Empty Netters Podcast - The Rangers Playoff Hopes Are On Thin Ice

Episode Date: March 27, 2025

The Rangers and Habs are choking. The Blues and Flames can’t lose. The standings change every night. It’s pure insanity in the NHL right now!! Kucherov is doing Kucherov things and wants to steal MVP. The college hockey march madness is about to start. And the boys play one of the best games of what’s the connection in a while NEW EPISODES EVERY TUESDAY & THURSDAY! 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! SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS: LABATT BLUE. It’s time for you to get on board with our favorite beer in the game. Labatt Blue and Labatt Blue Light are the perfect beverages to wet your whistle while you’re watching hockey or hanging with friends. That’s because there’s a little bit of Canadian kindness in every sip. Go to https://www.labattusa.com/product/labatt-blue/ to find some GUY FOX. Head to https://guyfox.com/netters and use code FRIDAY for free shipping & $10 off your purchase right now! 00:00 INTRO 00:19 NOT ICE 18:59 FROZEN FOUR 28:04 MVP RACE 43:21 WILDCARD UPDATE 1:03:19 POWERS RANKINGS 1:08:04 STARTING 6 1:11:43 GAME Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You just started off your West Coast trip with a 3-1 loss to the Kings where you wasted a Shesty masterclass. If you don't win against the ducks and the sharks, four points, your season is over. Oh, absolutely. They are cooked if they don't win those games. And frankly, I think that's what they should want. Ice is ready, and we are back with another episode of the Empty Netters podcast brought to you by BetMGM. I am your host, Dan Powers. And with me, he once became a prison.

pen pal to one of our friends ex-girlfriends for almost a year. Chris Powers. As always, uh, that's true. That's a true thing that happened. Um, I, I think that's a nice thing. I was about to say, dude, everyone wants to laugh. Youuck it up. Everybody, we can laugh. It's, it's a nice thing that you did. It's still funny. Our buddy's ex-girlfriend went to, went to prison. She went to prison. Literally, like, literal, actual prison. Like, she went to prison for a, Many months. And he said she's doing hard time. She's doing hard time.

Yeah. And if the boys could send her a letter. Which we did. I'm sure she'd appreciate it. So all the boys sent her a letter. Did you even send her one? Yes, of course. All the boys sent her a letter.

And then she wrote back, I presume to everybody. Yes. And then everyone else just stopped. Well, I went like this. I've met this human being once in my life. One meeting, one letter. and I felt as though I did my duty. Yeah.

I went. Usually meeting to letters ratio is much higher than one. Yeah. And I was like, oh, I, you know, I've, you, my buddy said, oh, she's going through a hard time, and I took time out of my day, valuable time, valuable. Yep. Worth, worth stuff. Time is money. Time is money.

And I wrote a letter. And I sent it to her. And she wrote back and I was like, oh, there you go. I hope that lifted your spirits. You got that letter in return, and you felt as though that put you into a contract. She asked open into questions. It wasn't just thanks for the letter. It said, thanks for the letter.

How are things? How are things? Tell me what are you reading? How's life on the outside? Yeah. And you went like this. Shit. I got to tell her.

Life's good. Yeah, yeah. Told her everything that was going on. And then where it got crazy was we found a fantasy book. We like long time listeners of the pod will know I'm a big fantasy book. So is Dan. Yeah. And we both love the series Red Rising and I was talking to her about it.

And then she got the book. And then she started reading them in prison. Yeah. And she was like, I got to talk to someone about these books. And she's got nothing else to do, Dan, in prison. Do you think she was running around the prison yard being like, anyone reading Red Rising? Yeah. Yeah.

And everyone was like, no. And they were like, no. And so he was like, well, I got to go to Chris. Yep. So, so, yeah, there was extensive Red Rising fan fiction, essentially. Yeah, she was drawing pictures. Yep. I saw some of them.

Some of them were quite erotic. What did you do with those pictures? I didn't keep them. You don't have them? I don't have them laminated in my room. They're not in like a box somewhere? Nope. Hmm. So, but I will say, so yeah, we spoke.

We changed letters for a year. Yeah. And then I will say, with shame, I will say that when she got out of prison, I remember the last letter I got, but she was like, I'm getting out. here's my new address. And I was like, nah, you're not in prison anymore. You don't need this. You can go find anyone. Get on a dating out.

I don't know that I need to write new letters now, now that you're out. My question is, don't people in prison have access to phones and computers these days? And like PlayStation. Because she wasn't in federal pound me in the ass prison. She was in prison. Yeah. But they were doing stuff. I think so.

Well, couldn't she have, I don't know, I don't know. Couldn't she have, like, emailed you? Yet. Yeah, not yet. Couldn't she have emailed you or surely no, right? Surely, yes, I'm pretty sure there are people in prison who have TikTok accounts. That's a thing. I'm telling you that's a while ago, though.

No, it wasn't. It was, well, it was, yeah, no. Maybe this was before TikTok, but they had access. She had access to a phone, I'm sure. Well, then I feel, I feel, I feel, I feel put out. That's what I'm saying. If this could have been.

You had to write letters. You had to put them in an envelope with postage and send it to a prison. Where was that prison? Iowa. That's where she was from. I don't know where she went to prison. Man, that was nice of you. Yeah, sure was.

Sure was. Yeah. You've, I mean, like these things that you do are just insane. And I need more people to know. Yeah. Yeah. Anyone in prison, hit me up. I got a guy who's available.

He's going to write you letters. No questions asked. Hit me up. The inconveniences and the lack of luck that you have in this world is remarkable. You had some bad luck on a beach? I did have some bad luck on a beach. And this actually happened on my Hawaii trip over Thanksgiving, which is when I wore the tank top, which people have heard that story.

Yeah. When I became... I can't believe that we're circling back to Hawaii. Dude, because this story... I didn't tell because I was like I don't need to tell this story at all. And then Sandra posted a TikTok of her telling or actually it was a video of when it happened. Yeah. And you know how sometimes we'll have a clip that's just like, oh, the clip's not doing that well.

And then it goes. Yeah, yeah, it gets a little boost. Sandra posted this TikTok and it was like doing nothing. Yeah. And I was like, I don't know why that TikTok's up. Yeah. And then the next day she's like this, it's at 850,000 views and soaring. Yeah.

It's like, oh, okay. to the point that I've gotten some texts. I've gotten some DMs. My boy Kyle texted me. He was like, dude, I saw your girl's TikTok. And I was talking to Las because you all know Las was here. We went to the King's Rag's game last night with Las. And he was like, dude, I got fed that TikTok.

What happened on the beach? So for those inquiring, here's exactly what happened. Sandra and I were on the North Shore getting shave ice. And she got up to get a drink, I think, and a local there. Oh, full circle. Remember, everyone thought I was local because of my tanks. So a local was like... Allegedly.

It was like, dude, he found out, I told him the truth, but he was like, dude, you seem like, you seem like a cool guy. Yeah. You seem pretty cool. So he said, I've got a little surprise for you. It was almost sunset. He goes, you're going to drive down here, take this turn, a little private neighborhood.

Kelly Slater lives in this neighborhood. There's going to be signs that say, don't drive in here, but you can. They'll be parking here. There'll be a path, a small path here to the beach. and then on that beach there'll be nobody there, basically, and the sea turtles come right there, and you can snorkel at sunset with the sea turtles. It's a pretty sweet setup.

What a hookup from the local. Local deal. Dude, so I can't even, I'm not even going to say where it is, and I'm not going to say who it was because I don't want people to find it. It was that sick. So Sandra comes back from the drink, and I go, hey, should we go home? Should we drive back to Waikiki?

And I go, nope, I have a surprise for you that I've been planning. I have a special surprise. And she goes, oh, okay, let's go. We get in the car. We start driving. Dude, have you ever gotten directions that are so perfect? Dude, there's an old commercial. I think it was like a Ford commercial where they,

this couple in their truck pulls over, I don't want to get too off the race here because you're in the middle of the story. But they pull over and they ask a guy for directions somewhere and he's like, are you going to drive down the road? Then you're going to see the old famous bulldog and you're going to take a right. And then you're going to see old Captain Jack. He's wearing a yellow raincoat and he's pointing with his hook. and he'll tell you where to go.

