OverDrive - OverDrive - May 27, 2025 - Hour 3

Episode Date: May 27, 2025

Join Bryan Hayes, Jeff O'Neill and Jamie McLennan for Hour 3 on OverDrive! NHL on TNT Darren Pang gives his perspective on the Maple Leafs' offseason decisions, the Panthers' shot at a dynasty and Stuart Skinner's contribution to the Oilers' success against the Stars. They also discuss the Abbotsford Canucks announcer allegedly attacked by a fan during game, the fan interactions while on the microphone and Bryan hands out his FanDuel Best Bets. 

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Brian Hayes, your dog Jeff O'Neill, Jamie Noodles, McClennan, our good friend Darren Peng coming up here in a few moments. Any word from the soccer chat? I guarantee someone's reached out to you by now. I have not heard yet, but I noticed Doogie posted that online, so now it's out there. It's gone viral. I love that. Like, you know, viral. I love that. Like we had

to post that. We had to get that out so everyone could see it. It can be past our hands climbing through your chimney man. It's going to be outrageous. Yeah, I might have to take a week or two off. Although it's our turn to have snack and like next week. So like it's a big one. Like everyone all eyes are on us we got to hook it up next week that's where you bring in the ice cream truck that's where I might just go all out that guy shows up at 5 o'clock on your block all the time it pisses you off you just say do me a favor here's a hundred dollars show up you know next whatever you're right I need that guy jams me up every

single night he comes by the house yeah and I could hear the jingle coming from a mile away But he's sending them over just say here's 500 bucks come over after practice and whatever anybody wants to get it Park is packed, but you get nice. It's just your team just your just our team Give them a little stamp on the hand if you see a stamp you give them whatever they want yes it's a good the the red team comes over actually tell us what are you planning for your what what is your snack night gonna be uh...

i'm not sure it's been established like why you gonna fire up a little you're gonna fire up a lasagna are you know i think it was on the although that would be hysterical to see the kids reaction to my lasagna coming out after the game. You coming from the van, just with two sheets of lasagna. You want snacks? I got snacks. Here's my world-famous lasagna. And do you know how many people take issue, most of them Italian, with the idea that I claim I have the greatest lasagna in the world. Yeah, Andy Petrillo wants to drive to your house in Italian. There are so many people that take offense to that. I find it so funny.

But dude, the snacking though, like it's amazing how out of control it is. When I was a member at a private ski club, I had never seen people take lunch so seriously. I would leave the ski club and go to Tim Hortons and get my kids a plain bagel with green cheese and a thing of orange juice, a little container. I'd throw it on the table and say, there you go kids. These people had the most gigantic lunch, like chacuteries and just... Oh yeah, bringing them from home you mean? Yes, yes.

Yes, somehow. It's a big from home you mean yes yes it's a big part of it right it's a big part of planning the whole the whole ski trip yeah anyway I'll keep you guys posted man I don't know if I can personally show up because that may cause a bit of a problem or a scene especially when you've been badmouthing but I think you should probably just have like quality snacks like don't know that but quality like make the kids happy who cares about priority here exactly we're here for this kind of you know what else if you have any leadership qualities which is highly

unlikely have a team meeting and just say look at what i want to ever take a take a look going on in my life i don't know how to team have a team meeting and say all the care and stuff it's uh... it's done nobody no more okay anyway i'll try to have any leadership qualities which is highly like and if i do i'm gonna apply them to soccer weekly soccer game

uh... by payers coming up confirmed that i continue a little bit later on the old dog uh... i guess you know you're really selling the idea of bringing the core four back until Johnny came in and actually was like yeah That's that's what maybe needs to happen. I didn't even have to sell that guy He was like I'm already all in because I know it's already happening. Yeah, I feel like Johnny might have some insight man I think Johnny might be sniffing out because you know we're talking about Brad true They've been speaking with the media on Thursday and by the way Thursday just do a media scrum you don't have to jump on the podium man.

No he'll be on the podium. The question will be is will Pelly be up there with him? Would that what would you think of that sign if Keith Pelly's up there? I think that would be too much. No I but what if okay Brandon Shanahan's gone so if Brad Treliven's role changes absolutely Keith Pelly is going to be there because Keith Pelley will have given him a different role as to president of hockey and general manager. Vice president of something, like that's what I'm thinking is if Brad Treeliving

was handed the keys to the car, or the keys to the kingdom, his role has changed a little bit because he's not managing it's not brendan shanahan above him it's keith pally and what is he gonna do is to call themselves and say treat your mind's treat you mind if i uh... nobody move now you can make okay i'm gonna i think he had to run it through which would be keith pally who would be

the top of the food chain and then and then and then got a run of by somebody's somewhat someone's gonna have to make a that this is not car blush you don't know if you have has that power uh... anyway maybe our next guest has that type of power with the energy on tn t and everywhere else he does here's our good friend their pack a do a pager

i have all the power in the world right now to to to step outside of this place that i've been at that late go pot and they go on the boat that's about the much that that's about as much power as i have right now as that's a lot of power eliciting nobody brought me a snack cider well it's disappointing send it to the group chat like this is uh... it's bedlam in my neck of the woods right now i i want to be in the group chat because it's bedlam in my neck of the woods right now.

