Shaun Newman Podcast - #70 - Kurt Price & Greg Buchanan

Episode Date: April 15, 2020

Bringing back the boys of the Tuesday Night Sport Show.  We discussed: - Colby Cave - NHL Playoffs... in theory - Best rivalry in the bordercity - COVID hobbies - Which major sport comes back 1st 

Hey, it's Greg DeKannon. Hey, it's Kirk Price. Welcome to the Sean Newman podcast. Hell yeah. Welcome to Hump Day, folks. Welcome to Wednesday. Today, I got a, you know, I got a good one here. A couple of local radio boys on the cast, having a couple of laughs.

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donating to the local COVID emergency fund through LRHF.ca backslash donate one shout out for the past week I got to give it out to Trevor Redden he said talking about Gord Tibido who was I guess only a couple episodes or a couple days ago I shouldn't say a couple episodes Monday he said he's a very articulate intelligent man it sounds Sounds like Time Away has really given him some perspective, too. He was a great listen. Trevor Redden obviously was dropping things. Trevor Redden was also a guest on the podcast a few weeks ago.

He is the voice of the PA Raiders. If you haven't listened to that episode in particular, Trevor was a fun talk. If you haven't listened to Mondays with Gord Tibado, I've been doing a little bit of a story arc somehow. I had Lucas Bench and then Lyndon Springer on and them two guys have been traded by Gord Tibedal. And then, you know, we talked about it then. And then Chris Weeb, who was an assistant coach at the time, we talked about it again.

And with Gord Tibito, we kind of finish off that. So if you were interested in that storyline, go back to Gord Tibito. We do talk a little bit of Bobcats in there in the Royal Bank Cup year. Now for today, it was a little bit of fun. I had obviously Greg Buchanan and Kurt Pricen. in the kind of first roundtable via Zoom. So we had a little bit of fun. We talked, you know, sports, a little bit of Lloyd,

a few chuckles in the middle of it for sure. I think you guys are going to enjoy this one. So sit back, relax, and without further ado. Welcome to the Sean Newman podcast for the second time, because I forgot to record the first time. I'm joined tonight by Kurt Price and Greg Buchanan. your fearless team that brought you the Tuesday night sports show from the Canadian Brew House, where they argued sports over countless pints, ribs, you name it.

I got to see it firsthand several times. So thanks, boys, for joining me tonight. You're welcome. Thanks for having us. Yeah, thanks for having us. Now, Bucky was like, like guest number four on here, guess number five, like that, somewhere way back, and I hadn't got around the price yet. So maybe you guys could just let the listeners know a little bit about yourself before we get going.

Brycey. Yeah, we'll start with you, Pricey. Okay, sure. I moved to Lloyd in 1991. I went to radio school in 2000, ended up at CKSA Radio, where I was there until recently, when I was let go about two weeks ago over this COVID thing on a layoff. So I have been, like you guys, stuck inside for the most part. I've been doing a little bit of FaceTime. I have the new Lloydminster Nissan to just kind of pass some time and also fill in the community on what's happening. So that's where I'm at and I know that's where a lot of people are at just, you know, a little bit scared about the future, a little bit worried about what's going to happen when this does end.

For myself, yeah. Yeah, we don't know. I was just going to say that that's probably the hardest thing about right now is nobody can tell when it's going to end. There's no like, hey, in months time and two months time and six months time, here's the date. We get past here and everything goes back to normal. It almost feels like nothing's ever going to go back to normal. But say a couple words there, Bucky, and we'll get going here. Okay, but first of all, the background I have, since I've been doing these Zoom meetings, get creative, so you can get these virtual backgrounds.

That's the right field bleachers at Wrigley Field. So I'm not going to get to Riggly this summer, likely not. So this is as close as I'm going to get to Riggly Field. I graduated high school, and as Kurt Price would probably know, in 1954. Went into broadcasting in 58 and have been on airwaves across Saskatchewan, Alberta since the 60s. No, I arrived at 89 and kind of left broadcasting, came back and involved in the CPCA, involved in a few different things here in town. And love the city, love the people.

And this is tough, and it's tough for everybody. People are sitting at home working, and there's people like Kurt that got laid off, and they're dealing with that right now. And there's a lot of people like that. And it's kind of, in a way, you've seen a lot of goodness of people, too. Today it was of the Lloyd X. I'm a board member there. We had curbside assistance for people ordering Easter meals through the grill there.

We served up 400 Easter meals today, took them out to the vehicles in the parking lot. So there's neat things like that that's happening. And there's a lot of good, bad that's happening right now because people are just, you know, patiently waiting to see when the green light will come out and everybody will go back to them to normal. But we don't know when normal will ever be. So right now, the thing is, you're learning what Zoom is right now. Yeah, no kidding. It's Easter Sunday.

How is everybody's Easter or Easter weekend? Well, it's been pretty quiet. I'm pretty sure you guys, well, you've got kids, Sean, so you probably wasn't that quiet. It was probably almost normal around the house until it came time to go out and have some supper, right? My sister-in-law made a fantastic ham, and so all I had to go over and pick it up. It's sitting in the driveway waiting for me, and there it is, to come back and enjoy. So it was really, really good. And then I sent a picture of her at the empty dish, and she said, that was supposed to last you for four days.

I skip lunch because I knew that album's coming. Well, having the Easter egg hunt here and giving three, well, not three, two of the three kids, chocolate and candy before 9 a.m. this morning. Everyone can imagine what my day was like. A lot of screaming, yelling, but it's quiet now. It's quiet and it's beautiful. We took a walk. You know, you talk about picking four.

food up and off the front porch we walked my brother lives a block and a half from us and we do this thing every second day where we walk over there and they talk to us through the window that's become the new norm and the kids get it they got young kids like us and they sit there and talk and yeah when they're not sick again we'll go in and visit like it's just a very strange time to be alive i'm actually kind of happy they're young enough where they don't fully understand what's going on but yeah easter easter's been a interesting. Yeah, I know my niece was talking to my mom, like talking to her grandma the other day and asked, do you guys have the virus there too, Grandma? So they know what it is. They don't exactly understand what it is, but they understand you can't, you can't hug and kiss Grandma and you can't

see Grandma right now. That's right. Which is the most painful thing for all of us right now is everybody wants to get through this together. And we will get through this together, but you get through this together yet separate, yet doing the things like we're doing right now. That's right. How about you, Buck? I think more than anything right now, I think you get to, when we get through all this, and again, we don't know when that's going to be, you're going to appreciate all those little things that you take for granted on a given day. And you take for granted just seeing people and talking to people.

