Puck Soup - Live from Philly!

Episode Date: January 11, 2018

Greg and Dave invade Helium Comedy Club in Philadelphia for a raucous live show, with special guest Frank Seravalli of TSN. We talk NHL All-Star Game snubs, the Sharks vs. Winnipeg, killing the offside coach's challenge and about the Flyers. Plus, Frank and Dave spin hilarious tales about Ray Emery beating up Braden Holtby and seeing Martin Brodeur at an Applebees. All that and two game shows, including another round of Schlemko'd! Brought to you this week by Seat Geek. 

Sticks and hits and goals and saves and slap shots and goons. We've got sportly commentary to what if you commute. We also cover movies, TV shows, it's in tunes. It's your weekly bowl of Hockey and Nancet. Oh, shit, that's a lot of people. And also they're very close. And also I can't see anybody outside of like the first nine people here. All right.

This guy's got a big one's jersey. You have to do the hello because it's a proper episode. Oh, we got to do the thing? Yeah. I'm Dave Lozo of Ice Sports. And I'm Greg Wichinsky of ESPN, and you're in Puck Soup at Helium Comedy Club in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Yes, yes. The Keystone State.

Thank you so much. So, as many of you have already noticed, I am properly attired in my Mike Richards' Philadelphia Flyers jersey, because as you know, Dave, I do know. It is okay to wear the jersey of the team when you visit the town that has the team in it. Well, according to your rules, we're performing at the Helium Comedy Club.

So if you walked in here with like a Chuckles Comedy Club jersey, then you would deserve to get your ass beat. Yeah, the guy in the back who's wearing his funny bones jersey. You better watch out. But tell everyone in the room what you planned on doing

before you were ashamed on the internet for the past week. Oh, I was going to wear my Scott Stevens devil's jersey. Boo! But instead I wore the jersey. Rizzy of the greatest captain in Flyers history other than Chris Pronger. Oh, God.

So, but kudos to, how many, can I see a show of hands of how many people were penguin shit to the show tonight? Two, three, four. The few, the proud, the brave. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Hey, so did anyone see which all-stars made it

or didn't make it? Did Sean Gatorier make it to the all-star? No. Yeah, topic number one of the show tonight. By the way, for those who are wondering, the show is going to be the show, but we have two games to play. Two games. We have a game off the top and a game at the end. Frank Sarajevovalli from T.S.N. is going to be here.

He's in the back right now. He's back. He's back. He's getting hammered right now. He's there. Dave and I have been drinking since 3.30. It's a total of like three beers, though. It doesn't sound that good.

We haven't been, like, mainlining, like, shots and, like, Fireball. But again. Don't make it seem like it's better than it. I am so hammered right now. Like, no, I'm going to nurse this for two hours, and it's going to be sad. We had to drink at 3.30 because we had to stop and do articles for our employers for the All-Star game. We were going to do them at noon, like the NHL promise, but then the NHL lied to us. Why can't this league ever get its shit together?

They're like, they told everybody noon, All-Star things at noon, and then everybody started rearranging their day. I mean, people were calling out of work, huddled around their televisions to see whether or not Jonathan Marcia-soe would make the team. Pacific Division. When Colin Campbell gets up in the morning and says, I change my mind, Jake Borchek will not be an all-star. You've got to push it back four hours. That's how it works.

I don't like his grit, and he once looked at my son Gregory the wrong way. He once mocked my son's broken leg when he played on it, and it was depressing and sad. Get rid of him and put in... Put in that Claude Dura boy. The pride of... Where is he from?

Hearst. Hurst. Hirst Ontario, Doc and Eddie. All right. So the first All-Star snub, we might as well mention it for our Penguins' friends in the audience. The idea that Phil fucking Kessel

was left off the team in favor of Sidney Crosby is the greatest joke. Here's the reason why. I understand the concept of being an all-star game and maybe Sydney will press the flesh and want to meet people and Phil is an introvert who would want to stay in his room and read

fantasy novels the whole time. But like, it's been well established that Sidney Crosse. he wants fuck all to do with the All-Star game and Phil's leading the team in points and goals like what does our sweet boy have to do to get on the All-Star team? It makes no goddamn sense. He doesn't get the Khan Smythe

they gave it to Sid. Like what is it about, the only thing I could figure out is that it's the NHL's like weird black mirror fantasy revenge thing where they know Sid doesn't want to be there and Sid literally said the other day, I don't know, like I think I don't deserve really be there. I think like Phil

deserves to be there or whatever. And then they put him on the team. They're like, fuck you. Now you have to decide what to do. Like, that's the only thing I could think of to not have Phil on the team. It makes sense because what other league in the world would put someone

on an all-star team out of spite? That's so true. That is an NHL move where Phil Kessel's like, I really want to go. I love playing three-on-three, and they're like, fuck you, fatty. We're going to send Sidney Crosby instead. And Sid's like, I don't, I said I don't want to.

I never show up for these. things. Why would you make me go? Gary, I mentioned many times, I don't want to go to the All-Star game, you know? I know. Isn't it hilarious? There's a reason why we don't play to Sidney Crosby like the All-Star game, because we all fucking know

he doesn't like the All-Star game. That's a mystery. So, Chris LaTang made the All-Star game, which is weird. I know. Wait, should Andrew McDonald have gone into the All-Star game? Was that what that groan was out there? I mean, he did make the AHL All-Star game by proxy.

No, Latang has no business being on the All-Star team. Like, it's been one of the, like, the whole point of the season is, like, Chris LaTang sucks this year, and what are we going to do with him? His trade value is so crazy low. Here, have an All-Star birth. Like, how does that happen? But who would go instead? John Carlson, a million times before Chris Lettang. A million times.

Oh, the train from D.C. What's up? Has it gone? So that sucked. How about Mr. 101? Evgeny Malkin. He's got more points

than Crosby? Sure. He's not there. Right, and probably wants to be there. I have many Russian friends. I will... I noticed they were talking at the bar earlier that

like any Yvgeny Malkin impression I attempt is just people that do Andre the Giant. Barrels of beer. It's more... It's more Rocky Boboah, right? I don't want to... I do nine impressions.

I want to know. You did he has. Sidney Closby. Yeah, he'd be fine, too. Mike Green made the All-Star team, but that was a situation where, like, who the fuck are you going to take from Detroit? So that didn't really matter.

Yeah. There really wasn't a good... No. It's three-on-three, so you don't really need to have the defenseman. No one cares, right? It's just like three guys skating back and forth. You can just put three-four. It is one of those...

Like, people have often said, like, why don't we go back to the whole thing of like the defending Stanley Cup champion plays the All-Star team and that's the All-Star game? Like in this year, like you could have had Tampa play the All-Star team and it would have been all right. Like, I would have paid to see that.

And the people in Tampa would give more of a shit about that than anything, right? The Lightning versus the NHL All-Stars. Could you imagine if they left Carrie Price off and they had to put someone there? And they were like, how about we just send Jonathan Duren. And then they have just more

ex-lightening guys there. There's ways that the Atlantic, there's some divisions where it's just tough because you have to have a guy there. You have to have a red wing, even though nobody wants a red wing. Just a round of applause, do you like the every team needs to have

a representative rule or do you not give a shit? Wait, that's not really a question that requires applause. Okay. We've been drinking since 3.30. Applaud if you like every team has a representative thing. There's no need for the second one. Clearly you guys don't give a shit about the Panthers.

Who got screwed the most out of all? I feel like Vegas got screwed because Vegas, if you haven't... Yeah, Vegas, if you haven't seen, James Neal made the team. And Mark Andre Fleury made the team just by playing 12 games this season. It's like the fucking Sandy Kofax rule for All-Star games.

Like you see the All-Stars come out and you're like, Brad Marchand, he's only played and you're like, oh, he has like 57 points in 20 games. Okay, that's fine. Mark Andre Fleury's like 12 games. like 12 games. In both of those cases, I mean, it's so transparent from the NHL that, like, Neil played for Nashville and Pittsburgh, so he makes the team, because everybody gives a shit about him

in those cities, and then Flurrie's a beloved guy. Jonathan Marsh is so, not so much, but, like, leads the team in points and is clearly the driving force and the best line of the team, and one of the reasons why they are where they are. But James Neil is fifth on the team in scoring. He's not like he's sick. He's not even

William Carlson. I think the issue that we have with the All-Star game, and that like anybody who's complaining about snubs has with the All-Star game is like it's not a meritocracy anymore. Like there was a time, I feel like in the history of the All-Star game in baseball or hockey or wherever where like, well, here's the thing. I think the real issue is that it's fucking confusing. Like Josh Bailey's on the Metro team because of what he did this season, right?

