The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: THE PANTHERS ARE BACK-TO-BACK CHAMPIONS

Episode Date: June 18, 2025

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There they go, champions! Yo, Florida Panthers! Two times, two times, family go champion, yo Florida Panthers. Let's go Panthers, let's go Panthers, let's go Panthers. Go goalie, seven minutes, let's go Panthers, go goalie with seven minutes, let's go Panthers, I don't have to go back to Edmonton, let's go Panthers, I don't have to go back to Everton. Let's go, Vander.

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How crazy are the streets out there? What's happening in the streets of Miami, Billy? Traffic was pretty light this morning. I think maybe people were out late yesterday. That's Bird Road there. I know that guy. Yeah, that's that guy right there, that's Bird Road. The guy with the pot on his head, I know that guy. Yeah, that's not gonna hit the that's Bird Road the guy with the pot on his head

I know that guy. Yeah, so I were out celebrating. Okay. Look at that. Look at hockey town. Look at that Look at South Florida. You said Canada that we wouldn't get excited about this. Look at the 12 people outside like a river That's the one on Bird Road by the way That'd be a great place for reality to talk to people about name the Panthers goalie. You're mocking this. That looks genuine to me. When we see Edmonton, there's three people outside saying that looks genuine to me. It just looks real.

I know you want this to be what you imagine in your head that we've just awakened and we found something happened. I'm reading in the newspaper today. We won a championship. It's not that. There's people there. Okay that I'm reading in the newspaper today. We want to jump each. It's not that there's people there Okay, I looked at Roy's face today. I saw a man who was out for 12 hours straight celebrating. Yep That's right. Get home at 330 went to sleep at 4 woke up two hours later. It's as low as hungover All right, so you're doing the show drunk this is the drunk no drunk I'm hungover like I don't remember a whole lot from last night, man. I am, I am sorry. All right, so you're doing the show drunk.

This is the drunkest. No, I'm not drunk, I'm hungover. Like, there's a difference. Yeah, but if you went for, you know, till three hours before the show, you might not yet be in the hangover. I was drunk yesterday, that's hungover. Today is hungover.

I actually didn't party a lot last night. Planning for elbow room today, what am I doing here right now? Well, I wanna understand reality reality can you help me and I'm sorry to Tony Kalaniud yesterday I described him as the better Tony I saw I saw that on the title and I was like that's probably Dan doing something foolish it's okay I was foolish I know what I know the game plan the thing is I know you that gonna go I know you so well I know what the game plan is today pit one Tony against the other.

They don't make a try and not like each other. Try to get Tony riled up. Tony C tried to get him riled up. I needed you two days ago when I went on the court with a Juco player and got dunked on 10 straight times in a row. And that was fine until the only time the cameras were on were me taking three pointers

and I was just breaking them all over the place. So that's what I needed. That was not a great moment for you, but positivity came into town and I will always remember that the weak reality came into town, the Panthers went back to back. And now a legitimate dynastic conversation starts because they're better than everyone and I see the sportsbooks want to make Carolina a favorite, want to make Colorado a favorite next year. But idiots! Well, because they fear that, you know ben it's probably going to get a

ton of money it's all i heard during the playoffs it's all i heard every time he scored that just cash registers so the team's not going to be exactly the same but tony i heard some wild willy wednesday in there because you were just egging on this tony versus tony rivalry when i have no intention of doing that and i did a cost contest. We all know how this one plays out. We know exactly how this one goes. But I didn't know I was supposed to be wearing... I still have the ticket on my shirt. What do you mean?

I don't know. I mean... Me? Yeah. Yeah. Is that brand new? Oh! What's happening here? He's a lifelong fan. Yeah, I'm a lifelong fan. Look at this shirt that obviously fits me perfectly well. Yeah, that is Lewis's shirt, clearly.

It's still got the tags on it so you can return it after wearing it. What? It's like an O'Buella purchase right there. You're gonna do the whole show holding your pots and pans because it's like the monkey that does this thing. Well, thank you, Reali, I appreciate it. The pots and pans celebration,

I know you make fun of me for saying things are uniquely Miami. In the United States, are there other places where championships are celebrated by people running into the streets with pots and pans? Yes or no? No. That's uniquely Miami?

