The Cake Eaters - 3. Game Changers Episode 3: Breakaway

Episode Date: June 15, 2021

Heath & Brandon discuss whether or not Bombay slept with his childhood babysitter, how to properly parent a child, the Ice Palace's business operations, Bombay's disgraceful coaching background, and then break down the rest of Episode 3 of the new Mighty Ducks: Game Changers series on Disney+. Follow us at www.thecakeaterspod.com and on Twitter (@thecakeeaters) and Instagram (@thecakeeaterspod) Email us at [e-mail]

Remember, it's not worth winning if you can't win! So I know I lit Koob up last week, but I'm going to do it again because he is hands down the worst goalie that I've ever seen in my entire life. The dude is just standing there. He doesn't move at all. He's a statue. They should call him the human tripod. Coob is the human tripod.

Wow. Poor Coob just coming in right away. I feel bad because he's a 12-year-old kid, Wow, poor Koob just coming in right away, attacking the footwork. I feel bad because he's a 12-year-old kid, but I want to make perfectly clear I'm not attacking the actor. I think the actor is doing a fantastic job, but Koob should not be playing hockey. Koob the goalie is a liability.

There is no questioning that fact. And the lack of footwork and his feet stuck in the sand approach to playing goalie is rough. And it is a liability for the don't bothers. You know, outside of having the worst team name, goalie is one of the bigger areas of opportunity. Yeah, it's problem 1B. 1A is the name. 1B is Coop. Amazing to just come right in hot with Coop,

especially after the show starts off with Coop feeling the pain, re-watching that. Like, he knows when they're watching game film, when they kick things off, he knows he shouldn't have left the basement. He had a recliner with cup holders in it. Who wants to leave a recliner with cup holders? I don't want to leave that. He had a solid setup. I don't know why he left. That was a rookie mistake on Coop's part.

I don't know why he left. Before we get too carried away, though, just a reminder, everybody, this is the Cake Years Podcast. I'm Brandon. That's Heath. Hello, everyone. I do have to say that in honor of the podcast, I did have a delicious piece of blueberry lemon cake from the farmer's market out here. And so, you know, not only are we recording the podcast here today, but I myself took the cake eater name to heart.

Blueberry lemon. That sounds like, I don't think I've ever seen a blueberry lemon cake before. That was delightful. Sounds pretty fantastic. I have not had cake. I don't think I ever had cake in years. Years.

I don't know. I'm not a huge cake guy. And I feel like subconsciously these movies had a lot to do with that. Because there's just such a negative connotation. Like, oh, hey, that's not me. I also think that the birthday cakes from our youth did a number on it. Like those cheap sheet cakes for a six-year-old's birthday party. By the fifth birthday party, you were done with that.

Like you knew the setup. It was dry. It was bland. It you knew the setup. It was dry. It was bland. It's like eating sand. Eating a handful of sand. And all of a sudden you're traumatized from cake forever. But then when you go to a farmer's market and you have something fresh baked, you got to jump back in.

I don't know. I think the time has passed. My cake eating days are behind me. I'm too old. Too old. As Nick would say, at my age, it's just not worth it anymore. Don't bother, Brandon. Don't bother.

Just don't bother. Can you believe that they actually decided to re-watch the game film of all things? I want to know who's filming that. I assume Nick set up a phone, but what PeeWee team

is watching film? I mean, I guess it's like a club team, so I guess still there. But you would think that goes against the laissez-faire attitude of Alex, of Coach A. You know? Yeah. The don't-bothers recording the game was the most surprising thing.

Although, I mean, I don't know. Maybe it was apparent because Big Mike recorded every single one of my. It was probably one of Nick's two moms. Exactly. They seem like they're on top of things and they're very supportive of him and everything that he does. So I agree. Because like I said, Big Mike, he would, who's my dad, by the way, he recorded everything that he does. So I agree. Because like I said, Big Mike, he would,

who's my dad, by the way, he recorded everything that I did throughout my years. Everybody knows Big Mike. Everyone should know Big Mike. He is a very, very cool dude. If you don't know Big Mike, now you know. Now you know. And of course, as they're going through

and watching the game film Nick delivers another gem Of wow this is a Master class of sucking Yeah no positive attitudes In that film watch At all Because there wasn't anything positive

And I think that by the time they finished, they all realized like, wow, that should have been a lot more than 12-0, just like we talked about in the last podcast. Oh yeah, it should have been way more. A lot of red out there. A lot of red out there. And so post-game film,

we get what is about to be a main storyline throughout episode three. Episode three, Bre a main storyline throughout uh episode three episode three breakaway yes episode three breakaway we get after the little film buff we get our first uh mention of one of my new favorite characters coco chad who is uh uh when he's uh former love interest i guess because when we see Coco, Chad and when he, they are Coco, Chad is in the midst of breaking when he's are breaking up with her, which to come to somebody's place of work and break up with them there.

Like I, I like giving him the benefit of the doubt. I'm assuming she stayed over at his place. He was driving her to work, but to do it like right before she goes into for her shift what do we what are we doing here coco chad some bedside manner would be welcomed that that was pretty rough on on his on his part also uh we can't let it slide that he gave her was it four maybe five yoga mats back so so i don't know if maybe um the sleeping situation was awkward

there so maybe she stacked some yoga mats um as a a secondary source for for i don't know but when he's not stacking yoga mats to sleep on when he strikes she's not homeless no she strikes me as the type of girl though that would bring a yoga mat over to her boyfriends leave it there forget that she left it there and then just buy a new one oh okay so so she's gone to yoga like three or four times either pre or post coco chad's place and has left her yoga mat there every time exactly or maybe maybe maybe they were parting gifts maybe coco chad was like i'm really sorry to break your heart but here's five yoga mats to kind of smooth it over.

Yeah, and you know, and for it to go down in front of a room full of kids, that's also rough business too. Yeah, well, so he breaks up with her at her work. Not only does he do it like, he doesn't do it in the parking lot. He walks

in with her. They're standing behind the boards almost on the ice, and that's when he does it. Or maybe he started in the car and it kind of spilled over. But still, it's a highly embarrassing way to go about this, Coco Chad. Yeah, very premeditated, too, to have all the gear. That's a lot of gear. That's possibly two trips back to the

car in order to get that into the Cocoa delivery vehicle. So if he's giving her her stuff back, maybe they broke up at a later date and he was just giving her her stuff back. Hopefully. They'd broken up a couple days earlier

and he was like, you know what? Let me load up the delivery truck And get these yoga mats back Giving Chad every single benefit of the doubt I'm hoping that's what it was Because otherwise yeah very premeditated Maybe she didn't even stay the night Maybe he drove

Specifically to her work with all the stuff And then was like we're over I hope not I hope that's not how it was either I hope then it was like, we're over. I hope not. I hope that's not how it was either. I hope that it was like, you know what? We broke up.

I can't have five fucking yoga mats laying around my studio apartment here in the twin cities. Like I got to get this shit out of here. Uh, Winnie, I'm going to, I'm going to drop this off, but maybe he's heartless, you know,

maybe he's Kanye West. Maybe, maybe that's what that song's about. Being so,'s heartless you know maybe he's kanye west maybe maybe that's what that song's about being so so heartless when he when he does mention later on the episode that coco chad is just in it for coco chad so oh yeah so he's so he is kanye a little narcissistic yeah i mean when you're when you're slinging that much coco it goes to your head a little bit slinging coco in the twin cities now that's some that's some real game right there yeah well so yeah like you mentioned all the kids are watching this go down

and all of them know the backstory like i think it's maya is the one who brings up oh he's breaking up with her so she clearly has background knowledge on this this relationship nick mentions that they've been dating for he knows like the exact month Nick mentions that they've been dating for, he knows like the exact month and days that they've been dating. A little creepy, but we'll let that slide because Nick's awesome. Yes. He's very into Winnie, we find out in this episode. He's got the love crush going on.

Yeah, and like every 12-year-old boy has a crush on an older girl at one point in their life. So we can't blame Nick here. Yes, yes. And that does come back around. There's a scene later in the episode that I really want to talk about, but we'll get to that later. Yep. So he breaks it down. Nick gives us the exact timeline of how long they've been dating.

And then, so you kind of get that little love interest that comes back around a couple of different times. I, one of the other things that I love is when Bombay is complaining and he's like, okay, so I need Winnie to be able to multitask.

I want her to be able to be sad and make Coco. That was a great line. I'm sure most people listening can relate. When you get heartbroken, you still got to be able to function. Just because the relationship is over doesn't mean you can let the job slide. You got to refocus as hard as it may be. One setback you can't let ruin your whole life right now. And when he loses his job, where is she?

That's what I want to know. Then she might need to stack yoga pads and be homeless. I think that Bombay is lacking a little bit of EQ here. But that's okay because he has just enough that he's not gonna he's not gonna fire her he's gonna motivate her he's gonna motivate winnie to get back on track just like the ducks he definitely wouldn't fire her but make make no mistake it's not out of his empathy it's out of pure selfishness because he doesn't want to do anything that she does for him she wouldn't fucking sack bar, dude.

Yeah, he wouldn't fire her because then he would have to put in the work to find somebody else. Like, I guarantee you he didn't hire Winnie. Winnie was already working there when, because later on in the episode we find out Jan bequeaths the Ice Palace to Bombay in his will.

