The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Hockey Show: BACK-TO-BACK STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS

Episode Date: June 20, 2025

THE FLORIDA PANTHERS ARE BACK-TO-BACK STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS! Roy, David, Rose, and Ethan are all here to celebrate and discuss this unbelievable achievement. Ethan was at the Panthers' celebration at E11even last night and recaps that insane scene for us before we go to our wins and fails of the week. Of course, it is very Panthers-centric. Then, DJ Bean of What Chaos joins the show to discuss the Panthers' plans for free agency, where the Oilers go from here, and take in Rosa En Un Minuto. As usual when DJ is around, shenanigans ensue. Finally, we hear Roy and David's interviews from after Game 6 with Bill Zito, Roberto Luongo, Jesper Boqvist, Seth Jones, Niko Mikkola, and Nate Schmidt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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It's all because of me and oh yeah, but mostly to you and congratulations to all of us because we are not going back there Welcome right now. Yeah, yeah, we have to be at the morning skate right now. Oh my god Could you imagine we'd be getting ready for a game seven? No, no nerves. Oh my god be getting ready for a game seven? No. No. The nerves? Oh my god. I don't want to wake up early to do this show on remote. So happy I'm not nervous and anxious and miserable. Welcome to the hockey show my name is Roy Dormey that's David Dwork that's Ethan that's Rosie they are in the shipping container we have DJ Bean from what chaos coming up in a little bit we're going to talk about the series and the aftermath of the Panthers winning

the Stanley Cup for a second year in a row now for those of you who are watching on DKN you can watch that interview and the rest of the show on the Levitard and Friends YouTube page just click on the playlist tab and click on the hockey show playlist. All the episodes are there. So go ahead and check that out. Here's a reminder for everybody. We have merch on levitardaf.com. We have shut down city shirts, but most importantly, we have shirseys. Shirseys with our names on it. So please buy it because for... Wait, the cup final's over.

Yes, it's over. Who won? It's going until end of June because of the cup finals over yes it's over is going until end of June because I was trying to say Ethan it from until the end of June proceeds will go to a nonprofit that rescues dogs it's called rescue paws and for more information on rescue paws you can log on to rescue paws F L dot o R G now S-Q-P-A-S-F-O. Dot O-R-G. Now, fellas, lady, I'm exhausted. I'm not as exhausted as me, Roy. Why is everything about you, Ethan?

I never said it was about me. I just said I'm exhausted too. I feel your pain. You're way more exhausted than you are. You went to 11 last night. I did. What was the scene? Unbelievable. One of the coolest things I've ever been a part of I mean it's just

Did you go last year about no? That's the thing is last year I didn't go and it was the biggest regret of my life and so this year I Promised myself how many of your right circumstances. Oh, yeah, you got boys were there the boys are there Circumstances are right if I want to know how many other boys About eight I would say. Eight of the boys. It was one. It was like.

No. It was like I am. And none of the ladies. No ladies there, except for the ones dancing. It was a whole lot of dudes in that place. But let me tell you. Sausage fest. When you get up in close and personal with the Florida

Panthers, you see what they're talking about when they talk about this unit, this group, the camaraderie, the brotherhood that they have. It's not bullshit, it's real. The team is so close, they love each other so much, and they just love hanging out with each other. And it was so cool to see, and so cool to be a part of, and it feels like I really got to celebrate with the Florida Panthers, and it was one of the coolest things I've ever done. Speaking of how much of a family that this team is and the type of culture that this team has, I want to play a video of Paul Maurice because at the end of the

game he rewarded the fourth line of Thomas Nozick, AJ Greer, and Jonah Gadjiewicz. The final shift of the season. They were out there and once the final horn hit, it was them on the ice going straight to Sergei Barbaroski. And then everybody else off the bench. Just when you think Paul Maurice can't be that guy any more than he already is. He's on the bench in the middle of a Stanley Cup Championship moment and he's having the presence of mind to put a sentimental line out there like that's that's just so cool. Here's the sound of Paul Maurice telling the fourth line going on to the ice this is yours go ahead. I'm gonna get you out there. I want you three guys on the ice for the last shift so you throw your off with this because we're down to nothing against Toronto and you got**kers got us here. You get the last shift. I love it. Barkov! Nose has the last shift!

That's awesome. I love it. That's awesome. He's telling the first line, get off the ice to the fourth line. That's so cool. Like in the middle of saying this incredibly sentimental message to his thumpers, his fourth line, his grinders, in the middle of that he still has to coach. So he's talking to you right, Bark bark off line and then he goes right back into it because he's like you guys are the reason we're here yeah I love that I love everything about that they scream they scream to the players I don't think they can listen

they're listening for that on the bench that's how they know who goes next is the coaches will yell the name of the center yeah Penny Line! Oh my god! Yeah, that's what they do. And they hear? Well, obviously. Line changing is so insane. Wow. It's amazing that there's not a lot more too many men on the ice. It's insane. Even though it was too many men on the ice at the end of the game.

They know who they're responsible for. The center goes for the center, the left wing goes for the left wing. So if they jump off early, that's why. Yeah. It's time. Face is gonna blow. Maybe for the second and last time, maybe the last time of the season, but it is time to go through what happened in game six and to do that we go to Rose. It's time for Rosa Ennuminuto, take it away, Rosie.