Uniquely South Florida. Because I came in here and here is what white gloved service we have around here with your breakfast and lunch every day. I asked for pots and pans and our show has been so culturally appropriated by whatever American excess is, no one could find me a pot or a pan. So what I have in my hands is some sort of thing you wouldn't cook in. We at a hotel. So it makes sense No, but checks out no, but you guys eat twice a day every day and I see we don't cook

I suppose we'll stuff I see people cooking there as well and they use their pots and pans I thought we had pots and pans. We don't have pots and pans. Yeah Cereal we don't have pots and pans. I'm gonna cook with there's a hot plate We had cereal. We don't have pots and pans. There's nothing to cook with. There's a hot plate. The show has been Americanized when it doesn't have pots and pans to celebrate.

We have La Huita. Come on, that's not totally true. I want to put in historical context here in a moment what the Panthers have just done with some people who have been covering the Panthers for a long time in Zazz and Roy. But before I do that I need to address some in-house conflict that we have. No it's bad Tony, it's bad.

I want you to settle what needs to happen here. They, Chris and Roy both want to go to the Elbow Room. That's where the trophy is, that's where the party is, that's the fun place to be. Roy's been flying back and forth, three flights to Edmonton, and showed up Monday morning, 6.30 in the morning, off his flight to do the show. We couldn't find Cody. How happy is he not to fly to Edmonton today? Yes, very.

You heard him shouting it. Yes, through, what is that? That flight, how many flights is it? Well, it was three flights going to, three flights coming back, so that's six. And that is about, I would say 16 hours both ways. Look at the patch on the jersey though. He's already got the new patch. That's right. That's commitment. I bought this in game four by the way. Roy is a champion he's been working

hard and the hockey show hats are selling that he's wearing on lebatardaf.com and the hockey show sometimes on Friday is doing very well. Tell us about the flights again please I know we did this last year it's from where to where to where to where. Alright so this year the flight 2 was from Miami to Atlanta to Toronto to Edmonton and coming back from Edmonton to Vancouver to Salt Lake City. It's horrible. Vancouver to Salt Lake City. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. What? Yeah. What is that flight? Not good. That's what that flight is. Well how long? Okay so that's what you came, so 6.30 in the morning, Monday, Roy comes in and you hugged

him. I waited for a big hug because I haven't seen Roy in five years face to face. He was not in the mood. And he was in the mood and I sensed it and I knew I had walked in those shoes to some extent and I knew where he had been and that's a tough one. Yeah. The fact that he's here today with the jersey with the patch i don't know what code is gonna put out there

to get in the elbow room well but they both want to go and i know they want to go but that's commitment right can you tell me the nature of the disagreement okay i want to quit setting it up in a way that puts chris in such an unflattering position to be honest chris looks like the elbow room okay for thirty thirty-four which was part of my argument the reason the reason the Panthers are going to party their Fort Lauderdale's team And they love that place and it's concrete cocaine jungle from 40 50 years ago. There's nothing there It's coke concrete and the trophy and it's going into the ocean

Good place and they love that place and Zack Thomas one time in that place with Traym are Trace Armstrong Swam out to a buoy because he was drunk and got to the buoy and it was slippery and you didn't realize it and then the people had to save him from drowning because bad things happen at the elbow room but today the trophy is going to be there I would imagine right they're promising that the trophy is going to be there it was already there. Already there. So, oh, so you guys gotta get out of here then. So we gotta make this decision now.

It's gone already. Oh, they're not there anymore? That may go back. The party is still there, but Barkov showed up before sunrise with the trophy. It could still be there, but there was an early, before dawn, siting of the cup there. But there's still a party going on.

All right, so to set up what's presently happening in South Florida, okay, the parade starts now. You guys made fun of us last year because it was raining torrentially and the parade was ruined, but this team does have. Oh, it wasn't ruined. No, sir. It was the greatest.

Well, nationally, the perception of that parade is South Florida is being South Florida again because, guys, you've seen what Canada's like around there. You see how Toronto's heart is broken. you see how edmonton's heart is broken they have seen them celebrate they care deeply about this this trophy that is said to be the hardest thing to win in sports and what's weird about it is hollywood beach over there is filled with canadian tourists you will find them uh... still with sandals and socks they come from canada for hollywood beach

fort lauderdale this little patch of land has been conquered by these champions and the elbow room is where they go to celebrate edmonton's burial and it's all night and it's all week and it's all around the elbow room and it's till the parade the trophy stays here in these players will march it around our sands and beaches before they take it back to Finland or their country where they can worship it there. But this little plot of land over here on Elbow Room, both of you want to go. Roy, how do we settle this argument? Because what's the nature of the disagreement between you and Chris?

