The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: That's How You Play Hockey

Episode Date: June 10, 2025

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A lot of jiggle. What a time. The whole hockey world is rooting for Connor McDavid. We should be rooting for Connor McDavid. All time great story. Nope. Florida. Sunrise. heat, not the Miami heat, it's just hot down here. What a time, 6-1.

The world's been around for a billion years, and we happen to be alive at the time that we could watch that last night. Yeah. Speaking of it being hot at the moment, we're officially at the time of year, and it's about to get hotter, where I walk out of the house,

and my forearms immediately start sweating. That happens fast. I'm not even talking about, I'm not even moving yet. There's such swampiness here. Do you understand how mad that makes Canada that they can't take the trophy out of the quicksand in the swamp?

It's that time of year where you park your car at your house and it's like, gotta walk inside now. Man, the walk from the parking lot to the arena entrance last night, no, yesterday was not good. Not good at all. Well, this is a funny complaint because Sunrise is spread out, it's in the Everglades. It's basically a whole bunch of air boats

and then just asphalt and the Stanley Cup. It's a weird place for it. I mean, it is super strange. I'm not kidding you when I'm saying you're closer to alligator wrestling than you are to the rest of civilization. Sounds like nobody did two a days in full pads. Amen.

It sounds like to me. It's hotter than it's ever been. This is the worst it's ever been. I can't imagine walking. Oh, you walked all the way from a car to a building? Oh my gosh, oh let's rescue these guys. We should probably get them some motor scooters. That arena.

That would help. For people who don't understand, that arena, the parking lot is one place and then the arena is the same way that the casinos in Vegas are right there. You can just walk to them if you're willing to walk what looks like six blocks but is actually three miles. How many tackles you gotta make between there

and Arena though? Depends on the ballet. He's gonna always have that card on us that he put a hand in the dirt, that his hotter was hotter than our hot because he played football. Still got some grit under these nails. How long are each of those practices?

Two a days. Two hours. Four hours. That's one. You practice once. I am not kidding you when I say I feel bad for the Miami Dolphins this time of year. I feel terrible.

I don't know, I don't care how much they're paid to be in pads in this weather. Again, I leave the house before I get to the sidewalk, my forearms are sweating. I'm talking trash. I did all my training camps were in Denver and Baltimore. And when I was president union, I was still an active player.

And there was like something that took place in New Orleans. So I had to get on a flight and go to New Orleans. I went to New Orleans and got off the plane and I almost retired on the spot. It was so damn thick down there. In July, it was just thick. Cemetery hot. I got off the plane and it just felt like I was walking through soup.

And I was like, and so I had to go talk to the team between two a day practices. I think it was like the bounty gate thing was poppin', and I had to go talk to them between practices, and I don't think anybody could hear anything, because I assume that in those conditions, most of your organs shut down, and all the blood just goes to like your heart,

your lungs, and your brain, so I don't think that ear's working. When you say it's soup, are you saying like clam chowder? Because the other thing New Orleans does, though, is because the bodies are above ground you also get the scent of death lobster bisque is so good it is so yeah I think that's a better word it felt like I stepped off the plane into a bisque put it on the pole juju please better soup lobster bisque or clam chowder? This is the Don LeBattor Show with the StuGuts Podcast.

What is the best of the soups? French onion. French onion's a great nominee. I would think it a first ballot hall of famer and it would be in any conversation on the soups. But we started with lobster bisque and we started with clam chowder. French onion is not a standalone soup.

Love where you're going with this. No one, like I think French onion, it comes along with a sandwich. Makes me work too hard. Yeah, like give me French onion and I need something else. A clam chowder though, a lobster bisque, that's a meal. You're having a standalone soup as a meal ever? I don't think there's any soup that makes it that's a meal. You're having a stand-alone soup as a meal ever? I don't think there's any soup that makes it as a whole meal.

A soup's always a starter. I don't like when a soup, I have to get my other hand involved. And that, like, you always have to break the cheese up and stuff, it's just, it's a difficult eat. I like the taste of it, but just overall, too much work for me. I think it depends on the circumstances.

I agree with you, most of the time it is a starter, but something about the creaminess of a bisque or a chowder feels more substantial. I feel like there's a different category. Chicken noodle soup? Chicken noodle soup's a meal. Well, I wanna see, no, it's not a meal. I'm willing to grant you.

