The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: The Shirtless Rollercoaster With Evan Rodrigues

Episode Date: June 12, 2024

We check back in with Jeremy who continues to struggle to find any singular Panthers fan that is excited about the Stanley Cup Final. Joey Chestnut has been banned from this year's Nathan's Hot Dog eating contest and Billy is pretty skeptical about it. Are we entering a Snoop Dogg quitting weed situation? Stugotz has his top five athletes that connote hot dogs and we discuss Aaron Rodgers deciding not to show up to Jets' mini camp. Then, the hero of Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final, Evan Rodrigues, joins the show to discuss his two-goal performance and how the Panthers stifled the Oilers. He also makes a promise to us for his next appearance IF the Panthers win the Stanley Cup (can everybody please stop trying to jinx the Panthers!) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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And we have been searching for days and weeks now all over South Florida, live when we're on for Tony. Tony failed. He's been demoted to find a Panther fan who can just talk on the street so we could do some man on the street stuff We joined Jeremy again now. I've been told we've got a rush out to Jeremy because he's getting kicked out of somewhere else Jeremy where are you near the near the arena near the Stanley Cup fever? Yeah, I mean the Stanley Cup fever you can feel it here Dan

There is an airboat with Florida Panthers insignias on it. Unfortunately, we are not allowed to see it. We have been kicked out of Everglades National Park. We've kind of just been wandering, trying to find a spot where this makes sense. There are people, I don't think any of them know anything about the Florida Panthers outside of the Panthers here in the Everglades.

They were talking a lot about the Gators. I don't really know why. I've been told that there were tornadoes. I've been told that there are tornadoes near you and you have to hurry up and get them. Yeah, I was told there were tornadoes, Dan. I do a lot for this show without insurance. So, you know, there are tornadoes, there's a rainstorm.

We got rained on earlier. We might get kicked out. There might be cops called. Are you guys moving? You know, dedication to the show, dedicated to the Florida Panthers? Are you backpedaling right now because security is following you out of there? Maybe maybe not maybe maybe not we might be speaking quietly because we don't want people to notice what it is that we're doing

And Tony's defense at least spoke to people right I mean speak to anybody there are people here I tried to speak to people it's not my fault that there's so much red tape in Broward County. There is a picture of a sensitive video dump. How do you get kicked out of the Everglades? People dump dead bodies there and get away with it. Like how are you not allowed to talk to people? Yeah, that's true. Where are the people, Billy? Where are the people? Dead. It's your job. There are no people here. I'm mine. They're all dead. Those people are dead people. Talk to them. Hold on a second. I did find, guys, no, this

is very exciting because remember earlier when I pointed out a bird you guys corrected me and said hey that's not a flamingo well guess what we found flamingos that's look at that flamingos right here peacock it's pretty amazing go talk to the flamingo it's beautiful right not a full mark yeah beautiful, right? It's not a flamingo. Talk to the cock. I don't think there's people there, Jeremy, because of the National Weather Service advisory. Flamingo, how do you feel about the forecheck of Gustav Forsling?

Excuse me, flamingo? How do you feel about Gustav Forsling's face? All right, thank you, Jeremy. That is a peacock. Call him peacock and see if he responds. Lucy, do you have anything for Jeremy before we get rid of him? Jeremy, if the tornado looks like it's not moving, I mean it's coming at you, and then

you have to go inside and take shelter, preferably in a basement. Stairwell also is good. Stairwell, maybe a tub. We don't really do basements. Get in the bathtub. Get in the bathtub and then put pillows over your head. They're kicking us out. They're kicking us out, guys. They're kicking us out. Okay guys. They're they're kicking us out for real

There's people on the phone. We're gonna go we're gonna go to Hollywood people on the phone people at Hollywood Beach. All right, there you go running for the Go we're out of here we're out of here and we're gonna go ahead and go to Hollywood Beach and find the Canadians Okay, we're gonna find a lady. They're away. We've made people there talk people. Look right there. I can't talk to these people. They're kicking us out. Just scream. Someone's on the phone. Talk to someone in the parking lot. Come on Jeremy. I had to go about the Florida Panthers. Florida Panthers? Go over there Jeremy. Oh that guy said Oilers and Six. He said Oilers and Six. At least he knows who they're playing though. I don't love that. I don't love that. They know hockey. Let's get out of here.