And you're like, what the fuck? But then it's like they're driving and there's like a bulldog on a sign for something. And they're like, oh, and they turn. And then Captain Jack is like the logo of a fish restaurant. Yeah, and it's like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

And it's like, oh, these are perfect directions. That's what happened. I think about that every time you are talking about what you're talking about. That's what happened. Unbelievable directions, everything, the turns. And every time we see a sign that's like, do not enter.

Sandra's like, we can't go in here. And I'm like, yeah, we can. I have a special, special surprise for you. I'm a fucking local. Yeah. Boom, turn, turn, parking. Everything's amazing. Park and I get, I take out, we start walking to the beach

and I have a little bag like that I'm kind of hiding from her because it has snorkels in it because we're snorkeling with sea turtles. We, we lassoed a couple sea turtles. Lashed them together. Lashed them together. Sea turtles. So we, I have a bag that I'm kind of like holding to the side and I see the path. And I walk her down.

It's a single file path, 100 feet long. I go first. She goes second. I'm walking. I'm like, wow, this guy, dashed. it up. I can see the beach. I exit the path, look to the right, nobody, look to the left, and there is a massive heart-shaped arch made of roses that says, will you marry me in the middle of it? And dude, I've heard this story and it's still funny. Dude, I turn around and

try to spear her back through the path. Through the bushes, dude. If you see this, dude, it's all over. Yeah. It's all over. Look away. Look away. If she sees it, I'm married. Yeah. Oh yeah. Like if she sees her. And you, you especially, if she saw that and looked back at you, you'd be like this. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yeah. I would go. Here we go. Yeah. If she goes, wow. If she started crying and went like this, I do. I would go. Me too. Yeah. Yeah. And then that would be it. So I have a panic attack both for that and, and because I was like, is like a, a girlfriend about someone else's girlfriend about to walk down this. Have I stumbled upon this? Yeah. They're, they're going to walk down and be.

like this who is this random couple sitting there yeah so i'm like i'm freaking for so many reasons and then thank god i they have they beat us like they're they're they're already he's already proposed now they're doing a bunch of pictures and they're they're like weepy and so sand and i sit down because i'm like this is crazy and she's you know the video she's kind of making fun of me but we were laughing our heads off in real life yeah and then she goes what was the surprise and i was like the beach we're gonna wear a snorkel with the sea turtle i don't know they're apparently sea turtle's like she's like Is that a ring? And I'm like, no, it's goggles.

Oh, my God. And, and dude, even crazier, the guy proposing is, like, a very famous TikToker with, like, millions and millions of followers. And he saw it, the video and comments. And he was like, no way, dude. Like, this is my proposal. You had an opportunity to make an incredible for getting Sarah Marshall reference and scream out, wedding in Hawaii, real original.

And the fact that you didn't take it is a bit of a moment. It was a proposal. So, I didn't. I didn't want to dog him. True. Because maybe they're getting married in Greece. Proposal in Hawaii. Yeah.

Also not that original, but still, thanks for the story. Dude, I can only imagine the panic that was going on in your head. Truly unbelievable. So funny. Truly unbelievable. Speaking of getting to Hawaii. Yep. I quickly wanted to bring up a hypothetical that came up this weekend and that I got

dogged for. With Hammer. Yeah. I was talking with Hammer last night. Yep. Shout out Hammer. Shout out of violent gentlemen. I was asked recently in hypothetical,

I don't know how it came up. I think we were talking about murdering CEOs or something. But someone was like, if you had a silver bullet ask of any CEO of any company in the world for anything, what would it be? And everyone in this circle was saying like, oh, I would ask, you know, Jeff Bezos. for $250 million.

Oh, you can just do money. You don't have to go. I thought it was like goods from the same company. A lot of people were saying they were just like I'd ask for money. And I was like, well, I was like, well, shouldn't it be like the specific CEO like what they do? Shouldn't that? And they were like, I mean, I guess. But at the same time, you look at someone like Bezos and you're like, just give me money.

Yeah. And I'm like, okay. Give me a $1 billion dollar Amazon gift card. Yeah. Or yeah, like literally give me, put a billion dollars of Amazon credit. Yeah. And I'm like that kind of counts too. I said,

I want to make sure I get his first. I think it's Scott. I said, yeah, we're United guys, United Airlines. And I was trying to think in a more fun realm rather than you just give me money or blah, blah, blah. I said I would ask Scott Kirby, CEO of United Airlines. Real quick, did you just have Scott Kirby last night? Did you look that up last night, too, or did you just know the CEO of United Airlines name because that is bananas. Dude, one of my other special interests is just like knowing CEOs of companies. That's crazy. It's weird.

I would not, I couldn't pick Scott Kirby out of a lineup of one. To be fair, probably by looks alone I couldn't have either. But I do know the man's name. Okay. I said Scott Kirby CEO of United Airlines. I would ask him to give me free business class tickets for me and one companion for the rest of my life whenever I want. And what's crazy, so many people are like, that's such a bad answer. Ask for money.

Ask for this. Ask for that. What's crazy is I genuinely feel like if I did that. And also, I would caveat it to Scott, my buddy Scotty. Scotty Curbs. Yeah, yeah. I would caveat it with, I'm not going to be. ridiculous. I'm not going to just travel every single weekend just to do it because I have this. It would

just be for when I travel. Oh, okay. I'd be like, I'm going to just use it. And sure, maybe there are a time would come up where I'd be like, oh, we're thinking about this vacation. And maybe we wouldn't do it because the tickets, but I'm like, oh, well, I've got this United Hookup. Maybe that would come up. But I genuinely believe, mostly it would just be for like, I travel a lot, and I'd like to use this for my travel. And my point is, as I thought about it, and this is what I talked to Hammer about. I legitimately believe if Scotty Curbs did that for me right now, United would be affected in zero ways. Like they would be like this. Yeah, yeah. Fine. Probably true. But I also don't like how the airlines are always bankrupt. I know, but I just think

the two tickets that I will use occasionally is going to do nothing to that. Yeah. Here's why I think you're right. Can I tell you this? Yeah. And I was just talking about this with Wags. In 1990, dude, United offered a lifetime flight pass. Dude. Two hundred and ninety K for a single person, five hundred and ten K for a pair of people first class lifetime. Yeah. And with inflation, Dan, that was the equivalent of one million one hundred and eighty nine thousand three hundred forty nine in 20 this article came on in 2023 yeah so it wasn't a nothing investment yeah yeah like he put a ton of money down but tom stuker said how about it dude you think you think i know who scott kirby is and i don't know who tom stuker is dude just some bullet points here everybody listening to this if you

don't know tom stuker please look this up he has flown over 24 million miles in his life yeah now in in uh 2019 alone he took 3703 flights covering 1.46 million miles if purchased individually those flights would have amounted to 2.44 million dollars yeah in one year he spent 2.4 4 million dollars in one year on flights which he paid nothing for first class for free he has been on um over uh over 12 000 flights he says that he goes him and his wife go on honeymoon every year because they're like oh, whatever. He says he has buddies that are like, oh, I always wanted to go to the dinner at this restaurant in Japan. And he's like, let's go. And they just fly that day. And then they have dinner and then just come back and only paid for the dinner. Yeah. And the Uber to the restaurant.

Dude, Stoaks is goaded. Absolutely goaded. This is insane. They obviously don't offer this anymore, but I have never been more jealous of anything than when I saw this. And that's why I was so aligned with your pick. Because, dude, oh, and here's the other thing, bro. The situational awareness, that Stukes had is through the roof, dude. Like, he saw that deal and was like, I do not think the airline is aware of what they are offering here. And I'm going to take it. It's been to more than 100 countries,

more than 120 honeymoons with his wife. Dude, here's the other thing he said. He racks up points on United still. Like, he gets to use that shit for other things. Like, he's getting so much free stuff because he's like, I've flown 8 trillion miles. Yeah. And he's still getting, like, points that he's.

then uses on like hotels and other shit. Yeah, like those points go into his bank. He's up there shopping the fucking air catalog with the Sky Mall, dude. He's on Sky Mall furnishing his entire house with all those points. It's fucked, dude. And I, I'm just waiting, dude. I'm ready for an airline slip up again to make one fucking mistake. Dude, I am telling you, I'm, I, here's the other thing that I was thinking.

And this is, I'm desperate for a United brand deal. United. Sponsor the show. We fly you all the time. We love you. I feel like a lot of people have social media influence, which we have. Use that to dog airlines a lot. Which I have.

Not recently. I did one time. Yeah, but it wasn't United. And we always gas up United. I always talk about how much I love United. And I'm here being like, instead of using our power for bad, use it for good.