And when you have a cold. It's not an entire meal. I'm willing to grant you, though, that this can be an entire meal, but it's based on entire meal i'm willing to grant you though that this can be an entire meal but it's based on thickness it correct there is there are three soaps and it's got to be thick in the bready stuff in the french onion is what's making it qualify are we all in on the fact that would who's getting into the rankings if our gold silver and bronze medalist are

clam chowder lobster bisque and french onion on the high-end thick soups decadent soups that pass for a meal. Is there anything else? Is there a fourth option? I feel like, I think what comes to mind is a soup that I would like to be kicked out of the soup family.

Gazpacho. Yeah, can't have a cold soup. Nah, I know you call it a soup. I get it, but I don't know, that's cereal. I don't know what it is, it's cold. The tomato soup, like the cold kind? Yeah, I get it, but I don't know, that's cereal, I don't know what it is. It's cold. Tomato soup, like the cold kind? Yeah, the cold kind, but it feels thick,

but I don't want it. All right, I'm gonna allow it as a poll question at Levitard Show, should gazpacho be kicked out of the soup family, but I was not aware, does it qualify indeed as a soup? Because I think soups have to be warm. You can't be, you cannot be a soup if you are not warm by definition in my mind. Yeah, it does qualify.

I think, I mean, we can put it on the poll, but I do believe that people consider gazpacho a soup. I love how Roy's like, it does qualify, unfortunately. Well, it is unfortunate. It is very much unfortunate. It is unfortunate because I, I'll put it on the poll at Levitard Show, does a soup have to be warm?

And then put on the poll as well is gazpacho a god damn soon because i'm saying it's not i'm saying you can't be called in a soup and he's right when he wants to get out of the soup family i'm saying you shouldn't even be in the soup family why did in the soup family zaslow seems happy that's the best the panthers can play right they they cannot play better than that,

just suffocate, strangle, Drisdell and McDavid, and make my analysis hours earlier seem spectacularly loud wrong when I said with great conviction, we all know right, that Edmonton is the one that can win a 6-1 game, not Florida. Well, it is the best they can play, but it's also the worst that the olders can play. They were terrible, absolutely terrible. I thought it was a wacky game. I don't even know if I would call that

the best the Panthers could play. So many power plays. The third period was just chaos. The second period was the only period that actually felt like a hockey game. That first period, Evander Kane, just Roy, what is he doing? What a loser!

I mean, he's out there trying to hurt people. It's not like his performance in game one where his physicality made a difference. He was out there swinging a stick trying to hit him. I feel like 80% of that third period, a lot, that happens to every team. When there's a blowout in a playoff game, it's gonna get chippy.

20% of that was over the lineoff game. It's gonna get chippy 20% of that was over the line Roy. Are we gonna look at any suspensions here? No, there might be a fine for Walman's spraying of the water bottle across the So wait and there was a thousand fights 800 late hits and we're finding the guy who squirted the water bottle three feet to the Other side and missed it. He went across the line. Yeah Well you with the made up stat, 20%, like where are you coming up with? If that had happened during a basketball game, the news coverage for a month would have been

how out of control the NBA is if simply, some of those fights. But I'm telling you, when you get a game that gets to be four to one, five to one, in the playoffs, a lot of what you saw last night is going to happen with any two teams. Chris. You are going to get a team that is just needing what, Dominique? You called it chippy.

Like, that wasn't chippy. Unless you're talking about people chipping teeth, it wasn't chippy. Like, they were actually, there was blood, there was tongues out, there were fists being thrown. It wasn't chippy. I swear, that wasn't that uncommon in a blowout playoff game. Oh, there were fists being thrown. It wasn't chippy. I swear that wasn't that uncommon in a blowout playoff game. Oh, I think you're wrong.

You gotta be specific. A blowout playoff hockey game. That is out of control for any other major sport. The way Frederick went after Bennett, that was over the line. There were a few cross, there were three or four things where I'm like, they should take a look at that. But outside of that, it was just blow out chippiness.

I just want you to be clear that it's hockey. Because if this happened in soccer, if One Punch was thrown in the MLS, or in the NFL, or in NBA, we can't call it chippy. It feels like you are underappreciating how violent that hockey match was, or hockey game was, because that's not chippy. This description of his is because what's been normalized

is the barbaric savagery that is that sport this time of year. So Chris Cody feels comfortable, Cheeto crumbs on his hand saying, they should take a look at that when someone's hitting someone else with a stick. I mean, Kachak got speared. And Chris is like, sure is chippy.