With a ton of debt. That's why he hates it so much and why it's falling apart. Yeah, it makes perfect sense. We predicted that in the first episode. Yeah, it had to have been a gift. Well, I guess more of a burden than a gift. And I guarantee you, Winnie was already

on payroll. She was on staff already. Because Bombay is not doing any work at that point. He's not going to find somebody. He's not going to... So him not firing Winnie is strictly selfish reasons. He doesn't want to have to do any work. Then he'd have to meet a new person and

train them, and that's a disaster. Winnie is holding the Ice Palace together. Just the backbone, the heart and the soul of the Ice Palace. She is a great character, though. I hope we get more Winnie later on down the road. She's a great... Because in the first episode with the cocoa bar scene with her and Alex,

she's a good little heart piece in this show, for sure. Yeah, I agree. And they did a very nice job of setting up that whole storyline between nick and winnie yeah i mean well because it it uh it happens and then it resolves itself all within one episode. That's great. Which is like standard sitcom stuff, but like it comes out of nowhere. There's no, there's not a lot of background. No, there's no, like in the first few episodes, they don't, I don't think they talk ever at all.

It's a metaphor. Brandon love is fleeting. That's fair. Especially 12 year old love. Very exactly. They open their hearts to the world and their love becomes flowers thrown in a dumpster. Oh, the dumpster flowers. Post Coco, Chad, and

Winnie, it cuts back to them at school. Because at practice, Nick and Evan are like, oh, shit. Because they're doing drills. Alex is doing real hockey coach stuff. Like, she's got cones. She's stoked on the notebook, right? Like, she's got the coaching notebook she's super excited about they're doing drills but they realize like oh this is bad like we're we need to get a sharpshooter we need sophie

we need sophie and nick even drops the the name of the show um right after they're watching film and they're like we definitely need we need sophie's a game changer. She's a game changer. Oh, I see what you did there. So what they do is they cut the school, and Nick has this bright idea of giving her the money puck pitch. He basically goes up to her. Nick and Evan go up to Sophie, and they're basically like basically like hey you should come on our team instead of the ducks because the ducks have other good players that you have to like pass the puck to if you come to our team you don't have to pass the puck you can play all the

time score all our goals you'll look amazing compared to everybody else and that'll that'll get you into college for sure yeah more time to shine yes why why be a small fish in a big pond when you can be a big fish in a small pond it's just as Nick says it's just math and I love the money puck reference it's great Nick once again he comes prepared too he's got like a

graph he's got all the data to back it up he's full money puck presentation the one thing that Sophie says in there He's got all the data to back it up. He's full Money Puck presentation. The one thing that Sophie says in there that I was like, wait, what is she doing? She's like, I've got to go speak at a parent coffee. Did you hear her say that? What does that even mean? She's 12 years old.

She's going to a coffee chat with a whole bunch of parents to go so i watched what i watched that scene probably four or five times because i heard that line and i was like what the fuck is she talking about are we just so out of touch are all the parents like our whole bunch of parents gonna be like oh you dumb asses like parent coffees happen all the time and kids go insane kid shit at it well see so i was very confused at first and i had no idea what was going on um i didn't i didn't do any research because that's not what i do not a we're not a research podcast like so if people want us to be a research podcast they need to sponsor us and donate to on our spotify page like we've already said it we'll say it a thousand times so i'm sure there's a very logical plain answer out there that

we just did not look up but my my guess at understanding it was it was like like a lunch and learn type scenario at like your job or your your uh your business and so yeah it's you know the a couple parents come in they get a coffee they sit down and then like a random kid does a presentation on some some nonsense that they you know are experts on the the 12 year old expert wow that's my that's my guess i'm really i don't know why you would call it like that I don't know why you would call it a parent coffee, though. There's got to be a better name for that. Just call it a coffee and learn. Yeah.

Oh, and I may have jumped the gun, too, because I think after this initial recruiting pitch is when they go back to practice, and that's when she introduces like the coaching notebook and she really starts to like get down yeah with the hockey sticks in the corner she's ready to go she's got a whistle she's got the cones yeah she's full coach mode like the my big thing is like okay i i'd love to know what the budget was on the surplus because she's purchasing a lot of stuff again. Is she stealing this, going back to the tried and true, lost and found method? Or is she going out and buying some of these various cones?

Or maybe does the Ice Palace have some cones for when things break? No, she said she brought cones. So they're not Ice Palace. I'm assuming she probably bought the cones with the surplus. Because you're not going to use all... You've got to leave a little budget room. You're not going to

spend it all. So she's probably still even now got some little surplus going. The notebook, though, she strikes me as a person who would go to like a craft store like a michael's or something and buy just buy a shit ton of notebooks with no real need at the moment for to use them and just like keeps them in a room and she probably went in there and was like i bet you i have like a i bet you i got a notebook with hockey sticks on it and then she pulls it out

of the shelf she's like ready to go ready to rock and roll for her coaching notebook yeah and she looked up uh various drills on the internet and you know what they started doing them they they it's it's nice to see they're at least learning how to skate before yes they're murdered by the ducks they're fine people are finally skating except for logan still can't, and Koob still won't move. Yeah. And God knows when they're going to address the Koob situation. Just worthless. Worthless out there. Why is that not the number one priority,

is to teach Koob some sort of goalie maneuver? I mean, at this point, really? Honestly, he would be better off. Yes, if you just told him, just go on your knees and then use your hands. Yeah. Because then at least you're blocking more of the bottom. Yeah, because right now he's too tall. And like where he's moving his hands, it just leaves so much stuff.

If he was just kneeling down, he would at least – Yeah, they go five-hole. They go right by the feet. Those are going every time. So get on your knees, Coop. Coop, just such a liability out there. Can we just pull the – at this point, they may as well just pull the goalie. They might be better off because then you get six skaters.

What did you think about Bombay just in the middle of their practice? It seemed like they were in the heart of their practice, just coming out on a rickety-ass Zamboni and completely interrupting and driving it down the middle of that. It seemed like they had just started that practice. And I believe it was episode two where Alex or Bombay mentions that one to three is their practice time. So they have two hours of practice time. And in this scenario, it looked like they just started.

So I'm assuming it's like 1 o'clock, 1.30 if you count – maybe 1.30 if you're counting like dress time. And, yeah, he pulls out in the zamboni and just cuts off in the middle of practice and is like hey everybody scatter i gotta do this because winnie's not gonna do it now yeah like i mean i've been so big because he's like he's i've been so busy filling ketchups and stuff that i haven't been able to clean the ice so i gotta do it now during your practice. So tough. And she doesn't even get mad.

She's like, hey, you want to help? I don't know what I'm doing. I have no idea what I'm doing. She asked for help. She's trying to hook him in. Yeah. You get a little more like tenacious, flirty Bombay and Alex. She asked him for help.

He goes, or what did she say? She goes, I would love some advice if you have any. And he goes, you should probably just quit. Bombay killing it again. You already paid me my money for the surplus. So, you know, we're good. You can quit. you don't have to show up here every day um and uh i i also uh my i loved alex's comment when bombay was like say

complaining that he has to do all winnie's job because coco Coco Chad broke up with her and she was like, yeah, I didn't like that guy. He called me ma'am. Such a Coco Chad move to call somebody ma'am. Yeah, like, you know, in the South, you just say yes ma'am as a sign of respect. In the Midwest, if you call someone in their 40s ma'am, in Minnesota, that would man, you're toast. In Minnesota, that would be, yeah.

It's very insulting. Yep. You're getting uninvited from any Thanksgiving dinners if you do that. Yeah. There's not a single hot dish in your future there, bud. And so after this practice, Nick has another great line as the practice is winding down where they're like, okay, Sophie, we really got to get this going. Coop sucks. He's a disaster. Logan, the human tripod, is there strictly just to bring the curb appeal up for the team.

That's all Logan's purpose is. He's a money beat, as Dwight would say. You gotta keep them on the... Those are the ones you put out first. Money beats. And so they go on phase two, the charm offensive with Sophie at school.

Yes. This is fantastic because each of the kids – well, not each of them. There's a couple that don't do anything. But most of the kids have a little charming aspect to kind of butter Sophie up. Especially your boy, Coob. Yeah. So some of them are fantastic. Like Logan goes up to her locker and is like, hey, if you need some like hair care tips, I got you.

He's going to double the volume on her hair. Like that's not something to just pass up, you know. Maybe he's got some like herbal essence or some Pantene Pro-V going on there to double the volume. Yeah. I don't know. She didn't bite though. She was like, no, I'm good. I'm solid. I don't know. She didn't bite though. She was like, no, I'm good.

I'm solid. My hair is fine. And I mean, she's got a great head of hair too. Her hair is great. She doesn't really need Logan's help. And then you got Maya who comes up. She compliments her shoes or dress or something like that. Great looking shoes.

Awesome shoes. And then. I actually, I don't even remember what the shoes were. I don't even know if they shipped. Oh, I don't think they did. I don't think they did. Wild card. After that, you get the wild card. So she's walking by and Sam's at the vending machine and he

does a little elbow trick. Knocks up. Fonz! He does the Fonz. And he knocks down the perfect product placement for Skinny Pop. He even calls it out. He's like, hey, Sophie, I know you love Skinny Pop so much. Here's a bag for you.

I do too, though. Skinny Pop's great. And that's not even me fishing for ad placement for them, but it really is an excellent snack. It's better when work provides it for you, though. really is an excellent snack. It's better when work provides it for you, though. I'll chow down on some free Skinny Pop. I'm not going to buy Skinny Pop, though.

Yeah, that's exactly the issue. Free work Skinny Pop is excellent. Home paid-for Skinny Pop feels like a rip-off. Because you just get some Orville Reppenbacher and get down on that and stuff. Exactly. If you're going to buy prepackaged

popcorn treats, you buy the I don't even know the brand name, but the white cheddar stuff, that stuff's fire. Yeah, that's exactly. You get it. Or get some of the crazy Cheeto popcorn. Cheeto popcorn? I did not know that. Put that on my list.

