Empty Netters Podcast - The NHL Wildcard Race Is Drunk

Episode Date: March 24, 2026

What a log jam we’ve got on our hands. Every division is up for grabs except the Central but there’s plenty of heavy weight drama there too. The Preds and Blue Jackets are making last minute surges. The Islanders, Red Wings, Sharks, and Kings might break our hearts. The first round matchups are looking spicy. The college hockey bracket is set and we are fired up! Dartmouth is in! Merrimack is in! Can anyone beat Michigan? The 90s are coming back and we are here for it. And the beer league hotline is nasty! Donate to Jessi Pierce's fundraiser here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-mike-hinrichs-after-losing-jessi-pierce-children Chapters: 0:00 - Intro 09:12 - Playoff Race is Gas 30:55 - Preds on a Heater 39:40 - Frozen Four 46:51 - Jessi Pierce 53:09 - The 90s are Back! 1:18:13 - Beer League Hotline 1:28:32 - Blind Ranking 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.  Head to factormeals.com/netters50off and use code netters50off to get 50 percent off and free breakfast for a year! *Offer only valid for new Factor customers with code and qualifying auto-renewing subscription purchase. Make healthier eating easy with Factor. Bauer just dropped their Spring Apparel Collection, and it goes way beyond the rink. Lightweight layers, breathable fabrics, and pieces built for athletes who never stop moving. From the rink to the street, Bauer's got you covered. Shop the new Spring Apparel Collection at Bauer.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

So we are back. We are horned up, and we are going deep. Finished tonight with some chicken fingers and a few guineasas and ran into you guys. That's where this pod came to life. Ice is ready and we are back with another episode of the empty netters podcast brought to you by BetMGM. I'm your host. Dan Powers over here on The Sticks. We got Evan Dr. Watkins.

Hello, hello. He's got a great Mario Lemieux statue on his mic. My little totem. And a great Iron Maiden shirt. Thank you. I've been listening to a lot of classic rock lately in the gym. Oh, yeah? It's really nice.

Iron Maiden's great for working out because the songs are like eight minutes long and they're all fucking metal as hell. I can't remember the last time I worked out to Classic Rock. and it's like firing me up. I'm like doing this in between sets. Like Bill and Ted. It's pretty great. Then over here to my left, this guy's commitment issues are so intense

that even when he buys new things, he doesn't use them for six months. Chris Bowers. As always, why do you think you do that? Because then they're not new anymore. That is such a fair reason. Because they're brand new,

their potential. Do you keep things in their packaging as long as possible? Yeah, he also does the, you get a new laptop, for example, and it has that piece of like film on it. He'll just leave that on forever. Because then eventually I go, whosh. Yeah. And it's brand new.

We had a really funny situation in our old house that we lived in. We moved in, and in the kitchen, all of the drawers and cabinets had this see-through blue tape on it. They were white cabinets. I know exactly what we were talking about. And when we first moved in, we were like, whoa, look at these blue drawers in cabinets. And then day three, we were like opening drawers and they were like kind of peeling. And I was like, oh, we got to peel

this stuff off. Because I was like, what? But peel it off. Because then the first time you make pasta and it gets all over the place, you don't have to clean it up, you just whip that on. It's incredible. I would put new ones on every day if I could. What's funny is you're not a clean freak at all, but this is all lending itself to you in your older life being the old man who has

the plastic cover on his couch. Yeah. Dude, I don't even, they say the new car depreciates the second you drive it off the lot. Yeah. I buy a new car, leave it on a lot. Don't use it. Bike everywhere. They go, do you have a car? I go, yeah, go to, go to Marina Toyota. It's sitting right there, baby. You can sell it for brand new. You know what's funny, Chris? I feel like you've been in the market for a new car for a while, and I am terrified of the day he buys his new car, because I don't think he'll drive into it. Do you want to buy my Chevy Nova? Maybe.

Does it have a leak still? No, the leak is fixed. You've got a great opportunity. You're never going to fill a tank up again. Do you think you'll ever actually buy a new car? No. Yeah, out of fear of like the, you're going to ruin it. Correct.

I will only buy a car that's on his last legs. That's, I mean. You should get a, you should lease then. You should be a lease guy. You're a lease guy. You get a lease. And every two years, yeah. Boom.

That's what I did. Yeah. But then. then they fuck you these prices man yeah i just had to buy my car i was like you they the chart the prices they were giving me for the new lease i was like get fucked i'm just buy this car out get a recumbent bike hey now we're talking we've got a great episode for you folks we got a lot of hot ice to get into the wild card race is out of control the preds are surging we got the frozen four matchups going and we got some fun games before we jump into that though can we just really quick

Evan, have you seen Project here on Larry? Yeah, we saw it Thursday night at like 945, which I never go to a movie that late anymore, and it was fucking great. Was Gosling there? I saw he was surprising people on that Thursday, I think that was in New York, I saw that too. Oh, yeah. We saw it an IMAX, though, so it was like he was right in my thing.

Yeah, that's true. It was awesome. You watched the movie with him. I loved it. I loved it. I was actually just talking to our pal Jerry, one of our great editors. And I'm seeing a lot on the

A lot of people online are going nuts for this movie. Right. And then, of course, that is being met with the people who didn't love it, who have the reaction to be like, dude, that movie's not fucking great at all and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. This is what I think is happening. I think Project Hail Mary is great. And I think we haven't had a great blockbuster in a while. And I think people are really horny for a great blockbuster movie.

and talking about from a couple of guys who go to great lengths to exaggerate to make points, I think we sometimes need to acknowledge that when someone just sees a great blockbuster and they haven't seen a great blockbuster in a while and then they talk about it like it's the best movie they've ever seen, they're just being like, I loved it. Yeah.

You know? Oh, don't get mad at them for over-haping. Yeah, okay. I mean, listen. You're in the afterglow. We have seen a lot of overhype lately for a lot of things, a lot of content. It happens. That's called Oscar season, baby.

It is what it is. They go, this movie's incredible. And I go, literally all of these movies stink except for F1. Okay, but I think. You didn't see Hamnet. Yeah, I haven't seen Hamnet yet. You didn't like seeing the child die. If that's how you felt about this year's movies, that that's totally fine.

But I think we also shouldn't do that. We shouldn't overcorrect and say stuff stinks when people are too horny. I think that the fact that, well, first of all, it's really good. good for movie theaters that an Amazon film made that much money in its opening weekend. So that's part of the reason we went to support it on Thursday. Also, practical effects, that fucking little rock guy was a puppet. Yep. Amazing. I'm like blown away by that. I did. That's unreal. So good. So yeah, I mean, just, and Ryan Gosling, bona fide movie star. Just, you know, my generation's, I don't know what you'd call Paul Newman maybe. Yeah. Ooh. Like,

like for the millennials, he is the dude that I, I like when he was in drive I was like all right mad respect for him loved him in Blade Runner 2049 I loved him in that I think he's great I think he's great too I think this is his lane well he's fallen into this lane now that he's sort of

become a personality I think it's it's funny because I love wow we're getting some gosseling talk on the pod right now this is awesome I adore him and his early stuff we always used to joke in his early days when he was doing Blue Valentine, Lars and the Real Girl.

His agent must have been like, fucking Jesus Christ, dude, will you do a blockbuster movie for the level of God? Like, he was in an indie lane for a long time. And he's so great in those things. And then you have Drive, you have Blade Runner 2049. I love those movies. But when Gosling shows his comedy chops, I think he's at his best.

Absolutely. The nice guys, fall guy. this. I also think he's one of the best physical comedians alive today. It's unbelievable. Absolutely. But the movie is awesome. Go see it. You'll have a great time. Yes. You'll have a great time. This was, for me, it was one of the first times in a long time. And I loved the book. I loved the book. And I thought they did a great job about what to keep and what they totally did. But this was one of the first times and you just you just forgave them. So I'm not mad at them because I accept your forgiveness. Yes. preemptively. But this was one of the first times in a long time, close friends of mine overhyped

something to me. And I think because they weren't book readers, so they didn't, they just came in so fresh. But the reviews I was getting was like, I literally bawled my eyes out the entire time. I was either howling laughing or bawling crying as the most emotional rider. And I was like, oh my God. And I saw it and I was like, that was wonderful. But yeah, what the fuck just happened? Right. You knew, yeah. I think he's right. People are horny for this. But I, but I, but I, And I think you're right. I think it's just, we were horny. We needed a, you know, it's March.

We needed a blockbuster. We haven't had a, I can't even, let's think off the top of our heads is F1, the last blockbuster we had. Well, what, what, what, what, I, that's, but I think Christmas, it was a blockbuster. That's what I, that's, but I think Christmas was weird. It was very, it was very award season, yeah, coded. I think I said that right, the young kids. Jesus Christ.

Did you like the, had you read the book? No, I haven't read, I didn't, I didn't spoil the ending for. or anyone listening to this pod that hasn't seen it, but did you like the ending? On its face, I felt that the, it felt like too many endings. That was my one critique is that it's a long movie and it felt like it had a few narrative stops and starts at the end.