I want to be in the group chat. I mean, peanut butter and jam, sandwiches, something like that? Okay. That wouldn't be good enough, Panger. No, because you're not allowed peanut butter. You're not allowed peanut butter. Oh, yeah. Peanut butter's not allowed. Peanuts are not allowed. It's not allowed. Peanut butter, that's true. It's got to be peanut-free.

Yeah, it's got to be peanut-free. Yeah, there's a lot of considerations, Panger. We're living in a different world right now. In Toronto, we're wondering how different it could look and feel a month and a half from now are you embracing change or do you think there's a chance that we're not gonna see as much changes maybe some people are expected uh... did as a major evaluation

you know seen the seven games that they put forth against a really good hockey club. I get, you know, I mean, change is inevitable when you don't win change. I think the Leafs and I think the Leafs fans and I think managers and even Shani to that extent they've all, they've all been very patient with the group that they've had and they've all gave them everything they've needed to be successful. So the problem with change is that you're going to lose some good players and not get They've all gave them everything they've needed to be successful. The problem with change is that you're going to lose some good players and not get anything back from them.

There's no assets, if you know what I mean. That's the tough part, saying goodbye to some players. But I've seen many teams go through the same thing where they have felt like, hey, that's our rental. We're going to take our chance with that player. Let's call him Mitch Marner or John Tavares, UFAs, and say, we're gonna go forward. This is what we're gonna do. We're gonna empty the tank We're gonna give it everything we've got and they did they just didn't play well in game fives and seven on home ice And that that's the real shame because otherwise it was a pretty darn good season a brand new coach

I mean by and large a new coaching staff I thought chief did a great job and I think they were they're starting to get what they have to do to beat these good teams like the Florida Panthers and now it is inevitable. And now if I'm not mistaken guys, there's only 32 or 33 contracts that they have of the 50 that you can allow as a pro hockey team. So between the Miners and the NHL, there's lots of room right here. What would you do uh... how what what i do

well what what what what would you be like leaning towards like doing all-party you've opened up a open commentary here at let's hear it we've been getting everyone's opinion today well for me i it uh... the way that Chief coaches, and I'm not speaking for Chief, but a big move would be Willie Nylander, to be honest with you. I mean, I know I said that last time and I said I think he's got to have a big game

and he did have a big game and I think that might have been game six when we talked but I think there's a style of play that's not working and I think the guys that get the heat all the time is it's it's it's smarter he gets the heat heat well I think he plays a pretty determined two-way game you know I don't see the same thing from Willie you know I see a guy that can skate real well I can see it a guy that can make a play gets open gets opportunities like the breakaway he had in a key moment of the game. But I mean, I, you want to blow things up. I mean, make, make a move that you can get one player out and get two players back. Um, all the managers have done that over time. Lacking some depth in that top nine, you might not have John Tavares. You

won't have Mitch Marner from the sounds of it. That's two pretty elite hockey players. You're talking about handing the keys over to Willie and you've got Austin and you've got Knies. You better be careful about Knies because there could be a team cherry picking out there. Who's to say a team doesn't offer him a boatload of money and say, you know what, in a smaller version, the Edmonton Oars got burnt by St. Louis because they weren't proactive in two players. That happened. So who's to say a team's not going to do that? What happens if there's no Matthew Nyes and there's no Mitch Martyr and there's no John Tavares and there's only Austin Matthews and Willie Nylander? I mean, those are ifs. Those are big ifs, but they're also probable ifs as well. So I think the time is now to, you're

going to make moves. You've got to make the same kind of moves that I thought years ago Doug Armstrong did a really good job of. And that is he got a Ryan O'Reilly as a 27 year old. Yeah, he gave up a guy, Tage Thompson, that ended up being a really good player. He was a late draft pick. He gave up a little bit in the first round pick and he gave up a, you know, a guy, T. Thompson that ended up being a really good player. He was a late draft pick. He gave up a, he gave up a little bit in the first round pick and he gave up and he got to Braden Shen. How good has that been? I mean, that's a 26 year old heavy player, you know, I mean, so maybe this is the time

that Brad truly knocks on a lot of doors and sees what he can get for a one for a two or one for a three, you know, and, and, and And and and make a wholesale change that that inevitably leads to this being his hockey club and not anybody else's and this is the opportunity right now to make that move and You've already signed a coach to a long-term deal. He's proven to be a terrific coach he's proven to be a guy that loves Toronto and I think that you've got to work with him to find out the kind of players that are gonna work with him and continue to Advance this team the way they did this year because I thought they had a heck of a year to be quite honest with you