For me. And I'm here saying, I just think that there's someone at United Airlines who could put 10 million miles in my account. Miles. Miles. I'm not talking money. Non-withdrawable, non-transferable miles.

Non-withdrawable, non-transferable miles into my account and no one would know. Nothing would happen. Hit me up. Just put it in there. Hit me up. It's, I'm not asking for money. I'm not asking for...

Well, you kind of are. Well, apparently not, because when I, try to, not United when I try to upgrade a lot with points, people are like this, oh, well, that doesn't guarantee you the upgrade because it's not money, because someone else might pay actual money, but I'm like, but I paid money to get these points. Why is that not the same thing? Fuck. I just think you could do it. Pop some miles in Danny Boy's account and no one will know. Yep. I want it. So United, holler at your boy. Let's talk about the Frozen Four. Please. Frozen Four bracket is out. We have not given.

loved college hockey in a little bit. But we got the bracket out. We got the games coming up here in two days. One day? One day. Tomorrow. Time of listening. The games will be going down in the streets.

Let's talk about the 27th games first. St. Louis, we've got the Frozen Four championship. Do you have a dog in the race? I do. Like, who do I want to win? Yeah. I, this is such a lame answer because A. I'm from Boston and B, it's literal

the most chalk ever. But Well, you're not from Boston. From the Boston area. Yeah. You're from New England. Well, that counts. Considering that Maine is literally No, but I'm saying like I was born in Concord,

lived in Lexington. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it counts. It counts. I just, I didn't mean Maine. I agree with you when I'm saying, yeah, Maine. But this, the last two years of this BC team, not winning anything. Yeah.

I think one hockey East would smitty, but like the not winning anything is so insane to me that I would just like, I've always liked that team growing up and I would like that to happen. So that would be cool. Can I pick a couple dog?

No. Okay. There you pick. I guess I already said it. Yeah, you made your bed. Yep. You made your bed. You tucked in the corners.

You put a chocolate, Andy's Mint on the pillow. Yep. You're rolling with BC. I want to say first and foremost, I'm so disgusted and embarrassed that Michigan is not in this. It's like absolutely kills me. It rips my heart out of my chest.

But I'm so heavily in on Maine. Yeah. It's unbelievable. Seeing Maine back in here brings up the old college hockey memories that we had of going to games. Makes me mad that UNH isn't in this. It makes me mad looking at this tournament and what we grew up with with college.

seeing that, and no disrespect to these programs, but seeing that Yukon, Kwinipiac, and Providence, and Bentley. Dude, Bentley. That's what I wanted to talk about. That bum-ass school. Bentley. So insane. The plugs who played at Bentley when we were growing up.

Those schools are in this tournament, and UNH is in, I mean, Michigan also, but, like, UNH, you got to get back, dude. Figure it out. Get back to Glory, you idiots. But the fact that Maine is in here, seeing that. Black Bear fires me up so much. I cannot wait. Cannot wait.

Going into the 27th games, though, quick rundown. We got Western Michigan against Minnesota State. Minnesota versus UMass. Michigan State versus Cornell. Boston University versus Ohio State. I think, I mean, I just think Michigan State is going to absolutely rampage this section. Oh, really? Yeah.

I think Michigan State's coming out of this, coming out of their, their, They're, I don't even know what we're calling these. Their section, their region. Yeah, their region. Yeah, they're coming out of that region, no doubt. Okay. And, man, I've just been burned by the Western Michigan, Minnesota state so many times. So I like Minnesota.

Gophers. I like the gophers. Gofers. No respect this year for the gophers. I want so badly to go B.U., UMass, Maine, B.C., and be like, let's fucking cook, boys. I have to go BC because I have them winning but also you just like I can't watch Denver do it again so someone has to handle that shit.

I can't bet against Denver. I know. It's like I'm obviously I'm going Maine coming out of that region. Obviously I think they're going to handle Penn State. I actually like Quinnipiac against Yukon and I love that we got a nice little Connecticut match up there. That's fun. Yeah, that is really fun.

And then I just think Maine's going to take care of them. But yeah like BC Leonard is so good game. our boy so good I got Hagen's two but how many times do we fucking bet against Denver and lose every day every year I do it with every year shout out party and Brooke every year I do this fucking bracket

challenge with them so here I am a little reverse jinks I'm taking Denver oh okay I like that Dan I would love some chaos in like you want Gopers like it would be fun to be UMass Minnesota State

even. And then Michigan State looked nasty this year. Honestly, I didn't I don't follow Ohio State enough this year. I don't know how good they are. But BU has game breakers. Could be interesting. Yeah. They got a couple Hudson's on that team. Yep. I'm actually worried about Maine, to be honestly. It would be so sick

if they made a run, but I just think Taylor is dialed. So winning hockey east was huge. Huge. I'm worried that they expended too much there. They might have. Got too high. Yeah. But I'm excited. Dude, this tournament is for hockey fans. This is a very, very slept-on tournament. It's completely overshadowed by the basketball tournament, obviously. It's

way shorter. But it is, the drama is just as high. Think about those games last year. There's nuts, nuts scoring. It's like six, four games and insane point swings. It's really, really awesome. I'm very excited for this to get started. We got to experience this, Washington, Colorado, last year. We're going to be doing that again this year. So it's going to be so sick. So when this pod comes out, yeah, it'll be the games today. So find, some time on your streams to get this on television. It's unbelievable. I can't wait for it.

We got to really dial in here because, and I think you're going to see some more love on the page. We're much bigger on Twitter this year than we were last year, so we're going to be getting in with all the college hockey talk. So make sure you dial in again. As you're listening to this, we're going to have the first games, just a quick rundown of those again. On the 27th, we've got, these are persistent.

Pacific times. Yep. We've got 2 o'clock, Western Michigan, Minnesota State Mankato. Oh, sorry, 11 a.m. B.U. Ohio State. 2 o'clock, that, what I just said, 230, Michigan State Cornell, 5.30, Minnesota, UMass. Those are all great games. All great games.

So, dial in, and then on the 28th, we've got 11 a.m. BC Bentley. we've got 2 p.m. Yukon, Kwinpiac, 2.30, Providence, Denver, and then 5.30, you main, Penn State. And then we're rolling.

Do you think, if you asked him deep down, at places you don't talk about it, parties? Oh, shit. Do you think Smitty would be bummed if they won this year? Absolutely. I don't think he would even hide that.

You would think so? No. No, did he would go, I'm so happy for Gabe Ryan. Yeah, but he'd be like, I'm bummed. too. Like I think Mac would say that about B.U. Like a B.U somehow won. They'd be like, I'm obviously thrilled. Like my alma mater won. All my boys just won an Addy championship, but I'm jealous for sure. Okay. Sorry, you said mad. Did you say mad? I think I can't remember what I said.

I think he said mad. I think he said mad. I think I might have said mad. I think jealous as well. Like, he'd be like, I'm thrilled, but I'm jealous as fuck. Like, I wanted that Natty. Yeah. 100%. And I don't think there's anything wrong with that. Yep. All right, everybody. You know what time it is. It is Bet, MGM time. I want to talk to you about one of my favorite promotions they got running, and that's the hat trick jackpot. Here's what you have to do.

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last episode. The MVP race. We were a little shocked by some of those odds having Hellebuck as the leader in the clubhouse. How many texts did we get after that? So many. There's also, I really, I love it and I hate it. I think I love it most. Whenever there is a discussion about an award and we talk about one player more than another, the DMs get

flooded with homers of a certain, like, hockey talk. Calder came up again and I was like, I think it's probably Lane. The amount of Calgary fans in the DMs that were like, no mention of Wolf, you fucking prick. And I was like, dude, I'm sorry. I love him. He's amazing. I just, I don't think he's the top of the list right now.

And we gassed him on energy line. We went on energy line and gassed up Wolf that's saying he could probably fucking win it if Calgary makes playoffs. Yeah. So I think the Hellebuck stuff has just been, I mean, damn, I'm surprised. But we've been talking about Nate, Leon, and Hellebuck. But then all of a sudden, your boy, Cooch, dude.

In the mix. Oh, dude. Well, so all I wanted to say was this. The Nate odds, and I'll actually, let me pull up the bed-M-jam in real time, just because I'm curious what he is. But I was watching Tampa last night, and they rinsed the penguins, and I said got a point, obviously, they rins the penguins, and Kooch had a bunch of points, and there was actually a moment, Dan, where he smiled.

