 28 uh 28 or 29 i believe 28 yeah yeah yeah crazy because dude he like cane is a free agent like yeah yeah if larking straighted he's gone yeah you know he's like i'm not staying here we stink so yeah you try to build around razor yeah and mo so this you know, we'll always wait. Like, I've seen a couple of things. You know, I don't like reactionary stuff.

Like I saw one post on Instagram that was like it was, you know, Larks's clip where it was like just two months ago he said he was like, I signed an eight year extension here because of Stevie Y is like his vision. And people are trying to throw that in his face. And I think that's a shitty. Yeah. Until we see what comes out, you don't know what happened in the last two months. You don't know what the relationship is with some of the top brass.

What might have happened? What's going on? again, this is where we're like, dude, I'm going to stand with the player. Like, it's, it's not like this is a guy who just signed an extension and he's only been there a couple of years. And now he's like, oh, we didn't make playoffs on that. It's been a decade, man. I'll say it again.

Like, you deserve, he has earned every bit of his right to go. I would like to try something different. So completely behind Larks on this one, really quickly, places that I would love to see him go or could see him going, I would fucking bet my left nut. that he is not going to any Canadian team. So let's take that off. Someone said Edmonton up here. I can't remember it was.

Are you fucking high? Like this guy is a full no move clause. There's no fucking planet where that happens. Also, I love how every time people are like the Oilers, and I'm always like this, with what? With what prospects and with what caps faced? It's about hockey goes,

Larkin and Gibson for Trent Frederick and Jari. Yeah. Great. That was good. That's so funny. A lot of people, People are saying Minnesota, obviously, that makes sense with Quinter and Billy G and Fabes. I don't know, guys.

They're going to have to give Quinn. He's a bag to keep him around. And when you just traded two first round picks for Quinn, I think so. I don't know that you can run the risk of like, we're going to make the cap even trickier to get that done. And then also, if you're moving Dylan Larkin, you need a first round pick like this year and next year probably. Maybe not two, but probably. And Minnesota doesn't have that. So I don't know if that one works.

I love Utah. Yeah, sure you said that. I love that with Keller. I absolutely love a Boston. We talked about the Posternack comments being like, dude, I'm about to turn 30. Larks is about to turn 30. Yep. Like bang, there's your center you've been looking for.

He's got McAvoy and sway there. Like that makes a ton of sense to me. I really, really, really love the Carolina Hurricanes. A team that already has the cap space, a team that's got a lot of juicy picks. Yep. A lot of juicy picks and some pretty damn good prospects. They literally have to do nothing. Yeah.

As far as cap-wise. And then you go, blink. Dylan Larkin playing with, take your fucking pick. Push stank back out to the wing. Yeah. Nick Eilers and Dylan Larkin for the next. next. At least he's in the Met. He's still in the East, but at least he's in the Matt. You get him out of the Atlantic. That's another great one. What about the

mammoth? Yeah. We said Utah a second ago, I love that one. Mammoth, you absolutely know L.A. is going to be making calls on that for sure. You know Vegas is going to be making calls on that for sure. A lot of USA boys in Vegas. Like, it's going to be very fun, very fun. And I'm super excited for him. Oh, dude. This is an all. It's, it's got. going to be emotional roller coaster, but this is going to be fucking awesome. Yeah. Legitimately.

Dylan. L.A. L.A. L.A. Please, please. Please. Uh, I'm,

I got two things here. Yeah. I really, I really think is, first of all, at Blakely M. You got to talk into the mic, you fucking.

Yeah, sorry. At Blackley M. 22, bet the Olympics is one of the reasons where this is coming from. I'm going to give you my hair brain theory. In the NBA, after the All-Star games, you will see these random,

Wild transitions, especially. This is to me, and I've been watching hockey. Yeah, yeah. Is this a comment talking, or you talking? This is him talking. This is me talking. But I'm thinking, this is the first time in hockey where we've seen a team that has such great chemistry

and great vibes on this Olympic team, where we now see the later summer offseason trades start to happen where these guys play with each other. We have seen this in the NBA before. This has happened prior, and now I think it has spread to hockey. on the adverse, I do want to make this point as an NBA fan. We have got to the dark side of the players era and empowerment era. Yes.