Well, they had a really good regular season. They did I mean they won their division which is something that they hadn't done in 25 years You know it's like it's been that long One long time a long time played real played well against Ottawa And you know the issue of course is the end of the series against, Florida yet, you know you look at at the Panthers panger and you know the term dynasty gets thrown out I feel like it's been it's been Modified a little bit over time because like too often it gets tossed out No, not not too often

But like a true dynasty like you look at the Islanders in the early 90s like or early early eighties like that's a dynasty that's four straight cup wins and you go to a fifth one you know the orders went in i think four times in five years you look at the Steelers back in the day the Habs back in the day you know it's with the mighty my minor day dynasty be the black box then yeah exactly i think so i think so i mean that that's got to be the standard in which in which a team Tries to get to at this particular point Anyway, Pittsburgh for a little bit of time with two in a row, but not enough to get the third one Yeah, and I'm curious what you think of Florida's chances of you know having that conversation Not only over the next month and a half

But you know years years beyond this like could we could we look back in the year twenty thirty let's say and that look at them and say man it picked off like force and the cops went to five of them is that possible with this group that's very possible with this group i mean very possible now keeping sam bennett is a big part of that equation

uh... not not sure where a renac blad's going to be but you know they also back that up by getting Seth Jones Who's proven to be a really good performer under pressure Seth Jones You know, he knows how to play the game when it's under pressure and you can skate out of traffic and what-have-you Funny thing about Seth we had him on TNT Prior to game one and and he said the first thing that the coaches said to him was it get rid of the rocking chair, Seth won and he said the first thing that the coaches said to him was it get rid of the rocking chair Seth get and start skating again get going we want our D to get going but I mean looking at that you've so if they if they lose at blood

if they lose Sam Bennett I think there's still a whole lot of pieces right there that that can that they could continue on but the hardness and the way that Sam Bennett plays to me is that that's the engine for them So that would be real tough if they did lose him But let's just hypothetically say that they keep him and they lose that glad My feeling is that they're gonna make a lot of journeys to the Stanley Cup final. I don't think they're done just yet Yeah, I certainly not done this year. No, they're a deep team and and you know outside of last night It was a boring, low event game,

but you had to feel at some point law of averages that Carolina was going to get at least one and they did. So we'll see what happens back in Carolina. But you slide over the other series Panger, what do you make of the goaltender battle? I mean, you had Jake Ottinger coming in and he had been the best goaltender in the playoffs coming into this series and Stuart Skinner has been much maligned Jekyll and Hyde and now you've got Skinner that's playing well and Ottinger looking to find his game and what do you make of that? Yeah, very, I mean, really interesting, isn't it, Noodles?

Because you know, just when you think someone's got that rhythm and they're on a roll and they're just seeing the puck so well. It can be derailed so quickly. I've always been amazed that the greatest goalies in the world have been able to get their two feet back on the tracks faster than anybody else. It's probably what made a lot of us marginal, not having the ability to get back on track very quickly. You played with a lot of great goaltenders and certainly I've seen a lot of great goaltenders myself. Jake Ottinger to me has that control alt delete button that's really impressive. He forgets

and that's great. The one thing that he does and I actually talked to him about this in the previous series was when he gets sliding, that's a reminder for him and Jeff Reese to get back on their game. Oversliding, pushing, sliding, pushing, sliding. And basically in our conversation, was it a matter of just taking things for granted? Was it a matter of fatigue because you're not using your edges? And he thought it was a combination of everything. And sometimes it's just a reminder to stay on your blades a little bit longer and stay on your edges. So I'm sure there'll be corrections because I'm really

impressed with Jake Ottinger and how quickly he can correct things. With Stuart Skinner right now, I mean this is amazing, amazing that he won a game and didn't get a shutout in the last one. Can he win a kid? Can they win a cup with that, Darren? Can they win the Stanley Cup with Stuart? Well, you know what? Oh, dog, I'm convinced dot i'm convinced i'm convinced

that the admittance oilers don't give a hoot what's back there ice where to it i've never seen a team so resilient i don't know how they do it i mean calvin pickered who doesn't want calvin pickered the guy is a gem of a guy i can see how we endear himself to his teammates so well everybody loves the guy

