Pardon My Take - Celtics Win Game 1, SCF Preview With Paul Bissonnette, Edmonton Oilers Evander Kane And Fyre Fest Of The Week

Episode Date: June 7, 2024

The Celtics absolutely smashed the Mavs in Game 1 and Cocky Hank is feeling himself while Mavs Max is down real bad. Porzingis looked healthy and Lebron tried to steal Game 1 headlines yet again (00:00:00-00:17:47). Dan Hurley possibly to the Lakers and how Coach K is behind all of this (00:17:47-00:39:52). Paul Bissonnette joins the show to break down the Stanley Cup Final, who has the advantage, will Canada be rooting for the Oilers and his official invitation to Dingers Only (00:39:52-01:06:17). Edmonton Oilers Evander Kane joins the show to talk about the SCF, coming back from an insane injury, his first fight in the league, how the team feels before Saturday night and more (01:06:17-01:42:49). We finish the show with Fyre Fest of the week and PFT's big new purchase (01:42:49-02:07:53).You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/PardonMyTake

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Yeah, great game. Great game. It looked like in the third quarter they were going to do the classic Celtics thing. Let the other team back in. Turns into a close game, but they called a timeout when they cut the lead to eight. Went on an 8-0 run after that and it was smooth sailing from there. Yeah, it's a shame that Jason Kidd couldn't give another halftime speech where he said, everyone, remember to have fun out there. In the NBA finals, he said. When you're given the have fun speech, you lost. I don't think that you can come back with a have fun speech, but I guess they did come

back a little bit in the third quarter. Yeah, no, they definitely did. I mean, they made it an eight point game and and then it was and then when you looked up at the end of the third quarter The Mavs had only won the quarter by one point and they took their best punch and the Celtics came out with way more energy They looked better poor Zingas kind of rope-a-doping everyone. He's like, I don't know if I'm 100% He looked he didn't look a hundred when he started the game. He looked slow. They kind of pick and rolling. He wasn't really closing out. He wasn't really contesting shots. I was like, oh yeah, he's definitely not 100 percent. And then he just made 20 shots in a row. Yeah, he was he was the best player on the court for a little bit. And

that first quarter it was unreal. This is a big time revenge series for Chris stops. Hank, you are you are very confident right now. Are we still thinking Celtics and six? Yeah, we're thinking Celtics in six. The Mavs aren't going to go away. They're going to give us their best shot, but it might be Celtics in five. I did not realize this was going to be a Bill Walton game. That would have affected things quite a bit for me. The family's there.

They're wearing the Bill Walton jerseys. They're passing out the Bill Walton buttons and stickers before the game If if there is an afterlife where you can control something that happens on planet Earth I'm certain that Bill Walton would be doing everything in his power to control this game. This should have been an easy bet Yes, the one thing you could say if you're the Mavericks, you couldn't played worse couldn't played with less energy coming out The Celtics hit every shot in the first half. And Jason Kidd also sucks at game ones. So that was, I think the Wolves series was the first time he had won a game one for the Mavericks. He has notoriously been slow starting with his teams in a series,

but it definitely looked like the Celtics were the better team all around because they just have an answer. It's the role players. It's what we talk about. Right. It's different than the series they just finished where, you know, Carl Anthony Towns couldn't hit a three and Rudy Gobert is nothing on offense and you can basically play a different style of defense when there's only a certain amount of guys that can hit a shot.

Everyone on the Celtics can hit a shot. So who's the MVP after one game? Jalen? Yeah. Jalen. I am looking forward to the discourse if he wins MVP that is crazy that the Celtics won by as much as they won by and Jason Tatum was not good I think that's a good thing yet no I'm saying that's crazy like if he he's not gonna be not good for the entire series he's eventually going to be good and yeah the the the Mavs role players didn't show up Luca started slow. He had that third quarter where he was incredible and

Yeah, you can't you can't expect to win this series if Kyrie's gonna only score 12 points Yeah, they did a good job not biting on his you know, Luca always is trying to draw fouls I feel like Jalen Brown we said it he did he got snubbed for NBA all defense and he took that personally and he came out and he was playing Really good defense every time Luke it was pump faking. He was letting him shoot it and Luca never does He just always pump fakes and then passes It was it was just a great great great great game one. Yeah, happy basketball's back. It was a long wait And it was a great payoff. It's good to pass balls back. I still think that the Mavs were stupid to wear these jerseys in game one

I don't know if they did that because Luca looks very slim in them. Were you thinking blue? I was thinking blue. These jerseys feel like the jerseys you wear for Star Wars night in like early February. Yeah, yeah. I also think the white Celtics jerseys, they're just, that's a big game jersey. Yeah. I just, yeah, I just feel like it was crazy because if you had said before that the That the Mavs were the team or sorry the Celtics were the team that had the longer rest and also had just played Significantly less games weren't in the rhythm of like a big-time game. What are you talking about? They look as sharp as could be Yeah, they weaponized time. Yeah, they did they weaponized time Mavs max

Celtics in four. Oh no. I mean this team fucking sucked tonight. These role players were horrible. We have a role players play better at home. Well the Celtics got more fucking home games. I think the Mavs are gonna win at least a game. The Mavs suck. I stand by Celtics in five.

I feel good about that. Three. Listen, we can't overreact to one game max hanks the fucking worst. I fucking hate when hey, uh, yeah Continue continue continue. You're just you're just such a fucking podcast. You got a car. You got a talk When your team loses you got to let your feelings out You're the worst Max here's a spin zone for you for Mavs max at least you still have your reservation at four Charles prime The Celtics have eight guys should who should have a hundred million dollar contract. Wait, what I said, let's listen

Jalen Brown Jason Tatum. Yeah, poor Zingas Derek White. I Mean Prichard friend of the program Tonight Sam Hauser same Hauser stud I mean Prichard friend of the program holiday Stunk tonight Sam Houser Sam Houser stud Al Horford you say Al Horford such a whore fucking whore for July Could have used a guy like Horford Al Horford is the worst I think the Mavericks remember when that it seemed like he was like his career was over on the Sixers I was like seven hours later. I don't remember didn't want to play there Need a better environment. I think he signed there. He chose to play there By the way, Luca having one assist that tells you how bad everyone else played because Luca. Oh, come on

Hey, you know how an assist works. It's a fact that you have to make the shot all their shots early on it was like Nobody should have thrown more lobs. Well you like Luca didn't have only one Pass tonight. He they were just they missed everything Luca didn't play great, but one assist would play better than Jason Tatum Do you understand how assists work like with one assist means that the other guys you have to make the shot for the assist account Yeah, you gotta make better passes. It was guys better looks. Great team defense by the Celtics. You say drew holiday? Yeah. Yeah. Geez, you could. I couldn't even say the one assist without Hank. Well, I was curious how you're going to, you know, because an assist you have to pass the ball. Then the person has

to make the shot. The rest of the good passes though. the Mavs didn't make the shots should have done more lobs yeah Kyrie was really bad yeah lucky revenge game no the Mavs were bad I mean the Celtics were it wasn't as in the Mavs were bad the cells were just like they came out and they were like hey we're playing in the NBA finals right now and they looked as sharp as sharp could be I don't think this series is over either I think the Mavs could easily come back win game two it is you know a Blowout like that will wake you up. Yeah, you think statement loss you think I was a statement loss

You think this I don't think we can see your fucking face you think this series is over I Don't yes, I do it's not yes. You do. It's a seven game series. What's the's a six games those were two different Hank would you you would have rather won this game by like two points three notes No, but I'm just I don't think the math is gonna roll over and die. I Think it's like Kyrie's not gonna play that bad. Luca's gonna make some better passes next game get some more assists Yeah, Kyrie was very very bad. Um, I Mean the so this other side's I mean the So much more depth. There was that one moment where Kyrie looked like he was open and it was just Porzingis standing with his arm out and someone in the gambling cave was like, shoot it dude. He's

like, well he can't. Porzingis is a fucking monster. Like he looks like he's open from the angle but he's 100% not open. And he looks very healthy. Very healthy. Yeah, poor Zengis does. Max, you didn't even say you didn't like my spin zone. What? He was just so-

You still have your reservation at Fort Charles Prime. This is just a bad joke. Why? Because this is the second time that Jerry's done this to me. What happened? Jerry's good at getting reservations in New York City. He got me a reservation. And then after he books the reservation for me

Yeah, he just tells me every day that he accidentally canceled it. So did he cancel it? Yeah, apparently. Oh Oh, I didn't know that yeah, this is but I mean, this is a bad joke that like This is not a good joke for the listener. Can't you get it back? I Don't care. I don't care. Do you have to reply error? Yeah, well I was playing into Jerry's little bit. Oh, got it. Got it. Okay. Um, you know, Max really is angry when he tells everybody like this is the listeners hate this. Yeah. Listeners hate this. They fucking hate this. Do you think the listeners like Mad Max? No, I shouldn't. I should just go actually no that would be Hank I

whatever I'm done. He can't even speak. He is Max I'll agree with you he is annoying but he his team one game one you can't really like what are you gonna say? Nothing nothing. You gotta talk Max. He answered the question I can't say anything You won you won you win you win that what three years you fucking win You know what I'm happy for Hank right now in this moment but he bought but I can assure you that if they won game two and game three and Hank just The shit-eating grin becomes shittier and grinnier I'm gonna start to hate Hank too because this this cockiness is gonna carry over all summer But it was good that we got just a clad

Hey, hey, just cuz we got game one out of the way because the we had the worst combo of Hank today because we're dealing With cocky hank right now, which I have no problem with cocky hank We had nervous Hank all day and he was just a little annoying you know here for us to show is annoying I was getting fits off in it. It was you're just you think I was in their jelly mode. Yeah, I'm rooting for you Hank I truly am but I don't want to mode. Yeah, I'm rooting for you Hank I truly am but I don't want to see you sweep. I want to see you sweat a little bit. I Mean I'm room for a sweep Okay, I had two other things I wanted to say before we

Kick it back to ourselves talk some Dan Hurley. This one is and we're gonna talk about Dan Hurley, but Our friend Adam Lefkoe had a very interesting tweet that I very much enjoyed. It was titled, the tradition of LeBron or his team looking to overshadow game one of the NBA finals continues. 2024, Dan Hurley, JJ Reddit Coach Mania. 2023, LeBron retirement rumors plus biopic shooting stars premiere 2022. I forgot about this one. Forbes announces LeBron is a billionaire the day

of game one. That's great. He really is the best. He's really good at doing that. And then also watching the finals and be like, damn, this is so good. I wish I wish we were in this not happening again next year. Yeah, I'm gonna be back. But that is some really good game one news that he needed to have out there. And he there's no doubt that he planned this whole Dan Hurley thing for having it all day on game one. Yeah. Also, he said important moment for a sport tonight, love and respect to Doris Burke, and everything she does to elevate all of us. You're a goat. And then everybody started to congratulate LeBron James on congratulating Doris Burke.

Yes. This is what an ally looks like. What a great, great tweet by LeBron. He also had, he said, I'm so effin' with some stars in it, mad that I'm not his running mate anymore, talking about Kyrie. Yeah. Kendrick Perkins called him out and was like,

dude, shut up, it's game one of the finals. Let this be game one of the finals because he was just like, damn, I should be with Kyrie right now in the finals. The other thing I had was I'm worried about Mike McDaniels. Why? What's up? Mike McDaniels is... The Dolphins have not won a playoff game in 24 years. He now has every staff meeting, he puts it, uh, 24 on the hour. I don't like that. Like 724, 724.

I don't like that. Now, now, because you're just thinking about it all the time. Yeah, I don't know if he was being cheeky with it, but- He probably just did that so that the, the big team meeting could start at 424, four minutes after he was ready for it. I will hold reservation because Mike McDaniels is a funny guy and he probably he might be just fucking with the media But if this is true, this makes me nervous This is like after the double doink year when Matt Nagy ended every practice with all the kickers having to kick a 41 yarder

Yeah, it's in his head, right? It's in his head And so you're just making everybody in the building think about how long it's been all the time, right? Not the best way to do it No I did I thought of a great a great be a shame and I'm so it's a shame that I thought of it so late I think the ultimate shame would be if Justin Fields won a Super Bowl with the Steelers would be a shame That would be right people really like the shameless a crying shame. Yeah, we might have to do an updated shameless. I'm six months

I'm not gonna root for it but if if it does happen just know that it would be a it would be a shame that would be a very big shame it'd Be a shame if Max's reservation got cancelled before Charles Prime It'd be a shame if me and Max had to go to game four and shoot a PMTV Oh, that would be a shame where would that be? Dallas. Oh, okay. Is that on the table? Mavs Max you love that you love the man. Hello. Oh What I have to be it I have to be in Philly for PLL

What we can do a different weekend for that right what day yeah, what day I don't know Sounds like it's really locked in We can go locked in I take a red on red day game for is hmm. Oh, yeah It is Friday. Yeah, he's right He does know that's Saturday. You can just get up this flight like 530 in the morning Oh, yeah, you could that would be a shame if you had to get the 530 in the morning flight It'd be a shame if you had to follow Hank with a camera wherever he went. Mm-hmm wherever he were ever Until it any bedroom his eyes to fall asleep any concourses his head rooms as a camera

He is more torn up about this than he was about the city. It's crazy. No after the six. Oh, he's just mad He just hates Hank. He really hates after the sixes lost. He was like it feels different. This one feels different Yeah, now this feels bad for Matt. I think it's also the problem is Mavs Max is a great nickname Yeah, and he it's just One gay he quit in the second quarter Mavs Max died in the second quarter tonight Dead yeah, I I already tried to cash out my future, but I placed it in Jersey, so I can't oh Shit, that's a shame. That is such a shame I'll buy your ticket for $5.