And it can get really ugly. And this is basically right now, the hot in the NHL in 2026 is where the NBA was in 2016, 2017. Yeah. And I think I would be cautious as the NHL to look at the NBA and go back to that 2016, 2017, NBA, and go, that could be us. Yeah. That's fucking sure.

Dude, what do you do, though, Zach? Because this is a legitimate question I have. Because I do get piss when I'm like, a player signs a contract, like you signed a contract, dude. Like you signed a contract. Fucking, be a man of your word.

Like you said this many years, we'll pay you this much money. So I hear that. But I also think a player should be able to kind of maybe behind closed doors, go to a GM and go, hey, dude, this isn't working. I want out. I'll work with you,

but like, let's figure out of make it work to get me out of here. I think that's completely fine. But I'm also like, eventually though, if it's like fucking horrible playing situation, I don't begrudge a player being like, bro, I'm not playing.

And they're going to pay you and I'll go, fine. I already have $50 million. I'm going to fucking care if you never pay me again. Yeah. I want to say, Zach, phenomenal point.

I absolutely loved that. I'd also like to say, Chris, phenomenal point. I absolutely love that. My take on this is, I think, say you lost your southern accent, Zach.

I know. You did get very eloquent there. I've been very delicate as much to that. I got serious. And I am like, I mean, I like the NHL. I like watching hockey. This Olympics team was very vibes. And this is the banana boat.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Totally. Yep. Now we're starting to see banana boat creep into the NHL. And that can be a very ugly life. You would hope they'd want to go to a team rather than just go play with some buds. Yes. Yes.

That doesn't necessarily mean you're going to win shit. Yeah, right. Yeah. Yes. But look how many times that's happened in the NBA. I guess I raised my hand. But does it work out all the time? Not all the time.

Okay, hold on. This is my point. Yeah. Great point, great point. The thing that you have to keep that in mind because we can't let that happen. The reason I like it is because one, NHL teams are so much bigger, dude. Yes. It's definitely a little bit different when we're talking about like a five player rotation.

here. I think that helps. It's so much bigger. It's never going to be that crazy where the inmates won't take over the asylum when it's like you're talking about a roster of 23 guys. And, you know, so I think that's a factor. I think the other big factor for me that I like about this, one

of my least favorite things about European football is you sign a player and you give them a five-year contract. Any other team in the world can fucking buy that player at any moment. The contract me nothing in European football. It's insane. So like Enzo Fernandez on Chelsea

signs an eight year fucking deal with Chelsea. He's like two, three, or I think he re-uped recently, but he's like, he's got like six or five years left on that deal. And now Real Madrid is like, we're going to buy Enzo Fernandez. And Chelsea is being like, I think he kind of wants to leave, so we're just going to sell him. And it's like, it's not a trade. You're going to get paid for it. But it is crazy

because you're like, what the fuck's the point of the contract? I. Yeah. Yeah. So true. As I've gotten older, I have kind of come around to a, and this is what you just said, which I really like. I have come around to a, if you don't want to be here,

I don't want you here. And that's not a go fuck yourself. It's a, it's going to be better for everyone. And what's great, I think about players starting to feel more comfortable when the team has control like Matthew Kuchuk as an RFA

and now Dylan Larkin under contract going, hey, I don't want to be here anymore. Let's figure out a train. you're giving the team the opportunity to be like this. Okay. Like, I don't want you here if you're, if you're going to be fucking disgruntled and pissed off. I'm not going to get the best out of you.

And it's just going to waste the years of both of our lives. So it's like I would rather players, not knee-jerk reactions where like a guy's like a year into a contract and he's only been on the team for so long. But in a situation like this, which I think is a perfect example, to be like this, dude, yes.