i mean technically noodles you were up a second of all the say, okay, here's how you're going to do it. But what you are going to do is you're going to say, here's how you take a character, you take a player that knows how to win over his teammates, and then by the way, you throw in some gumption and some battle and survival mode and he can somehow win his teammates over and make some saves. Are they going to win with Calvin Pickard? You know, I don't know. They might. They might have to. They might have to go back to him again. But I believe basically, oh Doug, to answer your question, yes, I do believe they can win with Stuart Skinner. I believe they can do so because of what

they did last year being down 3-0, how we played earlier, how Calvin had to come in. They've done it again this year. I don't think they care. They don't give a rat's rear end. As long as that puck i don't think they care they don't give a rat's rear end as long as that talks these other than that and you don't give up that slimy greasy momentum sapping goal against that they somehow find a way to battle back despite what's what's in the net it's a it's pretty remarkable to me yes my answer is yes or dot

well we're talking about it rules and all done yet that's what you can pay the big bucks for, Darren. I think he nailed it. I think he nailed it. And like Pickard has not lost a game and he's available tonight and he's not playing. You know, like when has that ever happened? 6-0. 6-0.

They're like, no, and obviously you're not going to play him. Of course you're going to continue with Skinner. He's playing so well right now. Right, Seabiscuit, while Seabiscuit's kind of cooking here a little bit. And then Seabiscuit has a little wound, and off to the side we go, and let's move the next guy in. And they don't seem to be bothered by it all, they just need one or two really good saves early in a hockey game, and they're off and running.

That seems to be the way it works. Darren Pang with us. Miko Ranandin was so early in these playoffs and everything he touched one of the net and now the sudden he's really cooled off is on a bit of a cooler uh... their offense has been on a bit of a cooler do you is he the guy that you're looking at on the dot dallas side of things like randinance gotta get chugging again for this this edge in engine in dallas to

really rev back up you know i'd'd like to really add some edge and some salt is is Jamie Ben you know I think I think it's it's hard at an later age especially if you're not a gifted skater to get to certain areas and he's trying to get to these areas but I'd like to see Dallas get pucks in and you know get pucks in on the against the right D time it well Get get get him Getting some skin early on in a hockey game get that edge going back to the to the game I think Dallas is lacking that part, but on the top line

I mean grandlin has played some exceptional hockey and that's that little Like wrister that he's got that's like almost like a lacrosse kind of you know Side wind and wrister that he's got that keeps fooling everybody Ranting to me takes up a lot of auction on that team in a good way I mean if they're going 7-eleven like they've done a lot of times He's the one that jumps out there and he gets on the fourth line heat or or whatever line They utilize the extra guy with um, and and so I'd like to see him bowl his way right through the blue paint. I think a lot of times, especially if he plays a

lot, I think there's a lot of deferring to the outside. I've often said not many guys can score with the rear end against the boards like this guy can and still carry three guys on his hip. So that part's amazing, but man why not go to the paint right off the hop and just get in someone's kitchen and rattle some pans around? That's what I'd like to see. Something greasy and ugly and battling and drag Rope Hints into the battle as well. I think they know what they're going to get with Grandland every single night.

I know Rope Hints has got a lot of responsibility being a really great defending centerman, but I think there's more to that line and i think there's a that great factors is one area that can really i'd i think make a difference for that line especially for an end get that big but make going to the blue paint yet big-time uh... always great catching up with you pay her what you get back out to uh... i don't know where you go on the lake you go to roll pots what are you doing now yet i'm gonna take those new york clubs and i'm to go chip around out there and maybe roll some putts.

I got the putting green at about a 13 and a half on the stimp out there. There you go. You're dialing up for the US Open, Penger. Yeah, you're getting ready for Oakmont. Yeah, Oakmont's got nothing on the rough out here. I love it. Enjoy yourself. Thank you, Darren.

We appreciate it, as always. My pleasure. Take care, Carlos. There's Darren pay of the n h on t n t he was a great movie your your party green in the backyard outstanding and that's that's not bad you gotta have the real estate to do it don't you yeah and i think it really doled in like for to actually be a green because usually there's their their fake kinda greens right it's usually they're, they're, they're fake kind of greens, right? It's not real grass, but if you dial in and you actually have it at like a 13, 13

and a half that you got to get us some quality people, like the guys that did mine that have the decency to come back the year after and the year after that, cause we'd start growing under it and they got to just, they got to trim it up and dial it in. If you get good guys that come back, then it's worth it. That's the beauty of it. That's the beauty of it. Maybe you can reach out to people up at TPC Toronto, Osprey Valley, because they're getting ready for the RBC Canadian Open. And as we know, next week the world's top golfers descend on TPC Toronto at Osprey Valley for