Right. But like other guys that had outstanding years didn't make the team because you have to have a star on the team, like fucking Phil. There's only two examples of guys getting on based on. Merit, which was Brayden Shen and Josh Bailey pretty much, right? Well, like, if it was Josh Bailey versus say it came down to Bailey versus

Voracek, I'm not going to play to the room right now. You can understand why it's Josh Bailey over Voracek, right? But if you look in the West, and it's Tarasenko versus Shen, fuck Braden Shen, right? That guy? We don't like that guy anymore, do we?

But Braden Chen and Tarasenko have the exact same season going on, and this is the first time since he's ever been drafted where he's had that marquee first round top five pick here and Tarasenko's having the same year who would you rather watch in the all-star game? Tarasenko or Shen? You'd rather watch Tarasenko but hmm one guy's Russian

Oh boy here you go And one guy isn't It's interesting who they pick in that situation if it's based on you know merit or it's based on something like you know their history in the league wouldn't you take Tarasenko over Chen Suit over Malkin Leaving Kisnatsoff off

off. You know, if it was a top 101 players of all time, Fgeny Malkin would have made the list. One of the things that they're doing for the all-star game, by the way, in case you haven't heard, is they're according to Elliot Friedman, they're tweaking the shot accuracy competition. They're adding

one of the, you know, the one with the little targets in the thing that Taves always wins. They're adding a five-hole target, and now they're doing a thing where it's not a situation where you can just hit any target you want to. There's going to be little lights that go on to tell you where to shoot the point.

puck. So it's like playing Simon, I guess. I'm surprised you haven't found the Star Wars metaphor where they have the thing in the middle and you shoot the little tiny hole and then like Oh yeah, I mean, Jonathan Tate's a size of a womp rat. Yeah, Jonathan Tames of bullseizing wombatts or whatever the fuck.

Yeah, it's fine. How many people in the room actually care and watch and like the All-Star game every year? Holy fuck. Holy shit. We have wasted your time for 10 to 15 minutes already. Yeah, we're going to pump in some applause and post

because I really want ESPN to pay for me to go to Tampa. I don't know if you guys know, there's a fucking pirate festival going on at the same time of the All-Star game. I'd really like to take part of that. Holy Jesus. So, like, round of applause. How many people are going to actually watch the All-Star game on Sunday?

There it is. That prevents you're having to go back and be like, I love the All-Star. No, no, no. No, I can appreciate that. You're going to watch it, but you're not going to care about it. It's like me watching the Giants this year. I watched it every week, but I didn't really care about it, like, week six.

I want to thank everybody in the room for plunking down money to watch a Devils fan or a Giants fan for two hours, by the way. I don't know how that happened. So Winnipeg. How about those people? Wait, you gave a pick in the Eagles game, but in the back. You think they're going to win? I don't know yet. I'm on the fence because this is the one game I think they can win in the playoffs.

I don't think they can beat Minnesota. I think they can beat New Orleans. Dick Carson wins so they can win the Super Bowl. Yeah. I think I mentioned it on the podcast. Maybe I didn't, but like I placed, I played a, when I was in Vegas for all those days doing that Vegas flu story,

I made a parley bet and included the Eagles in the bet. And I won all the other parts of the parley except for the part with the Eagles. Because I laid points when they played the Giants because I'm like, Nick Foles is fucking good. Like, he's going to be all right. Like, this offense is good. And I was right.

Like, for that game, I was right. He threw for a billion yards and had like four touchdowns. I didn't know your defense wasn't get skull-fucked by Eli Manning. That was the part I wasn't aware of. God damn right. When Eli had to beat the Eagles in the playoffs without Plexigaburis, he wasn't there. But in a meaningless

game, when you bet it. Boy, was he ever present. He was just on fire. Oh, what a great game. And then they it was like the day before you fired your coach too or some shit. Oh, it was the worst. No, that was the It was the week after, I think, right? I don't care about the chance.

This is a hockey podcast. Winnipeg was in the news this week. Again, I'm curious about the room. Let's say Winnipeg was replaced by Philadelphia and somebody was like, Philadelphia sucks. How mad do you get? Are you mad? Are you angry? Are you territorial about your hometown?

Is the question. Okay. But what if what they said was true? Right. That's a great point. Because Winnipeg is desolate and cold. To set it up, though,

like the San Jose Sharks did a video for their local NBC affiliate in which they said that Winnipeg is dark, desolate, and cold and in the death blow has horrible Wi-Fi. Right.

And then they brought in, like, Winnipeg's leading sunshine scientist to say, oh, actually, it's really sunnier. It's the Wi-Fi. It's the Waiver that kill me because, like, I do picture Winnipeg as being made. maybe like 10 to 15 years behind the rest of the world in many ways.

So like the idea of like like fucking Brent Burns, you know, booting up a computer and he's going to watch some Chewbacca porn or whatever. And he's like on it and it was like, because it dials up. Poor fucker. Like, like let's say people in this room was like, there we're like, you were like, New Jersey sucks. It smells. You know what I would say?

It fucking stinks. It smells bad. I wouldn't, I wouldn't get in front of it. at the media and be like, well, it smells everywhere. It smells bad. It smells bad. Like, no, New Jersey fucking stinks. Winnipeg is fucking cold. By the way, when we go to Winnipeg, we're going to

trash Philly. Just see you guys. Just get that out in the open. It was the thing about, and you're right, like, the thing that killed me this week is they had a spokesperson from the city of Winnipeg come out and talk about like, it's dark and desolate, and she's like, no, no, no, actually, we have the second

the second highest average sunshine behind Calgary. And Edmonton's like, fuck you. Like, you know, you didn't need to say it. I don't know. I just, I've never once thought about how it's the sunniest place. The sunniest place in Canada. Yeah.

Yeah. Like, if someone's like, hey, you want to go to Philly? I'm like, eh, well, it's sunny. Like, if you're, if your town is so dark and desolate, if it looks like the inside of a colon most of the days, and like, and you have the seats on what your average sunshine is, like maybe you're fucking dark and desolate. You shouldn't have that information at the ready.

Right. Like London should. Like, except some jokes about your hometown. Like, I didn't build New Jersey. Make fun on New Jersey only want. I didn't invent New Jersey. New Jersey is not my state. I just happen to be born there, and now I'm too lazy to move.

That's not the same thing. The thing that killed me, though, was Doug Wilson, the GM of the Sharks came out and, like, berated NBC for asking. The question was, like, what's your least favorite city to play in and they said Winnipeg across the board and he's like how dare you ask that question that's been asked of every player every season

and every preseason media tour ever it's just the greatest sport in the world it really is it really is but again I come back to something that I can't get passed on this Winnipeg thing which is that like several years ago a hero named Delya Briggalloff established

he did that our no parks it is dark it is strange There are mole people who go from city to city inside of tunnels under the city I do not want to play there I will fall

I will put a series of explosives under my face and lie down on them like it is the great sleep and explode them and kill myself before I play in Winnipeg But do you really want to play with the Jets I mean Team Luzlani

in the legacy of that team No I want to die Die Vinie Pig. What a break it was for us to come down here on the same day where people were talking about Winnipeg

so we could work Brisen and two flyers get snuffed from the All-Star game which apparently nobody cares about so actually that's not even a good thing at all. Connor McDavid last night joined the resistance.

Wait, he said he wants Oprah to be president? He's like, you know, I think we're going to really make a great run of it towards the end of the season. Also the P-tape is real. What would you rather have happen?

Would you rather the P-Tape be real? Or would you rather the NHL never review offside again? And if it's real, and a caveat, if it's real, you can watch the P-Tape. And don't pretend like you don't want to watch the P-Tape. We all want to watch the P-Tape. Give me a real Sophie's choice here. I would probably say the P-Tape being real,

because the part of the P-Tape that fascinates me, other than the hookers in the urination is that allegedly Trump like hired the women to pee on the bed because the Obama slept there and like I just want that like

go spray make it yellow Obama slept there right on a pillow or his head was because you know that he was doing that shit during it right? And plus you could now attach that to Sean Leahy's impression

So I guess Given the choice Given the choice The P-Tape But like Connor said last night That he wants the NHL to get rid of The offside challenge And the coaches challenge

And like God bless him for it Like I've been Railing against that shit For the entirety of the season On this podcast Everywhere I can speak about it Like the I again last night In that fucking game

Like guys skates off the ice By a few pixels And then we're going to wipe away A Good Goal because of it So, I mean, the last thing I heard today was that they're going to review it at the GM's meeting. There's going to be discussion about it. The only thing that concerns me is that, like, like, Connor said last night, like, for everybody who's pissed off about it, there's a team that's like, fuck yeah, offside review.