Alright get out of there. Thank you. Hollywood Beach, though, Tony, this is where he's going to win because I don't think he's going to win. He's going to find Panther fans. If he goes to Hollywood Beach, Tony, he's going to win. Tony, this is per square foot in South Florida. If you want to find Canadians wearing socks and sandals on a boardwalk, the place that you have to go is the boardwalk

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he will not be competing in the 4th of July. Nathan's world famous hot dog eating contest, whatever it's called. And apparently what happened was he signed with a competitor, a vegan hot dog company, and he signed I believe a $1.3 million, $1.2 million four-year deal with a vegan hot dog company. Now, apparently he was paid $200,000 every year by Nathan to compete in the famous hot

dog eating contest. So over a span of four years, I guess it's a better deal for him. But now what you have to wonder is, what is he going to lose by not being part of this hot dog eating contest every year, because are you still gonna follow him while he's eating vegan hot dogs, which by the way, this whole thing seems un-American,

if I'm gonna be perfectly honest with you. Joey Chestnut not being in the hot dog eating contest on the 4th of July, un-American. Vegan hot dogs, un-American. That contest, hugely American. Gluttony, hugely dogs, un-American. That contest, hugely American. Gluttony, hugely American. Well, yes. Hot dogs, hugely American. And I would argue it's,

I mean, I don't think, it's crazy to say it's the only reason anyone knows who Joey Chestnut is. So, it's like $1.3 million over the next four years, because there's no competitor that's been close to him the last couple years, right? So, obviously he's gonna slow down at some point in time, but we're now entering Kobayashi territory where he's banned from the eating contest,

and I don't think he's gonna do what Kobayashi did where Kobayashi would kinda go and cause spectacles and get arrested at the hot dog eating contest. Kobayashi should come out of retirement. Well, he just retired, I know, but I mean. So did Tom Brady. There's an opening. There is an opening here.

That's actually a great idea. There's nothing more American than Kobayashi coming out of retirement and winning the famous hot dog eating contest on the 4th of July. Because Joey Chestnut is no longer there. Horrible move. I don't know who it is that gave him this advice to sign a million dollar deal.

Horrible move. Well you asked what he's gonna lose. Wait. No he's gonna continue eating what he's gonna lose. Wait. No he's gonna continue eating but he's gonna eat. He's still so competitive. He can hot dogs. He still does like tournaments all over the country. Like he was here in Miami a couple years ago doing a croquette eating contest.

He had like 187 croquettes. Yeah but he's not gonna pay hundreds of thousands of dollars to go do that at Croquette Amalusa. But it's part of the circuit though. This is a terrible job by Nathan. Terrible job. Seriously. He's the star of the sport. People aren't out there

because of Nathan's. They're out there because of Joey Chestnut. That is not true. Can he win his 17th straight? No, I guarantee you, Billy. People are not going to go this year? Have Joey Chestnut just go eat hot dogs somewhere down the boardwalk like a quarter mile down. There will be more people in front of that just watching him eat than there will be in the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest. You know what they should do? The fraudulent champion whoever wins it. You should get Kaitlyn Clark to doans Hot Dog Eating Contest. The fraudulent champion who ever wins it. You should get Caitlin Clark to do the Hot Dog Eating Contest to grow the game.