Okay. You got music for that? You got papers and everything. You told her she was going to do it for DJ. Yeah. I did? Yeah. Okay.

So sorry I was not ready. Oh, if that's the case, we'll do it for DJ. Turn it down she was gonna do it for DJ. Yeah. I did? Yeah. Okay, so sorry I was not ready. We're all gonna do it today. Oh, that's okay. We'll do it for DJ, turn it down. We'll do it for DJ. Sorry about that, Rosie. You're making me edit.

I don't remember anything that I did for pre-production apparently, because I am that tired. So it just doesn't make any sense. I apologize, that's my fault. Sorry about that. So, since we're not going to go to Rosa in Uminuto, because I am saying that right from now on, we're going to go straight to wins

and fails brought to you by Jägermeister. Jägermeister, serve it cold, or don't serve it at all. Jägermeister, damn, that's cold. For more, visit jägermeister.com. Drink responsibly as Rosie is wiping sweat from her brow because she wasn't ready for that. Sorry about that. Anyway, David, go ahead. Your win. Oh god, I'm sorry Rose. You look so frustrated. Oh my gosh. No, it's okay. I'm just trying to juggle a whole bunch of stuff. Now you know how I feel. Yeah, go go go go. Okay, my win of the week goes to the Panthers. It goes to the Panthers leadership because after they won the Stanley Cup, when the Cup had been awarded, Sasha Barkov lifts it, brings it over,

the team comes together, an awesome moment. And then the next 10 guys to raise the Cup were all the guys that had never done it before. So it went from Barkov to Nate Schmidt to Seth Jones, Thomas Nosik, Vitek Vanecek, AJ Dreher, Jesper Boquist, Mackie Samuskiewicz, Uwe Spolincis, Joseph Megna, and Evan Cormier. They all got to lift the Stanley Cup before anybody else on the team did.

The team wanted to make sure that all the first timers got their experience before anybody else. And that's just, as we continue talking about how amazing of a team this is and how great they are together, that is just another example of why they are such a selfless bunch and why they're back-to-back champions. Yeah, that was awesome, especially seeing Nate Smith lifting the cup because he had just missed out on Vegas winning their Stanley Cup. So yeah, that was great seeing Nate Smith getting the second, the second handoff on

that one. Yeah, very well deserved. My winner of the week comes from the No Kings protest. Surprising, isn't it? The No Kings protest specifically in Los, when this man walked around with his fellow defenders of the United States Constitution wearing an Edmonton Orliss jersey while holding a sign that said, Did Someone Say Eliminate the Kings? Now as you remember, the Orliss were down 2-0 in the first round to the Los Angeles

Kings before storming back to win the series and eventually winning the Western Conference in a very serious time in America. It's very comforting to see that we can still be smart and funny while showing our patriotism and we kind of need that nowadays considering what's going on in the world right now. So get on that guy and hopefully we'll get through what the hell we'll get into right now. Ethan, your win. My win of the week also for the Panthers. This moment in the locker room though was really awesome.

I love the troll here of Matthew Kachuk standing on a table singing Pink Pony Club. The audio is really bad so you won't be able to hear it, but can we roll the video so that you can just see Chucky smoking a cigar, looking as cool as ever with a bottle of champagne, playing Pink Pony Club by Chapel Rowan, which we all know was the Edmonton Oilers victory song. I can tell you that song was in the rotation last night at 11, probably played about six or seven times while I was there. And I think even one time Chucky was like,

let's do this one more time for Edmonton. They love trolling this team I don't think there's any love lost between these two teams. I really want to hear Every single trip that these two teams had against each other because it was it'll downright hateful. Yeah Yeah, it was it was a nasty series apparently and there's no love lost between these teams and I think the Panthers are going to have some fun with Pink Pony Club this summer I can tell you that much. Yeah, as much as I find that song annoying, play the hell out at this summer. Rosie, go ahead, your win.

Okay, my win of the week is last night they played a Queen song and everybody was in unison with the song so we can play it Are the champions my friends Till the end I think I don't think we can play the rest of that Exactly, so that's why I just put like 10 seconds. You guys realized that song was playing as we walked onto the ice the other night? Yes.

Yes. I thought that was cool. Yeah, I thought that was great. Let's go to the fails of the week. David? My fail of the week goes to our boy Brad Marshand. It's a fail wrapped within a win, but he was out in Fort Lauderdale with the rest of the team on Wednesday morning partying after they won the cup and somebody snapped a picture of him and in that picture he was whole smoking a cigar, drinking a coffee, drinking a spiked iced tea and then he had a-

Why is this a fail? No, it's just the combination of cigar, coffee, spiked tea, beer, like I don't know, it just to me it's very gross. But like I said, it's a fail wrapped in a win because he's only doing that because he's a Stanley Cup champion. But I don't know, that seemed kind of gross to me. Maybe-

Yeah, it's a bad combination, man. Maybe that's good for Ethan in the morning, but for me, I'm- I mean, let the guy celebrate, dude. Look at him, he's having a time. Having an absolute time, that's some combination there. The cigar at 8.30 in the morning, nine o'clock in the morning is pretty gross.