Well, I think Roy is like, let's just both go. And I think Carl and I have had the thought of we want to have in this room today a good, put this in perspective, back to back championships, and then let's go out to the chaos. I thought that that would be better. Roy, Zazz, Panther, covering it forever, talk serious hockey, let's go out to Chris getting it with the party, rather than.

But you just wanna go get drunk, is what you just told us. Do you think that, what's better, what's actual better content for the show? Me and Zazz having a serious Panthers conversation? And then going out to Roy for the chaos at the at the elbow room. No one having a serious Panthers conversation How dare you I'm just so it's here to cover for you exactly. I thought that I Want to hear from Roy today? This is not honestly. I know it just looks like you can't ask him and you spoke

I have asked for here. I really don't do this where I'm like, I want to go to do this. And I, this is an assignment made for me. Like celebrating with our fans at the elbow room, Dan, I'm out here with the fans. Like, I can just see it. And I just think I would crush it. And that's it.

And we can go together. It's not that I don't want Roy there. I just think if I'm not here, then it's just like, who's gonna talk Zazz? I mean, Zazz wants to talk some cats. I wanna talk some cats. And I wanna hear from Roy today. So in my mind, the perfect show was Zazz and Roy

putting this in perspective. Now let's go out to Chris at the Elbow. Well, you're taking people behind the curtain on what it is to be the EP. Tony, can you make a ruling here before? I can. I... Uh...

Uh... Uh, Billy, this is the other thing I can't. I, I. Uh. Uh. Uh. Billy, uh, this is the other thing that's in play though, Chris. You had, um, you had a couple of chances there to go wild Billy Wednesday there because he betrayed you in the back saying that you told us before the show

that you just want to go to get drunk. Well, I mean, would I partake in a beverage or two if I was there? Probably. But that's not, like, I I really want I want to check in with the show and I want the chaos around you want me to Go you know Billy let's instead of them Well, so there's the energy you're saying I didn't I didn't watch the game last night I was throwing up the whole night, but they could fill me in on what happened. I had a migraine. It was a whole thing I woke up this morning Billy what happened last night. No, I knew there in on what happened. I had a migraine, it was a whole thing. I woke up this morning.

What happened last night? No, I knew there might be a thing with the Elbow Room today, so I came in, even though I threw up earlier, and I was like, I gotta be a team player for my guys here. But if you need me to go on assignment, figure out what's going on. This is not the day for Wild Willy Wednesday, I'm gonna tell you.

But I'm just curious here, I was thinking about this on the way in Roy just hypothetically if we had gotten just a slightly different schedule and the Panthers had won the championship tonight and tomorrow is Juneteenth how are you how are you feeling about me making you work on Juneteenth there would you even want to come in to work on Juneteenth given that the hockey that this that the Panthers had won the what are you trying to do? I don't want to be here now I'm actually saying that we got saved by the schedule. We were gonna not have a show because of a national holiday on Thursday after I'm aware of what you're doing here. What we have is a championship We have it the city of champions is celebrating. Let's revel in that for a second.

Let's find a way to get everybody in the show to the Elbow Room. What boundaries do you have in life? Yeah, that's a great idea. What boundaries do you have in life? Well, because we have the show to do. We can just do it live from there. Well, that would have been planned well

if we had producers who were planning things, but that's not what you guys were drinking last night. I'm dry, I wasn't drinking. I'd love to go to Elbow Room. I got a lot of confidence today. I don't know if you've noticed. Since Zazz. Well, Zazzle, you should have confidence

because, I mean, the team is now already, right now, as we speak, by virtue of what they did last night, that team is now historic but just stop there or you could dot but they'll have a dynasty conversation fine they'll be a chance for that you win back to back in that sport you do the hardest thing back to back in that sport

you're better than everyone and you're tougher than everyone on on the road at home and no one in the sport would dispute even though they didn't want mcdavid stopped here they want this team to have the trophy no one would dispute earned best team in the league no argument everyone will shut up now toronto say well we were close and it's a it's impossible to imagine they were down to all and then they needed a game three overtime it's impossible to see from there but you've seen that've seen the best team again prove

it deserved to be champions in a season where everyone was coming for them, no one was surprised by them, everyone was vanquished by them. The thing that maybe was most surprising to me about this run is they got better as the postseason went on for a team that's in three straight Stanley Cup finals.