But like, on the whole, it was so enjoyable that I'll forgive something for not like hitting my exact, you know, preference as far as act structure goes. Okay, we'll discuss after. Yeah. Let's jump into some hockey talk. We got some hot ice going on here. the wild card race is absolutely insane it's fucking drunk it's absolutely drunk chris yep so i'm gonna run

down some of the wild card races here and it's it's every division okay the atlantic is a bloodbath we got the habs with 86 points the bruns with 86 points the red wings with 84 points the senators with 81 points the sends are totally in it yes they are they are totally in it and credit to you cp you called this like three weeks ago oh you were like the sends are not dead everyone thinks they're dead, but they are not dead. And you're right. So, that one is an insane situation. The Met is a

bloodbath. We've got Pitt with 86 points. Columbus with 85 points. The Islanders with 85 points. The Flyers with 80 points and the caps with 79 points. I included those last two because, like, three-game swing. The Flyers are absolutely in it. The caps are dead. 71 games.

Actually, great point. The caps do have two games over the Flyers and... Everyone, pretty much. Actually, maybe Pitt's. The Islanders have 71 played, and Pitt and Columbus are 70. But the flyers have a nice little edge on the caps. The caps are dead.

Are you officially deading the caps? Caps miss playoffs. And what's crazy, unfortunately. This has happened a few times. The Caps and the Cends are plus 12, Goldiff, and the Cends are plus 21. Every other team you named is, or not every other team, but a lot of these other rebel teams are minus. And I'm like, how are you two?

How are the Cends plus 21? And like, we're going to miss playoffs. It is so interesting, man. I don't get how it's happening. The, hold on. The Pacific, or excuse me, yeah, we had the Medes, the Pacific is a bubble bath. Yes.

The Knights, 78 points. Oh, it's a pillow fight, that's what, yeah, but I was doing blood bath, so I wanted to go. It is a McDavid called it a pillow. So funny. The Knights, 78 points, Oilers 77 points, King 73, Cracken 71, Sharks, 70. Are you willing to dead any of them?

I'm no. You didn't say the Jets. Yeah, the Jets are dead. The Jets have 70 points. The Jets are so dead. The Jets lost in a shootout to my boys, the Penguins, who don't win shootout. Because Sid went, I'm enough of this.

Yeah, I got to put an end of the shootout man. I apologize to the Jets because I included the, who did I include? You included the caps. I included the, yeah, but, well, that's, different conference. Yeah. Well, the sharks have 70 points. Like the Jets have 70 points, different games.

So for the same reason you can church the caps. The reason I didn't include the Jets, Chris, is because the three, I didn't include the Central. Because the three central spots, the three central spots are completely locked. And Utah has fucking 10 more points than the Jets.

The Jets are dead. Well, the only argument is the Jets are five points out of the second Wild Car, which is the only one that. that matters. And the people in front of them are all terrible. They're all, they're all literally all bad hockey. They're all such assholes. So I'm like, the Jets have the second best goal diff of the remaining teams. I know. The best goalie by a mile. Probably, you know, they're Ross, I was going to say they're stars, but like there's some stars and some stars in the other

teams, but like they go like, no joke in a race to five points. Yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if the Jets finish first team out. I mean, it's so fair. I think, I think, I think, They are my, your, who did you just dead? The caps. They are my caps. I'm like, you guys are dead. I'm sorry, go home. And they have the best record in the last, you know, they're the only team winning of all

these teams. That's true. I mean, but still, like, this is the best stretch of their season and they're five, three, and two. And I'm like, you guys are fucking terrible. Yeah. Like, go away. I'm actually really excited to see where they finish.

I know. They're probably going to make playoffs. Yeah. In the Pacific, we had that quick, great, great snipe. you, Leon had a quote that was a little sketchy. Well, it was sharp action by you, dude. Like, you're the one that was like

you, they were like, oh, Leon's out for the rest of the regular season and you were like, I bet it's into playoffs. And I was like, no. And then he, wow, that was crazy. He said, they go, you can be back to playoffs and he said, I hope so. That's the plan. That's the reason I'm here because he's in, he's in Germany. The recovery will definitely take a few weeks, that's for sure. I hope we play long enough so I can help out again at some point.

and I was like, oh, so you're dead. Like, he's being like, yeah, maybe I can get back in the second or third round. Yeah. And I'm like, oh, my God, dude. And that's not a good thing. It's not good. That's not good. Not good.

So we've got a crazy situation. And we're going to, like we said at the top, we're going to get into the Preds because the Preds are doing something special right now. But let's stick to the Eastern Conference for a second here, Chris. Who do you think? I wrote down a few things. I said, biggest shithead, biggest heartbreak, and most fun. Who do you think in the East is the biggest shithead if they miss playoffs?

There is an answer that you are going to say. Okay. And I know why you would say it, but I think objectively. If you're looking at this, God, and you know what's fucking crazy is if this happens, this is actually extremely sharp from me. Yeah. But I think objectively on paper of the teams that could realistically miss, I think if the Montreal Canadiens fall out of the playoffs, you go, bro, that is crazy.

Now, what is sharp about me, actually, maybe you too, I can't quite remember, is in the preseason previous, I had the HABs like fifth in the Atlantic. Yeah. And I was like, they're going to be right there on the middle. And then for the majority of the beginning of the season, they were in first place. And everyone was like, nice habs call, moron. And now I'm like this, they're about to miss playoffs. So you're fucking welcome.

But just because of the way their season went, I think they would be an actual fuck-up. I think I'm, I hate doing this. I think I'm totally with you. Yep. Because, but the fucking runner-up is Detroit, which is what I thought you were going to say. Yeah. So Tampa's in. Carolina is obviously in.

Pitt who has been in all There's an argument to me made Pit's been in all year And if they miss now your assholes But I don't think that they're shitheads If they miss I don't think that's gonna happen But it's also crazy

Because it's like They are one point ahead of two teams In front of them And I just give them so much credit Because they did not get any better At all In the last few years They did nothing

And their best players got older They got a new coach Except they got a new coach And they got a few young coach And they survived a 10 game, Crosby injury. Yeah. And they survived the blip.

They survived blip A, which was like, they did free fall out of the playoffs for a stretch. They were in it, and they were like, oh, we're dead. And I was like, oh, there we go. And then they were like, just kidding. We are back. So I, even if they were to somehow slip down here in the last 12 games of the season and miss, I don't call them shitheads because I'm like, you should have never been in here. You've been overachieving this whole time.

It's incredible. Boston, I kind of put in that same category. Like I think my prediction at the beginning of the year was there going to be a bubble wildcard team all year and they're just barely going to miss and it's all going to be, everything has looked so great. And they have done that wire to wire. They have been like this, they get into third and a couple times, but like they've been a wildcar team all year. And I know that if they were to somehow slip and miss, people would be like, are you kidding me? We've been in playoffs all year. But I'd be like, but that's okay. Every arrow is pointing up for Boston. Yep. But they obviously will be pissed if they miss But I think it's Montreal And I think it's Detroit Yes Detroit is like If you I'd have marched yourself again

And they had a great We put them on fraud watch and they had a monster win Yeah huge win and then lost to Boston Like that's I'm not mad at that loss And Sway played out of his fucking mind You just need that game You need that game so badly Like think about that

That's just a quick swap there Like they have 86 points and Boston is 84. Yep. So those two are up there. The Sends are still in this, I mean, you're so right. The plus 21 gold deaf. I'm like, how are you guys down here?

It's crazy. What's going on? But I do think it's those two teams in the East. If those two teams miss, you are shitheads. And I think we, I know you already dead of them, but like, how are the caps not in that category? Yeah. The caps. The caps go into what we talked about last week.

week, whichever day that was with the blind ranking, which was like, which dudes, Monday. The biggest jokes. And I think it's, like, let's do that real quick. I got to say, devils, my podium, Panthers get a pass, I guess, because of the injuries, even though this is still crazy. No, it's total. Dude, like, you had Kachuk out, and everyone was like, that's going to be a big deal. And then you lose Barkov for the entire season.

That is the big team loses your best team. And then like, Mikala was out for half the season. Like, dude, that was, this, this would have been a miracle if they made it and they didn't make it. So it is what it is. So, I mean, my podium is caps, devils, leaps, of preseason. You know, because preseason, there's always one. I always say this. But again, we can't even get into those because they're not in the wildcard race.

Like, this is now, like, the last 20 games, these are all the teams who have been in this race. Now what is it? Yeah. So who is the biggest? I suppose heartbreak and shithead are so similar. But I think heartbreak for me, if we're doing this,

is the ones that I just mentioned. Like, it would be heartbreaking if Pittsburgh fell out after how fun this has been. It would be heartbreaking if, I think it'd be heartbreaking if Columbus falls out. Oh, interesting.

I think heartbreaks the islanders. A hundred percent agree. The biggest heartbreak is you go, oh, damn it. And dude, it is just heartbreak. It actually, it is, um, uh, what's that, what's that expression? Uh, headache not a heartache? Uh, it's a headache not heartache.

Yeah. I almost want to push it to that because if the islanders fall out, it is like, oh, no. But I'm like, dude, who gives a fuck? Oh, yeah. Your future is fine. It's not a heartache. Yeah. However, there's been a lot of beaking.

Yeah. You know, like it's been like, we own New York. And as we know, I'm an Islander's fan now. You're an Islander's fan now. But like, it would be a tough look because it has been very like fucking playoff hockey back on the early. You know, like coming to the island in an exciting way, we own New York. And if they missed, it'd be like, oh, no. That would suck.