Can someone take a look at that? That looked chippy. Yeah, and they aren't. I just asked Roy. He's like, maybe there'll be a fine. They aren't even going to take a look at it. I was complaining about the walk-in because I'm not tough enough to walk in from the parking lot.

Take a look at that. It looks chippy down there. No, they hate each other. They're fighting for the cup, and hockey allows these people to be more primitive than any athletes roaming the earth and gives them blades on their feet. Dan, how does anyone with a straight face,

I mean look, Dominique, you play in the NFL. How does anyone with a straight face watch what happened last night and then still try and say, the Stanley Cup is not the hardest trophy to win in sports. Well, what happened last night, it was a 6-1 blowout. So, you're trying to argue to me

that it's the hardest thing to win, just because it's really chippy. But like Matthew Kachuck is saying after the game yesterday, we talked about this in the third period, you know, if you gotta take a punch in the face, do whatever you gotta do, there's a bigger picture here. I mean, we're saying this after,

I hope we get into this at some point, but Frank Ragnow fractured his throat. So you get outta here with that. I generally hate the people that fall in love with their sports so much that they try to argue that other people's sports are worse. Like I'm not trying to say like football is so much better because I played football. Like the people who say this is our game.

We got to protect our game. Like I'm not that guy. I don't own any of this stuff. However, what I will not stand for is someone trying to tell me that there is something out there that is more dangerous. I'll give you equally, but there that is more dangerous I'll give you equally but there's nothing more that he is 300 pounds if someone fractured his throats yeah that USA Today story on how it is that Armstead retires early in football Dominique allowed us to get away with this yesterday he hadn't been here in a

while and so he allowed us to get away with saying that's the toughest trophy to win yesterday. Today he's not having it ever again. Fractured his throat! And he never even played in the Super Bowl! Armstead tore up his knee in his third year and said he never practiced again because he couldn't move his leg without painkillers. He only took painkillers on game day and he played for what, 13 years?

Fractured? Yeah, his throat. Fractured? Yeah, his throat. His throat. I didn't know. Thank you, Tony. I wanted to be respectful.

Did you know that that could, did you know that that was a thing at LeBittard Show? Did you know you could fracture your throat? Because the most painful injury I had ever heard in sports before was a Mariners catcher on a foul tip who fractured his testicle. I did not know a testicle could be fractured. Worst thing to fracture. I think it just ruptures, Dan.

I don't think you can fracture it. I think it like explodes on contact. That, I understand. Oh God. That's sort of what I thought as well, but no, you can indeed fracture a testicle. Let's put it on the pole, I think. Exploded worse or fractured worse?

I mean, honestly, this may come as a surprise to you guys, but whether it's exploded or fractured, I'd rather that down there than fracture my throat. I got three kids. I'm done. You can have one of them. Yeah, but what if you had zero? Not the kids, the testicles.

Put it on the poll, what's worse, fractured throat or fractured testicle? Because think about that one for a second, I think instantaneously, you might go testicle and then you think about eating and breathing and stuff and fractured throat seems terrible. Yeah, I think if you fractured your throat, you'd be afraid that you're gonna die.

If you fractured a testicle, I'd be like, oh, this really hurts, but I'm not gonna die. I mean, do you wanna live, though? Do I wanna try it? I don't know. Dominique, so you're objecting officially to the idea it's not consensus for you that this is the hardest trophy to win in sports.

I mean, I don't care what is the hardest. I don't think it's the hardest. We can go through a bunch of different sports and different things test you in different ways. However, I thought last night's game was incredibly fun and funny. And yeah, those guys, I'm not going to say hockey players aren't tough. They're tough as hell. But what I won't have happen is you guys try to subjugate other athletes

and say, you know what? Like, no one's saying football players aren't tough though. Oh no, no, I don't need your validation. Okay, I'll subjugate them. Oh, he will over there, take a look at that. You guys, it's getting chippy down there. Marshawn agreed with me. They talked to him after the game,

he's like, look, in a blowout game, that third period, a lot of that stuff is gonna, Zazz, a lot of that stuff is gonna look as a lot of that stuff is gonna happen in a third period of a blowout playoff game I don't agree for a couple reasons number one we didn't see that last year and we went seven games all right and it's the same team and number two how many times and you can talk about this in the regular season too are you getting getting a line fight? Not a line scrum, we had a line fight. Nurse and Gadjo fought for like four minutes. Well, Chippy down there, they should take a look at that.