Like, he literally scored, and then it cut to him, and he was kind of like, It wasn't like a joker smile, but it was like a. And I was like, oh my God. Some emotion? Something's happening here. And he crossed the 100 point barrier and I was like, oh, here we go again. And Nate is, I think, 107 to Cooch's 101 in points. So, oh, wow.

I was like, holy shit. Okay, Dan, so today, already today, Hellebuck minus 185. Lower. Drysidal plus 425. I don't know what it was yesterday. Nate plus 180, lower than it was already. Cooch plus 20,000. Yeah, dude, Cooch ain't winning it, bro. He has second most points in the league.

He's six points behind Nate with 11 games left. You're telling me if he catches Nate again. Because keep in mind, and keep in mind, Dan, he finished with more points than Nate last year. Dude, this... And didn't get it. This isn't a points thing. You don't win MVP because of points And I'm telling you, dude,

the way that Cooch has motherfucked the league over and over again, they're not going to give it to him because they're trying to make a statement. But dude, just agree, but put it, just think about it this way. And you're probably right.

But I'm just saying, think about it this way. Last year, Cooch wins the Art Ross, leads the league in points and has the highest point share of an individual on his team, I think, ever. Sure. Like, no one contributed to more of their team's points than Cooch.

And then they give it to Nate in my opinion, just because they were like, Nate's kind of our guys never had one. Kooch's had a bunch, or Kooch's had one, I think. I think so. Nate's never had one. Let's give it to Nate. And then, yeah, Kooch looked a little butt hurt that he was there last year.

So would I have been if I led the league in points and had the highest point share of anyone ever. And then this year you're telling me that they trade away stammer. A lot of people are picking them to be like a wild card team and they're in the running for first in the Atlantic, neck and neck with Toronto. I guarantee Kooch has got damn near the same fucking point share and he's going to finish what, three to five points behind Nate when Nate won last year.

They don't like giving back to back. I'm like, I hear you. All I'm saying is plus 20,000 is fucking insane value. It is wild. It is wild. Because it's not Hellebuck. I promise you that. And it's not Drysidal.

So it's Cooch or Nate. And that they go, we fucked over Cooch last year. Maybe we give it to him. Yeah. It's, it's kooky. I think the thing that I find, was so wild about this. My vote for Nate is

Nate has been, Nate has 107 points and has carried. This is the same reason I think Kale is the Norris, no doubt. He has carried this Colorado team, which has been the biggest Band-Aid team I've ever seen.

I think it's what was that stat we found? It's like they've rostered like 59 players this year because they've had so many injuries. and he's just doing what he's doing. That's why I'm like, I just think it's him for sure. The hellabuck one is so crazy to me because he does lead, he leads everything. 2.06 and goals against, 924, say percentage, six shutouts. Amazing.

The thing that is, and I think the 40 wins are now 41, probably did he play last night against Washington. And if they win the President's trophy, that is a factor. Good feather on the cap. Yep. It is just funny, like 2.06. Darcy Kemper is 2.10. Save percentage, 924. Darcy Kemper is 919.

Like Vassi is 920. It's like, and Vassi's 2.22 goals against. Like, he's not agreed. Leaps and bounds ahead of every goalie. The big thing is the 40 wins. I think Darcy has 25 wins to his 41. I think it is now. He's amazing.

Amazing. He's winning the Vesna. It's not even fucking close. They shouldn't even nominate three goalies. Like, this is a joke. I do think the fact that he is such a drastic leader in heart is crazy to me. But, you know, we'll see.

I think you're right. If they win presidents and he has like 40 fucking six wins, I'm like, oh, Jesus Christ. But I'm just surprised. I'm surprised. That's really all I have to say. Can I tell you when he, who actually? Look up Kerry Price's stats at the year he won MVP.

That's what I'm doing, dude. Because I think I said someone was like, what do you need from a goal I to win heart? And I was like, I need 50 wins. I need sub two goals against and I need like listen to this yeah 2014

2015 yeah 44 wins hellebuck will probably break that 933 save percentage better than hellabuck 1-9 6 goals against

yeah 9 shutouts 9 9 9 9 yeah that's the bar dude and they won the president's trophy

that year correct it's an easy way to look this up president's trophy winner 2014 2015 if he had 46 wins

He had 44, and they finished first in the Atlantic. Just look up President's Trophy winner, 2014, 2015. What the hell are you doing? Type again. New York Rangers? Yeah, the Rangers. Wow. So he didn't even get President's Trophy?

Nope. But they finished first. He had sub-two goals against, and he didn't have 50 wins. It has to be sub-tued, Dan. It has to be sub-2. How many wins did Allmark have his Vezna year? Because he was sub-2. He was 9-38 save percentage.

189 goals against 40 wins. Wasn't even fucking nominated for MVP. And I'm like, what? Yeah. And Hela Bucca is the heavy favorite. Like, this is a fucking clown show, dude. Yeah, that's interesting. The Bruins had the most broke the record.

Not only did they win the press and trophy, they broke the record, dude. Yeah. But I think it was just too much of a share, right? Like Sway had an insane year that year as well. Yeah, but that means like how many wins did they have that year? Like 60? Yeah. So I had 23.

Yeah. Yeah, it's, you know. That's, I'm just saying that's great. I agree. I mean, I think it's just, I think it's. So to follow up, Dan, because I just saw this to keep rolling on Cooch. But what if he finishes with 47 wins? 47? I guess he could, but I doubt it. I mean, there's 10 games left. He's played so many games. Like, are they going to just...

I doubt he plays all of them, and I doubt they win 7 of 10. Yeah, true. If he matches the 44 wins, which I think he will. And if he gets that to sub two, is he your heart? If he gets it to sub two, we can have a very real conversation. And I honestly probably wouldn't even be that mad. Six shoutouts, leads to the league. I'm pretty sure.

Like, that's cool. But if he's not sub two, then I'm like, what do we do? You know what is so insane, dude? And this is so unfair. This performance from him, this regular season performance from him, I'm now like, if you fucking got, if you guys don't go to the you are a bumsteadman. Yeah.

And like, I'm not, not Hellebuck, like the team. I'm like, dude, if he, I mean, his playoffs last year were bad. Oh, not good. After a Vezna season. Yep. So now we're about to have back-to-back Vezna's and possibly a heart. And if he doesn't perform in the playoffs, I'm like, what is going on with this team? First, first round injection from the blues, the scorching blues.

And you're like, fuck. That would be insane. That would be so horrifying. Dude, so to keep... That's the type of stuff that I'm like, your franchise can never recover. Yeah, correct. To keep the Kooch thing going,

I just said he crossed the 100-point barrier last night. This blew my mind, Dan. Fifth time Kooch has passed 100 points. He's gone over 100 five times in the last seven years. Because before that, he was like not Kooch yet. Yeah, yeah. People were like, this guy's pretty nasty. Yes.

So once he became good and had 100 points, that was seven years ago. Of those seven years, he's gone over 105 of those seven. Yeah. The two he didn't were the two shortened COVID seasons in which he had 85 and 68 on pace for 102 and then 69 and 47 on pace for 120. Yeah. So he was well on his way to 100 points. He has done it five of seven though, factually. Yeah. That broke a record for most 100 point seasons by a Russian, which Ovi held at four. Yeah. And I was like, Ovi has four 100 points. I looked it up. He went four of his first five seasons over 100 never did it again. Yeah. Does that shock you? That blew my mind. Dude, it doesn't shock me right now because I saw this recently. It did shock me the first time I saw it. I feel like a lot of people look at Ovi and they're like this.

He's a perennial 100 point guy. And he's not. And he's only, and he hasn't done it in 15 years. Like he's an 80 point guy. And he's the greatest goal score of all time. I'm not taking any way from him. Yeah, he was a 50 goal guy.

That's what it was. And everyone's just like, yeah, 100 points. And I'm like, no. He's at 80 point guy's whole career. So for record keeping, Crosby has 600 point seasons, which I kind of thought that would be higher too, but he has 600 points seasons. And then listen to this, Dan, this killed me. McDavid has seven already.