My favorite thing about Joey Chestnut's statement, by the way, was that he said he was gutted to learn. Something smells fishy out here. Something's up here. Something smells hot doggy. Listen, here's the thing. Publicity stunt, you think? I think this has Snoop Dogg quitting smoking

written all over it. Oh, put it on the pole, please juju does Joey chestnut being banned have Snoop Dogg Quitting smoking written all over it would be great if all of a sudden Jerry chestnut shows up at the 4th of July, right? And it's just like a masked man and all of a sudden. Whoa 65 hot dogs Jerry chestnut. Where did he come from? It's hard to by the way find a product more disgusting than hot dogs, but vegan hot dogs where did he come from? It's hard to, by the way, find a product more disgusting than hot dogs, but vegan hot dogs is it. Joey hazelnut. Lucy, do you have any familiarity with Bobby Valentine's move, like the one

that Billy is suggesting? The former Mets manager got ejected from a baseball game and then returned to the dugout wearing a fake mustache after being ejected and was pretending to be somebody else so you're not familiar with this story yeah well no they saw him doing that for like a second it worked for a couple of innings he's right he did not have that mustache he was in disguise you're suggesting the band Joey chestnut shows up as Jerry Jerry chestnut maybe change the last name or in a yeah he probably

would need to do that Joey Almond something like that are you guys as confused as I am by the fact that when Chris Cody makes the joke that Joey chestnut will lose weight that both he and Kobayashi can eat this way without ever gaining weight, that the two of them have an ability to eat in a way that is obviously unhealthy, and yet both of them are incredibly fit and have no issues with.

I don't know about that. Kobayashi was incredibly fit, I like an eight pack. Wait, but Billy, we've had him on, stupidity, Joey Chestnut, and he says, he doesn't bite into the hot dogs, he just swallows them whole with water, and then he throws them up later. I mean.

Do you think their gastroenterologists hate them or love them? You think they have trainers that way? That you think they're scientists? Oh, their insides are effed. Yes, their insides are not in good condition. I think I'd like to try a vegan hot dog. No, you won't.

No, take it for a walk. If we don't know what's in hot dogs, we don'd like to try a vegan hot dog. No, you won't. No. Take it for a walk. If we don't know what's in hot dogs, we don't know what's in vegan hot dogs. I feel like we probably know what's in the vegan ones. Right, more. More than the... It probably says it on the box.

We know what's in the meat ones too. You just don't wanna know. Jim Rome once said that hot dogs were worse for you than cigarettes. What? I don't know actually. What is in hot dogs? All the other discarded meats that you don't want from meats

That you it's not important. Let's be honest. It's not important What's inside of a hot dog? Tony has a theory that you eat a burger at a steakhouse because they have the best like their ground meat is like the Leftover is that like our hot dogs at steak houses like the best of the best the worst of the worst No, not the same. Jim Rome a doctor. don't know, he just said it, I mean. You quoting Jim Rome because you took it. It has stuck with me forever. What else does he have to say about health?

Nothing about health. He also said the Super Bowl doesn't start until Jim Rome gets there. He said it, those were his words. Anyway, I have top five athletes that can own hot dogs. Well, you, you are one of them, John Weiner. I'm not an athlete. Number five.

Cornelder. Cornelder. Corn Dog. Number four. Joe Nathan. Number three. Joe Rose. The Big Dog.

Number two. Jim Bunning. Number one. Bubba Franks. That's a Number one. Bubba Franks. That's a good one. I did it all just for that.

No Urban Meyer, huh? Damn! Oh! It is hard to do better than Bubba Franks. No Kyle Hotdog, huh? Oh. Oh, a lie. Can you guys get for me please the Diana Rusini tweet about Aaron Rodgers because I'd like

to understand what it is that's going on most recently about Aaron Rodgers as inexplicably or is it explainable? He is missing training camp and it is not an excused absence. What do I have right or wrong here? Well her tweet said Aaron Rodgers is skipping all of Jett's mandatory mini camp this week because he prefers to be somewhere else away from football. That's his choice. I mean he did go to all the voluntary stuff like he's been at everything. He's done everything that they've asked him to do. He had a conversation with Salla. He said, this is my excuse. And Salah said, I don't accept it. So I don't know if it's Salah trying to regain some sort of power within that locker room by

making it public yesterday. He's going to have to fine Aaron Rodgers, I think $16,000 for missing the first day of training camp. But of the mini camp, I don't care, Dan. Like as long as Aaron shows up to the first game, I'm good with it. He is 39, 40 years old. He has won three or four MVPs. He's won a Super Bowl. He is the least of their problems, okay?