Imagine a four minute fight in the NBA. Imagine, just imagine just four minutes of fighting in the NBA, what we'd be doing in the coverage of that. Wouldn't it be great if the Pacers get blown out tomorrow night And with like three minutes left of the game all five guys they all square off every different points of the court and they just fight Because they happen with Bennett that altercation so then what happens in those things is like everyone kind of just gets somebody It's like I'm gonna grab somebody and nurse ended up with Gajdovich and nurses like I want no part of this

So he's just for four minutes was just like trying to, I honestly feel bad for Nurse about three minutes into that. I'm like, just stop this already. Was the entire fight time of the Malice in the Palace equal to four minutes or no? No. It echoed for decades because Steven Jackson looked like that for three seconds.

Three seconds. For three seconds he looked like that. Nevermind three and four minutes of fighting. It spilled into the stands and the National Guard was called in. Can you imagine if the hockey fights spilled into the stands? That's happened a few times, but what we saw last night, I don't want to wander too far away in the noise and the fireworks and the silliness from, holy shit, the Panthers put it on Edmonton. Edmonton did play poorly, but that was also done to them.

McDavid and Dreisaitl don't look like that very often. Dreisaitl actually looked like that an awful lot last postseason, which I think in retrospect, we could say that he was hurt. But that was strangled out of Edmonton last night and it was done a minute into the game a minute into the game the announcement is you're gonna be trailing all night you're gonna be chasing this all night and they can Edmonton is good enough offensively but when their power play does nothing

doesn't even produce reasonable chances and then it turns into a all-out fight and the Panthers are the only one scoring you get the best game the Panthers can play they can't play better than that doing that to this team both offensively and defensively in that game there is no better game that the Panthers have played the last three seasons than that one. Yeah, they have two games left to win, but honestly it's looking like either Sam Bennett or Brad Moshawn. Let's cool it on the consmite talk. Again, two more games. Come on. You gotta look at how Sam Bennett is leading the league right now.

I get it, but two more games. You know what? Thank you, Zazz, because Roy Roy I saw this happen this morning and it made me sad Look Dominique knows what I'm talking about on their chuckles Dominique Dominique Dominique comes in here today and He sees Roy and he says to Roy heartfelt and joyous Congratulations It's not over. He got mad at me. He looked me in the eyes that it's not over, right? heartfelt and joyous congratulations.

It's not over. He got mad at me. He looked me in the eyes and said, it's not over. Right, so I'm surprised that now he's trying to count Con Smythe votes. No, he's just, he's a media member. He's preparing, he has to think about all this stuff, heading up to making these decisions. He's mad dorky, he has a vote and he doesn't.

Yeah, I am. Is that true? Well, it's my first year in the Professional Hockey Riders Association, and I got one vote this year. For what? Masterton. Which one is that? That's the dedication to hockey.

Tell Dominique what that is. That's dedication to hockey. That sounds like a big one. I don't understand. All of us were like, which try, you were very proud of that vote, and all of us are like, that's a nice vote. What vote is that? Dedication to hockey. So how do you assess who's the most dedicated? Well, it's not really a, it's not really a person who comes back from injury,

you know, like somebody who's retiring, like a Pat Maroon. Who'd you vote for? I love Roy, like at the arena, seeing who gets there early, Lumdale here early, good. Like keeping those. Shut this, like.

It was an I didn't vote for him. I don't like how he's disrespecting your vote back there. I'm more disrespecting the award, like the dedication award. Oh, take a look at that over there. They should take a look at that! Why should they take a look at it, Chris? Because there was none, we broke them mentally late in that game. As much as I'm saying a lot of that was expected, a lot of it wasn't.

It was ridiculous. My daughter was there. I was sitting next to my daughter. Oh, oh, oh. She was shielding her eyes. Oh my god, because her daughter was there. Oh my gosh, we shouldn't have a lot of her. Because her daughter's there. I was shielding her eyes from that.

Daughter, my daughter was there? It made me like, ugh. She's like, daddy, why are they doing that? I'm like, because we've broken them mentally. That's why we're doing that, Graceland. All right, are you as uncomfortable as I am with him saying, we've broken them mentally? Oh, oh, oh, I was disgusted.