Just kidding. No? He won't? You're not going to take it? No, Max? Max, I'm kidding. I'm not. Decline.

Decline? Decline? $10? All right, let's kick it to ourselves. All right, we're going to kick it to ourselves. We're going to talk some Dan Hurley, then we got Paul Bisson at Stanley Cup final preview. We got Evander Kane from the Edmonds and Oilers, and we got Firefest. So get excited.

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the morning. He said, breaking ESPN story on the Los Angeles Lakers, preparing massive long-term offer to bring UConn's Dan Hurley to the NBA with talks expected to escalate in coming days. So, when we had Dan Hurley on, I this was two years ago We asked him about taking an NBA job and he said not now. I've got a lot to learn He also said the league might not be ready for a guy like him. That's a fact might be true But then he also said it's a challenge that he could see himself doing at some point in the future It sounds like they're about to just back up the truck for him Yeah, if they if they actually pull a truck into his driveway like a a Brinks truck, you have to take that deal.

I thought the weirdest part of this whole thing was buried in Woj's article. They talked about how getting Dan Hurley on board could benefit Bronnie James if the Lakers were to draft him and how Dan Hurley could help him step his game up and develop as an NBA player. That is the craziest thing I've ever heard to be considering a coach based on the fact that a guy you might draft in the second round might get a little bit better. A guy that's not even on the team yet, the son of your superstar, he could help him with his development. That's crazy to me. But then I thought to myself, wait a second, what if it's a tit for tat situation? And Dan Hurley says, I'll

do it. I'll, I'll sign off on drafting Brawny I'll help develop him, but you also have to sign Andrew Hurley and he gets to get in all the games Yeah to eat the turnt to be the turnover sponge. Yeah at the end of every game if his sons on the team My sons on the team. Yeah, that was that that part of the story was very funny because it would just it would be just as easy Easier way easier actually, to just have Bronnie transfer to UConn. Yeah, why not just transfer to UConn and stay in college and actually learn from Dan Hurley right now.

But LeBron has tweeted about how much he likes Dan Hurley. Dan Hurley is an incredible coach. The Lakers are one of those jobs. I mean Coach K, which we'll get to in a second, flirted with it 20 years ago, but the Lakers are one of those jobs that I think every single college basketball coach picks up the phone for because you know they'll always get free agents and they'll always find a way to be relevant. My only...

So there were two things initially that I thought. One, Shams got his lunch eaten on this one because Shams has basically been talking about JJ Reddick to the Lakers, uh, almost being a done deal for the last two weeks and Woj this, the, the Woj Shams rivalry is so great because you know how much pleasure this gave Woj to just dunk on him at five in the morning. Shams probably woke up, saw it, was like, clutch has been lying to me, all this stuff. And he has to just sit there and pray that

talks fall through with Dan Hurley and they end up with JJ Reddick. But I was thinking about it. I think Dan Hurley would be awesome at the Lakers. I think he would be, he's going to coach. He's going to be a great coach no matter where he goes. The only thing that doesn't really make sense to me is I do think the Lakers, like LeBron's not going to play forever and he is, he's fickle at best. Like he could, he's not going to give you a long-term commitment. So why would you take it now when you know you could maybe stay at UConn and the Lakers will still be there in a couple years from now when they eventually fire whoever they hire this cycle and then just take them

over that. I would love to see Dan Hurley take a hands-on approaching like he did at UConn, like go on the court and push LeBron James. Oh, he would. I don't think he'll go there if he can't coach the way he wants to coach. That would be awesome. Also, Dan Hurley doesn't strike me as an LA guy. No. He's not laid back enough, but he would bring the fire to LA. No, be awesome. Also, Dan Hurley doesn't strike me as an LA guy. No.

He's not laid back enough, but he would bring the fire to LA. No, I mean- He's a Yukon. He's a New Jersey guy. He's never leaving. Trust me, I'm right. There's two ways this is gonna play out. One is, Lakers are gonna offer him so much money that he can't turn it down, and you're

gonna say, okay, well, Dan Hurley, good job. You deserve this, and yeah, you to take this offer. And the other thing that could happen very well, and I can see it in my head, is Dan Hurley sitting at his desk. He tweets a picture on Sunday night maybe with just the number seven, because they have six and they're going for their seventh. And he's like, yeah, my wife couldn't find a good hoagie place in in LA so where jobs not finished. You know it'd be great. You know, let me strike that reverse. You know it'd be a real shame. It'd be a real shame if Dan Hurley left and then you can't hire Jay Wright. That'd be a real shame. That would never happen.

Max is hoping for this to happen so, so bad. Such a shame. Max and Pug, the whole Big East. Yeah, they all need Dan Hurley out. I don't know which way this is going to go. I wonder, do you think JJ feels like he's being used a little bit? I actually think that this might be an entire Duke conspiracy. Because Coach K. Yeah, no, I was streaming about this morning.

I was right on it. Coach K did all of this. But think about, yeah, with the JJ Reddick thing too. No yeah Coach K was named an unofficial, I'm going to get the exact. Consigliere. How do you get named something but it's unofficial? Will you shut up for a second with your little vest? Just tell them to shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up for a second. Yeah, satisfy. Lakers reportedly using Mike Shashevsky as unofficial resource in coaching search. Coach K sees Dan Hurley win his second national title back to back. He looks around, he says, look, there's a lot of guys in college basketball that will never reach where I'm at. They won't

be the old school tough style like Dan Hurley. He's a throwback. He's a relic. I got to figure out a way to make sure that Dan Hurley doesn't surpass me as the goat or alleged goat by coach case standards. He's not my goat, a goat college basketball coach. I'm the unofficial resource in this searching job. And he's just basically every time they bring up who should we hire? He's like, you know, I'm thinking Dan Hurley. He he's getting Dan Hurley to go To the Lakers so Dan Hurley can't take everything from John Shire and Duke and Coach K and all his legacy and stuff and he used JJ Reddick. So when he knows very well, I think he's a pawn in the scheme I think he might have engineered the entire podcast and yeah and stuff and he used JJ Reddick, someone he knows very well, he's a pawn in the scheme.

I think he might've engineered the entire podcast and been like, hey, you guys do a podcast and then we're going to set that up. When the coaching thing becomes available, then we're going to link JJ heavily to it. I'll call Shams, get Shams to endorse this. And then everyone's thinking, oh, JJ, oh, JJ, no one's on the phone. Pick up the phone to call Dan Hurley. And then boom, we do the old replace last second, the old switcheroo. And don't put it past coach K. Don't put it past coach K to not try to take down all of college basketball because Dan Hurley is a throwback coach. If we lose Dan Hurley in college basketball, I would, I will be upset. He is, we tough guys, hard-nosed guys, the Patinos, the Bayhimes, the Izzo's still

around but you know. The Patino's still around. The Patino is still around but we're losing a lot of them. All right, it's fine. The Bayhimes, the Coach K's, the Roy Williams, the John Thompson. Bobby Knight. The Rolly Massaminos, the Bobby Knights. These guys are like 100 years old.

The Jay Wrights. We don't have any old school coaches anymore. Dan Hurley is what college basketball has been for a very long time. Coach K is trying to basically, I think he wants college basketball to not exist in five years. That's what he's trying to do.

He's trying to take down the entire NCAA tournament. He doesn't, he wants it all to end. He's a classic. Just pull up the ladder on you. If you were Dan Hurley, would you rather go to the Lakers and, uh, and get paid a lot more money and not have to recruit and not have to worry about NIL all that stuff. But you also have the threat of being fired every single season, sometimes in season if, if LeBron James doesn't like you enough mm-hmm yeah but he could go back to college yeah you can he could yeah I what max I think that he's done everything that he needs to do in college he should go mute your mic you should go attack Mike oh I want to go attack this new now I want to go and I want Jay

Wright to sign on that that's not gonna happen it's not gonna happen Jay right would you go back there's no chance no'll just go back to no chance. No chance. No chance. No, zero chance. Zero. He'd wait one more year for them to have a bad season, fire Neptune and go back. Yeah. Anything. I feel like although Nova's back. Oh, Nova's back. Cause you got wuga. Coach K is trying to ruin UConn. UConn fans don't take this. This is if you, if you are trying to blame anyone, do not blame Dan Hurley for being off for Being an incredible coach and being offered a lot of money Blame coach K. He's behind all of this. That's a bunch of donkey crap

You said that cuz you're in the Shrek costume Hank's doing a bit where he dressed up today No, we Did Dungeons & Dragons earlier and I just didn't change been busy. Yeah, you're really busy busy trying to nap It's a good nap. What do you think? What do you think about this thing? I think it's a bunch of malarkey Oh, you think he's gonna stay I mean I Or you think I think I think he is gonna stay this actually does remind me of Coach K well, and he always stayed yeah, there is there's like that was every summer. It was coach K is going to Laker Yeah, the there is a strong possibility in all of this

that Dan Hurley has just won two national titles and He's got a fun. He's got a new recruits. He's got new transfer portal guys, and he now has to find a way to motivate him So he's like, all right. Well, it's just leaked that I'm going to Lakers. And then he comes back and then he just, I'm not leaving. Yeah. Yeah. It's a good, that would be a good motivational tactic. I think he might be bored with college basketball at this point. The last two, the last two NCAA tournaments, he's just dominated so hard. There's no way that's just fucking crushed. The other thing to your point, which has nothing to do with coach K is that it's tough to be a hard nosed coach in today's day and age when the transfer portal exists way you're too hard they just leave but that it's way harder to be a hard nosed coach in

the NBA but you get paid a lot more you don't have to worry about the transfer portal like Dan Hurley if you can't coach the same way that you used to be able to coach because especially on the NBA but it's a completely that's a completely different game How much money would they have to offer him because he probably got do we know the terms 12? Like you know we can't coach what he wants to coach in the NBA At Yukon, but he has been coaching that way, but it's probably a lot And it's probably dealing with a lot of bullshit, or you could get paid Fuck you money to go coach the best players in the world. Yeah the fuck you money is the part that you know.

Like 20 mil a year? I don't know. I don't know what the offer was. 100 mil over however many years? I have no idea. I hope we don't lose them in college basketball. I really don't want to see that happen. And I also, it would be funny because I honestly think that if LeBron tried to use Dan Hurley as a scapegoat Dan Hurley will just fight him

Yeah, the end of the season if the LeBron said the yeah that that was Dan Hurley's fault our coach didn't coach well enough He'll just come in and be like, okay fight me. He probably just publicly say like we're trading LeBron James Yeah, you don't want to see that you don't think that would be great Dan, you're so biased right now. You're very biased. I understand it. I understand your bias and I, you should be taking the stance you're taking, but don't well, everything you say is, is very biased, but go ahead. That's everything. That's everything. That's everything in the show. That's fair. But I mean, Dan Hurley with the Lakers would make the Lakers way more entertaining. Next agreed. I just, do you understand my point

about college basketball? We've lost all of the real coaches. I want him gone. I know. Would you rather Dan Hurley at Kentucky or Lakers? Kentucky. Yeah, because then you get to keep him in college basketball. And I could see UConn fans cry. Oh.

Yeah, I mean you really. Yeah, I want Dan Hurley gone. Okay. I don't blame you for that at all. Yeah no not at all. You have to. They're just so dominant. That's maybe maybe bored is the wrong the wrong choice of terms but I do think that he's accomplished a lot in college basketball and he feels like a guy who's ready for different challenges. Yeah for sure. I just I don't know if I would want the challenge to me would not be to coach LeBron where he's desperate and will blame anyone but LeBron. Maybe the challenge is try to win a championship

with LeBron's son in the rotation. Yeah, so we'll see what happens. We'll update obviously on Monday. I think maybe if something happens Johnny Fanta will come on. Also if they're dead set, if they're making this pitch to him like we want you in case we do draft Brawny Another team should just draft Brawny and then try to trade him to the Lakers. Yeah, it was valuable poker chip of all time Yeah for Anthony Davis straight up. Yeah, I like your one Anthony Davis. You're essentially kidnapping LeBron James son Yeah, I mean like all you have to do is is give me your second guy and then now we can all be friends again Yeah, I uh

How about how bad do you think Shams feels right now? He's got to just be praying that Dan Hurley says no. Mm-hmm. Has to pray. And do you think, JJ, is he, I'm actually, this is good for JJ Reddick. It's good for him because now he's the big name out there. So next opening, they're going to talk to JJ. Well, it also is a good little reminder you haven't coached yet.