We just got a goal off the board. Like, it's a hard nut to crack when you have half the league being, like, in favor of it. Yeah. I still like it. I hate it. Like, I know it sucks. I totally understand how, like, the Philip Forsberg off sides and the final. last year. This guy doesn't care about it at all

because it worked out really well for him. But again, like if you're offside, you know the rule, don't put your skate in the air. That's how I see it. I understand if a guy's a skate in the air as like a dude flies across the blue line, scores a goal and that guy never moves off the blue line,

like what does it matter? But you know the offside rules. Yeah, I know. But I think at this point though, the offside rule in hockey has gotten to the point like, you know, the fumble reviews in football, or the catch reviews, any fucking review that involves the ball moving in the NFL

has gotten to the point. It's the worst. Yeah, but I mean, if you're offside, you're offside. Yeah, but... The offside rule is simple. The offside rule is simple. Compared to the catch rule, the offside rule is simple. Just put your skate down. But don't you, like, human error in these things? Oh, Christ, what are you? My dad?

What are you? Like, an 80-year-old man who's like, I love it when we made mistakes. When I have surgery, I don't want it to be any... I don't want I don't have to be any machines in there. I just want some old man draining my blood with a leech. Let me put it this. What do you mean human error?

Nobody wants human error in anything. Whenever Leach has come up, I always... I always think of that scene in standby me. Oh, I think you're going to do 94 games after that was your problem. No, I think about that time Brian Leach got drunk and slipped on ice that he plays on all the time and got injured. I once said that at a devil's game to a Ranger fan,

and he's like, well, Ken Danico is a drunk. I'm like, when you got... Got me there. No, I think of that scene in Stand By Me where, was it Will Whiten that looked in his tidy whitton and found a leech on his dick in Stand By Me?

That was like one of the single most disturbing things I've seen my entire fucking life. Wait, that's what you think of when you hear Brian Leach's name? No, no. No. When I think of... Now I know why you hate the nature so much. When I think of leeches, I think of two things.

I think of the he-man figure Leech-or that had the suction phase. He had the suction face, and you could actually press a button to have him stick on things. Sure. And then I think of when Will Wheaton found leeches on his dick, and it traumatized me as a kid, made me never want to go in a fucking river, because there'd be leeches. Or where Tidy White is. Or, or...

Root for Brian Leach. That's right. That's exactly what it did to me. What the fuck were talking? Oh, Leeches. Oh, right. So, as a baseball fan, do you want to see Robo umpiring? Do you not...

God, in the worst way, yes. No, but why? Why? Because I want balls and strikes to be balls and strikes every time they're balls and their balls and their strikes. I'm a simple man with simple needs when I watch sports. Maybe it's just me as somebody. I don't see a ball like two feet outside called the strike and I go, man, human error.

But you can't get mad at robots. Like that's my whole... Sure I can't. Like sports is catharsis. Sports is yelling at people. Fuck that table. That's easy. What's up with that candle?

lit. Super easy. It's one of those light up candles, right? So you needed to get little tiny batteries. What's up with the font on that menu? Dude, I can't get angry on anything.

Yeah, but you can't get mad at a robot. When you get mad at a robot, they're like, oh, I wish they would have calibrated it better. But when you get mad at an umpire, you're like, fuck that guy, he's clearly in the tank for the other team. Like, I like the catharsis of sports to be mad at other people for not doing their jobs right. You can't have the same experience watching a robot.

Oh, you're insane. You're an insane. You want to watch sports to get mad at people? You want to watch sports that's just all robots and shit? No, but if there's no umpires that are human and fucking up, I'll still find reasons to get mad. At a robot umpire? I'll get mad. I'm gonna get mad at Blake Bornells in like four days.

Well, I do like the idea there being a robot umpire, and then like when the manager comes out to argue, he's got like a giant, like, dirt canon that just shoots dirt on his fucking shoes. We're like, imagine in football. There's like a side judge and he's a robot. And the coach is like, what the fuck was that? And the fucking robot just annihilates him with a robot punch. Who is what about that? The play clock was down to zero.

You did not get the timeout. Innihilate. Right. I know I'd bring you along on this. No, I still think robots suck. I like being mad at people. Do you have a Roomba? Yeah, I do have a Roomba.

Check and mates. We have a Roomba, and my favorite game to play in the morning besides fuck you dog I'm making coffee first don't you ever say fuck you to see you ever again it's a game called

what did the Rumba eat while you were sleeping because we're kind of like sloppy people and we inevitably leave shut on the ground so it's like oh the electric bill is in Rumba

now how do we get that out it's pretty great the Rumba sucks but does anybody have a Rumba in here do you like it no right Right. Because much like a fucking robot umpire,

like, oh, this is going to solve all our problems, and then it winds up being dumb. Wait, I have a question for you and for the listeners that have been around for a while. Has your Roomba ever stolen vodka from you? I don't think so. For those who are unfamiliar with this reference, I think the room got it.

Ruby and I, my wife, Ruby and I, once caught a woman who was cleaning our apartment drinking expensive Russian vodka on a camera that we had set up to watch our dog to which Lozo then ridiculed me for having someone clean our apartment. No, that was the internet. That wasn't me. Oh, that's true. If I could afford that, I would. My apartment's disgusting.

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Welcome to the stage. Please tell everybody who you are. Hi, I'm Kelly from Broad Street Hockey Radio. Tell us a little bit about yourself. So for fun, I enjoy podcasting with my friends, and I wore my podcast shirt to your podcast to troll you. The aforementioned wearing the team of the thing. There it is.

I like oversharing on Twitter. and I am paid for municipal water service. What does that mean? So I make sure that we're measuring the water correctly and billing people. It's like really exciting. Do you read the meters? Not me personally, but yes. So you check the shape of water?

That movie done. I still have no idea what that movie's about. I think somebody fucks a fish. I have no idea. Sir, this is clearly a parallelogram. It needs to be a pina-gram. Shape of water. I haven't seen it yet either, by the way.

Everybody liked the Golden Globes? Everybody okay with it? Yeah, I wouldn't get a shit. No, no one's okay. They don't even care about the All-Star game. It doesn't matter. All right, so we're going to play a little game. This is a game Greg and I usually play on the show with each other.

We usually play with ourselves. Oh. Same. Wait. That got an O. Wow. No, no, no, no, no. That came out wrong.

We usually play with each other. Same. So the new... It's called flyer, Cryer, or a Wire. Okay. And I'm going to give you a name. Okay.

And you have to figure out if that name is either a Philadelphia Flyer, a character played by John Cryer, or a famous high-wire tightrope walker. Now, all right. I know what you're thinking. Hey, guys, the Wire was a super popular show on HBO with many memorable characters.

And it might be the same thing I said to this idiot when he pitched this game to me. Nope. To which he said, the high wire walkers all sound kind of French, so it's better. John Cryer wasn't on the wire, right? That is correct.

Okay. I just wanted to make sure. But he was a line mate of... Pick a center. I don't know. Give me a obscure flyer center. Michael Renberg. Kent Manorville.

Kent Manorville is a good one. I like that a lot. He's on the... Oh, shit. All right. So here's the first name. Okay. Philippe Petit.

Oh, wire. That's correct. He was the guy... I have... Like, the wire guy. He was the wire guy. Should I stand behind her and put up the shit

when you say it, before you say it? If everyone's comfortable with you standing behind somebody and... I'm okay with being publicly shamed. That's what we're going for. This is going to be like, On super password, like the password is, you'll be able to see whether it's one of these things before she says the answer.

Okay. Bruce Gamble. I have the feedback. Cryer. I'll shut up. Bruce Gamble played 35 games for the Philadelphia Flyers. Was I alive? Between 1970 and 1972.

I was not. That's okay. How many does she have to get right, by the way? Oh, do I win something? As many as you want. We'll give you some. Either way. There's no reason to make it.

I thought it was just for funzies. You have to get nine out of ten, or we throw you out of the club. Seems fair. Rick Foley. Rick Foley. Cryer. Audience? Dang it.

58 games in 71, 72. Rick Foley. Are any of these people going to be when I was alive? Dave. It's flyer, cry, or wire. Not flyer, cryer, or wire. wire when you were alive. All right, number four, it's okay.

There's plenty of time to come back. Max Houser. Max Houser. Max Houser. I'm going to keep saying Cryer until I get one. That is correct. Yes. Max Houser was John Cryer's secret identity

when he was in the movie hiding out while he was hiding out. Right. There was a 52-year-old man playing a high school student. Yeah, the 80s were weird, man. All right, here we go. We're two and two. You're on the way to victory.

Trevor McPhee. No rush. Take your time. Think about it. I'm going to think it through. Definitely not a wire, because he's not French. I feel like the Penns fans are going to give me a hint, but. I'm holding it this way so they can possibly see the answers and then signal to you. Although Penguins fans might signal the wrong answer. That's true. That's a thing. Trickster is like Loki.

Cryer. That is correct. That was Cryer's character on an episode of Outer Limits in 1996. Obviously, you know. Why am I even explaining it to you? That was mansplaining. Don't do that.

