Games with Names - “Game 5” with PFT Commenter | 2018 Stanley Cup Final: Capitals vs. Golden Knights

Episode Date: November 1, 2022

Today, we relive “Game 5” of the 2018 Stanley Cup Final with Washington Capitals super fan PFT Commenter in studio. We look back at the world of June 2018 (15:23). We dive into “Game 5” through the eyes of PFT and relive his wild celebration stories (23:03). The guys wrap it up and score the game alongside PFT (59:21).Support the show: http://www.gameswithnames.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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your podcasts. The Black Effect Podcast Network is sponsored by Diet Coke. June 7, 2018 T-Mobile Arena Las Vegas, Nevada.

Lord Stanley's Cup is in the building. With 7.37 left to go in the third period the first year Vegas Golden Knights are tied with the Washington Capitals. Brett Conley rips the shot from the slot. Marc-Andre Fleury makes the save.

But the puck trickles in, though. This is Game 5 of the 2018 Stanley Cup Finals. You're here joining Games with Names presented by Winbet. I'm Julian Edelman. I'm Sam Morrell. And this is the search for the greatest games of all time, but we have a special, special,

special guest. PFT from Barstool. I feel like this is a pro-am. I'm a little scared. I'm a little intimidated because, you know, he's always... It's like one of those father-son events. Just come on. Yeah, you can putt for me.

All right, thanks. How's that sound? Thanks, Dad. Is this the par-3 masters? Yeah, those tournaments are awesome. I love the par-3. Whenever they hit the shots that, like, skip across the lake and they do all the trick stuff.

Yeah, we'll do that. I'll be your caddy today. I like it. All right, what should I hit off the tee here? Straight up, should I just be like, this was the greatest night of my life? Because for me, when you asked me what game I wanted to do, I thought to myself, well, there's some games I could talk about. I'm not a professional athlete.

I play my sports for the love of the game, unlike you. So all the games that I would talk about, it's not presented by Gillette Razors. It's not glitzy and glamour. It's not on primetime TV. I'm talking stuff deep in the heart of Texas, off the grid you'll never see it on camera. That's where I like to do my work, kind of under the radar.

But this was not the greatest game that I've participated in. This was probably, yeah, I'm going to say this was the greatest night of my life. Start to finish. It's more like the greatest night ever. The greatest night. This is better than the R-Words winning Super Bowls in the 80s? Well, I was two years old when they won their first one. I don't really remember that much.

There's so many uses for R-Words now. That took me a second. Were they called that? I was like, were they called that? I was like, oh, no. Well, now I call them the C words. Now they're the C words, Washington C words, which is a lot nicer. But no, I was blackout when I was two years old, so I don't recall that. And then I was six, and I remember some of that game in 1991.

Don't be deceived. It's the 1991 Super Bowl, even though on the back of our jackets now, on our official team crest, it lists it as 1992. They made a mistake when they made the team crest. That's something that only the C words could pull off. You know, it's kind of true, though, because the Super Bowl is played in the actual next year. So it technically happened in 92, but it is definitely wrong. It's like the 91, you're the 91 NFL champions.

Yeah. But the Super Bowl was played january whatever like 29th uh 1992 so i remember a little bit of that game i just remember after the game my dad got me a a can of coke that had the washington r words logo on it and we just kept that up like on my mantle and that was like our our shrine to our local sports team it's the saddest shrine ever it started to fade after like three years and it just stayed up there for like 10 years was like our shrine to our local sports team. It's the saddest shrine ever. It started to fade after like three years, and it just stayed up there for like 10 years.

I did the same thing with Santa Packs as a Jew. I liked the Coca-Cola Santa Packs for some reason. It was like a forbidden fruit to me. I don't know. Yeah, it was not the greatest trophy that we had, but it meant a lot to me as a kid growing up. It was like, okay, I remember when my teams weren't all total losers back then. So I grew up a Washington Arwards fan,

and then the Capitals were always like that second-tier team for me. But I would go to more Capitals games. It was closer to my house. Tickets were more affordable, so I would go to those games more frequently. I grew up loving the Capitals. We made the Stanley Cup in like mid-'90s, got swept, lost in four straight games. And after that, it was just like a nonstop parade of playoff heartbreak for me as a Capitals fan. I would go almost every year.

I think I went to like four games in a row in the playoffs where we got eliminated. And I didn't go to any games in between that. So I grew to hate the Pittsburgh Penguins. I grew to hate Marc-Andre Fle penguins i grew to hate mark andre flurry who we'll get to in a little bit because he was a big part of this game too um but the capitals they were the closest that i got to tasting success in any team that i rooted for like as as relatively speaking an adult so um this was a like i said it was the greatest night of my life because some of the stuff that happened after the game was over

was even crazier than what happened on the ice that night. I've heard that you've actually, you drank from the cup? I drank from the cup. I drank from the cup too. Oh, really? Yeah. What year? Was it 2011, Bruins?

Bruins, yeah. Shawnee Thorty, Thorty, Sean Thornton. Were they pumped to have you around, or was there anybody on the team that was like, who's this guy? Why is he here drinking out of the cup? It was early in my career, so they really didn't know who I was, but Sean Thornton, he's just a beauty.

Yeah. As they say in hockey, what is it? He's such a beaut, this guy. And he let me come over and take a little sip of grandpa's old cough medicine out of the cup. I love it. There are definitely some guys that were around me uh that were giving me the side eye like who the fuck is this guy drinking out of my stanley cup they just won it like three hours before some of the guys on team knew who i was and i think they were instrumental in helping

me get to the place where i was like close enough to the cup to drink out of it but there were a couple guys that were just like i think Dimitri Orlov was one. There's a picture. I don't know if you guys have the picture, but I'm drinking out of the cup. I can get to that whole story now or I can do it later. You're feeling hot. You might as well go.

Let's hear it. So after the game's over, we're in Hakkasan, which is the club at the MGM, I believe. Oh, yeah. It's in there a couple of times. Family establishment. Yeah, it's a nice place. Family. Yeah, yeah. I've been there a couple times. So I was not – Family establishment. Yeah, it's a nice place. Family.

Yeah, and definitely some families made in there. After the game was over, I was wearing my shorts that I'd worn to the arena. It was hot out that day. It was classic Vegas weather, probably like 92 degrees, something like that. And I wore shorts to the game. Then after the game was over, one of my friends that was in town was like, Hey, I'm actually hanging out with Lars Eller and his family. My family has a relationship with him, so we're invited to their suite after the game.

Went up to the suite, hung out, partied there for a little bit. Then we went to Hakkasan, and there were a few capitals that I was with at the time. They were like, yeah, just come on by. You don't need to go home or anything. Don't need to change into nicer clothes. Just come to the club. So I show up to the club. I'm wearing shorts. Everybody else is wearing like club outfits, but I came like

drenched in beer, uh, just looking like a mess. And the guy at the door, it was like me and I don't know, four or five Washington capitals and their girlfriends or whatever. And the guy at the door was like, you can't come in. And I was like, I was, I was halfway expecting that anyways. Cause I'm not on the team, but they were like, no, dude, dude, you're good. Just go buy a pair of pants and come back and we'll wait here at the door for you and we'll get you in. I was like, okay, they're trying to get rid of me. So I'll go buy the pants and then I'll come back. They'll probably be gone, whatever.

So then I go on a mission to find pants in Las Vegas, which is harder than you think it might be. Is it? Well, if you're inside a casino, inside a hotel. Yeah, but it's like a mall in the casino. They want you to spend all the money you make there. But they're not open all night, are they? Yeah, they're not open all night. So this was probably like, I don't know, 1130 at night, something like that.

So I walked around. I found the gift shop. The gift shop in the MGM had pants. And I was like, perfect. I don't care what they are. I'm buying them. And I asked the lady, I was like, do you have pants here? She was like, we have one more pair of pants left.

I was like, I'll buy it. She goes, do you want to try it on? like, we have one more pair of pants left. I was like, I'll buy it. She goes, do you want to try it on? Nope, I don't care. If they're pants, that's all I need. So she sells me the last pair of pants in the building. They're these giant khakis. They're massive. The waist is probably like a 42 on them.