He doesn't need to show up to that. He just needs to show up to the first game and play more than four snaps. I mean it, I'm good. He's the least of their problems. I mean, Dan, we're jet fans. We've never had a quarterback who has a name like Aaron Rodgers, who's as good as

Aaron Rodgers. Never an Aaron. It can't get any worse. Okay? So, I'm praying for the best. Show up, stay healthy, and I guarantee you this jet team will be a playoff team. That's all I want from Aaron Rodgers. I don't want anything else. I don't

want opinions. I don't care anything else. I don't want opinions. I don't care about, you know, mandatory mini camps. I don't even care about training camp. Just be healthy, be right, be ready for the first snap at San Francisco. I need to do some of the Stugatsch translation here because you do have to understand that this team has been a misery for him for 40 years and has never had a great quarterback. No. And the idea that Stu Gott would go against his every principle on his team because of his

desperation and say the quarterback can miss mandatory minicamp when the quarterback the leader Never misses mandatory minicamp unless it's a contract holdout that Rusini quote is Shocking to me that it's just like would prefer to be elsewhere not at mandatory football things It's not something I've ever seen a quarterback do who's not holding out for money. I understand that. He thinks that his reason is acceptable. Robert Sal is saying, I don't think it's acceptable, therefore I'm going to find him. But you're saying it's the least of our problems that the team leader who did not play last year, who has a bunch of conspiratorial theories that have made his reputation bunch of conspiratorial theories that have made his reputation be in tatters because people think that other things are more important to him

than football is skipping mandatory football camp for no good reason that the coach is not allowing any same bleep it find me i've never seen a fan of the team be okay with that behavior from a quarterback because i've never seen it from a quarterback that's how never seen it from a quarterback. That's how desperate this fan base is. I guarantee you I'm not alone.

Like if people are saying they're upset, I'm thankful we have Aaron Rodgers. I know that sounds crazy and ridiculous, but that's how bad it's been for me over the last four decades as a Jet fan. I'll take whatever the upside is if he can stay healthy. I don't care about anything else. Well, you're saying you want him to be healthy and be ready, but I think the argument is that this is something that helps you be ready for the season. That's why they do camps like this. I mean, four months from now.

He also this year, this calendar year in January said, quote, anything in this building that we're doing individually or collectively that has nothing to do with real winning needs to be assessed. Flush the bullshit Wow, and then he disappears for mandatory training camp would this work for me? Like if I got Diana Rossini to tweet out Chris won't be on the show today because he prefers to be somewhere else Like are you like this is ridiculous?

I feel like I feel like you did do that in one of your first days in the role of executive producer You flew to New York to go Do something instead of being here. There you go took time off. Yeah, and you're still here I should have had Diana tweeted that would have made it better. Well, I mean there are different rules for different folks, man I don't know what to tell you like and by the way got fine for it It's not like the Jets aren't saying anything salad embarrassed him yesterday. He's trying to regain control of the locker room. He's never gonna get it. And Aaron's probably really thinking about what he did now. He doesn't care. Exactly. That's why the fine doesn't matter. Right.

We have not seen. Well him missing doesn't matter. That's what I'm saying. It's not gonna impact how he plays when September comes around four months from now. What month do you think it is? I'm still trying to figure that out. You think it's like April right now? I added a month. I just, I needed it. August is like pre-season. That's pretty, that's like six weeks.