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a blast. We can't wait for it. We love it. I've been there on the weekend the last couple of years. I intend on doing that again this year. It's an amazing scene. McElroy seemingly makes the cut every year, but there's so many great players this year. It's just going to be an awesome party. It's such a great spot spot and Osprey Valley is an amazing venue for it because there's so much land yeah there'll be a lot of room to maneuver up there what's our parking situation yeah we got a little birdie told me it is as as textbook and look at you partying that's what it's worthy of it's as good as it can get, it's it's a it's almost a pull in right into the That's now

We're talking Is that yeah, and I know that that's a lie someone told me that to shut us up But then we're gonna get there and it's gonna be planes trains and automobiles But that's a part of the fun watching doogie try to drive around in his golf car and get lost Get lost and then you know what the last time remember you owe you like halfway through said get out and I'm driving Yeah, oh just took over the whole operation and started motoring around and people were trying to stop us And you were basically like just bullying your through We did that yeah

pulling your way through. That was at Royal Montreal too, we did that. Yeah. Well, if it was on Doogie's timeline, it would just... It was getting lost. You guys know it's fast-paced. You got to keep moving. Like, you get in that car, you got to boogie. It's not stopping chats.

It's not, hey sir, where are we going? No, you just go. You go. Yeah, you go. And honestly, if you look the part, generally they will believe that you're actually... That is exactly... You gotta drive that cart like you're going to... You got Jim Nance in the cart.

And if you drive it like that, everyone just looks at you and says, come on through. Yeah. Come on through. No one's stopping Jim Nance. No! Like Jim Nance can cruise around and do basically anything. He could be doing wheelies on the 18th green and no one is going to bat an eye. I don't think Dougie can pull off that type of behavior nor would we ever advocate for

it, condone it or allow it. But we're jacked to get up there. I almost flew off the cart a couple times when O-Dog was taking the wheel. Yeah, that was a concern as well because the O-Dog doesn't really care about what other people are doing in the cart. It's more just about him on your life rolling down a story I heard about the Canadian Open last year. Somebody told me that I golf with last weekend They said they saw Coco Carlo Coli Acrevo and one of the luxury suites

Yeah, and they said that he put together a plate of groceries at a buffet that was Second to none and I'm like if Carlos got a growl on, he can pile up some groceries on a plate, man. Yes, he can, man. That guy can eat with the best of them. Yeah, he's like, I didn't obviously see anything, but I was horse-eyeing Cole Acaville in the buffet line, and this guy put a mound of food together that was insane.

Like he was going to the electric chair. I think he just has, he just can pile back some groceries if he's hungry. Yeah, well that's it man. He's a big dude. Like he's a tall guy. He's an athletic guy. But he can get after it. And that is the thing about being a public figure.

And you guys know this way better than I do, but now like people, if they catch you doing something like that, they'll snap picks. Oh, they'll snap a pick immediately. Yeah. Like if it's a buffet and there's 20 wings and you take every one of them. Dude, that thing goes in, you talked about your soccer group, that thing will go in a group chat that says, look at Coco's food. Yeah.

Look at the plate he put together. Oh, I know that. Look at him eating wings at the Leaf game or something like that. You're George Costanza with it all over your face. That's right. Someone's snapping it and sending it to their friends saying, look at this guy. Look at what he's doing right now. Like there was a lineup of people that wanted the wings and he took every single one of

them. There were 25 in there. He took every single one. And then that gets online and then the rest is history. Yeah. All right. Jay's in action tonight. every single one and then that gets online and then the rest is history uh... right jason action tonight uh... you see we talked about a tyrese halliburton his dad's gonna be in the house tonight but he won't be sitting courtside i guess he's gonna be in a

suite that seems reasonable you know if you get back in there after doing what he did the honest like maybe you gotta take your action upstairs right? he can't be in front Yeah, you can't be in front of the cameras Can't be in front of the public But uh, it's the big basic feels like a must win for the nicks, you know, they kind of survived the other night Series is a two one indie Knicks have got to get it tonight and then game four edmonton dallas feels the same way for the dallas stars both road teams tonight The nicks and the stars have got to find a way to pick up a win

Uh jays in action as well. so we'll continue to look ahead to that we'll get to our best bets later in the hour overdrive continues tsn ten fifty and on tsn two right now that's part of my family later in the hour got a bunch of good games tonight again we get the jays in action the oil is in action the nicks in action tonight and uh... all you had sent this earlier and doogie

and Joe from the bridge were going back and forth on it this Abbotsford Canucks announcer who was attacked by a fan during the call we have it yeah video the audio everything you guys prepared to break this down? Yeah. Go ahead. Let's hear this guy. Got some Yahoo! Your chap chirping at me from behind. Get out of here. What was he doing? Security! Try that again. I'm fired up. He threw my chair at me. Get me right in the back of the leg. Like, what was he doing here? Unreal. Have another beer. Get me right in the back of the leg. Like, what was he doing here? Unreal.