He could get to eight this year. He's at 90 points right now, and I know he's dinged up. The only two years that he missed 100 points in his career were his rookie year. And then again in 2020, the COVID shortened year when he had 97 and 64. Yeah. That's ridiculous. bro like i'm ovi's out here playing 20 years can get 100 points four times macdavit his will have 100 points every year of his life yeah i i wonder how much in his mind right now he's like i got to get 10

points right now and dude i also wonder how preposterous it is like gretzky has how many points 25 or 28 yes so many it's too many but i was going to say like if macdavid plays 20 years and he's just ripping 100 point seasons every fucking year i'm like he actually is good like that always felt like the most unbreakable record of all time and now I'm like he could sniff that with longevity he could start sniffing yeah you do we always talk about it though like does does he literally I don't mean on the grand sense when I say slow down I mean literally does his speed slow down yes yes because that that will play a big factor in his game but god is he good gretzky going over 200 three years in a row is just dumb money it's so stupid I don't even know how to

but yeah huge congrats to cooch crazy fucking stat crazy stat crazy stat because Dude, Kooch is going to finish with several more 100-point seasons. Yeah, it's interesting because I feel like you... I mean, Kooch is what? 33? I'll tell you. I'll tell you right now, Dan. Kooch is 31. Kooch is... He's a greatest player of all time.

Well, he's very possibly the greatest Russian of all time. Oh, yeah, dude. And I don't think that... I think he is, dude. Ever is talked about enough. The fact that he already has that record of most 100-point seasons over OV. Yeah. And he's seven years younger than him.

No one's talking about that. That is pretty interesting to me. Like, Kooch clearly isn't slowing down. This lightning team is in a resurgence. Like they are, it's not like he's like, oh, yeah, he had his days playing with headman and stammer and now, like, I don't know how well he's going to, like, they're just as good as ever, it feels like. Yep. I think Kooch is just going to be keep pumping in,

effortlessly 100 point season after 100 point season. He's on the gas. He's made of steel. He's not getting hurt. Points all time by Russians. Yeah. Ovi 1. 1550. Yeah. Malkin 2. 1296. Fedoroff 3. 1179. McGilney 4 1032. Kovalov 5 1029. Dotzook. Goat. 6th 918 Colvichuk Is Datsuk dead in your mind? He's here He's in Detroit

He's always above me He's above us He's in Detroit Colvich 7 8776 Cooch 8th 8773 So he's already 8th And he's a You know

Half a lifetime away from OVee He's gonna get his 1,000th point when he's 33 Yeah Maybe even No He's a 120 away He can't have 120 points

Yeah he definitely could So like he's a thousandth points at 20 at 32 and he's still he's a lot behind ovie but i just think he'll probably finish ahead of him he'll play forever dude jesus what an animal fucking wild pausing the pod for just a second to tell you guys about labat blue and labat blue light two of my favorite beers in the game they got me feeling hockey all the time when i'm watching hockey when i'm playing beer league labat blue gets me through wow i love that labat blue gets me through and that you can have that one for free labat that was incredible so

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So go find yourself some Labat Blue or Labat Blue Light right now. Can you believe it, C.P? We're only two days after our latest episode, and we're doing another wild card. Everything has changed. Everything has changed. I think the big news, we've got some games tonight, or, you know, time. of recording, it's a Wednesday. We've got some games tonight that will definitely change some things.

Let me actually look at that. Let me look at the slate. What's going to, what, what, we've got a Vancouver Islanders game. I think that's probably going to be the biggest one. Islanders need a win right there. Yes. Especially after they got jobbed in that. And if the Islanders win that game in, right, actually if they just win that game,

they'd be in. Yeah. Like, as soon as the game ends, they would be in the playoffs. Oh, yeah, pal. So everything changed. We've got to talk about the playoff picture, the wild card race. Big one was Brutal

L Brutal loss by the Montreal Canadians to the Buffalo Sabres Did they I thought the Who,

I thought the Sends lost of the Sabres Who lost the Sabres Did I just humiliate myself? No, oh shit Montreal got pumped though, 6-1

Yeah, the Sends lost of the Sabers which is L Brutal after being up 1-0 and 2-1 Yeah, can not be losing

to the Sabres I'm an idiot And the Habs got pumped by the blues. Blue's. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, yeah. Yeah, yeah. And that's not embarrassing.

Blues are surging. Yep. But they did get pumped. Yep. And I was like, that's going to be an interesting game. And it was not. The blues crushed them. That gave the Rangers of New York a chance to jump ahead of Montreal.

Montreal still has those two games in hand. So does Ottawa. But the Rangers lost to the Kings. The Kings continue to extend their home win record, unbelievably. But the playoff picture. remains, Ottawa, Montreal. And like we said, Islanders, big game. If they can win, they would jump Montreal.

They would get into that wild card spot with game in hand. But what do you think about the Rangers next two games? They're on this West Coast swing. They got the ducks and the sharks. I believe, with 72 games played, they have to win both. They need four points from those two games or they're done. I completely agree. And dude, you just have to have those.

You have to have the ducks and the sharks. You have to have those games. The games in hand start to become a factor here. You're three, six and one on your last 10. Like this is not a, let's just try to get. We're on the road. Let's just try to scrape a point out of this. Like these teams are not in playoffs.

You have to win these games. And they need them. And they're pissed about last night. Like, I mean, that Kings team is good. And they, the range, I thought Shesty was fucking filled last night. Yeah. Like that was, that's your boy right there. That's your boy.

Oh, yeah. and he kept in it. That game wasn't as close as it looked because of him. Yeah. But they're like, fuck, we wanted to point out of that fucking game so bad and they didn't get it.

So this is, this is nut up or shut up time for them. And I am a little worried. You just said things changed so fast. I'm not worried at all about Ottawa, even though that loss is horrific. I'm a little worried about Montreal. I,

that was a bad loss. That was a bad loss. That was like a, you know, I went on my little rant last week where I was like, they're showing it, dude. Like, they saw the doors wide open. And it's tough because the blues are so hot right now.

And, frankly, they're a very good team. But it's just, like, I've been on my train of Cole getting 40. I'm like, Cole is getting 40. I'm like, he's been cold. How many do you have? I think he has 33 or 34. Yeah, so, like, he's not going to do it, which I can't believe. He's got to get hot.

He's got to get red hot. 33. Yeah, 33. So you need seven goals in what? In 12 games. Seven goals in 12 games. That's definitely possible. For sure.

I just... But like he needs to get hot, and it's like we keep talking about. They're minus 23 gold diff. Obviously that, you know, giving up six last night didn't help that. But like, that ain't going to cut it, boys. Ain't going to cut it. So I hear you. I'm a little bit worried about them too.

These are those games get a little panicky now. We're in the last 12 games of the season here. You're a little panicky. You lose to the blues. Another team that's like, we're in the place. We're in a spot. We're trying to keep it. And they whack you.

You're like, oh, that's not good. How do you feel about the Islanders? Dude, I was going to say. And that brutal goal callback against Klaus. Oh, man. We've just got, we've been DM'd and we've been tweeted at so many times. We have to touch on it here as we're talking about the Islanders. Because I believe the Islanders, actually, give me a little hockey knowledge here.

What is the tiebreaker there? Because the Islanders, Canadians, the same exact games played. If the Islanders had won that game as they should have, in my opinion because that goal getting called back was bullshit. They would have 75 points as well. Okay, the tie-breaking procedure is the few, um, greater number, it says, tie-breaking procedure. If two more clubs are tied in points during the regular season, the standing of the club is determined in the following order.

Number one, the fewer number of games played, but that will eventually not matter. Yeah. Number two, the greater number of games won, excluding games won in overtime or by shootout, regulation wins. Okay, so that would have been tied as well. Next. Oh, it is? Yeah, because Islanders have 32 wins.

It would have been 33. No, no, but see, are you looking on standings on NHL.com? I am. Go over to R.W. Regulation wins. Whoa, that's what it is. So the Islanders have more? Yep. They'd be in.

So they'd be in. They'd be in. They'd be in the playoffs right now. So that's tough. To me, that play is, those are one of those callbacks where I genuinely, I'm looking at Toronto, I'm looking at the situation room, and I'm like, what are we doing here? Do you? Palmeri is looking at the play the whole time.