Combining it with a fresh coffee and spiked ice, just that whole combination to me, it's like, yeah. The failure week for me happened in the quarter cup final as the Charlotte Checkers faced the Abbotsville Canucks, the fighting for the right to be the champions of the American Hockey League. It is a responsibility for an official to make sure that the go that the goaltender is set and ready before dropping the puck. It's also the

responsibility for the center who's taking the defensive face-off to make sure his goaltender is set and ready and that did not happen because what happened here was off the face-off and double overtime in game one the checkers scored and they scored because the goal tender was taking a sip of water and was not ready now they reviewed it and the referees signing that the goal the goal tenor was not ready yeah had to redo the faceoff the goal did not count and then five minutes later Abbotsford went down the score and they won game one did he not even did the guy win the faceoff

into his own net is that what happened I've seen the replay a few times, but I was actually watching the goalie. Yeah. Like he won the face off into his own net. That was like a triple fail. Aversford beat Charlotte last night to go up 3-1 in their series. Now keep in mind the checkers are the Panthers AHL affiliate. There hasn't been a Stanley Cup champion and its AHL affiliate that won in the same year since 1995 when the doubles did it as well as the Albany River Rats. Rats. Yeah, I don't think that's going to happen this year.

You never know. All right. So coming up next, DJ Bean of What Chaos is coming up next. We're going to talk about the series and what happened afterwards. That's coming up next here on the hockey show. The Dan Leventar Show with Stu Gotz is sponsored by Liquid IV. Alright so I'm getting ready for another beach weekend with the boys. The finals game on the TV, sun, maybe even some grilling if my brother doesn't burn the

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Okay, let me know if you understand guys. So here we go. Come on DJ. Yeah, so this is Rose in a Minute. are officially two NHL champions who won the final in six games against the Edmonton Oilers and the Corona team in Sunrise with a 5-1 win. Sam Reinhardt was a beast, four goals in the game six, yes four. He became the first player since Maurice Richard in 1957 to score four goals in a final and yes, he learned to say Leon Dry Saddle but this time Reinhardt made me say his name. That's it!

That's how you say it. Matthew Kichuck, the team's weapon, scored the goal that gave the cup. Sam Bennett won the Conn Smith, as MVP of the playoffs, with 15 goals, the best of all. And Marcin, who arrived this season, scored 6 goals in this series. Crazy. Bobroski closed the door with 28 goals in this last game and dominated the series from start to finish. Some numbers. Florian Eliedreau, the master goal Marker to win another team in a final, 255 minutes with an advantage, this was the third consecutive final

and the second cup was lost. Oh, and Canada? It's still waiting since 1993. Barkov raised the cup, he passed it to Nate Smith, who won it for the first time and the rest was a celebration with rats, tears and confetti. This is Winner The Rules, the hockey rules, the great closure of a season of Pog, passion and a lot of chaos. Time! Champion, champion. The only rules is that I'm serious about the population and we just look out champion champion Right before we get this Before we get the DJ we are going to go over game six in English is Rosen

Do you understand anything that I said that was French correct? I? Heard of Maurice Richard at one point in there But no my French not so good. I think I heard maybe like a vec was in there, but I didn't know I'm more Spanish That's more my speech No Spanish English Rosie okay I'm more Spanish, that's more my speech. That was Spanish. So that was Spanish. That was Spanish. Now it's time for English. Rosie! OK, now you're going to understand maybe or maybe not. Maybe not.

Or maybe. OK, let's do this again. Hello, children. Stanley is staying home. The Florida Panthers are officially back-to-back Stanley champions, winning the final six games over the Edmonton Oilers and sailing the Sunrise with a dominant 5-1 win. Sam Reinhardt wore full beast mode, 4 goals in game 6. Yes, 4. Here's the first player to do that in the finalists

since Maurice Richers in 1957. And yeah, finally I learned how to say Leon Dreis' title, but this time Reinhardt missed screaming his name. Matico Chac, the sole of the team, scored a cop clinching goal. Sam Bennett took home the Conn Smith trophyrophy as playoffs of the EDP with 15 goals, the most by a player. And Brad Marchand, a mid-season addition, dropped 6 goals in the series. Alone, madness. Borbatsky shut down the door again, 28 saves, finishing off the series dominance from start to finish.

A few numbers. Florent Dallet just scored more than any team in a cop final ever, 200 and 75 total minutes ahead. And there was a third straight final and their second straight cup. Oh, and Canada still waiting since 1993. I don't know if I have that right. That is correct. Barca lifted a cup,

as it is today, Smich, a first time champ, and the rest was all hats, rats, tears and champagne. This was one minute with Rose, the season final, fog, passion and a whole lot of chaos. Back to back champions, baby. That is the same music that they played at 11 last night. I was just gonna say, I felt like I'm back at 11 with that music. I love it. Yeah, the Panthers celebrated with the fans at 11 last night and it seemed like they are running the exact same celebration sequence that they did last season.