There will be there will be devastation there. And the only reason I think Islanders over Blue Jackets is because the Blue Jackets have just surged. and I know they did this they did the well actually they did the islanders thing last year yeah they did this all year and then fell out so it would be back to back years of like fuck me yes but the islanders with this their new toy and they're in the playoffs

all year and now you're like psych it's an 82 game season and you're out man um I think Boston falls in this category too in heartache it would be again not a heartache yeah I think they're the exact same things the yeah because you just said it perfectly and I was mentioning all arrows are pointing up

for Boston I mean you're about to get Higgins and Zellers and Laterno. I mean, unbelievable. But given that they've been in all year, this is one of the more effective retools we've seen in years in the NHL. They're so fun. McAvoy's playing as good as he ever has. Geeky's unbelievable.

Pasta's perfect. Sway is fucking phenomenal. And if all of a sudden they just like slipped out, people would be like, wait, what? Dude. Like, I truly think fans in Boston would be, flabbergasted if they did not make playoffs they'd be like wait what are you talking about we're not in the playoffs right now i also think if boston got in the playoffs they would go pretty far i love that

that's a team um so yeah dude i always think this about uh and dude few things would make me happier than to see like a sick islanders run a sick bluejackers run whatever but then the teams without the experience usually have that one year of like okay we're in and we got popped Boston i would not want to face at all because they have a fucking zes and a finalist goalie and all the experience on that roster. Right now, they'd be playing Buffalo. Yeah. Like, and like, dude, they'd be playing Buffalo, and if Boston ads,

I think, I don't know what the situation is, if Hagan's doesn't join this team, that I would be fucking flabbergasting to me. Good point, I didn't even think about that. A lot of flabbergasting going on right now. But if James Hagen's not get inserted into this lineup, I would be shocked. And I think

there's legitimately an argument for Laterno too. I, it's, Dean Laterno is such a stereotypical three years at BC guy, and I think he's going right back to BC, and he'll have another great junior, or a great junior year, hopefully. But there's an argument for both of them to come, but if you add Hagen's to this group and Buffalo catches them round one, and Buffalo's like, we haven't been in the playoffs in 30 years. Yeah. And Boston is like, sup. And you have pasta and McAvoy and sway. That is not a fun first round matchup. Yeah. So I completely agree with you. It's fun for us to watch.

So fun for us to watch. But I'm so with you, I'm like, fuck, that's not a fun matchup. Every time I see them play, I'm like, they're a good, they look like they're going to do some damage if they get in the playoffs. If they sneak in. I'll tell you one thing, too. If the penguins don't get in the playoffs, I think this is the last time you'll see Malk in there. Oh, I think so too. Yeah.

And I don't know. How do you feel about that as a penguins fan? I mean, you got to pull the trigger at some point. You can't keep these guys until they're fucking dusty bones. And I love Gino so much, but I think he rubbed a lot of people the wrong way with that suspension, especially if they look and they go, wow, we could have maybe won a couple games if you weren't suspended. Yeah. Not that he is.

That was crazy. He tried to kill Rasmus Daly? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, he plays with passion. Yes. But I'm just saying, like, their dubus is refusing to nail down what his contract is until after the season. Yeah.

And his agents wants to have that conversation now. Yeah. But they're like, let's see how we do. And I think that's smart because they've got to start. thinking about the future. Would you be devastated if he signs, you know, like with Florida? I think he's got one or two years left

in him anyway, so I really don't. I wish him well. He's done his service to my favorite team, so there's there'd be no hard feelings whatsoever. I like that. I like that too. Okay, and then the most fun, I think my picks Columbus. Me too. 100%. We're saying all the same,

like, obviously, Red Wings guy, I need that, but it's like, if the Red Wings get in, it's it's, we are officially at, it's not fun. It's like, thank you. It's relief. It's relief. I think the Islanders would still be fun.

Me too. But it's the Columbus Blue Jacks. And for me, the penguins are fun. I put them in, in heartache or whatever it is. But the, yeah, just this Columbus surge, the super late surge. Yeah. Especially after a super late free fall last year. Yeah.

It's just such an amazing thing for those fans. And some of the best fans in the league. So true. People forget that. They sell out every fucking game. Patient fans. All right, let's kick it to the West Coast Western Conference, do the same thing. Biggest shitheads if you miss playoffs.

The biggest shitheads. Spoilers. The, okay. The answer. Sorry. No, no, no. The answer is Vegas and Edmonton. Now, it'll never happen, but it is the answer.

It's not never, dude. No. I mean, look, look. Actually, yeah, I guess it is because it's behind them. It's not great that Edmonton has lost two in a row with Leon out. because, I mean, these fucking clown-ass performances in the Pacific is just so crazy. But then again, the Kings have one game in hand, and they're only four points back. So if, like, the Kings win two straight here on this trip of theirs, and if Edmonton loses two in a row, and you're like, well...

But do you do you say with the dry-sidal injury that it's like a similar Panthers argument? Absolutely not. It's the Edmonton Oilers. Yeah. It's the Edmonton Oilers, and you have Connor, and it's this... It's this, you know, this moment. I mean, it's the Chiefs, right? Like, the Chiefs missed the playoffs. And I'm like, you have Patrick Mahon. I know.

You haven't seen to win the Super Bowl every year, but you certainly need to make the fucking playoffs. Yeah. And the Oilers, I'm like, you have Conrademann, you can't miss playoffs. If Vegas, I mean, good God. The answer is Vegas, but they probably... There are literally only two teams in the Pacific who have a plus goal differential, and it's Vegas with plus three and Edmonton with plus one. Yes.

This division is so bad. Tragedy. It's crazy. Those two would be catastrophic. And I think the only other one is the LA Kings. Okay, so the Kings, yes. Like, it's, we were kind of doing shithead in the East because of the season the teams have had. Yeah.

The season the Kings have had doesn't make them shitheads at all for missing playoffs. They have been this the whole fucking time. But the roster the Kings have and the copy of it makes you the biggest shitheads. It makes you shitheads. And it also, Chris, it's like, you just can't have the, their defense has been good all year. They're just not scoring goals. And a huge part of that was the coaching situation. And you waited until fucking like after the deadline fire Hiller.

That, your shitheads for that. Crazy, dude. I was after Olympics, yeah, right? Yeah, yeah. Which is why we talked. We were like, what? Why didn't you? Why?

You had two, three weeks to. And then it's like, I look at, you have these performances, man, that's like you lose to a surging buffalo. Like at home, but like, okay, that's fine. You lose at home to the Flyers in a shootout. Flyers won the whole West Coast swing. I know. It's fucking epic. Great job Flyers, but like the Flyers are not a good team.

So like that is a shithead loss. A 6-4 loss to the Devils is a shithead loss. Dude, they're just like... You know, it's fun. You're right, by the way. But I love how the Flyers, in just in this anecdote, the Flyers have 80 fucking points. And we're like, the Flyers are bad.

And I'm like, you know who's bad? The Kings? Like, the Flyers would literally be second in the Pacific. You know who's bad? The Cracken. You know who's bad? The Sharks, the Jets, the Oilers, Vegas. Like, the Flyers are better than all these teams. The Kings are... Minus 26 gold diff. The sharks are minus 35.

Seattle's minus 17. Like these teams are having a tough go of it. So biggest shit heads got to be all Pacific teams, Vegas, Edmonton, and Kings. Vegas, dude. If Vegas were to miss. And I don't want that at all. I love the Vegas. Oh, dude.

The answer is actually Vegas. Someone is in big trouble. If Vegas goes, we have Eichel and Marner. Yeah. And Stone and everybody on this team. And hurdle. Yeah. And we just traded for Rasmus Anderson.

And we have Noah Hannifan. But Stone is he injured? Jay Theodore. Yeah. Stone's injured. Shocker. Bummer. Okay.

Biggest heartbreak. I'm going to go. I'm going Utah. Yeah. Yeah. I think that's correct because of the play of late. You know, I think the, I think the Sharks fans, similar to the Islanders fans, I would go, God, this is such a heartbreak.

But it's okay. You're fine. You're fine. But I think Sharks fans kind of were like, holy shit. We're doing it. We're fucking back. And now I'm like, you're going to miss. But they're in that Boston Islanders category of like the future is so bright.

I don't think they ever should have been here in this fight. I look at it from an analytics standpoint. Utah is just, they're a good hockey team. Yes. They have a plus 25 gold diff. They added weeks. this is like to me they have suffered from the fact

that the Central is a fucking absolute dog fight every day but they are a playoff hockey team and if they didn't sneak in I didn't want to say sneak in you have a five point cushion at this point if you don't make it

you'd be like are you fucking kidding me what happened right so I think that would be heartbreaking for them um yes I'm with you on that And then most fun, I think the only answer is the sharks. The sharks are the most fun team, maybe in the league. Yeah, okay. Vives, vibes, vibes, vibes.

Yep. And I'm not even going to say but. I guess I'll just kind of go both because you're right about that. And I know you disagree with this, but the Nashville Predators doing exactly what Columbus is. It's the same answer. It's the same answer where we go, you were long dead. We've been discussed twice all year. This is a perfect transition.

Just get right into the Preds, Chris. Talk to the people about what the Preds are doing. The Nashville Predators also retooled kind of on the fly in a way a couple of years ago. And the Preds canceled their U-2 concert. And then- We've been talking about this for years, dude. That was like three years ago. The Preds canceled their U2 concert.

A few years ago, the Preds were on a road trip, and they were supposed to go to U2, and then they were playing bad, and then Trots was like, the U2 concert, the concert's not canceled. You are all canceled. You are not going on. Oh, that's so funny. And the team was like, what? And they were like legitimately devastated. Punished them.