You look like Mitt Romney at a jazz game. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Like just giant flat front. I put them on and they're just falling off left and right um i'm holding them up with one of the belt loops the belt loop snaps because i'm pulling up so hard on to keep these goddamn pants on and uh i i eventually figure out a way okay i'm gonna i'm gonna hold it like this i'm gonna walk down the hallway i'm gonna get in the club no problem i'm walking the hallway, and who comes around the corner in the casino but Alex Ovechkin, and he's got the fucking Stanley Cup in his hands,

and we almost run into each other, and he's walking. He's doing this big strut down the hallway. He's got probably like 50 people following him, like taking pictures, and he's just singing, I am the champion, my friend. And he like almost walks over me. I'm like, fuck yeah, let's go, Obi. So I'm like, where he's going, that's where I'm going. We're going to the same place probably.

And so I follow him. They let him in. They don't care what he's wearing. Just because he's got the Stanley Cup, they let him right in. And then the guy stops me again at the door. I was like, I got pants, bitch. And they're like, okay, we you back uh to to the back area where where the team is so i'm hanging out there there's some people in in management at the team that i'd become friendly with over the years and a couple of the hockey players there uh recognized me like

okay yeah you're coming back party with us for a little bit and then a couple minutes later the pants are falling off they're just like falling i can't keep them up i look ridiculous and a security guard comes over to me flashes me with a flashlight in my eye he's like excuse me sir come with me i was like i knew this time would come i've been kicked out a lot of places this feels like one of those situations uh so i start following the guy out and then he sends me over to another security guard who's flashing a light. He's like, this is the guy. And then that security guard flashes his light to another security guard and then escorts me directly behind the stage where Diplo is playing.

He's on stage. Yeah, I think it was Diplo. He was doing the DJ stuff at Hakkasan for the Capitals. Ovi is like on the mic with him asking him, hey, play Jesse's girl, play Jesse's girl. So Diplo like stops his set. Maybe it was Chesto, I forget. It was one of those one-name guys.

And so Ovi's like singing Jesse's girl as loud as he can. I'm being walked directly behind Ovi as he's like celebrating the time of his life. And then they turn me around the corner and there's the cup right in front of me. And they go, do you want to drink out of it? And I was like, sure. It was filled to the brim with beer.

So it was a heavy-ass cup. So I picked it up, and then somebody helped me, like, from the bottom lift it up. And I take that sip right there that we're looking at, and you can't see from this angle, but the guy in the white shirt, if you scroll up a little bit, the guy in the white shirt right there, his face is cut that's dimitri orlov from the from the washington capitals and the look on his face is like get this guy off my fucking stanley cup like he had no idea

what i was doing i still don't know what i was doing there i think it's that way yeah there he is there's dimitri orlov right there and he's just fucking furious that i'm drinking out of his cup and so then i put it down and then then i do get kicked out for a second because one of the players or one of the guys back there thought that somebody some random guy just ran up and drank out of their stanley cup so they kicked me out momentarily then i got brought back in for the rest of the party it was a wild night who snapped the picture uh just some random guy that was there and and so he he was a listener part of my take he was like oh fuck it's pft i was like dude i'm about to drink out of

the cup can you please take a picture for me and so he took that picture i got his number i got the uh text from like two hours later i think i was going to end up with any evidence of it whatsoever um but yeah one of the one of the craziest moments of my life right there for sure can we talk about leading up to this because you hate the penguins with a passion yeah I mean it's like Crosby and Ovechkin drafted together two of the best of all time I mean can you go through just your hatred yeah I mean it was like every year they it seemed like they would bounce us out and we're always the two best teams out of the east but the way that the nhl playoffs are set up they don't really protect they it's more about like the separating the divisions from each other and how how the brackets are set up so it was like every year we would play

the penguins in the second round it felt like and we just had a lot of really heartbreaking losses of them i remember 2000 shit what was was I? 2009, 2010, where the series went back to D.C. for game 7. I was really pumped for that and they scored like 6 goals on us in the first period. There's just been like a lot of times where it was like the Capitals are the best team in the entire NHL

during the regular season and then we're going to get to the playoffs and we're going to run into the hottest goalie ever. It was always like that. One time that happened with Hendrick Lundquist. We were better than the Rangers, and we lost to them. He's just too handsome. He's too handsome. I agree.

He's a hot man. He's really good looking. Everybody named Hank, I feel like, is just an absolute lady killer. Team Hank, baby. Team Hank. Team Hank. Hank Hill. Not really.

No, Hank Hill could get it. He wasn't. Hank Aaron was good looking. He was. Big hands. Big hands. You know what that was good looking. He was. Big hands. Big hands. You know what that means. Yeah.

Big gloves. Big gloves. Yeah. Big gloves. So, yeah, it was just year after year of running into disaster in the playoffs. And it really, it beat me down as a fan for a while. And I've, I reached a point where I never thought that it was going to happen until this year, and we got to the playoffs, and I was like, you know what this team feels?

It was after the first series against Columbus, I think. We were down 2-0, and then game three in overtime we won. And I was like, okay, I'm officially back. I feel like this team might be different. We had a fun team to root for, man. It felt like everybody was rooting for the Caps that year too, trying to see Ovi get his first Stanley Cup. It's like Dirk or Elway are guys who everyone wanted to get one,

and it took them a while, you know? Yeah. It made it better in retrospect that it waited that long where everybody – they all got their jokes off. It was like every year after Ovi would lose in the playoffs, somebody would tweet out that meme of like Ovi holding the golf clubs like it was a Stanley Cup. It's like, oh, first of all, Ovi doesn't play golf.

He's Russian. Dude, he's an insane athlete. I bet he could play pretty good golf. His mom was an Olympic basketball player. Was his dad in the Olympics as well? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, he's got athlete blood. His first round of golf

that he ever played he hit a hole in one he's not a golfer but they took him out one day and he hit a fucking hole in one the first time ever out hockey guys are really that's like the same kind of motion those guys are studs at at golfing i feel like people that are are really good at like three point shooting yes and foul shots are also good at golf hunters yeah hunters no punters oh punters hunters and kickers yeah because they do the same motion it's that pinching them shit they're they're in their psycho in the head a little bit yeah they just get locked in to this one thing that they do repeatedly so uh i i was almost at my wits end with the capitals i was like if it doesn't happen this year it's never going to happen well it did happen those were our first initial thoughts to this game which is obviously

the las vegas knights in their first year ever in existence getting to the stanley cup final playing against pft's washington capitals now on this podcast we break down what was going on in regular life, pop culture. What were we doing on the day of the game or in the era of the game? This game, June 7, 2018, number one movie, Ocean's 8. Didn't see it, did you? Never saw it. Ocean's 8, was that the one? The female cast.

Yeah. I think I saw that the day that i got back from vegas actually i came back and i was so hung over from my trip i was like i just got to go sit in a cold room for three hours and try to like sweat out or not sweat out but try to like just get whatever it is out of my body like reset myself to zero just just a bunch of alcohol and yeah just a bunch of alcohol just a lot of alcohol it'll do that to you not a great not a great uh i guess uh review for the movie well you know what it sucked the movie sucked i gave it i gave it zero stars but i did fall asleep for almost all of it the real heist was

paying the all-female cash less than they would have paid men julia roberts was great that's what i thought i thought she was great in that movie i was never an oceans guy oh the first one's killer all right we get it heist movie you don't like a heist movie i like a in that movie. I was never an Oceans guy. Oh, the first one's killer. All right, we get it. It's fun. Heist movie. You don't like a heist movie? I like a heist movie, but it was all right. I feel like I saw it without even seeing it.

You remind me of the gymnast in the first one. Ooh. A little bit. The Asian guy? Yeah, he's just real nimble. He's a real nimble cat. Like a squirrel. Yeah, like a squirrel.

You probably always land on your feet, right? If I threw you out of this building right now what floor are we on five you'd probably land on your feet i'd land on my feet and both of my tib and fibs would just be shattered because i have no cartilage or ligaments or anything in my knees right now so i i learned a fun fact about squirrels you probably already know this as as one. Yeah. But you know that squirrels, they can't die by falling out of a tree. No. Their terminal velocity is too slow, where when they hit the ground, it's not going to be enough to kill them. So you could throw a squirrel out of an airplane, and it would be fine. No way.

Yeah. You can't throw it out of an airplane. You should try. I swear to God. Let's get a squirrel. I swear to God. You want me to prove it? Prove it.

Okay, I'll prove it. Hang on. Just give me one second. I've got an expert. I've got a squirrel guy. Who's this squirrel guy? Billy Football? Buddy.