Oh my God, that's in like six weeks. Football starts. Oh my God. Is anyone listening to this just confounded and confused by all things Aaron Rodgers not having a precedent in the history of the position. Like just all of the behavior, everything that's happening, it's just not something, Stugatz. In that sport, at that position where the team leader is always trying to avoid distractions. He's always trying

to be maximum teammate guy. Everything you hear about Tom Brady from everyone who's ever played with him is man, what a grace that person has as a leader making me feel like we were all in it together. When you watch everything that's happening with Aaron Rodgers, I'm speaking to the audience here, aren't you just confounded by the behavior? Not anymore. Mandatory training camp is not something that I've seen a quarterback sit out just because he feels like it. It's not something a manning would do. It's not something any quarterback does.

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Evan Rodriguez is with us. Where are you joining us from? I'm in one of our One of our management's offices, so I don't really know Looking through George a cubicle, absent ambiance. Let's search some things here. What's to your left there? Just grab the book here on your left and tell us what it is that's there as we search through somebody's office here because you're joining us again from the height of sports the height of championship greatness alumni... alumni game coral springs hockey festival wednesday uh... february first uh... so an old pamphlet who can forget uh... okay we all forgot

uh... yes okay so nothing that nothing nothing too great it's mostly uh... panthers stuff nothing don't just think uh... that the reason we're excited to have you on uh... i'm sorry yes the reason that we're excited to have you on is because uh... i can't believe everything that's happening around your franchise i cannot believe that florida has taken the sport from canada over the last five years and canada must hate you uh... the panthers pride themselves on being hated throughout the league hated

but respected correct uh... yeah a little bit bit. I think we play a hard style of game that opposing teams don't look forward to playing against us. But I don't think we're dirtier, you know, cheap by any means. I think we just play the game hard and we make it a difficult night for opposing teams day in and day out. And we've done it throughout the whole regular season and continue that into the playoffs.

Is there a team more annoyed by you than all the others though? Like is there, is it Ottawa? Is it somebody else there? Like these guys, you guys are professionally great assholes. I mean, yeah, I think it's, you know, I don't think it's anything crazy that we do. I think it's just that we like to wear teams down. It's, you know, constantly hitting, you know,

constantly being on the forecheck in your face, we play an aggressive style. And when you play a two games in a year and plus playoffs up to a hundred, you know, by the end of it, it's, it, you know, starts to get annoying and that's kind of. You know, the way we like to play, we like to play aggressive and we enjoy it it Evan Maurice has kind of given you credit for you've played basically with everybody this year You've been on the top line. You've been on the fourth line You found a home in the playoffs in the second line with Benny and Kachuk and I want to know of those two who's crazier You know what two completely two completely different people.

Chuckie likes to talk, likes the media. He's always in something and Benny's more. Keep quiet, go about his business and just play hard day in and day out. playing with the both of them is a lot of fun. It makes my job easy. It's kind of like, take the leash off those two and let them go play. And I've just kind of supported them and try to be F3, try to be the high guy.

And yeah, it's been a lot of fun playing with them. Evan, can you articulate what Monday night felt like for you as you're going through it and after the game? Because I imagine that's the best hockey ever made you feel, right? It definitely was a good feeling. At the end of the day, it's the win that matters the most. But being able to contribute to a win is obviously a good feeling but yeah at the end of the day after these first

two games we've got the results we wanted and now it's kind of time to turn the page get ready for game three it's going to be a big one and it's going to be a loud building to play in and you know it's going to be a lot of fun but in and, um, you know, it's going to be a lot of fun, but, uh, we're definitely ready for it and looking forward to it. Evan, forgive me. I mean, you know, disrespect whatsoever, but I'm not going to abide that answer. And I understand these hockey guys are serious and they're great and they don't want to cause any waves before they've actually won against Edmonton.