I mean, to be clear, what really hurt me about me congratulating Roy and Roy's response was, I was congratulating Roy on the successful BET Awards last night night and Roy was like we're not done yet it is done Kendrick got all the awards Roy congratulations to you and me we did it yeah we did do it we did it we did do it the second America did it I think Zaslow could say we I feel like I could say he's the only one who can about the BET Awards actually Chris can say we that's

right no no yeah have you seen that you haven't seen the reports he's the only one who can about the BET Awards actually Chris can say we that's right We've seen that you haven't seen the reports. He's a season ticket holder, so maybe he can gingers That that they did say that he could say we I got I'm gonna go ahead and stand up and say nah What nah revoke that I don't know who started this science. How about that? I don't know who started it revoked I also need to have a conversation because I've been skipping a lot of meetings. I haven't know who started it. Revoked. I also need to have a conversation, because I've been skipping a lot of meetings. I haven't been participating in votes. I've been there. We let Jimmy Swims in?

Or Timmy, Teddy Swims? The Swims? Teddy Swims. Oh, we let him in? You let a couple guys in. He was getting nominated for stuff. I thought we learned our lesson with Justin Timberlake. What are we doing?

It takes more than a banger to get let in. I would like to register my disappointment. I don't know about Teddy Swims getting nominated. I don't know much about Teddy Swims. I gotta be honest, cause I called him Jimmy. But also, I don't know about this. That's a fine calling him Jimmy. Zaslow, the reason he gets credit and can say we

is because he ended a family vacation early cause his team needed him. By show of hands, anyone else end their vacation early for the Panthers? Anyone else end their vacation early cause their team needed them anyone Bueller Zaslow can say we all are reference. I have I have heard in my ear said by the way

I've been told that gazpacho is a cold soup only in summer and only in Spain So it's a regional soup you ever been in Spain in the summer damn where it's allowed. I have been Yes, it's very... Sun. Europe, Europe in summer. What the, are we doing? That's right. That's right.

That is correct, Tony. Yes, your sun is the correct... No, no, it's the sun. It is very hot, yes. Not sun, it's the sun. Venice smells bad. It's so hot, yes. 20%, huh, Chris?

20% over norm for you last night on fight. Four minute fight. All right, maybe 30%. Oh. Oh, wow. There's never fights in the playoffs. They had a line fight last night and Chris is trying to tell me, Chippy, happens.

Outside of that line fight, you do see in a blowout. It's kind of a big thing though. Like extra, like cross-check This does happen this what like I think a lot of people like Dominique swooping in for hockey playoffs last night was probably like Holy shit, but we're really it was like outside of that line fight, which is ridiculous Yeah, because I'm parachuting in what I do know about hockey is that the first hockey games were played with frozen cow poop and their fights. Yeah.

So that's all it because it's the one thing I guess also being on. No, there are lots of other sports on ice. It's the only sport other than combat sports where combat is acceptable. So yes, I'm watching hockey last night and for me, you're like, oh my gosh. I'm like, oh yeah, they out there hockeyin'. Well, but this coverage by Chris is bad in that Kane had more penalty minutes in that game than he had in his previous 17 playoff games combined. I know Kane.

What am I saying? He was a dirty player last night. That's not normal. That kind of fight is not normal. You do not risk the ramifications. Look, we just got done with Bryndamore telling his team the entire series do not retaliate on the panthers it's stupid it's how they beat you do not get emotional with them

dot it does not work so that brendam or has lost them consecutively and he was pleading with his team do not react do not retaliate the panthers do this it's's a style. It's a champion style They don't care if you do not like them. They're annoying. They bother other teams. They bother other fan bases They're dirty. They play on the line They've there they've got players who are unlikable league-wide

Reputations as unlikeable who would it like them and Marchand is sitting there while they were unraveling last night pointing to his head and their bench saying, there it is again. We're in there again. We beat you last year and we're in there again. Nico Mikl appointed and laughed at Corey Perry. Pointed and laughed. What a loser. Jonah Gadjovich over here skating with his tongue out like, ah.

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Okay, because I don't want there to be any kind of confusion. You look me right in the eye. Panthers can take that ass, man. This is the Don LeBattard show with the Stugarts. Roy. Yes? What is your assessment? You're saying that Edmonton can't play that poorly. I'm saying that that's the best that the Panthers can play.