Yeah. And you, yeah, you go, you go behind Dan Hurley. But he's already skipped to the front of the line. Right. So the next coaching vacancy, it's like, okay, I guess JJ's name that we should interview. Yeah. Coach K will probably get, that's probably the end part of it. You got to get over it.

You got to get over it. No, no I don't. No I don't. No I don't. This is sad. Coach K will probably get JJ, JJ's first coaching job will probably be the Olympic team this year Yeah, that's probably winning gold medal. Yeah front of the line. I Still have the coach K little cheat. Yeah, no, we'll update it in my wallet

Yeah, it's in mine as well for two years ago. Yeah, we will we will update it with What he's done here by trying to eliminate Dan Hurley. So UConn fans just remember he was Coach K. Did you see Coach K got a highway named after him? No. I feel like that's normal. Yeah. That makes sense. He's probably donated like billions to charity.

Do you think he's going to let his friends drive on the highway? What? Good one. I didn't make a joke. What do you mean his friends, big cat? I don't know. Any of his friends from coaching. Yeah, do you think he's going to let his,

do you think he's going to let Paolo Banquero, I mean his grandson, drive that highway? Yeah. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Who do you thought I was talking about, Jake? No.

Oh. OK. Probably not all of his friends. Yeah, there's probably one friend he He doesn't want yeah, Tony Stewart Okay, anything else before we get ready. Oh, I saw Angel Hernandez Jeff Pass and said that Bullying worked in this case and that he was sick of seeing himself dragged on the internet all the time so we did it Yeah, we did it guys congratulations. It's it's this is a big year for bullying We've got this and then we've got the Heisman Trophy going back to Reggie Bush

Yeah, and I making things happen. It is very funny that Angel Hernandez would say I was sick of watching myself being dragged online When all he could do is just he could easily fix that by not being terrible Yeah, well, he can't eject the internet. He can't throw the internet out of the game. Yeah, why are they being so, why are they replaying all of these times I've gotten balls and strikes wrong? I hope that MLB brings them on as an analyst, as like a rules analyst. The way they did, remember when Mike Carey came on

in the NFL and he got every prediction wrong? Every. That was incredible. If they bring Angel Hernandez in for the playoffs, he's like, I think that's a strike. Yes. And it's like clearly outside the box we need that yeah come on so bad do the right thing MLB yes um I guess we'll talk max will you talk a little bit about your deli slicer during firefests or you want to talk about right now we can we can do it later okay well is it a fire fest there's some fire fest

aspects okay then we'll save it for later because your your deli slicer has arrived. Yeah, you know, you are You're living out your fantasy of being just a strong Italian man memes wants you to know or college football Schedule. Oh, yes. That was a good point. Yeah, we got the college football playoff schedule and it Fucking rocks. There's so much football starting in December. So much football. There's also just so much more football in January now that is going to be, we've almost eliminated January. Yeah.

Which is great. Yeah. We, January's, we were both born in January. It's the worst month. It's, it's just a month of pure sports now. Yeah. And just looking forward to sports. So pull it up. It is, um, it, it, it's, it's perfect because we have a Friday game, then three Saturday games, uh, right before Christmas. And then we have a New Year's Eve game and then three New Year's day games, which is going to be great. And then we get the special Thursday.

I think January 9th is week, that's right before week 18. So that would be right when we were getting weaned off of Thursday night games. So they throw a Thursday night game in there. And a Friday. And a Friday, which leads us into week 18. So the January 9th weekend, think about that. 10 years ago, was that even, was that, was that divisional round already? No, it wasn't divisional round, but it was wild card weekend, not super wild card weekend. So 10 years ago, we had four football games that weekend. This, now the first full weekend of January is a full week 18 and two college football playoff game. It's pretty sweet. And then Monday, January 20th national championship. Is that, is that MLK day?

That is MLK day. That's also coming off. I think that's also inauguration. Oh, good. Yep. And that is also coming off. That'll be fun. That is coming off of, I think that's Super Wild Card weekend. So 11, 12, 13 is actually Super Wild Card. Oh, it is?

Yeah, so I guess everything's up this week. OK. 18, 19 is divisional. OK, so Super Wild Card weekend. So we're going to have the semifinals Thursday, Friday, and then Super Wild Card weekend. That's the best stretch of football right now. I hope the new president or the president goes to that game the day after they get inaugurated. Yeah. What? Wait, when is the Super Bowl this year? February? What? It's not President's Day, but it's like ninth. Okay. Okay. So it's early. It's earlier than it's been. Um, yeah. January is January and December are incredible this year.

Incredible. This is what my whole plan just eliminate if we could just get football as much football in January as possible to just get rid of January as a month. Oh we even we get that Friday December 20th game we get a Friday night college football playoff game? No it's Monday January 20th. No Friday December 20th. Oh yes Yes one Friday three Saturdays Yeah, and then New Year's Eve then three New Year's Day is interesting how this is going to go head-to-head with some NFL games Which we do usually don't see which ones the 21st is going to be Texans Chiefs and Steelers Ravens. Hmm That's fine. You just get have multiple TVs. Yeah. No, it's just these marquee college games usually are standalone

It's gonna be tricky for the travel schedule around Christmas time that that weekend that also our show. Yeah, we're gonna have to do some shows Yep, I did think about that. So December 23rd that Monday Yeah, which that would be we would normally would have done a show there Yeah, and then we're gonna have to do a show on the Wednesday January 1st Yeah, yeah, which we would have probably had to do a show anyway, but yeah, I'm excited a lot more football Okay Let's get some hockey talk because we haven't previewed the Stanley Cup final yet. We got biz and we got Emmett and Oilers Vander Kane before we do that P PFT, you had a word from our

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TNT. I know the boys are wrapped up for the Stanley Cup final. Let's talk some final. Let's get going. Let's get into it. You want to, here's what I'll start with. Paul Bissonet, you know this league so well. If the Oilers win, what is the X factor for them? And then do the same thing for the Panthers. Give us the X factor. I love doing the X factor. I think we started to do it last year or maybe the year before. And I think it was like, like fuck off with these X factors. But then now he's an X factor. They play cause you know what it is biz. And this is, this is a little tip for you. I mean, you, you know you know this you you're very successful in everything man's playing it to me, please I'm not gonna say what you think I'm gonna say what I'm gonna say is the at least for this show

When we have a guest on like you who knows hockey so well when I asked for the X-factors I'm basically asking for you to give us a name or two or a situation that all of our listeners can walk around this weekend at the bar and sound smart. And they can be like, yeah, you know, if the Oilers do this, and then everyone's like, oh shit, you know, you're Puck. It's like, no, they just listened to Biz. Okay. All right. I like this. I like this. Okay. So when we, when we talk about the X factors on the pod, we usually refer to a team who might be, um, uh, going into the series where we think they might lose. Like right now I have Florida and six, right? I think that overall they have the better team, but I think if these two X factors step up, the oilers have a chance to win. One of which apparently

you have on today's show. It's a Vander Kane. Yes. Yes. Okay. All right. Okay. So if Vander Kane is like your prototypical power forward in the NHL, he's nasty. He can play with a physical edge and he's tough as shit. I think he grew up a boxer. He's actually, uh, I believe he's named after a Vander Holyfield. Did he explain that in the, in the midst of the interview? He did. Yes. So he hasn't quite been himself over the past couple of years, going back to two playoffs ago, he had 13 goals. It might've led all of playoffs and they were ended up being getting swept in the

conference finals. If he can get to playing that nasty, that nasty style of play, play physical and find his goal scoring edge. I think that that helps them out so much because he hasn't been there quite all of this playoff. Like this playoff, I think right now they have him going into this round on the third line. Even if he stays there, if he can be that impact in this series, it's going to matter because Florida, a very physical team can beat you up and they're so deep up front where they have guys on the third line like Lundell who are putting the puck in the back

of the net. So he needs to be an X factor. The other X factor was a guy that half of the fan base was kind of throwing on their bus going back to the Vancouver round and that was Darnell Nurse. Big defenseman, he's earning a lot of money. I think his cap hit is just over 9 million and although he makes that type of money he's not that type of player. He's not a Kale McCarr. So what he needs to do is up his game defensively, make sure he's boxing out in front of the net and he's also playing with that nastiness. After the game in which he got called out, there was like a weird pregame press conference around his stall where all the the media members were grilling him. He was giving short answers. That night and at that

point I think he was minus 12 in playoffs. Not great. He started off the game in the first five minutes, dash two, boom. One in the back of his net on a two on one, boom. The other one hits his ass in the back. So it was just like a bad luck streak mixed along with not good playing and then I feel like he just snapped after that He ended up getting an assist that game and then he finished with 12 hits Double digits and hits we need that from him every game this series and if they those two X factors do that I believe the Edmonton Oilers along along with all the other pieces, do have the possibility of winning this in seven games. Okay. Okay. But you picked the Panthers and I saw Gretzky kind of trash you over. He reminded you that you picked the Stars. Well, he's

on the Oilers payroll. So let's not go over there. And he's also won four cups with them. So let's not go there. Well, he does live in South Florida. Right? Yeah. So I don't know. I'm just saying what the great one told me on TV was that he shouldn't trust you because the pick that you had in the last series was ass. OK. Fact or fiction? So I had Dallas and Six.

I thought they were the better overall team. And Edmonton, kind of now the new team of Destiny, that the Rangers have been pigeon tossed to the side. I do believe that the Oilers could do it but they have to have all systems go. Florida is expected to be there they have the goal-tending they have more depth on defense they're overall better on defense. Edmonton Oilers argument and their fan base's argument might be that you don't have an Evan Bouchard. Evan Bouchard I believe currently he has 27 points in these playoffs. He's 10 away from the from Paul Coffey who set the the record for 37

points in a postseason playoff run when they obviously went on to win the cup. I believe that anybody who's ever hit 29 points as a defenseman individually, I want to say Kale McCarr hit that two years ago when they won the Stanley Cup. Everybody in the one to four slot who has had that many points as a demon, their team has gone on to win the cup. So that might be the argument on the backend for, for oilers fans to say, we have another X factor whammy. Oh, another, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, she had that big black leather belt, which you know she wants to be choked and spanked with. You know that. You did some deep diving on that. I didn't get around to analyzing the bull. What do you mean I did? I raised texting with her

and to make matters even crazier. The texts have not been going through that well because she apparently is at one bar because she works up north in Alberta at the oil. This is just, it's just too perfect. So can you explain to me how this shakes out for Canada as a whole? I know it's big if Canada wins the Stanley Cup back, but I know that like Maple Leaf fans are Maple Leaf fans and that's it. Is that the same way for, for senators fans and for Canucks fans or is there some sort of like unification in Canada right now where it's like we need

to cut back on our soil? Okay, so before I answer that, just to quickly go back because I got distracted by Tits McGee and then at the forward position, yes, Edmonton has dry Seidel and McDavid who are our world class top of the game, probably top three players in the world. McDavid being number one overall,, Florida has a deeper offense upfront. They have a better, better four lines. That's, you cannot debate that. Anybody who has half a brain in the hockey world will tell you that. So going back to the, is Canada on board with people? Wait, let me ask it again. I fucking nailed it the first time I asked it. Let me, let

me set you up again. Let's see. I want to hear it again, baby. This is a major, major, major Stanley cup for the entire country of Canada. It's been so long, 1993, they've been waiting since 1993 to get the cup back on home ice in Canada. And the thing is there's multiple Canadian teams and I know that the Maple Leafs fans only care about the Maple Leafs. Senator's fans, I don't know, are they pulling for Edmonton? Are Canucks fans? Are Flames fans?

Or is this only the city of Edmonton and their supporters that have been waiting so long for another Stanley Cup? Are they the only ones that are really taking this set that seriously, making it that big of a deal? Or is it the entire country of Canada? Okay, so this question, that was unbelievable. No, you made me believe the first time was better. Question.

I did basically cover song of my of my question. Great question. Great. No, because you being long winded with it and throwing all this stuff at me, it made me it reminded me I believe it was Wayne who said that all Canada is going to be behind Edmonton as on the panel. And that's kind of what what sparked this whole conversation. Now, I would argue that I think that more Canadians

overall from a percentage standpoint are interested on whether Conor McDavid will lift the Stanley Cup rather than maybe more so the Oilers and a Canadian team winning it. I believe that the fact that it's Conor McDavid, this generational talent, a guy who has poured his heart and soul, every fiber of his being into hockey since probably the young, young age of like six years old. This guy's a phenom. He deserves a cup, but that doesn't necessarily mean anything. You dealt with it with a guy like Ovechkin who had done all he did in the goal scoring department and everything he'd done for the game. But what was held against him? Did have that he'd never won a cup and then he did. And then it was

like, ah, the weight of the fucking world was off his shoulders. So in order to be considered a great in the hockey world, you have to get a Stanley cup that is non-negotiable. And this is his first crack at it. So I think that that interest is more impactful in my mind than Edmonton itself winning. But as a Canadian and as a Leafs fan, I am, I want Edmonton to win because I would love to see the cup come back to Canada. I, I also think it's, um, you, you can kind of like compartmentalize cause it's a little bit, it's not the exact same, but it's, it's similar to, uh, college sports and rooting for your conference.