Like I was concerned after game one when they lost in overtime Can they look tired in that third period they look tired and over time like man Is this the end like they just had a gas and they got better as not just the entire postseason went on But certainly as this series went on That's not they played over 300 games last three years Oh a buzz saw though in these playoffs when yeah it i don't want to say it was easy but it was easier against mcdavid this time yes

then it was last time work but yet minton got a couple of games needed overtime for both of them it's where they played all the styles and florida was better than edmonton and mcdavid would bow his head now and we would have right the analysis of all this team with its depth just grinds you down and at the end of a series you don't have anything left because you've got that one line or maybe that to two lines and they've got four lines and it's just going to keep going all game but i want to talk about

the idea when we remember what this team is doing and look back at it as an all-time great in the history of South Florida What is great about the story and already makes it dynastic to me is it begins? With an eight seed clearly behind to Tampa and Boston and no they couldn't get past those teams through this hard route they couldn't get past those teams through this hard route. Kachuk gets traded after a blueprint changer. They had the best offense in the sport, Uberdo, they blew out the whole thing. They traded for Kachuk.

And what started was this story. Eight seed, somehow tough and gritty, makes a community love it, because it gets to the final. How the hell did that happen? Best Panther team we've ever seen down here. 30 years of Radek Dvorak., 30 years of Radik Dvorak. Like 30 years of just never win a playoff game.

Is that the funniest name to reference in that spot? What is the funniest name? Oli Jokinen. That is a good one. We could play this game. J. Bo Meester. Radik Dvorak is just. Okay, but so it goes from there, right?

So they fall in love. South Florida falls in love and hopes the way Knicks fans have the last couple of years. Oh, we're so close. They changed the blueprint, they're brave, they've got a good organization. They've never had that, never had that. You hear how all the players raving last night about the ownership?

They have never, this town has never had even average hockey ownership. It has just been scammers trying to sell ice in the everglades it has been garbage like bad businessman after bad businessman they clean it up eight seed makes and community fall of hope like nix fans hope and then what happens the next year oh my god

seven games three oh down old people three three this makes kids fall in love forever when you win this way and then this year they're better than everyone and they break up new york and they break up tampa and they break up boston probably break up to ronald toronto carolina might not break up but everyone will laugh at them because they're going to get broken again by whatever remains of this team even if they're made favorites which some sportsbooks have caroline is the favorite this story is going to be

an echoing all-timer in this market because of the last three years the last two of which result in back-to-back where everyone in that hallowed sport genuflex on when you do it back-to-back where everyone in that hallowed sport genuflex on it. When you do it back-to-back, we'll remember you forever. It's better and bigger, doubling the size of what you did the first time when you gave us the best hockey series any of us had ever seen. It's the coolest.

And it was such a different experience than last year. I don't know if it's because it's the back-to-back one, but it was just because we had the whole third period to know we were winning. Last year, I was just jumping, being a maniac when we won. This year, I like, with five minutes, I was just like sitting back, like looking around, just like taking it in.

It was similar to the Heat, like the Heat, when they won against the Thunder, the entire game was a celebration, it was a party, because we blew them out the entire game. And then the next year, game six, Ray Allen, game seven was tight, and we got to experience both, like being on the edge of our seat and a party.

And this year, it was the opposite with the Panthers. We were on the edge of our seat last year, and last night was a party. With seven minutes left. They're coach decided, all right, this goalie thing ain't working. Let's try it without. Well, it wasn't working.

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Don Lebatard. That was a long story. Yeah. It's the only kind he tells. It's the short one for me. I tried to speed it up for you guys. You forgot about the leagues cup. Stugats.