Have another beer. Can you imagine truing a game? Like, most guys would be like, I got to turn the mic off and this place got to go silent. He just let it fly. I kind of love that. I love it. It's like a streaker on the field of play.

Like, some broadcasters don't acknowledge it. Kevin Harlan's like, I'm doing play-by-play on this gonna do it I'm just gonna live with it and that's the thing about certain rings you know that's an American Hockey League rink and you look at like Rimouski in the Memorial Cup the NHL you can't get to the broadcasters yeah right there they're they're tucked away in the minors you can kind of just walk around and see them. You can get to anybody in the minors. Seriously. Like it is.

That's a dangerous game. You've got a guy that's had 15 beers throughout the day wanting to climb up where there's a microphone and bother people. What's he yelling at the play-by-play guy for? Yeah. Like what did he do? What did that guy do? Like it's his fault his team's down two-nothing.

Right. Like that's the most insane part. I think there is. Through a chair at him. Through his chair at him. I gotta ask Dathi, we'll bring it up tomorrow. I believe, this might have been like going back to 0-6 or something, didn't the guy try to get on stage or something to attack Bobby Mack?

And Bobby Mack was the... I think it was at the All-Star game and Bobby Mack gave the guy a forearm shiver and he went off the stage or something like that. I thought it was in Carolina in the finals. And Bobby Mack, I don't think was miked. It might have been in the back hall. But he like, you're right, forearm shivered the guy right off of the stage. That's one thing about Bobby Mack.

I've done a lot of like on-site sit downs, games, World Juniors. He'll sign autographs, hello pics, selfies. The moment you interrupt and be ignorant when we're trying to work, he doesn't like that at all. Yeah, that seems pretty reasonable for anyone to have that standard. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. But when you cross that line, he's like, hey man, get out of here. Just stop it. That's enough

It is awkward. Like it's one thing if someone's been boozing then you understand, you know, like their their clock isn't working properly You know, and it's it's also more aggravating because you you can't really get to the guy You can't you can't reason with the guy, right? but we've had these experiences where you're broadcasting in public and someone will just start talking to you, like you're on the air doing the show and someone's over here. Yeah, the Canadian Open a couple years ago, there was a drunk guy. Remember the guy that just-

Well, that guy was boiled. That was a different scene because he was trying to get in and that would have been an awkward situation. I'm talking sober like,, oh dog. Oh dog Hey, what do you who do you think's gonna win the tournament? It's like I can't talk to you right now We have the headsets on we're live. Yeah, you know like that Is insane oh like if you have any brains at all if someone has a headpiece on like this and has Handgestures, and it clearly looks like they're on air talking and you're firing out, hey, oh dogs.

Yeah. Like, what do you, no one's going to turn around in the middle of a television show and be like, hey pal, how are you? It's insanity. It's insanity. It is. It's a complete lack of awareness. Yet I think some people freeze.

I think it's just, it's one of those things you don't expect to run into someone or whatever but this one is particularly crazy like for whatever reason this guy hates the play by play guy and and maybe that said he's just a big average for fan and he doesn't think this guy calls a good game i don't know what the back story is but uh... that is the concern is that like generally speaking you run into people and it was very nice cordial this one talk about whatever

you know a word in the least would be good in something about it's something about getting your attention like the one guy at the golf tournaments to be like a uh... old dog out in its five old dogs and then you look at it's like it's jimmy from the golf course but i think that uh... okay and then you look and it's like, it's Jimmy from the golf course. And then you're like, hey, it's a same. Hey, Jimmy.

I know it's like, hey, Jimmy, like, how are you? It's like they just had they had to yell your name ten times to say it's Jimmy from the golf course. And you look down, you're like, I guess. Hi, Jimmy. Like what? Yeah, we're going to see Jimmy. We're going to see Jimmy next week. We are going to get a few Jimmy's from the golf course next week for sure I always love it happens all the time I think I told you my first ever game is a Calgary flame and like oh one or something. I

Was backing up and I'm literally sitting there It's my first NHL game with the Calgary flames and a guy is banging on the glass to my left in a fur coat And it's a guy from my grade 7 class. I remember him. I remember his name I don't want to say his name his name was Doug Okay, and he was screaming at me banging on the glass and saying hey, it's Doug and I'm like hey And he's yelling call me call me and I'm like I don't have your number and that was in grade 7 I'm what 30 years old at the time or whatever and it's the middle of a hockey and it's the middle of the game And Scott Nichols skates by and goes hey get your agent out of here

We're trying to play hockey and I was like, oh my god. I was so embarrassed Yeah, that's a tough one and I didn't know what to do. But it just like what are you supposed to do? He's behind the glass like it's not like we can have a full conversation. It was weird. Greg Gilbert was our coach. That's how long it goes back. Craig was our GM. That was like, I think, 01. My junior high is yelling at me.