You're also joyless and miserable and you're saying that Edmonton can't play that poorly. I'm saying that that's the best that the Panthers can play. You're also joyless and miserable and you're saying that Edmonton can't play that poorly. I'm saying that that's the best that the Panthers can play. You're all so joyless and miserable when he says to you, congratulations, and your response is, it's not over yet. It's not. They got two wins left. You can't. You can't fool me. These guys, they don't know you like I know you.

You have taken all your joy and you put it on your head. Today you're like, nah, I can't be happy, but I'm happy. And so subconsciously, when you walk to your closet today in your normal all black attire, you got the happiest hat that you could find. So I'm happy for you, Roy. I'm sorry to put you out there, but I know that you're happy even though that you tried to act like you're too tough.

I've got Roy's all his hats like in order of like from like the saddest hat to the brightest and he just like, oh, we're going over here today. The only time you were happier was when that, what was it, 18 seconds, goal was made and the Panthers were tied in court in overtime. That's the happiest you've been. That's the only time you were happy.

There's the smirk. Again, I was in pain, it was a grimace. Nope, not a grimace, it's a smirk. Again, I was in pain. It was a grimace. Nope, not a grimace. Again, let's focus on Rose, please, instead of Roy, because the Panthers, very recently, and this is why this show's annoying, this is why this time of year, the last couple of years, the fan base aggressively turns on us,

but also watches more hockey than they used to watch, and is a member of a very small group of people now rooting for the panthers because i do not believe that that is happening throughout the country now every team says that every time right it's us against the world can you guys tell me a region a country a place it's maybe maybe fit maybe bark off

fit maybe he's so big that there is a place that has embraced the Panthers. I think Calgary's rooting for the Panthers. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. Just from hate, well that's hate watching Edmonton. They love Kachuk and they hate Edmonton. But that's hate, but that's, okay, that's rooting for the Panthers, but it's rooting

for someone else to suffer. It's not even the same thing. I'm asking you, where are the people that, Kachuck is not, they're not going to be allowed to be lovable underdogs. They're not even gonna be allowed to be underdogs. Where are the people rooting for them? I don't know if people are rooting for them,

but I do think they've gone above this small market. I think they've gotten the respect. Like hockey, you listen to other hockey podcasts and it's not get these Panthers out of my life. It's more in awe of, holy shit, this team is just, their goalie's great, their defense, they can play any style. It's more just, you hear this respect for this team of like,

I can't believe this team has built this crazy successful unit. Which is hateable. Right, but you don't, I don't know what you're saying. No, I'm saying that there is, there was, I understand that there was a segment of hockey culture that was like this Florida team, we hate them, they're from Florida, this isn't hockey.

But now it's like they're beating our golden boy, the one that's supposed to give us the right to say that we watched the greatest hockey player since Gretzky. You can't say it until he wins one. He's standing in a way and every story, every hero's journey story that we've ever watched or read has been about one singular special person overcoming some evil demons around them. And you guys are the evil demons. I hate to tell you this, you're the zombies in the zombie movie. You are not Indiana Jones. It's not who you're not Han Solo. I don't know what else

I mean, I can't do anything modern. I'm old. What do you do? Those are some old references This this show has now gotten annoying and here's Zas low's face This is Panther fandom right here, and it's bloated and it's arrogant and it's telling you after that game with a sausage finger a Bratwurst in his left hand. He's pointing at you and he's saying that's how you play hockey That's it. Look we teach it down here in the Everglades Edmonton. That's how you play hockey It takes seven months to get to the arena and that's after you've parked in the parking lot It takes seven months to get to the arena, and that's after you've parked in the parking lot. The walk is through the Everglades.

It requires an airboat. That's where the Stanley Cup resides. You cannot take it from them because that's how you play hockey. I need that picture back, man. We can't just let that sit up there. You want to wallet size that? No, I want to wallet size. I want a poster size of Humpty Dumpty's grandpa.

I would love to have that photo. Oh, look at that. How is the top bigger than the bottom? I was shocked. It is great. Why is your chin up there? Confused. Beluga-esque.

Yes, yes. You whale-faced ass. It is. You could put a narwhal horn on his forehead, and you wouldn't create the most impressive animal, Dominique, has ever been in awe of. But we all learned one thing though, last night. That's how you play hockey.