Check that out later. So then after that, the Coob comes up to Sophie while she's walking to the bus. His t-shirt is like a D&D t-shirt too, like a choose your weapon. Yeah, it's like D&D

slash video game. Oh, okay. Like an RPG. More like dnd slash like video game um oh okay like an rpg more like an rpg role player game yeah because it's it's like 8-bit graphics so i think they're going for the video game vibe but yeah it says choose your weapon and then it has a bunch on there but he walks up to her and just goes so you just go hey and then he like freezes and walks away isn't that what he does no he says yes says yes. Oh, that's right. She says hey, and he goes yes. And then shuffles away.

Yeah. And Evan walks up and she's like, well, what's up with that? He's like, no, that was really sociable for Coop. That was awesome. That was Coop being charming. Yeah.

Taking it up. Although, I do have to say, Evan's not my favorite character so far. I'm just going to come out and say it. I know we're supposed to like him because he's the main character, but he kind of bothers me a little bit. He has a line later on that I know was the show being like self-aware and like poking fun at

the tropes and stuff but the fact that it came from Evan in the situation it did really bothered me when it's later on after so we'll get to it so after this after the charm offensive she's kind of warming up to it and

Evan's like they make a pizza date. Yes, pizza. Well, no, it's not a date. Just math. Not a date. That was one of my... That was one of my favorite. The most super awkward 12-year-old kid thing and you know the waitress did it just to fuck

with them. What a ballsy fucking waitress. What a ballsy waitress. I would have left a mess on that table for that waitress for that comment. I'd have been like, you son of a bitch. They did such a good job of them like panicking and like, oh, no, no, no, no. It's just mad. It's just mad. But you're right.

Like you're at least sprinkling some Parmesan cheese, like some rogue Parmesan cheese on the tablecloth just to be like, okay, come wipe this up because that was a really shitty thing to do. Maybe it would be. How dare you? Now it never will be a date. It had a chance to be a date before you did this. Yeah, but they did a great job of capturing that and all of its awkwardness because I'm pretty sure we've all been there before where, you know, you're hanging out and someone's like, oh, you guys together? And the other person's like, no, no, no, no, no.

And you're like, well, yeah, I know, but you didn't have to be so aggressive about it, man. Why were you so quick on the trigger with that? Like, geez, we both know. You didn't have to just throw it down out there. They get it, okay? They do do a good job of capturing that little awkward teen stuff because then you get Trevor who comes in. Trevor's the goalie for the Mighty Ducks, the mean kid.

That makes Evan feel stupid for asking to borrow a swimsuit on the first episode. So he comes in and you can – I assume that he – like he's got the Sophie crush a little bit because he comes in and instantly starts nagging evan like making fun of them making fun of the don't bothers asking sophie if we should spot them 10 goals in the game tomorrow or on the weekend which would be nice just real like real middle school trying to make yourself look better yeah yeah and then my favorite part is so he's uh he's getting ready to leave because uh stephanie comes in and is like pick it up son i'm double parked double parked stephanie would be double parked she's the worst not only not only is she double parked but then she gets out of the car while she's double parked to tell her son that she's double parked yeah like hey i'm double

parked hurry up and then you know you could have done so chopped south yeah you know you could have done in that time stephanie you could have pulled her gotten out of the double parked pulled around the block and then you would have been fine it could have just parked like a like a normal person but i do love when he's like the lady wants her chopped south but what so what i loved is so he says that and then he gets up from the table, just grabs Evan's book and places it down on the ground, which is such a great,

like little, like such a great, like middle school. Like I want to be real mean to you right now, but I don't feel like punching you and I don't know what to do. I'm just going to knock your book down. And I also don't want to make a scene.

Yeah, yeah. I want to be mean, but I don't want to be too mean. So let's, where's the fine line I'm just going to knock your book over Because we live in a society with very conscientious children You know they're taught to about bullying And by the time they're 12

They've been getting the bully talk For like 6 years now And so like he knows he can't just slam books He can't just smack people In the back of the head But gently setting that book down Is a much more modern fuck you knows he can't just slam books he can't just smack people in the back of the head but gently setting that book down is a much more modern fuck you yeah yeah just giving him just just being a bother just a slight little like cumbersome bother making it inconvenient for evan that's where

that's where bullying is progressing to you just got to be inconvenient you're you you become the gnat in the room. Yes, exactly. Well, and then also, then Evan has another fantastic move that he pulls where he, at the end of the date, again, the waitress, who is obviously in on this with Evan.

Yeah. Maybe that's why she thought it was a date because he went in and had some pre-planning there. And I will say this is the same pizza place that we've seen in each episode. I think they're in every single episode. Yeah, it's a recurring episode.

So the waitress probably knows Evan or at least Alex, I would assume. Alex seems like the type of person that would become best friends with the waitress at the pizza place. Oh yeah. She's a single mom so she only talks Alex seems like the type of person that would become like best friends with a waitress at the pizza place. Oh yeah. Like she's, she's, she's a single mom. So she only talks to her child a lot of the time outside of work.

So she probably like any chance for adult interaction, she's going to just do what she did at the cocoa bar and just starts viewing her life story. So I agree. She's probably a regular everywhere she goes. Yes. But so Evan has the waitress bring out another pizza box. And Sophie goes, we didn't order anything.

And Evan opens it up and inside the pizza box is a don't bother jersey complete with the captaincy specifically for Sophie. What a romantic gesture. Like this, whenever this, whenever Evan decides to propose to somebody I Assume it's going to be magical because that was a slick Fucking move yeah I Do have to agree as I mentioned Before not the biggest fan of Evan

But this was a very smooth Move to just Be so invested In his own salesmanship To have her jersey Already purchased and ready to go, knowing that this moment was inevitable. With the captaincy, her name on the back, her number,

all prepped, ready to go, ready to rock. It was a bold strategy. Bold strategy, but he's coming out, swinging, and I love it. He crushed it. It works. Plants the seed.

It doesn't convince Sophie, but it plants that seed, plants the seed it doesn't it doesn't convince sophie but yeah it plants that seed and that seed grows because she takes the jersey home sophie takes her jersey home yeah and she's looking at it while she's sitting on her bed kind of admiring it and then mom walks in and she sophie does the worst hiding job i've ever seen clearly a disaster. Clearly a kid that's never sneaked booze or drugs into her room because she just has no hiding skills. Which I guess makes sense. She's 12 years old.

She's 12 years old. 12 years old in the Twin Cities. Everybody's doing cocaine at that point, I believe. Her parents have ruled with an iron fist thus far, so she's probably not. If anything, she's at least done some Adderall to help stay up late to study for a math test. And if anything, parents like that, those hammer-fisted parents, breed fantastic liars and hiders.

Because that's how you learn – that's how you get through those kind of parents is you just learn how to lie and hide really well. That's very true. So message to all you overbearing parents, that's what you're doing. I'm going to chill the fuck out. I have zero kids and zero experience in this, but that's what you're doing. Yeah, you should just take a shot with your 12-year-old.

This is where I spin off this podcast into my Parenting with Brandon podcast. And we talk about my advice for all the parents out there from my zero experience. Why a shot of Jaeger on your birthday for your 12-year-old is a good thing. Yeah. Yeah. You got to let them taste it. You give a 12-year-old Jager and I guarantee you that kid's

never drinking Jager again. He hates it because they're going to throw up for sure. To keep going here, my dad gave me a sip of Budweiser when I was probably like probably 10 or 11 I want to say. And I still refuse to drink

Budweiser to this day because that was just the worst experience of my life. No diesel fuel for you then? Well, and I'm born and raised in Colorado. I'm a Coors Light guy. That makes sense because I was going to say there's no

way that you can't have an experience. Those Clydesdales driving that sled in the snow. I'll pound Bud Light all day, but I stay away from regular Budweiser. Okay. Okay. Oh, man. oh man anyways um so after she does a terrible job hiding the jersey she also does a very very bad job with the cell i think well she's trying to play it's got to her she's trying to play it she's trying to gauge you know like what's my mom gonna say maybe she's gonna roll with it and i can

go with the classic thing where you bring something up to somebody that you know you're like 90 sure they're gonna say no to you but you just go like you float it out there as a joke you know you know like oh yeah you know like what like with like your middle school crushes or whatever like oh wouldn't it be so funny if we like kissed? Wouldn't that be crazy? And then they're like. Wouldn't it be funny if we like went out? Yeah. Exactly. And held hands during recess.

What? A couple, just imagine a couple of wild cards out there just holding hands. But so that's what she does when she brings it up to the mom. She's like, they gave me this pitch about like how I would be way better on that team because everybody else sucks. How funny is that?

Isn't that funny, mom? She tried using the money puck pitch. Oh, yeah. Like, hey, my parents are logical. This might make sense to her. Her mom's like, shut up. Oh, shut it down right away. I think she called it ridiculous.

She was like, no, that's ridiculous. It's a hard no from sophie's mom yeah not not not about it so so we can it's we're starting to think okay maybe that you know they're trying to plant the seed yet like sophie wants to don't bother but her parents definitely don't Want her to bother with that team And it's gotta be Because of that stupid fucking name That's definitely the name Definitely the name If I was a parent I couldn't get behind

Because like what am I wearing a don't bothers T-shirt where you want me to wear that In public it shouldn't just say don't bother I mean you bring up a good point because In the fan and the parent shots, you see parents of the Ducks, they're wearing Duck gear. They got

a track suit or a track jacket or a quarter zip with the Duck logo on it. That's a regular thing. When the kids buy their stuff for that year, like the parents will order for themselves as well.

Oh, yeah. You got the bulk orders. I guarantee you they have a team shop in Hendrix Pavilion. Oh, for sure. Yeah. And then – but nobody on the – there's no Don't Bother merch at all. Zero. Which, I mean, you got to save the hockey surplus, I guess.