I'm a people person and for to be told to stay inside and try not to socialize and do your social distancing. That's difficult. and you learn to appreciate that now of those little things. Because when it does get normal again, it's going to be very nice. Well, and to put that into perspective, Bucky is someone who has ADHD anyway. So imagine trying to keep him in the house.

If anybody knows me at work, I'm walking from department to department to department. And honestly, not really getting too much accomplished story to the bosses listening in. but I go from department to department and socialize and now to be sitting in a house and you know what if COVID-19 doesn't get me I think my wife will so I was just thinking I can attest to that him him going from department to department there's many times Sean where I would be working with my head down you know trying to get things done and door closed on the office to kind to concentrate on stuff. And then the next thing, you know, the door opens and Bucky comes in and he stands there,

it doesn't really say anything. He just stands there and looks at you and makes something up like, oh, you see that game last night, and then leaves. And then about 20 seconds later, you'll smell the fart. I was thinking, you know, a guy I don't want to be locked up with is probably Mr. Buchanan, although if you two got locked up together, put TV crew in there with you. make for some entertaining times right now. I would wake up with a pillow

on my face. I would be falling asleep and then it would be five of the morning and I'd go, Kurt, what are you doing? And there'll be a pillow on top of my face. That'd be good TV though, too, Buck. I think we would be Tiger King for ratings. Have you been watching Tiger King?

No, I haven't got into it yet. Neither of you? No, no. Sorry. No, I can't. I just watching some of it and watching some of the comments on social media. I don't think that's something I need to see. I look at it and just look into the pictures. I see a lot of that in Chuck Wagon Racing.

So I don't know if I want to really see that on Netflix. Sorry, guys. So Tiger King, just to, I, honestly, it is so bizarre. It makes you feel good about your life, no matter how bizarre your life. can ever be. The guy is, he's married, Joe Exotic is married to two men,

which is, whatever, he's plagamist, but owns over 200 and some tigers, who walks around with a gun on his hip, who ends up running for presidential candidate, who obviously doesn't win, who then runs up for governor.

That's just the beginning of it. And it just goes on. got five things on my hand and I'm talking about like five minutes of the show. And it is the most bizarre show you'll ever watch in your life. There's no doubt in my mind that when we look back on COVID-19, 10, 20 years from now, we're going to think of Joe Exotic and Tiger King because it is just absolutely bizarre. You guys owe it to yourselves to go watch it. So Tiger King makes you feel better about your lot in life when you watch it.

Correct? Correct. Well, Walmart does that for you. me too so yeah fair point fair point well let's get to let's so what we're going to do is we're going to we're going to go through a few topics have a little bit fun have some laugh like we are um the first one is not a laughing situation as we know this past week or this weekend colby cave uh from north battleford and emminton oiler passed away abruptly uh at the age of 25 i just thought, you know, if nothing else, for me, the condolences go out to everyone, you know,

his family and friends is just everyone. Like, it's, that's heartbreaking. Anytime a young hockey player passed away, especially at the NHL level, you always hear about it. But for it to be an oiler is special to this area, but for it to be North Battleford makes it even closer. And him from being just so young as something else. I thought we'd start there, guys. So I know, Bucky, we were kind of chatting about it before Price came on. Maybe we'd start with you. Yeah, it's tough. And you and I talked about this before, too, is hockey can be a very small world.

And it's amazing that, you know, he's from North Balthalford, but yet he has connections to a lot of guys that played minor hockey with him. A few boys in Nealberg, Cody Smith played his minor hockey with him in North Baudelford. Martin Smith's a good friend of mine from North Balthalford, spent a lot of time with Kobe. Kobe also had some connections in a very young age in check wagon racing. It was barn help. So he was, it's tough.

He's 25 years of age. I know Monday, the Oilers reached out to him on Monday to say that, you know, there's a conference call coming up on Friday. Kobe, we want you to be part of it because come Friday, we'll give you details of exactly what the plan is going forward because when we do go forward as a team, you'll be playing for the Oilers and not going to Bakersfield, which is great news for Kobe.

He gets that news on Monday, and then Tuesday he gets rest of Shoney Brookkin, has bleeding in the brain, and he dies. And it's devastating. He's 25 years of age, probably getting now his legitimate shot and have an everyday job in the NHL, and this happened. So it's, yeah, it's shocking, and it's, you know, it puts life in perspective when we're going through all this. Here's a guy that, you know, had the career ahead of him, and nobody knows what happened, but he's no longer with us now. Yeah, I think, you know, for me, the biggest thing about Colby Cave was not what he did on the ice, but when you start doing a little research on Colby Cave and, you know, how he was brought up near North Battlefront on a cattle ranch, and how he worked his way to be the hockey player that he was and go on draft and then finally make the Boston Bruins right to get his crack at that.

But the things that he did off the ice sound more like someone that was not 25 years. old, but a lot older than that. I mean, there's things that you read about where he's reaching out to people that were in need. He's reaching out to young kids. Who do you get in the fight with in Bakersfield that he knocked out? And then he texted him the next day, right? Just say, hey, it's the caveman here from last night. And I just want you to know you were in my respect.