Are you bringing Billy Football in this? Buddy, you know who my squirrel guy is. This kid knows everything about animals, footballs. That's about it. And like performance enhancing drugs. No, that's you. It's your buddy Rodney Harrison. You can't walk me into that one, Jules.

Come on. Hang on. I got my squirrel guy coming in hot. Does he pick up? He got to pick up the boss, right? He better. I know that he doesn't have anything else to do. Hey, Billy.

What's good? Hey, I'm here with Jules. Eyebrow looks good. What's up? I said that you're my squirrel guy. You're my squirrel expert. Is it true? Could you throw a squirrel guy you're my squirrel expert is it true could you throw a squirrel out of an airplane and would it survive you could technically it won't die

because of the fall but it could die from like being thrown out of an airplane and like getting hit by the jet engine or something like squirrels damage it because they're like evolved that their terminal velocity is too low to kill them on impact. So it's just cool. Cool facts about squirrels. That is a cool fact. All right, Billy, thank you for being my squirrel guy. Thanks, Billy. Get back to work.

He's fishing. He's fishing. It's like four o'clock on a Monday. In New York. Billy's out fishing on a lake somewhere. Where is he fishing? On the Hudson? I don't know.

I've learned not to ask too many questions when it comes to Billy. Just like if it's a small thing that I'm upset about, just let it slide. But one thing Billy did not address, also, if you throw a squirrel out of an airplane, the oxygen, if you're up super high, is so low that the squirrel would probably suffocate on its way down. There wouldn't be enough for it to breathe into its little squirrel lungs. But the fall would not kill the squirrels is the important part. I think he'd be all right with them there.

I mean, they got heart. Squirrels are nimble. They do. You know what I mean? Some of these ridiculous trends, CBD cures all. You guys remember that kick in 2018? I use some CBD still. I'm a fool.

I don't know if it works. I try to use it every day. I think it's placebo for the most part. I'm a fool. I don't know if it works. I try to use it every day. I think it's placebo for the most part. I think so. It was also a bunch of people being like, I want to get as close to doing weed as possible without doing weed. Like, oh, you can buy this weed at a gas station. It gave you no psychoactive effects whatsoever.

CBD, like the inflammation cream that you would would use i feel like that worked a little bit but it's not because of the cbd i think it had like actual other anti-inflammatory they can put the stuff that gets you high in that but it just doesn't get you high when you put it through the tiger bomb yeah i used to inject cbd i would freebase it sometimes so mainline it between your toes yeah it didn't work at all yeah i'm a keister myself um you boof it i like to boof for boof and cbd we're getting this is the least amount of anxiety i've ever felt in my life what's this in my life dance challenge oh the yeah the drake remember the the music video where he just sat and danced all day? Is that what this is? This is kind of a bummer and kind of a downer,

but I do remember on this day, like I was just getting back to the hotel at like 6 a.m. And I checked Twitter and it was like, Anthony Bourdain just killed himself. Oh. Yeah, and I was like, fuck, must have been a huge Knights fan. I remember that too. I remember that too because I was playing a gig in Timonium, Maryland,

staying off the side of a highway in a Holiday Inn, and I was like, if this guy's killing himself, what chance do I have? Yeah, I mean, his life was like, we're going to pay you millions of dollars to go to the coolest cities. Yeah, now we're getting to a dark place. Let's get back to hockey, guys. On this same day,erry maron last surviving wizard of oz munchkin died at 98 it's a good run for a munchkin it is yeah it's a hell of a run

yeah the last surviving people guys they have like a pack you said i was going off what you said well that that was the character in in the show they were called like the little munchkins, right? Yeah. How many Oompa Loompas we got around kicking from the chocolate factory? We represent the lollipop. Remember that song? Of course. I used to love that song.

And what did Sam tweet? I didn't tweet, I guess. What do we got from Julian? Where did I go? RKK. It was his birthday. Oh, Bob Craft? RKK.

Or no, wait. Yeah. One of the best men I know. Your kindness, caring, and passion for everything New England is an inspiration. He just got a big Lifetime Achievement Award at the Sports Business Journal Awards I went to. He's pretty good with everything. I mean, he gives a lot for a lot. How many of the shirts does he own?

The blue shirts with the white collars on them? He switched it up. What's he wearing now? He doesn't wear the collar or the pink tie no more. The collar's very 80s Wall Street. It's kind of cool. Yeah. I like that about him.

Yeah. Now I feel like he's gotten cooler recently. Way cooler. He's got his own shoe. He's got the Air Force Ones and shit. They're called Aircraft Ones. Oh, really? Yeah, they call them the Aircraft Ones.

They're actually like a custom Air Force One, limited edition. Got a pair of them. They're called aircraft ones. Oh, really? Yeah, they call them the aircraft ones. They're actually like a custom Air Force One, limited edition. Got a pair of them. They're pretty tight. They're a little bedazzled, black, white sole. It was pretty insane. It hangs out with Meek Mills. Meek Mills brought him onto the stage. I mean.

You call him Meek Mills? Meek Mill. Like he's a cereal? Meek Mill. Yeah, Meek Mill. Yeah, Meek Mill. Yeah, Meek Mill. Meek Mills. I'm not a Philly guy.

No, that's what happens. That's when you can tell that you're starting to become your father is when you start pluralizing everything. Like, what, are you kids playing the Nintendos? Chicago, Illinois. Yeah. So now we're going up to the run of this playoffs and the Pittsburgh series versus the Cavs. Can you take us through that, the bet, everything that you go all out with?

Yeah, so I'm trying to remember exactly what the bet was that we had for that series. I remember watching game six. We were on a flight out of New York going down down to baton rouge we're gonna meet and interview coach o for the first time and we get on this airplane and it's basically me hank big cat i think i'm not sure if liam was with us or not at that point but um it was a very small crew we're almost the only people on that on that flight and the game went into overtime and i was like you know through years of seeing this same movie happen to me over and over into overtime and i was like you know through years of seeing

this same movie happen to me over and over and over again i was like well we're gonna lose this game in overtime then the penguins are gonna fucking smash us game seven like five to nothing so i was in i was super anxious we end up winning that game because netsoft scores in overtime he does the bird celebration i start running up and down the aisle on the airplane freaking out the the uh flight attendant brings me a bottle mini champagne i pop that thing open i'm like i can't believe that we're doing this i can't believe it's actually happening so that was one of the best one of the best couple days that i've had as a sports fan not only just winning that game but also getting to like share my joy with coach o the next day i was wearing like an avenge concert

he was we talked for a second about like being a hockey fan. Coach O doesn't know shit about hockey, by the way. Like why would he? He's from like – Louisiana. Yeah, deep Louisiana. Deep. He's probably never seen ice in his life.

Ever. And so he was just like, oh, I'm happy for you. I'm happy. You seem like you're a good fan. Now, did you get a little nightmares because the first time that the Capitals went to the Stanleyley cup final they got swept by detroit that were you starting to feel feel a little nervous that like this could be deja vu we get there we get over the hump of beating the pet the penguins and now we got to go

battling the championship against some like destiny team what happened actually there's a series in between that so i felt like at the time when we beat the Penguins, I was like, that's huge for us because this never happens. It never happens. So this team is different. But we still had to play against the Lightning in the finals, and they were a really good team, and they still are really good. Isn't it kind of crazy to think of a Tampa Bay, Florida team?

They're dominant in hockey. Well, that's the Tom Brady magic. So they became dominant in hockey once Tom Brady moved to Tampa. And then the the Rays got good at baseball. The Rays made the World Series. It's just everywhere this guy is.

It just wins. Just excellence. I mean, San Francisco, when he was there, that's when the Niners had their run. Also, I think the porn star capital of the country, Tampa. Is it? Everywhere Tom goes, they win. No, that's Jimmy G with the porn stars. Oh, okay.

Jimmy G. We don't talk enough about the fact that Jimmy G got a lot of shit for that picture, but he was taking her out to dinner. He was treating her like a gentleman would on a date. He wasn't sliding into DMs being like, yo, can I come over? Eggplant emoji, water emoji. He was like,

would you like to go out for a nice meal? Yeah. Let's go to a nice meal at the most paparazzi spot in downtown Beverly Hills. Like those are just nothing but great decisions for keeping everything DL. I think it's very thoughtful for him to do that. Like we, we should be applauding him. Who says chivalry's dead?

He's going to take you out to Nobu first before you go back. I mean, that's the kind of guy Jamie G is, I guess. Those Italians are just smooth. I feel like he could have taken her to Subway and still banged her, though. I don't feel like he needed to take her to Nobu. I don't know. He's a classy guy. I think he's a classy guy.