Yeah, that's how you play hockey. You do got a hockey fight ass head. Like that look like that, they could take a butt. Beluga-esque is the correct word. The Panthers went up 5-1 last night after Aaron Echblad scored. I get up off the couch in the Zazzle Mansion family room. I'm cheering my 13 year old looks because sound up 5-1.

Yeah, I mean your head does look like 5 to 1. The biggest goal last night was Reinhardt, right? Like we got we get we're up to nothing. They get a goal early in that second period and you're like, oh shit, we're back. Our, our feel good is gone. And then Reinhardt responds immediately with a goal. Obviously huge, but did Sam Bennett have the greatest shift in the history of Panther hockey?

Yeah, absolutely did. Two hits. Two monster hits. And on the same shift, how about this? It's about to be a two on none breakaway, but we're so confident in Sam Bennett that E2 Loisterinen passes the puck to Bennett and says, F it, you don't need me.

And Bennett scores on the breakaway. That's Lucy in a nutshell right there, unselfish. Good play at the blue line too. It was the one that broke up that pass, leaned to the two on no. What size is your hat? I mean, I get fitted hats, so I don't know. It's a cup.

I know, but he's right. It's stretchy? Yeah, a little bit. A little bit. You got a Lululemon hat on. A little bit, yeah, flex cap. A little bit. Dominique, I would like for you to stay generally

with wherever your imagination and your curiosities take you on the discovery that Zaslow's head and surface area on his forehead is larger than we imagine because he's been hiding it for many years under a baseball cap and now that it's been unveiled to point a finger at you and say that's how you play hockey, I love that as the face of South Florida sports telling Canada this is what happens to your golden boy when you get chippy and make Chris rain down from the arena they should take a look at that. 30%.

Oh man can we get that picture up again man I can't get enough of that picture. That picture is yelling at me if you don't like it you can leave. Yes yes. Right? That picture. That's America. It's saying Merica. If you don't like it, you can leave. Yes, yes! Right? That's America. It's saying, America. Yes. And you said where my imagination takes me,

I wanna go where Zazz's imagination takes me. I feel like that imagination can take me around the world full times. I'm with you on this. Now that I look at this, that's how you play hockey. And it's also exactly how you react by sending 2,000 National Guardsmen to California in order to protest immigration stuff. That picture says love it or leave it, asshole.

Yes. Yes. This country should be wider. That picture says you getting these guns out of my cold dead hands. That wins. That's going to be a champion right there. It might cost us democracy. Two more games. But that is something that if I were bringing it through central casting and telling people what's American arrogance right now,

that's what it looks like. I would definitely cast him as the one yelling something from the crowd, you're in a show and someone yells something offensive from the back, that guy. This is a long way from yesterday when Rose was the reaction that we were loving, which is Rose's face horrified from any angle and every angle because she was so scared.

17 seconds from winning game two. That is, I mean, we can all agree, right? This is sheer terror. I was right there with it. And it wasn't but a few periods ago that that's what it all felt like. That's a shock telling novella face right there. That is something that sports does that nothing else does. You care so much that you go and say,

from there I'm terrified and from Chris Cody's perch, they should take a look at that, that violence down there that's making tough men bleed, that's normal playoff hockey. I've got a dirty secret to say. I know Rose, okay, I know Rose very well. Yes, she's a big Panthers fan, but you know what she loves even more than the Panthers going home going home early

So what she saw there was not only oh no the Panthers they tied it up against the order Oh, no, I've got 20 minutes of an intermission I've got another 20 minutes of overtime and then when that overtime stopped I got another 20 minutes and then another 20 minutes, and then they got a score Ended up being another two hours for poor Rose, who just wants to go home. Because she only asked 11 times, when is this over? Okay.

And that was on Saturday during the MMA Hangout. And I told her, babe, you know exactly what it is. We got one o'clock in the morning, that's it. You're still using babe, huh? Yeah. That kind of thing. I am concerned that you are accusing Rose of wanting game and not caring about the results and just wanting games to be over so that she can stop working.