She knew the answer, and I did... I paused for dramatic effect. Okay, here we go. Number six, you're three and two. If you get to six out of ten, you win. Okay. Or whatever. Who else? Colin Forbes. Oh, it's flyer.

That is correct. Yeah. We're getting into the 90s now. That's 132 games between 96 and 99. You're on the roll. All right, all right. All right, David Dimitri. Wire.

That is correct. You answered that kind of quickly. Are you familiar with his work? No. That sounds like a guy that would walk on a wire. Wow. Are you a secret high wire walker in your spare time? Maybe.

All right, that's cool. I'm an enthusiast. I don't do it. You dabble. You go to high wire con. That's how I feel about sex. That's how I feel about sex. Same.

Big fan of it, right, here we go. This is number eight. What are we at? What are you? Five and three? Five and three. Ken True Scott.

Cryer. Yes. That was his character on two episodes of Hanna, Montana. All right. That was a guess. Yeah. You get Miley Cyrus.

and John Cryer. It's the best of both worlds. They trust him back there. Didier Pasquette. Flyer. Oh. I have good news and bad news. The bad news is that he is a high wire walker, but the good news is you have gotten six

of nine right so far. Yay. That's pretty nice. That is pretty nice. So we have one left. If you get this right, you win. What does she win? What is you? Something in the prize, the T-Mobile prize bag. The T-Mobile prize bag. Which is not anything from Team Mobile, but just the bag I had at home.

But if you get it wrong, you have to chug the rest of Greg's beer. Oh, wait, what? How do I end up losing? Sean Anderson. Flyer. That is correct. Seven out of ten, you win anything you want out of that bag. Congratulations.

Thank you for coming. Well, before you go, what are your thoughts on the Flyers? Playoff push. Oh. Great. No, no, that's the thing that exists. Oh, sorry. Oh, I thought we were doing another sketch.

Whoa, I'm sorry. I was told by a very smart person that does stats that they're going to miss by less than one point, which means that the Nashville challenge ruined all of our lives. I'm sorry. It's okay. I mean, you know. Wait, what's the Nashville challenge?

Remember when Dave? did an offsides challenge, like the third game of the season in that Nashville game. I was picturing the Nashville challenge is like a game show, like the Nashville challenge. I'm like, eat a bunch of hot chicken and then not... Also, I was on the impression that Dave Hextall

was the thing that ruined your chance to be. Oh, no, yeah. Yes. Wow. So based on the response in the room, you guys all want Dave Hextall fired, right? Yes. Probably not those guys, though.

All right. You're the best. Thanks for coming up. Thank you for coming up. I'm going to meet you finally. Great job. Give her whatever she wants out of the bag. Oh.

Yeah. There's a bunch of shit here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to put my beer on my seat. There's a blue ribbon in there. There's two copies in my book. Ew. She said, ew, for the record.

And then you can have it. And then, okay, that's fine. All right. Thank you so much. Round of applause. For knowing your high wire axe from your Philadelphia Philadelphia Flyers. Seven out of ten was the number I was hoping for and she hit it.

So that's awesome. That's great. Didier Pasquette? I knew that was going to be the tough one. Yeah. Why use the TV show people watched when you can use... Because everyone knows those characters. High wire daredevils.

Like when you gave me the ones where it was like tube or English soccer player or English actor. Oh yeah. That was great. Right. Like you didn't do like famous English people. It was English tube stops. That's what made it fun. Well, that's true.

And she got seven out of ten. She wins. All right. Let's bring out our guest. You may know him from the Philadelphia. What was it, Daily News? Yeah, Philadelphia Daily News. But he's now a major Canadian celebrity on TSA.

Give it up Frank Zaravelli. Frankie. I have a microphone in a beer. I'm not shaking your hand. Frank, what's it like being a Canadian celebrity? Do you often get noticed by not living in Canada? Yeah, I can barely walk the streets. It's really weird. It's a weird thing.

Paying so much attention to everything that happens there. but living here. Right. Well, I mean, that's most hockey writers have to do, but that's fine too. I mean, I think what we're all wondering is do you get paid in Canadian? Oh, no.

No, I couldn't go if that was the case. I like that. I like that answer in a big way because there's nothing. Lozo and I didn't really understand the concept of the exchange rate until we did our live show in Toronto.

And then we went to the money people in the airport. And they were like, you owe us one. You got to give us $19. They're like, yeah, you know, there's a Tim Horton's down on the first level. You're going to have to wash some dishes down there

in order to get out of the country. Like, oh, shit. Fucking exchange rate. Do you miss the Flyers beat? Do you miss the everyday grind of the Philadelphia Flyers and all that comes with them? I actually do. Do you really?

Yeah, I miss... I wanted you to bash the Flyers there. Shit. You can do that later. No, I miss being around a team every day because I'm kind of watching all 31 teams and it's different when you're around one team every day and you get to know all the different players and you know what they're like what they play like what their skill sets are and I don't

just it's different trying to be you know kind of a I don't want to say you're you're an expert of none really when you're when you watch all 31 when when you're with one team all the time you know a lot about them yeah when how long did you cover the flyers again what years seven years six seven years okay so that's long enough and there and those guys are probably retired now to establish who is your favorite dude and who is the biggest dick? Who literally has the biggest dick?

No, right. Who literally has the biggest dick is Pronger, but then we go on from there and then we establish the question of who is your favorite dude and who is kind of a prick to you? You're going to say Danny Barry is your favorite dude, aren't you? No, I will.

That's good. No, it's a good question. Favorite dude? favorite. We could have asked you this 40 minutes ago, so you had an answer, but we're terrible at this. They're compete levels high. I mean, we're competing so hard right now. This wasn't in the pre-interview.

What's up with this? Favorite flyer to deal with, I'd say, Ian LaPereereeree. It's pretty good. That's a good dude, right? Was he more certainly after he lost all his teeth, or was he cooler then? No, he was still cool then, which is kind of the mark of being cool. Right, when you get your face. blown up and then you're still kind of a nice guy.

I mean, that's the greatest challenge in life, right? Wait, you're not going to answer who the biggest dick was to you? No, I'll answer. So he's currently still playing, is what you're saying? No, no. I think Jeff Carter was a little frosty.

By the way, I want to make sure everybody heard Frank when he said he was a little frosty. So, no, that's not a Frank. That's a Carter joke because he frosted his hair. Congratulations. Everybody who had Jeff Carter in the pool.

You all won. You all won? He was actually, Jeff Carter was actually super nice whenever I talk to him in L.A. I don't know if that was like a just happening. Because he was away from us. There was no one there to talk to him, so he's like, this is awesome. And there was that weird pit stop. That was like one of the few times.

And like, yeah, in hockey history where it was like, guy gets traded and he's just like, nope. Like when you're, like, you see that in other sports all the time. But he was just like, you got traded at Columbus. It's like, uh-uh. And then he just like got moved hella quick. Where is that on the map? Columbus?

Yeah, I'm not going to go there. Remember when they had to come to him? Yeah. So he gets traded. He won't talk to anyone. He won't answer the phone. They had to fly to Jersey to see him at his shorehouse in order to get him to go. Yeah.

Like, he didn't talk to anyone for three weeks. What do they promise him, do you think? They'd give him some extra stuff off the books. Just be like, just come to Columbus for a year. We'll trade you at L.A. You can't even make it a whole year. Yeah, it was like a half a season. and then it was just...

They're like, we really want to talk to you about the virtues of the Blue Jack. He's like, well, I think what you need to do is buy me some funnel cake. And then we're going to do the bumper cars. And then we're going to play that game where you throw the ring on the milk jug, but you never make it on the milk jug

because the ring's smaller than the top of the milk jug. This isn't where Jeff Carter hung out on the floor. Oh, okay. I just assumed he was in Keynesburg. I'm sorry. Where exactly is Dry Island? Like, do you need to take a boat to get there? Frank, we were talking to Frank

backstage. He's got many legacies. One of them, of course, is Dry Island. He was the guy who talked about the dry island that the the let me try to put it in non-liable terms. The imbibing flyers were told to be on to

kind of not imbibe anymore. That's my favorite story. When you think about, everyone knows what Dry Island is. Like, casual hockey fans are like, oh, dry island, that's great. Yeah. Like, seriously, everyone knows about it. Do people see you and you're like, oh, Frank's dry, dry island? Do they do that to you or no?

No, no, it's good. They just know dry. Yeah. So, but everyone knows about it though. Did you ever get a hug from a dry island 69 guy from, is where that jersey? That's just assume he exists. It's fucking Philly. How much shit

did you get from the team when you reported that story? None. None? Really? Absolutely none. Really? They just knew it was true, so they were just like... No, the quotes were the best. They were like, Paul Unger was like, that's our inner sanctum.

Someone is violated our sanctum. I'm sure there was like a push-pull at that point where like half the organization was probably like, yeah, report that shit because we have an issue going on. 17 players are calling me, get it out there, get it out there. So if you were to call Jeff Carter or Mike Richards today, would they call you back? I've actually tried with Mike.