And Sam Bennett made a bit of news because he got on stage and he said this wrote a video, please Yeah, so no name on the contract yet by the way. Aaron Epplehead looks like he might not return to Florida and that's going to probably give the Panthers a chance to re-sign Brad Marshawn. Dave, let's go over the contracts that the Panthers have right now on hand and what they might be doing while you have them. Alright, so the contracts that Bill Zito signed, a lot of team-friendly deals. You got Barkov, Kachuk, Reinhardt, Verhege, Forsling. The interesting thing about all these contracts is, A, as I said, team-friendly term, B, they're all signing bonus. Everybody gets their money

July 1. 1 million base salary. That means if there anything that happens during the season, if anything stops payments, if there's any, you know, like a lockout or any kind of crap like that, anything that might mess with their money, all these players getting paid right off. It's just a nice little incentive that Zito throws

into all of his contracts to, you know, he's a very player friendly guy. He was an agent, he's been around. So it's just yet another reason why guys would like signing contracts with the Panthers. So a majority of the core is already locked up It seems like they're gonna end up locking up somebody who's very much going to be Mentioned are signed at least through 2030 most beyond yeah

And just based on this season that just transpired DJ Tell me what excuse that the league is going or whoever votes on the Jim Gregory award will come up with for denying Bill Zito from finally winning GM of the year. Well, I mean if you guys could get off your piles of money from living in a no income tax state you would clear all the extra money that you have out of your ears you would understand that Bill Zito actually doesn't do much. It's really just that they don't have to pay income taxes. And that's that. Oh, that's that's the long and the short of it.

A typical just typical rich Florida people. This is how I'm not rich. This is how you live. If you live in Florida, you automatically get way more money than you would get anywhere else. And you're automatically rich. That's why it costs so much to live down here. Yeah, that's why a townhouse costs one point two million.

OK, two Americans on that one, by the way. Yeah, yes. Well, you know, this is how the other 41 states live. OK, I'm over here sweating. It's just a tough time. No, Bill Zito is the best GM in hockey, obviously. And Sonny Maeda is the best assistant GM in hockey. Yeah. And I saw something yesterday that was saying like, man, Gregory Campbell, whom I love, should be getting sniffs as a

general manager. And I'm like, Sonny Maeda should be getting sniffs as a general manager. Jeff Merrick's been on the show with us a bunch. And he says that they don't do anything without that guy's blessing, without that guy's OK. And everything they do works. When's the last signing or

addition they made or pick up where you're like, what are they doing there? So it's right. Robert Hagg. Yeah, it's just it's a smart operation. It's also when the team is good, Florida is a very attractive place to play. It's just when they stink, it's a smart operation. It's also when the team is good, Florida is a very attractive place to play. It's just when they stink.

It's a respectfully. It's a wasteland. I've seen what it's been like when the teams weren't good and you both all of you have definitely seen what it is when the team isn't good. It's just kind of a there's just kind of nothing going on and yeah, games will occasionally drop, but not really. Sometimes you're getting more fans from the other team and that's not as fun. But when the team is good, what's not to like you don't have a ton of media pressure.

The weather is beautiful. Your yes, there is the tax benefit, which I think is both overstated and understated at the same time because it is a benefit. It's not the only thing. It's not a huge deal. But when Batman comes out and says, oh, it's ridiculous, it has no factor like that's a lie. So there are so many reasons why this team is good. But ultimately, the biggest one might be that they've got a hell of a GM and Bill Zito.

Fun fact, Sonny Meta also do not play poker with that man. He will take money. That man is a numbers guy He knows what's going on over there What do you think about the the big I guess I can say the big three of free agent situation It seems like Sam Bennett is going to sign it seems like he's not leaving leaving. He's not he's not believing leaving No, you're absolutely right about that From the horse's mouth on that one. It seems like Aaron is going to leave and we don't know about Brad Marshawn as of yet. What do you think is

going to happen? Uh, well, Brad Marshawn, I don't know if he's going to be with us by the time July one rolls around. Right now, as we speak, it's gonna be a diabetic. Yes, he's gonna be diabetic. I mean, Lord help the guy if he's got any sort of lactose issue, he can get a Dairy Queen deal and a lactate deal. Nothing but the best for the absolute legend, Brad Marshand. I've gone back and forth with this

because the Panthers aren't a dynasty, but they can become one. And the way typically to do that is to make a lot of hard decisions and say goodbye to a lot of good players and keep flexibility and always make sure that you can keep adding guys at the bargains you have to this point.

So many of Florida's pickups have not been, oh man, they paid through the nose to get that guy. It's been, they've had the space, they found someone who was undervalued or underperforming somewhere else, bring them in and then get something great out of them. Obviously Gustav Forzing is the biggest example of that. If you're always right up against the cap,

there are only so many PED suspensions and Matthew Kachuck injuries that will let you duct tape it together. So I've preached, keep cap flexibility So I've preached keep cap flexibility. I've preached sign Bennett and obviously don't sign Echblad. I think he's going to get a bad contract respectfully and tough decision, but don't sign Brad Marshawn. But as the series went on, I'm like they've got one pick in the

first three rounds the next two years. They've in the first three rounds the next two years. They've got no first round picks the next three years. They don't have a prospect pool. So do you just run this into the ground? Do you just sign everybody? Zito said after the game, after game six, that he could sign everybody. I actually think that signing everybody isn't too unattractive or at the very least signing both Bennett and Marshawn for Marshawn though. He should want top dollar and he's not

getting that in Florida. I do wonder though, does he give them does he like it so much in Florida now that he lets the Panthers sign him for what he was going to offer the Bruins, which was something like three times seven, which at this point is a massive discount from what somebody else would give him, because I think he can get four times eight. And to follow on your thought, the last deal that he's coming off of, the one he just signed in Boston, an eight-year deal, he was only getting like 6.1 million from that, so he might be a little more inclined to get a little bit of a payday.