I was just going to say, that surplus, there was no way they were going to be able to win. None of them? No one wants a shirt that says don't bother. But I don't think any of the parents are even wearing team colors. I think they're all just wearing whatever they want. No team spirit. Because the team colors are brown and yellow. I mean, I know that Mary Jo thought that the don't bothers looked sharp when they came out with their new unis.

She said tight. They look tight. Tight. That's the exact quote. Her dad would have said they look sharp. Terry. Terry, yeah. Terry would have said they look sharp.

Well, Terry doesn't care about uniforms. He's not paying. He's a numbers guy. He's all about the data So Oh After that it cuts to Alex in the law Her law firm and she's looking up Bombay

She does They do such a good job With her panic closing out Of the Windows at work because Every single person in america well not anymore because everyone's worked from home but like every single person that's worked in the office in america has had an awkward minimize like oh yeah i definitely wasn't buying tickets i promise you she she double doubles up the embarrassment because she exits out of the

window which brings up her online shopping window. And they do another great job of making Stephanie the worst because she has to do the worst comment where it's like, oh, what does that have any, does Bombay have something

to do with this case? She can't just be like, hey, can you close that out? Get back to work. She's got to make a fucking show out of it. Yeah. Get out of here, Seth. I freeze-framed it on when she was looking up Bombay stuff. Okay.

I have half of one of the articles that she was looking at. So it says Bombay – the headline is Bombay out as coach at St. Paul State. It says Gordon Bombay, and then it gives his birth date, May 12, 1962. I don't know if we're ever given that before. But 1962, what would that make him? Do your math here. So he's going to be – so he's 59 just turned 59 so it's just go yeah gordon gordon bombay just turned 59 as a retired american hockey player turned coach

this is where i so the next line is regarded as a hockey icon he is considered one of the most iconic and influential athletes in the history of ice hockey. I call bullshit on that. There's no – the dude didn't even – he didn't even make it into minor league hockey. He didn't even play in the pros. That is disrespectful to Wayne Gretzky and all professional hockey players. Yarmir Yager is rolling over in his living brain. Oh, great Yarmir Yager pull. Love it. Yarmir Yager is still playing hockey too. I don't know if you understand that. Oh, great Jaromir Jagr pull. Love it. Jaromir Jagr is still playing hockey too.

I don't know if you understand that. No, I do. He's played for like 30 seasons. He's older than Bombay. I think Jaromir Jagr, shoot, now people are going to fact check me and stuff. Let me look this up. Let's see how old Jararmir Yager is. Gordie Howe did something similar.

Gordie Howe. Okay. He's definitely not older than Bombay. He's 10 years younger than Bombay. He's 49. But he's still playing. I believe he's back. I believe he's playing back in his home country of the Czech Republic.

He's not in the NHL anymore, but he's still playing hockey. And he's going to play hockey until he dies, I assume. Dude's a machine. Yami or Jagr, Gordie Howe, Gordon Bombay. Those are... No Wayne Gretzky, no

Bobby Moore. Get that shit out of here. Compared to... Do they have a business loafer shoe? Yeah, there's no Air Gretzky's. Yeah, sorry, the great one. And I'm using air quotes around the great one when describing him compared to Gordon Bombay and the Air Bombays.

So after that ridiculous line, it gets more ridiculous. It goes, his longevity, which is again, bullshit. He played one year in minor league hockey, unless they're counting coaching longevity, which is Pee Wee coaching longevity. Which, well, yeah, Pee Wee coaching. And even then,

he was a coach for two years? Unless we're not getting the full backstory and he came back and coached but still um but it says his longevity and then followed by law followed by his longevity and excess earned him the informal title of the godfather of hockey again bullshit bullshit but it says right after the longevity, it says after six months of coaching at St. Paul State. That's not longevity. That's probably not even a full season.

Depending on what six months they were. After six months at St. Paul State, Bombay is throwing in the towel, leaving his students and comrades behind. And then it has like a quote from, it refers to somebody called coach armani but i'm assuming they're they mean like the athletic director you know because because they quote coach armani and it says it just wasn't a good fit he'd be better off doing his own thing i'm assuming that they mean that that's like the athletic director who yeah

it's the athletic director is probably like the football coach or something yeah but god that that that paragraph from that article just dumbfounded me like the that's amazing i'm just the fucking balls dude the fucking balls to call him a hockey icon do you think the writers at disney were like hey let's throw some crazy hyperbole in here nobody's nobody's gonna see it no one's gonna see this and you caught it brandon and you call bullshit on him and i'm glad you did yes just very few things in the mighty ducks franchise has infuriated me but but that paragraph did. That paragraph got me. So after the quick work scene where she's doing her

Bombay research, they cut back and Coco Chad is back. Coco Chad's back. He's got flowers. He runs into Nick. Nick the Stick, there, to cross-check him. Nick goes, oh, hey, Chad. And Chad goes, wait, you know me?

He goes, I know your product. I had that written down, too. Another amazing one-liner from Nick the Stick. I'm familiar with your product. I know your product. Like, an avid cocoa drinker nick but he he did mention that in the either the first or second episode where his favorite part about hockey is the amount of cocoa that he gets to drink both before and after practice yes correct

avid cocoa drinker yeah he's he's well versed in Coco Chad's product For sure Do you think it's a Swiss Miss Hockey mix? Or hockey mix? Is it Swiss Miss Coco mix? No Bombay's not buying brand name stuff He's going bottom of the barrel Bottom of the barrel That brings up another question

Does Chad only sell Is he only distributing Coco to the Ice Palace? You've got to have other products right? You can't and this may speak to Bombay's business acumen if he's buying individual products from

individual vendors instead of just bulk buying. I don't know. I'm very curious. I would love to take a look at the Ice Palace's books. I would love to get my eyes on those. Sink your teeth in there. Give the Ice Palace a nice audit. Or even just a glance at their checking account history. I just want to...

I mean, to be fair for Coco Chan and his product, we are in the Twin Cities. There's probably a lot of various ice rinks. Obviously, peewee hockey is a very large undertaking if you have 12-year-olds utilizing. It starts when they're like 6'7", so there's got to be a lot of ice palaces that need their hot cocoa out there. Yeah. I mean, I feel like Cocoa Chad could probably make a – you could probably make – I was going to say a good living, but that's very generous.

You could probably make a living selling – and then is he just the distributor? Is he making the cocoa? I feel like he is merely the distributor. He does not seem like an individual that is an entrepreneur. There's no entrepreneurial spirit. He's got a real artisanal hot chocolate vibe going. If it's an artisanal hot chocolate, it's not going to be anywhere near the ice towel.

That's true. Bombay's paying for that. That's crazy. He's not paying for it. He's not buying Swiss mess. He's buying the absolute cheapest hot chocolate he can find. He even mentions – He's going to Sam's Club and buying bulk and mixing it with water.

He even mentions – Bombay mentions at the, I think it's at the beginning of the episode when he's like trying to figure out where Winnie is. He's like, why are we not, why is she not selling hot cocoa? Hot cocoa that costs $2 or that sells for $2, but costs 2 cents to make is where we get all our money from. He's got to revisit that. Yeah. His, got to revisit that.

Yeah, his cost per unit for hot cocoa is two cents, which I mean, to go from two cents to $2, that's crazy good markup. Yeah, I mean, that's $1.98 profit. Yeah. He's got to – and it sounds like Nick is probably crushing like two or three hot cocos. Oh, yeah. That's six bucks a day. I wouldn't be surprised if him and his two moms have a tab going. Just put the

hot Coco on my tab, Bombay. Although Bombay probably wouldn't let him take out a tab. You got to pay up front. When I run in a charity here. I also love that Coco Chad comes in with the flowers, feeling the remorse, realizing I also love that Coco Chad

comes in with the flowers feeling the remorse realizing you know like hey there's a lot of weird snack chicks out there I fucked up and I should have I should have not have dumped Winnie I should have kept her

and her six yoga mats at my place his exact quote, I believe, is there's a lot of weird snack girls out there, and I had a hot one. So, yeah, he's instant regret from the breakup. Instant regret. So he comes with flowers. He's asking where Winnie is.

Nick being the chivalrous guy he is with no other ulterior motives is like, I'll take the flowers for you. I'll give them to Winnie for you. She's not in a great place to talk right now, but I'll give her your flowers. So then Chad leaves, and then Nick proceeds to take the flowers to the dumpster to get ready to just toss them. Where they belong. She needs no heartache.

Trying to save Winnie from the heartache, exactly. Yeah. Nick's not playing these games yeah but that leads to one of my favorite uh exchanges of the episode because bombay sees him throwing away the flowers and again with only only selfish motives he imparts a lot of wisdom into nick in this in the the scene. So he basically goes to Nick and he's like, get those flowers out of the fucking dumpster. You're going to go give them to Winnie. You're going to tell her about Coco Chad because I need happy Winnie.

I can't deal with sad Winnie because sad Winnie makes me do all the fucking work. Yeah. And I'm sick of doing this snack bar work. It's been two days in a row. This is a disaster. I am pissed. Exactly.

And then Nick goes, but Coco Chad's not right for wenny and bombay this so i love this this next little talk because he basically goes well you know you're not right for her either which is fantastic because i feel like granted i've been thinking about it now i don't have that many like references to pull off of but i feel like whenever these type of like relationships pop up in shows where the you know the 10 year old is crushing on the 16 year old or the 12 year old's crushing on the 21 year old or whatever nobody ever explains to the kid that like this is not it's not appropriate you're not appropriate you

gotta reign this in but bombay does that like getting shit together yeah he's like you're although he does have one so he he reels shit together yeah he's like you're although he does have one so he he reels in nick and he's like you're not right for her either like you'll be fine you'll find somebody your own age just you know let her go you're you can't this is highly inappropriate you can't be doing this but he has a great exchange where he goes he goes i understand i you know i when i was 12 year old i i had a crush on an older lady as well. She was my babysitter. And then Nick goes, well, what happened with you guys?