He's trying to make a play on the puck the whole time. I think the back of his heel delicately grazes the red line of the crease for one second and frankly dude if Mersleikens is just fucking playing goalie and stop trying to touch him you're not you're not interfered with at all

like Pallemary doesn't touch Mersleikens Mersleikins touches him dude his feet to me aren't ever even in the crease his butt is when you go to the overhead view his butt it's like you're doing a squat yeah like his butt is like hanging over is hanging over for sure so I'm not being like

he's not in at all. But that is, I can't find this fucking article, but that is not in the spirit of the rule. I just saw an article on NHL.com the other day that was like, all the owners are very happy with the goal of the interference rule. I was like, that must be a plant article because who could ever be happy with this? That is, imagine that deciding a playoff game. Imagine that called deciding a playoff game. That's what I'm saying. It's like if I'm, if I'm Paul Mary. I actually haven't seen what his statements or comments were on that call. But if I'm

him, I'm like, what am I supposed to do, dude? Like, can I play hockey or can I not play hockey? Because he did nothing wrong in that play. I thought that was a huge bummer. And I'm over here, very vocally being like, I want Columbus in. Yeah. So, like, that was huge. That was massive for Columbus. Necessary. Because Columbus is, they are same amount

of games as Montreal, and they are two points out. That was a very big point for them. But I I'm like, that was shit. I didn't like it. Didn't like it at all. So you hate to see it. Let's go over to the West.

Got to talk about flames and blues quickly before we move on. Yes. Flames, huge win. Blues, like we just said, huge one. And then also, dude, the Canucks. Dude, the Canucks lingering. Lingering. And we've been talking about that.

I will say this Flames Blues finish is going to be really fun because blues are four point. points up, but have played three more games. Okay? So, like, if the Canucks win their games in hand, there's still two behind the Blues. Yeah. If the Flames win their games in hand, they are two up ahead.

Ahead. Ahead of the Blues. And it's been so sick. Blues, 8-1-1. Flames, 6, 2, and 2. Blues, 7 straight. Flames, 4 straight. The hold serve has been so awesome. Oh, these two teams. Compared to the, what we're just talking about with, Montreal, Columbus, New York, where they're like,

lost, lost, loss. And I'm like, oh, yeah, like, someone's going to get in, but it's so much more fun watching these two teams just win every fucking night. And I'm like, wow, good job. You're earning it. You deserve it. And it's going to be a nightmare to me that one of those teams isn't going to get in. Is it possible, Dan?

Is it at all possible? And I've been saying this isn't possible all year. Oh, okay. Is it at all possible that the wild miss? They're four, five, and one. They've lost two straight, and that gap is near gone. I don't think so. because I think there's a chance that they drop to the second wild card,

but I would just be surprised if two teams come in and jump over them. It is possible. But if, again, you can't just hand out wins, but if the flames win there two to catch the wild games. Yeah, they're tied. No, no, but just give them only two more because the wild only play two more hands. They'd be at 83. So they'd be two points behind the wild,

but the same amount of games. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That would be a dagger. It is possible, but. Dude, that would be, like, if this wild team misses playoffs, everyone is fired. Yeah. I'm firing everyone. Well, no, because next year they're like, we're fine.

They had such bad injuries and all the money's coming off the books. Like, this year was always supposed to be the bridge. There are repercussions for your actions, dude. Get a better draft pick. This is good news. This is good news. Oh, my God. I think that would be so bad.

It would be a bummer, but it's not fireable. You know what sucks, too, dude? Four months ago, three months ago, we were talking about this team and we're like, it's so awesome that we finally have a wild team. team that's going to win a first round series. Yeah. They're going to get swept. Oh, they are Dunions.

Dunions. But what a bummer. I'd like them to get in still. I love them to talk. Jesus Christ. Okay, we got to move on. Yep. We got to move on to a good friend.

Yeah, good buddy. A man we love. Man we were sad to see you go. Brad Marshan has practiced. Brad Marshan at practice today. Yucking it up with Sasha Barkoff, with Verhegey. Looks great.

looks healthy. Paul Maurice has said they hope to have Marci as a full participant in practice tomorrow and the plan is to have him in the lineup for Friday's game against Utah. Are you prepared for this moment? I think so. I think I got all my clients, got all my tears out. Can I be honest with you? Yeah. I'm not trying to be dramatic. This is a break glass in case of emergency. Stop everything that you're doing. I don't care what I am doing. I will be watching start to finish this Florida versus Utah matchup on Friday to watch Brad Marshand play, hopefully, for the Florida Panthers. I think that is going to be so crazy, and he also deserves all of my support, and I just, I can't wait to see it.

I guarantee, if he plays on Friday, guarantee he scores. I was going to say, Dan, I'm not, I'm prepared because I'm excited. I'm not, I'm not like prepping my sadness. I'm ready to go, dude. I'm ready to go. This is, I've made this reference before. This isn't quite, it's, it's. definitely not. I shouldn't even say it isn't quite because that makes it sound close.

It's not Brady on the Bucks situation. I've been fighting a sneeze all episode. Do it. I don't know if you've noticed. I've been fighting it. Yeah. Wait, it went away. But I'm telling you I'm going to sneeze this episode. I can't wait, dude. It's going to sneeze eight times. But this is actually a cool thing where I got, I was really emotional. And now I'm like, good, go. I was talking to Jack Barrett last night on the way to the game where I was like, he was like, I don't see Florida win again. And I was like, I kind of do all of a sudden because I'm a fucking Pants fan now. So that'll be really cool. Do you think, just since we're talking about Utah, I'm kind of jumping back here,

do you think our homies in Utah have a chance still? We talked about last episode, Johnny and I really want them to make it. Tough loss last night, though. I don't. I just think there's too many teams playing well. Like the Blues, the Flames and the Canucks. currently you need all three of them to fall off. And that's a lot of teams to jump with 10 games left.

And I'm proud of their season, Dan. I really am. I'm really proud of their season in what they went through. I'm saying for me, Detroit, Columbus, I want to knock out the Rangers, but I just can't because it's still possible. But for me, Detroit, Columbus, Boston, Utah, ducks. I mean, ducks are out. And Utah are the four teams where I'm like, you are out.

I've eliminated you from the place. Yeah, you're dead. Everyone below them has been eliminated. Yeah, we kind of skipped over it. Detroit is dead. I think so. Yeah. That loss.

It does. It was a tough game. They were not good enough. They just got like thumped by the abs too. And I'm like, oh, shit. Yep. All right, let's move on to the Met as we close things out here in the hot ice portion. Just a real quick.

We've been doing this every app because I just think it's so awesome. Ovi, another tuck tonight, Dan, 889. Incredible. We're getting close. Six goals away. What, 11 games? I think he has 11 games.

Six goals away, 11 games. And hey, I got some action. We have some action on it happening in the last game of the year against Pitt. So keep eyes on that. We'll get hyped as it gets closer. And then Crosby, one point away, people. One point away from breaking

one of the coolest records in the league, point per game for 20 fucking years in the league. Outrageous. And I love... Another record that McDavid is going to break in his sleep if he keeps going. Yes, most likely. But another one where Penguins get murdered, 6-1.

And I'm like, did God cause you a good point? They're like, yes. Yes. I'm like, Jesus. Come on, dude. Very sick. And then go to Philly. We haven't talked about Philly in a while. And I feel a little bad about that because we were really loving Philly's start of last season.

They're start of this season. We've been gassing up Travis Kinectney a lot this year. But we haven't talked about Philly in a while. But Philly has been in a tough stretch here. Any juice I feel like they had is gone. They're one eight and one in their last 10 have lost two in a row. Things are just tough.

The goal-tending situation in Philly is really, really morbid. And Torts hit us with, I think one of the funniest quotes of Torts' career. And it's not funny because he's lashing out. It's not funny because he says something silly. It's funny because I said this to you last night. I think Torts is softening in his old age. He made a statement when he took this job

that this will be his last coaching job. He was like, no matter how long this goes, or how short this goes, I will not coach again in the NHL. Yep. And I think he's been great in Philly, despite the fact that they haven't made the playoffs, but I just think he's been good. I think he's said a lot of good things. I think he's been good for a lot of some of these young players.

But they lose a brutal game, and he says, quote, this falls on me. I'm not really interested in learning how to coach in this type of season where we're at right now. But I have to do a better job. So this falls on me, getting the team prepared to play the proper way until we get to the end. just him being like, I'm not interested in learning how to coach this. Dude, he's in, he's in, uh, last two weeks. Fuck it. Fuck it.

He's drilling holes. And I don't blame him at all. And I think this happens more than you think. You know, and respectfully, we talk to Toff and he's like, dude, we're playing hard. Like, you know, we want to be spoilers and like, and we want to win every day. Young kids are auditioning. Yeah. That's happening in Philly too.