Meatball sub? Yeah, there you go. Although their footlongs aren't a foot long are they not they had that class action lawsuit turns out they were all 11 inches not 12 and so they were defrauding america oh my god for years and years and years so we straightened that right out and their bread is made out of yoga mat i'm fine with with that, though. Like, yoga, it tastes good. And their tuna. It smells great. Their tuna's not really tuna. It's dolphin, right? Yeah, so, Subway's had some

pretty adverse situations to overcome. Jared Fogle. This is, we don't, RG3, it could be argued that RG3 is a worse

spokesman for your brand than Jared Fogle. What do you think? I'm joking about that. I love RG3. Yeah. How do you think he's doing on TV? I think he's doing okay. Yeah? He's, like, finding his love RG3. Yeah. How do you think he's doing on TV?

I think he's doing okay. Yeah. He's like finding his groove a little bit. Yeah. It takes you a while. I mean, you know. How do you think Jared Fogle is doing in prison? I don't know.

Julian, you're actually like, I watch your stuff on Inside the NFL. It's good. You do good on TV. We'll see tomorrow. Got to go to the Emmys. Got nominated. Oh, really? We'll see. You and how many other people? Like 50.

They nominate everyone for the sports Emmy. But hey, still a resume builder. It is. And you can say, like, for the rest of your life, I won an Emmy. I don't know if I'll win it. I think there's a couple of people who are going to win that thing. What are you nominated for? What am I nominated for, Jack?

Up and comer. Up and coming? Wow. wow i'm up and coming the bad thing is like you can't get nominated for that twice can't like that's who else is up and coming who's in your who's in our group jack we got for the sports emmy of outstanding sports personality emerging on-Air Talent is the technical name. Taylor Rooks, Greg Olson, Eli Manning, and Jules. Wow. Taylor's going to win. She's good. Yeah, but Taylor, I feel like she's already here.

Taylor's been around for a while. That's a stretch of the definition of up and coming. I think that's actually disrespectful. Eli's sneaky good. It's disrespectful to Taylor Rooks that she's included in a newcomer award. She's been good for a long time. Eli, he's your biggest competition yet again. Wouldn't that be something? Fucking Eli.

Cover five. Down the sideline. He's going to toss that award to Manningham right in front of you. Jesus Christ. I was literally right in front of that catch. It was a good pass. It was a spectacular pass, but it's technically the worst place to go with the ball in that coverage.

You should have never thrown that ball? Should have never thrown that ball. You should never have thrown that ball. I mean, a real student of the game would know that. So then, yeah, you got the series against Tampa. How are you feeling at this point? I felt okay going into that series. Then I got nervous as it went on.

But the guy that turned that series around for us was Tom Wilson because Tom Wilson, he gets a lot of shit. People say he's a dirty player. But if you asked everybody in the NHL, do you want this guy on your team? They'd be like, absolutely. That's the perfect guy that I want on my team. He will beat the fuck out of you. He will hit the shit out of you.

And he's a great goal scorer and he's a good guy and teammate and he's a man rocket so if you just wingman for him all the time you get the runoff you're doing great so everybody on the team loves tom wilson yeah and i'm getting these stories from like chicklets because the chicklet chicklets guys love him he's been on that podcast they're incredible yeah uh and biz has a way of of talking to them that just makes them like open up about everything isn't hockey talk like some of the funnest stuff to listen to when you hear two like canadians and even the guys that are from the united states that play hockey sound canadian yeah because they're around canadians all the time yeah and like just their their terms of

endearment are like completely different nothing like you've ever heard and like it's just it's it's a fucking one of it's crazy it's also addicting being around hockey guys you start to use their language got it and their vernacular all the time uh there was one time we're talking to ryan whitney i think and we asked him about hockey nicknames like what's the flow chart like for a hockey nickname because you're either going to be like, and you're going to put the word or the letter Y at the end of it, or you're going to put like ER at the end of it. So it's like, I guess Gretzky is a bad one. Or no. So like they called Wayne like Wano sometimes.

And you sometimes just toss a Y at the end of it. You're like Willie. We're going to call him Willie or over. You know, like you have, you just put like these three suffixes at the ends of all these names and like, Willie. We're going to call him Willie or over. You know, like you have, you just put like these three suffixes at the ends of all these names and boom, that's how you get there. And that's who you are

for the rest of your life. And then I'm always curious how- Because Thorty was Thorty. Yeah. Sean Thornton was Thorty. I'm curious how Paul Bissonnette got the nickname Biz Nasty. Like how nasty of a guy do you have to be

for other hockey players to be like, yo, this guy is disgusting. It's like when they called Ivan the terrible, the Nazi, it's like, well, you're bad even for a Nazi, you know? Yeah. That guy sucked. Yeah. That's exactly. That's a perfect way to describe biz nasty. Yeah. Love the hockey guys. But we were down, we were down actually in Tampa for this game seven of the Eastern conference finals. And the game before

Tom Wilson had just beaten the shit out of somebody on the lightning. I forget who it was. We got great seats for this and we were close enough to hear the sound of Tom Wilson's knuckles destroying a guy, punching a guy's helmet off as he's smiling.

I remember watching the dude's helmet go flying away and Tom Wilson's laughing like a maniac as he's like smiling i remember watching the dude's helmet go flying away and tom wilson's like laughing like a maniac as he's doing it and i was uh i was i was very pumped to be to be in the crowd for that game and at that point i was like i was so so confident going into the stanley cup i was so confident actually that we won game two in the Stanley Cup to level the series at 1-1. I was out at a bar here in Soho, and the server brought over champagne bottles. It was like, you want to pop these champagne bottles? I was like, hell yeah, I do. And so we got behind the bar and started popping champagne bottles.

It was a Caps bar. And I go into work the next Monday. You didn't feel like that was bad luck at all, popping it early? In retrospect, I probably shouldn't have, but I went into work. That's confidence right there. And Portnoy was like, what the hell are you and Nate doing popping these champagne bottles? You just

won one game of the Stanley Cup Finals. I was like, that's where Dave's inner Boston sports fan came out. Yeah. He's telling me that. He's like, do your job. He's telling me to act like I've been there before like i've said i've never seen a washington capital stanley blacked out when he was two win for the you know for the r words and then six it was a

blur and they've been around since what 74 they've never won no the capitals they won a stanley cup i want to say in like 40 didn't they win one in like 1970-something? I don't know. Let's check that, Jack. Jack? I don't know. I mean, you're the Capitals guy. You got to know that.

Capitals. I don't know. Maybe I just... Maybe I'm misremembering. I'm probably thinking about the... Yeah, yeah. I'm thinking about the Bullets when they won back in the day. But I've literally never seen the Capitals win a Stanley Cup finals game before.

I thought maybe it was like one of those rinky-dink early 60s when there were like 12 teams, and maybe they stole one then. But it was a situation where I'd never seen any sort of success in the finals before. And so I was like, you know what, I'm going to pop this bottle, and I don't care. I was just so excited to get one. It's to pop this bottle, and I don't care. I was just so excited to get one. It's loser mentality for sure, but I'm a loser. Like, who are you talking to here?

I've never won anything before. Well, at least the jinx didn't come out. They go on to win it. And they're against an expansion team. I mean, this is crazy. They're going against a Vegas. This is their first year existing. Yeah, so game one when they beat us, I went to a dark place for a little bit,

and I was like, you know what? This would be the absolute worst if we lost to a first-year team with Marc-Andre Fleury, the goalie from the Pittsburgh Penguins that had just ruined my life for like 12 years nonstop. So the thought definitely went through my mind that where i was like uh maybe not but then game two that's when holtby had his save one of the greatest saves i've ever seen hockey where he just reached his stick out across the goal line as he was diving brushed off the goal line we ended up winning that game after game two i actually felt

i felt really good about where we were confidence wasidence was soaring. Soaring. Soaring. Then we went back to D.C., won two in a row. We're up 3-1. It's in the bag? Is it in the bag by then? Well, after game... There was no sense of they could come back. You guys knew you had it done. After game four, I really felt like it was going to happen.

Because game four, I think that's when Ovi came out there and he was wearing the Ivan Drago outfit before the game. I think he was wearing a bathrobe and a towel around his head. And he was talking to the media with his big-ass chain. And he was just like... We captioned it and sold a bunch of shirts that just said, like, if they die, they die on it with Ovi. And I was like, this is...