And Bombay goes, what does he say? He says something like don't worry about us or something like that. Don't worry about what happened, which is a very weird... Did he beg his babysitter? Did Bombay? Oh my god, he did. I thought the exact same thing

when i was watching the episode i was like oh okay so like you're using your life scenario where you hooked up with your babysitter to to talk this little kid out of because it's just not right for him it was just such a weird question that I was like, he had to have, they had to have banged. There's no other explanation. Something happened there. Otherwise he wouldn't have avoided Nick's question.

And like, like were the writers, what were they doing? What was their intention with that interaction? Other than like, yeah, Bombay slaves. Yeah.

Yeah. Not only is he,aves yeah not only is he is he fucking all the hockey moms but when he was like 12 years old he's fucking hockey moms Bombay the eternal hockey milf slave just crushing it out there

crushing it but yeah that was my that was my favorite part of the episode for those two reasons one it was great that they actually like called out the inappropriateness and then the the insinuation uh that bombay is sleeping slept with his babysitter and the fact that the whole story this whole storyline comes out of nowhere the only real interaction we have with winnie is like uh when uh alex is like complaining about evan's dad and yeah i don't think she just gets buzzed she's not in episode two at all i don't think right i don't think when he is she doesn't show up maybe she's in like the background but she doesn't have any lines

yeah so yeah this comes out of nowhere, but then, yeah, but it's like, this isn't the full resolution, but this kind of, the talk from Bombay, you know, quells Nick a little bit where he's like, okay, I need to, you know, I need to move on when he's not my girl. I got to move on. The age gap is too much, but that leads to, so then Bombay Is walking back from that And he sees the team practicing

And he sees them Fooling around a little bit Logan falls on the puck They're attempting to do practice drills But they're so bad that they can't even Complete simple practice drills Yeah, well, yeah, human tripod Logan can't, he can't skate, so he just falls down

And I don't know if you heard he fell on someone's puck that they were trying to skate with and the person was like can you get off my puck i didn't kelly kelly makes me watch tv with subtitles so i now read while i watch tv at the same time but you pick up on some really great i say that's i usually don't unless it's um like what if i ever watch tv with my dad has the worst at hearing so he has subtitles on but that that's actually a good idea to turn the subtitles on when i when i watch this to keep it takes a while to get used to it it really drove me insane at first but now it's it's not so bad but yeah so he sees the the little play or the

the horsing around that's going on and bombay has a bright idea so he walks up to alex's coach's notebook and starts writing he's got a great idea he's writing and it's so the the scene of him writing down in the book is so fake because he's got he's got Gardner gloves on he's holding the pen at the very end and then he's just he's just like making lines and stuff there's no way he wrote any legible

thing in that notebook I said the exact same thing like there's no way he's writing words with those gloves on like those big huge gloves like those are like they're like thermal work gloves like you're barely moving your fingers unless you're grabbing the shovel yeah there's no way any of that was legible but you know it's uh i i they they have like the little music going in the background

very this is this is coming back, yeah. Bombay's in it. In it to win it. Flying V. Bombay's secret plays, which for a hockey icon, he comes up with the dumbest hockey plays. But those hockey plays, he comes up with the terrible plays for these terrible teams that he has.

Flying V was a terrible play. Yeah, it's not worth it. Team Iceland shows you how terrible it is in the first game. I don't know why they didn't figure it out in the second game. But yeah, the Flying V garbage would never work. This play that he has them do

is ridiculous. Let's get into the game. Let's get into the game. Before we get to the game, I have one more thing. The thing I mentioned earlier, the thing that Evan says that drove me up the wall. So they're at this practice right after Bombay Wrets, the fake play. Sophie comes running in because they took the –

the reason they went to the pizza place was to study for a math test. Bayret's the fake play. Sophie comes running in because they took the... The reason they went to the pizza place was to study for a math test. She gets a B on the math test and she's fuming. And she should be. That B is ugly. The line with the weird bumps.

She was like, I've never seen a B before. Why is it so ugly? It's the worst letter ever. So she starts yelling at Evan and she's like i've never seen a b before why is it so ugly it's the worst letter ever so she starts yelling at evan and she's like i'm never gonna join the don't bothers because you know i need to i have to get into harvard you know b's are the new d's i i need to be on the ducks i gotta win win win win win and then evan evan throws like the like the very self-aware line but i just i felt so he tells her you should join us be join the don't bothers i know you're a don't bother at heart because we're the good guys he says like we're the good guys the good guys always win if we don't win then we learn a lesson so it's a win-win

either way or something along those lines yeah which is very self-aware and poignant and like the exact reason for these, these types of shows. But in the scenario, it just rubbed me the wrong way. It came off. I just, it rubbed me the wrong way. I didn't care for it. I like, I agree with you because he, he, he comes in and he says just that. The line of, oh, okay, it doesn't matter. It's like, hey, she fucking cares.

Don't just throw away her caring because you're going to learn a lesson. It actually, I didn't like it very much either. She even points it out a little bit. I think she says it before. He calls himself the good guys. But she says, don't act like you want me to join the team for me. You just want me so you can win. Yeah.

Which is exactly what he's doing. I am glad that she calls him on his shit where she was like, hey, listen, the only reason you want me on here is because you need a sharpshooter, otherwise you're never going to score a goal. That's all. Just be real with her. Yes, exactly. I'm really sorry about the beat. At least we had

fun while we were studying. You can come score a thousand goals for us still. Exactly, yeah. Just be upfront about it be up front about your intentions yeah but yeah that good the good guy line just i don't know why it just it rubbed me the wrong way because they keep trying to play the card where hey like maybe they're just trying to reinforce it because that's what alex said in the last episode like oh we're the good guys and the

ducks blow yes suck suck it and And now Evan is doubling down on her good guys line. Hey, remember, we're the good guys. Ducks are mean. They're meanies. It just rubs in the wrong way when people refer themselves as the good guys. It's very

self-indulgent to just assume you're the good guy. Just because your team sucks doesn't mean you're the good guy. Just cause, just cause your team sucks. Doesn't mean you're the good guy. The, the true hero of the story doesn't know that they're the hero. Much like Sam, much like Samwise Gamgee in the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Exactly. Imagine if, imagine if, no one knows he's the hero. Imagine if in Lord of the Rings, Frodo went around the whole entire time and was like, I'm the good guy. This is going to work out, guys. We're fine. I'm the good guy. I'm the

good guy. This is going to work. Gollum and his precious. Sauron, those guys, they're the bad guys. They suck. We're either going to win or we're going to learn a lesson. Yeah. All right. She's about to be going to learn a lesson yeah um so all right so yeah that leads into the the game and but extra motivation for sophie because she's there yes to kick some ass take some names like she's fuming

about this bead and she's about to beat some ass yeah she's gonna rub she's gonna rub all of this in evan's face during the game. She's going to light him up. And she literally does. She lights him up and then sinks a killer slap shot. Just cross checks him.

The game starts. She knocks him down in the face off and then proceeds to score the first goal within seconds again, just like the Cardinals game. And then to add insult to injury, she literally skates over Evan and goes, that's one, Mauro, we got plenty more to go, or something like that.

Like, this is just getting started, Evan. You're in for a rough fucking night, dude. Yeah. And you can just feel it on on the don't bother is that they definitely should not have bothered that day no you think i think right before the first face off they zoom in on nick and then the guy that the ducks player that comes in and sits at the face off across from him and it's like four times nick's eyes and his eyes just get all big and he's like oh shit my uh what my favorite too is after was it like two or three goals they shoot over to the parents and and stephanie the worst

comment again oh your girl's in fuego like damn it stephanie you're the worst but she's right sophie was in fuego for sure. She was in fuego. Do you think she actually... Because they just showed her lighting it up. It looked like she scored seven or eight goals. Oh, yeah. I think she scored the majority of those goals, if not all of them.

Yeah. Again, because Coop's not fucking doing anything. He's just standing there like an idiot. And then so they refer – again, Mary Jo calls Logan the human tripod again. Great line. Great line. The hockey is, again, interesting. This one seemed a little better than the Cardinals game to me at least.

Again, whenever they're showing a hockey scene though there's only two people moving at the same time everybody else that's in the shot is literally just standing there yeah and i actually noticed that this time where the two people were skating and then there were three don't bothers behind them just either on the ground face planted or like like standing against the boards? Yeah, just not moving, just like, just standing there. And then you get just so many what should be interference calls where people are hitting people that don't have the puck. They're hitting people that are no way involved in the play.

You get, you know, taking out like two, three people at the same time. There's just so many penalties that should have been called. And then they're running up the score. The Ducks are – because Coach T – Not that much. I was way up. I thought they were going to absolutely murder them. They were only at like 17, I think.

Yes, they scored 17 goals. 17 goals. Which, again, I'm fairly certain Sophie scored the vast majority of those. Yeah. Yeah. Which is another Easter egg to call back to the original movie. When the Ducks play the Hawks the very first time, the Hawks win 17-0.

So, same score, little callback there. Love that. Yeah. So, little – same score, a little callback there. Love that. Yeah. But so they're running it up. They get 17 goals, which, yeah, like you said, it's not – I mean, it's more than the Cardinals got 12, so it's more than – we were right in that way. It's more than that.