Yeah. La Carreta is a place where the best of the celebrations has to be the 97 Marlins celebration because it was Levante. Well, when Fidel died the first time. This is the Don Lebatard Show with the StuGards. Yeah, let me ask you, were any of you thinking that I would have to pay tuition? 100,000.

Oh, absolutely. It's all I was thinking about. Five nothing? If you told me five, just so you know, backstory. This was, I walked myself into something, right? I'm searching as you put me on a mission impossible. I found a heaving mass of Panthers fans. Oh, you could say, I mean,

they knew they were playing the oil. They knew nine zero was a possible result. So I asked a brilliant college student what the final score would be says. And he says to me, Tony T-bone, ice tea, nine Pants. That's what he looks me right in the eye said, if it's 9-0 Pants, there's Dan Lebatard is gonna full ride scholarship, pay your tuition for college. I agreed to terms immediately.

Absolutely. I just knew in his heart this would be something he would want to do because the emotion, the passion for everything that is the Pantalonis were just pouring out of this group. Pantalonis. And then it was five nothing with an empty net. That's what it was. It was like five minutes left. Seven minutes left.

I'm like, oh my God, we're gonna have to find that kid. It's gonna be a scandal. I'm rooting for Edmund. I've never been a bigger McDavid fan. It was sweaty because you can get two, three empty netters in no time. I like it. It's like a Scott's Tots situation

that Dan was running into. Would you have paid for a 10-1 final? No. I heard a nine-goal differential. No. Billy, I understand that you are here for Wild Willy Wednesday KS. I'm here to be a good teammate to my guys.

All right, no, no. Chris, you guys didn't notice, Chris. I don't want you to get so hung over and self involved today that you forget to do all parts of your job, okay? What I'm telling you is that from behind you, Billy is hell bent on anarchy because he doesn't want the two of you to leave. Guess who becomes EP?

I think you don't want the two of them to leave. And that's what Wild Willy Wednesday is. And so both of you should now leave. All right, see you later. We should go 15 minutes. No, both of you, get out of here. Go to the elbow room. There we go.

A ruling has been made. A ruling has been made. You want it to be Wild Willy Wednesday, so it shall be. But you noticed in the background, he was offering to go to the elbow room. Look how quick Roy got up. Hasn't watched the game. Oh up hasn't watched always out hasn't watched the games out Billy there would be biased Billy there would be funny Okay, he can go to if you who you want to put Zazz in that EP chair me. Let's go If you want to take him and you guys want to go and while Willie Wednesday wants to go to the elbow room

Have at it. I will do the show here. How long is the drive? I've never been It seems like it seems like a dose what this is what's gonna be the Saudi factor how long is the traffic coming back? It's an hour. It's an hour. Each way? Each way. It's gonna be an hour there if you don't get traffic. If you don't get traffic, it's 45 minutes if there's an accident. If you don't get traffic, if there's an accident it's two and a half hours it can take an hour and a half yes they might just be in traffic for the next two hours I think I join us join us for the post game Dan I think we should remix this I think me and Tony should go over to the open back-to-back yeah have fun tell us whoever steals the cup becomes Tony I will tell you guys right now that if you can figure out how it is

to get those people out there to produce our show in here, if all of you wanna go and do the show from the elbow room, I'm now telling you, I'm going live the rest of the show. We're just going live. We're gonna go four hours of, I'm assuming that people would have been here for one of two reasons today. You tell me which one they would have been here for more,

because I think this is obnoxious enjoyment people don't want that they want to name in c miami suffer in tears and the cold say that you you you want to gain seven before this week even started you were you're rooting for the fight i believe that more people would be watching and listening to this show today if the panthers had lost then if they win do you think i have that wrong uh... no i i think i think you might have it wrong. Yeah, I think you have it wrong. But more people will be listening Friday

when there will be a game seven than if the Panthers won last night. But today I think it's the same. You guys don't believe. I know every city always does the us against the world narrative. But this was... Well, you had McDavid, the best player in the world. but this was a nice really was this what i mean well you had mcdavid's the best player in the world and hockey the

better story indisputably is mcdavid getting revenge knocking off florida getting florida out of the way florida's not as interesting to the world as mcdavid would be as a rising star winning a championship they've already won we've done that story give me a new story but this is also still story though right because now this is still an NHL story going into next year McDavid still no title like we did this for years with Lebron you know and well this is the story for the NHL now is McDavid when if ever is he going to win because he just had two chances