I'm confident because Ovi's confident at that point and so we won game four I want to say like six to two or something like that and going now going to Vegas I did feel like when I got to the hotel I was like did I feel like I this is going to be the most

painful of all of them if I just flew all the way out here to watch them lose what kind of hotel are you staying in? Do you treat yourself? I think it was Caesar's Palace. I'm pretty sure it was Caesar's. So it was a decent room. It didn't break the bank or anything.

They got dope villas. It was a business trip. They got great villas. I've never been to their villas. You have your own pool. Or is that the Wynn? I think it's the Wynn. I think Caesar has some sick palaces.

Let's say it's the W win for the sake of this podcast. And the win, too. The win has amazing. The win is awesome. It's definitely the win. Amazing. What is this? Oh, there we go.

Yeah. If they die, they die. See, that's a pretty badass outfit, right? You see that guy coming at you pregame, and you're like, we're done. He'd be someone that'd probably be insanely cool to root for. You know what I mean? Yeah, besides the Putin stuff I've had to deal with for the last six months. Besides that, of course, terrible.

But he is lovable. He is. He's a lot of fun. The joy that he gets out of playing hockey and scoring goals. He scores 50 goals a season. But every time he scores, he acts like it's his first time. It's like a little bit Brett Favre in that way. Where like he smiles,

he jumps into the boards, has a great time out there. He actually lives really close to where my parents live now in McLean. And occasionally if I go back to visit them, I'll be like going for a walk around the neighborhood or taking the dog out or something. I'll see Ovi just like biking a BMX bike up and down the street. Just like smiling,

having a great, it's actually funny. The first time I saw him, I was taking the dog for a walk and I'm going around this lake and there's this woman that's walking towards me and she like smiles and waves at me. And I'm like, oh, hey, how's it going? I was like, that is a very beautiful woman that just said hi to me. And then about two minutes later i see ovi riding his bike right up the street bmx a bmx bike he was like he was rehabbing from an mcl and that's what he was doing just like peddling his bike back a gt interceptor yes not even a mountain bike no dude it was like the bikes that we used to ride when we were like eight years old. Pegs? Did he have pegs on it? I think he did.

You know what I just got out of this story? That you probably grew up very rich if you live in the same neighborhood as me. So you're not far off in that the neighborhood is very rich, but it was like my grandfather's house that he built in like 1940 before there was anything in that neighborhood. So it's a small, tiny little house that just got surrounded by these giant mansions everywhere so no i grew up i grew up uh my mom was a teacher and my dad couldn't work so it was good yeah having a teacher she molded the future exactly that's why you're so that's why you can speak so i bet because she was a teacher because your mom's

a teacher what kind of teacher she was an orchestra teacher oh so yeah so maybe maybe not the whole speaking thing um but i can play i think i can play ode to joy on the violin still can you i think so i mean translates to guitar and so like that's where i learned i learned music from but no i did not by any means grow up grow up rich but now the neighborhood is like super super wealthy wealthy. And so I just got this confidence boost. I was like, yeah, man, this beautiful woman just waved. I mean, she gave me this like really nice smile. And then I see Ovi ride his bike back towards me. And I'm like, wait, that's definitely like Ovi's wife that just said hi to me. And so I looked her up online. I was like, yep, that's who she is. And then she walked past me later and she was like, I i see her dog out all the time i just wanted to come by and say hi to it and i was like okay

and so she just pet the dog and walked away i was like no she just liked the dog not me back to back to the cellar with with me so ovi's wife was hitting on you no i'm saying she just liked the dog you had a being friendly out of respect to ovi i would never i would never wow i would never i didn't know you had that kind of game, bubs. Yeah. That's energy right there. That's BDE. If you give me a dog, that's when I'm at my best.

That's a good move. They're the best wingmen. Little dog. This was a big boy. This was a big boy. But my move with a puppy, I used to sell used dogs. That's why I called my job. But I was really just, you know, I worked for like a dog adoption nonprofit.

Sling dogs growing up. And so I used to get more donations for my nonprofit. I would pick the puppies up and then it's like a car would drive by. I would just give them a little puppy wave with like the hand. And then it was like a magnet. They just pull over and just go over, put some money in the jar for the dogs. And then also we, you know, clearly the other team was the Las Vegas Knights.

First season ever. First pro team in Vegas. So they had a little steam. Record 50, 24, and 7. 109 points. First Pacific. Third in the Western Conference. Beat LA.

Beat my San Jose Sharks. Beat Winnipeg. Broke the record for the most wins for an expansion team in their first season, and conference, beat LA, beat my San Jose Sharks, beat Winnipeg, broke the record for the most wins for expansion team in their first season, which was previously 34. First expansion team in pro sports to finish above 500 that did not join from a different league. They had this whole expansion draft. Do you know how this thing goes, the expansion draft?

I remember they changed some of the rules to make it more competitive. They wanted this team to be good right from the get-go. Oh, so you think that this was designed? It was rigged. It was rigged? NHL rigged. Well, they wanted to have a team in Las Vegas be successful. They didn't want that to be a flop from the get-go.

So the way that the draft was set up, they got much better players than you would normally get from that. The NFL should take a book out of that and put a new team in Washington, D.C., and then maybe... A real team in Washington, D.C. That would be nice. A new team. I actually think that if you created an expansion team in Washington, D.C.,

it would have more fans instantly than the C-Words have right now. We're down that bad. I'm dead serious like the entire city is like we don't we don't give a shit about the c-words we're like this is too much for me to care about until dan signer sells a team wasn't it one of the biggest like most profitable franchises though until just recently i had the biggest stadium in the national football league for like the longest time 90 000 Wow. And it's a shithole. And it sucks.

Well, didn't someone almost die there? A lot of people. What was it? RG3. RG3. And then, no, that was Philly. Or was that? No, some of the stadium.

Hertz? Some of the stadium collapsed almost onto Jalen Hertz this year. Damn. Which, yeah, that would have been bad. There was like a sewage leak earlier this season where the sewage was pouring onto people. There was another pipe that burst or a sprinkler that went off

and flooded a part of the stadium. It's just bad. It's soulless. That's what I don't like about it. You can build a decent-sized stadium. You can build a 90,000-seat stadium if it has a little bit of personality to it, that's great. But this place, it's just a cement bowl designed to pack as many people in as possible.

And it's got these columns and some of the seats that you sit behind. And you can't even see the fucking field. It's like from 20-yard line to 20-yard line, you're just behind a pole. And you can't see anything whatsoever. So yeah, I hate that place. That reminds me of Candlestick back in the day when they used to share the stadium with the giants they'd roll out the bleachers and i would sit you you brought like a uh like a carton of milk and you can get like a ticket for like 11

bucks or something or 10 bucks and they'd sit you in an area where you literally couldn't see the game because were they the bleachers would come out to form up the stadium for the football team. We'd be over in this corner. And like, yeah, 80s design was not there. But at least it had like a little soul to it, right? The stick was awesome. It had personality.

The stick was awesome. That's a beautiful, beautiful stadium. Well, it's not there anymore. Yeah. But it was an amazing place. The things we remember about this game, the pregame theatrics at Golden Knights games. Yep.

They know how to throw a party in Vegas. Yeah, it's actually very cool. If you've never been to a Golden Knights game, at the time, since it was the Stanley Cup Finals, I was like, look at this Mickey Mouse cartoon Disneyland shit. I was mad about it because I was like, look at this Mickey Mouse cartoon Disneyland shit. I was mad about it because I was like, this isn't hockey. Even though I'm not like a hockey guy that would traditionally be like

standing up for the lore of the sport or being humble. At the time, I wanted the game to get started. It was candy ass. Yeah, it was candy ass. It was absolutely candy ass. So before the game, they brought out all these archers and stuff. It was like medieval times, which is maybe one of my favorite places to be.