And I'm hoping you're okay and things like that. So this is a guy that was a good hockey player. but from what I could tell, a real leader off the ice as well. And when something like this happens, you think yourself, well, that guy's career was endless. That sounds like a guy who could not only be a hockey player, but could go on to be a hockey coach and to lead young men and to teach them exactly what he's gone through

and how to reach something when it's not handed to you and how to hold yourself and conduct yourself off the ice. And it sounds like that's just from his upbringing. yeah yeah absolutely boys it's uh yeah just once again thoughts go out to the family and friends of them i'm just i always just say i'm just a fan right like i just got to watch him from afar and him being from north battleford definitely ties it a little closer to lloyd like north battleford does not that far and like bucky says a couple of guys that i even know i didn't realize uh the smiths there'd you know that close but you know like that's how close that was and

Just that's tough and you know nobody has the words. If if the NHL playoffs and the Emmetton Oilers had gone ahead, can you believe we'd be in the first round right now? I know time just seems to kind of lose any sense of the day because I was, you know, on Thursday, I'm going, I'm talking a couple guys at work and all of a sudden it's like, oh, it's a long weekend. And you're like, what? I don't even know what a long weekend.

is anymore. I haven't left the house in how many weeks, right? But it would have been going first round right now. And we would have had some dandy, dandy matchups. Of course, the big one we always like to point to is the Battle of Alberta, which, you know, hasn't happened since 1991, since Mr. Price moved here, since I was five years old. Like, I mean, how fun would that have been to start with. Well, especially if you look back to the brawl, right? And how that all went down, it would have been interesting to see how the Oilers were to respond,

how the Flames would have responded, if we would have got that every night of potentially a seven-game series. Or would the Flames being the Flame team that we kind of saw a few times that looked below average. And the Oilers, outside of their power play, you know, their power play was dynamite. When there were five on five, they were average, too. So it would be kind of interesting how that series would unfold in it.

I think it would have been a pretty good one. Yeah, I think that series maybe would have come down to goaltending. And I like the Oilers goaltending more than I like Calgary's goaltending. And, of course, you know, I think the offense for the Oilers would take over because they really liked what they did at the trade deadline as well. Don't forget they lost Mike Green and Mike Green would be back for the playoffs by the town's the thing as well. So I think it all comes down to goaltending,

and I think that that would be the series that we would want it to be. I think it would be physical, and the first round is always the best anyway, but I think it would be a really physical series. But I love that you've got up-and-coming guys, too, that like Matthew Kachok, that are going to throw his weight around, Maggi Apani's coming on, right?

He was scoring like crazy at the end there for Calgary, and then you've got the powerhouses in McDavid and Drysettle on the other side, but you've also got Neil and you've got, you know, tougher, tougher players on the front end for the Oilers as well, like Kara, who would need to get involved. And I think probably might even be his coming out party in a series like that. But I really think that that would be the series you'd want it to be. Like I think everybody would be disappointed if they just said,

no, we've got to play hockey. No, I think there would be times in that series that it would get ugly. Yeah, well, I harp on here all the things. time. I think it was what Alberta needed. Right? Alberta's in, you know, COVID ain't helping, but oil ain't helping. There's just, we haven't been getting a lot of love for probably what, the last five years at least. And every oiler flames fan has been begging for a battle of Alberta. Just, just give us, give us one. Just let, let's see what happens. There would have been probably fistfights in the

streets over, you know, just taunting each other. I mean, I got buddies of mine. who texts me all the time. I got bets with one of the drivers at work. Shout out to Dave Davis Groundworks. On every game they play each other, we throw a 20 spot on it to see who's going to win, right? I was going, like, we're taking the playoffs. We'll put whatever dollar amount you want on that. Like, that's what that rivalry is deep. And maybe, you know, you guys would have been in your younger years when the last one was going on. What was the old battle of Alberta like? on the old Timmy Hunter days and Dave Brown and oh yeah and slats on the bench now that was when hockey was hockey that was fun to watch because it was war you look back to some of those videos on YouTube now and and you see the line brawls and when's the last time you've seen a line brawl outside of the Oilers flames this year that you don't see that well during the flames and oilers rivalry back in the day you saw quite a bit and even warmups were interesting back in the day and even warmups were interesting back in the day. because guys are standing right at center ice and chirping each other,

a little bit of stick here, a little stick there. That was fun. It's kind of funny what you're watching these rewind games that TSN and Sportsnet do and guys skating around with no helmets and no shoulder pads and the goalies look like they're wearing a Sears catalog for goalie pads. It's fun to watch because it's so different. The game is so different that it was even when Greth was playing in Metsia, when they have those glory days to where it is now.

It's such a bigger, faster game now, but there's less ice. You know, you have no open ice anymore. You don't have that freewheeling like you used to. And you don't see it get down and dirty like it used to too. Sean, I used to tape it. I used to tape it on VHS. I taped the playoff games and whenever they played, just so I could go back in between periods even and rewind and watch the fights again.

just to see what exactly happened because you needed to see exactly what happened and what say they're saying on the bench let's read his lips you know and things like that it was every bit as fun as you think it was and it was a war and it was it was awesome and guys like guys were guys were a lot tougher than you thought they were like i think of a guy like joe new and who'd take a beating in front of the net you know and you'd say how does that guy get back up you know and get back up and score it wasn't and then of course in 86 you know when when I don't know was McDonald awarded that goal buck I can't remember yeah yeah and and never once believing that calgary could actually beat the oilen never once believed no that they could actually beat emminton

and then I remember I went for a for a glass of water in a kitchen I remember my dad yelling well Eddie McDonald just scored I'm like how did he just score The winner's had the puck. Yeah, from behind the net. Yeah. Steve Smith. And the other one that I remember is Flurry, scoring an overtime and sliding across center ice at Evanton.

Oh, was he hated? Was he hated at Evanton? It probably still is today. And Gretzky's slap shot and Vernon, too. Oh, yeah. Just inside the blue line. Yeah, just a rifle of a shot. The perfect angle on it, because remember, we didn't have any cameras and things like that

back in the day. but, man, those, and I watched Quebec and Montreal in the Eastern Massacre, just went on YouTube and watched that just to see it. It kind of reminded me, like, I started to think of myself, what was worse? The Calgary, empty games or this one, because although there was a lot of fights in the Montreal Quebec game, you just felt like there was more hatred. And I know what people say there was pure hatred in that series with Montreal and Quebec, too, but it just seemed like guys were swinging, you know, with everything they had with every single

punch in the Calgary-Edmondton days. What is the best, now that SportsNet, TSN, everybody's been bringing out the relics, the old school, going way back in the time machine. What's been the one that's caught your guys as eye? Have you been watching any of that? And if so, what has it been? And it doesn't have to be hockey. I know they were just playing, replaying Masters this weekend.