Just based off what I saw last night, he doesn't look like a guy that's going anywhere. Oh boy, that man is celebrating. He loves it. Brad Marshon currently, as we speak, is at 8th Erie Queen in Sunrise serving blizzards. The flavor currently, and they renamed it chocolate chirp cookie dough. What do you think about that name? Oh, I like that. You know, some of you are probably confused. Chirp is, they say that when someone's like talking trash. That's what that means. Yeah, yeah.

Mike Ryan's been saying that entirely too many times over the past few months. Ethan, go ahead. DJ, you are an Oilers fan, so I understand if this is a disappointing time for you I was listening to your guys episode yesterday kind of breaking down where the Oilers go from here now you guys were on I believe before the McDavid

press conference so I want to play this clip for you and and and the audience and then I want to get your reaction to what he said yesterday absolutely yeah absolutely this core has been together for a long time and we've been building he said yesterday. conversations, the endless disappointments and some good times along the way as well. Yeah, we're all in this together trying to get it over that finish line. With that being said, ultimately, we still need to do what's best for me and my family. And, and, um, you know, that's who you have to take care of first. But of course there's unfinished business here. Yeah. That's a, that's, that's not good. That with what being, with that being said is going to be the three herds heard round Edmonton isn't a DJ.

Yeah, I'm not crazy about that. Uh, Connor McDavid is usually a man of few words. I wish he remained one yesterday. I wish that he, uh, why do you have to shoot his mouth off? Everyone says, why doesn't Connor David, Connor McDavid put his personality out there? Why doesn't he, uh, why doesn't he say something? Shut the up like, the why doesn't he say something? Shut the f*** up. Like.

Do you think that's why Pete is not here? Because he now knows that what Greg Cody said was a little bit kind of true. Look, I'm a Cody Rose. If there's anything that you should know about me, I'm a Cody guy. I love a good columnist. I love someone putting it out there. And Cody's column showed why we need columnists because Greg Cody wrote a column. I said hey, you see the Cody column Pete said I hate that guy

So mad that I hate a person Billy said I don't know who Pete Blackburn is but I hate him. What's this guy's problem? He talked trash about my podcast, which I didn't do anything to Billy. And just everybody melts down. This is why we need colonists. This is why we need, there is like 13 different shows that got content out of Greg Cody writing like

three paragraphs. So God bless me. Is that why it's not here right now? No, Pete's golfing which Convenient And obviously their golfing has like a negative connotation with hockey even though that's what everybody does in the summer That's an appropriate way for him to be spending his first days of his offseason I think that's a very hockey decision now that you know, thinking about it.

He may have also been afraid of the thank you Boston chance that Brad Marsh and was participating in. He might have been afraid of those. Oh, yeah. No, no, we got those on our show. Sean broke in goaded producer and was like, hey, I got something for you. Pete was not happy about it. Pete wanted to change the subject.

We didn't let him. He had a very hard time. I do want to say for Brad Marshand though, cause I know Brad Marshand. He and I go way back. I've seen, so I've seen his maneuvers. He's a brilliant, brilliant man, but I think even my dumb ass can pick up

on a couple of them. So he does the thank you Boston chance and everyone's like, oh, thank you Boston. Man, he's really going for it. And then I'm sure you all saw the Instagram story yesterday where he's doing. Thank you. Blackhawks with Seth Jones. He's doing, uh, thank you everybody with Gustav Forsling. And he's doing that and everyone's like, oh man, Brad Marshawn isn't holding anything back. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is what he's doing. He did the thank you Boston thing.

And he's like, damn, that burns a bridge and free agency. I got to be careful with this. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to do this to every team. So it's just one thing that I did on a drunken day and whatever we were drinking. That's that if he only did it to a couple of teams, those teams are going to say, well, F you, Brad Marshawn. Now they're like, now it's almost like a badge of honor when he does like the blue jackets are getting it. They're like, Ooh, us. So that's what he's doing. So what if he was at the club last night requesting dirty water? Where would that have stood with

you? I don't know. Like I think that Brad Marshawnwn has every I don't think that he's like F Boston. I think that he's having a little fun with it and nobody likes trash talking like that guy. It's why he famously names his blizzards after chirping, which again is just like when you're just like kind of dishing it out on the ice. They'll say, hey, bro, don't chirp me. That's that kind of thing. Just a little hockey lexicon for the listeners of the hockey show. So we can fill everybody in. I don't think that he's mad at Boston, but I think he's like, Hey, you kind of

after round and you found out like I, everyone agrees now I was offering you a bargain and kind of who do you think you are because you don't really have good players, you're willing to say goodbye to your captain over a few million dollars not great boys but all's well that ends well i i issued don sweaney a massive apology because everyone crapped on him don sweaney saved brad marshall for himself because brad marshall was going to come back for three times seven and we wouldn't have known about any of this we wouldn't have seen any of this. I would be a happier person because the Edmunds and Oylers would probably be Stanley Cup champions not because they would beat the Florida Panthers because maybe they would beat the Toronto Maple Leafs or something. Speaking of the Boston Bruins, you and Pete brought up