I never really actually root for my conference, but there are certain things that are in the back of your mind. Like for March madness, the big 10 has not won a national title in like 20 plus years. I was not rooting for Purdue when they were in the national title this year, but if they had won, I then would have used that going forward to be like, Hey, we're not a joke anymore. So it's like, you're not, maybe it may police fans not actively rooting for the oilers, but if the oilers win, you know that you can at least like not have to deal with these

jokes anymore. That's okay. That's fair. And there's also like a tin foil hat theory that Gary Bettman is like, you know, okay, yeah, these Canadian fan bases, they're going to sell out every, every billion, but he's more concerned about growing the game in the States and, and favoritism towards these American teams and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. So agreed with, with part of what you're saying. I think that Canadian people just want to say, ha, the Cubs back in Canada, fuck you. Okay, so we talked about the Edmondson Oilers X-Factors. You have the Panthers in six. Is it as simple as if the Panthers play their game, they should win this series?

Yeah, so last year the issue with Florida was they were a little bit banged up going into that finals. And of course, maybe the lack of experience and the fact that they had to really turn it on from the all-star break last year all the way to the Stanley Cup final in which it took a lot out of them. They are a better overall team this year, they still have the goal-tending from Bobrosky that they had last year. I think they're a little bit better on defense because they picked up Oliver Ekman-L Larson who's making under three million dollars and you know when he was at the top of his game when I was playing with him with the Arizona Coyotes you know he's at least a number two on most teams in the NHL so now he's basically in the in the bottom three defense of that team and as well as a

guy Mikola who's 6'6. So these are, they're like five and six defensemen that they have who are once again, they're not anchors. They're very legitimate D. Uh, and then, uh, like I said, going, going up front, man, like they have guys who aren't even going to be in a lineup who are valuable players that could be inserted on their third lines. So they are all system's goal. Sasha Barkov easily in the world right now probably the new Ozzy Kopitar as the best 200 foot center. A guy who could be a point-of-game player but he's fast, he back checks like a maniac, he's the most reliable center ice position player I believe on the planet. Even more so than McDavid from a

defensive standpoint, maybe that not that offensive flair, but then you got Matthew could Chuck, you got Sam Bennett, the menace who will knock you out with a sucker shot if you're not even paying attention. Uh, Carter Verhaggie, as we call him verse swaggy. So clutch with the goal scoring and the list goes on and on and on. I said Luz Sereinon and then Lindell those are like their their second wave of offense. There are very very few weaknesses. If they're all systems go it's gonna be very difficult for the Edmonton Oilers to beat this team. But what they don't have are Connor McDavid and Leon Dreisaitl. If they are going beast mode, then it's a whole

new series and who knows. But listen, I think this is probably one of the best matchups we've seen in the Stanley Cup finals in a very, very long time. I'm excited for it. And we were talking with Kane about how good their power play is in Edmonton. Is there something about their game that they do that invites more penalties? They set up plays, they work the puck around, they put the other team in a position to commit penalties so that way they get that man advantage and really hammer home the power play. Well, I mean it also depends who you're playing, right? So they played Dallas last round where for the most part Dallas was one of the most disciplined

teams all season long as well into playoffs. Maybe a little less towards the end of the series and that's when Edmonton's power play started clicking but the way to draw penalties in hockey is you know you got to win your one-on-one battles so if you beat a guy you know he's either got to hook you on the way to the net trip you do what he can and Edmonton does have individual players like McDavid, Dreisaitl, you know Hyman's really good in the net front and he demands a lot of attention and they do have players where yeah you have to maybe pay a little bit more attention and haul them down more so than usual

and that's just based on the power and speed of the top end skill that they do have but once again that's not something that Florida doesn't have either. But what's even been even more impressive about the Edmonton Oilers, aside from their amazing power play that I wanna say is clicking above 35% for playoffs, is their penalty kill. They've killed off 28 straight penalties.

The NHL record in playoffs, I believe is 38 straight, which is that's even crazier. The fact that somebody did that, but Edmonton's PK throughout the season was Ms. Met. It was very average. Even after no block, their new coach who took over after about 15 games, he handed it off to Mark Stewart. The penalty kill was actually even went down a little bit from that first 15 games where I think that in the last, let's say 50 games this season, their power play was our PK, excuse me, was clicking at about 76%. Now in playoffs, it's just shy under 94%, which is remarkable. So their overall special teams has been a much added boost for the Edmonton Oilers and a big reason they're in the finals. But going back to special teams, Florida, they're at, they have an unreal penalty

kill and their power play was one of the best all season long as well with a guy. I didn't even mention earlier, Sam Reinhart. I think he led the league in power play goals with like 30, maybe above that finished the season with like 56 or 57 goals. So he's, he's a beast too. They have weapons bro, weapons. Okay, I got one last hockey question for you. Goalies. Skinner versus goalie Bob. Is Bob hurt a little? Because I thought I saw some Rangers fans saying he might be a little hampered with something he's dealing with. But what would you say

like in terms of the goalies? Obviously Bob is the better goalie, but Skinner has been playing and he was incredible in that game, six against the stars. So like strengths, weaknesses between the two of them. So let's start with Bob Ross. So he's the Russian goalie that in Florida got that big contract. He signed like an eight year deal at 10 million per and kind of lost his game. And then that's Bobrovsky last year on that playoff run, found it. And he's kind of playing all this season and so far in playoffs exactly like he was last playoff. I have not heard one word about him being potentially injured. So that is news to me. Okay.

Especially, keep your eye out. Fair enough. And as that series went on against Florida, he was obviously stellar, but they weren't allowing a lot of high danger chances. They had New York Rangers nuts in a vice. Yeah. Maybe because he was injured and they were like, we have to, we have to do our job. Keep them on a buddy. Yeah. At the end of the day, most of the time, if you're a team like Florida and you're limiting teams to let's say 25 shots on goal and only, you know, four or five high danger chances a game, it's going to be hard for them to generate and obviously win. So to me right

now goalie goaltending looks fine. Overall team defense looks fine. Nothing wrong with Bob that to be worried about. I just saw one tweet. I saw one tweet and I was like, Oh, that's a listen. That's it. I'm the guy who reads Twitter. And then all of a sudden it starts spouting off too. So actually everything I think I've said so far on this podcast is probably false and things that I read off Twitter. I love that going across the ice to Skinner Skinner struggled a little bit in that round against Vancouver to the point where they put Calvin Pickard in net their backup to play back-to-back games and he did well you know he did solid but they had the confidence to put Skinner back in game six and game seven of that series against Vancouver and I think he's played

eight games since being put back in he's six and two and I'd have to look it up online as far as his numbers but overall it looks like he's six and two and I'd have to look it up online as far as his numbers. But overall it looks like he's fixed a few things in his game. He's not moving as much. He's not challenging off the goal line as much. He's a little bit backed up. He's using his size more and he's kind of like a blocker as opposed to a reactor. And when you're, when he uses his size properly and he doesn't get like, you know, all fidgety and that, and he just works his proper angles, he is dialed in and he's doing everything that he needs to do in order for them to win. So well above a 900 save per spent percentage, he was better than

Autinger in that last round. And he came up with some big, huge saves. So I would say that if you wanted to call the goaltending matchup even going in, based on how they're both playing, I would say let's call it even. So that's where I'm at. But most people with experience and with provenness,

Bobrowski does have two Vezna trophies, but he has never won the big one in the Stanley Cup finals. All right, so the big one might the Stanley Cup finals. All right. So the big one might be injured though. We don't know. So, so, so Wayne Gretzky's brother, Keith Gretzky is a, uh, the assistant general manager of the Edmonton Oilers and knows a lot about their farm team.

And three, four years ago, the Bakersfield, their AHL team had made a couple runs where they, I don't think they were expected to make runs in the Calder Cup playoffs and Wayne was like, you know, oh, like what are they doing well? And Keith was like, they have this goalie, Stuart Skinner. He's won at every level. He's as clutch as they come come playoff time. I believe he's going to help the Oilers win a Stanley Cup in four or five years. And sure enough, here we are, we're going to the Stanley Cup final and he has made a lot of good help with draft picks and calls on some of their prospects coming up. And this could be one of them.

All right. We'll keep an eye on him. So back to the goal-tender being injured situation, maybe. How does that work in terms of injury reports that teams put out? In the playoffs, do they play it straight? If you've got an injury, they put it out or do sometimes teams withhold that information and just not disclose it at all?

So I think in football, they have to say exactly what it is that's bugging these guys at a certain date and time. In hockey, it's very private. They usually just go with lower body injury or upper body injury and that's all the information you're getting. And then of course, playoff ends for a certain team. They do their end of the year press conferences and media scrums. And then you find out the laundry list of injuries that those guys had throughout playoffs.

Yeah. All right. So Biz, I had one last question for you. It's a row back question. RHOBACK.com promo code. Take 20% off your first purchase. Cues is polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts, and bathing suits. ROBACK.COM promo code TAKE. We are going to see you in

two weeks in Vegas, two and a half weeks, for the beer games. But you also have agreed to be in the Dingers Only League with Yans, which we're announcing it right now. I know I said that I had a verbal commitment on Twitter, but you are, you are part of this league now. We're going to do the draft on that Monday. Are you ready for this? Do you know anything about baseball? If you lose, are you going to be ready to pitch against the college baseball team? Okay. So here are the things I know about baseball that the worst umpire in the history of the world is retiring after the season. Oh, I think he's out. He's out. He quit. Spent more time with his family this summer. Yeah. Yeah. He's done. Oh, so I, my understanding

was it was originally said that he was, this would be his last year, but then he just completely shut the mill. I think he shut it down. Yeah. Do you think he had his Twitter mentions on? Yes. That was the story that he got bullied online. He was like, I'm sick of all the hate. It's like, well dude, you suck is I don't know. I don't follow baseball, but is this a commitment that I'm making more so than just the day that we draft or I have to do this all summer? No, no, that's the beauty of this league. The league is, is as simple as it gets. We each, all of us draft nine players and you get to think a 10th reserve reserve player and you there's no lineups or anything that you set It's just you go and it's the only status home runs

And we updated every week But the only thing is if you lose you have to get six outs against a college baseball team We'll play the field if you lose like you'll pitch I'll probably catch PFT and Max and Hank will be in the outfield. So you'd have to be there. They'll be there that afternoon. Yeah. You, yeah. We did it. PFT lost last year. He got had to get six outs against the college baseball team and I pitch. Yeah. Yeah. If you lose, I only hit one guy. Yeah. Oh, okay. If I, yeah, let's do it. I love that. I like that. I'm actually leaving Monday morning morning I'm driving to Vegas and then I will be there for whatever time your draft is let's hope

it's at like what two or three o'clock yeah whenever you get there we'll do I'm gonna have some drinks it's like and it takes like it takes like a couple hours but it's just us fucking around saying names and we don't know what we're saying how about how about I'll hundred percent do it if if you guys take mushrooms with me? Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no right now? Oh, I can name Bryce Harper. Yup. Uh, who's the guy you got? Yelich. Yeah. I like him. He seems like a good does really hit home runs, but yeah. Um, Carlos Stanton. Yeah. John Carlos. John Carlos. Yeah. Um, back. Carlos. Yeah. John Carlos. Yeah. Um, Oh, who's the guy who got busted with the gambling? You got this. Oh, Tony. Yeah. Uh huh. That's four. Oh, Shanti. A Tony. Oh, Shanti. A Tony. Um, who, Oh, who's the guy

in Anaheim? He's the big dog. Fuck. Maybe the best hitter of all time. Actually, no, he's like Barry Bonds is that guy. But he's like historically good. He's like Connor McDavid. If Connor McDavid never made the playoffs. I think it starts with a T, doesn't it? Yeah, it's a fish. Oh, Trout, Mike Trout. Yeah, thanks for that.

That's fine. I know. I know enough. I know enough of them. I really like the guy from Cincinnati who he just seems to be a fucking character that doesn't give a care in the world. He's actually Canadian. I think he, are you talking about Joe Votto? Joey Votto. He's a Canadian. Yeah. I don't know if he is. Is he? I'm pretty sure he's Canadian. He is. You're right. Sean Paul's not Canadian. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, so we're going to do, we'll have a whole cheat sheet for you. So we'll have a list of everyone's cause the thing is we do the draft. It's already like halfway through

the season. So we'll have a list of everyone who's already, you know, what their home runs are. They don't count the home runs they hit before the draft don't count, but you can see like who's doing well and who's not. And then I like this off that it's very easy as possible. I'm, I'm so excited and I, I'm pumped that you guys are spending a little even more time that you have in the past invested in the Stanley cup playoffs. Cause it's been a great run and for all your fans who might be just casual hockey fans, this is going to be an unbelievable final and there's a lot at stake and, and a generational talented player might end up hoisting the Stanley cup for the first time. So even for you capitals fans, you can, you can really relate to this

watching Ovi trying to get his cop. It's been nine years since McDavid's been in the NHL and it's the first time he's in the Stanley cup finals. That's a long time. That's a long, it would serve, it would put to bed the narrative out there that I've heard, you know, all over the place, which is he can't win the big one, that he's not good enough to win the big one. So on one hand, I would not like to give that narrative up on the other. Uh, I, I understand the pain and the suffering that he's going through that the fans are going through. I appreciate that. That's a Canadian. Yeah. Uh, all right, biz you're the best. We're excited for it.