Well, I've been watching the Blue Jays, watch the 92 and 93 World Series games. How awesome was that? It just takes you back. Like, it just like, I know, Sean, you're just a kid. You're just a kid, but for me, I remember watching those games and not even being that big a baseball fan, not ever believing that the Blue Jays could actually do what they've done, but not only watching these games, but then going back and watching interviews with these players and remembering Pat Borders and remembering all these guys like they'd step up to the

play and then you go they didn't even play John Olerud in this game how did they not play John Oleroo? You know like why would you keep John Oleroo? Oh okay well you know what's the name? Morris just hit two home runs. So okay that's why I tell you I tell you what if they if they replayed the complete run of the Blue Jays winning either of those years I was way too young to remember watching I probably watched a bunch of it as a kid, but I don't remember verbatim how it goes other than a couple of hits, right? So if they replayed them, which they were,

you know, they're in the middle of replaying Jay's, yeah, Phillies, the other night. And I caught myself watching it. The kids were trying to play them. I'm like, oh, no, no, I'm trying to watch a game. I want to see what happens here. Even though I know what's going to happen, I actually don't remember those games.

So it's still pretty freaking intense. It's still pretty cool. And there's something to be said about going back to, uh, you know, a young Kurt Schilling on the mound throwing down against Blue Jays of a young Roberto Alamar and that group of guys, like total nostalgia for you guys, but for me, a young guy, knowing what happened, but now I'm getting to experience it, instead of in a short 30-second clip, now I get to experience the two-hour game without, you know, they cut out some things,

but for the most part, it's unreal. Yeah, like you remember, like for me, watching some of those old Blue Jays World series, and you remember where you were when you're watching it. And I know one Blue Jays World Series. I forget what year it was, but I was covering, if you remember, the Canadian Cowboys Association Finals, the CCA Finals were at the rodeo, was at the Civic Center. It was like a four or five-day event.

And they used to have the old press box at the Civic Center that kind of hung from the rafters. And I had my little black and white TV plugged in and watching it. And Marcel Kershain, Marcell is, you know, sitting there watching it with me and a few other cowboys sitting there with a few couple of shots of whiskey, watching the Blue Jays and watching rodeo at the same time. So it's some pretty good memories. I remember going to the rodeo dance after they won the 92 World Series. Yeah.

Yeah. I bet that was a fun night. That was, yeah. I would have been like, like, I don't even, 18, 19 years old, I guess. Oh, geez, shut up. Shut up already. Price out on the town looking to bust the move. I remember seeing Greg Buchanan there, actually. going like just being starstruck hey just like well there's the man there's the myth there's the legend

you know someday i'm going to work beside him and make make real real good jokes about him and his potato head i swear i get isolated pricey i'm coming after you do you think the nchel playoffs will go do you think there's any way in which they can come back and to before you hop to an answer It's sounding like, you know, and you listen to Alberta, for instance, like they're talking peak cases middle of May and it can get pushed out later than that. And even then after you have peak cases, are people going to want to go to a building to watch a hockey game? Because, I mean, it's not like it hits summer and this thing goes away by the sounds of it.

I'm no medical expert by any stretch of the imagination. is there any possible way that the playoffs come back and if so maybe how would that look? Well, I think the toughest thing is having an offseason because I don't think they're going to come back before July 1st at the earliest. So let's say they did come back July 1st. That is the same amount of time as last year's off season. That's roughly 110 to 115 days, which was what the off season was last year when you look at when the playoffs ended. having said that, I hope we do get some form of playoffs in, but I don't think it will look like you think it will look,

where they have seven games series. And I know that Bucky and I have talked about North Dakota. There's been some talks about Grand Forks and an arena where they have two ranks and how you can have games, just keep going on and on and on. But my brother said something the other day that I really, really thought, man, that would be fun. is an NHL world junior type tournament where you have two divisions

almost like you have right now with the east and the west and you have them play off and advance to the next round and this team is knocked out and then you have crossovers and things like that and maybe to a certain extent where you get to the final four

and that's where you have these seven games series come into play. Yeah, the thing that's going to play a factor and I hate to say it, but it's going to come down to money too. Because when we get through all this, the owners are going to want to make some kind of cash off this. And how they make their cash is come playoffs and get, you know,

sold out arenas and get a seven game series, get four home games or three home games through a series. That's not going to happen now. So they're going to have to find a way to make money for the teams, make money for the NHL. And going to an isolated arena, and having games in North Dakota and nobody watching it,

but televising it, they're going to probably have pay-per-view to watch it, and I think people will pay it. I just don't know how that's all going to. I think the NHL is going to do everything they can to play somewhat of a regular season and then playoffs because they got to give away.

And the thing is, you give away the Stanley Cup in late September, when do you start the next season? You know, we'll see you guys in two weeks, see at training camp, you know? Like, do you do that short of an, off season because it sounds like the NHL does not want to take anything away from next season. I think they got to keep the TV deals going back because I've heard people say,

well, I would pay to watch the playoffs. And I think that, you know, you already are, right? You already have these TV deals in place. And that's where the league is probably going to end up making their money right now is to have these playoffs series with advertisers basically buying spots along. the glass and in commercials and that kind of thing. That's the only thing that I can go back to and think of that would prevent them from doing PVR is that these TV deals are already in place. The World Junior thing is interesting. That's a new one. I've never heard that before. I agree with

you, Bucky. The only way NHL can make money off it at this point would not have any fans there, it's going to have to be pay-per-view, but I don't know about any other hockey fan out there, but I would gladly pay some money to have some live sports on the television. Oh, yeah, definitely. I think everybody is wanting something right now. You know what? The NHLs and everybody else is the same ballpark as the NHL. You got Major League Baseball that is thinking about doing that in Arizona,

isolated area and having all the teams playing in those isolated areas in Arizona. NFL is one of the rare ones that says it's not really going to impact them. And I'll have to wait and see for that. The CFL is the other one that, Regina's supposed to. to host the Great Cup. And now what they're talking about is the Great Cup will still stay in Regina, but it could be two to three weeks later. So all of a sudden,

you're going from playing, what, middle of November and Regina to late November, early December in Regina outdoors? Get your flask ready. You're going to have to warm up that pill because there needs something warm to drink. You're going to have it in a coozy of sorts to try and keep it warm enough so it doesn't turn to instant slush.