I want you to feel the strength to go, you know what? I would like to fucking leave. Yep. And I am telling you, nothing would make me happier. Nothing would make me happier as a hockey fan and someone who gets to talk about hockey to see all of these guys do it. Like, I want, I want this summer,

Dylan Larkin traded, Brady Kachuk traded, Austin Matthews traded, Connor McDavid and Leon Drysidal traded. I want all of them traded this summer. And I want that for the mayhem, yes, because it's fun for us. But I want it for them infinitely more if that's what they want. Yep. And I want it for the teams.

Yeah, yes. I want it for these teams. If you have players where it's not working and they want to leave, it's going to be better for you. Go get your fucking picks. Go get your fucking different players and start again, try again. And then it's up to you as the team to make it work. that's the other side of what you just said, Chris.

It's like, yeah, if I give you fucking $80 million and I'm like, we got a win here, that is great. And as the player, I'm like, thank you. And I got to perform on the ice. But if I'm fucking doing my job, like in my opinion, Dylan Larkin has, like Connor McDavid has, like Leon Drysidal has, like fucking Austin Matthews and Brady Kachuk have,

you got to do your fucking part two and build some shit around me and get a fucking winning team on the ice. And if that's not happening, it's okay to leave. Yeah. I'm done. No, that's it, dude.

This is going to be awesome. Yeah, yeah. This is going to be awesome. And this might happen at the draft. Like, there's a reason. And I said this earlier. And yeah, this is fine to say. I said this earlier.

These aren't scoops aren't like accidental scoops. I know. This is a sports fan. I was like, whoa. How that get out? Scoop. Like somebody accidentally leaked this. Incorrect.

Every good sources say every time you've ever seen an, an NHL insider, an NFL insider, an NBA insider, anytime you've ever seen a connected person tweet, good sources say, blah, blah, blah, they have received good information because someone intentionally told them to start navigating the story or to put pressure on a move.

So someone, likely from Larkinskamp in this case, I haven't spoken to anybody, someone from Larkins camp, likely, possibly the Wings Camp, but likely Larkin's camp went, hey, hey, Elliot, here's what's happening. Please leak this today because we need X and, Y and Z to happen. So this was intentionally leaked so the ball would get rolling before the draft.

So there's a chance that something can happen with picks cup coming in this draft. So keep your fucking antenna up because this is going to be sick. Yeah. That's true. Let's rip some cards, buddy. Let's close out this episode and rip some cards. Get the brakes up, dude. Get the brakes up.

I'm starting with this one. We've got a Pokemon. on mega evolution perfect order. It says I got an additional Pokemon TCG booster pack in here. Yep, and this one too, Mega Evolution Chaos Rise. Here's the thing, folks.

If you listen to the last step, I'm getting back into the Pokemon game. There's gonna be a lot of Pokemon in here that I don't know. Oh, true. So that's also gonna be exciting. It technically is Friday too, Zach. Yeah.

Friday breaks on Friday break. That's awesome. I love how we see... Locks can... No, locks can sense it somewhere. Locks right now is like... Locke's just woke up in a cold phone. Yeah, he's like, there's someone ripping Pokemon cards.

Do not compromise the cards. What do we want here? Like, what's the Wembe Auto? Holy, there's so many cards. Mew2, Auto. Okay, I've got a training card alive on the back here. Oh, Jesus, dude. Oh, okay.

You can hold your mic? No. All right. First card I got a ghastly, and I know ghastly. Let's see if I got any. Oh, oh. There's some action in here. 70 HP, pretty good.

Yep. Esper. Esper base. Esper's number one move on here is nap. Oh, that's gas. Heal 20 damage. Yeah, correct. That's all we're going to get, by the way.

Esper's kind of cute. Oh, she's adorable. Yeah. Okay, Muteu Mega Evolution Shiny is the Wembe Auto. Okay, Muteu Mega Evolution Shiny is what we're going for. All right. God, it feels good to just see Pokemon cards on the back. Yeah.

All right, I got a salandit. This guy has Fire Clause. Okay, very cool. Nothing crazy yet. Fletchling. Okay. Fletchling has chirp and peck. Nothing great there.

God, these cards are slippery. I was like, yeah. Holy shit. We got a Vivillion. 120 HP. Ooh, shit. I'm pretty sure back in my day, like 120 was the tops. Like, that was Charzard.