Medieval Times is awesome. I just didn't want to deal with that before the game. But it was like a 15-minute play that they put on, like dinner in a combat theater before the game even started. And also, we did have a bet going into this game. It was a bet, me against John Taffer from Bar Rescue. Oh, wow. Because he's a big Vegas guy. there's a bet me against john taffer from bar rescue oh wow because he was a he's a big vegas guy he's a huge golden knights fan and so uh tradition of

sporting there yes it's funny to be a big golden knights guy they just started existing tradition the city like las vegas actually got really behind the knights when they first came out like they were the people that live in ve Vegas were pumped to have a sports team there because usually their entire economy is built around other people from out of town. This was their thing that they had together. So the fan base was actually pretty cool there. And Taffer was like, if the Capitals beat the Knights in the Stanley Cup,

I'll have you on bar rescue and I'll name a drink after you whoa and so i forget what i had to do for him if we had lost but we ended up winning and then i think we're still trying to figure out when we can pay off that bet what kind of drink are you thinking ah like a a bud light seltzer or a mad dog a mad dog cocktail you like mad Dog 2020? I haven't had it since high school. A PFT Lord Stanley's Cup. That's your drink. Yeah, it's a PFT, T-E-A, and they serve it in like a Stanley Cup replica. If he does a bar rescue in D.C.,

I'm going to make him do that. That's a good idea. A PFT. Yeah. Like a Mike's Hard Tea or whatever. Do they have those? Yeah, yeah. I'm sure they have like a John Daly,

a mix of lemonade, ice tea, and vodka. A little vodka? Yeah, with a Mad Dog floater on top. The John Daly, they call that. Yeah. So there's, actually I might make them do like a margarita. This is what I've been making a lot recently,

where you crush up Cool Ranch Doritos and then you put that on the rim. The rim? Yeah, the Trailer Pulse Margarita. That sounds fucking good, actually. It is pretty good, yeah. Because you get that little, yeah, that put that on the rim. The rim? Yeah, the trailer for that's an Argarita. That sounds fucking good, actually. It is pretty good, yeah. Because you get that little fire from the chips. Yeah, oh, Flamin' Hot Cool Ranch Doritos, that would be really good.

Guy plays instruments. He has an award-winning podcast. Have we won awards? I don't know if we've won any awards. Have you not? Well, I think you are. In my eyes, you have. I know we get nominated every year for the iHeart Award,

but they give that award to whoever says that they'll show up to the award ceremony. And so every year we lose to somebody new. It's like a rotating cast. And so this year it was us against Colin Coward, Bill Simmons, and then the third nominee was a once every four years, a look behind the female athletes in the olympic games and we're like well we're not winning again this year i think i know who's

winning this one things we also remember this was a backdoor sweep what is it they call that a gentleman sweep is that a gentleman sweep backdoor sweep i like that i've never heard backdoor sweep gentleman sweep is if you win if you win four games and you lose one. Yeah, it's a gentleman sweep. Gentleman sweep. Backdoor sweep I've never heard, though, either. I like that. This is also the Stanley Cup with the celebrations of Ovi.

Those were always priceless to watch on. He was always promoting drinking, which I like, out of an athlete. You don't hear a lot of athletes be like, go get a beer now. I like that energy out of a pro. I mean, he was drunk for a Russian. Like it was noteworthy how drunk he was and the entire team. I think they were on a bender

that lasted like three weeks afterwards. They earned it, man. They would just show up to a different place in DC, hammered his shit. I remember one time they went to like one of the fanciest restaurants in Washington, like Suit and Tie Place that you have to have reservations for like a month, two months in advance.

And it was like a quiet evening. They showed up naked. And then like, yeah, then it's like Ovi and TJ Oshie walking through the door shirtless. And they're just like, give me all the liquor. And the entire place just like melts down into a rave just because Ovi came in. It's like, well, it's time to get drunk right now.

Right after they won the cup, though, can I tell the story about like how I experienced the last two minutes of this game? Are we going to do it? Do you want to do it chronologically here? We'll go through chronologically. That's a tease. That's a tease right there. That's a professional right there.

I don't want to jump ahead on the rundown of the show, so I'll wait. Things we may have forgotten. Fleury's incredible postseason up to that point. Four shutouts. Percentage save of 94-7 Crazy Also a third straight SCF appearance Although he was benched in each of the last two years

That has to be heartbreaking Or like you gotta be so nervous When you're a Capitals fan And you see these incredible stats by Fleury Just came over from the Pittsburgh Penguins. Yeah, I was a little bit nervous before the series started. But again, the way that we were playing after the first game, I felt like... Team of fate?

Yeah, team of destiny. We were on a roll. Team of destiny. Let's go to the gaming corner real quick, presented by Winbet. So we're doing it a little differently this episode with the Gaming Corner presented by Winbet. We had to do this before PFT got here because he's going to be joining in on our whole episode. So this is like full mission, sneak attack mission on this. What are you thinking for the prop bet what do we do how do we get them

uh what's a fun phrase that we can say they do call the trophy lord stanley cup that's good that's an annoying thing to say too i know I know. Lord Stanley Cup. I said Lords. Lord Stanleys. It's Lord Stanleys. It's his possession. So he's been, does that mean he's been knighted? Is that like, is it like Tim Hortons? That's all they talk about up there? Their knightings?

I don't know what I'm talking about. But yeah, I think Lord Stanley's Cup is plenty annoying. Let's. How many times? Over, under, what? Four? Can we hit four? Can we hit four? All right, let's try many times over under what four can we hit four can we hit four all right let's try to remember we never remember yeah it depends on how the flow of the show is going that seems high but we'll see what we could do let's do let's try all right tell us break down

how the last couple minutes went first period no goals zero i. I went outside. I remember I found, I'm not a cigarette smoker, but when I'm in Vegas, I definitely smoke cigs. And they have the nicest cigarette porch in America at this stadium. So I went outside. It was like couches and shit set up. They have a cigarette station? They have like an outdoor lounge just for DJs. Wow, fully in Vegas.

Yeah, had a great time. So I blew off some steam there uh came back in but i bought 250 worth of 50 50 raffle tickets then big cat hit me up he was like get me 250 worth too and so i got those i was just like trying to occupy my mind i knew once the scoring happened it was going to get crazy and i just needed to like i needed to center myself yeah so as all the great yogis teach go out burn a few lung darts and then gamble and so that's what i did and came back inside the scoring gets started i i felt okay from the start with the only problem was i think we hit the pipe twice i think we there

were two shots that went off the post. Wide right? I think it was left. I think it was upper left-hand corner. Ovi hit a shot that might have hit two posts at the same. It was a double doink. You know what that reminds me of? What? When Gordon Bombay hit the post against the Blackhawks. Yeah.

On the Triple Deke. If it was a quarter inch to the right, it would have gone in. It would have gone in. Yeah. Maybe he would not have been as hungry to go back and beat the black knights that's true or the what are they the golden knights no the uh the black hawks black were they hawks in d2 or d1 i don't know mighty ducks i forget what what team they played they were the hawks yeah i know it's iceland and d2 that was d2. That was D2, Gunnar. My bad for interrupting. No, it's all good.

I remember seeing Ovi hit the post, and I always feel like if you hit the post twice and it doesn't go in, you don't get a goal out of either one of them, that's a game that you're always going to lose because you're going to go back and think like, oh, that shot, like you said, that shot should have gone in. But once the scoring got started,

I felt confident until the end of the second period when we fell behind i think it was three to two at the end of the second period so i needed to change up the juju a little bit so i went outside had another couple cigarettes then went downstairs the morals of cigarettes are good yeah rally cigs and gambling and gambling yeah oh somewhere in the in between that, I lost the 50-50 raffle. Spoiler alert again. So I went to the bottom row or bottom bowl, and then I found this area that had a lot of Caps fans. I was like, okay, I'm going to go sit with these people.

And right when I got down there, that's when DSP scored his goal, where it's actually a lot like the catch that you had against the Falcons, where you just lay out off your feet, off your feet and you just concentrate the last second you're able to haul it in that's what dsp did on that goal uh and that was the tying goal i believe on that one oh i did i did taunt the golden knight mascot in the second period i forget what i said to him i i was just in a weird zone but the golden knight mascot i was basically like flipping him off was it a real night or was it like a mascotti night i think this one was like like a medieval times guy like i think he was wearing the armor and

stuff if i remember correctly and so i was just a fun mascot it is like i in retrospect i i really like the franchise it was just it was a business trip. I was there to destroy them. Well, it's not like the Phoenix Suns where they just have a gorilla, and you're like, why a gorilla? Oh, there will be no gorilla slander on this podcast. Really? Harambe. Yeah, well, Harambe.

But why a gorilla? I don't know. He's awesome, though. He just dunks. It's a gorilla that dunks. He's the best mascot maybe in sports. He goes off the trampolines. He does flips and shit.