This trophy is very hard to win, but I'm going to tell the audience that this person in his first year with the Panthers has 12 goals and 39 points in the regular season, but he's got 6 goals and 11 points this postseason. And this is the part, this is the big part, Evan, that I'm going to call bullshit on you. You've scored 3 goals through 2 games and McDavid hasn't. And if I told you at any point in your dreams, dreams hey listen to what's going to happen here to you in the stanley cup final you're gonna have two games where you're out playing the mvp of the league you're not allowed to just come on here say uh... definitely a good feeling

like you're going to need to do better than that i need you to do better than that he's trying to get to the column i know but he's also at the height of his hockey dreams that you're living things that I imagine right now through 2 games are bigger and better that what you imagined in your wildest dreams. You definitely yeah, I mean it's it's a great feeling it really is but let me tell you

something there you know it's not possible with all our entire team plan the way we play. You know, we're doing a great job of playing McDavid, Dry Settle really hard and playing good team defense. And the reason why I even have that opportunity is because we've allowed one goal in two games. And so if the games are 4-3 or 4-4 or whatever it may be, the storyline could be a lot different. It's good team defense. And I've been lucky and happy to be on the right side of the offensive side of the game. And yeah, it's been a great start. We're two games in, we've gotten two wins but

there's something bigger that we're going after and that is the main focus right now and you can feel great about yourself, I can feel great about myself after the first two games, but it doesn't really mean anything if we don't, you know, keep it going. So you got to narrow your focus and you can't get too high. You can't ride the roller coaster. You got to stay level headed. I want to ride the roller coaster. Keep doing what you're doing. Let's ride the roller coaster.

He upgraded from good to great. No, let's ride the roller coaster. Let me ride the roller coaster. Why can't I ride the roller coaster? I want to ride the roller coaster. Let me ride the roller coaster. Don't let him bully you. I want to ride the roller coaster. It seems like a lot of roller coaster? I want to ride the roller coaster. Let me ride the roller coaster. Don't let him bully you. I want to ride the roller coaster.

It seems like a lot of fun to score. Go hands up on roller coaster? Three goals, yeah, hands up. You can get on that roller coaster, put your hands up in the air, you can do whatever you want. Do it with us right now. I'm gonna be sitting next to you.

No, all of us, no, no, please. My hands on the rail. Only here, no. Only here, take your hands off the rail and do this with us. You put your hands up and do this with us. Evan, just now, right now. Hands on the rail. Only here, no. Only here, take your hands off the rail and do this with us. You put your hands up. I'm scared. And do this with us.

Evan, just now, just now, in private, not, not, not. No way. No, you're not gonna do it. You refuse to do it. No roller coasters. After the series, after the series, you'll come back on, do the roller coaster with us. After.

After. I will come back on and I'll take my shirt off and put my hands up. Oh, shirtless roller coaster. You're promising us. this is a bet. If that happens, it's a deal, everybody heard it. Again, on Monday night, he scored two goals and it was a great deal of fun.

I have some hockey questions for you because when you say wear a team down through your style of play, it is empirical. It is inarguable. The Florida Panthers this season, the entire entire season have been the best third quarter team at her period team in the league uh... when you say you wear people down do you guys have math and science to prove that because the way that you play suggests that you're better at the most important time than every team in the league it can be proven mathematically

you're telling me it's not coincidence. No, I don't think it is. It's, you can feel it. You can feel it when you dump pucks in and the D are more reluctant to take hard strides and go back and get the puck. And you can feel it when they get it and they're just trying to get rid of it as quick as they can.

You know, they don't want to take the next hit. So that's what leads to turnovers. And that's where we start to capitalize. So it's a style of play that we've been playing. And we've learned to play. And we don't ever chase games because we know in the third period that we'll end up getting the results. So even if we're down one or two goals going into the first and second, there's never any panic.