And Stugatz's last engagement hockey was it him not wanting it to go double overtime because he wanted to go to sleep and i'm thinking this is not how's as low as experiencing any of this i know it's not how roys experiencing it uh... but uh... says what do you end up having trouble getting to sleep last night cuz i would imagine though after game one you would have a lot of that no i i would imagine after game one you would not sleep very well and get after game one you would have a lot of bad No, but I would imagine after game one you would not sleep very well And then after game two you wouldn't sleep very well either cuz cuz you're wired well

I didn't go to sleep right away after Game two Friday nights and get loose You know my style come on game one. I had a hard time falling asleep game two. Let's keep the party rolling guys asleep game to keep the party rolling guys then nights then that one last night you get to relax oh last night last night's one of those ones you just go home digest all the postgame interviews top night of my go ahead Paul Maurice tell me how you liked four minutes in our second period no matter how well we play he's like I really like three minutes in our second period I want to show Dominique please our good AI

work on making Zaslow a narwhal, the most impressive of all of the creatures. Dominique has spoken very highly of the narwhal being a head of the octopus. Was that 3D? Of the octopus, yes. Our crack staff got to work immediately. I asked them to make a narwhal and they did some aluminum foil party hat in the center of Zaslow's forehead. I'm watching Muppets 3d right now. We're the rest of you though taking a back as I was by the surface area that Dominique noticed at the time that he noticed It on on the Zaslow forehead. I Believe that if you concentrate hard enough, you could tell us who's gonna win this series

Just like I think professor like, I think. Professor X? I think he got it. I think Cerebro over there, my Cerebro. Just put both hands like this and go, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm win. So Chris Cody, you think it's normal for Matthew Kachuk to be saying we talked about it in the third, if you have to take a punch, take a punch, if you have to take a cross check,

take a cross check, spear, slash in the face, whatever the case is, you've gotta take it. Yes, like if you listen to their post-game, like a lot of the players were saying what I'm saying right now, that it got chippy, they needed to realize that this is a long series, let's not do anything that's gonna get us suspended, you have to defend your teammates.

That's what that was. So I think that in that world, maybe that's normal. It's normalized violence, yes. But I think that what you're saying to us is as if we are in that world. We all recognize we're not in that world. And you are telling us like, no, it's normal. And it went beyond.

Like I'm not saying last night wasn't more than I would have expected, but I just think a lot of what we saw last night is just when a team is broken down to one, they need to, oh, if we're gonna come back in this series, we gotta show them that we're in this too. So they're just gonna get aggressive. And we broke them mentally.

Yeah, but that didn't, that's not what it felt like to me last night. Like it didn't feel like the oilers are saying, okay We're gonna show you we're still here like to me that it felt like a team was melting down That's true. It did. All right. There were a few times. I'm not we have broken them I'm not comfortable with how often you're saying that we broke them mental We know only one person gets to say that in here There were a hundred and ten penalty minutes between the two teams in the final nine and a half minutes of the game.

That's not normal, obviously. The more important thing I would say to you is it's the 13th playoff game in which McDavid and Dreisaitl, neither one of them scores a point. And when that happens to the Oilers they are 2-11 They are not a championship team. They are a bad team if those two guys have the game they had last night They lose 11 out of 13 times because that team relies

Roy's analysis simplistic though it was before the series is yes they have the two best players and the Panthers have the best team the Panthers have four lines the Panthers can get nothing from their first line in the first two games and it doesn't even matter it's it's an unusually deep team and it flogs you and you're supposed to get tired in the third but through the first two games of this series, Edmonton was in a position that made it feel to all of Edmonton

that there was no reason to fear anything here. And now the fear is here. It must be here. If you're Edmonton, you've seen that this can be done to your wonder kid. Yeah, they definitely targeted Connor McDavid. They hit him five times, especially in an acrobat. So they really put it to him.

Love that. They listened to me. Remember I was saying, like, get in his way. When he's going down. Cut him off. It wasn't getting him. It's cut him off. Someone hit him.

Get your lines right. That's what it was. Not get in his way. Hit him. Stop him. Take a look at that. They listened. Love that fear.

Filled him a plume. Wonder Ken? They're going to be great on Thursday, by the way. Take a look at that! They listened. Love that fear, field him a plume. Wonder Ken? They're gonna be great on Thursday, by the way. For sure, Ken. Yeah, okay, just checking. The Oilers will be great on Thursday. Thursday will be scary, and if we win, obviously we're in a good spot, but this is not over.

Thursday is going to be Connor McDavid at his scariest. Of course it's not over, we've got that. We know that. Well, first I say we, now I'm showing perspective. What do you want me to do here? Yes, the silence was everywhere. The silence. Hey friends, it's Jarrah Bear here,

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