I'm not saying everyone there's like, fuck this. But when you are getting pummeled and you're not good, I, I don't even blame or expect pro athletes to show up to the rink every day like let's fucking go boys you are 100% like all right let's go play hard play with pride and go home yeah and i don't i'm fine with that dude and i'm fine with torts going what do you want me to do you want me to go in there and fucking raw raw them every night like i go in there and i go hey young kids play hard these are for your contracts next year anyone anyone uf a like play hard no one get hurt i'm fucking fine with that totally and i i'm officially, I have come around to the point where I feel like Torts is, I think he's a part of

this organization. I could see him going to the front office here with the flyers. Good take. But it feels clear to me that he is not the coach of the moving forward direction of this team. Long term forward though? Yeah, I would say even like two years. I could see him coaching next year, but I don't really see it after that. I want to check his contract because I, because I, I used to think, I was like, this is a ridiculous higher stop gap.

And now I'm like, I hope he fucking stays for a long time. I think the way he's softening, I think he's done with coaching. I think he's like, I think he's going to move to a front office type job. I think he's going to stay with this organization. I think they really like him. I think he's good for them. But I don't see him as the coach moving forward. And that doesn't mean next year.

But I think after next year, I could see a change happening possibly. This might be the last year on his contract. But either way, It's, it is a, it's been interesting to see what's going on with Philly. And I just found that that quote to be really funny of him saying, I'm not interested in learning how to coach in this type of season. Like he's like, we're, it's hilarious. We are toast.

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But I don't even know if they do deserve it. So we'll talk. In the one seed, Dan, I have a hard time So the Jets and the caps played And the Jets beat the caps So there's an answer for us one there And I have a hard time ignoring What the Kings are doing Oh the Kings are in here

That's who I was talking about They're in here I'm saying they might be one No Yes Dan We've been we've seen them in the last two games They're playing so well They have

They had that four 14 goals in 24 hours. Nine and one in their last 10. I mean, listen, dude, you're preaching to the choir, baby. I want to do this, but you're the one who always gets on me of getting too horny. Like, you're going to tell me you think that the best team in the league right now? Maybe. I'm dead ass.

Right now, I'm like, look at this leaderboard. Like, I'm like, who are they going to play? Colorado's the only other team that I'm like Colorado is maybe better than them. You don't think that Washington or the Jets deserve your respect to say that the best teams in the league. Washington is 8-1-1 in their last 10, and they just lost an OT against the Jets. No. you're out of your fucking mind. Again, I love the Kings more than you, but

I don't know, Dan. They might be the best team in the league right now. Who do you think it is? Because if you're saying it's the Jets, because you can't say Washington. Yes, I can. Just because Washington lost an O.T. to them. They lost to the Jets.

Right now, they are not as good as the Jets. I don't think that that's how it goes. They lost to them. The games have to matter, Dan. That's why we play. We play to win the game. You're such a fucking twat. We play to win the game. We play to win the game.

We play to win the game. All right. Based on this, we have the Kings at three. So you're saying you want to go to Jet caps. You're saying the lowly Colorado avalanche, the lowly abs, the little pipsqueaks who have 91 points compared to the 103 and 102 of the Jets. They are better than those two teams for you? You don't think if there was a playoff series right now, abs. Caps. Yeah, I take the ass for sure because Landy's playing.

So I'm like, what are we talking about? Fuck! So that's what I'm saying. Kings Jets playoff series right now. Who wins? Right now. Playoff start tomorrow. Kings.

I agree. Sorry, Jets. So I'm like, I kind of want to go. I kind of want to get crazy, dude. We're going to go Colorado one. They're the best team in the league right now. Don't you think they are? Yeah, I think they are, probably.

I just, I don't know, dude. I go to goalie, like, Woody's been so good, but are we really going to say he's better than LT or Haley? L.T. or Hellebuck or Kemper, frankly? Yep. Like, that's tough. Okay, so maybe Kings. Is he better than Otter? Is he better than Hill? No, no. Like, that's tough.

Yep. That's going to be there. That's going to be the thing in the playoffs. This is the hardest powers rankings we've ever done. This is a really tough. Because the blues aren't even going to make it. Nor should they. And amazing, seven wins in a row. Yeah, I love you, Monty, but no. They are not. They would lose in a playoffs. So, Dan, one of the teams are just ones. Do you think four teams for sure that are in it are caps, Kings, Avs.

And then... It's Vegas and Dallas. And you're bumping Cains out, even though they're 8 and 2 in the last 10. They just lost one time. Yep. Goodbye. The lack of respect for the Cains continues. Goodbye.

So it's Vegas or Dallas would be the five spot. And I almost think it's Vegas. Dude, the abs to me feel like last year's Edmonton team where it's like because of all the injuries and the slow start they were forced into. Yeah. Like in my... They would have 125 points right now if they were just this team. They're the best team I've ever seen.

Okay, so I think Vegas or Dallas is getting the five spot. We don't know which one yet. And those other four teams are the top four. And I will not put the caps over the Jets, and I don't know if I even have them won two. I might want to go Kings. I think the Kings are the best team in the league right now. Fuck it, dude. Let's do it.

Kings, the best team in the United States. Avs two. Jets three, caps four. I think, man, these teams are so similar. are Vegas and Dallas. It's unbelievable. Maybe. Maybe Vegas. I'm going to say Vegas 4. 5.

Sorry, Vegas 5. Sorry, Vegas 5. Sorry, Dallas. Sorry, Carolina. But yeah, that's that. Okay. Kings. We're out of control. Kings 1, Colorado 2, Jets 3, Caps 4, Vegas 5.

That is our powers ranking. Let's get right into the starting 6. Now we can show the Blues in Love. A second Blues winger in a row. Dylan Holloway. 11 points in his last six. Last week it was Cairo. Holloway is buzzing as they're buzzing. Seven straight wins for the blues.

Boy, golly. Does Edmonton wish they had this man on their team? Oh my God, man. Crazy. Senna, we're going, Jack Attack Eichel again. God, he needs 10 points. He's got 10 points in his last four games, Dan. He could do it. He had a had a hatty last night. He's up to 90 points on the season career high. Already has 64

assist career high. He has 26 goals. 11 games left. I would love 30 ducks on 100 points. He needs 10 points in four goals. I just want the 100. I've said this a million times. I said it last year. I said at the beginning of this year, you guys aren't aware of it. It was so abundantly clear in four nations. Jack Eichel is a top five player in the NHL. It's not even debatable. And those who don't think that don't watch the game closely enough, that is the end of my 10 time. You know what's cool, Dan? He's having the best year of his life and he's going to maybe get 100 points. And we just did the kooch section where I'm like,

he's not so crazy where I'm like, you are literally not even a hundred point guy and you are the best guy, you're the top five guy in the league. He's Ichiro, he's Datsuk. He easily could be a hundred point guy, but he's like, I care about winning more. I care about doing all the things right on the ice. It's fucking insane. He's a perfect player. Love it. Right wing.

We're going Matthew Coronado. Mattie C. Six points in his last four games for the flames all wins. Had the OT helper against the Cracken last night. He is just having an unbelievable season. First player in franchise history with back-to-back OTA. Codry. Codry, sorry, sorry. Cadre with the back-to-back OT game-winning goals.

Pretty cool. Flames are buzzing. But Coronado, Beasting right now. Yep. Love to see it. Very cool. Left D. We're going Thomas Harley.

Six points in his last four. Three tucks in that span. He's up to 15 goals on the year. Ties his career high, obviously a very short career, but he had 15 last year. And I think that would be pretty cool if you can bang home one more, keep climbing, become a 20 goal guy. Yeah, that'd be sick. Noah Dobson on right D.

He had seven points in his last four games. This is an interesting one. dude. People have been dogging him all year. Now he's back in the lineup and he's buzzing. You love to see it. Yeah. He's been real good. And like we said, Isles got jobbed against the jackets, but they're sniffing.

Yep. I need people to go a little bit easier on him. Yeah. Also, Kale, tangent, but Kale at Wright D, I think God is 27th last night. And I want 30 for him so bad. 30 goals from D is nuts, Dan. Absolutely. goalie tricky one but this week we're going otter three wins this week with a 32 save shutout against

the wild sneaky not having a good year otter ninth in goals against 11th in save percentage like we're here in kemper and l t and all these guys vassies like they got hot later you know vassie was nowhere and now vassie's third and everything otter ninth and eleventh and i'm like buddy there's 30 goals in the league goalies in the league like you can't be 11th you're nasty so i'm saying this to you brother Well, yeah. I just think he's better than this. I know, and so do I.