There's never a reason to to open our game up and start, you know, cheating for offense because we know come the third period, it's going to, you know, start to go our way. We're going to start to get at those turnovers and start to capitalize on them. And the mindset of every game is 60 minutes and we're not going to change the style of play after the first 20. We're going to continue to do what's made us successful throughout the whole year. And you train the entire year so that when you get into big games like we're in now, it's almost like muscle memory. You just do what you've done all year long and if we do that, we believe we'll get the results we want.

I have the math you crave, Dan. Panthers two, Oilers nothing. How about that? Thank you, Stu Gotts. Two wins away from the cup. One of the things, that's correct. Two plus two. If you had told me, thank you, Stu Gotts,

if you had told me, Evan, on Monday, that you guys could do that to uh... connor mcdavid and edmonton where they don't have a threat in other than the goal they scored in one other shot the entire game i would have said they're great at defense they're not that great at defense date monday night was not conceivable to me even as good as you guys are, just because of how much I respect the Edmonton offense. Were you surprised that you were able to suffocate them like that on the power play and beyond?

A little bit. Um, you know, I think when you have elite players like they do, they're going to get their chances. There there's, there's no stopping it. And I think in the first game, we played timid and we played like no one guy wanted to make that mistake to give them those chances. And I think that's why they came at us in waves in the first game and got all the chances they did.

And I think in game two, we were more aggressive, our D were more aggressive. Our D were more aggressive. And I think as a team, we played better defense. But that's because our back end stood up on plays, took the chances. And we had guys. A big thing with our team is that no one's afraid to make a mistake because they know they have two, three, four guys on the ice who are going to cover them up.

And I think we all have the confidence right now to, you know, be a difference maker and make the next play. And if you screw up, you're not going to have someone yelling at you. You're going to have a guy there to pick you up and back you up. And I thought we did an incredible job in game two. Evan, you cost me money last night

because you scored your first goal. I was in section 128, row seven, going nuts. And my people around me, as you score, I got so excited and lost in the moment. I was like, if Evan scores another goal, I'm gonna buy an Evan Rodriguez jersey. And then you scored a goal. So I just wanna let you know

that I will be purchasing today an Evan Rodriguez jersey because I'm a man of my word. Yeah. Nice. Hey, I respect that. Rodriguez jersey, because I'm a man of my word. Nice. I respect that. That is a, you're a man of honor. So my respect for you just went up. All right.

I took me scoring two goals in a Stanley Cup game. I mean, one wasn't enough. If they win the championship, if they hold up the trophy, Chris will do it in that jersey, the show. And he has promised us he will be shirtless. And we're going to do the roller coaster together as a show with a Stanley Cup champion. I was confused upon introduced being introduced to your story Evan because I was just delighted again and again as a Hispanic kid in South Florida to hear

Rodriguez and hockey. I've heard Rodriguez all my life and I've never associated it with hockey so I went heard Rodriguez all my life and I've never associated it with hockey. So I went looking through your ancestry and then I'm like, oh, he's Canadian. And I didn't even understand how any of that could happen because I was ignorant. I did not know that there could be a Canadian Rodriguez. So your lineage on all this stuff, are you running into a lot of people in Miami who think you're Hispanic or think you're, they don't think that you're Canadianadian they want to talk spanish to you because rodriguez is a hispanic surname

uh... a couple times uh... i've gotten some support from from the other hispanic community uh... i do have some portuguese blood in me and uh... yeah it's nice it's nice. It's nice to, you know, be embraced and feel the love a little bit. And yeah, maybe I should maybe I should pick up my Spanish language, I guess.

Do you know any? You don't know anything? You don't know anything? You can't speak anything? Nothing. Not a word. You have no idea what he's saying. I knew a little bit of Portuguese when I was younger You don't know anything? You don't know anything? You don't know anything? You don't know anything? You don't know anything? You can't speak anything? Nothing. Nothing. Not a word. You have no idea what he's saying.