Richard's no-go. I don't even know where he is. Probably not at the border. Yes. Set him up and you knock him down. And Jeff, no, I haven't tried. No, I'm kind of wasting my time. Yeah, it's better off.

It is amazing to think that a lot of that flyery shit happened before, I would say, the apex of sort of scandalous internet stuff. Like, remember when Richards was taking pictures with porn stars at, like, sorority parties? Like, 2008. Yeah. I mean, that, like, I was cognizant and other people were cognizant, but that was before, probably pre-TMZ, definitely pre-read it. Yeah. And, like, that shit existed.

Then you go on, like, dig.com, and it's, like, Mike Richards and Pornstar, and it's, like, 300 upvotes and shit. Like, remember when the, was it a cup final with the devils and the Kings where there was, like, a big-breasted woman sitting behind the bench? And that was a story for, like, two days. Excuse me. That was the... No, it was, you're right. She also showed up at Sharks games, too, but, like, it was sitting behind Peter DeBoer.

Right. There were these pictures where it looks like Peter DeBore was standing in front of just, like... You know those bicycles that can ride on water? They have giant inflatable wheels. It looked like he was standing in front of one of those. It was great. I don't want to insult her.

I thought she was great. You know, it's funny. Her name is Taylor Stevens. You know way too much. and I only know this because I followed her during that cup final. Around? Around or? No, no, no, no.

Not around. I followed her on Twitter during the cup final. Oh, on Twitter, okay. And, like, occasionally, like, I'll be at, like, a coffee shop. And, like, all of a sudden it's like, oh, trade rumor, trade rumor. Oh, there's, like, titty's pops up. And then it's, like, Taylor Stevens with her breasts out. And I'm just like, whoop.

I follow me. I follow me a Kleeff on Twitter, so that happens every once in a while. I'm just like, oh, look at that. Oh, a cute puppy. Oh, oh, nope, nope, nope. And it's like, what's that? Oh, it's nothing. It's a porn star who sat behind a hockey coach, and never mind.

It's very complicated, but I'm sorry, and I'll go now to the other coffee shop. I'm a journalist you wouldn't understand. It's okay. Talk to us about the time that you put Ray Emery as the first star in a hockey game and you got a lot of shit for it. They have to? Wow. The room is ready for that question.

People who listen to the Merrick v. Wershyshinsky podcast remember that time when Frank came on with us and he put Ray Emery as the first star in a game where he beat the shit out of Braden Holpey. And Merrick berated him by saying, Don't you know that Holpey's a human being? No, I was actually unaware. What happened with that? Why do you love concussion so much? Why do you like goalie violence? I am never going to win that, am I?

No, tell the story. Tell us everybody why you did. Well, no, there's a great backstory behind it. Like, I mean, I was just doing it tongue and cheek to be a dick because, like, it was a... As is the Philly Way. Yeah, right. I thought you guys would understand. And, no, it did not work.

No. And so I didn't really know how to handle... Like, I had to answer questions from you and everyone else. And so then I just said that I really felt that way. Like, I was... I really thought that... the fans applauded. The thing about it, I remember at the time, was like,

the three stars of the game are the... Like, we talked about the All-Star game off the top. The three stars of the game are the most who gives a shit thing in hockey. I made it a thing. Like, I made you give a shit. For those who don't know, like, if you're on press row for a game, this, like, poor fucking intern has to come over with these sheets.

And they're like, she's like, inevitably it's a she because, you know, women can't be fucking PR directors. They have to be interns. Fucking NHL. And she'll come over and be like, do you want to vote on the three stories of the game? At this point, you're working on your game story, and also you don't care.

And there's like 10 minutes to go in the game show, too. Right, you don't know at that point. So like, inevitably you're like, it's the NHL, it's probably a 2-1 game. You know, there's going to be overtime. Whoever I put for the stupid award is not going to get it anyway because the PR stats can be like, whoever scores the game winning goal gets it.

And I couldn't help myself. You couldn't help yourself, right? I couldn't have just done... You decided to apply feeling and commitment to something that should not have it. So a few days go by, and I get a call from the Flyers PR staff, who said, you made a mockery out of the three stars, and Paul Holmgren says you can never.

He says you can never vote on the three stars again. He's like, you made a mockery, but I said, well, isn't that the point? It's literally getting a call and says, sir, the whoopee cushion is not something to be trifled with. You can never vote on the three stars again. So I'm like, good, thank you. mine. And so like, however many years go by, and I have a sit down last year with George McPhee. So on the call, the PR staff, they said, George McPhee called Paul Holmgren, and he says you're

disgraced to hockey writers everywhere, and this is so embarrassing. George McPhee, the GM of the Capitals, gave such a shit about the three stars that he called Paul Holmgren who took a plane button. As I was told, okay? So I get it. He's like, look, I can't get this team to a fucking championship round, but. I'm going to make sure that this guy knows that what he did to my goalie was real shitty. I shit you not.

I shit you not. So I go to Vegas last year to do something with George McPhee, and it's just me and him in his office. And I start out the interview, and I'm like, oh, my God, this guy probably hates me. He thinks I'm such a dick. Like, look what I did, Braden Hopi, like all this stuff. So I start off, I said, George, you know, I really want to get this off my chest. I'm really embarrassed. You know, Paul Holmgren said you called, and, you know, I can't believe I did that about

the three stars, I didn't take it seriously, I'm sorry, whatever. And he goes, what? What are you talking about? Like he forgot about it like three years ago. No, he never even called. He never called. I'm like telling him, I'm like,

oh, I'm so sorry, I really apologize. This is so embarrassing. And I start off this whole thing. Like, I've been living with it for three years or four years. And he doesn't even have any clue what I'm talking about. This is the stupidest business in the world. He's like, you did what now? You did what?

So I tell him, and he's like, well, he's like, you know, I got to say that he's like, I think that hopey thing, I think it ruined our season. I was like, oh, okay. But he's like, I didn't know anything about the three stars. He's like, no one ever said anything to me. He's like, I never called Paul Holmgren. He's like, but I'm really glad you told me, though. He's like, now I know exactly what to think about you. This is starting off well.

So then he's saying, well, you know, I'll just call Paul right now to prove to you that I never called him. Oh, you should have let him do it. Like, put it on speaker, but you just stay quiet? Those are two guys I am not getting in the middle of. There's no... They both fucking fight. That's pretty great. I like GMs that fight.

That's important. It was a kind of achievement for you. Did you ever hear from Emery as far as, like, how he felt about it? No. He never... He's on, like, the Carter scale, but just, like, lower down. But he never, he never, like, sent you in edible arrangements to be, like, thanks for making me for a star for beating the shit out of another goalie.

For no reason at all? For no reason. He sent the cantalope that looks like row. or do you send the grape I don't know if I'm So really nobody cared except for like a couple of podcasts and like the flyers

George McPhee had no idea I felt like such an idiot Like here I am this whole cathartic moment I'm getting it off my chest I can finally sleep now and he's like what It sounds suspiciously like every day for me on Twitter Like on just no one

I'm me thinking people give a shit about shit but no one really does Oh yeah people care for like a day And then they move on and they're mad about something else Yeah But Frank held on to the this for three years people. Three long years.

There it is. Was it a good interview at least? I get. I don't really remember now. It's like the only thing I thought about going in. Like, this guy's going to think I'm a moron. Frank. He still does, probably. What do you really think about the NHL not going to the Olympics? Do you give a shit? Are you happy they're not going?

Are you excited about seeing some old friends like Matt Gilroy and others? getting a chance to finally win Olympic gold. This is a real question? It is. In a weird way, I'm actually excited because it ended up that a bunch of the guys on the Team USA are guys that I grew up playing with

that are actually going to get a shot to play for Olympic gold. Like who? Ryan Gunderson, a defenseman that's playing in Sweden now. Ryan Gunnorson's here to me, folks. The sound of one Gunnorson clapping in the back. impressive. Congratulations, buddy. All right. Rock on. Thank you for coming, Mrs. Gunnerson.

I apologize for the two-year-itim minimum. If you want to get one item, then it's on Frank. Who else? Brian O'Neill, he's from Yardley. Trying to go through the list. It doesn't matter. In the grand scheme of things,

are you excited about watching these scrubs play for gold, or do you... Scrubs, he's right there. What are you doing? He can probably keep the shit of us. I mean, like, I don't know if you have to do it for your job or not, but, like, would, job separate? Would you get your ass up at, like, two in the morning to watch a game?

I probably would. I would, too. He wouldn't. No. What do you mean? He's not even sleeping yet. Well, I mean, like, if the game started at two, I'd be, I wake forward of it, like, just on my own.