I just don't understand how you go from suns to gorilla. I that's my thing but it is a good mascot yeah uh it is and the knights have good mascots too and i do enjoy like the theatrics around it i'm glad that the entire sport isn't like that but i feel like vegas should be like it's very authentic to like what vegas is so uh yeah davante smith pelly uh he scored on – yeah, it was Brooks Orpik that assisted him on that one. At that point, I was so pumped. It was such a beautiful goal. Because you see a player that you root for laying out like that for a goal,

and that's when, as a fan, you're like, these guys care more than I care about this. And that's a good feeling to have. Leaving it all on the ice. Got to leave it all on the ice. Yeah. And that's what they did. They did.

And then we got another goal, Laura Zeller. And at the end of the game, I remember the last two minutes of the third period, they pulled the goalie out, and there were like three or four plays in a row where we immediately just iced it. We just got it, and we just sent it down to the other end. And maybe a total of four seconds ticked off the clock. So I started doing the math. How many more times do we have to do this to win the game?

Is this what the rest of the game is going to be like? And then this was the worst ever. We win a face-off, and we're battling for the puck, and the clock just turns off. The game clock turns off entirely. So I'm sitting here. I have no idea how much time's left something's rigged something's going on my butthole is puckered up to like the size of a lemon seed

i'm freaking out i'm sweating i have no idea what's going on no one in the stadium like for all we know the clock's not ticking at all at this point and we miss a couple open nets by you know a matter of feet and uh then eventually the clock comes back on with like 30 seconds left. That's an eternity, by the way. So you're a pucker up kind of guy, huh? When you got pressure, you pucker up? Yeah, my body becomes airtight. So you got to have that Tom Brady gene.

He doesn't pucker up. He gets loose? I guess he gets loose. He just doesn't pucker up. That's for sure. Tom Brady's got a loose butthole. He starts leaking. You heard it here first.

It's called the clutch gene, guys's got a loose butthole. You heard it here first. It's called the clutch gene, guys. Or the loose butthole, whichever you prefer. The clutch gene sounds better. Well, again, I'm not a winner. I've never won anything before. It's hard for me to believe that. My butthole tightens up during movies.

You ever see Eastern Promises, the steam room scene where he's fighting dudes off butt naked? My butthole was, it was a lemon seed, like you were saying, it was terrible. Only time I pucker up my butthole is when I'm doing G-forces in a plane. Because that's how you you don't pass out, you gotta pucker

up. How many G's have you pulled in a plane? None, but that's what I've heard they do. I was gonna say, like, you get up in, like, an F-16? Nah, I'm supposed to go to the Blue Angels here soon. Oh, F-18s. Yeah, so I've been kind of prepping for that.

I've got to watch Top Gun 2 tonight. Are you going tonight? I'm going tonight. Where is it playing tonight? There's like this little private screening. Oh, okay, here we go. You know somebody. Yeah, Miles Teller's throwing this thing.

I've never met him, but I did see him once. We went to a movie once in L.A., and Miles Teller was in line. And in L.A., if you go to the movie theater and the movie already started, they won't let you in. So we had our tickets. We went to go get some food, and they wouldn't let Miles Teller or me into the movie because we were late. What movie was it?

Don't even remember. Was it a Miles Teller movie? I don't think so. Sorry, Mr. Teller, you can't come and see Whiplash. I'm fucking... This was like 10 years ago. He was just like getting into the stage. I was like a nobody.

I'm pissed off at you. Why? Because you're going to see Top Gun tonight. First of all, the sneak previews for Top Gun don't even really start until tomorrow. You're going to the sneak preview of the sneak preview i've been looking for this movie for 10 years we should say we're backlogging episodes so we tape this in advance top gun by the time this is out it might be on uh blu-ray laser disc whatever the hell i will have already seen the movie too by the time that that you're hearing

this so like i i've gotten really into flight simulators recently it's one of the coolest things that i do uh and i like pucker up when you're turning yeah that it gives you a more realistic experience yeah you got it yeah so you're good you're getting in i've been trying to find out a way to get into these sneak previews for top dude i guess tom cruise is like super crazy with this like he doesn't want anyone. Join Scientology, dude. You get right in. I would.

You skip the line. I would join. It's like when. Tell some dark secrets. You get to see Top Gun, dude. When you're in college and you sign up for like a credit card with 19% APR, so you get a shirt that says Philly's Blunt on it or whatever, that's what I would do for Top Gun sneak preview tickets.

I would like whatever, Scientology, yeah. Inject the niacin directly into my veins. I don't give a shit. But good for you. I would do for Top Gun sneak preview tickets. I would, like, whatever, Scientology, yeah, inject the niacin directly into my veins. I don't give a shit. But good for you. I'm happy for you. I'll let you know how it goes. Good, yeah, please. I won't spoil it.

Don't spoil. I don't spoil. I'm not a spoiler. Okay. What's the legacy of this game, PFT? The legacy of this game is fucking finally fucking finally finally so so we name these games games with names should we just call this the fucking finally game fucking finally that seems like the the right name for it so if the knicks ever won we'll call it the fucking fucking finally

game yeah because i'm that's what i it gave me joy to watch the video of you because i could just see that you're a real fan. And as a Knicks fan, that's the one that just hurts. I grew up, my first sports memory is the Knicks losing to the Rockets. You know, Game 7, Starks, my favorite player, goes 2 for 18. Brutal, but, you know, someday. Give me hope someday. We all can't be winners.

They came close, and I'd rather... I don't think the Knicks are close. Yeah, they had one good playoff run. Not even a really good playoff run. They won a game in the playoffs. I'm still mad at the Knicks. I love R.J. Barrett. I have hope.

What's the owner's name? Dolan. Dolan. So I was supposed to go to a Boston Knicks game, and I was supposed to sit courtside, and he wouldn't let me do it. Really? You're a Boston celebrity.

You can't have a Boston celeb in the front row. It's crazy to me how super, super wealthy people, they should have so many better things to do than to micromanage what celebrity is allowed to sit near their court. What's next? Ben Affleck courtside? We got to protect the garden home floor. Well, it's like maybe spend more time finding good basketball players.

We do have to work on that. That would be a first assignment. The Knicks have to get better. I know we'll get better, I believe. I remember at the end of this game, after it was over, with about 30 seconds left, that's when i first started to believe okay it's it's like i first started to unpucker at that point i got looser and then i had a decision to make and my decision boiled down to thus i was with some people that were um family members of john carlson who is a defender defenseman whatever you want to call it, on the Capitals.

And they were like, this is where they're going to open up the gate to get on the ice if you want to come on the ice right after the game's over. And I was like, okay, yeah. What's the decision? Well, the decision was, to my left, a section and a half, Mark Davis was sitting over there, right behind the goal. And he was wearing his all-white jumpsuit, just looking like Pegasus, left a section and a half, Mark Davis was sitting over there right behind the goal. And he was wearing his all white jumpsuit, just looking like a, like Pegasus, like landed behind, behind the ice.

And I was like, I got to get a picture with Mark Davis. So I jumped over like two, two separate, like big dividers just to get over and took a picture with him in the stands, a selfie of Mark Davis at the last second. And then I came back and tried to get down the ice. They're like, no, you can't get down here. I was like, well, I may have chose poorly on that one. But I don't know. Also, like I got a picture with Mark Davis.

Man. I guess you had to be there. Confetti or Mark Davis. Yeah. I chose Mark Davis. Well, you got the drink from the cup. It all worked out. I drank from the cup.

And then it was kind of cool seeing Ovi like skate around the ice holding up the stanley cup there was that one lady that was on the glass behind ovi and she just like took her top off like pulled her top down on her dress and pushed her hooters up against the glass as he was skating by on national television it's like that's the most vaguest thing that could ever happen here she escaped from the spearmint rhino for one last show. Yeah. So, yeah, it was a good night. It was a very, very momentous night in my life. Love it. And it just felt good to win one.

Pretty awesome. You got to experience it. Ovi going out, getting his first championship, his first Stanley Cup. This really does wonders for his legacy, too. You need to get that one. Yeah, he would have been forever known as the Dan Marino, which is tough. Oh, I did forget about the bet. I can't believe I forgot about this bet.