You guys would have a lot of those, I'm sure, throughout your playing career. Oh, you were talking about in junior, your brother's buddies yelling at you when you're playing. Over the glass. Yeah. brothers buddies yelling at you over the glass. Yeah, like I had my first OHL game, like first overall draft pick, and my oldest brothers drunk buddies that were all living in Waterloo area hang their heads over the glass and they were just talking about yelling about beers after the game and stuff. And I'm like, my coach already must hate my guts.

How could you have the audacity to do that? It is obscene behavior. At least, like you were the first overall pick, superstar, so the coach was probably laughing. Yeah. But I recall, and this wasn't bad, it was innocent in nature, but my grandfather lived in Flint, like just outside of Flint, Michigan, my whole life. So when I went to play against Plymouth

He's an American doesn't know hockey didn't know sports So I didn't see him before the game, of course, you know left tickets or whatever and I'm in warmup He's massive guys six five six six Over the boards waving at me. Yeah calling me over and I'm I got my head down I'm doing laps like i'm trying to warm up for the game i can see them in my peripheral and i'm like i can't go over to this guy he's he's calling me over like waving me hey wait you know he doesn't know he didn't know any better like he should have known better i guess dude i played in london against the nights one time and the door opens it's my uncle norm in

london and he's got a giant bushel of apples for me And I love my uncle was awesome the best but but I was totally innocent But it's no innocent, but I'm like you cannot wheel into this locker room right now with a bushel of apples Yeah, I remember My dad really like daddy you you you're not gonna believe what happened And I'm like, dad, you're not going to believe what happened. Because he wasn't at the game. I'm like, he was over the boards and six foot sit like a giant. Just a monster hanging over the board.

The best you guys know the story up in the suit where they knock on the door and they're like, oh dog, your uncle's here. And I'm like, I do not have an uncle in the suit. They open the door and this guy's pissed himself drunk and falls down face first. And I'm like, that guy's, get this guy out of here. Get him out of here. Who is that guy?

Oh my God, the guy was so wasted. And I said, that's not my uncle, but thanks a lot. Don't you do any kind of security detail around here? And you know his last name probably was O'Neil and he just figured I'm going for it, man. Yeah. He just said, I'm going in there. Yeah, I'm doing it. Gary O'Neill and he just figured I'm going for it man. He just said I'm going in there Yeah, I'm doing a Gary O'Neill from Sault Ste. Marie I'm going in and I'm gonna give it a shot and maybe it's true

Maybe there is some sort of a connection somehow He told his wife before he left I'm gonna take them to Jeff Yeah, I brought them on the bus. We ate them on the bus. But it was like, I think we lost or something. It was like, he can't bring the apples in. Yeah. Bushel, that's exactly what he was thinking.

Oh, he's a young kid. He's living away from home. He loves these apples. He eats these apples. Yeah. He used to eat them all the time back in the day. I got to find a way to get him these apples. Anyway.

All right. So we're getting for tonight or their stars system must you think this a must win for dallas absolutely i do i i feel satisfied one period yeah i also want to ask like we won't see it will we like if i was playing for edmonton but given corey perry be chopping that hands on the top of the laces? Ooh, that's the thing. This is one of those times where the injury, like, you can't hide it, everyone knows what he's dealing with, but you'd like to actually hide this one.

Yeah, because he's gonna have probably one of those plastic guards on it. But if you could take a piece of him off a draw or in front of the net or whatever? Like would you not oh? Like maybe I'm... Oh Jamie, do you remember back in the day where if you dropped your glove and you wanted to be a hero and play the shift, someone would chop your fingers right off. Exactly. Like it was mandatory. If you dropped your glove, it didn't matter if Wayne Gretzky was on a breakaway, you're

picking your glove up and you're putting it on. Yeah. Because somebody would chop your hand right off. But with all the cameras and all the spotlight and how greasy that would be, I don't know if somebody wants to be doing that. I mean. I mean, somebody might, but it's, they're going to have a whole bunch of questions if somebody, like it would be a Corey Perry move to go up and just absolutely chop them on

the foot and act like nothing happened. It's Corey Perry or Vander Kane. Like it's, it's one of those guys that goes, or it's Darnell Nurse again, and goes, I'm going to use, because people lost in all of that is Hintz cross-checked Nurse first. So he was actually in, they were in a battle in front of the net. So Nurse didn't like that, chops him on the feet. But like if I'm in a battle and Hintz is a top tier player, you know that that's his left foot. I don't know. Yeah.