a hypothetical trade between the Oylers and the Bruins And this hypothetical is the Orlers trading Evan Bouchard, who's an RFA right now, and Stuart Skinner to the Bruins for Jeremy Swainman, Mason Loura, and a 2026 first round draft pick that they got from Toronto in the actual Brandon Karlo trade. Why? Why? Why does Boston do that? Why not? Wait, why would who? Wait, that's important. Why would Boston do that? I know why Edmonton would do that. Why would Boston do that to get the best player in the deal? And they want to hear me swim into that. Oh, look, look, this is fair. You should think Evan Bouchard stinks and Evan Bouchard does stink defensively,

but he was actually very good defensively this postseason. Just the Florida Panthers break teams and he was the worst player on the ice in game six. I'm so mad at him and he's an infuriating player and Bruins fans would absolutely despise him. But he's Bobby or what did Pete say he was? He's Kale McCarr and he's if Kale McCarr and Rasmus Ristolainen had a baby, which is not the greatest baby, but God is that he could be good with the puck. Yeah, he's Bobby Orr if Bobby Orr also sucked at hockey, but he is the best player in that

trade. But the sacrificing there, the Jeremy Swainman. I have such goalie bias. That sacrifice of Jeremy Swainman at the getting rid of Linus O'Mahk. They're getting rid of both of the number one goal tenors in the past two seasons just to get Stuart Skinner and apparently Bobby Orr. And the first round draft pick by the way. They're losing that too. Yeah so here's the thing. The Bruins didn't want to sign Jeremy Swainman to that contract and I think that contract is going to age well but if you, there was a really lengthy and public

negotiation. Oh, yeah. In which Cam Neely and Jeremy Swainman were taking shots at each other in the media. I don't know if you folks know Jeremy Swainman. He is the sweetest human being to ever be born. And the Bruins have jerked him around contractually over the last couple of years. He would have signed a team friendly long-term deal a couple of summers ago, and they didn't sign him. They went to arbitration. Swamen didn't forget about it. He went out and had a good season, and then he said,

okay, well, I'm gonna shove it up there, you know what? Because if it's just business on their end, it's just business on my end. The relationship was not good. Jeremy Swamen then had a bad season. I think that Jeremy Swainman is going to bounce back, and I think that Jeremy Swainman is a top goaltender in the NHL, but people in Boston are mad and they are mad about Jeremy Swainman. Bruins fans have turned on him, which I think is really short-sighted on their part, but we're all people. It's a free country, think what you want.

This trade proposal was inspired by my dear friend, Mike Felger, on his show. His takeaway from the Stanley Cup final was, Oilers lost because of goaltending, can we dump Jeremy Swainman on them? And I think that's wrong for a lot of reasons, because the Oilers did not lose because of goaltending. Oilers lost because the Florida Panthers were a lot better than them.

But yes, that's where it came from. I do love though. I, that hypothetical was someone tweeted a trade proposal at me and it involved Swamen and Bouchard, but I thought it was a little wonky. So I swooped it up. I edited it and I made it that offer, which I think would be the more equal offer. The reason I know it's a good offer is because both fans of the Bruins and the Oilers were both so, so mad about it.

Man. Which means that it's not lopsided in either team's direction. Yeah, fair. This is what the off season is all about, hypothetically. This is why we love the off season. And I'll say, I'm not saying this is going to happen, but I've got a thing with it frustrates me where a lot of hockey people until something actually happens, they think it's impossible and it doesn't

make any sense. And we had this issue last year where on our show, I was like, if I'm a team that got designs on making a playoff run, I'm calling on Seth Jones. And everybody was like, Seth Jones is in there, that's the worst contract, no one's getting trades, and then no one's, and then Seth Jones gets traded to the Florida Panthers and everyone's like, oh damn, now the Florida Panthers have Seth Jones. For seven million a year.

I'm just saying a little open-mindedness. You're gonna come up with some ideas that do happen, they're gonna come up with some ideas that don't happen, but being closed-minded gets you nowhere in life. Rosie's turning my mic off, that's a sign saying that we have to wrap up. No, I'm so sorry, I did a bad mistake. I see Roy talking and I see his mic off

and I don't hear any, I'm like, what's happening? And Rose's face went white. I'm so sorry, it was my fault. No, it didn't go white, we went- She's already white. Well, whiter. She's pale. No, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, DJ, I'm trying sorry, it wasn't my fault. No, it didn't go white, the guy, we wouldn't. She's already white. Well, whiter. She's pale. No, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, DJ.

I'm trying to produce here. Yeah, you're producing my, turn away my coffee. We're trying to hire Rose, by the way. Oh. Oh, you guys are spilling? No, no, no, no, no, Rose is not a free agent. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. She's on Jeremy's swimming.

I might be a free agent, boys. Be ready. So here's the issue, though. I think that we would have to move our show to Florida. So we can because of the taxes that's like anything. We are obviously going to be like they're just going to match and then I'm going to make 10 million dollars because if you live in Florida because of no income tax you automatically

are a multimillionaire. So shot how I believe that man. I wish I wish it worked like that, but... Wait, where are you based? Maybe I can move. Boston. Oh, then I'm gonna move. Oh, Rose is moving to Boston.