But, yeah, again, you would think because Koob can't stop anything that it would be more than that. And it's the Ducks, and they've won state the last 10 years, and Koob literally can't move his feet. When Sophie scored one of those goals, she literally skated. She went straight. She didn't move the puck. She just

went straight and just kind of flicked in a light wrister an inch away from the goal. Yeah. Should have been 40. She didn't have to work for any of these goals. That's for sure. There's like 30 seconds

left or whatever in the game. 17-0. Lauren, our warrior princess. She's desperate. Our female warrior. Coach, what do you got for us? We get a defensive zone faceoff for the don't bother.

Face-off right by Koob. Koob's net. That's when they pull Alex. Lauren's like, do you have anything for us, coach? We need something. Alex pulls out the trusty notebook and that's when she spots Bombay's plan.

Bombay's special. Is this the first time you're opening your coach's notebook during the game? Are we even paying attention, Alex? Yeah. Just the worst. I know. This is the same notebook that she also had her pharmacy

shopping list in. Even though it has hockey sticks on it, there's probably three pages of hockey stuff including Bombay's fake play yeah and then the rest is recipes and grocery lists and because she did mention that she had her drug store list yep yep uh but so she she finds the play and she's like okay this is this looks great so she pulls everybody in calls a time out and they get ready to do the play,

which is essentially a Statue of Liberty-esque play. If anybody familiar with the football kids movie back in the 90s, Little Giants, very similar to the trick play they run in there, just hockey-wise. Great reference for Little Giants, by the way. That is just, I mean, we'll have to break that down on a future podcast. But so we get, so for those, for people who don't know what like a Statue of Liberty play is,

essentially it's where you fake that the ball or the puck is in one location, but really it's in a different location. And then you run, you essentially draw the defense to the fake location and then run down the field or the ice or skate down the ice with the actual puck. So essentially what they do is they get the face off. They scoot the puck to Koob, who then kind of puts it to the side of the net, and that's when Logan, the human tripod, falls down on the puck. Koob.

Yeah, falls down on the puck. Koob, like, scoops in his goalie glove, scoops the puck away, but nobody sees that. So everybody thinks the puck is still under Logan, even though it's in Koob's glove. Which is what I should have called it, right? Like, isn't that some form of stoppage of play? So, I mean, that's subjective.

Sometimes you'll get it because sometimes it will get stuck like that against the boards behind people's skates and stuff in actual hockey. And it's up to the ref to call it if he wants to call it. Okay, so youth hockey, blowout, 30 seconds left. He's not blowing the game. Yeah, let's end this. Let's end this. It's probably his

thing okay makes sense i've been there i used to have to ref uh junior high girls summer league games and so the the stakes could not have been lower exactly and so yeah he's like he's like i mean i could blow the whistle and we could do a phase off again but let's just i don't i don't want to stop the clock let's keep the clock going let's get out of but let's just, I don't want to stop the clock. Let's keep the clock going. Let's get out of here. Let's go get everybody home for dinner. And so then Koob, so everybody's focused on Logan because they think the puck's underneath him. Koob throws the

puck on the other side of the net where Evan is. And then the thing with the ref that cracked me up is so Koob throws the puck over. The ref sees it and he goes, he's shouting it, the puck's live, the puck's live.

And nobody, none of the ducks are paying attention right away. Because from the time Kub throws the puck, Evan picks it up. He's skating and picks it up and skates for a good five seconds. Yeah, and he's trying to be nonchalant about his skating away.

That was the other thing that drove me crazy. In the Statue of Liberty plays, like surprise and speed are the name of the game. So as soon as Evan gets that puck, he needs to be taken off. You can't dilly-daddle and don't act like you have the puck. Just go because nobody else is paying attention to you. Just go. Yeah, I think the most famous Statue of Liberty play is the Boise State, Oklahoma.

Remember that bowl game when Boise State upset Oklahoma way back in the 2000s? Was that a Statue of Liberty or a – maybe I'm forgetting what the Statue of Liberty plays. Maybe I got that mixed up. Let's go to the Google machine just to make sure that I don't ruin this. You're thinking of the Fumble Rooski. You're thinking of the –

Fumble Rooski. And guess who did the very first ever Fumble Rooski? Who? University of Nebraska Cornhuskers. Did they? Okay. 1984 Orange Bowl Fumble Rooski Okay so I'm thinking

And Statue of Liberty is where He places the ball behind his back Well I mean It's close Misdirection is what you're going for Misdirection But yeah Fumble Rooski is the little Giants play that's what I'm thinking of

Fumble Rooski They call it like the annexation of puerto rico yes yeah yeah is he like that yeah yeah the annexation of puerto rico the fumble ruski because because the statue of liberty is where they like fake the past but then can't like they the running back grabs after they fake the pass. Yeah, which I mean, misdirection, it fits. You're going for misdirection with the trick plays. This is what you're going for. Exactly. So Evan gets the puck and then takes off down the ice,

and Sophie is the only one that's close enough to get to him, and she actually catches up with him at the blue line, the offensive blue line. And Evan does a little spinorama where he puts his stick. He grows four inches and then puts his stick on the top of the puck. This play I just did not like because we've seen time and time again how much faster Sophie is than him on the ice. There's no way she's not, like, catching up and getting in front of him.

And then Edwin out of nowhere. She does get in front of him. He does the spinorama, the tornado. But, you know, the little spinorama, tried and true hockey play. There's people that do it all the time. There's a player on the Colorado Avalanche who does it constantly. His name is Sammy Gerard is his

name. The shortest little French-Canadian you'll ever see. Fantastic hockey player. But he does it, his nickname's even El Tornado, the tornado. Because he literally, he does it at least once a game where he does a little spin around my move.

It's funny to see when, like during the playoffs, when he, when you like play a team multiple games in a row, the other team starts to pick up on it. So like by like game six or game seven, he'll do like a spin around my move and the other player reads it and just fucking crushes him. I just don't think, I just haven't seen the skill from Evan to pull off that kind of move in the

game, but I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. We haven't been able to see the skating chops. We were, we were breaking the ice, not taking the ice last, last of these last few practices. So I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. Maybe I'm being hypercritical of Evan. It's understandable though. It's understandable, though. It's understandable.

He does a little spin around the move, gets past Sophie, and then it's just him and Trevor one-on-one. Who wants it more? And he's able to shoot it past Trevor and get the goal as time expires. And I love his line to Trevor. Oh, look who's the new worst player on the Ducks now. Great call out to really rub it in Trevor's face. Yeah.

But it happens right as time expires, which is another, I think, a bunch of stuff or a couple things at the end of the, there's something at the end of the Cardinals game that happened like right as time expired. That happens in every single sports movie where it's right as time expires, which drives me crazy because it doesn't. Nothing happens as time expires. There's always, you know, two or three seconds left. But so he gets the goal 17 to one as the game ends.

And then he skates up to Sophie and goes, take a look at the scoreboard. 17 to one, bro. What are you talking about? And then she goes, but that was a pretty sick move. And then out of nowhere, in classic Hawks fashion, you get two Ducks players that just destroy Evan. Run him over, he gets sent to the boards.

And then you get the fucking ref who skates over and is like yelling at the majors five minutes majors you guys are out of here whatever and then goes the game's over dude and the ref goes remind me your next game remind me next game that is that's something that i would have said to in that moment like okay sorry like the fact that that wrath didn't know the game was over is baffling to me because there's no way he wasn't counting down those seconds to get the hell out of there like you're getting paid per game not per hour and then why why say remind me what do you ducks don't bother this game you're gonna give them a two-minute penalty right at the gig or a five-minute penalty right at the gate. In youth leagues and stuff like that, though,

sometimes those major penalties like that will carry over into the next game. Just suspend them from the game at that point. Don't create another penalty. Because you know he's definitely not going to remember because he told the kid to remind him. Hey, they just got a free cheap shot but the most important thing of it is that sophie realizes that she wants to be a good guy well she realizes it because so they're everybody's leaving the the ducks are going into the locker room and coach t in the greatest the greatest callback ever so as we mentioned in episode one, he plays Riley on the show Letter Kenny.

He plays a hockey player on that show. His coach in that show consistently refers to him and the other players as pheasants, which is like a derogatory term. Like whenever they're sucking, he calls all the hockey players pheasants. I wrote that down too. Oh, I lost my mind at this. I lost my mind at this. That's a great reference.

All the Ducks are walking. They're walking back to the locker room, and Coach T goes, what the hell was that, pheasants? And, like, screams at him. And Sophie's like, what are you talking about? We won 17-1. Are you really going to yell at us for that? And he goes, yeah, these whatever, whatever.

They shouldn't even have scored a goal. You're the one who let him get past you. Yeah, but some of that, even though you scored 10 goals, you let Evan score one. Did you not see his mom mocking me? We needed to kill them. Yes. And so then he lights them up, makes them – he says something about –

Flood the ice. Flood the ice, practice again no pucks I'm assuming they're just skating drills back and forth so that's the tipping point for Sophie she did not respond well to being called a pheasant that was the last straw

can you blame her? you know like no one wants to have the game of their life against the worst team in the league only to be berated and called a pheasant well don't don't give up goals and you won't be called a pheasant you know what have you done for me lately on exactly exactly you're only you're only as good as your as your next play, Heath. Yeah, that's true. That's a great point.

And then Nick is leading them, the don't bothers, in an excellent post-game celebratory cheer. I can't remember the exact line. It's like, we scored one goal. We scored one goal. And Coach T, he's like, do you hear them? Do you hear them right now?

Not about it. Not enjoying Nick leading that chorus. And so, like you said, Sophie's like, alright, I'm done. I'm not a duck. Yes. She skates over to the no-ballers and is like, I'm joining. I can't put up with Coach T anymore.

I can't deal with that kind of stress. And they're all super pumped, ready to go. Logan dumps a water bottle on Alex. Yeah, Gatorade shower. Yeah, yeah. Because she's a real coach winning real goals. Yes. Definitely not the worst coach Yes. Definitely not. Definitely not the worst coach ever.