But that... I do think Otter needs to... Otter needs a fuck you moment. And that might be winning a cup this year. Or beating the abs in the first round by playing sand out of his head. I think he's going to take more than that. Like, he needs in at least Eastern Conference final run.

Okay. But they're going to need him for sure. Oh yeah. Because we keep going, well, the Aves, their... Blackwood's been awesome, but their issues may be goalie. Yeah. And if the stars just walk in, and they go,

our issue was goalie, too, then that's a massive advantage you thought you had. Yeah. All right, C.P., closed us out this episode with a nice game. Okay, Dan, for the new listeners, this game is called What's the Connection? I keep thinking we're going to be doing the ladder trivia,

and I'm so excited for it, and then it's not that. We did that last week. No, no, no. Last week was like the, it's 10 points to 8 points. Isn't that ladder? No, I think ladder trivia is, there's nine questions and then one connects them all.

That's what this is. Oh, I thought this was connective tissue. No, connective tissue is the name. What's the connection? What's the connection? You're right. Now I'm excited again. Yeah, get pumped.

We did it. Here we go. For the listeners, I asked Dan 10 trivia questions. And the 10th question is, what's the connection? So the answers to the previous nine questions all have one thing in common. Last time we did this, Dan gave me questions and all the answers were the names of superheroes. Yes. It was like Bruce Wayne, Lois Lane, whatever, whatever.

And it's like Lane Hudson is the answer. You know, like that's how we get them. Dan, I think you're going to really enjoy this one. Wow. I'm excited. I think you're going to really enjoy this one. Okay. I got to forget the order.

I want to tell these to you. Well, you got to get going here, brother. Yep. Okay. Number one. Number one, unveiled on the team's second home game on October 13, 2017, the Golden Knights went with a Gila monster for their mascot instead of a knight because they felt like knights weren't as child friendly. Their big, fluffy yellow reptile has the name what? Got it.

And Dan can say what he thinks it is, but I can't tell him if he's right yet. I believe his name is Chance. Number two. I will admit I didn't know what a gila monster is. Yeah, same. I thought he was like a dragon or like a snake. Yep. What is a gila?

Lizard? It's a yellow reptile. Look it up. It's a lizard native to the south. Oh, it's nice. Yeah, it's a cool mascot. Yeah. Okay. Number two.

after winning Super Bowl 49, the New England Patriots were invited to the TD Garden for the February 7th, 2015 game against the Islanders. Instead of a ceremonial puck drop, Rob Gruncowski treated the fans to a ceremonial puck blank. Okay, Spike. That's what you think. But that's a good guess.

That's a good guess, Dan. Number three. I think I already know it. We'll see. This new Canaan, Connecticut native, and former first round pick made an NHL All-Star game in 2020. But back in 2011, he was hit so hard into a stanchion by Zedano Chara that the Montreal police threatened to take legal action against Big Z. That's got to be, I believe, Max Patcher Ready. Okay.

Okay. Number four. Okay. I definitely know what the connection is. Even though this type of player is less and less common in the NHL these days, fighting is an important part of hockey. Fighting is an important part of hockey players policing themselves. There are many slang terms to describe this player,

including enforcer, goon, tough guy, or this word, starting with a B. I think it's bruiser? Okay, number five. I hope I'm saying this guy's name right. Okay. Neil Shee-H-H-E-H-H-Y. Shee he he he he

Shee maybe I don't know Neil Sheahey played from 1983 to 1992 During one of his seasons In 8788 He played for the Hartford Whalers And he wore this number He wore it for only one season

And it's the only time a player Has ever worn this number And now the NHL doesn't even allow players to wear it It's got to be zero That's dumb Why I didn't know that rule Why does the NFL not allow it Dude it'd be sick if someone was ripping around

One dude wore it one season. 8788, Neil Shehey for the Whalers. Gas. Number six. Born in the fictional town of Orange Town, Massachusetts, this dim-witted bouncer attended a minor league hockey game with his best friend. When an opposing player climbed the stands to get in a fight, the bouncer easily beat him up.

The next day, he got a call from the head coach who offers him a job to be the team's new enforcer. What is his name? I have no fucking idea. We're going to move on. Okay. you'll get that one. Number seven. Winner of one cup, one Calder, one Con Smyth, and two Norris trophies.

This man is easily a top two American defensemen of all time, which fits in nicely with his preferred jersey number. Say it again? Winner of one cup, one Calder, one Con Smyth, and two Norris trophies. This man is easily a top two American defensemen of all time, which fits in nicely with his preferred jersey number. Okay. That's going to be Brian Leach. Okay, number eight. In 1997,

MasterCard launched an ad campaign declaring some things priceless, but for everything else, there's MasterCard. One of these ads featured Dominic Hasick. It went, pads for legs, $1,500. Glove for hand, $400. Mask for face,

$150. Having a blank for a spine. Priceless. Slinky. You love that commercial. I do love that commercial. Okay, this one's hard, Dan. But if you know the clue, I think you can get it. The Buffalo Sabres goalie, this Buffalo Sabres goalie,

now in his age 23 season, hasn't had as much playing time as he'd hoped. But when he first got to the team, he couldn't even practice with the boys until some paperwork cleared. This led to a funny story he told on the Spit and Chicklets podcast about how he got his nickname. You can't keep blank in the cage forever.

coincidentally Elias Lindholm shares this nickname with him a moniker he picked up in Calgary you might think the gole in question deserves a Star Wars nickname but he has said he loves the one he's got despite its X-Men ties yes I know it that's gonna be the beast I believe question 10 is what is the clue that connects all these and if you'd like to go back you don't have number six yeah number six hold on hold on Okay, we're going to say the beast. Okay. This is awesome, by the way. This fictional player, born in the fictional town of Orange Town, Massachusetts, was a dim-witted bouncer. He attends a minor league hockey game with his best friend, and an opposing player climbs the stands to fight the crowd,

and the dim-witted bouncer easily beats him up. And the next morning, the head coach from the minor league hockey team calls him and tells him to be the new enforcer on the hockey team. It's Gune. What is this man's name? Yeah. Like the character? Yeah.

Oh, Doug Glad. Okay. All right. All right. Sorry. But also, isn't that movie based in Canada? He's from Orange Town. Why is he from Orange Town Mass?

Okay. That's what tripped me up. Yep. I was like, is this a fucking Adam Sandler movie I haven't seen? It's Doug Glad. Okay. I know it. Number 10, what is the connection?

My question. I know the connection. And I knew it at two. Yeah, I was actually, I was trying to figure out the best order. I can't believe you knew it at two. I knew it at two. This is awesome. But I am, there's one that I think, I'm going to go through my answers.

Chance, Spike, Max Patch Ready, aka Patches, Bruiser, Zero, Doug, Leach, Slinky, and the Beast. Is that all correct? Those are all correct. Okay. The connection is, Movie slash TV dogs. Famous movie and TV dogs.

Which is awesome. So awesome. I am unaware of who leach is, though. So for the listeners, Chance was the answer to the first one. Chance from Homeward Bound. Question number two was Spike. I can't believe you knew this one.

Yeah. From Rugrats. Oh, yeah. Spike from Rugrats. Incredible dog. Number three, you said patches. Yeah. That's actually wrong.

Is it patch? No. Oh, is it, was it not? Patchretti? Max. Oh, Max. From the Grinch.

Oh, of course. Goated. Yeah. One of my favorite dogs on Earth. Number four, I don't know if you know this. Do you know who Bruiser is? No. Legally blonde.

Nice. That's her dog. I thought you might struggle with that one. Number five, zero from Nightmare Before Christmas. Number six, Doug. Up. Famously from Up. Number seven, I'm going to go back to because you didn't know that one.

Number eight, Slinky. Toy Story Slinky Dog. Number nine. was what was nine days oh the beast from the sandlot uh number seven brian leach brian oh brian i was family guy one of those famous dogs of all time the the first names is what's mad and fucking me i got i got it i thank god i got it because i got to dial in there but yeah max and then brian brian dude very very fun perfect for me i know because i'm the dog guy you're not oh that's beautiful stuff beautiful episode that is it for us today at the empty

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