I'm joking. So Sean is basically... Your line is Omar, basically. You're just gonna cast him off. Sean in a first round pick for Rose? No, if you're taking Rose, you gotta take Ethan too. This is a package deal. Oh no, no, no, no.

My dream is to have what you guys have, which is like 41 producers. Every metal art thing I've ever seen, there's 19 people sitting around. Everything that Pete and I do, Pete and I finish the show, and then we get to work on editing and Photoshop, and the grind doesn't stop.

I want what you guys have which is like 21 people just chilling and you all have mics too which I love. We've earned this. Well Jason doesn't have a mic back there. No but DJ don't let them fool you because yeah they don't do anything but I have to do thumbnail, I have to edit, I have to do. They don't do anything! I do have to do something. I have to edit. They don't do anything. I do have to do a lot of things.

I'm formatting the show. What are you talking about? I'm the EP of the show. What are you talking about? You're formatting the show, and then you're putting certain things in the wrong segment. Oh, yeah, that is true. This is a bad day today.

Yeah, but thank you very much. I'm just saying bye for myself, because if not, I'm going to keep talking. DJ Bean of what? This is bad practice. We're gonna like add basketball to our show or something. What? So MetalArk will buy us.

Just so we can have 30 people. We need more people. We got Amino Hasson already. That's oddball. No, we're gonna have multiple hockey podcasts. That's what's gonna happen. It's a hockey show we're gonna have. We got missing curfew.

No, he can come. He can, no, no, no, no, no. He can come. Yeah, just said he wants all of the people. Just everybody is on what chaos step. Mallie on what chaos. Yeah, Taylor. Taylor's coming in.

And we're all a big happy family. Get us like Lucy Rodin, get us like everything. Rodin. We're taking, Rodin! I apologize. DJ Bean of what chaos. DJ, thank you. We love you, brother.

Thank you for joining us. Appreciate you. All right. Coming up next, we did some interviews with the players on the ice following game six when the Panthers defeated the All-Urs for the second consecutive Stanley Cup. We'll get to those interviews coming up next. This show is sponsored by Game Time, the official ticketing partner of the Dan LeBattard show with StuGots.

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the General Manager of Florida Panthers and you built a juggernaut. Why don't you tell us how you feel right now? Humbled, honored to be part of a group of guys and the coaches and players are all staff just wonderful people truly team first individuals and you see what happens when it's a team. Everything that you just mentioned is a big part of what people talk about with the Panthers, not just the skill on the ice but what a great group you put together. How much pride do you take in knowing that you didn't just create a great hockey team but you brought together a great group of people and look at what they're accomplishing? It's not pride, I think so much is appreciation.

When you start with Sasha and you have Bob and you have Ek and then Matthew comes in and like you can't make them who they are. And each person is more gracious than the next. It's a gift. And so I think it's appreciation more than pride. The contracts you were able to sign these players to as like team friendly, all of them. How much?

Ask them. It's hard, right? You got to come in. You got to live in Las Olas. You got to have a great big house. You got to make a lot of money. Might have to play with Barkov. It sucks.

Right? Who would want to do that? Well, how much? But seriously, no, I think guys are committed. I think they're committed as much to each other as they are. They want to win. Bill, where are you going to take the cup? I know you're going to take it on a boat somewhere. I have no idea.

You're going to go fishing somewhere, but what's the charter going to be? I'm going to go, I don't know. I don't know what I'm doing for breakfast. Thank you for asking. Congratulations, Bill. Thank you. We've got Jesper Brokres here. How do you feel right now? You're a San Diego champion. Congratulations, Bill. Thank you. We got Jesper Bochras here. How do you feel right now?

You're a San Diego champion. Yeah, unbelievable. I can't really believe it, I feel like, but no, unreal. What can you say about the effort between you and your teammates, the way that you were able to march through this playoff and overcome all different kinds of adversity and still come out on top? Yeah, I mean, I feel like, no, I don't know, like, it's been such a long season, right? And we worked so hard and I feel like all the series in this playoffs, we had to grow into it.

And obviously all the teams play a little bit different, so we had to make some little small tweaks and stuff. And now, I I mean it's unreal Yeah, and gains five and six you made a very good Edmonton all the team Just looked soulless. How are you able to do that? Yeah, I don't know like Obviously they're a great team so we have to bring our best to have a chance to win, right? So and I feel like we did and when we do that we're pretty hard to beat too. What are you looking forward to doing with the Stanley Cup this summer?

I don't know I don't know I don't know it's enjoy it with family and friends and stuff so it's gonna be awesome yeah. Jesper thank you for joining us. Thank you guys thank you. Congratulations. We are joined by Nico Mikola. Man, the evolution in your game just grew exponentially since your rookie season. Tell us your feelings now that you won the Stanley Cup for the second time.