Yeah. But then they went on an all-time heater, got in playoffs, and it was really fun, and they were playing the one-seed Canucks in the first round, which is like the only time the Canucks have been good in the last fucking decade, but the Canucks were nasty that year. And they took them to six games. A lot of us, maybe one of us, I can't remember, picked the Preds to win that series because it looked like they could.

And they kind of should have. Like they were, I think there was like a couple games in that series where they gave up a game time goal with 10 seconds left and then it would lose an overtime. Yeah. Whereas like that series is right there for the taking. So the Preds go on this absolute like, wow, we got really good at the end of the year,

and then we took the President's Trophy team to the Wire. That summer, they're like this. We'll also have Stephen Stamcos, Jonathan Marshall Show and Shea? Who else did they get that? Yeah, Shea. And everybody was, this was going into last year. And everyone's like, oh my God, the Preds are going to win the fucking Central.

And then they fucking blow and missed playoffs and it was crazy. This year, I was like, I think sometimes you just need a season to get all those new pieces going or whatever. So coming into this year, I was like, I think the Preds are going to be back in playoffs and going to be in the mixer here. And and Stammer is going to be all the way back and all the things. shit. And then to start the year, they sucked and Trots was like, I'm also, I quit. I was like, oh no, this is terrible. And they were dead, dude. They were fucking dead.

And our boy, Chris, is always texting us like, Preds look good and we will text back. Like, shut up, dude. The Preds stink. And then now, Stammer's got 33 fucking goals and the Preds are in a wild card. And certainly not comfortably, obviously, but like with a mini, you look at the East, those guys all have the same amount of points. Like, they have a little gap.

little space. They are not comfortable. They have space in a wild card spot. And if this Predators team, after all the bullshit, going all the way back to the U2 show, goes on an absolute heater here and makes playoffs again, that is a fucking awesome story. I completely disagree. Really? I think Chris is absolutely correct in that it is a fun.

It's an awesome story. I love the city of Nashville so much. I love the Predators so much that we're going to. their fans, their barn, everything. If this team steals a playoff spot from one of these teams below, just to get fucking buzz-said by the Colorado Avalanche in the Ryan O'Reilly Bowl, I will go, cool, that was fun. Thanks a lot, guys. This team has been so mid all year.

You'd rather see the Kings in there or something. You know what? as I am obviously biased towards the Kings, but the Kings have been assholes all year as well. I think seeing the Cracken or the Sharks sneak into the playoffs would be objectively fun. It would be fun to see playoffs with those teams, even if they also got swept. If this fucking retirement home Nashville Predators team gets into the playoffs, they're not that old. Dude. They're the penguins, dude.

We're not talking about the Penguins. These guys aren't that old. You're telling me that Steve Stamco. They're not that old, is what I'm saying. I don't know. If they're excited to go to a YouTube concert, they might be old. Stammers's, what, 34? 36.

Yeah. Stammer's 36. What is O'Reilly? 36. Probably. What is Marcia so? 34, 35. O'Reilly 35.

They should put a stat on here where it's average age of the team. I'm like, what is Yosi? 34. 35. They're pretty old. They're pretty old. So it's just like, and again, I love the Preds. I'm sorry.

I don't like being negative. The average age is 28.3 years old. Yeah. I mean, like, that's, there's a lot of young guys. And there's a lot of exciting. Like, we know, or huge evangelista fans, Matthew Wood looks fucking incredible. We love Nick Hague on the back end. I love this team.

I just think they've, I don't know. Yeah, dude, for me, They've just been the same team all year, and they've won four in a row. And literally it's all because the Pacific is so bad that they have somehow snuck into a wildcard spot. And I'm like, dude, I refuse to get horned up about this story. Because like what Columbus is doing, Columbus has 10 more points than them. I mean, the entire West, except for the three central teams. I know it's insane.

And maybe the ducks is embarrassing. Yeah. But dude, the reason I, I guess I don't passionately disagree with you, but the reason I disagree is as a, if you're asking me to pick, like Chris Powers, I would like the Kings to get in because they're all my friends and I really want this for Copee. Then I would like the sharks to get in because they are also all my friends. And they are a really fun team and an exciting team. But as an objective hockey fan, like are just a neutral, I'm just a hockey fan.

I'm new to this sport and I'm curious. The kings have sucked all year and I don't need this. I don't need them to, they will also get swept by the AF. So like, good day. Thanks for coming out. The Jets have sucked all year. The Krakken I don't give a fuck about. If I'm just a neutral, I'm like, okay, whatever.

The Krakken, the Krakken dude have done nothing ever. They made playoffs once in a really cool thing. It's literally just the sharks. It's just the sharks because it would be cool. And that is where you're right. Yes. And so for me, as a new. The Sharks would be cool, but then the Preds go, that town fucking loves that tea.

Like you just said all those nice things. The bar in the city, like Nashville in the playoffs. I'm like, fuck yes. So it's as an objective, it's Preds, it'shards. And it's also like, I obviously, I love Kopey with all of my heart and I desperately need them to get into the playoffs for him. But given what we just said, how do I not also feel that way about Stammer, O'Reilly, Yosey, Marcii, like, All of these guys are older as well, and I'm like, get them in again. So, yeah, it's, maybe I'm being too harsh on the Preds.

But listen, they're playing great fucking hockey. And if they make it, they'll also have earned it. Yeah. It's a where so many of these teams are talking about, like, hey, assholes, win games down the stretch here, you have a chance. No one is doing it except this team. So it's like, fucking egg, yeah, you deserve it. And it was like, they beat, they beat the hawk.

Hawks are feisty, but they beat the Hawks. But then they beat the Knights, the Spunk, and the Jets. And like we just said about Detroit, it's like, when you play the teams that you are competing with. For this last spot, you have to beat them. True. So I'm like, okay, you just play the Jets, the Spunk, and the Knights.

True, win, win, win. I'm like, that's how you do it. That's how you get it. True. God, the Preds are back, and we will be right back after this ad break. Do you think you know college basketball? Well, then, prove it.

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Dartmouth, you know what? I'm actually so happy for Dartmouth because they are making, they won the ECAC, which is an automatic bid, baby. And they get their first tournament appearance since 19-fucking 80. And Cornell was the preseason high favorite on that. They were like 10th in the preseason polls. And then they didn't play for so long. It was crazy. The Ivy's just like, don't play.

Everyone else is ripping around. Dartmouth, I think, in memory serves, went 11 and 0 to start. Oh, they were a wagon like that. And it just felt like one of those, man, this could be the hot start. And then they cool off a bit. And then you get to the tournament and then Cornell waxes you. And then they go, thanks for the fun. You're out.

So to see them just continue it all year and then win the ECAC and get in like that was unreal. Unreal. Taking a look at the automatic qualifiers for winning their conferences. We've got Bentley winning the AHA, absolute joke of a school, clown bums. There's like 5,000 foreigners on this team who are 27 years old. Can't wait to watch you get your cheeks clapped by Michigan. Hey, they're in, buddy. You fraudulent.

They are. Loser school, Bentley. Fuck you. Michigan, duh, win in the Big Ten. Minnesota State went in the CCHA. Dartmouth, as Chris mentioned, went in the ECAC. Merrimack. Merrimack!

Win in Hockey East and Denver won in the NCHC. Unbelievable. Merrimack wins its first ever hockey East chip. lowest seed to ever do it. Eight seed. Dude, that was an insane run. Dude. Like, they beat Lowell, great.

But then you beat number one, Providence, number two, UMass, and then Yukon. Holy hell. Yeah, one, two, three, in order is insane. And that final, the goal that's Swedish dude, Lungren. Max Lundgren. Yeah. 49 saves in the final, two one win in the final. That's outrageous.

That is the first. the fact that, I mean, listen, you had the chance all year to be a top seed and the one, two, three seeds were the teams you, Dan just listed. But the BCBU puke job this year is insane considering the players on those rosters. It is pretty tough, man.

Like there are some schools not in this tournament that I'm like, yikes. Yane is shocking to me, but I'm like, after the season you had last year and some of the guys you brought in and the coach you have, but I was like, you know, whatever, it's a competitive division in college hockey. But BCBU with the guys on those rocks.

It is a tough look for Boston. To not even be in the conversation. Like you couldn't make a single run in the hockey. You didn't do anything all regular season. I know. You couldn't make a run on the hockey tournament and now you're not even participating in national championship. There's a chance we get some of those Boston guys in the NHL early, though.

Yes, Greg. I think Cole's already there. But it's crazy. We're going to do our brackets next episode. Yeah, we'll reveal our picks. But for now, just running through it. We've got in Albany, New York, Michigan against Bentley, Minnesota Duluth against Penn State, and over in Worcester, Michigan State against Yukon, Dartmouth against Wisconsin,

and down in Loveland, Western Michigan against Minnesota State, Denver against Cornell, and then in Sioux Falls, we've got North Dakota against Merrimack and Providence against Quinnipiac. Exciting stuff. Some juicy matchups there. Um, the, they start on Thursday, the game starts on Thursday pretty early. So, too, I mean, like Dan said, next episode will come out before that.

So you'll be able to hear our picks. Here's what I got, Dan. Here's what I got for you. I love, and this is, and this happens in the basketball tournament too, but I, it's funny just to see where the games land. Uh, like who's playing in which cities, because it can be really unlucky.

Yeah. And Merrimack, I think, I think there was a dude. It's like the, fuck, I read this. The captain of Merrimack, maybe. I just get so. with these neutral sites. It's so fucking stupid. Well, the first couple rounds should be home.