We'll see you in a couple of weeks. Get ready for Dingers only. Bring the mushrooms because we will do that. It will be Dingers only while we're on Shrooms, which will make it even better. Yeah. Are you, are you guys doing the beer Olympics the next day? Yes, we are. Yeah. Are you? We're very excited. Oh, it's going to be the best. Oh, I can't wait boys. Yeah. I can't wait. You guys are the best. Love you guys and hopefully we'll see you in Edmonton for game four. All right. Okay. All right. Save us a seat. All right. See ya. He's being brought to you by keeps keeps is all about confidence. He keeps helps men reclaim their identity. If your hair has always been a part of who you are, it's something

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When you chill out, life gets better. Choose chill, then reach for a Coors Light. And now, here's Evander Cain. And now for something completely different. Okay, we now welcome on a very, very special guest. And now here's Evander Kane. And now for something completely different. OK, we now welcome on a very, very special guest. He is from the Edmonton Oilers. It's Evander Kane getting ready for the Stanley Cup finals. How are we feeling, you know, on the precipice of being

in your first Stanley Cup final? Yeah, obviously really exciting. It's taken a long time to get to this stage. And it doesn't happen every year. So really excited for our group and obviously individually it's been a long time coming as I said and I'm looking forward to kicking it off on Saturday night. Did you guys make a pact before game six against the Stars that you wouldn't be touching the trophy because it was, it felt very coordinated that you weren't going to be touching the trophy.

Um, I'd be lying to you if I said there wasn't some whispers about it prior to the game. Uh, obviously we wanted to make sure we got the job done first and foremost, but, uh, yeah, after, after we squeaked that one out, uh, everybody was on the same page. We weren't touching it and we were going to wait until we got the big one. Yeah, yeah. I didn't even think about it. It's like a superstition, like double jeopardy because you don't want to talk about what your plan is with the trophy before you get

the trophy. But you also got to get a plan for the trophy to not touch the trophy. Yeah, like I said, there were some whispers. It wasn't anything, you know, really that much out there, but I think we all knew what we were doing. And obviously when the game was over, we weren't touching. I think it was you. I think you were the one.

You might have. I think you were like, don't touch that fucking trophy. Don't do it. Don't put me in intuition on your part. Yeah. Are there any any nerves going on the Stanley Cup? You know what? I think a you know, a lot of us obviously haven't been to a cup final before.

I think we have obviously we got a guy like Corey Perry who's been the five of them on five different teams. So he has that type of experience. And I know Matias Sackholm, he's he's been to a cup final in Nashville before. So, you know, the thing about our team is we just kind of take it game by game like it's any other game. And I don't envision Stanley got final rattling us or getting us overly nervous to have an effect in our game. So, you know, that's one thing I really like about our group. Any additional pressure knowing that you're representing Canada as a whole,

trying to win the Cup back for the first time in forever. Yeah, I mean, obviously, Canada hasn't had a Stanley Cup in a long time. I think it was 93. I don't know how many Canadians are actually cheering for our team. You know, we played Vancouver in the second round. Toronto's Toronto is a couple of our teammates have mentioned. But, you know know if that's what it's going to be, we're more than happy to take that on. But at the end of the day, we're worried about the Edmonton Oilers. Is there a

noticeable speed difference between regular season and postseason? And is it is it do you think it's going to even go up another level? Because guys talk about that with football where it's like the Super Bowl is just a different level of speed. Do you anticipate that that there's going to be a different level of speed or nerves or you think it's just gonna be hockey once you get out there? You know what? I think there's a massive difference between the regular season and the postseason.

I think the intensity and the desperation that guys play with is, I don't want to say drastically different, but it's noticeably different. And that only continues to ramp up as you move on through each series. So I think, you know, you see guys that maybe aren't blocking shots in the regular season that are diving face first in front of pucks, you know, to keep it out of your own net

at the end of the game. And I think, you know, it just shows how important winning is to each and every individual on a group, especially when you're trying to win the Stanley Cup. Yeah, your power play has been so awesome. It's been so fun to watch. Talk a little bit about like what your mentality is going into a man advantage when you know that, okay, there's a pretty good chance like 50% we're gonna score do you guys just expect to score every time? I mean I think our power play has been historically great it was the best

player power play percentage over the course of regular season last year in the history of hockey you know I don't know if you're ever gonna repeat that again but you know obviously especially in that first round you know, I don't know if you're ever going to repeat that again, but you know, obviously, especially in that first round, um, you know, did a job for us to, to win us that series in a quick fashion. I think we have a confidence, uh, that it's either going to score or it's going to create momentum for our group. And I think when a power play is doing that, uh, you know, you obviously set your team up for some success.

Yeah. If you have a power play where you don't score, you're saying that, that sometimes just having a great power play, you, you end up playing with more confidence. Yeah. Just having touches wearing down the other team, you know, being in their zone the entire time, uh, wearing down the goalie a little bit, him having to make big saves, him getting moving in the crease. And I think it just builds confidence when you get puck touches out there. Um, because when you get those, maybe the next shift, uh, you know, you're confident, a little bit more confident with the crease. And I think it just builds confidence when you get puck touches out there. Because when you get those, maybe the next shift, you know, you're confident

little more confident with the puck. Yeah. It builds momentum for your group. All right. I got a two part question. I wanted to go back to your first year in the NHL and your first big fight against Matt Cook, which if you haven't watched is one of the cleanest knockouts you've ever seen. In that moment. Matt Cook was like kind of the big bad ass on the block at that time. In that moment, did you know going into that game, I'm going to have to fight Matt Cook or was it a spur of the moment? Are you or in afterwards you like, I kind of earned my stripes here. Yeah. So I'll tell you the story. So yeah, that was the last game actually of the regular season for us. We weren't making the playoffs that year.

So that was the last game of my first year. And earlier in that first period, um, me and Crosby were kind of going out a little bit, um, you know, and I was kind of getting in his face a little bit. And then I forgot the other guy's name, but, uh, there was another bill or there's another big tough guy on pitch where they had two tough guys. That's when every team had two fighters, you know, 15 years ago on every team. And the other guy was Mike Rupp and Mike, these are two massive guys. And I'm just an 18 year old kid and they're now getting in my

face asking me to fight them. And I'm like, I'm not fighting you guys. I think that's just not happening. So then the second period rolls around and I remember Ilya Kolchuk in the intermission He said hey, just make sure you keep your head about there because you know, these guys are coming after you So then Matt cook kind of asked me to go early in that second period I believe it was and

I was more than happy to oblige and Ended up knocking him out and I remember sitting in the penalty box for like, in real time, it was like 20 minutes. And he still was not off the ice. And I'm thinking, geez, I don't want to be the first guy in my first year to kill somebody. Yeah. Cause he wasn't moving. So, uh, I was happy to see him get up, but then the very next season, he elbowed me right in the chin and wouldn't want, didn't want to fight me again.

Because if you get knocked out, I want to fight that guy. The very next time I have an opportunity because it can't go any worse for you. Yeah, he was he was a dirty, dirty player. Yeah, he learned his lessons. Yeah, it is one of the cleanest like do you how often have you watched that back because you can't get a cleaner knockout? Yeah, well, no, I mean, when I when it happened, I mean, I probably watched it. I'm not even over exaggerating 300 times. Um, and then I got a, I actually got a gift basket from the Boston

Bruins, uh, later that year in the off season because of what he did to Mark Subbar. Wow. That's awesome. That is sick. We're talking to Yandel a couple of weeks ago about what you say when you're trying to get into a fight with somebody, whether you're the person who's instigating it, who wants to fight. And he said, usually it's like, you want to go, you want to go or you want one. And then if you don't want to fight, you just say, my coach told me I'm not allowed to. So for you, for you, do you got anything that you say like right off the bat? Like let's fucking go. Uh, it depends who it is.

It really depends who it is. Um, I rarely fight where it's like, you know, I'm just fighting the fight. It's usually off emotion, um, or something's transpired, uh, during that play. Um, I remember just earlier this year, I asked Brendan Dillon, who was actually a teammate of mine in San Jose. I just, there was no real animosity, you know, there wasn't anything, but I just kind of wanted to get myself going. So I just said, yeah, you want one?

And he said, absolutely. So we went and Dandel was right. That's those are kind of the three phrases you use. And if you're fighting off emotion, usually you don't ask you to start throwing. Yeah, that's very cordial way of saying it. You want one, absolutely. Well, it also feels like if somebody asked me if I wanted one, it sounds like if I say yes,

I'm saying, yeah, I want you to kick my ass. Yeah. I would say, no, you want one? Yeah, you want one. Yeah, back and forth. They're just getting a you want one on. Who wants one? Yeah, you're just like very Canadian friendly,

like just going, you want one? You want one? No, you want one. Over and over. That's the ultimate respect. Yeah. But so, like just going, you want one, you want one, no, you want one. Over and over. That's the ultimate respect. Yeah. But so, all right, so you mentioned that,

like that, that Matt Cook fight, you didn't want to fight the guys who were like massively bigger than you, but you did fight Chara later on in your career. That was stupid. I mean, yeah, it probably was, but at the same time, it wasn't, I wasn't an 18 year old in my rookie year. He kinda, I mean, he's seven feet tall on the ice.

So he hit me in the head and I went down and I looked at the ref and his arms were glued to his kneecaps and, uh, I was so mad that there wasn't a penalty on the play. So I just turned around and I jumped Chara and I had him in this, I thought pretty good headlock, but he just kept standing up. Like he just kept getting taller. So then my arms were now I don't have him headlocked and now where he strung me out and that's the worst possible position to be in on a guy who's a foot taller than you. Yeah. And, uh, I just kind of held on for, for dear life and made sure my face

wasn't pounded into the cement. Yeah. So, so the second part of the question that was started with the Mac cook was the Panthers do play a physical style hockey and you know, we've seen Kachak get into scraps and be physical. So do you know, like going into this series, is it going to be a little different where it's like, I got to set a tone or just be ready for this? No, I mean, I think this is going to be a very physical series. They obviously have some guys that like to scrum it up after the whistles. Dallas was very different with the team we just played. Obviously, we played a couple of their guys that were on Calgary before a couple of years

ago in the playoffs, Kachuk being one of them. So there is a bit of a history there. You know, I anticipate it being a very spirited, emotional series with two teams wanting to try to impose their game on one another. So I'm sure I'll be right in the middle of that. Yeah, that was a nice way of saying you're gonna hate their guts by the end of this thing. Yeah, spirited, physical. Yeah, it's gonna get nasty. Yeah, it's gonna get nasty Yeah, it's gonna get yeah, I love your your home ice advantage that you have in Edmonton, too And we're dumb fans. We watch on TV. So all we know is really what the camera shows us You guys have a great fan base really good fan base. Are you talking about specific fan? I know are you talking about specific fan? No No, I thought you were maybe talking about a specific fan.

I mean, maybe there is, like, if I rack my brain, yeah, I'm racking, I'm racking. Yeah, there's one. What was he or she wearing? It was a jersey. Got it. You got a lot of fans that wear your jersey most of the time, and then sometimes they're not wearing all of your jersey. Yeah. They kind of take part of it off.

I believe it wasn't even at a game. It was at like a watch party too. Like we were on the road plane. Oh, that's right. That's even better. So how quickly after that game is over, did you guys pass around the phone in the locker room? Be like, look what a fan did. Well, I think it was almost impossible not to see that video several times in Edmonton and just turn it on your cell phone. Right. Yeah. I mean, we have an incredibly again, I'll use the word passionate fan base. And I think that was a great example of that. Yeah, it was awesome. Guys get in fights in the locker room, trying to argue like what

jersey she would he or she was wearing. You know what? I I don't know how many people were actually looking at the jersey. Yeah, true. Right. But after like the thousands watch, you know, you could be like, oh, yeah, apparently it was discovered she was wearing a Sam Gagne jersey. Oh, that's a massive dub for him. He's a long time. Stooley old school. Yeah. So obviously, you know, he was an oil a long time ago as well for a lot of years and a fan favorite so No surprise, I guess that's gotta be huge for him. Just a little pep in his step in like damn Yeah, no, it's like Gregor's. Yeah, but McDavid's probably walking around the locker room afterwards. Like yeah, that's my jersey Obviously she was wearing my jersey

Yeah And it's also that old saying like you know, you don't die until the last person utters your name. Like, his career goes as long as someone's flashing their tits with his jersey on. You say utters? Yeah, utters. Yeah. Yeah, you could say utters.