It's a dream come true. I couldn't believe it when I first signed here, but I had a talk with the barkeeper and he told me first year we're going to do it. We did it. We had a little talk this year, we're going to do it again when we did it again. It starts from the whole organization, all the leaders, all the depth we got in the locker room, it's all that, so it's an unbelievable feeling. Speaking of good feelings, how good did it feel when you and your defensive counterparts

held the Oilers to really such little offense over the last couple of games? You guys really took them to shut down City. Yeah, it takes all five guys to defense those Mac David and Tri-Sidle, they're great players. And I think we've been doing that the whole playoffs and whole year, whole two years, like our system is built on the, on the, like how to, how we defense. And yeah, it's pretty great.

So what are you gonna do with the Stanley Cup once you get your day with it? Take it back to Finland again. My home city gonna enjoy with my family and friends and we'll see I haven't decided yet. I haven't planned it out but I it's gonna be fun for sure. Well you got plenty of time to figure that out. Nijo thank you So much for joining us and congratulations. Thank you We're here with Roberto Larrongo Roberto you'll get luck on the drum

Brought us another Santa Cove championship. How you feeling taking of coming on full time next year on the drum So 41 at home games and playoffs, so we'll see how it goes Are you gonna maybe get a drum set for the house? I saw you tweeted the will ferrell gif like is that something we could see how it goes. Are you going to maybe get a drum set for the house? I saw you tweeted the Will Ferrell gift. Is that something we could see in your future? No, we're going to save those for the special occasion. So hopefully we get here again next year and you'll see me on there.

Are you going to fill the Stanley Cup again with spaghetti? I haven't decided yet. We'll try to change it up this year. We'll do something different, but it'll be something good. How crazy is it? Just a year ago we were standing here kind of amazed that the Panthers won their first Stanley Cup. a year later this team looks like they're unstoppable. It is crazy.

I don't tough to believe especially doing it on home ice again in front of the crowd. So special just watching the guys hoist the cup on the ice and the fans cheering I mean two years ago it's unbelievable. This is a very, very good Emerton Ola's team. And the Panthers just made them look just lifeless in games five and six. What do you think happened? I think that's how we play. We grind teams down and as the series progressed, usually teams get tired of going to get the pucks on the dump-ins and stuff like that.

And fatigue starts to set in that's part of the game plan that we use and that's why I think you saw what happened the last couple games. Luke congratulations have a great summer with the Cup again and we'll do it again next June. Hopefully thank you appreciate you guys. Thanks Luke. We're here with Seth Jones, trade deadline acquisition and it seems like you just came in you did your job you did your job well talk about your feelings right now just emotional you know you know 12 years in this league now you put in so much effort every day and this is what makes it pay off right this is why it's all worth at the end

special group of guys here and I'm so happy that I'm here in this moment right now and have a Stanley Cup and get my name on that thing. What was going through your mind when you're standing right over there a little while ago, Stanley Cup comes gliding over to you, you lift it over your head for the first time? Yeah, it's just like I said, that's what I'm thinking about. I'm thinking about how special, you know, my family here, seeing me in this situation, and they get to share this moment with me.

I'm thinking about that, thinking about, like I said, the workout you put in every single day with these guys, and it's just a selfless group of guys, so humble. I'm just so happy that I get to grow with these guys and be here for many years. You had your experience with Bill Zito in Columbus, obviously, when you got the call that you were being traded down here, you get to play for Bill one more time.

What is your feelings when you got traded here? Excitement. You know, excitement, a new chapter in my career. You know, I knew how special this team was, or even just playing against them. But hearing the stories about this team, they obviously won last last year so I knew how great they were on the ice but different different just a different group off the ice and the way that everyone treats each other everyone's just as important as the next the selflessness the humbleness I can't speak enough about it. So what's the plan for the Stanley Cup

this summer do you know yet what you're gonna do with it? I have no idea. I haven't got that far. I'm trying to get to the next five minutes. Thank you, Seth. We're here with Nate Schmidt and your contributions during this playoff has been extraordinary. Give us your feelings right now. I mean the fact that Cap gave me the cup first was something that you just can't really describe. It was the best lap of hockey I've ever done in my life. It's just you don't really realize that. I know we're a 5-1 with two minutes left, but it still doesn't feel like it's really coming down until the very end, until the bunch

of girls, man. It's just to be able to have my family here, people that have been with me from the very beginning, my wife and my son, it's just amazing. I know the last half hour or so, it's been crazy, you've done a bunch of these interviews. Have you taken a moment to just kind of like look around and let it sink in? I feel like the last couple minutes of the game that's all I do is look up and down the bench just look at the guys and just understand that this has been an amazing year and I just couldn't be more blessed to be.

You guys really made things difficult for Edmonton in the games five and six like it's like you took the life out of them. Why don't you describe what happened in this game? You know I just that's our game. We just suffocate teams and with our, with our gap, with our speed and, and with our depth, man, it was just, it felt like they were getting frustrated and it just, it just gave us more momentum, right? Like that's what we wanted. That's all we felt like if we can get them upset or, you know, it sharpened us and stuff,

that's, that's more of a win for us. So last question for you. Have you thought about what you're going to do with the cup yet this summer? I mean, I feel like you think about it all the time. But I haven't narrowed it down yet. But I just want to thank the people that have helped me to get here. Right? I just, we'll see where that goes.

Nate, thank you for joining us. Thanks, guys. Appreciate it. Thank you so much. Yeah. Thank you, guys. Enjoy it.