That'd be cool for the fans. Yes. Like, just get the home game. Obviously. But the Merrimack captain is like a grad student or something. And he said winning hockey is the best. He was like, this will be the best moment of my life. So point being, they're already happy.

They're just happy to be here. But to catch North Dakota in Sioux Falls, like, that is such an easy trail. Oh, my God. Poor, poor Merrimack. Like, they're going. Like, it's just real. Okay. I would love nothing more than for Bentley to have to go into Yost and get fucking murdered.

Oh, my God. Yeah. Sacrificial land. They're going to feel, I mean, Michigan feels good. The two that I'm most excited about are Denver, Cornell. Because Cornell is so, Cornell fucks up so many brackets. They always do this. They do this every fucking year.

Even when they lose, it's like a dog fight to one. whatever. And Denver's been so up and down all year where I go, oh, they're the best team by far. Oh, wow. They might miss the tournament. And then obviously they have an incredible conference run and win that shit. They beat Duluth, I think, in an unreal game. So that's going to be really interesting. Just like, that's unlucky your Denver. I go, great, dude. I got Cornell. Yeah. But at least it's a home game. And then Duluth Penn State. Deluth Penn State is a fucking tilt. Two teams that at times, Duluth,

to be fair to Penn State, I never said they were the best team in the country. But at times, Duluth, we were saying that they had the best team in the country. I think Penn State should fucking wax them. Duluth as the guy's top scores in the country. I know, I know. And Penn State, man,

when you go to your program's first Frozen Four, and then you spend a shitload of money to bring Gavin McKenna, who has been great, admittedly, has been great, especially that last third. Such a funny sentence. when you're talking about college sports. Spend a shitload of money to bring a player in. But it's true.

Had a great last third of the season. And we all said preseason, if you're going to bring in a Gavin McKenna, certainly the expectation is back to a Frozen 4. You don't have to win the Natty, but you should get back to the Frozen 4. And now their path is beat Duluth and then Michigan. That's their only hope of getting to the Frozen 4.

I'm like, Jesus, dude. Like, you might be dead in the first round. But it's also such a sick opportunity. Yes. I almost look at it as, got nothing to lose. You do want to beat the luth, but if you then go up against Michigan and Michigan chokes again, that is, that's just an amazing, amazing story for you.

And if you lose that game, you go, yeah, we lost to the number one seed, who was number one seed all season. Yeah, yeah, the best team. Yeah. I really love that Dartmouth, Wiscoll game. Me too. I'm happy for Dartmouth that it wasn't a horrific bid because this would be exciting. Wisconsin had beat some big boys this year.

There were a few weekends where I was like, holy shit. Yeah. There are also a few bad weekends for Wisconsin. So we got a shot at it. And in Worcester. You know, fuck it. I know. All right.

We'll get into our brackets next episode, more in-depth stuff. We want to take a moment quickly to talk about a very, very sad story. Anyone in the Minnesota area is aware of this story, and everyone in hockey should be aware of this story. Really, really tragic story. Jesse Pierce, an amazing writer for NHL.com. Huge Minnesota Wild fan contributed to the Minnesota Wild for years as well over 10 years, tragically passed along with her children in a house fire this last week, which is absolutely horrific. By all accounts, Jesse was just the embodiment of the hockey community and hockey people.

Just loved the game so much, loved her family so much, took every chance she could to brag about her kids to all of her friends and family and coworkers, was just the biggest fan, brightest light in the game. Every time people said they saw her, she was always smiling, always asking people how they were. And it's been obviously horrific to see such a tragedy happen, but it's been incredibly uplifting seeing all of the community talk about her the way they have, the way people have rushed to just say how much Jesse was an incredible person. They may, uh, Jesse made their day better every time they saw her. It was just really, really lovely to see all of the love being outpored. And we just want to add on to that and make people in the hockey community a way.

of this because I think that's the best thing about the hockey community is everyone always steps up in these moments of tragedy and we want to be a part of that and just make sure that everyone in the hockey space knows to show some love to Jesse Pierce, her family, her community, all of the amazing people in Minnesota who are touched by her kindness and her love and her light. We want to just add to that because it's just these things are so heart-wrenching, but it's rallying together that makes them a little easier. Absolutely. I'm, I'm, the amount of texts I got people in that area asking if I knew her, um, which we didn't just, uh, made me so sad that I didn't get a chance to know her. I got, I know. The amount of things people said to me in the last few days,

uh, tells me everything I need to know about what type of person she was. So all of our love to Jesse's family and friends and everyone she was close to. Um, Jesse was a Iowa State grad. worked in New York, Colorado, obviously Minnesota, all sorts of sports. She could be heard on the Bar Down Beauty's Pod, breaking down the wild, jumped on some Vikings pods, just love a good Minnesota fan. It's unbelievable. So if you want to

check out Jesse's work, hear her voice on that pod, go check it all out. But again, just us extending our love as much as humanly possible. Jesse Pierce and the family, all of our love goes to you. I also, just to chime in, I heard that she're there is a Kickstarter for her family.

Amazing. In case anybody has ability to give, I can put a link up. Yeah, we'll pop that link up. Thank you. We'll pop that Kickstarter link up. Yeah, if you can help support the family, that would be amazing. We are now going to jump into an ad break, and we will be back with some not ice craziness. All right, listen up. I know it's nice all year round here in California, but for most of you, it's about to be spring, it's about to be summer, it's about to be beach season, it's about

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I think we are getting hit with a simulation recycle right now. We all live in a simulation. Correct. Oh, okay. And we talk about the things like fashion. You know, fashion is, what is it? Fashion's never finished, but also fashion just comes back around all the time. Dude, I think we're in a wave right now where the 90s are coming back.

and I wrote down one that we've all seen like baggy jeans are back Yeah yeah We were just in Vegas this past week Producer Hurls Shout out glue guy Who's next Hurley's got on the hippest

trendiest baggy jeans I've ever seen When I'm in Vegas And I'm like That's just hot out You gotta let those boys breathe Fair But I'm also just like That's back

But you're not a baggy gene guy though I'm not Neither am I. But Hurls is younger. And I'm saying like, it's coming back. But okay, can I say this? When I was, okay, I was grew up in the 90s. And by the time I got to high school, me and a lot of my friends who, you know, we were a little nerdy than some, we were obsessed with 80s stuff.

Which is interesting because I feel like younger kids now are looking at the decade just before they were born and going like, what's up with that? In a good way or a bad way? In a good way. Because you wearing baggy jeans. Fair. Right? Fair. Because, I mean, like, a lot of these people didn't grow up in that era. For sure not.

Right. But this is what I'm saying. Like, these, the kids, the youngans are wearing that stuff. And the big thing that I have noticed recently, if you have not caught onto this, dude, Pokemon is fully back. It is. Dude, I would argue, though, that it never left? Never left. Okay.

Well, Pokemon Go was big during the... That's what I'm saying. But you guys didn't see this during the... You weren't watching the broadcast. of the Olympics, but the fucking gold, I think the gold medal game was like brought to you by Pokemon. Oh yeah. And it was so funny that like it sure was, dude.

God, dude. Yeah, it was like the sports cast was going like, Pokemon. Yeah, which I didn't know that. I'm like, wow. So it never left Chris in that. It never died. But Pokemon's back.

Yeah. Like, Pokemon lived because there's, I'm sure there's certainly still like a cartoon. And there's been all these video games, but the cards are back. Dude, when I was back, I don't think you were there. But when I was back in Maine last, I was at my friend Sam and Haley's house, and they have children, and who my love, and

dubs their oldest was like, you know, he's always coming up to take me to the playroom to show me his new stuff. Is he rocking Pokemon? Oh, he pulls out. He goes, he grabs me. My hand, he's like, come here. We go upstairs. First thing he opens, Dan, is like three ring binder.

No. Boom. Plastic, nine, three by three-niners. Wow. Boom. Pokemon. And he's like, I traded this one for this. I swapped this one for this.

this one kid at school has this one. I'm going to cut him if he doesn't give it to me. And I'm like, this is incredible. Damn, he's already threatening violence. Bubbs is dialed in now. I feel like I've mentioned this on this show. I still have my Pokemon binder at Mom and Dad's house. Yeah, yeah.

And I've always been like, I should have them mailed out to me. I bet it can make some money. I actually bet I could now. Yeah. I mean, those things are legit. Yeah. So I just sent you a video leaving Vegas. I'm walking through the Vegas airport.

And there are these two tops, vending machines just chakabok full of Pokemon cards. Get a ripping. Get a ripping. And I'm not going to name names, but a couple of fellas in the NHL we were talking to recently are all in on Pokemon. And I'm like, this is, this has reached the national. Yeah. Pokemon is back. And

there's a chance that I can make millions here with my old school Pokemon collection. But I wanted to talk about Pokemon cards are so funny to me. Rippin cards is so funny to me. Card culture is crazy. But that ripping sports cards, I will say, it's the same thing, dude.

Well, no, at least it's literally. You know, like, oh, this guy signed this guy. You're telling me that you can't get a Pikachu autograph? Yes. Could you imagine if Pokemon added that? Did it? If they could somehow authenticate, and I don't know who's doing it, but like if there was a...

If the creator of Pokemon signed a card, That'd be valuable. Yeah, I mean, like, maybe that's it. Or, like, maybe it's just like, they should do autos. They would have the holographic ones, right? Like, you could just make it a level, a new level of, of rarity. Yeah. But I guess, though, like, the Kaboom cards are just cool looking.