I don't know if you saw where they said Quebec has banned sporting events until the end of August of the earliest. So that leaves the Montreal Alouettes playing, if they even can, every game on the road in July at the earliest. So what is, I saw a video today of a baseball league over, and I assumed it was South Korea, but I don't know that for sure, so don't quote me on that. and they were having a baseball game, no fans in the stadium, that kind of thing.

What is the first sport to come back in North America? Baseball. I mean baseball. Yeah, I agree with that. I think baseball. I think a close second could be NBA. As much as the NBA saying that they're going to cancel everything, I think baseball and NBA might do the similar thing where they'll find an isolated area

have all the teams play there in front of nobody. and I think that's what Major League Baseball and probably the NBA will do. Can you imagine an NBA March Madness? One game, winner move on? That would be awesome. Even I'd watch other teams other than Raptors. Right now I couldn't see myself watching anything but Raptors. But if it's one game take all, and I definitely watch the last 10 minutes.

How about? Best rivalry that you've seen come through Lloyd Minster for a little local sports. I know we're talking about the Battle of Alberta and how intense that's been. And the older generation always talks about it. My generation desperately wants it. How about from Lloyd perspective? You guys have been here a long time, been around the sports scene a long time. What has been the best rivalry you've seen come through this city?

Well, I've been here as long as Baca, obviously. I think the one that I really think about when I think about rivalries in Lloyd Minster is the two high school football teams and how that's evolved over the last few years and how, what did they, they used to be what, were they six men or nine men in the, the Raiders? Holy, only used to be six men. Six men. They used to play six men.

Then when they, you know, moved to the new building in 2001, I think it was. Yeah. And they have that, that beautiful field now. And then Armstrong fields even nicer than it ever was. before, they've got lights there, and you've got the new Synergy Vault, I think it's called the Vault. And it's just evolved. Football has come so far in Lloyd Minster and have those guys that know each other and want

that respect to the other team and want bragging rights. For me, it's the high school football that I think of when I think of rivalries in Lloyd Minster. And that even changed a little bit too, because when they established the midget program for football. It brought all those players from both schools together to play on one team. They didn't have that before. And when they didn't have that before, they really hated each other. Like there was on the football field, there was a general I hate between the Holy Rosary and Lloyd Comp. And now you actually played together a few months down the road after you finish up your football season

with their high school team. So now there actually, there's friendships. So there's not much that hate anymore. And I think for me, rivalries here in Lloyd, I ran the border kings for a few years. So like administicquent comes to mind. Stony Plain Eagles always come to mind because we always had very good games at Stony Plain. It kind of a funny story. We really didn't like each other a whole lot

and one of my good friends that developed out of that rivalry was Craig Goldblow at a Stony Plain. And it was kind of funny meeting him away from the rank and becoming a bit of a friendship with him. And I think the other town that we don't like too much between me and Pricy and, you know, what we can say it here because they don't really have Internet,

and they don't have running plumbing and they don't have electricity there. And they all look like Mr. Mrs. Potato Head. That's anybody from Rosedown. So when the Red Wings thought they could have a senior team and compete for an Allen Cup, Rosetown came to mind and they came to town and they thought they were all that and then some. And so me and Price, you really do not like people from Rostown. You know, it's funny to say that because I remember the night we start, when you looked at me, we were on the Tuesday night sports show and you said,

what's the one town that, you know, you'd never. cheer for no matter what. And I was thinking, that you were thinking, Big League, and all of a sudden out of my mouth came, Rosedown Red Wings. And Bucky almost spit out the, I don't know, I think he was eating cake at the time. Or something like that.

He's like, I was thinking the same thing. So, yeah. But Buck, didn't you guys, didn't the bandits have a rivalry with Sattel Lake at one time? It was pretty good, too. Yeah, back of the day, they had a few good ones. I can remember this dates me too. The bandits beat Satellake in Sattel Lake. I'm doing working TV, doing post-game reaction with the players and the coaching staff on the ice and Satellake.

And just won the championship. They get the trophy. They're skating around the rink in Satellite. And chairs start flying over our heads as we're on air. My camera guy kind of taps me on the shoulder. I was that? That was a chair that missed you by about five inches. Let's go in the hallway.

I think there was, wasn't there some tires that got slashed? Yeah, yeah. They used to have a, like when you went to satellite to play there, and I don't think they had a team last year, and I don't think they're going to have a team down the road, but they used to have a compound for the visiting team's bus, and you would pull in there and put it into the compound,

because before that compound, you would come out, and usually you would have to find a fountain tire in St. Paul because we got two or three. flat tires. Didn't the ambulance, didn't they pay the ambulance to circle the building a couple of times, too? No, that was a movie there, Pricie. Maurice, you make me sick.

How old some local boys? Bryce Kinned Up and Brinson Pashnik, both signing entry-level deals to NHL, Bryce with Anaheim, Brinson with San Jose Sharks. There's been a lot of talented hockey players that are on. the cusp of recent. I know, you know, right now superstars like Braden Hopi, you know, past guys of, you know, the Clark MacArthur, the Wade Redden, the Scott Hartnell, those guys, you know, always in the conversation. But now you got, you know, the Ty Smith, the kale Kleg, and I got Bryce Kinnup signing, Brinson Pashick, not from Lloyd, I know he's from Bonneville,

but he did play some minor hockey in Lloyd. And there's other guys out there that have been really starting to make a name for themselves. I know Zane Franklin, a boy from around here, really had a season in the WHL. Chase Waters playing over in Saskatoon had a season for himself. I'm sure you guys have a couple more names you're thinking of. Yeah. Like Zane Franklin's another kid that comes to mind for me. I had a sensational career in the WHL, cut short as 20-year-old year this year.