20 years ago that left foot would have to be wrapped in a cast to play. Like tonight, I don't know if he might have the the shot protectors on it, but I don't you think he would be fair game? I well, yeah, I mean there's like he got two minutes for that yeah you didn't get a five minute penalty so you know this is one where I could see goalies giving him a whack like if he's in the crease and Skinner can get him yeah I could see him getting them I mean Joe from the bridge is put in the group chat which is good point the Kings a couple years ago were going after dry sidytl's ankle when they knew he had the high ankle sprain.

Yeah. And that's even tougher because I don't think it's as delicate a high ankle sprain. You know what I'm saying? Like to be tapped, like it would hurt. But like if you have a broken bone and someone touches that, it's excruciatingly painful. Like excruciatingly painful. Whereas sprain I think is different in terms of of like yeah, you're trying to make him uncomfortable But to hack out a foot that's broken if you get it that guy is gonna be in so much pain

Well, that's I mean, I don't know. I I don't know why you're that way But I just I that's something I've got my eyes on tonight I feel greasy like it would be actually pretty easy to do in a scrum or something. You just absolutely chop down on his foot. But I don't know if anybody... You would think that somebody would be interested in doing that, but A, it's pretty greasy and I don't know if somebody would do it. And furthermore, if you're going to use the old school analogy, you're right.

But the other old school analogy will be someone on on Dallas saying I'm going to sucker punch McDavid Exactly. Yeah, you're right. So you can touch him if you want But that means 97 free game and I'm gonna kill him tonight Yeah, easy for Jamie Ben to say right to their bench right before puck drop. You guys want to go near hints his foot I'm gonna grab Connor McDavid and dummy his ass. Yeah, you want to do you want to party? Let's party You make your you make up your mind We can go play and whatever happens happens, but if you intentionally go out there, hints in the foot, go for it. But yeah, like David, see what's coming. You know, that's the tit for tat.

It is. I mean, but Edmonton, that one thing they do have, they've got some that Frederick, that Kane, they've got some guys who can handle too. Like that's the one thing. I'll tell you this, you guys I don't know if you watched intently last night's game because it was a little bit of a sleeper. This Sebastian Ajo, I was disappointed like there was a time he was on the penalty kill and he had an opportunity to go in the corner and win a 50-50 battle. He pulled up short and they kept the puck in. I was like flabbergasted and oh you called them a little light that team like that that would drive Rod Brittenmore nuts like that's a 50-50 battle he can get that puck out he intentionally let the Florida Panther player get the puck

instead of him grabbing that taking a hit to make a play because he didn't want to get hit. Well who the hell do you think Roddy's talking about where he said Jordan stall and Martin I can't be our best players rookies can't be our best players yeah no I I get it directly at him yeah I just yeah I because I was glad that Carolina got one Freddie looked good like it was you know I but it just I thought to him I made a mental note of that I was like man that just was not that's one in the video room if you show that like he would be with that he wouldn't it's embarrassing yeah that's really what they're saying I didn't like it well

let's see what comes of it tonight and obviously game five tomorrow yeah Florida Carolina all right we'll come back with our best bets powered by fando overdrive continues tsn ten fifty and on youtube live pretty crazy stat was tweeted out earlier this morning earlier this afternoon by optostats that the edmonton oilers escort twenty nine goals in this year's postseason at home.

That's the most by any NHL team through six home playoff games since the Avalanche also scored 29 in 1997. 29 goals in six home games for the Oilers. Pretty daunting task for Dallas tonight, but your best bets are powered by FanDuel. And I'm on Dallas on the, on the puck line tonight to at least keep it within one. I think it's at least a close game tonight. I could see Dallas winning.

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physically located in Ontario I thought you said you saw the tweet about you asking for extras for the parents pretty hungry that picture. I did not need to bring that one up after the snacks conversation from earlier this afternoon. Man, I laughed at that. Yeah, good chocolate. That was a good one. That was a good one. Every parent, man, we've all been through it. Snacks are important, right? They are. It's important and sporting events, very, very important, but mistakes happen sometimes everyone just kind of relaxes is my this is my last question about this because i i i seem to just let stuff marinate and i

how did the dad or whoever how did he leave it to the last second to just say oh sorry i don't have any like when he arrived at the soccer field. Didn't you realize that he'd like I Don't think he had any idea was his day. I think it had been assigned You know there was one of those a lot of people said I'll take June 30th I'll take July 7th, and then it was like all right This is what else we have and you're scattered and I think he probably was like I have no idea what you're talking about I didn't even know I didn't I had no idea i was supposed to bring them

and uh... now we don't now he is well aware that snacks are mandatory when it comes to soccer have to have a uh... all right i can't wait for tonight's to be great boilers and stars that nixon the pacers you got the jays data texas

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