You know, it's like, this is a Sequon Kaboom card. Yeah, yeah. Oh, shit, it's one of, it's one of ten. It's just rarity. Whatever. Yeah, so I just go, making an autograph. This is a Pikachu Kaboom. I just love, I love the, that this idea of creating a craze around the notion of

you have to collect them all. Yeah. It's such a capitalistic play. It's like, no, we got to market this thing to kids, and we're going to make a million of them, and they have to get them all. But aren't there so many now? Look up right now how many Pokemon there are,

because it used to be 151. I'll look at it. Right? Like, that was the whole thing. And that was Mu, that was Mu, too, right? Wasn't he 151? Yes. And I was like, holy shit.

Yeah, there was me and Mu2. We're 150 and 151. Um, but it, okay. 1,000. Holy fuck. 1,025 unique species. that's, and you got to get them all then. I thought I was close.

No, you are fucking yours. You're worth nothing. Fuck. I mean, well, here's the thing. It got me thinking about these games. Like, Pokemon's back. My Algo has been hammer-fucked lately with roller coaster tycoon and Sims clips. I don't know why.

It probably knows your age, too. And it's serving you stuff that you know that you have a connection with as a child. Sure, but is there a chance that those types of games are coming back to? Because I think about kids' attention span now, and the way, I don't want to get into more Harvest Moon talk, but the way a video game, like Harvest Moon, I mean, I am not of the generation that has a low attention span, but menial tasks, you just like, I was, like, dialed. And maybe there's an opportunity for a game like Roller Coaster Tycoon or The Sims, to capture these kids' attention span again

and get them honed in and focused on stuff. Do you remember Roller Coaster Tycoon? Rollcoaster Tycoon. I never liked the Sims that much, but Roller Coaster Tycoon was fucking gas. It was gas, and there were so many ways you could be a total sadistic lunatic. You could just kill people with the roller coasters.

The loop-de-loop. And then it was soft. And you could crank up that speed and send them into the sun. Peace. You could also lock somebody into a brick box in the Sims and set it on fire. You could do that.

You could do that. Oh, Triss. Yeah, that was messed up. Dang. In this, my algorithm, I saw, there was a Reddit post that was like, how can I kill my husband? Drowning doesn't work. And a person wrote this super, super long, complex way of killing him. It was like insert insulin under their tongue.

They'll never be able to find the thing. Then dig a 12-foot grave, bury your husband, fill it up to six feet, and then bury a dead animal then so when the cop dogs come they'll just find the dead animal they won't keep digging and then eventually the person in the write-up was like oh shit this is a sims post that's great i was like oh fuck but i i'm wondering if there is if if if playstation five launched a roller coaster tycoon type game you have any idea how fast i would buy that and i think it would take the fuck off yeah the Okay, so what I was going to say is, and I heard this a while ago, and I was like, oh, yeah, that makes sense. Yeah.

What the world, what the capitalist world does is wait for the things that we liked, they wait for us to get disposable income. Like, we like these things as we're kids. And then they go wait for them because they're poor still. And then. Then we get a bunch of money. Yeah, then we become like mid-30. In theory. Yeah, yeah.

Some people. But then we become mid-30. 40 and then they go roller coaster Also share it with your kids My God, yeah So then we fucking tweak Is that what they do? Yeah

So now we are like Oh my God son you have to see this This is Pokemon this is roller coaster Yeah what you're so right Chris What they're doing with Pokemon now is us Fucking dipshits are having kids and we're like Oh my kid likes Pokemon I love Pokemon

Yeah I'm sharing it with my I mean look we this has been since I mean I remember as a kid in the 90s, how many movies and TV shows were about the 60s? A ton. Because it was all the people creating stuff then where like, my childhood was like this and blah, blah, blah, blah. And it's the same thing. So this is what's happening.

90s movies hit like crap. But I like it. It works because it works. I'm like, hell yeah, dude. I love that show. But like you watch the Sandlot and it's like, I'm nostalgic for a movie in the 90s about childhood in the 60s. Yeah.

Yeah. It's fucking hilarious. Where kids are obsessed with a baseball player from the 30. Yeah. It's like how many layers back are we going? Dude, that's so exception. You know what I mean?

Um, so yes, that is exactly what's happening. I'm fucking here for it. Me too. And I want to see, because the video game one I think is the biggest question because we have not lost the thread,

but we just, we've given, they've tasted too much incredible video gaming that if I'm like, boom. Like I think for, here's a great comp. nobody, I remember somebody being like, it was a PC version of it,

but they were like, this is a Pong on Atari. Right. And I was like, this is not that fun. Yeah. I'm just going to play Super Smash Brothers. Yeah. And I think now, I'm like. But there is a curve though where it does become fun.

Like, I'll give you an example. My nephew, who's really the only window into youth that I have, he's about 14, maybe 15 now. He came to visit me last summer. He's obsessed with Sonic the Hedgehog, which again is like another thing from the 90s. Yeah. Yep. But he also loves video games, but he loved when me and my brother whipped out the N64. Did he?

And we played Mario Kart, you know, some wrestling games. I tried to show him the Star Wars game, Shadows of the Empire, which is the hardest fucking game in the world. Correct. And my brother just let him take it home with him. He's like, put it on the plane, you can take it. And he, he collects vintage video games. He loves that stuff. like, I think kids genuinely like...

This kid sounds fucking nails. He's cool. He's a cool kid, and maybe he's not a great, you know, metric for every other kid. But I feel like those, like, things are kind of fun because they're like, oh, my God, look at this. Like, limitations on my technology are kind of interesting. Yeah. You know? Yeah.

I think that's sick. My question was, wasn't there another tycoon game? There was like roller coaster tycoon, and then there was something else. It was a... Yeah, let me look it up. I remember there was. It sounds like it. I don't know that, I think you're right.

I don't know that a re-release would work. If they just went, here's roller coaster tycoon, it looks exactly the same. You just played on PS5. I don't think that would work. But if they advanced roller coaster tycoon and you're like in the park. And there's consequences for killing people. That would be pretty sick. Like, sir, you've been arrested.

I don't know what it was about those games, but just building something and then watching it be successful. I think kids today would, would. And maybe those are lessons they need to learn. I think they would get off with that. Maybe those are lessons they need to be a part of. Like, build a business, dude. Okay, so here's my question. Yep.

What tycoon game would slap oil? Oil tycoon would be interesting. That could get real dark. We're living in it, baby. Wait, wait, wait, wait. So, hold on, hold on. So funny. Just be like, you've invaded this country.

Sorry, not to get the oil. But you turn into an Ayatola. It'd be great. Gas prices? $750 a gallon, you bitch. That's pretty much what Dune is. Yeah. So I had, we had

Harvest Moon, and then everyone told me about Star Doe Valley. I still got to get into it. Oh, yeah, fuck. But people are like, Star Doe Valley is the new Harvest Moon. Yeah, I forgot about that. So we had Roller Coaster Tycoon. Like, could we do like City Planner Tycoon, Mountain Resort,

Tycoon? What if you built the next great Aspen? Well, here's one. Constructor Plus is a game where you're a real estate contractor. Jesus Christ. That sounds miserable. That sounds awful. Townsman is a medieval town builder game. I mean, they have like, I don't know, there are games like this, but you could update them, make them more interesting. Building a, were there water rides in roller coaster tycoon? Sure were. Waterpark tycoon? Sure were. There were, I think my favorite part about the Sims was just building houses yeah but there's got to be um actually okay

i played there was a i'm a big assassin's creed fan and there was an assassin's creed uh valhalla it was about vikings and a huge part of the story mode was you settled in an area called ravens i think it was like ravensthorpe or something and that was your village and the more successful you were you would go on raids and you would get materials. And when you would come back to your village, you could build more shit. You could build a horse stable. You could build a marketplace.

I being the freak I am. I loved that. Seeing Ravensthorpe or whatever it was, prosper fired me up. There's got to be a market. You just want to be like the town builder guy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah.

A medieval village building game would be sick. Create utopia. Yeah, you just create a utopia. That would be fun, I think. Yeah, the market of it, I think, would be fun. Yeah. If you could create that, like, that. I think just building things I wouldn't enjoy.

Ski Mountain would be cool. I don't know how that game would work because there's two people just come. NHL GM, GM. I mean, that's what you do. Yeah, that's what you do in the game. I think it would be exactly like roller coaster tycoon. I bet I'm putting a run here. They'd go, here's this giant mountain.

Yeah, carve out the runs. You have bought this mountain. Create a couple trails. A couple good office. Uprae spots. Yeah. Yeah. You know what's dark?

Where are the lifts? I hear the lifts. Are there gondolas? Yep. Are there mid-mountain restaurants? What are you serving? How much? What were you going to say?

I was going to say, this is dark because I don't want it to go here, but like, um... Get dark. No, no. It's not dark in a dark way, but it's more just like, because I'm a movie guy. I'm a TV guy. But you could do like, you know, literally movie set, you know, you design, you pick the crew, you make the film. Movie studio tycoon.

Movie studio, but then that ends up being like, they make an AI movie and that's the future of cinema. Fuck. You have executives just like being absolute scumbags. Yeah,

I mean, there could be that too. Yeah. It would actually be really fun to do a, remember those books, and here we go 90s, remember those books where you would be like,

choose that you would be like, if you want this option. Choose your own adventure. Yeah, choose your adventure. Yeah, those are sick. Yeah, those are great. And that would actually be a really fun game to be like you become

the Warner Bros. exec and it's like, here are a bunch of, which one are you picking? Yeah, summer blockbuster. I'm like, this one. I'm like, it tanked. And how do you say the studio? You know, like, just living that. There's got to be a game like that.