That's right. You know, just a kid that was a dumb. Dynamite Bantam hockey player developed into a great midget players and developed into a great WHL player. And I think more than anything, that elite program that got established here in Lloyd Minor Hockey, a number of years ago, has produced these players. And on top of that, there's programs for hockey development. Kyle Tapp is part of one of them that has really done the omen's work to get these kids to that next level. Because, you know what, if you want to get to that next level, it is 12-month-a-year kind of job.

and it becomes a job for you at a very young age for all these kids to make in a WHL and to go to that next step. So hats off to a lot of those kids that take that time and the effort to get into those programs. And you know what? When you're 16, 17 years old, you probably don't want to be in a gym. You don't want to be on the ice. You don't want to be there day after day. And the commitment you have to do to do that is amazing.

And so hats off to all those kids that are in the WHL and now going NCAA and going beyond that. So, you know, another kid that comes to mind is Mason Shaw. It's a kid's in the Minnesota farm system that he's going to be a sensational player down the road, too. Yeah, it's not just something in the water. I think exactly what Buck is talking about is right. You know, I read an article the other day about, you know, what happened to Montreal hockey players. There used to be tremendous hockey players coming to Montreal. And now you're looking at the first round pick this year will probably be at a Montreal, but there hasn't been anything major around that area in quite a while.

So what's going on with junior hockey in the Montreal area? And I think that when you go back to this area, it is exactly the opposite. And it is not just something in the water. It is leadership and it is coaching and the right people being in the right place. Switching to a different topic. UFC Fight Island. Oh, really? Did you guys also watch WWE?

Well, yeah, they did WrestleMania with no fans. Kay, Kay, I have to say something about WWE right now. I didn't watch a WrestleMania, but I watched some of the other stuff that's on WWE now. It is so weird seeing these guys come into their entrance and there's no crowd at all, you know, and they're still delivering their little spiel and talking like they usually talk as a wrestler.

they're standing in the ring doing that and there's no sound at all it looks weird yeah i think i think ufc would be even weird i really i really think that would be yeah i do i think it would be and i'm not a big ufc guy like i you know i watched uh saint pierre when when he was at his peak and when he came back for the final fight and that was more of a oh i I just happened to be, you know, in a bar watching it at that time. I never seek out UFC. But just from watching highlights and everything like that, I just, I think it would be incredibly weird.

I think baseball in empty stadiums would be more natural than watching UFC with no crowd. And I say that because I've watched Baltimore and Toronto play in Baltimore and saw the orange seats behind everybody. And you think there are times when you watch baseball, is there anybody even there? But you still watch it. Yeah, it's like a Florida Panthers home game. But UFC, to me, this is my two cents in UFC. I enjoy watching it.

But way back of the day, it was a big thing that you would go to a bar or rent it at home and watch UFC because it was not every weekend. It was once a month, maybe once every two months. Now to the point their UFC is coming out with so many cards that they're flooding the market, so much so that you lose track of what UFC number it is. and Dana White, even when this first came out back in March, Dana White was saying, this is not going to impact us.

We're going to keep on business as usual. Like, he just thinks he's so much above everything that he's going to push and push and push and have his fights still go. And it's not going to happen, Dana. You don't think there's a way, well, actually, first, I think UFC could get away with no fans. I think compared to the WWE,

The WWE, when you watch it, if it ain't for the fans, it ain't entertaining, right? Like, I mean, their interaction with the fans pretty much the entire time, right? Like, that's the whole thing. So when they got nobody there to yell and scream and chant and throw the guy into the stands and whatever else, you can't do that. It's like, this is completely weird. At least with UFC, they're going to have a commentator. They're going to focus on the fight.

And at the end, it's going to be weird because it's not only going to be cheering, right? Even so much as baseball. Can you imagine a little buck? out there just serenating you in an afternoon game. I could still fall asleep to that on the couch, wake up for the ninth inning. That sounds pretty nice to me. But this UFC going to a fight island, which I can't seem to find where that is, but to have an island where they're going to have some fights,

essentially bring fighters over there, test them, make sure they don't have it, let them train there and then televise it. I almost think it could work. It was blood sports. It was blood sport. It was already a movie. Yeah, yeah. It was already a movie.

There's still some bloodsport. Yeah, yeah. But see, fight, Fight Island. That sounds like a Fox reality show. It sounds like a movie. Yeah. But what's that old saying?

What has 20 legs and five teeth? The first two roles at a WWE fight card. Hey, hey, I object to that. I had tickets for April 26th in Edmonton. And I was going to be in that second row. So I object to that.

How disappointed are you, Pricie? Well, my nephew really wanted to go, so I'm pretty disappointed. I didn't take him because he was so, so excited. He's such a big WWE fan, and I can't blame him because I look back on when I was his age, and what was I watching? I was watching Stampede wrestling. I was watching WWE, and I was eating every minute of it up. So I was really looking forward to taking him.

And to tell you the truth, I couldn't even name a wrestler today. I really couldn't, but it was going to be the look on him. his face when he's getting these guys, they're sweating and it's landing on him. Okay, Pricy, what was your favorite stampede wrestler? Oh, um, Davy Boy Smith, I think. Oh, no. Really? He used to love Davey Boy Smith and, uh, and of course, the heart, the heart.