I knew a little bit of Portuguese when I was younger and now not a lick. Are the home fans chanting USA, USA, USA when most of the guys in the team are Canadian? Can you tell them to stop? It's stupid, right? I mean it is. You noticed it. Tell them I think it's more of a Florida verse Edmonton thing so if it gets the fans in the game, I'm not telling them anything Dan I have a doesn't matter Gets the fans into it if it gets the fans into it and gets them loud, it does not matter. I don't care what they think.

All right, all right, I'm sorry. Stugance wants him to be anti-USA. Dan, I have a top three. I want the fans to be pro-Canada. Top three Rodriguez's to ever put on a uniform in South Florida. Do you want it? Sure.

Oh wow, top three. Let's see, top three. There's only three that I could come up with. Are there two others? It's, well. Oh, there's three. They're baseball players. Number three.

For the University of Miami, but not actually, Westminster Christian, Alex Rodriguez. Wow. Number two, Ivan Pudge Rodriguez. Oh boy. And number one. Yes. Number one.

Scoring two goals in game two of the Stanley Cup Finals. Congratulations. Evan Rodriguez! Yes. E-Rod! E-Rod! We are. Yes.

E-Rod. Wanting come latelys. That's what we are to the luxury of the pitches. Yeah, I appreciate it, guys. I don't know if I'm on their level yet, but hey, I'll take it. I appreciate that. Evan, you are not yet, but soon. You are.

I mean, Dan, he's number one on the top is back down as the uh... thank you thank you for joining us on your way out though because i know you're not gonna say controversial things before your twenty five hundred mile flight to edmonton and edge as you guys have game three coming up here but uh... people have been talking for a couple of days because bark off got hurt and he's hugely important to everything that you guys do whether or not that was a dirty hit my take on that was all the Panthers have played on that line for a long time you're not supposed to leave your skates obviously it was a penalty but your

thoughts in general after seeing Barkov hurt about whether or not that is something that has a place in the sport where are you on the line of what that hit did and what happened there? Yeah, I think first and foremost you never want to see your captain go down. I think that's you know the the biggest thing and secondly it's playoff hockey and and you know the the line starts to disappear a little bit as you go further and further along. And yeah, the biggest thing is you never want to see your captain go down.

And so I'm not gonna comment on what, you know, whether the hit, you know, crosses that line or not. I like what he's doing there. Where he says, hey, look, do you know how deep we are in the playoffs? Basically the line is don't shiv me with a machete anything short of that is allowed to do not go out of the shed and stabbing and then i think that otherwise playoff hockey broken jaw whatever you like it's playoff hockey

that's what you're saying the line you just said it gets a race this time of year it's it's you don't know what the line is that this time of year? It's it's you don't know what the line is at this time of the year I think that's the biggest thing I don't know if it gets a race but on a game-to-game basis it could be different so you got worrying about that stuff isn't gonna help us win hockey games I think that's the biggest thing is we're here for one job and one job only and our focus is on

game three. Evan, nice seeing you. Do you want to rummage through that cabinet anymore and see if you can find something more, less antiseptic than what it is that you produce for us in this Florida Panthers cubicle on the edge of the Everglades? Maybe the drawers, any cash in there? Is there anything in there?

Let's see what we've got here. A football! Look at that! Nice! Look at that, Super Bowlie, which I don't think that's what that's called. Super Bowlie is what it is. I think it's a, I don't know.

It's LV. Super Bowl V. Yeah, it's like the Roman numeral after Super Bowl. Gotta be a PR off it, right? It does look like a Y, Dan. It does, the V does look like a Y. That's the best I got for you guys. Super Bowlie! Thank you, Evan.

Super Bowl V. Yeah. Thanks, Evan. I love you. Evan, bring something home from for you guys. Super Bowl-y. Thank you, Evan. Super Bowl-y. Yeah. Thanks, Evan. I love you. Evan, bring something home from Edmonton. The cup. How's that sound?

Let's bring the cup home from Edmonton. Yeah. There it is. I will try my best. I will try. I will try my best. Bring us a shirtless roller coaster. Thanks for having me.

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