That's not already a game. There was a, one of the Grand Theft Auto Games, one of the newer ones, there was a lot of choose your own adventure things that changed the end of the story mode, which was pretty interesting. Oh, there is movie industry tycoon. You are fucking kidding me. It's called Tycoon. It's called the executive.

There's no way that's a real game. The executive movie industry tycoon. on that shit right now. The fact that it's a tycoon. That's what I'm saying again. That's insane. It's out right now. I'm not going to put the audio on the weekend. Dude, this just came out. Available February 11th, 2025. Holy shit. This is a brand new game. Don't you think that, okay, this is the dark thing I'm going to say. Don't you think that like games where you do things that like normal people would have done 50 or 80 years ago we're just doing on a computer because we can't afford or have the vision to do them on our own? It's kind of a sad.

dark like VR we're living in. I think the Sims is the most depressing game of all time. The Sims, the Sims got to a point where your character got a job and people would pick the job that they wish they had and then build the house that they wish they had and then find the partner. So Sims was inception.

It was like you were living in the dream state. I was like, you gotta get out of here. This is unbelievable. It distracted us from our simulation. Exactly. The executive movie industry chacon, what is this available? on.

Goblin Studio. Hell yeah. Is it just something you play online? Dude, guys, I have not played a video game since I was 12. Look at that, dude. You're building office space.

We've got to get out for this topic. We got to go. Okay, before we move on from this Nod Ice and get into a Beer League hotline, what thing? I wanted it off the top of your heads. I didn't do too much research because I didn't want to cheat.

But off the top of your heads, what do you guys think are 90s comeback things? My number one thing, Pogs. That you want to come back or that you think will come back? I think a combination of both. People are getting into card rips again. You're telling me you wouldn't get into pogs.

But maybe pogs were just so stupid because no one actually played him. What was that thing? It was like a thumper. Yeah, well, there was a thing that you'd be like. Slammer. Slammer. Yeah. I remember my buddy, I was playing with some friends of mine, and one of them had a slammer that was this dates it so bad.

It was O.J. Simpson behind jail, like jail bars. O.G's in the slammer. It was wishful thinking, though, because this is. This was like, this was between the murder and before the trial. Yeah. Holy shit. So, yeah, this was like very, yeah, very top goal at the time. I hated that, dude.

People would be like, I now have your pog and I'd be like, no. And they were like, yeah, I slammed it. Well, that's the funny thing is like, you know, Pokemon was meant to do that too. You were supposed to play. Yeah. It's like Magic the Gather. Magic to Gather. And if you beat someone's Pokemon using the energy cards and this and that, you were like,

I get that card now. I am happy to know that kids are physically handling. cards and maybe getting together and doing something. I mean, that's cool. That's cool. That's cool. It's a good thing. What do you think? 90 stuff that would be sick. All I can think about is like baseball cards or video games. In video games, we have too much cool shit now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Maybe like, would you like to see a play place make itself back to a McDonald's? Yes. Absolutely. Yeah. What about like foods? Maybe they were all bad for us. Yeah. Well, probably back then they were way better. Actually, yeah.

I don't know. Here's one that I saw. And I'm very, I think I know exactly where you're going to land on this. I'm curious, Ev, where you will. Again, I said I did a little bit of research. Should we bring back the 90s pop in? You mean like in a sitcom sense? Yes.

Like where somebody would just come over? Where you would show up at your friend's place and just knock on the door. Would you get mad? You, I believe, would love it. thrilled. If you were at home, I would be fucking thrilled. And Ev just showed up and knocked on the door and was like, yo, and was holding the case of beer. Yeah.

I think you'd be thrilled. I would love it. Here's my only problem with it. I think people had more free time back then. I'm too fucking busy for a pop-in. Like, I pretty much fill my day with shit to do all the time. So if somebody comes over, I'd be like, oh, wow, that's, man, this is, I'm working. And also, I'm making dinner.

and like and I got to go pick up my wife you know what I mean like but what if it made you realize we're not that busy if someone came up for her for a hot end up to pick up my wife at the airport yeah yeah well that's a very unique your wife's not coming on from the airport every day she flies a lot now I'm kidding but yeah but you know what I'm I'm I get your point I think if we I think if we at first I think it would run people the wrong way they'd be like what the fuck is going on but I think it would maybe get to a point where someone did the pop-in and they knocked on the door and you were like, yo, and they're like, hey, I was in the neighborhood, thought I'd hang for a second. Yeah. And they sat down for like 30 minutes and you were like, that was awesome. I would love it.

And then maybe the pop-in started happening more. Yeah. I wonder if we got to start popping in it more. But it's also harder. And like, okay, you're in New York. You're in a more condensed city. Yeah. It might work better. Or like growing up where I grew up, me and my two best friends, who I'm still best friends with. We all lived like within a mile of each other on the same road. For sure. It's just harder to do. now. But I think we're, we're too comfy now.

We're so averse to any inconvenience. Yes, you're right. Maybe for, okay, we need to be inconvenience. Last night, I, Chris and I went to a movie and then, what was it?

Three o'clock? Yeah. And from three to seven, I kind of sat around watching basketball and I thought about texting people and I was like, whatever, maybe I'll just sit here.

And it was because it was convenient. Yep. It's because I was being lazy. Yeah. And maybe I should have got off my ass and driven to a friend's house and just knocked on the door. Well, this is like what you said. Everybody needs to have their beer league.

It's like you need to create. I think people need a reason to be together now. Yeah. And you don't need that. You don't necessarily need it. But the reasons do. I'll tell you what I would bring back from the 90s. Affordable housing.

No, no, this is what I would bring back. That wasn't your answer? That was a great answer. That's a great answer. But that's a stretch. As far as things that are fun, well, having a house would be fun, but you remember yo-yo's came back? Yo-yo's came back. I was just-in-old.

Which is actually an old, which is like a 50s, a 1950s. Dude, I fucking love yo-yo's. Yeah. I fucking love them. I still have two fireballs at my house right now. Were you one of those kids that was really good at the yo-yo shit? Did you do the crazy tricks? There were kids that were nasty, though.

I don't mean to imply that, but I had a repertoire of six tricks. I bet Can you walk the dog? Four of which, buddy. I bet I could still do four of them right now. I bet I can make a

Jamaican flag right now. Holy shit. Cats cradle. Did you guys get fundraisers like they would come through like the people would come to your school

and be like you guys got to sell these magazines and then if you sell 25,000 magazines you get a yo yo yo yo. Oh yeah. Dude we would trade

like I'd unscrew half and trade half my yo yo with something else. That was cool how fireballs could do that When you saw someone with a one half color fireball, I was like, that guy's cool. That guy's the fucking man, dude.

Here's a couple, there's a few things scrolling, some 90 stuff right now that I'm like, thank God, that's gone. Like our lives are so much better. One was like, the phone would just ring. You had no idea who's calling. Yeah. My nightmare. We didn't get a call our ID eventually.

That was good, Chris. My nightmare. No, that was good because it didn't breed a bunch of babies. It's true. Like you. who now, when you get a phone call and you don't recognize the number of people go? I can't answer that. Well, it's a telemarketer 99 times out of 100.

Sure. But is that the worst thing in the world to develop the skills to go like this? Hello? You hear a telemarketing go, not interested. Fuck you. Yeah, that's horrible. This is a good one. The Nickelodeon game shows. So sick.

Like, like, double dare. We really had them. I mean, we still have them. They're just, it's called Survivor. I know, but I'm saying we should have like the kids ones. No, we have the best curated media for. for kids. Between Nickelodeon and like MTV, like some shit on MTV if your parents let you watch it was great. Yeah. Nickelodeon was so dope. Nicolodeon is incredible, I think so. Yeah, but it's not.

They're not slimy. Dude, squeeze it. Pop it. God, those were all sugar, brother. Never squeeze it? Sony D. All right. Also, you roll your ankles on some moon shoes. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure. That's insane. Anyway. All right. 90s is incredible. God, the 90s were great. We're going to bring him back. Okay, Ev, take us into a beer league hotline. All right, here we go. We were getting ready for the shower after game the other day, and a guy took his jock off and someone noticed there were skid marks on it. Come on. It wasn't covered in shit or anything, and it didn't smell any worse than a hockey jock normally does. How did he smell it? Okay. Yeah, good question. But the tracks were there. When we called him out,

he said he gets skid marks after every game washing doesn't remove them and he's certainly not going to buy a new jock every week plus when he uh when was the last time we even washed our jock how do we interact with this man moving forward such a good sign this is is this a real one this is real so if he this you know what this one i want to i want to address i want to address i want to address probably the thing that would get skipped over the most in this first, because I know that you are bad about this. Yep.

Hockey equipment smells bad? Horrible. We all know that. Hockey equipment is very, it's not a thing that you can wash that easily. It's uniquely bad, though, right? Is there something about the coldness? I think football gear smells pretty bad, too. But it's different.

It is different. It is. It's such a special smell. I don't know. I think it's legitimately the material that it's made with. hockey gear smells bad. There's no doubt about that. And a lot of it is very difficult to wash.