Oh, damn. This is unbelievable. We got grand wings here. Blow through. We got a lux. Yeah, I like that one. Luxio, static shock. Okay.

Unbelievable. I'm going to do this a little faster here. We got it. Oh. I thought we had great action. We got an energy swatter. but we got some we got some shiny here we got a snivey holographic okay that feels like it's something we got another holographic here ariados all holographic 110 HP that's big that's probably pretty good

that's a big card we're chipping away yep and now we got some energy energy oh yeah i forgot about that that stuff okay all right forgot you get energies good little rip here a couple hollows let's do the next rip here this is the this is the case hit I like this case from the jump, dude. There you are you. Two is still the guy, huh? Mutu shiny. Mutu, uh,

Mutu, uh, Mutu, mega evolution shiny. Shiny is, I feel like, why aren't we saying? Oh, this is shiny,

I think. Yeah, yeah, that's shiny. We got two shinies in that. Okay, yeah, yeah. All right, we got another Esper. God, she's adorable. This brother,

this Esper says buddy attack. We got a minchino, a little mouse. now we got chess bin there's like a thousand of these now stunky he looks like a skunk that can't be real AZ's tranquility

this looks like an old man with a cane holy shit dude check this out I got a stunk a scun tank Wow which looks it appears to be evolution of yeah yeah got to be

this guy's all the way up to 110 HP someone in the chat tell me what's like the highest HP these days well I'll tell you you what, it's fucking metagros. Oh. This guy's fucking 180. This dude's an absolute tank.

That's incredible. Oh, we got some shinies coming up here, okay? Yep. Goomy. Just some bitch blob. Terrible. All right, another. Fantump.

His ability is spiteful evolution, and he mumbles. He mumbles. Shiny phantom. Energy, energy, energy. Okay, not the best pack on that one, I think shiny Ariado. Shout out Ryan, but we got a couple of shinies in here. Chris, I need you to investigate.

Does that, no, no, no, not on the computer. Does the wheels work on that? Oh, oh. Or not. Yes, sir. They do. That's incredible. That's incredible.

Yes, sir. That was real excitement right there, dude. I was thinking about it all night. Folks. Natural is 255. Jesus. Yep. So I wasn't even close.

He'll bite your fucking head off. I got a 180 there. Yeah. I got a lot of work to do. All right, hey, we're back in the Pokemon game. It's fantastic. We're going to keep up these rips over the course of the final because I'm addicted. Yeah.

Unbelievable game two, folks. Unbelievable time. So check this out. Little updates for you. CP and I are headed to a wedding. Yes, sir. Shout out Loops. If you're a fan of the almost Friday network channel and glue guy, who's next, you know Loops.

Loops getting married this weekend. Yeah. So we are going to be not boots on the ground for game three, but Vegas, do not worry. we will be coming in hot right after. And I was thinking maybe we do the live Sunday morning. Like whenever we wake up Sunday, we just talk about the game from Saturday night. Yeah, I'm into that.

And then, yeah. I assure you we're not going live post game. Oh, buddy, I am going to be doing the worm on the dance floor. Hell yeah. Sunday morning. Sunday morning. Yeah. Whenever I wake up, which will probably be 2 p.m.

But yes. All right. So we won't be boots on the ground in Vegas for game three. We will be covering the game as usual. And we will have an episode for you after the game, no matter what. Sunday, we're going to be popping on the bird, rip into Vegas. We will be there game

for fans of Stanley Cup Live. Do not worry. Our great friend Alexa is going to be covering for us, game three, hosting the show, and then we will be joining with her. She's going to be popping on with us for game four. So we'll be right back doing Stanley Cup Live as usual. Do not worry. Vegas, we will

see you soon. We're going to keep rocking in all these games. It is amazing. As always, nothing but love for all of you babes. What a great time. You got to get some rest before this flight. Get some sleep. Cars coming in two hours. We'll see you this weekend for more action.

Bang Skate Hard. Keep sending me Pokemon cards.