But, like, setting an alarm, got to watch Slovakia versus Norway. No, that's not going to happen. I'll set my alarm for the gold medal game if the U.S. is in it. 100% you're up at 2 o'clock and you'll flip over and you're like, oh, USA and Czech Republic. Wait. National Treasure Book of Secrets on. HBO family.

You're close. You're very, very close. It would be like 0.0 in the first period. I'd be like, is John Wick 2 on? It is. Yes. Oh, yeah. Double tap him, man.

All right. I'm excited. Round of applause. You excited about the Olympics without NHL people and it? All right. I mean, that's like probably 20%. They're more excited for that

than the All-Star game, I probably. I like the idea. I think I'll give it a real... There's two ways I'm going to give a shit about it. If we win, obviously. Who's we? The United States of America, Canada boy. It's fucking re-education process

you've gone through where, like, they're shooting lasers in your eyes. Like, fucking... Clockwork orange for you. They pride your eyes open and make you look at the fucking Canada Cup for the last 25 years. You're saying? World Juniors last week.

We're standing in the suite watching. When you say we, you mean you and Canadians? Yeah, me and Canadians. So it's Bob McKenzie, James Duffy, and Jeff O'Neill. Those are Canadians. And there's this weird play in the third period where there was a goal that was being reviewed. I'm like, oh, it looks like a handpass.

And out of nowhere, like the VP and the GM from TSN are there, and they're in the suite, and everyone turns me like, fucking American shut up. No. What did I do? I just call it like I see it. Take that shit so seriously. Seriously, we don't root here.

Yeah, they do. But that's why they run fucking Team Canada bullshit on trade deadline days because they're like so excited about oh, when, when, how long do we have to wait to beat the shit out of the rest of the world again? I love, as I said before in the show, I love World Juniors,

because it is, at this point, in our maturation as a hockey nation, we can lose and feel shitty about it, but not really feel that shitty about it, where we have to do what Canada does and have national symposiums on goalie development and start crying about how Ryan gets laughs too old to be on the team or whatever. People in the room, do people care about the world juniors or no? Yeah, because the outdoor game was awesome.

But at the same time, like, when we don't win, It doesn't matter. It matters so infinitely less for us than it does for Canada. But let me pause on this other Canada thing, because I've now talked to two Olympians that are going to be on this team USA, and I've given them both this scenario, and they've agreed with me. When we beat Canada, because we will, because we're the greater hockey nation, it's going to suck because they're not going to count it.

Like, that's the real issue. And the American Olympians know it. They've had to live with this their entire life. of, like, beating Canada in some podunk youth tournament. And then the Canadian team's like, the lights were too bright or some shit. Like, there's always some fucking reason why Canada... The ice is too soft.

Yeah, Canada loses. So, like, now it's like, you know, we'll beat Canada and play for gold or win beat Canada for gold, and Canada's going to be like, yeah, well, the NHL wasn't here. And it was just like, okay, great. And so as a Devils fan,

who had to watch our first cup carry an asterisk for many, many, years before our second cup in 2000, then our third cup in 2003. Our. I understand what's going to happen. Once a podcast, he does this, I just go ahead. We're going to beat Canada, and then Canada's going to be like,

well, you wouldn't have beat no stuff the NFL was here, and then our guys are like, oh, you're probably right. And then it's going to suck. So, all the Olympians agree with me. We're going to win bigly, sad. So Frank. Can you tell the Marty story? Marty Bredor?

What's the Marty story? the cup win apple bees, right? Is it apple bees or chilies? Where are you? Wait, you saw Marty Bredor at a chain restaurant a cup win? Because that sounds out right. This was 0-3. Oh no, it was a diner. It wasn't an apple bees. Oh, no, there was an apple bees.

It's like it's like how Camille Noghami bought his Golden Globe to, or I think it was a Z's actually, or somebody who won, bought his his golden globe to In-N-Out burger afterwards. Like, you could totally see Marty Breder winning the Stanley Cup and then go in a

like an all you can eat strap on feed fucking buffet in like percipany new jersey you have to win in the cup i don't know how good it is if i'll tell it super quick so like it was the it was the o two three season when they won the cup against anaheim and at the trade deadline everyone thought the devils were going to trade for like a high scoring forward everyone thought they're going to get ziggie palfi and they didn't do shit and they lost the night of the trade deadline to like the thrashers or something and so i'm home and i used to work nights and weekend so i had shitty fucking nights off so i was home on a tuesday or whatever. And my friend calls me, he's like, you got to come to Applebees.

I'm like, no, I don't. He's like, I'm come here right now. He wouldn't tell me what it was. And I was like, I finally got roped in. I got nothing better to do on a Tuesday at 10.30 or 11 o'clock. I get there, and as soon as I walk in, I know exactly why I called me there. At the bar is Marty Brodor, John Madden,

Jim McKenzie, and like a handler. Now, John Madden has his shirt on at this point, unlike that limo in Vancouver? John Madden, the football announcer. John Madden has his shirt on at this point. Unlike that limo in Vancouver. They're all clothed.

They're all hanging out at the bar. And as soon as I walk and I sit down at the booth for my friend and two other guys are and we're just like, ooh-hoo, the devil's worth the bar. And so we're sitting there and Marty's hammered and bitching about the trade deadline. He's like, we should have traded for somebody. Just fucking hammered, right?

And he's totally trying to wheel the bartender. and I'm he was married at that point still but whatever was she in law settle down Avery not not yet so eventually like

eventually like you know I'm there for like an hour and a half two hours of closing time and my friend just starts taking out his notepad and he starts writing down on a piece of paper I'm like what are you doing Marty just gave her his number so now we have Marty Broder's

so we spend the next two and a half to four months crank calling Marty Brodo. All the time. And he never picked up. He always got a voicemail. His voicemail was in French and English. You know, bonjours, and hello, whatever. And then they win the Cup. They win Game 7 against Anaheim. And post-game, it's like 2 a.m.

We're at the Lynnhurst, Thiner, Lin-Hurstoner, New Jersey. And weirdly enough, this is random, doesn't matter. But the guy who runs the place looks exactly like Lou Lamarillo. It's incredible. It's a little side thing if you're there. It's great to have it. Did any of the waiters or waitresses of mustaches? Because that would be the key to actually being...

Well, one of the waiters was Ken Danico. Oh, there you go. That was kind of random. And so my friend goes, wait, do you still have Marty's phone number? And I was like, oh, yeah, let's do that. And I call, expecting a voicemail. He fucking picks up. And he clearly...

I can't prove it, but he clearly has a cigar in his mouth. He's like, hello? He's like, Marty? Yeah? Congratulations, I win in the Stanley Cup. He said thanks, and I hung up, and that was the last time I ever called Marty Bruder on the phone. Wow, yeah.

It was like I was part of the Stanley Cup winning team, really. That reminds me the time we were in a diner in L.A., and we were like, who's famous on Twitter that we think might come to this diner right now at 2 a.m.? And we're like, John Cusack. And so we tweeted at John Cusack. We're like, hey, we're at this diner. Do you want to come meet us?

And he's like, sure. And we stayed for an hour and a half under the auspices that John Cusack was going to show up. And he really didn't. If he did, you know what it would have been? Serendipity. Thank you. That really was one crazy summer.

I think about it. So, Frank, you're a member of the PHWA. You're a high-ranking official, correct? You're a power broker. Maybe. Tell us about the Khan-Smith voting the year that Cindy Crosby didn't deserve to win it the first time.

Because Frank went around and said, hey, I'm curious about your vote because the voting is, it's secret, it's anonymous. God forbid anybody ever tell us what happened. And then he posted it without... God forbid people who ask for transparency once in them. And so Frank, posted a thing with not everyone's vote, right?

Almost everyone's. No names in the story. He wrote an ex-fose of the cons like, you can't all. And so we found out who, like, how many first place votes Cindy Crosby got? And tell us about the fallout, I guess, from that. Well, I think there's no way to prove it, but it ended up being, because none of the other

votes were public, but I think it ended up being the closest ever. So I was just curious, like, you know, what did the votes actually come down to? Kessel was just just close to Crosby for runner-up. and it just ended up being well the result is that

we now have complete transparency with regards to Khan's might they don't reveal who the voters are but they do release the day after the cup final ends the whole voting tabulation which I think is important because we get it for all the other awards we get it for Hart we get it for Selke we get it for you know Norris every go down the list

so it's really good to get it and there was just there wasn't a lot of blowback from it. I think the only what happened was it was an awkward situation for me to be in that I probably should have handled it better because

I was one of the voters and a lot of my buddies are voters and it was one of those things where I was just like, hey, who'd you vote for for Consta Mike? And I should have been like, hey, I'm going to write this. You were like undercover but like in plain view. Speaking of my flower

on my lapel. So that's it. There wasn't a lot of blowback. There was just a couple of people saying, like, hey, I wish you said, and I should have in full transparency mode. Yeah, but it all worked out. Yeah, like you said, now we know how many votes are cast.