Yeah. Yeah. Is that wrong? No, with Ds. Oh, yeah, yeah. Two Ds with double Ds in the middle of it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was fantastic.

You just watched us do the show. Yeah. Yeah. Is your ice shinier? It looks shinier on TV. Compared to who? Compared to every other every other team. It seems like you guys have the best ice in the league. Maybe we just have really good lighting in the arena. It's one of the best arenas definitely in the league. So maybe it's just the lighting. I don't know. It was crazy how bad you guys were to start the season. Now you're in the Stanley Cup final. Was there ever a moment in the beginning of the season where it's like shit this isn't just a slow start like we actually have to kind of start worrying that we're getting too deep here? Yeah, I mean, after the first 10 games, you know, it was kind of continuing and

I don't want to say dealt, but we definitely the urgency was at an all time high to end this slump or whatever you want to call it and get back into the winning column. And we have to play catch up. Now we really started to have to put some wins together, five, six, seven games in a row, just to start climbing in the standing and to get ourselves back in a playoff spot. And we did that. We did that tenfold. We won eight in a row. We won 16 in a row. And obviously got ourselves back to where we thought we would be at the beginning of the year. So that was impressive. Was there a moment where it started to click and you were like, okay, this is this is something we can build off of? Yeah, I think, you know, as the game in Washington, a couple of guys said some things in the room before we played Washington.

I made a bet with the boys if we won five or six in a row or seven row was I'd wear double Rolex's for warmup, um, which I ended up having to do. Uh, and then when we were winning 16 in a row, we had a bet going with, uh, if we'd made it 20, uh, Dave was going to have to wear a grill and warm up. So, um, we didn't, we didn't get to 20. I'm sure he was probably not happy about it, but not overly disappointed. So he didn't have to follow up with that grill and warm up. If you win a cup, he has to do it. Oh, yeah, I think. Yeah, we'll take it one step at a time. We're four wins away. We'll start with Saturday. Yeah, we can't we can't we can't talk about it. We can't

remember we're superstitious. Like, will you guys be, no, I was gonna say, will you touch the cup if you win it? I can't ask that. Can't even ask that. Well, no, maybe they won't. If we win it, will we touch the cup? Yeah, maybe they won't. I can answer that, yes.

Oh, you jinxed yourself, dude. Why would you do that? No, no, no, no, no. That's a common sense question. Everybody does. So you're satisfied. So you're satisfied. You don't talk about it.

You're satisfied with one cup. Because if it were me, personally, I wouldn't touch the cup the first time. Yeah, I wouldn't either. Bad luck, because I wanna win were me, personally, I wouldn't touch the cup the first time. Yeah, I wouldn't either. Bad luck, because I want to win two in a row. I wouldn't touch the cup until I won like five. I actually don't think, I'm going to challenge you on that. I think every person who's won multiple cups

has touched it the first time. Right, but they top themselves off. Like, you keep touching the cup, eventually you're going to stop winning cups. What if you never touch the cup? You just going to win forever? I wouldn't be satisfied with winning. We haven't proved that. I'm already thinking about the next one. The first person to not touch the cup might win infinity cups. We don't know. Yeah, I mean that's

we don't know. Good point. Yeah. We don't know. Yeah. It might be a sensitive topic to bring up, but I was watching an interview with you the other day and you were talking, it was right after you had the devastating wrist injury when you got your wrist run over by Pat Maroon's skate. And you were talking about how you're going to start wearing Kevlar around your wrist, or you were thinking about some sort of protection.

Is that something that you're doing now on both wrists? Yeah, yeah, I am. I wear a cut resistant undershirt under my equipment that has Kevlar on both wrists so that they protect them. It was honestly, it was shocking to me to hear you so soon after that injury, which was it was a life and death moment for you. So soon talking about getting back on the ice,

getting back with the guys, spending time with them. Because if, if it were me, I would be like, I'm never, I'm never playing hockey again. Like that. I could see somebody going that direction. Did you know, like from the instant you started your recovery, like, okay, I'm, I'm a hockey player. I'm going to go back and play hockey. Or was there a small part of your brain that was like, maybe it might be time to hang this one up? No, no, I never had any, um, any thoughts about any of my career over that type of injury.

Um, I think, you know, my biggest focus was wanting to be able to come back that year. Um, cause early on or after I got a surgery, you know, they had kind of. Reword at least the regular season out for me, me, and maybe be back for the playoffs. And then when I actually got all the bandages off and I saw the wound, I was actually kind of sick when I first saw it, to be honest. But I ended up coming back in two and a half months, which nobody thought I'd be able to do.

And yeah, I, I put a lot of work into trying to get my feeling back and desensitize, uh, that area, um, as much as I could. I still have sensitivity, but, um, yeah, definitely, uh, not how you drop a year going, uh, with an injury like that. And, and it was a scary moment for me when it happened. Super scary moment. Um, but I guess the only like upside now is do you kind of feel like Batman when you put on your Kevlar? Well, I definitely feel more protected. I mean,

honestly, I went, I honestly went, um, get on the ice and an NHL atmosphere, uh, without that on, I think just, you know, with what I went through and having those flashbacks a little bit, I definitely feel a lot more secure on the ice. Um, you know, because honestly it happens more than you think. It actually happened to me again this year where it saved my other wrist. Wow. I kind of got, it wasn't as, it wasn't as prominent as obviously somebody stepping on your wrist, but you know, it was just kind of a glancing scape blade that, you know, if I wasn't wearing that, I probably would have been cut

not as severely, but, um, it did save me. So, uh, it does happen. It's the same thing with those cut resistant socks. Um, you know, it happened to a player, uh, a bunch of years ago where he cut his Achilles and the whole league kind of got these cut resistant socks in. I put them on right away and two games later, I got stepped on with a hit. It wasn't stepped on. It was kind of, you know, two guys going to the boards and the skate came down behind

my boot and it actually cut the cut resistant sock. And I had a small, very small cut on my leg. But if I wasn't wearing those, it was where the major already was and I could have, you know, you never know. So it's, it's a very dangerous sport hockey is. And I think anytime you can put on something a little bit more protective, uh, especially when it comes to cut resistance stuff, why not? Yeah, that's, I mean, that's crazy. I mean, yeah, I remember when it happened with your wrist and the panic. It was just like, because you don't see it very often

on the ice where a hockey guy's like, this is a problem right now, we have to fix it right now. And just how scary that moment was. It definitely was scary. Yeah, happy every, I mean, now you're in the Stanley Cup final, this is awesome. So I wanted to ask you about McDavid and playing with him. Can you explain the difference in his speed versus everyone else to people who might not have watched enough

McDavid this year or the last few years? Yeah, you know, obviously he's an incredibly fast player in straight lines and whatnot. You know, there's lots of fast players, but I think what separates him is that his entire, all his limbs and his mind work in unison together at that speed. You know, his hands move as fast as feet, his brain moves as fast as his hands. You know, he's so coordinated. Um, and then obviously just the strength on his edges. Um, and I think there was probably no better example of that than the goal he scored in game six against Dallas. Um, you know, it's, it's, it's something that I don't think any player possesses in terms of that type of skillset. Um, and obviously, uh, you know,

one of the best ever do it, if not the best ever do it. Yeah. I mean, that goal, that was just, just it was it was a joke that goal was a joke It looked like it was it looked like a goal you'd see in like an all-star game not game six of the Western Conference final Yeah, it looks like a goal like you're playing three and through with your buddies in summer, right? Has there been is that the most impressive thing that he's done or has there been another play that? Might not be in as big a moment where you watch him and you're like that person is is simply not human. I mean geez there's been so many incredible goals he scored to date that's probably the most impressive thing that he's done that I can remember off the top of my head and

I think when you have it in that type of moment it amplifies so so I'll give him that for right now. Yeah. Yeah. You think they should bring the thrashers back? You got drafted by the thrash. You were the last thrashers draft pick for first round draft pick, right? I was the second last second. Alex Bistroff was the was the last. Yeah. I loved Atlanta. I loved my time there. I had an incredible two years. The fans in Atlanta I think were awesome, I think we're awesome. I think it's a great city to live. Lots to do. I'm all for getting hockey back in Atlanta. Yeah, that was a good

French. Is there a city in either Canada or the United States that you think deserves a hockey team? I mean, I would again, I'd argue Atlanta, I just I'm a real homer in that regard. You know, that's where I started my career at my first two years there. I had great experiences and and I'd love to see hockey back in that market with the right ownership group. I think I think it would do incredibly well. What do you think about Biz's mustache? Do you like it? Are you like this? This looks like a caterpillar tied on his lip. Yeah, I think, uh, you know, he's rocked a lot of different, uh, hairstyles and facial hairstyles in the past. I think, I think this suits him to be honest, the best. I think it really does. Yeah. I think just a straight mustache. That's perfect for him. Yeah. Um, well you, you were named after a Vander Holyfield. Yes. That's kind of, that's a lot of pressure. When did you realize the pressure? I honestly never looked at it that way. I think you might, you know, my, I kind of had a very athletic family growing up. My dad played hockey. He was an amateur boxer. My cousin, Kirk Johnson, was a professional boxer. Um, so there was a lot of boxing in my family and, uh, my grandfather,

his favorite boxer was Evander Holyfield. And, uh, my dad decided to, my dad and mom, um, decided to name him after me. So, uh, or name me after him, pardon me. And I actually got an opportunity to meet him in Atlanta, uh, my rookie year. So that was pretty cool because he was living there. We got, we got a, uh, opportunity to meet him in Atlanta, my rookie year. So that was pretty cool, cuz he was living there. We got an opportunity to not interview him, but we got a listener just duped us and texted our producer saying that Evander Holyfield wanted to come on the show. And we just sat in a hotel room for like three hours waiting for

him to show up and he just didn't show up. It was a good prank. It was a good prank. So that's our Evander Holyfield story. Well, you're named after one of the best boxers of all time and maybe the best wrestler of all time, too It's a strong name. Yeah, Kane. Yeah Takers brother. Yeah. Yeah, it was a big WWS fan growing up. Who's your favorite the Rock? Oh I kind of don't like you anymore now

Guy I'm a so cold guy. Yeah, but I mean, I mean of don't like you anymore now. Really? I'm a Stone Cold guy. I'm a Stone Cold guy. Yeah, but I mean, they made each other. Like, I'm a huge Stone Cold guy, too. Like, nobody wants to double middle finger in the air and be smashing beers more than me, especially if we win. So I mean, I love Stone Cold, too. But The Rock, you just had that extra charisma and that showmanship, right?

It was hard not to like it. Yeah. I mean, whenever he did the eyebrow, the eyebrow was good. Got the people going. The elbow was good too. Got the people going. Yeah.

Yeah. So you're growing up, how early did you learn how to skate? When did you first put the skates on? I was three years old. So like right after you start walking, skates? Yeah, yeah, I started skating at three. My dad got me on the ice

took me to a public skate. And that's all she wrote. I was I worked with my dad, my entire career, but he was the one I kind of worked with specifically early on. Before I got to the NHL is a big reason why I am where I am.

What's the longest you've gone without skating? Eight months. That's a long time. Yeah, I had shoulder surgery. So that one makes sense. Yeah, long, long time. Did you grow up a Canucks fan?

Yeah, Colorado and Vancouver were my favorite teams. You know, I was a big Marcus Nazlin fan, big Joe Sackett fan, big Peter Forsberg fan. Those are kind of my favorite players along with the Gimla. So I was big fans of Colorado and Vancouver. Yeah, those Colorado teams are very good. Is there a guy that that you looked up to, like you get into the league and all of a sudden you're on the ice skating against them? a guy that you've been watching for years? Yeah, my first my very first exhibition game, I was incredibly starstruck. I was we were playing Nashville and Paul Korea was

on the other was on Nashville warming up on the other bullet. I looked over like, it's just crazy. Like I was like, eight years old, you know, watching Paul Korea play for the Mighty Ducks now out here playing against him. And then the other guy would probably be a drone again. La, um, you know, I kinda, I wouldn't say modeled my game, but I really liked to style of play. Um, and obviously the play against him, uh, early in my career, uh, was pretty cool. Yeah. Um, all right. I had one last question. It's been awesome. Evander, we really appreciate you taking time before the Stanley cup final starts, uhback question, R-H-O-B-A-C-K.com promo code take 20% off your first purchase. Q-zips, polos, hoodies, joggers, shorts, rowback.com

promo code take. So my last question is in the Stanley Cup playoffs and now obviously in the final, like hockey locker rooms from our perspective and we know biz and wit very well and all those guys like it feels like a very jovial like joking around place. Does it get a lot more serious before a big playoff game and is there that weird line where it's like hey we got to keep doing what we do we're doing. Why are we switching this up just because we're in the playoffs? Yeah, yeah, I think I think I touched on it earlier. Like, our team is we're very business minded, you know, we were very serious. But at the same time, like, you know, we're really tight, we like to joke around. We're talking about lots of different things. You know, the morning of the

game before pregame skate or whatnot, joking around. And I think if that were to change, I think that would be a negative, uh, that would have a negative impact on our group. And I think we've done a really good job each round, um, as the pressure continues to mount, um, the stakes get higher of staying with what we've been doing all year long. And I, and I don't see that changing, um, even in the Stanley Cup finals. And I think if we do that, do that and continue that off the ice, it's going to lead to hopefully the same on ice results we've had.