Definitely not. And then also, I think even before that you get, when he comes back, when he, you get another winning Nick moment. Yeah, that's right.

We got it because we get closure. We get closure on our Coco, Chad, Winnie, Nick, love triangle. Yes. So when he comes down from the stands,

she was watching the game, cheering on Nick and Nick is pumped. She's like, like oh you came to the game that's so awesome and when he's like yeah i just wanted to support you like you supported me through the whole coco chad thing nick thinks he's in in like flint well yeah so so he asked he asks about coco chad and that's when she delivers the line she was like i appreciated the flowers i thought about getting back together with him but then i realized coco chad's just in it for coco chad i need somebody who you know cares who will listen to me who will care all that kind of stuff and that's when yeah nick is like he gets a smile he's like i'm i'm in i'm so in i'm gonna be just like bombay just like bombay

and then when he when he goes like tim and then turns around and pulls a guy up to meet Nick. Very regular looking dude. Looks exactly like Nick, just 20 years older. And he's mustard Tim. Yeah, mustard Tim. He's a mustard dealer. Yeah, he delivers the mustard to the ice palace. Now we've really got to talk to Bombay because if he's not buying his mustard-ketchup-cocoa combo from a Sam's Club wholesaler, then no wonder he's in such debt. Because there's no way you should have a mustard dealer unless it's like

gourmet mustards you shouldn't have a delivery person for each individual food item that's not how it's not an efficient way to run a business yeah you gotta centralize some of that Bombay centralize it but Winnie has found

new love mustard Tim I love so much that he looks exactly But when he has found new love, mustard Tim. I love so much that he looks exactly like fucking Nick. Exactly like Nick, dude. And it gave him hope. Nick realized, he's like, hey, I can get a girl like that because cute girls will date regular ass dudes. Yes, so he skates up to Evan, and I believe his exact phrase was

if mustard tim can get a girl like that there's hope for me so yeah he's feeling good he's he's gotten over the first the first love of his life he's ready to move on ready to get hurt again yeah his his heart will go on yes yeah yeah, like we said, just like the random storyline popped up and then resolved in one episode onto the next one. We're ready to go. Yeah. If we can, we can get some great,

great, like guest story arcs, like the Coco, Chad, Winnie, Nick love triangle. I'm okay with it. I'm okay.

I mean, I was, I was a little nervous after episode two but i really enjoy uh episode three episode three is way better than episode two i agree it's it's fantastic and i i think like you mentioned hopefully we get more of these little like side character arcs although i don't know if i would call nick a side character but you know what i mean to to delve delve into these these kids a little more because like like i think we mentioned it in the last episode with the way like a series is set up versus the movie you can delve into character development a little more you know you can get to know hopefully we get to know

coo coo's family coo's you know stuff hopefully we get a peek at la, you know, pick up Maya. Hopefully we can expand a little more of these, these kids characters rather than, you know, having to shuffle, shuffle them quick through a movie. Yeah. Agree. Cause I would,

I would have loved some, some backstory on carp, you know, and the first one, what's, what's, what's carp steel. Yeah. That would have been fantastic

even a little more on uh on gi yeah i would i would love i would love the love story you know like there's there's so much potential there yeah and they don't really other than the fact that they mention that they're like well in the first movie they mentioned that like he's obsessed with with with connie and then The second movie is when they start blossoming. I would love more. Guy's probably my favorite. I love Guy. I want more Guy.

You're a Guy apologist? Yeah. What about Averyman? I'm going to be skating. Guy was always the second best hockey player outside of Banks. In the first movie, he was good. Second movie, he was fantastic. That's true.

Yeah. He's always been the second outside of Banks. He's a solid, solid front line player throughout the series. Exactly. Yeah. He's your winger that you put with your center main banks. Post

Coco Chad, though, we get some final insight into Bombay. That's how the episode closes out with Bombay and Alex in the office because alex is celebrating thank you for the tip that was a great play oh we did forget to mention in the play where they

they shot the wild card sam out to go oh right like yeah i mean then again again that's that it was that's a penalty goal yeah interference penalty every every 24 7 so that's an interference penalty yeah so we'll just we'll just we'll just gloss over that uh that you know if we're not gonna fact check i guess disney doesn't have to fact check their their hockey whatever you know when disney should be held to higher standards than us exactly but yeah so we get the the backstory because yeah alex goes in there she's like thanks for the play and then she mentions that she Disney should be held to higher standards than us. Exactly. But yeah, so we get the backstory. Because yeah, Alex goes in there. She's like, thanks for the play.

And then she mentions that she Googled him. She's like, I Googled you. I tried to figure out why you hate hockey so much, why you're such a miserable person now. And that's when we get more backstory. That's when Bombay mentions that he got the Ice Palace from Han when Han passed away. And all the debt. And he quit the Ducks when they changed.

When they started to be more like the Hawks, he quit. And that's when he went to the hockey team. Then he went to the college team. Yeah, when he started coaching at St. Paul State. So I am assuming, because he mentions that he quit the Ducks when they

started to become the Hawks. So he must have gone back after D3 to coach more of the Ducks, I guess. But again, give me more of that. I need more information than just a quick little line. I want to know. I need to know more about what's going on. He either went back after d3 and coached more youth hockey to get to the college spot and then disappeared like maybe that's what happened

well yeah well so he he mentioned that he coached yeah i think that's exactly what they're what they're insinuating is he after d3 he goes back he starts coaching more peewee hockey then he gets offered the job at st paul state yeah um so yeah i think that's what they're saying and that but i i recruiting violation is so whack it's so whack don't even okay so your college program and and they have an equipment room you have an equipment room that has tape in it. Just give him tape. Don't give him fucking money. Bombay. What are we doing?

Why are you giving him cash for tape in a college program? Like there's no way that's the, this is the worst recruiting violation I've ever heard. Like it could have at least been cool. Where he's at least like a fucking car or something like a Lexus. Drop the bag Bombay. Drop the bag. Come on yeah go talk to calipari give him a oh dude cal yeah calipari uh patino so they he mentions that yeah he gave

him cash to buy uh hockey tape which you know max he probably gave him a 20 bill and he mentions that they asked him to resign which i mean for a recruiting violation that makes sense they would ask you to resign yeah um but then he mentions that they told him he can't ever coach college hockey again which i call bullshit on that because you got people like fucking rick patino who got who was asked to leave louisville a couple years ago because he was hot he was hiring prostitutes for the recruits that were visiting the campus. You have that. You got freaking the University of Tennessee, the coach for the football program a couple years ago.

I think they were giving players cash in McDonald's bags. You got so many. But all of those coaches are still coaching. Rick Pitino is the coach at Iona now. He's back in basketball. These coaches were not blackballed. They weren asked to never ever coach again exactly like there's no like that was the only reason he wouldn't go back into hockey is like his own shame of getting busted for a recruiting violation for being so stupid to give someone cash for fucking tape that's in the equipment room that's the only thing that i could think of it's like hey this was the worst recruiting violation in the history of

recruiting violations so like i should never coach again because you're absolutely right there's no way he wouldn't be back recruiting violations are a dime a dozen in college anymore you just you know you you quietly resign. You, you do the famous Rick Pitino line, which I believe is what he, he goes, uh,

I take full responsibility, but I, I didn't know anything about this. Something like that. I take, I take full responsibility, but none of it's my fault. Yeah.

And then you, and then you lay low for a year and then you come back in. Yeah. You come back at a smaller school and you, you know. Yeah, just go to the NAIA. Go to the NAIA for two years tops and then jump back in your smaller D1 schools. And then you're back.

Yeah. Yeah, like Rick Pitino. There's so many countless stuff. Most of it's like basketball or football. You don't really hear too much about hockey recruiting violations, but that's just because the money's not really in that not like it is with basketball and stuff basketball you got people you know shipping like duffel bags full of full of cash a lot of stuff like that but there are some there have been some like stupid recruiting violations like uh they're like 10 or so years ago maybe maybe even longer than that at the university indiana

uh they their coach was kelvin samson and he got he was asked to resign because he received a recruiting violation for making too many phone calls to recruits oh that's right and so but now but again it's a bad one but again he just he he's back he resigned he's laid low for a couple years and now he's the coach he's the head coach at the University of Houston. They made the Final Four. Back on top. Yeah. And so Bombay is like self-inflicted isolationism. But did you notice the symbolic taking the no hockey sign when that happened as well?

What a moment. He's warming back up. They're warming him up. But the way that they're dragging this out, it's starting to feel like it's going to be like last episode of the season. They're going to need to bring him in for the playoffs. They're going to somehow like, we need to win this game to make it to the playoffs.

And Alex has a disposition to take care of her. A deposition. A disposition. Wow, sorry. We're going to get roasted for that one. A deposition to take care of somewhere. You got to save us, Bombay. I don't know.

I just feel like they're going to do, like, a slow burn on bringing Bombay back now after this episode. I figured they were going to do a slow burn, but this is turning out to be like super slow. I figured because they had the solo skate. Was that last episode? Episode two where he, the solo skate right before he told him to go steal all the equipment. Again,

that recruitment violation. Bombay. I mean, if you want to get down to it, the, the way he got out of banks in the first movie, that's a recruitment violation. You're messing with the boundaries here, Bombay.