and the second time he it went six he really wasn't that close and the second time it went six, he really wasn't that close. I think... Our audience is probably happy today, here to cheer on the Panthers, because I think there's a difference in the way that our audience perceives this team and this franchise than the Heat, because we understandably, since the Big 3 era, basically shoved the Heat down the audience's throat and the obnoxiousness that came with a team that was genuinely hated nationally. This franchise, everyone for the last three years got to with us experience a run as an eight seed that was far less obnoxious than how we handled the heats

run as an eight seed, I'm looking at myself in the mirror. And then two champions. We were all looking at you too though, it wasn't just you looking at myself in the mirror. And then two champions. We were all looking at you too though. It wasn't just you looking at yourself in the mirror. We were all staring at you as well. I was trying to just, hey, hand up my bat, you know? It was encouraged. But I would say that this team in particular,

I think our audience cares about. I get way more tweets of. They're excited to care about this. I get way more tweets of, you guys have turned me into a Panther fan than with the Heat. Yes, and you guys, not surprisingly, wildly self-involved.

So, yes, our audience, one thing. Outside of- Isn't that what you asked? No, Jeremy, no. Our audience is here either way. Our audience is always here. The people that would make it a larger audience are the people who are here to hear the arrogant Miami fan

weep into their pillow scared because now there's a game seven. Okay, that's true. Yeah, okay, I take it back. You're right. Yes, when you put it that way, you are right. But that's, I thought it was obvious to me that the way to get the most,

if what you're doing is just for clicks, if what you're doing is just to a mat, look, there are so many people in sports media right now doing stuff just to a mass audience. Speak their name. Steven A. Oh. Attaboy.

Whoa. Pablo, that would have been a better one. Speak their name. How dare you talk to me that way? You are more confident today. What is it about you? It's feeling good. It's feeling good. Two time champ, four time champ really if you include his

broadcasting championships. Billy I want to get to how bad you felt last night but I've kept him waiting long enough and he's pissed off now. We have not celebrated enough. Last year at this time during a lonely parade Greg Cody was out front get me that video please of last year of Greg Cody who was working at this time last year giving us a very lonely parade last year of greg cody who was working at this time last year giving us a very lonely parade last year to celebrate the championship now he joins us on remote here and i gotta say chris your dad must be feeling pretty good about himself because another year goes by and he's right and make david at the

end and make david at the end your timing is off cuz you're hungover the mcdavid uh... conversation greg off because you're hungover. The McDavid conversation, Greg Cody, you're feeling how right now? I would say vindicated, but I didn't need the vindication. McDavid did, and he failed to get it. I feel really good. I've come down with a terrible cold, and I found out last night that standing on a 200-foot

sheet of ice for an hour and a half does not make a budding cold get better, it exacerbates it. But I'm here for you guys, and who'd have believed that even though I was right about McOvarrated last year, I would be even more right right now because McDavid, I'm going to be the one to say it I guess, he disappeared in this final. He scored one goal had five assists McJesus was not walking on ice water and he is officially and certifiably

Continuing to be overrated Mc overrated until he proves otherwise and the Panthers didn't let him do it period paragraph Whoa, you know he went the extra. Oh my god. He went the end Look once he says period I got my attention, but what you go paragraph what I have that is as hot as I've ever heard him Do you have any words for white hat? Oh? You know he's he's beneath beneath my level of caring at this point because he's wrong so My former friend Brad Williams by the way the renowned comedian who went on with White Hat and took White Hat's side while at the same time admitting that McDavid needed to win a Stanley Cup to certify himself as an all-time great. A lot of people are doing that. So Brad Williams, he agreed with me, but yet he didn't, which is what everybody's doing now.

Hockey fans are a cult. they're a cult and and as a cult they are afraid to go against McJesus they are they are brainwashed into having to say that oh he's the best player in the game you see how fast he is nobody's ever been like him well you know what it's been ten years now Levitard earlier I think you referred to him as a rising star. He should have risen by now He's he's he's not a rising star and and guess what? Edmonton had its window had its two years with two-year window and it's not gonna stay open now He's never gonna win a cup. It has to be unbelievable. It says hold on hold says says

Your confidence today is overwhelming and I don't know what to do with it. You have to lay out there. That was a bar. That's Greg Cody as vindicated and arrogant and ego soaked as I've ever heard him. Billy you seem delighted. Look at him he's snarling right now. This is as right as Greg Cody has ever felt. Now I would argue he's exhausted. Four lines hitting him in the face and can only play half the game. Like, they spent him, and so there was nothing left of him at the end. But it's because the Panthers are really good. It is not because McDavid's a choker, Greg. No, no. I've never called him a choker.