So you're going to maybe be like, look at this video of this fan right before you go puck drop. I will get her tattooed. I think we'll have some new material by that time. I don't know. That's her, yes. Play the hits. Play the hits.

Just keep playing the hits. Somebody should get her tattooed on their body if they win the Stanley Cup. Well, it won't be a veteran guy. Maybe a rookie. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I might do it actually. Yeah. She made, she made me fall back. That's a good move. Yeah. That's a good move. I like that. Yeah. That'd be great. Yeah. So, okay. So you're not going to say, we're not going to do any official predictions for you guys, but give us a roadmap. How do, how do the

oilers win the Stanley cup? What does that look like? What do you have to do? I think we just got to continue to play our game. I think, uh, everybody obviously has to raise their level individually. And I think if we do that, um, as a group, uh, you know, our best, uh, I think we'll be good enough. Score more goals than them. That's obviously a very good, uh, equation to winning a hockey game. Yep. Yep. Yep. Take a lot of shots. Pucks on net. Pucks and bodies on that. You know, give you the old cliche's, uh, pucks out of the blue lines, pucks in at their blue line, you know, finish your checks, all that good stuff. Here's, here one. Just the last one. Maybe tell McDavid that like,

could you play a little bit more? I don't know. Like a lot of guys don't patch from homes and then come off the field on offense. Like just stay on the ice the whole time. Yeah, that's, that's, it's not realistic in hockey. If it were me, hockey's not that tough. You'd have to drag me off the ice. Sounds like hockey. Well, yeah, then it'd be like a five on four and you're now helping the other team.

Yeah. You have to drag both of us off the ice. It'd be exhausting. Five on three, yeah. So this is an example of a great intellectual debate that we have on the show sometimes. Do you think that a team that has, let's say, 15 Connor McDavid's, but also Connor Mcdavid has to play goalie. Do you think that that team could win the Stanley Cup? Um, yes, play goalie. Yeah. Every position. Yeah. You just get no, and he's playing against

real NHL teams. Yep. Yeah. But it's just Conor McDavid on every position. Yeah. I mean, yeah, that'd be tough. But I'd probably say no still. Like goalie is a very important position. It's way harder than people think. Okay. Like I had Danny Green come out in Vancouver and put on goalie equipment and he could barely move. Yeah. Okay. Here's a six 6, 7, 6, 8 takes up a lot of a net. Yeah. All right. Last one. Uh, if you had 15 of Vander Cane's on a team and 15 char is on a

team, how many fights would the Evander Cane's team win? You're going like 15 on one or no fit. You know, each each of Vander Cane's going against char like consecutively 15 fights. Oh, I'd give I'd be I don't know. I I'd probably say maybe 10% of them. Okay, that's not bad. Yeah. So you want to make it one and a half. Yeah, yeah. I got a couple you get a puncher's chance side on them. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe he trips. Yeah, exactly. Because really, like, correct me if I'm wrong.

Obviously, you can win a hockey fight if you knock someone out, like you did with Matt Cook. But you could also win a hockey fight just by taking it to the ground and being on top of the other guy. And then everyone's like, oh, he must have won. Yeah, a lot of guys go for the takedown, and the referees hop in. Yeah. A lot of guys try to do thatedown and the referees hop in. Yeah. A lot of guys try

to do that now. I, I'm not a huge fan of that. Um, I don't think you won the fight cause you took the guy down by any stretch of the imagination. So, um, but yeah, you're seeing that a little bit more. I think that's some of the younger generation and their whole UFC attitude with, uh, some of the on ice fights. Yeah. Well, good luck. I think I speak for myself. I'm rooting for you. I'm rooting for you. Yes. I want to. I want to. I want Canada to get one back. I want this team to win one. I want to sit. I'm sick of having the conversation of whether or not McDavid can win the big one. You think you can, you think he can win the big one? We're in the finals. We're going to do everything we can. Okay. Smart answer, but I'm sick of having that conversation too.

It's so annoying. I don't want to have it does this where they're like, oh, we can. OK. Smart answer. But I'm sick of having that conversation, too. It's so annoying. I don't want to have it does this where they're like, oh, he can't win the big one. It's like, dude, he's fucking awesome. And he's one guy on a team and he's got a great team around him. It's a team sport hockey sport. If you reduce it to one guy winning the big one, you don't know puck. Right. Yeah. No hockey, I think, is the ultimate team sport. It's not like other sports.

You can have one or two guys and you can win a championship. That's just not the way our sport is. It's almost impossible. Facts, facts. All right, well, Vandor, best of luck, man. We really appreciate it. And if you guys do win, we'd love to have you back on. Awesome.

I appreciate it, guys. All right. Thanks very much. OK, let's do some Fire Fest. Welcome back to Fire Fest. It is brought to you by our friends at Morgan & Morgan. You know what really sucks? When Hank won't take off his costume,

even though we taped Dungeons & Dragons. Why are you so jealous? Why are you so jealous? You know what also really sucks? I'm getting jealous. That's not what that is. That's not that emotional. Pure jealousy.

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But they also watch part of my take for me, too Yeah on this all right let me put it on if you I'm so jealous. Let me put it on no what I want to put I want to put it on no get your own stand up and spin around for the people you look like a beaver trapper I mean, it's ridiculous Yeah, you look like the guy that dies first in a Civil War movie. You look like a dude who did Dungeons and Dragons this morning then had nothing to do for the next five hours. What does that mean? We were working fucking Fantasyland. I can wear whatever I want. Okay, go ahead.

We had a cricket. That's right. Also biggest upset in sports history. USA just beat Pakistan. Let's go! USA. Ah, coincidence, I think not. biggest upset in sports history USA just beat Pakistan. Let's go USA coincidence, I think not biggest in sports history You can you can never take off that vest. No, I guess not. Okay Um, how fast do you think our best baseball players would win the the cricket the World Series of cricket? Crickets fucking hard Jack said that the pro cricket players were looking at my swing and they were like we could we could really use that guy Sure. Yeah, so I you want me I bet they're genuinely impressed. Yeah grab him right now, but they weren't just being nice

Yeah, they singled me out over your swing. That's for sure. Yeah, I'm not well I'm not saying I could take over the world in cricket. You just said baseball players if so facto We're still trying to get me drafted. Let's not forget that fact Yeah, we're still trying to get me drafted. Let's not forget that fact Yeah, we got breaking moves We got breaking moves Hold on I want to make sure that I have the dates, right? Great. Oh my god. Oh my god. What? What was you think I do? I thought What? Getting a reschedule no

No, that'd be a shame. Oh, no, but here's here's breaking moose Beer Olympics will be attending begrudgingly Has been you know tossed around million times they've taken away other people's dates because they were trying to get Jason Kelsey and Travis Kelsey to come the Kelsey's in Dropped out, but Jason Kelsey officially set state For his celebrity bartend at Ocean Drive hosting beer bowl in C. Isle City. Oh D rocks Yeah, say is it same same day as the beer Olympics? Yeah, say is it same same days the beer Olympics is it actually

Is a guy don't have a weekend So great I gotta go to the shore and drink beer now. They're proud members of C. Isle or residents of C Isle it's it's it's for charity. It's for a good cause rather than just drinking beers with the fucking boys Perfect that is that is gonna be a great event. Everyone should go to that event and not the Olympics. OK. Hank. Yeah. Spiders are back in a big way. I don't really I don't really know what to do every time I get rid of them. They keep coming back and they're I'll start taking pictures They're fucking huge I feel like I'm just eating spiders in my sleep which leaves me my next point if you guys I'm sure you all remember

Remember when I was like sleeping basically upside down last year. Yeah bed was angled I didn't realize it for like a couple months like a bat. I recall I set up my bed and and I oh This you you didn't have the slats set up perfectly or yeah I had him slanted downwards. I got when I the slats were set up at the This the way I screwed it in like doka beam they came down. Yeah And I fucked up my back stop touching the microphone, and I think I let's say please let's go Um I mean it's annoying the fucking all the listeners out there heard Hank just like grabbing the microphone They're probably like oh is my radio broken or my earbuds broken Hank

We're taping this at 3 o'clock right after your afternoon or right before your afternoon. Yes, duh Usually take a nap right around now. Oh, yes, I'm in 430 what? What then I'm probably gonna take a nap for what was you what's your prediction for this game? What then I'm probably gonna take a nap for what was you what's your prediction for this game? Yeah, see it's not me it's you you're you're you're the nervous little thing right now Subdicts by Six whoa three four six okay didn't cover Now who cares do you have a marriage bet with Tiffany? Yeah, we're working on something. We're we're trying to figure it out before the game time I

Think the loser should have to smooch the winner. I see I suggested the loser has to pay for mouth stuff trip Wherever we choose to go together. Yeah, and what what airline? Not American. Yeah But if so if so de facto long story short I was like on the phone. I was I was doing some day drinking Saturday, and I was just on the phone with someone and I Kind of like not jumped on my bed But just like fell on the bed on the phone, and I think I broke one of my slats you having phone sex No, I was just you broke your bed having phone sex you guys are you the worst never mind. I haven't checked the damage

I haven't said you're wrong. I called someone on the phone And I was on the phone with a friend being making plans okay, and I Pretty sure I were the plants like I'm gonna come in ten minutes Southeherns in five He's sleepy finish finish I know this is this is a I can't exist I apologize, but I can't exist finish Based off my sleep the last couple nights, I'm pretty sure I broke the slats in my bed And I haven't checked it. Well, yeah, they might not be broken. They might just you know how they can come off

But they're not broken. Yeah, so just look just lift your knife. You just haven't looked well I forgot I woke up this morning again It was like what the fuck and then I left and then it like hit me today I was like oh a normal person would just look the minute They woke up and said what the fuck I? Was I didn't know what it was I got up at 630 this morning So I was just like I must be tired and I was like, oh and I was like my back hurts I was like, oh I think shit. Yeah, you just lift the mattress up and the slats probably fell down in between the box, correct? They're not broken. We'll see who knows could be anything

I love the fact that you just slept on a uneven bed for like a year you were sleeping That's correct. So they're not broken. We'll see. Who knows? Could be anything. I love the fact that you just slept on an uneven bed for like a year. You were sleeping upside down. It was like three months. And he's also, he just started a new streak. It's going to be another three months here before he looks under his mattress. Yep. Now I'm going to get to the bottom of it.

Are you? Yeah. When? Probably not tonight. Tomorrow. Tomorrow. Maybe Celtics win. Tiff comes and helps you repair your bed. So

tune in for the mayor's bet? Yeah. Nice. Okay. I'm excited. My firefest. Suggestions? Any suggestions that aren't actually that's dumb. Do you want to take that back? Yeah. Okay. It's an easy fix. Anyways, my FireFest of the week is I posted this online yesterday. You said you had a doozy. Is this the doozy? Yeah, this is doozy. OK.

Life goal accomplished. Yes. Put the check mark next to it. Your boy got an El Camino. It's been my dream car for a very long time. There's one word to describe an El Camino, and it's bitchin'. This ride is fucking sweet. 1970 SS racing stripe, cherry red. It is the El Camino of El Camino's. So I got it, it purrs, it makes a great noise, and I was

driving around yesterday and I parked it on the side of the road and now it won't start. Oh no. Now it doesn't start. Oh, now it doesn't start. So far is awesome. By the way, congratulations. It was incredible. I'm happy. Very, very happy. I'm actually thinking about getting a mullet as an accessory to my car because the El Camino is a mullet of cars. It's business in the front party in the back. So it doesn't start now. And I don't know what to do with it. I guess I have to get it towed somewhere and have them fix it I got a lot of work I knew that I had to put some work into it it's not like a hundred percent ready to roll yet the sound system's awesome that's the important part but I have to fix like

all the lights the wiring on the inside and now I was cool with that I was like whatever you know like it's just wiring. The motor is fine. It's been rebuilt. It's going to do me good. And I pulled it over and now it doesn't start. So it's just on the side of the road right now. And I have a feeling like this is, I'm just going to have to become like a car guy. It's going to be the thing that I try to fix up and never gets actually correctly fixed. That'd be cool though. It'd be cool. And I'm an aspiring car guy. In the short time that I've had It'd be cool. I'm an aspiring car guy. In the short time that I've had it,

I've realized why old dudes become car guys. So I drove it around, and every guy, every dude that's above the age of like 45, stops and flags you down. It's like, that's a cool car, man. What's under the hood? Was that 456? And then you get into a conversation,

you make a new friend. That's how old guys make friends. Not only that, but old cars break down. That's how old guys make friends. Not only that, but old cars break down. That's how old guys just spend their day. Yeah, just fixing their own car. Working on their car. So I'm going to have to figure out, first of all, what's wrong with it and why it won't start.