No, no, no, no, no. But the British bulldog, he was the British bulldog. No, you got to, your favorite's got to be the Cuban assassin. I, I, I still to this day, can't understand why they let him wear, pants with side pockets that obviously had wrenches in them into the ring but you know I guess you can't you can't search these guys it would be against their principles so

I miss those you know I watch those on on Twitter all the time you know Stampede wrestling yeah yeah see Sean's looking as like what is Stampede wrestling I'm looking at you like you guys are dating yourselves because I although I will put my hand up back on the farm we had two channels on Sunday afternoon when mom was taking a nap dad was at the helm of the TV and it was either wrestling or I can't remember what was on the other channel obviously because we always watch

wrestling but I grew up in the age of the rock when he was in his heyday stone cold Steve Austin mankind triple H the undertaker I mean the undertaker still going who are we kidding there's a guy you'd know from now undertaker is like immortal the attitude era was was an awesome era but it can't compete with Hulk Hogan, Andre the Giant, George the Animal Steel, Brutus Beefcake, Craig the Hammer Valentine, the macho man. Oh, Brutus Beefcake. It was the, it was, it was the golden age of wrestling. But you know, when it first came on, when WWE first came on, I don't know about you, Buck, we were like, hey, what's this crap? You're Stampede Wrestling. Where's Ed Wagell? See, see, I grew up in

Regina, and Stampede Wrestling was every Saturday. afternoon and I played a lot of minor hockey and we played at all these little towns all over Saskatchewan and you honestly got your schedule for the weekend and you had to see what time is stampede wrestling on hope we're not playing then because we're not playing everybody's in one hotel room and we're all sitting there watching stampede wrestling we used to go to the auditorium and regina at the exhibition grounds there watch it every Wednesday night and we would stop at 7-11 on the way home and a van pulls up with all the wrestlers all the good guys and the bad guys all pour out of the van of course they're in the

they're in the ring telling everybody it's champagne and limousines and everything with all the girls of Regina no it's a van and you're stopping at 7-11 yeah when Rocky 3 came out and Hulk Hogan was in it we were like who's this guy

because we were watching Stampede wrestling well let's go we can probably be on we might just name the episode Stampede Wrestling and we could probably talk about it for two hours

brought up old matches. One of my good friends, Pete Lombardius, who comes on the Tuesday night sports show and Price, he can attest to this. Pete's a huge stampede wrestling fan. Monster, and he can do every stampede wrestler. He does a great Stu Hart, does a great

John Foley. Oh yeah, he does great imitations. Have they been replaying those at all? No. The stomper has them on. If you follow the stomper on Twitter, he will he'll tweet out some old video of Stampede wrestling and stuff like that.

And the best ones are the ones that involve Ed Wayland and Ed Whalen getting mad by. You know, because they'd involve Ed in their storylines, right? And there was one on there. He brought this woman into the ring who had a, she had a petition to get rid of one of the wrestlers. She was passing it around Calgary. She had all these names on it because people hated these people so much, right? It was awesome.

And then when WWE came for the first month, we're like, oh, shut that off. Well, WWF, let's say, if we're going to go back in the day. WWF back in the day, the old WWW. When you talk about what is this, when they switched to WWE, I remember going, what is this? Get out of here with this, WWE. But there's your Twitter or your stampede fix. Follow Twitter and you can have access to it. Stomper.

Let's talk to the CPCA. What Bucky is going to go on here? You sit on the board. What is going to happen with the season? Can there even be a season? Well, I think any decision for anything, and we talk about this for pro sports, that the decision is going to be out of the CPCA's hands,

it's going to be out of Chuck Wagon Racing's hands, it's going to come down to the health authorities, it's going to come down to the provincial governments. So we don't know now. And we're just kind of on a holding pattern. And, you know, we have a lot of sponsors to contact, the association, a lot of sponsors contact or drivers asking what's going to happen, and we can't tell them. And we can just say, and our drivers are preparing like they're going to race.

Our first stop is supposed to be Prince Albert at the end of May, and we're supposed to go to the Calgary Stampede in July. So we're planning to do that. That's got to be tough. It's very tough. Well, it's not only when you can race, but the CPCA to make it effective. you've got to have the sponsors, right? You've got to have all these sponsors and the economies

decimated so, so badly. And I hate speculating because you know this better than I do buck, but there's a lot of guys who really rely on this. Oh, yeah, and that's a thing where people don't realize that you have sponsors that sponsor the drivers, and that sponsorship money goes into getting them down the road. It goes into fuel to go down that road. It goes into feed for the horses, not just during the race season, but now when they're training those horses.

So all of a sudden, you don't have that sponsorship money coming in. How are you going to feed these horses? How are you going to train these horses? And right now, guys are training their horses like they will be racing in June because that's what they have to do. Right now, through everything that's going on, you have to try to do normal stuff. And normal stuff to these guys is training their horses. Yeah, preparing like they're going to be race. And that's probably the only way they can approach it because.

You can't just all of a sudden, nope, tomorrow we're racing, right? Like, it's not a switch. You flick on and off. You've got to be in prep early. It's just tough because right now it's looking pretty bleak, but it's looking pretty bleak for everything. Well, we talk about these major sports like the NHL and MLLB and everything, but how much money is being lost there and how much money is going on there. But at the same time, it's not the livelihood that it is with the CPCA, right?

And so it makes it even tougher to talk. talk about the CPCA this time. It is. You know what? And the thing is with CPC and you guys all know, chuck wagon racing, we have some very loyal, passionate fans and love them to death. And right now, it's driving the fans crazy, almost more than the drivers and the outriders and everybody else in the sport. Because if there's no chuck wagon racing, what the heck am I going to do for three months

in the summertime? that. Because a lot of them travel up and down that highway to watch the races or listen on radio. And now all of a sudden you take that away. And the other big component here, and I think more than anything, when they decide what's going to happen, I think everything else will fall into place. And of course, that's the Calgary Stampede. When the Calgary Stampede steps up and says, we're having a show in July, we got approval

from the provincial government, federal government, who else we need approval from, then everything else and everybody else will, okay, now let's get back. to normal. But social distancing, you got to think so it'll still be an effect in July. So if it is still an effect in July, how the heck do you do the Calgary Stampede? Sober. Sober, no midway. How do you sit watching, you know, you have 25,000 people sitting there watching chuck wagon racing. Yeah, I got to be how many meters apart from each other in the stands. You have a standing room area. You have luxury suites. You have all those different components. It makes up the Calgary Stampede and the wide people love the Calgary Stampede so much that all of a sudden

that's all going to change now. Wasn't warm weather supposed to kill this virus? If we ever get some, maybe we'll find out. The other thing that I hate to make a joke about this, but if you Google this, they're saying it can be passed through farts now. That makes you the most dangerous person on the planet. Honestly, Google it. You better put a face mask around your house, then.