But he has had the inability to raise his team around him. And keep in mind, Dreisaitl, Leon NoTitle, he's supposed to be the second best player in this series, okay? He was better than McDavid on his own team. McDavid has just not had the ability to lift his team and he was surrounded by a team that could not lift him and and they look spent in last night's game They came out really strong Bob made a couple of good saves early and after that they were totally out of this game It was one of the most lopsided games. Yes of the play. I thought it was gonna end with nine nothing and tuition You said disappeared though. What's the difference between disappeared and choking?

The difference is that the selkie winner Alexander Barkov made him disappear said disappeared though what's the difference between disappeared choking uh... the differences that the silky winner alexander barkoff made him disappear uh... the the best defensive forward in the game was on him as much as possible when you're paying playing a minute and change per shift and and the the panthers defense and the depth of their team and and the depth of their ability to defend all over the ice won this series and made him disappear i don't think mcdavid lost this series but he also didn't he also failed to to win it

and and you know his i'd dollars keep waiting for mcjesus to appear in a robe skating in a robe and and finally become a champion had a chance to do it last year had another chance the past couple of weeks just didn't do it okay I'm not saying he's choking but I am saying he's failing to rise to the moment that history seems to have designated for him Greg do you what do you almost feel bad for him I feel bad for him as someone who's a big Panthers fan I feel bad for him because I feel like he's getting someone who's a big Panthers fan. I feel bad for him because I feel like he's getting all this pressure from the outside

and the reality is he's not the one going out there saying, I'm McJesus, I'm the next Wayne Gretzky, I'm the greatest hockey player ever. It's everybody else wanting to be right about him. And the reality is he's just not that good. And there's this expectation that he's gonna be the greatest thing in the world and he's proven that he's not.

So I kind of feel bad for him because people are kind of putting this on him and crowning him unjustly and it makes things harder for him and I'm looking now here at his contract situation. I see next year seems to be his last year in Edmonton and then he's a free agent. It seems like this might be a basketball thing

where he may need to come down to town, Pallola Marchand come down here to the Panther land and team up with some winners, learn the winning way, you know? Wow, I like that rumor you've just started. McDavid to the Panthers, I like that. Billy, we disagree, I don't think he's not that good. Yeah, same. I'm not gonna go that far.

Go on. He's a fast skater, he's got some attributes. Oh, he does, and he has the ability to have a- But some holes as well, Greg, we would agree. Like a few games ago when he slalomed through Barkov and- Spee's fader. Yeah, Apollo Antonono. But he's got, he's got, but Greg, we can agree,

there's some holes in his game, yes? There's holes in everybody's game. Yeah, exactly. Nobody's perfect. I will say McDavid is overrated. And to Billy's point, Billy's always on the mark with stuff like this. Go on. To Billy's point, McDavid's not out there saying, I'm the greatest ever. Wayne who? It's others who are putting that on him.

But they say it to him in press conferences and he doesn't push back. He's kind of like, yeah, that's a good question. Okay. But so live up to it. Mc over and he doesn't push back. He's kinda like, yeah, that's a good question. Okay, but so live up to it McOverrated, live up to it. That's all I've been saying for the past couple years. My bandwagon still has plenty of room, by the way. I'm not feeling a lot of love for my He's McOverrated opinion. Go on.