We don't know how many Canadians voted for Crosby, which is really the pertinent information that we need. All of them. The good name of our American sweetheart, Phil Custle. The Pittsburgh writers did not vote for Crosby. Would they vote in the Kessel? Most of them did. A couple guys had the Tang.

So basically it was all the national Canadian writers were like, Sid. Got to be Sid. Yeah. It's okay, Flyers fans You want to worry about this. Let me pull the room again. Whatever, you guys already...

As a Devils fan, I've gained a begrudging respect for Sid. Round of applause. For how many people? So the Penguins fans are cheering. Everybody else is booing. No Flyers fan is brave enough

to admit that they respect Sidney Crosby. Yeah, dig your heels in, I like it. My favorite Sidney Crosby troll of all time was definitely in the Halcyon days of the Obechkin Crosby rivalry before Crosby really eclipsed him in almost every way. It was definitely when there was a Capitals fan who dropped a Crosby sticker in the bottom of every urinal at what was then MCI Center in D.C.

And it wasn't just a sticker of Crosby that everybody was pissing on. It was a sticker of Crosby with a cartoon bubble next to his head that said, I'm thirsty. And I'm like, how do you top that? And again, like, what time do you have to get there to run through the entire arena and place these things meticulously? And do you use tongs? 515. I'm thirsty. It's a hell of a rivalry for a little bit before Capitals fans became, well, aware of the reality.

of their surroundings in that rivalry. Yeah. Yeah. That was a Philly move. That was a Philly move? Oh, we should ask you what your favorite NHL city is since we talked about Winnipeg before being a dark, dank, no-wifai hellscape. Yeah, we should definitely get Frank in more trouble than he's already in.

I can't wait to go to Winnipeg for the playoffs this year. What's your, well, let me phrase the question then. What's the Cup final combination of your most dreading? Because definitely would be, for me, what do you figure Winnipeg and Like for travel stuff? They don't care.

Columbus is fun Like I want I wanted to be a cup final people give a shit about So Winnipeg Columbus would be like the not giving shittest about it Oh my God

Final but Columbus is a But Columbus is a great town to hang in Yeah They have that bar With all the video games though They have that one bar Where that guy almost

That guy died Almost What guy? Did we talk about it on the show before? Okay, just checking. Sean? No, no, no. Remember that dude that everybody was poking when he was asleep on the bar that everybody thought he died, but he didn't die?

This was during our podcast? No. We talked about it, I guess, maybe it was on a mailbag, but like, there was, when we were in Columbus of the All-Star? No, yeah, All-Star game. Sure. We went to that video game bar, and there was a dude who worked for, like, one of the California TV stations who passed out on the bar.

Oh, I know what it was. And they started, like, poking him, and he wouldn't move. And then we're like, oh, God, someone died at the video game bar. You went there earlier. Me and Leahy went there after you abandoned Leahy in Columbus during the snowstorm. When it had Columbus would be the least sexiest matchup,

I think. Would you say that's correct? Nashville, Tampa, maybe. Is the best. Wait, hold on. I meant Nashville, Philly. Yeah, I mean, at this point, it's safe to say that no matter what the cup final is, every single hockey

writer with a job and a travel budget is rooting for Nashville. Vegas. Nashville Vegas Conference Fund. Jesus Christ. I don't know that I can make it

through it. I almost didn't survive the couple. Nashville versus Las Vegas. And the winner gets to be known as Vegas.

And that's it. That's actually my dream was always a Jet's Giants Super Bowl and the winner got to name Giant Stadium

like in perpetuity. Jet Stadium. That was always my dream. Then I'm like, oh no, we'd get fucking destroyed. Yeah.

Like my dream You'd have to get there, actually. My dream as a Mets fan was always like, you know, the Yankees had like 27 World Series victories, but we ever get them in the World Series, we'll fuck them up. And then no one will talk about the Yankees anymore. And then we get in the World Series,

and we just got like just demolished. You're like, our skulls crushed, like the Terminator walking on skulls in the beginning of the Terminator. And I no longer wish to meet the Yankees in the World Series anymore. We lost our chance. It's kind of like me in Nashville.

What? You can't survive? I almost didn't make it. What, covering that final? First night, I've just made, uh, I, yeah. Did you wake up in your, in your bed, in your hotel, or on the street? No, in my hotel, I think.

There were definitely people towards the end of that series that began looking like... The end of that series. Well, by the end of the series... I didn't even go out the last three nights because I just, I couldn't do it. You couldn't do it. Right. No, it's true. Our jobs are so hard.

We can't get drunk. for 14 straight days. There were definitely people but 11 we can do. Towards the end of that series that look like the people that you find at the bus stop the next morning, you know?

And there were definitely people who had their clothes, like their suits and stuff that they can be on TV that by the end of it we're looking like a guy who, you know. I'm Darren Trigger.

I don't know, whatever. All right, Frankie. Anything else you want to do before you get to our next game show? No, let's do it. You want to pick the flyer or the Eagles Falcons game? Who do you think is going to win?

In a weird way, I think the Eagles win. Yeah. All right. How is that a weird thing? I listen to WIP on the way in, and clearly they're there. Predestined to win. Like, John and Kancho Hocken, you're there.

Howard. You're going to give the ball of the air. The only question I have right now is whether the Eagles win by 20? Or win by 40. I'll hang up and listen. All right, we need two people who said they wanted to do it. Hopefully they're still here.

James Minger? Come on down. Come on down. And Matt Moody. Get on up here. All right. You give up your mic for now, Frankie, but you'll be back for the Q&A part. So it's time to play our favorite game show, Schlemcode,

a.k.a. the roster game. One of our contestants has a Space Falls jersey, and one of our contestants has a Pavel Burray jersey that he's now taking off in a reveal. a Jack Eichael jersey All right Makes a lot of it makes sense How are you doing boys?

Yes, true? All right. All right. You got a mic there? I'm going to go pee off here. Oh, Loza's going to pee. I also, if there's someone who could bring me a Lagany, this IPA model.

I would take that at this point as well. Just want to shed out to the fucking Rangers fan in the back for wearing his ranger's shirt to a devil's guy doing a Philly podcast. Spent fucking an hour last podcast establishing rules for this sort of thing. Somebody comes here and just takes his dick out and

pisses all. Hey guys. It's getting weird, man. You want to be alone? For the purposes of the podcast, please state your name for the record. My name is James Minger. How are you? James, where are you from? I'm from Philly. Will Langhorne. Actually, me and Frank

used to play against high school hockey. Oh, yeah. He mentioning that in the back. Yeah. Are you a goalie? Yeah, I was a very mediocre goalie for Frank. Yeah. Oh. So a big Roman Chechmanic fan then.

Oh, my God. Sorry, that was mean. I have two eyebrows. And say your name for the record. My name is Matt Moody. I am from Rochester, New York. At least we're not Winnipeg. What brings you to Philadelphia from being in Rochester?

I work in Philly now. Oh, all right. Yeah. What sort of business are you in? I work in market research. All right. Nothing exciting. No, that's very exciting.

I too used to work. I don't know if I ever mentioned this to the podcast. The best job I ever had, even better than like hockey writing and people paying for you to go to Vegas for six days to drink. Was a job that I had as a market researcher in New Jersey. And my job was I used to get up at like five in the morning and go to different New Jersey transit train stations. And I would have a clicker in one hand and a clicker in another hand. And my job was to count how many people got. on the train and count how many people got off the train.

Now, I don't know if you know how trains work, but they don't, there's like time between them. So then after I would get done doing that, I'd go to my car and drink coffee and listen to Howard Stern, and then I'd go back out and click the people on and off the train. I would get done at 9 o'clock in the morning. They would pay me $150 a day if we're doing this as a high school kid. And that was the best job I ever had.

I wish I still had it now. So I will not fucking smirk in the face of market research. It's a great gig. I'm sure yours is probably harder than that. We have very different jobs. Make you feel shitty about it. Wait, did I miss you

like bashing market research and then you totally came back in the way? Do you have to be on the other side of the mirror as people tell you how shitty products are? Yeah. Oh, that's a good job right there. What are some of your products? Do you say?

Mm-hmm. Credit cards. Oh. Do you like this? hologram on your credit card? Pretty much. Yeah, there is. All right. All right, boys.

You're going to play Slamcode, which, as you know, is the roster game. We're going to give you a team. Just ignore that. I pooped on the floor. It's fine. And your job is you're going to go back and forth with players on that team until you can no longer name them.

I'm going to get my little pen out here. And do you want to do the marking? No, I'll do the marking. No, I'm going to do the marking. I'm good. All right. So there's three rounds. Try not to get the first one wrong so we can prolong this fun.