Yeah, very sketchy. He's just, not only is he a terrible business owner, but he is a very sketchy head coach. I don't know if I would let him coach my kids, honestly. I mean, in the first movie, he spent a whole practice teaching him how to take falls remember uh yeah terry and jesse's dad almost and how do you from the how do you i always wondered that how do you spin the fact that you're to the parents granted

it was the 90s parents didn't care as much but how do you spin the fact that because of a DUI community service charge, this is your new Pee Wee head coach. How do you, how is that? How do you, how, why would you ever allow that person to coach your kids? Hey, this person has, especially, especially in the nineties, it was, it was different in the nineties. We're allowed to do community service working with kids, and no one was worried about the kids. But the DUI and then the fact that the first practice,

he's driving a limo out on a lake, a frozen lake. I hate hockey and I don't like kids. Oh, wait. But before he takes the no hockey sign down um uh evan's on the phone he's doing the whisper conversation because his mom will make it take it and charge it in her room if she hears him on it where sophie mentions i've gotta i've gotta convince my parents they've got to say yes yes sign up so yeah she mentioned they let us know that, this is going to be some drama leading into next week. Which honestly, after all the nonsense we talked about with Bombay, thank God somebody's getting parental permission.

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sitting next to each other holding hands. I assumed that was his two moms. Shame on me if they're not. But so hopefully we get to meet them as well as the other, maybe we get a brief glimpse of Logan's divorcee dad. I feel like that might be incredibly depressing. And then, so it says he

helps them take on the duck moms on ice, and then, of course, we're going to get some resolution to Sophie's thing, whether she joins or not. But yeah, there's some sort of weird hockey mom competition that I think they got going on. Is that right?

Yes, and that's what I picked up on. Hockey mom challenge um obviously with stephanie being the worst there's going to be some kind of of throw down with with her some some way somewhere you know she's going to be the worst kind of person the way she goes about the hockey challenge that's what that's what i think i'm most excited for it's like okay how much worse can they make stephanie like she's is she gonna is she gonna eventually get up to uh i forget her name but walter white's uh wife she always drove me nuts and breaking bad are you are you one of those people that didn't like skylar i do not care much for skylar i wonder if step if Stephanie's gonna be Skylar-esque in this

Stephanie's a little more likable than Skylar whoa that's crazy I will say I will say this I like you, you seem like a solid person but anybody who hates Skylar from Breaking Bad is an idiot

go back and rewatch it. She's legitimately trying her fucking hardest to not only keep her life together, but her fucking son's life together. She's dealing with a maniac meth dealer as a husband who is the most selfish person ever in the world. Go back and rewatch Breaking Bad. Skyler is a fucking treasure.

All right. I've only watched the show once, so all the breaking bad fanatics can can i will me it was just it's just okay i'm not i will say you're not alone that's like uh you're not alone but you're not a good company a lot of the a lot of the like the the neck beard reddit breaking bad people are huge haters on skylar but go back and and rewatch it, because I will admit the first time I watched it, I was like, man, this girl is a bit of a buzzkill. But once you

go back and rewatch it, you're like, okay, I get it now because fucking Walter White is just a goddamn asshole. She's just trying to not get her son murdered. So we've got Stephanie, the potential Mighty Ducks Skyler, battling head-to-head with the Don't Bothers Moms.

I hope that the rest of the Don't Bothers Moms are able to bring in some hockey chops. Because, like, this is kind of surprising. Like, do just moms in Minnesota know how to play hockey? It's just born. They learn how to play hockey throughout their youth and they just remember as an older adult. Well, I don't know about all of them, but I know especially youth hockey is definitely,

especially nowadays, I don't know about, like, these hockey moms. I don't know if back in their day it would have been so much. But youth hockey is for sure a very co-ed sport, especially around this, like, in the show and in the movies where there's girls on the guys' teams. That's very much how it is in real life through these younger age brackets. Theoretically, yeah, there's a ton of women in Minnesota who are very good at hockey. I don't have high hopes for the Don't Bothers Moms, though, because their kids are

so garbage at hockey that I don't think they are going to be good at hockey. Don't think that Lauren's mom is an athlete. No, the apple does not fall far from the tree, Heath. I don't. And you've got Maya.

Her version of athletic is riding a horse. So, I mean, that makes perfect sense. I can't wait to see the parents. That's going to be fun. Yeah, it'll be interesting. I'm pumped to see. I'm pumped to meet Nick's mom. If they're anything like Nick, we're going to be in for such a treat yeah just a couple treasures yeah just a couple midwestern lesbian moms just just raising the the coolest son in the world yeah and just

and just loving him and supporting him throughout all of his endeavors yeah because what does he say in episode two with the outside in thing he goes they they're both super amazing in their own like beautiful way or something like that their own special beautiful way and they and they surprise it they each surprise me in a special way that's what it is yeah they're both amazing and they surprise me in their own special ways that's what it was yeah clearly he's he's close with them you know so i'm going to imagine their his the the gem of his personality comes from those two i i i imagine yeah we're gonna we're gonna get some some nice mom competition i think the the inevitable is that sophie joins the don't bothers i mean we can we can that coming, but I'll be curious to see

how exactly we get to the resolution of her joining the Don't Bothers. Yes, she's definitely going to join. They wouldn't, I don't think they would. I would be shocked if they did, if they had her have that moment where she's like, okay, I'm going to be a Don't Bother. And then her parents say no,

and that's the end of that. That can't be. There's got to be, don't bother and then her parents say no and that's the end of that that's can't be there's got to be even i imagine they're gonna say no at first and then she's gonna you know coax him into it but something's gonna happen where their hearts will grow three sizes that day and they will allow her to join the don't the don't bothers yeah yeah yeah she has to absolutely join with the hockey another thing i'm excited for with the hockey moms because we don't other than the the fantastic pheasants line there's not a lot of Yeah, she has to absolutely join. Another thing I'm excited for with the Hockey Moms, because we don't, other than the fantastic Pheasants line, there's not a lot of Coach T in this episode.

And they're definitely, there wasn't, he wasn't in episode two at all, right? No, no Coach T in episode two. And we need more Coach T. Yes, I absolutely need more Coach T. Especially after the Pheasants won. Yes. Like, that's great stuff. Yes, and so with the hockey moms with the competition with the Ducks,

he's got to be in this one. Got to be the host of the challenge or whatever I imagined. Coach T and Stephanie teaming up? Come on. What better pair could you want? The dynamic duo, Coach T and Stephanie. That's going to be a great combination. The greatest tag team in the history.

Not a lot of humility on the ice side. No, no. But a lot of championships. A lot of championships. A lot of winning. Yes. Hopefully we get a ton of that. Hopefully we get some more Letterkenny references.

I would love it. Yeah. Those would be fun Easter eggs. I want some more hockey lingo from him. Some wheel snipe sellies. I want some Bardownskis. I want all that. Yes.

I agree with you 100%. I thought that he would for sure say boys at least once. They always got to. He's got to say boys. I really want a Wheel Snipe Sully reference. I want that in there. Not even just from him, just from

somebody. I want somebody to say Wheel Snipe Sully. That's what we got looking forward to for episode four. Like you mentioned, episode three was way better than two, I thought. I'm back in it. I'm ready to go. I'm hoping for some. Especially since it's going to be a duck-heavy episode again for four. I'm all in. I'm ready for it. I'm pumped.

I think an episode following Stephanie a little bit more is going to bring it in a little bit more too. I think she's going to really hit this one home. She's a great heel. She is. Classic heel. Very Ted DiBiase of her very million dollar make. Great Ted DiBiase pull.

I was thinking more of NWO Hogan. Hollywood Hulk Hogan. I was thinking that type of deal. No, see, she doesn't have the dramatic heel turn, though. Like, she doesn't, she isn't going for it. We don't know, though. Maybe we get.

You're right. You think she has a dramatic heel turn? See, I think she's more like built in, just can't help herself, just accidentally is always the bad guy because she has all that money. That's probably what it is. You know what I would love though? Has Stephanie met Bombay yet?

Not yet. So what I would love, what they should do, hopefully, I'm hoping they bring me and you on for Riders for season two because i got some great ideas what i'm thinking is what they do is we get a stephanie backstory episode and we get you know a little a little flashback of her playing youth hockey i don't know how the ages would work but her playing youth hockey for bombay and she's like she's like the new Charlie she's like Bombay's right hand man and then Bombay leaves to go

coach the college and that's when she's like scorned and she's like interesting I don't know how that would work but that's what I want that would be your Hollywood Hulk Hogan like turn what if

Stephanie had a older an older child that we don't know about and stephanie usurped bombay's power as coach of the ducks and she brought in younger hungrier coach t because she didn't want all that having fun bullshit yeah that's possible another thing i just thought of and i actually i don't even know if we mentioned this in i definitely don't think we did in the first episode because i don't think i realized it till afterwards but there is in the you know the tv or not the tv uh the the team event where they're introducing everybody there's and i saw this uh like a screen grab of it from somewhere else that's why i didn't realize it before but there is a person on the ducks that is clearly shown in the the team event

that's wearing a 99 jersey and it says banks on the. And it's one of the kids. Oh. So, I don't know. Maybe that's just – it's probably just like a little Easter egg that they threw in. But if that comes back around and we got Banksy's kid on the ducks, that would be amazing. That would be amazing too. But I think it was probably more of an Easter egg But we'll see I would love to see some of the old Crew with their kids In the hockey house Do we know Stephanie's last name?

Maybe it's Stephanie Banks I don't think it is I don't know if we do They would have brought that up I'm sure They would have let in too We may have seen the last name like because her son plays goalie right like oh yeah yeah i didn't even think to look at that cool well hey there's the preview for the next episode i think i think we're gonna have a

good one i'm they brought me back a little bit i was i was feeling a little out after episode two but they're bringing me in with episode three i I'm hoping that the Hockey Moms episode is a good one. Yes, Hockey Moms should be good. Sooner or later, because there's only 10 episodes, so we're getting close to the halfway mark. So the action should be ticking up here. We're going to start heating up big time. The ice is getting hot. you you