Maybe now people are gonna come on board, I don't know. You gonna go on with White Hat today? I already want you on uh... there's a possibility don't dignify him with your presence you're not going on his show are you well do you know i i asked a uh... a council of mine uh... someone whose opinion i respect whether i should do it or not and i was told i should do it so maybe i will wait a minute hold on a second time

with billy on this you defeated white hat white hat should not get the clicks of cody goes on his grounds to gloat cuz cody gets to be right and he wants desperately the stage of being right make him come on your turf he called you a senile old man that disrespect still there whether he was he he was on my show last week uh... so i gave him the courtesy of allowing to explain

How senile I am he came on I gutted him like a fish and now he wants me on his Podcast and I'm thinking of you know Reciprocity I'm thinking of doing the nice thing and all home in a white hat. He's a senile old man Do you mean an old home in an old home is that was that a purpose uh... because the he he's using you uh... white hats using you to get in the game he was beneath you and now he's not anymore and you and you're right and at the end like he called was senile old man for your take that is right is a senile old man

yeah well that's true but he did uh... a senile old man for your take that is right. He's a senile old man. Yeah, well that's true but he did uh he did sort of cower and apologize on my podcast last week. Go check it out if you haven't heard it yet but um you know he's just a kid he's a green kid you know wet behind the ears whatever all those sayings for green inexperienced kids are who shouldn't be calling accomplished journalists senile old man but I put him in his place and now I'm thinking of Daning to be on his podcast today we'll see how that works out I'm going to just blow through the clocks here today and just stay on live for four hours to celebrate

whatever it is that we're celebrating down here because we've got everybody's in today we've got a big personality in reality he is dominated the week and he gets all the credit forever more in South Florida for bringing positivity down here immediately resulting in a back to back championship. He brings Zazz greatly hung over, but more confident than I've ever seen him. I got it going on today. I mean, he does. You guys have had you, what are you laughing at, Greg?

Yeah. What are you laughing at, Chuckles? What does that mean? I got it going on. What have had you, what are you laughing at Greg? Yeah what are you laughing at Chuckles? What does that mean? I got it going on? What does that mean Zaz? It means I, I mean, I just, I feel great. I don't know. Look at me, listen to me, I feel great today. He feels like a champion. He is a champion journalist but he would not call himself a champion around the Panthers, Greg. Because he's just a friend of the Panthers, but he did save their season by sacrificing. That's true.

Sacrificing his vacation. One four out of five when I came home, Dan. His team needed him, and he ended a vacation, a family vacation early. Sometimes you gotta take charge. Yeah, putting his beloved Panthers ahead of his family, I get the priorities on that, Zaz. Well, everyone's happy today aren't they

yeah i i i don't know if you'll respect you if you just show my way i see you're wearing your champion shirt once again displaying what a neutral journalist you are and always well let me is the way it is today i mean get with the times live in the now cody wait greg what did i see outside of your house yesterday and i commented on okay we have a little let's go cats placard at the corner. That's a no. And why is that?

Because Greg Cody lives with someone else in this house who's a big Panthers fan. Still not a good look. It's my wife and and she is a Panthers fan. We had this thing that she had brought home from a game a couple of weeks ago and she asked me to put it up in the yard. So you put it up so there could be a photo out there of you putting it up. Yeah yeah yeah because because paparazzi are all over my house looking for me putting up a let's go cat sign on the corner of my yard. I will say this I will admit this. Go on. although i am not a panthers fan in in

the way that's as low as wearing a champion's shirt today uh... it it does feather my mcover rated argument that uh... panthers not only one but one the way they did by making mcdavid disappear for six games so even even the game he scored a goal. You know, he just had a quiet series and the Panthers turned him quiet.

Greg, I don't understand what kind of insults you think it is that a Panther fan is wearing a Panther shirt today. Well, you're a journalist, right? I am a journalist, but journalists are also sports fans. Yeah, but generally they don't wear the shirt of a team. Says who? Says me. You're not in charge, I got news for you. It is news. Says other journalists. Breaking news from this journalist. You're not in charge. Do you have a placard on your lawn? Do you have a Go Panthers placard on your lawn? No, that'd be ridiculous. Okay, so Tim Reynolds. Tim Reynolds. Lousy fans as.

Tim Reynolds. Well, so you're a good fan? My wife is. But you're hiding behind that. That's a good costume you're wearing. Yeah, if you can picture my wife out there with a hammer and nails putting up a placard in my yard. You put it out there. If I had a hammer and nail. It's like one of those in the ground. Yeah, whatever. Wait a minute. I can't picture you doing it either, Cody. All right, hold on a second. Hold on, stay right there. I'm gonna break for a minute,

see if I get rid of your sun, but we're going live for four hours. Stay there, Cody.