Yeah, we have the club for six hours, so we can just sit here online and it's fine. All right, being that we have a guy in a spaceball's jersey and a Sabres jersey, our first team, of course, is the 2009-2010 Philadelphia Flyers. Boy, the looks on their faces, was just like, this is going to be over quick. All right. No, no, no. So, yeah. Who wants to start?

I guess we'll start with you because you're farthest away. All right, sure. Gagne. Simone Gagne is correct. Drew. Claude Drew is also correct and sequential alphabetically. Please continue. I like this.

It makes it easier to mark them down. Richards. Mikey Richards, the man I proudly wear on the the back of my jersey is correct. Danny Breyer, Sabre's ties. Daniel Breyer is also correct. Oh, I like how this is going so far. I picked a pretty good one for the first one.

Fun story about this guy. I was at the game where he threw the glove at the guy on the breakway. Hartnell? Scotty Hartnell is also correct. I would appreciate more little anecdotes throughout the game. I actually punched Claude Giroux in the face in 2011. So I'm going to say Claude Jureu.

Funny story. the urologist and little that I know was Michael Leighton their goalie? Yeah, Michael Leighton was definitely one of their goalies Oh! He of middle faith!

You all thought he fucked it up, but he did not. Michael Leighton definitely played 27 games that season in a very odd Yeah, he was in that for game six. A very, very odd goalie rotation. Pronger. Okay, what he say? Pronger.

Pronger? Yeah, that's correct. I like it. We got strategies saving punger. I like it. JV.R. He was on this team, right? What does JVR stand for? Joseph Van Ronstr? That's incorrect.

JVR will accept. Go ahead. Billy Lano. That's right. What a fucking dick move. With a Sabres fan sitting next to you. I mean, we all thought he could play center, but turns out he couldn't. Are you talking about number 23 in the Sabres?

Sam Reinhart? We also thought he could play. Yeah, there's a lot of that going around. See also, Drewann, Kamah Jonathan. Kimo Teeminen. Kimo Teeminen is also correct. Wow. Covern.

Who? Braden Coburn Brayden Coburn is also correct Wow you guys are killing it Oh boo I'm not Brady Cobra Don't boom it Amory

Rammery is also correct yep Matt How Carl Yes Matt Carl Yes Also correct Yep With Luke Shen on the team Believe the audience says

I am out Made you aware of the error of your ways You have lost this round of Slem code. You have been Slemcode. Who else was there? Oh, Lucas Crycheck, yes. Here. Ryan Paird, worst, like six.

I'll lend you the roster so you can see, you can shame yourself. Oh, God, who else is, sir? All right, there you go. What was your name again? James Minger. That's James. You're up one-nothing. All right.

Congratulations. I love being in a comedy. It's the first time ever in a comedy club. Somebody shouted out, Lucas Crycheck. All right, I'm going to need a occupation. Lucas Crycheck Lucas Crycheck and astronaut I wish Lucas

Kriich would go to space Well my name is Lucas Kricheck I play lots of puck But when I go to the whorehouse I like to get You like to what? The next round The next round of Shlemcode

is the We're going to keep it local and we're going to do another Eastern Conference champion the 1996-97 Philadelphia Flyers so a little bit trickier a little bit less fresh of mind

I was one a little bit more I'm going to crush you I would say a little bit more doomed wink and since you're

you're you're you're you're you're one um do you want to go first or do you want to defer because if you defer and he says the name you're like oh shit that's right that that team

and also the game will last one more longer Jeremy Ronick oh no no I was even again I was one I apologize

you have in fact been Slamcote again. Well, no, wait. He has to name one person, like, spelling bee. Oh, yeah, yeah. He has to name a winner. Just say Lindrosse, and then we can move on. I'm going to flongo, Howard Chuck.

Yeah, that's true, too. All right. Round of applause for our winner of Slamcote. Now, as is tradition, as is tradition, we will play the last round. Oh, cool. Oh, yeah. And we're still going. We will play the last round.

Greg did print out three pieces of papers, so we should continue to do this. I did not task my dot matrix to then not play three rounds. I felt this was an appropriate team to play here in Philly because it is, after all, the team that gave the Pittsburgh Penguins three Stanley Cups. One more than Philly. I can feel the room turning. I'm scared. Many players for the name from the 2008-2009 Pittsburgh Penguins. Is this like...

It's torture, yes. I'd, like, say how many I think I can? Oh, my God. Jesus. Let's get a bed. Hey, zip up and let everybody else play for a second, bud. No, just give me a name, any name from that team. From the 2008-2009 Pittsburgh Penguins.

Crosby? Sidney Crosby is correct. Okay. Don't get cocky like the Schlemco guy did, because we... But I already won. That's true. Malkin is correct as well. Jordan Stahl.

Jordan Stahl also correct. Koonitz? Chris Koonitz. Well, I mean, if it's a Stanley Cup victory, it's got to be Chris Koonitz. Lattang. Chris LaTang is correct. Mm-hmm. Yeah, an hour test.

Who else might have been on this recent Stanley Cup team that I believe, yeah, go ahead. Marion Hosa? Was that? Ah, no. Hosa was, he had to, he went to Chicago eventually and won his first kept there. No, the name you were thinking of, of course, was, uh, Brooks Orpick. Paul Bissonette.

Man. All right, buds. Well, thanks for playing. Round of applause to our recess. You've done what you could. Thank you. You did. Yeah, you did.

Congratulations, my friend. Thanks for coming out. Appreciate it. It's a Pizza the Hut jersey. Oh, you want to... Yeah, you get prizes. So your prizes tonight are a copy of my book. Take your eye off the puck.

A blue... Two... Two first place ribbons that were inexplicably given to us by our former guest, Karen Duffy, who came with... Yeah. She was like a walking party city.

Like, she gave us... She was delightful. Like a bunch of shit. And then also, probably the best prize on the whole thing, got recently an ESPN luggage tag. Luggage tag. Luggage tag, I'm going to take the book.

Take the whole thing. You get everything. Wow, I'm going to do. Yeah. And everybody will be like, oh my God, look at that luggage tag. Is that Lee Corso? And it's like, no. It's a guy who won a game show on a hockey podcast. Oh, thank you so much. I was wondering about the origins and what happened with this beer that I ordered.

The 3-0 sweep. You don't see that show. All right. Well, that's the show for the listeners on iTunes. We're going to wrap it up and then do an exclusive Q&A for you guys, because you came to see us. Do you have anything you want to add? All right. No.

I can go for a beer right about now. Well, that's it. I took care of that minutes ago, but. Everyone's tables are... Anything to promote? I can't think of anything we're like... Oh, the Mighty Ducks commentary track has dropped on our Patreon.

Yeah, if you want to do that, do that, if not. For all you cake eaters out there. Someone said that was a racial term. I thought it was a classist term. Cake eaters. Oh, like the rich eat the cake. Yeah, like the rich eat the cake made of the poor or whatever. I don't know.

Mighty Ducks is, the commentary track is dropped on our Patreon. You can go to patreon.com slash puck soup. I think the next one we might do movie-wise is MVP most valuable primate. Frank, you got anything you want to sell, anything you want to pitch, anything you want to promote? No. Nothing at all. I'm just glad someone mentioned Lucas Crycheck. I can sleep now

Make sure that you watch What am I saying? You'll watch Frank on the TSN Trade Deadline show Because that's the only one people watch And I love my SportsNet brothers But come on everybody's fucking watching TSN on the trade deadline To see Uncle Bob has to say And they'll buy out a llama that one time

Were you there for that on set for the Lama? That was pre-Frank Oh pre-Frank Pre-Frank. I mean most people at TSN do mark their time As pre and post Well not post That's pessimistic.

Pre and current Frank. The Saravelli era, as it's known. You can follow me on Twitter at Wysinski. You could buy, take your eye off the puck, two copies of which I gave out tonight. You could buy the hundred. Fuck, I always fuck up the name. 100 people that evolve of Guinea-Mogg.

The hundred people that are, that you meet in heaven. And that's a, and then read all my shit at ESPN.com where me and Emily are doing good stuff. And, oh, yeah, and if you're some, I've got this a lot lately. Like, I completely understand people being pissed off that ESPN doesn't show hockey on TV. But, like, we write about it on the internet. So, come see us on the internet.

Like, you can watch HDTV instead of the thing, if you want. But, like, we're not, we're doing good. So come see us. ESPN, we're not HDTV. Oh, but if we were, you'd certainly know the apartment. Prices in Seville. I'm Greg Wushinsky. HGTV.

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You're like, no, actually, it's Boston. in closing, join us next week at the Chucklehut in Next to Fenway for a show no one will attend. I'm going to make that same joke in Boston about Philly, just so you know. Be prepared. And yeah, so we're going to do a Q&A now if you want to listen to it, buy a tick and come to the show. And congratulations to me and Lozo for getting through an entire podcast. That's Megan a Pat and Gino's reference.

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