Yeah, I don't want to push it because I don't know if you want to talk about it. No, I can talk. I forgot. I completely spaced on it. It wasn't so much a bet. As I said at some point at the start of the the capitals penguin series i said if the i would eat shit i would eat shit for the capitals to beat the penguins like i would eat horse shit and then obviously like you say something like that on part of my take and hank and big cat just jump all over you and they're like well let's define this let's talk about this

let's nail you down on what you just said there because like people say stuff like that all the time but if you say it on the air then it becomes a real thing and so we worked out an arrangement where like if the capitals won that series i would have to eat horse shit and uh i went up to central park with hank after that series is over because everyone was saying oh if you don't eat shit then the capitals are going to lose in the eastern conference finals because you jinx them and i actually kind of believe that a little bit like you chose horse shit so i chose horse shit went up to central park that's dedication right there yeah went up to one of the carriages got in the back grabbed like this what are people saying when you're doing this there's one of the people that is like in charge of driving

the the horse and carriage thing just saw me go in there and they're just staring at me like what is this person doing did you swallow it i put in my mouth i chewed and i tried to swallow but i immediately threw up so i gave it an honest i saw you had lemon juice with you right i was maybe ginger ale or something maybe sprite i forget but i i gave it an honest effort to put it in i chewed it it tastes like the grossest hay that you've ever had. And then I immediately just puked everywhere. And there's like families around me watching me do this.

There's families visiting from Tokyo. Like, look at it. It was pretty embarrassing. But Hank was there to verify that I actually did do it. Jack, did we forget anything? We're pretty clean as far as Ovechkin's dad goes. Looks like he played high level soccer. His mom,

of course, uh, a Hooper. And then as far as the subway tuna deal goes, there've been a couple of lawsuits, one in Ireland recently that claimed they couldn't find amplifiable amounts of tuna in, I think it was six feet of subway subs,

tuna subs. And then it was also dismissed here in the U.S. The suit said they found detectable sequences of chicken DNA within it. Judge threw it out. So Subway skated on that one. Big, big. And pork. Not kosher.

I know. Yeah. Wizards did win in 1978 with Wes Unseld. Yeah. Getting the Supersonics 4-3. I'm a moron. I knew that. I switched up the Wizards and the Capitals in my head

for a brief second. And then the Mighty Ducks played the Hawks. And they were the Bullets when they won, right? They weren't the Wizards, right? They were the Bullets. You know what the new expansion team for the NFL in D.C. should just call themselves? The Washington Bullets.

That would be awesome. They were cool as hell jerseys. I think of those like Calbert Chaney bullets. You're like, that's a clean looking jersey. And then a little quick rundown on the origin of the Phoenix Gorilla.

Apparently it started in 1979 when Henry Rojas, a West Phoenix native who was working as a part-time greeter doing singing telegrams got called to do one at the stadium and uh when fans caught him walking by the court he kind of busted into a show and the rest is history 10 years later he was the mascot and he's been a beloved guy in Phoenix ever since I'll shut up I'm wrong it's cool until you make

it I like that I think of the Dancing Homer Simpsons episode. A fucking classic. PFT named the game the fucking finally game. We like to score our games afterwards, after we watch and do it. And we get the medium of the totals and we come up with the score, the stakes of this game. What do you think of the stakes on this game? They're up 3-1. It's the Stanley Cup, but we come up with the score, the stakes of this game. What do you think of the stakes on this game? They're up 3-1. It's the Stanley Cup, but they're up 3-1.

Yeah, we're talking about the last game. You can't go too high. If we lose this game, we lose the Cup, though. I'm convinced of that. Yeah? I think if it's 3-2, yeah. You think they're taking three in a row off Ovechkin? Yeah, maybe.

Yeah. I mean, I've seen some bad shit happen before. I've seen us lose 3-1. I think the Rangers came back from 3-1, actually. They just did against Pittsburgh. If I'm being honest, I'll say stakes 7.

Because it's not an elimination game for us, so I'll admit that. We go star power. Ovi, Oshieshi two pretty big names flurry pretty big name i'm still gonna go with like uh say like a seven because it's hockey you know like a lot of americans aren't you're not drawn into the role players that much we all know a vetchkin yeah but yeah i don't i don't know too many names in this for sure. Yeah, I'm going seven. The game play.

Ten. It was a great game. If you go back and you watch it, start to finish, it was an awesome. It was exhilarating. Even in the first period where there weren't any goals. That crazy play, the goal. I can't compare across sports. Nine-five?

Nine-five. All right, nine-four-five. All right. 9.49. We'll give him nine-four-nine. There fucking i love the name me too i love the name because it's so much about being a fan you know yeah it's more about yeah like it's about the weight that went into it ffg fucking finally i mean i think about the chicago Cubs fans and how long they had to wait. You know, there's something cool as hell about that.

The Red Sox fans with the curse of the Bambino. Yeah. I mean, I would say it's an eight. I'll take an eight. All right. What's our grand total, Jackie? 7.8725. 7.9.

Is that below average for what you guys normally do here? I mean. You guys talked me into downgrading the gameplay from a 10 to a 9.49. No, we didn't talk you into it. We haven't given around 10, I don't think, to anything, have we? Yeah, we've done Pats, Giants, 18. We've done a bunch of big games. This is a huge game, yes.

This is a pretty good score. It's a decent score. Thank you. If it was curved right, that could be a B minus C plus. It depends who you ask, too. If you're not a hockey fan, it might not mean the same to you. There's nothing crazy historic.

It's their first championship, but this specific game, I don't know. It's kind of disrespectful to the memory of Anthony Bourne if you give it that low of a score. Like, how can the stakes only be a seven if he offed himself right afterwards because he was so depressed?

Well, you know, I didn't. Is he a Vegas fan? Is it confirmed? Yeah, huge. Well, you know. He had a Ryan Reeves tattoo. He was like, no, this can't be happening. All right, that's a little dark.

I'm sorry. Thanks for coming in into our gridiron. Yeah, it's here this is a really nice studio i love it thank you you know it's you know i was a little banged up it was my birthday this last weekend oh thanks for the invite to the party and to the top gun premiere you're a great friend but i just want to let you know you're the inspiration of you know podcasting you know when you're not feeling the best. Yeah, yeah. You got to podcast hurt. You got to play hurt sometimes.

You got to play hurt. Absolutely. That's absolutely true. As you get older, you'll learn to do that with less and less frequency. We're backlogging a bunch of episodes, so now people are just going to think Julian is hung over every episode. I know. This guy's a drinking problem.

Jesus. And thanks again, PFT, for joining us this this was fun this was great thank you guys for having me well back to the gaming corner presented by win bet pft just left i'm i completely forgot i think we both said it once i might have done it twice or was it just once i counted one a piece so we clocked in at two total oh i stink i'm sorry i spaced i was a little intimidated yeah you know he's a pro he's one of the best at what he does he's one of the best what he does in this world so uh i was just thinking about trying to get the best possible content out of him and clearly forgot everything about the bat

this is not our area of expertise hockey so we kind of let him roll with it a little bit we wanted him to take over we're hockey by association guys I love hockey I respect hockey playoff hockey is to me as good as it gets in sports

when the clock's winding down holy shit man I respect hockey. Playoff hockey is, to me, as good as it gets in sports. Yeah. Like, when the clock's winding down, holy shit, man. I didn't get introduced to hockey until I moved to Boston, really. The only hockey memory I have as a kid was getting lost, going to the Cow Palace to see the 94 Sharks. Well, they were an expansion team. Cool colors. Yeah, unbelievable.

But, you know, we got there in the third quarter, the third period, the third quarter quarter such a football guy so you know we're not we're not hockey guys yeah but uh i got there in the fourth inning and i uh no i think you know i was a rangers guy growing up i was spoiled with you know a team that had mark messier mike richter brian leach uh alexei kovalev i believe was a rookie on that team. I mean, they were stacked. Adam Graves. So I was so spoiled with this awesome team. And then the NHL fucked up, and it became impossible to find on cable.

I don't know if they were on the Oprah Network or whatever the hell they were on. OWN? OWN, yeah, whatever. I couldn't find a game, so I kind of fell out of it for a while. And now I'm just kind of getting back in. The Rangers are good again. It's a great time to get back in yeah you know I I just never I don't know the game and then I I mean I went out to Boston learned it enjoy it just like you said playoff hockey's awesome and you had a hot team when you were there we had a hot team you know

and and experiencing hockey in person is really the key. Yeah. You got to go to a game to really feel that. Because I can't even see the puck on TV. It's tough. It's tough. Remember when they had the little follow thing or follow the puck for a little while?

I remember that for a second, but that didn't pan out. But we definitely did not hit the over. We did not. But it was a great ep. And, you know, thanks again to Winbet. Thank you to our sponsors, to our listeners.

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