You can't really toss your shin pads into the wash. You can certainly wash your jock. And I know a lot of guys on our team do not do that. I would be willing to bet that you are the only person on our beer league team that has washed their jock in years. Yeah. And I do think that that's crazy town. But I think that's the norm. Are you talking about the kind of jock that goes over your underwear, like with the straps? Because I have one that's like literally a pair of like tight underwear that has the insert for it. That one I wash because it's like a full pair on it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So everyone's different in hockey. Yeah. I wear full pant jock. Okay. Yeah. My jock is spandex pants that's touching your skin. My jock is spandex pants that comes, has a cup insert and it has the, little Velcro things on the front and back. Right. So they are just,

they're essentially compression shorts that go all the way down to my ankles. If you worked out in compression shorts, you would fucking wash those every single day. Correct. I don't wash my jock every game, but I wash it once a week, twice a week. And I urge hockey.

Well, that's every game. You play, you play twice a week. Okay, I don't, you watch it that much. I wash it twice. Oh, I, I meant to say, uh, excuse me, once every two weeks. Okay.

And I do do that. Yeah. But it's an excellent point because I would literally never work out in a compression shorts and not and then use them again. Literally ever. You get a rash that way. Yep. Then in hockey you use it and you work out.

No, you're not working out harder, but you are dumping sweat. Dumping sweat. Dumping. Way worse than a normal workout. And then you stuff it in a bag. Yep. Full of sweaty. And again, you should be airing your gear out every game.

I don't care of who you are. But just airing it out, that's not enough, guys. We've got to be washing jocks more often. And no one is. No one is, except for you. I disagree, man. I actually think I would love to put up post a poll. I would guess because jocks are,

if you have the old school. If you have the one over the underwear, I don't give a fuck. You wear whatever, do whatever you want. Yeah, if you're wearing, but who the fuck is wearing underwear while you play fucking hot? Or like a compression short under, whatever. I'm saying like the yellow.

If you wear compression shorts and then you put that, yes. Yellow one over. The classic. jockstrap from like the 50. But I don't think many people have that anymore. Yeah. There are some freakzoids like saying. That's what Crosby, yeah. But he's a fucking psychopath.

Like that is. If you win three Stanley Cups, you get to never wash a jock. If you were a guy who's wearing like, you know, you wear compression shorts and then you put a literal cup, like a literal jock strap over it, fine. Because you were washing those compressions. I still think you could wash that occasionally. Yep. It's going to get sweaty.

Well, like what? Like the cup jock shop? Over the thing. I think still needs to be washed. But at least that thing is not touching your skin. Exactly. If you are not washing the thing that goes directly on your ball sack and dick, you are a fucking pig person.

Which is just about everyone you play with. I don't think that, dude, I don't know why you're saying so confidently. We have to take a survey. You don't know. I do know. No. Well, I'm going to ask these guys next game. And I do believe, it's not every game.

But I guarantee it's not as limited as you fucking do it. I bet you've never washed your jock. Why would I wash my jock? This is also the guy who was surprised you should wash your bath towels. Yes. You're disgusting. Now, let's get into this issue. Yep.

Fella, something's wrong with you. You do not get skid marks every game. You do not get skid marks in life. The only time, this is a, here's a fact for people. I thought that this was common knowledge. if you are getting skid marks ever you're not wiping well enough

your butthole is not full of shit or you've sharded and that's a circumstance that's an extenuating circumstance and that's a rare hopefully rare that should hopefully be rare if you're sharding very often you've also got an issue

yeah but I also think that if you are deep scratching your ass you can get skid marks but no Chris only if you dude if you are deep scratching your ass and you get skid marks, you have shit in your butthole,

which means you are not wiping well enough. If you scratch into your butt hole, you should still, there should not. You should get a skid mark. I disagree. There should not be poop immediately in your bundle. So when you are wiping, are you opening up your butthole getting inside an inch

to make sure that's clean too. That shouldn't have poop in it. Well, yes, it should, because you just wipe to the very edge. Yeah. Boom. So you're saying it's, kind of like a soft serve machine where like there's still ice cream inside the two.

Yeah. So you go boom, and that's clean as hell. But then if you go, well, you would get, you would get ice cream. Oh, so wait, do you finger your butthole when you? No, which is why I don't have skid marks in my underwear. But I believe that if you scratched that deep. If you got really deep in there. You should get.

You should not be scratching your butthole that deeply ever. Ever. And I don't know why you'd be scratching. Well, I guess if it it inches, it inches. Maybe there's the problem. This is what I would say to this guy, though. Like, how do we interact with this guy moving forward? Well, is he a great player?

So I don't want to call somebody out. No, we are. Because we're calling this man out. I don't want to call some, no, I want to call one of my friends out. Oh. But one of our dear friends said that he, he was a football player in high school, and he would get, he would get skid marks every game. Because he said, he played D-Line. And he was like, dude, when it's third and 19, and they say, pin your ears back and get the sack, I'm straining so hard against this guy.

That I'm shitting my pants. that I, there's just, they will be skin marks. Okay. Again, I know this friend. I, I did not find that smart. Or, excuse me, I did not find that normal. This guy just trying so hard. Okay.

I don't think you should be trying that hard, dearly. If you're trying so hard that you're shitting your pants regularly, you have a problem. You need better sphincture control. Or change your diet. Yeah. Your diet. Yeah, maybe it's a diet issue.

It is. If you've got a leak. butt hole. A leaky butt. If you, this is why I said, fella, you have a problem.

If you're getting skid marks every game, something is wrong. You are either not wiping well enough. You have a poor diet or you are scratching too deep into your asshole.

My dog, he's a poodle, he has a leaky butthole, so maybe this guy needs his anal glands expressed. Yes, okay. Take him to the groomer. Take him to the groomer

and switch his kibble up. Get him some better purina food. That'll help. Dude. I just think, how do you interact with them moving forward?

just, if he's a really good player, you overlook it. Yes, like all things in your league. No, no. No, gentlemen. Well, what are you going to tell the guy? I'll tell you right now. Yes. This is where I need people. We should get him some wet wipes. Yeah, we need people. Yeah, but you can't

flush those. You can't? Yeah, you can. No, dude. It depends on where you live, but you really shouldn't flush them. That's actually true. What the fuck were the point of them? You put them in the trash can. Yeah, you're supposed to put him in the trash. Yeah, let's like treat it like like a tampon or something. You put in the trash. That's fucking crazy. So many plumbers.

Oh, wait. We just put a tampon on his ass. So many plumbers are like, dude, every time that there is a blockage in people's plumbing, it's always like wet wipes. Yeah. But anyway, this is where I am so passionate about we need to, it doesn't need to be malicious, but make your friends and family better. Call people out. If you have poop in your underwear every day, something is wrong. and we need to help fix the issue.

So, yeah, call them out. You don't be mean about it, but be like, buddy, we got to get a hold on this. Yeah, how do we fix it? We got to get a hold on this. Give them some wet wipes. Go, give these a whirl. Take these for a spin. Maybe eat less close to the game.

Yeah. Maybe let's work on your fiber. You know, it's, I think you need to fix this issue needs to be addressed. If it's, if it is so significant that every time this guy gets undressed, you're noticing that there's poop in his jock, we need to fix it. Just a little, it's not okay. That's not okay. That's a human fecal matter from effort. How do you know it's human? From effort. Yeah. God, could you imagine? But it's just like, it's in the air now. Yeah. There's poop particles everywhere in the locker room now. Yep. You got to fix it. We buy them a new

jock every week. No, come on. Be realistic. We have a chance to better someone's life. Yeah, I think you're right, Dan. Yeah, you got to call him out. Okay. All right, Ed, let's wrap things up with a Bauer blind ranking. Bauer giving us the best stuff in the game. Their New Spring Apparel is out of this world. So last week we did shock misses for the playoffs. This week we're doing blind ranking chances to make the playoffs. So number one would be we think they have the best chance.

They're in. They're in for sure. Okay. Yep. So this is all going to be bubble teams, folks. Bubble teams, chances to make the playoffs blind ranking. Islanders. God, such a good fucking first one.

Great first one. Three? Damn it. I feel like they're a perfect three. They might be. They might be a perfect three. They're a perfect three. I hate to do that.

But maybe it's three. Three. Okay. Islanders three. Kings. Fuck. Four. Because they're not even in.

I guess neither the Islanders are in right now. I think the Islanders are in right now. Yeah. Islanders are in right now. For schedule, kings, good schedule. Kings are four. They can't be two. They can't be two.

No, look at the point situation. They're four. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They're a perfect four. Yeah, yeah. Four. Kings are four. Bruins. Could you go one?

You could. Could you go one? Could you go one for the bees? Because you don't know what's coming. Everything's in chaos. They have probably the best goalie of any bubble team. The problem is we have one, two, and five left. And if we go one, we leave an opening for something.

Yes. And if we go five, or it's not five. If we go two, there's a chance that the one is like, no way. Yeah. So you could go one. And is there really anyone that I'm like, they're so significantly higher than Boston? No. One.

I think there's a chance we go one here. One. Wow. Penguins. Two. And I'm happy about that. I'm thrilled. I'm very happy about it.

I'm thrilled for the Pittsburgh Penguins. So tell me who is definitely not. making playoffs in the five spots. Worst chance to make the playoffs? Seattle Cracken. Boom! That's a fucking list. That is the first time in a while that that has really come home.

That is a fantastic list. That was great. I loved it. I loved every second about it. Loved every second about this episode as well. Hope you had a great time, folks. We are headed to Utah today. Yeah, I'm gone.

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