And then hopefully I can get it back in working order shortly because this is the best car for the summertime and I need to have this ready for me for the summertime I was so excited yesterday, and I I put out that video and then about literally an hour later The car just doesn't start now So whatever just play the video Yeah, just keep playing the video. I do close my eyes yourself. I close my eyes, and I think about I'm like fuck Yes, I have an El Camino at home for me. Yeah, and I'm very excited about the potential behind it. But now I'm just realizing that I'm

going to just pour a bunch of money into fixing this car. I'm very happy for you. My dream, my El Camino-like car is just a sick old Cadillac. Yeah. I want a sick old Cadillac or a Bronco. Bronco's more of a beach car. But a sick old Cadillac that could sit three people in the front. Yeah, like huge front end on it. Big ass boat. Yeah, I want one of those. So I've been also thinking about how to accessorize the El Camino because

it does need some sort of like flair to it. It's a cool car, but when you have an El Camino, you have to have bitching bumper stickers. So the ones that I've got on my short list, I want to get an ass gas or grass nobody rides for free bumper sticker That's a good one Maybe Calvin peeing on something Calvin peeing on the Ford logo Maybe Calvin peeing on Charlotte the stingray Calvin peeing on the Dallas Cowboys star. Yep. One of those things One that says if you're gonna ride my ass at least grab my hair. I think that'd be a good one

And yeah, maybe maybe one that just says like, legalized soup. I don't know. I don't know. But I gotta I gotta accessorize this thing. Get the hula girl, the fuzzy dice hanging from it. Customize horn. Maybe get maybe get max rolling around with a keg in the back. So I'm like the ice cream guy. But for your Yeah, you just go around selling beer to dudes. It's unlimited Mr. Unlimited. Yeah, I'm very excited I feel like I've been an El Camino guy my entire life just without the El Camino, but now that I have it It's not working. So I don't know if you fix cars in Chicago. Let me know if you specialize it up in

1970s cars I would I would love to hear from you, because we've got to get this baby purring. It also needs a name. So feel free to give it a name. Got to be chick name. Chick names. Tiffany? Carmen. Oh, Tiffany's a good name.

Tiffany's a really good name. So we said a woman's name for a car and you came up with Carmen? Carmen Sandia. I was thinking Carmen Sand Dia. You just said the name car. Yeah Carmen, San Diego red car align Carmen San Diego red. Yeah, sexy red. It was sexy red. Yeah, sexy red. Sexy red is pretty good Sexy red. Yeah, that's not a name It is her car. Yeah, and it's also a person's an adjective in a color It's a person's name Andy Reid

Yeah, yeah, Andy Reid's Carmella Carp, oh, there you go Hank another one sexy red my sexy red is good my pussy pink my transmission fluid brown Yeah, sexy red skii Yeah, sexy red. Skiii! You got a Camino now, you can do that. I can do anything. I can do anything. You're a Mr. Unlimited. I have transcended race. I'm no longer a white man.

I've achieved the most powerful form of white boy summer of all time. I'm a white boy with a fucking El Camino. You're ready to go. Okay, congrats again. That's awesome. Thank you, but I'm afraid I'm going to double the price of the car just trying to fix it up. with a fucking El Camino. You're ready to go. Okay, congrats again, that's awesome. Thank you, but I'm afraid I'm gonna double the price of the car just trying to fix it up. Yeah, probably.

By the way, is Vanny Woodhead here? I haven't seen it. Might have gotten carjacked. Is it or no? Go check in the loading dock. Was it supposed to be here today? It was not here yesterday. It was not here on Monday either, it looked. Yeah, the loading dock. It's supposed it not here yesterday it was not here on

Monday either I looked yeah the loading dock it's supposed to get here at some point yeah might be lost in lost in the sauce somewhere out there Billy might have just gotten ahead of it on the road and then just carjacked the dude that's driving it over here yeah all right I don't really have a fire fest I guess I guess I just stop responding to people on Twitter because every time I do I just realize that like then it just has a bunch of other people respond. Some guy was like you yawned a bunch on Sunday night I was tired and I was like yeah this

is unfortunately having three kids is like there's I'm tired I don't have any time to myself which not a complaint because I love I have the best life ever But then just a bunch of people being like we didn't tell you to have kids There were some people who were backing me up, but I just gotta just not did they tell you have kids Those skills people did not tell me I have kids. Okay, so those if you did not tell big cat to have kids Then you'd have a legitimate gripe. Yeah, it was a simple just response to why I was yawning not there That was why I was yawning. I'm just perpetually tired.

You're going to have to deal with it. I keep showing up. Yeah, Hank has the same thing going on in his life. Maybe Hank's tired all the time because he sleeps on an uneven jagged edge of a bed. Hank sleeps on the aggro crag and then he wonders why he's tired all day. In like two days, chill out. You slept for four months upside down. But if I yawn, that's why it's not because I'm bored.

It's because I probably have not slept ever. Big Cat, can I step in real quick? I think, I think the appropriate person to blame for your tiredness is actually Hank because Hank's always yawning. True. Because he's always tired and then you, and then it's contagious and you catch it. True. So stop yawning Hank.

True, true. Remember when you guys made me on the podcast podcast I do yeah disgusting y'all haven't done it since um I also don't know what it is about this specific Spring I don't know if you guys have felt this but like this is supposed to be our Not as busy time, and it's felt like it's way busier than ever way busier I don't know what's going on mm-hmm someone didn't get the message that this is supposed to be our not busy time. Yeah, I thought it was like after a memorial I think it's after NBA finals and NHL finals. Yeah, well, that's basically what I already know the schedule for the rest of the summer And there's no break. So I feel like

Yeah, again, these complaints are not real complaints. We know we have the best job in the world I don't want anyone to be like I can't believe you guys are complaining about this I'm literally just stating a fact that's why I was tired go ahead yeah I was just gonna say NBA NHL playoffs they're sneaky I think we have this conversation yeah that's true they are we work later hours than we do usually in football season because football season late night Sunday and then late night Thursday but I'm talking about NBA playoffs it's Sunday Tuesday Thursday night every night, but we just have other stuff going on. That's just I'm a golf doll week. I am going on three-day vacation next week. We'll have regular shows. Don't worry

Uh, you know what it is. It's also knowing the Bureau Olympics are coming. Ah, that's what it is That's what you have something you just desperately do not want to do sitting in front of you for as long as it's been sitting in front of us Your whole life is just basically ruined Yeah So if actually if you need to blame big cat for being tired blame Hank for yawning and also blame Will Compton for beer Olympic for existing. Yeah. Yeah funny enough We were gonna do a yak case race and I invited Willie said yes, and then he

We were gonna do a yak case race and I invited will he said yes, and then he Bounced out of it. Oh really? Yeah, he doesn't like traveling places to drink beer Yeah, funny enough. No, you said he had to go to teu Which we would love to go to but we have the dozen which we have the dozen because of beer Olympics being rescheduled Yeah, doesn't he have the dozen? Yeah, he says he's gonna go and come back. He doesn't plan on winning. Yeah Yeah, yeah, the whole team doesn't plan on what he has a much shorter stop at the dozen. Yeah. Okay. Jake. Um, I aggravated my arm a little bit. Don't ask how, but how? Oh, well, since you asked, I was lifting. Oh, sick. Oh, nice. Yeah. Yeah. But running some bio freeze on it and should be good to go over this weekend. Oh, okay. What do you got playing this weekend golf?

Nice. Yeah, how much uh? Two maybe three whoa you are getting low-key jaked you're getting I see I can see the muscles you think yeah Appreciate it. You get a little jack there. Yeah You want to fish this off max your deli slicer Yeah, no, I found my new hobby and my passion in life, which is deli slicing, but I may have to retire because cleaning it is a real bitch. This is like every, everyone always has a little flirtation with cooking and then they forget the cleaning part.

But this cleaning, you have to get, you have to get a screwdriver to clean it you have to like Donnie it's also on with Donnie who's like a professional world-class cleaner of Kitchen appliances why don't you get an intern to clean it? That's that's an excellent point that's so I have the power do I have the power to do that? Yes, that sounds like a medical emergency waiting to happen I also cut my two of my fingers. Make one of the interns be just in charge of cleaning it.

Okay. Because I don't want to lose my sliced meat because you don't want to clean something. Okay, good. So the solution is make someone else clean it. Okay, good. No, this is great. But cleaning it is a huge issue. But the deli slicer is great.

I got PFT on the sticks today. How satisfying is it? Getting a nice hunk of salami in there and just hearing the brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Slicer is it's powerful and you feel you feel good when you do it you feel like a man cutting your own meat I was saying that max's are Jared from Subway. Yeah No, you got the pants now the big pants that you like to hold up Hank looks like sure that's true. He does okay Why don't you just to clean it just get a big-ass bar of soap and then just cut the soap No, like you're cutting the meat like meat It's like inside of the blade so you have to take it all apart to get the meat and and the blade I don't know if someone oh if someone owns a deli and knows tricks to cleaning it

Let me know because dude donkey it was a disaster trying to figure out how to clean this thing Hey, you don't have to clean it every day, right? That's what I said, but then he was giving me shit even some of the meat on it add some seasoning to it Donnie was giving me shit max when am I gonna get to cut a basketball? I think it'll ruin the thing no so I told max that we should actually want a football We should cut a football and make a sandwich out of football. Yeah, when am I gonna go cut a basketball? I mean if it Whenever yeah When am I gonna go cut a basketball? I mean... If it... Whenever.

It doesn't matter. How much do one of those things cost? It was like 500 bucks. Honestly, it should pay for itself. Donnie was talking shit on the one that you got. Oh! He wants a French one? He wants a guillotine?

No, he just said that you just got a deli sledge That's impossible to clean. Oh no we could we could upgrade What are you doing in my swamp? Hank Hank tried to blame it on me Hank does have so much nervous energy right now And that is partially why he's putting on his little cape and his armor I Can't wait to be mad max this week Yo, you should do you should dress up like mad max mad max can we win Drake elite company Fine what?

Drake put a big bet on the maps. Oh Drake and Jared from subway probably good buddies to Jack Mac CFP put a big put a big bet on the Celtics honestly terrifying. Yeah, yeah, it should be it is I trust I mean I trust him more than most same always have You talk shit respect. Yeah. Yeah the way the way you just said that was disrespect. Yeah, you're doing it. You're being cheeky. Yeah. I've literally been in the...I've always had that.

Big Cat and I are the real... Correct. We will not eat the bugs. Yeah, we will not eat the bugs. I will never eat the bugs. No, you and Big Cat are elite glazers. I'll say that. We will never eat the bugs.

Two of the top glazers in the world. I will not eat the bugs. Lucas, so fucking good, dude. I have a Celtics in seven. Oh, yes. Thank you Max get your slicer We're gonna slice this Ever to be worn again Donkey

What are the lines of dialogue from that's it you know, oh, yeah ogres are like onions we have liars That was good max. What are you doing in my swap Fiona wait? So what is it deli days once a week? Sure, whatever you want it to be yeah meat day. We can do we can do a different menu each week I think we get better bread Yeah, the bread sucked. Pug. Sorry, Pug. Pug did that. Sorry, Pug.

Pug on a domatos. How many times have you had that? We literally worked next to incredible Italian bakeries. If you were to put Pug on the slicer, how many slices do you think it would take to cut through all of Pug? Oh, good question. I think 175.

Well, it depends how thin. Oh, you think that many? No, I can get them thinner. I can get them thinner. Yeah. No, you can do thicker slices. No, you depends how thin. 175. Oh, you think that many? No, I can get them thinner. You can do thicker slices. Oh, I thought we were trying to get it as thin as possible. No, I'm saying what's the fastest you can cut through. Oh, we gotta get the jerky from Paulina.

We gotta cut that. How quickly do you think... We should do a series, like, is it cake? Could it slice? Will it slice? And episode one, Mr. Pear? Oh no no no Well that would be part of the shameless the shameless It'd be real shame if somebody ran mr. Pear through the meat slicer

Jesus real real shame. Let's see if he can get Celtics and Oilers home Yeah, that's true. He's that need be an incredible. NHL he was spot on. Got every series right. Right memes? Except for one. Except for the one. Yeah. Well. Alright we'll see everyone Monday, and by the way we are going to stream game two on Sunday night as well. Oh wait, yeah, no that made sense. Numbers. Ocho. 23. 56. 18. 77. 99. 21. Max, have you ever gotten this? Nope. We actually shouldn't let Max use a slicer until he gets this. Don't you think, PFT? Yeah. Yeah. I'm gonna take your slicing abilities away until you get this. Then you'll never have Deli Day.

I can slice, I've gotten this. Deli Day is during when you do your show. Okay, but I can do it whenever I want. I can do it at 10 in the morning. Click the button. 47. morning click the button 47 love you guys I'll be coming for your love of days I'll be coming for your love of days Take on me Take on me

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