We put plastic up on every entrance to that house. Around what, what? The house? Oh, okay, okay, okay. I thought something else. There you go, Bucky, the most dangerous man in the world. Yeah. The most, he's got the golden gun.

One shot and it kills. Trump's going to hire me. I'm going to invade Korea. I got two final ones for you. They'll probably nice and quick here, boys, to end off. Since we're all social distancing trapped in our houses, what has been a hobby you picked up, if anything? And what have you been doing during your COVID locked out? I'm not going to use it, though.

I was cheesy than watching something, but I better not. That was what you were doing before the lockdown. Oh, okay. He's talking about afterwards. Well, I've been watching a lot of old movies. And, of course, I miss country music because I listen to country music every day. So I find myself listening to a lot of country music. But also on, you know, we talked about Tiger King on Netflix,

but actually I've been watching World War II in color. And it's really got me interested in. in World War II and specifically Winston Churchill. And so I've been doing a little research on that because I just, I find it amazing. If you guys are looking for a series to watch World War II in color, the documentary series on Netflix, I found it just amazing. I have to, there's certain things I have to go back and watch twice because I find it so fascinating. For myself, I rediscovered a couple of things in the basement that I didn't realize we had.

one was an exercise bike and one was a rowing machine there was hockey jerseys on one hockey cards and another and geez I didn't realize we had that that's kind of a neat thing so I'm realizing that actually I can exercise have you used the rowing machine yet buck

no it's kind of awkward that's because you can't get down to get in it can you yeah exactly and if you ever got down you'd never get back No, that's just, yeah, no, that's the reason why I don't do yoga. You know, Alice and my wife wanted me to do yoga, and she said, well, can you touch your toes? And I said, the only way I'm touching my toes is somebody cuts them off and hands them to me. Touch my toes. I can't even see them.

I can just see you in the basement trying to get in this rowing machine. And then, Allison! Stuck! Allison! Call the boys! I need help getting up. paramedics going there's no way i'm going in that house i heard it gets passed by farts if if you could a big thing right now is um i've seen that actually first with uh jamy camel

from sports net uh it said if anyone's missing baseball or the blue jays in particular that he would reach out to any baseball fan and talk whatever so if you could get a call tomorrow from Any star, whether it's sports, politician, movie star, whoever you want. Who would you have? Who would you want a phone call? Oh, really me? Any, any, like, it could be anybody. Anybody.

A person has to be alive, of course. Yeah, sure. We'll go with it. That would make sense. Yep. You know, what, through all this, I was never a fan of his, really, but I've gained a lot of respect for him

for what he has done for charities in Canada. And I'm going to get serious here for a second is Ryan Reynolds. And so much respect for the young fellow, a Canadian guy that has stepped up and has helped organizations in Toronto. He's helped organizations in Evanton. And you know what?

Hats off to him. I'm not a big fan of celebrities getting involved and giving their two cents through a lot of different things. in our life, but he's doing something and doing something very positive. So probably if I got a phone call from him and if, yeah, I'll probably accept it. I think that's an awesome question, Sean. I don't know if you guys saw, what's his name, the PA announcer from Montreal, Michael La Croix, I think is his name.

But a Boston Bruin fan reached out to him and said, could you call my name like I just scored a goal as a Boston Bruin at the Bell Center in Montreal. And instead, he sent him back a video of him getting a penalty for two minutes for being on the wrong team, basically. And I thought that was classic. That's pretty cool. Yeah. I think that would be pretty neat if I could hear him say, you know, Kurt Price, two minutes,

five minutes for fighting or something like that in a game misconduct or something like that, that'd be cool. And if it was, you know, any, any, anybody at all, I would definitely pick Wayne Gradsky because I admire the man so much. You know what? It's just on that topic. You know, one thing I like to pass out to people that are listening and viewing us tonight, you know what? We're all stuck at home and we're trying to find things to do in our day. There is a couple of apps on chat forums on Facebook in Lloydminster for volunteers.

If you want to step up and, you know, maybe. maybe get groceries for a senior in a given day. I'm on the United Way board of directors, and we're doing a few things at senior homes this coming week. You know, today at the Lloyd X, we had that curbside assistance for Easter meals today, too. So you know what? There's a lot of organizations that need help at this time.

So if you're bored, don't be bored. Help somebody out. I think it's really good, Bucky. Yeah. Yeah, and I think the other thing that's important here is, and we talked about what this is going to, it look like in a couple of months and how this is going to change. And I think one of the ways that it has already changed people is people to realize that

they need to support local businesses. I think of a guy like Dave Schneider who has supported so many events. You know, you can't go to a event and there's an auction going on and there's not a jacket or a shirt or something that Dave Schneider has donated or he sponsored a hockey team or done something with hockey groups here in Lloyd Minster or he sat on a board or something like that because I know he was with the banids for a while. Yeah, he was. But that's a local business that is not open right now,

but it's trying to make their way in doing sales, curbside pickups, like you say, Bucky. And I think supporting those local businesses right now, if you can, is huge. And I know there's been a few people out there going out and buying gifts and things like that to even give away or just have for when things do get better again, that supporting these local businesses, I think that from all of this, what stands out to me is just how important that really, really is.

Yeah, boys, I couldn't agree more. And I think we'll leave it there. I really appreciate you guys hopping on and talking a little sports, having a little bit of fun with me tonight. I'm sure everybody will be chuckling a little bit. There's a few funny parts in the middle of there for sure. Some good messages as well. But thanks again, guys, for hopping on tonight. Thanks for having me.

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